WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.040 --> 00:00:05.120 All right, friends, welcome to Supernatural Saturday. 2 00:00:06.160 --> 00:00:09.100 I hope you're ready for some goodness from the Lord this morning. 3 00:00:09.560 --> 00:00:13.680 For those of you that have never been here before, you're in for a treat. 4 00:00:14.660 --> 00:00:16.520 Saturday is my favorite session. 5 00:00:16.980 --> 00:00:21.260 It's my favorite time of the week because it is a time when we look together to the 6 00:00:21.340 --> 00:00:26.060 Lord to find out what the heck is going on in heaven, because we want to have heaven 7 00:00:26.140 --> 00:00:26.640 on earth. 8 00:00:27.240 --> 00:00:31.160 So God has a reality, and we have a reality, and we want to live in God's reality, not 9 00:00:31.160 --> 00:00:32.040 ours, right? 10 00:00:32.299 --> 00:00:32.720 Amen? 11 00:00:33.440 --> 00:00:35.620 Do we want to be partaking of His reality? 12 00:00:36.300 --> 00:00:41.700 So today, because I am off-site, I'm down in Miami about to officiate a wedding, and 13 00:00:41.700 --> 00:00:48.440 I have lots to do today to go and get that done, we're going to have an abbreviated Supernatural 14 00:00:48.460 --> 00:00:48.940 Saturday. 15 00:00:49.220 --> 00:00:51.060 So it's not going to be an hour long. 16 00:00:51.480 --> 00:00:55.820 We'll see how long it takes, but I have a word for all of you, and I want to release 17 00:00:55.820 --> 00:00:56.140 that. 18 00:00:56.220 --> 00:00:57.140 So let's look to the Lord. 19 00:00:57.720 --> 00:00:59.820 Father God, I'm so thankful for your goodness and your love. 20 00:01:00.960 --> 00:01:05.280 I'm so thankful that you see us and that you know us and that you still love us. 21 00:01:05.560 --> 00:01:10.220 You're always leading us and guiding us into bigger and better things, into your goodness, 22 00:01:10.480 --> 00:01:13.760 Lord, into your goodness, into good things for us. 23 00:01:13.840 --> 00:01:16.720 You don't want to give us tragedy, trauma. 24 00:01:16.860 --> 00:01:19.040 You're not trying to give us lessons. 25 00:01:19.520 --> 00:01:23.760 You're always leading us into good things, and good things require lessons a lot of times 26 00:01:23.760 --> 00:01:27.040 because we're not big enough to receive those things. 27 00:01:27.200 --> 00:01:31.800 We don't understand who we are, and so even the receiving of good things sometimes causes 28 00:01:31.880 --> 00:01:34.940 us pain, Lord, because it causes us to have to stretch. 29 00:01:35.640 --> 00:01:42.120 It causes us to have to acknowledge the places inside of us that do not believe that we are 30 00:01:42.120 --> 00:01:42.440 worthy. 31 00:01:43.180 --> 00:01:46.740 And so, Lord, we thank you, God, that you never give up on us, and you keep giving us 32 00:01:46.800 --> 00:01:52.540 opportunity after opportunity after opportunity to grow into and become everything that you 33 00:01:52.540 --> 00:01:53.440 created us to be. 34 00:01:53.860 --> 00:01:55.000 In Jesus' name, amen. 35 00:01:55.580 --> 00:01:56.940 Is that not the truth, friends? 36 00:01:57.940 --> 00:02:02.580 I know a lot of times people are like, oh, it's the bad things that change you and transform 37 00:02:02.580 --> 00:02:03.380 you and grow you. 38 00:02:03.480 --> 00:02:03.900 No. 39 00:02:05.140 --> 00:02:07.660 In fact, a lot of people just become bitter in the bad things. 40 00:02:08.360 --> 00:02:14.100 If we're being honest, if we're being honest, think about for those of you that have been 41 00:02:14.180 --> 00:02:16.920 parents and if you've never been a parent, you can imagine. 42 00:02:17.220 --> 00:02:20.420 I believe in my heart you can imagine what it would be like to be a parent. 43 00:02:21.420 --> 00:02:24.920 And it isn't the punishment that transforms the child. 44 00:02:26.120 --> 00:02:31.520 A lot of times it's the correction to abundance that transforms the child. 45 00:02:32.320 --> 00:02:37.120 You know, when they have to really step up and stretch in order to receive something 46 00:02:37.120 --> 00:02:40.520 that they really want, that's what transforms the child. 47 00:02:40.660 --> 00:02:42.660 A lot of times punishment just hardens their heart. 48 00:02:42.840 --> 00:02:47.360 And that's why if you grew up in a family where you were overpunished, just recently 49 00:02:47.360 --> 00:02:53.720 I was part of a weekend of transformation where we had to really acknowledge set limits 50 00:02:53.740 --> 00:02:55.820 inside of ourselves, inside of our hearts. 51 00:02:55.940 --> 00:02:57.820 And we're going to be doing a lot of that in 2026. 52 00:02:58.500 --> 00:03:02.500 Friends, I announced this the other night on Ask Jackie at the very beginning. 53 00:03:02.640 --> 00:03:04.560 If you didn't see that, go back and watch it. 54 00:03:04.700 --> 00:03:08.760 I announced it and I'm going to announce it again right now that 2026 in this community 55 00:03:08.760 --> 00:03:13.260 is going to look really different than 2025, especially for those of you that are in what 56 00:03:13.260 --> 00:03:16.140 we call VIP community, which is the phase three community. 57 00:03:17.080 --> 00:03:20.800 You've been here long enough to know better, and we're going to really help you to get 58 00:03:21.080 --> 00:03:25.600 unstuck however you're stuck and moving forward because God wants you moving forward. 59 00:03:25.740 --> 00:03:26.400 He really does. 60 00:03:26.960 --> 00:03:30.420 And so if you're going to stay here with us in community, we're going to really challenge 61 00:03:30.420 --> 00:03:31.640 you in some good ways. 62 00:03:32.340 --> 00:03:35.080 We're going to really challenge you in some good ways, and I'm looking forward to that. 63 00:03:35.200 --> 00:03:39.200 In love, we're going to challenge you in some good ways because you need to be living that 64 00:03:39.200 --> 00:03:41.300 big, beautiful life that Jesus died to give you. 65 00:03:41.320 --> 00:03:45.080 And we want that for you, not just in your love life, but in every area of your life. 66 00:03:45.680 --> 00:03:49.520 With that in mind, I want to announce that I have a presale on Modern Dating Sucks, my 67 00:03:49.520 --> 00:03:53.080 new book, A Matchmaker's Guide to Love in a Swipe Left World. 68 00:03:53.280 --> 00:03:56.420 I'm only releasing 500 copies as of now. 69 00:03:56.800 --> 00:03:59.360 Those are the only copies that I'm going to release. 70 00:04:00.120 --> 00:04:03.800 You'll be able to get a signed copy for $25 at my website. 71 00:04:04.960 --> 00:04:13.380 The link is JackieDorman.com forward slash MDS, Modern Dating Sucks, MDS book. 72 00:04:14.500 --> 00:04:18.519 It doesn't matter if those are capitals or lowercase, MDS book. 73 00:04:18.740 --> 00:04:22.720 You can go over there, and I believe that Bethany put up the link in all the groups. 74 00:04:23.420 --> 00:04:27.640 But as soon as those copies sell out, that is going to be our presale. 75 00:04:27.840 --> 00:04:34.080 So 500 copies, and I'm going to release it to the public probably next week so people 76 00:04:34.080 --> 00:04:35.380 can get it for their Christmas. 77 00:04:35.760 --> 00:04:40.200 They can't get it for their Christmas because it's four to six weeks to delivery, but they 78 00:04:40.200 --> 00:04:42.220 can actually know that they have it. 79 00:04:43.300 --> 00:04:45.000 People have been waiting for that book for a while. 80 00:04:45.640 --> 00:04:48.720 So a lot of challenging things coming in 2026. 81 00:04:49.580 --> 00:04:54.560 Some of that, the content from that book is going to really challenge you. 82 00:04:55.240 --> 00:04:59.100 Ladies, especially for those of you that are like, oh, he just needs to pursue me. 83 00:04:59.100 --> 00:04:59.980 Actually, that's not really true. 84 00:04:59.960 --> 00:04:59.960 85 00:04:59.960 --> 00:04:59.960 86 00:04:59.980 --> 00:04:59.980 87 00:04:59.980 --> 00:04:59.980 88 00:04:59.980 --> 00:04:59.980 89 00:04:59.980 --> 00:04:59.980 90 00:04:59.980 --> 00:04:59.980 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If you want an arranged marriage, that's cool, and I know a lot of you think that's 96 00:05:04.520 --> 00:05:09.240 what you're waiting for. You're waiting for God to arrange you a marriage, but that's just not 97 00:05:09.240 --> 00:05:14.800 how it works, friends. That was part of culture. That wasn't part of God's plan. That was part 98 00:05:15.000 --> 00:05:20.580 of culture. You know, when you read the Bible, you have to differentiate between what is God, 99 00:05:20.660 --> 00:05:24.980 what is like God's original plan, and what was the culture that the Bible was written in. 100 00:05:26.440 --> 00:05:31.920 The Bible was written during a time where people did specific things. They did specific things, 101 00:05:32.020 --> 00:05:35.980 but we live in a modern world, and that's why it's about modern dating. You can't even find 102 00:05:35.980 --> 00:05:41.040 the word dating in the Bible, because the way that we approach love in our love lives and romance 103 00:05:41.080 --> 00:05:46.060 in this modern age is not like anything that's ever been seen or done before. But you know what? 104 00:05:46.300 --> 00:05:52.820 It might suck, but your love story doesn't have to. But if you're trying to take a page from a 105 00:05:53.660 --> 00:05:57.960 playbook of things that don't exist anymore, and I'm not talking about God's ways. God's ways are 106 00:05:57.960 --> 00:06:03.420 the best ways, and God's ways are just woven all throughout this book. Community-based matchmaking, 107 00:06:03.540 --> 00:06:08.320 kind of bringing back some things that I believe are God's heart and His ways. But do not look for 108 00:06:08.320 --> 00:06:12.720 things from a bygone era in culture, because we don't live in those times. And thank God, 109 00:06:13.060 --> 00:06:16.820 ladies, thank God, because if you lived in that time, you'd be in big trouble. 110 00:06:18.520 --> 00:06:21.820 If you had a strong personality like me, they would have stoned you already. 111 00:06:21.820 --> 00:06:28.060 You would be gone. You would not be here anymore. And a lot of you have strong personalities. 112 00:06:30.980 --> 00:06:34.860 So I just want to let you know that those times are not coming back. There's some of you that 113 00:06:34.860 --> 00:06:37.880 are older. You're from the baby boomer generation, and you're waiting for the 114 00:06:37.880 --> 00:06:41.680 things to come back of the way people dated in the 50s and stuff. That ain't coming back. 115 00:06:42.620 --> 00:06:46.300 And you better be glad, because the book talks about how that was a patriarchal 116 00:06:48.880 --> 00:06:52.920 propaganda generation, where they were trying to put things back from the World Wars. They 117 00:06:52.920 --> 00:06:56.640 let the ladies out of the house to go work in the factories to help make bullets and guns, 118 00:06:56.640 --> 00:07:00.780 and then they wanted them back in the house after the wars were over in the 50s. That's 119 00:07:00.780 --> 00:07:06.140 what happened there, friends. This isn't a hype. This isn't conspiracy theory. That's the truth. 120 00:07:06.600 --> 00:07:12.640 And so that was the media machine trying to tell you ladies that this was the better life, 121 00:07:12.640 --> 00:07:17.520 to be vacuuming your house and your pearls and sleeping with your makeup on and waking up, 122 00:07:18.420 --> 00:07:22.000 and your only goal in life was to make sure that your little hubby was happy. 123 00:07:22.880 --> 00:07:27.640 Friends, that is downplaying the divine feminine. The feminine is powerful. 124 00:07:28.580 --> 00:07:33.980 And when the masculine and feminine partner together, we're powerful. And I'm not saying 125 00:07:33.980 --> 00:07:37.920 you can't be the keeper of the home, but in the Bible, that scripture doesn't mean what you think 126 00:07:37.920 --> 00:07:43.540 it means. It actually means the defender of the home, spiritual defender. It means you're a warrior, 127 00:07:44.480 --> 00:07:50.620 the warrior of the home. So it doesn't mean housekeeping. It means something different. 128 00:07:51.060 --> 00:07:55.660 But if that's your vibe, you want to be a trad wife, a traditional wife, 129 00:07:55.700 --> 00:07:58.620 they call it trad wife now, friends, if you haven't caught on to this trend, 130 00:07:59.120 --> 00:08:04.380 is a trad wife. If you want to be at home homesteading, milking goats and making sourdough, 131 00:08:04.380 --> 00:08:14.280 do it. Whatever your vibe is, whatever you want, find a partner who also wants that and do it. 132 00:08:14.280 --> 00:08:18.500 I was just going through some notes from old weddings, old weddings that I've officiated. 133 00:08:19.420 --> 00:08:24.740 And one of the notes said that the thing that the person liked about the other person is that they 134 00:08:24.740 --> 00:08:29.320 both wanted a traditional marriage where he was going to go out and bring home the bacon and she 135 00:08:29.320 --> 00:08:34.299 was going to fry it up in the pan. That's amazing because they wanted the same things. 136 00:08:34.360 --> 00:08:38.120 And that's the most important thing about partnership. You got to want the same thing. 137 00:08:39.880 --> 00:08:44.580 If you want one thing and they want another thing, that's not going to be, that's not going to be 138 00:08:45.160 --> 00:08:48.700 good. Especially if you're like, well, I just want them. So I'm just going to want what they want. 139 00:08:48.880 --> 00:08:54.000 Can I tell you that that's not going to work? Oh, I'll just grow to like what they like. No, 140 00:08:54.000 --> 00:08:57.500 that's not going to work. Well, I don't really want to do this with the rest of my life, 141 00:08:57.500 --> 00:09:00.760 but maybe after we get married, they're going to change their mind. Oh no, no, 142 00:09:00.840 --> 00:09:05.760 that's really not going to work. If they tell you who they are and what they want, 143 00:09:05.840 --> 00:09:08.880 don't try to change them. If they tell you they don't want children, then they don't want children. 144 00:09:09.520 --> 00:09:12.780 If they tell you they don't want any more children, then they don't want any more children. 145 00:09:13.040 --> 00:09:16.420 If they tell you that they can't have any more children, don't marry them. 146 00:09:16.900 --> 00:09:21.680 Just banking on a miracle from God. Does God do miracles? Yes. But if you really, 147 00:09:21.820 --> 00:09:24.820 really want children and they tell you that it's medically impossible to have children, 148 00:09:25.380 --> 00:09:29.120 don't just marry them thinking that you're going to get a miracle just because you married them. 149 00:09:29.880 --> 00:09:34.840 Now, if God tells you to marry them anyway and ask you to release that desire and let him fulfill 150 00:09:34.840 --> 00:09:39.600 it however he wants to, okay, cool. But if they absolutely tell you that they don't want any more 151 00:09:39.600 --> 00:09:43.700 kids or they don't want any kids, then if you really want kids and that's the desire of your 152 00:09:43.700 --> 00:09:47.780 heart, then guess what? That's not your match. But they like me, Jackie. I don't care. 153 00:09:49.680 --> 00:09:54.240 That's not how it works. Because a couple of years into that marriage, 154 00:09:54.240 --> 00:09:57.720 you're going to be feeling some kind of way about whatever it is that you gave up 155 00:09:57.720 --> 00:09:58.980 that was the desire of your heart. 156 00:10:01.000 --> 00:10:03.800 Just so that you could have someone sleeping next to you in the bed. 157 00:10:07.180 --> 00:10:11.720 This is why we have non-negotiables from heaven, and if having children is a non-negotiable 158 00:10:11.720 --> 00:10:16.780 from heaven for you, you're still in your childbearing years, you want a child, you 159 00:10:16.780 --> 00:10:21.140 know that it's part of God's plan for you to be a parent, whether it's through adoption 160 00:10:21.140 --> 00:10:25.300 or through birth, and this person says they absolutely do not want to raise any children, 161 00:10:25.580 --> 00:10:27.840 then you have to move on from that relationship. 162 00:10:27.920 --> 00:10:29.080 I don't even know why I'm saying this. 163 00:10:29.080 --> 00:10:32.720 It must be a word from the Lord for someone, because it's not even part of my supernatural 164 00:10:32.740 --> 00:10:33.620 Saturday today. 165 00:10:33.900 --> 00:10:35.600 It doesn't have anything to do with it. 166 00:10:36.440 --> 00:10:40.380 We're off on a tangent now, and I have to be shorter today than normal. 167 00:10:40.800 --> 00:10:42.680 So here is the word for today. 168 00:10:43.180 --> 00:10:48.140 When what you've been waiting for, and it's not just, okay, I want you to expand your 169 00:10:48.140 --> 00:10:48.180 mind. 170 00:10:48.280 --> 00:10:50.260 This is not just about your love life. 171 00:10:51.180 --> 00:10:53.940 So close your eyes, let God expand your mind. 172 00:10:54.480 --> 00:10:58.300 When what you've been waiting for, and a lot of us have been waiting for a lot of things. 173 00:10:58.300 --> 00:11:05.580 We have a lot of dreams that are unrealized, have unrealized dreams in our lives, a lot 174 00:11:05.580 --> 00:11:09.300 of things that we've been wanting to have happen in our lives, whether it's a healing, 175 00:11:09.520 --> 00:11:14.440 whether it's a financial breakthrough, whether it's a relational breakthrough, whether it's 176 00:11:14.440 --> 00:11:19.080 someone else's healing that we love, whether it's an opportunity that we've always dreamed 177 00:11:19.080 --> 00:11:20.860 of having, whatever it is. 178 00:11:21.220 --> 00:11:23.220 Maybe you've always wanted to go to the Grand Ole Opry. 179 00:11:23.500 --> 00:11:26.120 Maybe you've wanted to travel abroad. 180 00:11:26.120 --> 00:11:27.660 You know, it doesn't matter what it is. 181 00:11:28.460 --> 00:11:29.480 This is the word. 182 00:11:29.800 --> 00:11:33.380 When what you've been wanting and waiting for shows up, it's going to be better than 183 00:11:33.380 --> 00:11:34.060 you expected. 184 00:11:35.720 --> 00:11:38.200 Remember that we're in this season of the siege is over. 185 00:11:38.600 --> 00:11:41.820 Remember we're in this season that God said we're no longer going to have to make do and 186 00:11:41.820 --> 00:11:42.900 just kind of muddle through. 187 00:11:43.500 --> 00:11:45.720 Remember that God said we're in this season of firsts? 188 00:11:45.720 --> 00:11:47.160 Well, it's happening, friends. 189 00:11:47.840 --> 00:11:48.540 It's happening. 190 00:11:48.780 --> 00:11:52.880 You guys already know about my brother getting his first house, but I had some other firsts 191 00:11:52.880 --> 00:11:57.660 that happened that I want to tell to you guys about, because I want to talk to the 192 00:11:57.660 --> 00:11:59.400 people that are afraid to hope again. 193 00:12:00.580 --> 00:12:04.320 Just briefly this morning, I want to talk to you folks that are afraid to get your hopes 194 00:12:04.320 --> 00:12:04.800 up again. 195 00:12:05.340 --> 00:12:12.720 You're afraid to even believe that anything good is coming for you, and it's not that 196 00:12:12.720 --> 00:12:14.440 you stop believing God necessarily. 197 00:12:15.340 --> 00:12:19.500 It isn't, but disappointment is painful, amen? 198 00:12:20.980 --> 00:12:21.720 It is. 199 00:12:21.940 --> 00:12:22.400 It is. 200 00:12:23.520 --> 00:12:28.600 And so it's not that you stop believing God or in God, I should say. 201 00:12:28.800 --> 00:12:33.560 You haven't stopped believing in God, but you just stop maybe believing that good things 202 00:12:33.560 --> 00:12:34.820 could happen to you. 203 00:12:35.220 --> 00:12:38.260 I run into people all the time that have no problem believing that good things can happen 204 00:12:38.260 --> 00:12:39.160 for everybody else. 205 00:12:40.180 --> 00:12:43.600 In fact, they pray for good things to happen for everybody else, and things happen for 206 00:12:43.600 --> 00:12:44.140 other people. 207 00:12:44.320 --> 00:12:47.860 It's just you that's kind of stuck, but it's not because you're faithless. 208 00:12:47.860 --> 00:12:51.600 I just want to really make sure that that point is clear, but it's because you've been 209 00:12:51.880 --> 00:12:53.900 disappointed time after time after time. 210 00:12:53.940 --> 00:12:56.600 And you guys, I have the same shoes on that you do. 211 00:12:57.500 --> 00:13:02.520 I have all kinds of things in my life that I thought, oh, this is it. 212 00:13:03.340 --> 00:13:04.380 This is the time. 213 00:13:04.480 --> 00:13:07.420 It's going to happen, and let's call those things near misses. 214 00:13:07.720 --> 00:13:12.140 You know how many times I thought my brother was going to finally be inside and not outside, 215 00:13:12.280 --> 00:13:13.780 living outside or living in his car? 216 00:13:13.780 --> 00:13:17.900 You know how many times we got so close to that happening in the past? 217 00:13:18.840 --> 00:13:21.460 And you guys have a lot of almosts as well. 218 00:13:21.740 --> 00:13:25.420 Raise your hand if you have a lot of almosts. 219 00:13:25.640 --> 00:13:26.160 Get them up. 220 00:13:26.320 --> 00:13:27.560 Get them up. 221 00:13:28.000 --> 00:13:40.940 A lot of almosts, almosts, the almost breakthrough, whatever it is, the almost breakthrough. 222 00:13:40.940 --> 00:13:43.100 Look at all those hands coming up. 223 00:13:44.060 --> 00:13:45.660 It's almost, it almost happened. 224 00:13:45.860 --> 00:13:47.020 It looked like it was going to happen. 225 00:13:49.840 --> 00:13:51.360 You thought that this was it. 226 00:13:51.780 --> 00:13:54.920 And I just want to tell you, for some of you, like for healing and different things like 227 00:13:54.920 --> 00:13:56.220 that, you just got to walk that out. 228 00:13:57.140 --> 00:14:00.720 You know, if you believe and you receive, then you will have, is what the Bible says. 229 00:14:00.720 --> 00:14:03.100 If you believe it and receive it, then you will have it. 230 00:14:03.280 --> 00:14:04.900 And sometimes you just got to walk it out. 231 00:14:04.940 --> 00:14:06.080 You just got to ignore the symptoms. 232 00:14:06.200 --> 00:14:07.480 You just got to keep walking forward. 233 00:14:07.540 --> 00:14:08.800 You just got to keep speaking faith. 234 00:14:08.800 --> 00:14:11.500 I'm telling you, for some of you, that is the truth. 235 00:14:11.640 --> 00:14:16.720 You can't just say, oh, well, I still have a little bit of symptoms, so I guess I wasn't 236 00:14:16.940 --> 00:14:17.300 healed. 237 00:14:17.560 --> 00:14:18.860 No, you just got to walk it out. 238 00:14:19.160 --> 00:14:21.040 Believe it, receive it, and you will have it. 239 00:14:21.060 --> 00:14:21.940 That's what the Bible says. 240 00:14:22.100 --> 00:14:23.700 But I'm not here to talk about that today. 241 00:14:25.200 --> 00:14:30.800 I'm here to talk about more tangible things where you almost got the job, okay? 242 00:14:30.800 --> 00:14:32.420 Not things that you just have to walk out in faith. 243 00:14:32.420 --> 00:14:33.440 You almost got the job. 244 00:14:33.620 --> 00:14:37.320 You went to the third interview, and then they chose the other person. 245 00:14:38.040 --> 00:14:39.420 And it was your dream job. 246 00:14:39.560 --> 00:14:40.400 You really wanted it. 247 00:14:40.620 --> 00:14:41.760 You almost got the house. 248 00:14:42.600 --> 00:14:47.440 You almost got the house, but someone outbid you, or, you know, you just couldn't quite 249 00:14:47.440 --> 00:14:48.300 get there financially. 250 00:14:48.920 --> 00:14:54.160 You know, whatever it was, those almost, but God wants you to know that this is not a season 251 00:14:54.160 --> 00:14:55.800 for you to manage disappointment anymore. 252 00:14:55.940 --> 00:14:59.220 This is a season where you need to expect God's goodness again. 253 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:03.520 It's time to expect God's goodness again, so I tell you a story 254 00:15:04.160 --> 00:15:07.980 And I have some notes written down here, so I don't miss anything. I want to tell you a story 255 00:15:10.200 --> 00:15:16.020 For for a couple years at least for years I've wanted to see this lady named Heidi Baker. Do you guys know who she is? 256 00:15:16.580 --> 00:15:20.720 She's this amazing sold-out woman of God who? 257 00:15:21.780 --> 00:15:25.020 Could have done anything she wanted to she came from a lot of people don't know this about her 258 00:15:25.020 --> 00:15:26.740 But she came from an affluent family 259 00:15:27.500 --> 00:15:34.900 Okay, her dad graduated from Stanford her family was affluent she grew up in the Orange County area of California 260 00:15:35.040 --> 00:15:38.640 In fact when she became a believer her parents were just like what the what? 261 00:15:38.940 --> 00:15:44.420 Because she was 16 years old and she started doing some radical things for Jesus and her parents were not believers 262 00:15:44.420 --> 00:15:49.100 And they were just like what what's happening here. She was she was 263 00:15:49.440 --> 00:15:56.280 Raised to live this more affluent lifestyle, and she's very smart. She's a very smart businesswoman once again 264 00:15:56.280 --> 00:16:01.560 She could have done anything that she wanted to but what she wanted to do after she met Jesus in her late teens is 265 00:16:02.080 --> 00:16:05.960 She wanted to do whatever Jesus asked her to do and I love people like that 266 00:16:05.960 --> 00:16:08.220 And I've heard about the meetings that she has 267 00:16:08.220 --> 00:16:13.880 she went over to Mozambique and she's done amazing things in Africa God sent her to the poorest of the poor and 268 00:16:14.440 --> 00:16:22.000 She has built schools there, and she has improved lives there. They have you know had to deal with all kinds of terrorism and 269 00:16:23.020 --> 00:16:24.660 Rebels over there in Africa 270 00:16:24.660 --> 00:16:30.580 You know Africa's always that some kind of civil war and they've just had all kinds of horrible crazy things 271 00:16:30.940 --> 00:16:38.300 All around them during these missionary years and yet they've persevered and there's been miracle after miracle and now they're elder older 272 00:16:38.340 --> 00:16:45.860 You know they're in their 70s or so her and her husband Roland and every time I hear about people getting to hear her speak 273 00:16:46.320 --> 00:16:49.920 About her adventures with Jesus. I'm like man. I really want to see Heidi Baker 274 00:16:50.800 --> 00:16:54.600 I'd love to be in one of those meetings one of those services with Heidi 275 00:16:55.300 --> 00:17:02.020 But let me tell you this every time I've been anywhere where Heidi Baker was supposed to be she didn't show up 276 00:17:02.180 --> 00:17:05.040 There's a word for you here listen to it 277 00:17:06.060 --> 00:17:12.099 Every time that I put myself in proximity to where this woman was gonna be 278 00:17:12.460 --> 00:17:13.880 She was not there 279 00:17:14.400 --> 00:17:18.040 Because something happened their flight was delayed or there was a cancellation now 280 00:17:18.040 --> 00:17:22.980 She was never the main speaker at any of these situations. I don't want you to think that she's flaky and unreliable 281 00:17:23.260 --> 00:17:28.140 She just was gonna be there and word was on the street that she was gonna be there and it was gonna be amazing 282 00:17:28.520 --> 00:17:29.640 But guess what? 283 00:17:30.380 --> 00:17:31.260 She wasn't 284 00:17:31.660 --> 00:17:39.000 So when my good friend that I was going out to a Christmas party at his house out in the Orange County area last weekend 285 00:17:39.720 --> 00:17:44.580 He said to me just kind of offhandedly. He said oh by the way Heidi and Roland Baker are gonna be at my Christmas party 286 00:17:44.580 --> 00:17:45.100 I'm like 287 00:17:45.700 --> 00:17:49.100 What you talking about with us what are you serious 288 00:17:50.820 --> 00:17:51.780 Heidi and 289 00:17:51.780 --> 00:17:56.900 Roland are gonna be at your house. They're gonna be and he's like, yeah, and you know, they're gonna share they're gonna share 290 00:17:56.900 --> 00:18:04.000 They're gonna minister. I'm like, no and so then I said to him I said, well, you know every time I've ever been 291 00:18:04.520 --> 00:18:09.020 Anywhere where Heidi Baker was supposed to show up. She never shows up. He's like bro. Don't say that 292 00:18:10.680 --> 00:18:17.220 And I'm like, I'm just telling you and he's like well, you know, she has had some medical difficulties recently 293 00:18:17.220 --> 00:18:23.140 So that's actually a possibility. And so, you know, I hate to hear you say that. I hope that doesn't come true kind of thing 294 00:18:23.140 --> 00:18:30.720 Well, it didn't come true y'all because not only was she there she was sitting less than two feet in front of me in a chair 295 00:18:31.540 --> 00:18:35.240 Sharing all kinds of amazing things about her adventures with Jesus 296 00:18:35.240 --> 00:18:41.220 She shared for about an hour and then our host asked if we would pray for her and her husband 297 00:18:42.020 --> 00:18:48.440 Y'all instead of seeing Heidi up on a platform somewhere speaking from a distance and I'm sure it would have been amazing 298 00:18:48.520 --> 00:18:55.240 I was on the floor with my head and my hands on this woman's tiny little feet praying for her 299 00:18:55.560 --> 00:18:57.720 Touching her I was touching her you guys 300 00:18:58.480 --> 00:19:02.520 Alright, I was touching her all up on her feet praying for her 301 00:19:03.540 --> 00:19:06.620 Interceding for her. I mean, come on. It's amazing 302 00:19:08.140 --> 00:19:16.840 Blessed are the feet precious are the feet that carry the gospel. Oh, it was powerful. And so I just wanna let you know I 303 00:19:16.840 --> 00:19:19.040 Just want you to know that it was better 304 00:19:19.960 --> 00:19:24.280 It was better because those platform moments when I was supposed to see her never happened 305 00:19:25.000 --> 00:19:31.340 They never happened. But this was a no stage moment. This was a no microphone moment. This was a no crowd moment and 306 00:19:32.250 --> 00:19:35.230 It was just me at her feet 307 00:19:35.630 --> 00:19:39.390 Praying for her thanking God for her life loving her 308 00:19:39.850 --> 00:19:43.690 ministering to her and then she reached on she put her hands on my head and 309 00:19:44.870 --> 00:19:47.590 As I sat there and I got to touch her feet and pray for her 310 00:19:47.590 --> 00:19:52.510 she prayed for me and then her husband and her prayed over everyone in the room and when I tell you the place was 311 00:19:52.510 --> 00:19:57.810 Wrecked with the joy of the Lord. It was wrecked with the joy of the Lord. Everyone was just 312 00:19:58.870 --> 00:19:59.910 laid out everywhere 313 00:20:01.080 --> 00:20:08.160 Just enjoying the sweet, beautiful presence of God that only sold-out lovers can bring, 314 00:20:08.620 --> 00:20:09.700 like Heidi and Roland Baker. 315 00:20:10.740 --> 00:20:13.680 And the Holy Spirit whispered to me in this moment, this is what I'm going to whisper 316 00:20:13.680 --> 00:20:15.640 to you because this word is for you as well. 317 00:20:16.020 --> 00:20:19.040 This is why I didn't let you have it before. 318 00:20:22.100 --> 00:20:22.580 Woo! 319 00:20:23.880 --> 00:20:24.360 Jesus! 320 00:20:24.360 --> 00:20:27.980 This is why it didn't happen before. 321 00:20:31.120 --> 00:20:36.360 Because whatever I was asking for, or even wasn't even asking, friends, this isn't even 322 00:20:36.360 --> 00:20:37.760 about what you've been asking for. 323 00:20:38.240 --> 00:20:41.220 Even what I was hoping for in my heart, well, wouldn't that be nice? 324 00:20:41.360 --> 00:20:42.080 Wouldn't that be fun? 325 00:20:42.140 --> 00:20:43.600 Oh man, I hope that happens. 326 00:20:44.000 --> 00:20:47.780 Even what I was hoping for, God was preparing to exceed. 327 00:20:49.480 --> 00:20:51.860 He was already going to exceed my expectations. 328 00:20:51.860 --> 00:20:56.540 To him who's able to do exceedingly abundantly above all we can ask, think, or even imagine. 329 00:20:59.520 --> 00:21:02.680 It was not going to be a distant encounter when I met Heidi Baker. 330 00:21:05.140 --> 00:21:07.640 God saw fit that it was going to be a personal one. 331 00:21:09.320 --> 00:21:10.040 Wow, y'all. 332 00:21:10.120 --> 00:21:13.560 And I don't want you to think I'm some kind of stalker, I'm like idolizing her. 333 00:21:13.580 --> 00:21:17.580 For all of you religious folks that are stuck in here and we ain't got that religion out 334 00:21:17.580 --> 00:21:19.620 of you yet, it's not like that at all. 335 00:21:20.500 --> 00:21:22.060 It's not like that at all. 336 00:21:22.560 --> 00:21:24.400 God says to give honor to whom honor is due. 337 00:21:24.940 --> 00:21:30.780 And these people, it's not that they've made billions of dollars, but they've won millions 338 00:21:30.780 --> 00:21:31.500 of souls. 339 00:21:32.160 --> 00:21:37.700 And I'm telling you what, that's worth sitting down and opening up your ears and your heart 340 00:21:37.700 --> 00:21:39.480 and listening to someone like that talk. 341 00:21:40.120 --> 00:21:40.360 Amen? 342 00:21:41.840 --> 00:21:41.840 343 00:21:42.340 --> 00:21:42.780 Okay. 344 00:21:42.860 --> 00:21:46.580 So, let's talk about why these delays possibly have been mercy. 345 00:21:47.580 --> 00:21:49.700 Now, sometimes we zig instead of zag. 346 00:21:50.200 --> 00:21:53.620 Sometimes we're the reason for the delay, and we're going to address that in 2026. 347 00:21:53.720 --> 00:21:57.360 If you're the reason for the delay, if you're the problem, we're going to address that. 348 00:21:57.480 --> 00:22:02.720 And I'm not putting out the registration for it yet, but on January 4th this year, we are 349 00:22:02.720 --> 00:22:06.900 going to do a Times and Seasons with the renowned prophet, Bethany Hicks. 350 00:22:07.060 --> 00:22:08.420 She's also a good friend of mine. 351 00:22:08.520 --> 00:22:09.300 She lives in Austin. 352 00:22:09.520 --> 00:22:14.340 I have enjoyed Daniel McCollum and her ministry up close and personal. 353 00:22:14.340 --> 00:22:19.320 They have been mentors in my life and friends in my life, and she wrote a new book, Times 354 00:22:19.320 --> 00:22:25.000 and Seasons, and I decided that this was the perfect start for 26, where I did prophesy 355 00:22:25.000 --> 00:22:26.260 your year at Rosh Hashanah. 356 00:22:26.500 --> 00:22:30.740 I want to do something that's more of an activation where you guys know what to do and when to 357 00:22:30.740 --> 00:22:30.980 do it. 358 00:22:31.000 --> 00:22:36.800 You know your season, and after this time together on January 4th, you are going to 359 00:22:36.800 --> 00:22:41.960 know what time it is in your life, what you need to be doing, and how to do it. 360 00:22:42.580 --> 00:22:44.140 Because it's time for action, friends. 361 00:22:44.340 --> 00:22:45.880 2026 is going to be all about action. 362 00:22:46.680 --> 00:22:51.260 It's going to be all about taking action, and God wants you to take action. 363 00:22:51.520 --> 00:22:55.020 And so that is what that night's going to be about, because some of you, your delays 364 00:22:55.020 --> 00:22:55.560 are you. 365 00:22:55.940 --> 00:22:58.480 I'm just going to tell you, point blank, it's you. 366 00:22:59.240 --> 00:23:02.380 You're stuck on the inside, and that's getting you stuck on the outside. 367 00:23:02.620 --> 00:23:04.300 And so we've got to get unstuck. 368 00:23:04.520 --> 00:23:08.200 We've got to get challenged in these things that we're continuing to hold on to that are 369 00:23:08.350 --> 00:23:14.630 keeping us stagnant, apathetic, that are keeping us from really taking the action. 370 00:23:14.770 --> 00:23:18.510 We say we believe, but there's not the right appropriate action to prove that. 371 00:23:18.790 --> 00:23:23.910 And so we are going to address all of those things starting January 4th and going forward 372 00:23:23.910 --> 00:23:24.790 into the new year. 373 00:23:25.150 --> 00:23:25.910 In love, y'all. 374 00:23:26.030 --> 00:23:26.470 In love. 375 00:23:26.690 --> 00:23:27.750 But some of you need a kick. 376 00:23:27.750 --> 00:23:28.950 You need a boot in the butt. 377 00:23:29.450 --> 00:23:30.590 You need a kick in the pants. 378 00:23:30.710 --> 00:23:31.170 You do. 379 00:23:31.570 --> 00:23:33.170 And lovingly, that's going to happen. 380 00:23:33.970 --> 00:23:34.470 All right. 381 00:23:34.550 --> 00:23:39.850 But I want to talk to all of you that it was outside of your control, but those delays 382 00:23:39.850 --> 00:23:40.450 were mercy. 383 00:23:42.010 --> 00:23:45.670 And a lot of you, a lot of you, I really feel it's in my spirit, you are still grieving 384 00:23:45.670 --> 00:23:47.090 those doors that didn't open. 385 00:23:47.350 --> 00:23:50.790 You're still grieving that relationship that didn't make it all the way to the finish line, 386 00:23:50.850 --> 00:23:51.470 that breakup. 387 00:23:52.630 --> 00:23:54.930 But I want you to know that those were not rejections. 388 00:23:55.030 --> 00:23:56.430 I know they feel like rejections. 389 00:23:56.510 --> 00:24:01.310 And I have a post on my Instagram right now about rejections, and I wish you would go 390 00:24:01.310 --> 00:24:01.650 see it. 391 00:24:01.650 --> 00:24:02.770 I posted it yesterday. 392 00:24:03.770 --> 00:24:05.610 But what if it wasn't a rejection? 393 00:24:05.870 --> 00:24:08.210 What if it was just a divine upgrade that was in process? 394 00:24:08.270 --> 00:24:11.950 I could have seen Heidi from the distance, from a platform, and I'm sure it would have 395 00:24:11.950 --> 00:24:12.530 been great. 396 00:24:12.850 --> 00:24:14.490 But God wanted better for me. 397 00:24:16.390 --> 00:24:18.950 He wanted something more powerful for me. 398 00:24:19.870 --> 00:24:24.270 He told me that there was going to be an impartation between her and I, that she was going to impart 399 00:24:24.270 --> 00:24:24.990 something to me. 400 00:24:25.050 --> 00:24:29.070 I know a lot of you don't know this about me, but when I first met Jesus at 22 years 401 00:24:29.070 --> 00:24:31.610 old, I wanted to be a missionary. 402 00:24:32.330 --> 00:24:35.210 I felt like God called me to be a missionary, specifically to Africa. 403 00:24:36.550 --> 00:24:37.990 And it never worked out. 404 00:24:38.590 --> 00:24:40.790 I was estranged from my husband at the time. 405 00:24:40.910 --> 00:24:41.990 I was separated from him. 406 00:24:42.050 --> 00:24:48.390 And when I met Jesus, the people that were discipling me convinced me that it would be 407 00:24:48.750 --> 00:24:53.310 God's will for me to get back together with my husband, who was a believer, a very, you 408 00:24:54.230 --> 00:24:55.090 know, legalistic believer. 409 00:24:55.370 --> 00:24:56.990 And I got back together with him. 410 00:24:56.990 --> 00:24:59.970 But when I did, you guys, I signed up for the ideology. 411 00:25:00.000 --> 00:25:02.560 that a woman is just an accessory to a man. 412 00:25:02.680 --> 00:25:04.300 And it doesn't matter what my callings are 413 00:25:04.300 --> 00:25:06.360 because only a man has callings, not a woman. 414 00:25:07.180 --> 00:25:10.420 And so even though I had a calling when I first met Jesus 415 00:25:10.420 --> 00:25:12.260 to go and be a missionary, 416 00:25:12.520 --> 00:25:15.080 a foreign missionary on foreign soil, 417 00:25:16.180 --> 00:25:17.680 when I shared that with him 418 00:25:17.680 --> 00:25:19.140 after getting back together with him, 419 00:25:19.480 --> 00:25:21.560 we had been married for two years, separated, 420 00:25:21.660 --> 00:25:23.620 I became a believer, we got back together. 421 00:25:23.720 --> 00:25:27.540 When I shared that hope and dream and word from the Lord, 422 00:25:27.540 --> 00:25:30.500 he immediately cast it down with, 423 00:25:31.080 --> 00:25:32.300 women don't have callings, men do, 424 00:25:32.360 --> 00:25:33.580 and I'm not called to be a missionary, 425 00:25:33.740 --> 00:25:35.680 so you might as well just let go of that hope and dream 426 00:25:35.680 --> 00:25:36.920 because it's never gonna come true. 427 00:25:38.580 --> 00:25:41.020 And you guys, it didn't come true. 428 00:25:41.560 --> 00:25:43.040 I believe I am a type of missionary. 429 00:25:43.200 --> 00:25:44.920 I'm a missionary to the single nation. 430 00:25:45.760 --> 00:25:46.280 Come on. 431 00:25:47.440 --> 00:25:50.280 God can repurpose your callings and your giftings. 432 00:25:51.260 --> 00:25:53.680 But one of the most profound 433 00:25:54.180 --> 00:25:56.100 and prolific missionaries to Africa, 434 00:25:56.100 --> 00:25:59.560 where I felt called, laid hands on me last weekend. 435 00:26:02.240 --> 00:26:04.140 And I got to pray for her feet 436 00:26:04.140 --> 00:26:06.000 that will surely go back to Mozambique 437 00:26:06.000 --> 00:26:08.200 and other places and other countries in Africa. 438 00:26:08.720 --> 00:26:12.420 And I feel somehow that was a full circle moment. 439 00:26:14.100 --> 00:26:14.580 Right? 440 00:26:17.060 --> 00:26:18.080 Nothing's lost. 441 00:26:18.960 --> 00:26:19.920 It's just invested. 442 00:26:20.720 --> 00:26:22.160 Nothing's lost in the kingdom, friends. 443 00:26:22.160 --> 00:26:23.140 It's only invested. 444 00:26:23.860 --> 00:26:25.980 It's seed that's sown and it's invested. 445 00:26:26.380 --> 00:26:28.960 So whatever that delay was, it wasn't a denial. 446 00:26:29.660 --> 00:26:30.560 You didn't miss it. 447 00:26:30.680 --> 00:26:31.720 You were being positioned. 448 00:26:33.220 --> 00:26:35.000 And God has very precise timing. 449 00:26:35.260 --> 00:26:35.900 He really does. 450 00:26:36.920 --> 00:26:37.220 Right? 451 00:26:37.220 --> 00:26:39.380 And if that was all that I had to share with you, 452 00:26:39.440 --> 00:26:40.180 that would be powerful. 453 00:26:40.240 --> 00:26:42.640 But I have one more thing to share with you guys. 454 00:26:43.100 --> 00:26:44.600 Ever since I was a little kid, 455 00:26:44.600 --> 00:26:47.180 there's some specific dental work that I, 456 00:26:47.180 --> 00:26:48.740 I know that I had Invisalign, 457 00:26:48.880 --> 00:26:50.380 so my teeth look good right now. 458 00:26:51.080 --> 00:26:52.780 They look better than they've ever looked. 459 00:26:52.780 --> 00:26:53.540 But when I was a kid, 460 00:26:53.660 --> 00:26:55.620 I was mercilessly teased because of my teeth. 461 00:26:55.800 --> 00:26:56.400 Anybody else? 462 00:26:57.120 --> 00:26:59.940 I had a huge overbite and I had, 463 00:27:00.320 --> 00:27:02.300 my front two teeth were very bucked. 464 00:27:02.420 --> 00:27:03.780 They were bucked toothed 465 00:27:03.780 --> 00:27:05.420 and there was a space in between them 466 00:27:05.560 --> 00:27:07.680 and the bottom teeth were very crooked 467 00:27:07.680 --> 00:27:10.020 and just, I had really messed up teeth. 468 00:27:10.080 --> 00:27:11.860 And when you come from a childhood like mine 469 00:27:12.040 --> 00:27:14.440 where your basic needs are being neglected, 470 00:27:14.700 --> 00:27:16.160 your clothes are not being washed, 471 00:27:16.380 --> 00:27:18.940 you know, there's not someone home making the food, 472 00:27:19.020 --> 00:27:20.420 you know, you're kind of on your own. 473 00:27:20.420 --> 00:27:21.180 Guess what? 474 00:27:21.180 --> 00:27:22.240 You're not gonna get braces. 475 00:27:22.700 --> 00:27:24.020 That's a luxury item. 476 00:27:24.180 --> 00:27:26.900 You know, I wasn't even getting my basic needs met, 477 00:27:26.900 --> 00:27:28.040 emotionally or physically. 478 00:27:28.200 --> 00:27:30.240 I'm not gonna, definitely not gonna end up with braces. 479 00:27:30.520 --> 00:27:32.860 And so I didn't get them and so I was bullied 480 00:27:32.860 --> 00:27:34.740 and I was teased for a lot of different things 481 00:27:34.740 --> 00:27:35.920 because my clothes were dirty, 482 00:27:36.060 --> 00:27:36.900 because they smelled, 483 00:27:37.120 --> 00:27:39.500 because I know it's hard for y'all to picture me like this, 484 00:27:39.960 --> 00:27:41.960 but second through sixth grade, 485 00:27:42.240 --> 00:27:45.260 little Jackie was dirty, okay? 486 00:27:45.260 --> 00:27:47.640 She went to private school where people wore uniforms, 487 00:27:47.640 --> 00:27:49.880 but my uniform was never washed. 488 00:27:50.620 --> 00:27:52.820 So my uniform stunk and it made it worse 489 00:27:52.820 --> 00:27:56.160 that I wet the bed until I was like in eighth grade 490 00:27:56.660 --> 00:27:59.360 because of my mental and emotional state. 491 00:27:59.400 --> 00:28:01.720 And so there was poor hygiene, 492 00:28:02.180 --> 00:28:04.060 there was unwashed clothes, 493 00:28:04.280 --> 00:28:06.940 there was, you know, not clean underwear, 494 00:28:07.240 --> 00:28:08.640 there was no lunch. 495 00:28:08.640 --> 00:28:11.240 I was stealing other kids' lunches in the coat room. 496 00:28:11.240 --> 00:28:13.400 I mean, I know it's hard for you to imagine me that way, 497 00:28:13.420 --> 00:28:14.420 but that was my childhood. 498 00:28:15.460 --> 00:28:16.940 My poor mom was young, 499 00:28:17.160 --> 00:28:19.140 she was only 21 years old when I was born. 500 00:28:19.760 --> 00:28:21.960 And you know, so she would have been in her 20s still 501 00:28:21.960 --> 00:28:23.060 when all this was happening 502 00:28:23.060 --> 00:28:25.300 and she was married to very abusive men, 503 00:28:25.400 --> 00:28:26.180 one after another. 504 00:28:26.360 --> 00:28:28.380 She was married three times before I was 10 years old 505 00:28:28.540 --> 00:28:30.040 and they were all abusive, 506 00:28:30.920 --> 00:28:33.240 alcoholics, addicts, it was bad news bears. 507 00:28:34.720 --> 00:28:37.680 So my teeth kind of became this thing, friends, 508 00:28:37.700 --> 00:28:41.080 was kind of like a, I don't know, a thing. 509 00:28:41.080 --> 00:28:42.400 But there's some dental work 510 00:28:42.400 --> 00:28:44.760 that I've really wanted to have done all my life 511 00:28:44.760 --> 00:28:47.080 and I've come really close to having it done, 512 00:28:47.680 --> 00:28:49.580 really close to letting someone do it 513 00:28:49.580 --> 00:28:51.480 because I mean, it's a situation 514 00:28:51.480 --> 00:28:53.560 where if they mess it up, it's not good. 515 00:28:54.580 --> 00:28:59.020 And so I almost, I went to Columbia last year to, 516 00:28:59.180 --> 00:29:00.700 we went two years in a row for a retreat. 517 00:29:00.760 --> 00:29:02.260 You guys know we take people to Columbia. 518 00:29:02.360 --> 00:29:03.740 I don't know if you guys know this or not, 519 00:29:03.740 --> 00:29:04.940 but Columbia is kind of known 520 00:29:04.940 --> 00:29:08.040 as like the dental tourism capital of the world. 521 00:29:08.420 --> 00:29:11.440 People go there to get dental work done a lot cheaper 522 00:29:12.000 --> 00:29:13.260 than they can in the States 523 00:29:13.260 --> 00:29:16.360 because you guys know dental work's expensive, right? 524 00:29:16.600 --> 00:29:18.600 And so I had an appointment. 525 00:29:19.300 --> 00:29:20.940 I was going to get it done last year 526 00:29:20.940 --> 00:29:22.440 and I spelled a check in my heart. 527 00:29:22.840 --> 00:29:24.660 Not that it wouldn't have turned out well, 528 00:29:24.760 --> 00:29:27.740 not that these dentists don't have great reviews 529 00:29:27.740 --> 00:29:30.760 and not because it's in a foreign country or any of that, 530 00:29:31.380 --> 00:29:35.040 but because I just felt like God's just like, don't do this. 531 00:29:35.560 --> 00:29:37.940 And you guys, we have to listen to that still small voice. 532 00:29:38.160 --> 00:29:40.900 I know that there's a fine line, 533 00:29:40.900 --> 00:29:42.600 there's a tension that we have to hold 534 00:29:43.900 --> 00:29:48.080 between wanting something about having something 535 00:29:48.080 --> 00:29:51.260 and about not yet, about now and not yet. 536 00:29:51.840 --> 00:29:54.780 We believe that we receive what God has for us, 537 00:29:54.840 --> 00:29:57.280 but sometimes there's a specific scenario 538 00:29:57.280 --> 00:29:58.600 in which we need to receive it 539 00:29:58.600 --> 00:29:59.720 because that's the best scenario. 540 00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:04.020 I could have got it done anyway and I don't think that it would have been an emergency. 541 00:30:04.320 --> 00:30:05.500 I don't think that it would have been terrible. 542 00:30:05.740 --> 00:30:07.400 I don't think that it wouldn't have worked out. 543 00:30:07.500 --> 00:30:09.460 It just wasn't God's best for me. 544 00:30:10.460 --> 00:30:15.980 It wasn't God's best for me and I'm very cautious even using that language with you guys because 545 00:30:15.980 --> 00:30:23.280 some of you live in so much fear that you never take action and so with our times and 546 00:30:23.280 --> 00:30:27.060 seasons thing that we're going to do on January 4th, we're going to see the difference between 547 00:30:27.060 --> 00:30:35.440 moving and taking action and not being afraid and waiting because we know that God's saying, 548 00:30:35.760 --> 00:30:37.940 hey, I have something for you but that's not it. 549 00:30:39.340 --> 00:30:44.680 There's a fine line between those things and if you have the mindset of fear, then you're 550 00:30:44.680 --> 00:30:49.060 never going to take action in faith and this life requires action in faith and some of 551 00:30:49.060 --> 00:30:53.620 you are always paralyzed by the fear of making a mistake or doing things wrong and so that's 552 00:30:53.620 --> 00:30:57.660 why I hesitate to even use language like this with you but I want to let you guys know 553 00:30:57.660 --> 00:30:58.980 that I'm not that kind of person. 554 00:30:59.440 --> 00:31:01.420 I'm not analysis paralysis person. 555 00:31:01.900 --> 00:31:02.760 In fact, I'm a fast start. 556 00:31:02.960 --> 00:31:05.240 I'm the kind of person who throws against the wall, see what sticks. 557 00:31:05.940 --> 00:31:11.060 I take quick action on the words that God gives me and so I wasn't saying no to Columbia 558 00:31:11.080 --> 00:31:12.140 because I was afraid. 559 00:31:12.160 --> 00:31:16.180 I was saying no to Columbia because I know when God is telling me to not do something 560 00:31:16.860 --> 00:31:19.840 and I want to teach you to be those people as well. 561 00:31:19.840 --> 00:31:23.280 So I knew that the Lord said no to that. 562 00:31:23.320 --> 00:31:24.420 So that was last spring. 563 00:31:24.480 --> 00:31:27.260 It was April I believe that we went there. 564 00:31:27.340 --> 00:31:29.580 Now there's this dentist that I follow. 565 00:31:30.020 --> 00:31:31.660 I follow all his stuff. 566 00:31:31.720 --> 00:31:32.780 I follow his website. 567 00:31:32.780 --> 00:31:33.980 I just love him. 568 00:31:34.360 --> 00:31:40.280 He does some of the work that I want done and I just, I've always wanted to go to him 569 00:31:40.800 --> 00:31:43.460 but it's really difficult to work with this dentist. 570 00:31:43.640 --> 00:31:47.700 Of course, everyone wants to work with him but because of this word that the siege is 571 00:31:47.700 --> 00:31:51.700 over and we don't have to muddle through and it's a season of firsts, I went ahead 572 00:31:51.700 --> 00:31:55.320 in and put an inquiry into his office and guess what? 573 00:31:55.460 --> 00:32:01.680 They called me a few days ago and they have a cancellation and the cancellation is on 574 00:32:01.780 --> 00:32:02.260 my birthday. 575 00:32:03.500 --> 00:32:08.820 Not only do they have a cancellation but the cancellation is on my birthday and so on my 576 00:32:08.820 --> 00:32:14.680 birthday, January 16th, I'm going to get something done that I've wanted done for probably 40 577 00:32:14.680 --> 00:32:15.200 years. 578 00:32:18.060 --> 00:32:23.380 So that was about 10 years old and it's just, I'm just so excited about it because the woman 579 00:32:23.380 --> 00:32:25.140 who had this appointment got pregnant. 580 00:32:25.340 --> 00:32:29.660 So that's a happy thing and they don't work on, they don't do dental work because you 581 00:32:29.660 --> 00:32:31.640 know, they got to give you like, you know, drugs and stuff. 582 00:32:31.640 --> 00:32:35.280 They don't do dental work on pregnant people in their first trimester and she's in her 583 00:32:35.280 --> 00:32:35.960 first trimester. 584 00:32:36.380 --> 00:32:41.380 She's had this appointment with him for over a year and so she's pregnant. 585 00:32:41.520 --> 00:32:42.380 She can't come. 586 00:32:42.460 --> 00:32:43.140 And guess what? 587 00:32:43.140 --> 00:32:49.820 The first person that got offered that appointment that happens to be on my birthday is me. 588 00:32:50.960 --> 00:32:54.700 When she said we had an opening, a cancellation, she's like, this never happens. 589 00:32:55.020 --> 00:32:59.280 She said, this is really a very unusual circumstance, but we had a cancellation. 590 00:32:59.760 --> 00:33:05.520 This person has had this appointment for over a year and I, she said, and it's in January 591 00:33:05.520 --> 00:33:08.780 and as soon as she said January, I perked up, I said, what day in January? 592 00:33:08.880 --> 00:33:10.080 She said, January 16th. 593 00:33:10.080 --> 00:33:11.660 I was like, shut the front door. 594 00:33:12.200 --> 00:33:13.580 Happy birthday to me. 595 00:33:15.400 --> 00:33:18.760 So every time I tried to do this, it was just the wrong timing. 596 00:33:18.940 --> 00:33:20.240 It was the wrong doctor. 597 00:33:20.620 --> 00:33:22.220 I didn't have peace about it. 598 00:33:23.000 --> 00:33:24.500 Isn't this incredible you guys? 599 00:33:24.720 --> 00:33:27.100 It's the season of first because the siege is over. 600 00:33:28.380 --> 00:33:28.900 Okay. 601 00:33:28.900 --> 00:33:29.420 Hold on. 602 00:33:29.680 --> 00:33:33.320 We got someone unmuted, got someone unmuted on here. 603 00:33:34.380 --> 00:33:35.520 Make sure you're muted. 604 00:33:35.660 --> 00:33:39.640 There should be a little red line through your microphone so that you're not messing 605 00:33:39.640 --> 00:33:49.260 up the recording for later when people are trying to listen back, mute yourself. 606 00:33:50.960 --> 00:33:51.440 Okay. 607 00:33:54.400 --> 00:33:56.580 You guys, you cannot make this kind of stuff up. 608 00:33:57.980 --> 00:33:58.940 You can't. 609 00:33:59.700 --> 00:34:01.840 I feel like I'm in perpetual Christmas time. 610 00:34:01.880 --> 00:34:03.120 My brother gets a house. 611 00:34:03.120 --> 00:34:10.719 I can't tell you for over 28 years, I have been interceding and crying out to the Lord 612 00:34:10.719 --> 00:34:11.719 for my brother. 613 00:34:12.820 --> 00:34:13.380 Help him, Lord. 614 00:34:13.540 --> 00:34:14.340 Please help him. 615 00:34:14.500 --> 00:34:15.540 We'll deliver him, Lord. 616 00:34:16.100 --> 00:34:17.199 Make him, keep him safe. 617 00:34:17.239 --> 00:34:20.820 You know how many times I thought he was dead because I didn't hear from him for months 618 00:34:20.820 --> 00:34:23.600 at a time because you don't hear from homeless people a lot. 619 00:34:25.100 --> 00:34:30.340 And how many times I've like called police stations in the last area that he was, I found 620 00:34:30.340 --> 00:34:33.800 friends that lived in those areas that were searching the streets for him and looking 621 00:34:33.800 --> 00:34:34.380 for him. 622 00:34:34.460 --> 00:34:39.659 And you know, I can't tell you guys, can't tell you the breakthrough that is. 623 00:34:40.219 --> 00:34:43.219 And I believe that this teeth thing, it's a sign. 624 00:34:44.639 --> 00:34:48.080 All of the trauma from my childhood, all the pain, all the hurt. 625 00:34:48.239 --> 00:34:53.340 This has become kind of like the poster child for that because of the bullying and everything. 626 00:34:53.440 --> 00:34:59.640 I feel like it's some part of restoration, it's like a final piece of the puzzle of restoration 627 00:34:59.640 --> 00:34:59.980 in my life. 628 00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:01.560 Life. Does that make sense to you guys? 629 00:35:03.120 --> 00:35:04.400 I know it's a silly thing. 630 00:35:04.440 --> 00:35:07.660 It's just some dental work, but you guys, it has such a bold 631 00:35:08.040 --> 00:35:08.500 significance. 632 00:35:10.000 --> 00:35:11.240 Because of my childhood. 633 00:35:13.520 --> 00:35:15.020 And God has that for you too. 634 00:35:16.420 --> 00:35:18.920 Now, some of you have been bracing for the worst to come. 635 00:35:20.100 --> 00:35:21.540 You've been bracing for impact. 636 00:35:22.140 --> 00:35:24.020 Got your seatbelt on, bracing for impact. 637 00:35:24.060 --> 00:35:28.060 Instead of putting your seatbelt on, ready to go on a ride with 638 00:35:28.060 --> 00:35:29.900 Jesus to blessing. 639 00:35:30.520 --> 00:35:32.520 You got your seatbelt on for the wrong reason. 640 00:35:32.760 --> 00:35:33.980 You're bracing for impact. 641 00:35:34.960 --> 00:35:36.580 Instead of bracing for blessing. 642 00:35:37.720 --> 00:35:38.320 Come on. 643 00:35:39.580 --> 00:35:41.840 I want you to put your seatbelt on because we're about to get 644 00:35:41.840 --> 00:35:42.600 on a ride. 645 00:35:43.440 --> 00:35:45.820 But it's going to be a good ride to good places. 646 00:35:47.260 --> 00:35:49.520 I know you're still praying but you're still expecting worst 647 00:35:49.520 --> 00:35:51.260 case scenarios and we can't have that anymore. 648 00:35:51.840 --> 00:35:54.160 You're hoping but you're kind of flinching while you're hoping 649 00:35:54.160 --> 00:35:57.580 we can't have that anymore because this is the season where 650 00:35:57.580 --> 00:35:59.740 what is going to show up is going to be better than you 651 00:35:59.880 --> 00:36:00.280 imagined. 652 00:36:00.960 --> 00:36:02.920 Come on, who's going to grab a hold of this? 653 00:36:03.460 --> 00:36:04.600 I'm proving it to you. 654 00:36:04.620 --> 00:36:05.780 I'm giving you examples. 655 00:36:08.100 --> 00:36:10.180 What arrives is going to come with peace. 656 00:36:10.440 --> 00:36:13.280 You're going to know that this is what you've been waiting for. 657 00:36:14.040 --> 00:36:15.540 And when it happens 658 00:36:16.160 --> 00:36:18.880 and when God does what only he can do, you're going to say, 659 00:36:19.780 --> 00:36:21.040 oh, that's why. 660 00:36:22.000 --> 00:36:23.600 That's why I didn't work out before. 661 00:36:23.800 --> 00:36:25.100 That's why I didn't get that job. 662 00:36:25.180 --> 00:36:26.480 That's why I didn't move to that city. 663 00:36:26.520 --> 00:36:27.260 That's why. 664 00:36:27.580 --> 00:36:29.560 That's why I didn't get that house in that neighborhood. 665 00:36:30.920 --> 00:36:31.720 That's why. 666 00:36:33.080 --> 00:36:35.300 So I want you to go ahead and name that thing out loud right 667 00:36:35.300 --> 00:36:35.580 now. 668 00:36:35.780 --> 00:36:37.640 Don't unmute yourself, but out loud where you are. 669 00:36:37.860 --> 00:36:40.640 Name that thing that's coming into your spirit right now and 670 00:36:40.640 --> 00:36:42.660 just want to let you know that no matter what you name, it 671 00:36:42.660 --> 00:36:45.340 could be a different thing that God's going to just rock your 672 00:36:45.380 --> 00:36:46.180 world with. 673 00:36:47.460 --> 00:36:49.860 Because when I tell you this dental thing was not on my mind 674 00:36:49.860 --> 00:36:52.340 at all when this happened, it was not on my mind at all, but 675 00:36:52.340 --> 00:36:53.640 it's powerful and it's amazing. 676 00:36:56.300 --> 00:36:59.460 And so instead of you just naming a thing, why don't you 677 00:36:59.460 --> 00:37:02.140 just instead say, God, I give you permission to surprise me. 678 00:37:03.080 --> 00:37:03.360 Whoo! 679 00:37:06.740 --> 00:37:08.060 Release the specifics. 680 00:37:08.360 --> 00:37:10.480 God, I just give you permission to surprise me. 681 00:37:10.920 --> 00:37:13.680 Expect the upgrade, but you don't got to know what it is in 682 00:37:13.680 --> 00:37:13.840 advance. 683 00:37:17.280 --> 00:37:21.020 God, I give you permission to surprise me. 684 00:37:23.640 --> 00:37:24.800 Because the siege is over. 685 00:37:26.460 --> 00:37:27.000 All right. 686 00:37:27.020 --> 00:37:28.020 So here's our declaration. 687 00:37:29.100 --> 00:37:29.920 The siege is over. 688 00:37:30.440 --> 00:37:31.060 Repeat after me. 689 00:37:31.520 --> 00:37:31.760 Don't run. 690 00:37:32.040 --> 00:37:33.820 Don't unmute yourself because we'll all be out of this. 691 00:37:34.240 --> 00:37:37.180 We all have delays in our technology. 692 00:37:37.180 --> 00:37:40.760 So we will not be speaking on time together. 693 00:37:41.260 --> 00:37:42.440 The siege is over. 694 00:37:45.520 --> 00:37:48.680 From this moment forward, I will stop rehearsing disappointment. 695 00:37:49.200 --> 00:37:52.460 From this moment forward, I will stop talking about my 696 00:37:52.460 --> 00:37:52.840 disappointment. 697 00:37:55.780 --> 00:37:58.160 Starting right now, I expect God's goodness. 698 00:38:00.680 --> 00:38:03.140 I am in my season of firsts. 699 00:38:07.200 --> 00:38:09.060 What I've been waiting for 700 00:38:10.020 --> 00:38:12.080 is going to be better than I expected. 701 00:38:14.880 --> 00:38:15.980 Better than I imagined. 702 00:38:17.620 --> 00:38:19.880 And I'm going to finish 2025 strong. 703 00:38:22.380 --> 00:38:24.980 And I'm going to start 2026 full of faith. 704 00:38:27.440 --> 00:38:29.800 Because friends, how you end one thing is always how you start 705 00:38:29.800 --> 00:38:30.200 the other. 706 00:38:30.380 --> 00:38:31.440 Because remember, it's just one day. 707 00:38:31.560 --> 00:38:33.120 It's one calendar page turned. 708 00:38:34.500 --> 00:38:36.440 We're not even in 2026 yet. 709 00:38:37.320 --> 00:38:39.780 But God is already exceeding our expectations. 710 00:38:42.760 --> 00:38:44.720 It's already exceeding our expectations. 711 00:38:45.320 --> 00:38:46.360 So lift your head. 712 00:38:46.900 --> 00:38:47.780 Get your hopes up. 713 00:38:49.720 --> 00:38:50.980 Put on your seatbelt 714 00:38:52.200 --> 00:38:54.440 to go on a wild good ride with the Lord. 715 00:38:56.400 --> 00:38:59.740 Because this is the season where God is going to outdo even 716 00:39:00.180 --> 00:39:02.020 himself in your life. 717 00:39:03.060 --> 00:39:04.840 So let's activate that, you guys. 718 00:39:05.260 --> 00:39:07.660 The blessed are blessed to be blessings. 719 00:39:08.240 --> 00:39:11.520 And if you believe that you're going to be blessed, if you 720 00:39:11.520 --> 00:39:12.900 believe that you've been created 721 00:39:13.400 --> 00:39:16.580 to be a conduit of blessings in the earth, then just go ahead 722 00:39:16.580 --> 00:39:17.760 and start paying that forward. 723 00:39:19.000 --> 00:39:21.780 One thing I learned from Heidi is that she wasn't afraid to go 724 00:39:21.780 --> 00:39:22.400 after the one. 725 00:39:23.260 --> 00:39:26.600 And so let this Advent season, the season of miracles, the 726 00:39:26.600 --> 00:39:29.100 season of first, the season where the siege is over, as 727 00:39:29.200 --> 00:39:32.720 we're entering into all of these beautiful promises of the 728 00:39:32.720 --> 00:39:35.540 Lord better than we ever expected or imagined, look for 729 00:39:35.540 --> 00:39:36.600 people that you can bless. 730 00:39:37.160 --> 00:39:41.420 Have your eyes wide open while you walk around this life for 731 00:39:41.440 --> 00:39:44.960 people who need an encouraging word, for people who need a 732 00:39:44.960 --> 00:39:47.660 compliment, for people who need a smile, for people who need 733 00:39:48.280 --> 00:39:51.580 you know, someone to buy them a cup of coffee, for people who 734 00:39:51.580 --> 00:39:52.800 just need something. 735 00:39:54.380 --> 00:39:56.700 Because you're an abundant person. 736 00:39:57.720 --> 00:39:59.980 And the way you can practice abundant is by 737 00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:05.940 beginning to give, give, give, give, give. 738 00:40:08.020 --> 00:40:10.540 I will tell you, that's how I live my life 739 00:40:10.880 --> 00:40:12.220 because I am a missionary, 740 00:40:12.440 --> 00:40:14.440 regardless of whether I ever got to go to Africa. 741 00:40:15.480 --> 00:40:19.220 Missionaries are always on a mission and that is who I am. 742 00:40:19.640 --> 00:40:21.700 No matter where I am, no matter what I'm doing, 743 00:40:21.920 --> 00:40:23.360 I'm stopping for the one. 744 00:40:23.460 --> 00:40:24.440 No matter where I am, 745 00:40:24.480 --> 00:40:26.800 no matter what my agenda is for the day, 746 00:40:26.960 --> 00:40:28.200 I'm looking for need. 747 00:40:28.200 --> 00:40:29.880 I'm looking people in their faces. 748 00:40:30.660 --> 00:40:33.600 I'm watching for places where I can help. 749 00:40:34.540 --> 00:40:37.500 I'm that person that overhears someone 750 00:40:37.500 --> 00:40:39.600 asking someone else where something is 751 00:40:39.600 --> 00:40:41.680 or overhears someone having a problem 752 00:40:41.680 --> 00:40:45.340 and then I just turn around and I just try to help them. 753 00:40:46.060 --> 00:40:47.500 Whether they're looking for a seat, 754 00:40:47.860 --> 00:40:50.000 I'm the person that's pointing out an open seat, 755 00:40:50.060 --> 00:40:51.240 maybe that they don't see. 756 00:40:51.640 --> 00:40:54.960 Because I'm listening, I'm watching all the time. 757 00:40:55.540 --> 00:40:57.060 How can I be of service? 758 00:40:59.020 --> 00:40:59.780 How? 759 00:41:01.660 --> 00:41:06.340 How can I make this life matter for the kingdom of God? 760 00:41:10.020 --> 00:41:11.860 We all have problems, friends. 761 00:41:12.520 --> 00:41:13.780 We all have things that we wish 762 00:41:13.780 --> 00:41:15.240 weren't going on in our lives. 763 00:41:15.940 --> 00:41:18.940 But we also all know Jesus. 764 00:41:20.060 --> 00:41:20.800 And guess what? 765 00:41:22.100 --> 00:41:23.160 We win. 766 00:41:24.260 --> 00:41:25.420 We are blessed. 767 00:41:26.520 --> 00:41:29.480 So let's take off any kind of victimhood that we've had on 768 00:41:29.480 --> 00:41:32.560 and let's put this word on because now is our time. 769 00:41:33.100 --> 00:41:36.480 Let's get out there and let's just begin to love people, 770 00:41:36.820 --> 00:41:38.080 love them up, love them well. 771 00:41:38.760 --> 00:41:41.200 All the while knowing that God knows who we are, 772 00:41:41.340 --> 00:41:42.620 he knows where our address is. 773 00:41:42.660 --> 00:41:44.380 And so when your friends have breakthrough, 774 00:41:44.540 --> 00:41:47.400 like today, Benjamin and Julia from this community 775 00:41:47.400 --> 00:41:48.220 are getting married. 776 00:41:48.900 --> 00:41:50.020 Julia's from this community. 777 00:41:51.740 --> 00:41:52.860 She is your neighbor. 778 00:41:53.360 --> 00:41:54.300 She is getting married. 779 00:41:54.720 --> 00:41:55.400 And guess what that means? 780 00:41:55.400 --> 00:41:57.040 That means God's in the neighborhood. 781 00:41:58.840 --> 00:42:01.460 So get excited because he knows where you live too. 782 00:42:01.880 --> 00:42:02.540 I love you guys. 783 00:42:02.840 --> 00:42:03.420 Have a great day.