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Hey, everyone, welcome to Supernatural Saturday.

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If you are new, which we do have some new members of our community, welcome.

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We're so glad you're here.

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And this is the day that we gather as a community and we look to the Lord.

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What is God saying?

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What is the current prophetic reality?

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What are the messages and directives for our lives individually and corporately?

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And that is what we do on Saturdays.

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You guys, I have a couple thoughts.

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They're not all cohesive, but we're going to see where it goes.

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Okay.

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First of all, I posted on my Instagram, just, you know, you know me, I like to be a cheeky

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monkey.

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And so I posted something that was purposeful to cause a little, a little conflict, not

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a lot, just a little baby conflict.

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Okay.

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And so I said something like, when people say to you, maybe it's God's desire for you

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to stay single forever, you can say back to them, maybe it's God's desire for you to mind

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your business.

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I put that, but I really should have put, maybe it's God's desire for you to read your

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Bible because the Bible doesn't say nothing like that.

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Okay.

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And so I posted that little quote by a little me, Jackie D and, you know, for the most part,

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because of the people that follow me on Instagram, it's favorable comments like, yeah, yeah,

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right on, right on.

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And then someone posted something about, well, you know, the Bible does talk a lot about

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singleness.

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What?

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No, it doesn't.

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What?

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No, it doesn't.

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And you guys, this is the problem.

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A lot of people don't actually read their Bible.

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They just let someone else read their Bible and tell them about the Bible.

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And that's a problem.

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And so I want all of you to decide today that you're going to read your Bible.

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You're not just going to show up every week on Sunday and listen to someone else talk

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about what they saw when they read their Bible.

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This is how rumors get started.

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It's how rumors get started.

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And this poor gentleman in my comment feed, no shade at him, because a lot of people do

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think that.

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I hear people say that all the time.

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Well, you know, God talks a lot about being single in the Bible.

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You know, there's a big emphasis put on singleness.

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No, there's not.

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In fact, there's only two scriptures that actually juxtaposition marriage and singleness

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that actually talk about singleness versus marriage.

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Two, one, two, that's it.

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That's it.

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And one of them is about Paul and his own life in 1 Corinthians 7, okay, his own gift,

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his own assignment, his own calling.

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And we'll talk about that in a second.

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And the other one is Jesus in Matthew 19 talking to his disciples about the law of

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Moses concerning marriage.

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And these guys were like, hmm, that sounds hard.

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I think we're just going to stay single.

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And Jesus went on to say to them, hey, single's not necessarily better.

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You think it sounds easier to be single, but if you don't have the grace to be single,

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it ain't going to be easy.

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And you guys, that same word that Jesus uses there, grace, charisma, in that scripture,

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it's the same scripture that's used over in 1 Corinthians 7 by Paul.

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He's saying, I have the grace to be single.

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I have it.

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You guys, God did not choose singleness for Paul.

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Paul chose singleness and God gave him the grace to live a life of abstinence and celibacy.

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Can we just consider Paul's life for a second?

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I think it's important to keep everything in context.

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Paul was a Pharisee of the Pharisees, meaning he was a religious leader of leaders.

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He was persecuting Christians.

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Jesus turned him around, called him, appeared to him.

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He had the road to Damascus conversion, serious stuff, life-changing transformation.

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And he was called to take all of his, you know, persecution towards the Christians and

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now turn it around and be what a discipler, right?

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A church planter, to be an apostle.

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So then he sets off to do that, but he has nothing but persecution.

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This dude shipwrecks, snake bites, you know, imprisonment after imprisonment after imprisonment.

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Let's think to ourselves what it would be like to be Paul's wife, to be Paul's children.

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That would really suck, wouldn't it?

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Never know where this dude is.

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There's no cell phones back there.

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He's on some shipwreck.

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He's in some place.

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He's in prison for six months and let out and then goes over here and

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gets imprisoned again, by the way, that's what the thorn in the flesh

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was in case you didn't know.

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Everywhere that Paul went immediately, someone stirred up strife against him.

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Immediately.

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There was someone that came and stirred up strife against Paul.

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Everywhere he went, he couldn't go anywhere without people causing

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trouble for him immediately.

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The messenger of Satan said to Buffett, me, it's really important.

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You guys, that we, that we understand what the Bible's talking about.

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If God allowed you free will enough to make the choice of whether or not you

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would choose him in this life and allow him to be your savior, allow Jesus to

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be your savior, you think that he's going to take the choice of whether or

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not you're going to be married or have a family away from you?

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Does that make any sense?

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Because of Paul's calling, it made sense for him to live a life of celibacy.

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It made a life, it made sense for him.

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He had a different maturity plan called shipwrecks and

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snake bites and imprisonments.

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But I want you to recognize that Paul says himself to the Corinthians, by the way,

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the reason why they would get in a letter from Paul in the first place was because

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they were arguing about how now that they've received Christ, you know, they

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had to be holy and the married folk were not having sex with their spouses anymore.

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They basically were sending the signal that it's holier to not be married, even

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though I'm married already, it's holier to be celibate.

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That was the message that they were sending.

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And Paul sent a different message.

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He said, Hey, that's me.

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I'm celibate.

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I'm not celibate.

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I'm abstinent because I have a charisma or grace from heaven to be this.

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And I wish all of you had it.

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Why?

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Because then you wouldn't be arguing about this.

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This wouldn't be going on.

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I wouldn't have to send you this letter.

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If all of you had the same grace that I have, but because you don't

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have it, you should get married.

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How this turned into the scriptures about the gift of singleness.

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I'll never know because it doesn't say that at all.

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The word charisma there is an empowerment and endowment from on high.

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It's not a gift.

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It is the grace to do something.

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Not like a spiritual gift.

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Like we see in Galatians.

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That's not what it is.

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And so it's important that you understand that because a lot of you, if you got

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that gift of singleness and your little swag bag from Jesus, when you got saved,

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you might be trying to refund that gift or re-gift that gift.

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So it's important that we understand what's really happening in the Bible.

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And then Jesus uses that same word charisma in Matthew 19, when he's

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talking to his disciples about, Hey, you think that being single sounds

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easier than Moses's rules on marriage, but it's not easier if

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you don't have the grace for it.

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And then he goes on to say that singleness is thrust upon some people.

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He's talking about eunuchs.

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He's talking about people that are imprisoned, persecuted.

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You know, they didn't want to be single, but it was thrust

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upon them by the circumstances.

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And then there are some people that are born single, like they're born celibate.

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Like with a call on their life, a specific call.

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And you guys, I don't know if you even know any of those people.

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Most likely the people that you know that are single are more likely

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single because they're afraid of others.

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They haven't done their hard work, not able to let others in.

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They've decided that it's easier to stay solo than it is to do what would need to

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be done in order to trust another human being to that level.

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That's more likely what's happening.

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So I just wanted to address that really quickly, if that was okay with you guys.

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Right.

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It's really important that we understand that.

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And there are a couple other places that I want to go today.

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Because I really feel like God's drawing us there.

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And so the second place that I want to go is to Psalm 16.

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So if you want to go ahead and get that, go to Psalm 16.

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that and have a little bit of a Bible study today.

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Apparently, grab Psalm 16.

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I'm just grabbing my psalm.

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I'm walking all through my house, you guys, today.

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For those of you that are joining us for

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the first time for Supernatural Saturday,

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it's usually not like this.

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It's usually just like me on a rant of something from Holy Spirit.

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But today, we're just going to take it a little slower if that's okay with everyone

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because I feel like there's some important things that we need to get done today.

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So go to Psalm 16 if you can on your phone,

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if you have a Bible, go there.

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I was just kidding.

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All right. I'm going to read it.

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I'm going to read it. Guys,

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don't get theological on me.

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Translations of the Bible,

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interpretations of the Bible.

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If you don't love the Passion Translation, that's fine.

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You can go read it in the NIV,

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the King James, you can read it in the Amplified.

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But there's some language specifically in

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here that I really want you to get a hold of,

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and so that's why I'm going to read it from here.

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I don't study the Word of God from the Passion Translation,

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but because it's poetry, specifically psalms,

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I think that it's beautiful the way that Brian Simmons put it,

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or translated it, interpreted it in the Passion Translation.

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Here we go. Ready?

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Keep me safe, Almighty God.

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I run for dear life to you, my safe place.

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So I said to the Lord,

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you are my maker, my mediator, and my master.

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Any good thing you find in me has come from you.

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He said to me,

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my holy lovers are wonderful,

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my majestic ones, my glorious ones,

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fulfilling all my desires.

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Yet there are those who yield to their weakness,

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and they will have troubles and sorrows unending.

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I never gather with such ones,

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nor give them honor in any way.

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Lord, I have chosen you alone as my inheritance.

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You are my prize,

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my pleasure, and my portion.

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I leave my destiny and its timing in your hands.

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Your pleasant path leads me to pleasant places.

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I'm overwhelmed by the privileges

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that come with following you,

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for you have given me the best.

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The way you counsel and correct me

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makes me praise you more.

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For your whispers in the night give me wisdom,

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showing me what to do next.

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Because you are close to me and always available,

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my confidence will never be shaken.

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For I experience your wraparound presence every moment.

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My heart and soul explode with joy, full of glory.

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Even my body will rest confident and secure,

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for you will not abandon me to the realm of death,

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nor will you allow your holy one to experience corruption.

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For you bring me a continual revelation

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of resurrection life and the path to bliss

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that brings me face to face with you.

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Guys,

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I wanna speak some of this over you and over myself.

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Lord, you're my inheritance.

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You are my prize.

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You are my pleasure.

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You are my portion.

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Your pleasant path leads me to pleasant places.

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Remember that banner scripture over this movement,

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Jeremiah 6.16,

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the ancient of days has ancient ways.

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And if we ask him to take our feet off the path of pain

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and place them back on his good path,

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ask him where the good path is,

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that leads back to him.

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He will put our feet on that path

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so that our peace can increase.

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Doesn't that remind you of that scripture?

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Your pleasant path leads me to pleasant places.

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I'm overwhelmed by the privileges

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that come with following you.

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Some of you don't know the benefits of membership.

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You know how you get a credit card in the mail

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and then it gives you this big, long explanation

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of the benefits of being a member

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of that credit union, of that credit card?

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Who reads that?

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It's a bunch of small print.

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But I will tell you that when you.

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You gave your life to Jesus.

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It came with a lot of small print, good stuff, good stuff that you have access to.

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I just recently found out that the credit card of choice that I chose for travel

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and different things that allows me discounts on rental cars, it gives me

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extra liability and collision insurance.

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When I rent rental cars with it, it gives me discounts and special

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upgrades at different hotels.

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You guys, I had to read the print.

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I had to read it here.

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I was walking around with this card in my pocket for years, not

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knowing what it gave me access to.

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Do you know what being a child of God gives you access to?

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Do you see that David says you will not allow your holy one to experience corruption?

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Is he talking about Jesus?

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No, he's talking about himself.

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He's saying, I'm your holy one.

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And we all know that David was not a perfect person.

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I'm your holy one.

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You guys don't ever worry about stealing glory from God because you are his glory.

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The Bible says the glory of the father are his children.

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We are his glory.

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When we sign, we make his name great in the earth.

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And so there's all kinds of resources that you have access to that you're not using.

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Look at that right there.

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I'm overwhelmed by the privileges that come with following you for

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you have given me the best.

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This needs to make it on your affirmation board every morning.

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God, give me the grace to fully follow you because life with you is full of

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privileges because you have given me your best, speak it over yourself.

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Guys, it does not do this world any good for you to play small because if you do

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not have access to the resources that you have access to through following Jesus,

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then no one else is going to have any resources either because you are the

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lender and not the borrower, you are the conduit of heaven, you.

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Okay.

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The way you counsel and correct me makes me praise you more for your whispers in

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the night, give me wisdom, showing me what to do next.

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Have a little talk with Jesus in the nighttime and everything's quiet and

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your mind's not racing from everything you got to do during the day and see

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what kind of clarity people are like, man, God always talks to me in the shower.

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You want to know why?

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Because in the shower, you're doing something that takes absolutely no thoughts.

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You're not using your frontal cortex of your brain at all in the shower.

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You're doing something repetitive that you've done thousands and thousands of

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times, hopefully, hopefully, hopefully you've taken thousands of showers in your

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life.

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So that means that the rest of your brain, the learning part of your brain is open

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and ready to receive.

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That's what's going on right then.

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And you guys in the nighttime, you're open and you're ready to receive a lot.

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So in the nighttime, especially, you give me wisdom on what to do next, showing me

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what to do next.

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This is one of my favorite scriptures here, because you are close to me and always

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available.

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You are always available.

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My confidence will never be shaken for I experienced your wraparound presence every

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moment, always available.

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You guys, he's always available.

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He's never busy.

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I know people who won't even pray for things for themselves.

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Just recently, I ran into a friend of mine.

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She's an older lady and, you know, she had a, I call it an Oscar Minor, Oscar Meyer

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wiener bun on her legs.

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She had one of those like wraparound castings and I said, Hey, what happened?

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And she said, Oh, I fell and hurt myself.

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And I said, Hey, what happened?

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And she said, Oh, I fell and hurt myself.

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And I had surgery and I'm like, Oh, I'm so sorry.

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I said, Are you healing good?

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And she said, No, actually, you know, it's not healing right.

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And I'm going to have to have another surgery.

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And this person's a believer.

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And I said to her, Oh, okay, well, we'll pray.

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We'll be praying that that surgery goes, you know, really well and that whatever is

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wrong is fixed this time around.

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And she goes, Oh, no, no, no, no.

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Don't worry, God, with that.

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I'll be fine.

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What?

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First of all, y'all, God ain't worried.

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Okay.

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God doesn't have any problems, including your leg.

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And so it's important that we understand that.

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But a lot of people, they were, you know, they were raised in a religious mindset

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that you don't trouble God with your little problems.

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God's got.

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a bigger problems to solve in the world.

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He's got bigger problems to solve

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than your little old life.

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And so they don't know how to come to God

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with every care and every worry.

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But my Bible says that you should cast all your care

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on the Lord who cares for you.

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And that's why we have Jesus Care Sports.

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And if you're new here,

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you're gonna find out about that in phase one.

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That's why you have it.

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Because God wants you to come to him

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with everything that concerns you, everything.

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In fact, there's another scripture that commands you

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to not be full of care,

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to not be full of worry or anxiety,

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but with supplication and prayer,

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make your needs known to God.

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Amen.

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You guys, the reason why I feel like the Lord wanted me

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to read this scripture,

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I heard the scripture read aloud last night,

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and I felt led to read it aloud over y'all today

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because he wants to remind you that he's always available.

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He's always available.

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A lot of you had parents that were not always available.

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You might've had a single mom that worked a lot

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and she wasn't available.

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You might've had a dad that wasn't emotionally available,

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wasn't physically available.

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Maybe they weren't even alive.

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Maybe they abandoned the family.

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Your parents got divorced.

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A lot of you are not used to

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and were not raised with caretakers

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that were available to you.

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And you definitely shouldn't bother them

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unless you had a problem that was like an emergency.

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And so we project that same type of thought

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onto Father God, even though it's not true.

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You guys, God is not a person.

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He doesn't have limited bandwidth.

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I want you to write that down.

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God does not have limited bandwidth.

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Humans have limited bandwidth.

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God does not.

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He is always available.

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He is always ready.

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The Bible says that his hand is not shortened,

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that it cannot save.

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His ear is not heavy, that it cannot hear.

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He's omniscient.

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He's omnipotent, meaning he's everywhere.

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He's in all things.

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He's in you and he's around you.

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You are in him.

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You cannot be removed from his presence.

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Remember the other psalm where David's saying,

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I can't go anywhere to escape your presence.

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And that's what it says here too.

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For I experienced your wraparound presence every moment.

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Every moment.

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God is with us.

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He is in us.

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He is around us.

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And so in the words of one of my favorite songs,

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that means that whatever you think has you surrounded

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is surrounded by God.

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It may look like I'm surrounded,

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but I'm surrounded by you.

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Amen.

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God's just trying to get a hold of our hearts this morning

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to let us know that he's here, that he's available,

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but he's also willing.

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You guys, he's willing.

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You don't have to try to make God willing.

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He's willing.

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He wants good things for you

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more than you want good things for yourself.

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Think about the person that loves you the most

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on the earth,

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the person that claps when you win,

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the person that's always cheering you on,

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the person who's always praying for you, encouraging you.

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Think about how much they want good things for you

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because they probably want good things for you

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more than you even want them

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or more than you even think you deserve them.

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Think about who that person is.

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If you don't have that person, I'm that person for you.

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And then remember that God

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trumps that person by a gazillion percent

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as far as his good plans and good purposes

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and good thoughts and good intentions towards you.

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And what's more important is that he's not a human.

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So if we allow him his good intentions,

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his good thoughts and his good plans

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actually can come to pass.

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He's not just encouraging us, right?

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He created us for good things.

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He created us for good things.

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And he wants to connect us to those good things.

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He will not abandon us.

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He will not allow us to see corruption.

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He will bring continual revelation and resurrection life.

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Think of something in your life that's dead right now

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that you'd love to see resurrected and put it in the chat.

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Something in your life,

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sick and dying, or it's already seems dead,

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meaning that it's bearing no fruit anymore in your life

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and you would like to see it resurrected.

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Whether it's a relationship,

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whether it's a family member or a family situation,

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whether it's your.

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finances, whether it's your own health,

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doesn't matter what it is.

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Let's see it.

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Come on.

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We're headed into a season of resurrection.

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Today's the first day of March.

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Spring is on its way, you guys.

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New life is on its way.

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Look at all those things.

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I want you to grab someone else's,

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and I want you to speak it out.

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I want you to say, like, for instance,

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I speak resurrection life.

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I come into agreement with God for resurrection life

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over Gwen's love life, over her spirit mate,

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over her love story.

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Just go ahead and do that real quick.

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Everybody, go ahead.

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We're not gonna have you guys on mute.

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It doesn't matter.

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You're speaking it out loud.

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You're declaring it.

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God hears you.

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Just wanna continue on with some other things,

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but I want us to do this, so go ahead and do it.

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And I'll just call on a few people to do it out loud.

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So Kim Williams, you grab someone's, not your own,

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and you go ahead and come into agreement with God

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and speak some resurrection.

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You have to unmute, though.

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While Kim's figuring out how to unmute herself,

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you just take the microphone off of the red.

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Kari, let's have you do it.

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Kari in the red sweatshirt.

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You can unmute yourself.

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Kari in the red sweatshirt.

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Grab someone's dead thing.

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I speak out Angela's promises to God for herself.

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All right, we speak resurrection life

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over Angela's promises.

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God, you know what they are.

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Angela knows what they are.

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And we speak that they come out of dormancy

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and they begin to show signs of life and life abundant.

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Thank you, thank you, Kari.

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All right, let's see, let's do Dinah.

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Dinah Jane, grab someone's.

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All right, Lord, I speak resurrection life

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over Anya's health and her desire to improve that health

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and the discipline to get there.

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And Lord, I speak resurrection life

510
00:28:09.180 --> 00:28:12.860
over her desire and gift of songwriting, Lord,

511
00:28:12.860 --> 00:28:14.980
that you would give her fresh ideas

512
00:28:14.980 --> 00:28:18.380
and just fill her up in that capacity, amen.

513
00:28:18.380 --> 00:28:20.540
Amen, the rest of you should just be doing it

514
00:28:20.540 --> 00:28:22.940
in your own house without unmuting.

515
00:28:22.940 --> 00:28:24.740
But for those of you that your lips are moving

516
00:28:24.740 --> 00:28:26.620
and I know that you're activating and doing this,

517
00:28:26.620 --> 00:28:29.340
I'm gonna call on you to say it out loud with us,

518
00:28:29.340 --> 00:28:31.180
but everyone should be doing it.

519
00:28:31.180 --> 00:28:35.420
Let's let no one's posts get unactivated.

520
00:28:35.420 --> 00:28:36.540
Let's activate all of them.

521
00:28:36.540 --> 00:28:40.100
Scroll through, take people's posts and speak them out loud.

522
00:28:40.100 --> 00:28:42.940
Resurrection life to this thing, to that thing.

523
00:28:42.940 --> 00:28:44.140
Ruth, what do you got?

524
00:28:51.500 --> 00:28:54.540
I speak resurrection life over Dinah's dreams

525
00:28:54.540 --> 00:28:55.860
and her passion for something

526
00:28:55.860 --> 00:28:58.540
and command the area for life to be resurrected

527
00:28:58.540 --> 00:29:00.340
and flourish in the name of Jesus.

528
00:29:01.620 --> 00:29:02.460
Amen.

529
00:29:03.540 --> 00:29:04.980
Amen, we agree.

530
00:29:04.980 --> 00:29:05.980
Thank you, Lord.

531
00:29:11.100 --> 00:29:16.100
Is it Jacqua, is it Jackie, is it Stuart, Peoria?

532
00:29:16.140 --> 00:29:17.820
How do I say it?

533
00:29:17.820 --> 00:29:19.460
It's Jacoy.

534
00:29:19.460 --> 00:29:20.380
Jacoy.

535
00:29:20.380 --> 00:29:23.620
I resurrect my ability to sound things out in Jesus' name.

536
00:29:23.620 --> 00:29:24.660
Okay, go ahead.

537
00:29:24.660 --> 00:29:26.140
What do you got?

538
00:29:26.140 --> 00:29:28.860
I'm looking, I'm trying to look, sorry.

539
00:29:28.860 --> 00:29:33.100
I just speak over, I'm gonna do Joanne,

540
00:29:33.100 --> 00:29:36.300
of her love life and trust in the process

541
00:29:36.300 --> 00:29:38.580
that God has a plan for her love life.

542
00:29:38.580 --> 00:29:41.820
Laura, I just speak life into her

543
00:29:41.820 --> 00:29:45.020
and her love life in Jesus' name, amen.

544
00:29:45.020 --> 00:29:46.220
Amen.

545
00:29:46.220 --> 00:29:48.140
Kim, did you figure out how to unmute?

546
00:29:52.540 --> 00:29:53.940
Yeah, sorry, it wouldn't let me do it

547
00:29:53.940 --> 00:29:55.780
because I wasn't signed in.

548
00:29:55.780 --> 00:29:57.780
Okay, go ahead.

549
00:29:57.780 --> 00:30:00.060
I speak resurrection life.

550
00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:05.520
Over Jane Elizabeth's resurrection over her career her job unemployment in her situation

551
00:30:06.400 --> 00:30:09.000
And blessing over her new dating relationship

552
00:30:10.120 --> 00:30:12.120
Yes, amen

553
00:30:12.480 --> 00:30:14.480
Amen, thank you God

554
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

555
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

556
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

557
00:30:34.760 --> 00:30:37.660
Because it was your plan. And so I speak

558
00:30:38.440 --> 00:30:44.000
Resurrection life over the family plans of your sons and daughters in this movement

559
00:30:44.040 --> 00:30:50.200
They will become mothers and fathers father. We thank you that you will fulfill that desire

560
00:30:50.720 --> 00:30:52.720
from your

561
00:30:52.920 --> 00:30:54.920
riches in glory

562
00:30:55.400 --> 00:31:02.440
From your resources from your ideas and from their wombs in

563
00:31:03.800 --> 00:31:05.160
Jesus name

564
00:31:05.160 --> 00:31:08.440
Guys God gave us a crazy word that we were gonna see geriatric

565
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

566
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

567
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

568
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?

569
00:31:32.240 --> 00:31:34.240
I'm gonna get up on a little soapbox here. I

570
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

571
00:31:43.640 --> 00:31:46.120
He was a street kid in Uganda when he was young

572
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

573
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

574
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

575
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

576
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

577
00:32:16.960 --> 00:32:21.400
Guys this is a black man from Uganda. These children are all different colors

578
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

579
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

580
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

581
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

582
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

583
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

584
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

585
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

586
00:33:11.680 --> 00:33:15.320
I want a husband that wants children. I call your bluff

587
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

588
00:33:25.160 --> 00:33:29.560
He's not old. He's only 50 years old and guess what crickets

589
00:33:30.400 --> 00:33:32.040
Because people don't want that

590
00:33:32.040 --> 00:33:34.040
It's like oh, I'm not signing up for that life

591
00:33:34.880 --> 00:33:36.880
All right, then

592
00:33:37.280 --> 00:33:39.440
All right, then, you know

593
00:33:40.240 --> 00:33:42.680
So I'm not saying you don't need a grace for that life

594
00:33:42.680 --> 00:33:47.880
all I'm saying is that people want to build their own life and

595
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

596
00:33:54.120 --> 00:33:56.880
To live the life that they've built in the life that they want

597
00:33:57.520 --> 00:33:59.520
That's what they're doing

598
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

599
00:34:06.080 --> 00:34:12.120
They were thinking about getting engaged and then they decided instead to break up

600
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

601
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

602
00:34:24.800 --> 00:34:27.239
Are these two a match?

603
00:34:28.960 --> 00:34:30.960
Are they a match

604
00:34:31.400 --> 00:34:33.400
And you know what he said back to me

605
00:34:34.040 --> 00:34:40.280
If they want to be if they choose to be if they decide to be

606
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

607
00:34:47.960 --> 00:34:51.480
And you know what? I told them right out the gate when we started the session

608
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

609
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.

610
00:35:10.320 --> 00:35:11.120
Choose your heart.

611
00:35:13.520 --> 00:35:14.320
Choose your heart.

612
00:35:15.600 --> 00:35:18.560
You might find someone who's never been married, doesn't have any kids,

613
00:35:19.360 --> 00:35:22.160
but because of that, they got some selfish ways, right?

614
00:35:22.160 --> 00:35:24.000
All they've ever had to do is take care of themselves.

615
00:35:24.880 --> 00:35:28.240
Maybe they have a hard job or a hard calling or something else.

616
00:35:28.240 --> 00:35:29.200
Choose your heart.

617
00:35:29.200 --> 00:35:32.160
You might choose someone who's been divorced and they have a

618
00:35:32.160 --> 00:35:35.040
baby mama or daddy to deal with and they have blended family.

619
00:35:35.040 --> 00:35:35.760
They have children.

620
00:35:35.760 --> 00:35:36.720
Choose your heart.

621
00:35:36.720 --> 00:35:38.160
It's going to be hard no matter what.

622
00:35:38.160 --> 00:35:39.760
Someone who's come from a hard family,

623
00:35:40.640 --> 00:35:44.560
someone who has a medical disability of some sort, doesn't matter, you guys.

624
00:35:44.560 --> 00:35:50.000
There's going to be something to overcome in relationship with no matter who you choose.

625
00:35:51.280 --> 00:35:56.400
And so if you decide to choose this person, you will have the grace

626
00:35:57.360 --> 00:36:00.960
to be able to navigate those problems together.

627
00:36:03.280 --> 00:36:04.240
You'll have the grace.

628
00:36:05.120 --> 00:36:05.600
You will.

629
00:36:05.600 --> 00:36:10.080
God gave me the grace to be a blended mom after I chose to be one.

630
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.

631
00:36:15.200 --> 00:36:18.400
I don't need grace to do something that I haven't chosen to do.

632
00:36:18.400 --> 00:36:20.880
And that's what a lot of you are waiting for.

633
00:36:20.880 --> 00:36:23.840
You're like, well, if this was God, it would just be easier.

634
00:36:24.320 --> 00:36:26.480
Where does the Bible say that?

635
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

636
00:36:36.320 --> 00:36:38.640
that was just like, man, this is so dang easy.

637
00:36:39.920 --> 00:36:40.640
Wow.

638
00:36:40.640 --> 00:36:43.440
You know, no problems here.

639
00:36:46.240 --> 00:36:47.440
No problems here.

640
00:36:49.440 --> 00:36:51.840
You guys, they had much worse problems than us.

641
00:36:51.840 --> 00:36:53.520
Just read the stories.

642
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,

643
00:36:58.080 --> 00:37:02.080
you know, surrounding armies of just people that are expendable,

644
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.

645
00:37:07.280 --> 00:37:09.360
You know, crazy, weird stuff.

646
00:37:09.360 --> 00:37:09.920
I'm good.

647
00:37:11.360 --> 00:37:12.160
I'm glad.

648
00:37:12.160 --> 00:37:15.200
Have you ever just for one moment, for those of you that are in America,

649
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.

650
00:37:21.760 --> 00:37:26.000
We're all in, you know, developed countries, industrialized countries.

651
00:37:26.000 --> 00:37:30.080
But have you ever just taken a moment to be so thankful that you live here

652
00:37:31.440 --> 00:37:32.880
and what you have access to?

653
00:37:34.480 --> 00:37:39.120
You guys, we had an Arctic blast, meaning that it got to 20 degrees in Texas.

654
00:37:39.120 --> 00:37:40.720
Oh, so cold.

655
00:37:40.720 --> 00:37:44.000
But our pipes are all above ground because these Texans never thought

656
00:37:44.000 --> 00:37:45.760
that the snow would find them.

657
00:37:45.760 --> 00:37:46.880
You know, they're on the weather.

658
00:37:47.360 --> 00:37:48.800
What's it called?

659
00:37:52.080 --> 00:37:55.520
When you get put on relocation.

660
00:37:56.960 --> 00:38:00.480
Oh, they're on the weather protection plan, you know, like the witness protection plan.

661
00:38:00.480 --> 00:38:02.480
They're on the weather protection plan here in Texas.

662
00:38:02.480 --> 00:38:05.360
They think that the weather can't find them, right?

663
00:38:05.360 --> 00:38:06.400
They're hidden here.

664
00:38:06.400 --> 00:38:10.080
But it's not true because every year that we've lived here, it has snowed.

665
00:38:10.880 --> 00:38:13.040
And it's just like, they're like, we never get snow.

666
00:38:13.040 --> 00:38:15.840
And I'm like, well, it must be us then because we brought it from Ohio.

667
00:38:15.840 --> 00:38:19.760
But the bottom line is, is that my pipes froze because they're above ground.

668
00:38:19.760 --> 00:38:21.920
And I didn't have water for a whole day.

669
00:38:23.120 --> 00:38:24.400
A whole day, you guys.

670
00:38:25.200 --> 00:38:26.960
And I kept forgetting that I didn't have water.

671
00:38:26.960 --> 00:38:29.440
And I went over and I turned on the faucet and there was no water.

672
00:38:29.440 --> 00:38:31.120
And I'm like, what am I going to do?

673
00:38:34.640 --> 00:38:37.760
And I just stopped in that moment.

674
00:38:37.760 --> 00:38:41.040
I'm like, what in the world do people do that don't have water?

675
00:38:44.000 --> 00:38:45.680
You know, and it's funny, but it's not funny.

676
00:38:46.400 --> 00:38:49.360
Because we have all of these conveniences that we do not appreciate.

677
00:38:50.640 --> 00:38:52.560
You know, that we do not appreciate at all.

678
00:38:53.280 --> 00:38:55.280
Guys, I got the opportunity to go to Italy.

679
00:38:56.320 --> 00:38:57.760
First time out of the country.

680
00:38:57.760 --> 00:39:00.480
I got a chance to go to Italy for my first time out of the country.

681
00:39:00.480 --> 00:39:01.600
Wow, amazing.

682
00:39:01.600 --> 00:39:08.000
But let me tell you, these Italians, they do not care about how hard and uncomfortable

683
00:39:08.000 --> 00:39:08.960
their mattresses are.

684
00:39:09.520 --> 00:39:10.960
Jesus, help us all.

685
00:39:11.840 --> 00:39:12.720
All right.

686
00:39:12.720 --> 00:39:14.880
Us Americans are like the princess and the pea.

687
00:39:14.880 --> 00:39:17.840
We need like 50 mattress toppers.

688
00:39:18.400 --> 00:39:20.000
We need like memory foam.

689
00:39:20.720 --> 00:39:23.760
I don't know about you guys, but I sleep with like six pillows.

690
00:39:25.120 --> 00:39:28.080
One night, you guys, one of my pillows fell off my bed.

691
00:39:28.080 --> 00:39:29.520
This is a true story.

692
00:39:29.520 --> 00:39:34.240
One of my pillows fell off my bed and I woke up because I was uncomfortable.

693
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.

694
00:39:38.000 --> 00:39:41.200
And I brought it back up and I cocooned myself again.

695
00:39:41.200 --> 00:39:45.760
And then I said this to myself, Jackie, you would not survive in the bush.

696
00:39:46.480 --> 00:39:47.520
And then I fell asleep.

697
00:39:49.920 --> 00:39:50.640
But in Italy?

698
00:39:51.760 --> 00:39:54.800
Thin little pillows, thin little mattresses.

699
00:39:54.800 --> 00:39:56.560
Terrible, terrible, terrible.

700
00:39:56.560 --> 00:39:59.840
Beautiful country, terrible bedding.

701
00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:02.100
Okay, they need to, I don't know,

702
00:40:02.100 --> 00:40:03.480
they need to do something over there.

703
00:40:03.480 --> 00:40:07.040
But what I'm saying is, is that we are so blessed.

704
00:40:07.040 --> 00:40:12.040
We are, God has been so good to us, so good to us.

705
00:40:13.820 --> 00:40:16.220
And I just want to remind us of that today.

706
00:40:16.220 --> 00:40:19.080
I want you to really dig into Psalm 16.

707
00:40:19.080 --> 00:40:20.660
I want you to speak it over yourself.

708
00:40:20.660 --> 00:40:23.620
I want you to turn it into some declarations.

709
00:40:23.620 --> 00:40:26.600
Turn in some declarations over you.

710
00:40:26.600 --> 00:40:28.560
Because this is how God feels about you.

711
00:40:28.720 --> 00:40:30.280
This wasn't just to David.

712
00:40:30.280 --> 00:40:32.160
This wasn't a download for David.

713
00:40:32.160 --> 00:40:36.520
It's a download for all of mankind, all of us.

714
00:40:36.520 --> 00:40:41.300
All of us, we are all people called after God's own heart.

715
00:40:41.300 --> 00:40:42.680
All of us are.

716
00:40:42.680 --> 00:40:44.040
Okay, really important.

717
00:40:45.220 --> 00:40:49.440
All right, so I want to end tonight for the last,

718
00:40:49.440 --> 00:40:50.800
today for the last 15 minutes.

719
00:40:50.800 --> 00:40:52.580
And then tomorrow night,

720
00:40:52.580 --> 00:40:55.480
you guys will have a chance to activate this, okay?

721
00:40:55.480 --> 00:40:57.200
If you show up for activation tomorrow night,

722
00:40:57.200 --> 00:40:58.640
you can activate this.

723
00:40:58.640 --> 00:41:01.240
But we'll activate it a little bit right now.

724
00:41:01.240 --> 00:41:03.000
It has come to my attention

725
00:41:03.000 --> 00:41:05.340
that when the enemy cannot trip you up,

726
00:41:06.840 --> 00:41:08.920
and he's always trying, y'all.

727
00:41:08.920 --> 00:41:11.160
And usually he's using stuff inside of yourself

728
00:41:11.160 --> 00:41:13.080
that you haven't let go of and is not healed.

729
00:41:13.080 --> 00:41:15.240
So make sure that you clear those boxes out

730
00:41:16.240 --> 00:41:17.440
so that there's nothing there.

731
00:41:17.440 --> 00:41:20.160
There's no materials to use.

732
00:41:20.160 --> 00:41:22.040
There's no hooks, there's no tools, okay?

733
00:41:22.040 --> 00:41:23.280
Continue to do that.

734
00:41:23.360 --> 00:41:28.360
But oftentimes, the enemy, if he can't defeat you,

735
00:41:28.840 --> 00:41:30.840
all right, the opposing forces,

736
00:41:30.840 --> 00:41:32.420
if they can't defeat you,

737
00:41:32.420 --> 00:41:35.480
they will try again to defeat you

738
00:41:35.480 --> 00:41:40.060
by the defeat of someone else whose defeat will defeat you.

739
00:41:41.520 --> 00:41:42.520
Let me say it again.

740
00:41:42.520 --> 00:41:44.800
If the enemy can't defeat you,

741
00:41:44.800 --> 00:41:47.680
then he will keep trying to defeat you

742
00:41:47.680 --> 00:41:51.840
by defeating someone else whose defeat will defeat you.

743
00:41:51.840 --> 00:41:53.320
And usually that's a family member.

744
00:41:53.320 --> 00:41:54.880
Usually it's someone that you love,

745
00:41:54.880 --> 00:41:56.400
someone that you're close to.

746
00:41:56.400 --> 00:41:58.960
Their problems, their defeats,

747
00:41:58.960 --> 00:42:03.960
their failure, moral failings, their whatever,

748
00:42:04.560 --> 00:42:05.840
it begins to do what?

749
00:42:05.840 --> 00:42:07.720
It begins to erode your faith.

750
00:42:07.720 --> 00:42:09.440
It begins to hurt your heart.

751
00:42:09.440 --> 00:42:13.480
It begins to cause you grief and sorrow, right?

752
00:42:13.480 --> 00:42:15.760
And all of us have people like that in our lives

753
00:42:15.760 --> 00:42:17.560
that do not know the Lord like we do,

754
00:42:17.560 --> 00:42:18.560
or maybe they even do,

755
00:42:18.560 --> 00:42:21.480
but they're just going through a hard place.

756
00:42:21.480 --> 00:42:23.840
But a lot of times we have people in our lives

757
00:42:23.840 --> 00:42:26.480
that they really haven't surrendered to the Lord.

758
00:42:27.480 --> 00:42:32.400
They're more of those pre-Christian family and friends,

759
00:42:32.400 --> 00:42:33.640
even maybe your children

760
00:42:33.640 --> 00:42:36.200
haven't decided to fully follow the Lord.

761
00:42:36.200 --> 00:42:37.520
And they're always, you know,

762
00:42:37.520 --> 00:42:40.720
they're getting into some defeats that are defeating you,

763
00:42:42.960 --> 00:42:43.800
right?

764
00:42:45.000 --> 00:42:47.360
That are causing you stress and anxiety and worry

765
00:42:47.360 --> 00:42:49.920
and hurt and pain and grief.

766
00:42:49.920 --> 00:42:51.680
And I have that situation in my life.

767
00:42:51.680 --> 00:42:52.720
I had it with my mother

768
00:42:52.720 --> 00:42:55.360
until she transitioned and went to heaven.

769
00:42:55.360 --> 00:42:57.280
And then I have it with my oldest brother

770
00:42:57.280 --> 00:42:58.720
who lives on my property.

771
00:42:58.720 --> 00:43:01.080
And you guys, all of a sudden he was doing so well.

772
00:43:01.080 --> 00:43:03.160
And then he started to go through another,

773
00:43:03.160 --> 00:43:07.240
what I call episode or rough patch of mental health

774
00:43:07.240 --> 00:43:09.720
and physical health.

775
00:43:09.720 --> 00:43:13.400
And I want us to take some time tomorrow night,

776
00:43:13.400 --> 00:43:14.480
and we'll start right now,

777
00:43:14.480 --> 00:43:16.360
but tomorrow night on activation

778
00:43:16.360 --> 00:43:18.920
to really intercede for these people.

779
00:43:20.240 --> 00:43:21.080
Okay?

780
00:43:22.680 --> 00:43:27.520
To really speak God's word and his promises

781
00:43:27.520 --> 00:43:28.960
over these people

782
00:43:28.960 --> 00:43:31.600
and believe that we're gonna see a divine turnaround.

783
00:43:31.600 --> 00:43:36.360
Let's speak resurrection life over these people,

784
00:43:36.360 --> 00:43:37.800
that they would come alive,

785
00:43:38.800 --> 00:43:40.360
that their hearts would be softened,

786
00:43:40.360 --> 00:43:42.320
that they would surrender to the Lord.

787
00:43:42.320 --> 00:43:43.680
If they already have done that,

788
00:43:43.680 --> 00:43:45.960
that whatever is coming against them,

789
00:43:45.960 --> 00:43:48.560
that that would be broken off of them,

790
00:43:48.560 --> 00:43:50.000
that they'd be healed, they'd be set free,

791
00:43:50.000 --> 00:43:52.200
they'd be delivered of whatever it is.

792
00:43:52.200 --> 00:43:54.600
So go ahead and start putting your people in the chat.

793
00:43:57.280 --> 00:43:58.600
Everyone has somebody.

794
00:44:01.480 --> 00:44:04.840
My brother, my niece, I have twin niece and nephew.

795
00:44:04.840 --> 00:44:06.560
My niece, she stopped going to school.

796
00:44:06.560 --> 00:44:07.480
It's her senior year.

797
00:44:07.480 --> 00:44:09.400
She just decided she's not going to school anymore.

798
00:44:09.400 --> 00:44:10.800
She stopped going to school.

799
00:44:12.800 --> 00:44:15.520
When my brother, my other brother, who's raising her,

800
00:44:15.520 --> 00:44:17.440
when he told her she had to go to school

801
00:44:17.440 --> 00:44:19.280
or she wouldn't graduate,

802
00:44:19.280 --> 00:44:21.560
she left the house because she's 18 now

803
00:44:21.560 --> 00:44:26.200
and she slept in her car in a parking lot all night long.

804
00:44:27.960 --> 00:44:31.160
Never did anything like that in her life before.

805
00:44:31.160 --> 00:44:34.440
All of a sudden, once again,

806
00:44:34.440 --> 00:44:37.280
if the enemy can't defeat you or distract you,

807
00:44:37.280 --> 00:44:39.200
he will try to distract and defeat someone

808
00:44:39.200 --> 00:44:41.440
whose distraction and defeat will defeat you.

809
00:44:44.280 --> 00:44:45.760
So we have to set up a hedge.

810
00:44:45.760 --> 00:44:48.040
Look at all those people, you guys.

811
00:44:48.040 --> 00:44:49.880
All those people, start praying over them.

812
00:44:49.880 --> 00:44:53.080
Come on, grab somebody, start praying over Michelle's sister,

813
00:44:53.080 --> 00:44:56.480
Jamie's niece, Jane, Lizzie, whoever Lizzie is, Laura.

814
00:44:56.480 --> 00:44:59.400
We just put her out there in the atmosphere, God.

815
00:44:59.400 --> 00:45:00.240
We ask, Laura.

816
00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:02.320
that you would raise her up, that you would deliver her,

817
00:45:02.320 --> 00:45:03.800
that you would help her, that you would show her

818
00:45:03.800 --> 00:45:05.800
your goodness, that you would encounter her.

819
00:45:05.800 --> 00:45:09.400
Stacy's sister, Mary in Wisconsin, Lord, we thank you, God,

820
00:45:09.400 --> 00:45:11.840
that you love her, that she's gonna see your goodness

821
00:45:11.840 --> 00:45:13.060
in the land of the living God,

822
00:45:13.060 --> 00:45:15.880
that you're gonna heal her mind, body, and spirit.

823
00:45:15.880 --> 00:45:19.200
You're gonna lift her up, God, from the shadows.

824
00:45:19.200 --> 00:45:20.120
Thank you, God.

825
00:45:20.120 --> 00:45:22.400
Thank you for resurrection life in her life

826
00:45:22.400 --> 00:45:24.240
and in her family's life.

827
00:45:24.240 --> 00:45:27.360
We thank you, God, for Christy Lee's siblings, God.

828
00:45:27.360 --> 00:45:29.900
Thank you, Lord, that you love them, that you're with them,

829
00:45:29.900 --> 00:45:32.340
that you're wooing them and drawing them to your heart,

830
00:45:32.340 --> 00:45:34.780
that you care for them so deeply,

831
00:45:34.780 --> 00:45:36.800
that you're encountering them, Lord.

832
00:45:36.800 --> 00:45:38.980
Give them dreams, give them visions, Lord.

833
00:45:38.980 --> 00:45:42.260
You say in your word that in the last days,

834
00:45:42.260 --> 00:45:44.620
there'll be an increase in dreams and visions,

835
00:45:44.620 --> 00:45:46.700
and I release that over your people.

836
00:45:47.860 --> 00:45:50.340
Psalm 16 says that you give us instruction

837
00:45:50.340 --> 00:45:52.900
in the night hours, that you tell us how to go

838
00:45:52.900 --> 00:45:54.940
and where to go and how to do it,

839
00:45:54.940 --> 00:45:56.940
and I pray that you would give each and every one

840
00:45:56.980 --> 00:46:01.980
of these people instructions on how to help the people

841
00:46:01.980 --> 00:46:05.140
that they're listing right now, how to pray for them,

842
00:46:05.140 --> 00:46:07.580
how to minister to them, what to say to them

843
00:46:07.580 --> 00:46:09.380
when they come into contact with them.

844
00:46:09.380 --> 00:46:13.460
I pray that you would use us, Lord, to be conduits of heaven

845
00:46:13.460 --> 00:46:16.140
in these people's lives and in other people's lives.

846
00:46:16.140 --> 00:46:18.280
Let me tell you a quick story.

847
00:46:18.280 --> 00:46:20.300
My brother, the same brother here,

848
00:46:20.300 --> 00:46:21.840
if I go through my Facebook memories,

849
00:46:21.840 --> 00:46:24.620
you can see over the years how I've asked for prayer

850
00:46:24.660 --> 00:46:27.660
for him, that he's at my house, he needs help.

851
00:46:27.660 --> 00:46:31.140
He's been homeless for 28 years, you guys.

852
00:46:31.140 --> 00:46:33.420
Had a mental health crisis 28 years ago

853
00:46:33.420 --> 00:46:35.500
and has never been the same.

854
00:46:35.500 --> 00:46:37.880
And so year after year after year after year,

855
00:46:37.880 --> 00:46:40.980
you'll see me contending with what's contending with him

856
00:46:42.700 --> 00:46:44.420
until finally he got ran over by a car

857
00:46:44.420 --> 00:46:47.340
and ended up in a captive audience at my house,

858
00:46:47.340 --> 00:46:49.540
unable to leave, unable to go anywhere,

859
00:46:49.540 --> 00:46:54.540
and for a year he's done well until this recent episode.

860
00:46:54.620 --> 00:46:56.020
Right?

861
00:46:56.020 --> 00:46:58.420
But let me tell you, years ago during a quiet period

862
00:46:58.420 --> 00:46:59.660
where I hadn't heard from him,

863
00:46:59.660 --> 00:47:02.340
because sometimes I go years from hearing from him,

864
00:47:02.340 --> 00:47:04.500
but then he'd show back up in crisis.

865
00:47:05.580 --> 00:47:09.380
And it was years that I had heard from him

866
00:47:09.380 --> 00:47:11.500
and I knew that he wasn't doing well.

867
00:47:11.500 --> 00:47:13.460
I knew that something bad was happening,

868
00:47:13.460 --> 00:47:14.620
but I didn't know what it was.

869
00:47:14.620 --> 00:47:16.620
And I couldn't help you guys

870
00:47:16.620 --> 00:47:18.020
because I didn't know where he was.

871
00:47:18.020 --> 00:47:19.880
And a lot of times he wouldn't even receive help.

872
00:47:19.880 --> 00:47:21.020
And that's your situation too

873
00:47:21.020 --> 00:47:23.060
with some of these people you have listed.

874
00:47:24.060 --> 00:47:25.180
You would love to help them,

875
00:47:25.180 --> 00:47:26.440
but you don't know how to help them

876
00:47:26.440 --> 00:47:29.100
and they wouldn't even let you help them if you tried.

877
00:47:29.100 --> 00:47:31.000
Amen, raise your hand if that's true.

878
00:47:33.220 --> 00:47:34.700
Okay.

879
00:47:34.700 --> 00:47:36.700
They wouldn't even receive it.

880
00:47:36.700 --> 00:47:37.980
They don't know how to receive the Lord.

881
00:47:37.980 --> 00:47:39.340
They wouldn't receive your prayers.

882
00:47:39.340 --> 00:47:40.660
They wouldn't receive your help.

883
00:47:40.660 --> 00:47:41.580
Okay.

884
00:47:41.580 --> 00:47:44.280
So it's winter time in Ohio and it's really cold,

885
00:47:44.280 --> 00:47:45.540
you guys, it's in the negatives.

886
00:47:45.540 --> 00:47:48.980
It's in the teens, but with the windchill factor,

887
00:47:48.980 --> 00:47:51.660
it's like negative four or five degrees.

888
00:47:51.660 --> 00:47:55.140
And I got invited to this prayer meeting out in the country

889
00:47:55.140 --> 00:47:58.140
at this person's house that I had never been to.

890
00:47:58.140 --> 00:48:00.780
And so I put it in my GPS and I'm driving there.

891
00:48:00.780 --> 00:48:03.020
This is about 10 years ago.

892
00:48:03.020 --> 00:48:04.820
I'm driving there and I got lost

893
00:48:04.820 --> 00:48:06.380
on these back country roads, you guys.

894
00:48:06.380 --> 00:48:08.420
It's all country, all it is is houses.

895
00:48:08.420 --> 00:48:10.140
There's no stores, there's no gas stations.

896
00:48:10.140 --> 00:48:12.820
There's nowhere to stop and ask for directions.

897
00:48:12.820 --> 00:48:15.220
And so I'm driving around looking for this address

898
00:48:15.220 --> 00:48:16.700
that doesn't exist.

899
00:48:16.700 --> 00:48:19.820
And I see a guy on the side of the road,

900
00:48:19.820 --> 00:48:21.460
walking down the side of the road

901
00:48:21.460 --> 00:48:23.980
in this weather with no coat on.

902
00:48:24.980 --> 00:48:26.820
He's young, I can tell from the back,

903
00:48:26.820 --> 00:48:30.140
he's maybe 20, 21, 22 years old.

904
00:48:30.140 --> 00:48:31.680
And you guys, this entire drive

905
00:48:31.680 --> 00:48:33.140
that I'm driving to this prayer meeting,

906
00:48:33.140 --> 00:48:35.340
I'm praying for my brother, Jake.

907
00:48:35.340 --> 00:48:36.700
God help Jake.

908
00:48:36.700 --> 00:48:38.340
God send someone to help Jake.

909
00:48:38.340 --> 00:48:40.220
I don't know where Jake is, but you know where he is.

910
00:48:40.220 --> 00:48:41.860
I'm praying all these things.

911
00:48:41.860 --> 00:48:46.540
And so I pull up beside this kid on the side of the road,

912
00:48:46.540 --> 00:48:48.620
this 20, let's just say he's 22,

913
00:48:48.620 --> 00:48:50.660
this 23 year old kid on the side of the road.

914
00:48:50.660 --> 00:48:53.420
And I rolled down my window and I said,

915
00:48:53.420 --> 00:48:54.420
what are you doing?

916
00:48:55.300 --> 00:48:57.420
I mean, we're out in the middle of nowhere country, guys.

917
00:48:57.420 --> 00:48:58.260
We're in the country.

918
00:48:58.260 --> 00:49:00.580
And this kid is walking down the side of the street

919
00:49:00.580 --> 00:49:03.780
with a thin skirt on and pants and shoes

920
00:49:03.780 --> 00:49:06.060
and no coat and no hat.

921
00:49:06.060 --> 00:49:08.260
And it's negative degrees outside.

922
00:49:08.260 --> 00:49:09.580
I said, what are you doing?

923
00:49:09.580 --> 00:49:11.380
And he goes, oh, he's like, I just,

924
00:49:11.380 --> 00:49:14.260
I was just somewhere that I just had to get away from there.

925
00:49:14.260 --> 00:49:15.140
I just had to leave.

926
00:49:15.140 --> 00:49:18.580
So I just, I ran out without my jacket on.

927
00:49:18.580 --> 00:49:22.060
And I was like, get in the car.

928
00:49:22.060 --> 00:49:24.900
Now I'm not saying, suggesting that you do this,

929
00:49:24.900 --> 00:49:28.620
but I worked for years over a decade as a social worker,

930
00:49:28.620 --> 00:49:30.740
as an outreach director in the inner city.

931
00:49:30.740 --> 00:49:32.460
I worked at homeless shelters.

932
00:49:32.460 --> 00:49:35.980
Like I know how to carry myself and discern

933
00:49:35.980 --> 00:49:38.100
and hold myself with strangers.

934
00:49:38.100 --> 00:49:38.940
Okay.

935
00:49:38.940 --> 00:49:41.420
And so I told him to get in my car.

936
00:49:41.420 --> 00:49:42.820
He got in my car.

937
00:49:42.820 --> 00:49:45.020
And I said, where can I take you?

938
00:49:45.900 --> 00:49:47.940
And he goes, well, I want to go to my cousin's house.

939
00:49:47.940 --> 00:49:50.100
I was like, okay, well, where's your cousin live?

940
00:49:50.100 --> 00:49:52.380
And he told me, and I gave him my phone.

941
00:49:52.380 --> 00:49:54.460
He called his cousin and he's like, okay,

942
00:49:54.460 --> 00:49:57.580
yeah, I'm coming over, blah, blah, blah, all the things.

943
00:49:57.580 --> 00:49:59.460
And so I said to him, I said, look,

944
00:49:59.460 --> 00:50:01.620
I said, I'll drive you to your cousin's house.

945
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

946
00:50:05.040 --> 00:50:07.280
here to do first.

947
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

948
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

949
00:50:16.040 --> 00:50:17.280
this place.

950
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

951
00:50:22.520 --> 00:50:24.840
you to your cousin's house.

952
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

953
00:50:28.360 --> 00:50:29.360
cousin's house.

954
00:50:29.360 --> 00:50:32.340
Cause obviously this kid's in some kind of trouble.

955
00:50:32.340 --> 00:50:38.440
So right after I pick him up, I magically find the address, right?

956
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

957
00:50:42.920 --> 00:50:43.920
of this place.

958
00:50:43.920 --> 00:50:44.920
You guys true story.

959
00:50:44.920 --> 00:50:49.400
I pulled into the driveway of this place that I must've just been passing.

960
00:50:49.400 --> 00:50:51.400
And this kid looks at me with wide eyes.

961
00:50:51.400 --> 00:50:57.040
He just turns over and looks at me and he goes, you're going here.

962
00:50:57.040 --> 00:50:58.240
And I said, yeah.

963
00:50:59.120 --> 00:51:01.200
I said, this is where this thing is that I have to go to.

964
00:51:01.200 --> 00:51:05.840
And he goes, I just left here.

965
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

966
00:51:09.960 --> 00:51:11.800
jail the night before.

967
00:51:11.800 --> 00:51:13.080
He was all messed up on drugs.

968
00:51:13.080 --> 00:51:18.380
And so his dad brought him to this prayer meeting to get prayer for him and he bolted.

969
00:51:18.380 --> 00:51:19.380
And guess what?

970
00:51:19.380 --> 00:51:23.240
God sent me to bring him back.

971
00:51:23.240 --> 00:51:26.960
So he got in my car, I brought him back to the place that he left.

972
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?

973
00:51:31.760 --> 00:51:32.760
And he said, yeah.

974
00:51:32.760 --> 00:51:37.440
And I said, well, obviously God wanted you to come back.

975
00:51:37.440 --> 00:51:41.060
And he's like, yeah, I guess he did.

976
00:51:41.060 --> 00:51:45.140
So we went inside, I brought him with me.

977
00:51:45.140 --> 00:51:52.640
Everyone in there was praying for him when we walked through the door, they were praying

978
00:51:52.640 --> 00:51:53.640
for him.

979
00:51:53.640 --> 00:51:54.640
His name is Luke.

980
00:51:54.640 --> 00:51:59.080
They were praying for Luke when we walked through the door because he had run out like

981
00:51:59.080 --> 00:52:01.080
maybe 15, 20 minutes earlier.

982
00:52:01.080 --> 00:52:05.500
So now the whole prayer meeting had focused on him and we walked through the door and

983
00:52:05.500 --> 00:52:14.200
his dad began to weep because he saw a right now answer to his prayer.

984
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

985
00:52:23.360 --> 00:52:25.360
to where he belongs.

986
00:52:25.360 --> 00:52:27.360
And that kid gave his life to the Lord that day.

987
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.

988
00:52:31.560 --> 00:52:33.360
He preaches the gospel.

989
00:52:33.360 --> 00:52:35.480
He's married to an amazing girl.

990
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

991
00:52:40.760 --> 00:52:43.440
he transitioned.

992
00:52:43.440 --> 00:52:44.440
Come on.

993
00:52:44.440 --> 00:52:46.440
Guys, his dad actually ended up dying of COVID.

994
00:52:46.440 --> 00:52:47.840
His dad wasn't old.

995
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.

996
00:52:56.880 --> 00:53:01.560
And so now my prayer always isn't, God, help me to help my brother.

997
00:53:01.560 --> 00:53:04.800
Now my prayer is, God, help me to help someone else's brother.

998
00:53:04.800 --> 00:53:09.280
Help me to help someone else's sister, their cousin, their mother, their father.

999
00:53:09.280 --> 00:53:13.040
And then you send someone to help mine.

1000
00:53:13.040 --> 00:53:15.200
You send someone that they will listen to.

1001
00:53:15.200 --> 00:53:19.160
You send someone that will have favor with them.

1002
00:53:19.160 --> 00:53:22.480
You send me to help somebody else's Jake.

1003
00:53:22.480 --> 00:53:24.160
And you send someone to help mine.

1004
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,

1005
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

1006
00:53:33.200 --> 00:53:34.200
to do.

1007
00:53:34.200 --> 00:53:36.440
They've prayed and prayed till their voice was hoarse.

1008
00:53:36.440 --> 00:53:37.680
Lord, they've interceded.

1009
00:53:37.680 --> 00:53:39.760
They've cried every tear they have.

1010
00:53:39.760 --> 00:53:42.320
We pray now, God, that you would bring the breakthrough.

1011
00:53:42.440 --> 00:53:46.280
That you would bring another family member to that person, another member of the family

1012
00:53:46.280 --> 00:53:51.840
of God, that you would give them a divine appointment that causes them to have breakthrough.

1013
00:53:51.840 --> 00:53:56.120
That you would give whoever that person out there is that has the information that they

1014
00:53:56.120 --> 00:54:00.280
need, that has the breakthrough, the anointing that they need, that you give that person

1015
00:54:00.280 --> 00:54:09.080
favor with them and let it be done in Jesus' name, amen.

1016
00:54:09.080 --> 00:54:10.400
Thank you, Father.

1017
00:54:10.480 --> 00:54:12.680
And you know what our part to play in this is?

1018
00:54:12.680 --> 00:54:16.280
We need to be the hands and feet of the Lord in someone else's life and someone else's

1019
00:54:16.280 --> 00:54:17.920
family member's life.

1020
00:54:17.920 --> 00:54:21.260
And so be on the lookout for someone that you can touch and you can help.

1021
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

1022
00:54:25.680 --> 00:54:29.720
person that you want resurrection life over.

1023
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.

1024
00:54:33.600 --> 00:54:40.380
And I believe that you're sending someone to help my person in Jesus' name, amen.

1025
00:54:40.380 --> 00:54:42.580
All right, you guys, we can activate this more tomorrow night.

1026
00:54:42.580 --> 00:54:45.660
Love to see you on Supernatural on a Sunday night activation.

1027
00:54:45.660 --> 00:54:47.660
This has been a great Supernatural Saturday.

1028
00:54:47.660 --> 00:54:48.660
I love you.

1029
00:54:48.660 --> 00:54:49.660
I bless you.

1030
00:54:49.660 --> 00:54:51.620
Guys, we're going to see resurrection in this season.

1031
00:54:51.620 --> 00:54:56.700
Let's begin to press into resurrection over all this dead stuff and over all these people.

1032
00:54:56.700 --> 00:55:00.060
And let's believe to see some miracle signs and wonders in this spring season.

1033
00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:03.080
season, going into Passover and into Easter.

1034
00:55:03.080 --> 00:55:04.080
Amen.

1035
00:55:04.080 --> 00:55:05.080
Amen.

1036
00:55:05.080 --> 00:55:06.080
Love y'all.

1037
00:55:06.080 --> 00:55:06.580
Talk to you soon.