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Good morning, everyone, and welcome to Supernatural Saturday.

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Happy Sabbath.

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Shabbat Shalom.

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We're going to talk about Sabbath today.

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We're going to talk about resting today.

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I want you to raise your hand if you feel kind of burnout.

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Raise your hand if you're feeling a little burnout.

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Raise your hand if you've been going through some trouble.

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You've been going through some troubles and they have you feeling weary.

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You're looking to the Lord.

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You don't necessarily see Him looking back quite yet, but you're just feeling like you

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need help.

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All right, lots of hands, lots of hands.

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I'm right there with you.

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I'm living right there with you.

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How many of you have some kind of issue that you've been working overtime to try to figure

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out how to solve, but you just can't solve it?

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You just can't figure it out.

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Raise your hand.

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Everyone, just keep your hands up if you have your hand up.

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If you've answered yes to anything, just keep them up.

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You just can't figure it out.

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That troubled relationship with someone in your life, you just can't find the magic bullet

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of happiness there, you know, something going on with your health.

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I got that.

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You guys know I have some health situation happening right now.

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I'm not really sure what it is.

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And you know, there's a huge temptation to try to figure it out yourself.

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Like I'm not a doctor, but I play one on TV, you know, I'm going to try to figure this

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out myself.

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I'm going to fix it, right?

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We're fixers.

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I'm going to try to fix it.

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Got a financial issue.

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You're trying to, you're laying up at night in bed trying to do the math and the math

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ain't math and trying to figure it out.

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Yeah, you guys, all of that, just so you know, and it all seems good.

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Like we're proactive people, right?

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We don't just sit around.

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We take action.

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That's good things.

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Right?

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Well, yeah, but a lot of that is, is based in a foundation of orphanhood.

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A lot of it's based in a foundation of a poverty mindset.

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You know, there's a fine line friends.

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We have to hold the tension between being completely toxically passive and trying to

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farm everything out to heaven.

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Oh God, you know, you're just going to have to fix it.

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And also doing our part.

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There's a tension between those two, those two things of doing our part and also making

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room for God to do what only he can do.

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And we have to make sure that we are in that tension of that and we're not overdoing our

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part, striving and, or expecting God to do everything.

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I just heard a story yesterday about a woman, she got a word about her house, about keeping

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her house.

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She couldn't afford her house.

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Couldn't afford it.

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And, uh, you know, an elderly woman and she couldn't afford her house, but the Lord gave

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her a word, a prophetic word, like, Hey, you know, you're not going to lose your house.

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You're going to keep your house.

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The problem is, is that when people receive words from the Lord, a lot of times they don't

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know how to walk that out.

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And just because God tells us something doesn't mean that we don't have a part to play in

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it.

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And so she, she takes, she took that word and she stood on that word, which is good.

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I admire that holding onto a word when everything in the natural is going the opposite direction,

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but she didn't do anything different.

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And she's not working.

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She's not making any kind of income besides whatever, you know, coming in from, you know,

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probably S you know, social security or something.

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I don't know all the details don't need to, it's none of my business, but I just know

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that she didn't do anything differently as far as trying to bring in more income.

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When God says, Hey, you know, you can't afford this house, but you're not going to lose it.

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That stands to reason that there's going to be an influx of income, right?

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Now there's two ways that we could go about that.

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And both of them are not discerning the promise that God is making us.

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One, we just jump up and we run out and we try to do anything and everything to make

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the money, to make up the difference of whatever we need to keep the house.

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Wrong answer.

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And the other is just sitting idly and doing nothing.

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We don't put any legs on our prayers.

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We just pray.

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And then we just don't do anything else.

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We farm everything out to heaven.

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You guys see, to see those two things, you're like, well, Jackie, what's the right way to

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Well, first of all, people have not been taught.

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The prophetic is pretty widespread now.

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Most churches have some kind of prophetic, especially if you're non-denominational.

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People are not taught how to walk out a word though.

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People receive words all the time, but then they don't understand the anatomy of a prophetic

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and what to do with a prophetic word

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and how to activate a prophetic word.

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They don't understand their part

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that they play in a prophetic word.

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I will tell you that it is my understanding

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that when God gives us a promise,

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he also gives us a process.

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He gives us an invitation to participate

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in whatever it is that he's telling us we can have.

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And so we're gonna do a teaching on that

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and I'm gonna bring in the best of the best, friends.

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We're gonna actually do a little series

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on how to walk out your promises,

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specifically how to war over your promises

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and also how to activate your promises

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in your prophetic words.

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And you'll be able to write out your prophetic words.

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You'll be able to do some good things there

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with understanding what it is that God was saying to you

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and what he was inviting you into when he said that.

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So back to my story.

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So the rubber met the road, friends,

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and the bank was like,

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psych, we're taking your house from you

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because you haven't made payments

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in months and months and months.

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Now, why hadn't she made payments?

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Because she couldn't afford to make the payment.

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So she wasn't making the payments

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and she was just believing

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that God was going to save this house.

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And I had been in the exact same situation

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when I was a young woman.

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When I was a young woman, a younger woman,

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because I'm still a young woman.

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When I was a younger woman in my early 20s,

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I went through the exact same thing, mid 20s.

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I had a child, my husband at the time,

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not David, my first husband,

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my daughter's father lost his job.

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He was a designer.

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After 9-11 happened, he lost his job.

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A lot of people got laid off.

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I know a lot of people don't know that

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because if it didn't affect you, it didn't affect you.

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But the industry that he was in, 9-11,

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affected his industry and he got laid off.

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And so our house went into foreclosure.

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And I promise you, we were in the second toxic camp

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of believing the promise of the Lord,

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just not doing anything and expecting God to fix it.

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Go ahead and put your hands down.

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I promise we're going somewhere good today.

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Might be a little tight, but it's gonna be right

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by the time we end right now, or later on.

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So this lady, she did exactly the same thing that we did.

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She was just waiting for, I don't know,

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a check in the mail.

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A check in the mail from someone,

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some sort of benefactor to show up

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and give her the money.

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For those of you that come from the prophetic environment,

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she was waiting for her Cyrus to show up.

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But they didn't.

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They didn't show up because that's not

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all the time how it works.

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I'm not saying that there aren't miracles like that.

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Of course there are.

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Of course there are.

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But just because God gives you a word

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about financial provision doesn't mean

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that it's gonna come from a secret admirer.

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Doesn't mean it's gonna come as a random charge back

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to your bank account.

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Anyone ever heard these stories?

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Oh, I just woke up and there were $50,000

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in my bank account.

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Well, I just wanna let you know, friends,

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while that may seem supernatural,

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I know people who have spent that money

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and the bank was like, oh, hey, we made a mistake.

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You gotta give that money back.

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Not a good idea.

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If money just shows up in your bank account,

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do not spend it.

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Do not spend that money

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until you find out whether or not you can.

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It's important stuff, important, important.

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Look at all these little nuggets,

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little gold nuggets falling from heaven.

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Come on now.

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So she waited and waited,

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and it was 24 hours before the bank

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was going to not only foreclose her house,

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but auction it, y'all.

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Auction her house.

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24 hours to auction.

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And guess what?

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A voice of reason stepped into the situation.

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One of my friends who knows her,

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this is how I know the story,

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stepped into the situation and said,

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here are your three options.

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Your three options are it's a big house,

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and she's just a little lady.

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Your options are to sell the house.

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Your options are to sell it like a short sale.

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I know the person that can help you do that.

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We can get an investor, we can get it done.

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You can get roommates.

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You can rent the house out, get roommates.

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And or your third option,

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your third option is to move out of the house

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and just rent the whole house to someone else.

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There's lots of equity in this house.

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It's a good opportunity.

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So friends, here is what happens when God speaks to us

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and tells us that we can have something.

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There are solutions.

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Okay, there are ideas, God-given ideas

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on how the problem can be solved.

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on how we can have the thing that God said we could have.

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And that's why it's important when you get a prophetic word

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that you judge that word with others,

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people that you trust, people that are spiritually wise.

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And it's not about putting your heads together

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and coming up with a human action plan

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to walk out that word,

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but it is about discerning first and foremost

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is the word from God,

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and secondly, what is my part to play?

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Does everyone understand that?

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I had no intention of talking about that today

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because I don't want to talk about the Sabbath,

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but it goes into rest.

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It goes into our subject.

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And the reason why is this.

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We're always striving.

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Even when you're sitting around trusting God for something

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and you're not taking any action,

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you're still striving

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if you're putting all your hope and faith on the wrong thing.

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And we don't want to strive anymore.

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We want to rest.

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Psalm, I think it's 126.

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It says, he gives his lovers rest.

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Right?

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It talks about how he provides for his lovers

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even while they're sleeping.

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You guys like that one?

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Even while they're sleeping, he's providing.

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What does that mean?

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That means, you know,

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cause it's the same scripture that talks about

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is vain for you to stay up all night worrying,

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striving, trying to figure it out

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because God provides for his lovers

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even while they're sleeping.

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Saying, hey, God's going to be up all night anyway.

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So why don't you go ahead and cast your cares on him?

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And for those of you that have been single

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for a really long time,

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this is a really, really, really good message today

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because you have taken the weight

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of the world upon yourself.

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So God is calling me into a sabbatical.

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I don't know how you do it all.

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And I just want to let you know this.

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If people say that to you frequently,

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well, Jackie, I just don't know how you do it all.

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I don't know how you remember all these people's names.

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I don't know how you remember

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all these people's love stories.

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I don't know how, if people say that to you,

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then it's probably a good sign

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that you're doing something you shouldn't be doing.

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If lots of people look at you

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and look at your life from the outside

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and they get exhausted just thinking about it,

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it's probably a good sign that you're overextended.

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Now, friends, I'm an entrepreneur.

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I'm a true entrepreneur.

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I've been an entrepreneur since I was a child.

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It means I'm a visionary.

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It means I think of grand ideas and then I execute them.

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And they're always solving the problems of people.

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Good entrepreneurs create things

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that solve other people's problems.

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When Papa God invited me into doing this,

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this beautiful marriage and family revival movement,

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when he invited me into this in 2020,

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it was two weeks before pandemic.

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Two or three weeks before the world was gonna find out

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that there was a pandemic.

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I didn't know, you didn't know, none of us knew.

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I was just fat, dumb, and happy sitting in my office,

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looking at my heart work materials.

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I was already a heart work coach online.

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I had already written that book.

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I've already doing lots of ministry for 20 something years,

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all different kinds, you name it, I've done it.

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Prison ministry, yep.

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Human trafficking ministry, yep.

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Pro-life ministry, yep.

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Women's ministry, yep.

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Outreach ministry, uh-huh.

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Ministry to people who don't speak English, yeah.

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Jackie, do you speak another language?

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Nope, that's what made it even harder.

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Teaching, preaching, yes, yes.

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All the things, yes.

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Homeless ministry, yes.

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Worked at a homeless shelter.

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I was a social worker.

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Did you guys know that I did that in my previous life?

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I've had a lot of lives.

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So none of us knew, none of us knew

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that our whole worlds were gonna get turned upside down

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in just a couple of weeks.

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But you know what?

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I really missed something about pandemic.

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You know what I missed about it?

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I don't miss, obviously,

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there were a lot of people that lost their lives.

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It's horrible, it's horrendous.

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Families were ripped apart by political issues.

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That was gross.

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And that's just uncalled for and unnecessary.

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But I know people that don't talk to this day

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because they were on the other side

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of the vaccination process.

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And I think that's a vaccination question.

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People had to actually be in their marriage

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instead of running away from it to work

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and to all different types of busy schedules.

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And they had to actually come face-to-face,

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locked in a house with the person

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they've been married to for decades.

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divorces happened. There were a lot of things. There was a big pruning.

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There was a huge pruning that happened, purging during pandemic.

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But you know what else happened? We all went into a forced sabbatical.

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We did. You didn't have any, you didn't have any other option,

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but to rest. You weren't going nowhere. If you lived where I lived,

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you weren't going anywhere. And in some States,

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you really weren't going anywhere. You were like locked in your house,

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like under house arrest.

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You know, I missed,

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I missed that because here's the thing you can go into a sabbatical,

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which I'm about to, and I'm going to talk to you about Sabbath here in a minute.

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You can go into sabbatical, but the world's not going to stop turning.

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But during pandemic, it did. It did stop turning.

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I remember when my mom was passing away in the ICU and I was in the ICU room

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and the ICU room is in the ICU wing of the hospital.

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And the ICU wing is really quiet. And the ICU room is really quiet.

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Unless there's some kind of crisis going on in the ICU, it's very quiet.

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And I went into my mom's room and it was like,

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it was almost like I was in a soundproof place besides the

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beeping machines. Very, very quiet, like being in a vacuum.

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And I was in there and I had, I was in the peace bubble.

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You guys, when my mom was passing, I was in the peace bubble.

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The grief didn't happen until after.

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God's presence and his peace was in that room. Angels were there. You know,

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I felt fine in that, in that place.

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And then my mom passed and we were there for weeks.

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She was in that state for, I think about three weeks. And when,

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when it was over with,

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when she passed away and we're in the room and she passed away and now we're all

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leaving the room and, and we're not going to come back into this room.

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We're not going to come back into this wing. Okay.

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There's nothing here for us anymore.

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She's with the Lord and it's time for us to move on.

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And when I, I remember I made a video about this back then this was 2020.

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This was before pandemic.

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This was before I had that epiphany in my office where God invited me into the

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revival of marriage and family.

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I walked out of that ICU,

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out of her room and then out of the ICU wing into the rest of the hospital and

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friends. It's as if the world had stood still.

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But as soon as I opened that final door to step out into the hospital,

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it's as if nothing had ever happened.

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And I was really offended by it.

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I was super offended. Like I was, I was just angry.

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I walked into that last door. I walked out to the hospital.

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People are talking and they're laughing and they're eating their lunch and

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they're doing all the things. And it's like,

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don't you know that my mom just died? Like have some respect.

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No, they don't know because the world doesn't stop turning.

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The world doesn't stop turning.

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It doesn't stop moving except during pandemic,

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which actually started, you know, started like six weeks later,

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God was merciful to take my mom onto heaven before pandemic started.

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Cause otherwise our lives would have looked a lot different.

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And for those of you that had family members in the hospital during that time,

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you know what I mean?

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You know what I mean? You wouldn't have been able to be with them.

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And so I got home and once again, I'm in the office and God just speaks to me.

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You know what I feel when I'm looking around at all the heartwork materials,

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I'm feeling the pain of those materials because people don't want to do their

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heartwork. Oftentimes,

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none of us are willing to do the work that we need to do,

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the partnering that we need to do with heaven until there's a crisis.

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We're not willing to Sabbath until there's a crisis.

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We're not willing to stop striving and trying to do things on our own until we

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hit a brick wall. But friends,

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you don't have to Sabbath out of crisis. You can Sabbath out of covenant.

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You can out of partnership,

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out of understanding that anything that's worth having,

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you're never going to get on your own.

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Anything worth having, you are never going to be able to get on your own.

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You're not. And so that moment God invited me in,

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but remember I'm an entrepreneur and I have something that I call

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entrepreneurial disease. You know what that means?

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That means God tapped me on the shoulder to build this with him.

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And I did. In fact, we're about to celebrate five years on October 26th.

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Some of you guys are coming to that party here in Austin, Texas.

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I can't wait to see you in person.

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And we're going to have success stories.

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We're going to have all kinds of success stories coming, like all kinds of people

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that have gotten married through this movement coming, all kinds of single

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people will be there.

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You might meet your spirit mate there, who knows, but we're going to party.

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We're going to party.

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We're going to celebrate the revival of marriage and family.

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We're going to have an amazing time.

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Right?

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The five is really important to me because that's the number of grace.

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And it's as if God's saying, Hey, you know, you've done well, daughter, you did

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what I asked you to do, but now you're tired and it's time to rest because when

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I tell you I've run hard for five years, I'm not, I'm not exaggerating.

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I've run hard and my team has run hard.

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And I feel like Jesus, when I say, God, these that you've given me, I haven't lost

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one of them, except that son of perdition.

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We got the best team and we're intact.

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We're intact, but friends, you can only run so hard.

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And the thing is you have to remember, God knows that I'm a race horse.

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He created me that way.

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He knows that I'm Secretariat, which by the way is my nickname.

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He knows it.

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That's why he gave me the race to run, but everybody has to rest sometime.

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And if you have any orphan tendencies, if you have any poverty mentalities, they

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will come into play in any assignment that you have.

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Remember friends, behavior follows identity.

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So you will overextend yourself.

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For those of you that are in ministry, you will overextend yourself.

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You're like, but it's good.

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It doesn't matter.

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You can get burnt out doing a good thing.

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You can get burnt out doing a good thing.

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Well, I got to take care of my aging parents because it's the right thing to do.

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Uh-huh.

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Just because it's the right thing to do doesn't mean you're doing it the right way.

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You guys hear me?

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Raise your hand if I'm speaking to you at all, it's got a lot of sad faces, got

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a long faces in here.

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I used to, I was discipled by the Holiness Pentecostal people.

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And I used to say, yeah, the people that are discipled by the Holiness

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had long hair, long dresses, and long faces.

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They were all sad.

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None of them had any joy in their salvation.

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I'll tell you that right now.

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Why?

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Because they was wearing those hot dresses outside trying to play kickball.

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I don't know.

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Something's not adding up.

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All right.

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So friends, God is inviting us and he might not be inviting you into Sabbath the way

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he's inviting me into Sabbath.

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All of us look differently.

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It's important that we go to God for instructions.

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Some of you might just be coming out of a Sabbath and now it's time for you to run

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with the Lord, run with the Lord.

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I'm going to say it again, run with the Lord, not run, run with him.

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What Jesus say, he say, take my yoke upon you.

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My yoke is easy.

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My burden is light.

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Let's read that real quick.

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In fact, I really love that scripture in the message translation.

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Here it is.

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Matthew 11 verses 28 through 30.

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Are you tired?

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Worn out?

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Burned out on religion?

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Come to me.

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Get away with me and you'll recover your life.

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I'll show you how to take a real rest.

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Walk with me and work with me.

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Watch how I do it.

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Learn the unforced rhythms of grace.

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Come on, learn the unforced rhythms of grace.

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I won't lay anything heavy or ill fitting on you.

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Keep company with me and you'll learn to live freely and lightly.

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Friends, does that not sound beautiful?

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Does that not sound beautiful?

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You can even apply that to your love life.

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You know, my new book, Modern Dating Sucks, is about modern dating hustle culture.

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You know, swiping until your thumb hurts, overanalyzing every text message from

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people who are not marriage minded, mature, settling out of fear that there's

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not something better out there, chasing people who aren't chasing God.

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That's all part of that modern dating sucks hustle culture.

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And it's exhausting, right?

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In fact, it takes all the joy.

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You know how you can know that you're exhausted?

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You don't have any joy.

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You don't have any joy.

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Remember the joy of our salvation is that Jesus died for us

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00:25:18.520 --> 00:25:21.880
but also as us, as us.

507
00:25:24.100 --> 00:25:25.920
The Bible says that if we're willing

508
00:25:26.200 --> 00:25:28.580
to partner in his suffering, what does that mean?

509
00:25:28.580 --> 00:25:31.140
Does it mean that it's like, oh, are you willing to suffer?

510
00:25:31.640 --> 00:25:32.700
We're all gonna suffer friends

511
00:25:32.700 --> 00:25:35.760
because we live on this earth that's still broken.

512
00:25:39.180 --> 00:25:41.120
But that's not what that scripture is talking about.

513
00:25:41.160 --> 00:25:43.560
It's saying, if you're willing to accept

514
00:25:43.560 --> 00:25:45.480
Jesus' suffering as your own,

515
00:25:47.060 --> 00:25:48.940
meaning he suffered for you and as you,

516
00:25:49.000 --> 00:25:50.040
if you're willing to accept that,

517
00:25:50.100 --> 00:25:52.280
then you can be glorified with him.

518
00:25:53.460 --> 00:25:55.700
If you're willing to accept that you already suffered

519
00:25:55.700 --> 00:25:59.220
with him on that cross, that you can be glorified with him.

520
00:26:01.980 --> 00:26:05.080
Jesus is telling us in Matthew, he's saying, come to me,

521
00:26:05.880 --> 00:26:09.720
get away with me and you'll recover your real life.

522
00:26:11.680 --> 00:26:13.560
You won't strive anymore.

523
00:26:14.480 --> 00:26:16.220
You don't have to strive for love.

524
00:26:16.580 --> 00:26:18.860
You guys, friends, love especially.

525
00:26:20.560 --> 00:26:23.200
Any type of striving is birthed in fear.

526
00:26:23.720 --> 00:26:26.340
And so if we're striving in this area of our love lives,

527
00:26:26.560 --> 00:26:29.080
and I don't wanna just apply this to our love lives

528
00:26:29.080 --> 00:26:30.600
because this is the holistic thing.

529
00:26:30.700 --> 00:26:33.460
It's all of our lives, every part of our lives,

530
00:26:34.440 --> 00:26:36.160
but especially for love.

531
00:26:36.340 --> 00:26:38.480
If you have to strive for love, then guess what?

532
00:26:38.780 --> 00:26:40.960
You're calling it by the wrong name because it's not love.

533
00:26:44.100 --> 00:26:44.660
Resting in love.

534
00:26:46.440 --> 00:26:49.020
Jesus is inviting us to walk with him and work with him.

535
00:26:50.060 --> 00:26:52.360
He's inviting us to watch how he does it.

536
00:26:52.360 --> 00:26:54.920
Remember, rabbis, for those of you that listened

537
00:26:54.920 --> 00:26:56.240
to that Supernatural Saturday,

538
00:26:57.620 --> 00:27:00.460
their disciples followed them and watched them do life.

539
00:27:01.080 --> 00:27:06.000
They watched how the Torah was acted out by that rabbi.

540
00:27:06.760 --> 00:27:09.460
How was he interpreting it in everyday life,

541
00:27:09.500 --> 00:27:11.020
in the living that he was doing?

542
00:27:11.900 --> 00:27:13.560
And Jesus is saying as our rabbi,

543
00:27:13.620 --> 00:27:15.920
because remember the yoke is the rabbi's teachings.

544
00:27:16.220 --> 00:27:18.320
And so he's inviting us to take his yoke,

545
00:27:18.460 --> 00:27:20.600
his set of teachings, his set of philosophies

546
00:27:20.600 --> 00:27:22.340
and ideologies on us.

547
00:27:22.400 --> 00:27:23.980
And he promised us in the scripture

548
00:27:23.980 --> 00:27:25.500
that he wouldn't put anything on us

549
00:27:25.500 --> 00:27:26.660
that was hard or ill-fitting.

550
00:27:28.000 --> 00:27:30.680
He's saying, come with me, work with me.

551
00:27:31.360 --> 00:27:32.240
Watch how I do it.

552
00:27:32.440 --> 00:27:33.120
Learn the what?

553
00:27:33.120 --> 00:27:34.940
The unforced rhythms of grace.

554
00:27:36.780 --> 00:27:39.200
And if we apply that to love life, then that means what?

555
00:27:39.440 --> 00:27:40.420
Don't force connections.

556
00:27:41.020 --> 00:27:43.020
Don't rush timelines with people.

557
00:27:44.300 --> 00:27:47.860
Let God's alignment bring us peace, not pressure.

558
00:27:47.900 --> 00:27:48.960
Anytime we feel pressure,

559
00:27:48.960 --> 00:27:50.940
we're not in the rhythms of grace.

560
00:27:51.600 --> 00:27:53.780
Friends, I know when I'm in my flesh and doing something

561
00:27:53.840 --> 00:27:55.460
because I feel so pressured.

562
00:27:56.860 --> 00:27:59.380
I feel so much pressure to get it done.

563
00:27:59.500 --> 00:28:01.520
I feel so much pressure to figure it out.

564
00:28:04.240 --> 00:28:07.260
I absolutely know when I say these words,

565
00:28:07.480 --> 00:28:08.960
oh my God, I can't do this.

566
00:28:10.440 --> 00:28:11.560
I'm in my flesh.

567
00:28:12.340 --> 00:28:14.060
And that's when the Holy Spirit reminds me,

568
00:28:14.160 --> 00:28:18.000
oh, hey, you don't have to do this alone.

569
00:28:18.840 --> 00:28:20.140
I want you to take your hands down.

570
00:28:20.280 --> 00:28:21.100
Everyone has hands up.

571
00:28:21.280 --> 00:28:21.700
Put them down.

572
00:28:23.920 --> 00:28:25.240
Put them down, put them down, put them down.

573
00:28:26.300 --> 00:28:28.760
I know this is a heavier Supernatural Saturday,

574
00:28:29.160 --> 00:28:31.940
but I really believe it's an invitation to come into

575
00:28:35.100 --> 00:28:37.680
a rest that you're gonna feel deep in your bones.

576
00:28:38.240 --> 00:28:38.640
Take them down.

577
00:28:39.000 --> 00:28:39.640
Hands are still up.

578
00:28:39.980 --> 00:28:40.820
Take down your hands.

579
00:28:43.840 --> 00:28:45.420
Because we're exhausted, friends.

580
00:28:47.340 --> 00:28:49.360
Even if you have good boundaries, you're exhausted.

581
00:28:49.480 --> 00:28:51.380
This culture that we live in is exhausting.

582
00:28:51.480 --> 00:28:53.000
And the reason why a lot of us don't even know

583
00:28:53.120 --> 00:28:55.100
we're exhausted is because we're so used to it.

584
00:28:56.280 --> 00:28:57.540
It's all we've ever known.

585
00:28:58.940 --> 00:29:00.320
There was a simpler time.

586
00:29:00.480 --> 00:29:01.420
There was a better day.

587
00:29:03.000 --> 00:29:05.200
Okay, now your hands are mostly down.

588
00:29:05.640 --> 00:29:07.060
I want you to put your hands up

589
00:29:07.080 --> 00:29:09.660
if any time in the last six months you've said,

590
00:29:10.060 --> 00:29:12.240
I just can't do this anymore about something.

591
00:29:14.880 --> 00:29:17.200
You cried out, I just don't wanna do this anymore.

592
00:29:17.260 --> 00:29:21.400
I just can't do this anymore about something, anything.

593
00:29:23.060 --> 00:29:24.500
I just can't figure this out.

594
00:29:24.580 --> 00:29:25.360
I'm so tired.

595
00:29:26.480 --> 00:29:29.320
You might've even wept tears of exhaustion.

596
00:29:30.860 --> 00:29:35.140
Wow, friends, friends, come on.

597
00:29:36.200 --> 00:29:38.380
God's saying, come to me, get away with me.

598
00:29:38.600 --> 00:29:40.820
You'll recover your real life.

599
00:29:40.900 --> 00:29:42.060
This is not your real life.

600
00:29:42.940 --> 00:29:44.540
This is not the way it was meant to be.

601
00:29:45.200 --> 00:29:47.080
This is not the life that Jesus died to give us.

602
00:29:48.700 --> 00:29:49.240
It's not.

603
00:29:49.680 --> 00:29:51.760
So what would a Sabbath look like?

604
00:29:54.160 --> 00:29:56.080
Well, let's look at what the Holy Sabbath looked like.

605
00:29:56.140 --> 00:29:56.720
Can we do that?

606
00:29:56.760 --> 00:29:59.980
Just look at what the Holy Sabbath looked like.

607
00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:02.620
Like, right, so biblically,

608
00:30:03.200 --> 00:30:05.540
they didn't do any labor on that day, no work.

609
00:30:06.120 --> 00:30:07.940
They didn't sell anything, they didn't buy anything.

610
00:30:08.320 --> 00:30:10.540
There was no striving at all.

611
00:30:11.120 --> 00:30:13.160
If you had a farm, you didn't go out

612
00:30:13.160 --> 00:30:14.220
and do anything with the animals.

613
00:30:14.860 --> 00:30:16.620
You didn't do anything, you didn't sell anything,

614
00:30:16.640 --> 00:30:17.880
you didn't buy anything, you didn't go to market.

615
00:30:18.320 --> 00:30:21.900
Whatever food you had, ladies, because back then,

616
00:30:21.920 --> 00:30:23.480
you know, we would have been in charge

617
00:30:23.480 --> 00:30:25.160
of all the domestic duties.

618
00:30:25.260 --> 00:30:27.580
You didn't clean, you didn't cook.

619
00:30:30.000 --> 00:30:32.200
You had to eat stuff that was prepared

620
00:30:32.280 --> 00:30:34.160
at some other point in time.

621
00:30:37.640 --> 00:30:39.120
What was going on?

622
00:30:39.360 --> 00:30:41.460
Everyone was getting a chance to take a breather,

623
00:30:41.700 --> 00:30:45.200
to take a pause, to take a beat, everybody was.

624
00:30:45.920 --> 00:30:47.420
It was a full stop, friends.

625
00:30:47.600 --> 00:30:52.760
Say that, it was a full stop from all productivity.

626
00:30:55.620 --> 00:30:56.320
Full stop.

627
00:30:58.340 --> 00:30:59.100
Full stop.

628
00:30:59.920 --> 00:31:00.000
Full stop.

629
00:31:00.000 --> 00:31:01.360
Some people live like this still.

630
00:31:02.140 --> 00:31:04.280
But I wanna talk to you guys about not just the Sabbath,

631
00:31:05.300 --> 00:31:08.520
right, yes, you should be having at least one day a week

632
00:31:08.520 --> 00:31:09.420
where you're Sabbathing.

633
00:31:10.500 --> 00:31:12.780
And I'm saying that to myself too, not just you.

634
00:31:13.120 --> 00:31:15.640
I never really turn off and I need to and I'm going to.

635
00:31:16.280 --> 00:31:17.680
I believe this is a wake-up call.

636
00:31:17.860 --> 00:31:20.060
I heard the word, I saw the word,

637
00:31:20.140 --> 00:31:23.000
and then God spoke to me about the word watershed.

638
00:31:23.620 --> 00:31:26.700
And a watershed is a moment where everything changes.

639
00:31:27.100 --> 00:31:28.520
A watershed is a tipping point

640
00:31:28.720 --> 00:31:30.740
where you go a whole different direction.

641
00:31:31.460 --> 00:31:32.940
And friends, I promise to you

642
00:31:32.940 --> 00:31:34.520
and I want you to hold me accountable

643
00:31:34.520 --> 00:31:37.240
that this movement during this,

644
00:31:37.420 --> 00:31:40.400
we're about to go into Rosh Hashanah.

645
00:31:40.400 --> 00:31:43.920
We're about to go into Rosh Hashanah, September 22nd.

646
00:31:44.580 --> 00:31:47.880
And when we go into that, it's gonna be a new year.

647
00:31:48.640 --> 00:31:50.680
It is, a Hebraic new year.

648
00:31:50.680 --> 00:31:53.260
And that's the new year that I care mostly about.

649
00:31:53.720 --> 00:31:56.240
And I will tell you this, when we go into that,

650
00:31:56.680 --> 00:31:58.480
during that, during the first month of that,

651
00:31:58.520 --> 00:32:00.320
we're gonna celebrate a five-year anniversary

652
00:32:00.400 --> 00:32:01.780
here at Last Year's Single.

653
00:32:01.840 --> 00:32:05.000
And I promise you that this movement

654
00:32:05.020 --> 00:32:08.660
is going to find its sweet spot in the rhythms of grace.

655
00:32:10.220 --> 00:32:12.800
And I believe that that grace is gonna trickle down

656
00:32:12.800 --> 00:32:15.440
onto each and every person that's involved in this movement.

657
00:32:17.260 --> 00:32:18.720
I believe it with all my heart.

658
00:32:18.720 --> 00:32:20.640
I believe that that is the watershed moment.

659
00:32:21.120 --> 00:32:22.180
God's like, hey, you know what?

660
00:32:22.520 --> 00:32:24.580
I asked you to do this with me.

661
00:32:25.100 --> 00:32:25.900
And I might cry.

662
00:32:27.040 --> 00:32:28.420
I asked you to do this with me.

663
00:32:28.480 --> 00:32:30.540
And you said, yes, and I'm so proud of you, daughter.

664
00:32:30.640 --> 00:32:31.780
But somewhere along the line,

665
00:32:31.820 --> 00:32:33.400
you started doing it yourself.

666
00:32:41.620 --> 00:32:43.260
Because friends, that's what we do.

667
00:32:43.820 --> 00:32:46.540
We hear from the Lord and we partner with the Lord.

668
00:32:47.360 --> 00:32:49.560
But somewhere along the line,

669
00:32:49.780 --> 00:32:52.260
we start doing it in our own strength again.

670
00:32:53.460 --> 00:32:54.860
And friends, this is not something

671
00:32:54.860 --> 00:32:56.280
that can be done in your own strength.

672
00:32:58.340 --> 00:33:00.860
First of all, the volume of people is absolutely

673
00:33:03.760 --> 00:33:05.600
beyond your wildest imaginations.

674
00:33:05.720 --> 00:33:07.100
You should see my inboxes.

675
00:33:07.120 --> 00:33:08.600
We're talking about hundreds and hundreds

676
00:33:08.600 --> 00:33:09.660
and hundreds of people.

677
00:33:09.780 --> 00:33:11.220
Y'all are like, where's my husband?

678
00:33:11.320 --> 00:33:13.060
He's in my inbox somewhere, friends.

679
00:33:15.660 --> 00:33:17.340
God knows how to get him to you, don't worry.

680
00:33:17.460 --> 00:33:18.400
He's not lost.

681
00:33:19.900 --> 00:33:21.060
But I do know this.

682
00:33:21.180 --> 00:33:22.720
I know that at some point,

683
00:33:23.420 --> 00:33:25.660
I stopped leaning into the supernatural

684
00:33:25.660 --> 00:33:29.140
because I got so overwhelmed with the daily stuff

685
00:33:29.140 --> 00:33:31.960
that I just started trying to do it myself

686
00:33:32.000 --> 00:33:36.440
with my own ideas, with my team and their ideas.

687
00:33:36.580 --> 00:33:40.620
We just stopped being in the rhythms of grace.

688
00:33:40.820 --> 00:33:42.260
Has God still blessed us?

689
00:33:42.260 --> 00:33:42.760
Yes.

690
00:33:43.520 --> 00:33:44.480
Are things still amazing?

691
00:33:44.880 --> 00:33:45.160
Yes.

692
00:33:45.320 --> 00:33:48.300
But could they be beyond amazing, supernatural?

693
00:33:48.980 --> 00:33:50.540
Yes, and I want that.

694
00:33:50.860 --> 00:33:53.440
And I'm not gonna settle for anything less than that.

695
00:33:56.420 --> 00:33:59.660
God has blessed our obedience with more success stories

696
00:33:59.660 --> 00:34:02.000
than anything that is out there.

697
00:34:02.260 --> 00:34:05.820
But I believe that the tsunami wave of kingdom marriages

698
00:34:05.820 --> 00:34:08.840
that God promised me is only gonna come

699
00:34:08.840 --> 00:34:10.679
from a true spiritual revival.

700
00:34:11.420 --> 00:34:13.520
And that is not gonna come from the flesh.

701
00:34:13.719 --> 00:34:17.100
It's going to come from unity in this community

702
00:34:17.199 --> 00:34:20.000
of all of us coming together and looking to the Lord.

703
00:34:22.260 --> 00:34:24.900
Because you're part of this too, it's not just me.

704
00:34:25.340 --> 00:34:28.100
And I have been, because I am a personality

705
00:34:28.100 --> 00:34:30.440
that's a pioneer, because I am an entrepreneur,

706
00:34:31.000 --> 00:34:35.699
because I care so deeply about trying to solve this problem.

707
00:34:36.420 --> 00:34:38.139
I care about your love story.

708
00:34:38.199 --> 00:34:40.520
In fact, for some of you, maybe more than you do right now,

709
00:34:40.520 --> 00:34:41.199
because you're done.

710
00:34:43.179 --> 00:34:45.560
But that pressure has crushed me

711
00:34:46.639 --> 00:34:48.520
because I wasn't carrying it with the Lord.

712
00:34:49.120 --> 00:34:51.300
I was at first, but then somewhere

713
00:34:51.300 --> 00:34:52.880
in the last five years, I stopped.

714
00:34:55.239 --> 00:34:57.600
And I wanna get back to the supernatural, don't you?

715
00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:01.920
I want to get back to the supernatural.

716
00:35:04.260 --> 00:35:06.100
I don't want to do anything in the flesh.

717
00:35:08.320 --> 00:35:10.720
If God's not doing it, I don't want to do it either.

718
00:35:14.260 --> 00:35:17.160
All right, so the Holy Sabbath looked like ceasing from all those things.

719
00:35:17.920 --> 00:35:20.000
What does it look like in the modern to cease from work?

720
00:35:20.060 --> 00:35:21.800
Okay, let's talk about that.

721
00:35:22.440 --> 00:35:23.160
Turn off your email.

722
00:35:25.080 --> 00:35:25.780
Turn off your phone.

723
00:35:26.180 --> 00:35:27.340
In fact, leave your phone at home.

724
00:35:28.260 --> 00:35:33.040
Turn off the notifications on your phone.

725
00:35:34.100 --> 00:35:36.180
Sabbath isn't just you resting from your nine to five.

726
00:35:36.380 --> 00:35:37.660
It's resting from your side hustle.

727
00:35:37.940 --> 00:35:39.520
It's resting from everything.

728
00:35:41.540 --> 00:35:46.880
Sabbath is an invitation to lay on the couch and consume your mind with the news or scrolling

729
00:35:46.880 --> 00:35:47.900
on social media.

730
00:35:48.540 --> 00:35:52.060
It's not an invitation to watch and binge movies.

731
00:35:53.140 --> 00:35:53.740
Why?

732
00:35:53.740 --> 00:35:58.520
Because that is not giving rest to your soul, it's not giving rest to your heart, it's not

733
00:35:58.520 --> 00:36:01.160
giving rest to your imagination, is it?

734
00:36:01.940 --> 00:36:03.980
It's not allowing you to dream with God.

735
00:36:05.900 --> 00:36:07.200
Okay, someone's got to get muted.

736
00:36:07.400 --> 00:36:11.260
Let's find them and mute them.

737
00:36:20.320 --> 00:36:20.960
All right.

738
00:36:22.300 --> 00:36:24.540
Okay, so there's some practical application.

739
00:36:25.100 --> 00:36:28.660
Let's talk about the next thing that the Holy Sabbath looked like.

740
00:36:28.800 --> 00:36:29.960
It looked like a sacred gathering.

741
00:36:31.080 --> 00:36:34.760
You guys, I started getting targeted by these ads.

742
00:36:34.880 --> 00:36:36.720
You might have started getting targeted by them too.

743
00:36:36.800 --> 00:36:39.200
There's something like 80s nostalgia is what they're called.

744
00:36:40.040 --> 00:36:44.120
I was a kid in the 80s, like I was in elementary school in the 80s.

745
00:36:45.540 --> 00:36:50.200
When I see those ads, it really does bring back nostalgia for me because they're using

746
00:36:50.200 --> 00:36:52.460
AI to recreate what the 80s looked like.

747
00:36:53.260 --> 00:36:58.640
Teenagers with big hair hanging out, there was no social media, there was no internet.

748
00:36:59.160 --> 00:37:03.940
People are driving their cars on Friday night and meeting up at spots and everyone hanging

749
00:37:03.940 --> 00:37:07.660
out and they're playing games together outside and doing things.

750
00:37:07.900 --> 00:37:10.300
I mean, that barely exists anymore.

751
00:37:12.800 --> 00:37:15.160
When I see that, I long for that simpler time.

752
00:37:15.380 --> 00:37:17.600
I long for that, right?

753
00:37:17.600 --> 00:37:22.440
The second part of a Holy Sabbath is a sacred gathering, families, communities gathered,

754
00:37:22.840 --> 00:37:22.840


755
00:37:22.940 --> 00:37:23.800
This is what they do.

756
00:37:24.320 --> 00:37:25.520
In fact, people still do this.

757
00:37:25.620 --> 00:37:29.260
The Jews still keep Sabbath and some Christians keep Sabbath.

758
00:37:30.220 --> 00:37:31.140
They gather for what?

759
00:37:31.180 --> 00:37:32.240
For worship, for prayer.

760
00:37:33.420 --> 00:37:34.580
They read the Torah together.

761
00:37:35.980 --> 00:37:36.780
They ate food.

762
00:37:39.560 --> 00:37:41.280
What does that look like in our modern time?

763
00:37:41.280 --> 00:37:48.340
It looks like the same thing, gathering together with friends, with family, reminding each

764
00:37:48.340 --> 00:37:52.440
other of the goodness of God, sharing a meal, singing, praying, speaking blessings over

765
00:37:52.440 --> 00:37:57.000
each other, choosing community over isolation.

766
00:38:00.080 --> 00:38:03.400
The third aspect of the biblical Sabbath was delight and joy.

767
00:38:03.580 --> 00:38:05.400
The Sabbath wasn't just about not working.

768
00:38:05.500 --> 00:38:07.020
It was about being delighted.

769
00:38:07.020 --> 00:38:13.020
It was a day to enjoy creation, enjoy food, enjoy other people.

770
00:38:13.160 --> 00:38:16.520
That's Isaiah 58, 13 through 14, if you want to look at that scripture.

771
00:38:17.980 --> 00:38:22.200
So in the modern time, we can enjoy good food without rushing, you could take your time.

772
00:38:22.860 --> 00:38:26.420
You guys, when I went to Europe for the first time, I was so amazed that people ate so late

773
00:38:26.420 --> 00:38:26.780
at night.

774
00:38:26.840 --> 00:38:27.800
That was the number one thing.

775
00:38:28.040 --> 00:38:29.120
And people weren't fat.

776
00:38:29.260 --> 00:38:30.100
That was the second thing.

777
00:38:30.160 --> 00:38:31.620
I was like, hmm, what are people doing around here?

778
00:38:32.180 --> 00:38:33.760
They're walking a lot after they eat.

779
00:38:33.760 --> 00:38:34.540
I'll tell you that.

780
00:38:35.480 --> 00:38:37.540
A lot of steps, no elevators, crazy stuff.

781
00:38:38.900 --> 00:38:42.700
But they also took hours and hours to eat.

782
00:38:45.260 --> 00:38:46.740
Eating was like a thing.

783
00:38:47.680 --> 00:38:49.140
You didn't just get in and get out.

784
00:38:50.020 --> 00:38:52.620
You got in and then you dined.

785
00:38:53.240 --> 00:38:53.960
Say that.

786
00:38:54.520 --> 00:38:54.860
Dined.

787
00:38:56.440 --> 00:39:00.260
I just want to let you guys know that the marriage feast of the lamb is not going to

788
00:39:00.360 --> 00:39:01.380
be in and out.

789
00:39:03.880 --> 00:39:07.700
In fact, because we have eternity, maybe we're going to stay a couple thousand years there.

790
00:39:08.920 --> 00:39:10.220
Just doing what?

791
00:39:10.560 --> 00:39:12.720
Just fellowshipping, just Sabbathing.

792
00:39:13.920 --> 00:39:14.880
Real Sabbathing.

793
00:39:17.860 --> 00:39:18.340
Dining.

794
00:39:19.440 --> 00:39:22.440
For those of you who thought you weren't going to eat in heaven, well, there's a lot of scriptures

795
00:39:22.440 --> 00:39:23.100
about eating.

796
00:39:23.540 --> 00:39:24.720
So I think you are.

797
00:39:26.160 --> 00:39:29.920
Eat, eating, dining, there's a difference between eating and dining.

798
00:39:30.280 --> 00:39:31.100
Remember that old song?

799
00:39:31.160 --> 00:39:32.300
Who remembers that old song?

800
00:39:33.020 --> 00:39:35.560
Come and dine, the master calleth.

801
00:39:35.820 --> 00:39:36.320
Come and dine.

802
00:39:38.260 --> 00:39:39.240
Remember that song?

803
00:39:40.000 --> 00:39:42.640
You can eat at Jesus' table all the time.

804
00:39:43.380 --> 00:39:48.400
He who fed the multitudes and turned the water into wine to the hungry calleth now.

805
00:39:48.720 --> 00:39:50.000
Come and dine.

806
00:39:51.540 --> 00:39:52.160
Remember that?

807
00:39:54.780 --> 00:39:54.780


808
00:39:55.480 --> 00:39:56.280
Eat your fool.

809
00:39:56.700 --> 00:39:57.520
Be satisfied.

810
00:39:58.640 --> 00:39:59.840
Don't rush.

811
00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:02.020
So what else can we delight and joy in?

812
00:40:02.420 --> 00:40:03.020
Nature, friends.

813
00:40:03.780 --> 00:40:04.960
When's the last time you got out in nature?

814
00:40:05.100 --> 00:40:07.040
When's the last time you took your shoes and socks off

815
00:40:07.040 --> 00:40:09.600
and grounded yourself in the grass?

816
00:40:10.220 --> 00:40:11.920
You know why we were so much healthier

817
00:40:11.920 --> 00:40:12.760
when we were children?

818
00:40:12.840 --> 00:40:14.100
It wasn't because we were young

819
00:40:14.100 --> 00:40:15.500
and our cells weren't old yet.

820
00:40:15.620 --> 00:40:18.420
It was because we were outside a lot.

821
00:40:19.600 --> 00:40:21.060
We were in the sunshine.

822
00:40:22.340 --> 00:40:23.740
We were in the grass.

823
00:40:24.120 --> 00:40:25.040
We were in the nature.

824
00:40:26.100 --> 00:40:27.380
Yeah, we got some poison ivy.

825
00:40:27.440 --> 00:40:28.040
It doesn't matter.

826
00:40:28.180 --> 00:40:29.060
We were in the woods.

827
00:40:29.060 --> 00:40:33.080
We were down with our faces in the dirt

828
00:40:33.140 --> 00:40:35.260
watching ants build their home.

829
00:40:35.700 --> 00:40:36.100
Anyone else?

830
00:40:37.160 --> 00:40:38.180
Just watching them.

831
00:40:38.580 --> 00:40:39.240
What are they up to?

832
00:40:41.800 --> 00:40:43.920
You guys, that was making us healthy.

833
00:40:46.080 --> 00:40:47.280
Just so you know,

834
00:40:47.400 --> 00:40:50.020
you are a creation that came from creation.

835
00:40:50.540 --> 00:40:53.560
That's kind of your origin when you get down in the dirt.

836
00:40:57.080 --> 00:41:00.540
It's part of our superpower to be out in God's creation.

837
00:41:01.000 --> 00:41:02.640
God's creation brings us life.

838
00:41:03.040 --> 00:41:04.540
It reminds us of who he is.

839
00:41:05.520 --> 00:41:09.380
Now we're behind closed doors all day long

840
00:41:09.380 --> 00:41:11.060
with slathered on sunscreen.

841
00:41:14.780 --> 00:41:16.580
Come on, popping a bunch of supplements

842
00:41:16.580 --> 00:41:18.820
that we could get if we just went outside for a minute.

843
00:41:19.920 --> 00:41:21.260
So take a walk in nature.

844
00:41:21.680 --> 00:41:23.420
Do things, friends, whatever it is

845
00:41:23.420 --> 00:41:23.540
that brings us joy and happiness.

846
00:41:23.540 --> 00:41:26.200
That brings you joy and restores your soul.

847
00:41:26.740 --> 00:41:28.080
Play music, paint maybe.

848
00:41:29.000 --> 00:41:30.680
Laugh, play family games together.

849
00:41:30.700 --> 00:41:34.460
Read, read something that restores your soul.

850
00:41:36.500 --> 00:41:38.960
Another thing that they do is they remembered God

851
00:41:39.160 --> 00:41:42.260
and they worshiped him, remembering what he's done.

852
00:41:42.780 --> 00:41:44.040
When's the last time that you just listed out

853
00:41:44.040 --> 00:41:45.720
all the things God has ever done for you?

854
00:41:45.860 --> 00:41:48.180
All the times that he's ever come through for you?

855
00:41:48.300 --> 00:41:50.720
All the times when he's comforted you and helped you,

856
00:41:50.840 --> 00:41:52.140
whether it was just supernaturally

857
00:41:52.140 --> 00:41:53.660
or through another person.

858
00:41:54.360 --> 00:41:57.620
Remembering God, creating memorials

859
00:41:57.620 --> 00:41:59.220
of what God has done for us.

860
00:42:01.760 --> 00:42:04.060
The Jews, of course, they remember God's creation,

861
00:42:04.420 --> 00:42:07.980
his rest, his deliverance, Israel, freedom from Egypt.

862
00:42:08.020 --> 00:42:10.280
There's certain passages of scriptures

863
00:42:10.740 --> 00:42:13.160
from the ancient texts from the Torah

864
00:42:13.160 --> 00:42:15.500
that they would read during Sabbath every time

865
00:42:15.540 --> 00:42:18.480
just to continue to remember what God has done.

866
00:42:18.700 --> 00:42:20.220
And so what we can do in the modern world

867
00:42:20.220 --> 00:42:20.860
is we can journal.

868
00:42:21.400 --> 00:42:23.800
We can be grateful for what God has done for us.

869
00:42:23.960 --> 00:42:24.900
We can journal it out.

870
00:42:25.680 --> 00:42:26.780
What did he do for you this week?

871
00:42:27.060 --> 00:42:27.940
Write it out.

872
00:42:28.780 --> 00:42:30.140
Worship him, give thanks to him.

873
00:42:30.640 --> 00:42:31.880
Give thanks for your freedom in Christ.

874
00:42:32.060 --> 00:42:33.700
If nothing really great happened this week,

875
00:42:33.760 --> 00:42:35.140
then just be thankful that you're free.

876
00:42:36.340 --> 00:42:37.560
Share testimonies with the people

877
00:42:37.560 --> 00:42:38.620
that you're gathering with.

878
00:42:40.840 --> 00:42:42.120
Testimonies are God's invitation.

879
00:42:43.560 --> 00:42:45.560
They're an invitation for God to do it again.

880
00:42:45.680 --> 00:42:47.880
Whatever he did for them, he can do for you.

881
00:42:48.660 --> 00:42:50.060
And then friends, we just rest.

882
00:42:50.700 --> 00:42:51.440
They just rested.

883
00:42:51.860 --> 00:42:54.320
Everyone, men, women, children, servants, foreigners,

884
00:42:54.760 --> 00:42:56.500
even the animals, everybody rested.

885
00:42:57.420 --> 00:42:58.760
That's Deuteronomy 5.14.

886
00:43:01.160 --> 00:43:03.240
So that means that on a Sabbath,

887
00:43:03.360 --> 00:43:04.880
if you're really going to do a Sabbath,

888
00:43:05.740 --> 00:43:07.760
don't just rest while others serve you.

889
00:43:08.980 --> 00:43:11.120
Okay, go out to eat, make other people serve you.

890
00:43:11.260 --> 00:43:12.780
Because unfortunately, you know,

891
00:43:12.780 --> 00:43:14.480
we're not in a forced sabbatical

892
00:43:14.480 --> 00:43:15.900
where everyone gets a day off.

893
00:43:16.380 --> 00:43:18.080
Some people have to grind and work.

894
00:43:18.080 --> 00:43:20.080
They're caught in the snare of poverty

895
00:43:20.080 --> 00:43:21.460
and they never can stop.

896
00:43:22.120 --> 00:43:23.720
And maybe you're one of those people.

897
00:43:27.140 --> 00:43:28.480
Release the pressure from anyone else

898
00:43:28.480 --> 00:43:29.540
to do anything for you.

899
00:43:30.140 --> 00:43:30.920
Everyone gets to rest.

900
00:43:31.420 --> 00:43:33.120
Create rhythms of rest in your household.

901
00:43:33.520 --> 00:43:34.900
If you have kids that are still at home,

902
00:43:35.020 --> 00:43:36.580
teach them the rhythms of rest.

903
00:43:37.840 --> 00:43:40.940
And then once again, we just dedicate that time,

904
00:43:41.460 --> 00:43:43.540
whether it's a couple hours a week that you're Sabbathing,

905
00:43:43.680 --> 00:43:45.220
whether it's a day a week that you're Sabbathing.

906
00:43:45.300 --> 00:43:46.960
Remember, you want it to become a lifestyle.

907
00:43:47.520 --> 00:43:49.700
Whether it's the evenings after you get home from work

908
00:43:49.700 --> 00:43:51.680
that you're Sabbathing, whatever you're doing,

909
00:43:51.800 --> 00:43:52.900
make it holy unto the Lord.

910
00:43:54.120 --> 00:43:56.580
In the ancient times, Sabbath was consecrated.

911
00:43:56.780 --> 00:43:59.020
It was a set apart time as God's time.

912
00:44:00.860 --> 00:44:03.980
So we have to dedicate some time in our lives to the Lord.

913
00:44:04.760 --> 00:44:07.600
It's not just a day off for you to just roll around,

914
00:44:07.660 --> 00:44:09.000
be a little carnal cornflake.

915
00:44:09.380 --> 00:44:10.740
It's a sacred space.

916
00:44:10.760 --> 00:44:12.580
It's a place where you can be recentered.

917
00:44:12.700 --> 00:44:14.120
It's a place where you can guard it.

918
00:44:14.820 --> 00:44:16.460
Guard it from being consumed by chores

919
00:44:16.460 --> 00:44:19.380
or errands or endless scrolling on social media.

920
00:44:19.520 --> 00:44:23.160
You have to let yourself be reset in your spirit

921
00:44:23.940 --> 00:44:25.160
for the days ahead.

922
00:44:27.840 --> 00:44:31.180
And Ben, anyone getting anything out of this?

923
00:44:34.820 --> 00:44:37.140
Here's some ideas that I have written down here.

924
00:44:38.480 --> 00:44:41.060
So whenever you want to Sabbath,

925
00:44:41.700 --> 00:44:43.520
here's some ideas of what you can do.

926
00:44:43.520 --> 00:44:46.500
Just shut down your work devices, light a candle,

927
00:44:47.820 --> 00:44:49.100
pray, welcome God's presence.

928
00:44:51.140 --> 00:44:53.000
Just close out whatever you're doing for the day.

929
00:44:53.140 --> 00:44:53.940
Just take a little Sabbath.

930
00:44:55.400 --> 00:44:57.260
I got a sauna for my 50th birthday.

931
00:44:57.340 --> 00:44:58.460
I can go in there and Sabbath.

932
00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:04.440
And go in there and I can, you know, you can't have electronics in there because they get

933
00:45:04.440 --> 00:45:04.940
too hot.

934
00:45:05.020 --> 00:45:09.500
So you can just go in there and you can just close your eyes and you can just meditate

935
00:45:10.080 --> 00:45:12.540
on the Lord and on the goodness of the Lord.

936
00:45:12.740 --> 00:45:13.780
I could take a book in there.

937
00:45:13.820 --> 00:45:15.840
I'm going to sweat all over it, but I could read in there.

938
00:45:16.500 --> 00:45:17.060
I could Sabbath.

939
00:45:18.920 --> 00:45:21.760
Another modern way that we could Sabbath is just community.

940
00:45:23.540 --> 00:45:27.380
Have all your friends put their phones in the center of the table and just talk.

941
00:45:27.940 --> 00:45:30.260
Share a slow meal together.

942
00:45:31.140 --> 00:45:32.280
Just say, hey, you know what?

943
00:45:32.880 --> 00:45:33.720
Let's go out to eat.

944
00:45:33.980 --> 00:45:34.740
Let's not let's go out to eat.

945
00:45:34.820 --> 00:45:37.780
Let's come over my house to eat because remember, we don't want other people serving us.

946
00:45:38.140 --> 00:45:39.120
Let's let's come over.

947
00:45:39.600 --> 00:45:45.720
But everyone, hey, drop your phone in the basket at the door here and let's just spend

948
00:45:45.720 --> 00:45:46.820
some quality time together.

949
00:45:49.000 --> 00:45:50.080
Let's play a game.

950
00:45:52.900 --> 00:45:53.840
Let's bring out a board game.

951
00:45:54.040 --> 00:45:54.740
Let's play a game.

952
00:45:55.340 --> 00:45:55.960
Let's talk.

953
00:45:57.700 --> 00:46:00.300
Let's go around the room and find out about everybody's week.

954
00:46:02.940 --> 00:46:04.480
You can worship friends.

955
00:46:04.760 --> 00:46:06.980
That's a modern Sabbath idea.

956
00:46:07.820 --> 00:46:09.000
Read scripture, pray, journal.

957
00:46:09.320 --> 00:46:15.400
You can attend, of course, a church service, but make sure that whatever you're doing,

958
00:46:15.520 --> 00:46:19.860
you're taking time in your week to rest, to nap, okay?

959
00:46:19.860 --> 00:46:20.640
Maybe even a nap.

960
00:46:21.060 --> 00:46:22.520
For those of you that can do that.

961
00:46:22.520 --> 00:46:25.300
My body doesn't really want to sleep during the day, but okay.

962
00:46:25.620 --> 00:46:27.600
Nature walk, creativity, laughter.

963
00:46:28.480 --> 00:46:30.420
I had a good laugh with a friend yesterday.

964
00:46:32.820 --> 00:46:35.980
I had a good laugh and it felt so good to laugh.

965
00:46:36.340 --> 00:46:37.600
When's the last time you had a good laugh?

966
00:46:37.980 --> 00:46:39.660
Friends, I want you to put it in the chat right now.

967
00:46:39.660 --> 00:46:41.700
When's the last time you had a good laugh?

968
00:46:42.520 --> 00:46:44.940
Just a good belly laugh.

969
00:46:46.840 --> 00:46:47.840
When's the last time?

970
00:46:50.480 --> 00:46:55.460
If you're not laughing regularly, it's probably because you have the weight of the world on

971
00:46:55.820 --> 00:46:56.360
you.

972
00:47:00.060 --> 00:47:01.320
Let's be laughing.

973
00:47:03.960 --> 00:47:04.660
To lighting.

974
00:47:07.220 --> 00:47:11.340
One of the practical ways you can just stop and have a Sabbath is just stop hustling,

975
00:47:11.760 --> 00:47:12.980
planning, striving.

976
00:47:12.980 --> 00:47:17.120
For those of you that are planners, you have to have every moment of every day of your

977
00:47:17.220 --> 00:47:18.340
life planned out.

978
00:47:18.460 --> 00:47:20.380
Maybe a Sabbath for you is just being spontaneous.

979
00:47:22.240 --> 00:47:23.180
Just saying, you know what?

980
00:47:23.240 --> 00:47:24.420
I don't have any plan today.

981
00:47:25.560 --> 00:47:25.960
Nothing.

982
00:47:26.640 --> 00:47:31.140
And that might make you nervous and that's good because the Sabbath is going to rest

983
00:47:31.980 --> 00:47:33.460
you and stretch you.

984
00:47:35.700 --> 00:47:37.960
You don't need to have certainty.

985
00:47:38.100 --> 00:47:39.820
You don't need to have it all planned out.

986
00:47:39.820 --> 00:47:42.020
You can be flexible and spontaneous.

987
00:47:44.720 --> 00:47:50.480
And of course, we always want to just end every day with a little Sabbath time with

988
00:47:50.480 --> 00:47:50.740
the Lord.

989
00:47:50.960 --> 00:47:56.700
Just gratitude, blessing, preparing to reenter into the new day tomorrow with renewed strength.

990
00:47:58.920 --> 00:48:02.900
And really what I realized here is that the Holy Sabbath was never really about restriction.

991
00:48:03.080 --> 00:48:08.300
A lot of people see it as legalism and rules and regulations, but it was God's revolutionary

992
00:48:08.300 --> 00:48:11.680
gift of rest.

993
00:48:12.120 --> 00:48:18.040
Even back then when the world wasn't spinning a million miles an hour, it was God's gift

994
00:48:18.200 --> 00:48:18.760
of rest.

995
00:48:20.060 --> 00:48:25.080
And back then it was a divine protest against slavery, against striving, against self-sufficiency.

996
00:48:25.320 --> 00:48:27.460
You have to remember, friends, it was slavery.

997
00:48:29.340 --> 00:48:31.700
A lot of people, they kept the Sabbath.

998
00:48:31.880 --> 00:48:34.980
There are a lot of people that were enslaved, different things were happening.

999
00:48:36.340 --> 00:48:39.680
So it was a divine protest against striving, against scarcity.

1000
00:48:40.180 --> 00:48:44.500
And for us, friends, when you really take a Sabbath like a real Sabbath and you stop

1001
00:48:44.500 --> 00:48:48.740
buying and you stop selling, you stop working, you stop doing all those things, it really

1002
00:48:48.740 --> 00:48:53.080
is you just protesting against the systems of this world.

1003
00:48:54.160 --> 00:48:56.920
God said that if we love the world, then we don't love him.

1004
00:48:57.240 --> 00:49:02.240
And the systems of this world are capitalism and globalism and materialism and all the

1005
00:49:02.240 --> 00:49:02.600
things.

1006
00:49:03.480 --> 00:49:05.920
Have you noticed that there's absolutely nothing closed anymore?

1007
00:49:06.020 --> 00:49:10.100
Even on Christmas, there's something open all the time.

1008
00:49:10.500 --> 00:49:11.980
There's someone who's not Sabbathing.

1009
00:49:12.120 --> 00:49:16.440
There's someone who's not being able to rest because their company is greedy and wants

1010
00:49:16.440 --> 00:49:16.940
more money.

1011
00:49:17.140 --> 00:49:23.060
I remember one year I worked at JCPenney, you know the store, for Christmas because

1012
00:49:23.060 --> 00:49:24.200
I wanted to earn extra money.

1013
00:49:24.820 --> 00:49:28.980
Well, I didn't want to earn extra money for Christmas because I was striving to buy my

1014
00:49:28.980 --> 00:49:30.360
daughter those Ugg boots that she wanted.

1015
00:49:30.360 --> 00:49:32.200
All the other kids had them.

1016
00:49:33.220 --> 00:49:34.440
All the other kids had them.

1017
00:49:34.480 --> 00:49:37.780
And my husband and I were in ministry and we couldn't afford them.

1018
00:49:37.860 --> 00:49:41.260
And her dad, who had money, wasn't going to buy them.

1019
00:49:41.660 --> 00:49:47.260
So I was out there doing a little contingent holiday job at JCPenney.

1020
00:49:47.620 --> 00:49:48.140
And guess what?

1021
00:49:48.400 --> 00:49:52.440
JCPenney was open till midnight during that season.

1022
00:49:52.680 --> 00:49:54.320
I think pandemic has changed a lot.

1023
00:49:54.620 --> 00:49:55.440
Stores are not open as late.

1024
00:49:55.460 --> 00:49:58.520
If you notice that, people are like, hey, we like this.

1025
00:49:58.520 --> 00:49:59.980
We like this.

1026
00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:02.260
this not being open thing.

1027
00:50:02.280 --> 00:50:04.940
So let's let people off at eight o'clock.

1028
00:50:05.540 --> 00:50:06.640
Around here in Texas,

1029
00:50:06.720 --> 00:50:08.220
stores are only open to eight o'clock

1030
00:50:08.220 --> 00:50:09.580
even on the weekends, you guys.

1031
00:50:09.780 --> 00:50:10.740
That is unheard of.

1032
00:50:10.980 --> 00:50:12.940
Stores used to be open till nine, 10 o'clock at night.

1033
00:50:14.800 --> 00:50:16.800
Anyway, this foreigner came in.

1034
00:50:16.880 --> 00:50:18.040
I don't know where he was from,

1035
00:50:18.100 --> 00:50:19.520
but he just wasn't from America.

1036
00:50:20.080 --> 00:50:21.900
And he was checking out

1037
00:50:22.840 --> 00:50:25.920
and he marveled at the time that it was.

1038
00:50:26.060 --> 00:50:28.100
It was like 1130 at night.

1039
00:50:29.120 --> 00:50:31.440
And he's like, what time are you open till?

1040
00:50:32.200 --> 00:50:33.180
And I told him midnight.

1041
00:50:33.740 --> 00:50:34.820
And you know what he said?

1042
00:50:34.900 --> 00:50:36.260
This is what he said and I'll never forget it.

1043
00:50:36.400 --> 00:50:38.780
He goes, oh, you Americans love money.

1044
00:50:41.480 --> 00:50:46.120
And I was like, dang, he's actually right.

1045
00:50:48.340 --> 00:50:48.820
Right?

1046
00:50:48.820 --> 00:50:50.260
And you know what we love money more than?

1047
00:50:50.740 --> 00:50:55.080
People's health, people's families, people.

1048
00:50:57.540 --> 00:50:59.300
And so friends, when we Sabbath,

1049
00:50:59.640 --> 00:51:04.060
we are basically saying we revolt against that.

1050
00:51:04.440 --> 00:51:05.900
We rebel against that.

1051
00:51:06.860 --> 00:51:09.220
God provides for his lovers even while they're sleeping.

1052
00:51:09.420 --> 00:51:11.180
We are coming out of the rat race.

1053
00:51:11.360 --> 00:51:12.760
We're not gonna compete anymore.

1054
00:51:12.880 --> 00:51:14.380
We're not going to strive anymore.

1055
00:51:14.500 --> 00:51:15.460
We're not orphans.

1056
00:51:16.080 --> 00:51:17.400
God didn't say good luck, kid.

1057
00:51:17.460 --> 00:51:18.280
Here's a granola bar.

1058
00:51:18.340 --> 00:51:19.240
I hope you make it.

1059
00:51:19.340 --> 00:51:20.500
That's not what he said.

1060
00:51:20.560 --> 00:51:22.400
He didn't thrust us into the earth realm

1061
00:51:22.400 --> 00:51:24.480
and just say, figure it out on your own.

1062
00:51:25.720 --> 00:51:27.720
We don't have to live like this anymore.

1063
00:51:29.440 --> 00:51:31.500
And friends, if you have to remind yourself

1064
00:51:31.600 --> 00:51:33.880
that you don't have to live like that,

1065
00:51:35.040 --> 00:51:37.680
just one hour of every week where you Sabbath

1066
00:51:37.840 --> 00:51:40.500
and you come out of all the striving,

1067
00:51:40.700 --> 00:51:41.780
maybe start small.

1068
00:51:42.520 --> 00:51:45.200
Maybe work yourself up to an entire day of Sabbath,

1069
00:51:45.420 --> 00:51:48.340
a Saturday or a Sunday or whatever day off work you have.

1070
00:51:48.940 --> 00:51:49.840
Some of you have Mondays.

1071
00:51:50.120 --> 00:51:52.080
I remember I used to have Mondays and Tuesdays off work.

1072
00:51:52.120 --> 00:51:53.160
I hated that.

1073
00:51:54.480 --> 00:51:55.220
You know why?

1074
00:51:55.260 --> 00:51:57.280
Because everyone else had to work on Mondays and Tuesdays.

1075
00:51:57.300 --> 00:51:59.220
And so when I was off, everyone else was working

1076
00:51:59.220 --> 00:52:00.720
and I didn't have anyone to play with.

1077
00:52:02.200 --> 00:52:03.620
And I like to play.

1078
00:52:05.100 --> 00:52:06.100
When's the last time you played?

1079
00:52:06.200 --> 00:52:07.080
Maybe that's your Sabbath.

1080
00:52:08.040 --> 00:52:10.800
You've been all work and no play and now you're no fun.

1081
00:52:12.100 --> 00:52:15.280
Oh honey, sir, you're no fun.

1082
00:52:16.040 --> 00:52:17.180
You're no fun anymore.

1083
00:52:17.940 --> 00:52:19.300
You don't laugh anymore.

1084
00:52:20.240 --> 00:52:21.960
You take everything so serious

1085
00:52:21.960 --> 00:52:23.420
because you're so pressured.

1086
00:52:24.580 --> 00:52:25.720
You're so overwhelmed.

1087
00:52:29.120 --> 00:52:30.160
It's time to play.

1088
00:52:31.680 --> 00:52:33.860
I didn't play all summer, you guys.

1089
00:52:33.980 --> 00:52:35.440
I've been swimming one time.

1090
00:52:36.200 --> 00:52:37.780
I've been hiking one time.

1091
00:52:38.680 --> 00:52:40.280
I canceled all my vacations.

1092
00:52:40.960 --> 00:52:43.240
And I think that the Lord wanted me to Sabbath

1093
00:52:43.240 --> 00:52:44.960
and that's why I was canceling my vacations.

1094
00:52:44.960 --> 00:52:46.500
But you know what I did in the space

1095
00:52:46.500 --> 00:52:47.780
when I canceled my vacations?

1096
00:52:47.880 --> 00:52:48.540
I worked.

1097
00:52:50.500 --> 00:52:51.760
I made a mistake.

1098
00:52:52.100 --> 00:52:53.260
I'm here to confess that to you.

1099
00:52:53.380 --> 00:52:55.380
The Bible says, confess your faults to one another

1100
00:52:55.380 --> 00:52:56.080
and be healed.

1101
00:52:56.860 --> 00:52:58.980
I'm asking to be healed right now.

1102
00:52:59.940 --> 00:53:02.160
Will you extend and release healing over me?

1103
00:53:02.960 --> 00:53:04.840
I messed up.

1104
00:53:05.780 --> 00:53:07.360
I done messed up, A.A. Ron.

1105
00:53:07.620 --> 00:53:08.600
I messed up.

1106
00:53:11.320 --> 00:53:13.220
God was creating margin for me.

1107
00:53:13.240 --> 00:53:14.720
And you know what I filled that margin with?

1108
00:53:14.740 --> 00:53:16.480
I already told you on the last Supernatural Saturday.

1109
00:53:16.560 --> 00:53:18.520
I filled it with a puppy that I don't have capacity for.

1110
00:53:18.520 --> 00:53:19.000
That I don't have capacity with.

1111
00:53:20.120 --> 00:53:21.700
I filled it with a bunch of work.

1112
00:53:23.780 --> 00:53:24.940
I wrote a stinking book.

1113
00:53:25.960 --> 00:53:28.900
Y'all listen, if it's obvious to you

1114
00:53:28.900 --> 00:53:30.220
that I don't know how to rest,

1115
00:53:30.940 --> 00:53:32.700
then maybe you should also look in the mirror

1116
00:53:32.700 --> 00:53:34.000
and ask yourself if you do.

1117
00:53:35.920 --> 00:53:37.640
I'm a high capacity person.

1118
00:53:38.240 --> 00:53:39.220
And that's okay.

1119
00:53:39.220 --> 00:53:40.460
That's a gift God gave me.

1120
00:53:40.560 --> 00:53:41.200
But you know what?

1121
00:53:41.360 --> 00:53:44.840
I have to do it with him, not for him.

1122
00:53:45.140 --> 00:53:46.780
Some of you, that's the shift today.

1123
00:53:47.300 --> 00:53:48.440
You love to serve the Lord.

1124
00:53:48.640 --> 00:53:51.560
You love to help other people because you love Jesus.

1125
00:53:52.500 --> 00:53:54.760
But you're helping other people until it hurts you.

1126
00:53:55.120 --> 00:53:57.020
And I just want to tell you, that's not of God.

1127
00:53:58.400 --> 00:54:00.680
If helping is hurting, it's not of God.

1128
00:54:02.800 --> 00:54:03.540
Say it to yourself.

1129
00:54:03.840 --> 00:54:05.640
If helping is hurting, it's not of God.

1130
00:54:07.420 --> 00:54:08.580
God's definition of relationship

1131
00:54:08.580 --> 00:54:11.480
is it can't be good for them if it's also not good for you.

1132
00:54:11.700 --> 00:54:13.020
It has to be reciprocal.

1133
00:54:15.020 --> 00:54:16.620
Some of you are people pleasers.

1134
00:54:16.620 --> 00:54:18.700
You don't say no, you're overextended.

1135
00:54:23.620 --> 00:54:24.020
Overextended.

1136
00:54:24.780 --> 00:54:26.200
Yeah, I know you're doing good things.

1137
00:54:27.240 --> 00:54:29.220
But because those things are hurting you,

1138
00:54:29.260 --> 00:54:30.960
that makes them not a good thing anymore.

1139
00:54:40.580 --> 00:54:41.620
I just want to let you know,

1140
00:54:41.720 --> 00:54:43.760
for all of you that are super hoping to get married,

1141
00:54:44.700 --> 00:54:48.320
some of you kind of are losing that hope.

1142
00:54:51.020 --> 00:54:54.200
And I believe that that is a real sign of burnout

1143
00:54:54.200 --> 00:54:56.800
when what you used to want to do, you no longer want to do.

1144
00:54:57.220 --> 00:54:59.360
And so it's important that we stop striving

1145
00:54:59.400 --> 00:54:59.980
and we...

1146
00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:03.360
is handed to the Lord. For some of you guys are going to take a sabbatical from

1147
00:55:03.360 --> 00:55:05.020
the dating apps. You're going to get off there.

1148
00:55:06.900 --> 00:55:09.340
You're going to put this back in the Lord's hands where it needs to be.

1149
00:55:09.940 --> 00:55:12.380
But back to what I was going to say, for those of you that are hoping to get

1150
00:55:12.380 --> 00:55:14.720
married, you have to have time for a marriage.

1151
00:55:15.240 --> 00:55:18.440
If you're out here striving, doing all this other stuff,

1152
00:55:18.520 --> 00:55:21.440
you're not going to have time to even enjoy this relationship.

1153
00:55:22.020 --> 00:55:24.640
You're not going to have time to really be with each other.

1154
00:55:24.960 --> 00:55:28.700
Look each other in the eyes, talk to each other, listen to each other.

1155
00:55:29.260 --> 00:55:32.560
I know what I'm talking about. I have a good marriage, but I'll tell you,

1156
00:55:32.580 --> 00:55:35.420
there's a lot of times when David and I were both on our phones.

1157
00:55:35.960 --> 00:55:37.960
One of us is trying to talk to the other person,

1158
00:55:38.020 --> 00:55:39.840
but the other person is working on something.

1159
00:55:40.080 --> 00:55:42.360
And when you own your own business, for those of you that do,

1160
00:55:42.500 --> 00:55:45.700
because I know there are some business owners here, you don't work nine to five.

1161
00:55:45.900 --> 00:55:47.440
You work 24 seven.

1162
00:55:48.440 --> 00:55:50.920
I know people think it's glamorous to own your own business,

1163
00:55:51.340 --> 00:55:53.500
but only if you have really serious boundaries,

1164
00:55:53.520 --> 00:55:56.480
because when you own your own business, you do not work nine to five.

1165
00:55:56.480 --> 00:55:58.300
You work 24 seven.

1166
00:56:00.240 --> 00:56:02.080
So part of a Sabbath could be, Hey,

1167
00:56:02.080 --> 00:56:05.560
I'm not going to talk about business after five o'clock at night.

1168
00:56:06.900 --> 00:56:09.340
No business conversations are allowed to happen.

1169
00:56:10.280 --> 00:56:14.100
I'm just giving you guys all kinds of different ideas as Holy spirit leads me

1170
00:56:14.340 --> 00:56:14.880
today.

1171
00:56:21.100 --> 00:56:24.180
Let's pray. Father God, we love you so much.

1172
00:56:24.180 --> 00:56:28.040
And we thank you for our original design.

1173
00:56:29.060 --> 00:56:31.840
We come into alignment with original design this morning.

1174
00:56:32.880 --> 00:56:36.160
You did not create us to strive.

1175
00:56:38.080 --> 00:56:41.100
You did not create us to be beggars.

1176
00:56:42.340 --> 00:56:46.020
You created us to be children that are provided for, that are loved.

1177
00:56:47.540 --> 00:56:51.640
You created us to live in the rhythms of grace.

1178
00:56:52.980 --> 00:56:55.360
And so, Lord, we come out of the curse right now,

1179
00:56:56.600 --> 00:56:58.680
whatever that looks like on each and every one of our lives,

1180
00:56:58.780 --> 00:57:02.440
we come out of it right now. We are no longer going to strive.

1181
00:57:02.620 --> 00:57:05.620
We are no longer going to be in poverty and orphan mentalities.

1182
00:57:06.240 --> 00:57:09.220
We want to live the way that you created us to live.

1183
00:57:10.320 --> 00:57:13.320
We know right now that rest is found in a person, not a place.

1184
00:57:13.980 --> 00:57:18.220
It's in the person of Jesus and he's offering us and we're receiving his rest

1185
00:57:18.180 --> 00:57:21.620
today. He's not taking, he's not telling us,

1186
00:57:21.620 --> 00:57:22.980
to just take a vacation.

1187
00:57:23.160 --> 00:57:26.900
He's telling us to take his yoke and we receive his yoke today.

1188
00:57:27.460 --> 00:57:30.280
We declare his yoke upon us today.

1189
00:57:31.040 --> 00:57:34.660
He isn't telling us to just do nothing, but he's saying, do it with me.

1190
00:57:34.860 --> 00:57:39.280
I released that over myself. I released that over everyone on this call.

1191
00:57:39.680 --> 00:57:44.000
He's not saying do nothing. He's saying, do nothing on your own.

1192
00:57:44.280 --> 00:57:48.660
John 15, he's saying, if you abide in me and I abide in you,

1193
00:57:48.760 --> 00:57:51.520
you can have what you want. He's saying, apart from me,

1194
00:57:51.520 --> 00:57:55.560
you can do no thing. And we are just saying that to ourselves right now.

1195
00:57:55.600 --> 00:58:00.260
I can't do anything worth doing if I do it apart from his grace and his strength

1196
00:58:00.260 --> 00:58:04.380
and his peace. And so we take that yoke upon us today.

1197
00:58:04.440 --> 00:58:07.000
I want you to see yourself just putting that yoke on right now.

1198
00:58:07.740 --> 00:58:11.620
And it's not tight and it doesn't pressure you. It's not ill fitting.

1199
00:58:12.040 --> 00:58:14.700
It's made just for you, just for you.

1200
00:58:14.740 --> 00:58:18.940
Just put it on like your favorite piece of clothing that just makes you feel so

1201
00:58:18.940 --> 00:58:20.140
safe and so comfortable.

1202
00:58:21.520 --> 00:58:24.800
It feels like you're nakey when you put it on because it's just so easy to wear.

1203
00:58:25.080 --> 00:58:29.120
Put that yoke on right now. Feel it.

1204
00:58:29.380 --> 00:58:33.020
Feel that yoke of Jesus on your body right now. It fits you.

1205
00:58:34.420 --> 00:58:36.360
It fits you so well, but it's also light.

1206
00:58:37.400 --> 00:58:39.940
So light that you barely feel it on you.

1207
00:58:40.300 --> 00:58:43.340
That's because Jesus is carrying that weight that you were never meant to carry.

1208
00:58:44.700 --> 00:58:46.700
And when we're walking in that yoke,

1209
00:58:47.480 --> 00:58:51.160
we're walking wearing this garment of surrender.

1210
00:58:51.160 --> 00:58:53.360
We move in the rhythms of heaven.

1211
00:58:54.380 --> 00:58:57.280
We're coming out of the rhythms of the world right now.

1212
00:58:57.460 --> 00:58:59.680
We're coming out of the rhythms of hustle right now.

1213
00:59:00.580 --> 00:59:03.040
We're exchanging our exhaustion for his rest.

1214
00:59:03.280 --> 00:59:05.180
We're exchanging our anxiety for his peace.

1215
00:59:06.160 --> 00:59:08.620
We're exchanging our thriving for his sufficiency.

1216
00:59:09.920 --> 00:59:12.080
He said, my grace is sufficient for you.

1217
00:59:12.300 --> 00:59:14.580
We are exchanging all of these things.

1218
00:59:17.240 --> 00:59:18.940
Sabbath, we're coming into it right now.

1219
00:59:18.940 --> 00:59:22.280
God, give us a revelation of Sabbath for each and every one of our lives.

1220
00:59:22.400 --> 00:59:26.180
It's not just the absence of work, it's the presence of Jesus.

1221
00:59:28.560 --> 00:59:29.860
The presence of Jesus.

1222
00:59:30.820 --> 00:59:32.700
You said that your creation doesn't even toil.

1223
00:59:33.760 --> 00:59:35.900
The lilies are clothed with splendor.

1224
00:59:36.820 --> 00:59:39.060
How much more will you clothe us, your children?

1225
00:59:40.620 --> 00:59:44.320
You tell us in your word, good parents wouldn't give their children a rock.

1226
00:59:45.420 --> 00:59:46.420
Or a snake.

1227
00:59:46.420 --> 00:59:50.000
How much more will you give good gifts to your children that ask you?

1228
00:59:51.140 --> 00:59:55.400
And I just want to end today by saying this, friends, a couple of years ago.

1229
00:59:55.840 --> 00:59:57.560
Remember, God's been trying to teach us this.

1230
00:59:57.600 --> 00:59:59.440
He's been trying to teach me this for years.

1231
01:00:00.000 --> 01:00:01.860
And he's not, I just want to let you know,

1232
01:00:01.880 --> 01:00:02.940
he's not disappointed in you.

1233
01:00:03.160 --> 01:00:05.360
Please don't hear any condemnation in today's message.

1234
01:00:05.440 --> 01:00:07.260
It's an invitation, not condemnation.

1235
01:00:07.920 --> 01:00:10.060
An invitation to come out of exhaustion and rest,

1236
01:00:10.460 --> 01:00:12.180
out of striving and surrender.

1237
01:00:13.360 --> 01:00:14.960
Orphans grind, but children rest.

1238
01:00:15.920 --> 01:00:17.500
Orphans strive, but children surrender.

1239
01:00:19.740 --> 01:00:21.540
Orphans hustle, but children inherit.

1240
01:00:22.200 --> 01:00:23.440
Do you guys know that I just read you?

1241
01:00:23.580 --> 01:00:25.880
That was a post that I created 15 years ago,

1242
01:00:25.880 --> 01:00:27.300
what I just said about orphans.

1243
01:00:27.920 --> 01:00:29.440
God's been trying to teach me this,

1244
01:00:29.440 --> 01:00:32.080
because remember, I came into this world pretty orphaned.

1245
01:00:32.880 --> 01:00:36.200
And that identity has stuck far longer than I want it to.

1246
01:00:36.640 --> 01:00:39.360
But God's been teaching me so many things.

1247
01:00:39.720 --> 01:00:41.140
And I want to end with this.

1248
01:00:41.180 --> 01:00:44.020
A few years ago, God told me to take the entire month off.

1249
01:00:44.260 --> 01:00:46.480
It was when this movement was in its heyday.

1250
01:00:47.320 --> 01:00:49.980
And he said, take an entire month off.

1251
01:00:51.120 --> 01:00:52.880
My little grandchildren were just born.

1252
01:00:53.060 --> 01:00:53.640
They were babies.

1253
01:00:53.760 --> 01:00:55.760
And my daughter and son-in-law were coming here

1254
01:00:55.760 --> 01:00:57.280
to visit us for the entire month

1255
01:00:57.280 --> 01:00:59.140
and bringing the babes, twins.

1256
01:01:00.040 --> 01:01:01.360
God said, take that entire month off.

1257
01:01:02.100 --> 01:01:03.420
Guys, I was so scared.

1258
01:01:04.020 --> 01:01:06.540
Oh my God, if I don't show up,

1259
01:01:06.620 --> 01:01:07.520
how are we gonna make money?

1260
01:01:07.600 --> 01:01:08.440
We own our own company.

1261
01:01:08.540 --> 01:01:09.240
What's gonna happen?

1262
01:01:11.340 --> 01:01:13.120
And I took the entire month off.

1263
01:01:13.180 --> 01:01:15.780
And you guys, the day that I put her on the plane

1264
01:01:15.780 --> 01:01:21.780
to go home, I got two invitations to come on two podcasts.

1265
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And those podcasts were Annie Downs, that sounds fun,

1266
01:01:25.680 --> 01:01:27.140
and Chris Vallotton.

1267
01:01:29.360 --> 01:01:31.620
And both of those podcasts brought in more students

1268
01:01:31.620 --> 01:01:33.440
than I ever could have brought in

1269
01:01:33.440 --> 01:01:34.920
if I had hustled all month.

1270
01:01:35.540 --> 01:01:36.940
Hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people

1271
01:01:36.940 --> 01:01:37.860
added to our movement.

1272
01:01:38.540 --> 01:01:40.200
I just want to release that over you right now.

1273
01:01:40.520 --> 01:01:42.900
What have you been trying to fix that you need to let go of

1274
01:01:42.900 --> 01:01:44.520
and put on your Jesus Cares board?

1275
01:01:45.480 --> 01:01:47.320
What have you been trying to figure out?

1276
01:01:48.840 --> 01:01:53.180
What do you need to do less of?

1277
01:01:53.180 --> 01:01:55.860
What do you, where do you need to rest

1278
01:01:55.860 --> 01:01:58.780
and just let God, L-I-G it, let it go?

1279
01:02:01.840 --> 01:02:04.560
What do you need to see supernatural provision in

1280
01:02:04.560 --> 01:02:06.240
but you could never do it on your own

1281
01:02:06.240 --> 01:02:08.900
even if you stayed up all night and slept with one eye open?

1282
01:02:09.980 --> 01:02:11.760
I want you to ask yourself these questions.

1283
01:02:11.960 --> 01:02:13.300
And I want to hear testimonies.

1284
01:02:13.420 --> 01:02:14.740
The next couple of Faith Fridays,

1285
01:02:14.900 --> 01:02:16.220
I want you to show up if you can

1286
01:02:16.220 --> 01:02:18.120
and give testimonies of what happened

1287
01:02:18.160 --> 01:02:19.800
when you declared a Sabbath.

1288
01:02:20.640 --> 01:02:22.080
Arrest from striving.

1289
01:02:23.180 --> 01:02:24.020
Maybe that's your Sabbath.

1290
01:02:24.200 --> 01:02:26.160
You just declare, I'm not doing this anymore.

1291
01:02:26.220 --> 01:02:27.680
I'm not going to try to figure this out.

1292
01:02:27.740 --> 01:02:30.400
I'm not going to try to rob Peter to pay Paul.

1293
01:02:30.520 --> 01:02:31.540
I'm not doing this anymore.

1294
01:02:31.640 --> 01:02:35.160
I'm going to allow God to show me his supernatural provision.

1295
01:02:35.340 --> 01:02:37.540
And then when he gives you instructions, you follow them.

1296
01:02:37.720 --> 01:02:39.300
If he asked you to partner with him

1297
01:02:39.300 --> 01:02:41.500
and do something specific, you do it.

1298
01:02:41.920 --> 01:02:43.600
And so Lord, help us.

1299
01:02:43.820 --> 01:02:45.500
Help us to receive this word in balance.

1300
01:02:45.780 --> 01:02:48.220
Help us to receive this word and activate it.

1301
01:02:48.220 --> 01:02:49.300
In Jesus name, amen.

1302
01:02:49.500 --> 01:02:50.880
All right, friends, love you so much.

1303
01:02:50.880 --> 01:02:53.200
Have an amazing supernatural Sabbath Saturday.

1304
01:02:53.540 --> 01:02:54.100
Bye.