Hello everybody, welcome to Supernatural Saturday. We have a lot of new people. So if it's your first time with us, welcome
Saturday is the day that we lean into heaven for what is our current
Prophetic reality. What does that mean? That means what is heaven saying to us right now?
Obviously the Word of God scripture is full of all kinds of amazing things that we can study that we can learn from that God
Can use to speak to our current life and situations?
But when we lean in together and we ask we don't just want the Logos word which is written in the Bible
We want the Rhema. We want that hot fresh bread from heaven
What is he saying to us?
Remember that the prayer that Jesus taught his disciples give us this day our daily bread and that is what that daily bread is
It's not just the bread that we eat
It's also the nourishment that we receive from heaven the words of the Lord, right?
So we want that that word that fresh word so we're gonna lean in together father God we love you so much
We're so thankful for the life that you've given us for life in general
We woke up this morning Lord, and this is the day that you have made and we're rejoicing together
We have decided to be glad in it
We know that you are for us and because you are for us
Nothing can be against us because you are for us life is also for us
And so we lean into that truth this morning that any
Circumstance in our life that is is lying to us and telling us a different story any circumstance that is opposed to that truth
That it would be abolished
that it would be
Cast down every word that has spoken about us Lord
That doesn't come into alignment with the identity that you've given us in heaven
We pray that those things Lord those weapons formed against us would not prosper
And we ask that you would speak to us and through us this morning in Jesus name. Amen
All right, so a little a
Little froggy here
But we're gonna go ahead and go for it
So God put a whole bunch of a grab bag a whole bunch of ideas a grab bag
If you will of ideas into my heart the last few days that I want to try to
Patch work quilt together this morning and I want to start out with this
You know
I was laying there in my bed when I was just you know in bed all day for several days and I was thinking about
This and this is the thought that came to my mind that the past is a lie. I
Want to submit that to you this morning for just a second
The past is a lie. And this is what Holy Spirit was saying to me. I
Was you know when you have a lot of time on your hands because I'm used to go go go go
That is my speed. Usually I was laying there not doing anything and I started thinking about
my mother
you know, this is the time of year around my birthday when she got very ill and
Passed away in just a couple weeks will be the anniversary of her going to heaven
And I began to think about those last moments of her life and I don't know about you
But my imagination is very vivid and I'm able to put myself in the place of what I'm thinking about
which is why I need to use my imagination carefully because I will experience all the emotions of those moments and
Even if it's a hypothetical that hasn't happened
I've been known to sit around and think about things and then be there and usually they're not
Happy things usually they're negative or sad things my imagination
God told me this he said you this beautiful gift that I've given you of being able to imagine
It has been turned negative by trauma and that's happened to a lot of you. Yeah, you have a vivid imagination
But it's only imagining bad things
that's all it ever imagines is what could go wrong or what will go wrong or
Something not working out or something terrible happening
Someone's ten minutes late getting home and you're already imagining yourself at the funeral
Right, you're you start to feel sad
You might shed a tear or two while you're imagining these things because you have a vivid imagination. That's a gift
It's a beautiful gift, but a lot of times trauma or post-traumatic stress disorder
Which is something that I've struggled with all my life
It turns those things bad. It turns those gifts it overextends them and those gifts become weaknesses
So I was laying in bed and my little imagination was added again
And I was thinking about some things that I shouldn't be thinking about and then all of a sudden God just says to me
You know, the past is a lie
was like
Excuse me. What's she talking about? The past is a lie
Passes a lie
What does he mean by that it means that it's no longer true friends and
Somebody including this somebody myself needs to get a hold of that today
The reason why is because we're gonna venture into another topic here in a second
That a lot of things that happened in the past affect this other topic.
If you're still living where you used to live, okay, in the years past, if you're still living
in those places where those traumas happened, and I don't mean physically living there,
I mean mentally, emotionally, if your reality is still in those places, if you're still
getting your information about yourself, about God, about others from those past situations,
then you are living a lie.
My mother is no longer sick in the hospital.
She is safe in heaven.
You see how that's a lie?
You're no longer the abused little child.
You're a grown man or woman.
You're no longer living in that scenario that when it comes, it begins to tell you who you
are and what to believe, and when you think about it, you're able to go back into those
places and feel those same things again.
That's affecting your current reality, and it's a lie.
You're not being bullied at school anymore.
Whatever situation that you found yourself in in the past, as an abused wife or husband,
in a place of abandonment, in a place of complete destruction of some type, you're not there
anymore.
And so that means that what happened back there, yeah, it did happen.
I'm not trying to say it didn't, but it's no longer true.
It's no longer true, and so because of that, it cannot be allowed to affect our current
reality.
So go ahead and put in the chat right now, what's no longer true?
What's no longer true about you?
Come on, look at all those things.
Those things are no longer true.
Some of you had some serious traumas.
You lost your job, and you were jobless for a while.
You were unemployed.
It's no longer true.
You're now gainfully employed, and if it is still true, then guess what?
The story's not over yet.
Some of you had breakups right before you got married.
The venue was rented, the dress was purchased.
You're no longer a forsaken bride-to-be.
Some of you lost businesses, went bankrupt.
You got divorced.
You know, when people ask you what your status is, don't say, I'm divorced.
Yeah, you were divorced, but you're not divorced.
Do you understand what I'm saying?
Don't let that be your identity.
It's not your identity.
Don't say, yeah, you were divorced.
Divorced is a thing that happens.
It's not an identity.
So the correct answer was, I was married in the past, but then we got divorced.
You're not divorced.
You had a divorce.
Feel me?
You're like, but Jackie, that's just mincing words.
No, honey.
Words are powerful.
They shape and form our identity, which is what we're about to get into, if you didn't
see that coming.
All right, anyone else?
Just giving you space.
There we go.
No longer under the yoke of addictions.
Look at all that.
That's why I always, you guys, when I was in school, I was in school to be a psychologist
and a mental health counselor, and they would make us go during different quarters of the
year.
We had to have real field experience.
And for one quarter, I remember I had to go to AA meetings.
And I always thought that it was very interesting that people would say at those meetings, I'm
so-and-so.
I'm an alcoholic.
Y'all, I didn't really know the Lord that well back then.
I was just a new believer, but something sounded off about that to me, right?
It sounded off.
But we're going to talk about the power.
of our words today. And so here are the thoughts that we're going to launch off with. These
are the things that God put in my own heart. He said, are you tripping? Well, he said to
me, you're tripping over your own tongue. But my question is going to be to you. Are
you tripping over your own tongue? Does your speech have you stuck? Are you trapped by
your own talking? All of those questions are based on scriptures and snared by the words
of your mouth. Okay. Life and death and the power of the tongue. So ask yourself that,
am I tripping over my own tongue? Have you ever been out walking? You know, you're getting
into a groove, you got to go in, you're doing that speed walk thing. Maybe you're even running
because you're one of those crazy people. We bless you if you're a jogger or a runner.
And then you, you know, you hit the sidewalk wrong. Maybe the sidewalk's uneven or maybe
there's a root that's growing out there. Something happens and you just, you stumble a little
bit. What happens when that happens? It slows you down, right? Sometimes, God forbid, you
might even fall. Might hurt yourself a little bit, but it always keeps you from gaining
momentum at that moment. So imagine you're going about in life and things are going really
well and you're gaining some momentum in the areas of your life where you want to gain
momentum and then all of a sudden there's that trip and then another trip and then another
trip. That's going to keep you from being able to get up to speed, right? And God wants
us to know that what we're tripping over a lot of times is our own tongues. What has
us stuck so often is our own speech. And we are trapped or ensnared by the words of our
mouth or by our talking, right? And what does that look like? What does that mean?
Well, people would argue with me a lot of times. I've talked about this in the past.
They'd say, how can, why do words matter that much? You know, how, how can words make me
well or how can words set me free? Well, I submit to you that words are the things that
have you trapped and they're the things that are making you sick in the first place. Let's
go to scripture and look at it. Now, for those of you that come from any kind of evangelical
or charismatic background, this might be a little bit of a trigger. So I'm gonna give
you a trigger warning because you might have come from some mega church that kind of preach
blab it and grab it, right? Say it and you can have it, blab it and grab it, right? Name
it and claim it. Woohoo. Yes. I have a million dollars. Yes. I have a car. Yes. Well, you
guys, I want to tell you that I had a realtor friend once who went to a church like that
and well actually they didn't go to a church like that. My husband went to a church like
that and they knew that I went to that church because I married him and they said to me
one day we were like having lunch or something and they said, you know, I don't like the
people from your church. And I was like, guys, this is a mega church, right? Like a big one,
a big, big, big one. And I was like, I just laughed and I was like, yeah, some of them
can be pretty kooky. And they were like, no, no, seriously. They're like messing up my
job. Y'all ready for this? I don't know if you're ready for this. And I was like, okay,
I'll bite. What do you mean? What do you mean they're messing up your job? Remember this
friend is a realtor. She said, there's been several houses that I have not been able to
sell because they've claimed them as their own. Y'all, I'm not kidding. And I was like,
you know, tell me about this. Like, what are you, what are you talking about? She's like,
yes. She goes, I know for sure that because you guys very small area of town with a big
mega church, a lot of people on that side of town. And of course the houses that she talking
about on that side of town, the houses. And she said that in several instances, you know,
she has shown houses to people that could not afford to buy them. Come on, y'all do the math
with me. Could not afford to buy them, came to look at them because they believe that God gave
them the house, offered some kind of crazy deal in order to buy the house. And when it was turned
down and said, well, you know, this is my house and God's going to give it to me somehow. And
then that house would just sit on the market. You're like, what? Because y'all our words are
powerful. She said there was even one person that was.
around the house, claiming it for them, for the Lord.
From the Lord.
And we laugh and we think it's funny.
But it was true.
True conversation, true thing.
And so I want to encourage you
to not put your words on things that don't belong to you.
Okay?
Yeah, we all have things that we want.
We all have things that we desire.
You know?
And that's why we should pray,
hey God, if it be your will,
I would love to have that thing.
And if not that thing, God, you know best for me.
You know, I have a desire for something
that's similar to that.
You know, David and I went house shopping
before we bought this property.
And I can tell you that all the properties
that I wanted so badly before this property
were inferior to this.
And I want to remind you of that.
God knows best.
Now I wasn't tying those other houses up
in the spirit realm with my confession.
A lot of you don't know how powerful you are.
And I guess that's the point of this whole conversation.
I'm hoping to help you to understand how powerful you are
and how powerful your words are.
So we saw a couple houses.
We actually even made offers on a couple houses.
And then you have to sit on pins and needles,
especially in a market like Austin,
where people are literally bringing wheelbarrows
full of cash to buy houses
because they moved from California.
They're like, oh, I'll buy it in cash, sir.
I'm like, get out of here.
No offense to all you Californians,
but that made it a mess here for a long time.
And so we just had to wait.
And one by one by one,
we were turned down for all those houses.
But you know what I wasn't doing?
I wasn't already, I wasn't saying, oh, that's my house.
I claim that house.
In Jesus name, I claim that house, that's my house.
Nobody else can have that house, Lord, it's my house.
Don't let anybody else have that house.
That belongs to me.
I didn't do that because I don't know that.
I don't know that.
I just know I like it.
I just know my heart has a desire for a house
and this one seems favorable to me.
Even if I felt like God said,
even if I felt like I had a dream, okay?
Even if I felt like I had a word about the house,
I still didn't do that.
I still just did what Mary did.
I pondered it in my heart.
Because we have to hold things open handed.
Even if you think God gave it to you,
your unique receiving position
should be with hands wide open.
So God can take out and put in what he wants when he wills.
And the reason for that is,
is because God is an upgrade kind of God.
If you got a closed fist,
because you think that you want that thing
and you grabbed a hold of it tight,
you could be missing out on an even bigger blessing.
God is an upgrade kind of God.
That's how he works.
Good best, good better best.
He loves to give us more.
He wants us to overflow.
And we're gonna talk about that here in a second.
So she said that these houses were getting tied up
and she didn't even fully understand,
but she saw it, y'all.
She saw that somehow these houses were getting tied up
by the words of these people,
tied up in the spirit realm.
Wow, crazy, right?
So let's put that idea to scripture.
Let's talk about it for a few minutes here.
So we know that Proverbs tells us that death and life
are in the power of the tongue.
And they that love to talk
will eat the fruit of their mouth.
Ooh, that's me.
Raise your hand if you had detention for talking in class
most of your life.
Raise your hand if your report card says talks too much.
Talks too much in class.
Raise your hand.
I wanna see all y'all that talk too much.
Let's see the hands.
I mean it, put all the avatar hands up.
I wanna see it.
Talks too much was written on your report cards.
Great student, they just always talking in class.
Always talking, talking, talking, talking.
My own grandmother said to me when I was a child
and I break this off,
she said the best thing that could ever happen to you
is you could go mute and permanently lose your voice forever.
Literally my grandma cursed me with that.
Come on y'all.
Someone in your life told you,
oh, I wish you would just not be able to talk.
anymore. All right, not as many people as I thought, not as many
people as I thought, not even a quarter. That's all right. All
right. So all you talkers, all you chatty Kathy's and chatty.
What's a good guy's name? Ken's. All right. We got to even be
more careful, right? Because we don't weigh our words, do we? We
got the gift to gab, things just come on out sometimes. And
that's a gift. It's a gift. It's amazing. But a lot of times, it
can cause you to say things that you're like, oof. Go ahead and
put your hands down. It can cause you to say things that you
kind of wish you didn't say. We stumble over our words, we're
trapped by our words, we offend people. Maybe say things that we
weren't supposed to say or shouldn't have said, or maybe
that person wasn't supposed to know that thing. And then we
just got to talking and then we said it, we're like, oh, now I
ruined it, the surprise or this or that or whatever it was. Maybe
we told someone else's business because we just got to talking
and we forgot that we weren't supposed to say anything about
that. Or there could be all kinds of things that happen when
you're talking a blue streak. And so we have to take our words
more seriously. Because death and life are in the power of the
tongue and they that love to talk will eat the fruit of their
words. Got to take that seriously. Let's let's talk
about where in the world do the words come from? The Bible tells
us that we speak out of the overflow of our heart, out of
the overflow of our heart, our mouth communicates. We're
communicating always from the overflow of our hearts. That
doesn't mean that whatever you're saying, there's a little
bit of it in your heart. It means that whatever is the
majority of what's in your heart is what's going to continually
come out of your mouth. And we all go through negative seasons,
friends, and I don't want you to feel like you cannot show up in
our community in a hard season because you can. And when we
show up in hard seasons, a lot of times we have so much sadness
and so much trauma in our heart that that is what's overflowing
out of our mouth. And that is okay. You are allowed to have a
hard season. You are allowed to, you know, be woeful at times. God
created us to emote and sadness is an emotion. Mourning is an
emotion. Confusion, even though it's not from God, we do
experience it a lot in our lives. And you're allowed to
show up. You are, for sure. But if you're always showing up
negative, if you're always showing up critical, whether
it's of yourself or somebody else, then take a look at that.
Because a critical heart is a broken heart. Because out of the
overflow of that heart, that mouth is communicating. When I
was a little girl, my mom really had a thing for Pooh Bear. She
bought me all these Pooh Bear beanie babies. They all like
were dressed differently, like Pooh going to a party or Pooh
dressed like Tigger, you know, or just all these different
things. And, you know, I remember that as I was watching
those Pooh cartoons and stuff, I just really remember that Eeyore
character. Right? The donkey with the tail that was kind of
pinned on with a pin. And, you know, an Eeyore is a thing,
y'all, that we can become. I talk about it all the time, that
Eeyore complex, that, you know, it's not much of a life, but
it's the only life I've got. That is what that attitude is.
It's just constantly pessimistic, constantly, you
know, and even if you watch the cartoon, there's like a little
rain cloud that follows Eeyore around. Everything's, you know,
bad and getting worse. But you notice that Eeyore is not up in
arms about it. It's bad and getting worse, but Eeyore is not
like, Oh, what am I gonna do? You know, he's not frantically
running around trying to fix it. He's just succumbed to it,
hasn't he? He doesn't expect anything better out of life.
It's just this is the way life is. So I want you to ask
yourself how many times in your life you have said it is what it
is. You've said that it is what it is. Well, you know, it is
It's what it is.
No it isn't what it is.
It's what you make it.
It isn't what it is.
So out of the overflow of the heart the mouth communicates.
What is your mouth been communicating and you guys you're going to have to for a little
while you're going to have to take inventory of your words and that's going to be the assignments
all right.
We are going to finish prophesy your year tomorrow night but I promise you we will activate
this.
This is so important and I want to activate this.
We might just have two different settings.
We might have all the people that go to prophesy your year go to a different thing.
I'll try to figure that out with the team today and we'll post it in the groups.
Pay attention to your groups for instructions about tomorrow night for activation.
But I want you to take an inventory and maybe it's better if we don't do it for a week.
I'll give you a week assignment to take an inventory of your words.
Because we're talking and we're not even listening to ourselves.
Let's listen to ourselves.
Let's see what are the things that we say and I'm not just talking about the words that
come out of your mouth.
I'm also talking about your internal dialogue.
What is your internal dialogue?
Is it negative?
Is it critical towards yourself towards others?
Is it insecure?
Do you have a lot of words that are insecure words?
You can't, you're not enough.
Any version of insecurity, oh they're not going to like me anyway, or I wish, or I hope.
Because those are words of discouragement, words of disappointment.
You're always like, oh I wish, oh I wish that would happen.
And a lot of times it's so ironic but we'll use the words I hope.
Someone will say, wow, and they'll be all excited for us and you'll be like, yeah, I
hope it works out.
You're saying that out of a place of what, insecurity.
I know that it's kind of sneaky, right?
It's sneaky because you're using the word hope.
You're using that word hope.
And so we're going to have to really watch ourselves.
Maybe you say things like, oh, this always happens, or that never works out, or that
never happens for me.
Maybe you say this word, you say this phrase, you say it figures.
Something doesn't work out and you're like, yeah, well it figures.
It is what it is.
You guys, these all seem really benign, right?
But they're not.
If you want to gauge your heart, all you have to do is listen to your words, both external
and internal words.
Maybe you're always saying that you don't feel good.
Now, you might not feel good.
But how does it help to constantly say it?
I went through a whole season of that.
You guys, when I had panic disorder, when I had chronic fatigue syndrome and Epstein-Barr,
when I had all the things wrong that were wrong with me in my 20s, I never, ever said
anything positive about how I felt.
I said things like, I'm sad, I'm scared, I'm hurt, I don't feel good, I don't feel good,
I'm sick all the time, y'all.
And you know what?
Never made me feel better and it never made me get better.
And so you're like, okay, well, Jackie, am I just supposed to lie to myself and everybody
else?
No.
But you should find a greater reality.
We got to find a greater reality.
What's the higher reality?
What does God's word say about us?
And you guys, you know that I am not one of the people that just slaps the scripture
on it and now it's all better.
Oh, we're just going to slap a scripture on this horrible bullet hole and we're not going
to bleed out anymore.
No.
But at some point in time, we have to align to a greater truth.
We have to align to a greater truth.
Yeah, we know that it's not true yet in our lives, but we know that God's truth is greater
than our fact.
And what does that show?
That shows faith.
You know why?
Because God says that without faith, it's impossible to please him.
But why?
Because they that have faith come to him and they expect to receive from him.
They expect to receive what it is that they're coming to him for.
Right?
Because he's a rewarder of those that come to him, that seek him.
And I know it's not easy.
It's not easy to ignore the situation that's right in front of you and I'm not even asking
you to ignore it, but what I am asking you to do is realize that someday, come on y'all,
we're going to go here, someday in the very near future, whatever you're experiencing
now will be a lie because it will no longer be true.
All the things that I was sitting in my bed, you know, reminiscing about y'all in a bad
way, none of that's true anymore.
And pretty soon everything right now in your life that you do not want to be true will
no longer be true.
Those facts will have new information applied to them and they will, they will no longer
be true.
They will be proven false.
Just like a paternity test on Maury Povich.
It will be true.
It'll be proven not true.
And if y'all don't know what I'm talking about, then you're a good person.
You're a good person to have never watched that.
So just think about that because they used to think the earth was flat.
I mean, literally, and my son still does because he's a flat earther, but it's not.
Because why?
They got new information and I love this.
They got information from a higher perspective, right?
They went up and then they saw the world and they're like, Oh yeah, it's pretty round.
It's spherical, spherical, okay?
Which means that if you sail, guys, they used to think they were going to sail off the edge
of the world in their boats.
Don't go too far because you'll fall off the edge of the world.
That sounds ridiculous to a modern era.
It sounds ridiculous to us, right?
Why?
Because there's new information.
And guess what?
There's new information about each of our situations in life.
Pretty soon, whatever it is that you're struggling with now is going to be a lie.
It's going to no longer be true.
All right, so let's read what James has to say about this little tongue in our mouths.
It's so little, seems so harmless, right?
Let's read about it.
My brothers and sisters, not many of you should become teachers knowing that we shall receive
the greater judgment.
We all err, hold on.
We all err.
Oops, I'm sorry.
Don't be in any rush to become a teacher, my friends.
Teaching is highly responsible work.
Teachers are held to the strictest standards and none of us is perfectly qualified.
We get it wrong nearly every time we open our mouths.
Whoa.
If you could find someone whose speech was perfectly true, you'd have a perfect person
in perfect control of life.
Wow.
A bit in the mouth of a horse controls the whole horse.
A small rudder on a huge ship in the hands of a skilled captain sets a course in the
face of the strongest winds.
A word out of your mouth may seem of no account, but it can accomplish nearly anything or destroy
it.
Look at that, y'all.
A word out of your mouth may seem of no account, but it can accomplish nearly anything or destroy
it.
It only takes a spark, remember, to set off a forest fire.
A careless or wrongly placed word out of your mouth can do that.
By our speech, we can ruin the world, turn harmony into chaos, throw mud on a reputation,
send the whole world up in smoke and go up in smoke with it.
Smoke right from the pit of hell.
This is scary.
You can tame a tiger, but you can't tame a tongue.
It's never been done.
The tongue runs wild, a wanton killer.
With our tongues, we bless God our Father.
With the same tongues, we curse the very men and women he made in his image.
Curses and blessings out of the same mouth.
My friends, this can't go on.
A spring doesn't gush fresh water one day and brackish the next, does it?
Apple trees don't bear strawberries, do they?
Raspberry bushes don't bear apples, do they?
You're not going to dip into a polluted mud.
and get a cup of clear, cool water, are you?
What is that saying?
It's basically saying in a roundabout way
that out of the spring of our heart
comes our words, right?
And a lot of our wells have been poisoned with bitterness.
A lot of our wells have been poisoned
with bitter disappointment and discouragement and hurt,
and we've waited for so long for breakthrough
and it hasn't come, and I understand all of those things.
But this scripture is basically telling us
how powerful words are, how powerful the tongue is.
There's another scripture in Proverbs
that says that a wise woman builds up her house
with her words, okay?
Or she tears it down.
Builds it up or tears it down.
So for those of you ladies,
and I know all of you are here,
some of you are already in relationships,
and it does say a woman, it doesn't say a man,
and I'm not saying that men can't be verbally abusive
because we know to the contrary.
But I will tell you that because we don't have the brawn,
a lot of times our anger comes out of our tongues.
A lot of times women will fight with words
because they can't fight with their fists.
And so just keep that in mind.
I have twin grandbabies, boy and girl.
That little girl started running her little mouth so fast,
she was just talking up a storm.
And then my little grandson would be like,
ball, ball, sit.
He had one word, it was ball.
And she was like, mama and daddy and Nona and papa.
And she was like all the words, little phrases.
My mom said that I talked when I was eight months old.
I think we can all believe that.
So ladies, we have a propensity to language.
Language comes easier to women, it's scientifically proven.
So it's a gift that God has given you to communicate.
Women have a gift of communication.
There's a joke that says men say four words
for every thousand words of a woman, right?
I text my husband huge long paragraphs and he answers okay.
Right, we have more words than men do.
It is a proven thing.
Now there are some men that are chatty, it's true.
So it's not across the board,
but it mostly is the way that we're saying,
the majority of it.
All right, the majority of it.
So we have to be careful with this gift.
Gifts overextended become weaknesses.
Gifts overextended by trauma become weaknesses.
They become weaknesses.
We have to use our words for life.
We have to bring life.
It said in James that we can tear a friend down,
but you know, in another scripture,
I think it's in Proverbs,
it says that a word fitly spoken
is like apples of gold and pictures of silver.
James is on here, he's like, I talk a lot.
I'm a man.
There are exceptions to every single scientific thing.
There are anomalies.
There are, James.
And I think it's interesting that the book of talking
is the book of James.
And so there we go.
We gotta be careful with our words.
And you guys, it's not just about
what we think our words mean.
What is the hearer of our words?
What are, yes, they are definitely responsible
for how they receive things,
but to a certain degree,
we are responsible for how things are delivered
and how things will be received.
So that's just a little added thing there.
Guys, people were posting,
I was posting, my birthday was Tuesday,
and then I got the flu afterwards,
and I was reading all of the comments
that people commented on my Facebook page
wishing me a happy birthday.
And I just did a blanket response to everyone.
It'd be difficult to respond to all of those people.
I felt very honored to have that many people show up
and wish me a happy birthday.
And I just said, hey, thank you so much.
Last year of my 40s, 49,
gonna do it upright kind of thing,
like let's go.
And some well-meaning lady who's not in this program,
so I can say this without offending anyone.
Because I care about offending people, y'all.
Sometimes God will offend us
because he wants to invoke change in us.
Offense will a lot of times show you
where there's a broken part of your heart.
It really will.
It will point directly to a broken part of your heart.
But I don't offend people on purpose, all right?
Unless it's just something that's gotta be said
in order to invoke change.
Okay, so this lady, she posts on my post
about, hey, thanks everyone.
Last year of my 40s, let's go.
She posts, yeah, you better enjoy it
because once you hit 50, it's all over.
You know, I mean, basically said all this crazy stuff
about turning 50 and how horrible it was.
And I was like, well, aren't you Pollyanna?
My God.
Way to make it sound like I have, you know,
364 days left of my life.
Why?
Because that's her experience, y'all.
And so often, all the time, we speak from our experience
unless we believe in a greater experience
and that's the one that Jesus had on the cross.
We gotta come into alignment with that, friends.
All right, so I want you to go ahead and confess
because James 5.16 says that confession
is not just good for the soul, but it actually heals us.
So if we confess our faults to one another,
we will be set free from whatever has ensnared us.
So we don't wanna trip over our tongues anymore.
We wanna go fast.
We want momentum, right?
We don't wanna be trapped by the words of our mouth anymore.
We don't want that.
So I want you to go ahead and put in the chat
what phrase you say a lot that you know
is coming from a broken place in your heart.
It's that hurting heart
that's now flowing out of your mouth.
What are those words that you know are not gonna bring?
You guys, I know it feels good to say it
and remember, we're allowed to have a bad week.
We're allowed to have a bad day.
Some of us will even have a bad month sometimes
and it's a one-off.
We're not usually like that,
but we're back to believing in the Lord's goodness.
We're back to aligning ourselves
and coming into agreement with heaven,
which is the most important thing.
And sometimes, yeah, it won't be easy
to come into agreement with heaven,
but we walk by faith and not by sight, right?
We have to continue to come into agreement with heaven.
So who's gonna admit?
What are the things that you say habitually?
Oh yeah, language of disappointment.
It doesn't matter.
I didn't want it anyway.
Come on, put them up.
I'm fine.
Ooh.
Mom was always telling me if I didn't have bad luck,
I wouldn't have any luck at all.
Come on, y'all, some of this language was inherited.
It's inherited trauma.
You heard your parents say it or your grandparents say it
and now you're saying it.
I'm good.
Yeah, I'm good.
Look at all these, you guys.
Hopefully you're watching
what your brothers and sisters are putting up.
Just wasn't meant to be.
Nothing good ever happens to me.
I guess this is just my cross to bear.
Anybody ever say the Lord won't put more on me
than I can bear?
That's such an Eeyore thing to say, you know?
I'm just gonna say it.
That's an Eeyore thing to say, you know?
Oh, the Lord wouldn't give it to me
if I couldn't handle it.
What?
First of all, we gotta get to the root
of that religious lie.
God does not give us bad things.
He's the giver of good and perfect gifts.
He's the father of light.
He doesn't give us darkness, y'all.
He doesn't give us disease.
He doesn't give us hard times.
We live in a fallen world
that's full of chaos and confusion.
And yes, that trouble comes to our doorstep sometimes,
but his word actually says
that many are the adversities of the righteous,
but he delivers us out of them all.
So he didn't bring us to it,
but he will bring us through it.
Amen?
Yes.
Yes, you will have trouble in this world.
There is tribulation here, that's for sure.
But God promises to rescue us.
He promises to be with us in trouble
and to give us a way of escape from temptation.
He promises us those things.
And sometimes that trouble ends up at our address
because we gave our address to trouble with our decisions.
And then I got even better news for you.
You don't even have to lay in the bed that you made.
You can still lay in the bed that Jesus made
at the finished work of the cross.
There's grace, there's mercy that's new every single day.
Y'all, God doesn't just pick words
because he knows how powerful they are.
Because remember, he created the world with his words.
Everything that you're experiencing right now
in this physical world was created with the words of God.
Except for you, you were created with the hands of God.
He knit you together in your mother's womb.
The first family also was created with his hands.
He molded and shaped them from the dust or from the rib
because that's how much he is emotionally involved
with our lives.
He knows how important words are,
so pay attention to words that he says.
He's not mincing his words.
He's not.
So we have to understand that when he says it, he means it.
And so if he says, my mercy is new every morning,
then that must mean that we need it every single day.
But a lot of us, we just jump out of bed
and we run out without God's mercy.
We run out in our own power.
What would happen even for those of you
that are really gifted people and you're type A
and you're out there getting her done?
What would happen if you leaned into God's strength
instead of your own?
How much more successful could you be
if you would lean into God's strength instead of your own?
Because we need his grace and we need his mercy,
but a lot of times it's just laying there.
It's a fresh supply of what we're not using.
We're not using it.
We're living in the consequences of our actions,
of other people's actions,
and then we're feeling sorry for ourselves.
You guys, I used to have a perpetual pity party
for myself in my 20s when I was sick
because I was a believer
and I became a believer at 22 years old
and I knew that I wasn't supposed to have to live this way
and yet I was, and so I felt so sorry for myself.
Like I was God's stepchild, right?
And I knew I deserved it
because I already had this root of rejection inside of me
from my childhood and all the words
that had been spoken over me that I was bad
and that I should've never been born
and all of those things,
and so that stuff didn't get eradicated from my heart.
I didn't know my heart work yet.
I brought all that stuff with me
into my new birth experience
and remember those new hearts,
we don't get them right away, you guys.
We get those hearts by the washing of the water of his word.
We continue in his word
and that's when we know the truth
and that's when we're made free.
Yes, we have an amazing radical experience at conversion
when he comes into our heart,
but then that's when the house cleaning's gotta start.
And this crazy world we live in
wants to put new stuff in the heart every day
and that's why you gotta guard your heart.
The Bible says,
guard your heart because out of it
flows the quality of your life.
And why is that?
Because that's where your language
and your communication comes from
and words have power.
They're little power containers.
So we're gonna go forth from this call
and you're gonna take inventory of those words.
Do you feel sorry for yourself like me in my 20s?
Always having a pity party for myself.
Always crying and complaining.
Are you a complainer?
Do you complain a lot?
Do you whine a lot to God?
I remember one day I was just level 10 whining,
complaining, in a fear response, crying out.
God help me, help me, help me, help me kind of thing.
And God just very gently, very calmly said to me,
Jackie, get up.
Get up.
Because I was laying on the floor,
snotting up the carpet.
Get up.
This is not who I created you to be.
It was very sobering that day, very sobering.
And so my next question was,
well, if this is not who I am, then who am I?
If I'm not this pathetic, broken, mentally ill, messed up person, if this is not who
you created me to be, then who am I?
And that's when it all started, friends.
And now I'm who I am in front of you today.
But I will propose to you that not only did that not happen overnight, it did not happen
by aligning with the broken words of my past.
The broken identities, the labels, any of those things.
And it's not a fake it till you make it type of situation.
It isn't.
Because you're not faking anything.
Who God says you are is who you are.
It is who you are.
So I want you to take inventory of who you're saying you are by your words, what you're
saying about your life by your words, what you're saying about God by your words.
You're like, well, I'm not saying anything bad about God.
No, but you might be saying something about his ability to come through on some things.
What you're saying about your life, about your potential, what you're saying about your
love life, your health.
I want you to take inventory.
And then we will activate this either this coming tomorrow night, or we will activate
it.
We'll give you a week to take some inventory and activate it next Sunday night.
When you show up tomorrow night, whatever happens will happen.
We might just do some prophesy your year.
You're like, well, I didn't buy that course.
That's okay.
I feel like you could still jump into the activations that we're doing.
That would be a blessing to you if that's how we do it.
And then we'll put this off to the next Sunday.
Sound good?
All right.
So go forth today and let's watch our words.
Let's pay attention.
What is coming out of our heart?
What do we really believe about ourselves and others and God and all the things in life?
What do we really believe in?
For those of you that pick your words really carefully, you're a really careful person
with your words.
Is your word bearing fruit?
Because God says out of the mouth, death and life are the power of the tongue, and they
that talk will eat the fruit.
Are you eating the fruit of your good words?
Because if not, there's a harvest waiting for you.
If you're choosing your words carefully, if you're making sure that you're speaking life
and not out of fear.
I know some people, they will not let a negative thing come out of their mouth, even if it
needs to.
My grandmother-in-law is one of those people, and I love her so much, but she can't even
talk about the reality of something that needs to be talked about because she feels like
she's speaking death.
So she's taking that scripture completely wrong.
You guys, we have to be real people that are able to discuss the situation.
Just because we're discussing the situation doesn't mean that we're bringing death upon
ourselves.
Okay, let's not get superstitious and weird about it, okay?
You know the difference between being negative and speaking death over situations because
of disappointment and discouragement and despair and all the dis, and just talking about something
because it needs to be discussed.
That's different, okay?
And so if you're one of those people that never says anything negative because you're
superstitious about it, then let's go ahead and let's live in reality as far as there
are things that go wrong, and it's okay to say, hey, this is going wrong.
I need God to help me get this to go right.
It's okay.
You're allowed to do that.
All right, so I bless you.
Go forth.
Go forth in life.
I just speak life over you and over your bodies and over your situations and over your finances
and over your love lives.
We speak life over every single element of your life, and we believe that good things
are coming.
We believe that God loves us.
We believe that God is with us and for us, and so go in his power.
In Jesus' name.
Amen.
All right, love y'all.