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Good morning, everyone, and welcome to Supernatural Saturday.

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Happy Sabbath.

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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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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.

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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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There's a huge temptation to try to figure it out yourself.

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I'm not a doctor, but I play one on TV.

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I'm going to try to figure this out myself.

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I'm going to fix it.

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We're fixers.

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I'm going to try to fix it.

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I've got a financial issue.

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You're laying up at night in bed trying to do the math and the math ain't mathing.

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I'm trying to figure it out.

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

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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, right?

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Well, yeah, but a lot of that 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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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 and also doing our part.

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

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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.

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She got a word about her house, about keeping her house.

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She couldn't afford her house, okay, couldn't afford it.

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

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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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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 on to a word when everything in the natural is going the opposite direction,

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but she didn't do anything different and she's not working, she's not making any kind of

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income besides whatever, you know, coming in from, you know, uh, probably S you know,

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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 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, do you see those two things?

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You're like, well, Jackie, what's the right way to do it?

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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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word.

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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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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 and it was 24 hours

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before the bank 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, okay?

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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, 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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Oftentimes people say, Jackie, 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 and say,

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if lots of people 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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What does that mean?

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It means I'm a visionary.

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It means I think of grand ideas

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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.

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None of us knew that our whole worlds

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were gonna get turned upside down in just a couple 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, a lot of people

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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 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 a 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. You guys,

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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. I was super offended. Like I was,

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I was just angry. 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. It doesn't stop moving.

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Except during pandemic, which actually started, you know,

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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.

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Oftentimes 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, you don't have to Sabbath out of crisis.

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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.

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But everybody has to rest sometime.

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

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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 a long

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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 discipled me had long hair, long dresses and

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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 salvation.

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He might not be inviting you into Sabbath, the way 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.

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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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but also as us, as us.

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The Bible says that if we're willing

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to partner in his suffering, what does that mean?

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Does it mean that it's like, oh, are you willing to suffer?

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We're all gonna suffer friends

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because we live on this earth that's still broken.

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But that's not what that scripture is talking about.

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It's saying if you're willing to accept

504
00:25:43.680 --> 00:25:45.480
Jesus' suffering as your own,

505
00:25:47.280 --> 00:25:48.960
meaning he suffered for you and as you,

506
00:25:48.960 --> 00:25:49.800
if you're willing to accept that

507
00:25:49.800 --> 00:25:52.560
then you can be glorified with him.

508
00:25:53.800 --> 00:25:55.800
If you're willing to accept that you already suffered

509
00:25:55.800 --> 00:25:59.440
with him on that cross, that you can be glorified with him.

510
00:26:02.240 --> 00:26:05.800
Jesus is telling us in Matthew, he's saying, come to me,

511
00:26:05.800 --> 00:26:09.880
get away with me and you'll recover your real life.

512
00:26:12.140 --> 00:26:13.900
You won't strive anymore.

513
00:26:14.880 --> 00:26:16.540
You don't have to strive for love.

514
00:26:16.540 --> 00:26:19.120
You guys, friends, love especially.

515
00:26:20.720 --> 00:26:23.700
Any type of striving is birthed in fear.

516
00:26:23.700 --> 00:26:26.860
And so if we're striving in this area of our love lives,

517
00:26:26.860 --> 00:26:29.180
and I don't want to just apply this to our love lives

518
00:26:29.180 --> 00:26:30.620
because this is a holistic thing.

519
00:26:30.620 --> 00:26:34.020
It's all of our lives, every part of our lives,

520
00:26:34.020 --> 00:26:36.460
but especially for love.

521
00:26:36.460 --> 00:26:38.740
If you have to strive for love, then guess what?

522
00:26:38.740 --> 00:26:41.580
You're calling it by the wrong name because it's not love.

523
00:26:43.700 --> 00:26:44.820
Resting in love.

524
00:26:46.340 --> 00:26:49.980
Jesus is inviting us to walk with him and work with him.

525
00:26:49.980 --> 00:26:52.340
He's inviting us to watch how he does it.

526
00:26:52.340 --> 00:26:54.980
Remember, rabbis, for those of you that listened

527
00:26:54.980 --> 00:26:56.580
to that Supernatural Saturday,

528
00:26:57.660 --> 00:27:01.140
their disciples followed them and watched them do life.

529
00:27:01.140 --> 00:27:06.140
They watched how the Torah was acted out by that rabbi.

530
00:27:06.840 --> 00:27:09.500
How was he interpreting it in everyday life,

531
00:27:09.500 --> 00:27:11.980
in the living that he was doing?

532
00:27:11.980 --> 00:27:13.620
And Jesus is saying as our rabbi,

533
00:27:13.620 --> 00:27:16.500
because remember the yoke is the rabbi's teachings.

534
00:27:16.500 --> 00:27:18.420
And so he's inviting us to take his yoke,

535
00:27:18.420 --> 00:27:20.660
his set of teachings, his set of philosophies

536
00:27:20.660 --> 00:27:22.620
and ideologies on us.

537
00:27:22.620 --> 00:27:24.100
And he promised us in the scripture

538
00:27:24.100 --> 00:27:25.500
that he wouldn't put anything on us

539
00:27:25.500 --> 00:27:27.020
that was hard or ill-fitting.

540
00:27:28.260 --> 00:27:31.180
He's saying, come with me, work with me.

541
00:27:31.180 --> 00:27:32.220
Watch how I do it.

542
00:27:32.220 --> 00:27:33.100
Learn the what?

543
00:27:33.100 --> 00:27:35.260
The unforced rhythms of grace.

544
00:27:37.140 --> 00:27:39.420
And if we apply that to love life, then that means what?

545
00:27:39.420 --> 00:27:41.020
Don't force connections.

546
00:27:41.020 --> 00:27:43.340
Don't rush timelines with people.

547
00:27:44.260 --> 00:27:47.940
Let God's alignment bring us peace, not pressure.

548
00:27:47.940 --> 00:27:49.400
Anytime we feel pressure,

549
00:27:49.440 --> 00:27:51.400
we're not in the rhythms of grace.

550
00:27:51.400 --> 00:27:54.120
Friends, I know when I'm in my flesh and doing something

551
00:27:54.120 --> 00:27:55.840
because I feel so pressured.

552
00:27:57.200 --> 00:27:59.480
I feel so much pressure to get it done.

553
00:27:59.480 --> 00:28:01.680
I feel so much pressure to figure it out.

554
00:28:04.600 --> 00:28:07.480
I absolutely know when I say these words,

555
00:28:07.480 --> 00:28:09.140
oh my God, I can't do this.

556
00:28:10.760 --> 00:28:12.640
I'm in my flesh.

557
00:28:12.640 --> 00:28:14.120
And that's when the Holy Spirit reminds me,

558
00:28:14.120 --> 00:28:18.880
oh, hey, you don't have to do this alone.

559
00:28:19.400 --> 00:28:20.240
I want you to take your hands down.

560
00:28:20.240 --> 00:28:21.200
Everyone has hands up.

561
00:28:21.200 --> 00:28:22.040
Put them down.

562
00:28:24.000 --> 00:28:26.680
Put them down, put them down, put them down.

563
00:28:26.680 --> 00:28:29.260
I know this is a heavier Supernatural Saturday,

564
00:28:29.260 --> 00:28:32.080
but I really believe it's an invitation to come into

565
00:28:35.360 --> 00:28:38.200
a rest that you're gonna feel deep in your bones.

566
00:28:38.200 --> 00:28:39.020
Take them down.

567
00:28:39.020 --> 00:28:39.960
Hands are still up.

568
00:28:39.960 --> 00:28:41.080
Take down your hands.

569
00:28:44.200 --> 00:28:45.840
Because we're exhausted, friends.

570
00:28:46.840 --> 00:28:49.480
Even if you have good boundaries, you're exhausted.

571
00:28:49.480 --> 00:28:51.480
This culture that we live in is exhausting.

572
00:28:51.480 --> 00:28:53.000
And the reason why a lot of us don't even know

573
00:28:53.000 --> 00:28:55.360
we're exhausted is because we're so used to it.

574
00:28:56.520 --> 00:28:57.820
It's all we've ever known.

575
00:28:59.200 --> 00:29:00.360
There was a simpler time.

576
00:29:00.360 --> 00:29:01.640
There was a better day.

577
00:29:02.840 --> 00:29:05.680
Okay, now your hands are mostly down.

578
00:29:05.680 --> 00:29:07.240
I want you to put your hands up

579
00:29:07.240 --> 00:29:10.040
if any time in the last six months you've said,

580
00:29:10.040 --> 00:29:12.500
I just can't do this anymore about something.

581
00:29:13.100 --> 00:29:15.100
You cried out, I just don't wanna do this anymore.

582
00:29:15.100 --> 00:29:18.980
I just can't do this anymore about something, anything.

583
00:29:20.900 --> 00:29:21.980
I just can't figure this out.

584
00:29:21.980 --> 00:29:23.020
I'm so tired.

585
00:29:23.980 --> 00:29:27.020
You might've even wept tears of exhaustion.

586
00:29:28.260 --> 00:29:33.260
Wow, friends, friends, come on.

587
00:29:34.140 --> 00:29:36.260
God's saying, come to me, get away with me.

588
00:29:36.260 --> 00:29:38.660
You'll recover your real life.

589
00:29:38.660 --> 00:29:39.980
This is not your real life.

590
00:29:40.300 --> 00:29:42.300
Real life, this is not your real life.

591
00:29:43.180 --> 00:29:45.100
This is not the way it was meant to be.

592
00:29:45.100 --> 00:29:47.500
This is not the life that Jesus died to give us.

593
00:29:48.740 --> 00:29:49.700
It's not.

594
00:29:49.700 --> 00:29:52.020
So what would a Sabbath look like?

595
00:29:54.340 --> 00:29:56.140
Well, let's look at what the Holy Sabbath looked like.

596
00:29:56.140 --> 00:29:56.980
Can we do that?

597
00:29:56.980 --> 00:30:00.260
Just look at what the Holy Sabbath looked like.

598
00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:03.400
Like, right, so biblically,

599
00:30:03.400 --> 00:30:06.160
they didn't do any labor on that day, no work.

600
00:30:06.160 --> 00:30:08.440
They didn't sell anything, they didn't buy anything.

601
00:30:08.440 --> 00:30:11.240
There was no striving at all.

602
00:30:11.240 --> 00:30:13.160
If you had a farm, you didn't go out

603
00:30:13.160 --> 00:30:15.160
and do anything with the animals.

604
00:30:15.160 --> 00:30:16.640
You didn't do anything, you didn't sell anything,

605
00:30:16.640 --> 00:30:18.320
you didn't buy anything, you didn't go to market.

606
00:30:18.320 --> 00:30:21.880
Whatever food you had, ladies, because back then,

607
00:30:21.880 --> 00:30:23.480
you know, we would have been in charge

608
00:30:23.480 --> 00:30:25.360
of all the domestic duties.

609
00:30:25.360 --> 00:30:27.800
You didn't clean, you didn't cook.

610
00:30:30.000 --> 00:30:32.680
You had to eat stuff that was prepared

611
00:30:32.680 --> 00:30:34.120
at some other point in time.

612
00:30:37.840 --> 00:30:39.200
What was going on?

613
00:30:39.200 --> 00:30:42.080
Everyone was getting a chance to take a breather,

614
00:30:42.080 --> 00:30:45.840
to take a pause, to take a beat, everybody was.

615
00:30:45.840 --> 00:30:47.600
It was a full stop, friends.

616
00:30:47.600 --> 00:30:52.600
Say that, it was a full stop from all productivity.

617
00:30:55.840 --> 00:30:56.680
Full stop.

618
00:30:57.640 --> 00:30:59.200
Full stop.

619
00:30:59.200 --> 00:31:01.320
Some people live like this still.

620
00:31:01.320 --> 00:31:04.640
But I wanna talk to you guys about not just the Sabbath,

621
00:31:04.640 --> 00:31:07.800
right, yes, you should be having at least one day a week

622
00:31:07.800 --> 00:31:09.000
where you're Sabbathing.

623
00:31:10.000 --> 00:31:12.440
And I'm saying that to myself too, not just you.

624
00:31:12.440 --> 00:31:15.720
I never really turn off and I need to and I'm going to.

625
00:31:15.720 --> 00:31:17.000
I believe this is a wake-up call.

626
00:31:17.000 --> 00:31:19.480
I heard the word, I saw the word,

627
00:31:19.480 --> 00:31:23.320
and then God spoke to me about the word watershed.

628
00:31:23.320 --> 00:31:25.000
And a watershed is a moment

629
00:31:25.760 --> 00:31:26.760
where everything changes.

630
00:31:26.760 --> 00:31:29.120
A watershed is a tipping point

631
00:31:29.120 --> 00:31:31.360
where you go a whole different direction.

632
00:31:31.360 --> 00:31:33.040
And friends, I promise to you

633
00:31:33.040 --> 00:31:34.640
and I want you to hold me accountable

634
00:31:34.640 --> 00:31:37.280
that this movement during this,

635
00:31:37.280 --> 00:31:40.440
we're about to go into Rosh Hashanah.

636
00:31:40.440 --> 00:31:43.760
We're about to go into Rosh Hashanah, September 22nd.

637
00:31:44.960 --> 00:31:49.000
And when we go into that, it's gonna be a new year.

638
00:31:49.000 --> 00:31:51.160
It is, a Hebraic new year.

639
00:31:51.160 --> 00:31:53.640
And that's the new year that I care mostly about.

640
00:31:53.640 --> 00:31:56.560
And I will tell you this, when we go into that,

641
00:31:56.560 --> 00:31:58.480
during that, during the first month of that,

642
00:31:58.480 --> 00:32:00.920
we're gonna celebrate a five-year anniversary here

643
00:32:00.920 --> 00:32:01.840
at Last Year Single.

644
00:32:01.840 --> 00:32:05.240
And I promise you that this movement

645
00:32:05.240 --> 00:32:08.840
is going to find its sweet spot in the rhythms of grace.

646
00:32:10.520 --> 00:32:12.800
And I believe that that grace is gonna trickle down

647
00:32:12.800 --> 00:32:15.800
onto each and every person that's involved in this movement.

648
00:32:17.480 --> 00:32:18.840
I believe it with all my heart.

649
00:32:18.840 --> 00:32:20.880
I believe that that is the watershed moment.

650
00:32:20.880 --> 00:32:22.400
God's like, hey, you know what?

651
00:32:22.440 --> 00:32:24.280
I asked you to do this with me.

652
00:32:25.160 --> 00:32:26.200
And I might cry.

653
00:32:27.120 --> 00:32:28.600
I asked you to do this with me.

654
00:32:28.600 --> 00:32:30.600
And you said, yes, and I'm so proud of you, daughter.

655
00:32:30.600 --> 00:32:31.800
But somewhere along the line,

656
00:32:31.800 --> 00:32:33.600
you started doing it yourself.

657
00:32:41.800 --> 00:32:44.120
Because friends, that's what we do.

658
00:32:44.120 --> 00:32:46.800
We hear from the Lord and we partner with the Lord.

659
00:32:47.720 --> 00:32:49.640
But somewhere along the line,

660
00:32:49.640 --> 00:32:52.080
we start doing it in our own strength again.

661
00:32:53.400 --> 00:32:54.920
And friends, this is not something

662
00:32:54.920 --> 00:32:56.800
that can be done in your own strength.

663
00:32:58.600 --> 00:33:01.880
First of all, the volume of people is absolutely

664
00:33:03.640 --> 00:33:05.760
beyond your wildest imaginations.

665
00:33:05.760 --> 00:33:07.120
You should see my inboxes.

666
00:33:07.120 --> 00:33:08.680
We're talking about hundreds and hundreds

667
00:33:08.680 --> 00:33:10.080
and hundreds of people.

668
00:33:10.080 --> 00:33:11.320
Y'all are like, where's my husband?

669
00:33:11.320 --> 00:33:13.280
He's in my inbox somewhere, friends.

670
00:33:16.000 --> 00:33:16.880
God knows how to get him to you.

671
00:33:16.880 --> 00:33:18.480
Don't worry, he's not lost.

672
00:33:20.080 --> 00:33:21.080
But I do know this.

673
00:33:21.080 --> 00:33:22.880
I know that at some point,

674
00:33:23.840 --> 00:33:25.760
I stopped leaning into the supernatural

675
00:33:25.760 --> 00:33:29.480
because I got so overwhelmed with the daily stuff

676
00:33:29.480 --> 00:33:32.360
that I just started trying to do it myself

677
00:33:32.360 --> 00:33:36.520
with my own ideas, with my team and their ideas.

678
00:33:36.520 --> 00:33:40.960
We just stopped being in the rhythms of grace.

679
00:33:40.960 --> 00:33:42.160
Has God still blessed us?

680
00:33:42.160 --> 00:33:43.440
Yes.

681
00:33:43.440 --> 00:33:44.640
Are things still amazing?

682
00:33:44.640 --> 00:33:45.480
Yes.

683
00:33:45.480 --> 00:33:48.920
But could they be beyond amazing, supernatural?

684
00:33:48.920 --> 00:33:50.760
Yes, and I want that.

685
00:33:51.440 --> 00:33:53.400
And I'm not gonna settle for anything less than that.

686
00:33:56.840 --> 00:33:59.800
God has blessed our obedience with more success stories

687
00:33:59.800 --> 00:34:02.760
than anything that is out there.

688
00:34:02.760 --> 00:34:06.000
But I believe that the tsunami wave of kingdom marriages

689
00:34:06.000 --> 00:34:08.880
that God promised me is only gonna come

690
00:34:08.880 --> 00:34:11.840
from a true spiritual revival.

691
00:34:11.840 --> 00:34:13.639
And that is not gonna come from the flesh.

692
00:34:13.639 --> 00:34:17.480
It's going to come from unity in this community

693
00:34:17.480 --> 00:34:20.280
of all of us coming together and looking to the Lord.

694
00:34:21.600 --> 00:34:23.679
Because you're part of this too.

695
00:34:23.679 --> 00:34:25.199
It's not just me.

696
00:34:25.199 --> 00:34:28.199
And I have been, because I am a personality

697
00:34:28.199 --> 00:34:30.560
that's a pioneer, because I am an entrepreneur,

698
00:34:30.560 --> 00:34:35.560
because I care so deeply about trying to solve this problem.

699
00:34:36.639 --> 00:34:38.159
I care about your love story.

700
00:34:38.159 --> 00:34:40.520
In fact, for some of you, maybe more than you do right now

701
00:34:40.520 --> 00:34:41.520
because you're done.

702
00:34:43.440 --> 00:34:45.560
But that pressure has crushed me

703
00:34:46.960 --> 00:34:49.120
because I wasn't carrying it with the Lord.

704
00:34:49.199 --> 00:34:51.400
I was at first, but then somewhere

705
00:34:51.400 --> 00:34:53.120
in the last five years, I stopped.

706
00:34:55.600 --> 00:34:58.240
And I wanna get back to the supernatural, don't you?

707
00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:04.160
I want to get back to the supernatural.

708
00:35:04.160 --> 00:35:08.640
I don't want to do anything in the flesh.

709
00:35:08.640 --> 00:35:11.800
If God's not doing it, I don't want to do it either.

710
00:35:11.800 --> 00:35:18.000
All right, so the Holy Sabbath looked like ceasing from all those things.

711
00:35:18.000 --> 00:35:20.200
What does it look like in the modern to cease from work?

712
00:35:20.200 --> 00:35:22.480
Okay, let's talk about that.

713
00:35:22.480 --> 00:35:25.120
Turn off your email.

714
00:35:25.120 --> 00:35:26.120
Turn off your phone.

715
00:35:26.120 --> 00:35:28.840
In fact, leave your phone at home.

716
00:35:28.840 --> 00:35:34.120
Turn off the notifications on your phone.

717
00:35:34.120 --> 00:35:36.360
Sabbath isn't just you resting from your nine to five.

718
00:35:36.360 --> 00:35:37.840
It's resting from your side hustle.

719
00:35:37.840 --> 00:35:41.600
It's resting from everything.

720
00:35:41.600 --> 00:35:46.920
Sabbath is an invitation to lay on the couch and consume your mind with the news or scrolling

721
00:35:46.920 --> 00:35:48.560
on social media.

722
00:35:48.560 --> 00:35:52.920
It's not an invitation to watch and binge movies.

723
00:35:52.920 --> 00:35:54.120
Why?

724
00:35:54.120 --> 00:35:56.440
Because that is not giving rest to your soul.

725
00:35:56.440 --> 00:35:58.040
It's not giving rest to your heart.

726
00:35:58.040 --> 00:36:00.840
It's not giving rest to your imagination.

727
00:36:00.840 --> 00:36:01.840
Is it?

728
00:36:01.840 --> 00:36:04.240
It's not allowing you to dream with God.

729
00:36:04.240 --> 00:36:07.440
Okay, someone's got to get muted.

730
00:36:07.440 --> 00:36:13.240
Let's find them and mute them.

731
00:36:13.240 --> 00:36:25.080
All right, okay, so there's some practical application.

732
00:36:25.120 --> 00:36:28.840
Let's talk about the next thing that the Holy Sabbath looked like.

733
00:36:28.840 --> 00:36:31.560
It looked like a sacred gathering.

734
00:36:31.560 --> 00:36:34.880
You guys, I started getting targeted by these ads.

735
00:36:34.880 --> 00:36:36.880
You might have started getting targeted by them too.

736
00:36:36.880 --> 00:36:40.200
There's something like 80s nostalgia is what they're called.

737
00:36:40.200 --> 00:36:45.800
And I was a kid in the 80s, like I was in elementary school in the 80s.

738
00:36:45.800 --> 00:36:49.840
And so when I see those ads, it really does bring back nostalgia for me because they're

739
00:36:49.840 --> 00:36:52.920
using AI to recreate what the 80s look like.

740
00:36:52.920 --> 00:36:57.880
Teenagers with big hair, hanging out, you know, there was no social media.

741
00:36:57.880 --> 00:36:59.160
There was no internet.

742
00:36:59.160 --> 00:37:03.220
People are like, you know, driving their cars on Friday night and meeting up at spots and

743
00:37:03.220 --> 00:37:07.840
everyone hanging out and they're playing games together outside and doing things.

744
00:37:07.840 --> 00:37:12.680
I mean, that barely exists anymore.

745
00:37:12.680 --> 00:37:15.200
And when I see that, I long for that simpler time.

746
00:37:15.200 --> 00:37:17.760
I long for that, right?

747
00:37:17.760 --> 00:37:21.360
And so the second part of a Holy Sabbath is a sacred gathering.

748
00:37:21.360 --> 00:37:23.920
These communities gathered, friends, this is what they do.

749
00:37:23.920 --> 00:37:25.640
In fact, people still do this.

750
00:37:25.640 --> 00:37:30.360
You know, the Jews still keep Sabbath and some Christians keep Sabbath.

751
00:37:30.360 --> 00:37:31.360
They gather for what?

752
00:37:31.360 --> 00:37:33.480
For worship, for prayer.

753
00:37:33.480 --> 00:37:36.080
They read the Torah together.

754
00:37:36.080 --> 00:37:39.640
They ate food.

755
00:37:39.640 --> 00:37:42.280
And so what does that look like in our modern time?

756
00:37:42.280 --> 00:37:48.200
It looks like the same thing, gathering together with friends, with family, reminding each

757
00:37:48.200 --> 00:37:52.320
other of the goodness of God, sharing a meal, singing, praying, speaking blessings over

758
00:37:52.320 --> 00:38:00.080
each other, you know, choosing community over isolation.

759
00:38:00.080 --> 00:38:03.520
The third aspect of the biblical Sabbath was delight and joy.

760
00:38:03.520 --> 00:38:05.600
The Sabbath wasn't just about not working.

761
00:38:05.600 --> 00:38:07.800
It was about being delighted.

762
00:38:07.800 --> 00:38:13.240
It was a day to enjoy creation, enjoy food, enjoy other people.

763
00:38:13.240 --> 00:38:18.240
It's Isaiah 58, 13 through 14, if you want to look at that scripture.

764
00:38:18.240 --> 00:38:20.800
So in the modern time, we can enjoy good food without rushing.

765
00:38:20.800 --> 00:38:23.000
You could take your time.

766
00:38:23.000 --> 00:38:26.400
You guys, when I went to Europe for the first time, I was so amazed that people ate so late

767
00:38:26.400 --> 00:38:27.400
at night.

768
00:38:27.400 --> 00:38:28.400
That was the number one thing.

769
00:38:28.400 --> 00:38:29.400
And people weren't fat.

770
00:38:29.400 --> 00:38:30.400
That was the second thing.

771
00:38:30.400 --> 00:38:32.360
I was like, hmm, what are people doing around here?

772
00:38:32.360 --> 00:38:33.760
They're walking a lot after they eat.

773
00:38:33.760 --> 00:38:34.760
I'll tell you that.

774
00:38:34.760 --> 00:38:39.160
A lot of steps, no elevators, crazy stuff.

775
00:38:39.160 --> 00:38:45.240
But they also took hours and hours to eat.

776
00:38:45.240 --> 00:38:47.840
Eating was like a thing.

777
00:38:47.840 --> 00:38:50.400
You didn't just get in and get out.

778
00:38:50.400 --> 00:38:53.240
You got in and then you dined.

779
00:38:53.240 --> 00:38:54.240
Say that, dined.

780
00:38:54.240 --> 00:39:00.200
I just want to let you guys know that the marriage feast of the lamb is not going to

781
00:39:00.200 --> 00:39:01.800
be in and out.

782
00:39:01.800 --> 00:39:09.040
In fact, because we have eternity, maybe we're going to stay a couple thousand years there.

783
00:39:09.920 --> 00:39:10.920
Just doing what?

784
00:39:10.920 --> 00:39:11.920
Just fellowshipping.

785
00:39:11.920 --> 00:39:13.320
Just Sabbathing.

786
00:39:13.320 --> 00:39:14.320
Real Sabbathing.

787
00:39:14.320 --> 00:39:15.320
Dining.

788
00:39:15.320 --> 00:39:22.480
For those of you who thought you weren't going to eat in heaven, well, there's a lot of scriptures

789
00:39:22.480 --> 00:39:23.480
about eating.

790
00:39:23.480 --> 00:39:25.320
So I think you are.

791
00:39:25.320 --> 00:39:28.400
Eat, eating, dining.

792
00:39:28.400 --> 00:39:30.040
There's a difference between eating and dining.

793
00:39:30.040 --> 00:39:31.200
Remember that old song?

794
00:39:31.200 --> 00:39:33.480
Who remembers that old song?

795
00:39:33.480 --> 00:39:35.800
Come and dine, the master calleth.

796
00:39:35.800 --> 00:39:38.720
Come and dine.

797
00:39:38.720 --> 00:39:40.280
Remember that song?

798
00:39:40.280 --> 00:39:43.480
You can eat at Jesus' table all the time.

799
00:39:43.480 --> 00:39:48.680
He who fed the multitudes and turned the water into wine, to the hungry calleth now.

800
00:39:48.680 --> 00:39:51.560
Come and dine.

801
00:39:51.560 --> 00:39:53.560
Remember that?

802
00:39:53.560 --> 00:39:55.440
Dine.

803
00:39:55.440 --> 00:39:56.440
Eat your fool.

804
00:39:56.440 --> 00:39:59.400
Be satisfied.

805
00:39:59.400 --> 00:40:00.000
Don't rush.

806
00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:01.980
So what else can we delight and joy in?

807
00:40:01.980 --> 00:40:03.720
Nature, friends.

808
00:40:03.720 --> 00:40:05.040
When's the last time you got out in nature?

809
00:40:05.040 --> 00:40:07.060
When's the last time you took your shoes and socks off

810
00:40:07.060 --> 00:40:10.480
and grounded yourself in the grass?

811
00:40:10.480 --> 00:40:12.880
You know why we were so much healthier when we were children?

812
00:40:12.880 --> 00:40:14.120
It wasn't because we were young

813
00:40:14.120 --> 00:40:15.820
and our cells weren't old yet.

814
00:40:15.820 --> 00:40:18.360
It was because we were outside a lot.

815
00:40:19.860 --> 00:40:21.560
We were in the sunshine.

816
00:40:22.600 --> 00:40:24.040
We were in the grass.

817
00:40:24.040 --> 00:40:26.040
We were in the nature.

818
00:40:26.040 --> 00:40:27.440
Yeah, we got some poison ivy.

819
00:40:27.440 --> 00:40:28.280
It doesn't matter.

820
00:40:28.280 --> 00:40:29.400
We were in the woods.

821
00:40:29.440 --> 00:40:33.200
We were down with our faces in the dirt

822
00:40:33.200 --> 00:40:35.440
watching ants build their home.

823
00:40:35.440 --> 00:40:36.400
Anyone else?

824
00:40:37.280 --> 00:40:38.520
Just watching them.

825
00:40:38.520 --> 00:40:39.560
What are they up to?

826
00:40:42.160 --> 00:40:44.160
You guys, that was making us healthy.

827
00:40:46.560 --> 00:40:48.820
Just so you know, you are a creation

828
00:40:48.820 --> 00:40:50.960
that came from creation.

829
00:40:50.960 --> 00:40:53.880
That's kind of your origin when you get down in the dirt.

830
00:40:53.880 --> 00:40:58.880
It's part of our superpower to be out in God's creation.

831
00:41:00.680 --> 00:41:02.720
God's creation brings us life.

832
00:41:02.720 --> 00:41:04.700
It reminds us of who he is.

833
00:41:05.700 --> 00:41:09.440
Now we're behind closed doors all day long

834
00:41:09.440 --> 00:41:11.540
with slathered on sunscreen.

835
00:41:15.120 --> 00:41:17.320
Come on, popping a bunch of supplements that we could get

836
00:41:17.320 --> 00:41:19.160
if we just went outside for a minute.

837
00:41:20.280 --> 00:41:21.640
So take a walk in nature.

838
00:41:21.640 --> 00:41:23.440
Do things, friends, whatever it is

839
00:41:24.000 --> 00:41:26.560
that brings you joy and restores your soul.

840
00:41:26.560 --> 00:41:28.440
Play music, paint maybe.

841
00:41:28.440 --> 00:41:30.760
Laugh, play family games together.

842
00:41:30.760 --> 00:41:34.720
Read, read something that restores your soul.

843
00:41:36.720 --> 00:41:39.520
Another thing that they do is they remembered God

844
00:41:39.520 --> 00:41:42.640
and they worshiped him, remembering what he's done.

845
00:41:42.640 --> 00:41:44.040
When's the last time that you just listed out

846
00:41:44.040 --> 00:41:46.100
all the things God has ever done for you?

847
00:41:46.100 --> 00:41:48.600
All the times that he's ever come through for you?

848
00:41:48.600 --> 00:41:50.720
All the times when he's comforted you and helped you,

849
00:41:50.720 --> 00:41:53.960
whether it was just supernaturally or through another person

850
00:41:53.960 --> 00:41:57.600
remembering God, creating memorials

851
00:41:57.600 --> 00:41:59.400
of what God has done for us.

852
00:42:01.920 --> 00:42:04.280
The Jews, of course, they remember God's creation,

853
00:42:04.280 --> 00:42:08.080
his rest, his deliverance, Israel, freedom from Egypt.

854
00:42:08.080 --> 00:42:10.760
There's certain passages of scriptures

855
00:42:10.760 --> 00:42:13.280
from the ancient texts from the Torah

856
00:42:13.280 --> 00:42:15.920
that they would read during Sabbath every time

857
00:42:15.920 --> 00:42:18.800
just to continue to remember what God has done.

858
00:42:18.800 --> 00:42:20.280
And so what we can do in the modern world

859
00:42:20.800 --> 00:42:22.000
is we can journal.

860
00:42:22.000 --> 00:42:23.880
We can be grateful for what God has done for us.

861
00:42:23.880 --> 00:42:25.600
We can journal it out.

862
00:42:25.600 --> 00:42:26.880
What did he do for you this week?

863
00:42:26.880 --> 00:42:28.480
Write it out.

864
00:42:28.480 --> 00:42:30.560
Worship him, give thanks to him.

865
00:42:30.560 --> 00:42:32.040
Give thanks for your freedom in Christ.

866
00:42:32.040 --> 00:42:33.960
If nothing really great happened this week,

867
00:42:33.960 --> 00:42:36.280
then just be thankful that you're free.

868
00:42:36.280 --> 00:42:39.280
Share testimonies with the people that you're gathering with.

869
00:42:40.520 --> 00:42:42.560
Testimonies are God's invitation.

870
00:42:43.840 --> 00:42:45.640
They're an invitation for God to do it again.

871
00:42:45.640 --> 00:42:48.000
Whatever he did for them, he can do for you.

872
00:42:48.920 --> 00:42:50.720
And then friends, we just rest.

873
00:42:50.720 --> 00:42:51.560
They just rested.

874
00:42:51.560 --> 00:42:54.720
Everyone, men, women, children, servants, foreigners,

875
00:42:54.720 --> 00:42:57.400
even the animals, everybody rested.

876
00:42:57.400 --> 00:42:59.040
That's Deuteronomy 5.14.

877
00:43:01.400 --> 00:43:03.360
So that means that on a Sabbath,

878
00:43:03.360 --> 00:43:05.720
if you're really going to do a Sabbath,

879
00:43:05.720 --> 00:43:07.800
don't just rest while others serve you.

880
00:43:09.040 --> 00:43:11.600
Okay, go out to eat, make other people serve you.

881
00:43:11.600 --> 00:43:12.960
Because unfortunately, you know,

882
00:43:12.960 --> 00:43:14.560
we're not in a forced sabbatical

883
00:43:14.560 --> 00:43:16.480
where everyone gets a day off.

884
00:43:16.480 --> 00:43:18.560
Some people have to grind and work.

885
00:43:18.560 --> 00:43:20.200
They're caught in the snare of poverty

886
00:43:20.200 --> 00:43:22.040
and they never can stop.

887
00:43:22.040 --> 00:43:23.880
And maybe you're one of those people.

888
00:43:26.760 --> 00:43:28.520
Release the pressure from anyone else

889
00:43:28.520 --> 00:43:29.920
to do anything for you.

890
00:43:29.920 --> 00:43:31.000
Everyone gets to rest.

891
00:43:31.000 --> 00:43:33.560
Create rhythms of rest in your household.

892
00:43:33.560 --> 00:43:34.960
If you have kids that are still at home,

893
00:43:34.960 --> 00:43:36.840
teach them the rhythms of rest.

894
00:43:38.160 --> 00:43:41.320
And then once again, we just dedicate that time,

895
00:43:41.320 --> 00:43:43.600
whether it's a couple hours a week that you're Sabbathing,

896
00:43:43.600 --> 00:43:45.240
whether it's a day a week that you're Sabbathing.

897
00:43:45.240 --> 00:43:47.520
Remember, you want it to become a lifestyle.

898
00:43:47.520 --> 00:43:49.760
Whether it's the evenings after you get home from work

899
00:43:49.760 --> 00:43:50.800
that you're Sabbathing,

900
00:43:50.800 --> 00:43:53.360
whatever you're doing, make it holy unto the Lord.

901
00:43:54.440 --> 00:43:56.680
In the ancient times, Sabbath was consecrated.

902
00:43:56.680 --> 00:43:59.240
It was a set apart time as God's time.

903
00:44:01.120 --> 00:44:05.040
So we have to dedicate some time in our lives to the Lord.

904
00:44:05.040 --> 00:44:07.640
It's not just a day off for you to just roll around,

905
00:44:07.640 --> 00:44:09.640
be a little carnal cornflake.

906
00:44:09.640 --> 00:44:11.000
It's a sacred space.

907
00:44:11.000 --> 00:44:12.680
It's a place where you can be recentered.

908
00:44:12.680 --> 00:44:14.560
It's a place where you can guard it.

909
00:44:14.560 --> 00:44:17.280
Guard it from being consumed by chores or errands

910
00:44:17.280 --> 00:44:19.520
or endless scrolling on social media.

911
00:44:19.520 --> 00:44:23.320
You have to let yourself be reset in your spirit

912
00:44:24.360 --> 00:44:25.400
for the days ahead.

913
00:44:28.200 --> 00:44:31.080
And Ben, anyone getting anything out of this?

914
00:44:35.160 --> 00:44:37.560
Here's some ideas that I have written down here.

915
00:44:38.560 --> 00:44:42.080
So whenever you want to Sabbath,

916
00:44:42.080 --> 00:44:43.720
here's some ideas of what you can do.

917
00:44:43.720 --> 00:44:46.560
Just shut down your work devices, light a candle,

918
00:44:47.560 --> 00:44:49.360
pray, welcome God's presence.

919
00:44:51.040 --> 00:44:53.040
Just close out whatever you're doing for the day.

920
00:44:53.040 --> 00:44:54.400
Just take a little Sabbath.

921
00:44:55.640 --> 00:44:57.320
I got a sauna for my 50th birthday.

922
00:44:57.320 --> 00:44:58.800
I can go in there and Sabbath.

923
00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:04.400
And go in there and I can, you know, you can't have electronics in there because they get

924
00:45:04.400 --> 00:45:05.400
too hot.

925
00:45:05.400 --> 00:45:10.180
So you can just go in there and you can just close your eyes and you can just meditate

926
00:45:10.180 --> 00:45:12.760
on the Lord and on the goodness of the Lord.

927
00:45:12.760 --> 00:45:13.760
I could take a book in there.

928
00:45:13.760 --> 00:45:16.400
I'm going to sweat all over it, but I could read in there.

929
00:45:16.400 --> 00:45:19.040
I could Sabbath.

930
00:45:19.040 --> 00:45:23.880
Another modern way that we could Sabbath is just community.

931
00:45:23.880 --> 00:45:28.320
Have all your friends put their phones in the center of the table and just talk.

932
00:45:28.320 --> 00:45:31.280
Consider a slow meal together.

933
00:45:31.280 --> 00:45:32.960
Just say, Hey, you know what?

934
00:45:32.960 --> 00:45:33.960
Let's go out to eat.

935
00:45:33.960 --> 00:45:34.960
Let's not let's go out to eat.

936
00:45:34.960 --> 00:45:38.200
Let's come over my house to eat because remember we don't want other people serving us.

937
00:45:38.200 --> 00:45:39.640
Let's let's come over.

938
00:45:39.640 --> 00:45:45.740
But everyone, hey, drop your phone in the basket at the door here and let's just spend

939
00:45:45.740 --> 00:45:49.360
some quality time together.

940
00:45:49.360 --> 00:45:50.360
Let's play a game.

941
00:45:50.360 --> 00:45:54.080
Let's bring out a board game.

942
00:45:54.080 --> 00:45:55.360
Let's play a game.

943
00:45:55.360 --> 00:45:56.360
Let's talk.

944
00:45:57.360 --> 00:46:03.440
Let's go around the room and find out about everybody's week.

945
00:46:03.440 --> 00:46:04.760
Can worship friends.

946
00:46:04.760 --> 00:46:07.760
That's a modern Sabbath idea.

947
00:46:07.760 --> 00:46:09.400
Read scripture, pray, journal.

948
00:46:09.400 --> 00:46:15.560
You can attend, of course, a church service, but make sure that whatever you're doing,

949
00:46:15.560 --> 00:46:19.040
you're taking time in your week to rest, to nap.

950
00:46:19.040 --> 00:46:20.040
Okay.

951
00:46:20.040 --> 00:46:21.040
Maybe even a nap.

952
00:46:21.040 --> 00:46:24.680
For those of you that can do that, my body doesn't really want to sleep during the day,

953
00:46:24.680 --> 00:46:25.680
but okay.

954
00:46:25.680 --> 00:46:28.720
Nature walk, creativity, laughter.

955
00:46:28.720 --> 00:46:32.960
I had a good laugh with a friend yesterday.

956
00:46:32.960 --> 00:46:36.360
I had a good laugh and it felt so good to laugh.

957
00:46:36.360 --> 00:46:37.360
When's the last time you had a good laugh?

958
00:46:37.360 --> 00:46:39.840
Friends, I want you to put it in the chat right now.

959
00:46:39.840 --> 00:46:41.680
When's the last time you had a good laugh?

960
00:46:41.680 --> 00:46:47.200
Just a good belly laugh.

961
00:46:47.200 --> 00:46:51.000
When's the last time?

962
00:46:51.000 --> 00:46:55.520
If you're not laughing regularly, it's probably because you have the weight of the world on

963
00:46:55.520 --> 00:46:56.520
you.

964
00:46:56.520 --> 00:46:57.520
Let's be laughing.

965
00:46:57.520 --> 00:46:58.520
Delighting.

966
00:46:58.520 --> 00:47:11.520
One of the practical ways you can just stop and have a Sabbath is just stop hustling,

967
00:47:11.520 --> 00:47:12.520
planning, striving.

968
00:47:12.520 --> 00:47:17.040
For those of you that are planners, you have to have every moment of every day of your

969
00:47:17.040 --> 00:47:18.560
life planned out.

970
00:47:18.560 --> 00:47:23.200
Maybe a Sabbath for you is just being spontaneous, just saying, you know what?

971
00:47:23.200 --> 00:47:28.760
I don't have any plan today, nothing, and that might make you nervous and that's good

972
00:47:28.760 --> 00:47:36.080
because the Sabbath is going to rest you and stretch you.

973
00:47:36.080 --> 00:47:38.160
You don't need to have certainty.

974
00:47:38.160 --> 00:47:40.000
You don't need to have it all planned out.

975
00:47:40.000 --> 00:47:45.120
You can be flexible and spontaneous.

976
00:47:45.120 --> 00:47:50.400
And of course, we always want to just end every day with a little Sabbath time with

977
00:47:50.400 --> 00:47:55.840
the Lord, just gratitude, blessing, preparing to reenter into the new day tomorrow with

978
00:47:55.840 --> 00:47:59.360
renewed strength.

979
00:47:59.360 --> 00:48:03.040
And really what I realized here is that the Holy Sabbath was never really about restriction.

980
00:48:03.040 --> 00:48:08.320
A lot of people see it as legalism and rules and regulations, but it was God's revolutionary

981
00:48:08.320 --> 00:48:12.300
gift of rest.

982
00:48:12.300 --> 00:48:18.040
Even back then when the world wasn't spinning a million miles an hour, it was God's gift

983
00:48:18.040 --> 00:48:20.360
of rest.

984
00:48:20.360 --> 00:48:24.680
And back then it was a divine protest against slavery, against striving, against self-sufficiency.

985
00:48:24.680 --> 00:48:28.280
You have to remember, friends, it was slavery.

986
00:48:28.280 --> 00:48:31.920
A lot of people, they kept the Sabbath.

987
00:48:31.920 --> 00:48:36.820
There are a lot of people that were enslaved, different things were happening.

988
00:48:36.820 --> 00:48:40.280
So it was a divine protest against striving, against scarcity.

989
00:48:40.280 --> 00:48:44.520
And for us, friends, when you really take a Sabbath, like a real Sabbath, and you stop

990
00:48:44.520 --> 00:48:48.680
buying, you stop selling, you stop working, you stop doing all those things, it really

991
00:48:48.680 --> 00:48:54.600
is you just protesting against the systems of this world.

992
00:48:54.600 --> 00:48:57.600
God said that if we love the world, then we don't love Him.

993
00:48:57.600 --> 00:49:02.120
And the systems of this world are capitalism and globalism and materialism and all the

994
00:49:02.120 --> 00:49:03.480
things.

995
00:49:03.480 --> 00:49:06.220
Have you noticed that there's absolutely nothing closed anymore?

996
00:49:06.220 --> 00:49:10.640
Even on Christmas, there's something open all the time.

997
00:49:10.640 --> 00:49:12.120
There's someone who's not Sabbathing.

998
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

999
00:49:16.440 --> 00:49:17.440
more money.

1000
00:49:17.440 --> 00:49:23.040
I remember one year I worked at JCPenney, you know the store, for Christmas because

1001
00:49:23.040 --> 00:49:24.280
I wanted to earn extra money.

1002
00:49:24.280 --> 00:49:28.600
Well, I didn't want to earn extra money for Christmas because I was striving to buy my

1003
00:49:28.600 --> 00:49:31.160
daughter those Ugg boots that she wanted.

1004
00:49:31.160 --> 00:49:33.560
All the other kids had them.

1005
00:49:33.560 --> 00:49:34.560
All the other kids had them.

1006
00:49:34.560 --> 00:49:37.840
And my husband and I were in ministry and we couldn't afford them.

1007
00:49:37.840 --> 00:49:41.940
And her dad, who had money, wasn't going to buy them.

1008
00:49:41.940 --> 00:49:47.720
So I was out there doing a little contingent holiday job at JCPenney.

1009
00:49:47.720 --> 00:49:48.720
And guess what?

1010
00:49:48.720 --> 00:49:52.900
JCPenney was open till midnight during that season.

1011
00:49:52.900 --> 00:49:54.580
I think pandemic has changed a lot.

1012
00:49:54.580 --> 00:49:55.580
Stores are not open as late.

1013
00:49:55.580 --> 00:50:00.020
If you notice that, people are like, hey, we like this.

1014
00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:02.320
this not being open thing.

1015
00:50:02.320 --> 00:50:05.560
So let's let people off at eight o'clock.

1016
00:50:05.560 --> 00:50:06.680
Around here in Texas,

1017
00:50:06.680 --> 00:50:08.240
stores are only open to eight o'clock

1018
00:50:08.240 --> 00:50:09.680
even on the weekends, you guys.

1019
00:50:09.680 --> 00:50:10.720
That is unheard of.

1020
00:50:10.720 --> 00:50:14.280
Stores used to be open till nine, 10 o'clock at night.

1021
00:50:14.280 --> 00:50:16.880
Anyway, this foreigner came in.

1022
00:50:16.880 --> 00:50:18.080
I don't know where he was from,

1023
00:50:18.080 --> 00:50:20.240
but he just wasn't from America.

1024
00:50:20.240 --> 00:50:22.160
And he was checking out

1025
00:50:22.160 --> 00:50:26.160
and he marveled at the time that it was.

1026
00:50:26.160 --> 00:50:28.340
It was like 1130 at night.

1027
00:50:29.340 --> 00:50:32.140
And he's like, what time are you open till?

1028
00:50:32.140 --> 00:50:34.060
And I told him midnight.

1029
00:50:34.060 --> 00:50:34.900
And you know what he said?

1030
00:50:34.900 --> 00:50:36.260
This is what he said and I'll never forget it.

1031
00:50:36.260 --> 00:50:39.040
He goes, oh, you Americans love money.

1032
00:50:41.820 --> 00:50:46.200
And I was like, dang, he's actually right.

1033
00:50:48.460 --> 00:50:49.300
Right?

1034
00:50:49.300 --> 00:50:50.620
And you know what we love money more than?

1035
00:50:50.620 --> 00:50:55.420
People's health, people's families, people.

1036
00:50:55.420 --> 00:50:59.500
And so friends, when we Sabbath,

1037
00:50:59.500 --> 00:51:04.220
we are basically saying we revolt against that.

1038
00:51:04.220 --> 00:51:06.900
We rebel against that.

1039
00:51:06.900 --> 00:51:09.580
God provides for his lovers even while they're sleeping.

1040
00:51:09.580 --> 00:51:11.420
We are coming out of the rat race.

1041
00:51:11.420 --> 00:51:12.860
We're not gonna compete anymore.

1042
00:51:12.860 --> 00:51:14.460
We're not going to strive anymore.

1043
00:51:14.460 --> 00:51:15.980
We're not orphans.

1044
00:51:15.980 --> 00:51:17.420
God didn't say good luck, kid.

1045
00:51:17.420 --> 00:51:18.340
Here's a granola bar.

1046
00:51:18.340 --> 00:51:19.440
I hope you make it.

1047
00:51:19.440 --> 00:51:20.580
That's not what he said.

1048
00:51:20.580 --> 00:51:22.620
He didn't thrust us into the earth realm

1049
00:51:22.620 --> 00:51:24.720
and just say, figure it out on your own.

1050
00:51:26.100 --> 00:51:28.100
We don't have to live like this anymore.

1051
00:51:29.500 --> 00:51:31.920
And friends, if you have to remind yourself

1052
00:51:31.920 --> 00:51:33.820
that you don't have to live like that,

1053
00:51:34.820 --> 00:51:38.220
just one hour of every week where you Sabbath

1054
00:51:38.220 --> 00:51:42.460
and you come out of all the striving, maybe start small.

1055
00:51:42.460 --> 00:51:45.340
Maybe work yourself up to an entire day of Sabbath,

1056
00:51:45.340 --> 00:51:48.940
a Saturday or a Sunday or whatever day off work you have.

1057
00:51:48.940 --> 00:51:50.140
Some of you have Mondays.

1058
00:51:50.140 --> 00:51:52.140
I remember I used to have Mondays and Tuesdays off work.

1059
00:51:52.140 --> 00:51:53.100
I hated that.

1060
00:51:54.100 --> 00:51:55.260
You know why?

1061
00:51:55.260 --> 00:51:57.300
Because everyone else had to work on Mondays and Tuesdays.

1062
00:51:57.300 --> 00:51:59.340
And so when I was off, everyone else was working

1063
00:51:59.340 --> 00:52:01.240
and I didn't have anyone to play with.

1064
00:52:02.580 --> 00:52:03.640
And I like to play.

1065
00:52:05.060 --> 00:52:06.180
When's the last time you played?

1066
00:52:06.180 --> 00:52:08.060
Maybe that's your Sabbath.

1067
00:52:08.060 --> 00:52:09.940
You've been all work and no play.

1068
00:52:09.940 --> 00:52:11.100
And now you're no fun.

1069
00:52:12.180 --> 00:52:16.260
Oh honey, sir, you're no fun.

1070
00:52:16.260 --> 00:52:18.180
You're no fun anymore.

1071
00:52:18.180 --> 00:52:19.680
You don't laugh anymore.

1072
00:52:20.580 --> 00:52:22.040
You take everything so serious

1073
00:52:22.040 --> 00:52:24.540
because you're so pressured.

1074
00:52:24.540 --> 00:52:26.080
You're so overwhelmed.

1075
00:52:29.480 --> 00:52:30.460
It's time to play.

1076
00:52:32.120 --> 00:52:34.080
I didn't play all summer, you guys.

1077
00:52:34.080 --> 00:52:36.480
I've been swimming one time.

1078
00:52:36.480 --> 00:52:38.040
I've been hiking one time.

1079
00:52:38.880 --> 00:52:41.380
I canceled all my vacations.

1080
00:52:41.380 --> 00:52:43.440
And I think that the Lord wanted me to Sabbath

1081
00:52:43.440 --> 00:52:45.120
and that's why I was canceling my vacations.

1082
00:52:45.120 --> 00:52:46.560
But you know what I did in the space

1083
00:52:46.560 --> 00:52:47.940
when I canceled my vacations?

1084
00:52:47.940 --> 00:52:48.780
I worked.

1085
00:52:50.920 --> 00:52:52.000
I made a mistake.

1086
00:52:52.840 --> 00:52:53.680
I'm here to confess that to you.

1087
00:52:53.680 --> 00:52:55.480
The Bible says, confess your faults to one another

1088
00:52:55.480 --> 00:52:56.960
and be healed.

1089
00:52:56.960 --> 00:52:59.060
I'm asking to be healed right now.

1090
00:53:00.280 --> 00:53:02.960
Will you extend and release healing over me?

1091
00:53:02.960 --> 00:53:03.860
I messed up.

1092
00:53:05.900 --> 00:53:07.720
I done messed up, A.A. Ron.

1093
00:53:07.720 --> 00:53:08.580
I messed up.

1094
00:53:11.580 --> 00:53:13.320
God was creating margin for me.

1095
00:53:13.320 --> 00:53:14.800
And you know what I filled that margin with?

1096
00:53:14.800 --> 00:53:16.800
I already told you on the last Supernatural Saturday.

1097
00:53:16.800 --> 00:53:19.600
I filled it with a puppy that I don't have capacity with.

1098
00:53:20.440 --> 00:53:22.080
I filled it with a bunch of work.

1099
00:53:23.840 --> 00:53:25.840
I wrote a stinking book.

1100
00:53:25.840 --> 00:53:28.960
Y'all listen, if it's obvious to you

1101
00:53:28.960 --> 00:53:31.240
that I don't know how to rest,

1102
00:53:31.240 --> 00:53:32.800
then maybe you should also look in the mirror

1103
00:53:32.800 --> 00:53:34.200
and ask yourself if you do.

1104
00:53:36.240 --> 00:53:38.540
I'm a high capacity person.

1105
00:53:38.540 --> 00:53:39.380
And that's okay.

1106
00:53:39.380 --> 00:53:40.520
That's a gift God gave me.

1107
00:53:40.520 --> 00:53:41.520
But you know what?

1108
00:53:41.520 --> 00:53:45.360
I have to do it with him, not for him.

1109
00:53:45.360 --> 00:53:47.280
Some of you, that's the shift today.

1110
00:53:47.280 --> 00:53:48.520
You love to serve the Lord.

1111
00:53:48.520 --> 00:53:52.600
You love to help other people because you love Jesus.

1112
00:53:52.600 --> 00:53:55.080
But you're helping other people until it hurts you.

1113
00:53:55.080 --> 00:53:57.320
And I just wanna tell you, that's not of God.

1114
00:53:58.360 --> 00:54:00.920
If helping is hurting, it's not of God.

1115
00:54:02.640 --> 00:54:03.720
Say it to yourself.

1116
00:54:03.720 --> 00:54:05.820
If helping is hurting, it's not of God.

1117
00:54:07.120 --> 00:54:08.720
God's definition of relationship

1118
00:54:08.720 --> 00:54:11.880
is it can't be good for them if it's also not good for you.

1119
00:54:11.880 --> 00:54:13.420
It has to be reciprocal.

1120
00:54:15.240 --> 00:54:16.720
Some of you are people pleasers.

1121
00:54:16.720 --> 00:54:17.640
You don't say no.

1122
00:54:17.640 --> 00:54:19.000
You're overextended.

1123
00:54:23.280 --> 00:54:24.800
Overextended.

1124
00:54:24.800 --> 00:54:27.440
Yeah, I know you're doing good things.

1125
00:54:27.440 --> 00:54:29.200
But because those things are hurting you,

1126
00:54:29.200 --> 00:54:31.280
that makes them not a good thing anymore.

1127
00:54:40.840 --> 00:54:41.680
I just wanna let you know,

1128
00:54:41.680 --> 00:54:45.000
for all of you that are super hoping to get married,

1129
00:54:45.000 --> 00:54:48.520
because some of you kind of are losing that hope.

1130
00:54:50.880 --> 00:54:54.320
And I believe that that is a real sign of burnout

1131
00:54:54.320 --> 00:54:57.000
when what you used to wanna do, you no longer wanna do.

1132
00:54:57.000 --> 00:54:59.600
And so it's important that we stop striving.

1133
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

1134
00:55:03.360 --> 00:55:04.800
the dating apps. You're going to get off there.

1135
00:55:07.000 --> 00:55:09.360
You're going to put this back in the Lord's hands where it needs to be.

1136
00:55:10.080 --> 00:55:12.360
But back to what I was going to say, for those of you that are hoping to get

1137
00:55:12.360 --> 00:55:14.800
married, you have to have time for a marriage.

1138
00:55:15.440 --> 00:55:18.480
If you're out here striving, doing all this other stuff,

1139
00:55:18.680 --> 00:55:21.640
you're not going to have time to even enjoy this relationship.

1140
00:55:22.160 --> 00:55:24.680
You're not going to have time to really be with each other.

1141
00:55:24.960 --> 00:55:28.800
Look each other in the eyes, talk to each other, listen to each other.

1142
00:55:29.560 --> 00:55:32.520
I know what I'm talking about. I have a good marriage, but I'll tell you,

1143
00:55:32.520 --> 00:55:35.520
there's a lot of times when David and I were both on our phones.

1144
00:55:36.160 --> 00:55:38.000
One of us is trying to talk to the other person,

1145
00:55:38.000 --> 00:55:39.880
but the other person is working on something.

1146
00:55:40.320 --> 00:55:42.320
And when you own your own business, for those of you that do,

1147
00:55:42.320 --> 00:55:45.760
because I know there are some business owners here, you don't work nine to five.

1148
00:55:45.760 --> 00:55:47.000
You work 24 seven.

1149
00:55:48.680 --> 00:55:51.000
I know people think it's glamorous to own your own business,

1150
00:55:51.200 --> 00:55:53.640
but only if you have really serious boundaries,

1151
00:55:53.640 --> 00:55:56.520
because when you own your own business, you do not work nine to five.

1152
00:55:56.520 --> 00:55:58.360
You work 24 seven.

1153
00:55:59.800 --> 00:56:01.720
So part of a Sabbath could be, Hey,

1154
00:56:01.920 --> 00:56:05.200
I'm not going to talk about business after five o'clock at night.

1155
00:56:06.800 --> 00:56:09.080
No business conversations are allowed to happen.

1156
00:56:10.240 --> 00:56:13.720
I'm just giving you guys all kinds of different ideas as Holy Spirit leads me

1157
00:56:13.720 --> 00:56:14.560
today.

1158
00:56:21.080 --> 00:56:24.080
Let's pray. Father God, we love you so much.

1159
00:56:25.880 --> 00:56:27.920
And we thank you for our original design.

1160
00:56:28.920 --> 00:56:32.000
We come into alignment with original design this morning.

1161
00:56:32.840 --> 00:56:36.320
You did not create us to strive.

1162
00:56:38.120 --> 00:56:41.280
You did not create us to be beggars.

1163
00:56:42.760 --> 00:56:46.160
You created us to be children that are provided for that are loved.

1164
00:56:47.960 --> 00:56:51.800
You created us to live in the rhythms of grace.

1165
00:56:53.320 --> 00:56:55.400
And so Laura, we come out of the curse right now,

1166
00:56:56.520 --> 00:56:58.760
whatever that looks like on each and every one of our lives,

1167
00:56:58.760 --> 00:57:02.520
we come out of it right now. We are no longer going to strive.

1168
00:57:02.520 --> 00:57:05.760
We are no longer going to be in poverty and orphan mentalities.

1169
00:57:06.160 --> 00:57:09.240
We want to live the way that you created us to live.

1170
00:57:10.560 --> 00:57:13.400
We know right now that rest is found in a person, not a place.

1171
00:57:14.040 --> 00:57:15.200
It's in the person of Jesus.

1172
00:57:15.200 --> 00:57:18.720
And he's offering us and we're receiving his rest today.

1173
00:57:19.480 --> 00:57:23.080
He's not taking, he's not telling us to just take a vacation.

1174
00:57:23.080 --> 00:57:26.960
He's telling us to take his yoke and we receive his yoke today.

1175
00:57:27.360 --> 00:57:30.360
We declare his yoke upon us today.

1176
00:57:30.960 --> 00:57:34.680
He isn't telling us to just do nothing, but he's saying, do it with me.

1177
00:57:35.200 --> 00:57:39.400
I released that over myself. I released that over everyone on this call.

1178
00:57:39.600 --> 00:57:43.840
He's not saying do nothing. He's saying, do nothing on your own.

1179
00:57:44.520 --> 00:57:48.720
John 15, he's saying, if you abide in me and I abide in you,

1180
00:57:48.720 --> 00:57:52.960
you can have what you want. He's saying apart from me, you can do no thing.

1181
00:57:53.200 --> 00:57:55.600
And we are just saying that to ourselves right now.

1182
00:57:55.600 --> 00:57:59.840
I can't do anything worth doing if I do it apart from his grace and his

1183
00:57:59.840 --> 00:58:04.400
strength and his peace. And so we take that yoke upon us today.

1184
00:58:04.400 --> 00:58:06.880
I want you to see yourself just putting that yoke on right now.

1185
00:58:08.120 --> 00:58:11.800
And it's not tight and it doesn't pressure you. It's not ill fitting.

1186
00:58:12.160 --> 00:58:14.680
It's made just for you, just for you.

1187
00:58:14.680 --> 00:58:18.800
Just put it on like your favorite piece of clothing that just makes you feel so

1188
00:58:18.800 --> 00:58:20.360
safe and so comfortable.

1189
00:58:21.720 --> 00:58:24.880
It feels like you're naked when you put it on because it's just so easy to wear.

1190
00:58:24.920 --> 00:58:29.120
Put that yoke on right now. Feel it.

1191
00:58:29.120 --> 00:58:33.120
Feel that yoke of Jesus on your body right now. It fits you.

1192
00:58:34.240 --> 00:58:36.280
It fits you so well, but it's also light.

1193
00:58:37.640 --> 00:58:40.000
So light that you barely feel it on you.

1194
00:58:40.400 --> 00:58:43.480
That's because Jesus is carrying that weight that you were never meant to carry.

1195
00:58:45.080 --> 00:58:46.880
And when we're walking in that yoke,

1196
00:58:47.520 --> 00:58:51.360
we're walking wearing this garment of surrender.

1197
00:58:51.360 --> 00:58:53.520
We move in the rhythms of heaven.

1198
00:58:54.760 --> 00:58:57.320
We're coming out of the rhythms of the world right now.

1199
00:58:57.320 --> 00:58:59.440
We're coming out of the rhythms of hustle right now.

1200
00:59:00.920 --> 00:59:03.120
We're exchanging our exhaustion for his rest.

1201
00:59:03.120 --> 00:59:05.240
We're exchanging our anxiety for his peace.

1202
00:59:06.200 --> 00:59:08.960
We're exchanging our thriving for his sufficiency.

1203
00:59:10.160 --> 00:59:12.120
He said, my grace is sufficient for you.

1204
00:59:12.120 --> 00:59:14.600
We are exchanging all of these things.

1205
00:59:16.840 --> 00:59:19.000
Sabbath, we're coming into it right now.

1206
00:59:19.000 --> 00:59:22.400
God, give us a revelation of Sabbath for each and every one of our lives.

1207
00:59:22.400 --> 00:59:26.320
It's not just the absence of work. It's the presence of Jesus.

1208
00:59:28.920 --> 00:59:30.240
The presence of Jesus.

1209
00:59:30.760 --> 00:59:32.920
You said that your creation doesn't even toil.

1210
00:59:33.760 --> 00:59:36.040
The lilies are clothed with splendor.

1211
00:59:36.880 --> 00:59:39.360
How much more will you clothe us, your children?

1212
00:59:41.000 --> 00:59:42.000
You tell us in your word,

1213
00:59:42.000 --> 00:59:46.560
good parents wouldn't give their children a rock or a snake.

1214
00:59:46.800 --> 00:59:50.000
How much more will you give good gifts to your children that ask you?

1215
00:59:51.120 --> 00:59:55.680
And I just want to end today by saying this, friends, a couple of years ago.

1216
00:59:55.680 --> 00:59:57.560
Remember, God's been trying to teach us this.

1217
00:59:57.560 --> 00:59:59.520
He's been trying to teach me this for years.

1218
01:00:00.000 --> 01:00:01.880
And he's not, I just want to let you know,

1219
01:00:01.880 --> 01:00:02.920
he's not disappointed in you.

1220
01:00:02.920 --> 01:00:05.440
Please don't hear any condemnation in today's message.

1221
01:00:05.440 --> 01:00:07.640
It's an invitation, not condemnation.

1222
01:00:07.640 --> 01:00:10.360
An invitation to come out of exhaustion and rest,

1223
01:00:10.360 --> 01:00:12.960
out of striving and surrender.

1224
01:00:12.960 --> 01:00:15.520
Orphans grind, but children rest.

1225
01:00:15.520 --> 01:00:17.900
Orphans strive, but children surrender.

1226
01:00:19.120 --> 01:00:22.280
Orphans hustle, but children inherit.

1227
01:00:22.280 --> 01:00:23.440
Do you guys know that I just read you?

1228
01:00:23.440 --> 01:00:25.940
That was a post that I created 15 years ago,

1229
01:00:25.940 --> 01:00:28.040
what I just said about orphans.

1230
01:00:28.040 --> 01:00:29.480
God's been trying to teach me this,

1231
01:00:29.480 --> 01:00:33.160
because remember, I came into this world pretty orphaned.

1232
01:00:33.160 --> 01:00:36.600
And that identity has stuck far longer than I want it to.

1233
01:00:36.600 --> 01:00:40.000
But God's been teaching me so many things.

1234
01:00:40.000 --> 01:00:41.160
And I want to end with this.

1235
01:00:41.160 --> 01:00:44.400
A few years ago, God told me to take the entire month off.

1236
01:00:44.400 --> 01:00:47.400
It was when this movement was in its heyday.

1237
01:00:47.400 --> 01:00:50.160
And he said, take an entire month off.

1238
01:00:51.240 --> 01:00:53.920
My little grandchildren were just born, they were babies.

1239
01:00:53.920 --> 01:00:55.760
And my daughter and son-in-law were coming here

1240
01:00:55.760 --> 01:00:57.360
to visit us for the entire month

1241
01:00:57.360 --> 01:00:59.880
and bringing the babes, twins.

1242
01:00:59.880 --> 01:01:02.400
God said, take that entire month off.

1243
01:01:02.400 --> 01:01:04.320
Guys, I was so scared.

1244
01:01:04.320 --> 01:01:07.640
Oh my God, if I don't show up, how are we gonna make money?

1245
01:01:07.640 --> 01:01:09.840
We own our own company, what's gonna happen?

1246
01:01:11.720 --> 01:01:13.200
And I took the entire month off.

1247
01:01:13.200 --> 01:01:15.920
And you guys, the day that I put her on the plane

1248
01:01:15.920 --> 01:01:20.920
to go home, I got two invitations to come on two podcasts.

1249
01:01:22.680 --> 01:01:26.100
And those podcasts were Annie Downs, that sounds fun,

1250
01:01:26.100 --> 01:01:27.440
and Chris Vallotton.

1251
01:01:29.340 --> 01:01:31.740
And both of those podcasts brought in more students

1252
01:01:31.740 --> 01:01:33.460
than I ever could have brought in

1253
01:01:33.460 --> 01:01:35.220
if I had hustled all month.

1254
01:01:35.220 --> 01:01:37.020
Hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people

1255
01:01:37.020 --> 01:01:38.660
added to our movement.

1256
01:01:38.660 --> 01:01:40.500
I just wanna release that over you right now.

1257
01:01:40.500 --> 01:01:43.180
What have you been trying to fix that you need to let go of

1258
01:01:43.180 --> 01:01:44.880
and put on your Jesus Cares board?

1259
01:01:45.780 --> 01:01:47.780
What have you been trying to figure out?

1260
01:01:49.060 --> 01:01:53.300
What do you need to do less of?

1261
01:01:53.940 --> 01:01:57.420
Where do you need to rest and just let God,

1262
01:01:57.420 --> 01:01:59.060
L-I-G it, let it go?

1263
01:02:02.140 --> 01:02:04.580
What do you need to see supernatural provision in

1264
01:02:04.580 --> 01:02:06.300
but you could never do it on your own

1265
01:02:06.300 --> 01:02:09.300
even if you stayed up all night and slept with one eye open?

1266
01:02:10.260 --> 01:02:12.020
I want you to ask yourself these questions.

1267
01:02:12.020 --> 01:02:13.620
And I wanna hear testimonies.

1268
01:02:13.620 --> 01:02:14.900
The next couple of Faith Fridays,

1269
01:02:14.900 --> 01:02:16.260
I want you to show up if you can

1270
01:02:16.260 --> 01:02:18.460
and give testimonies of what happened

1271
01:02:18.460 --> 01:02:20.420
when you declared a Sabbath.

1272
01:02:20.420 --> 01:02:23.180
Arrest from striving.

1273
01:02:24.060 --> 01:02:24.900
Maybe that's your Sabbath.

1274
01:02:24.900 --> 01:02:26.300
You just declare, I'm not doing this anymore.

1275
01:02:26.300 --> 01:02:27.740
I'm not gonna try to figure this out.

1276
01:02:27.740 --> 01:02:30.460
I'm not gonna try to rob Peter to pay Paul.

1277
01:02:30.460 --> 01:02:31.660
I'm not doing this anymore.

1278
01:02:31.660 --> 01:02:33.380
I'm going to allow God to show me

1279
01:02:33.380 --> 01:02:35.460
his supernatural provision.

1280
01:02:35.460 --> 01:02:37.780
And then when he gives you instructions, you follow them.

1281
01:02:37.780 --> 01:02:39.360
If he asked you to partner with him

1282
01:02:39.360 --> 01:02:41.900
and do something specific, you do it.

1283
01:02:41.900 --> 01:02:43.620
And so Lord, help us.

1284
01:02:43.620 --> 01:02:45.580
Help us to receive this word in balance.

1285
01:02:45.580 --> 01:02:48.180
Help us to receive this word and activate it.

1286
01:02:48.180 --> 01:02:49.660
In Jesus name, amen.

1287
01:02:49.660 --> 01:02:50.940
All right, friends, love you so much.

1288
01:02:50.940 --> 01:02:54.540
Have an amazing Supernatural Sabbath Saturday, bye.