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Good morning, everybody

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Happy Saturday

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My favorite day of the week because we get to come together for supernatural Saturday and if you are new

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Welcome. We're so glad you're here with us partnering with us as we lean into the reality of heaven

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Did you know there's two realities? There's your reality and then there's

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Reality, which is what is God doing? What is he saying? What's going on in heaven?

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Remembering when the disciples were like, hey, we do a lot of praying because we're Jews

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But Jesus because you're kind of shaking things up and doing everything differently teach us how to pray

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What's the most important prayers to pray?

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And so he taught them what we all know as the Lord's Prayer and it said let it be done on earth as it

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Is where in heaven in?

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Heaven that means that there's an alternate reality. And so if you don't like your reality, there's good news

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There's a better one

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Whatever is happening in heaven. I promise you is full of love. It's full of joy

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It's full of peace and we want to step into that and so that is what supernatural Saturday is all about

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It's about us leaning in to the spirit together and finding out

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Hey, what should I really be focused on today instead of this whole list this laundry list of problems?

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Confusion

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Circumstances, what should I really be focusing on because if I focus on you Lord and your kingdom

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You've promised to take care of everything that pertains to me. I'll never forget the day that God said to me

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The Jackie if you will be about my business the business of heaven, right if you will be about that business

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He said I'll take care of yours and I owned a business at the time

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So it made sense, right if you'll be about my business if you'll seek my kingdom

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Then I will take care of the things that pertain to you and I promise you that

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You will never go wrong taking God up on that offer

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You won't now does that mean that everything will fall in place exactly when you want it to know?

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But if you purpose in your heart that you are going to be in tune with heaven

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The Bible says if we walk after the Spirit, then we won't find ourself in the consequences of the flesh

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Our flesh gets us in all kinds of trouble

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It does and that's the kind of trouble that maybe some of you are thinking about because some of you're like man

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You know, I don't do that. I

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Don't feel I don't settle live a life of sin and I don't have you know, promiscuous sex

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I don't do this or do that and a lot of times when we think of the lust of the flesh

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That's what we're thinking of but that really isn't what that's describing

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Yeah, that is some of it, but a lot of us have overcome that part of our flesh

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Okay, we're walking free from that type of

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Entanglement but

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Daily, we're in worry. Do you know that's the lust of the flesh fear is a lust of the flesh

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all of those things in that category fear worry anxiety

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depression all the lust of the flesh a lot of times the

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Consequences of our of walking after our flesh is that we make bad decisions

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Because we feel hurried and rushed and we don't know what to do and we're in confusion

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And so we go ahead and do it

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We live outside of our means because we don't think that we're ever going to have enough to be able to do the things that

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We want so we go ahead and we do the thing that doesn't sit right in our spirit

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We don't have peace about it, but we do it. Anyway, what do we do?

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And we're out there

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Grasping like little orphans trying to get what we think we need instead of allowing our father to provide those things

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For us right and so that is what it's talking about

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So there's an alternate reality that we can step into and on Saturdays. That's what we do

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And today it's going to be about consistency and discipline

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Do we love those words? No, we don't

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We don't love those words. I

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Had a dream years ago

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I've always been quite a dreamer y'all

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And I don't just mean at night. I mean like during the day

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I think that it was an escape mechanism for me as a child because I was living a

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Human reality that was pretty terrible

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Right in a family full of abuse and rejection and hurt and pain

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And so I did live in a make-believe land in my mind

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I was constantly daydreaming and writing stories which benefits all of you because now I'm a writer and I'm able to

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Use those self-defense mechanisms now for the good of all

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but I

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Just always was pretending. I was always pretending and I was a living in a

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That's just imaginative world but a very detailed imaginative world and you know what that caused that caused the people that were around me

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Just to think that I was a liar

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You know any new kid that I would meet I would tell these huge tales to

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and you know and just dream up all of these different things and

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And of course I'm very persuasive, so it seemed very real.

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And it was real to me, but it just wasn't real.

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But it was the reality that I created for myself

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to keep myself safe and to keep myself

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from feeling the pain that I was in, right?

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And so in my adult life, I had a dream.

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And I was already married to David.

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I had a dream and I had been going after

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all of these really incredible goals.

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In this dream, there was this woman.

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And at the time, she was the mega church

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that David and I were at.

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We were on staff at this mega church,

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this humongous church, thousands of people.

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And she was the pastor's wife.

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So I knew this woman that showed up in my dream.

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And in the dream, we were sitting down,

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kind of having tea, talking, and I was telling her

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about all these big, hairy, audacious goals that I had.

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I was gonna do this, and I was gonna do that,

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and this was gonna happen, and that was gonna happen.

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And just telling her all of these things

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that I believe God promised me

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and that I was going to do in my life.

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And she was listening very intently, very enthusiastically.

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And at the end of me telling her,

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she said, that's amazing, Jackie.

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She said, there's only one thing that you lack.

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There's only one thing that you lack to have that.

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And I was like, what is it?

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And she said, discipline.

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Dun, dun.

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What?

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Discipline.

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And so, I knew that that was the word from the Lord.

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And that was coming from a mother-type person

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in this dream, right, that was telling me,

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hey, I'm rooting for you, I'm cheering for you,

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I want that for you, but the one thing

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that you lack to make it happen is discipline.

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But isn't God gonna make it happen?

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That's what we think, right?

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We go to all these charismatic churches,

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and it's like, God's gonna do it.

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God's on the way.

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God's coming.

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He'll be here any minute now.

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No, that's not how it works.

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First of all, God is not coming.

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I really want to tell you that,

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and if that hurts your feelings and offends you,

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then good, because you need to get out of the mindset

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that something is coming, that God is coming,

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that he's about to show up,

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that he's about to give you whatever it is

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that you've been in this proverbial waiting room

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looking for, okay?

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Jesus said, it is finished.

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It is done.

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On where?

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The cross.

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That means everything that you will ever need

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in this life has been released to you.

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The problem is that we are in our own way,

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and that hurts all of our feelings,

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because there are things that we wanted yesterday,

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we wanted last year, we wanted 15 years ago,

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that we don't have.

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Most of the time, it is as a result of inconsistency.

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It's as a result of the lack of disciplining,

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not just our actions, not just our bodies, but our minds.

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Right?

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And I don't like that word.

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Y'all, this word's for me too, it's not just for you.

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It's definitely for me.

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So she was telling me that I needed this thing,

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and I knew that it was a word from the Lord.

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And I saw all the places in my life where, like you,

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I was waiting for God to show up and give me whatever it is

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that he had promised me.

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I was living this realm of God's promises,

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but these promises weren't coming true.

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And I want to tell you something even scarier,

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because I wasn't a new believer,

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but I had only been following Jesus for about 12 years

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at the time of this dream,

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maybe actually 10 years at the time of this dream.

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I would go to church,

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and this is not some diatribe against church,

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please don't hear it that way, okay?

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But I would go to church,

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and I would sit in the pews with other people

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that had been waiting 20 years, 30 years,

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40 years for promises.

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That did not bode well, friends.

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I was like, oh no, I've only been waiting 10 years

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for all these amazing things that I feel like God

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put in my heart and promised me that I could do

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and achieve and see and have.

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And yet there's all these other people

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that have been sitting here waiting a whole lot longer.

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And so if we're at the DMV,

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I'm not anywhere near getting served.

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All these people are ahead of me, right?

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Thank God there are no waiting rooms in the kingdom.

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I want you to internalize that right now, please.

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I want that to go from your ears and your head

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to your heart.

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There are no waiting rooms in the kingdom of God.

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This is what God shared with me.

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This is why I wrote the heart work.

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This is why I do what I do.

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I am sick and tired of waiting.

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I'm tired of seeing God's children in proverbial waiting rooms, waiting for resources in order

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to do kingdom work on the earth.

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Whether that's finances, whether that's partners, because your assignment's not a one-person

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job, it's a two-person job, it's a family job, right?

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So waiting for partners, waiting for breakthrough, waiting for healing, waiting for you, put

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it in the blank, waiting.

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I'm tired of seeing that because God gave me the revelation back in this day that I'm

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talking about that there are no waiting rooms in the kingdom.

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There are only preparation rooms because we've got to get prepared for the things that we're

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asking for.

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Ladies, when you find out that you're pregnant, for those of you that have had a child, the

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baby doesn't come two days later.

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You get to find out that you're pregnant in order to prepare.

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That's what God's promises look like.

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He gives you that certification.

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He gives you that declaration that something is coming for you, that it's not just coming,

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it's already gestating, please, if you will.

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It's gestating inside of you.

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This thing is growing inside of you, and there's going to be a due date for it.

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He lets you know that that is what is happening inside of your heart, inside of your life,

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so that you can do what?

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So you can prepare.

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God's promises come with a process.

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I say this all the time.

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People don't like it.

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I didn't like it when God first started talking to me about it because we want it now, but

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we're not fully capable of stewarding it now, which is why we get this beautiful gift called

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time to prepare to be able to steward it, right?

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And I know that we hate process, but I want you to write this down.

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The process is the point.

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The process is even more important than the promise, because the process is going to change

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you into someone who can live at that new level of life, not because we're all here,

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but because you want to have a partner to walk through this life with.

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I will just tell you that I've had a front row seat to lots of success stories, and I've

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had a front row seat to lots of one hit wonder type of success stories where they tried to

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skip the process, they skipped the preparation, they came in here, they got excited about

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what I was saying, they grabbed the first person of the opposite sex that they saw,

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and they married them, even though we were like, Hey, hey, hey, don't do that.

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They did it because why they didn't want to work on themselves.

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Guess what?

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They're either in a really messed up marriage right now, or they're already divorced.

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You're like, Jack, you have divorces already?

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Yes.

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And in every single one of those instances, what I'm saying right now is what happened.

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Friends, you can't skip the process.

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You would be better served to focus on yourself and becoming the best version of you mentally,

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emotionally, physically, spiritually, and understanding that God is the matchmaker and

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he has a partner for that version of you.

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Does that mean that you can't have a spouse until some future date of perfection?

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No, that partner will come on the road that you're preparing on somewhere.

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And a lot of times when you least feel like you're ready for it, because you know that

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you still have work to do, but the work that you still have to do can only be done within

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relationship.

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Remember, hurt in family, healed in family, hurt in marriage, healed in marriage, hurt

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in sex, healed in sex.

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We had a sex talk the other night for those of you that missed it.

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It was pretty candid and I think really good session.

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God's promises come with a process and the process is the point.

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The process is the point.

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Back when I was a kid in the 80s and 90s, there were songs that hit the top 100, sometimes

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the top 10, and they were really catchy little earworms and everyone was singing them and

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loving them for a brief moment of time.

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And every once in a while, the band that had that song was someone that nobody had ever

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heard of.

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It wasn't the staple artists of the day that had albums out and won awards for them.

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It was just some rando band.

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What did we call those?

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called those One Hit Wonders.

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Why?

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Because they never had another song,

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they never had another track on the Top 100.

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Why is that?

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Because it was a fluke, so to speak.

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These are bands that had kind of come together,

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they hadn't played with each other for very long,

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they hadn't paid their dues,

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they hadn't gone through process,

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they hadn't played the bar circuits or the club circuits,

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they hadn't gotten out there,

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they hadn't perfected their music,

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they didn't have producers or managers or publicists,

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they didn't have that in place because they weren't ready.

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And without that infrastructure around them,

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they usually imploded.

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They imploded, they started fighting with each other

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when the fame came, right?

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They hadn't played with each other long enough,

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they didn't have that deep love for each other,

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so they started fighting against each other,

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they didn't have the right management,

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they ended up getting taken advantage of,

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and long story short, they didn't put out any more hits.

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God doesn't want that for you.

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He doesn't want you to be a one-hit wonder in this life.

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And I will tell you right now,

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and I feel impressed to say this by Holy Spirit,

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and that is good marriages require good community,

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good community.

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So maybe the first step in you finding your spirit mate

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or meeting your spirit mate

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or intersecting with your spirit mate

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is for you to get into good community

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because you're going to need a supportive community

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that loves you and is cheering for you

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during your marriage.

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You're going to need that.

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And if you don't have that,

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if you're not in community or you're in a community

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where you just felt really dry for a long time,

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you don't feel refreshed, you feel exhausted,

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a lot of times you're trying to think of excuses

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not to go to that spiritual community,

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you don't feel seen, known, and loved in that community,

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it's time for you to make a transition.

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Time for you to get ready to be around people

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that can cheer you on,

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not just you, but also your spirit mate.

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Just recently, I had a student have success

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in meeting someone great

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and began that dating courting process.

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And I was like, okay, this is great,

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but neither one of you have a community,

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so what's going to happen?

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What's going to happen now?

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Because you need to have a community,

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you can't be Lone Rangers,

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it's not going to just be the two of you against the world.

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That is not what God's plan for our lives looks like.

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And it's a really bad idea.

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There are going to be things that come at you

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and your partnership that are going to require

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you to be surrounded by a hedge of protection

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called community and family.

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You're going to need that.

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And so why not get it now?

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So let's talk about discipline and consistency

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because in my dream, she said,

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this is the thing that you lack.

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She said, this is the only thing that you lack.

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So what does that mean?

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That means I was hardwired for success

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in the areas that I was talking to her about.

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I had the gifts, I had the talents,

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I had the passion, I had the desire,

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I had the wherewithal.

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Now, I know y'all don't know me personally,

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like, you know, in a community way,

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like, you know, we're doing life together in person,

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but I will tell you, I am as persistent as a pit bull.

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I was born that way.

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I'm a persistent person.

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I do not give up.

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All right?

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That is not in my vocabulary.

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So I was hardwired with that already,

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but that's not what discipline looks like.

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Discipline doesn't look like persistence.

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Discipline is when there's a plan of action

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and that you are willing to continue to do that

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even when you don't see results.

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It is something that becomes a habit.

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It is something that becomes part of your character

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and part of, you know, who you are.

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The people that I know that are physically fit,

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they do not work out to be physically fit and healthy.

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They work out because it is part of their lifestyle.

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The byproduct of it is that

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they are physically fit and healthy.

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You guys see where I'm going here?

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That is a discipline of their lives.

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People that get up early in the morning,

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that is a discipline of their lives.

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They get to reap the benefits of that.

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There are great benefits to that,

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as long as you get to bed at an early hour.

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Here's the caveat.

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If you get up at 5 a.m., if you're in the 5 a.m. club,

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but you don't go to bed till midnight,

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then you're screwing up your body.

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You could discipline yourself to get up at 5 a.m.,

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even though you're burning the candle at both ends

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and not going to bed till midnight.

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You could set the alarm, you could force yourself

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and discipline yourself,

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but now you're only getting five hours of sleep.

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And scientifically, it's been proven

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that we need at least seven, most people.

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Right?

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And so, that's not good for you.

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We wanna discipline ourselves to have habits

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and to have lifestyles that are beneficial for us.

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But the people that I know that are disciplined people,

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they do whatever it is that they do

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because that is part of who they are,

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and then they get to reap the benefit of it.

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So let's talk really quickly about the word consistency.

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Let's talk about it.

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I'm gonna go ahead and just look up the definition

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so I can just read it to you.

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All right.

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The quality of always behaving or performing

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in a similar way,

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or of always happening in a similar way.

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Consistency.

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It's kind of a sister word to continuity, right?

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Always happening in a similar way.

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It's consistent.

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You can bet on it.

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It's going to stay the same.

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And so, this is something we really need

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to talk about this morning.

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And I know that this is kind of less spiritual

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for some of you,

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because I know sometimes we hoot and holler,

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and maybe we'll get there today,

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but it's important that we understand

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that this is keeping us from the things that we want.

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This is keeping us from the things that we want.

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And I propose to you that the reason why

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we're not consistent in our actions and behaviors

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is because we're double-minded.

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And that is what the book of James talks about.

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It talks about you can receive from the Lord what you ask.

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You can receive wisdom.

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You can get things from God,

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if, what, you're not double-minded.

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And what happens to us is that we allow our feelings

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and our emotions to change our minds too often, don't we?

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We do, don't we?

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How many times, let's be honest.

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I want to see your hands.

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How many times have you been super excited

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about something that was in your heart

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that you felt like was an invitation from the Lord

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to do something, to create something, to be something,

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to accomplish something,

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and you run out and you start doing it?

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Maybe you buy all the gear to do it,

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or you do this, or you do that.

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You get prepared to start whatever that thing is,

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and you start doing it,

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and then you talk yourself out of it.

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You have one-off day or one-off moment,

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or some circumstance comes at you fast,

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and then all of a sudden you're like,

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eh, it doesn't matter.

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It wouldn't have worked anyway.

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Come on.

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We do it, we all do it.

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But I want you to think right now,

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because you have that thing in your mind, right?

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Think about the last thing that you started,

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and then you just gave up on, whatever it was.

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Whether it was a health plan, an eating plan,

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whether it was some sort of plan

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to get out of the job that you do now,

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and to pad your resume with new things,

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or whether it was to go back to school,

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whatever it was, okay?

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To get on that dating app

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and just give it a good old college try,

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whatever it was.

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I want you to get that thing in your mind.

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And I want you to realistically ask yourself,

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if I would have continued and just been consistent,

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guys, not perfect, but just consistent.

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What does that mean?

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That means you just don't stop.

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Some days you're running, some days you're just walking,

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and some days you're just standing your ground,

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but you're not stopping, right?

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And that's part of our problem.

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We feel like if we can't do something 100%,

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if we can't do something perfectly,

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then what's the point of doing it?

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Guys, done is better than perfect.

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I learned that a long time ago.

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I learned that a long, long, long time ago.

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Showing up at 20% is better than showing up at 0%, right?

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So much in life is just about showing up, friends.

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It's just about showing up.

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I used to go to this terrible thing called bar.

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If you love the bar class, I bless you.

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That was the most grueling hour of my life when I would show up to this class called bar.

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And for gentlemen, it's like some kind of cross between Pilates and ballet and yoga and like hell.

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But it felt good to do something that was hard because I can do hard things.

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And I would, you guys, I would show up.

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I would show up.

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I would just drag myself there and show up.

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But by the end of the class, I would feel so accomplished.

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Right?

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At the beginning of the class, I'm just sitting there and I feel, oh, God.

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Oh, an hour of this, you know?

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But by the end of the class, I felt so accomplished.

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Just about showing up.

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I just continued to show up.

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I didn't want to.

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But sometimes, write this down, your feelings don't get a vote.

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We're so used to, oh, how do you feel?

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How are you feeling about it?

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Mm-hmm.

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I know.

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Yeah.

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Mm-hmm.

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Oh, man.

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Are you seeing?

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No.

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Our feelings don't get a vote.

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They don't get to vote.

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Think about how many times your feelings have kept you from good things.

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They've kept you from hard things.

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They've allowed you to stay in victim mode.

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No.

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No, no, and no.

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They don't get to vote.

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Now, think of that thing that you gave up on.

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You quit before it started getting good.

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I'll tell you, with working out, y'all,

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you're going to have to be in it to win it.

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Okay?

503
00:26:56.000 --> 00:26:59.000
Because this whole runner's high thing people get,

504
00:26:59.000 --> 00:27:01.000
I ain't experienced that.

505
00:27:01.000 --> 00:27:03.000
I'm telling you, I just got to do it.

506
00:27:03.000 --> 00:27:07.000
I showed up to this Pilates class on this reformer thing yesterday.

507
00:27:07.000 --> 00:27:10.000
I thought that woman was trying to kill us.

508
00:27:10.000 --> 00:27:13.000
All right?

509
00:27:13.000 --> 00:27:15.000
And she was all chipper in her microphone.

510
00:27:15.000 --> 00:27:18.000
She was like, come on, girl.

511
00:27:18.000 --> 00:27:20.000
There's an espresso martini waiting for you.

512
00:27:20.000 --> 00:27:23.000
There's an espresso martini waiting for you.

513
00:27:23.000 --> 00:27:25.000
It's Friday.

514
00:27:25.000 --> 00:27:28.000
I was like, no, no, lady.

515
00:27:28.000 --> 00:27:29.000
First of all, I don't even drink.

516
00:27:29.000 --> 00:27:34.000
And second of all, and then I promise you, she said, you need this.

517
00:27:34.000 --> 00:27:37.000
It's the only thing you need except Jesus and a husband.

518
00:27:37.000 --> 00:27:40.000
And I was like, oh, my God.

519
00:27:40.000 --> 00:27:42.000
Who is this woman?

520
00:27:42.000 --> 00:27:43.000
Anyway,

521
00:27:43.000 --> 00:27:48.000
think about that thing that you gave up on before the getting got good.

522
00:27:49.000 --> 00:27:51.000
I know it's going to hurt a little bit.

523
00:27:51.000 --> 00:27:54.000
But think about if, what would have happened if you kept doing it?

524
00:27:54.000 --> 00:27:56.000
Where would you be now?

525
00:27:56.000 --> 00:27:58.000
Would you be a pianist?

526
00:27:58.000 --> 00:28:02.000
Because it was some sort of piano lessons.

527
00:28:02.000 --> 00:28:04.000
Would you be more in shape than you are now?

528
00:28:04.000 --> 00:28:06.000
Because it was physically related.

529
00:28:06.000 --> 00:28:09.000
Would you financially be in better shape?

530
00:28:09.000 --> 00:28:12.000
Because it was some kind of debt snowball where you're paying off debt.

531
00:28:12.000 --> 00:28:13.000
And then you just went crazy.

532
00:28:13.000 --> 00:28:17.000
And then you ran up your credit card because you couldn't take it anymore.

533
00:28:17.000 --> 00:28:21.000
Where would you be?

534
00:28:21.000 --> 00:28:24.000
Maybe it was that relationship that really wasn't bad,

535
00:28:24.000 --> 00:28:30.000
but you talked yourself out of it because you were like, I don't know.

536
00:28:30.000 --> 00:28:36.000
I just don't feel anything.

537
00:28:36.000 --> 00:28:43.000
Give yourself a chance to feel anything.

538
00:28:43.000 --> 00:28:46.000
The Bible gives us evidence that in the end of the age,

539
00:28:46.000 --> 00:28:49.000
which I don't know how long the end of the age lasts.

540
00:28:49.000 --> 00:28:50.000
Okay.

541
00:28:50.000 --> 00:28:52.000
I don't nobody does, but I know that we're in it.

542
00:28:52.000 --> 00:28:54.000
Okay.

543
00:28:54.000 --> 00:28:55.000
Why do I know that?

544
00:28:55.000 --> 00:29:00.000
Because Jesus gave signs of what it would look like.

545
00:29:00.000 --> 00:29:02.000
You know, when I look out my window,

546
00:29:02.000 --> 00:29:06.000
I know what season it is by what's going on outside.

547
00:29:06.000 --> 00:29:08.000
It's very obviously spring.

548
00:29:08.000 --> 00:29:09.000
Okay.

549
00:29:09.000 --> 00:29:11.000
Sometimes in Texas, we skip spring and go straight to summer.

550
00:29:11.000 --> 00:29:13.000
So it might be summer here already y'all.

551
00:29:13.000 --> 00:29:19.000
Cause it's like 88 degrees, but it's very obviously springtime.

552
00:29:19.000 --> 00:29:23.000
You know, when it's fall, you know, when it's winter time, you look outside,

553
00:29:23.000 --> 00:29:25.000
you see the signs and that's what Jesus said.

554
00:29:25.000 --> 00:29:30.000
He said, when you see these things come to pass,

555
00:29:31.000 --> 00:29:34.000
Keep your eyes on me because I'm coming back soon.

556
00:29:34.000 --> 00:29:36.000
And if you've ever read through that list,

557
00:29:36.000 --> 00:29:41.000
you will know that there isn't one thing we can't cross off.

558
00:29:41.000 --> 00:29:46.000
Right.

559
00:29:46.000 --> 00:29:54.000
So that being said, he said that at the end of the age, people's love would.

560
00:29:54.000 --> 00:29:58.000
He describes in the Bible as waxing cold, but it would diminish.

561
00:29:58.000 --> 00:30:00.000
It would be more protective.

562
00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:06.880
right? Our hearts would be more hardened and harder to soften. Why? Because we've just

563
00:30:06.880 --> 00:30:18.440
seen too much garbage. We've just seen too much garbage. You know, even little children,

564
00:30:18.440 --> 00:30:22.240
little children, you know, where they're hugging each other and loving each other and sharing

565
00:30:22.240 --> 00:30:26.920
and all different things. Little kids aren't even like that anymore. They're like little

566
00:30:26.920 --> 00:30:36.440
bugs. Why? Because they're already seeing that life isn't safe, that people aren't safe.

567
00:30:36.440 --> 00:30:41.480
They were surrounded by a world full of pain and full of hurt and full of danger, danger,

568
00:30:41.480 --> 00:30:47.220
danger. So let me, let me just say it this way. You know, if you're out here wanting

569
00:30:47.220 --> 00:30:53.460
to meet a partner for the rest of your life, isn't it possible that it's going to take

570
00:30:53.460 --> 00:31:01.820
a while for you to open your heart and really trust someone? Yeah. And for a lot of us,

571
00:31:01.820 --> 00:31:07.820
our emotions of excitement, anticipation, and you know, like even sexual desire or attraction

572
00:31:07.820 --> 00:31:13.300
are attached to safety. They're attached to who is this person? This person is stranger

573
00:31:13.300 --> 00:31:18.100
to me. It's not natural for us to just meet strangers off the internet. So give yourself

574
00:31:18.100 --> 00:31:27.900
a chance to get to know someone before you're just like, nah. Give yourself a chance to

575
00:31:27.900 --> 00:31:34.700
see the character of that person, the heart of that person. And if you're going to marry

576
00:31:34.700 --> 00:31:44.980
someone, please marry somebody's heart. Marry good hearted people, soft hearted people,

577
00:31:44.980 --> 00:31:53.700
kind hearted people. You should be looking for hearts. Gentlemen, and ladies have the

578
00:31:53.700 --> 00:31:58.580
supplies to some, some ladies, the supplies to pick a woman, choose a woman that helps

579
00:31:58.580 --> 00:32:10.900
you live from your heart and not your head. So friends, it's time. Why don't you go ahead

580
00:32:10.900 --> 00:32:18.620
and put in the chat right now. Um, what, what did you start to do and then talk yourself

581
00:32:18.620 --> 00:32:24.180
out of? You weren't consistent. You weren't disciplined. What was that thing? Let's see

582
00:32:24.180 --> 00:32:34.500
it. All right. We got my degree, a podcast, job hunting, started growing my, my YouTube

583
00:32:34.500 --> 00:32:40.020
channel. I think that's what that means. Wellness, coaching, certification, training,

584
00:32:40.020 --> 00:32:48.740
guitar, college, dating, weight watchers, debt, snowball finances, health, small business,

585
00:32:48.740 --> 00:32:56.140
vlog. Wait, keep losing my place here. A book, making art, meal prep. So many of you gave

586
00:32:56.140 --> 00:33:01.420
up on creative things, right? Cause it's like, Oh, who's got time for that? Um, a neural

587
00:33:01.420 --> 00:33:09.300
retraining program. All right. Physical health. So many of you physical health. So many of

588
00:33:09.300 --> 00:33:16.660
you physical health gave up on marriage, gave up on journaling, physical health, physical

589
00:33:16.660 --> 00:33:20.780
health, physical health, physical health. Okay. All right. I'm glad to see all those

590
00:33:20.780 --> 00:33:26.140
physical health while all that other stuff is great. It's wonderful. I will tell you

591
00:33:26.140 --> 00:33:35.100
something that I believe is true. If you can discipline your body, you can achieve anything.

592
00:33:40.780 --> 00:33:46.620
You know, you can achieve anything if you can discipline your body. Another scripture that

593
00:33:46.620 --> 00:33:53.260
says, you know, physical exercise profits little, that's not the correct interpretation of that.

594
00:33:54.220 --> 00:34:00.460
What it's saying is, is that it profits, but for a short amount of time, right? Cause you're

595
00:34:00.460 --> 00:34:05.900
going to get a new body. You're going to get a new body, a different body. When you leave this

596
00:34:05.900 --> 00:34:11.540
earth experience that you're having right now, you're having an earth experience. You notice

597
00:34:11.540 --> 00:34:17.020
that I didn't say your earthly life because your life goes on and on and on. You're eternal, but

598
00:34:17.100 --> 00:34:23.820
you're having an earth experience. Okay. You're a supernatural being having a natural experience

599
00:34:23.820 --> 00:34:33.260
here on earth. And during your earth experience, you're in a corruptible form, meaning that this

600
00:34:33.260 --> 00:34:39.900
body is decaying and deteriorating. Right. But I believe that we can, as heaven invades earth

601
00:34:39.900 --> 00:34:46.860
through us, we can apply the principles of heaven and the way that we live and the way that we eat

602
00:34:46.860 --> 00:34:53.020
and do the things that we do that can cause this body to, you know, when we do leave the earth

603
00:34:53.020 --> 00:34:57.500
experience, we're not leaving because our cars broke down on the side of the road, our body.

604
00:34:58.940 --> 00:34:59.900
I believe that we can do that.

605
00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:04.480
that. And I also believe all these beautiful, amazing things

606
00:35:04.480 --> 00:35:07.840
that you put in the chat that you gave up on, if you will

607
00:35:07.840 --> 00:35:13.280
start with your body and disciplining it and not allowing

608
00:35:13.280 --> 00:35:16.360
it to do whatever it wants to do and not allowing to eat whatever

609
00:35:16.360 --> 00:35:20.920
it wants to eat, and not, you know, allowing it to just lay

610
00:35:20.920 --> 00:35:30.520
around. Okay, you're not tired, you're bored. Your life is

611
00:35:30.520 --> 00:35:34.200
boring. There's nothing to look forward to except the same old

612
00:35:34.200 --> 00:35:37.640
same old every day. And you haven't liked whatever it is

613
00:35:37.640 --> 00:35:41.320
that you're doing for years. You guys know that sedentariness

614
00:35:41.320 --> 00:35:45.440
sitting is the new smoking. Sitting is the new smoking.

615
00:35:46.400 --> 00:35:51.280
What does that mean? It means it's going to kill you a lot

616
00:35:51.280 --> 00:35:59.200
faster than you're supposed to be going. If we will discipline

617
00:35:59.280 --> 00:36:03.680
our appetites, our bodies, I think that you could rule the

618
00:36:03.680 --> 00:36:12.480
world. I do. You could definitely rule your world. So

619
00:36:12.720 --> 00:36:16.800
what's that gonna look like for you? I'm watching my husband do

620
00:36:16.800 --> 00:36:21.040
it. My husband's like a whole different man since he started

621
00:36:21.040 --> 00:36:25.920
going to this CrossFit place. I've known him for 17 years.

622
00:36:25.920 --> 00:36:29.840
When I met him, he was 36 years old. And he was kind of fluffy.

623
00:36:30.880 --> 00:36:33.320
But y'all, when you're younger and fluffy, you have a lot more

624
00:36:33.320 --> 00:36:36.120
energy and stuff because you're just younger, right? It hasn't

625
00:36:36.120 --> 00:36:39.280
kind of caught up with you yet. He was probably about 40 pounds

626
00:36:39.280 --> 00:36:42.400
overweight when I met him. And he said, I'm gonna be in the

627
00:36:42.400 --> 00:36:47.400
best shape of my life by 40 years old. But it's easier to

628
00:36:47.400 --> 00:36:49.920
medicate ourselves with food. And it's easier to sit around

629
00:36:49.920 --> 00:36:53.480
and medicate ourselves with entertainment. And to, you know,

630
00:36:53.560 --> 00:36:56.880
not love our lives. And instead of going and changing that

631
00:36:56.920 --> 00:36:59.600
through discipline and consistency, to just medicate

632
00:36:59.600 --> 00:37:02.360
it. And so that's what we do. And that's what he did. And me

633
00:37:02.360 --> 00:37:05.520
too. And actually, I was very thin when I met him doesn't mean

634
00:37:05.520 --> 00:37:09.080
I was healthy, but I was thin. And then, then I gained a bunch

635
00:37:09.080 --> 00:37:11.360
of weight just right along with him. It's like, hey, it's a

636
00:37:11.360 --> 00:37:17.600
party. Let's go. And so I saw a shift, he received this word,

637
00:37:17.600 --> 00:37:20.080
the word that I'm giving you right now is a word that he

638
00:37:20.080 --> 00:37:25.360
received. If you take control of your body of your health, you

639
00:37:25.360 --> 00:37:28.640
will be able to do a lot like all these other things that he

640
00:37:28.640 --> 00:37:33.840
wanted to do, right. And so he started doing it. It hasn't been

641
00:37:33.840 --> 00:37:37.200
easy, but he has been consistent. And guess what, all

642
00:37:37.240 --> 00:37:41.040
kinds of other things in his life have started to come

643
00:37:41.040 --> 00:37:45.480
alive. My husband's an amazing music gift. He's an amazing

644
00:37:45.480 --> 00:37:49.040
musician. He's an amazing singer. He hasn't touched music

645
00:37:49.040 --> 00:37:52.760
in years. All of a sudden, things are coming alive inside

646
00:37:52.760 --> 00:37:55.600
of him things that have been dormant. We're the dormant

647
00:37:55.640 --> 00:38:00.320
dormant. And those things are waking up. And they're coming

648
00:38:00.320 --> 00:38:04.120
alive. Why? Because of one simple thing. I see Corey out

649
00:38:04.160 --> 00:38:07.920
there walking, it doesn't take much friends. All you have to do

650
00:38:07.960 --> 00:38:12.760
is just make a decision that you are going to take control of

651
00:38:12.760 --> 00:38:19.000
your carnal appetite. You're gonna take control of it. And if

652
00:38:19.000 --> 00:38:22.120
you need help with that, you're going to get support. And you're

653
00:38:22.120 --> 00:38:25.240
going to take control of it. Because if you can control

654
00:38:25.480 --> 00:38:31.040
yourself, you will be able to accomplish so many other things

655
00:38:31.120 --> 00:38:31.680
who's in

656
00:38:36.720 --> 00:38:39.080
I've had people come to me and say, Oh, Jackie, I have a bum

657
00:38:39.080 --> 00:38:42.200
knee. You don't understand. I just I can't walk. I can't walk

658
00:38:42.200 --> 00:38:45.560
for long periods of time. Because we had a woman in our

659
00:38:45.760 --> 00:38:49.080
inaugural course, when I first launched this four years ago, we

660
00:38:49.080 --> 00:38:55.040
did a water walking, wearing dresses challenge, hydrating,

661
00:38:55.040 --> 00:38:59.440
walking, and wearing dresses, feminine challenge. And she

662
00:38:59.440 --> 00:39:02.400
could only walk for five minutes a day, five minutes.

663
00:39:02.400 --> 00:39:05.040
That's it. That's all she could do. She had a work related

664
00:39:05.040 --> 00:39:09.320
injury. She just couldn't go any further. But she did not stop.

665
00:39:09.800 --> 00:39:13.000
Y'all that woman now four years later, she doesn't just walk,

666
00:39:13.000 --> 00:39:18.120
she hikes, she goes on all kinds of things and does all kinds of

667
00:39:18.120 --> 00:39:24.560
stuff. She regained her health. She regained her life. Why she

668
00:39:24.560 --> 00:39:33.160
didn't stop. One day, you might be able to, you know, go hard.

669
00:39:33.800 --> 00:39:37.560
And then the next day, you might just be good to show up. But at

670
00:39:37.560 --> 00:39:41.600
least you did a couple other things. Holy Spirit had me right

671
00:39:41.600 --> 00:39:43.480
down here. And I want to make sure that I tell you guys,

672
00:39:43.880 --> 00:39:47.280
anything that distracts you, whatever breaks your focus on

673
00:39:47.280 --> 00:39:50.400
what we're talking about today is your enemy. I want you to

674
00:39:50.400 --> 00:39:54.200
treat it like an enemy. I mean, if it's a person, obviously, be

675
00:39:54.200 --> 00:39:57.840
kind and, you know, you know what I'm saying, but don't allow

676
00:39:57.840 --> 00:40:00.080
it have a boundary there. Whatever

677
00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:02.600
breaks your focus is your enemy.

678
00:40:02.600 --> 00:40:03.600
It's trying to keep you.

679
00:40:03.600 --> 00:40:07.080
I know that we think that the devil always shows up at our front door with a little red

680
00:40:07.080 --> 00:40:11.840
suit on with horns and a tail and a pitchfork, but that is not what the opposing forces look

681
00:40:11.840 --> 00:40:12.840
like.

682
00:40:12.840 --> 00:40:18.080
The opposing forces show up in all kinds of good intention things that are breaking your

683
00:40:18.080 --> 00:40:20.880
focus.

684
00:40:20.880 --> 00:40:27.120
It's difficult to say no to people, but it is not part of what you're focusing on right

685
00:40:27.120 --> 00:40:32.040
now in your life, and it's going to drag you away and, and keep you from being able to

686
00:40:32.040 --> 00:40:33.040
be consistent.

687
00:40:33.040 --> 00:40:36.000
Then you have to say no.

688
00:40:36.000 --> 00:40:40.240
You have to say no, no, I'm sorry.

689
00:40:40.240 --> 00:40:41.240
I can't do that.

690
00:40:41.240 --> 00:40:42.240
Yeah.

691
00:40:42.240 --> 00:40:43.240
They might think you're a jerk.

692
00:40:43.240 --> 00:40:46.720
Well, that's too bad.

693
00:40:46.720 --> 00:40:51.840
Sometimes you have to offend other people in order to love yourself, write it down.

694
00:40:51.840 --> 00:40:57.120
You have to offend other people in order to love yourself.

695
00:40:57.120 --> 00:41:06.240
And some of you people pleasing is what's kept your life stuck for so long.

696
00:41:06.240 --> 00:41:08.400
Whatever breaks your focus is your enemy.

697
00:41:08.400 --> 00:41:13.480
Now, that being said, one thing that's definitely going to break your focus, and I know it doesn't

698
00:41:13.480 --> 00:41:22.720
seem like this would keep us, um, from being consistent because it's very, uh, covert.

699
00:41:22.720 --> 00:41:25.480
I got all these C words, consistent, covert.

700
00:41:25.480 --> 00:41:32.200
I'm going to give you some more C words, clutter, specifically in your calendar, your closet,

701
00:41:32.200 --> 00:41:33.200
in your car.

702
00:41:33.200 --> 00:41:39.280
Look at all those C's, what in the world's going on?

703
00:41:39.280 --> 00:41:48.200
If you are surrounded by things that energetically suck the life out of you, that exhaust you,

704
00:41:48.200 --> 00:41:52.120
you will not be consistent.

705
00:41:52.120 --> 00:41:53.120
Picture with me.

706
00:41:53.120 --> 00:41:56.160
You're walking around your apartment, your house, your townhouse, your condo, whatever

707
00:41:56.160 --> 00:42:03.720
you live in, your van, your RV, your trailer, whatever, however, you're walking around and

708
00:42:03.720 --> 00:42:07.000
you're, you woke up, you're walking around, you're getting ready for the day.

709
00:42:07.000 --> 00:42:09.640
You got this big plan for the day.

710
00:42:09.640 --> 00:42:14.520
You do all this stuff, but all of a sudden there's just all kinds of things around you

711
00:42:14.520 --> 00:42:19.040
that are yelling for attention, plans that need to be watered, things that need to be

712
00:42:19.040 --> 00:42:25.040
put away, you know, clutter and chaos and laundry and blah.

713
00:42:25.040 --> 00:42:29.080
Guys, I read this amazing book.

714
00:42:29.080 --> 00:42:33.200
I want to warn you that if you do read it or listen to it on audio, you can't unhear

715
00:42:33.200 --> 00:42:34.200
it.

716
00:42:34.200 --> 00:42:35.200
Okay?

717
00:42:35.200 --> 00:42:41.120
It will change you and, and the changes that it makes in you are going to require and demand

718
00:42:41.120 --> 00:42:42.120
attention.

719
00:42:42.120 --> 00:42:43.120
And so I'm just going to warn.

720
00:42:43.120 --> 00:42:44.880
That's my disclaimer for this.

721
00:42:44.880 --> 00:42:49.760
It's by a man named John Mark Comer and the book is called The Ruthless Elimination of

722
00:42:49.760 --> 00:42:50.760
Hurry.

723
00:42:50.760 --> 00:42:55.840
That's the first book that I will have read in like 10 years because God had me on a reading

724
00:42:55.840 --> 00:43:00.600
hiatus because I was a little bookworm and it was causing me to zig and zag and go left

725
00:43:00.600 --> 00:43:02.480
instead of right and just all over the place.

726
00:43:02.480 --> 00:43:03.480
Okay?

727
00:43:03.480 --> 00:43:06.680
So I wanted to have some time to just spend with him and listen to him and download my

728
00:43:06.680 --> 00:43:10.120
own stuff besides just reading other people's stuff.

729
00:43:10.120 --> 00:43:17.880
So 10 years of no book reading and then that book, yo, that book rocked my world.

730
00:43:17.880 --> 00:43:22.120
And one of the things in it that rocked my world is this, every single thing that you

731
00:43:22.120 --> 00:43:27.780
bring into your life, okay?

732
00:43:27.780 --> 00:43:30.920
You bring it into your life, whether it's a relationship, whether it's something that

733
00:43:30.920 --> 00:43:35.240
you buy a store, an article of clothing, a food item, it doesn't matter.

734
00:43:35.240 --> 00:43:44.080
Anything that you bring into your life has a ripple effect.

735
00:43:44.080 --> 00:43:48.480
It has a ripple effect, y'all.

736
00:43:48.480 --> 00:43:51.280
Everything that you buy, somebody made that, right?

737
00:43:51.280 --> 00:43:52.760
Someone's getting money from that.

738
00:43:52.760 --> 00:43:58.840
Some corporation or organization is pocketing the proceeds and who knows what they're doing.

739
00:43:58.880 --> 00:44:02.880
I will tell you, everything I buy, every time I buy something off Amazon, I feel a little

740
00:44:02.880 --> 00:44:06.800
sick that I'm giving Jeff Bezos more money.

741
00:44:06.800 --> 00:44:10.240
I'm like, bleh.

742
00:44:10.240 --> 00:44:16.620
But also there's all kinds of people that make their livings off selling things off

743
00:44:16.620 --> 00:44:19.920
of Amazon, single moms, all different types of people.

744
00:44:19.920 --> 00:44:21.840
And so yes, I get it.

745
00:44:21.840 --> 00:44:23.400
There's a ripple effect.

746
00:44:23.400 --> 00:44:24.760
There's a ripple effect.

747
00:44:24.800 --> 00:44:29.840
All that fast fashion that we buy that's made in Indonesia and China and Taiwan, those people

748
00:44:29.840 --> 00:44:33.720
are in slave labor.

749
00:44:33.720 --> 00:44:36.920
And you might say, well, you know, if we don't buy it, then they don't have a job at all.

750
00:44:36.920 --> 00:44:42.880
Well, I mean, if that's the way you want to think about it.

751
00:44:42.880 --> 00:44:45.200
But you guys, we have way too much stuff.

752
00:44:45.200 --> 00:44:50.120
And I didn't realize this, but energetically, because you are a spirit.

753
00:44:50.120 --> 00:44:52.520
And so that word is not new age, y'all.

754
00:44:52.520 --> 00:45:00.000
Don't let, because other people are explaining what we are better than what our, what our

755
00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:03.000
our little Sunday school teachers knew about

756
00:45:03.000 --> 00:45:04.760
the spirit, soul, and body,

757
00:45:04.760 --> 00:45:07.560
don't automatically brand that new age.

758
00:45:10.420 --> 00:45:12.440
You know, your 80-year-old Sunday school teacher

759
00:45:12.440 --> 00:45:13.980
didn't understand the relationship

760
00:45:13.980 --> 00:45:15.260
between spirit, mind, and body,

761
00:45:15.260 --> 00:45:17.100
but guess what we do now?

762
00:45:17.100 --> 00:45:22.100
We understand that trauma is held in the heart spot,

763
00:45:22.100 --> 00:45:23.620
in the soul place,

764
00:45:23.620 --> 00:45:25.780
that our spirit that's eternal

765
00:45:25.780 --> 00:45:27.780
is already seated with Christ in heavenly places,

766
00:45:27.800 --> 00:45:30.320
but our body is the one that holds the score.

767
00:45:32.280 --> 00:45:33.960
That's why the bad things you've been through

768
00:45:33.960 --> 00:45:37.040
show up as dis-ease and disease in your body.

769
00:45:38.080 --> 00:45:39.600
We know these things now,

770
00:45:39.600 --> 00:45:40.840
and we're not gonna look away

771
00:45:40.840 --> 00:45:42.440
just because it sounds new agey.

772
00:45:43.760 --> 00:45:46.160
Energetically, spiritually,

773
00:45:46.160 --> 00:45:48.680
all the stuff that is around you,

774
00:45:48.680 --> 00:45:51.160
all the clutter in your life,

775
00:45:51.160 --> 00:45:53.840
you guys, it could be a clutter of friendships.

776
00:45:55.160 --> 00:45:56.520
If you go through your phone right now,

777
00:45:56.520 --> 00:45:57.360
I want you to be honest,

778
00:45:57.860 --> 00:45:59.460
you guys, ooh, Holy Spirit is so in this.

779
00:45:59.460 --> 00:46:01.060
Please listen.

780
00:46:01.060 --> 00:46:02.980
Go through your phone,

781
00:46:02.980 --> 00:46:03.900
when you get off here,

782
00:46:03.900 --> 00:46:06.280
this is a great activate for this,

783
00:46:07.140 --> 00:46:09.620
and look at all the contacts you have in your phone

784
00:46:09.620 --> 00:46:12.380
that you don't even know who that person is.

785
00:46:12.380 --> 00:46:13.420
It just has a name.

786
00:46:13.420 --> 00:46:14.980
You can't even place that name.

787
00:46:14.980 --> 00:46:16.820
You don't know who that person is.

788
00:46:16.820 --> 00:46:18.900
You have no idea who they are.

789
00:46:18.900 --> 00:46:21.540
There's people in there that you maybe met one time,

790
00:46:21.540 --> 00:46:22.900
never had anything to do with,

791
00:46:22.900 --> 00:46:24.940
ever again put them in your contacts,

792
00:46:24.940 --> 00:46:27.340
or possibly all kinds of people in there

793
00:46:28.160 --> 00:46:29.360
that you don't ever talk to anymore.

794
00:46:29.360 --> 00:46:31.200
You're not going to be talking to them.

795
00:46:31.200 --> 00:46:33.040
Those are past seasons of your life.

796
00:46:33.040 --> 00:46:34.760
Those ships have sailed.

797
00:46:34.760 --> 00:46:36.200
You guys, we don't have to feel like

798
00:46:36.200 --> 00:46:39.000
we have to gather all this stuff and keep it.

799
00:46:39.000 --> 00:46:40.760
You know, prune your phone.

800
00:46:40.760 --> 00:46:41.920
Yes, if you're like,

801
00:46:41.920 --> 00:46:43.920
Jackie, is this gonna become a pruning call?

802
00:46:43.920 --> 00:46:44.920
Yes, it is.

803
00:46:44.920 --> 00:46:46.080
It's springtime, y'all.

804
00:46:46.080 --> 00:46:47.240
It's time to prune.

805
00:46:47.240 --> 00:46:49.060
If you wanna be consistent,

806
00:46:49.060 --> 00:46:50.400
if you wanna be disciplined,

807
00:46:50.400 --> 00:46:52.040
you gotta get rid of the clutter.

808
00:46:53.120 --> 00:46:54.200
And we're gonna go into more of this

809
00:46:54.200 --> 00:46:55.400
tomorrow night on Activate,

810
00:46:55.400 --> 00:46:56.960
for those of you that can come.

811
00:46:57.540 --> 00:46:59.180
We're gonna have our prophetic time

812
00:46:59.180 --> 00:47:00.220
that we have once a month,

813
00:47:00.220 --> 00:47:02.420
but we're also gonna go back into pruning as well.

814
00:47:02.420 --> 00:47:03.300
All right?

815
00:47:03.300 --> 00:47:05.500
So prune those phone contacts.

816
00:47:06.780 --> 00:47:08.400
Prune the pictures on your phone.

817
00:47:08.400 --> 00:47:09.380
Put them to the cloud.

818
00:47:09.380 --> 00:47:10.220
Delete them.

819
00:47:10.220 --> 00:47:11.860
Get rid of them.

820
00:47:11.860 --> 00:47:13.100
Get rid of the stuff in your house

821
00:47:13.100 --> 00:47:14.180
that you don't use anymore.

822
00:47:14.180 --> 00:47:16.660
Let someone else use it that needs it.

823
00:47:17.700 --> 00:47:18.620
Let someone else use it.

824
00:47:18.620 --> 00:47:19.780
Get rid of the clutter.

825
00:47:22.180 --> 00:47:24.020
Your calendar is cluttered.

826
00:47:24.020 --> 00:47:26.220
Remember I said calendar, closet, car.

827
00:47:26.220 --> 00:47:29.120
Get rid of all those clothes you don't need.

828
00:47:29.120 --> 00:47:30.360
Don't be holding onto them.

829
00:47:30.360 --> 00:47:31.760
If they don't fit you,

830
00:47:31.760 --> 00:47:33.680
you haven't worn them in a year, they're gone.

831
00:47:33.680 --> 00:47:35.240
Do the Marie Kondo thing.

832
00:47:35.240 --> 00:47:37.600
Bless them and send them on.

833
00:47:37.600 --> 00:47:38.440
All right?

834
00:47:38.440 --> 00:47:39.260
Calendar.

835
00:47:39.260 --> 00:47:42.600
If you have all kinds of stuff on your calendar,

836
00:47:42.600 --> 00:47:45.080
you can't get any momentum, can you?

837
00:47:45.080 --> 00:47:47.480
Because you're always overscheduling yourself.

838
00:47:47.480 --> 00:47:50.480
And so you never have time to do the things for yourself.

839
00:47:50.480 --> 00:47:53.280
You couldn't be consistent if you wanted to.

840
00:47:53.280 --> 00:47:55.540
Because your calendar looks like

841
00:47:55.540 --> 00:47:57.100
a really busy city street

842
00:47:57.100 --> 00:47:58.940
full of stop lights and stop signs.

843
00:47:58.940 --> 00:47:59.780
Go, stop.

844
00:47:59.780 --> 00:48:00.600
Go, stop.

845
00:48:00.600 --> 00:48:01.440
Go, stop.

846
00:48:01.440 --> 00:48:02.280
Go, stop.

847
00:48:03.940 --> 00:48:07.060
You need a big old country road.

848
00:48:07.060 --> 00:48:08.780
You need a whole lot of runways

849
00:48:08.780 --> 00:48:11.060
so this plane can take off.

850
00:48:11.060 --> 00:48:12.220
And in order to get that,

851
00:48:12.220 --> 00:48:14.060
you're gonna have to move this stuff out of the way.

852
00:48:14.060 --> 00:48:16.420
You're gonna have to use the word no.

853
00:48:17.900 --> 00:48:21.720
No, no, no, no, no, no, yes.

854
00:48:21.720 --> 00:48:25.260
You should be saying no far more than you're saying yes.

855
00:48:27.420 --> 00:48:28.900
Far, far, far more.

856
00:48:28.900 --> 00:48:32.100
Your yeses should be very few and far between,

857
00:48:32.100 --> 00:48:33.460
unless they're to the Lord.

858
00:48:34.940 --> 00:48:36.680
Your car.

859
00:48:36.680 --> 00:48:38.700
Has your car become a catch-all?

860
00:48:38.700 --> 00:48:39.780
Another C word.

861
00:48:39.780 --> 00:48:41.140
All the C's today.

862
00:48:41.140 --> 00:48:44.420
A catch-all for all kinds of junk?

863
00:48:44.420 --> 00:48:46.500
Look in your car and you can tell what you've been up to.

864
00:48:46.500 --> 00:48:48.500
You've been going through the fast food drive-thru?

865
00:48:48.500 --> 00:48:49.340
Mm-hmm.

866
00:48:50.160 --> 00:48:52.520
You got debris in there.

867
00:48:54.120 --> 00:48:54.960
Get it out.

868
00:48:57.080 --> 00:48:58.920
If you declutter your space,

869
00:48:58.920 --> 00:49:01.060
you will declutter your mind.

870
00:49:02.660 --> 00:49:03.500
You will.

871
00:49:05.400 --> 00:49:08.720
There is nothing better than being in a space

872
00:49:08.720 --> 00:49:11.280
where there is nothing drawing your attention

873
00:49:11.280 --> 00:49:12.700
and breaking your focus.

874
00:49:14.960 --> 00:49:19.000
And some of us just simply have too much stuff, okay?

875
00:49:20.000 --> 00:49:23.240
We're like Madame Blueberry from the McStuff Mart.

876
00:49:23.240 --> 00:49:25.820
For those of you that have kids in the veggie tales,

877
00:49:25.820 --> 00:49:27.360
you know what I'm talking about.

878
00:49:28.920 --> 00:49:30.120
She had all this stuff.

879
00:49:31.200 --> 00:49:32.700
We gotta get rid of the stuff.

880
00:49:36.760 --> 00:49:39.120
I will tell you that what your space looks like

881
00:49:39.120 --> 00:49:42.400
is oftentimes what your mind and heart look like.

882
00:49:42.400 --> 00:49:44.200
Clutter, stuff.

883
00:49:44.200 --> 00:49:46.120
And of course, I'm talking to myself.

884
00:49:46.120 --> 00:49:48.680
I'm not preaching to you, okay?

885
00:49:48.700 --> 00:49:50.340
I'm just being a conduit of Holy Spirit

886
00:49:50.340 --> 00:49:52.860
to just say out loud what needs to be said

887
00:49:52.860 --> 00:49:54.220
and what needs to be heard.

888
00:49:59.540 --> 00:50:00.380
You guys.

889
00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:06.620
you're not going to do all of this in one day, but you have to bite it off in bite-sized pieces and

890
00:50:07.920 --> 00:50:10.400
you have to be consistent and follow through and

891
00:50:11.960 --> 00:50:13.960
When you do fall off

892
00:50:14.720 --> 00:50:16.720
You got to start again

893
00:50:17.880 --> 00:50:21.520
You can't say oh, well, oh I quit it's too late, you know

894
00:50:22.000 --> 00:50:27.280
No, you just start again and you ask Holy Spirit to show you what caused you to fall off

895
00:50:27.480 --> 00:50:32.480
What caused you to quit what caused you to quit was it a bad memory that came up

896
00:50:33.760 --> 00:50:40.480
Did you just like look at yourself in the mirror and you didn't see any measurable results from all of your hard work?

897
00:50:40.480 --> 00:50:46.400
You're like, what's this? What's the use? I'm just always gonna be fat. I'm always gonna be this. I'm always gonna be that

898
00:50:47.680 --> 00:50:50.200
If you feed your body the right things

899
00:50:51.400 --> 00:50:56.520
The right macros you guys that's just a fancy word for protein carbs and fats and veggies

900
00:50:56.880 --> 00:50:59.600
okay, if you feed your body the right thing and

901
00:51:00.880 --> 00:51:03.760
You move your body and you hydrate your body

902
00:51:04.280 --> 00:51:09.520
Whatever your body looks like is what you look like and then you just have to make peace with that

903
00:51:09.840 --> 00:51:12.600
I've never been a fan of people, you know

904
00:51:12.600 --> 00:51:19.560
Doing an intense and extreme things to their body to try to get their body to be a certain size or certain shape

905
00:51:19.560 --> 00:51:23.080
I do not believe that is what God intended for us

906
00:51:24.320 --> 00:51:26.320
He intended us to move

907
00:51:26.880 --> 00:51:31.960
That's why you have all these muscles. We have those muscles for it's because we're intended to move

908
00:51:32.160 --> 00:51:38.840
Do you know that the more you sit the shorter those muscles become that's why you have lower back pain. That's why you have sciatica

909
00:51:38.920 --> 00:51:42.440
That's why you have all this stuff is because we are a sitting generation

910
00:51:42.440 --> 00:51:44.120
Have you ever seen that cartoon WALL-E?

911
00:51:44.120 --> 00:51:49.040
where all the fat people are rolling around and they're in their remote-controlled chairs and

912
00:51:49.560 --> 00:51:54.480
Drinking slurpees like big huge sugary drinks or whatever. I feel that that's pretty accurate

913
00:51:57.520 --> 00:51:58.480
All

914
00:51:58.480 --> 00:52:02.800
We have to do to get rid of our lower back pain. It's like it's a big catch-22, right?

915
00:52:02.800 --> 00:52:07.180
We have it so we don't want to move so we sit and the sitting is what causes it

916
00:52:10.760 --> 00:52:12.640
We got to move

917
00:52:12.640 --> 00:52:14.560
We got to move. We got to be consistent

918
00:52:14.560 --> 00:52:20.200
We got to move and so whatever you do if you're doing that if you're fueling your body with real food with whole foods

919
00:52:20.200 --> 00:52:26.000
Okay, and you're moving your body in whatever way you have to start and then building up and building up and building up every

920
00:52:26.000 --> 00:52:32.160
Every one of us that's over 40 years old or really 35 years old. We should all be doing weight-bearing activities

921
00:52:33.800 --> 00:52:35.240
Whether that's wall push-ups

922
00:52:35.240 --> 00:52:39.920
you can use your own body weight as weight because why because of our bones if

923
00:52:40.080 --> 00:52:45.120
We want to have strong bones and we don't want to be hunched over. Have you seen all those older people that are hunched over?

924
00:52:45.640 --> 00:52:47.640
you know

925
00:52:48.000 --> 00:52:50.760
We don't want that we don't want osteoporosis. We don't want these things

926
00:52:50.760 --> 00:52:55.680
we want to have strong bones and one of the ways one of the easiest ways to balance your hormones and

927
00:52:55.920 --> 00:52:58.960
To get strong bones is to do weight-bearing exercise

928
00:52:59.960 --> 00:53:03.080
Get yourself some dumbbells off of a Amazon put them in your house

929
00:53:03.080 --> 00:53:07.960
Just those little hand weights and go after it get some fives and some tens gentlemen

930
00:53:07.960 --> 00:53:11.480
You might need a little bit heavier than that guys. It doesn't take much

931
00:53:13.320 --> 00:53:15.320
But when you take care of yourself

932
00:53:15.640 --> 00:53:20.800
But when you take care of your body like this, whatever your body looks like is what you look like

933
00:53:21.320 --> 00:53:23.520
It's what you look like make peace with it

934
00:53:25.520 --> 00:53:32.080
Don't join some extreme. I don't believe God is in the extremes. I really don't don't join some extreme diet plan

935
00:53:33.960 --> 00:53:38.600
Don't join some extreme exercise plan trying to get your body to you know

936
00:53:39.280 --> 00:53:42.160
Be smaller than it was when you were a toddler

937
00:53:42.560 --> 00:53:44.560
Come on y'all

938
00:53:46.240 --> 00:53:50.040
I weighed a hundred pounds when I was like ten

939
00:53:55.200 --> 00:54:00.720
You know for some of you you're tiny little people and that's like a thing for you but for some of us

940
00:54:00.720 --> 00:54:06.960
That's not a thing. I feel my best. I feel the healthiest in my body when I'm about a hundred and seventy pounds

941
00:54:07.120 --> 00:54:10.160
And for me that translates to about a size eight

942
00:54:11.760 --> 00:54:13.760
Ten eight ten somewhere in there

943
00:54:15.200 --> 00:54:21.320
I've been living a large for me. I've been living a large life for me at a 14 and 16 at 200 pounds

944
00:54:21.320 --> 00:54:23.320
I don't feel good in my body

945
00:54:23.840 --> 00:54:26.640
But I know that it's because of stress

946
00:54:28.040 --> 00:54:30.920
It's because of having a cluttered calendar

947
00:54:30.920 --> 00:54:37.920
It's because of having a cluttered calendar and a cluttered life full of activities and not enough help and it's about you know

948
00:54:37.920 --> 00:54:44.240
Eating convenient food. There's that c-word again. It's not convenient if it's destroying your body and not moving

949
00:54:45.280 --> 00:54:51.520
Specifically not moving because I'm an athlete. I was born an athlete. I've always played sports competitive sports

950
00:54:52.040 --> 00:54:56.200
You know and I haven't done that in many many years and you guys I was I was

951
00:54:56.200 --> 00:54:58.560
I was

952
00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:04.120
at a birthday party for my twin niece and nephew that turned 18, and there was a family

953
00:55:04.120 --> 00:55:08.120
volleyball game, beach volleyball, which you all know is going to use every muscle in your

954
00:55:08.120 --> 00:55:09.120
body.

955
00:55:09.120 --> 00:55:12.680
I hadn't played volleyball in like 13, 14 years, but I used to play volleyball.

956
00:55:12.680 --> 00:55:14.640
I used to play volleyball on a team.

957
00:55:14.640 --> 00:55:19.080
And I got out there, and I can't tell you, I came alive.

958
00:55:19.080 --> 00:55:22.760
And it reminded me that my body wants to be athletic.

959
00:55:22.760 --> 00:55:26.820
My body is an athlete.

960
00:55:26.820 --> 00:55:27.820
And I loved it.

961
00:55:27.820 --> 00:55:29.480
And yes, I could not walk the next day.

962
00:55:29.960 --> 00:55:30.960
I couldn't sit down on the toilet.

963
00:55:30.960 --> 00:55:32.140
Y'all know what I'm talking about.

964
00:55:32.140 --> 00:55:36.600
You could not get down to save your life, but you know what?

965
00:55:36.600 --> 00:55:41.900
That pain felt so good because it reminded me that I have all these muscles that I'm

966
00:55:41.900 --> 00:55:44.340
not using that want to be used.

967
00:55:44.340 --> 00:55:48.620
So I just release that over all of you right now, regardless of whether you've, you know,

968
00:55:48.620 --> 00:55:55.700
to have no athletic ability whatsoever, or you like me love, you know, love to get out

969
00:55:55.700 --> 00:55:56.700
there.

970
00:55:56.700 --> 00:56:03.700
Love to do something athletic, walk, run, hike, pickleball, volleyball, you know, something

971
00:56:03.700 --> 00:56:11.380
just release over you, the consistency and the discipline to make it a priority.

972
00:56:11.380 --> 00:56:19.920
If you can get a hold of your body and your appetites, you will accomplish so many other

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things that you posted in the chat today.

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So Father God, we thank you for this time together.

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Spirit, we're, we're relying on you to come alongside us in this word and to give us the

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empowerment that we need to follow through, to quicken our mortal bodies with the power

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of heaven, to be able to do what we need to do to keep it at the top of our mind, to keep

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it alive in our spirit, to soak that fire and to help us continue to surround us by

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people that can help us and partner with us and lock arms with us, prayer partners, but

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also workout partners, Lord, people that will help us to get to where it is that we need

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to go.

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Voices of, of wisdom in these areas, wherever we need help.

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We thank you God that you have called us to be consistent and disciplined.

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And you said to us that if we don't give up, we will win.

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Your word says that.

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I released that word over all of us, that they, that do not become weary in doing what

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they know is right will reap.

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They will win if they don't give up.

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And so we lean into that Psalm today.

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We believe it.

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We receive it in Jesus name.

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Let it be so.

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