WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:08.920 All right, everyone, good morning, good morning and welcome to Supernatural Saturday. 2 00:00:08.920 --> 00:00:11.720 I apologize for my raspy voice. 3 00:00:11.720 --> 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 --> 00:00:21.880 not had that many hours of sleep, but we're going to press on through and push on through 5 00:00:21.880 --> 00:00:24.600 and it's going to be a wonderful and amazing. 6 00:00:24.600 --> 00:00:28.760 Today I wanted to talk a little bit about Advent. 7 00:00:28.760 --> 00:00:33.280 That is the season that we are currently in and if you haven't noticed yet, I am very 8 00:00:33.280 --> 00:00:36.920 much a times and seasons girl. 9 00:00:36.920 --> 00:00:42.120 And the reason why is because God taught me years ago to respect my times and seasons. 10 00:00:42.120 --> 00:00:46.420 I'm a prophetic person, a prophet, actually. 11 00:00:46.420 --> 00:00:50.120 They say that you're only a prophet if other prophets say you're a prophet and other prophets 12 00:00:50.120 --> 00:00:51.120 have said I was a prophet. 13 00:00:51.120 --> 00:00:54.320 So I'm like, all right, I'm a prophet, let's go. 14 00:00:54.320 --> 00:00:59.400 And as a prophetic person, because I've always been a prophetic person, God has taught me 15 00:00:59.400 --> 00:01:07.680 to really look and see what time is it, what are you doing, and set my expectations according 16 00:01:07.680 --> 00:01:08.680 to that. 17 00:01:08.680 --> 00:01:12.000 And I really want to just release that over all of you because there's a lot of things 18 00:01:12.000 --> 00:01:16.880 that we want to have happen, but it may not be time for them to happen. 19 00:01:16.880 --> 00:01:21.440 And so you're just going to be pushing against, you know, the rock trying to roll it out of 20 00:01:21.440 --> 00:01:22.440 the way. 21 00:01:22.560 --> 00:01:26.640 And it's better to allow God to roll it out of the way, amen. 22 00:01:26.640 --> 00:01:33.280 And so I'm not talking about predestination, I just had a little exchange on my Instagram 23 00:01:33.280 --> 00:01:38.880 yesterday with someone who apparently must be a Calvinist of some sort, they must believe 24 00:01:38.880 --> 00:01:48.040 in predestination and, you know, predestination takes away our ability to have free will. 25 00:01:48.040 --> 00:01:51.360 And free will is what it's all about. 26 00:01:51.360 --> 00:01:55.800 This person was pushing back saying that I shouldn't be helping people to get married 27 00:01:55.800 --> 00:01:58.800 because they don't need to participate in that. 28 00:01:58.800 --> 00:02:03.000 If God has that for them, then one day it's just going to show up. 29 00:02:03.000 --> 00:02:07.000 God's going to let them be in the right time, the right place, and they're going to meet 30 00:02:07.000 --> 00:02:12.180 their person because God has already foreordained that. 31 00:02:12.180 --> 00:02:15.680 And while there's some truth to that, you are going to be in the right place at the 32 00:02:15.680 --> 00:02:20.480 right time and hopefully with the right heart so you can sustain the gifts that God wants 33 00:02:20.480 --> 00:02:22.300 to give you. 34 00:02:22.300 --> 00:02:28.520 That is not because God has predestined it to happen, it is because God is inviting you 35 00:02:28.520 --> 00:02:33.080 to it and you have received the invitation because you have the right mindset and the 36 00:02:33.080 --> 00:02:35.800 right heart posture. 37 00:02:35.800 --> 00:02:39.560 Because think about it, if God chooses our spouse, then he chooses everything else, including 38 00:02:39.560 --> 00:02:40.560 whether we choose him. 39 00:02:40.560 --> 00:02:45.760 I'm just going to let that settle in for a second. 40 00:02:45.760 --> 00:02:50.120 If God chooses your spouse, if it's true that he chooses your spouse, he's already picked 41 00:02:50.120 --> 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 --> 00:02:58.640 whether or not you choose him. 43 00:02:58.640 --> 00:03:04.840 And that just doesn't seem very fair, does it? 44 00:03:04.840 --> 00:03:13.960 And it also seems like we would just be a whole entire human group of robots, humanoids. 45 00:03:13.960 --> 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 --> 00:03:21.040 for us. 47 00:03:21.040 --> 00:03:24.040 And so it isn't either or, it's both and. 48 00:03:24.040 --> 00:03:28.040 I believe that God is constantly inviting us into his choice for us. 49 00:03:28.040 --> 00:03:29.680 Come on, y'all. 50 00:03:29.680 --> 00:03:35.940 God is always inviting us into his best for us, his choice for us, but we have to pull 51 00:03:35.940 --> 00:03:36.940 the trigger on it. 52 00:03:36.940 --> 00:03:38.820 We have to choose. 53 00:03:38.820 --> 00:03:42.320 We have to choose. 54 00:03:42.320 --> 00:03:48.440 He's showing us the right choice and I don't believe that it's about always best. 55 00:03:48.440 --> 00:03:50.880 It's good, better, best. 56 00:03:50.880 --> 00:03:55.580 Good, better, best, oftentimes, the choices. 57 00:03:55.580 --> 00:04:01.600 And I do believe that even when we zig instead of zag, go right instead of go left, if the 58 00:04:01.600 --> 00:04:09.560 case may be, that God in his mercy and in his goodness will still help us to make the 59 00:04:09.560 --> 00:04:13.520 next best choice, right? 60 00:04:13.520 --> 00:04:18.640 In order to get us to good places. 61 00:04:18.640 --> 00:04:24.320 I do not believe that it is like, okay, well, I made a bad choice here. 62 00:04:24.320 --> 00:04:26.400 I followed after my flesh here. 63 00:04:26.400 --> 00:04:28.080 I didn't follow the spirit here. 64 00:04:28.080 --> 00:04:33.440 I was caught up in my fear of man over here, but I'm still going to make it to the very 65 00:04:33.440 --> 00:04:34.440 same destination. 66 00:04:34.440 --> 00:04:36.880 No, I don't think that you do get to the same destination. 67 00:04:36.880 --> 00:04:39.720 I think that you get to a similar destination. 68 00:04:39.720 --> 00:04:42.360 I think it's kind of like those choose your own adventure books. 69 00:04:42.360 --> 00:04:45.280 Remember guys, remember reading those? 70 00:04:45.280 --> 00:04:47.600 Raise your hand if you remember reading those. 71 00:04:47.600 --> 00:04:49.240 I cheated in those books. 72 00:04:49.240 --> 00:04:53.600 I just want to let you know when it said, if you, if you choose this, go to page 14. 73 00:04:53.600 --> 00:04:55.160 If you choose this, go to page 26. 74 00:04:55.160 --> 00:05:00.040 Well, I went to page 14 and page 26 to see which story. 75 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:03.760 I liked better. 76 00:05:03.760 --> 00:05:05.840 And I did that all through the book. 77 00:05:05.840 --> 00:05:07.120 Why? 78 00:05:07.120 --> 00:05:11.960 Because I was choosing my own adventure and I choose to make the right choice to have 79 00:05:11.960 --> 00:05:15.160 the ending that's happily ever after. 80 00:05:15.160 --> 00:05:20.040 Because if you remember those books, sometimes you're like eaten by a crocodile and then 81 00:05:20.040 --> 00:05:22.720 up, got to go back to page one. 82 00:05:22.720 --> 00:05:26.960 So apparently none of you read those books, okay. 83 00:05:26.960 --> 00:05:30.200 But I think that walking with God is a lot like that. 84 00:05:30.200 --> 00:05:38.360 It's, you know, every single path that we take, if we surrender to the Lord, even after, 85 00:05:38.360 --> 00:05:40.920 you know, we've realized, oh, this is not really the best path. 86 00:05:40.920 --> 00:05:45.840 I can't tell you how many times I have made a choice based on some of the things that 87 00:05:45.840 --> 00:05:53.420 I mentioned before, fear of man, fear of disappointing others, lack of obedience on my part. 88 00:05:53.420 --> 00:05:56.040 Sometimes friends, I saw the red flags waving in my face. 89 00:05:56.120 --> 00:05:58.360 I'm not talking about romance right now. 90 00:05:58.360 --> 00:06:01.600 That's a whole different story with me. 91 00:06:01.600 --> 00:06:09.880 I got some crazy stories in my life of romantic escapades, romantic entanglements. 92 00:06:09.880 --> 00:06:10.880 Okay. 93 00:06:10.880 --> 00:06:14.680 You know, I was married before, but I had plenty of boyfriends too. 94 00:06:14.680 --> 00:06:21.520 So we won't go into all that right now, but I will tell you that in my life, okay, even 95 00:06:21.520 --> 00:06:24.840 married to David for the last 18 years, there have been decisions. 96 00:06:24.840 --> 00:06:25.840 All of us make decisions. 97 00:06:26.640 --> 00:06:32.560 We make decisions every day about what to eat, where to go, who to be friends with, 98 00:06:32.560 --> 00:06:44.400 what invitations to take, which ones not to take, which freeway to get on, which job promotion, 99 00:06:44.400 --> 00:06:46.800 which opportunity. 100 00:06:46.800 --> 00:06:52.560 And I will tell you that there have been decisions that I've made where the red flags were literally 101 00:06:53.040 --> 00:06:58.560 hitting me in the face and I still did it. 102 00:06:58.560 --> 00:07:01.400 I still did it. 103 00:07:01.400 --> 00:07:04.000 I knew it was a rattlesnake before I picked it up. 104 00:07:04.000 --> 00:07:07.640 And you're like, Jackie, why would you do such a thing? 105 00:07:07.640 --> 00:07:10.680 Well, because I didn't want to disappoint somebody. 106 00:07:10.680 --> 00:07:13.840 I had, I had the fear of disappointing people. 107 00:07:13.840 --> 00:07:16.600 I had the fear of people being upset at me. 108 00:07:16.600 --> 00:07:20.920 I had, uh, you know, just fear in general. 109 00:07:20.920 --> 00:07:22.640 Fear is a really bad decision maker. 110 00:07:22.640 --> 00:07:27.680 Did you guys know that it's really, really, really bad decision maker. 111 00:07:27.680 --> 00:07:33.040 And so I had all kinds of different things that caused me to make the wrong choice kind 112 00:07:33.040 --> 00:07:35.160 of on purpose. 113 00:07:35.160 --> 00:07:37.360 I knew it wasn't going to work out well, and then guess what? 114 00:07:37.360 --> 00:07:43.600 I wasn't surprised when it didn't work out well, whether it was a business opportunity, 115 00:07:43.600 --> 00:07:50.280 whether it was having someone come and work for me, whether it was, you know, whether 116 00:07:50.280 --> 00:07:54.360 to go to an event or not, or to receive an invitation or take an invitation. 117 00:07:54.360 --> 00:07:57.320 There's just all kinds of lists of things. 118 00:07:57.320 --> 00:08:00.600 So for all of you that are sitting around and thinking, Hey, you know, people that are 119 00:08:00.600 --> 00:08:05.240 super spiritual like Jackie Dorman, they make all the right decisions. 120 00:08:05.240 --> 00:08:11.360 Let's just laugh at that together because that's ridiculous. 121 00:08:11.360 --> 00:08:17.120 And so as you can see, our life is made up of all kinds of decisions, tiny decisions 122 00:08:17.120 --> 00:08:19.760 and big decisions. 123 00:08:19.760 --> 00:08:26.880 But I believe that after we make the decision, I just recently made a really bad decision. 124 00:08:26.880 --> 00:08:30.600 I halfway knew that it wasn't the greatest decision. 125 00:08:30.600 --> 00:08:33.000 And I don't want you guys to think that I'm just roaming through life, making all the 126 00:08:33.000 --> 00:08:34.000 bad decisions. 127 00:08:34.000 --> 00:08:38.440 I make good decisions too, you know. 128 00:08:38.440 --> 00:08:43.240 But I want you to see the beauty of the freedom of free will and choice. 129 00:08:43.240 --> 00:08:47.160 Now very few of those decisions did God just say, don't do it. 130 00:08:47.160 --> 00:08:51.240 I'm not talking about having a word from the Lord and being disobedient. 131 00:08:51.240 --> 00:08:52.840 I'm not talking about that at all. 132 00:08:52.840 --> 00:08:58.120 I'm talking about my regular laying down, sitting up, eating, drinking, walking around 133 00:08:58.120 --> 00:08:59.120 life. 134 00:08:59.120 --> 00:09:01.200 There's all kinds of decisions to be made. 135 00:09:01.200 --> 00:09:07.600 And how many of you know that you don't have a word from the Lord on all of them? 136 00:09:07.600 --> 00:09:13.760 You just got to kind of use your own wisdom and we lack wisdom, don't we? 137 00:09:14.120 --> 00:09:19.800 We lack wisdom because we're operating under a lot of fear. 138 00:09:19.800 --> 00:09:24.480 All of us without exception is believing a lie right now about something in our life, 139 00:09:24.480 --> 00:09:29.800 about ourselves, about someone else, about situations. 140 00:09:29.800 --> 00:09:34.920 And so I try to make good decisions, but sometimes I make decisions with the wrong motivations. 141 00:09:34.920 --> 00:09:40.040 Like I just said, not wanting to disappoint someone, not wanting to let somebody down. 142 00:09:40.040 --> 00:09:42.560 Trust me, I'm getting cured of that. 143 00:09:43.440 --> 00:09:47.720 It's been a long road though, because of my past, because of my childhood. 144 00:09:47.720 --> 00:09:56.800 We all have a predisposition to certain things that trip us up and distract us a lot. 145 00:09:56.800 --> 00:10:00.000 So life is full of all these decisions and you know, I pray about them. 146 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:04.960 I do, but you don't always get a clear answer, do you, friends? 147 00:10:04.960 --> 00:10:08.120 Sometimes you get a gut instinct. 148 00:10:08.120 --> 00:10:13.160 Sometimes you have a check in your heart like, hey, yeah, that's probably not the best choice. 149 00:10:13.160 --> 00:10:16.820 Sometimes other people come along and they're just like, hey, you know, I took that road 150 00:10:16.820 --> 00:10:19.760 once too and it wasn't actually the greatest road. 151 00:10:19.760 --> 00:10:20.880 There's a lot of potholes on it. 152 00:10:20.880 --> 00:10:24.200 So maybe you want to take a different route and you just do it yourself. 153 00:10:24.200 --> 00:10:25.200 You just go yourself. 154 00:10:25.200 --> 00:10:26.200 You just do it anyway. 155 00:10:26.200 --> 00:10:27.200 Why? 156 00:10:28.200 --> 00:10:32.200 I get it. 157 00:10:32.200 --> 00:10:35.480 I've been hardheaded many, many times and I don't know where Holy Spirit's taking us 158 00:10:35.480 --> 00:10:38.760 right now because I want to talk about Advent, but apparently Holy Spirit wants to talk about 159 00:10:38.760 --> 00:10:39.760 this. 160 00:10:39.760 --> 00:10:43.040 We're going to talk about this for a few minutes. 161 00:10:43.040 --> 00:10:51.360 So life is made up of all these beautiful moments of choice, friends, and I just want 162 00:10:51.360 --> 00:10:55.800 to let you know that if you make a choice and it's not the right choice and you realize 163 00:10:55.800 --> 00:11:02.000 it's not the right choice and you come to God and you say, hey, I made a bad choice 164 00:11:02.000 --> 00:11:03.000 here. 165 00:11:03.000 --> 00:11:04.000 I can see it very clearly. 166 00:11:04.000 --> 00:11:08.840 I shouldn't have trusted this person or I shouldn't have gone to this thing. 167 00:11:08.840 --> 00:11:11.320 I shouldn't have taken this job. 168 00:11:11.320 --> 00:11:16.440 I'm two weeks in now and they're already giving pink slips out to people because they're downsizing. 169 00:11:16.440 --> 00:11:19.960 There's things that we do, friends, where we can just come to the Lord and we can say, 170 00:11:19.960 --> 00:11:24.760 hey, I exercise this beautiful gift of free will and choice that you've given me. 171 00:11:24.760 --> 00:11:30.760 And I went down the wrong road and I need you to put my feet back on the road to you. 172 00:11:30.760 --> 00:11:33.040 I need you to take my feet off this path of pain. 173 00:11:33.040 --> 00:11:39.840 This is a scripture, actually, and lead me back to you, lead me back to your will for 174 00:11:39.840 --> 00:11:40.840 my life. 175 00:11:40.840 --> 00:11:45.320 And friends, His will for your life is for you to be in perfect peace, for you to have 176 00:11:45.320 --> 00:11:51.600 perfect joy, for you to be in health, for you to prosper even as your soul prospers. 177 00:11:51.600 --> 00:11:54.480 And it's a journey to get there. 178 00:11:54.480 --> 00:11:56.600 It's a journey to get there. 179 00:11:56.600 --> 00:11:58.320 And God will do exactly what you've asked. 180 00:11:58.320 --> 00:12:00.200 And so this is where I wanted to get to. 181 00:12:00.200 --> 00:12:02.080 He will lead you to good places. 182 00:12:02.080 --> 00:12:05.520 Will they be the same places that you would have gotten to if you would have made different 183 00:12:05.520 --> 00:12:07.320 decisions along the road? 184 00:12:07.320 --> 00:12:08.760 Probably not. 185 00:12:08.760 --> 00:12:11.400 Maybe sometimes, but it's okay. 186 00:12:11.400 --> 00:12:15.560 What I'm trying to help all of you understand is that you haven't missed any boats because 187 00:12:15.560 --> 00:12:20.120 every time you ask God to put your feet back on the path, you're still going to a really 188 00:12:20.120 --> 00:12:23.800 great place. 189 00:12:23.800 --> 00:12:28.560 And this is why God doesn't choose our spouses, because we always end up on different roads 190 00:12:28.560 --> 00:12:32.200 because of our own free will and choice. 191 00:12:32.200 --> 00:12:36.360 I hope it doesn't offend you for me to tell you that there is right now on earth, probably 192 00:12:36.360 --> 00:12:41.400 dozens of people that you could be happily married to out of the eight plus billion people. 193 00:12:41.400 --> 00:12:45.640 It's not really a lot of people because there's eight plus billion of us. 194 00:12:45.640 --> 00:12:48.480 Maybe there's hundreds of people that you could be happily married to. 195 00:12:48.480 --> 00:12:49.880 You're like, what? 196 00:12:49.880 --> 00:12:52.840 Oh my God, that's so random, Jackie. 197 00:12:52.880 --> 00:12:53.880 No, it's not. 198 00:12:57.600 --> 00:12:58.920 It's not random. 199 00:12:58.920 --> 00:13:02.560 I want you to get out of this idea of the one. 200 00:13:02.560 --> 00:13:07.860 Even if you believe it's just a little tiny bit, I want you to get out of that idea. 201 00:13:07.860 --> 00:13:12.680 What I want you to understand is that there are people on this earth like you that love 202 00:13:12.680 --> 00:13:15.160 God and that are trying their best. 203 00:13:15.160 --> 00:13:19.080 They're putting one foot in front of the other every single day and they're praying these 204 00:13:19.080 --> 00:13:22.480 prayers, asking God to lead them to him. 205 00:13:22.480 --> 00:13:31.120 And all you have to do is cross paths with one of them and make a decision that you guys 206 00:13:31.120 --> 00:13:32.640 are going to walk together. 207 00:13:36.640 --> 00:13:40.880 David and I did not have to love each other. 208 00:13:40.880 --> 00:13:45.560 There were definitely obstacles to us coming together and there were many times in our 209 00:13:45.560 --> 00:13:51.800 friendship where it occurred to me that, hey, you know, maybe this could become a relationship. 210 00:13:51.800 --> 00:13:58.480 And then there were also times that I was like, yeah, I don't really want that. 211 00:13:58.480 --> 00:14:02.520 And it wasn't relationship anxiety, it wasn't relationship OCD, okay? 212 00:14:02.520 --> 00:14:06.280 It wasn't necessarily my attachment style. 213 00:14:06.280 --> 00:14:11.360 It was I have free will. 214 00:14:11.360 --> 00:14:17.040 And I stand before you today to tell you that had I not married David and gone on this adventure 215 00:14:17.040 --> 00:14:20.480 of blended family and all the things that we've done for almost 20 years now, which 216 00:14:20.480 --> 00:14:25.720 I do not regret for one moment, I'm so glad that I said, yes, I still believe I'd be happily 217 00:14:25.720 --> 00:14:29.200 married right now. 218 00:14:29.200 --> 00:14:34.280 Does that weird you out? 219 00:14:34.280 --> 00:14:41.320 I would just be happily married to somebody else. 220 00:14:41.320 --> 00:14:45.960 The reason why I believe that Holy Spirit's taking us down this road this morning is because 221 00:14:46.120 --> 00:14:57.080 He wants you to stop believing that there's just one adventure that you can take in this 222 00:14:57.080 --> 00:14:58.080 life. 223 00:14:58.080 --> 00:15:00.080 There's many adventures. 224 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:04.240 adventures that are of Him. 225 00:15:04.240 --> 00:15:10.320 There's many adventures that are of Him because we make God so black and white, so wrong and 226 00:15:10.320 --> 00:15:11.320 white. 227 00:15:11.320 --> 00:15:17.080 But you have to understand this is the same author of the cosmos, of quantum physics, 228 00:15:17.080 --> 00:15:21.440 of everything outside of this tiny little ball that we're spinning around. 229 00:15:21.440 --> 00:15:29.860 Yes, I believe that the earth is round and not flat in the universe because we put everything 230 00:15:29.860 --> 00:15:32.900 in our lives in such a tiny little box. 231 00:15:32.900 --> 00:15:37.700 And that's the beauty of the season of Advent, which is what I want to do Supernatural Saturday 232 00:15:37.700 --> 00:15:38.700 on. 233 00:15:38.700 --> 00:15:42.500 So thank you, Holy Spirit, for bringing this thought full circle. 234 00:15:42.500 --> 00:15:52.500 Do you guys realize that during Jesus's time, Israel had not heard from a prophet in 400 235 00:15:52.500 --> 00:15:54.860 years? 236 00:15:54.860 --> 00:15:58.860 Wow y'all. 237 00:15:58.860 --> 00:16:02.860 That's crazy. 238 00:16:02.860 --> 00:16:11.660 If your only way to hear from God is through a person, through a prophet, and there's been 239 00:16:11.660 --> 00:16:20.620 dead silence for 400 years, that'd be pretty scary, wouldn't it? 240 00:16:20.620 --> 00:16:26.740 It'd be really scary. 241 00:16:26.740 --> 00:16:31.620 There's some different players in the Advent story, and all of them had to risk a lot. 242 00:16:31.620 --> 00:16:39.500 Mary risked a lot, Joseph, there was a lot of risk, Israel in general, 400 years of silence. 243 00:16:39.500 --> 00:16:44.020 And a lot of you feel like that too. 244 00:16:44.020 --> 00:16:49.420 A lot of you feel like there's been a lot of silence, there's been a lot of missed expectations. 245 00:16:49.420 --> 00:16:54.580 And so let's talk about that because God wants to increase our expectation during the season. 246 00:16:54.580 --> 00:16:59.100 I believe this is a miraculous season, bringing it full circle to the beginning of Supernatural 247 00:16:59.100 --> 00:17:00.100 Saturday today. 248 00:17:00.100 --> 00:17:07.140 I do believe that there are times and seasons where there's just more angelic movement. 249 00:17:07.140 --> 00:17:10.500 And this is one of them, friends. 250 00:17:10.500 --> 00:17:15.220 This is a season marked by angels. 251 00:17:15.220 --> 00:17:17.700 And I know that you can't see them, at least most of you can't. 252 00:17:17.700 --> 00:17:21.780 Some of you may have been able to see them once or twice, or maybe you see them regularly. 253 00:17:22.460 --> 00:17:28.060 I used to have a pastor who used to see angels all the time, but they're all around you. 254 00:17:28.060 --> 00:17:33.340 The messengers of heaven, they're all around. 255 00:17:33.340 --> 00:17:43.140 There's all kinds of agents of heaven, agents of heaven all around us all the time, ready 256 00:17:43.140 --> 00:17:46.700 to make things happen. 257 00:17:46.700 --> 00:17:49.380 So we're not going to talk about Advent this morning as a tradition. 258 00:17:49.380 --> 00:17:52.020 A lot of people, it's traditional, they have an Advent calendar. 259 00:17:52.020 --> 00:17:55.420 They light a candle, they do something, depending on what your denomination of Christianity 260 00:17:55.420 --> 00:17:56.420 is. 261 00:17:56.420 --> 00:18:02.540 I want to talk about living in this expectation season. 262 00:18:02.540 --> 00:18:07.500 Because Advent is about being between the promise and the fulfillment. 263 00:18:07.500 --> 00:18:11.940 And a lot of us have felt like that is where we live all the time, between the prophecy 264 00:18:11.940 --> 00:18:18.680 and the manifestation of the prophecy, between whatever God said to you and it actually showing 265 00:18:18.680 --> 00:18:20.560 up in your life. 266 00:18:20.560 --> 00:18:25.640 And that space has a name, and we call it Advent. 267 00:18:25.640 --> 00:18:29.120 But it's important that we understand that Advent is not about passive waiting, and that's 268 00:18:29.120 --> 00:18:32.400 not what Last Year Single is about either. 269 00:18:32.400 --> 00:18:36.040 It's about active expectation, and that's why during your heartwork season, when you 270 00:18:36.040 --> 00:18:39.760 come into this community, the very first thing we do is heartwork. 271 00:18:39.760 --> 00:18:47.680 And the very first thing we do in heartwork is we raise up our expectations. 272 00:18:47.680 --> 00:18:51.840 Because there's nowhere in the Word of God where God tells us to not hope too much, or 273 00:18:51.840 --> 00:18:55.640 to lower our expectations, or to be content with less. 274 00:18:55.640 --> 00:18:56.680 He doesn't. 275 00:18:56.680 --> 00:18:58.580 He tells us to prepare. 276 00:18:58.580 --> 00:19:00.860 He tells us to ready our hearts. 277 00:19:00.860 --> 00:19:02.780 He tells us to stay awake. 278 00:19:02.780 --> 00:19:06.600 He tells us to keep our oil full. 279 00:19:06.600 --> 00:19:11.040 Always ready for some kind of divine encounter. 280 00:19:11.040 --> 00:19:14.240 And so this season is the embodiment of that. 281 00:19:14.280 --> 00:19:21.440 Advent is the tension of knowing that something is coming, even when you can't see it yet. 282 00:19:21.440 --> 00:19:23.720 And I love expectation. 283 00:19:23.720 --> 00:19:30.280 A lot of you that have been around here for some time know that at the very beginning 284 00:19:30.280 --> 00:19:35.540 of my discipleship, God began to teach me expectation. 285 00:19:35.540 --> 00:19:39.040 He began to teach me preparation. 286 00:19:39.040 --> 00:19:43.800 I remember the days where He told me to pack a bag and leave it by the front door, like 287 00:19:43.800 --> 00:19:47.120 you would if you were pregnant and going to give birth and go to the hospital. 288 00:19:47.120 --> 00:19:48.280 I didn't know what to put in the bag. 289 00:19:48.280 --> 00:19:51.880 I asked Him, what should I put in the suitcase that I'm packing? 290 00:19:51.880 --> 00:19:53.960 And He just said a little bit of everything. 291 00:19:53.960 --> 00:19:54.960 Well, where am I going? 292 00:19:54.960 --> 00:19:56.600 Well, you'll see. 293 00:19:56.600 --> 00:20:00.000 And I kept a packed bag at the door, ready to go. 294 00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:03.840 I was ready to go. 295 00:20:03.840 --> 00:20:10.280 I've also made sure in my life, this is something that I continue to do, is I tie up loose ends. 296 00:20:10.280 --> 00:20:13.880 So if God wants to put me into a new season, he can. 297 00:20:13.880 --> 00:20:17.920 There's never a time in my life where I have lots of loose ends. 298 00:20:17.920 --> 00:20:18.920 I don't. 299 00:20:18.920 --> 00:20:24.280 I tie up my loose ends and I tie them up pretty quickly because I want God to be free to promote 300 00:20:24.280 --> 00:20:32.240 me. 301 00:20:32.240 --> 00:20:39.400 No matter what I'm doing, back in the days where wars would pop up, thankfully that's 302 00:20:39.400 --> 00:20:41.320 not necessarily happening right now. 303 00:20:41.320 --> 00:20:42.440 We have a different type of war. 304 00:20:42.440 --> 00:20:49.640 We have cyber wars and we have chemical warfare wars and biological contaminant wars. 305 00:20:50.400 --> 00:20:55.400 Back in the day of just the footman wars, there were these people, these men, and they 306 00:20:55.400 --> 00:21:01.800 called them minute men and they were a militia and they were highly trained, but they were 307 00:21:01.800 --> 00:21:03.640 just busy doing their regular lives. 308 00:21:03.640 --> 00:21:12.240 They were farmers and most of the population was agricultural, so they were mostly farmers, 309 00:21:12.240 --> 00:21:18.160 but they could be craftsmen, tradesmen of some sort. 310 00:21:18.160 --> 00:21:24.240 But at any moment they could be called to go to battle and they were ready. 311 00:21:24.240 --> 00:21:28.320 They were ready, you guys. 312 00:21:28.320 --> 00:21:32.080 That's where the scriptures talk about beating your plowshares into swords. 313 00:21:32.080 --> 00:21:38.120 It's talking about just leaving what you're doing and going. 314 00:21:38.120 --> 00:21:40.440 And I live my life that way. 315 00:21:40.440 --> 00:21:42.360 I'm always ready for the adventure. 316 00:21:42.360 --> 00:21:44.800 If God is going somewhere, I'm calling shotgun. 317 00:21:44.800 --> 00:21:49.680 I'm going to. 318 00:21:49.680 --> 00:21:51.640 Now I'm not saying you need to live your life that way. 319 00:21:51.640 --> 00:21:52.920 Maybe that isn't for everybody. 320 00:21:52.920 --> 00:21:56.680 Maybe that's just something that God's given me to do, but if that sounds exciting to you, 321 00:21:56.680 --> 00:22:03.600 then I want to encourage you to tie up your loose ends. 322 00:22:03.600 --> 00:22:04.600 Tie up your loose ends. 323 00:22:04.600 --> 00:22:11.240 I know that we get frustrated because God starts with small things and that's what Advent 324 00:22:11.240 --> 00:22:14.120 is all about. 325 00:22:14.120 --> 00:22:17.840 Jesus could have arrived instantly. 326 00:22:17.840 --> 00:22:20.200 We know that. 327 00:22:20.200 --> 00:22:26.200 But instead God chose him to be gestated inside of Mary, a teenage girl's womb. 328 00:22:26.200 --> 00:22:33.880 He definitely could have arrived supernaturally, fully formed, fully grown, unmistakably powerful. 329 00:22:33.880 --> 00:22:43.040 I mean, all of Israel had been waiting for Meshuach for ever, right? 330 00:22:43.040 --> 00:22:47.920 So I mean, that would have been amazing and incredible, and I'm sure that most people 331 00:22:47.920 --> 00:22:50.960 expected him to arrive that way, but he didn't. 332 00:22:50.960 --> 00:22:52.440 He chose a buildup. 333 00:22:52.440 --> 00:23:02.360 He chose a gestation, a pregnancy, an incubation, a process, because every promise has a process. 334 00:23:02.360 --> 00:23:03.360 And why is that? 335 00:23:03.840 --> 00:23:05.920 Because miracles are often formed. 336 00:23:05.920 --> 00:23:06.920 They're formed. 337 00:23:06.920 --> 00:23:10.080 I know that we think of miracles as being instantaneous and there definitely are very 338 00:23:10.080 --> 00:23:18.640 instantaneous miracles, but oftentimes miracles are formed before they're revealed. 339 00:23:18.640 --> 00:23:23.480 And we see Jesus, even in process, when he's healing people and doing things, just doing 340 00:23:23.480 --> 00:23:31.240 some sort of process, having people wash, making mud packs for people's eyes and just 341 00:23:31.240 --> 00:23:32.760 doing all kinds of different things. 342 00:23:32.760 --> 00:23:39.480 We see some process in some of the miracles that Jesus performed when he was on earth. 343 00:23:39.480 --> 00:23:40.840 I think there are lots of reasons for that. 344 00:23:40.840 --> 00:23:48.260 I think that one of the reasons is that Jesus was showing that there was a part to play 345 00:23:48.260 --> 00:23:54.440 and also showing that not all miracles look alike. 346 00:23:54.440 --> 00:23:58.640 But most of all, I just really believe that Advent teaches us that God is always working 347 00:23:58.640 --> 00:23:59.640 behind the scenes, y'all. 348 00:23:59.640 --> 00:24:04.400 I really want to encourage you with that right now, because a lot of you don't see 349 00:24:04.400 --> 00:24:08.720 any changes on the surface of your life, and I want to encourage you that God is always 350 00:24:08.720 --> 00:24:15.960 working behind the scenes long before anything steps onto the center of the stage. 351 00:24:15.960 --> 00:24:17.040 Long before. 352 00:24:17.040 --> 00:24:18.360 Have any of you ever been in a play? 353 00:24:18.360 --> 00:24:19.360 I have. 354 00:24:19.360 --> 00:24:25.200 I really wanted to be involved in the theater when I was younger and I was in theater in 355 00:24:25.200 --> 00:24:29.120 high school and I was in plays when I was younger. 356 00:24:29.120 --> 00:24:36.040 And before that curtain goes up, even dress rehearsal curtain goes up the day before. 357 00:24:36.040 --> 00:24:41.080 Long before the show, we're preparing, right? 358 00:24:41.080 --> 00:24:43.460 In fact, it's all preparation. 359 00:24:43.460 --> 00:24:48.520 It's all preparation for, you know, I was only in plays that ran for one day. 360 00:24:48.520 --> 00:24:52.500 Perhaps there's shows that run for weeks and months, and I know that they do. 361 00:24:52.500 --> 00:24:59.740 But in my experience, it was a lot of preparation for just one day of center stage. 362 00:25:00.000 --> 00:25:05.000 is 95% behind the curtain or behind the scenes. 363 00:25:08.000 --> 00:25:11.020 And so I don't want you to despise small beginnings 364 00:25:11.020 --> 00:25:13.980 because small beginnings do not equal small outcomes. 365 00:25:14.840 --> 00:25:17.400 Just because there's only maybe a little bit of progress 366 00:25:17.400 --> 00:25:19.620 in something that you've been praying for for years 367 00:25:19.620 --> 00:25:22.560 doesn't mean that tomorrow it can't show up fully formed. 368 00:25:22.560 --> 00:25:24.880 That happened with my brother. 369 00:25:24.880 --> 00:25:27.920 In fact, if I'm being fully transparent with you, 370 00:25:27.960 --> 00:25:30.400 I actually had been sort of giving up hope 371 00:25:30.400 --> 00:25:32.800 that anything was gonna change with him. 372 00:25:32.800 --> 00:25:35.900 And he's physically just so unwell 373 00:25:35.900 --> 00:25:37.960 that I actually was expecting, 374 00:25:37.960 --> 00:25:42.080 instead of the miracle that God promised me 28 years ago, 375 00:25:42.080 --> 00:25:44.180 I was more expecting his miracle 376 00:25:44.180 --> 00:25:47.020 to be just him taking home to be with Jesus, 377 00:25:48.360 --> 00:25:49.860 if I'm being fully honest. 378 00:25:52.120 --> 00:25:53.620 And can I tell you that even though 379 00:25:53.620 --> 00:25:55.760 there's been 28 years of prayer on this, 380 00:25:55.760 --> 00:25:59.520 I didn't really see any type of change 381 00:25:59.520 --> 00:26:01.760 on the surface of him. 382 00:26:01.760 --> 00:26:03.720 In fact, I had just talked to him. 383 00:26:03.720 --> 00:26:07.360 He had just been at my house and I was so frustrated 384 00:26:07.360 --> 00:26:10.880 because he wanted to like live in his car in my driveway 385 00:26:13.720 --> 00:26:16.640 for the winter and I had to tell him no. 386 00:26:16.640 --> 00:26:19.360 See friends, these are the lessons that we learn 387 00:26:19.360 --> 00:26:21.320 when we make decisions 388 00:26:21.320 --> 00:26:23.200 because we don't wanna disappoint people. 389 00:26:23.200 --> 00:26:25.800 This is the kind of stuff I'm talking about 390 00:26:25.800 --> 00:26:28.200 where I have allowed my brother or someone else 391 00:26:28.200 --> 00:26:30.680 to do something that I knew wasn't a good idea 392 00:26:30.680 --> 00:26:32.880 and then I had to live in the consequences of that 393 00:26:32.880 --> 00:26:35.840 because I said yes, because I didn't wanna upset them. 394 00:26:37.380 --> 00:26:38.680 You guys do it too. 395 00:26:38.680 --> 00:26:40.000 Y'all do it too. 396 00:26:40.000 --> 00:26:41.280 I know you do. 397 00:26:41.280 --> 00:26:43.080 So he had just left here 398 00:26:43.080 --> 00:26:45.880 and he was roaming around Texas somewhere. 399 00:26:45.880 --> 00:26:48.680 And you guys, I've been through this for 28 years with him. 400 00:26:49.920 --> 00:26:52.540 And then he calls me out of nowhere and says, 401 00:26:53.520 --> 00:26:58.000 I found a house because I've been asking him for years. 402 00:26:58.000 --> 00:26:59.880 Will you please find a trailer? 403 00:26:59.880 --> 00:27:01.360 Will you please find a camper? 404 00:27:01.360 --> 00:27:02.800 Will you please find a double Y? 405 00:27:02.800 --> 00:27:04.760 Will you please find a little house somewhere, 406 00:27:04.760 --> 00:27:08.160 a piece of land that we can put a camper on, 407 00:27:08.160 --> 00:27:10.640 anything so that you're not homeless? 408 00:27:10.640 --> 00:27:13.080 Because my mom left money for him. 409 00:27:13.080 --> 00:27:15.320 There's no reason for him to be homeless 410 00:27:17.320 --> 00:27:19.360 and he just wouldn't do it. 411 00:27:19.360 --> 00:27:20.660 No, I don't wanna do that. 412 00:27:21.840 --> 00:27:22.840 I don't wanna do it. 413 00:27:23.480 --> 00:27:24.840 I wanna live in my car. 414 00:27:24.840 --> 00:27:26.080 I wanna be mobile. 415 00:27:26.080 --> 00:27:26.920 I wanna be in my car. 416 00:27:26.920 --> 00:27:31.320 I don't wanna, 100,000 different reasons why. 417 00:27:31.320 --> 00:27:32.400 None of them make sense 418 00:27:32.400 --> 00:27:34.300 and none of them are based in reality. 419 00:27:35.600 --> 00:27:37.320 And then out of nowhere, friends, 420 00:27:37.320 --> 00:27:39.920 out of nowhere during this Advent season, 421 00:27:39.920 --> 00:27:42.600 he says, I found this place, I want it. 422 00:27:42.600 --> 00:27:44.520 What, you want it? 423 00:27:44.520 --> 00:27:45.940 You wanna put down roots? 424 00:27:45.940 --> 00:27:50.080 You wanna make a commitment and buy this little house? 425 00:27:51.080 --> 00:27:53.880 Okay, well, it's out of the price range 426 00:27:53.880 --> 00:27:55.360 of what mom left for you. 427 00:27:55.360 --> 00:27:58.400 So go out for the guy this much money. 428 00:27:58.400 --> 00:27:59.920 See if he'll take this much money 429 00:27:59.920 --> 00:28:03.180 for this little tiny 1,000 square foot house 430 00:28:03.180 --> 00:28:07.320 on a literally a tiny little 3,000 square foot lot. 431 00:28:07.320 --> 00:28:09.120 And the guy took it. 432 00:28:09.120 --> 00:28:12.480 And at any point in that process of closing on that property, 433 00:28:12.480 --> 00:28:13.880 my brother could have backed out 434 00:28:13.880 --> 00:28:18.800 and I've seen him change his mind a million times, 435 00:28:18.800 --> 00:28:20.080 not necessarily about a house. 436 00:28:20.080 --> 00:28:22.960 This is as far as we've ever gotten with this, 437 00:28:22.960 --> 00:28:26.080 but all kinds of different things, renting an apartment, 438 00:28:26.080 --> 00:28:28.880 something that would cause him to not be homeless 439 00:28:28.880 --> 00:28:33.680 and not have us worry about his safety every day. 440 00:28:35.560 --> 00:28:36.920 And you guys, it went all the way through 441 00:28:36.920 --> 00:28:39.220 and he's now a homeowner and lives in a house. 442 00:28:40.100 --> 00:28:42.920 And can I tell you that this miracle kind of snuck up on me 443 00:28:42.920 --> 00:28:44.960 because I wasn't expecting it at all. 444 00:28:44.960 --> 00:28:48.560 I've been expecting it in past seasons and maybe that's you. 445 00:28:49.320 --> 00:28:51.360 I can tell you about past seasons where I was like, 446 00:28:51.360 --> 00:28:53.400 man, I really think something's gonna shift with Jake. 447 00:28:53.400 --> 00:28:55.840 I was praying for him and I felt something in my spirit. 448 00:28:55.840 --> 00:28:58.280 And I really think that this is the time 449 00:28:58.280 --> 00:29:00.000 and guess what, it wasn't. 450 00:29:02.920 --> 00:29:05.120 But this time it came with no fanfare. 451 00:29:05.120 --> 00:29:08.000 It came with no Holy Ghost goosebumps. 452 00:29:08.000 --> 00:29:10.240 It came with nothing that would announce 453 00:29:10.240 --> 00:29:15.200 any kind of miraculous time, except it just happened. 454 00:29:16.200 --> 00:29:19.560 So friends, I don't care if you feel 455 00:29:19.560 --> 00:29:23.160 spiritually dull right now. 456 00:29:24.720 --> 00:29:27.680 If you haven't had a word from the Lord for a while, 457 00:29:27.680 --> 00:29:30.680 if you haven't felt angelic activity for a while, 458 00:29:30.680 --> 00:29:32.880 if you haven't felt like there's any kind of 459 00:29:32.880 --> 00:29:35.740 supernatural hope on your promise for a while, 460 00:29:35.740 --> 00:29:39.460 I am telling you that we are in a season 461 00:29:39.460 --> 00:29:42.940 where Messiah's come unannounced in mangers. 462 00:29:45.200 --> 00:29:50.200 Do you hear me? 463 00:29:56.280 --> 00:29:59.800 And they may not look like much at first, but they grow. 464 00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:04.800 into the most miraculous events of our lives. 465 00:30:08.920 --> 00:30:11.000 So just because you don't see it yet 466 00:30:11.000 --> 00:30:13.400 doesn't mean it hasn't started, 467 00:30:13.400 --> 00:30:14.460 because it has. 468 00:30:15.960 --> 00:30:17.520 So just like what I just went through, 469 00:30:17.520 --> 00:30:20.500 the danger of this type of season 470 00:30:20.500 --> 00:30:23.160 is that we are losing expectation 471 00:30:23.160 --> 00:30:25.000 right before our breakthroughs, 472 00:30:25.000 --> 00:30:29.280 just like me and my brother Jake, okay? 473 00:30:29.280 --> 00:30:30.120 So what happens? 474 00:30:30.120 --> 00:30:31.920 Why do we lose expectation? 475 00:30:31.920 --> 00:30:34.600 Well, it's been a long time. 476 00:30:34.600 --> 00:30:35.660 Hope feels risky. 477 00:30:35.660 --> 00:30:36.500 Anybody else? 478 00:30:36.500 --> 00:30:38.320 Hope feels risky. 479 00:30:38.320 --> 00:30:39.360 You know, my brother was saying, 480 00:30:39.360 --> 00:30:40.880 you know, he's gonna sleep in my driveway 481 00:30:40.880 --> 00:30:42.120 in his car for the winter. 482 00:30:42.120 --> 00:30:42.960 Dear God. 483 00:30:42.960 --> 00:30:43.800 By the way, I said no. 484 00:30:43.800 --> 00:30:44.760 Are you proud of me? 485 00:30:44.760 --> 00:30:46.500 I literally said, no, you're not. 486 00:30:46.500 --> 00:30:49.660 You're not gonna stay in my driveway in your car. 487 00:30:51.040 --> 00:30:52.760 You're not gonna do it. 488 00:30:52.760 --> 00:30:55.960 Sometimes, you know, our miracle breakthrough 489 00:30:55.960 --> 00:30:57.840 is gonna come on the other side of us 490 00:30:57.840 --> 00:30:59.700 saying no to something. 491 00:31:01.840 --> 00:31:04.640 Something that we would normally say yes to, 492 00:31:04.640 --> 00:31:07.480 because once again, we don't wanna, 493 00:31:07.480 --> 00:31:08.520 we're people pleasers. 494 00:31:08.520 --> 00:31:09.600 Let's just admit it. 495 00:31:10.820 --> 00:31:13.680 Most of you women on here are definitely people pleasers. 496 00:31:16.760 --> 00:31:18.040 So try this word. 497 00:31:18.040 --> 00:31:19.020 It's a little word. 498 00:31:19.020 --> 00:31:20.880 It's very easy to say. 499 00:31:20.880 --> 00:31:22.040 No. 500 00:31:22.040 --> 00:31:22.860 Say it with me. 501 00:31:22.860 --> 00:31:23.700 No. 502 00:31:26.080 --> 00:31:27.040 I kinda like it. 503 00:31:27.040 --> 00:31:27.960 You like it? 504 00:31:27.960 --> 00:31:29.600 It's kind of a good word. 505 00:31:29.600 --> 00:31:30.720 No. 506 00:31:30.720 --> 00:31:32.360 And the reason why we have such a hard time 507 00:31:32.360 --> 00:31:33.520 saying no to other people 508 00:31:33.520 --> 00:31:36.120 is because we've had too many people say no to us. 509 00:31:37.160 --> 00:31:39.120 We've had too many no's in our lives, 510 00:31:39.120 --> 00:31:41.240 and we just simply don't want to cause 511 00:31:41.240 --> 00:31:42.900 the same type of disappointment in others 512 00:31:42.900 --> 00:31:44.960 that we've had all of our lives. 513 00:31:44.960 --> 00:31:46.320 And I understand that, 514 00:31:46.320 --> 00:31:49.560 but you cannot say yes to everything. 515 00:31:50.540 --> 00:31:51.840 You gotta say no 516 00:31:51.840 --> 00:31:54.720 so that you can have that better yes, right? 517 00:31:54.720 --> 00:31:56.400 We want that better yes. 518 00:31:56.400 --> 00:31:58.620 And so I don't think it's an accident, 519 00:31:58.620 --> 00:31:59.460 because guess what? 520 00:31:59.460 --> 00:32:02.080 My brother wouldn't have been off driving around Texas 521 00:32:02.080 --> 00:32:03.200 if I would have said yes. 522 00:32:03.200 --> 00:32:05.840 He would have been in my driveway, wouldn't he have? 523 00:32:07.480 --> 00:32:10.520 He would have been sleeping in my driveway. 524 00:32:10.520 --> 00:32:12.040 And what would have caused, 525 00:32:12.040 --> 00:32:13.340 it would have been a delay. 526 00:32:13.340 --> 00:32:14.840 There would have been another delay. 527 00:32:14.840 --> 00:32:16.600 And maybe that house would have been purchased 528 00:32:16.600 --> 00:32:17.480 by someone else, 529 00:32:17.480 --> 00:32:19.300 and then maybe it'd be a different house that he lived in. 530 00:32:19.300 --> 00:32:20.240 Because once again, 531 00:32:20.240 --> 00:32:22.200 I believe the breakthrough was gonna come, 532 00:32:22.200 --> 00:32:24.120 but I think that we a lot of times decide 533 00:32:24.120 --> 00:32:26.120 the timeline of the breakthrough 534 00:32:26.800 --> 00:32:28.900 based on what we're willing to put up with. 535 00:32:34.920 --> 00:32:37.600 I mean, if you're willing to go around the mountain 536 00:32:37.600 --> 00:32:39.720 another 40 years, 537 00:32:39.720 --> 00:32:42.680 instead of facing some of your fears in the promised land, 538 00:32:42.680 --> 00:32:43.600 then so be it. 539 00:32:52.680 --> 00:32:54.020 I do know this. 540 00:32:55.020 --> 00:32:57.420 I know that when you begin to partner with expectation, 541 00:32:57.420 --> 00:32:59.440 it's going to stretch your capacity. 542 00:33:02.980 --> 00:33:06.060 You are going to have to face your fears. 543 00:33:06.060 --> 00:33:08.820 You're going to have to align your posture with heaven 544 00:33:09.780 --> 00:33:10.880 in a place of faith. 545 00:33:12.060 --> 00:33:14.260 And the reason why we let go of expectation 546 00:33:14.260 --> 00:33:17.300 is because it's been too long and hope feels risky. 547 00:33:17.300 --> 00:33:19.960 We don't wanna take risks anymore. 548 00:33:19.960 --> 00:33:22.760 We're constantly listening to that voice of disappointment 549 00:33:22.800 --> 00:33:24.040 that's whispering to us, 550 00:33:24.040 --> 00:33:25.760 don't get your hopes up. 551 00:33:27.080 --> 00:33:28.480 I know that voice very well, 552 00:33:28.480 --> 00:33:29.800 and I know you do as well. 553 00:33:32.320 --> 00:33:35.440 So how can we stay expectant in this season 554 00:33:35.440 --> 00:33:37.540 without demanding to be in control? 555 00:33:39.860 --> 00:33:40.800 How can we do it? 556 00:33:44.880 --> 00:33:46.040 How can we do it? 557 00:33:47.160 --> 00:33:52.040 Well, we can continue to align and prepare. 558 00:33:53.360 --> 00:33:55.020 I packed that bag, I set it by the door, 559 00:33:55.020 --> 00:33:57.240 I had no idea where I was going or when I was going, 560 00:33:57.240 --> 00:33:58.500 I just knew I was going. 561 00:34:00.720 --> 00:34:02.320 And friends, you don't prepare a nursery 562 00:34:02.320 --> 00:34:04.320 after a baby arrives, 563 00:34:04.320 --> 00:34:06.000 unless you didn't know the baby was coming. 564 00:34:06.000 --> 00:34:07.640 And I have seen some stories like that, 565 00:34:07.640 --> 00:34:09.340 they're very strange stories. 566 00:34:11.280 --> 00:34:13.780 But we prepare for what we believe is coming. 567 00:34:15.400 --> 00:34:18.280 Remember, belief requires action. 568 00:34:18.280 --> 00:34:20.159 And so you continue to prepare. 569 00:34:23.120 --> 00:34:25.679 Even when it doesn't feel like anything has changed. 570 00:34:28.080 --> 00:34:29.600 And so for those of you that are praying 571 00:34:29.600 --> 00:34:33.940 for miracle breakthroughs in whatever area of your life, 572 00:34:33.940 --> 00:34:35.920 but you have not made room for them yet, 573 00:34:35.920 --> 00:34:37.120 that's your first step. 574 00:34:38.760 --> 00:34:40.520 Because if Advent is anything, 575 00:34:40.520 --> 00:34:44.320 it is not just the invitation to hope and to expect, 576 00:34:44.320 --> 00:34:45.540 but also to prepare. 577 00:34:46.920 --> 00:34:49.639 So let's apply this, let's personally apply this, 578 00:34:49.639 --> 00:34:51.000 we have a few minutes left. 579 00:34:51.000 --> 00:34:57.000 All right, so what are we gonna speak over? 580 00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:02.040 What have you lost some expectation in? 581 00:35:02.040 --> 00:35:03.640 I just use my brother as an example 582 00:35:03.640 --> 00:35:06.520 because it's a miracle that my family is still celebrating. 583 00:35:06.520 --> 00:35:08.440 Just happened this month. 584 00:35:08.440 --> 00:35:10.200 So, very excited about it. 585 00:35:10.200 --> 00:35:14.360 Still just, actually just in awe of it. 586 00:35:15.940 --> 00:35:17.480 My brother's sending me pictures. 587 00:35:17.480 --> 00:35:18.920 The washer and dryer got delivered. 588 00:35:18.920 --> 00:35:21.160 My brother lives in a house with a washer and dryer. 589 00:35:21.160 --> 00:35:22.060 My God. 590 00:35:24.760 --> 00:35:25.600 What in the world? 591 00:35:25.600 --> 00:35:26.440 What? 592 00:35:31.240 --> 00:35:32.400 Sleeps in a bed. 593 00:35:33.880 --> 00:35:35.200 Sleeps in a bed, you guys. 594 00:35:35.200 --> 00:35:36.220 Sleeps in a bed. 595 00:35:40.440 --> 00:35:44.400 All right, so, maybe there's a relationship in your life 596 00:35:44.400 --> 00:35:45.520 and I don't mean romantic, 597 00:35:45.520 --> 00:35:47.120 but a different type of relationship 598 00:35:47.120 --> 00:35:50.160 that you just stopped expecting any kind of healing 599 00:35:50.160 --> 00:35:50.980 to happen in. 600 00:35:50.980 --> 00:35:52.680 It's just been so bad for so long. 601 00:35:53.800 --> 00:35:55.160 You used to believe that you were gonna have 602 00:35:55.160 --> 00:35:56.720 a breakthrough in that relationship. 603 00:35:56.720 --> 00:35:58.800 You used to believe there was gonna be healing, 604 00:35:58.800 --> 00:36:02.020 forgiveness, reconciliation, but you stopped believing. 605 00:36:04.600 --> 00:36:05.560 Right? 606 00:36:05.560 --> 00:36:07.520 Maybe there's something that you've wanted to do 607 00:36:07.520 --> 00:36:09.200 and you've worked towards in the past, 608 00:36:09.200 --> 00:36:11.120 but it didn't work out, so you shelved it. 609 00:36:11.120 --> 00:36:13.040 Some of you have shelved promises. 610 00:36:13.040 --> 00:36:15.760 You have promises that are on a shelf somewhere. 611 00:36:15.760 --> 00:36:17.520 You gotta take them down during this season. 612 00:36:17.520 --> 00:36:18.600 You gotta dust them off, 613 00:36:18.600 --> 00:36:20.440 just like you do your Christmas ornaments. 614 00:36:20.440 --> 00:36:24.000 Take them out of the boxes, clean them up, look at them. 615 00:36:25.000 --> 00:36:28.160 Remember, remember where you got them 616 00:36:28.160 --> 00:36:30.200 and how it made you feel. 617 00:36:30.200 --> 00:36:32.720 A lot of people don't have just Christmas box, 618 00:36:32.720 --> 00:36:34.080 Christmas ornaments from Target. 619 00:36:34.080 --> 00:36:36.320 You have things that mean something. 620 00:36:36.320 --> 00:36:40.680 You have memories tucked away in boxes 621 00:36:40.680 --> 00:36:42.380 that you bring out once a year. 622 00:36:43.280 --> 00:36:44.840 So, perhaps at this time of year, 623 00:36:44.840 --> 00:36:47.160 it's time for you to take some of your wishes and dreams 624 00:36:47.160 --> 00:36:49.760 and hopes off the shelf and take a good look at them. 625 00:36:50.640 --> 00:36:52.780 That might look like taking out your old journals 626 00:36:52.780 --> 00:36:54.340 and reading them. 627 00:36:54.340 --> 00:36:56.900 You'd be surprised what you've written to yourself. 628 00:36:57.780 --> 00:37:00.100 Can I tell you that those of you that journal, 629 00:37:00.100 --> 00:37:02.740 you are literally journaling to yourself. 630 00:37:02.740 --> 00:37:04.360 And if you go read old journals, 631 00:37:04.360 --> 00:37:05.900 you will minister to yourself 632 00:37:05.900 --> 00:37:08.480 like nothing you've ever experienced. 633 00:37:08.480 --> 00:37:11.620 I can't tell you how many times I've needed encouragement 634 00:37:11.620 --> 00:37:13.280 and no one was encouraging me. 635 00:37:13.280 --> 00:37:15.120 And I went and read old journals 636 00:37:15.120 --> 00:37:18.100 because I have haphazardly been a journaler, 637 00:37:18.100 --> 00:37:21.380 meaning I'm not consistent, I don't do it every day. 638 00:37:21.380 --> 00:37:25.180 I go through spurts of it since 2010 639 00:37:26.060 --> 00:37:27.700 and I will get out those old journals 640 00:37:27.700 --> 00:37:29.900 and I will minister to myself with them. 641 00:37:33.380 --> 00:37:35.460 So, maybe that's what it looks like. 642 00:37:35.460 --> 00:37:37.520 Maybe getting out an old vision board. 643 00:37:37.520 --> 00:37:40.340 Maybe for those of you that keep prophetic words, 644 00:37:41.260 --> 00:37:43.220 maybe you have them recorded in your phone 645 00:37:43.220 --> 00:37:44.940 or you have them written down somewhere, 646 00:37:44.940 --> 00:37:48.540 getting those things out, taking a look at those things. 647 00:37:48.540 --> 00:37:50.700 Guys, we are gonna be doing a very, very fun, 648 00:37:50.740 --> 00:37:52.140 I should have done this at the beginning 649 00:37:52.140 --> 00:37:55.020 during the housekeeping portion of Supernatural Saturday, 650 00:37:55.020 --> 00:37:58.420 but we are going to be doing a really fun event 651 00:37:58.420 --> 00:38:00.960 at the new year for our times and seasons. 652 00:38:02.340 --> 00:38:03.980 My good friend, Bethany Hicks, 653 00:38:03.980 --> 00:38:08.420 who is one of the most accurate prophets of our day, 654 00:38:08.420 --> 00:38:12.140 in my opinion and a lot of other people's opinions as well, 655 00:38:12.140 --> 00:38:14.300 she has written a book called Seasons and Assignments, 656 00:38:14.300 --> 00:38:16.700 Know What to Do and When to Do It. 657 00:38:16.700 --> 00:38:19.060 So, we did prophesy your year at Rosh Hashanah 658 00:38:19.060 --> 00:38:21.460 and we're going to do Seasons and Assignments 659 00:38:22.460 --> 00:38:24.140 on January 4th. 660 00:38:24.140 --> 00:38:28.660 It's gonna be a really cool, very prophesy your year like. 661 00:38:28.660 --> 00:38:33.540 First, you're going to be able to discern what season is, 662 00:38:33.540 --> 00:38:36.180 what your season is and what you should be doing 663 00:38:36.180 --> 00:38:38.020 in that season and then we're going to lean 664 00:38:38.020 --> 00:38:40.860 into the prophetic to find out what it looks like 665 00:38:40.860 --> 00:38:43.500 to partner with that season, January, February, 666 00:38:43.500 --> 00:38:48.020 March, April, May, June, July, August, throughout the year. 667 00:38:48.020 --> 00:38:50.100 So, what does it look like to partner 668 00:38:50.100 --> 00:38:53.300 with that season throughout the year? 669 00:38:53.300 --> 00:38:55.340 And so, we'll be going into Zoom rooms, 670 00:38:55.340 --> 00:38:57.300 we'll be giving each other prophetic words 671 00:38:57.300 --> 00:38:59.220 and we'll be activating and we'll be doing 672 00:38:59.220 --> 00:39:01.700 a lot of the things that we do at Prophesy Your Year, 673 00:39:01.700 --> 00:39:05.260 but just with a different bent on knowing your season 674 00:39:05.260 --> 00:39:09.560 and your assignment and how can you walk it out this year 675 00:39:09.560 --> 00:39:12.580 so that this year can be a year of breakthrough. 676 00:39:12.580 --> 00:39:14.980 Did you know that this coming year is your year? 677 00:39:14.980 --> 00:39:19.980 It's your year for something. 678 00:39:22.100 --> 00:39:23.900 There should not be a year that passes 679 00:39:23.900 --> 00:39:25.860 where there's not something significant 680 00:39:25.860 --> 00:39:27.820 that happens in your life. 681 00:39:27.820 --> 00:39:29.500 It's your year. 682 00:39:29.500 --> 00:39:31.040 A lot of people are always hoping and praying 683 00:39:31.040 --> 00:39:33.320 it's gonna be their year, but it is your year. 684 00:39:33.320 --> 00:39:35.540 The problem is, is a lot of times we do not come 685 00:39:35.540 --> 00:39:38.660 into alignment with heaven on what actually 686 00:39:38.660 --> 00:39:40.340 is happening in our lives. 687 00:39:40.340 --> 00:39:42.920 If I told you all the times that I cried 688 00:39:42.920 --> 00:39:45.360 and I moaned and I complained because I wanted it 689 00:39:45.360 --> 00:39:49.040 to be my time and season for something that wasn't ripe yet, 690 00:39:49.040 --> 00:39:51.260 when there was something ripe right in front of me 691 00:39:51.260 --> 00:39:54.400 that I was not taking advantage of, 692 00:39:54.400 --> 00:39:56.640 that was amazing and wonderful. 693 00:39:56.640 --> 00:39:59.000 It just wasn't the thing that I had my eyes on. 694 00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:08.640 We have to work with God, we have to partner with heaven. 695 00:40:08.640 --> 00:40:09.640 We do. 696 00:40:09.640 --> 00:40:15.340 And of course, I believe that all of you are here because partnership is something that 697 00:40:15.340 --> 00:40:17.140 you're ripe and ready for. 698 00:40:17.140 --> 00:40:23.580 So Advent is a time to pick these things back up because whatever miracle you decided was 699 00:40:23.580 --> 00:40:33.260 not for you anymore, let my situation with my brother Jacob tell you differently. 700 00:40:33.260 --> 00:40:36.820 It may not have happened when you wanted it to, but it's not dead yet. 701 00:40:36.820 --> 00:40:46.420 All right, go ahead and close your eyes, we're gonna do some activations here. 702 00:40:46.420 --> 00:40:51.500 Here's the question that I want you to ask. 703 00:40:51.500 --> 00:40:58.260 Holy Spirit, ask the Holy Spirit, say, Holy Spirit, by the way, Holy Spirit's not an it, 704 00:40:58.260 --> 00:41:07.180 it's a he, it's a person of the Godhead, Father, Son, Holy Spirit, you can talk to him. 705 00:41:07.180 --> 00:41:08.180 You know that, right? 706 00:41:08.180 --> 00:41:10.660 If you didn't, now you do. 707 00:41:10.660 --> 00:41:17.780 Holy Spirit, where have I lowered my expectations to protect myself? 708 00:41:17.780 --> 00:41:19.640 Ask Holy Spirit to show you. 709 00:41:19.640 --> 00:41:29.720 Where have I lowered my expectations to protect my heart, myself from disappointment? 710 00:41:29.720 --> 00:41:37.480 Go ahead and ask that. 711 00:41:37.480 --> 00:41:54.320 All right, now I want you to ask, what do you want me to expect again in this season? 712 00:41:54.320 --> 00:42:20.800 What do you want me to expect again in this season? 713 00:42:20.800 --> 00:42:27.120 What do you want me to expect again? 714 00:42:27.120 --> 00:42:44.640 Okay, go ahead and put it in the chat. 715 00:42:44.640 --> 00:43:12.680 All right, go ahead and put it in the chat. 716 00:43:12.680 --> 00:43:41.680 All right, go ahead and put it in the chat. 717 00:43:41.680 --> 00:44:10.680 All right, go ahead and put it in the chat. 718 00:44:10.680 --> 00:44:22.840 All right, hopefully you guys are looking at what people are posting. 719 00:44:22.840 --> 00:44:30.160 I'm just giving you guys some space, some powerful stuff in there, and I think you can 720 00:44:30.160 --> 00:44:36.680 see yourself in each other's responses, can't you? 721 00:44:36.680 --> 00:44:41.760 Something that's beautiful about this community is that you're not in this by yourself. 722 00:44:41.760 --> 00:44:48.000 And every single week we see someone graduate from this place of expectation for marriage 723 00:44:48.000 --> 00:44:54.320 and family into the reality of it, don't we? 724 00:44:54.320 --> 00:44:57.840 We do. 725 00:44:57.840 --> 00:44:59.080 And just so you know. 726 00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:01.840 that person soon is going to be you. 727 00:45:05.840 --> 00:45:10.480 And I hear time after time after time from those people that they didn't think that it was going 728 00:45:10.480 --> 00:45:16.560 to be them. They just continued to prepare, they were continuing to hope. We don't just get what 729 00:45:16.560 --> 00:45:23.120 we expect, we get what we inspect. They continued to inspect what God had promised them and they 730 00:45:23.120 --> 00:45:31.120 continue to declare it. They had down days just like all of you do and it's not just about marriage 731 00:45:31.120 --> 00:45:40.800 and family, about all the other things that make up your life that you do not feel like are in 732 00:45:40.800 --> 00:45:47.840 complete alignment with what God has created you for. We all live in that tension friends, all of 733 00:45:47.840 --> 00:45:53.280 us including myself. But it's a beautiful tension because it's called an adventure. 734 00:45:55.520 --> 00:45:59.840 I want you to stop looking at this life as a destination and start looking at it as an 735 00:45:59.840 --> 00:46:08.400 adventure. There's all kinds of things that I'm expecting that I don't have possession of 736 00:46:09.120 --> 00:46:12.480 in the natural. I believe that they've been declared in the spirit realm 737 00:46:12.720 --> 00:46:19.040 and I'm walking towards them. Some days fast, some days slow. 738 00:46:26.800 --> 00:46:27.760 We're all going to get there. 739 00:46:30.960 --> 00:46:36.400 So let's let this be a time of introspection with God during this Advent season. 740 00:46:36.720 --> 00:46:40.560 It's time to let go of some things. It's time to embrace some other things. 741 00:46:41.520 --> 00:46:45.360 This is a beautiful time at the end of the year where God can prune and purge. 742 00:46:46.160 --> 00:46:51.440 He can shift some things. Go back a couple Supernatural Saturdays to the dream a new dream 743 00:46:52.000 --> 00:46:59.040 message. Apply that here. There's some of you that your dream is just a little outdated. 744 00:46:59.600 --> 00:47:05.280 It needs an update. It needs an update. It's not 745 00:47:08.000 --> 00:47:13.520 lacking faith for you to ask for an update. Some of you are holding on to things that 746 00:47:14.480 --> 00:47:19.840 that really need a makeover. Okay, those things need a makeover. God wants to upgrade those things 747 00:47:20.000 --> 00:47:23.280 those things need a makeover. God wants to upgrade those things for you. 748 00:47:27.360 --> 00:47:27.840 He does. 749 00:47:32.320 --> 00:47:34.720 Lord Jesus, let's let's do a little prayer here. 750 00:47:34.720 --> 00:47:49.840 Father God, we come before you in this holy season of Advent. 751 00:47:51.040 --> 00:47:58.160 This beautiful space, Lord, between promise and fulfillment in the place where faith meets action. 752 00:47:58.640 --> 00:48:01.440 God, we acknowledge that you are not absent in our waiting. 753 00:48:02.080 --> 00:48:05.280 Just acknowledge that right now. God, you are not absent in our waiting. 754 00:48:10.480 --> 00:48:17.120 You are present. Lord, you're so present. You've just been preparing us. You've been repurposing 755 00:48:17.120 --> 00:48:22.000 some of us. Some of us have lost purpose and you're repurposing us. Help us to surrender 756 00:48:22.480 --> 00:48:31.600 to that repurposing. Things have felt quiet, Lord, concerning our promises. 757 00:48:33.440 --> 00:48:37.920 And we need a reminder right now that you're still at work. Father, I pray that every single 758 00:48:37.920 --> 00:48:44.080 person on this call, all 264 of them, get a reminder that you're still at work. That you've 759 00:48:44.080 --> 00:48:48.720 been working behind the scenes. We're asking, Holy Spirit, that you just peek your head from 760 00:48:48.720 --> 00:48:56.800 behind the curtain and you show us that you're still preparing the set. That you're still at work 761 00:48:58.080 --> 00:49:03.520 in these areas where we have longing. And our longing and desire is from you. 762 00:49:04.400 --> 00:49:09.120 It's not wrong. Our longing and desire is not wrong. Friends, I just want to let you know the 763 00:49:09.120 --> 00:49:14.480 Bible talks about people with strong desire and they are never shamed. And whatever you have 764 00:49:14.480 --> 00:49:21.920 strong desire from, I believe those desires have come from the Lord. If it wasn't from God, 765 00:49:21.920 --> 00:49:26.320 you would have given up a long time ago. I want you to remind yourself of that. 766 00:49:27.840 --> 00:49:30.800 The human will is pretty fragile, friends. I just want to let you know, 767 00:49:31.440 --> 00:49:33.920 strong willed or not, the human will is fragile. 768 00:49:35.280 --> 00:49:40.960 And if it was not a desire from the Lord, it would not continue to renew itself. You would have given 769 00:49:40.960 --> 00:49:50.080 up and just moved on. A little jaded perhaps, a little bitter, but you would have moved on. 770 00:49:52.880 --> 00:49:59.920 I submit to you this morning that the very fact that you still have whatever that 771 00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:07.760 desire is, after years and years and years of it not being fully fulfilled, means that 772 00:50:07.760 --> 00:50:12.280 it's from the Lord. 773 00:50:12.280 --> 00:50:13.280 Like my brother. 774 00:50:13.280 --> 00:50:17.920 Yeah, I just went through a season where, you know, I was starting to lose some hope, 775 00:50:17.920 --> 00:50:23.240 but trust me, friends, my fire would have been restoked, I would have been in a time 776 00:50:23.240 --> 00:50:26.880 of prayer, I would have felt the presence of Holy Spirit over the promise, and I would 777 00:50:26.880 --> 00:50:35.640 have been right back on it again. 778 00:50:35.640 --> 00:50:41.720 Right back on it again. 779 00:50:41.720 --> 00:50:45.760 Deep longing is allowed, do not let anyone shame you for it, do not let anyone tell you 780 00:50:45.760 --> 00:50:46.760 it's become an idol. 781 00:50:46.760 --> 00:50:48.760 You know what an idol is? 782 00:50:48.760 --> 00:50:51.700 An idol is something that you go to instead of God. 783 00:50:51.700 --> 00:50:54.320 All of you are coming to God with this. 784 00:50:54.320 --> 00:50:58.060 People don't bring their idols to God, they worship their idols, not God, do you get it? 785 00:50:58.060 --> 00:51:01.920 Do you see the difference? 786 00:51:01.920 --> 00:51:07.900 People bring their requests and their desires, their hunger to God. 787 00:51:07.900 --> 00:51:12.660 Idols are something that you use instead of God. 788 00:51:12.660 --> 00:51:16.720 Now there may be some of you that are running off and making really bad decisions because 789 00:51:16.720 --> 00:51:22.380 you're trying to get your identity from something other than God, and that's where you get an 790 00:51:22.380 --> 00:51:27.700 idol territory, so if you're doing that, repent this morning and let it go. 791 00:51:27.700 --> 00:51:30.500 Put it back into God's hands. 792 00:51:30.500 --> 00:51:35.540 Your identity comes from Christ, it does not come from your job, your money, your career, 793 00:51:35.540 --> 00:51:39.500 a friendship that's gone the wrong way that you've had since you were five years old and 794 00:51:39.500 --> 00:51:42.740 now you think without it, who are you even? 795 00:51:42.740 --> 00:51:45.300 You're a child of God, that's who you are. 796 00:51:46.220 --> 00:51:53.340 Marriage, family, being a mother, being a father, whatever it is, that you think that 797 00:51:53.340 --> 00:51:55.620 you have no identity without it, you're wrong. 798 00:51:55.620 --> 00:51:57.380 You do have an identity. 799 00:51:57.380 --> 00:51:59.740 You have an identity in Christ. 800 00:51:59.740 --> 00:52:04.780 That is where your identity is, and if that is where your identity is, then God can give 801 00:52:04.780 --> 00:52:13.620 you anything because you're not looking to it for significance. 802 00:52:13.620 --> 00:52:16.620 I'll just be honest with you, there's a lot of things that God's promised me that I don't 803 00:52:16.620 --> 00:52:21.820 think he gave me yet because I wasn't ready to receive it because my significance still 804 00:52:21.820 --> 00:52:25.660 was not in Christ, and I don't want you to get scared and say, oh, I'm never going to 805 00:52:25.660 --> 00:52:26.660 be there. 806 00:52:26.660 --> 00:52:28.860 I don't think God's waiting for us to have perfection. 807 00:52:28.860 --> 00:52:31.460 I think that he's waiting for us to align our hearts. 808 00:52:31.460 --> 00:52:35.080 It has nothing to do with perfection. 809 00:52:35.080 --> 00:52:41.700 You are going to fail a million more times before you leave this earth, but if God knows 810 00:52:41.820 --> 00:52:48.220 you have the kind of heart that's teachable, you have the kind of heart that is repentant, 811 00:52:48.220 --> 00:52:49.700 that is soft towards him. 812 00:52:49.700 --> 00:52:54.580 You have the kind of heart that he could come alongside you and say, oh, hey, by the way, 813 00:52:54.580 --> 00:52:55.900 this thing's not really healthy for you. 814 00:52:55.900 --> 00:53:02.860 I want you to let it go, and you would say, okay. 815 00:53:02.860 --> 00:53:05.220 I'm not saying you're not going to fuss a little now, friends. 816 00:53:05.220 --> 00:53:08.420 Come on, let's get real. 817 00:53:08.420 --> 00:53:13.780 I'm not going to say you're not going to pout a little bit. 818 00:53:13.780 --> 00:53:17.140 I'm not even going to say that you're going to do it the first time he tells you. 819 00:53:17.140 --> 00:53:22.220 You might wait till he tells you five or six times, but if he knows that you have the kind 820 00:53:22.220 --> 00:53:28.060 of heart that's eventually going to say yes to him, that's all that matters. 821 00:53:28.060 --> 00:53:29.980 That's all that matters. 822 00:53:29.980 --> 00:53:34.140 I'm telling you, it's a beautiful thing when God says to you that, hey, you know what? 823 00:53:34.140 --> 00:53:37.620 I know you trust me, but I want to let you know I trust you too. 824 00:53:37.620 --> 00:53:38.620 Jesus. 825 00:53:38.620 --> 00:53:44.100 And I just release that over all of you right now. 826 00:53:44.100 --> 00:53:47.740 I don't think that you would be here if you didn't trust God. 827 00:53:47.740 --> 00:53:51.660 I think you'd be doing something else on a Saturday morning. 828 00:53:51.660 --> 00:53:55.300 But I want you to know that God trusts you too. 829 00:53:55.300 --> 00:53:56.980 He trusts you with his promises. 830 00:53:56.980 --> 00:53:58.340 That's why he gave them to you. 831 00:53:58.340 --> 00:54:00.300 He trusts you with his prophecies. 832 00:54:00.300 --> 00:54:02.740 That's why he gave them to you. 833 00:54:02.740 --> 00:54:04.860 He trusts you with lineage and legacy. 834 00:54:04.860 --> 00:54:07.700 That's why you're the kinsman redeemer of your family. 835 00:54:07.700 --> 00:54:15.500 He knows you're not perfect, but he also knows that he is. 836 00:54:15.500 --> 00:54:21.060 And that his strength is made perfect when you give him your weakness. 837 00:54:21.060 --> 00:54:24.460 And so, Lord, we thank you that you've chosen us, that your hands upon us, and we thank 838 00:54:24.460 --> 00:54:28.140 you for this season of expectation that we call Advent. 839 00:54:28.140 --> 00:54:32.540 This time of miracles, this time of manifestation, this time where things that have been long 840 00:54:32.540 --> 00:54:34.900 promised actually start to become visible. 841 00:54:34.900 --> 00:54:38.540 Lord, we thank you for these things, and I thank you for every Advent miracle that you 842 00:54:38.540 --> 00:54:40.020 are going to perform. 843 00:54:40.020 --> 00:54:42.780 I thank you for every life that's going to be changed, God. 844 00:54:42.780 --> 00:54:46.620 And we're asking that you would speak to us, but also through us, God, in this Advent season. 845 00:54:46.620 --> 00:54:48.620 We don't just want miracles for ourselves. 846 00:54:48.620 --> 00:54:51.660 We want miracles through us for others. 847 00:54:51.660 --> 00:54:55.220 And so, Lord, we are declaring right now that we are your agents of heaven, that we are 848 00:54:55.220 --> 00:54:59.220 your agents, that we are your feet, we are your hands, we are your mouths on the earth, 849 00:54:59.220 --> 00:55:00.220 Lord. 850 00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:03.160 Use us to bring someone else's promise to pass. 851 00:55:00.220 --> 00:55:00.220 852 00:55:03.160 --> 00:55:06.840 You can use us to bring someone else's prophetic word 853 00:55:06.840 --> 00:55:08.160 to fruition, Lord. 854 00:55:08.160 --> 00:55:09.380 You can, God. 855 00:55:09.380 --> 00:55:10.680 We are volunteering. 856 00:55:10.680 --> 00:55:11.600 We are volunteering. 857 00:55:11.600 --> 00:55:12.920 We're saying, here we are. 858 00:55:12.920 --> 00:55:16.920 Send us, utilize us, speak through us. 859 00:55:18.520 --> 00:55:20.500 Do what you need to do, Lord, 860 00:55:20.500 --> 00:55:23.400 through your human body on earth. 861 00:55:23.400 --> 00:55:25.320 In Jesus' name, amen. 862 00:55:26.880 --> 00:55:29.400 All right, friends, I love y'all. 863 00:55:29.400 --> 00:55:33.040 I'm expecting to hear about some wonderful things 864 00:55:33.040 --> 00:55:35.260 that God is speaking to you and breakthrough 865 00:55:35.260 --> 00:55:38.300 that's happening in this season of miracles. 866 00:55:38.300 --> 00:55:40.560 Go ahead and dust off some of that old stuff. 867 00:55:40.560 --> 00:55:42.920 Take a look, take a look. 868 00:55:42.920 --> 00:55:46.220 Remember, what is it that you've lost expectation for 869 00:55:46.220 --> 00:55:49.960 and what does God want you to start expecting again? 870 00:55:49.960 --> 00:55:51.160 That is the assignment. 871 00:55:51.160 --> 00:55:52.520 I'll see you soon, bye-bye.