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Welcome to Supernatural Saturday.

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I'm so glad that all of you joined us this morning because I really think the Lord wants

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to redirect us today.

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I just have one little small thought and we're going to see where it goes, but if you're

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new to Supernatural Saturday, this is the day of the week where our community gathers

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and we just look to the Lord together.

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What does God have for us?

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What does God want to say to us?

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I just want to let you guys know that every time that I get quiet and I seek the Lord,

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the Lord has things to say to me.

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And it's not about kneeling by my bedside, although sometimes I do that.

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It's not about turning on some worship music.

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It's not about going out for a walk in nature.

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All of those things are places or all those places are times when I could hear the Lord

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possibly.

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But it's just about an intention of the heart to seek the Lord.

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It really doesn't have anything to do with time or place or activity.

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It has to do with the intention of the heart.

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I want to make sure that I'm really clear about that.

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And so anytime that I really just come away from distraction, I put away whatever it is

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that I'm looking at and that I'm giving my focus to, I'm giving my attention to, and

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I give my attention to the Lord.

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That is when I hear the Lord speaking to me.

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Okay.

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I've been walking with Jesus for 28 years now, and I have enjoyed so many profound,

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profound conversations with God where he has told me things about myself, about others,

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which has obviously turned into prophetic words for other people.

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Let me tell you about one such word because I want you to see how God can shift you in

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ways that you never even imagined you can be shifted.

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And I was just really blessed to be part of this process.

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And it's important that we have the prophetic.

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I know the prophetic, there's a war against the prophetic in the earth right now.

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And the reason why is it's being misused, right?

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A gift is a powerful gift, but it's being misused in the earth.

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And a lot of people are ceasing to even believe in it.

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I know that Gen Z is really struggling to even go to charismatic churches because they

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don't trust the movings of the spirit.

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And you guys, all of this is a plot of the enemy to get us back into the dark ages of

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religion because the law kills without the spirit.

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The spirit is what gives life.

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What does the law do?

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How does it kill?

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Well, first of all, religion can be super dangerous, right?

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It can be very toxic.

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And I'm not even talking about the law, the Logos, the written word of God, I'm talking

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about religion.

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What is religion?

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Religion is what man does with the written word of God, how he manipulates it to manipulate

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people, how he takes it to lord over people and to oppress people instead of it making

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people free.

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Right?

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But the Bible says it's the law that kills, meaning the Logos, the written word, meaning

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the law of Moses, the old covenant, the old Testament, if you will.

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And then it's the spirit that gives life.

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The spirit gives life.

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So when you read your Bible, you can't just read your Bible.

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You have to read your Bible with the help of Holy Spirit.

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I know many people that walk out of churches, not feeling uplifted, not feeling full of

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joy and peace, not feeling full of hope and anticipation, but feeling full of death, feeling

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full of condemnation.

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That's what happens when you have just the word and you have no spirit in it.

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Okay?

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So let's look at what it means by the law kills.

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I didn't have any intention of going here, but Holy Spirit's taking us here, so we're

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going to go.

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So the law kills, what it means is that the only reason that God gave the law to Moses

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in the first place is so that people would understand their need of a Savior.

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That is the purpose of the law.

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I want you to stop and think about that for a second.

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The only purpose for all of these rules is so that you would understand that you can't

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keep the rules.

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And by the way, I know that most Christians have the Ten Rules, the Ten Commandments.

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I mean, obviously a Christian lifestyle and all the other added things that your church

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puts on of, you can wear this, but you can't wear this, and you can go here, but you can't

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go there, all that stuff.

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But the Jews had it really bad.

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I think the Jews right now are up to 626 things that they have to do every day, that they

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have to make sure that they don't not do in order to be righteous.

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And so that's a lot of things, y'all.

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steps. Isn't that interesting how the flesh is like,

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Oh, I know God said only don't do this stuff,

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but let's add another 620 things to that just to make it

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But the purpose of the rules is so that you would understand

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that you can't keep them and that you need a savior.

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You need a champion.

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You need someone to come and rescue you.

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The Bible says that the law was our schoolmaster and that

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when we're children, meaning immature, we need it.

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But that when we become mature, when we become of age,

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when we're ready for our inheritance,

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we no longer need a schoolmaster.

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Now it's time for us to step into what God always had for us,

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which is our identity in the new covenant.

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Isn't that powerful? Isn't that beautiful?

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And a lot of us, including myself,

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I'm always finding little pieces of religion inside my heart,

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but it's difficult for us to live a grace life.

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It's difficult for us to live in the finished work of the

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cross. It's difficult for us to live in the idea.

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That's not about us or our performance,

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but it's about Jesus and his performance on the cross.

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It's difficult for us to understand that we don't need those

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rules to keep us in line any longer.

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When we step into the new covenant,

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what keeps us in line is his love for us and our love for

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him.

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When you don't serve God out of fear,

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but you serve him out of love, trust me,

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it will keep you more in line than fear ever could.

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It's just true.

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So you guys, there's a war on the spirit of God.

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There's a war on the gifts of the spirit.

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Now I'd be the first person to line up and tell you that

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fruit is important,

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especially in the place that you all are at,

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where you are looking for a partner.

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You're about to make the most important decision of your

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life besides following Jesus.

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And that is choosing someone to follow Jesus with in

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partnership is kind of a make you or break you relationship.

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Trust me, it is.

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And I don't say that to,

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to make you afraid or to give you relationship OCD,

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where you never think that the person's perfect enough.

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It's not about them being perfect.

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It's about where is their heart?

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What do they want?

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Are they hungry for more?

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Are they growing?

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Are they trying?

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Are there yellow flags?

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Are there yellow flags turning green

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because of their heart posture?

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Those are the important things.

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So I'll be the first person to line up and tell you that

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fruit of the spirit's important, very important.

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The Bible says that trees should be judged by fruit,

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meaning people's lives.

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We should know people after the fruit of their lives.

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I oftentimes, before I go someplace where I'm going to meet

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new people and you guys can do this on a date,

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you can do this when you go to a singles event,

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or you can go to work,

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go someplace where you're going to meet people that don't

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know you, maybe even people that are not believers in a work

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context or some other kind of context,

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you can pray and say what I say.

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And I say, God,

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let me be known after the spirit and not the flesh.

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I don't want people just to know me after the flesh.

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You know, this 5'10 sturdy girl walking in,

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she's bold, she's confident.

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He sometimes says things he didn't.

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I don't want to be known just after the flesh.

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I want to be known after the spirit.

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I want to be known as I'm really known in heaven.

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I want to be seen as my true self.

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And you pray that.

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And I suggest you do,

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especially when you're meeting someone of the opposite sex

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for a potential relationship,

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not only pray that you'll be known after the spirit,

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not the flesh,

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but that you will know them after the spirit and not the

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flesh, you can see what's really there.

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And we're going to get to that because that's kind of part

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of today's lesson, part of today's message.

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But I want to talk more,

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a little bit more about the prophetic and about just,

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so we're talking about the fruit of the spirit,

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love, joy, peace, patience.

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Yeah, we want those things.

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And those things are important.

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And those things show whether or not there's really truly a

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relationship with Jesus.

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Cause you can't manufacture fruit.

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Can't fake it till you make it.

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You either have it or you don't.

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Now, a lot of people will, you know,

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kind of put on a good front.

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on, good on, good on, put on a good show, but pretty quickly you'll see whether or

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not that's really patience or whether or not they're just, you know, holding

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their crazy back a little bit.

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If the right type of scenario and situation, the right amount of heat gets

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turned up on that person, they're going to boil over, right?

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They're not going to exhibit self-control.

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You're going to see what's really there because remember those, those fruit of

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this, of the spirit, that's supernatural stuff.

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That's not based on circumstances.

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It's not based on it being a sunny, beautiful day.

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Everyone can be in a good mood on a sunny, beautiful day.

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But let's talk about the gifts for a second.

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You know, Paul, who, you know, is one of the most important figures in the New

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Testament, God using him and utilizing him and speaking through him to teach and

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disciple and to raise up, to build, to tear down.

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And so a lot of the words that are written, and I want you to be really aware

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that in the letters that Paul wrote, and there's a funny meme that goes around

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where someone's doing something they shouldn't do and everyone, you know,

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someone posts in the comments, oh, you're getting a letter from Paul.

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This requires a Paul letter.

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And so of course he was sending letters of correction and edification and

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exhortation to these new churches, to these, you know, these budding and

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blossoming Christians, but not everything that he says in those letters is meant for

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you.

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There's a lot we can learn from, but we live in a modern age.

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We don't live in Corinth.

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We don't live in Ephesus.

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We don't live in these places.

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There are some similarities in some ways, but there were also very specific

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situations that Paul was addressing in those letters, like the imbalance between

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male and female leadership because of the worship of goddesses.

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And that's where all this crazy idea that women shouldn't speak in churches came

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from.

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You notice that Paul only mentions it in that letter to that group of people and

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nobody else.

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Never again.

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In fact, in a whole different letter, he says that the foot of the cross is equal,

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that there's no male, there's no female, there's no Jew or Greek or bond or free.

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I'm basically saying to you that you need to not just read your Bible, but you have

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to read your Bible.

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You have to understand the context of what's being said and why it's being said

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and who it's being said to.

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You have to, otherwise you're going to zig when you should zag, right?

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You're going to believe things that are not necessarily pertinent to your current

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life.

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It's important that we understand that.

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But some of the teaching that Paul did in those letters is universal for all of us.

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And that is the gifts and the fruit of the spirit.

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He's saying, Hey, these gifts are really important.

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God's going to use these gifts to mature you.

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Because that's what they're for.

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And that's why the enemy wants to give them a bad rap so that they can get away

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and give them a bad rap so that we'll shy away from them and we won't want to

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partake of them or even ask to be given them ourselves.

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Paul says you should earnestly covet the gifts of the spirit.

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Obviously love trumps all.

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Love's the most important thing.

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We have to do everything in love.

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And he's not talking about the kind of love that you can muster up in your own

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flesh.

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Some of us are more empathetic than others.

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Some of us have softer hearts than others towards other people, you know, in

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empathy, in compassion.

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That's wonderful, but that's not love.

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And that's not what Paul's talking about.

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He's talking about agape love.

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He's talking about the kind of love that can only come from God through you and then

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to others.

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That's the most important thing.

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Love.

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We got to keep the main thing, the main thing.

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And we have to ask and we have to pray and say, God, don't let my heart be hardened

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because I look around.

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The Bible says that in the end days, at the end of the age, the love of many would

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wax cold.

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And that word love once again is not brotherly love.

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It's not filial love.

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It's not Eros love, which is a romantic love.

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It's agape love.

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It's supernatural love.

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It's supernatural love.

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It's the type of love that God has for us.

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God has a type of love for you that cannot fail.

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It's not based on your behavior.

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It's not based on circumstances.

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It's not based on performance.

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It is truly unconditional.

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Say that to yourself.

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God loves me unconditionally.

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There's no conditions.

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There's no strings.

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There's no small print.

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He loves me.

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That's the type of love that's gonna wax cold

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at the end of the age,

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and we see it all around us.

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The people that should love, they're not loving.

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Parents not loving their children.

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Mothers not loving their children.

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I mean, a mother's love is the closest

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you can get to God's love.

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People just walking by their suffering fellow man

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without even a second glance.

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There's no, the love is waxing cold.

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in evil, that's why.

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What's happening?

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People are hardening their hearts.

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Their hearts are getting hard.

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And so it's important for us to pray,

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God, keep my heart soft.

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Let my heart be soft.

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Let my heart be a place where agape love can be.

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Because you guys, I have seen,

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and I'm gonna tell you right now,

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I've seen it, I just saw it a couple days ago.

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I've seen people use the gifts of the spirit,

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which the Bible says are without repentance.

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What does that mean?

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That means God gives it and he doesn't take it away.

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I have seen the gifts used without love.

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And it's not a good sight.

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It's not.

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And it's part of what is giving

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this whole supernatural area of our lives a bad rap.

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People using the gifts for their own purposes

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and for their own notoriety.

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People using the gifts in anger instead of in love.

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Condemning people with words of prophecy

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instead of exhorting them and edifying them,

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encouraging them.

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We see it, it's happening.

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But you guys, we cannot throw the baby out

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with the bathwater.

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We cannot.

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We cannot walk in this world,

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especially in this generation that God has matched us with.

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He matched you with this generation.

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You could have lived during the times

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of Paul's letters in the Bible.

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You could have lived.

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You could have been part of those people,

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but you're not, you're here now.

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And God sent, God, not Paul,

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but God sent the most important letter to the world.

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And it was a love letter.

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And it came in the form of Jesus Christ.

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It came in the form of John 3, 16 and 17.

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Don't forget that 17th verse.

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Let's read it real quick.

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Let's do it.

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Pull it up.

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For God so loved the world,

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this is the 16th verse,

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that he gave his only begotten son,

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that whosoever believeth in him should not perish,

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but have everlasting life.

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That's beautiful.

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And if we stopped right there,

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that would still be beautiful,

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but we have to go to 17.

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For God did not send his son into the world

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to condemn the world,

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but to save the world.

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Come on, y'all.

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Most important love letter.

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That's all you need to know about God right there.

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So he gave his only begotten son

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so that we would not perish.

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Because we couldn't fulfill the law.

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We needed a savior.

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But he didn't send him to point the finger at us

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and condemn us.

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He sent him

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that by through him, we would be saved.

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We would be saved.

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By one man's disobedience,

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sin has entered the earth.

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That's the Adam.

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by one man's obedience,

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we've all become righteous.

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By one man's sin, we all became sinners.

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And by one man's obedience, we all became righteous.

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You guys, Jesus wasn't a robot.

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He didn't have to do what he did.

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He chose to do it.

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He had free will, just like you do.

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He had free will.

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It had to be an act of obedience.

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Sin came in the world because of an act of disobedience.

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And you notice that the disobedience part

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is put on Adam and not Eve.

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so that we think of she's the villain of the story.

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But gentlemen, God puts a lot of precedent

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on your headship.

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It's important that you understand that.

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Eve ate the fruit first, but her eyes were not open.

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She did not see that they were naked.

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Nothing happened, there wasn't a supernatural shift

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until Adam ate the fruit.

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Please pay attention to that

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because you're important.

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Gentlemen, you are important.

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What you do is important.

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How you lead your family is important.

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The covering of the masculine is important.

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And you can't do it on your own,

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you can only do it through Christ.

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That's why Jesus is the head

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and then man is the head of the family.

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You have to have that covering.

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You have to lean into him.

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You can't do it on your own.

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You need him.

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We all need him, but gentlemen, you need him.

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So we see that the greatest love letter

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that was ever written,

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it's written by God to us.

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And then he sent his servants and his messengers

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to tell us how to partake of these things,

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how to be saved.

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How can they be saved if there's no preacher?

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That's what the Bible says.

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The Bible says, how can they hear

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if there's no one to say, no one to tell them?

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So God sends his people individually.

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I'm sure all of you have led someone to the Lord.

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And if you haven't asked God to allow you that privilege

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because it's amazing.

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To lead someone to the greatest gift

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and the greatest love of their life.

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Just so you guys know,

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I know that all of you are single.

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Some of you are dating right now towards marriage.

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That's awesome.

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But you've already met the greatest love of your life.

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And that's Jesus.

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You've already met the greatest love of your life.

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You are not looking for the greatest love of your life.

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You've already met the greatest love of your life.

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Now we just want an extension of that love with skin on it.

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We want a little Jesus with skin on it.

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That's all right.

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Just as long as you don't expect them

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to be perfect like Jesus,

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cause that ain't gonna happen.

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God uses people to show us his love for us.

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We need each other.

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We need people.

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Someone posted and I'm gonna post on my Instagram,

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but someone posted a comment

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and I've been replying to comments on my Instagram.

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If you don't follow me there, follow me there.

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Because you know, me and Holy Spirit together

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are putting out some, I think important content.

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But someone commented and said something like,

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oh Jackie, you poor little ignorant thing.

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Don't you know that what you're talking about

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is the old covenant.

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We're in the new covenant.

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In the new covenant, we're married to Jesus

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and we don't need to be married to each other.

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That's not true.

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Y'all that's just not what the Bible says.

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The old covenant was a covenant that was based on the law.

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Had nothing to do with marriage.

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People were getting married in the old covenant,

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they're getting married in the new covenant.

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Because why?

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Because marriage is part of divine design.

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It came before any covenants.

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It was part of God's original design.

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It is the thing that was lost in the garden.

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One of the things that was lost in the garden

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because of sin.

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And it is the very thing that Jesus has come to restore

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and to reconcile you and your identity to God as his child,

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seated with Christ in heavenly places

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of a kingdom lineage and inheritance.

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Yeah, he came to restore that.

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He also came to restore his family

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that he created on the sixth day of creation.

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Man, woman, eventually children,

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marriage is part of your divine design.

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The old covenant,

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that God made with Abraham, the Old Covenant, the Ten Commandments, all of those things,

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you guys, that was because we were waiting for a Savior.

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We're waiting for Jesus to come and reconcile us. What? Back to what? Back to divine design.

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And what's included in divine design? Marriage and family.

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So don't let anyone use the Bible against you.

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Study the Bible for yourself.

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And understand. And you can't study the Bible for yourself unless you study it with the help

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of the Spirit. Because otherwise, you're going to get super confused there. There's a whole

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lot of stuff there that seems very contradictory of its own self. You have to read the Bible

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through the eyes of the Spirit. Very important that you do that. So let's go on to the gifts.

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So Paul said, hey, you should want these. You should ask for these.

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He said, and the one, the specific one that you want more than all of them is to prophesy.

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What is that? To exhort, to encourage, and to edify yourself and others in the Spirit.

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And it has been my great privilege to be a prophetic person. To be a person that,

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you know, God speaks through, and edifies others, and encourages others, and exhorts others. You

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want to know how Supernatural Saturday happens? I'm just walking around my kitchen, and I'm not

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thinking. I'm just letting the Spirit speak through me. It's a form of the prophetic. It's

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a form of words of knowledge, and words of revelation. It's a revelation gift.

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This is how God uses the gifts of the Spirit to edify you and others. And it looks different on

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everyone. But we need to ask God for these gifts. That's what Paul said. He said, ask God.

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He said, covet earnestly.

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Desire greatly to have these gifts.

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And I know they're getting a bad rap of the earth, but you know what?

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They're not going to get a good rap until good people use them.

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People who lay their hearts open before the Lord, and allow him to remove all the crap.

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All the stuff that's junking up the works. All the stuff that's not making it a pure flow

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All the stuff that's not making it a pure flow of the Spirit anymore.

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All the selfish ambition. All the religion. All the ucky stuff.

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Like David said in Psalm 51,

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Create in me a clean heart, O Lord, and renew a right spirit in me. A righteous spirit in me.

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Purge me with hyssop. Wash me, and I will be clean. When we have the Spirit moving through

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our lives, we have to constantly come to the Lord and say, hey, check me before I wreck me.

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I want this to be a clear, sweet fountain.

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The Bible says that bitter water and sweet water cannot flow from the same place.

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00:28:35.680 --> 00:28:39.520
It says that you cannot praise God. You cannot love God and hate your brother.

506
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.

507
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

508
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.

509
00:29:03.920 --> 00:29:06.800
You're going to hate one and love the other. You can't have two masters.

510
00:29:08.800 --> 00:29:15.520
You can't. And we talked about this on a previous Supernatural Saturday. That means every day,

511
00:29:16.080 --> 00:29:22.240
not once a week, not once a month, not on Sundays. Every day, we have to get up and we have to

512
00:29:22.240 --> 00:29:29.200
realign ourselves to heaven. God, I belong to you. I'm your child. Jesus, you are my Savior. You are

513
00:29:29.200 --> 00:29:34.640
my Lord, but you are also my master. And now I pray that Holy Spirit would lead me today. I want

514
00:29:34.640 --> 00:29:41.200
to walk after the Spirit and not the flesh. Guys, these are simple prayers, but they're taken very

515
00:29:41.200 --> 00:29:48.480
seriously by heaven. And then sometimes you're led to do some crazy stuff. It's like, all right,

516
00:29:51.360 --> 00:29:57.600
I'm in. By the way, this entire time I'm walking around my kitchen,

517
00:29:57.600 --> 00:29:59.840
which is usually why I have the camera off.

518
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.

519
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.

520
00:30:11.120 --> 00:30:13.760
I'm just looking right at her. Like I'm talking right to Juanita today

521
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

522
00:30:23.280 --> 00:30:30.800
and Pam and Cheryl and Juanita this morning and Lolita. And so praise the Lord.

523
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,

524
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.

525
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.

526
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

527
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.

528
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.

529
00:31:02.800 --> 00:31:06.400
A lot of people get really confused about speaking in tongues because they're trying

530
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,

531
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.

532
00:31:17.040 --> 00:31:23.920
Says whoever can tame their tongue can rule their life. Right? And so it's you

533
00:31:24.480 --> 00:31:29.200
surrendering that unruly member to the spirit and allowing the spirit to pray through you,

534
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.

535
00:31:36.160 --> 00:31:40.800
Exhort through you in languages that make no sense to your human mind.

536
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,

537
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,

538
00:31:54.320 --> 00:32:01.680
that I have no conscious understanding of, right? And some languages that are not even

539
00:32:01.680 --> 00:32:05.600
earthly languages. They're not even languages that people speak on earth. They're heavenly

540
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,

541
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

542
00:32:18.000 --> 00:32:22.160
first started happening. And then this peace and this love and this joy washed over me.

543
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.

544
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,

545
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

546
00:32:40.560 --> 00:32:45.040
praising the Lord. And it was an incredible experience that no one can ever take away

547
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

548
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,

549
00:32:55.600 --> 00:33:02.320
I'm like, God is real. He is really, really real. The spirit is real.

550
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.

551
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

552
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

553
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,

554
00:33:23.840 --> 00:33:29.440
but she also leads their school. She usually leads Sunday nights here for us, Sarah.

555
00:33:29.440 --> 00:33:33.200
And I saw her there and she leads their school of ministry. And I said, Hey,

556
00:33:33.920 --> 00:33:38.240
she operates prolifically in healing. And I said, my wrist, I said, I need you to pray for it. She

557
00:33:38.240 --> 00:33:46.160
prayed for it. And my wrist was healed. You guys got heals. And you know what? I went out to the

558
00:33:46.160 --> 00:33:51.440
car. My mind was trying to really just war against the idea of my wrist, just being better. Cause it

559
00:33:51.440 --> 00:33:56.720
was really jacked up. I couldn't even pick anything up with that hand. I had twisted it

560
00:33:56.720 --> 00:34:00.720
the wrong way. And I was worried that I was going to have to actually go to the doctor and get an

561
00:34:00.720 --> 00:34:07.760
x-ray because that's how bad it was hurting. And my mind wanted to war against the idea that it

562
00:34:07.760 --> 00:34:13.199
would just be all better now. Right? Like, Oh yeah, that's great. That sounds good. But you

563
00:34:13.199 --> 00:34:17.760
know, what if the pain comes back kind of idea? And I said, no, God, I believe that you're a

564
00:34:17.760 --> 00:34:25.360
healer. I just had to keep saying it over and over again. Why? Because I had to agree with the

565
00:34:25.360 --> 00:34:31.440
spirit. You guys were in a war. Go listen to old supernatural Saturdays where I talk about the

566
00:34:31.440 --> 00:34:35.520
spiritual war that we're in. I can't talk about it every supernatural Saturday, but I want to

567
00:34:35.520 --> 00:34:44.320
remind you that we are in a war, a war between good and evil, a war between the flesh and the

568
00:34:44.320 --> 00:34:52.560
spirit. And guess what? God is the victor that aside with the right team, you guys with the

569
00:34:52.560 --> 00:34:59.680
winning team. When you go into a dark room and you turn on a light, there's no scuffle.

570
00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:01.720
There's no scuffle.

571
00:35:01.720 --> 00:35:03.880
The darkness flees and the light comes.

572
00:35:03.880 --> 00:35:06.100
There's no contest.

573
00:35:10.680 --> 00:35:11.900
All right, look at all these, you guys.

574
00:35:11.900 --> 00:35:13.100
Look at all these things

575
00:35:13.100 --> 00:35:15.360
that you want to receive from the Lord.

576
00:35:16.320 --> 00:35:18.160
So Father, I first and foremost pray

577
00:35:18.160 --> 00:35:19.520
over your sons and daughters

578
00:35:19.520 --> 00:35:22.580
that they would receive encounters with you

579
00:35:22.580 --> 00:35:25.000
that nothing can ever explain away.

580
00:35:26.040 --> 00:35:28.240
Nothing can ever explain it away.

581
00:35:28.440 --> 00:35:30.200
It's supernatural.

582
00:35:30.200 --> 00:35:32.500
It marks them forever, Lord.

583
00:35:32.500 --> 00:35:36.040
They are marked forever by these moments with you

584
00:35:36.040 --> 00:35:38.860
where they know that they were visited by you,

585
00:35:38.860 --> 00:35:41.600
where they know that whatever happened

586
00:35:41.600 --> 00:35:44.280
in that moment was supernatural.

587
00:35:46.720 --> 00:35:47.900
I thank you, God.

588
00:35:49.000 --> 00:35:53.040
Thank you for these encounters and moments.

589
00:35:53.040 --> 00:35:58.040
And now all of these gifts that your sons and daughters

590
00:36:00.760 --> 00:36:02.720
are asking for, all these gifts,

591
00:36:03.560 --> 00:36:04.860
we ask that you would just pour it out.

592
00:36:04.860 --> 00:36:07.200
Your word says that it is your pleasure

593
00:36:07.200 --> 00:36:11.800
to give good gifts unto your children

594
00:36:14.800 --> 00:36:19.040
and so much more the Holy Spirit to those that ask.

595
00:36:19.040 --> 00:36:21.240
That is what your word says.

596
00:36:23.680 --> 00:36:26.400
And so we thank you for Holy Spirit.

597
00:36:28.520 --> 00:36:30.960
Holy Spirit, we are thankful that you dwell with us

598
00:36:30.960 --> 00:36:31.940
and in us.

599
00:36:34.360 --> 00:36:39.360
And along with you, you bring your gifts and your fruit.

600
00:36:39.720 --> 00:36:42.680
Help us to nurture this connection

601
00:36:42.680 --> 00:36:44.720
and relationship with you.

602
00:36:44.720 --> 00:36:46.200
Look at all these things.

603
00:36:46.200 --> 00:36:48.360
All right, so let's tell a fun story.

604
00:36:48.360 --> 00:36:50.420
Guys, this wasn't anywhere where we were going

605
00:36:50.420 --> 00:36:52.480
with Supernatural Saturday today,

606
00:36:52.840 --> 00:36:55.520
but it's beautiful and amazing and I love it.

607
00:36:55.520 --> 00:36:58.160
Okay, so when I was practicing the prophetic,

608
00:36:58.160 --> 00:36:59.680
because you guys, it's something that,

609
00:36:59.680 --> 00:37:02.280
you know, once you learn how to do it,

610
00:37:02.280 --> 00:37:03.560
that's a bad way to put it.

611
00:37:03.560 --> 00:37:07.120
Once it comes, right, you have to learn

612
00:37:07.120 --> 00:37:09.600
how to operate in it.

613
00:37:09.600 --> 00:37:10.520
Is that better?

614
00:37:10.520 --> 00:37:12.680
Okay, so once it comes, you have to learn

615
00:37:12.680 --> 00:37:14.560
how to operate in it.

616
00:37:14.560 --> 00:37:18.840
Meaning how to just surrender to it, basically.

617
00:37:18.840 --> 00:37:19.680
It's difficult.

618
00:37:19.680 --> 00:37:21.560
You guys, we're a lot more stubborn than we think.

619
00:37:21.560 --> 00:37:23.920
We're a lot more in control than we think we are.

620
00:37:23.920 --> 00:37:25.680
And we wanna be in control.

621
00:37:25.680 --> 00:37:28.480
And operating in these gifts of the spirit,

622
00:37:28.480 --> 00:37:30.400
a lot of times it goes directly against

623
00:37:30.400 --> 00:37:32.160
your human reasoning.

624
00:37:32.160 --> 00:37:33.640
It does.

625
00:37:33.640 --> 00:37:35.880
Makes you feel foolish when, you know,

626
00:37:35.880 --> 00:37:38.240
someone's like, oh, my back hurts.

627
00:37:38.240 --> 00:37:40.280
You're like, can I pray for it to be healed?

628
00:37:40.280 --> 00:37:43.020
Okay, you know, it makes you feel weird.

629
00:37:44.140 --> 00:37:45.760
But you have to remember, it's not you.

630
00:37:45.760 --> 00:37:47.600
You cannot heal people.

631
00:37:48.440 --> 00:37:49.560
I'm sorry to break that news to you,

632
00:37:49.560 --> 00:37:51.120
but you cannot heal people.

633
00:37:52.400 --> 00:37:53.320
You can't.

634
00:37:53.320 --> 00:37:56.320
And so all the pressure is off of you.

635
00:37:56.320 --> 00:38:00.040
God's either gonna do it through you or he's not, right?

636
00:38:00.040 --> 00:38:02.520
And you believe he is, because you believe

637
00:38:02.520 --> 00:38:07.120
that he's given you the power to heal.

638
00:38:08.080 --> 00:38:11.480
He's given you a channel from heaven

639
00:38:11.480 --> 00:38:15.840
in the spirit for healing virtue to flow through.

640
00:38:15.840 --> 00:38:19.120
Remember, on earth as it is in heaven.

641
00:38:19.120 --> 00:38:20.760
There's no sick people in heaven.

642
00:38:22.480 --> 00:38:24.080
There's no pain in heaven.

643
00:38:25.000 --> 00:38:28.000
People aren't walking around gimpy in heaven.

644
00:38:29.920 --> 00:38:30.760
They're not.

645
00:38:31.840 --> 00:38:33.640
They don't have tumors.

646
00:38:33.640 --> 00:38:35.160
They don't have blindness.

647
00:38:35.160 --> 00:38:38.560
They don't have, that's not what heaven looks like.

648
00:38:40.700 --> 00:38:45.400
So allowing what's in heaven to come through you

649
00:38:45.440 --> 00:38:49.340
into the earth by the power of the Holy Spirit,

650
00:38:50.200 --> 00:38:52.920
by the power of the Spirit of God, right?

651
00:38:52.920 --> 00:38:55.720
And same things with the other gifts.

652
00:38:55.720 --> 00:38:58.240
There's some power gifts, right?

653
00:38:58.240 --> 00:39:00.160
Eudaimus is the word there that's used.

654
00:39:00.160 --> 00:39:01.560
That's like dynamite.

655
00:39:01.560 --> 00:39:03.160
There's some dynamite gifts.

656
00:39:03.160 --> 00:39:06.760
Those are the gifts of prophecy, the gifts of revelation,

657
00:39:06.760 --> 00:39:11.440
the gift of wisdom, right?

658
00:39:11.440 --> 00:39:12.400
These are great.

659
00:39:12.400 --> 00:39:13.360
These are great gifts.

660
00:39:13.360 --> 00:39:15.080
It's not just prophesying about something

661
00:39:15.760 --> 00:39:16.600
that someone's gonna do someday.

662
00:39:16.600 --> 00:39:18.880
I'm gonna tell you a story about that just in a sec,

663
00:39:18.880 --> 00:39:21.640
but also giving people words of knowledge

664
00:39:22.680 --> 00:39:24.160
about their current circumstances,

665
00:39:24.160 --> 00:39:25.280
things that you shouldn't know about

666
00:39:25.280 --> 00:39:26.680
because you don't know them.

667
00:39:27.960 --> 00:39:31.040
And also words of wisdom.

668
00:39:31.040 --> 00:39:32.160
What is that?

669
00:39:32.160 --> 00:39:36.760
That's how to navigate that situation, that strategy.

670
00:39:38.000 --> 00:39:38.920
There's all kinds of things.

671
00:39:38.920 --> 00:39:40.920
There's gifts of healings, you guys.

672
00:39:40.920 --> 00:39:42.640
It's plural in the Bible.

673
00:39:42.640 --> 00:39:45.360
So it's not just one type of healing.

674
00:39:45.360 --> 00:39:47.560
Could be emotional healing, could be mental healing,

675
00:39:47.560 --> 00:39:48.960
could be physical healing.

676
00:39:50.080 --> 00:39:52.120
All different types of healings, right?

677
00:39:55.400 --> 00:39:57.400
Amazing, miracles.

678
00:39:57.400 --> 00:39:58.600
The gift of miracles.

679
00:39:58.600 --> 00:40:00.160
What is a miracle?

680
00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:02.240
A miracle is something that's impossible.

681
00:40:04.400 --> 00:40:06.080
A miracle is something that's impossible.

682
00:40:06.080 --> 00:40:06.920
You're like, what's the difference

683
00:40:06.920 --> 00:40:08.680
between healings and miracles?

684
00:40:08.680 --> 00:40:11.080
Well, you know, we have medicine now.

685
00:40:11.080 --> 00:40:12.720
There are some people that get cured

686
00:40:12.720 --> 00:40:14.480
and get better from modern medicine.

687
00:40:14.480 --> 00:40:17.240
There's some people that get sick from modern medicine.

688
00:40:18.280 --> 00:40:20.560
The bottom line is the miracle is something

689
00:40:20.560 --> 00:40:24.640
that it's like, oh, it defies gravity.

690
00:40:24.640 --> 00:40:26.120
It defies physics.

691
00:40:26.120 --> 00:40:27.480
It defies logic.

692
00:40:27.480 --> 00:40:29.120
It defies all things.

693
00:40:30.560 --> 00:40:33.560
All things that we've been taught are real and true.

694
00:40:33.560 --> 00:40:35.080
It defies those things.

695
00:40:41.080 --> 00:40:42.120
Isn't that amazing?

696
00:40:43.320 --> 00:40:45.560
The gift of tongues, you guys,

697
00:40:45.560 --> 00:40:50.560
that is like your own personal gym in the spirit.

698
00:40:52.080 --> 00:40:54.280
When you have the gift of tongues

699
00:40:54.280 --> 00:40:56.280
and you pray in your prayer language,

700
00:40:56.280 --> 00:40:58.200
which I suggest you do,

701
00:40:58.600 --> 00:41:02.040
which I suggest you do daily if you're not already doing,

702
00:41:02.920 --> 00:41:04.320
you might feel foolish at first

703
00:41:04.320 --> 00:41:05.920
because you don't understand what you're saying.

704
00:41:05.920 --> 00:41:07.000
But the bottom line is,

705
00:41:07.000 --> 00:41:10.280
is that the spirit is talking to the spirit of God.

706
00:41:11.360 --> 00:41:14.240
And it is bypassing you because you're in the way.

707
00:41:17.160 --> 00:41:19.360
You're in the way, okay?

708
00:41:20.800 --> 00:41:23.520
Your human intellect, your need for control,

709
00:41:23.520 --> 00:41:26.560
all the things, that's in the way.

710
00:41:26.600 --> 00:41:28.760
And so you're interceding for yourself.

711
00:41:28.760 --> 00:41:31.000
You are, and you're interceding for others.

712
00:41:32.400 --> 00:41:37.080
Past the pay grade of your human reasoning.

713
00:41:37.080 --> 00:41:38.080
Write that down.

714
00:41:41.640 --> 00:41:44.640
Now, a lot of people have gotten really weird

715
00:41:44.640 --> 00:41:46.880
about the whole tongues gift corporately,

716
00:41:46.880 --> 00:41:49.520
like in churches and people just speaking in tongues

717
00:41:49.520 --> 00:41:52.200
and people get confused and people get scared.

718
00:41:53.200 --> 00:41:57.960
And Paul says that if you do speak in tongues publicly,

719
00:41:57.960 --> 00:42:00.840
there should be someone to interpret.

720
00:42:00.840 --> 00:42:02.960
And that's a whole different gift of the spirit,

721
00:42:02.960 --> 00:42:04.280
tongues and interpretations.

722
00:42:04.280 --> 00:42:07.200
You guys, I've been using that gift many times

723
00:42:07.200 --> 00:42:10.080
to either give the tongue or give the interpretation.

724
00:42:11.360 --> 00:42:13.840
Those things happen in corporate gatherings

725
00:42:13.840 --> 00:42:17.400
where there a lot of times are foreign speaking people,

726
00:42:17.560 --> 00:42:20.480
atheist people that, it's kind of a miracle.

727
00:42:20.480 --> 00:42:22.840
Like it's like a show of the spirit.

728
00:42:22.840 --> 00:42:24.360
You never know when it's gonna happen.

729
00:42:24.360 --> 00:42:26.760
And most times where I've been involved,

730
00:42:26.760 --> 00:42:29.840
I've been like, oh no, here we go.

731
00:42:29.840 --> 00:42:31.440
I don't know what people are gonna think of this

732
00:42:31.440 --> 00:42:32.960
because a lot of times it's been in a place

733
00:42:32.960 --> 00:42:37.400
where people are really not that open to the spirit of God.

734
00:42:37.400 --> 00:42:39.400
And that's what that gift is for.

735
00:42:39.400 --> 00:42:43.080
It's to oppose people's unbelief.

736
00:42:44.240 --> 00:42:45.240
Do you see what I'm saying?

737
00:42:45.360 --> 00:42:49.000
Now at your church, if you wanna,

738
00:42:49.000 --> 00:42:50.960
if you're praying kind of under your breath

739
00:42:50.960 --> 00:42:53.120
in the spirit and stuff, okay, cool.

740
00:42:53.120 --> 00:42:55.840
But when everyone's just kind of chaotically praying

741
00:42:55.840 --> 00:42:59.120
really loud in tongues, if there's a visitor there,

742
00:42:59.120 --> 00:43:00.040
they're probably gonna be like,

743
00:43:00.040 --> 00:43:01.720
you guys are weird, I'm leaving.

744
00:43:05.360 --> 00:43:07.400
But have you noticed that a lot of churches,

745
00:43:07.400 --> 00:43:10.800
they're more towards like just kind of Christian light

746
00:43:10.800 --> 00:43:13.240
and a lot of people are more towards like,

747
00:43:13.400 --> 00:43:15.280
just kind of Christian light.

748
00:43:15.280 --> 00:43:17.360
Yeah, I call it flashlight shows

749
00:43:17.360 --> 00:43:22.040
instead of like evangelistic models, a lot of churches.

750
00:43:22.040 --> 00:43:24.240
And then we have the evangelistic models

751
00:43:24.240 --> 00:43:27.120
and then the people that are more seriously mature Christians

752
00:43:27.120 --> 00:43:30.320
call those seeker friendly churches and they put them down.

753
00:43:30.320 --> 00:43:32.520
Guys, let's live and let live, can we?

754
00:43:34.120 --> 00:43:35.920
Can we just let people do what it is

755
00:43:35.920 --> 00:43:37.960
that they feel God is leading them to do?

756
00:43:39.480 --> 00:43:41.880
As far as pastoring a church or building a church

757
00:43:41.920 --> 00:43:44.800
or starting some sort of ministry

758
00:43:44.800 --> 00:43:47.440
for a specific people group,

759
00:43:47.440 --> 00:43:49.680
people do need to be discipled.

760
00:43:49.680 --> 00:43:52.440
We do need to have unbelievers come into places

761
00:43:52.440 --> 00:43:55.480
where they can be discipled and they can learn about Jesus.

762
00:43:55.480 --> 00:44:00.480
It can't all be about the deep things of the spirit.

763
00:44:00.560 --> 00:44:02.600
It can't always be about that.

764
00:44:02.600 --> 00:44:04.360
Not everyone's at that level.

765
00:44:05.840 --> 00:44:07.520
And the reason why I call them flashlight shows

766
00:44:07.520 --> 00:44:09.320
is those churches where everyone's just kind of

767
00:44:09.320 --> 00:44:11.520
showing off their gifts, like shining their light

768
00:44:12.160 --> 00:44:13.120
in a room full of light.

769
00:44:13.120 --> 00:44:15.600
Well, the light belongs in the darkness.

770
00:44:16.760 --> 00:44:20.240
If you wanna get together with other flashlights on Sunday

771
00:44:20.240 --> 00:44:22.960
so that you can like get stronger with your light

772
00:44:22.960 --> 00:44:25.280
and then go out in the dark world, then great.

773
00:44:25.280 --> 00:44:28.200
Once again, I'm very much a live and let live person.

774
00:44:29.040 --> 00:44:31.800
Just be where you're being fed, where you're growing.

775
00:44:31.800 --> 00:44:34.600
If you gather with other believers, you should be growing.

776
00:44:34.600 --> 00:44:37.240
You should be being edified and encouraged.

777
00:44:37.280 --> 00:44:41.840
You should leave that place desiring

778
00:44:41.840 --> 00:44:44.040
to shine your light in the darkness.

779
00:44:44.040 --> 00:44:46.120
You should leave that place with strategy

780
00:44:46.120 --> 00:44:48.080
on what that looks like for your life.

781
00:44:49.440 --> 00:44:52.080
That is the type of corporate gathering

782
00:44:52.080 --> 00:44:53.600
that you should be part of.

783
00:44:53.600 --> 00:44:55.120
All right, so let me tell you a story

784
00:44:55.120 --> 00:44:57.520
when I first started practicing the prophetic.

785
00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:03.760
I went to, I went to like a week-long school.

786
00:45:03.760 --> 00:45:06.640
I've always been very intuitive and very prophetic.

787
00:45:06.640 --> 00:45:09.880
I told you how I received the baptism of the Holy Spirit,

788
00:45:09.880 --> 00:45:13.240
you know, speaking in tongues, interpreting my own tongue.

789
00:45:13.240 --> 00:45:15.480
You know, I've always been someone

790
00:45:15.480 --> 00:45:20.000
that had kind of a high spiritual IQ, so to speak, right?

791
00:45:20.000 --> 00:45:25.000
Just really open to God utilizing me in this way.

792
00:45:25.720 --> 00:45:26.800
Me in this way.

793
00:45:27.880 --> 00:45:30.440
And so I started giving words of knowledge and wisdom

794
00:45:30.440 --> 00:45:33.780
really, really young into my discipleship,

795
00:45:34.640 --> 00:45:36.520
even being more gifted in the Spirit

796
00:45:36.520 --> 00:45:38.180
than even the leaders in my life,

797
00:45:38.180 --> 00:45:39.020
to the point where they're like,

798
00:45:39.020 --> 00:45:41.520
hey, you know, we don't know how to disciple you in this

799
00:45:41.520 --> 00:45:43.160
because none of us have those gifts.

800
00:45:43.160 --> 00:45:44.800
None of the, and none of us have these gifts

801
00:45:44.800 --> 00:45:47.140
that you're displaying, only you have them,

802
00:45:47.140 --> 00:45:49.160
like in this church, right?

803
00:45:49.160 --> 00:45:51.240
And I'm just a, you know, I'm just a little girl.

804
00:45:51.280 --> 00:45:55.000
I'm only 22 years old, 23 years old, 24 years old.

805
00:45:55.000 --> 00:45:56.480
And so I didn't have anyone to disciple me

806
00:45:56.480 --> 00:46:00.160
until much later, you guys, much later.

807
00:46:00.160 --> 00:46:02.160
In fact, the pastors and leaders that discipled me,

808
00:46:02.160 --> 00:46:04.680
they said, we don't understand these gifts.

809
00:46:04.680 --> 00:46:05.520
We know they're real.

810
00:46:05.520 --> 00:46:08.800
We can see, we can very much see that they're authentic,

811
00:46:08.800 --> 00:46:10.960
you know, because of the things that were happening,

812
00:46:10.960 --> 00:46:13.400
but we're gonna ask you not to use them

813
00:46:13.400 --> 00:46:15.840
until you can find someone to disciple you in them.

814
00:46:15.840 --> 00:46:18.040
Guys, that was hard.

815
00:46:18.040 --> 00:46:19.000
And a lot of people would say,

816
00:46:19.000 --> 00:46:20.840
oh, well, they're squelching the Spirit in you

817
00:46:21.440 --> 00:46:22.280
and you shouldn't have listened to them.

818
00:46:22.280 --> 00:46:23.100
No, you know what?

819
00:46:23.100 --> 00:46:25.440
The most important thing that I have learned

820
00:46:25.440 --> 00:46:30.440
through my discipleship was not how to operate in the Spirit,

821
00:46:30.720 --> 00:46:32.240
it was how to be obedient.

822
00:46:35.480 --> 00:46:38.000
Just so you know, obedience doesn't happen when you agree.

823
00:46:38.000 --> 00:46:40.660
Obedience can only happen when you disagree.

824
00:46:42.080 --> 00:46:44.200
It's easy to do something that someone tells you to do

825
00:46:44.200 --> 00:46:45.840
if you're on the same page.

826
00:46:46.800 --> 00:46:49.640
It's easy to say yes when that's what you want,

827
00:46:49.640 --> 00:46:51.760
but when it's not what you want,

828
00:46:51.760 --> 00:46:53.640
then you have to submit to authority.

829
00:46:53.640 --> 00:46:57.320
And so submitting to authority was the most important thing

830
00:46:57.320 --> 00:46:59.120
that God taught me in those years,

831
00:46:59.120 --> 00:47:01.020
and I know that he did it on purpose.

832
00:47:03.480 --> 00:47:04.840
He did it on purpose.

833
00:47:05.760 --> 00:47:06.760
I had these gifts.

834
00:47:06.760 --> 00:47:08.740
I knew that I had them.

835
00:47:08.740 --> 00:47:10.340
I could use them prolifically.

836
00:47:10.340 --> 00:47:13.100
I was asked not to until I got teaching

837
00:47:13.100 --> 00:47:14.540
and discipleship on them.

838
00:47:15.400 --> 00:47:16.920
And who knew when that was gonna happen

839
00:47:16.920 --> 00:47:19.180
because I hadn't met that person yet.

840
00:47:19.180 --> 00:47:21.140
And I was obedient to that.

841
00:47:23.740 --> 00:47:25.300
And guess what?

842
00:47:25.300 --> 00:47:27.420
I didn't lose any momentum

843
00:47:28.300 --> 00:47:32.600
because fast forward probably about eight years,

844
00:47:34.520 --> 00:47:39.520
I went to a school that taught me how to steward these gifts

845
00:47:41.420 --> 00:47:42.960
and do you know what?

846
00:47:44.340 --> 00:47:47.940
I exploded in those gifts as if no time had passed.

847
00:47:49.500 --> 00:47:51.060
Right?

848
00:47:51.060 --> 00:47:56.060
But now also with the gift of maturity

849
00:47:56.300 --> 00:47:59.220
that came from submission to authority and obedience.

850
00:47:59.220 --> 00:48:02.100
All right, come on God, let's go.

851
00:48:04.820 --> 00:48:05.660
What was I now?

852
00:48:05.660 --> 00:48:09.200
I was a kite with a string instead of just a kite.

853
00:48:09.200 --> 00:48:10.660
You ever seen a kite without a string?

854
00:48:10.660 --> 00:48:11.500
Not good.

855
00:48:12.900 --> 00:48:15.260
It's all tangled up in the telephone wires.

856
00:48:15.260 --> 00:48:16.940
It's in the tree somewhere.

857
00:48:17.420 --> 00:48:19.740
No, now I was a kite with a string.

858
00:48:19.740 --> 00:48:21.500
So I began to practice this gift

859
00:48:21.500 --> 00:48:22.660
because it had been so long

860
00:48:22.660 --> 00:48:24.460
and I really wanted to get to it.

861
00:48:24.460 --> 00:48:26.420
And so I put out on my social media,

862
00:48:26.420 --> 00:48:28.580
I was really early social media days.

863
00:48:28.580 --> 00:48:30.900
Fake Facebook had just began.

864
00:48:30.900 --> 00:48:32.500
So it was like 2008.

865
00:48:34.660 --> 00:48:37.100
And I put out, hey, does anyone need prayer?

866
00:48:37.100 --> 00:48:38.700
Does anyone want encouraging words?

867
00:48:38.700 --> 00:48:40.980
Anyone want a prophetic word?

868
00:48:40.980 --> 00:48:42.700
I was like, ooh, here we go.

869
00:48:44.060 --> 00:48:46.460
And this evangelist, you guys, an evangelist,

870
00:48:46.460 --> 00:48:47.740
someone that I really looked up to

871
00:48:47.740 --> 00:48:49.340
that used to travel through my church

872
00:48:49.340 --> 00:48:50.860
when I was a young believer,

873
00:48:50.860 --> 00:48:53.220
him and his wife and his kids used to come through.

874
00:48:53.220 --> 00:48:54.460
He's a traveling evangelist.

875
00:48:54.460 --> 00:48:55.540
He used to preach at my church.

876
00:48:55.540 --> 00:48:56.860
He was very anointed.

877
00:48:59.700 --> 00:49:03.320
Really funny guy, just a couple of years older than me

878
00:49:03.320 --> 00:49:04.780
at the time that he was traveling through.

879
00:49:04.780 --> 00:49:06.060
So I was in my mid twenties

880
00:49:06.060 --> 00:49:08.460
and he was in his probably mid to late twenties.

881
00:49:09.340 --> 00:49:13.380
He private messaged me for a prophetic word.

882
00:49:13.380 --> 00:49:14.340
Now I see this person

883
00:49:14.340 --> 00:49:16.500
as definitely spiritually superior to me

884
00:49:16.500 --> 00:49:17.980
in a lot of ways, right?

885
00:49:17.980 --> 00:49:19.460
And he wants a prophetic word.

886
00:49:19.460 --> 00:49:22.140
And what I know of him is that, you know,

887
00:49:22.140 --> 00:49:23.540
he's an evangelist.

888
00:49:23.540 --> 00:49:26.100
He's in full-time ministry,

889
00:49:26.100 --> 00:49:27.900
traveling, like traveling ministry

890
00:49:27.900 --> 00:49:28.860
with him and his family.

891
00:49:28.860 --> 00:49:30.820
They've sacrificed almost like missionaries

892
00:49:30.820 --> 00:49:33.660
or missionaries, right?

893
00:49:33.660 --> 00:49:35.940
And very, very, very spiritual

894
00:49:35.940 --> 00:49:38.240
and almost religious people, okay?

895
00:49:39.260 --> 00:49:41.460
That's what my human mind knows about him.

896
00:49:41.460 --> 00:49:43.980
But you know what the Holy Spirit told me about him?

897
00:49:44.980 --> 00:49:45.820
The Holy Spirit said,

898
00:49:45.820 --> 00:49:49.020
you tell him that in a few years,

899
00:49:49.020 --> 00:49:52.180
he is going to go to New York City

900
00:49:52.180 --> 00:49:54.380
and he is going to be on Broadway.

901
00:49:54.380 --> 00:49:55.860
What?

902
00:49:55.860 --> 00:49:57.540
He is going to move to New York City.

903
00:49:57.540 --> 00:49:59.780
He's going to be on Broadway.

904
00:49:59.780 --> 00:50:01.580
And he is going to be on Broadway.

905
00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:05.000
He is going to be, you know, impactful on Broadway,

906
00:50:06.480 --> 00:50:09.400
and he is going to influence the LBGTQ community.

907
00:50:09.400 --> 00:50:11.840
In fact, he's gonna do a reprisal of the play

908
00:50:11.840 --> 00:50:14.720
La Cagne Folle, which was a famous gay play.

909
00:50:14.720 --> 00:50:16.120
And I couldn't know any of this stuff.

910
00:50:16.120 --> 00:50:17.440
I had to Google it later.

911
00:50:17.440 --> 00:50:19.280
It was coming from the spirit.

912
00:50:19.280 --> 00:50:21.760
And I was like, oh, this is a crazy word

913
00:50:21.760 --> 00:50:24.200
to give to this little country bumpkin evangelist.

914
00:50:24.200 --> 00:50:26.220
I can't believe I'm even gonna say it.

915
00:50:27.220 --> 00:50:31.100
This dude that comes from Nowheresville, Mississippi,

916
00:50:31.100 --> 00:50:32.840
I'm gonna tell him that he's gonna go

917
00:50:32.840 --> 00:50:36.220
and live in New York City and be on Broadway

918
00:50:36.220 --> 00:50:40.420
and make an impact and impact the LBGTQ community

919
00:50:40.420 --> 00:50:42.140
and all this stuff.

920
00:50:42.140 --> 00:50:44.560
No, but I said it.

921
00:50:46.380 --> 00:50:49.300
And then I was like, hey, I know this is a weird word,

922
00:50:50.260 --> 00:50:52.100
but here you go.

923
00:50:52.100 --> 00:50:55.800
And he was just like, oh, thanks.

924
00:50:56.500 --> 00:50:58.460
Because when I'm telling you it's out of left field,

925
00:50:58.460 --> 00:50:59.660
it's out of left field.

926
00:51:00.540 --> 00:51:01.700
It's out of left field.

927
00:51:02.740 --> 00:51:04.500
It's just kind of the risks that you have to take

928
00:51:04.500 --> 00:51:06.860
when you're gonna operate in the spirit.

929
00:51:06.860 --> 00:51:09.100
And then I was friends with him still on Facebook.

930
00:51:09.100 --> 00:51:13.740
And a few years later, maybe like five years later,

931
00:51:13.740 --> 00:51:17.100
I saw that he was posting about his youngest daughter

932
00:51:17.100 --> 00:51:19.780
who had come out as a lesbian

933
00:51:21.180 --> 00:51:23.260
and who was taking a girl to prom.

934
00:51:24.180 --> 00:51:26.420
And I was like, oh, what's happening here?

935
00:51:27.660 --> 00:51:30.900
And I was praying for them and watching the story unfold.

936
00:51:30.900 --> 00:51:32.940
And then pretty soon I saw that that daughter

937
00:51:32.940 --> 00:51:37.020
was moving to New York City to go to NYU.

938
00:51:37.020 --> 00:51:41.140
And I'm like, oh, oh, what's happening here, Lord?

939
00:51:41.140 --> 00:51:42.540
He's going to New York.

940
00:51:42.540 --> 00:51:45.420
And then two years later, I saw that the whole family

941
00:51:45.420 --> 00:51:47.420
was moving to New York City

942
00:51:47.420 --> 00:51:49.460
so that they could live in New York City

943
00:51:49.460 --> 00:51:51.820
where their daughter was going to NYU.

944
00:51:51.820 --> 00:51:54.860
And I was like, okay, God, here we go.

945
00:51:54.860 --> 00:51:58.300
And then this year I saw that my friend,

946
00:51:58.300 --> 00:52:03.220
this man that I prophesied over was in a Broadway play.

947
00:52:03.220 --> 00:52:06.660
He's in a Broadway play, Jesus.

948
00:52:06.660 --> 00:52:07.980
And then what happened?

949
00:52:07.980 --> 00:52:11.380
He is impacting the LGBTQ community

950
00:52:11.380 --> 00:52:13.380
through his daughter and their friends

951
00:52:13.380 --> 00:52:15.900
and the gatherings of all these actors

952
00:52:15.900 --> 00:52:19.900
and people in New York on Broadway, only God.

953
00:52:22.500 --> 00:52:26.820
Only God could take that little country evangelist

954
00:52:26.820 --> 00:52:29.340
who probably had never even been to New York City

955
00:52:29.340 --> 00:52:30.780
and send him there.

956
00:52:30.780 --> 00:52:34.180
And because he's so talented of a speaker and an orator

957
00:52:34.180 --> 00:52:37.180
and really just such a funny person,

958
00:52:37.180 --> 00:52:40.700
put him enrolled in Broadway play.

959
00:52:41.820 --> 00:52:43.420
No, you can't make this up.

960
00:52:43.420 --> 00:52:45.100
It's impossible to make it up.

961
00:52:45.100 --> 00:52:46.580
And let me tell you something,

962
00:52:46.580 --> 00:52:49.380
that is how Holy Spirit wants to move in your life.

963
00:52:50.140 --> 00:52:52.740
With things that happen that are so profound

964
00:52:52.740 --> 00:52:54.460
that you're like, oh, well,

965
00:52:54.460 --> 00:52:57.100
there's no way that this could have happened but God.

966
00:52:58.540 --> 00:53:00.980
There's no way that this could happen but God.

967
00:53:02.420 --> 00:53:05.660
And that's just one example.

968
00:53:06.700 --> 00:53:08.260
And so I'm gonna end with this.

969
00:53:08.260 --> 00:53:10.660
This was what I wanted to tell you all along.

970
00:53:10.660 --> 00:53:12.940
I reached into the bin in my refrigerator

971
00:53:12.940 --> 00:53:15.140
to get out my strawberries for breakfast.

972
00:53:15.140 --> 00:53:18.220
And I pulled out a really weird looking strawberry.

973
00:53:18.940 --> 00:53:21.260
It was a double strawberry that had kind of grown together

974
00:53:21.260 --> 00:53:22.540
and that was ugly.

975
00:53:22.540 --> 00:53:24.340
I just wanna tell you it was ugly y'all.

976
00:53:24.340 --> 00:53:26.140
And I tried to put it back because I'm like,

977
00:53:26.140 --> 00:53:28.300
oh, I don't wanna eat that.

978
00:53:29.620 --> 00:53:32.020
I wanna eat something that I recognize.

979
00:53:33.660 --> 00:53:35.740
I wanna eat something that I recognize.

980
00:53:37.940 --> 00:53:39.540
My strawberries are organic.

981
00:53:39.540 --> 00:53:40.540
Cause if you don't know this,

982
00:53:40.540 --> 00:53:41.580
they're part of the dirty dozen.

983
00:53:41.580 --> 00:53:43.500
Don't eat non-organic strawberries.

984
00:53:43.500 --> 00:53:47.300
That's just a little side note, but they're organic.

985
00:53:47.300 --> 00:53:49.300
And so God's like, hey, I want you to look that up.

986
00:53:49.300 --> 00:53:50.740
I want you to look into that.

987
00:53:50.740 --> 00:53:54.060
And so I looked it up and organic fruit

988
00:53:54.940 --> 00:53:57.900
oftentimes is smaller than conventional fruit.

989
00:53:57.900 --> 00:53:59.460
It's discolored.

990
00:53:59.460 --> 00:54:02.140
It's different colors than conventional fruit

991
00:54:02.140 --> 00:54:06.980
and weirdly and oddly shaped when it grows naturally.

992
00:54:08.980 --> 00:54:09.820
Right?

993
00:54:09.820 --> 00:54:11.020
Without human intervention,

994
00:54:11.020 --> 00:54:13.420
when it grows naturally organically,

995
00:54:13.420 --> 00:54:15.940
the good stuff is weird looking.

996
00:54:15.940 --> 00:54:17.020
Say that out loud.

997
00:54:17.700 --> 00:54:19.620
The good stuff is weird looking.

998
00:54:21.780 --> 00:54:22.620
Why?

999
00:54:22.620 --> 00:54:24.060
Because we're used to the counterfeit.

1000
00:54:24.060 --> 00:54:25.580
We're used to the counterfeit you guys.

1001
00:54:25.580 --> 00:54:28.300
We're used to piles of fruit in grocery stores

1002
00:54:28.300 --> 00:54:29.860
that don't even look real

1003
00:54:29.860 --> 00:54:32.580
because they've been manufactured by humans.

1004
00:54:32.580 --> 00:54:34.420
They've been waxed.

1005
00:54:34.420 --> 00:54:35.300
All right?

1006
00:54:35.300 --> 00:54:38.060
They've been colors been added.

1007
00:54:38.060 --> 00:54:40.260
They're very poisonous.

1008
00:54:40.260 --> 00:54:43.100
The poison is enticing to us.

1009
00:54:44.580 --> 00:54:46.620
But the good stuff is ugly.

1010
00:54:47.740 --> 00:54:49.460
And I really just wanna release that over you

1011
00:54:49.460 --> 00:54:51.980
because God's blessings often come

1012
00:54:51.980 --> 00:54:54.700
in packages that you're not expecting.

1013
00:54:56.020 --> 00:54:58.460
Even that little double portion strawberry.

1014
00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:02.040
Things you've been praying for in your life,

1015
00:55:02.040 --> 00:55:03.700
they're gonna show up in packages

1016
00:55:03.700 --> 00:55:05.040
that you're not expecting.

1017
00:55:05.040 --> 00:55:06.640
I don't think that I'm saying you're gonna marry

1018
00:55:06.640 --> 00:55:09.080
some weird, ugly, deformed person, all right?

1019
00:55:09.080 --> 00:55:10.840
Because I know that you're thinking that.

1020
00:55:10.840 --> 00:55:12.440
But that's not what I'm saying.

1021
00:55:14.560 --> 00:55:17.700
What I'm saying is, is that it's not gonna look

1022
00:55:17.700 --> 00:55:20.120
like you expect it to look.

1023
00:55:20.120 --> 00:55:21.120
But you know what?

1024
00:55:21.120 --> 00:55:22.900
That strawberry was delicious.

1025
00:55:24.300 --> 00:55:27.080
And so God is inviting us to taste and see.

1026
00:55:27.080 --> 00:55:31.960
You guys, this is not a look model.

1027
00:55:31.960 --> 00:55:33.400
This is a taste model.

1028
00:55:36.760 --> 00:55:38.240
It's not about what you see.

1029
00:55:39.720 --> 00:55:41.760
It's about what you partake of.

1030
00:55:41.760 --> 00:55:44.360
And then the eyes of your heart are opened.

1031
00:55:44.360 --> 00:55:46.540
Taste, and then you'll see.

1032
00:55:48.300 --> 00:55:49.640
Not look and then you'll see.

1033
00:55:49.640 --> 00:55:51.900
Taste, and then you'll see.

1034
00:55:52.880 --> 00:55:54.360
So Father, I pray over myself

1035
00:55:54.360 --> 00:55:56.160
and I pray over your sons and daughters

1036
00:55:56.200 --> 00:55:59.080
that we would be open to all of the things

1037
00:55:59.080 --> 00:56:00.520
that you have for us,

1038
00:56:00.520 --> 00:56:03.560
that we would not disregard,

1039
00:56:03.560 --> 00:56:05.800
that we would not close our eyes,

1040
00:56:05.800 --> 00:56:07.080
that we would not miss the things

1041
00:56:07.080 --> 00:56:08.800
that are right in front of us,

1042
00:56:08.800 --> 00:56:10.440
that we would be open-hearted,

1043
00:56:10.440 --> 00:56:12.600
that we would be open-minded,

1044
00:56:12.600 --> 00:56:13.960
that we would be open-spirited,

1045
00:56:13.960 --> 00:56:15.440
that we'd be able to receive

1046
00:56:15.440 --> 00:56:17.880
what you have for us in this time.

1047
00:56:17.880 --> 00:56:19.640
That we won't disregard things.

1048
00:56:20.480 --> 00:56:21.920
We won't turn our nose up at things.

1049
00:56:21.920 --> 00:56:23.000
We won't push things away

1050
00:56:23.000 --> 00:56:24.280
just because they don't look the way

1051
00:56:24.280 --> 00:56:26.560
that we thought they would look.

1052
00:56:26.560 --> 00:56:27.880
Regardless of what it is,

1053
00:56:27.880 --> 00:56:29.100
what kind of open door,

1054
00:56:29.100 --> 00:56:30.740
what kind of opportunity,

1055
00:56:31.640 --> 00:56:33.560
we will take a taste

1056
00:56:33.560 --> 00:56:35.320
so that we can see

1057
00:56:35.320 --> 00:56:37.640
whether or not this is your goodness,

1058
00:56:37.640 --> 00:56:39.660
whether or not this is your blessing,

1059
00:56:39.660 --> 00:56:41.440
whether or not this is your plan.

1060
00:56:41.440 --> 00:56:44.800
We will take a taste so we can see.

1061
00:56:44.800 --> 00:56:46.640
So Father, we thank you, God, for good things.

1062
00:56:46.640 --> 00:56:48.200
We thank you for supernatural things.

1063
00:56:48.200 --> 00:56:51.440
We are coming into an abundant time here in 2025.

1064
00:56:51.440 --> 00:56:53.720
I can feel that there's a shift today, Lord.

1065
00:56:53.760 --> 00:56:56.440
And so we just declare right now

1066
00:56:56.440 --> 00:56:57.960
that we will shift with you,

1067
00:56:57.960 --> 00:56:59.760
that we're not gonna stay behind,

1068
00:56:59.760 --> 00:57:02.480
that we're gonna go forward in the spirit,

1069
00:57:02.480 --> 00:57:05.120
in Jesus' name, amen.

1070
00:57:05.120 --> 00:57:06.920
All right, y'all, it's been fun today.

1071
00:57:06.920 --> 00:57:07.760
Love you guys.

1072
00:57:07.760 --> 00:57:08.600
See you soon.