WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.480 Welcome to Supernatural Saturday. 2 00:00:04.480 --> 00:00:09.920 I'm so glad that all of you joined us this morning because I really think the Lord wants 3 00:00:09.920 --> 00:00:13.120 to redirect us today. 4 00:00:13.120 --> 00:00:16.360 I just have one little small thought and we're going to see where it goes, but if you're 5 00:00:16.360 --> 00:00:21.160 new to Supernatural Saturday, this is the day of the week where our community gathers 6 00:00:21.160 --> 00:00:24.000 and we just look to the Lord together. 7 00:00:24.000 --> 00:00:25.220 What does God have for us? 8 00:00:25.220 --> 00:00:26.220 What does God want to say to us? 9 00:00:27.120 --> 00:00:31.960 I just want to let you guys know that every time that I get quiet and I seek the Lord, 10 00:00:31.960 --> 00:00:34.400 the Lord has things to say to me. 11 00:00:34.400 --> 00:00:39.360 And it's not about kneeling by my bedside, although sometimes I do that. 12 00:00:39.360 --> 00:00:42.000 It's not about turning on some worship music. 13 00:00:42.000 --> 00:00:44.560 It's not about going out for a walk in nature. 14 00:00:44.560 --> 00:00:51.920 All of those things are places or all those places are times when I could hear the Lord 15 00:00:51.920 --> 00:00:52.920 possibly. 16 00:00:53.920 --> 00:00:57.000 But it's just about an intention of the heart to seek the Lord. 17 00:00:57.000 --> 00:01:01.440 It really doesn't have anything to do with time or place or activity. 18 00:01:01.440 --> 00:01:03.680 It has to do with the intention of the heart. 19 00:01:03.680 --> 00:01:07.760 I want to make sure that I'm really clear about that. 20 00:01:07.760 --> 00:01:13.920 And so anytime that I really just come away from distraction, I put away whatever it is 21 00:01:13.920 --> 00:01:18.040 that I'm looking at and that I'm giving my focus to, I'm giving my attention to, and 22 00:01:18.040 --> 00:01:20.440 I give my attention to the Lord. 23 00:01:20.440 --> 00:01:23.800 That is when I hear the Lord speaking to me. 24 00:01:23.800 --> 00:01:24.800 Okay. 25 00:01:24.800 --> 00:01:32.960 I've been walking with Jesus for 28 years now, and I have enjoyed so many profound, 26 00:01:32.960 --> 00:01:39.120 profound conversations with God where he has told me things about myself, about others, 27 00:01:39.120 --> 00:01:42.840 which has obviously turned into prophetic words for other people. 28 00:01:43.560 --> 00:01:50.040 Let me tell you about one such word because I want you to see how God can shift you in 29 00:01:50.040 --> 00:01:53.100 ways that you never even imagined you can be shifted. 30 00:01:53.100 --> 00:01:56.720 And I was just really blessed to be part of this process. 31 00:01:56.720 --> 00:01:59.560 And it's important that we have the prophetic. 32 00:01:59.560 --> 00:02:05.920 I know the prophetic, there's a war against the prophetic in the earth right now. 33 00:02:05.920 --> 00:02:09.199 And the reason why is it's being misused, right? 34 00:02:09.240 --> 00:02:12.240 A gift is a powerful gift, but it's being misused in the earth. 35 00:02:12.240 --> 00:02:14.880 And a lot of people are ceasing to even believe in it. 36 00:02:14.880 --> 00:02:20.160 I know that Gen Z is really struggling to even go to charismatic churches because they 37 00:02:20.160 --> 00:02:22.840 don't trust the movings of the spirit. 38 00:02:22.840 --> 00:02:27.200 And you guys, all of this is a plot of the enemy to get us back into the dark ages of 39 00:02:27.200 --> 00:02:32.600 religion because the law kills without the spirit. 40 00:02:32.600 --> 00:02:34.600 The spirit is what gives life. 41 00:02:34.600 --> 00:02:35.600 Okay. 42 00:02:35.600 --> 00:02:39.720 What does the law do? 43 00:02:39.720 --> 00:02:40.720 How does it kill? 44 00:02:40.720 --> 00:02:43.440 Well, first of all, religion can be super dangerous, right? 45 00:02:43.440 --> 00:02:46.440 It can be very toxic. 46 00:02:46.440 --> 00:02:49.440 And I'm not even talking about the law, the Logos, the written word of God, I'm talking 47 00:02:49.440 --> 00:02:50.440 about religion. 48 00:02:50.440 --> 00:02:51.860 What is religion? 49 00:02:51.860 --> 00:02:59.040 Religion is what man does with the written word of God, how he manipulates it to manipulate 50 00:02:59.040 --> 00:03:05.360 people, how he takes it to lord over people and to oppress people instead of it making 51 00:03:06.120 --> 00:03:07.120 people free. 52 00:03:07.120 --> 00:03:08.120 Right? 53 00:03:08.120 --> 00:03:13.960 But the Bible says it's the law that kills, meaning the Logos, the written word, meaning 54 00:03:13.960 --> 00:03:17.720 the law of Moses, the old covenant, the old Testament, if you will. 55 00:03:17.720 --> 00:03:21.960 And then it's the spirit that gives life. 56 00:03:21.960 --> 00:03:24.000 The spirit gives life. 57 00:03:24.000 --> 00:03:26.460 So when you read your Bible, you can't just read your Bible. 58 00:03:26.460 --> 00:03:30.040 You have to read your Bible with the help of Holy Spirit. 59 00:03:30.040 --> 00:03:34.360 I know many people that walk out of churches, not feeling uplifted, not feeling full of 60 00:03:34.360 --> 00:03:40.440 joy and peace, not feeling full of hope and anticipation, but feeling full of death, feeling 61 00:03:40.440 --> 00:03:44.680 full of condemnation. 62 00:03:44.680 --> 00:03:51.280 That's what happens when you have just the word and you have no spirit in it. 63 00:03:51.280 --> 00:03:52.460 Okay? 64 00:03:52.460 --> 00:03:54.840 So let's look at what it means by the law kills. 65 00:03:54.840 --> 00:03:57.960 I didn't have any intention of going here, but Holy Spirit's taking us here, so we're 66 00:03:57.960 --> 00:03:59.720 going to go. 67 00:04:00.600 --> 00:04:06.320 So the law kills, what it means is that the only reason that God gave the law to Moses 68 00:04:06.320 --> 00:04:11.380 in the first place is so that people would understand their need of a Savior. 69 00:04:11.380 --> 00:04:12.520 That is the purpose of the law. 70 00:04:12.520 --> 00:04:15.120 I want you to stop and think about that for a second. 71 00:04:15.120 --> 00:04:21.279 The only purpose for all of these rules is so that you would understand that you can't 72 00:04:21.279 --> 00:04:25.720 keep the rules. 73 00:04:25.720 --> 00:04:30.680 And by the way, I know that most Christians have the Ten Rules, the Ten Commandments. 74 00:04:30.680 --> 00:04:35.800 I mean, obviously a Christian lifestyle and all the other added things that your church 75 00:04:35.800 --> 00:04:40.400 puts on of, you can wear this, but you can't wear this, and you can go here, but you can't 76 00:04:40.400 --> 00:04:42.080 go there, all that stuff. 77 00:04:42.080 --> 00:04:43.920 But the Jews had it really bad. 78 00:04:43.920 --> 00:04:49.280 I think the Jews right now are up to 626 things that they have to do every day, that they 79 00:04:49.280 --> 00:04:54.760 have to make sure that they don't not do in order to be righteous. 80 00:04:54.760 --> 00:04:56.800 And so that's a lot of things, y'all. 81 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:05.000 steps. Isn't that interesting how the flesh is like, 82 00:05:07.720 --> 00:05:11.440 Oh, I know God said only don't do this stuff, 83 00:05:11.440 --> 00:05:16.440 but let's add another 620 things to that just to make it 84 00:05:21.600 --> 00:05:22.440 interesting. 85 00:05:22.440 --> 00:05:27.440 But the purpose of the rules is so that you would understand 86 00:05:31.240 --> 00:05:34.920 that you can't keep them and that you need a savior. 87 00:05:34.920 --> 00:05:36.280 You need a champion. 88 00:05:36.280 --> 00:05:39.040 You need someone to come and rescue you. 89 00:05:39.040 --> 00:05:42.800 The Bible says that the law was our schoolmaster and that 90 00:05:42.800 --> 00:05:47.300 when we're children, meaning immature, we need it. 91 00:05:48.300 --> 00:05:52.540 But that when we become mature, when we become of age, 92 00:05:52.540 --> 00:05:54.500 when we're ready for our inheritance, 93 00:05:55.900 --> 00:05:57.420 we no longer need a schoolmaster. 94 00:05:57.420 --> 00:06:02.200 Now it's time for us to step into what God always had for us, 95 00:06:03.220 --> 00:06:04.900 which is our identity in the new covenant. 96 00:06:04.900 --> 00:06:07.000 Isn't that powerful? Isn't that beautiful? 97 00:06:08.460 --> 00:06:10.000 And a lot of us, including myself, 98 00:06:10.000 --> 00:06:14.700 I'm always finding little pieces of religion inside my heart, 99 00:06:14.740 --> 00:06:17.660 but it's difficult for us to live a grace life. 100 00:06:17.660 --> 00:06:19.860 It's difficult for us to live in the finished work of the 101 00:06:19.860 --> 00:06:22.860 cross. It's difficult for us to live in the idea. 102 00:06:22.860 --> 00:06:24.940 That's not about us or our performance, 103 00:06:24.940 --> 00:06:27.900 but it's about Jesus and his performance on the cross. 104 00:06:29.500 --> 00:06:32.060 It's difficult for us to understand that we don't need those 105 00:06:32.060 --> 00:06:36.380 rules to keep us in line any longer. 106 00:06:36.380 --> 00:06:38.020 When we step into the new covenant, 107 00:06:38.020 --> 00:06:41.660 what keeps us in line is his love for us and our love for 108 00:06:41.660 --> 00:06:42.500 him. 109 00:06:45.700 --> 00:06:47.820 When you don't serve God out of fear, 110 00:06:47.820 --> 00:06:49.940 but you serve him out of love, trust me, 111 00:06:49.940 --> 00:06:52.580 it will keep you more in line than fear ever could. 112 00:06:55.580 --> 00:06:56.420 It's just true. 113 00:06:57.740 --> 00:07:00.060 So you guys, there's a war on the spirit of God. 114 00:07:00.060 --> 00:07:03.740 There's a war on the gifts of the spirit. 115 00:07:03.740 --> 00:07:05.820 Now I'd be the first person to line up and tell you that 116 00:07:05.820 --> 00:07:06.740 fruit is important, 117 00:07:06.740 --> 00:07:09.300 especially in the place that you all are at, 118 00:07:09.300 --> 00:07:12.020 where you are looking for a partner. 119 00:07:12.020 --> 00:07:15.100 You're about to make the most important decision of your 120 00:07:15.100 --> 00:07:17.860 life besides following Jesus. 121 00:07:17.860 --> 00:07:22.020 And that is choosing someone to follow Jesus with in 122 00:07:22.020 --> 00:07:25.580 partnership is kind of a make you or break you relationship. 123 00:07:25.580 --> 00:07:27.420 Trust me, it is. 124 00:07:27.420 --> 00:07:30.660 And I don't say that to make you afraid or to give you 125 00:07:30.660 --> 00:07:32.020 relationship OCD, 126 00:07:32.020 --> 00:07:33.900 where you never think that the person's perfect enough. 127 00:07:33.900 --> 00:07:35.140 It's not about them being perfect. 128 00:07:35.140 --> 00:07:36.740 It's about where is their heart? 129 00:07:38.380 --> 00:07:39.740 What do they want? 130 00:07:40.740 --> 00:07:42.460 Are they hungry for more? 131 00:07:42.460 --> 00:07:43.300 Are they growing? 132 00:07:43.300 --> 00:07:45.220 Are they trying? 133 00:07:45.220 --> 00:07:46.540 Are there yellow flags? 134 00:07:46.540 --> 00:07:51.540 Are there yellow flags turning green because of their heart 135 00:07:51.540 --> 00:07:52.460 posture? 136 00:07:53.380 --> 00:07:55.100 Those are the important things. 137 00:07:56.020 --> 00:07:57.860 So I'll be the first person to line up and tell you that 138 00:07:57.860 --> 00:07:59.300 fruit of the spirit is important. 139 00:07:59.300 --> 00:08:01.140 Very important. 140 00:08:01.140 --> 00:08:03.660 The Bible says that trees should be judged by fruit, 141 00:08:03.660 --> 00:08:05.980 meaning people's lives. 142 00:08:05.980 --> 00:08:09.260 We should know people after the fruit of their lives. 143 00:08:10.620 --> 00:08:12.180 I oftentimes, 144 00:08:12.180 --> 00:08:14.540 before I go someplace where I'm going to meet new people, 145 00:08:14.540 --> 00:08:16.780 and you guys can do this on a date. 146 00:08:16.780 --> 00:08:19.260 You can do this when you go to a singles event, 147 00:08:19.260 --> 00:08:20.740 or you can go to work, 148 00:08:20.740 --> 00:08:22.740 go someplace where you're going to meet people that don't 149 00:08:22.740 --> 00:08:23.700 know you. 150 00:08:23.700 --> 00:08:27.140 Maybe even people that are not believers in a work context 151 00:08:27.140 --> 00:08:28.860 or some other kind of context. 152 00:08:29.820 --> 00:08:31.580 You can pray and say what I say. 153 00:08:31.580 --> 00:08:32.820 And I say, God, 154 00:08:32.820 --> 00:08:35.780 let me be known after the spirit and not the flesh. 155 00:08:40.620 --> 00:08:43.179 I don't want people just to know me after the flesh. 156 00:08:44.340 --> 00:08:47.220 You know, this five, 10 sturdy girl walking in. 157 00:08:47.220 --> 00:08:48.060 She's bold. 158 00:08:48.060 --> 00:08:49.260 She's confident. 159 00:08:49.260 --> 00:08:51.140 He sometimes says things he didn't. 160 00:08:55.220 --> 00:08:57.660 I don't want to be known just after the flesh. 161 00:08:57.660 --> 00:08:59.020 I want to be known after the spirit. 162 00:08:59.020 --> 00:09:01.620 I want to be known as I'm really known in heaven. 163 00:09:01.620 --> 00:09:06.220 I want to be seen as my true self. 164 00:09:07.220 --> 00:09:08.940 And you pray that. 165 00:09:08.940 --> 00:09:10.340 And I suggest you do, 166 00:09:12.060 --> 00:09:14.500 especially when you're meeting someone of the opposite sex 167 00:09:14.500 --> 00:09:16.540 for a potential relationship, 168 00:09:16.540 --> 00:09:19.740 not only pray that you'll be known after the spirit, 169 00:09:19.740 --> 00:09:20.580 not the flesh, 170 00:09:20.580 --> 00:09:23.100 but that you will know them after the spirit 171 00:09:23.100 --> 00:09:24.060 and not the flesh. 172 00:09:24.940 --> 00:09:26.380 You can see what's really there. 173 00:09:26.380 --> 00:09:27.220 And we're going to get to that 174 00:09:27.220 --> 00:09:30.700 because that's kind of part of today's lesson, 175 00:09:30.700 --> 00:09:32.220 part of today's message. 176 00:09:32.220 --> 00:09:33.140 But I want to talk more, 177 00:09:33.140 --> 00:09:36.020 a little bit more about the prophetic and about just, 178 00:09:36.020 --> 00:09:37.340 so we're talking about the fruit of the spirit, 179 00:09:37.340 --> 00:09:40.580 love, joy, peace, patience. 180 00:09:40.580 --> 00:09:41.700 Yeah, we want those things. 181 00:09:41.700 --> 00:09:42.780 And those things are important. 182 00:09:42.780 --> 00:09:45.980 And those things show whether or not 183 00:09:45.980 --> 00:09:50.500 there's really truly a relationship with Jesus. 184 00:09:51.980 --> 00:09:54.140 Because you can't manufacture fruit. 185 00:09:54.140 --> 00:09:55.780 Can't fake it till you make it. 186 00:09:55.780 --> 00:09:57.580 You either have it or you don't. 187 00:09:57.580 --> 00:09:59.060 Now, a lot of people will, you know, 188 00:09:59.060 --> 00:10:00.460 kind of put on a good front. 189 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:04.800 on, good on, good on, put on a good show, but pretty quickly you'll see whether or 190 00:10:04.800 --> 00:10:10.100 not that's really patience or whether or not they're just, you know, holding 191 00:10:10.100 --> 00:10:11.360 their crazy back a little bit. 192 00:10:14.240 --> 00:10:19.080 If the right type of scenario and situation of the right amount of heat 193 00:10:19.300 --> 00:10:26.360 gets turned up on that person, they're going to boil over, right? 194 00:10:27.400 --> 00:10:29.120 They're not going to exhibit self-control. 195 00:10:31.000 --> 00:10:32.600 You're going to see what's really there. 196 00:10:33.120 --> 00:10:36.760 Because remember those, those fruit of this, of the spirit, that's 197 00:10:36.760 --> 00:10:37.920 supernatural stuff. 198 00:10:37.960 --> 00:10:40.160 That's not based on circumstances. 199 00:10:41.240 --> 00:10:43.960 It's not based on it being a sunny, beautiful day. 200 00:10:44.280 --> 00:10:46.520 Everyone can be in a good mood on a sunny, beautiful day. 201 00:10:50.360 --> 00:10:51.920 But let's talk about the gifts for a second. 202 00:10:51.920 --> 00:10:59.920 You know, Paul, who, you know, is one of the most important figures in the 203 00:10:59.920 --> 00:11:05.680 New Testament, God using him and utilizing him and speaking through him 204 00:11:06.400 --> 00:11:12.880 to teach and disciple and to raise up, to build, to tear down, and so a lot of 205 00:11:12.880 --> 00:11:13.800 the words that are written. 206 00:11:13.800 --> 00:11:18.520 And I want you to be really aware that in the letters that Paul wrote, and 207 00:11:18.520 --> 00:11:21.560 there's a funny meme that goes around where someone's doing something they 208 00:11:21.560 --> 00:11:25.200 shouldn't do and everyone, you know, someone posts in the comments, oh, 209 00:11:25.240 --> 00:11:26.560 you're getting a letter from Paul. 210 00:11:28.560 --> 00:11:30.040 This requires a Paul letter. 211 00:11:31.000 --> 00:11:35.000 And so of course he was sending letters of correction and edification and 212 00:11:35.000 --> 00:11:40.680 exhortation to these new churches, to these, you know, these budding and 213 00:11:40.680 --> 00:11:42.400 blossoming Christians. 214 00:11:44.080 --> 00:11:47.320 But not everything that he says in those letters is meant for you. 215 00:11:47.760 --> 00:11:50.680 There's a lot we can learn from, but we live in a modern age. 216 00:11:52.200 --> 00:11:53.200 We don't live in Corinth. 217 00:11:53.920 --> 00:11:55.480 We don't live in Ephesus. 218 00:11:55.800 --> 00:11:57.280 We don't live in these places. 219 00:11:57.480 --> 00:12:03.760 There are some similarities in some ways, but there were also very specific 220 00:12:03.760 --> 00:12:10.680 situations that Paul was addressing in those letters, like the imbalance 221 00:12:10.680 --> 00:12:14.520 between male and female leadership because of the worship of goddesses. 222 00:12:14.680 --> 00:12:18.960 And that's where all this crazy idea that women shouldn't speak in churches 223 00:12:18.960 --> 00:12:19.480 came from. 224 00:12:19.720 --> 00:12:22.800 You notice that Paul only mentions it in that letter to that group of 225 00:12:22.800 --> 00:12:23.960 people and nobody else. 226 00:12:25.960 --> 00:12:26.640 Never again. 227 00:12:26.640 --> 00:12:30.160 In fact, in a whole different letter, he says that the foot of the cross is 228 00:12:30.160 --> 00:12:33.720 equal, that there's no male, there's no female, there's no Jew or Greek or 229 00:12:33.720 --> 00:12:34.720 bond or free. 230 00:12:38.240 --> 00:12:42.960 I'm basically saying to you, you know, that there's no male, there's no 231 00:12:42.960 --> 00:12:47.200 female, there's no Jew or Greek or free or bond, there's no bond. 232 00:12:47.920 --> 00:12:52.520 And I'm basically saying to you that you need to not just read your Bible, but 233 00:12:52.520 --> 00:12:53.560 you have to read your Bible. 234 00:12:53.560 --> 00:12:59.280 You have to understand the context of what's being said and why it's being 235 00:12:59.280 --> 00:13:01.240 said and who it's being said to. 236 00:13:03.840 --> 00:13:04.520 You have to. 237 00:13:05.200 --> 00:13:08.400 Otherwise, you're going to zig when you should zag, right? 238 00:13:09.400 --> 00:13:11.120 It's important that we understand that. 239 00:13:12.480 --> 00:13:16.360 But some of the teaching that Paul did in those letters is universal for all of 240 00:13:16.360 --> 00:13:16.560 us. 241 00:13:16.560 --> 00:13:19.840 And that is the gifts and the fruit of the spirit. 242 00:13:22.440 --> 00:13:24.440 He's saying, Hey, these gifts are really important. 243 00:13:25.040 --> 00:13:27.680 God's going to use these gifts to mature you. 244 00:13:29.200 --> 00:13:30.360 Because that's what they're for. 245 00:13:30.760 --> 00:13:34.760 And that's why the enemy wants to give them a bad rap so that we'll shy away 246 00:13:34.880 --> 00:13:39.800 from them and we won't want to partake of them or even ask to be given them 247 00:13:39.800 --> 00:13:40.600 ourselves. 248 00:13:42.000 --> 00:13:46.520 Paul says you should earnestly covet the gifts of the spirit. 249 00:13:47.160 --> 00:13:48.800 Obviously love trumps all. 250 00:13:50.160 --> 00:13:51.800 Love's the most important thing. 251 00:13:52.040 --> 00:13:53.560 We have to do everything in love. 252 00:13:53.720 --> 00:13:56.440 And he's not talking about the kind of love that you can muster up in your own 253 00:13:56.440 --> 00:13:56.960 flesh. 254 00:13:58.960 --> 00:14:01.120 Hey, some of us are more empathetic than others. 255 00:14:01.120 --> 00:14:03.920 Some of us have softer hearts than others towards others. 256 00:14:03.920 --> 00:14:08.240 Some of us are more compassionate than others towards other people, you know, 257 00:14:08.240 --> 00:14:10.280 in empathy, in compassion. 258 00:14:10.600 --> 00:14:12.120 That's wonderful, but that's not love. 259 00:14:12.120 --> 00:14:13.640 And that's not what Paul's talking about. 260 00:14:14.120 --> 00:14:15.560 He's talking about agape love. 261 00:14:15.800 --> 00:14:21.800 He's talking about the kind of love that can only come from God through you and 262 00:14:21.800 --> 00:14:22.720 then to others. 263 00:14:25.320 --> 00:14:27.400 That's the most important thing. 264 00:14:27.680 --> 00:14:28.200 Love. 265 00:14:28.560 --> 00:14:30.440 We got to keep the main thing, the main thing. 266 00:14:30.440 --> 00:14:34.960 And we have to ask and we have to pray and say, God, don't let my heart be hardened 267 00:14:34.960 --> 00:14:36.400 because I look around. 268 00:14:37.080 --> 00:14:41.120 The Bible says that in the end days, at the end of the age, the love of many would 269 00:14:41.120 --> 00:14:42.360 wax cold. 270 00:14:43.480 --> 00:14:43.760 Okay. 271 00:14:43.760 --> 00:14:46.640 And that word love, once again, is not brotherly love. 272 00:14:47.920 --> 00:14:49.440 It's not filial love. 273 00:14:51.280 --> 00:14:53.840 It's not Eros love, which is a romantic love. 274 00:14:53.880 --> 00:14:55.000 It's agape love. 275 00:14:55.520 --> 00:14:56.680 It's supernatural love. 276 00:14:56.680 --> 00:14:59.600 It's the type of love that God has for us. 277 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:04.920 God has a type of love for you that cannot fail. 278 00:15:04.920 --> 00:15:07.280 It's not based on your behavior. 279 00:15:07.280 --> 00:15:09.040 It's not based on circumstances. 280 00:15:09.040 --> 00:15:11.400 It's not based on performance. 281 00:15:11.400 --> 00:15:13.360 It is truly unconditional. 282 00:15:13.360 --> 00:15:14.200 Say that to yourself. 283 00:15:14.200 --> 00:15:16.380 God loves me unconditionally. 284 00:15:17.800 --> 00:15:19.800 There's no conditions. 285 00:15:19.800 --> 00:15:20.640 There's no strings. 286 00:15:20.640 --> 00:15:21.560 There's no small print. 287 00:15:21.560 --> 00:15:22.800 He loves me. 288 00:15:25.240 --> 00:15:27.160 That's the type of love that's gonna wax cold 289 00:15:27.160 --> 00:15:28.000 at the end of the age, 290 00:15:28.000 --> 00:15:29.560 and we see it all around us. 291 00:15:30.200 --> 00:15:33.360 The people that should love, they're not loving. 292 00:15:34.900 --> 00:15:37.200 Parents not loving their children. 293 00:15:37.200 --> 00:15:39.000 Mothers not loving their children. 294 00:15:39.000 --> 00:15:40.480 I mean, a mother's love is the closest 295 00:15:40.480 --> 00:15:41.780 you can get to God's love. 296 00:15:46.520 --> 00:15:50.400 People just walking by their suffering fellow man 297 00:15:50.400 --> 00:15:51.800 without even a second glance. 298 00:15:51.800 --> 00:15:54.080 There's no, the love is waxing cold. 299 00:15:54.080 --> 00:15:56.760 And the Bible says because of the increase in sin, 300 00:15:56.760 --> 00:15:59.160 in evil, that's why. 301 00:15:59.400 --> 00:16:00.240 What's happening? 302 00:16:00.240 --> 00:16:01.080 People are hardening their hearts. 303 00:16:01.080 --> 00:16:03.320 Their hearts are getting hard. 304 00:16:03.320 --> 00:16:04.640 And so it's important for us to pray, 305 00:16:04.640 --> 00:16:06.880 God, keep my heart soft. 306 00:16:06.880 --> 00:16:08.160 Let my heart be soft. 307 00:16:10.060 --> 00:16:13.760 Let my heart be a place where agape love can be. 308 00:16:14.880 --> 00:16:16.240 Because you guys, I have seen, 309 00:16:16.240 --> 00:16:17.360 and I'm gonna tell you right now, 310 00:16:17.360 --> 00:16:19.480 I've seen it, I just saw it a couple days ago. 311 00:16:19.480 --> 00:16:22.740 I've seen people use the gifts of the spirit, 312 00:16:24.120 --> 00:16:25.980 which the Bible says are without repentance. 313 00:16:25.980 --> 00:16:26.820 What does that mean? 314 00:16:26.820 --> 00:16:29.140 That means God gives it and he doesn't take it away. 315 00:16:30.160 --> 00:16:34.120 I have seen the gifts used without love. 316 00:16:36.440 --> 00:16:39.620 And it's not a good sight. 317 00:16:41.560 --> 00:16:42.400 It's not. 318 00:16:43.800 --> 00:16:45.560 And it's part of what is giving 319 00:16:47.260 --> 00:16:51.840 this whole supernatural area of our lives a bad rap. 320 00:16:51.840 --> 00:16:54.760 People using the gifts for their own purposes 321 00:16:54.760 --> 00:16:58.120 and for their own notoriety. 322 00:17:00.000 --> 00:17:03.680 People using the gifts in anger instead of in love. 323 00:17:05.040 --> 00:17:05.880 Right? 324 00:17:05.880 --> 00:17:08.079 Condemning people with words of prophecy 325 00:17:08.079 --> 00:17:10.960 instead of exhorting them and edifying them, 326 00:17:10.960 --> 00:17:11.800 encouraging them. 327 00:17:11.800 --> 00:17:14.119 We see it, it's happening. 328 00:17:14.119 --> 00:17:16.359 But you guys, we cannot throw the baby out 329 00:17:16.359 --> 00:17:17.319 with the bathwater. 330 00:17:19.520 --> 00:17:20.579 We cannot. 331 00:17:22.160 --> 00:17:24.119 We cannot walk in this world, 332 00:17:24.119 --> 00:17:28.580 especially in this generation that God has matched us with. 333 00:17:28.580 --> 00:17:30.420 He matched you with this generation. 334 00:17:30.420 --> 00:17:32.860 You could have lived during the times 335 00:17:32.860 --> 00:17:34.380 of Paul's letters in the Bible. 336 00:17:34.380 --> 00:17:35.220 You could have lived. 337 00:17:35.220 --> 00:17:36.380 You could have been part of those people, 338 00:17:36.380 --> 00:17:38.180 but you're not, you're here now. 339 00:17:41.860 --> 00:17:44.120 And God sent, God, not Paul, 340 00:17:44.120 --> 00:17:47.180 but God sent the most important letter to the world. 341 00:17:50.500 --> 00:17:51.800 And it was a love letter. 342 00:17:52.700 --> 00:17:54.900 And it came in the form of Jesus Christ. 343 00:17:55.900 --> 00:17:59.900 It came in the form of John 3, 16 and 17. 344 00:17:59.900 --> 00:18:01.980 Don't forget that 17th verse. 345 00:18:03.500 --> 00:18:04.620 Let's read it real quick. 346 00:18:04.620 --> 00:18:05.460 Let's do it. 347 00:18:06.540 --> 00:18:07.380 Pull it up. 348 00:18:12.740 --> 00:18:16.820 For God so loved the world, this is the 16th verse, 349 00:18:16.820 --> 00:18:19.780 that he gave his only begotten son, 350 00:18:19.780 --> 00:18:23.840 that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, 351 00:18:23.880 --> 00:18:27.160 but have everlasting life. 352 00:18:27.160 --> 00:18:28.480 That's beautiful. 353 00:18:28.480 --> 00:18:31.360 And if we stopped right there, that would still be beautiful, 354 00:18:31.360 --> 00:18:33.800 but we have to go to 17. 355 00:18:33.800 --> 00:18:36.160 For God did not send his son into the world 356 00:18:36.160 --> 00:18:40.040 to condemn the world, but to save the world. 357 00:18:42.240 --> 00:18:46.360 Come on, y'all, most important love letter. 358 00:18:46.360 --> 00:18:49.080 That's all you need to know about God right there. 359 00:18:49.080 --> 00:18:53.920 He gave his only begotten son so that we would not perish 360 00:18:55.800 --> 00:18:57.560 because we couldn't fulfill the law. 361 00:18:57.560 --> 00:18:58.760 We needed a savior, 362 00:19:00.440 --> 00:19:02.440 but he didn't send him to point the finger at us 363 00:19:02.440 --> 00:19:03.600 and condemn us. 364 00:19:03.600 --> 00:19:08.600 He sent him that by through him, we would be saved. 365 00:19:12.740 --> 00:19:13.880 We would be saved. 366 00:19:14.240 --> 00:19:17.320 By one man's disobedience, sin has entered the earth. 367 00:19:17.320 --> 00:19:19.960 That's the Adam, but the second Adam, 368 00:19:19.960 --> 00:19:23.960 by one man's obedience, we've all become righteous. 369 00:19:23.960 --> 00:19:25.840 By one man's sin, we all became sinners. 370 00:19:25.840 --> 00:19:28.560 And by one man's obedience, we all became righteous. 371 00:19:30.000 --> 00:19:31.600 You guys, Jesus wasn't a robot. 372 00:19:32.880 --> 00:19:34.760 He didn't have to do what he did. 373 00:19:34.760 --> 00:19:35.920 He chose to do it. 374 00:19:35.920 --> 00:19:37.960 He had free will, just like you do. 375 00:19:39.440 --> 00:19:40.720 He had free will. 376 00:19:41.720 --> 00:19:43.040 He had free will. 377 00:19:45.440 --> 00:19:48.000 It had to be an act of obedience. 378 00:19:48.000 --> 00:19:51.200 Sin came in the world because of an act of disobedience. 379 00:19:53.920 --> 00:19:57.080 And you notice that the disobedience part 380 00:19:57.080 --> 00:19:59.280 is put on Adam and not Eve. 381 00:19:59.280 --> 00:20:00.120 I know that. 382 00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:02.600 so that we think of she's the villain of the story. 383 00:20:03.840 --> 00:20:07.220 But gentlemen, God puts a lot of precedent 384 00:20:07.220 --> 00:20:08.380 on your headship. 385 00:20:09.700 --> 00:20:11.700 It's important that you understand that. 386 00:20:14.180 --> 00:20:17.640 Eve ate the fruit first, but her eyes were not open. 387 00:20:18.660 --> 00:20:20.520 She did not see that they were naked. 388 00:20:20.520 --> 00:20:21.380 Nothing happened. 389 00:20:21.380 --> 00:20:25.020 There wasn't a supernatural shift until Adam ate the fruit. 390 00:20:26.660 --> 00:20:28.620 Please pay attention to that 391 00:20:28.620 --> 00:20:30.140 because you're important. 392 00:20:30.140 --> 00:20:31.860 Gentlemen, you are important. 393 00:20:31.860 --> 00:20:34.020 What you do is important. 394 00:20:34.020 --> 00:20:36.740 How you lead your family is important. 395 00:20:39.140 --> 00:20:42.700 The covering of the masculine is important. 396 00:20:46.700 --> 00:20:47.900 And you can't do it on your own. 397 00:20:47.900 --> 00:20:50.340 You can only do it through Christ. 398 00:20:50.340 --> 00:20:53.380 That's why it's Jesus is the head 399 00:20:55.360 --> 00:20:57.500 and then man is the head of the family. 400 00:20:57.500 --> 00:20:59.740 You have to have that covering. 401 00:20:59.740 --> 00:21:00.860 You have to lean into him. 402 00:21:00.860 --> 00:21:02.300 You can't do it on your own. 403 00:21:02.300 --> 00:21:03.140 You need him. 404 00:21:04.940 --> 00:21:08.420 We all need him, but gentlemen, you need him. 405 00:21:11.580 --> 00:21:13.340 So we see that the greatest love letter 406 00:21:13.340 --> 00:21:17.500 that was ever written is written by God to us. 407 00:21:20.880 --> 00:21:23.220 And then he sent his servants and his messengers 408 00:21:23.220 --> 00:21:26.340 to tell us how to partake of these things, 409 00:21:26.340 --> 00:21:27.180 how to be saved. 410 00:21:27.700 --> 00:21:30.780 How can they be saved if there's no preacher? 411 00:21:30.780 --> 00:21:32.140 That's what the Bible says. 412 00:21:33.020 --> 00:21:34.900 The Bible says, how can they hear 413 00:21:36.980 --> 00:21:40.000 if there's no one to say, no one to tell them? 414 00:21:41.380 --> 00:21:45.680 So God sends his people individually. 415 00:21:45.680 --> 00:21:49.940 I'm sure all of you have led someone to the Lord. 416 00:21:49.940 --> 00:21:53.780 And if you haven't asked God to allow you that privilege 417 00:21:53.780 --> 00:21:55.140 because it's amazing. 418 00:21:57.180 --> 00:22:02.180 To lead someone to the greatest gift 419 00:22:04.780 --> 00:22:07.140 and the greatest love of their life. 420 00:22:07.140 --> 00:22:09.180 Just so you guys know, I know that all of you are single. 421 00:22:09.180 --> 00:22:11.420 Some of you are dating right now towards marriage. 422 00:22:11.420 --> 00:22:12.620 That's awesome. 423 00:22:12.620 --> 00:22:15.940 But you've already met the greatest love of your life. 424 00:22:17.660 --> 00:22:18.860 And that's Jesus. 425 00:22:19.780 --> 00:22:22.220 You've already met the greatest love of your life. 426 00:22:22.220 --> 00:22:24.780 You are not looking for the greatest love of your life. 427 00:22:24.780 --> 00:22:29.780 You've already met the greatest love of your life. 428 00:22:30.820 --> 00:22:34.340 Now we just want an extension of that love with skin on it. 429 00:22:39.700 --> 00:22:41.660 We want a little Jesus with skin on it. 430 00:22:42.740 --> 00:22:44.260 That's all right. 431 00:22:44.260 --> 00:22:45.380 Just as long as you don't expect them 432 00:22:45.380 --> 00:22:46.540 to be perfect like Jesus, 433 00:22:46.540 --> 00:22:48.140 because that ain't gonna happen. 434 00:22:48.140 --> 00:22:53.140 God uses people to show us his love for us. 435 00:22:57.820 --> 00:22:58.820 We need each other. 436 00:22:58.820 --> 00:23:00.000 We need people. 437 00:23:03.220 --> 00:23:05.420 Someone posted, and I'm gonna post on my Instagram, 438 00:23:05.420 --> 00:23:07.100 but someone posted a comment, 439 00:23:07.100 --> 00:23:09.060 and I've been replying to comments on my Instagram. 440 00:23:09.060 --> 00:23:10.540 If you don't follow me there, follow me there, 441 00:23:10.540 --> 00:23:13.100 because me and Holy Spirit together 442 00:23:13.100 --> 00:23:15.540 are putting out some, I think, important content. 443 00:23:16.540 --> 00:23:18.980 But someone commented and said something like, 444 00:23:18.980 --> 00:23:23.780 oh, Jackie, you poor little ignorant thing. 445 00:23:26.900 --> 00:23:31.060 Don't you know that what you're talking about 446 00:23:31.060 --> 00:23:31.980 is the old covenant? 447 00:23:31.980 --> 00:23:32.980 We're in the new covenant. 448 00:23:32.980 --> 00:23:34.820 In the new covenant, we're married to Jesus, 449 00:23:34.820 --> 00:23:37.260 and we don't need to be married to each other. 450 00:23:37.260 --> 00:23:38.620 That's not true. 451 00:23:38.620 --> 00:23:40.780 Y'all, that's just not what the Bible says. 452 00:23:41.780 --> 00:23:46.780 The old covenant was a covenant that was based on the law. 453 00:23:47.420 --> 00:23:49.420 Had nothing to do with marriage. 454 00:23:49.420 --> 00:23:50.940 People are getting married in the old covenant. 455 00:23:50.940 --> 00:23:52.400 They're getting married in the new covenant. 456 00:23:52.400 --> 00:23:53.240 Because why? 457 00:23:53.240 --> 00:23:56.340 Because marriage is part of divine design. 458 00:23:56.340 --> 00:23:58.560 It came before any covenants. 459 00:24:01.260 --> 00:24:03.820 It was part of God's original design. 460 00:24:06.380 --> 00:24:10.020 It is the thing that was lost in the garden. 461 00:24:10.020 --> 00:24:12.460 One of the things that was lost in the garden 462 00:24:13.540 --> 00:24:14.820 because of sin. 463 00:24:16.820 --> 00:24:21.220 And it is the very thing that Jesus has come to restore 464 00:24:22.180 --> 00:24:27.180 and to reconcile you and your identity to God as his child, 465 00:24:31.020 --> 00:24:33.100 seated with Christ in heavenly places, 466 00:24:35.500 --> 00:24:37.780 of a kingdom lineage and inheritance. 467 00:24:38.700 --> 00:24:40.260 Yeah, he came to restore that. 468 00:24:41.500 --> 00:24:43.700 He also came to restore his family 469 00:24:43.700 --> 00:24:47.420 that he created on the sixth day of creation. 470 00:24:49.860 --> 00:24:52.860 Man, woman, eventually children, 471 00:24:52.860 --> 00:24:55.140 marriage is part of your divine design. 472 00:24:57.340 --> 00:24:58.760 The old covenant, 473 00:25:00.000 --> 00:25:05.600 that God made with Abraham, the Old Covenant, the Ten Commandments, all of those things, 474 00:25:05.600 --> 00:25:08.400 you guys, that was because we were waiting for a Savior. 475 00:25:13.440 --> 00:25:18.000 We're waiting for Jesus to come and reconcile us. What? Back to what? Back to divine design. 476 00:25:19.440 --> 00:25:22.640 And what's included in divine design? Marriage and family. 477 00:25:25.360 --> 00:25:27.680 So don't let anyone use the Bible against you. 478 00:25:28.480 --> 00:25:29.760 Study the Bible for yourself. 479 00:25:33.600 --> 00:25:38.960 And understand. And you can't study the Bible for yourself unless you study it with the help 480 00:25:38.960 --> 00:25:43.200 of the Spirit. Because otherwise, you're going to get super confused there. There's a whole 481 00:25:43.200 --> 00:25:51.040 lot of stuff there that seems very contradictory of its own self. You have to read the Bible 482 00:25:52.000 --> 00:25:57.600 through the eyes of the Spirit. Very important that you do that. So let's go on to the gifts. 483 00:25:57.600 --> 00:26:02.160 So Paul said, hey, you should want these. You should ask for these. 484 00:26:03.680 --> 00:26:08.480 He said, and the one, the specific one that you want more than all of them is to prophesy. 485 00:26:11.840 --> 00:26:17.360 What is that? To exhort, to encourage, and to edify yourself and others in the Spirit. 486 00:26:18.320 --> 00:26:26.800 And it has been my great privilege to be a prophetic person. To be a person that, 487 00:26:27.680 --> 00:26:32.160 you know, God speaks through, and edifies others, and encourages others, and exhorts others. You 488 00:26:32.160 --> 00:26:36.720 want to know how Supernatural Saturday happens? I'm just walking around my kitchen, and I'm not 489 00:26:36.720 --> 00:26:42.080 thinking. I'm just letting the Spirit speak through me. It's a form of the prophetic. It's 490 00:26:42.080 --> 00:26:46.720 a form of words of knowledge, and words of revelation. It's a revelation gift. 491 00:26:48.320 --> 00:26:54.960 This is how God uses the gifts of the Spirit to edify you and others. And it looks different on 492 00:26:54.960 --> 00:27:02.000 everyone. But we need to ask God for these gifts. That's what Paul said. He said, ask God. 493 00:27:04.080 --> 00:27:06.000 He said, covet earnestly. 494 00:27:06.800 --> 00:27:09.040 Desire greatly to have these gifts. 495 00:27:11.760 --> 00:27:14.480 And I know they're getting a bad rap of the earth, but you know what? 496 00:27:15.200 --> 00:27:18.320 They're not going to get a good rap until good people use them. 497 00:27:19.760 --> 00:27:23.760 People who lay their hearts open before the Lord, and allow him to remove all the crap. 498 00:27:24.960 --> 00:27:30.160 All the stuff that's junking up the works. All the stuff that's not making it a pure flow 499 00:27:31.120 --> 00:27:34.720 All the stuff that's not making it a pure flow of the Spirit anymore. 500 00:27:35.280 --> 00:27:42.240 All the selfish ambition. All the religion. All the ucky stuff. 501 00:27:51.280 --> 00:27:53.200 Like David said in Psalm 51, 502 00:27:53.920 --> 00:28:02.160 Create in me a clean heart, O Lord, and renew a right spirit in me. A righteous spirit in me. 503 00:28:03.600 --> 00:28:13.120 Purge me with hyssop. Wash me, and I will be clean. When we have the Spirit moving through 504 00:28:13.120 --> 00:28:18.240 our lives, we have to constantly come to the Lord and say, hey, check me before I wreck me. 505 00:28:24.160 --> 00:28:27.680 I want this to be a clear, sweet fountain. 506 00:28:27.680 --> 00:28:31.680 The Bible says that bitter water and sweet water cannot flow from the same place. 507 00:28:35.680 --> 00:28:39.600 It says that you cannot praise God. You cannot love God and hate your brother. 508 00:28:42.080 --> 00:28:47.360 He's not saying, oh, it's hard. It's hard to hate your brother and love God. No, he's saying you can't. 509 00:28:48.080 --> 00:28:57.280 You can't. He also goes on to say, you can't love God. You can't make him your master and also be 510 00:28:57.280 --> 00:29:02.320 under the yoke of mammon. He's not saying it's hard. He's saying it's impossible. 511 00:29:03.840 --> 00:29:06.800 You're going to hate one and love the other. You can't have two masters. 512 00:29:08.800 --> 00:29:15.440 You can't. And we talked about this on a previous Supernatural Saturday. That means every day, 513 00:29:15.440 --> 00:29:21.680 every day, not once a week, not once a month, not on Sundays, every day we have to get up 514 00:29:21.680 --> 00:29:25.920 and we have to realign ourselves to heaven. God, I belong to you. I'm your child. 515 00:29:27.440 --> 00:29:31.040 Jesus, you are my Savior. You are my Lord, but you are also my master. 516 00:29:32.240 --> 00:29:36.160 And now I pray that Holy Spirit would lead me today. I want to walk after the Spirit and not 517 00:29:36.160 --> 00:29:42.400 the flesh. Guys, these are simple prayers, but they're taken very seriously by heaven. 518 00:29:45.440 --> 00:29:51.840 Then sometimes you're led to do some crazy stuff. It's like, all right, I'm in. 519 00:29:55.360 --> 00:29:57.600 By the way, this entire time I'm walking around my kitchen, 520 00:29:57.600 --> 00:29:59.840 which is usually why I have the camera off. 521 00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:06.560 because like I just have to walk and walk and walk. It's part of my thing, but I can see you. 522 00:30:06.560 --> 00:30:09.840 You can't really see me, but I can see Juanita and she's just bringing me joy. 523 00:30:11.120 --> 00:30:13.760 I'm just looking right at her. Like I'm talking right to Juanita today 524 00:30:14.560 --> 00:30:23.280 because she's bringing me joy with her joy. So I appreciate that. My little amen corner is Nicole 525 00:30:23.280 --> 00:30:30.800 and Pam and Cheryl and Juanita this morning and Lolita. And so praise the Lord. 526 00:30:30.800 --> 00:30:37.280 All right. So you guys, we want to be spiritually empowered. We want to have the gifts. Right now, 527 00:30:37.280 --> 00:30:42.480 I want you to put up in the chat the gift that you're asking God for, the gift that you want. 528 00:30:42.480 --> 00:30:46.000 Maybe you already have it, but you want to be more matured in it. You want to use it. 529 00:30:46.400 --> 00:30:51.280 Eat more easily, I guess, is the word, because you guys, once you have it, you have it. A lot 530 00:30:51.280 --> 00:30:55.360 of times we'll talk ourselves out of it. We'll overthink it and we just won't operate in it. 531 00:30:56.080 --> 00:31:01.600 Okay. Because remember, it's not you, it's God. You just have to like let go and let it happen. 532 00:31:02.800 --> 00:31:06.400 A lot of people get really confused about speaking in tongues because they're trying 533 00:31:06.400 --> 00:31:10.960 to manufacture it. And they just, you know, that's why the gift of tongues is so powerful, 534 00:31:10.960 --> 00:31:15.920 because the book of James says that this is an unruly member. Your tongue is an unruly member. 535 00:31:17.040 --> 00:31:23.920 Says whoever can tame their tongue can rule their life. Right? And so it's you 536 00:31:24.480 --> 00:31:29.200 surrendering that unruly member to the spirit and allowing the spirit to pray through you, 537 00:31:29.200 --> 00:31:35.920 to sing through you, to exhort through you in languages that make no sense to your human mind. 538 00:31:36.160 --> 00:31:40.800 Exhort through you in languages that make no sense to your human mind. 539 00:31:41.680 --> 00:31:48.160 I remember the first time that I was baptized in the spirit with the evidence of tongues, 540 00:31:49.200 --> 00:31:54.320 you know, the tongues of men and angels, the Bible says. So languages that I don't speak, 541 00:31:54.320 --> 00:32:01.680 that I have no conscious understanding of, right? And some languages that are not even 542 00:32:01.680 --> 00:32:05.600 earthly languages. They're not even languages that people speak on earth. They're heavenly 543 00:32:05.600 --> 00:32:12.000 languages. I remember that first time that that happened. I was 22 years old and you guys, 544 00:32:12.000 --> 00:32:18.000 it rocked my world. It rocked my world. It was crazy. And I got a little bit scared when it 545 00:32:18.000 --> 00:32:22.160 first started happening. And then this peace and this love and this joy washed over me. 546 00:32:22.160 --> 00:32:28.560 And it was the most amazing experience. And then in my mind, I could hear myself in English. 547 00:32:29.520 --> 00:32:34.880 I was singing in this beautiful language that I did not consciously know, but in my mind, 548 00:32:34.880 --> 00:32:40.560 I heard the interpretation of it in English. And it was beautiful and it was amazing. And I was 549 00:32:40.560 --> 00:32:45.040 praising the Lord. And it was an incredible experience that no one can ever take away 550 00:32:45.040 --> 00:32:50.560 from me. It's my own little personal miracle. And I just release that over all of you that 551 00:32:50.560 --> 00:32:55.520 have never experienced anything like that before. Things that you can always point back to and say, 552 00:32:55.600 --> 00:33:02.320 I'm like, God is real. He is really, really real. The spirit is real. 553 00:33:03.600 --> 00:33:07.120 I know that that wasn't manufactured. I know that it wasn't fake. It was real. 554 00:33:08.640 --> 00:33:13.280 Guys, my wrist got healed the other day. I believe in healing. I don't see it happen all 555 00:33:13.280 --> 00:33:18.000 the time, but I believe in healing. And I hurt my wrist really badly. And I was at a church that 556 00:33:18.000 --> 00:33:23.840 I sometimes attend for a business meeting. And I saw a woman who is in this program, 557 00:33:23.840 --> 00:33:30.960 but she also leads their school. She leads Sunday nights here for us, Sarah. And I saw her there, 558 00:33:30.960 --> 00:33:36.080 and she leads their school of ministry. And I said, Hey, she operates prolifically in healing. 559 00:33:36.080 --> 00:33:39.520 And I said, my wrist, I said, I need you to pray for it. She prayed for it. And my wrist was healed. 560 00:33:42.400 --> 00:33:48.240 You guys got heals. And, you know, when I went out to the car, my mind was trying to really just 561 00:33:48.240 --> 00:33:52.800 war against the idea of my wrist, just being better. Cause it was really jacked up. I couldn't 562 00:33:52.800 --> 00:33:58.640 even pick anything up with that hand. I had twisted it the wrong way. And I was worried that 563 00:33:58.640 --> 00:34:02.160 I was going to have to actually go to the doctor and get an x-ray because that's how bad it was 564 00:34:02.160 --> 00:34:10.000 hurting. And my mind wanted to war against the idea that it would just be all better now, right? 565 00:34:10.000 --> 00:34:15.920 Like, yeah, that's great. That sounds good. But you know, what if the pain comes back kind of idea? 566 00:34:15.920 --> 00:34:19.600 And I said, no, God, I believe that you're a healer. I just had to keep saying it over and 567 00:34:19.679 --> 00:34:27.840 over again. Why? Because I had to agree with the spirit. You guys weren't in a war. 568 00:34:28.719 --> 00:34:32.639 Go listen to old supernatural Saturdays where I talk about the spiritual war that we're in. 569 00:34:32.639 --> 00:34:37.040 I can't talk about it every supernatural Saturday, but I want to remind you that we are in a war. 570 00:34:40.159 --> 00:34:45.600 A war between good and evil. A war between the flesh and the spirit. And guess what? 571 00:34:46.159 --> 00:34:51.040 God is the victor. Got to side with the right team, you guys, with the winning team. 572 00:34:53.520 --> 00:34:57.520 When you go into a dark room and you turn on a light, there's no scuffle. 573 00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:01.720 There's no scuffle. 574 00:35:01.720 --> 00:35:03.880 The darkness flees and the light comes. 575 00:35:03.880 --> 00:35:06.100 There's no contest. 576 00:35:10.680 --> 00:35:11.900 All right, look at all these, you guys. 577 00:35:11.900 --> 00:35:13.100 Look at all these things 578 00:35:13.100 --> 00:35:15.360 that you want to receive from the Lord. 579 00:35:16.320 --> 00:35:18.160 So Father, I first and foremost pray 580 00:35:18.160 --> 00:35:19.520 over your sons and daughters 581 00:35:19.520 --> 00:35:22.580 that they would receive encounters with you 582 00:35:22.580 --> 00:35:25.000 that nothing can ever explain away. 583 00:35:26.040 --> 00:35:28.240 Nothing can ever explain it away. 584 00:35:28.440 --> 00:35:30.200 It's supernatural. 585 00:35:30.200 --> 00:35:32.500 It marks them forever, Lord. 586 00:35:32.500 --> 00:35:36.040 They are marked forever by these moments with you 587 00:35:36.040 --> 00:35:38.860 where they know that they were visited by you, 588 00:35:38.860 --> 00:35:41.600 where they know that whatever happened 589 00:35:41.600 --> 00:35:44.280 in that moment was supernatural. 590 00:35:46.720 --> 00:35:47.900 I thank you, God. 591 00:35:49.000 --> 00:35:53.040 Thank you for these encounters and moments. 592 00:35:53.040 --> 00:35:58.040 And now all of these gifts that your sons and daughters 593 00:36:00.760 --> 00:36:02.720 are asking for, all these gifts, 594 00:36:03.560 --> 00:36:04.860 we ask that you would just pour it out. 595 00:36:04.860 --> 00:36:07.200 Your word says that it is your pleasure 596 00:36:07.200 --> 00:36:11.800 to give good gifts unto your children 597 00:36:14.800 --> 00:36:19.040 and so much more the Holy Spirit to those that ask. 598 00:36:19.040 --> 00:36:21.240 That is what your word says. 599 00:36:23.680 --> 00:36:26.400 And so we thank you for Holy Spirit. 600 00:36:28.520 --> 00:36:30.960 Holy Spirit, we are thankful that you dwell with us 601 00:36:30.960 --> 00:36:31.940 and in us. 602 00:36:34.360 --> 00:36:39.360 And along with you, you bring your gifts and your fruit. 603 00:36:39.720 --> 00:36:42.680 Help us to nurture this connection 604 00:36:42.680 --> 00:36:44.720 and relationship with you. 605 00:36:44.720 --> 00:36:46.200 Look at all these things. 606 00:36:46.200 --> 00:36:48.360 All right, so let's tell a fun story. 607 00:36:48.360 --> 00:36:50.420 Guys, this wasn't anywhere where we were going 608 00:36:50.420 --> 00:36:52.480 with Supernatural Saturday today, 609 00:36:52.840 --> 00:36:55.520 but it's beautiful and amazing and I love it. 610 00:36:55.520 --> 00:36:58.160 Okay, so when I was practicing the prophetic, 611 00:36:58.160 --> 00:36:59.680 because you guys, it's something that, 612 00:36:59.680 --> 00:37:02.280 you know, once you learn how to do it, 613 00:37:02.280 --> 00:37:03.560 that's a bad way to put it. 614 00:37:03.560 --> 00:37:07.120 Once it comes, right, you have to learn 615 00:37:07.120 --> 00:37:09.600 how to operate in it. 616 00:37:09.600 --> 00:37:10.520 Is that better? 617 00:37:10.520 --> 00:37:12.680 Okay, so once it comes, you have to learn 618 00:37:12.680 --> 00:37:14.560 how to operate in it. 619 00:37:14.560 --> 00:37:18.840 Meaning how to just surrender to it, basically. 620 00:37:18.840 --> 00:37:19.680 It's difficult. 621 00:37:19.680 --> 00:37:21.560 You guys, we're a lot more stubborn than we think. 622 00:37:21.560 --> 00:37:23.920 We're a lot more in control than we think we are. 623 00:37:23.920 --> 00:37:25.680 And we wanna be in control. 624 00:37:25.680 --> 00:37:28.480 And operating in these gifts of the spirit, 625 00:37:28.480 --> 00:37:30.400 a lot of times it goes directly against 626 00:37:30.400 --> 00:37:32.160 your human reasoning. 627 00:37:32.160 --> 00:37:33.640 It does. 628 00:37:33.640 --> 00:37:35.880 Makes you feel foolish when, you know, 629 00:37:35.880 --> 00:37:38.240 someone's like, oh, my back hurts. 630 00:37:38.240 --> 00:37:40.280 You're like, can I pray for it to be healed? 631 00:37:40.280 --> 00:37:43.020 Okay, you know, it makes you feel weird. 632 00:37:44.140 --> 00:37:45.760 But you have to remember, it's not you. 633 00:37:45.760 --> 00:37:47.600 You cannot heal people. 634 00:37:48.440 --> 00:37:49.560 I'm sorry to break that news to you, 635 00:37:49.560 --> 00:37:51.120 but you cannot heal people. 636 00:37:52.400 --> 00:37:53.320 You can't. 637 00:37:53.320 --> 00:37:56.320 And so all the pressure is off of you. 638 00:37:56.320 --> 00:38:00.040 God's either gonna do it through you or he's not, right? 639 00:38:00.040 --> 00:38:02.520 And you believe he is, because you believe 640 00:38:02.520 --> 00:38:07.120 that he's given you the power to heal. 641 00:38:08.080 --> 00:38:11.480 He's given you a channel from heaven 642 00:38:11.480 --> 00:38:15.840 in the spirit for healing virtue to flow through. 643 00:38:15.840 --> 00:38:19.120 Remember, on earth as it is in heaven. 644 00:38:19.120 --> 00:38:20.760 There's no sick people in heaven. 645 00:38:22.480 --> 00:38:24.080 There's no pain in heaven. 646 00:38:25.000 --> 00:38:28.000 People aren't walking around gimpy in heaven. 647 00:38:29.920 --> 00:38:30.760 They're not. 648 00:38:31.840 --> 00:38:33.640 They don't have tumors. 649 00:38:33.640 --> 00:38:35.160 They don't have blindness. 650 00:38:35.160 --> 00:38:38.560 They don't have, that's not what heaven looks like. 651 00:38:40.700 --> 00:38:45.400 So allowing what's in heaven to come through you 652 00:38:45.440 --> 00:38:49.340 into the earth by the power of the Holy Spirit, 653 00:38:50.200 --> 00:38:52.920 by the power of the Spirit of God, right? 654 00:38:52.920 --> 00:38:55.720 And same things with the other gifts. 655 00:38:55.720 --> 00:38:58.240 There's some power gifts, right? 656 00:38:58.240 --> 00:39:00.160 Eudaimus is the word there that's used. 657 00:39:00.160 --> 00:39:01.560 That's like dynamite. 658 00:39:01.560 --> 00:39:03.160 There's some dynamite gifts. 659 00:39:03.160 --> 00:39:06.760 Those are the gifts of prophecy, the gifts of revelation, 660 00:39:06.760 --> 00:39:11.440 the gift of wisdom, right? 661 00:39:11.440 --> 00:39:12.400 These are great. 662 00:39:12.400 --> 00:39:13.360 These are great gifts. 663 00:39:13.360 --> 00:39:15.080 It's not just prophesying about something 664 00:39:15.760 --> 00:39:16.600 that someone's gonna do someday. 665 00:39:16.600 --> 00:39:18.880 I'm gonna tell you a story about that just in a sec, 666 00:39:18.880 --> 00:39:21.640 but also giving people words of knowledge 667 00:39:22.680 --> 00:39:24.160 about their current circumstances, 668 00:39:24.160 --> 00:39:25.280 things that you shouldn't know about 669 00:39:25.280 --> 00:39:26.680 because you don't know them. 670 00:39:27.960 --> 00:39:31.040 And also words of wisdom. 671 00:39:31.040 --> 00:39:32.160 What is that? 672 00:39:32.160 --> 00:39:36.760 That's how to navigate that situation, that strategy. 673 00:39:38.000 --> 00:39:38.920 There's all kinds of things. 674 00:39:38.920 --> 00:39:40.920 There's gifts of healings, you guys. 675 00:39:40.920 --> 00:39:42.640 It's plural in the Bible. 676 00:39:42.640 --> 00:39:45.360 So it's not just one type of healing. 677 00:39:45.360 --> 00:39:47.560 Could be emotional healing, could be mental healing, 678 00:39:47.560 --> 00:39:48.960 could be physical healing. 679 00:39:50.080 --> 00:39:52.120 All different types of healings, right? 680 00:39:55.400 --> 00:39:57.400 Amazing, miracles. 681 00:39:57.400 --> 00:39:58.600 The gift of miracles. 682 00:39:58.600 --> 00:40:00.160 What is a miracle? 683 00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:02.240 A miracle is something that's impossible. 684 00:40:04.400 --> 00:40:06.080 A miracle is something that's impossible. 685 00:40:06.080 --> 00:40:06.920 You're like, what's the difference 686 00:40:06.920 --> 00:40:08.680 between healings and miracles? 687 00:40:08.680 --> 00:40:11.080 Well, you know, we have medicine now. 688 00:40:11.080 --> 00:40:12.720 There are some people that get cured 689 00:40:12.720 --> 00:40:14.480 and get better from modern medicine. 690 00:40:14.480 --> 00:40:17.240 There's some people that get sick from modern medicine. 691 00:40:18.280 --> 00:40:20.560 The bottom line is the miracle is something 692 00:40:20.560 --> 00:40:24.640 that it's like, oh, it defies gravity. 693 00:40:24.640 --> 00:40:26.120 It defies physics. 694 00:40:26.120 --> 00:40:27.480 It defies logic. 695 00:40:27.480 --> 00:40:29.120 It defies all things. 696 00:40:30.560 --> 00:40:33.560 All things that we've been taught are real and true. 697 00:40:33.560 --> 00:40:35.080 It defies those things. 698 00:40:41.080 --> 00:40:42.120 Isn't that amazing? 699 00:40:43.320 --> 00:40:45.560 The gift of tongues, you guys, 700 00:40:45.560 --> 00:40:50.560 that is like your own personal gym in the spirit. 701 00:40:52.080 --> 00:40:54.280 When you have the gift of tongues 702 00:40:54.280 --> 00:40:56.280 and you pray in your prayer language, 703 00:40:56.280 --> 00:40:58.200 which I suggest you do, 704 00:40:58.600 --> 00:41:02.040 which I suggest you do daily if you're not already doing, 705 00:41:02.920 --> 00:41:04.320 you might feel foolish at first 706 00:41:04.320 --> 00:41:05.920 because you don't understand what you're saying. 707 00:41:05.920 --> 00:41:07.000 But the bottom line is, 708 00:41:07.000 --> 00:41:10.280 is that the spirit is talking to the spirit of God. 709 00:41:11.360 --> 00:41:14.240 And it is bypassing you because you're in the way. 710 00:41:17.160 --> 00:41:19.360 You're in the way, okay? 711 00:41:20.800 --> 00:41:23.520 Your human intellect, your need for control, 712 00:41:23.520 --> 00:41:26.560 all the things, that's in the way. 713 00:41:26.600 --> 00:41:28.760 And so you're interceding for yourself. 714 00:41:28.760 --> 00:41:31.000 You are, and you're interceding for others. 715 00:41:32.400 --> 00:41:37.080 Past the pay grade of your human reasoning. 716 00:41:37.080 --> 00:41:38.080 Write that down. 717 00:41:41.640 --> 00:41:44.640 Now, a lot of people have gotten really weird 718 00:41:44.640 --> 00:41:46.880 about the whole tongues gift corporately, 719 00:41:46.880 --> 00:41:49.520 like in churches and people just speaking in tongues 720 00:41:49.520 --> 00:41:52.200 and people get confused and people get scared. 721 00:41:53.200 --> 00:41:57.960 And Paul says that if you do speak in tongues publicly, 722 00:41:57.960 --> 00:42:00.840 there should be someone to interpret. 723 00:42:00.840 --> 00:42:02.960 And that's a whole different gift of the spirit, 724 00:42:02.960 --> 00:42:04.280 tongues and interpretations. 725 00:42:04.280 --> 00:42:07.200 You guys, I've been using that gift many times 726 00:42:07.200 --> 00:42:10.080 to either give the tongue or give the interpretation. 727 00:42:11.360 --> 00:42:13.840 Those things happen in corporate gatherings 728 00:42:13.840 --> 00:42:17.400 where there a lot of times are foreign speaking people, 729 00:42:17.560 --> 00:42:20.480 atheist people that, it's kind of a miracle. 730 00:42:20.480 --> 00:42:22.840 Like it's like a show of the spirit. 731 00:42:22.840 --> 00:42:24.360 You never know when it's gonna happen. 732 00:42:24.360 --> 00:42:26.760 And most times where I've been involved, 733 00:42:26.760 --> 00:42:29.840 I've been like, oh no, here we go. 734 00:42:29.840 --> 00:42:31.440 I don't know what people are gonna think of this 735 00:42:31.440 --> 00:42:32.960 because a lot of times it's been in a place 736 00:42:32.960 --> 00:42:37.400 where people are really not that open to the spirit of God. 737 00:42:37.400 --> 00:42:39.400 And that's what that gift is for. 738 00:42:39.400 --> 00:42:43.080 It's to oppose people's unbelief. 739 00:42:44.240 --> 00:42:45.240 Do you see what I'm saying? 740 00:42:45.360 --> 00:42:49.000 Now at your church, if you wanna, 741 00:42:49.000 --> 00:42:50.960 if you're praying kind of under your breath 742 00:42:50.960 --> 00:42:53.120 in the spirit and stuff, okay, cool. 743 00:42:53.120 --> 00:42:55.840 But when everyone's just kind of chaotically praying 744 00:42:55.840 --> 00:42:59.120 really loud in tongues, if there's a visitor there, 745 00:42:59.120 --> 00:43:00.040 they're probably gonna be like, 746 00:43:00.040 --> 00:43:01.720 you guys are weird, I'm leaving. 747 00:43:05.520 --> 00:43:07.560 But have you noticed that a lot of churches, 748 00:43:07.560 --> 00:43:10.840 they're more towards like just kind of Christian light 749 00:43:10.840 --> 00:43:13.240 and a lot of people are more towards like, 750 00:43:13.400 --> 00:43:15.280 just kind of Christian light. 751 00:43:15.280 --> 00:43:17.360 Yeah, I call it flashlight shows 752 00:43:17.360 --> 00:43:22.040 instead of like evangelistic models, a lot of churches. 753 00:43:22.040 --> 00:43:24.240 And then we have the evangelistic models 754 00:43:24.240 --> 00:43:27.120 and then the people that are more seriously mature Christians 755 00:43:27.120 --> 00:43:30.320 call those seeker-friendly churches and they put them down. 756 00:43:30.320 --> 00:43:32.520 Guys, let's live and let live, can we? 757 00:43:34.120 --> 00:43:35.920 Can we just let people do what it is 758 00:43:35.920 --> 00:43:37.960 that they feel God is leading them to do? 759 00:43:39.480 --> 00:43:41.880 As far as pastoring a church or building a church 760 00:43:41.920 --> 00:43:44.800 or starting some sort of ministry 761 00:43:44.800 --> 00:43:47.440 for a specific people group, 762 00:43:47.440 --> 00:43:49.680 people do need to be discipled. 763 00:43:49.680 --> 00:43:52.440 We do need to have unbelievers come into places 764 00:43:52.440 --> 00:43:55.480 where they can be discipled and they can learn about Jesus. 765 00:43:55.480 --> 00:44:00.480 It can't all be about the deep things of the spirit. 766 00:44:00.560 --> 00:44:02.600 It can't always be about that. 767 00:44:02.600 --> 00:44:04.360 Not everyone's at that level. 768 00:44:05.840 --> 00:44:07.520 And the reason why I call them flashlight shows 769 00:44:07.520 --> 00:44:09.320 is those churches where everyone's just kind of 770 00:44:09.320 --> 00:44:11.520 showing off their gifts, like shining their light 771 00:44:12.160 --> 00:44:13.120 in a room full of light. 772 00:44:13.120 --> 00:44:15.600 Well, the light belongs in the darkness. 773 00:44:16.760 --> 00:44:20.240 If you wanna get together with other flashlights on Sunday 774 00:44:20.240 --> 00:44:22.960 so that you can like get stronger with your light 775 00:44:22.960 --> 00:44:25.280 and then go out in the dark world, then great. 776 00:44:25.280 --> 00:44:28.200 Once again, I'm very much a live and let live person. 777 00:44:29.040 --> 00:44:31.800 Just be where you're being fed, where you're growing. 778 00:44:31.800 --> 00:44:34.600 If you gather with other believers, you should be growing. 779 00:44:34.600 --> 00:44:37.240 You should be being edified and encouraged. 780 00:44:37.280 --> 00:44:41.840 You should leave that place desiring 781 00:44:41.840 --> 00:44:44.040 to shine your light in the darkness. 782 00:44:44.040 --> 00:44:46.120 You should leave that place with strategy 783 00:44:46.120 --> 00:44:48.080 on what that looks like for your life. 784 00:44:49.440 --> 00:44:52.080 That is the type of corporate gathering 785 00:44:52.080 --> 00:44:53.600 that you should be part of. 786 00:44:53.600 --> 00:44:55.120 All right, so let me tell you a story 787 00:44:55.120 --> 00:44:57.520 when I first started practicing the prophetic. 788 00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:03.760 I went to, I went to like a week-long school. 789 00:45:03.760 --> 00:45:06.640 I've always been very intuitive and very prophetic. 790 00:45:06.640 --> 00:45:09.880 I told you how I received the baptism of the Holy Spirit, 791 00:45:09.880 --> 00:45:13.240 you know, speaking in tongues, interpreting my own tongue. 792 00:45:13.240 --> 00:45:15.480 You know, I've always been someone 793 00:45:15.480 --> 00:45:20.000 that had kind of a high spiritual IQ, so to speak, right? 794 00:45:20.000 --> 00:45:25.000 Just really open to God utilizing me in this way. 795 00:45:25.720 --> 00:45:26.780 Me in this way. 796 00:45:27.880 --> 00:45:30.440 And so I started giving words of knowledge and wisdom 797 00:45:30.440 --> 00:45:33.760 really, really young into my discipleship, 798 00:45:34.640 --> 00:45:36.520 even being more gifted in the Spirit 799 00:45:36.520 --> 00:45:38.160 than even the leaders in my life 800 00:45:38.160 --> 00:45:39.000 to the point where they're like, 801 00:45:39.000 --> 00:45:41.520 hey, you know, we don't know how to disciple you in this 802 00:45:41.520 --> 00:45:43.160 because none of us have those gifts. 803 00:45:43.160 --> 00:45:44.800 None of the, and none of us have these gifts 804 00:45:44.800 --> 00:45:47.120 that you're displaying, only you have them, 805 00:45:47.120 --> 00:45:49.160 like in this church, right? 806 00:45:49.160 --> 00:45:51.240 And I'm just a, you know, I'm just a little girl. 807 00:45:51.280 --> 00:45:55.000 I'm only 22 years old, 23 years old, 24 years old. 808 00:45:55.000 --> 00:45:56.480 And so I didn't have anyone to disciple me 809 00:45:56.480 --> 00:46:00.160 until much later, you guys, much later. 810 00:46:00.160 --> 00:46:02.160 In fact, the pastors and leaders that discipled me, 811 00:46:02.160 --> 00:46:04.680 they said, we don't understand these gifts. 812 00:46:04.680 --> 00:46:05.520 We know they're real. 813 00:46:05.520 --> 00:46:08.800 We can see, we can very much see that they're authentic, 814 00:46:08.800 --> 00:46:10.960 you know, because of the things that were happening, 815 00:46:10.960 --> 00:46:13.400 but we're gonna ask you not to use them 816 00:46:13.400 --> 00:46:15.840 until you can find someone to disciple you in them. 817 00:46:15.840 --> 00:46:18.040 Guys, that was hard. 818 00:46:18.040 --> 00:46:19.000 And a lot of people would say, 819 00:46:19.000 --> 00:46:20.840 oh, well, they're squelching the Spirit in you 820 00:46:21.440 --> 00:46:22.280 and you shouldn't have listened to them. 821 00:46:22.280 --> 00:46:23.120 No, you know what? 822 00:46:23.120 --> 00:46:25.400 The most important thing that I have learned 823 00:46:25.400 --> 00:46:30.400 through my discipleship was not how to operate in the Spirit, 824 00:46:30.680 --> 00:46:32.200 it was how to be obedient. 825 00:46:35.440 --> 00:46:37.960 Just so you know, obedience doesn't happen when you agree. 826 00:46:37.960 --> 00:46:40.600 Obedience can only happen when you disagree. 827 00:46:42.040 --> 00:46:44.160 It's easy to do something that someone tells you to do 828 00:46:44.160 --> 00:46:45.800 if you're on the same page. 829 00:46:46.760 --> 00:46:49.600 It's easy to say yes when that's what you want, 830 00:46:49.640 --> 00:46:51.760 but when it's not what you want, 831 00:46:51.760 --> 00:46:53.640 then you have to submit to authority. 832 00:46:53.640 --> 00:46:57.320 And so submitting to authority was the most important thing 833 00:46:57.320 --> 00:46:59.120 that God taught me in those years, 834 00:46:59.120 --> 00:47:01.020 and I know that he did it on purpose. 835 00:47:03.480 --> 00:47:04.840 He did it on purpose. 836 00:47:05.760 --> 00:47:06.760 I had these gifts. 837 00:47:06.760 --> 00:47:08.760 I knew that I had them. 838 00:47:08.760 --> 00:47:10.360 I could use them prolifically. 839 00:47:10.360 --> 00:47:13.120 I was asked not to until I got teaching 840 00:47:13.120 --> 00:47:14.560 and discipleship on them. 841 00:47:15.400 --> 00:47:16.920 And who knew when that was gonna happen 842 00:47:16.920 --> 00:47:19.200 because I hadn't met that person yet. 843 00:47:19.200 --> 00:47:21.160 And I was obedient to that. 844 00:47:23.760 --> 00:47:25.320 And guess what? 845 00:47:25.320 --> 00:47:27.440 I didn't lose any momentum 846 00:47:28.320 --> 00:47:32.620 because fast forward probably about eight years, 847 00:47:34.520 --> 00:47:39.520 I went to a school that taught me how to steward these gifts 848 00:47:41.440 --> 00:47:42.960 and do you know what? 849 00:47:44.360 --> 00:47:47.960 I exploded in those gifts as if no time had passed. 850 00:47:49.480 --> 00:47:51.040 Right? 851 00:47:51.040 --> 00:47:56.040 But now also with the gift of maturity 852 00:47:56.280 --> 00:47:59.160 that came from submission to authority and obedience. 853 00:47:59.160 --> 00:48:02.060 All right, come on God, let's go. 854 00:48:04.760 --> 00:48:05.600 What was I now? 855 00:48:05.600 --> 00:48:09.160 I was a kite with a string instead of just a kite. 856 00:48:09.160 --> 00:48:10.600 You ever seen a kite without a string? 857 00:48:10.600 --> 00:48:11.440 Not good. 858 00:48:12.840 --> 00:48:15.200 It's all tangled up in the telephone wires. 859 00:48:15.200 --> 00:48:16.880 It's in the tree somewhere. 860 00:48:17.400 --> 00:48:19.720 No, now I was a kite with a string. 861 00:48:19.720 --> 00:48:21.480 So I began to practice this gift 862 00:48:21.480 --> 00:48:24.480 because it'd been so long and I really wanted to get to it. 863 00:48:24.480 --> 00:48:26.400 And so I put out on my social media, 864 00:48:26.400 --> 00:48:28.560 I was really early social media days. 865 00:48:28.560 --> 00:48:30.860 Fake Facebook had just began. 866 00:48:30.860 --> 00:48:32.440 So it was like 2008. 867 00:48:34.640 --> 00:48:37.040 And I put out, hey, does anyone need prayer? 868 00:48:37.040 --> 00:48:38.640 Does anyone want encouraging words? 869 00:48:38.640 --> 00:48:40.920 Does anyone want a prophetic word? 870 00:48:40.920 --> 00:48:42.660 I was like, ooh, here we go. 871 00:48:44.000 --> 00:48:46.440 And this evangelist, you guys, an evangelist, 872 00:48:46.440 --> 00:48:47.740 someone that I really looked up to 873 00:48:47.740 --> 00:48:49.360 that used to travel through my church 874 00:48:49.360 --> 00:48:50.880 when I was a young believer, 875 00:48:50.880 --> 00:48:53.240 him and his wife and his kids used to come through. 876 00:48:53.240 --> 00:48:54.480 He's a traveling evangelist. 877 00:48:54.480 --> 00:48:55.560 He used to preach at my church. 878 00:48:55.560 --> 00:48:56.880 He was very anointed. 879 00:48:59.720 --> 00:49:03.320 Really funny guy, just a couple of years older than me 880 00:49:03.320 --> 00:49:04.800 at the time that he was traveling through. 881 00:49:04.800 --> 00:49:06.080 So I was in my mid twenties 882 00:49:06.080 --> 00:49:08.440 and he was in his probably mid to late twenties. 883 00:49:09.360 --> 00:49:13.400 He private messaged me for a prophetic word. 884 00:49:13.400 --> 00:49:15.040 Now I see this person as definitely 885 00:49:15.040 --> 00:49:17.960 spiritually superior to me in a lot of ways, right? 886 00:49:17.960 --> 00:49:19.480 And he wants a prophetic word. 887 00:49:19.480 --> 00:49:22.160 And what I know of him is that, you know, 888 00:49:22.160 --> 00:49:26.080 he's an evangelist, he's in full-time ministry, 889 00:49:26.080 --> 00:49:28.840 traveling, like traveling ministry with him and his family. 890 00:49:28.840 --> 00:49:30.800 They've sacrificed almost like missionaries 891 00:49:30.800 --> 00:49:33.640 or missionaries, right? 892 00:49:33.640 --> 00:49:35.920 And very, very, very spiritual 893 00:49:35.920 --> 00:49:38.240 and almost religious people, okay? 894 00:49:39.240 --> 00:49:41.440 That's what my human mind knows about him. 895 00:49:41.440 --> 00:49:44.480 But you know what the Holy Spirit told me about him? 896 00:49:44.880 --> 00:49:49.040 The Holy Spirit said, you tell him that in a few years, 897 00:49:49.040 --> 00:49:52.200 he is going to go to New York City 898 00:49:52.200 --> 00:49:54.400 and he is going to be on Broadway. 899 00:49:54.400 --> 00:49:55.840 What? 900 00:49:55.840 --> 00:49:57.520 He is going to move to New York City. 901 00:49:57.520 --> 00:49:59.760 He's gonna be on Broadway. 902 00:49:59.760 --> 00:50:01.760 And he is going to be on Broadway. 903 00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:05.000 He is going to be, you know, impactful on Broadway, 904 00:50:06.480 --> 00:50:09.400 and he is going to influence the LBGTQ community. 905 00:50:09.400 --> 00:50:11.840 In fact, he's gonna do a reprisal of the play 906 00:50:11.840 --> 00:50:14.720 La Cagne Folle, which was a famous gay play. 907 00:50:14.720 --> 00:50:16.120 And I couldn't know any of this stuff. 908 00:50:16.120 --> 00:50:17.440 I had to Google it later. 909 00:50:17.440 --> 00:50:19.280 It was coming from the spirit. 910 00:50:19.280 --> 00:50:21.760 And I was like, oh, this is a crazy word 911 00:50:21.760 --> 00:50:24.200 to give to this little country bumpkin evangelist. 912 00:50:24.200 --> 00:50:26.220 I can't believe I'm even gonna say it. 913 00:50:27.220 --> 00:50:31.100 This dude that comes from Nowheresville, Mississippi, 914 00:50:31.100 --> 00:50:32.840 I'm gonna tell him that he's gonna go 915 00:50:32.840 --> 00:50:36.220 and live in New York City and be on Broadway 916 00:50:36.220 --> 00:50:40.420 and make an impact and impact the LBGTQ community 917 00:50:40.420 --> 00:50:42.140 and all this stuff. 918 00:50:42.140 --> 00:50:44.560 No, but I said it. 919 00:50:46.380 --> 00:50:49.300 And then I was like, hey, I know this is a weird word, 920 00:50:50.260 --> 00:50:52.100 but here you go. 921 00:50:52.100 --> 00:50:55.800 And he was just like, oh, thanks. 922 00:50:56.500 --> 00:50:58.460 Because when I'm telling you it's out of left field, 923 00:50:58.460 --> 00:50:59.660 it's out of left field. 924 00:51:00.540 --> 00:51:01.700 It's out of left field. 925 00:51:02.740 --> 00:51:04.500 It's just kind of the risks that you have to take 926 00:51:04.500 --> 00:51:06.860 when you're gonna operate in the spirit. 927 00:51:06.860 --> 00:51:09.100 And then I was friends with him still on Facebook. 928 00:51:09.100 --> 00:51:13.740 And a few years later, maybe like five years later, 929 00:51:13.740 --> 00:51:17.100 I saw that he was posting about his youngest daughter 930 00:51:17.100 --> 00:51:19.780 who had come out as a lesbian 931 00:51:21.180 --> 00:51:23.260 and who was taking a girl to prom. 932 00:51:24.180 --> 00:51:26.420 And I was like, oh, what's happening here? 933 00:51:27.660 --> 00:51:30.900 And I was praying for them and watching the story unfold. 934 00:51:30.900 --> 00:51:32.940 And then pretty soon I saw that that daughter 935 00:51:32.940 --> 00:51:37.020 was moving to New York City to go to NYU. 936 00:51:37.020 --> 00:51:41.140 And I'm like, oh, oh, what's happening here, Lord? 937 00:51:41.140 --> 00:51:42.540 He's going to New York. 938 00:51:42.540 --> 00:51:45.420 And then two years later, I saw that the whole family 939 00:51:45.420 --> 00:51:47.420 was moving to New York City 940 00:51:47.420 --> 00:51:49.460 so that they could live in New York City 941 00:51:49.460 --> 00:51:51.820 where their daughter was going to NYU. 942 00:51:51.820 --> 00:51:54.860 And I was like, okay, God, here we go. 943 00:51:54.860 --> 00:51:58.300 And then this year I saw that my friend, 944 00:51:58.300 --> 00:52:03.220 this man that I prophesied over was in a Broadway play. 945 00:52:03.220 --> 00:52:06.660 He's in a Broadway play, Jesus. 946 00:52:06.660 --> 00:52:07.980 And then what happened? 947 00:52:07.980 --> 00:52:11.380 He is impacting the LGBTQ community 948 00:52:11.380 --> 00:52:13.380 through his daughter and their friends 949 00:52:13.380 --> 00:52:15.900 and the gatherings of all these actors 950 00:52:15.900 --> 00:52:19.900 and people in New York on Broadway, only God. 951 00:52:22.540 --> 00:52:26.820 Only God could take that little country evangelist 952 00:52:26.820 --> 00:52:29.340 who probably had never even been to New York City 953 00:52:29.340 --> 00:52:30.820 and send him there. 954 00:52:30.820 --> 00:52:34.220 And because he's so talented of a speaker and an orator 955 00:52:34.220 --> 00:52:37.220 and really just such a funny person, 956 00:52:37.220 --> 00:52:40.740 put him enrolled in Broadway play. 957 00:52:41.860 --> 00:52:43.460 No, you can't make this up. 958 00:52:43.460 --> 00:52:45.140 It's impossible to make it up. 959 00:52:45.140 --> 00:52:46.620 And let me tell you something, 960 00:52:46.620 --> 00:52:49.420 that is how Holy Spirit wants to move in your life. 961 00:52:50.420 --> 00:52:52.620 With things that happen that are so profound 962 00:52:52.620 --> 00:52:54.340 that you're like, oh, well, 963 00:52:54.340 --> 00:52:57.100 there's no way that this could have happened, but God. 964 00:52:58.420 --> 00:53:00.860 There's no way that this could happen, but God. 965 00:53:02.300 --> 00:53:05.540 And that's just one example. 966 00:53:06.580 --> 00:53:08.140 And so I'm gonna end with this. 967 00:53:08.140 --> 00:53:10.540 This was what I wanted to tell you all along. 968 00:53:10.540 --> 00:53:12.820 I reached into the bin in my refrigerator 969 00:53:12.820 --> 00:53:15.020 to get out my strawberries for breakfast. 970 00:53:15.020 --> 00:53:18.100 And I pulled out a really weird looking strawberry. 971 00:53:18.180 --> 00:53:19.020 All right. 972 00:53:19.020 --> 00:53:21.220 It was a double strawberry that had kind of grown together 973 00:53:21.220 --> 00:53:22.500 and that was ugly. 974 00:53:22.500 --> 00:53:24.300 I just wanna tell you it was ugly y'all. 975 00:53:24.300 --> 00:53:26.100 And I tried to put it back because I'm like, 976 00:53:26.100 --> 00:53:28.260 oh, that's, I don't wanna eat that. 977 00:53:29.580 --> 00:53:31.980 I wanna eat something that I recognize. 978 00:53:33.620 --> 00:53:35.700 I wanna eat something that I recognize. 979 00:53:37.860 --> 00:53:39.500 My strawberries are organic. 980 00:53:39.500 --> 00:53:40.460 Cause if you don't know this, 981 00:53:40.460 --> 00:53:41.540 they're part of the dirty dozen. 982 00:53:41.540 --> 00:53:43.460 Don't eat non-organic strawberries. 983 00:53:43.460 --> 00:53:47.260 That's just a little side note, but they're organic. 984 00:53:47.260 --> 00:53:49.260 And so God's like, hey, I want you to look that up. 985 00:53:49.260 --> 00:53:50.700 I want you to look into that. 986 00:53:50.700 --> 00:53:54.020 And so I looked it up and organic fruit 987 00:53:54.900 --> 00:53:57.860 oftentimes is smaller than conventional fruit. 988 00:53:57.860 --> 00:53:59.420 It's discolored. 989 00:53:59.420 --> 00:54:02.100 It's different colors than conventional fruit. 990 00:54:02.100 --> 00:54:06.940 And weirdly and oddly shaped when it grows naturally. 991 00:54:08.940 --> 00:54:09.780 Right? 992 00:54:09.780 --> 00:54:10.980 Without human intervention, 993 00:54:10.980 --> 00:54:13.380 when it grows naturally organically, 994 00:54:13.380 --> 00:54:15.900 the good stuff is weird looking. 995 00:54:15.900 --> 00:54:17.020 Say that out loud. 996 00:54:17.780 --> 00:54:19.620 The good stuff is weird looking. 997 00:54:21.780 --> 00:54:22.620 Why? 998 00:54:22.620 --> 00:54:24.060 Because we're used to the counterfeit. 999 00:54:24.060 --> 00:54:25.580 We're used to the counterfeit you guys. 1000 00:54:25.580 --> 00:54:28.300 We're used to piles of fruit in grocery stores 1001 00:54:28.300 --> 00:54:29.860 that don't even look real 1002 00:54:29.860 --> 00:54:32.580 because they've been manufactured by humans. 1003 00:54:32.580 --> 00:54:34.420 They've been waxed. 1004 00:54:34.420 --> 00:54:35.300 All right? 1005 00:54:35.300 --> 00:54:38.060 They've been colors been added. 1006 00:54:38.060 --> 00:54:40.260 They're very poisonous. 1007 00:54:40.260 --> 00:54:43.100 The poison is enticing to us. 1008 00:54:44.580 --> 00:54:46.620 But the good stuff is ugly. 1009 00:54:47.700 --> 00:54:49.460 And I really just wanna release that over you 1010 00:54:49.460 --> 00:54:51.980 because God's blessings often come 1011 00:54:51.980 --> 00:54:54.700 in packages that you're not expecting. 1012 00:54:56.020 --> 00:54:58.460 Even that little double portion strawberry. 1013 00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:02.040 Things you've been praying for in your life, 1014 00:55:02.040 --> 00:55:03.700 they're gonna show up in packages 1015 00:55:03.700 --> 00:55:05.040 that you're not expecting. 1016 00:55:05.040 --> 00:55:06.640 I don't think that I'm saying you're gonna marry 1017 00:55:06.640 --> 00:55:09.080 some weird, ugly, deformed person, all right? 1018 00:55:09.080 --> 00:55:10.840 Because I know that you're thinking that. 1019 00:55:10.840 --> 00:55:12.440 But that's not what I'm saying. 1020 00:55:14.560 --> 00:55:17.700 What I'm saying is, is that it's not gonna look 1021 00:55:17.700 --> 00:55:20.120 like you expect it to look. 1022 00:55:20.120 --> 00:55:21.120 But you know what? 1023 00:55:21.120 --> 00:55:22.900 That strawberry was delicious. 1024 00:55:24.300 --> 00:55:27.080 And so God is inviting us to taste and see. 1025 00:55:27.120 --> 00:55:32.000 You guys, this is not a look model. 1026 00:55:32.000 --> 00:55:33.440 This is a taste model. 1027 00:55:36.800 --> 00:55:38.280 It's not about what you see. 1028 00:55:39.760 --> 00:55:41.800 It's about what you partake of. 1029 00:55:41.800 --> 00:55:44.400 And then the eyes of your heart are opened. 1030 00:55:44.400 --> 00:55:46.580 Taste, and then you'll see. 1031 00:55:48.320 --> 00:55:49.680 Not look and then you'll see. 1032 00:55:49.680 --> 00:55:51.940 Taste, and then you'll see. 1033 00:55:52.920 --> 00:55:54.400 So Father, I pray over myself, 1034 00:55:54.400 --> 00:55:56.200 and I pray over your sons and daughters, 1035 00:55:56.200 --> 00:55:59.080 that we would be open to all of the things 1036 00:55:59.080 --> 00:56:00.520 that you have for us. 1037 00:56:00.520 --> 00:56:03.560 That we would not disregard, 1038 00:56:03.560 --> 00:56:05.800 that we would not close our eyes, 1039 00:56:05.800 --> 00:56:07.080 that we would not miss the things 1040 00:56:07.080 --> 00:56:08.800 that are right in front of us, 1041 00:56:08.800 --> 00:56:10.440 that we would be open-hearted, 1042 00:56:10.440 --> 00:56:12.600 that we would be open-minded, 1043 00:56:12.600 --> 00:56:13.960 that we would be open-spirited, 1044 00:56:13.960 --> 00:56:15.440 that we'd be able to receive 1045 00:56:15.440 --> 00:56:17.880 what you have for us in this time. 1046 00:56:17.880 --> 00:56:19.640 That we won't disregard things. 1047 00:56:20.480 --> 00:56:21.920 We won't turn our nose up at things. 1048 00:56:21.920 --> 00:56:23.000 We won't push things away 1049 00:56:23.000 --> 00:56:24.280 just because they don't look the way 1050 00:56:24.280 --> 00:56:26.560 that we thought they would look. 1051 00:56:26.560 --> 00:56:27.880 Regardless of what it is, 1052 00:56:27.880 --> 00:56:29.100 what kind of open door, 1053 00:56:29.100 --> 00:56:30.740 what kind of opportunity, 1054 00:56:31.640 --> 00:56:35.320 we will take a taste so that we can see 1055 00:56:35.320 --> 00:56:37.640 whether or not this is your goodness, 1056 00:56:37.640 --> 00:56:39.660 whether or not this is your blessing, 1057 00:56:39.660 --> 00:56:41.440 whether or not this is your plan. 1058 00:56:41.440 --> 00:56:44.800 We will take a taste so we can see. 1059 00:56:44.800 --> 00:56:46.640 So Father, we thank you, God, for good things. 1060 00:56:46.640 --> 00:56:48.200 We thank you for supernatural things. 1061 00:56:48.200 --> 00:56:51.440 We are coming into an abundant time here in 2025. 1062 00:56:51.440 --> 00:56:53.720 I can feel that there's a shift today, Lord. 1063 00:56:53.760 --> 00:56:56.440 And so we just declare right now 1064 00:56:56.440 --> 00:56:57.960 that we will shift with you, 1065 00:56:57.960 --> 00:56:59.760 that we're not gonna stay behind, 1066 00:56:59.760 --> 00:57:02.480 that we're gonna go forward in the spirit, 1067 00:57:02.480 --> 00:57:05.120 in Jesus' name, amen. 1068 00:57:05.120 --> 00:57:06.920 All right, y'all, it's been fun today. 1069 00:57:06.920 --> 00:57:08.480 Love you guys, see you soon.