WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.320 --> 00:00:07.600 All right, everyone, good morning, good morning and welcome to Supernatural Saturday. 2 00:00:08.600 --> 00:00:10.800 I apologize for my raspy voice. 3 00:00:11.820 --> 00:00:17.480 I am getting up very early this morning here on the West Coast and like I said, I have 4 00:00:17.480 --> 00:00:21.940 not had that many hours of sleep, but we're going to press on through and push on through 5 00:00:21.940 --> 00:00:23.840 and it's going to be a wonderful and amazing. 6 00:00:24.400 --> 00:00:27.440 Today I wanted to talk a little bit about Advent. 7 00:00:27.440 --> 00:00:33.200 That is the season that we are currently in and if you haven't noticed yet, I am very 8 00:00:33.200 --> 00:00:35.100 much a times and seasons girl. 9 00:00:36.440 --> 00:00:41.100 And the reason why is because God taught me years ago to respect my times and seasons. 10 00:00:41.860 --> 00:00:45.220 I'm a prophetic person, a prophet actually. 11 00:00:46.000 --> 00:00:50.060 They say that you're only a prophet if other prophets say you're a prophet and other prophets 12 00:00:50.060 --> 00:00:50.980 have said I was a prophet. 13 00:00:51.100 --> 00:00:52.880 So I'm like, all right, I'm a prophet, let's go. 14 00:00:53.840 --> 00:00:59.420 And as a prophetic person, because I've always been a prophetic person, God has taught me 15 00:01:00.180 --> 00:01:07.660 to really look and see what time is it, what are you doing and set my expectations according 16 00:01:07.660 --> 00:01:08.160 to that. 17 00:01:08.500 --> 00:01:12.020 And I really want to just release that over all of you because there's a lot of things 18 00:01:12.020 --> 00:01:16.160 that we want to have happen, but it may not be time for them to happen. 19 00:01:16.480 --> 00:01:21.520 And so you're just going to be pushing against, you know, the rock trying to roll it out of 20 00:01:21.520 --> 00:01:21.880 the way. 21 00:01:21.880 --> 00:01:24.440 It's better to allow God to roll it out of the way. 22 00:01:25.420 --> 00:01:25.980 Amen. 23 00:01:26.600 --> 00:01:28.720 And so I'm not talking about predestination. 24 00:01:29.280 --> 00:01:36.820 I just had a little exchange on my Instagram yesterday with someone who apparently must 25 00:01:36.820 --> 00:01:38.260 be a Calvinist of some sort. 26 00:01:38.460 --> 00:01:44.500 They must believe in predestination and, you know, predestination takes away our ability 27 00:01:44.500 --> 00:01:49.640 to have free will and free will is what it's all about. 28 00:01:50.780 --> 00:01:55.780 And this person was pushing back saying that I shouldn't be helping people to get married 29 00:01:56.620 --> 00:01:58.760 because they don't need to participate in that. 30 00:01:58.920 --> 00:02:02.380 If God has that for them, then one day it's just going to show up. 31 00:02:03.020 --> 00:02:07.040 God's going to let them be in the right time, the right place, and they're going to meet 32 00:02:07.160 --> 00:02:11.580 their person because God has already foreordained that. 33 00:02:12.140 --> 00:02:19.620 And while there's some truth to that, you are going to be in the right place at the 34 00:02:20.140 --> 00:02:21.000 God wants to give you. 35 00:02:21.800 --> 00:02:28.820 That is not because God has predestined it to happen is because God is inviting you to 36 00:02:28.820 --> 00:02:33.920 it and you have received the invitation because you have the right mindset and the right heart 37 00:02:33.940 --> 00:02:34.480 posture. 38 00:02:35.380 --> 00:02:39.580 Because think about it, if God chooses our spouse and he chooses everything else, including 39 00:02:39.580 --> 00:02:43.500 whether we choose him, it's going to let that settle in for a second. 40 00:02:45.300 --> 00:02:50.140 If God chooses your spouse, if it's true that he chooses your spouse, he's already picked 41 00:02:50.140 --> 00:02:55.320 them out for you, then that means he chooses your job, he chooses where you live, he chooses 42 00:02:55.320 --> 00:02:56.960 whether or not you choose him. 43 00:02:58.260 --> 00:03:00.800 And that just doesn't seem very fair, does it? 44 00:03:04.260 --> 00:03:13.580 And it also seems like we would just be a whole entire human group of robots, humanoids. 45 00:03:15.420 --> 00:03:19.840 I mean, there's nothing, there's nothing left for us to choose if God has chosen everything 46 00:03:19.840 --> 00:03:20.480 for us. 47 00:03:20.560 --> 00:03:23.160 And so it isn't either or, it's both and. 48 00:03:23.760 --> 00:03:27.880 I believe that God is constantly inviting us into his choice for us. 49 00:03:28.000 --> 00:03:28.480 Come on, y'all. 50 00:03:29.100 --> 00:03:35.980 God is always inviting us into his best for us, his choice for us, but we have to pull 51 00:03:35.980 --> 00:03:36.760 the trigger on it. 52 00:03:36.880 --> 00:03:37.900 We have to choose. 53 00:03:38.760 --> 00:03:39.700 We have to choose. 54 00:03:42.100 --> 00:03:43.800 He's showing us the right choice. 55 00:03:45.400 --> 00:03:48.060 And I don't believe that it's about always best. 56 00:03:48.300 --> 00:03:49.700 It's good, better, best. 57 00:03:50.760 --> 00:03:53.980 Good, better, best, oftentimes, the choices. 58 00:03:54.920 --> 00:04:01.840 And I do believe that even when we zig instead of zag, go right instead of go left, if the 59 00:04:01.840 --> 00:04:09.660 case may be, that God in his mercy and in his goodness will still help us to make the 60 00:04:09.660 --> 00:04:12.820 next best choice, right? 61 00:04:13.500 --> 00:04:16.820 In order to get us to good places. 62 00:04:18.300 --> 00:04:24.140 I do not believe that it is like, okay, well, I made a bad choice here. 63 00:04:24.480 --> 00:04:26.360 I followed after my flesh here. 64 00:04:26.400 --> 00:04:27.780 I didn't follow the spirit here. 65 00:04:27.980 --> 00:04:33.540 I was caught up in my fear of man over here, but I'm still going to make it to the very 66 00:04:33.540 --> 00:04:34.120 same destination. 67 00:04:34.240 --> 00:04:36.720 No, I don't think that you do get to the same destination. 68 00:04:36.800 --> 00:04:39.000 I think that you get to a similar destination. 69 00:04:39.540 --> 00:04:42.000 I think it's kind of like those choose your own adventure books. 70 00:04:42.120 --> 00:04:44.000 Remember guys, remember reading those? 71 00:04:45.000 --> 00:04:46.960 Raise your hand if you remember reading those. 72 00:04:47.840 --> 00:04:49.340 I cheated in those books. 73 00:04:49.440 --> 00:04:53.480 I just want to let you know when it said, if you, if you choose this, go to page 14. 74 00:04:53.620 --> 00:04:55.280 If you choose this, go to page 26. 75 00:04:55.620 --> 00:04:59.980 Well, I went to page 14 and page 26 to see which story. 76 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:01.220 I liked better. 77 00:05:03.760 --> 00:05:05.080 And I did that all through the book. 78 00:05:06.160 --> 00:05:06.720 Why? 79 00:05:06.840 --> 00:05:12.020 Because I was choosing my own adventure and I choose to make the right choice to have 80 00:05:12.020 --> 00:05:14.080 the ending that's happily ever after. 81 00:05:16.220 --> 00:05:20.140 Because if you remember those books, sometimes you're like eaten by a crocodile and then 82 00:05:20.140 --> 00:05:22.140 up, got to go back to page one. 83 00:05:22.460 --> 00:05:28.760 So apparently none of you read those books, okay, but I think that walking with God is 84 00:05:28.760 --> 00:05:29.580 a lot like that. 85 00:05:30.140 --> 00:05:37.720 It's, you know, every single path that we take, if we surrender to the Lord, even after, 86 00:05:38.160 --> 00:05:40.880 you know, we've realized, oh, this is not really the best path. 87 00:05:40.920 --> 00:05:45.900 I can't tell you how many times I have made a choice based on some of the things that 88 00:05:45.960 --> 00:05:52.880 I mentioned before, fear of man, fear of disappointing others, lack of obedience on my part. 89 00:05:53.000 --> 00:05:56.120 Sometimes friends, I saw the red flags waving in my face. 90 00:05:56.120 --> 00:05:57.720 I'm not talking about romance right now. 91 00:05:58.320 --> 00:06:00.100 That's a whole different story with me. 92 00:06:01.180 --> 00:06:10.760 I got some crazy stories in my life of romantic escapades, romantic entanglements, okay? 93 00:06:10.780 --> 00:06:14.500 You know, I was married before, but I had plenty of boyfriends too. 94 00:06:14.580 --> 00:06:21.560 So we won't go into all that right now, but I will tell you that in my life, okay, even 95 00:06:21.560 --> 00:06:24.580 married to David for the last 18 years, there have been decisions. 96 00:06:24.700 --> 00:06:25.740 All of us make decisions. 97 00:06:25.740 --> 00:06:31.400 We make decisions every day about what to eat, where to go, who to be friends with, 98 00:06:32.500 --> 00:06:43.020 what invitations to take, which ones not to take, which freeway to get on, which job promotion, 99 00:06:44.460 --> 00:06:45.220 which opportunity. 100 00:06:46.380 --> 00:06:52.400 And I will tell you that there have been decisions that I've made where the red flags were literally 101 00:06:52.400 --> 00:06:56.720 hitting me in the face and I still did it. 102 00:06:58.500 --> 00:06:59.900 I still did it. 103 00:07:01.080 --> 00:07:03.980 I knew it was a rattlesnake before I picked it up. 104 00:07:04.800 --> 00:07:07.160 And you're like, Jackie, why would you do such a thing? 105 00:07:07.320 --> 00:07:10.140 Well, because I didn't want to disappoint somebody. 106 00:07:10.400 --> 00:07:12.980 I had the fear of disappointing people. 107 00:07:13.480 --> 00:07:15.900 I had the fear of people being upset at me. 108 00:07:16.680 --> 00:07:20.240 I had, you know, just fear in general. 109 00:07:20.760 --> 00:07:22.620 Fear is a really bad decision maker. 110 00:07:22.820 --> 00:07:23.740 Did you guys know that? 111 00:07:24.680 --> 00:07:26.840 It's really, really, really bad decision maker. 112 00:07:27.300 --> 00:07:33.100 And so I had all kinds of different things that caused me to make the wrong choice kind 113 00:07:33.100 --> 00:07:33.940 of on purpose. 114 00:07:34.880 --> 00:07:36.600 I knew it wasn't going to work out well. 115 00:07:36.680 --> 00:07:37.320 And then guess what? 116 00:07:37.380 --> 00:07:40.020 I wasn't surprised when it didn't work out well. 117 00:07:41.600 --> 00:07:46.740 Whether it was a business opportunity, whether it was having someone come and work for me, 118 00:07:48.020 --> 00:07:53.200 whether it was, you know, whether to go to an event or not, or to receive an invitation 119 00:07:53.200 --> 00:07:56.620 or take an invitation, there's just all kinds of lists of things. 120 00:07:56.920 --> 00:08:00.700 So for all of you that are sitting around and thinking, hey, you know, people that are 121 00:08:00.700 --> 00:08:04.260 super spiritual like Jackie Dorman, they make all the right decisions. 122 00:08:04.780 --> 00:08:08.260 Let's just laugh at that together because that's ridiculous. 123 00:08:10.960 --> 00:08:15.280 And so as you can see, our life is made up of all kinds of decisions. 124 00:08:15.280 --> 00:08:18.180 Tiny decisions and big decisions. 125 00:08:19.700 --> 00:08:24.680 But I believe that after we make the decision, I just recently made a really bad decision. 126 00:08:26.600 --> 00:08:29.040 I halfway knew that it wasn't the greatest decision. 127 00:08:30.140 --> 00:08:33.240 And I don't want you guys to think that I'm just roaming through life making all the bad 128 00:08:33.240 --> 00:08:33.480 decisions. 129 00:08:33.559 --> 00:08:36.179 I make good decisions too, you know. 130 00:08:37.980 --> 00:08:41.600 But I want you to see the beauty of the freedom of free will and choice. 131 00:08:42.780 --> 00:08:47.080 Now, very few of those decisions did God just say, don't do it. 132 00:08:47.080 --> 00:08:50.940 I'm not talking about having a word from the Lord and being disobedient. 133 00:08:51.060 --> 00:08:52.680 I'm not talking about that at all. 134 00:08:52.940 --> 00:08:58.060 I'm talking about my regular laying down, sitting up, eating, drinking, walking around 135 00:08:58.060 --> 00:08:58.540 life. 136 00:08:58.540 --> 00:09:00.840 There's all kinds of decisions to be made. 137 00:09:01.060 --> 00:09:05.240 And how many of you know that you don't have a word from the Lord on all of them? 138 00:09:07.120 --> 00:09:10.760 You just got to kind of use your own wisdom. 139 00:09:10.760 --> 00:09:14.000 And we lack wisdom, don't we? 140 00:09:14.080 --> 00:09:17.600 We lack wisdom because we're operating under a lot of fear. 141 00:09:19.300 --> 00:09:24.360 All of us, without exception, is believing a lie right now about something in our life, 142 00:09:24.400 --> 00:09:27.780 about ourselves, about someone else, about situations. 143 00:09:29.800 --> 00:09:34.400 And so I try to make good decisions, but sometimes I make decisions with the wrong motivations. 144 00:09:34.920 --> 00:09:39.560 Like I just said, not wanting to disappoint someone, not wanting to let somebody down. 145 00:09:39.560 --> 00:09:42.240 Trust me, I'm getting cured of that. 146 00:09:43.540 --> 00:09:46.700 It's been a long road though, because of my past, because of my childhood. 147 00:09:47.300 --> 00:09:55.380 We all have a predisposition to certain things that trip us up and distract us a lot. 148 00:09:56.460 --> 00:09:58.220 So life is full of all these decisions. 149 00:09:58.460 --> 00:09:59.900 And you know, I pray about them. 150 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:02.720 I do, but you don't always get a clear answer, do you, friends? 151 00:10:04.720 --> 00:10:05.860 Sometimes you get a gut instinct. 152 00:10:07.920 --> 00:10:12.340 Sometimes you have a check in your heart like, hey, yeah, that's probably not the best choice. 153 00:10:12.900 --> 00:10:16.840 Sometimes other people come along and they're just like, hey, you know, I took that road 154 00:10:16.840 --> 00:10:19.620 once too and it wasn't actually the greatest road. 155 00:10:19.680 --> 00:10:20.820 There's a lot of potholes on it. 156 00:10:20.820 --> 00:10:23.880 So maybe you want to take a different route and you just do it yourself. 157 00:10:23.940 --> 00:10:25.020 You just go yourself. 158 00:10:25.180 --> 00:10:25.960 You just do it anyway. 159 00:10:26.040 --> 00:10:26.420 Why? 160 00:10:26.420 --> 00:10:27.320 Because you've got a hard head. 161 00:10:30.220 --> 00:10:31.180 I get it. 162 00:10:32.160 --> 00:10:35.580 I've been hard headed many, many times and I don't know where Holy Spirit's taking us 163 00:10:35.580 --> 00:10:38.860 right now because I want to talk about Advent, but apparently Holy Spirit wants to talk about 164 00:10:38.860 --> 00:10:39.240 this. 165 00:10:39.760 --> 00:10:41.360 We're going to talk about this for a few minutes. 166 00:10:42.860 --> 00:10:49.340 So life is made up of all these beautiful moments of choice, friends. 167 00:10:50.680 --> 00:10:55.040 And I just want to let you know that if you make a choice and it's not the right choice 168 00:10:55.040 --> 00:11:00.780 and you realize it's not the right choice and you come to God and you say, hey, I made 169 00:11:00.780 --> 00:11:02.120 a bad choice here. 170 00:11:02.220 --> 00:11:03.480 I can see it very clearly. 171 00:11:04.060 --> 00:11:05.320 I shouldn't have trusted this person. 172 00:11:05.880 --> 00:11:07.400 I shouldn't have gone to this thing. 173 00:11:08.580 --> 00:11:10.500 I shouldn't have taken this job. 174 00:11:11.460 --> 00:11:15.840 I'm two weeks in now and they're already giving pink slips out to people because they're downsizing. 175 00:11:16.080 --> 00:11:19.500 There's things that we do, friends, where we can just come to the Lord and we can say, 176 00:11:19.880 --> 00:11:24.120 hey, I exercise this beautiful gift of free will and choice that you've given me. 177 00:11:24.120 --> 00:11:30.540 And I went down the wrong road and I need you to put my feet back on the road to you. 178 00:11:30.880 --> 00:11:32.900 I need you to take my feet off this path of pain. 179 00:11:33.040 --> 00:11:39.920 This is a scripture, actually, and lead me back to you, lead me back to your will for 180 00:11:39.920 --> 00:11:40.520 my life. 181 00:11:40.660 --> 00:11:45.400 And friends, His will for your life is for you to be in perfect peace, for you to have 182 00:11:45.400 --> 00:11:50.300 perfect joy, for you to be in health, for you to prosper even as your soul prospers. 183 00:11:51.160 --> 00:11:52.880 And it's a journey to get there. 184 00:11:54.100 --> 00:11:55.600 It's a journey to get there. 185 00:11:56.520 --> 00:11:58.200 And God will do exactly what you've asked. 186 00:11:58.320 --> 00:11:59.720 And so this is where I wanted to get to. 187 00:12:00.260 --> 00:12:01.520 He will lead you to good places. 188 00:12:01.980 --> 00:12:05.560 Will they be the same places that you would have gotten to if you would have made different 189 00:12:05.580 --> 00:12:06.560 decisions along the road? 190 00:12:07.020 --> 00:12:07.820 Probably not. 191 00:12:08.880 --> 00:12:10.980 Maybe sometimes, but it's okay. 192 00:12:11.040 --> 00:12:15.240 What I'm trying to help all of you understand is that you haven't missed any boats because 193 00:12:15.660 --> 00:12:20.280 every time you ask God to put your feet back on the path, you're still going to a really 194 00:12:20.280 --> 00:12:21.020 great place. 195 00:12:23.400 --> 00:12:28.480 And this is why God doesn't choose our spouses, because we always end up on different roads 196 00:12:28.480 --> 00:12:30.320 because of our own free will and choice. 197 00:12:32.000 --> 00:12:36.440 I hope it doesn't offend you for me to tell you that there is right now on earth, probably 198 00:12:36.520 --> 00:12:41.420 dozens of people that you could be happily married to out of the eight plus billion people. 199 00:12:41.460 --> 00:12:44.960 It's not really a lot of people because there's eight plus billion of us. 200 00:12:45.220 --> 00:12:48.340 Maybe there's hundreds of people that you could be happily married to. 201 00:12:48.960 --> 00:12:50.080 You're like, what? 202 00:12:50.560 --> 00:12:52.380 Oh my God, that's so random, Jackie. 203 00:12:52.800 --> 00:12:54.260 No, it's not. 204 00:12:57.180 --> 00:12:58.180 It's not random. 205 00:12:58.520 --> 00:13:01.980 I want you to get out of this idea of the one. 206 00:13:02.380 --> 00:13:06.740 Even if you believe it's just a little tiny bit, I want you to get out of that idea. 207 00:13:07.900 --> 00:13:12.800 What I want you to understand is that there are people on this earth like you that love 208 00:13:12.800 --> 00:13:15.040 God and that are trying their best. 209 00:13:15.040 --> 00:13:19.080 They're putting one foot in front of the other every single day, and they're praying these 210 00:13:19.680 --> 00:13:22.020 prayers, asking God to lead them to him. 211 00:13:22.180 --> 00:13:25.860 And all you have to do is cross paths with one of them. 212 00:13:29.560 --> 00:13:32.740 And make a decision that you guys are going to walk together. 213 00:13:36.440 --> 00:13:39.160 David and I did not have to love each other. 214 00:13:40.260 --> 00:13:43.500 There were definitely obstacles to us coming together. 215 00:13:43.920 --> 00:13:48.640 And there were many times in our friendship where it occurred to me that, hey, you know, 216 00:13:48.680 --> 00:13:50.640 maybe this could become a relationship. 217 00:13:51.800 --> 00:13:55.520 And then there were also times that I was like, yeah, I don't really want that. 218 00:13:58.480 --> 00:14:00.120 And it wasn't relationship anxiety. 219 00:14:00.360 --> 00:14:01.680 It wasn't relationship OCD. 220 00:14:02.520 --> 00:14:05.080 It wasn't necessarily my attachment style. 221 00:14:05.760 --> 00:14:09.000 It was I have free will. 222 00:14:11.300 --> 00:14:17.080 And I stand before you today to tell you that had I not married David and gone on this adventure 223 00:14:17.080 --> 00:14:20.480 of blended family and all the things that we've done for almost 20 years now, which 224 00:14:20.480 --> 00:14:25.800 I do not regret for one moment, I'm so glad that I said yes, I still believe I'd be happily 225 00:14:25.800 --> 00:14:26.760 married right now. 226 00:14:28.720 --> 00:14:30.120 Does that weird you out? 227 00:14:33.700 --> 00:14:36.580 I would just be happily married to somebody else. 228 00:14:40.780 --> 00:14:45.720 The reason why I believe that Holy Spirit is taking us down this road this morning is 229 00:14:45.720 --> 00:14:56.580 because he wants you to stop believing that there's just one adventure that you can take 230 00:14:56.580 --> 00:14:57.520 in this life. 231 00:14:59.020 --> 00:14:59.980 There's many adventures. 232 00:14:59.960 --> 00:14:59.960 233 00:14:59.960 --> 00:14:59.960 234 00:14:59.960 --> 00:14:59.960 235 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:03.080 adventures that are of Him. 236 00:15:03.820 --> 00:15:10.280 There's many adventures that are of Him because we make God so black and white, so wrong and 237 00:15:10.280 --> 00:15:10.560 white. 238 00:15:10.560 --> 00:15:16.100 But you have to understand this is the same author of the cosmos, of quantum physics, 239 00:15:17.040 --> 00:15:21.360 of everything outside of this tiny little ball that we're spinning around. 240 00:15:21.440 --> 00:15:29.940 Yes, I believe that the earth is round and not flat in the universe because we put everything 241 00:15:29.940 --> 00:15:32.320 in our lives in such a tiny little box. 242 00:15:32.580 --> 00:15:37.560 And that's the beauty of the season of Advent, which is what I want to do Supernatural Saturday 243 00:15:37.560 --> 00:15:37.800 on. 244 00:15:37.820 --> 00:15:40.260 So thank you, Holy Spirit, for bringing this thought full circle. 245 00:15:42.080 --> 00:15:50.540 Do you guys realize that during Jesus's time, Israel had not heard from a prophet in 400 246 00:15:51.020 --> 00:15:51.540 years? 247 00:15:54.680 --> 00:15:55.660 Wow y'all. 248 00:15:58.260 --> 00:15:59.560 That's crazy. 249 00:16:02.860 --> 00:16:11.760 If your only way to hear from God is through a person, through a prophet, and there's been 250 00:16:11.760 --> 00:16:16.800 dead silence for 400 years, that'd be pretty scary, wouldn't it? 251 00:16:20.200 --> 00:16:21.800 It'd be really scary. 252 00:16:26.340 --> 00:16:30.960 There's some different players in the Advent story, and all of them had to risk a lot. 253 00:16:31.760 --> 00:16:38.480 Mary risked a lot, Joseph, there was a lot of risk, Israel in general, 400 years of silence. 254 00:16:39.040 --> 00:16:40.880 And a lot of you feel like that too. 255 00:16:40.880 --> 00:16:41.160 Right? 256 00:16:43.660 --> 00:16:48.380 A lot of you feel like there's been a lot of silence, there's been a lot of missed expectations. 257 00:16:48.980 --> 00:16:54.520 And so let's talk about that because God wants to increase our expectation during the season. 258 00:16:54.580 --> 00:16:59.060 I believe this is a miraculous season, bringing it full circle to the beginning of Supernatural 259 00:16:59.060 --> 00:16:59.820 Saturday today. 260 00:16:59.820 --> 00:17:05.760 I do believe that there are times and seasons where there's just more angelic movement. 261 00:17:06.680 --> 00:17:08.380 And this is one of them, friends. 262 00:17:10.020 --> 00:17:12.300 This is a season marked by angels. 263 00:17:14.839 --> 00:17:17.599 And I know that you can't see them, or at least most of you can't. 264 00:17:17.760 --> 00:17:21.660 Some of you may have been able to see them once or twice, or maybe you see them regularly. 265 00:17:22.220 --> 00:17:27.040 I used to have a pastor who used to see angels all the time, but they're all around you. 266 00:17:27.800 --> 00:17:31.900 The messengers of heaven, they're all around. 267 00:17:32.900 --> 00:17:43.160 There's all kinds of agents of heaven, agents of heaven all around us all the time, ready 268 00:17:43.160 --> 00:17:44.300 to make things happen. 269 00:17:46.260 --> 00:17:49.240 So we're not going to talk about Advent this morning as a tradition. 270 00:17:49.420 --> 00:17:52.880 A lot of people, it's traditional, they have an Advent calendar, they light a candle, they 271 00:17:52.880 --> 00:17:55.560 do something depending on what your denomination of Christianity is. 272 00:17:55.560 --> 00:18:00.020 I want to talk about living in this expectation season. 273 00:18:02.480 --> 00:18:05.320 Because Advent is about being between the promise and the fulfillment. 274 00:18:07.100 --> 00:18:11.920 And a lot of us have felt like that is where we live all the time, between the prophecy 275 00:18:11.920 --> 00:18:18.680 and the manifestation of the prophecy, between whatever God said to you and it actually showing 276 00:18:18.680 --> 00:18:19.420 up in your life. 277 00:18:20.060 --> 00:18:23.020 And that space has a name and we call it Advent. 278 00:18:25.200 --> 00:18:29.200 But it's important that we understand that Advent is not about passive waiting, and that's 279 00:18:29.200 --> 00:18:31.120 not what last year singles about either. 280 00:18:31.980 --> 00:18:33.880 It's about active expectation. 281 00:18:34.000 --> 00:18:37.680 And that's why during your heartwork season, when you come into this community, the very 282 00:18:37.680 --> 00:18:38.900 first thing we do is heartwork. 283 00:18:39.320 --> 00:18:43.380 And the very first thing we do in heartwork is we raise up our expectations. 284 00:18:47.060 --> 00:18:51.860 Because there's nowhere in the word of God where God tells us to not hope too much or 285 00:18:51.860 --> 00:18:54.820 to lower our expectations or to be content with less. 286 00:18:55.700 --> 00:18:56.240 He doesn't. 287 00:18:56.800 --> 00:18:57.740 He tells us to prepare. 288 00:18:58.660 --> 00:19:00.380 He tells us to ready our hearts. 289 00:19:00.920 --> 00:19:02.000 He tells us to stay awake. 290 00:19:02.780 --> 00:19:04.520 He tells us to keep our oil full. 291 00:19:06.060 --> 00:19:09.200 Always ready for some kind of divine encounter. 292 00:19:10.560 --> 00:19:13.360 And so this season is the embodiment of that. 293 00:19:13.360 --> 00:19:18.060 Advent is the tension of knowing that something is coming even when you can't see it yet. 294 00:19:21.440 --> 00:19:22.720 And I love expectation. 295 00:19:23.440 --> 00:19:29.900 A lot of you that have been around here for some time know that at the very beginning 296 00:19:29.900 --> 00:19:34.500 of my discipleship, God began to teach me expectation. 297 00:19:35.220 --> 00:19:37.300 He began to teach me preparation. 298 00:19:38.740 --> 00:19:43.740 I remember the days where he told me to pack a bag and leave it by the front door like 299 00:19:43.740 --> 00:19:46.840 you would if you were pregnant and going to give birth and go to the hospital. 300 00:19:46.980 --> 00:19:48.220 I didn't know what to put in the bag. 301 00:19:48.380 --> 00:19:50.880 I asked him, what should I put in the suitcase that I'm packing? 302 00:19:51.680 --> 00:19:53.900 And he just said a little bit of everything. 303 00:19:54.040 --> 00:19:54.860 Well, where am I going? 304 00:19:55.020 --> 00:19:55.800 Well, you'll see. 305 00:19:56.340 --> 00:19:59.980 And I kept a packed bag at the door ready to go. 306 00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:01.840 I was ready to go. 307 00:20:03.600 --> 00:20:09.860 I've also made sure in my life, this is something that I continue to do, is I tie up loose ends. 308 00:20:10.100 --> 00:20:12.960 So if God wants to put me into a new season, he can. 309 00:20:13.900 --> 00:20:16.680 There's never a time in my life where I have lots of loose ends. 310 00:20:17.680 --> 00:20:18.500 I don't. 311 00:20:18.960 --> 00:20:24.140 I tie up my loose ends and I tie them up pretty quickly because I want God to be free to promote 312 00:20:24.140 --> 00:20:33.360 me no matter what I'm doing. 313 00:20:33.680 --> 00:20:40.360 You know, back in the days where, you know, wars would pop up, thankfully that's not necessarily 314 00:20:40.360 --> 00:20:41.200 happening right now. 315 00:20:41.260 --> 00:20:42.340 We have a different type of war. 316 00:20:42.480 --> 00:20:48.960 We have cyber wars and we have chemical warfare wars and, you know, biological contaminant 317 00:20:48.960 --> 00:20:49.360 wars. 318 00:20:49.360 --> 00:20:55.480 But back in the day of just the footman wars, there were these people, these men, and they 319 00:20:55.480 --> 00:21:01.860 called them minute men and they were a militia and they were highly trained, but they were 320 00:21:01.860 --> 00:21:03.580 just busy doing their regular lives. 321 00:21:03.700 --> 00:21:10.800 They were farmers and, you know, most of the population was agricultural, so they were 322 00:21:10.800 --> 00:21:16.360 mostly farmers, but they could be craftsmen, tradesmen of some sort. 323 00:21:17.220 --> 00:21:22.500 But at any moment they could be called to go to battle and they were ready. 324 00:21:24.140 --> 00:21:25.340 They were ready, you guys. 325 00:21:28.320 --> 00:21:31.940 That's where the scriptures talk about beating your plowshares into swords. 326 00:21:32.360 --> 00:21:35.120 It's talking about just leaving what you're doing and going. 327 00:21:38.120 --> 00:21:39.360 And I live my life that way. 328 00:21:40.020 --> 00:21:41.960 I'm always ready for the adventure. 329 00:21:41.960 --> 00:21:44.660 If God is going somewhere, I'm calling shotgun. 330 00:21:44.940 --> 00:21:46.120 I'm going to. 331 00:21:49.620 --> 00:21:51.400 Now, I'm not saying you need to live your life that way. 332 00:21:51.600 --> 00:21:52.580 Maybe that isn't for everybody. 333 00:21:52.840 --> 00:21:56.540 Maybe that's just something that God's given me to do, but if that sounds exciting to you, 334 00:21:56.560 --> 00:21:59.040 then I want to encourage you to tie up your loose ends. 335 00:22:03.320 --> 00:22:04.380 Tie up your loose ends. 336 00:22:07.420 --> 00:22:11.220 I know that we get frustrated because God starts with small things and that's what Advent 337 00:22:11.220 --> 00:22:12.000 is all about. 338 00:22:14.480 --> 00:22:16.940 Jesus could have arrived instantly. 339 00:22:17.920 --> 00:22:18.660 We know that. 340 00:22:20.180 --> 00:22:25.460 But instead, God chose him to be gestated inside of Mary, a teenage girl's womb. 341 00:22:26.060 --> 00:22:32.960 He definitely could have arrived supernaturally, fully formed, fully grown, unmistakably powerful. 342 00:22:34.900 --> 00:22:40.780 I mean, all of Israel had been waiting for Meshuach forever, right? 343 00:22:43.040 --> 00:22:47.960 So I mean, that would have been amazing and incredible, and I'm sure that most people 344 00:22:47.960 --> 00:22:50.720 expected him to arrive that way, but he didn't. 345 00:22:51.100 --> 00:22:51.960 He chose a buildup. 346 00:22:52.480 --> 00:22:58.400 He chose a gestation, a pregnancy, an incubation, a process, because every promise has a process. 347 00:23:01.740 --> 00:23:02.900 And why is that? 348 00:23:02.980 --> 00:23:04.520 Because miracles are often formed. 349 00:23:05.900 --> 00:23:06.340 They're formed. 350 00:23:06.520 --> 00:23:10.400 I know that we think of miracles as being instantaneous, and there definitely are very 351 00:23:10.400 --> 00:23:11.400 instantaneous miracles. 352 00:23:13.060 --> 00:23:16.940 But oftentimes, miracles are formed before they're revealed. 353 00:23:18.640 --> 00:23:23.560 And we see Jesus, even in process, when he's healing people and doing things, just doing 354 00:23:23.560 --> 00:23:31.360 some sort of process, having people wash, making mud packs for people's eyes, and just 355 00:23:31.360 --> 00:23:35.140 doing all kinds of different things, we see some process in some of the miracles that 356 00:23:35.140 --> 00:23:36.680 Jesus performed when he was on earth. 357 00:23:39.160 --> 00:23:40.840 I think there are lots of reasons for that. 358 00:23:40.880 --> 00:23:45.980 I think that one of the reasons is that Jesus was showing that there was a part to play 359 00:23:47.780 --> 00:23:51.320 and also showing that not all miracles look alike. 360 00:23:54.380 --> 00:23:58.740 But most of all, I just really believe that Advent teaches us that God is always working 361 00:23:58.740 --> 00:24:00.000 behind the scenes, y'all. 362 00:24:00.880 --> 00:24:05.140 I really want to encourage you with that right now, because a lot of you don't see any changes 363 00:24:05.140 --> 00:24:09.420 on the surface of your life, and I want to encourage you that God is always working behind 364 00:24:09.420 --> 00:24:13.620 the scenes long before anything steps onto the center of the stage. 365 00:24:15.960 --> 00:24:16.400 Long before. 366 00:24:16.980 --> 00:24:18.300 Have any of you ever been in a play? 367 00:24:18.340 --> 00:24:18.960 I have. 368 00:24:19.800 --> 00:24:25.360 I really wanted to be involved in the theater when I was younger, and I was in theater in 369 00:24:25.360 --> 00:24:27.980 high school, and I was in plays when I was younger. 370 00:24:29.940 --> 00:24:35.040 And before that curtain goes up, even dress rehearsal curtain goes up, the day before, 371 00:24:36.040 --> 00:24:40.900 long before the show, we're preparing, right? 372 00:24:41.820 --> 00:24:43.060 In fact, it's all preparation. 373 00:24:43.400 --> 00:24:47.820 It's all preparation for, you know, I was only in plays that ran for one day. 374 00:24:48.180 --> 00:24:51.580 Perhaps there's shows that run for weeks and months, and I know that they do. 375 00:24:52.060 --> 00:24:57.460 But in my experience, it was a lot of preparation for just one day of center stage. 376 00:24:59.760 --> 00:24:59.860 So 377 00:24:59.860 --> 00:24:59.860 378 00:24:59.900 --> 00:24:59.920 So 379 00:24:59.920 --> 00:24:59.980 it was a lot of preparation. 380 00:25:00.000 --> 00:25:04.700 is 95% behind the curtain or behind the scenes. 381 00:25:07.640 --> 00:25:10.900 And so I don't want you to despise small beginnings 382 00:25:10.900 --> 00:25:13.720 because small beginnings do not equal small outcomes. 383 00:25:14.540 --> 00:25:17.040 Just because there's only maybe a little bit of progress 384 00:25:17.180 --> 00:25:19.580 in something that you've been praying for for years 385 00:25:19.580 --> 00:25:22.480 doesn't mean that tomorrow it can't show up fully formed. 386 00:25:22.480 --> 00:25:23.640 That happened with my brother. 387 00:25:24.740 --> 00:25:27.600 In fact, if I'm being fully transparent with you, 388 00:25:27.600 --> 00:25:30.300 I actually had been sort of giving up hope 389 00:25:30.300 --> 00:25:32.260 that anything was gonna change with him. 390 00:25:32.600 --> 00:25:35.620 And he's physically just so unwell 391 00:25:35.620 --> 00:25:39.340 that I actually was expecting instead of the miracle 392 00:25:39.340 --> 00:25:41.560 that God promised me 28 years ago, 393 00:25:42.020 --> 00:25:43.960 I was more expecting his miracle 394 00:25:43.960 --> 00:25:46.660 to be just him taking home to be with Jesus, 395 00:25:47.880 --> 00:25:49.520 if I'm being fully honest. 396 00:25:51.620 --> 00:25:53.560 And can I tell you that even though 397 00:25:53.560 --> 00:25:55.640 there's been 28 years of prayer on this, 398 00:25:55.640 --> 00:25:59.440 I didn't really see any type of change 399 00:25:59.440 --> 00:26:00.800 on the surface of him. 400 00:26:01.840 --> 00:26:03.240 In fact, I had just talked to him. 401 00:26:03.800 --> 00:26:07.180 He had just been at my house and I was so frustrated 402 00:26:07.180 --> 00:26:10.460 because he wanted to like live in his car in my driveway 403 00:26:13.360 --> 00:26:16.120 for the winter and I had to tell him no. 404 00:26:16.640 --> 00:26:19.240 See friends, these are the lessons that we learn 405 00:26:19.480 --> 00:26:21.180 when we make decisions 406 00:26:21.180 --> 00:26:22.740 because we don't wanna disappoint people. 407 00:26:22.740 --> 00:26:24.880 This is the kind of stuff I'm talking about 408 00:26:25.460 --> 00:26:28.160 where I have allowed my brother or someone else 409 00:26:28.160 --> 00:26:30.400 to do something that I knew wasn't a good idea 410 00:26:30.400 --> 00:26:32.840 and then I had to live in the consequences of that 411 00:26:32.840 --> 00:26:35.980 because I said yes, because I didn't wanna upset them. 412 00:26:37.000 --> 00:26:38.240 You guys do it too. 413 00:26:38.720 --> 00:26:39.720 Y'all do it too. 414 00:26:39.760 --> 00:26:40.700 I know you do. 415 00:26:41.160 --> 00:26:42.500 So he had just left here 416 00:26:42.660 --> 00:26:44.900 and he was roaming around Texas somewhere. 417 00:26:45.820 --> 00:26:48.100 And you guys, I've been through this for 28 years with him. 418 00:26:49.740 --> 00:26:52.240 And then he calls me out of nowhere and says, 419 00:26:53.640 --> 00:26:57.260 I found a house because I've been asking him for years. 420 00:26:58.020 --> 00:26:59.540 Will you please find a trailer? 421 00:26:59.960 --> 00:27:01.140 Will you please find a camper? 422 00:27:01.420 --> 00:27:02.760 Will you please find a double wide? 423 00:27:02.780 --> 00:27:04.680 Will you please find a little house somewhere, 424 00:27:04.960 --> 00:27:08.140 a piece of land that we can put a camper on, 425 00:27:08.200 --> 00:27:09.960 anything so that you're not homeless? 426 00:27:10.240 --> 00:27:12.700 Because my mom left money for him. 427 00:27:12.740 --> 00:27:15.020 There's no reason for him to be homeless 428 00:27:16.960 --> 00:27:18.920 and he just wouldn't do it. 429 00:27:19.420 --> 00:27:20.340 No, I don't wanna do that. 430 00:27:21.460 --> 00:27:22.540 I don't wanna do it. 431 00:27:23.420 --> 00:27:24.300 I wanna live in my car. 432 00:27:24.900 --> 00:27:25.980 I wanna be mobile. 433 00:27:26.160 --> 00:27:26.780 I wanna be in my car. 434 00:27:27.120 --> 00:27:30.880 I don't wanna, 100,000 different reasons why. 435 00:27:31.380 --> 00:27:32.300 None of them make sense 436 00:27:32.300 --> 00:27:34.040 and none of them are based in reality. 437 00:27:35.600 --> 00:27:37.220 And then out of nowhere, friends, 438 00:27:37.460 --> 00:27:39.800 out of nowhere during this Advent season, 439 00:27:39.940 --> 00:27:42.580 he says, I found this place, I want it. 440 00:27:42.480 --> 00:27:44.000 What, you want it? 441 00:27:44.200 --> 00:27:45.000 You wanna put down a trailer? 442 00:27:45.000 --> 00:27:45.620 You wanna put down roots? 443 00:27:45.960 --> 00:27:49.720 You wanna make a commitment and buy this little house? 444 00:27:50.860 --> 00:27:53.760 Okay, well, it's out of the price range 445 00:27:53.760 --> 00:27:55.360 of what mom left for you. 446 00:27:55.400 --> 00:27:57.740 So go out for the guy this much money. 447 00:27:58.480 --> 00:27:59.800 See if he'll take this much money 448 00:27:59.800 --> 00:28:03.000 for this little tiny 1,000 square foot house 449 00:28:03.040 --> 00:28:06.540 on a literally a tiny little 3,000 square foot lot. 450 00:28:06.900 --> 00:28:08.600 And the guy took it. 451 00:28:08.700 --> 00:28:12.300 And at any point in that process of closing on that property, 452 00:28:12.400 --> 00:28:13.800 my brother could have backed out 453 00:28:13.800 --> 00:28:18.180 and I've seen him change his mind a million times, 454 00:28:18.900 --> 00:28:19.920 not necessarily about a house. 455 00:28:20.060 --> 00:28:22.620 This is as far as we've ever gotten with this, 456 00:28:22.760 --> 00:28:24.360 but all kinds of different things, 457 00:28:24.760 --> 00:28:25.480 renting an apartment, 458 00:28:26.220 --> 00:28:28.680 something that would cause him to not be homeless 459 00:28:28.680 --> 00:28:33.400 and not have us worry about his safety every day. 460 00:28:35.240 --> 00:28:36.840 And you guys, it went all the way through 461 00:28:36.840 --> 00:28:38.840 and he's now a homeowner and lives in a house. 462 00:28:39.780 --> 00:28:42.900 And can I tell you that this miracle kind of snuck up on me 463 00:28:42.900 --> 00:28:44.560 because I wasn't expecting it at all. 464 00:28:44.920 --> 00:28:48.160 I've been expecting it in past seasons and maybe that's you. 465 00:28:48.420 --> 00:28:51.340 I can tell you about past seasons where I was like, 466 00:28:51.520 --> 00:28:53.300 man, I really think something's gonna shift with Jake. 467 00:28:53.360 --> 00:28:55.720 I was praying for him and I felt something in my spirit. 468 00:28:55.820 --> 00:28:58.200 And I really think that this is the time. 469 00:28:58.300 --> 00:28:58.860 And guess what? 470 00:28:59.640 --> 00:29:00.600 It wasn't. 471 00:29:02.680 --> 00:29:04.820 But this time it came with no fanfare. 472 00:29:05.040 --> 00:29:07.600 It came with no Holy Ghost goosebumps. 473 00:29:07.820 --> 00:29:10.140 It came with nothing that would announce 474 00:29:10.140 --> 00:29:14.920 any kind of miraculous time except it just happened. 475 00:29:17.060 --> 00:29:19.420 So friends, I don't care if you feel 476 00:29:20.680 --> 00:29:23.020 spiritually dull right now. 477 00:29:24.240 --> 00:29:26.740 If you haven't had a word from the Lord for a while, 478 00:29:27.740 --> 00:29:30.340 if you haven't felt angelic activity for a while, 479 00:29:30.740 --> 00:29:33.020 if you haven't felt like there's any kind of 480 00:29:33.020 --> 00:29:35.560 supernatural hope on your promise for a while, 481 00:29:35.580 --> 00:29:38.680 I am telling you that we are in a season 482 00:29:39.440 --> 00:29:42.680 where messiahs come unannounced in mangers. 483 00:29:49.160 --> 00:29:50.560 Do you hear me? 484 00:29:56.320 --> 00:29:59.440 And they may not look like much at first, but they grow. 485 00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:04.460 into the most miraculous events of our lives. 486 00:30:08.560 --> 00:30:11.000 So just because you don't see it yet 487 00:30:11.000 --> 00:30:12.320 doesn't mean it hasn't started, 488 00:30:13.320 --> 00:30:14.220 because it has. 489 00:30:15.660 --> 00:30:17.460 So just like what I just went through, 490 00:30:17.740 --> 00:30:20.360 the danger of this type of season 491 00:30:20.360 --> 00:30:22.600 is that we are losing expectation 492 00:30:22.900 --> 00:30:25.040 right before our breakthroughs, 493 00:30:25.040 --> 00:30:28.540 just like me and my brother Jake, okay? 494 00:30:28.980 --> 00:30:30.020 So what happens? 495 00:30:30.240 --> 00:30:31.280 Why do we lose expectation? 496 00:30:31.980 --> 00:30:34.440 Well, it's been a long time. 497 00:30:34.800 --> 00:30:35.500 Hope feels risky. 498 00:30:35.920 --> 00:30:36.260 Anybody else? 499 00:30:36.540 --> 00:30:37.220 Hope feels risky. 500 00:30:38.280 --> 00:30:39.260 You know, my brother was saying, 501 00:30:39.340 --> 00:30:40.740 you know, he's gonna sleep in my driveway 502 00:30:40.740 --> 00:30:41.980 in his car for the winter. 503 00:30:42.200 --> 00:30:43.740 Dear God, by the way, I said no. 504 00:30:43.860 --> 00:30:44.680 Are you proud of me? 505 00:30:44.760 --> 00:30:46.420 I literally said, no, you're not. 506 00:30:46.500 --> 00:30:49.360 You're not gonna stay in my driveway in your car. 507 00:30:50.760 --> 00:30:52.180 You're not gonna do it. 508 00:30:53.080 --> 00:30:55.860 Sometimes, you know, our miracle breakthrough 509 00:30:55.860 --> 00:30:57.860 is gonna come on the other side of us 510 00:30:57.860 --> 00:30:59.420 saying no to something, 511 00:31:02.120 --> 00:31:03.900 something that we would normally say yes to, 512 00:31:05.160 --> 00:31:08.340 because once again, we're people pleasers. 513 00:31:08.500 --> 00:31:09.560 Let's just admit it. 514 00:31:10.800 --> 00:31:13.360 Most of you women on here are definitely people pleasers. 515 00:31:16.560 --> 00:31:17.900 So try this word. 516 00:31:18.000 --> 00:31:18.880 It's a little word. 517 00:31:19.000 --> 00:31:20.360 It's very easy to say. 518 00:31:21.340 --> 00:31:22.700 No, say it with me. 519 00:31:23.500 --> 00:31:24.020 No. 520 00:31:25.860 --> 00:31:26.980 I kind of like it. 521 00:31:26.980 --> 00:31:27.840 You like it? 522 00:31:27.840 --> 00:31:29.020 It's kind of a good word. 523 00:31:29.940 --> 00:31:30.260 No. 524 00:31:30.480 --> 00:31:32.340 And the reason why we have such a hard time 525 00:31:32.340 --> 00:31:33.380 saying no to other people 526 00:31:33.380 --> 00:31:35.900 is because we've had too many people say no to us. 527 00:31:36.980 --> 00:31:38.800 We've had too many no's in our lives, 528 00:31:38.920 --> 00:31:41.120 and we just simply don't want to cause 529 00:31:41.120 --> 00:31:42.760 the same type of disappointment in others 530 00:31:42.760 --> 00:31:44.480 that we've had all of our lives, 531 00:31:44.680 --> 00:31:46.260 and I understand that, 532 00:31:46.280 --> 00:31:49.180 but you cannot say yes to everything. 533 00:31:50.200 --> 00:31:51.640 You gotta say no 534 00:31:51.640 --> 00:31:54.240 so that you can have that better yes, right? 535 00:31:54.240 --> 00:31:55.920 We want that better yes, 536 00:31:56.140 --> 00:31:57.900 and so I don't think it's an accident, 537 00:31:58.340 --> 00:31:59.040 because guess what? 538 00:31:59.220 --> 00:32:01.720 My brother wouldn't have been off driving around Texas 539 00:32:01.800 --> 00:32:03.120 if I would have said yes. 540 00:32:03.200 --> 00:32:05.580 He would have been in my driveway, wouldn't he have? 541 00:32:07.200 --> 00:32:09.000 He would have been sleeping in my driveway, 542 00:32:10.300 --> 00:32:11.800 and what would have caused, 543 00:32:11.920 --> 00:32:13.140 it would have been a delay. 544 00:32:13.380 --> 00:32:14.440 There would have been another delay, 545 00:32:14.700 --> 00:32:16.420 and maybe that house would have been purchased 546 00:32:16.420 --> 00:32:17.360 by someone else, 547 00:32:17.420 --> 00:32:19.260 and maybe it would be a different house that he lived in, 548 00:32:19.260 --> 00:32:19.880 because once again, 549 00:32:20.140 --> 00:32:21.800 I believe the breakthrough was gonna come, 550 00:32:21.900 --> 00:32:23.560 but I think that we, a lot of times, 551 00:32:23.560 --> 00:32:25.500 decide the timeline of the breakthrough 552 00:32:25.860 --> 00:32:28.280 based on what we're willing to put up with. 553 00:32:34.540 --> 00:32:37.520 I mean, if you're willing to go around the mountain 554 00:32:37.660 --> 00:32:39.460 another 40 years 555 00:32:39.460 --> 00:32:42.600 instead of facing some of your fears in the promised land, 556 00:32:42.740 --> 00:32:43.560 then so be it. 557 00:32:52.020 --> 00:32:53.700 I do know this. 558 00:32:54.720 --> 00:32:57.300 I know that when you begin to partner with expectation, 559 00:32:57.380 --> 00:32:59.160 it's going to stretch your capacity. 560 00:33:02.740 --> 00:33:06.000 You are going to have to face your fears. 561 00:33:06.140 --> 00:33:08.660 You're going to have to align your posture with heaven 562 00:33:09.460 --> 00:33:10.740 in a place of faith, 563 00:33:12.020 --> 00:33:13.540 and the reason why we let go of that fear 564 00:33:13.540 --> 00:33:13.540 565 00:33:13.540 --> 00:33:13.540 566 00:33:13.540 --> 00:33:13.540 567 00:33:13.540 --> 00:33:13.540 568 00:33:13.540 --> 00:33:14.160 and let go of expectation 569 00:33:14.160 --> 00:33:15.640 is because it's been too long, 570 00:33:15.660 --> 00:33:16.680 and hope feels risky. 571 00:33:17.280 --> 00:33:18.960 We don't want to take risks anymore. 572 00:33:19.900 --> 00:33:22.640 We're constantly listening to that voice of disappointment 573 00:33:22.940 --> 00:33:24.020 that's whispering to us, 574 00:33:24.380 --> 00:33:26.040 don't get your hopes up. 575 00:33:26.740 --> 00:33:28.460 I know that voice very well, 576 00:33:28.480 --> 00:33:29.580 and I know you do as well. 577 00:33:32.060 --> 00:33:35.400 So how can we stay expectant in this season 578 00:33:35.400 --> 00:33:37.240 without demanding to be in control? 579 00:33:39.560 --> 00:33:40.760 How can we do it? 580 00:33:46.720 --> 00:33:52.140 Well, we can continue to align and prepare. 581 00:33:53.320 --> 00:33:54.120 I packed that bag, 582 00:33:54.280 --> 00:33:54.940 I set it by the door, 583 00:33:55.040 --> 00:33:57.160 I had no idea where I was going or when I was going, 584 00:33:57.240 --> 00:33:58.220 I just knew I was going. 585 00:34:00.460 --> 00:34:02.140 And friends, you don't prepare a nursery 586 00:34:02.240 --> 00:34:03.620 after a baby arrives 587 00:34:04.120 --> 00:34:05.900 unless you didn't know the baby was coming, 588 00:34:05.960 --> 00:34:07.540 and I have seen some stories like that, 589 00:34:07.560 --> 00:34:09.000 and they're very strange stories, 590 00:34:10.940 --> 00:34:13.520 but we prepare for what we believe is coming. 591 00:34:15.239 --> 00:34:17.199 Remember, belief requires action. 592 00:34:18.460 --> 00:34:20.139 And so you continue to prepare 593 00:34:22.940 --> 00:34:25.400 even when it doesn't feel like anything has changed. 594 00:34:27.760 --> 00:34:28.980 And so for those of you 595 00:34:28.980 --> 00:34:30.800 that are praying for miracle breakthroughs 596 00:34:32.020 --> 00:34:33.520 in whatever area of your life, 597 00:34:33.620 --> 00:34:35.739 but you have not made room for them yet, 598 00:34:35.880 --> 00:34:36.960 that's your first step. 599 00:34:38.560 --> 00:34:40.380 Because if Advent is anything, 600 00:34:40.480 --> 00:34:43.420 it is not just the invitation to hope 601 00:34:43.420 --> 00:34:44.239 and to expect, 602 00:34:44.400 --> 00:34:45.260 but also to prepare. 603 00:34:47.000 --> 00:34:48.219 So let's apply this. 604 00:34:48.480 --> 00:34:49.560 Let's personally apply this. 605 00:34:49.760 --> 00:34:50.800 We have a few minutes left. 606 00:34:52.480 --> 00:34:58.260 All right, so what are we gonna speak over? 607 00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:02.000 What have you lost some expectation in? 608 00:35:02.180 --> 00:35:03.580 I just use my brother as an example 609 00:35:03.580 --> 00:35:06.380 because it's a miracle that my family is still celebrating. 610 00:35:06.520 --> 00:35:07.580 Just happened this month. 611 00:35:08.340 --> 00:35:10.280 So, very excited about it. 612 00:35:10.920 --> 00:35:14.320 Still just, actually just in awe of it. 613 00:35:15.880 --> 00:35:17.320 My brother's sending me pictures. 614 00:35:17.580 --> 00:35:18.860 The washer and dryer got delivered. 615 00:35:18.940 --> 00:35:21.080 My brother lives in a house with a washer and dryer. 616 00:35:21.160 --> 00:35:21.860 My God. 617 00:35:24.480 --> 00:35:25.620 What in the world? 618 00:35:25.620 --> 00:35:25.880 What? 619 00:35:31.160 --> 00:35:32.360 Sleeps in a bed. 620 00:35:34.180 --> 00:35:35.140 Sleeps in a bed, you guys. 621 00:35:35.380 --> 00:35:35.960 Sleeps in a bed. 622 00:35:40.140 --> 00:35:44.320 All right, so, maybe there's a relationship in your life 623 00:35:44.320 --> 00:35:45.280 and I don't mean romantic, 624 00:35:45.480 --> 00:35:46.860 but a different type of relationship 625 00:35:46.860 --> 00:35:49.200 that you just stopped expecting any kind of healing 626 00:35:50.000 --> 00:35:50.740 to happen in. 627 00:35:50.740 --> 00:35:52.400 It's just been so bad for so long. 628 00:35:53.540 --> 00:35:55.520 You used to believe that you were gonna have breakthrough 629 00:35:55.520 --> 00:35:56.500 in that relationship. 630 00:35:56.940 --> 00:35:58.320 You used to believe there was gonna be healing, 631 00:35:59.960 --> 00:36:01.720 forgiveness, reconciliation, but you stopped believing. 632 00:36:04.540 --> 00:36:04.940 Right? 633 00:36:05.540 --> 00:36:07.420 Maybe there's something that you've wanted to do 634 00:36:07.420 --> 00:36:09.080 and you've worked towards in the past, 635 00:36:09.140 --> 00:36:10.860 but it didn't work out, so you shelved it. 636 00:36:11.060 --> 00:36:12.780 Some of you have shelved promises. 637 00:36:13.020 --> 00:36:14.920 You have promises that are on a shelf somewhere. 638 00:36:15.560 --> 00:36:17.440 You gotta take them down during this season. 639 00:36:17.480 --> 00:36:18.520 You gotta dust them off, 640 00:36:18.560 --> 00:36:20.200 just like you do your Christmas ornaments. 641 00:36:20.440 --> 00:36:23.720 Take them out of the boxes, clean them up, look at them. 642 00:36:26.240 --> 00:36:28.080 Remember, remember where you got them 643 00:36:28.380 --> 00:36:30.100 and how it made you feel. 644 00:36:30.300 --> 00:36:32.660 A lot of people don't have just Christmas box, 645 00:36:33.080 --> 00:36:33.920 Christmas ornaments from Target. 646 00:36:34.040 --> 00:36:35.420 You have things that mean something. 647 00:36:36.380 --> 00:36:40.480 You have memories tucked away in boxes 648 00:36:40.480 --> 00:36:42.100 that you bring out once a year. 649 00:36:43.280 --> 00:36:44.780 So, perhaps at this time of year, 650 00:36:44.820 --> 00:36:47.020 it's time for you to take some of your wishes and dreams 651 00:36:47.120 --> 00:36:49.440 and hopes off the shelf and take a good look at them. 652 00:36:50.360 --> 00:36:52.580 That might look like taking out your old journals 653 00:36:52.580 --> 00:36:53.420 and reading them. 654 00:36:54.340 --> 00:36:56.240 You'd be surprised what you've written to yourself. 655 00:36:57.380 --> 00:36:59.920 Can I tell you that those of you that journal, 656 00:37:00.200 --> 00:37:02.560 you are literally journaling to yourself. 657 00:37:02.680 --> 00:37:04.140 And if you go read old journals, 658 00:37:04.140 --> 00:37:05.740 you will minister to yourself 659 00:37:05.740 --> 00:37:07.580 like nothing you've ever experienced. 660 00:37:08.080 --> 00:37:10.980 I can't tell you how many times I've needed encouragement 661 00:37:11.340 --> 00:37:13.220 and no one was encouraging me. 662 00:37:13.220 --> 00:37:14.900 And I went and read old journals 663 00:37:14.900 --> 00:37:18.120 because I have haphazardly been a journaler, 664 00:37:18.220 --> 00:37:20.900 meaning I'm not consistent, I don't do it every day. 665 00:37:20.900 --> 00:37:24.980 But I go through spurts of it since 2010 666 00:37:25.720 --> 00:37:27.500 and I will get out those old journals 667 00:37:27.500 --> 00:37:29.800 and I will minister to myself with them. 668 00:37:33.100 --> 00:37:34.920 So, maybe that's what it looks like. 669 00:37:35.460 --> 00:37:37.000 Maybe getting out an old vision board. 670 00:37:37.660 --> 00:37:40.020 Maybe for those of you that keep prophetic words, 671 00:37:41.000 --> 00:37:43.080 maybe you have them recorded in your phone 672 00:37:43.080 --> 00:37:44.860 or you have them written down somewhere, 673 00:37:44.900 --> 00:37:47.220 getting those things out, taking a look at those things. 674 00:37:48.300 --> 00:37:50.580 Guys, we are gonna be doing a very, very fun, 675 00:37:50.580 --> 00:37:52.020 I should have done this at the beginning 676 00:37:52.020 --> 00:37:54.400 during the housekeeping portion of Supernatural Saturday, 677 00:37:54.620 --> 00:37:58.280 but we are going to be doing a really fun event 678 00:37:58.280 --> 00:38:00.660 at the new year for our times and seasons. 679 00:38:02.200 --> 00:38:03.860 My good friend, Bethany Hicks, 680 00:38:03.920 --> 00:38:07.860 who is one of the most accurate prophets of our day, 681 00:38:08.300 --> 00:38:11.280 in my opinion and a lot of other people's opinions as well. 682 00:38:11.760 --> 00:38:14.160 She has written a book called Seasons and Assignments, 683 00:38:14.420 --> 00:38:15.920 Know What to Do and When to Do It. 684 00:38:16.240 --> 00:38:18.820 So we did prophesy your year at Rosh Hashanah 685 00:38:18.820 --> 00:38:21.140 and we're going to do Seasons and Assignments 686 00:38:22.080 --> 00:38:23.720 on January 4th. 687 00:38:24.100 --> 00:38:27.760 It's gonna be a really cool, very prophesy your year like. 688 00:38:29.740 --> 00:38:33.460 First, you're going to be able to discern what season is, 689 00:38:33.580 --> 00:38:36.100 what your season is and what you should be doing 690 00:38:36.100 --> 00:38:37.920 in that season and then we're going to lean 691 00:38:37.920 --> 00:38:40.800 into the prophetic to find out what it looks like 692 00:38:40.800 --> 00:38:43.320 to partner with that season, January, February, 693 00:38:43.620 --> 00:38:47.400 March, April, May, June, July, August, throughout the year. 694 00:38:47.960 --> 00:38:51.260 So what does it look like to partner with that season 695 00:38:52.380 --> 00:38:53.200 throughout the year? 696 00:38:53.320 --> 00:38:55.180 And so we'll be going into Zoom rooms, 697 00:38:55.400 --> 00:38:57.100 we'll be giving each other prophetic words 698 00:38:57.100 --> 00:38:59.140 and we'll be activating and we'll be doing 699 00:38:59.140 --> 00:39:01.200 a lot of the things that we do at prophesy your year, 700 00:39:01.380 --> 00:39:05.060 but just with a different bent on knowing your season 701 00:39:05.060 --> 00:39:09.120 and your assignment and how can you walk it out this year 702 00:39:09.320 --> 00:39:12.160 so that this year can be a year of breakthrough. 703 00:39:12.340 --> 00:39:14.420 Did you know that this coming year is your year? 704 00:39:16.700 --> 00:39:20.880 It's your year for something. 705 00:39:22.220 --> 00:39:23.800 There should not be a year that passes 706 00:39:23.800 --> 00:39:25.720 where there's not something significant 707 00:39:25.720 --> 00:39:26.980 that happens in your life. 708 00:39:27.560 --> 00:39:28.520 It's your year. 709 00:39:29.220 --> 00:39:30.980 A lot of people are always hoping and praying 710 00:39:30.980 --> 00:39:32.820 it's gonna be their year, but it is your year. 711 00:39:33.340 --> 00:39:35.560 The problem is, is a lot of times we do not come 712 00:39:35.560 --> 00:39:38.620 into alignment with heaven on what actually 713 00:39:38.620 --> 00:39:39.860 is happening in our lives. 714 00:39:40.040 --> 00:39:43.640 If I told you all the times that I cried and I moaned 715 00:39:43.640 --> 00:39:46.220 and I complained because I wanted it to be my time 716 00:39:46.220 --> 00:39:48.560 and season for something that wasn't ripe yet, 717 00:39:48.980 --> 00:39:51.260 when there was something ripe right in front of me 718 00:39:51.260 --> 00:39:53.940 that I was not taking advantage of, 719 00:39:54.280 --> 00:39:55.880 that was amazing and wonderful. 720 00:39:56.260 --> 00:39:58.700 It just wasn't the thing that I had my eyes on. 721 00:40:02.720 --> 00:40:05.660 We have to work with God, we have to partner with heaven. 722 00:40:08.160 --> 00:40:09.000 We do. 723 00:40:10.180 --> 00:40:15.420 And of course, I believe that all of you are here because partnership is something that 724 00:40:15.420 --> 00:40:16.560 you're ripe and ready for. 725 00:40:17.060 --> 00:40:23.720 So Advent is a time to pick these things back up because whatever miracle you decided was 726 00:40:23.720 --> 00:40:28.820 not for you anymore, let my situation with my brother Jacob tell you differently. 727 00:40:32.780 --> 00:40:36.740 It may not have happened when you wanted it to, but it's not dead yet. 728 00:40:38.780 --> 00:40:41.600 All right, go ahead and close your eyes, we're gonna do some activations here. 729 00:40:45.940 --> 00:40:49.280 Here's the question that I want you to ask. 730 00:40:51.080 --> 00:40:54.320 Holy Spirit, ask the Holy Spirit, say Holy Spirit. 731 00:40:55.800 --> 00:41:03.560 By the way, Holy Spirit is not an it, it's a he, it's a person of the Godhead, Father, 732 00:41:03.960 --> 00:41:06.800 Son, Holy Spirit, you can talk to him. 733 00:41:07.120 --> 00:41:08.020 You know that, right? 734 00:41:08.220 --> 00:41:10.240 If you didn't, now you do. 735 00:41:10.760 --> 00:41:17.160 Holy Spirit, where have I lowered my expectations to protect myself? 736 00:41:17.760 --> 00:41:19.000 Ask Holy Spirit to show you. 737 00:41:19.640 --> 00:41:27.340 Where have I lowered my expectations to protect my heart, myself from disappointment? 738 00:41:29.720 --> 00:41:30.400 Go ahead and ask that. 739 00:41:47.220 --> 00:41:53.660 All right, now I want you to ask, what do you want me to expect again in this season? 740 00:41:54.020 --> 00:41:56.880 What do you want me to expect again in this season? 741 00:42:20.480 --> 00:42:22.900 What do you want me to expect again? 742 00:42:32.940 --> 00:42:34.220 Okay, go ahead and put it in the chat. 743 00:43:15.740 --> 00:43:17.140 All right, go ahead and put it in the chat. 744 00:43:46.880 --> 00:43:47.120 All right, go ahead and put it in the chat. 745 00:44:16.880 --> 00:44:17.120 All right, go ahead and put it in the chat. 746 00:44:19.780 --> 00:44:22.760 All right, hopefully you guys are looking at what people are posting. 747 00:44:22.880 --> 00:44:24.440 I'm just giving you guys some space. 748 00:44:28.100 --> 00:44:32.040 Some powerful stuff in there, and I think you can see yourself in each other's responses, 749 00:44:32.400 --> 00:44:32.680 can't you? 750 00:44:36.280 --> 00:44:40.040 One thing that's beautiful about this community is that you're not in this by yourself. 751 00:44:41.100 --> 00:44:48.060 And every single week we see someone graduate from this place of expectation for marriage 752 00:44:48.060 --> 00:44:50.480 and family into the reality of it, don't we? 753 00:44:54.320 --> 00:44:54.780 We do. 754 00:44:57.280 --> 00:44:58.740 And just so you know. 755 00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:02.200 that person soon is going to be you. 756 00:45:05.620 --> 00:45:10.560 And I hear time after time after time from those people that they didn't think that it was going 757 00:45:10.560 --> 00:45:16.760 to be them. They just continued to prepare, they were continuing to hope. We don't just get what 758 00:45:16.760 --> 00:45:23.120 we expect, we get what we inspect. They continued to inspect what God had promised them and they 759 00:45:23.380 --> 00:45:31.180 continued to declare it. They had down days just like all of you do and it's not just about marriage 760 00:45:31.180 --> 00:45:41.040 and family, about all the other things that make up your life that you do not feel like are in 761 00:45:41.040 --> 00:45:47.920 complete alignment with what God has created you for. We all live in that tension friends, all of 762 00:45:47.920 --> 00:45:53.240 us, including myself. But it's a beautiful tension because it's called an adventure. 763 00:45:55.260 --> 00:46:00.440 I want you to stop looking at this life as a destination and start looking at it as an adventure. 764 00:46:03.580 --> 00:46:08.660 There's all kinds of things that I'm expecting that I don't have possession of 765 00:46:08.840 --> 00:46:12.580 in the natural. I believe that they've been declared in the spirit realm 766 00:46:12.580 --> 00:46:19.060 and I'm walking towards them. Some days fast, some days slow. 767 00:46:26.340 --> 00:46:28.160 We're all going to get there. 768 00:46:30.580 --> 00:46:36.380 So let's let this be a time of introspection with God during this Advent season. 769 00:46:38.460 --> 00:46:42.460 It's time to let go of some things. It's time to embrace some other things. 770 00:46:43.040 --> 00:46:47.260 This is a beautiful time at the end of the year where God can prune and purge. 771 00:46:48.240 --> 00:46:53.520 He can shift some things. Go back a couple Supernatural Saturdays to the dream a new dream 772 00:46:53.780 --> 00:47:05.520 message. Apply that here. There's some of you that your dream is just a little outdated. It needs an 773 00:47:05.520 --> 00:47:16.260 update. It's not lacking faith for you to ask for an update. Some of you are holding on to things 774 00:47:16.640 --> 00:47:22.360 that that really need a makeover. Okay, those things need a makeover. God wants to upgrade 775 00:47:22.360 --> 00:47:34.720 those things for you. He does. Lord Jesus, let's do a little prayer here. 776 00:47:46.020 --> 00:47:52.420 Father God, we come before you in this holy season of Advent. This beautiful space, 777 00:47:52.660 --> 00:47:58.340 Lord, between promise and fulfillment in the place where faith meets action. 778 00:48:00.660 --> 00:48:03.520 God, we acknowledge that you are not absent in our waiting. 779 00:48:04.200 --> 00:48:07.100 Just acknowledge that right now. God, you are not absent in our waiting. 780 00:48:11.880 --> 00:48:18.440 You are present. Lord, you're so present. You've just been preparing us. You've been repurposing 781 00:48:18.440 --> 00:48:23.500 some of us. Some of us have lost purpose and you're repurposing us. Help us to surrender 782 00:48:23.500 --> 00:48:31.560 to that repurposing. Things have felt quiet, Lord, concerning our promises. 783 00:48:33.280 --> 00:48:37.980 And we need a reminder right now that you're still at work. Father, I pray that every single 784 00:48:37.980 --> 00:48:44.380 person on this call, all 264 of them, get a reminder that you're still at work. That you've 785 00:48:44.380 --> 00:48:49.140 been working behind the scenes. We're asking, Holy Spirit, that you just peek your head from behind 786 00:48:49.140 --> 00:48:57.000 the curtain and you show us that you're still preparing the set. That you're still at work 787 00:48:57.740 --> 00:49:03.880 in these areas where we have longing. And our longing and desire is from you. 788 00:49:04.080 --> 00:49:09.260 It's not wrong. Our longing and desire is not wrong. Friends, I just want to let you know the 789 00:49:09.260 --> 00:49:17.140 Bible talks about people with strong desire and they are never shamed. And whatever you have 790 00:49:17.140 --> 00:49:23.800 come from the Lord, if it wasn't from God, you would have given up a long time ago. 791 00:49:24.700 --> 00:49:30.240 I want you to remind yourself of that. The human will is pretty fragile, friends. I just 792 00:49:30.240 --> 00:49:36.280 want to let you know. Strong-willed or not, the human will is fragile. And if it was not 793 00:49:36.360 --> 00:49:41.440 a desire from the Lord, it would not continue to renew itself. You would have given up 794 00:49:43.600 --> 00:49:50.620 and just moved on. A little jaded, perhaps, a little bitter, but you would have moved on. 795 00:49:52.940 --> 00:49:59.980 I submit to you this morning that the very fact that you still have whatever that desire is, 796 00:49:59.980 --> 00:49:59.980 797 00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:07.820 desire is, after years and years and years of it not being fully fulfilled, means that 798 00:50:07.820 --> 00:50:08.900 it's from the Lord. 799 00:50:11.880 --> 00:50:12.800 Like my brother. 800 00:50:14.240 --> 00:50:17.800 Yeah, I just went through a season where, you know, I was starting to lose some hope, 801 00:50:17.920 --> 00:50:23.280 but trust me, friends, my fire would have been restoked, I would have been in a time 802 00:50:23.280 --> 00:50:26.900 of prayer, I would have felt the presence of Holy Spirit over the promise, and I would 803 00:50:26.900 --> 00:50:28.720 have been right back on it again. 804 00:50:35.220 --> 00:50:36.780 Right back on it again. 805 00:50:41.320 --> 00:50:42.780 Deep longing is allowed. 806 00:50:43.120 --> 00:50:44.800 Do not let anyone shame you for it. 807 00:50:44.800 --> 00:50:46.600 Do not let anyone tell you it's become an idol. 808 00:50:47.080 --> 00:50:48.380 You know what an idol is? 809 00:50:48.540 --> 00:50:51.040 An idol is something that you go to instead of God. 810 00:50:51.300 --> 00:50:53.840 All of you are coming to God with this. 811 00:50:53.840 --> 00:50:55.760 People don't bring their idols to God. 812 00:50:56.100 --> 00:50:57.480 They worship their idols, not God. 813 00:50:57.680 --> 00:50:58.040 Do you get it? 814 00:50:58.040 --> 00:50:58.940 Do you see the difference? 815 00:51:01.780 --> 00:51:06.680 People bring their requests and their desires, their hunger to God. 816 00:51:07.860 --> 00:51:09.980 Idols are something that you use instead of God. 817 00:51:12.340 --> 00:51:16.560 Now there may be some of you that are running off and making really bad decisions because 818 00:51:16.560 --> 00:51:22.720 you're trying to get your identity from something other than God, and that's where you get an 819 00:51:22.720 --> 00:51:23.240 idol territory. 820 00:51:23.240 --> 00:51:26.420 So if you're doing that, repent this morning and let it go. 821 00:51:27.720 --> 00:51:29.120 Put it back into God's hands. 822 00:51:30.420 --> 00:51:31.920 Your identity comes from Christ. 823 00:51:32.060 --> 00:51:37.180 It does not come from your job, your money, your career, a friendship that's gone the 824 00:51:37.180 --> 00:51:40.840 wrong way that you've had since you were five years old, and now you think without it, who 825 00:51:41.160 --> 00:51:42.180 are you even? 826 00:51:42.460 --> 00:51:43.520 You're a child of God. 827 00:51:43.620 --> 00:51:45.880 That's who you are. 828 00:51:46.860 --> 00:51:53.460 Marriage, family, being a mother, being a father, whatever it is, that you think that 829 00:51:53.460 --> 00:51:55.480 you have no identity without it, you're wrong. 830 00:51:55.660 --> 00:51:56.640 You do have an identity. 831 00:51:57.340 --> 00:51:58.760 You have an identity in Christ. 832 00:51:59.740 --> 00:52:04.880 That is where your identity is, and if that is where your identity is, then God can give 833 00:52:04.880 --> 00:52:11.240 you anything because you're not looking to it for significance. 834 00:52:13.420 --> 00:52:14.460 I'll just be honest with you. 835 00:52:14.480 --> 00:52:18.500 There's a lot of things that God's promised me that I don't think he gave me yet because 836 00:52:18.600 --> 00:52:24.020 I wasn't ready to receive it because my significance still was not in Christ, and I don't want 837 00:52:24.020 --> 00:52:26.280 you to get scared and say, oh, I'm never going to be there. 838 00:52:26.420 --> 00:52:28.480 I don't think God's waiting for us to have perfection. 839 00:52:28.820 --> 00:52:30.980 I think that he's waiting for us to align our hearts. 840 00:52:31.340 --> 00:52:32.760 It has nothing to do with perfection. 841 00:52:34.780 --> 00:52:41.220 You are going to fail a million more times before you leave this earth, but if you're 842 00:52:41.220 --> 00:52:45.580 And if God knows you have the kind of heart that's teachable, you have the kind of heart 843 00:52:46.060 --> 00:52:51.260 that is repentant, that is soft towards him, you have the kind of heart that he could come 844 00:52:51.260 --> 00:52:55.940 alongside you and say, oh, hey, by the way, this thing's not really healthy for you. 845 00:52:55.940 --> 00:52:58.440 I want you to let it go, and you would say, okay. 846 00:53:02.740 --> 00:53:05.040 I'm not saying you're not going to fuss a little now, friends. 847 00:53:05.140 --> 00:53:06.820 Come on, let's get real. 848 00:53:08.200 --> 00:53:11.540 I'm not going to say you're not going to pout a little bit. 849 00:53:13.720 --> 00:53:17.040 I'm not even going to say that you're going to do it the first time he tells you. 850 00:53:17.220 --> 00:53:22.280 You might wait till he tells you five or six times, but if he knows that you have the kind 851 00:53:22.280 --> 00:53:26.380 of heart that's eventually going to say yes to him, that's all that it matters. 852 00:53:27.780 --> 00:53:28.960 That's all that matters. 853 00:53:30.000 --> 00:53:34.080 I'm telling you, it's a beautiful thing when God says to you that, hey, you know what? 854 00:53:34.080 --> 00:53:37.160 I know you trust me, but I want to let you know I trust you too. 855 00:53:39.060 --> 00:53:43.020 Jesus, and I just release that over all of you right now. 856 00:53:43.860 --> 00:53:46.900 I don't think that you would be here if you didn't trust God. 857 00:53:47.740 --> 00:53:49.860 I think you'd be doing something else on a Saturday morning. 858 00:53:51.300 --> 00:53:54.280 But I want you to know that God trusts you, too. 859 00:53:55.220 --> 00:53:56.680 He trusts you with his promises. 860 00:53:56.860 --> 00:53:57.980 That's why he gave them to you. 861 00:53:58.060 --> 00:54:00.020 He trusts you with his prophecies. 862 00:54:00.200 --> 00:54:02.200 That's why he gave them to you. 863 00:54:02.200 --> 00:54:04.540 He trusts you with lineage and legacy. 864 00:54:04.800 --> 00:54:07.140 That's why you're the kinsman redeemer of your family. 865 00:54:07.820 --> 00:54:10.900 He knows you're not perfect, but he also knows that he is. 866 00:54:15.020 --> 00:54:19.300 And that his strength is made perfect when you give him your weakness. 867 00:54:20.600 --> 00:54:24.500 And so, Lord, we thank you that you've chosen us, that your hand's upon us, and we thank 868 00:54:24.500 --> 00:54:29.720 you for this season of expectation that we call Advent, this time of miracles, this time 869 00:54:29.720 --> 00:54:33.960 of manifestation, this time where things that have been long promised actually start 870 00:54:33.960 --> 00:54:34.780 to become visible. 871 00:54:35.400 --> 00:54:38.600 Lord, we thank you for these things, and I thank you for every Advent miracle that you 872 00:54:38.600 --> 00:54:39.440 are going to perform. 873 00:54:40.020 --> 00:54:42.400 I thank you for every life that's going to be changed, God. 874 00:54:42.460 --> 00:54:46.200 And we're asking that you would speak to us, but also through us, God, in this Advent 875 00:54:46.200 --> 00:54:48.220 season. We don't just want miracles for ourselves. 876 00:54:48.380 --> 00:54:51.240 We want miracles through us for others. 877 00:54:51.340 --> 00:54:55.320 And so, Lord, we are declaring right now that we are your agents of heaven, that we are 878 00:54:55.320 --> 00:54:59.140 your agents, that we are your feet, we are your hands, we are your mouths on the earth, 879 00:54:59.140 --> 00:54:59.980 Lord, and that you can. 880 00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:02.880 Use us to bring someone else's promise to pass. 881 00:55:03.300 --> 00:55:06.780 You can use us to bring someone else's prophetic word 882 00:55:06.780 --> 00:55:07.880 to fruition, Lord. 883 00:55:08.100 --> 00:55:09.240 You can, God. 884 00:55:09.400 --> 00:55:10.300 We are volunteering. 885 00:55:10.660 --> 00:55:11.500 We are volunteering. 886 00:55:11.780 --> 00:55:12.880 We're saying, here we are. 887 00:55:13.280 --> 00:55:17.340 Send us, utilize us, speak through us. 888 00:55:18.100 --> 00:55:20.020 Do what you need to do, Lord, 889 00:55:20.540 --> 00:55:22.860 through your human body on earth. 890 00:55:23.320 --> 00:55:25.020 In Jesus' name, amen. 891 00:55:26.700 --> 00:55:28.900 All right, friends, I love y'all. 892 00:55:29.460 --> 00:55:32.960 I'm expecting to hear about some wonderful things 893 00:55:32.960 --> 00:55:35.140 that God is speaking to you and breakthrough 894 00:55:35.140 --> 00:55:37.800 that's happening in this season of miracles. 895 00:55:38.420 --> 00:55:40.480 Go ahead and dust off some of that old stuff. 896 00:55:40.700 --> 00:55:42.360 Take a look, take a look. 897 00:55:43.060 --> 00:55:46.160 Remember, what is it that you've lost expectation for 898 00:55:46.160 --> 00:55:49.520 and what does God want you to start expecting again? 899 00:55:49.680 --> 00:55:50.820 That is the assignment. 900 00:55:51.160 --> 00:55:52.220 I'll see you soon, bye-bye.