WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:06.520 Hey, everyone, welcome to Supernatural Saturday. 2 00:00:06.520 --> 00:00:11.040 If you are new, which we do have some new members of our community, welcome. 3 00:00:11.040 --> 00:00:13.360 We're so glad you're here. 4 00:00:13.360 --> 00:00:17.800 And this is the day that we gather as a community and we look to the Lord. 5 00:00:17.800 --> 00:00:19.120 What is God saying? 6 00:00:19.120 --> 00:00:21.800 What is the current prophetic reality? 7 00:00:21.800 --> 00:00:26.260 What are the messages and directives for our lives individually and corporately? 8 00:00:26.260 --> 00:00:27.640 And that is what we do on Saturdays. 9 00:00:28.140 --> 00:00:31.460 You guys, I have a couple thoughts. 10 00:00:31.460 --> 00:00:35.700 They're not all cohesive, but we're going to see where it goes. 11 00:00:35.700 --> 00:00:36.700 Okay. 12 00:00:36.700 --> 00:00:42.380 First of all, I posted on my Instagram, just, you know, you know me, I like to be a cheeky 13 00:00:42.380 --> 00:00:43.380 monkey. 14 00:00:43.380 --> 00:00:50.580 And so I posted something that was purposeful to cause a little, a little conflict, not 15 00:00:50.580 --> 00:00:52.980 a lot, just a little baby conflict. 16 00:00:52.980 --> 00:00:53.980 Okay. 17 00:00:53.980 --> 00:00:59.580 And so I said something like, when people say to you, maybe it's God's desire for you 18 00:00:59.580 --> 00:01:04.580 to stay single forever, you can say back to them, maybe it's God's desire for you to mind 19 00:01:04.580 --> 00:01:05.580 your business. 20 00:01:05.580 --> 00:01:06.580 Okay. 21 00:01:06.580 --> 00:01:13.060 I put that, but I really should have put, maybe it's God's desire for you to read your 22 00:01:13.060 --> 00:01:16.540 Bible because the Bible doesn't say nothing like that. 23 00:01:16.540 --> 00:01:17.540 Okay. 24 00:01:17.540 --> 00:01:25.700 And so I posted that little quote by a little me, Jackie D and, you know, for the most part, 25 00:01:25.700 --> 00:01:29.900 because of the people that follow me on Instagram, it's favorable comments like, yeah, yeah, 26 00:01:29.900 --> 00:01:31.380 right on, right on. 27 00:01:31.380 --> 00:01:38.660 And then someone posted something about, well, you know, the Bible does talk a lot about 28 00:01:38.660 --> 00:01:39.660 singleness. 29 00:01:39.660 --> 00:01:40.660 What? 30 00:01:40.660 --> 00:01:41.660 No, it doesn't. 31 00:01:41.660 --> 00:01:48.100 And you guys, this is the problem. 32 00:01:48.100 --> 00:01:50.860 A lot of people don't actually read their Bible. 33 00:01:50.860 --> 00:01:51.860 Okay. 34 00:01:51.860 --> 00:01:57.540 They just let someone else read their Bible and tell them about the Bible. 35 00:01:57.540 --> 00:01:59.780 And that's a problem. 36 00:01:59.780 --> 00:02:04.820 And so I want all of you to decide today that you're going to read your Bible. 37 00:02:04.820 --> 00:02:09.580 You're not just going to show up every week on Sunday and listen to someone else talk 38 00:02:09.580 --> 00:02:13.460 about what they saw when they read their Bible. 39 00:02:13.460 --> 00:02:15.300 This is how rumors get started. 40 00:02:15.300 --> 00:02:17.740 It's how rumors get started. 41 00:02:17.740 --> 00:02:23.460 And this poor gentleman in my comment feed, no shade at him, because a lot of people do 42 00:02:23.460 --> 00:02:24.460 think that. 43 00:02:24.460 --> 00:02:25.980 I hear people say that all the time. 44 00:02:25.980 --> 00:02:30.060 Well, you know, God talks a lot about being single in the Bible. 45 00:02:30.060 --> 00:02:32.500 You know, there's a big emphasis put on singleness. 46 00:02:32.500 --> 00:02:34.500 No, there's not. 47 00:02:34.500 --> 00:02:41.500 In fact, there's only two scriptures that actually juxtaposition marriage and singleness 48 00:02:41.500 --> 00:02:45.780 that actually talk about singleness versus marriage. 49 00:02:45.780 --> 00:02:46.780 Two. 50 00:02:46.780 --> 00:02:47.780 One, two. 51 00:02:47.780 --> 00:02:48.780 That's it. 52 00:02:48.780 --> 00:02:49.780 That's it. 53 00:02:49.780 --> 00:02:57.580 And one of them is about Paul and his own life in 1 Corinthians 7, okay, his own gift, 54 00:02:57.580 --> 00:03:00.820 his own assignment, his own calling. 55 00:03:00.820 --> 00:03:02.480 And we'll talk about that in a second. 56 00:03:02.480 --> 00:03:07.960 And the other one is Jesus in Matthew 19 talking to his disciples about the law of 57 00:03:07.960 --> 00:03:11.320 Moses concerning marriage. 58 00:03:11.320 --> 00:03:13.880 And these guys were like, hmm, that sounds hard. 59 00:03:13.880 --> 00:03:15.920 I think we're just going to stay single. 60 00:03:15.920 --> 00:03:20.560 And Jesus went on to say to them, hey, single's not necessarily better. 61 00:03:20.560 --> 00:03:24.600 You think it sounds easier to be single, but if you don't have the grace to be single, 62 00:03:24.600 --> 00:03:28.600 it ain't going to be easy. 63 00:03:28.600 --> 00:03:33.680 And you guys, that same word that Jesus uses there, grace, charisma in that scripture, 64 00:03:33.680 --> 00:03:37.840 it's the same scripture that's used over in 1 Corinthians 7 by Paul. 65 00:03:37.840 --> 00:03:40.280 He's saying, I have the grace to be single. 66 00:03:40.280 --> 00:03:42.400 I have it. 67 00:03:42.400 --> 00:03:45.560 You guys, God did not choose singleness for Paul. 68 00:03:45.560 --> 00:03:53.520 Paul chose singleness and God gave him the grace to live a life of abstinence and celibacy. 69 00:03:53.520 --> 00:03:55.600 Can we just consider Paul's life for a second? 70 00:03:55.600 --> 00:03:59.560 I think it's important to keep everything in context. 71 00:03:59.560 --> 00:04:05.240 Paul was a Pharisee of the Pharisees, meaning he was a religious leader of leaders. 72 00:04:05.240 --> 00:04:07.520 He was persecuting Christians. 73 00:04:07.520 --> 00:04:12.080 Jesus turned him around, called him, appeared to him. 74 00:04:12.080 --> 00:04:20.220 He had the road to Damascus conversion, serious stuff, life-changing transformation. 75 00:04:20.220 --> 00:04:27.460 And he was called to take all of his, you know, persecution towards the Christians 76 00:04:27.460 --> 00:04:31.180 and now turn it around and be what a discipler, right? 77 00:04:31.180 --> 00:04:33.780 A church planter, to be an apostle. 78 00:04:33.780 --> 00:04:39.100 So then he sets off to do that, but he has nothing but persecution. 79 00:04:39.100 --> 00:04:47.660 This dude shipwrecks, snake bites, you know, imprisonment after imprisonment after imprisonment. 80 00:04:47.660 --> 00:04:55.060 Let's think to ourselves what it would be like to be Paul's wife, to be Paul's children. 81 00:04:55.060 --> 00:04:58.420 That would really suck, wouldn't it? 82 00:04:58.420 --> 00:04:59.900 Never know where this dude is. 83 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:01.560 There's no cell phones back there. 84 00:05:03.760 --> 00:05:05.280 He's on some shipwreck. 85 00:05:05.280 --> 00:05:06.440 He's in some place. 86 00:05:06.440 --> 00:05:10.480 He's in prison for six months and let out and then goes over here and 87 00:05:10.480 --> 00:05:13.960 gets imprisoned again, by the way, that's what the thorn in the flesh 88 00:05:13.960 --> 00:05:16.120 was in case you didn't know. 89 00:05:17.200 --> 00:05:21.400 Everywhere that Paul went immediately, someone stirred up strife against him. 90 00:05:22.320 --> 00:05:23.040 Immediately. 91 00:05:23.040 --> 00:05:27.200 There was someone that came and stirred up strife against Paul. 92 00:05:27.200 --> 00:05:35.880 Everywhere he went, he couldn't go anywhere without people causing 93 00:05:35.880 --> 00:05:38.520 trouble for him immediately. 94 00:05:39.440 --> 00:05:46.840 The messenger of Satan said to Buffett, me, it's really important. 95 00:05:46.840 --> 00:05:51.920 You guys, that we, that we understand what the Bible's talking about. 96 00:05:52.920 --> 00:05:58.200 If God allowed you free will enough to make the choice of whether or not you 97 00:05:58.200 --> 00:06:04.280 would choose him in this life and allow him to be your savior, allow Jesus to 98 00:06:04.280 --> 00:06:09.040 be your savior, you think that he's going to take the choice of whether or 99 00:06:09.040 --> 00:06:11.720 not you're going to be married or have a family away from you? 100 00:06:11.920 --> 00:06:12.920 Does that make any sense? 101 00:06:16.440 --> 00:06:20.600 Because of Paul's calling, it made sense for him to live a life of celibacy. 102 00:06:21.280 --> 00:06:23.480 It made a life, it made sense for him. 103 00:06:25.520 --> 00:06:28.880 He had a different maturity plan called shipwrecks and 104 00:06:28.880 --> 00:06:30.360 snake bites and imprisonments. 105 00:06:32.040 --> 00:06:38.120 But I want you to recognize that Paul says himself to the Corinthians, by the way, 106 00:06:39.520 --> 00:06:43.320 the reason why they would get in a letter from Paul in the first place was because 107 00:06:43.320 --> 00:06:48.280 they were arguing about how now that they've received Christ, you know, they 108 00:06:48.280 --> 00:06:52.840 had to be holy and the married folk were not having sex with their spouses anymore. 109 00:06:55.840 --> 00:06:56.360 Okay. 110 00:06:57.720 --> 00:07:03.640 They basically were sending the signal that it's holier to not be married, even 111 00:07:03.640 --> 00:07:06.320 though I'm married already, it's holier to be celibate. 112 00:07:07.040 --> 00:07:09.840 That was the message that they were sending. 113 00:07:09.840 --> 00:07:11.520 And Paul sent a different message. 114 00:07:11.520 --> 00:07:13.480 He said, Hey, that's me. 115 00:07:13.760 --> 00:07:14.560 I'm celibate. 116 00:07:15.240 --> 00:07:15.720 Okay. 117 00:07:15.720 --> 00:07:16.840 I'm not celibate. 118 00:07:17.640 --> 00:07:18.120 Okay. 119 00:07:18.120 --> 00:07:22.840 I'm abstinent because I have a charisma or grace from heaven to be this. 120 00:07:22.880 --> 00:07:24.840 And I wish all of you had it. 121 00:07:25.200 --> 00:07:25.520 Why? 122 00:07:25.520 --> 00:07:27.320 Because then you wouldn't be arguing about this. 123 00:07:27.880 --> 00:07:28.840 This wouldn't be going on. 124 00:07:28.840 --> 00:07:30.520 I wouldn't have to send you this letter. 125 00:07:30.520 --> 00:07:34.520 If all of you had the same grace that I have, but because you don't 126 00:07:34.520 --> 00:07:36.760 have it, you should get married. 127 00:07:40.520 --> 00:07:43.400 How this turned into the scriptures about the gift of singleness. 128 00:07:43.400 --> 00:07:46.480 I'll never know because it doesn't say that at all. 129 00:07:47.840 --> 00:07:52.160 The word charisma there is an empowerment and endowment from on high. 130 00:07:53.200 --> 00:07:53.440 Okay. 131 00:07:53.440 --> 00:07:54.760 It's not a gift. 132 00:07:56.200 --> 00:08:00.720 It is the grace to do something. 133 00:08:02.920 --> 00:08:04.040 Not like a spiritual gift. 134 00:08:04.040 --> 00:08:05.320 Like we see in Galatians. 135 00:08:05.560 --> 00:08:06.640 That's not what it is. 136 00:08:07.840 --> 00:08:10.840 And so it's important that you understand that because a lot of you, if you got 137 00:08:11.240 --> 00:08:19.560 that gift of singleness and your little swag bag from Jesus, when you got saved, 138 00:08:19.640 --> 00:08:22.760 you might be trying to refund that gift or re-gift that gift. 139 00:08:25.800 --> 00:08:29.400 So it's important that we understand what's really happening in the Bible. 140 00:08:30.240 --> 00:08:30.760 All right. 141 00:08:31.000 --> 00:08:35.480 And then Jesus uses that same word charisma in Matthew 19, when he's 142 00:08:35.480 --> 00:08:39.679 talking to his disciples about, Hey, you think that being single sounds 143 00:08:39.679 --> 00:08:44.200 easier than Moses's rules on marriage, but it's not easier if 144 00:08:44.200 --> 00:08:45.560 you don't have the grace for it. 145 00:08:47.280 --> 00:08:50.560 And then he goes on to say that singleness is thrust upon some people. 146 00:08:51.280 --> 00:08:52.560 He's talking about eunuchs. 147 00:08:52.560 --> 00:08:55.880 He's talking about people that are imprisoned, persecuted. 148 00:08:57.120 --> 00:08:59.160 You know, they didn't want to be single, but it was thrust 149 00:08:59.160 --> 00:09:01.160 upon them by the circumstances. 150 00:09:02.760 --> 00:09:03.280 Right. 151 00:09:04.200 --> 00:09:09.080 And then there are some people that are born single, like they're born celibate. 152 00:09:09.520 --> 00:09:11.920 Like with a call on their life, a specific call. 153 00:09:12.160 --> 00:09:14.920 And you guys, I don't know if you even know any of those people. 154 00:09:16.680 --> 00:09:20.720 Most likely the people that you know that are single are more likely 155 00:09:20.720 --> 00:09:22.760 single because they're afraid of others. 156 00:09:24.000 --> 00:09:27.160 They haven't done their hard work, not able to let others in. 157 00:09:27.360 --> 00:09:31.800 They've decided that it's easier to stay solo than it is to do what would need to 158 00:09:31.800 --> 00:09:34.960 be done in order to trust another human being to that level. 159 00:09:36.040 --> 00:09:37.640 That's more likely what's happening. 160 00:09:38.040 --> 00:09:38.320 All right. 161 00:09:38.320 --> 00:09:41.640 So I just wanted to address that really quickly, if that was okay with you guys. 162 00:09:43.880 --> 00:09:44.240 Right. 163 00:09:44.920 --> 00:09:46.680 It's really important that we understand that. 164 00:09:47.160 --> 00:09:49.800 And there are a couple other places that I want to go today. 165 00:09:52.320 --> 00:09:54.480 Because I really feel like God's drawing us there. 166 00:09:54.600 --> 00:09:57.560 And so the second place that I want to go is to Psalm 16. 167 00:09:57.960 --> 00:10:01.040 So if you want to go ahead and get that, go to Psalm 16. 168 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:03.160 that and have a little bit of a Bible study today. 169 00:10:03.160 --> 00:10:08.240 Apparently, grab Psalm 16. 170 00:10:13.200 --> 00:10:18.120 I'm just grabbing my psalm. 171 00:10:31.000 --> 00:10:34.760 I'm walking all through my house, you guys, today. 172 00:10:34.760 --> 00:10:36.720 For those of you that are joining us for 173 00:10:36.720 --> 00:10:38.700 the first time for Supernatural Saturday, 174 00:10:38.700 --> 00:10:39.900 it's usually not like this. 175 00:10:39.900 --> 00:10:42.240 It's usually just like me on 176 00:10:42.240 --> 00:10:46.520 a rant of something from Holy Spirit. 177 00:10:46.520 --> 00:10:48.000 But today, we're just going to take it a little 178 00:10:48.000 --> 00:10:49.520 slower if that's okay with everyone 179 00:10:49.520 --> 00:10:51.000 because I feel like there's 180 00:10:51.000 --> 00:10:53.880 some important things that we need to get done today. 181 00:10:53.880 --> 00:10:57.360 So go to Psalm 16 if you can on your phone, 182 00:10:57.360 --> 00:11:01.880 if you have a Bible, go there. 183 00:11:02.320 --> 00:11:05.320 I was just kidding. 184 00:11:07.600 --> 00:11:13.000 All right. I'm going to read it. 185 00:11:13.000 --> 00:11:15.160 I'm going to read it. Guys, 186 00:11:15.160 --> 00:11:17.600 don't get theological on me. 187 00:11:17.600 --> 00:11:19.680 Translations of the Bible, 188 00:11:19.680 --> 00:11:21.360 interpretations of the Bible. 189 00:11:21.360 --> 00:11:24.200 If you don't love the Passion Translation, that's fine. 190 00:11:24.200 --> 00:11:26.440 You can go read it in the NIV, 191 00:11:26.440 --> 00:11:29.280 the King James, you can read it in the Amplified. 192 00:11:29.280 --> 00:11:31.600 But there's some language specifically in 193 00:11:31.600 --> 00:11:33.400 here that I really want you to get a hold of, 194 00:11:33.400 --> 00:11:35.320 and so that's why I'm going to read it from here. 195 00:11:35.320 --> 00:11:39.640 I don't study the Word of God from the Passion Translation. 196 00:11:39.640 --> 00:11:43.960 But because it's poetry, specifically Psalms, 197 00:11:43.960 --> 00:11:49.640 I think that it's beautiful the way that Brian Simmons put it, 198 00:11:49.640 --> 00:11:53.520 or translated it, interpreted it in the Passion Translation. 199 00:11:53.520 --> 00:11:55.760 So here we go. Ready? 200 00:11:56.600 --> 00:11:59.120 Keep me safe, Almighty God. 201 00:11:59.120 --> 00:12:05.160 I run for dear life to you, my safe place. 202 00:12:05.160 --> 00:12:07.320 So I said to the Lord, 203 00:12:07.320 --> 00:12:10.240 you are my maker, my mediator, and my master. 204 00:12:10.240 --> 00:12:14.640 Any good thing you find in me has come from you. 205 00:12:14.640 --> 00:12:18.320 He said to me, my holy lovers are wonderful, 206 00:12:18.320 --> 00:12:21.200 my majestic ones, my glorious ones, 207 00:12:21.200 --> 00:12:23.480 fulfilling all my desires. 208 00:12:23.480 --> 00:12:25.560 Yet there are those who yield to 209 00:12:25.560 --> 00:12:29.040 their weakness and they will have troubles and sorrows unending. 210 00:12:29.040 --> 00:12:31.560 I never gather with such ones, 211 00:12:31.560 --> 00:12:34.400 nor give them honor in any way. 212 00:12:34.400 --> 00:12:39.200 Lord, I have chosen you alone as my inheritance. 213 00:12:39.200 --> 00:12:43.200 You are my prize, my pleasure, and my portion. 214 00:12:43.200 --> 00:12:47.720 I leave my destiny and its timing in your hands. 215 00:12:47.720 --> 00:12:51.880 Your pleasant path leads me to pleasant places. 216 00:12:51.920 --> 00:12:56.120 I'm overwhelmed by the privileges that come with following you, 217 00:12:56.120 --> 00:12:58.280 for you have given me the best. 218 00:12:58.280 --> 00:13:02.320 The way you counsel and correct me makes me praise you more. 219 00:13:02.320 --> 00:13:05.880 For your whispers in the night give me wisdom, 220 00:13:05.880 --> 00:13:08.560 showing me what to do next. 221 00:13:08.560 --> 00:13:12.840 Because you are close to me and always available, 222 00:13:12.840 --> 00:13:15.640 my confidence will never be shaken. 223 00:13:15.640 --> 00:13:20.520 For I experience your wraparound presence every moment. 224 00:13:20.560 --> 00:13:24.480 My heart and soul explode with joy, full of glory. 225 00:13:24.480 --> 00:13:28.320 Even my body will rest confident and secure. 226 00:13:28.320 --> 00:13:31.200 For you will not abandon me to the realm of death, 227 00:13:31.200 --> 00:13:35.200 nor will you allow your holy one to experience corruption. 228 00:13:35.200 --> 00:13:39.720 For you bring me a continual revelation of resurrection life, 229 00:13:39.720 --> 00:13:44.920 and the path to bliss that brings me face-to-face with you. 230 00:13:45.360 --> 00:13:52.360 Guys, I want to speak some of this over you and over myself. 231 00:13:52.360 --> 00:13:54.280 Lord, you're my inheritance. 232 00:13:54.280 --> 00:13:55.760 You are my prize. 233 00:13:55.760 --> 00:13:56.920 You are my pleasure. 234 00:13:56.920 --> 00:13:59.880 You are my portion. 235 00:13:59.880 --> 00:14:04.800 Your pleasant path leads me to pleasant places. 236 00:14:04.800 --> 00:14:09.320 Remember that banner scripture over this movement, Jeremiah 6.16? 237 00:14:09.320 --> 00:14:12.200 The ancient of days has ancient ways. 238 00:14:12.240 --> 00:14:15.760 And if we ask him to take our feet off the path of pain 239 00:14:15.760 --> 00:14:18.680 and place them back on his good path, 240 00:14:18.680 --> 00:14:22.200 ask him where the good path is, that leads back to him. 241 00:14:22.200 --> 00:14:27.200 He will put our feet on that path so that our peace can increase. 242 00:14:27.200 --> 00:14:29.360 Doesn't that remind you of that scripture? 243 00:14:29.360 --> 00:14:32.440 Your pleasant path leads me to pleasant places. 244 00:14:32.440 --> 00:14:36.800 I'm overwhelmed by the privileges that come with following you. 245 00:14:36.800 --> 00:14:40.800 Some of you, some of you don't know the benefits of membership. 246 00:14:43.360 --> 00:14:44.960 You know how you get a credit card in the mail 247 00:14:44.960 --> 00:14:50.360 and then it gives you this big, long explanation of the benefits 248 00:14:50.360 --> 00:14:55.400 of being a member of that credit union, of that credit card? 249 00:14:55.400 --> 00:14:56.520 Who reads that? 250 00:14:56.520 --> 00:14:58.760 It's a bunch of small print. 251 00:14:58.760 --> 00:14:59.920 But I will tell you that. 252 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:01.560 You gave your life to Jesus. 253 00:15:01.560 --> 00:15:07.600 It came with a lot of small print, good stuff, good stuff that you have access to. 254 00:15:07.760 --> 00:15:12.440 I just recently found out that the credit card of choice that I chose for travel 255 00:15:12.440 --> 00:15:16.000 and different things that allows me discounts on rental cars, it gives me 256 00:15:16.040 --> 00:15:18.280 extra liability and collision insurance. 257 00:15:18.280 --> 00:15:22.360 When I rent rental cars with it, it gives me discounts and special 258 00:15:22.360 --> 00:15:24.200 upgrades at different hotels. 259 00:15:24.440 --> 00:15:26.120 You guys, I had to read the print. 260 00:15:27.480 --> 00:15:28.840 I had to read it here. 261 00:15:28.840 --> 00:15:32.240 I was walking around with this card in my pocket for years, not 262 00:15:32.240 --> 00:15:34.920 knowing what it gave me access to. 263 00:15:37.200 --> 00:15:41.040 Do you know what being a child of God gives you access to? 264 00:15:41.200 --> 00:15:45.680 Do you see that David says you will not allow your holy one to experience corruption? 265 00:15:45.840 --> 00:15:47.520 Is he talking about Jesus? 266 00:15:48.120 --> 00:15:49.640 No, he's talking about himself. 267 00:15:51.640 --> 00:15:53.360 He's saying, I'm your holy one. 268 00:15:53.720 --> 00:15:56.280 And we all know that David was not a perfect person. 269 00:15:56.280 --> 00:15:59.400 I'm your holy one. 270 00:16:01.320 --> 00:16:05.800 You guys don't ever worry about stealing glory from God because you are his glory. 271 00:16:06.480 --> 00:16:09.600 The Bible says the glory of the father are his children. 272 00:16:11.120 --> 00:16:12.320 We are his glory. 273 00:16:13.160 --> 00:16:16.200 When we sign, we make his name great in the earth. 274 00:16:17.520 --> 00:16:21.720 And so there's all kinds of resources that you have access to that you're not using. 275 00:16:21.720 --> 00:16:22.880 Look at that right there. 276 00:16:23.880 --> 00:16:27.600 I'm overwhelmed by the privileges that come with following you for 277 00:16:27.600 --> 00:16:29.360 you have given me the best. 278 00:16:30.080 --> 00:16:34.000 This needs to make it on your affirmation board every morning. 279 00:16:34.000 --> 00:16:41.080 God, give me the grace to fully follow you because life with you is full of 280 00:16:41.080 --> 00:16:43.760 privileges because you have given me your best. 281 00:16:44.920 --> 00:16:46.640 Speak it over yourself, guys. 282 00:16:46.640 --> 00:16:50.520 It does not do this world any good for you to play small because if you do not 283 00:16:50.760 --> 00:16:54.720 have access to the resources that you have access to through following Jesus, 284 00:16:54.720 --> 00:16:58.440 then no one else is going to have any resources either because you are the 285 00:16:58.440 --> 00:17:00.640 lender and not the borrower. 286 00:17:00.920 --> 00:17:03.240 You are the conduit of heaven. 287 00:17:04.119 --> 00:17:04.640 You. 288 00:17:06.160 --> 00:17:06.680 Okay. 289 00:17:07.359 --> 00:17:13.280 The way you counsel and correct me makes me praise you more for your whispers in 290 00:17:13.280 --> 00:17:17.160 the night, give me wisdom, showing me what to do next. 291 00:17:17.599 --> 00:17:24.240 Have a little talk with Jesus in the nighttime and everything's quiet and 292 00:17:24.240 --> 00:17:29.120 your mind's not racing from everything you got to do during the day and see 293 00:17:29.120 --> 00:17:32.480 what kind of clarity people are like, man, God always talks to me in the shower. 294 00:17:32.640 --> 00:17:33.520 You want to know why? 295 00:17:33.960 --> 00:17:37.440 Because in the shower, you're doing something that takes absolutely no 296 00:17:37.440 --> 00:17:45.920 thoughts, you're not using your frontal cortex of your brain at all in the shower. 297 00:17:45.960 --> 00:17:50.240 You're doing something repetitive that you've done thousands and thousands of 298 00:17:50.240 --> 00:17:56.000 times, hopefully, hopefully, hopefully you've taken thousands of showers in your 299 00:17:56.000 --> 00:17:56.520 life. 300 00:18:00.360 --> 00:18:04.040 So that means that the rest of your brain, the learning part of your brain is open 301 00:18:04.040 --> 00:18:05.560 and ready to receive. 302 00:18:06.600 --> 00:18:08.240 That's what's going on right then. 303 00:18:09.360 --> 00:18:13.360 And you guys in the nighttime, you're open and you're ready to receive a lot. 304 00:18:13.360 --> 00:18:18.440 So in the nighttime, especially you give me wisdom on what to do next, showing me 305 00:18:18.440 --> 00:18:19.240 what to do next. 306 00:18:19.840 --> 00:18:25.120 This is one of my favorite scriptures here, because you are close to me and 307 00:18:25.120 --> 00:18:27.600 always available. 308 00:18:29.960 --> 00:18:31.640 You are always available. 309 00:18:31.840 --> 00:18:36.680 My confidence will never be shaken for I experienced your wraparound presence 310 00:18:36.720 --> 00:18:39.880 every moment, always available. 311 00:18:39.880 --> 00:18:41.440 You guys, he's always available. 312 00:18:41.440 --> 00:18:42.560 He's never busy. 313 00:18:42.600 --> 00:18:45.600 I know people who won't even pray for things for themselves. 314 00:18:46.080 --> 00:18:47.840 Just recently I ran into a friend of mine. 315 00:18:47.840 --> 00:18:53.680 She's an older lady and she had a, I call it an Oscar Meyer, Oscar Meyer 316 00:18:53.680 --> 00:18:55.960 wiener bun on her legs. 317 00:18:55.960 --> 00:18:59.320 She had one of those like wraparound castings. 318 00:19:01.800 --> 00:19:03.400 And I said, Hey, what happened? 319 00:19:03.400 --> 00:19:05.760 And she said, Oh, I fell and hurt myself. 320 00:19:05.760 --> 00:19:08.480 And I had surgery and I'm like, Oh, I'm so sorry. 321 00:19:08.680 --> 00:19:09.800 I said, are you healing good? 322 00:19:09.800 --> 00:19:12.760 And she said, no, actually, you know, it's not healing, right. 323 00:19:12.760 --> 00:19:14.280 And I'm going to have to have another surgery. 324 00:19:14.680 --> 00:19:16.040 And this person's a believer. 325 00:19:16.400 --> 00:19:18.840 And I said to her, Oh, okay, well, we'll pray. 326 00:19:18.880 --> 00:19:24.240 I will be praying that that surgery goes, you know, really well and that whatever 327 00:19:24.240 --> 00:19:25.920 is wrong is fixed this time around. 328 00:19:25.920 --> 00:19:28.160 And she goes, Oh no, no, no, no, no. 329 00:19:28.200 --> 00:19:29.320 Don't worry God with that. 330 00:19:29.560 --> 00:19:30.320 I'll be fine. 331 00:19:31.200 --> 00:19:31.680 What? 332 00:19:34.160 --> 00:19:36.280 First of all, y'all, I'm going to tell you something. 333 00:19:37.280 --> 00:19:39.160 First of all, y'all, God ain't worried. 334 00:19:40.560 --> 00:19:41.080 Okay. 335 00:19:43.440 --> 00:19:46.080 God doesn't have any problems, including your leg. 336 00:19:48.320 --> 00:19:50.680 And so it's important that we understand that. 337 00:19:51.440 --> 00:19:55.240 But a lot of people, they were, you know, they were raised in a religious 338 00:19:55.240 --> 00:19:58.840 mindset that you don't trouble God with your little problems. 339 00:19:59.280 --> 00:19:59.760 God's got. 340 00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:02.240 a bigger problems to solve in the world. 341 00:20:04.320 --> 00:20:06.240 He's got bigger problems to solve 342 00:20:06.240 --> 00:20:07.560 than your little old life. 343 00:20:08.480 --> 00:20:10.320 And so they don't know how to come to God 344 00:20:10.320 --> 00:20:12.160 with every care and every worry. 345 00:20:12.160 --> 00:20:16.640 But my Bible says that you should cast all your care 346 00:20:16.640 --> 00:20:18.920 on the Lord who cares for you. 347 00:20:18.920 --> 00:20:20.840 And that's why we have Jesus Care Sports. 348 00:20:20.840 --> 00:20:22.000 And if you're new here, 349 00:20:22.000 --> 00:20:23.920 you're gonna find out about that in phase one. 350 00:20:23.920 --> 00:20:25.080 That's why you have it. 351 00:20:25.080 --> 00:20:27.680 Because God wants you to come to him 352 00:20:27.680 --> 00:20:31.600 with everything that concerns you, everything. 353 00:20:31.600 --> 00:20:34.720 In fact, there's another scripture that commands you 354 00:20:34.720 --> 00:20:36.400 to not be full of care, 355 00:20:37.640 --> 00:20:40.160 to not be full of worry or anxiety, 356 00:20:40.160 --> 00:20:42.040 but with supplication and prayer, 357 00:20:42.040 --> 00:20:44.160 make your needs known to God. 358 00:20:46.560 --> 00:20:47.600 Amen. 359 00:20:47.600 --> 00:20:50.400 You guys, the reason why I feel like the Lord wanted me 360 00:20:51.480 --> 00:20:54.000 to read this scripture, 361 00:20:54.000 --> 00:20:56.560 I heard the scripture read aloud last night, 362 00:20:56.640 --> 00:21:00.320 and I felt led to read it aloud over y'all today 363 00:21:00.320 --> 00:21:03.560 because he wants to remind you that he's always available. 364 00:21:04.880 --> 00:21:06.360 He's always available. 365 00:21:07.920 --> 00:21:10.200 A lot of you had parents that were not always available. 366 00:21:10.200 --> 00:21:12.000 You might've had a single mom that worked a lot 367 00:21:12.000 --> 00:21:13.600 and she wasn't available. 368 00:21:13.600 --> 00:21:16.280 You might've had a dad that wasn't emotionally available, 369 00:21:16.280 --> 00:21:18.200 wasn't physically available. 370 00:21:18.200 --> 00:21:19.480 Maybe they weren't even alive. 371 00:21:19.480 --> 00:21:20.640 Maybe they abandoned the family. 372 00:21:20.640 --> 00:21:22.040 Your parents got divorced. 373 00:21:22.040 --> 00:21:23.880 A lot of you are not used to 374 00:21:23.880 --> 00:21:26.200 and were not raised with caretakers 375 00:21:26.200 --> 00:21:27.920 that were available to you. 376 00:21:29.480 --> 00:21:32.160 And you definitely shouldn't bother them 377 00:21:32.160 --> 00:21:35.680 unless you had a problem that was like an emergency. 378 00:21:39.560 --> 00:21:42.680 And so we project that same type of thought 379 00:21:42.680 --> 00:21:44.960 onto Father God, even though it's not true. 380 00:21:46.720 --> 00:21:49.000 You guys, God is not a person. 381 00:21:50.960 --> 00:21:52.600 He doesn't have limited bandwidth. 382 00:21:52.600 --> 00:21:53.640 I want you to write that down. 383 00:21:53.640 --> 00:21:55.720 God does not have limited bandwidth. 384 00:21:55.960 --> 00:21:57.760 Humans have limited bandwidth. 385 00:21:57.760 --> 00:21:58.800 God does not. 386 00:22:00.120 --> 00:22:02.760 He is always available. 387 00:22:03.800 --> 00:22:05.120 He is always ready. 388 00:22:05.120 --> 00:22:07.240 The Bible says that his hand is not shortened, 389 00:22:07.240 --> 00:22:08.360 that it cannot save. 390 00:22:08.360 --> 00:22:10.920 His ear is not heavy, that it cannot hear. 391 00:22:12.480 --> 00:22:13.760 He's omniscient. 392 00:22:13.760 --> 00:22:17.560 He's omnipotent, meaning he's everywhere. 393 00:22:18.520 --> 00:22:19.920 He's in all things. 394 00:22:19.920 --> 00:22:22.640 He's in you and he's around you. 395 00:22:22.640 --> 00:22:24.520 You are in him. 396 00:22:24.520 --> 00:22:26.520 You cannot be removed from his presence. 397 00:22:26.520 --> 00:22:28.680 Remember the other psalm where David's saying, 398 00:22:28.680 --> 00:22:31.240 I can't go anywhere to escape your presence. 399 00:22:32.160 --> 00:22:33.840 And that's what it says here too. 400 00:22:33.840 --> 00:22:37.280 For I experienced your wraparound presence every moment. 401 00:22:39.120 --> 00:22:40.200 Every moment. 402 00:22:41.480 --> 00:22:42.320 God is with us. 403 00:22:42.320 --> 00:22:43.160 He is in us. 404 00:22:43.160 --> 00:22:44.360 He is around us. 405 00:22:46.680 --> 00:22:48.680 And so in the words of one of my favorite songs, 406 00:22:48.680 --> 00:22:51.440 that means that whatever you think has you surrounded 407 00:22:51.440 --> 00:22:52.840 is surrounded by God. 408 00:22:55.520 --> 00:22:57.760 It may look like I'm surrounded, 409 00:22:58.880 --> 00:23:00.360 but I'm surrounded by you. 410 00:23:01.880 --> 00:23:02.720 Amen. 411 00:23:03.840 --> 00:23:06.000 God's just trying to get a hold of our hearts this morning 412 00:23:06.000 --> 00:23:09.600 to let us know that he's here, that he's available, 413 00:23:09.600 --> 00:23:10.920 but he's also willing. 414 00:23:12.080 --> 00:23:12.960 You guys, he's willing. 415 00:23:12.960 --> 00:23:14.520 You don't have to try to make God willing. 416 00:23:14.520 --> 00:23:15.360 He's willing. 417 00:23:15.360 --> 00:23:17.680 He wants good things for you 418 00:23:17.680 --> 00:23:19.880 more than you want good things for yourself. 419 00:23:22.760 --> 00:23:24.440 Think about the person that loves you the most 420 00:23:25.200 --> 00:23:26.040 on the earth, 421 00:23:26.040 --> 00:23:28.040 the person that claps when you win, 422 00:23:30.840 --> 00:23:32.600 the person that's always cheering you on, 423 00:23:32.600 --> 00:23:36.640 the person who's always praying for you, encouraging you. 424 00:23:36.640 --> 00:23:39.160 Think about how much they want good things for you 425 00:23:39.160 --> 00:23:40.760 because they probably want good things for you 426 00:23:40.760 --> 00:23:41.920 more than you even want them 427 00:23:41.920 --> 00:23:44.320 or more than you even think you deserve them. 428 00:23:44.320 --> 00:23:45.480 Think about who that person is. 429 00:23:45.480 --> 00:23:48.280 If you don't have that person, I'm that person for you. 430 00:23:49.600 --> 00:23:51.960 And then remember that God 431 00:23:52.960 --> 00:23:56.680 trumps that person by a gazillion percent 432 00:23:56.680 --> 00:23:59.440 as far as his good plans and good purposes 433 00:23:59.440 --> 00:24:03.280 and good thoughts and good intentions towards you. 434 00:24:03.280 --> 00:24:05.720 And what's more important is that he's not a human. 435 00:24:05.720 --> 00:24:07.880 So if we allow him his good intentions, 436 00:24:07.880 --> 00:24:09.960 his good thoughts and his good plans 437 00:24:09.960 --> 00:24:11.520 actually can come to pass. 438 00:24:12.480 --> 00:24:16.480 He's not just encouraging us, right? 439 00:24:16.480 --> 00:24:18.400 He created us for good things. 440 00:24:20.400 --> 00:24:21.640 He created us for good things. 441 00:24:22.320 --> 00:24:24.640 And he wants to connect us to those good things. 442 00:24:25.880 --> 00:24:28.040 He will not abandon us. 443 00:24:28.040 --> 00:24:30.320 He will not allow us to see corruption. 444 00:24:30.320 --> 00:24:35.080 He will bring continual revelation and resurrection life. 445 00:24:35.080 --> 00:24:37.040 Think of something in your life that's dead right now 446 00:24:37.040 --> 00:24:39.920 that you'd love to see resurrected and put it in the chat. 447 00:24:41.960 --> 00:24:43.320 Something in your life, 448 00:24:45.840 --> 00:24:48.720 sick and dying, or it's already seems dead, 449 00:24:48.720 --> 00:24:51.200 meaning that it's bearing no fruit anymore in your life 450 00:24:51.760 --> 00:24:53.080 and you would like to see it resurrected. 451 00:24:53.080 --> 00:24:55.200 Whether it's a relationship, 452 00:24:55.200 --> 00:24:59.240 whether it's a family member or a family situation, 453 00:24:59.240 --> 00:25:00.080 whether it's your. 454 00:25:00.000 --> 00:25:02.400 finances, whether it's your own health, 455 00:25:02.400 --> 00:25:03.880 doesn't matter what it is. 456 00:25:03.880 --> 00:25:04.720 Let's see it. 457 00:25:04.720 --> 00:25:05.560 Come on. 458 00:25:14.160 --> 00:25:16.700 We're headed into a season of resurrection. 459 00:25:23.080 --> 00:25:25.160 Today's the first day of March. 460 00:25:25.160 --> 00:25:27.460 Spring is on its way, you guys. 461 00:25:28.460 --> 00:25:30.580 New life is on its way. 462 00:25:36.860 --> 00:25:38.140 Look at all those things. 463 00:25:42.380 --> 00:25:44.500 I want you to grab someone else's, 464 00:25:46.420 --> 00:25:48.100 and I want you to speak it out. 465 00:25:54.900 --> 00:25:56.900 I want you to say, like, for instance, 466 00:25:56.900 --> 00:25:58.380 I speak resurrection life. 467 00:25:58.380 --> 00:26:02.300 I come into agreement with God for resurrection life 468 00:26:02.300 --> 00:26:05.260 over Gwen's love life, over her spirit mate, 469 00:26:06.460 --> 00:26:07.740 over her love story. 470 00:26:09.020 --> 00:26:10.860 Just go ahead and do that real quick. 471 00:26:11.700 --> 00:26:12.540 Everybody, go ahead. 472 00:26:12.540 --> 00:26:13.780 We're not gonna have you guys on mute. 473 00:26:13.780 --> 00:26:15.180 It doesn't matter. 474 00:26:15.180 --> 00:26:16.180 You're speaking it out loud. 475 00:26:16.180 --> 00:26:17.020 You're declaring it. 476 00:26:17.020 --> 00:26:18.620 God hears you. 477 00:26:18.620 --> 00:26:20.820 Just wanna continue on with some other things, 478 00:26:20.820 --> 00:26:23.220 but I want us to do this, so go ahead and do it. 479 00:26:24.220 --> 00:26:26.980 And I'll just call on a few people to do it out loud. 480 00:26:28.220 --> 00:26:32.100 So Kim Williams, you grab someone's, not your own, 481 00:26:32.100 --> 00:26:34.780 and you go ahead and come into agreement with God 482 00:26:34.780 --> 00:26:36.380 and speak some resurrection. 483 00:26:38.460 --> 00:26:39.820 You have to unmute, though. 484 00:26:40.260 --> 00:26:43.060 While Kim's figuring out how to unmute herself, 485 00:26:45.700 --> 00:26:48.180 you just take the microphone off of the red. 486 00:26:51.700 --> 00:26:53.660 Carrie, let's have you do it. 487 00:26:53.660 --> 00:26:55.260 Carrie in the red sweatshirt. 488 00:27:06.020 --> 00:27:07.340 Carrie, that's all you have to do. 489 00:27:08.340 --> 00:27:12.340 Grab someone's dead thing. 490 00:27:24.140 --> 00:27:28.500 I speak out Angela's promises to God for herself. 491 00:27:33.860 --> 00:27:36.260 All right, we speak resurrection life over here. 492 00:27:37.340 --> 00:27:39.140 Angela's promises. 493 00:27:39.140 --> 00:27:40.500 God, you know what they are. 494 00:27:40.500 --> 00:27:41.940 Angela knows what they are. 495 00:27:41.940 --> 00:27:45.940 And we speak that they come out of dormancy 496 00:27:45.940 --> 00:27:49.700 and they begin to show signs of life and life abundant. 497 00:27:51.620 --> 00:27:52.460 Thank you. 498 00:27:52.460 --> 00:27:53.500 Thank you, Carrie. 499 00:27:53.500 --> 00:27:54.500 All right, let's see. 500 00:27:54.500 --> 00:27:57.340 Let's do Dinah. 501 00:27:57.340 --> 00:27:59.740 Dinah Jane, grab someone's. 502 00:27:59.740 --> 00:28:00.900 All right. 503 00:28:00.900 --> 00:28:04.140 Lord, I speak resurrection life over Anya's health 504 00:28:04.140 --> 00:28:05.820 and her desire to improve that health 505 00:28:05.820 --> 00:28:07.020 and the discipline to get there. 506 00:28:07.020 --> 00:28:11.340 And Lord, I speak resurrection life over her desire 507 00:28:11.340 --> 00:28:12.820 and gift of songwriting, Lord, 508 00:28:12.820 --> 00:28:14.980 that you would give her fresh ideas 509 00:28:14.980 --> 00:28:17.220 and just fill her up in that capacity. 510 00:28:17.220 --> 00:28:18.340 Amen. 511 00:28:18.340 --> 00:28:19.180 Amen. 512 00:28:19.180 --> 00:28:20.500 The rest of you should just be doing it 513 00:28:20.500 --> 00:28:22.900 in your own house without unmuting. 514 00:28:22.900 --> 00:28:24.740 But for those of you that your lips are moving, 515 00:28:24.740 --> 00:28:26.620 and I know that you're activating and doing this, 516 00:28:26.620 --> 00:28:29.340 I'm gonna call on you to say it out loud with us. 517 00:28:29.340 --> 00:28:31.140 But everyone should be doing it. 518 00:28:31.140 --> 00:28:35.380 Let's let no one's posts get unactivated. 519 00:28:35.380 --> 00:28:36.500 Let's activate all of them. 520 00:28:36.980 --> 00:28:40.060 Scroll through, take people's posts and speak them out loud. 521 00:28:40.060 --> 00:28:42.900 Resurrection life to this thing, to that thing. 522 00:28:42.900 --> 00:28:44.100 Ruth, what do you got? 523 00:28:51.460 --> 00:28:54.500 I speak resurrection life over Dinah's dreams 524 00:28:54.500 --> 00:28:55.820 and her passion for something 525 00:28:55.820 --> 00:28:58.500 and command the area for life to be resurrected 526 00:28:58.500 --> 00:29:00.300 and flourish in the name of Jesus. 527 00:29:01.580 --> 00:29:02.420 Amen. 528 00:29:03.500 --> 00:29:04.340 Amen. 529 00:29:04.340 --> 00:29:05.180 We agree. 530 00:29:05.180 --> 00:29:06.020 Thank you, Lord. 531 00:29:06.500 --> 00:29:07.340 Amen. 532 00:29:11.140 --> 00:29:16.140 Is it Jaqua, is it Jackie, is it Stuart, Peoria? 533 00:29:16.140 --> 00:29:17.820 How do I say it? 534 00:29:17.820 --> 00:29:19.460 It's Jaquoy. 535 00:29:19.460 --> 00:29:20.380 Jaquoy. 536 00:29:20.380 --> 00:29:23.620 I resurrect my ability to sound things out in Jesus' name. 537 00:29:23.620 --> 00:29:24.700 Okay, go ahead. 538 00:29:24.700 --> 00:29:26.180 What do you got? 539 00:29:26.180 --> 00:29:28.860 I'm looking, I'm trying to look, sorry. 540 00:29:28.860 --> 00:29:33.060 I just speak over, I'm gonna do Joanne, 541 00:29:33.060 --> 00:29:35.540 of her love life and trust 542 00:29:35.540 --> 00:29:38.540 and the process that God has a plan for her love life. 543 00:29:38.540 --> 00:29:41.780 Laura, I just speak life into her 544 00:29:41.780 --> 00:29:44.980 and her love life in Jesus' name, amen. 545 00:29:44.980 --> 00:29:46.180 Amen. 546 00:29:46.180 --> 00:29:48.140 Kim, did you figure out how to unmute? 547 00:29:52.500 --> 00:29:53.900 Yeah, sorry, it wouldn't let me do it 548 00:29:53.900 --> 00:29:55.740 because I wasn't signed in. 549 00:29:55.740 --> 00:29:56.900 Okay, go ahead. 550 00:29:57.740 --> 00:30:00.140 I speak resurrection life. 551 00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:05.520 Over Jane Elizabeth's resurrection over her career her job unemployment in her situation 552 00:30:06.400 --> 00:30:09.000 And blessing over her new dating relationship 553 00:30:10.120 --> 00:30:12.120 Yes, amen 554 00:30:12.480 --> 00:30:14.480 Amen, thank you God 555 00:30:15.760 --> 00:30:23.480 Yes, I just speak resurrection life over the family plans of the men and women on this call 556 00:30:23.800 --> 00:30:29.800 They had plans for children Lord. You gave them a desire for family. It's hardwired intel 557 00:30:30.000 --> 00:30:34.240 Us all you ever wanted was a family and so we know we don't have to convince you 558 00:30:34.760 --> 00:30:37.660 Because it was your plan. And so I speak 559 00:30:38.440 --> 00:30:44.000 Resurrection life over the family plans of your sons and daughters in this movement 560 00:30:44.040 --> 00:30:50.200 They will become mothers and fathers father. We thank you that you will fulfill that desire 561 00:30:50.720 --> 00:30:52.720 from your 562 00:30:52.920 --> 00:30:54.920 riches in glory 563 00:30:55.400 --> 00:31:02.440 From your resources from your ideas and from their wombs in 564 00:31:03.800 --> 00:31:05.160 Jesus name 565 00:31:05.160 --> 00:31:08.440 Guys God gave us a crazy word that we were gonna see geriatric 566 00:31:08.560 --> 00:31:15.080 Pregnancies in this movement like people even over 50 years old people that had even probably already gone through the change of life 567 00:31:15.760 --> 00:31:22.880 Having natural-born children now does that for everyone probably not but we definitely will see that happen to somebody 568 00:31:23.040 --> 00:31:26.320 So if you have faith for that I would grab a hold of it and then also 569 00:31:26.680 --> 00:31:32.240 There's lots of ways for God to fulfill your desire to be a parent. In fact, you know what? 570 00:31:32.240 --> 00:31:34.240 I'm gonna get up on a little soapbox here. I 571 00:31:36.200 --> 00:31:43.440 Highlighted an amazing man. He said yes to coming on my podcast and I his full episode is not released yet 572 00:31:43.640 --> 00:31:46.120 He was a street kid in Uganda when he was young 573 00:31:46.520 --> 00:31:51.640 Living on the streets you guys homeless little child in Uganda and someone brought him in a man 574 00:31:52.200 --> 00:31:58.880 Fostered him essentially brought him into his home and changed his life and now he's an American citizen 575 00:31:58.880 --> 00:32:02.840 He moved to America a long time ago, and he thought he'd be married by the time he was 30 576 00:32:02.840 --> 00:32:09.600 But he wasn't and he decided that he was not gonna wait to fulfill his desire to help children until he found a partner 577 00:32:09.720 --> 00:32:16.080 So he jumped into fostering and so now he's fostered over 40 children and he's adopted. I think he's on its fifth adoption 578 00:32:16.960 --> 00:32:21.400 Guys this is a black man from Uganda. These children are all different colors 579 00:32:21.680 --> 00:32:26.600 I'm sure that when he's out and about with this, you know little white baby girl and you know 580 00:32:26.600 --> 00:32:30.880 These other kids are all different races people are like what in the world going on here 581 00:32:31.000 --> 00:32:37.200 But this man has done what a lot of people can't do. He has broken through race lines 582 00:32:37.240 --> 00:32:43.040 He has broken through traditional idea lines of oh, hey, you can't foster unless you're married 583 00:32:43.040 --> 00:32:50.360 I mean he has gone after what God has put in his heart and he is amazing. He's funny. He's kind. He's cute and 584 00:32:50.880 --> 00:32:57.760 I highlighted him and spotlighted him and asked him what he wanted in a partner and tried to matchmake him 585 00:32:57.760 --> 00:33:05.680 I told everyone over, you know, almost 16,000 people or more that follow me on Instagram. Not one person asked about him 586 00:33:07.600 --> 00:33:11.680 So for all the people out there they're like, oh I want kids I want a family 587 00:33:11.680 --> 00:33:15.320 I want a husband that wants children. I call your bluff 588 00:33:17.320 --> 00:33:24.600 This is a good man a handsome man a financially stable man a kind man a godly man 589 00:33:25.160 --> 00:33:29.560 He's not old. He's only 50 years old and guess what crickets 590 00:33:30.400 --> 00:33:32.040 Because people don't want that 591 00:33:32.040 --> 00:33:34.040 It's like oh, I'm not signing up for that life 592 00:33:34.880 --> 00:33:36.880 All right, then 593 00:33:37.280 --> 00:33:39.440 All right, then, you know 594 00:33:40.240 --> 00:33:42.680 So I'm not saying you don't need a grace for that life 595 00:33:42.680 --> 00:33:47.880 all I'm saying is that people want to build their own life and 596 00:33:48.320 --> 00:33:53.120 Have life the way they want it and then they want God to just put another person in their life 597 00:33:54.120 --> 00:33:56.880 To live the life that they've built in the life that they want 598 00:33:57.520 --> 00:33:59.520 That's what they're doing 599 00:33:59.600 --> 00:34:05.080 That's what they're out there doing guys. I counseled a couple yesterday that have been together for a year 600 00:34:06.080 --> 00:34:12.120 They were thinking about getting engaged and then they decided instead to break up 601 00:34:12.120 --> 00:34:17.920 But they wanted to have a counseling session and we had a counseling session, but they're coaching. I should say coaching 602 00:34:17.920 --> 00:34:23.920 I'm not a counselor. We had a coaching session and before the coaching session. I just simply prayed and said to the Lord 603 00:34:24.800 --> 00:34:27.239 Are these two a match? 604 00:34:28.960 --> 00:34:30.960 Are they a match 605 00:34:31.400 --> 00:34:33.400 And you know what he said back to me 606 00:34:34.040 --> 00:34:40.280 If they want to be if they choose to be if they decide to be 607 00:34:41.719 --> 00:34:47.199 You're like whoa, whoa, wait, wait, that's not how it works. Yes, it is. That's exactly how it works 608 00:34:47.960 --> 00:34:51.480 And you know what? I told them right out the gate when we started the session 609 00:34:51.480 --> 00:34:58.960 I said look I told them that what God had said and then I told them this I said no matter who you partner with 610 00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:07.040 In the year 2025, there's going to be a set of problems that come with that person. 611 00:35:10.320 --> 00:35:11.120 Choose your heart. 612 00:35:13.520 --> 00:35:14.320 Choose your heart. 613 00:35:15.600 --> 00:35:18.560 You might find someone who's never been married, doesn't have any kids, 614 00:35:19.280 --> 00:35:22.160 but because of that, they got some selfish ways, right? 615 00:35:22.160 --> 00:35:24.000 All they've ever had to do is take care of themselves. 616 00:35:24.880 --> 00:35:28.240 Maybe they have a hard job or a hard calling or something else. 617 00:35:28.240 --> 00:35:29.200 Choose your heart. 618 00:35:29.200 --> 00:35:32.160 You might choose someone who's been divorced and they have a 619 00:35:32.160 --> 00:35:35.040 baby mama or daddy to deal with and they have blended family. 620 00:35:35.040 --> 00:35:35.760 They have children. 621 00:35:35.760 --> 00:35:36.720 Choose your heart. 622 00:35:36.720 --> 00:35:38.160 It's going to be hard no matter what. 623 00:35:38.160 --> 00:35:39.760 Someone who's come from a hard family, 624 00:35:40.640 --> 00:35:44.560 someone who has a medical disability of some sort, doesn't matter, you guys. 625 00:35:44.560 --> 00:35:50.000 There's going to be something to overcome in relationship with no matter who you choose. 626 00:35:51.280 --> 00:35:56.400 And so if you decide to choose this person, you will have the grace 627 00:35:57.360 --> 00:36:00.960 to be able to navigate those problems together. 628 00:36:03.280 --> 00:36:04.240 You'll have the grace. 629 00:36:05.120 --> 00:36:05.600 You will. 630 00:36:05.600 --> 00:36:10.080 God gave me the grace to be a blended mom after I chose to be one. 631 00:36:10.720 --> 00:36:15.200 He didn't give me the grace to be a blended mom before I chose to be one. 632 00:36:15.200 --> 00:36:18.400 I don't need grace to do something that I haven't chosen to do. 633 00:36:18.400 --> 00:36:20.880 And that's what a lot of you are waiting for. 634 00:36:20.880 --> 00:36:23.840 You're like, well, if this was God, it would just be easier. 635 00:36:24.320 --> 00:36:26.480 Where does the Bible say that? 636 00:36:29.280 --> 00:36:36.320 Give me one story, even one story of someone following after the call of God on their life 637 00:36:36.320 --> 00:36:38.640 that was just like, man, this is so dang easy. 638 00:36:39.920 --> 00:36:40.640 Wow. 639 00:36:40.640 --> 00:36:43.440 You know, no problems here. 640 00:36:46.240 --> 00:36:47.440 No problems here. 641 00:36:49.440 --> 00:36:51.840 You guys, they had much worse problems than us. 642 00:36:51.840 --> 00:36:53.520 Just read the stories. 643 00:36:53.520 --> 00:36:58.080 I'm glad to live in the year 2025 when there's not giants in the land and there's not, 644 00:36:58.080 --> 00:37:02.080 you know, surrounding armies of just people that are expendable, 645 00:37:02.080 --> 00:37:07.280 just trying to take you out because, you know, they want the well that's in your courtyard. 646 00:37:07.280 --> 00:37:09.360 You know, crazy, weird stuff. 647 00:37:09.360 --> 00:37:09.920 I'm good. 648 00:37:11.360 --> 00:37:12.160 I'm glad. 649 00:37:12.160 --> 00:37:15.200 Have you ever just for one moment, for those of you that are in America, 650 00:37:16.000 --> 00:37:20.800 and I don't think that we have anyone here in a underdeveloped country in our program. 651 00:37:21.760 --> 00:37:26.000 We're all in, you know, developed countries, industrialized countries. 652 00:37:26.000 --> 00:37:30.080 But have you ever just taken a moment to be so thankful that you live here 653 00:37:31.440 --> 00:37:32.880 and what you have access to? 654 00:37:34.480 --> 00:37:39.120 You guys, we had an Arctic blast, meaning that it got to 20 degrees in Texas. 655 00:37:39.120 --> 00:37:40.720 Oh, so cold. 656 00:37:40.720 --> 00:37:44.000 But our pipes are all above ground because these Texans never thought 657 00:37:44.000 --> 00:37:45.760 that the snow would find them. 658 00:37:45.760 --> 00:37:46.880 You know, they're on the weather. 659 00:37:47.360 --> 00:37:48.800 What's it called? 660 00:37:52.080 --> 00:37:55.520 When you get put on relocation. 661 00:37:56.960 --> 00:38:00.480 Oh, they're on the weather protection plan, you know, like the witness protection plan. 662 00:38:00.480 --> 00:38:02.480 They're on the weather protection plan here in Texas. 663 00:38:02.480 --> 00:38:05.360 They think that the weather can't find them, right? 664 00:38:05.360 --> 00:38:06.400 They're hidden here. 665 00:38:06.400 --> 00:38:10.080 But it's not true because every year that we've lived here, it has snowed. 666 00:38:10.880 --> 00:38:13.040 And it's just like, they're like, we never get snow. 667 00:38:13.040 --> 00:38:15.840 And I'm like, well, it must be us then because we brought it from Ohio. 668 00:38:15.840 --> 00:38:19.760 But the bottom line is, is that my pipes froze because they're above ground. 669 00:38:19.760 --> 00:38:21.920 And I didn't have water for a whole day. 670 00:38:23.120 --> 00:38:24.400 A whole day, you guys. 671 00:38:25.200 --> 00:38:26.960 And I kept forgetting that I didn't have water. 672 00:38:26.960 --> 00:38:29.440 And I went over and I turned on the faucet and there was no water. 673 00:38:29.440 --> 00:38:31.120 And I'm like, what am I going to do? 674 00:38:34.640 --> 00:38:37.760 And I just stopped in that moment. 675 00:38:37.760 --> 00:38:41.040 I'm like, what in the world do people do that don't have water? 676 00:38:44.000 --> 00:38:45.680 You know, and it's funny, but it's not funny. 677 00:38:46.400 --> 00:38:49.360 Because we have all of these conveniences that we do not appreciate. 678 00:38:50.640 --> 00:38:52.560 You know, that we do not appreciate at all. 679 00:38:53.280 --> 00:38:55.280 Guys, I got the opportunity to go to Italy. 680 00:38:56.320 --> 00:38:57.760 First time out of the country. 681 00:38:57.760 --> 00:39:00.480 I got a chance to go to Italy for my first time out of the country. 682 00:39:00.480 --> 00:39:01.600 Wow, amazing. 683 00:39:01.600 --> 00:39:08.000 But let me tell you, these Italians, they do not care about how hard and uncomfortable 684 00:39:08.000 --> 00:39:08.960 their mattresses are. 685 00:39:09.520 --> 00:39:10.960 Jesus, help us all. 686 00:39:11.840 --> 00:39:12.720 All right. 687 00:39:12.720 --> 00:39:14.880 Us Americans are like the princess and the pea. 688 00:39:14.880 --> 00:39:17.840 We need like 50 mattress toppers. 689 00:39:18.400 --> 00:39:20.000 We need like memory foam. 690 00:39:20.720 --> 00:39:23.760 I don't know about you guys, but I sleep with like six pillows. 691 00:39:25.120 --> 00:39:28.080 One night, you guys, one of my pillows fell off my bed. 692 00:39:28.080 --> 00:39:29.520 This is a true story. 693 00:39:29.520 --> 00:39:34.240 One of my pillows fell off my bed and I woke up because I was uncomfortable. 694 00:39:34.240 --> 00:39:38.000 And I went and I looked over and there it was, that little pillow on the floor. 695 00:39:38.000 --> 00:39:41.200 And I brought it back up and I cocooned myself again. 696 00:39:41.200 --> 00:39:45.760 And then I said this to myself, Jackie, you would not survive in the bush. 697 00:39:46.480 --> 00:39:47.520 And then I fell asleep. 698 00:39:49.920 --> 00:39:50.640 But in Italy? 699 00:39:51.760 --> 00:39:54.800 Thin little pillows, thin little mattresses. 700 00:39:54.800 --> 00:39:56.560 Terrible, terrible, terrible. 701 00:39:56.560 --> 00:39:59.840 Beautiful country, terrible bedding. 702 00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:02.100 Okay, they need to, I don't know, 703 00:40:02.100 --> 00:40:03.480 they need to do something over there. 704 00:40:03.480 --> 00:40:07.040 But what I'm saying is, is that we are so blessed. 705 00:40:07.040 --> 00:40:12.040 We are, God has been so good to us, so good to us. 706 00:40:13.820 --> 00:40:16.220 And I just want to remind us of that today. 707 00:40:16.220 --> 00:40:19.080 I want you to really dig into Psalm 16. 708 00:40:19.080 --> 00:40:20.660 I want you to speak it over yourself. 709 00:40:20.660 --> 00:40:23.620 I want you to turn it into some declarations. 710 00:40:23.620 --> 00:40:26.600 Turn in some declarations over you. 711 00:40:26.600 --> 00:40:28.560 Because this is how God feels about you. 712 00:40:28.720 --> 00:40:30.280 This wasn't just to David. 713 00:40:30.280 --> 00:40:32.160 This wasn't a download for David. 714 00:40:32.160 --> 00:40:36.520 It's a download for all of mankind, all of us. 715 00:40:36.520 --> 00:40:41.300 All of us, we are all people called after God's own heart. 716 00:40:41.300 --> 00:40:42.680 All of us are. 717 00:40:42.680 --> 00:40:44.040 Okay, really important. 718 00:40:45.220 --> 00:40:49.440 All right, so I want to end tonight for the last, 719 00:40:49.440 --> 00:40:50.800 today for the last 15 minutes. 720 00:40:50.800 --> 00:40:52.580 And then tomorrow night, 721 00:40:52.580 --> 00:40:55.480 you guys will have a chance to activate this, okay? 722 00:40:55.480 --> 00:40:57.200 If you show up for activation tomorrow night, 723 00:40:57.200 --> 00:40:58.640 you can activate this. 724 00:40:58.640 --> 00:41:01.240 But we'll activate it a little bit right now. 725 00:41:01.240 --> 00:41:03.000 It has come to my attention 726 00:41:03.000 --> 00:41:05.340 that when the enemy cannot trip you up, 727 00:41:06.840 --> 00:41:08.920 and he's always trying, y'all. 728 00:41:08.920 --> 00:41:11.160 And usually he's using stuff inside of yourself 729 00:41:11.160 --> 00:41:13.080 that you haven't let go of and is not healed. 730 00:41:13.080 --> 00:41:15.240 So make sure that you clear those boxes out 731 00:41:16.240 --> 00:41:17.440 so that there's nothing there. 732 00:41:17.440 --> 00:41:20.160 There's no materials to use. 733 00:41:20.160 --> 00:41:22.040 There's no hooks, there's no tools, okay? 734 00:41:22.040 --> 00:41:23.280 Continue to do that. 735 00:41:23.360 --> 00:41:28.360 But oftentimes, the enemy, if he can't defeat you, 736 00:41:28.840 --> 00:41:30.840 all right, the opposing forces, 737 00:41:30.840 --> 00:41:32.420 if they can't defeat you, 738 00:41:32.420 --> 00:41:35.480 they will try again to defeat you 739 00:41:35.480 --> 00:41:40.060 by the defeat of someone else whose defeat will defeat you. 740 00:41:41.520 --> 00:41:42.520 Let me say it again. 741 00:41:42.520 --> 00:41:44.800 If the enemy can't defeat you, 742 00:41:44.800 --> 00:41:47.680 then he will keep trying to defeat you 743 00:41:47.680 --> 00:41:51.840 by defeating someone else whose defeat will defeat you. 744 00:41:51.840 --> 00:41:53.320 And usually that's a family member. 745 00:41:53.320 --> 00:41:54.880 Usually it's someone that you love, 746 00:41:54.880 --> 00:41:56.400 someone that you're close to. 747 00:41:56.400 --> 00:41:58.960 Their problems, their defeats, 748 00:41:58.960 --> 00:42:03.960 their failure, moral failings, their whatever, 749 00:42:04.560 --> 00:42:05.840 it begins to do what? 750 00:42:05.840 --> 00:42:07.720 It begins to erode your faith. 751 00:42:07.720 --> 00:42:09.440 It begins to hurt your heart. 752 00:42:09.440 --> 00:42:13.480 It begins to cause you grief and sorrow, right? 753 00:42:13.480 --> 00:42:15.760 And all of us have people like that in our lives 754 00:42:15.760 --> 00:42:17.560 that do not know the Lord like we do, 755 00:42:17.560 --> 00:42:18.560 or maybe they even do, 756 00:42:18.560 --> 00:42:21.480 but they're just going through a hard place. 757 00:42:21.480 --> 00:42:23.840 But a lot of times we have people in our lives 758 00:42:23.840 --> 00:42:26.480 that they really haven't surrendered to the Lord. 759 00:42:27.480 --> 00:42:32.400 They're more of those pre-Christian family and friends, 760 00:42:32.400 --> 00:42:33.640 even maybe your children 761 00:42:33.640 --> 00:42:36.200 haven't decided to fully follow the Lord. 762 00:42:36.200 --> 00:42:37.520 And they're always, you know, 763 00:42:37.520 --> 00:42:40.720 they're getting into some defeats that are defeating you, 764 00:42:42.960 --> 00:42:43.800 right? 765 00:42:45.000 --> 00:42:47.360 That are causing you stress and anxiety and worry 766 00:42:47.360 --> 00:42:49.920 and hurt and pain and grief. 767 00:42:49.920 --> 00:42:51.680 And I have that situation in my life. 768 00:42:51.680 --> 00:42:52.720 I had it with my mother 769 00:42:52.720 --> 00:42:55.360 until she transitioned and went to heaven. 770 00:42:55.360 --> 00:42:57.280 And then I have it with my oldest brother 771 00:42:57.280 --> 00:42:58.720 who lives on my property. 772 00:42:58.720 --> 00:43:01.080 And you guys, all of a sudden he was doing so well. 773 00:43:01.080 --> 00:43:03.160 And then he started to go through another, 774 00:43:03.160 --> 00:43:07.240 what I call episode or rough patch of mental health 775 00:43:07.240 --> 00:43:09.720 and physical health. 776 00:43:09.720 --> 00:43:13.400 And I want us to take some time tomorrow night, 777 00:43:13.400 --> 00:43:14.480 and we'll start right now, 778 00:43:14.480 --> 00:43:16.360 but tomorrow night on activation 779 00:43:16.360 --> 00:43:18.920 to really intercede for these people. 780 00:43:20.240 --> 00:43:21.080 Okay? 781 00:43:22.680 --> 00:43:27.520 To really speak God's word and his promises 782 00:43:27.520 --> 00:43:28.960 over these people 783 00:43:28.960 --> 00:43:31.600 and believe that we're gonna see a divine turnaround. 784 00:43:31.600 --> 00:43:36.360 Let's speak resurrection life over these people, 785 00:43:36.360 --> 00:43:37.800 that they would come alive, 786 00:43:38.800 --> 00:43:40.360 that their hearts would be softened, 787 00:43:40.360 --> 00:43:42.320 that they would surrender to the Lord. 788 00:43:42.320 --> 00:43:43.680 If they already have done that, 789 00:43:43.680 --> 00:43:45.960 that whatever is coming against them, 790 00:43:45.960 --> 00:43:48.560 that that would be broken off of them, 791 00:43:48.560 --> 00:43:50.000 that they'd be healed, they'd be set free, 792 00:43:50.000 --> 00:43:52.200 they'd be delivered of whatever it is. 793 00:43:52.200 --> 00:43:54.600 So go ahead and start putting your people in the chat. 794 00:43:57.280 --> 00:43:58.600 Everyone has somebody. 795 00:44:01.480 --> 00:44:04.840 My brother, my niece, I have twin niece and nephew. 796 00:44:04.840 --> 00:44:06.560 My niece, she stopped going to school. 797 00:44:06.560 --> 00:44:07.480 It's her senior year. 798 00:44:07.480 --> 00:44:09.400 She just decided she's not going to school anymore. 799 00:44:09.400 --> 00:44:10.800 She stopped going to school. 800 00:44:12.800 --> 00:44:15.520 When my brother, my other brother, who's raising her, 801 00:44:15.520 --> 00:44:17.440 when he told her she had to go to school 802 00:44:17.440 --> 00:44:19.280 or she wouldn't graduate, 803 00:44:19.280 --> 00:44:21.560 she left the house because she's 18 now 804 00:44:21.560 --> 00:44:26.200 and she slept in her car in a parking lot all night long. 805 00:44:27.960 --> 00:44:31.160 Never did anything like that in her life before. 806 00:44:31.160 --> 00:44:34.440 All of a sudden, once again, 807 00:44:34.440 --> 00:44:37.280 if the enemy can't defeat you or distract you, 808 00:44:37.280 --> 00:44:39.200 he will try to distract and defeat someone 809 00:44:39.200 --> 00:44:41.440 whose distraction and defeat will defeat you. 810 00:44:44.280 --> 00:44:45.760 So we have to set up a hedge. 811 00:44:45.760 --> 00:44:48.040 Look at all those people, you guys. 812 00:44:48.040 --> 00:44:49.880 All those people, start praying over them. 813 00:44:49.880 --> 00:44:53.080 Come on, grab somebody, start praying over Michelle's sister, 814 00:44:53.080 --> 00:44:56.480 Jamie's niece, Jane, Lizzie, whoever Lizzie is, Laura. 815 00:44:56.480 --> 00:44:59.400 We just put her out there in the atmosphere, God. 816 00:44:59.400 --> 00:45:00.240 We ask, Laura. 817 00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:02.320 that you would raise her up, that you would deliver her, 818 00:45:02.320 --> 00:45:03.800 that you would help her, that you would show her 819 00:45:03.800 --> 00:45:05.800 your goodness, that you would encounter her. 820 00:45:05.800 --> 00:45:08.120 Stacey's sister, Mary in Wisconsin, Lord, 821 00:45:08.120 --> 00:45:10.340 we thank you, God, that you love her, 822 00:45:10.340 --> 00:45:11.860 that she's gonna see your goodness 823 00:45:11.860 --> 00:45:13.060 in the land of the living God, 824 00:45:13.060 --> 00:45:15.860 that you're gonna heal her mind, body, and spirit. 825 00:45:15.860 --> 00:45:19.180 You're gonna lift her up, God, from the shadows. 826 00:45:19.180 --> 00:45:20.140 Thank you, God. 827 00:45:20.140 --> 00:45:22.380 Thank you for resurrection life in her life 828 00:45:22.380 --> 00:45:24.220 and in her family's life. 829 00:45:24.220 --> 00:45:27.340 We thank you, God, for Christy Lee's siblings, God. 830 00:45:27.340 --> 00:45:28.700 Thank you, Lord, that you love them, 831 00:45:28.700 --> 00:45:29.900 that you're with them, 832 00:45:29.900 --> 00:45:32.340 that you're wooing them and drawing them to your hearts, 833 00:45:32.340 --> 00:45:34.760 that you care for them so deeply, 834 00:45:34.760 --> 00:45:36.800 that you're encountering them, Lord. 835 00:45:36.800 --> 00:45:38.980 Give them dreams, give them visions, Lord. 836 00:45:38.980 --> 00:45:42.260 You say in your word that in the last days 837 00:45:42.260 --> 00:45:44.620 there'll be an increase in dreams and visions, 838 00:45:44.620 --> 00:45:46.700 and I release that over your people. 839 00:45:47.860 --> 00:45:50.340 Psalm 16 says that you give us instruction 840 00:45:50.340 --> 00:45:52.900 in the night hours, that you tell us how to go 841 00:45:52.900 --> 00:45:54.940 and where to go and how to do it, 842 00:45:54.940 --> 00:45:56.940 and I pray that you would give each and every one 843 00:45:56.980 --> 00:46:01.980 of these people instructions on how to help the people 844 00:46:01.980 --> 00:46:05.140 that they're listing right now, how to pray for them, 845 00:46:05.140 --> 00:46:07.580 how to minister to them, what to say to them 846 00:46:07.580 --> 00:46:09.380 when they come into contact with them. 847 00:46:09.380 --> 00:46:11.440 I pray that you would use us, Lord, 848 00:46:11.440 --> 00:46:14.700 to be conduits of heaven in these people's lives 849 00:46:14.700 --> 00:46:16.140 and in other people's lives. 850 00:46:16.140 --> 00:46:18.280 Let me tell you a quick story. 851 00:46:18.280 --> 00:46:20.300 My brother, the same brother here, 852 00:46:20.300 --> 00:46:21.840 if I go through my Facebook memories, 853 00:46:21.840 --> 00:46:24.620 you can see over the years how I've asked for prayer 854 00:46:24.660 --> 00:46:27.660 for him, that he's at my house, he needs help. 855 00:46:27.660 --> 00:46:31.140 He's been homeless for 28 years, you guys. 856 00:46:31.140 --> 00:46:33.420 Had a mental health crisis 28 years ago 857 00:46:33.420 --> 00:46:35.500 and has never been the same, 858 00:46:35.500 --> 00:46:37.880 and so year after year after year after year, 859 00:46:37.880 --> 00:46:40.980 you'll see me contending with what's contending with him 860 00:46:42.700 --> 00:46:44.420 until finally he got ran over by a car 861 00:46:44.420 --> 00:46:47.340 and ended up in a captive audience at my house, 862 00:46:47.340 --> 00:46:49.540 unable to leave, unable to go anywhere, 863 00:46:49.540 --> 00:46:54.540 and for a year he's done well until this recent episode. 864 00:46:54.620 --> 00:46:56.020 Right? 865 00:46:56.020 --> 00:46:58.420 But let me tell you, years ago during a quiet period 866 00:46:58.420 --> 00:46:59.660 where I hadn't heard from him, 867 00:46:59.660 --> 00:47:02.340 because sometimes I go years from hearing from him, 868 00:47:02.340 --> 00:47:04.480 but then he'd show back up in crisis, 869 00:47:05.580 --> 00:47:09.380 and it was years that I had heard from him, 870 00:47:09.380 --> 00:47:11.500 and I knew that he wasn't doing well. 871 00:47:11.500 --> 00:47:13.460 I knew that something bad was happening, 872 00:47:13.460 --> 00:47:14.620 but I didn't know what it was, 873 00:47:14.620 --> 00:47:16.620 and I couldn't help you guys 874 00:47:16.620 --> 00:47:18.000 because I didn't know where he was, 875 00:47:18.000 --> 00:47:19.860 and a lot of times he wouldn't even receive help, 876 00:47:19.860 --> 00:47:21.020 and that's your situation too 877 00:47:21.020 --> 00:47:23.060 with some of these people you have listed. 878 00:47:24.060 --> 00:47:25.180 You would love to help them, 879 00:47:25.180 --> 00:47:26.440 but you don't know how to help them, 880 00:47:26.440 --> 00:47:29.100 and they wouldn't even let you help them if you tried. 881 00:47:29.100 --> 00:47:29.940 Amen? 882 00:47:29.940 --> 00:47:31.100 Raise your hand if that's true. 883 00:47:33.220 --> 00:47:34.700 Okay. 884 00:47:34.700 --> 00:47:36.700 They wouldn't even receive it. 885 00:47:36.700 --> 00:47:37.980 They don't know how to receive the Lord. 886 00:47:37.980 --> 00:47:39.340 They wouldn't receive your prayers. 887 00:47:39.340 --> 00:47:40.660 They wouldn't receive your help. 888 00:47:40.660 --> 00:47:41.580 Okay. 889 00:47:41.580 --> 00:47:44.580 So it's wintertime in Ohio, and it's really cold, you guys. 890 00:47:44.580 --> 00:47:45.540 It's in the negatives. 891 00:47:45.540 --> 00:47:48.980 It's in the teens, but with the windchill factor, 892 00:47:48.980 --> 00:47:51.660 it's like negative four or five degrees, 893 00:47:51.660 --> 00:47:55.140 and I got invited to this prayer meeting out in the country 894 00:47:55.140 --> 00:47:58.140 at this person's house that I had never been to, 895 00:47:58.140 --> 00:48:00.780 and so I put it in my GPS, and I'm driving there. 896 00:48:00.780 --> 00:48:03.020 This is about 10 years ago. 897 00:48:03.020 --> 00:48:03.900 I'm driving there, 898 00:48:03.900 --> 00:48:06.380 and I got lost on these backcountry roads, you guys. 899 00:48:06.380 --> 00:48:07.300 It's all country. 900 00:48:07.300 --> 00:48:08.400 All it is is houses. 901 00:48:08.400 --> 00:48:09.240 There's no stores. 902 00:48:09.240 --> 00:48:10.140 There's no gas stations. 903 00:48:10.140 --> 00:48:12.820 There's nowhere to stop and ask for directions, 904 00:48:12.820 --> 00:48:15.220 and so I'm driving around looking for this address 905 00:48:15.220 --> 00:48:16.700 that doesn't exist, 906 00:48:16.700 --> 00:48:19.820 and I see a guy on the side of the road 907 00:48:19.820 --> 00:48:21.460 walking down the side of the road 908 00:48:21.460 --> 00:48:23.980 in this weather with no coat on. 909 00:48:24.980 --> 00:48:25.820 He's young. 910 00:48:25.820 --> 00:48:30.140 I can tell from the back he's maybe 20, 21, 22 years old, 911 00:48:30.140 --> 00:48:31.660 and you guys, this entire drive 912 00:48:31.660 --> 00:48:33.140 that I'm driving to this prayer meeting, 913 00:48:33.140 --> 00:48:35.340 I'm praying for my brother, Jake. 914 00:48:35.340 --> 00:48:36.680 God help Jake. 915 00:48:36.680 --> 00:48:38.320 God send someone to help Jake. 916 00:48:38.320 --> 00:48:40.220 I don't know where Jake is, but you know where he is. 917 00:48:40.220 --> 00:48:41.860 I'm praying all these things, 918 00:48:41.860 --> 00:48:46.540 and so I pull up beside this kid on the side of the road, 919 00:48:46.540 --> 00:48:48.620 this 20, let's just say he's 22, 920 00:48:48.620 --> 00:48:50.660 this 23-year-old kid on the side of the road, 921 00:48:50.660 --> 00:48:52.460 and I rolled down my window, 922 00:48:52.460 --> 00:48:54.420 and I said, what are you doing? 923 00:48:55.300 --> 00:48:57.420 I mean, we're out in the middle of nowhere country, guys. 924 00:48:57.420 --> 00:48:58.260 We're in the country, 925 00:48:58.260 --> 00:49:00.580 and this kid is walking down the side of the street 926 00:49:00.580 --> 00:49:03.780 with a thin skirt on and pants and shoes 927 00:49:03.780 --> 00:49:06.060 and no coat and no hat, 928 00:49:06.060 --> 00:49:08.260 and it's negative degrees outside. 929 00:49:08.260 --> 00:49:09.580 I said, what are you doing? 930 00:49:09.580 --> 00:49:10.860 And he goes, oh, he's like, 931 00:49:10.860 --> 00:49:14.260 I was just somewhere that I just had to get away from there. 932 00:49:14.260 --> 00:49:15.160 I just had to leave, 933 00:49:15.160 --> 00:49:18.640 so I just, I ran out without my jacket on, 934 00:49:18.640 --> 00:49:22.120 and I was like, get in the car. 935 00:49:22.120 --> 00:49:24.960 Now, I'm not saying, suggesting that you do this, 936 00:49:24.960 --> 00:49:28.680 but I worked for years, over a decade as a social worker, 937 00:49:28.680 --> 00:49:30.800 as an outreach director in the inner city. 938 00:49:30.800 --> 00:49:32.720 I worked at homeless shelters. 939 00:49:32.720 --> 00:49:36.040 I know how to carry myself and discern 940 00:49:36.040 --> 00:49:39.000 and hold myself with strangers, okay? 941 00:49:39.000 --> 00:49:41.480 And so I told him to get in my car. 942 00:49:41.480 --> 00:49:45.060 He got in my car, and I said, where can I take you? 943 00:49:45.960 --> 00:49:47.060 And he goes, well, I want to go to my cousin's house. 944 00:49:47.060 --> 00:49:49.220 I was like, okay, well, where's your cousin live? 945 00:49:49.220 --> 00:49:51.420 And he told me, and I gave him my phone. 946 00:49:51.420 --> 00:49:53.500 He called his cousin, and he's like, okay, 947 00:49:53.500 --> 00:49:56.620 yeah, I'm coming over, blah, blah, blah, all the things. 948 00:49:56.620 --> 00:49:58.500 And so I said to him, I said, look, 949 00:49:58.500 --> 00:50:00.700 I said, I'll drive you to your cousin's house. 950 00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:05.040 I also said, but that's about 30 minutes away and I have to go to this event that I'm out 951 00:50:05.040 --> 00:50:07.280 here to do first. 952 00:50:07.280 --> 00:50:10.960 I said, so if you will go with me, I'm not going to stay long, probably going to stay 953 00:50:10.960 --> 00:50:16.040 like half hour at the most, but I got to find this address because I'm supposed to be at 954 00:50:16.040 --> 00:50:17.280 this place. 955 00:50:17.280 --> 00:50:22.520 And when I find it, I said, I'll stay for 30 minutes, I said, and then I'll, I'll take 956 00:50:22.520 --> 00:50:24.840 you to your cousin's house. 957 00:50:24.840 --> 00:50:28.360 And in my head, I'm like, I'm, you know, I'll minister to him on my way, on his way to his 958 00:50:28.360 --> 00:50:29.360 cousin's house. 959 00:50:29.360 --> 00:50:32.340 Cause obviously this kid's in some kind of trouble. 960 00:50:32.340 --> 00:50:38.440 So right after I pick him up, I magically find the address, right? 961 00:50:38.440 --> 00:50:42.920 I started driving again and then I noticed what I didn't notice and I pull in the driveway 962 00:50:42.920 --> 00:50:43.920 of this place. 963 00:50:43.920 --> 00:50:44.920 You guys, true story. 964 00:50:44.920 --> 00:50:49.400 I pulled into the driveway of this place that I must've just been passing. 965 00:50:49.400 --> 00:50:51.400 And this kid looks at me with wide eyes. 966 00:50:51.400 --> 00:50:57.040 He just turns over and looks at me and he goes, you're going here. 967 00:50:57.040 --> 00:50:58.240 And I said, yeah. 968 00:50:59.120 --> 00:51:01.200 I said, this is where this thing is that I have to go to. 969 00:51:01.200 --> 00:51:05.840 And he goes, I just left here. 970 00:51:05.840 --> 00:51:09.960 You guys, this kid had been brought to this prayer meeting because he just got out of 971 00:51:09.960 --> 00:51:11.800 jail the night before. 972 00:51:11.800 --> 00:51:13.080 He was all messed up on drugs. 973 00:51:13.080 --> 00:51:18.360 And so his dad brought him to this prayer meeting to get prayer for him and he bolted. 974 00:51:18.360 --> 00:51:19.360 And guess what? 975 00:51:19.360 --> 00:51:23.240 God sent me to bring him back. 976 00:51:23.240 --> 00:51:26.960 So he got in my car, I brought him back to the place that he left. 977 00:51:26.960 --> 00:51:31.760 And now he knows he's having a divine appointment because I say to him, you just left here? 978 00:51:31.760 --> 00:51:32.760 And he said, yeah. 979 00:51:32.760 --> 00:51:37.440 And I said, well, obviously God wanted you to come back. 980 00:51:37.440 --> 00:51:41.060 And he's like, yeah, I guess he did. 981 00:51:41.060 --> 00:51:45.140 So we went inside, I brought him with me. 982 00:51:45.140 --> 00:51:52.000 Everyone in there was praying for him when we walked through the door. 983 00:51:52.000 --> 00:51:53.000 They were praying for him. 984 00:51:53.000 --> 00:51:54.000 His name is Luke. 985 00:51:54.120 --> 00:51:59.080 They were praying for Luke when we walked through the door because he had run out like 986 00:51:59.080 --> 00:52:00.880 maybe 15, 20 minutes earlier. 987 00:52:00.880 --> 00:52:05.480 So now the whole prayer meeting had focused on him and we walked through the door and 988 00:52:05.480 --> 00:52:14.200 his dad began to weep because he saw a right now answer to his prayer. 989 00:52:14.200 --> 00:52:23.280 God had sent someone, not him, but someone else to go get his son and bring him back 990 00:52:23.360 --> 00:52:25.360 to where he belongs. 991 00:52:25.360 --> 00:52:27.360 And that kid gave his life to the Lord that day. 992 00:52:27.360 --> 00:52:31.560 And I can tell you, because he keeps in touch with me, Luke lives for the Lord. 993 00:52:31.560 --> 00:52:33.360 He preaches the gospel. 994 00:52:33.360 --> 00:52:35.480 He's married to an amazing girl. 995 00:52:35.480 --> 00:52:40.760 And his dad passed away a few years later and he got to see his son redeemed before 996 00:52:40.760 --> 00:52:43.440 he transitioned. 997 00:52:43.440 --> 00:52:44.440 Come on. 998 00:52:44.440 --> 00:52:46.440 Guys, his dad actually ended up dying of COVID. 999 00:52:46.440 --> 00:52:47.840 His dad wasn't old. 1000 00:52:47.840 --> 00:52:56.880 He passed definitely prematurely in my mind, but he got to see his son living for the Lord. 1001 00:52:56.880 --> 00:53:01.560 And so now my prayer always isn't, God, help me to help my brother. 1002 00:53:01.560 --> 00:53:04.800 Now my prayer is, God, help me to help someone else's brother. 1003 00:53:04.800 --> 00:53:09.280 Help me to help someone else's sister, their cousin, their mother, their father. 1004 00:53:09.280 --> 00:53:13.040 And then you send someone to help mine. 1005 00:53:13.040 --> 00:53:15.200 You send someone that they will listen to. 1006 00:53:15.200 --> 00:53:19.160 You send someone that will have favor with them. 1007 00:53:19.160 --> 00:53:22.480 You send me to help somebody else's Jake. 1008 00:53:22.480 --> 00:53:24.160 And you send someone to help mine. 1009 00:53:24.160 --> 00:53:28.600 And so Father, we just pray that right now for everyone who put a loved one, a friend, 1010 00:53:28.600 --> 00:53:33.200 a family member in the chat, they can't reach them, they've tried, they don't know what 1011 00:53:33.200 --> 00:53:34.200 to do. 1012 00:53:34.200 --> 00:53:36.440 They've prayed and prayed till their voice was hoarse. 1013 00:53:36.440 --> 00:53:37.680 Lord, they've interceded. 1014 00:53:37.680 --> 00:53:39.760 They've cried every tear they have. 1015 00:53:39.760 --> 00:53:42.320 We pray now, God, that you would bring the breakthrough. 1016 00:53:42.440 --> 00:53:46.280 That you would bring another family member to that person, another member of the family 1017 00:53:46.280 --> 00:53:51.840 of God, that you would give them a divine appointment that causes them to have breakthrough. 1018 00:53:51.840 --> 00:53:56.120 That you would give whoever that person out there is that has the information that they 1019 00:53:56.120 --> 00:54:00.280 need, that has the breakthrough, the anointing that they need, that you give that person 1020 00:54:00.280 --> 00:54:09.080 favor with them and let it be done in Jesus' name, amen. 1021 00:54:09.080 --> 00:54:10.400 Thank you, Father. 1022 00:54:10.480 --> 00:54:12.680 And you know what our part to play in this is? 1023 00:54:12.680 --> 00:54:16.280 We need to be the hands and feet of the Lord in someone else's life, in someone else's 1024 00:54:16.280 --> 00:54:17.920 family member's life. 1025 00:54:17.920 --> 00:54:21.260 And so be on the lookout for someone that you can touch and you can help. 1026 00:54:21.260 --> 00:54:25.680 And every time you help that person, this new person that you're helping, think of that 1027 00:54:25.680 --> 00:54:29.720 person that you want resurrection life over. 1028 00:54:29.720 --> 00:54:33.600 And you just say to the Lord, Lord, I'm helping this person right in front of me. 1029 00:54:33.600 --> 00:54:40.360 And I believe that you're sending someone to help my person in Jesus' name, amen. 1030 00:54:40.360 --> 00:54:42.280 All right, you guys, we can activate this more tomorrow night. 1031 00:54:42.280 --> 00:54:45.600 Love to see you on Supernatural on a Sunday night activation. 1032 00:54:45.600 --> 00:54:47.640 This has been a great Supernatural Saturday. 1033 00:54:47.640 --> 00:54:48.640 I love you. 1034 00:54:48.640 --> 00:54:49.640 I bless you. 1035 00:54:49.640 --> 00:54:51.640 Guys, we're going to see resurrection in this season. 1036 00:54:51.640 --> 00:54:56.680 Let's begin to press into resurrection over all this dead stuff and over all these people. 1037 00:54:56.680 --> 00:55:00.040 And let's believe to see some miracle signs and wonders in this spring season. 1038 00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:03.080 season, going into Passover and into Easter. 1039 00:55:03.080 --> 00:55:04.080 Amen. 1040 00:55:04.080 --> 00:55:05.080 Amen. 1041 00:55:05.080 --> 00:55:06.080 Love y'all. 1042 00:55:06.080 --> 00:55:06.580 Talk to you soon.