Welcome to Supernatural Saturday! If it's your first time with us on Saturday,
welcome! You're in for a treat. Saturday is the day that we all press into what
is heaven saying to us? What is heaven saying to us individually? What is heaven
saying to us as a community? What is the current prophetic realities of our lives
this morning? And so we do that for about an hour here and then we activate it on
Sunday nights. And so if you've never been to a Sunday night activation, you're
not alone. I haven't been there either, but I know that the team member that
leads it and I know it's a powerful time. And so if you feel moved by what Holy
Spirit is saying to us today, then you're gonna want to follow through with
activating that tomorrow night 8 p.m. Eastern. That is not recorded. This
session is. That one's not. And so make sure that you head over there some
Sunday night when you have available. All right, let's start out. Father God,
we love you so much. We're so thankful that you have unlimited mercy for us.
Every morning that we give up, there's a whole fresh supply of mercy. It never
runs out. Your grace is abundant in our lives. Your grace is sufficient in our
lives. We thank you for grace and mercy this morning as we lean in. We need it.
We need it, Lord. And we ask God that you would help us to see the ways that you
are giving us empowerment from heaven, that grace to do what we cannot do on
our own and that the ways that you're giving us mercy. We're not getting what
we deserve, Lord, but we're getting what Jesus deserves because of his finished
work at the cross. Yes. Thank you, Jesus. Amen. All right, friends, I need that
mercy this morning because I know you all think I'm perfect. And I just let you
think that because that's just nice. I like it. But I'm not. I have a couple
that's a friend that friends of mine. We go way back, way, way back. And they
moved to Texas not that long ago, probably about two years or so ago. But
this couple, you know, they got married young. They actually got married a month
before David and I, but they're much younger than us. They're about 10 years
younger than us. But they've been married a month longer than we have. So
they just celebrated 16 years as well. And they're in their 17th year as well
as us. But unlike us, they've had lots and lots and lots of issues. Okay, got
married young, a train wreck in a dumpster fire from the very beginning,
started popping out babies every other year, you know, five babies, boom, boom,
boom, boom, like a machine gun. And, you know, he was deployed in the military.
And then one of their children had a health problem. And then all kinds of
different things happen that were those outside things. And friends, y'all want
to get married, I understand. And a lot of you understand the kind of marriage
I'm talking about, where it has more problems than a math book. And a lot of
those problems come from the outside of things, right. And what they do is they
escalate the inside of things. So if we don't do our hard work, we're carrying a
bunch of garbage from our childhoods. And, you know, from experiences in our
lives, what's going to happen is, is that those outside forces are going to
trigger those inside wounds, and we're going to have a hot mess express. Right,
and that happened happened for my friends. And there's been lots of times,
you know, they've leaned to David and I, in those times, and you know, whether
they were individually struggling with just some sort of thing inside of
themselves, anxiety, or depression, or then they were corporately struggling,
the marriage was struggling, we've always been there for them. And I think all of
you can think of a friend like that right now, go ahead and picture a friend
like that. You know, you're the one they come running to, because they trust you
and you love them. It's not about not loving people. Maybe it's a family
member. But it gets old after a while, don't it? And go ahead and raise your
hand if you've been the person that has all the drama, and someone else has been
there for you over and over and over and over again. You know, when I was
first getting discipled, my pastor's wife, I swear to you, she has a special
place in heaven for discipling me. She must be a saint in heaven. I'm telling
you, y'all. Not kidding. Because I was a wreck. And I was calling her on the
daily, not the monthly, not the weekly, on the daily, like help me help me help
me. You know, and I've discipled lots of people like that, too. It's kind of
like pay it forward, right? But this friendship, you know, it will stand the
test of time. I'll always be there for her. But when she knocked on my door at
1am last night, wanting to stay at my house because of trouble in the camp at
home, I was irritated.
Y'all, I was annoyed.
And your girl Jackie, and I know you won't believe this of me. I pretended that I was asleep. I
Was not going to get up and answer the door
I wasn't she had texted me earlier in the night at like 830 and said hey, can I spend the night and I was like
Yeah, I guess you know, but let me know, you know, let me know. Well, she never let me know
830 turn into 930 turn into 1030 turn to do 1130 turn into midnight and then I went to bed
I'm like, oh must have changed her mind, right? Isn't that what you would think?
And then what o'clock she came rolling into my driveway and I heard the car come in the driveway and I was like, hmm, oh
No, no, no
and I will tell you there are elements of this story that already had me triggered because
There are things that remind me of my own childhood that are
Elements to this story because a lot of there's a lot of young children involved
And so I was already kind of triggered you guys if you get mad
Over someone else's thing something that really doesn't concern you
It's because there's an element of it that is triggering an unhealed trauma in you
That includes you're watching the television and you see something and just you're like, oh my god
And you see something and it just makes you so mad or you hear about something that somebody did maybe they're famous
Maybe they're not maybe they're um, you know, whoever whatever
You hear some gossip unfortunately about somebody at your church or whatever and what they did offends you
Offense is always pointing to an unhealed part of your own heart
That's just a little tidbit there's you guys can be lots of supernatural tidbits this morning so grab a hold of whatever's yours
Okay, the shoe fits put it on tie it up and wear it because it's important that we walk on out
Of all these things that we shouldn't be living in anymore and we go to a better place
We want to do that
So I was already irritated. It's already triggered. So I was like, nope, it's not gonna do it
You know, she can just go ahead and go on home. They can work it out. They can figure it out
That's literally what I was thinking to myself
And then my phone started blowing up
It's her she's in the driveway. She's blowing my phone up
I'm like, okay. Well, she'll just call once and then she won't call back
Nope, she called again. She was being what she was being
Really annoying but also persistent. She's being persistent
She wanted something
She wanted my help
She want to comfort
Didn't matter what time it was and so y'all I got out of bed
I had some choice words
for her
I went outside and I was like, what the hell are you doing?
You know
How rude how disrespectful?
Seriously, I mean I've known this girl for a really long time. I'm like what what the heck
And then I calmed down a little bit and I'm like, all right saw that she was crying a little bit all right, okay
So I took her and I got her settled into her room and I sat there and I listened to
What was going on and I gave her advice and God softened my heart and
You know
Hopefully gave me some wisdom from heaven and gave her a hug and then when I went to bed
And so i'm tired y'all this morning because I probably didn't get to sleep until like 2 33 o'clock 3 o'clock in the morning
And it's only 8 a.m. Here or 9. It's 9
So you're like jackie, what does this have to do with our supernatural saturday? Well, when I asked the lord
Before I went to sleep. I'm like, oh lord
You know
Supernatural saturday is going to come early in the morning and i'm going to be super tired and I just need to know what do
You want to say to me and to your to your sons and daughters? Like what do you want to say to us?
You guys, you know god is just so funny, right?
This is a scripture that we're going to launch off of this morning that he put in my heart
Luke 11 verses 5 through 9. I'm going to read from the message
He said imagine what would happen if you went to a friend in the middle of the night
And said friend lend me three loaves of bread an old friend traveling through just showed up and I don't know what to do
And he said I'm not going to do that. I'm not going to do that. I'm not going to do that
Said friend lend me three loaves of bread an old friend traveling through just showed up and I don't have anything on hand
The friend answers from his bed. Don't bother me
The door is locked. My children are all down for the night. I can't get up to give you anything
But let me tell you even if he won't get up because he's a friend
Even if the friendship isn't strong enough for him to get up and give you what you want in my case
The friendship was strong enough
If you stand your ground knocking
And waking up all the neighbors. He'll finally get up and get you whatever
You need
Right
And here
Here's what I'm saying to you, ask and it shall be given.
Come on, y'all.
Seek and you will find.
Knock and it shall be opened to you.
Internalize that real quick.
Internalize that story real quick.
Super rude neighbor comes at midnight, you guys.
The story is he comes at midnight.
You're in bed, you're asleep, your kids are asleep,
and he wants some bread from you
because he had a friend show up, also rude,
in the middle of the night and wanted to stay
and also just didn't want to stay,
was hungry and wanted some food.
Think about it.
It says even if that person's not a good enough friend
to get up at that time of night and help you out,
they will get up if you bug them enough.
If you make a big enough ruckus,
as my grandpa would say, they will get up.
And you guys, this is not a one-off in scripture, okay?
It's not a one-off.
I want to tell you guys something.
A lot of you always come to me and say,
Jackie, how will I know if I'm equally yoked
with my boyfriend or girlfriend, with my fiance?
I want to be equally yoked before I marry.
Well, first of all, you need to know
that a yoke is not something you find in the barnyard.
In scripture, what a yoke is, is it is the set of teachings,
the ideologies, the philosophies of a rabbi.
It is how they viewed the law.
All the rabbis were of different schools of thought.
They viewed the law differently.
They taught it differently.
And those teachings were considered their yokes.
That's why Jesus said, hey, my yoke's better
than all theirs.
Take my yoke upon you, because what?
Grace, right?
My teaching is easy.
My burden is light.
Some of those people were following rabbis
that put them under the law,
like put them under the feet of the law,
like crushed them with all the different things
that they had to do, the T's they had to cross,
the I's they had to dot.
Jesus is like, come to me, all you that are weary
and heavy laden with what?
The law.
And I will give you rest.
Take my yoke upon you, my teachings.
Try them on for size, right?
Because they're easy and my burden is light.
And so his yoke, you guys, his teachings,
what I'm reading from right now in Luke,
it is part of a series of scriptures
that we call the Sermon on the Mount.
And that is widely recognized as the yoke of Christ.
These set of teachings are widely recognized
as Jesus's yoke.
Guys know that?
If you don't, you don't know.
So guys, this is not a one-off.
Jesus is teaching us something that is part of his yoke
that's easy and his burden that's light.
He wants us to know.
The story is not just a story.
It's an analogy.
Jesus is always talking in metaphors and analogies.
He wants us to take something from this,
from our own life.
He says, seek.
He says, ask and it shall be given to you.
Seek and you will find.
Knock and it shall be opened.
And so we're gonna just dig into that for a few minutes
because this happened to me last night
with a friend wanting something from me late in the night.
I did get up and you guys remember,
I didn't get up just because I was tired.
I didn't get up just because I was a good friend of hers.
I was just gonna pretend to be asleep
because I was annoyed.
I was triggered.
I thought it was rude.
I felt disrespected, dishonored in that moment.
But because she kept blowing up my phone,
in this case, my heart softened
because of the persistence of her.
I didn't, you know, I got up.
Yeah, I was agitated,
but I got up because my heart softened.
Like she was being persistent.
She really needed something
and I wasn't going to deny it to her.
I wasn't gonna deny it to her.
You guys remember, this is not a one-off with my friend
in case you start thinking that I'm a meanie.
I mean, this has like been constant, constant,
constant situation for the last, you know, nine months.
And it's been a lot, really the last 15 years,
but the last nine months, big time.
So God wants us to know, let's go in order here.
First of all, we need to ask.
Let's take these separately.
You guys wanna take these separately?
Ask, seek and knock.
Shall we?
Cause they all mean something different.
To kind of like, you're like, oh, ask, seek, knock.
All right, cool.
But we need to break them down
because they all really mean something very different.
And we need to do not one of them, but all three of them.
He could have just said, Hey, I'm sure that you asked me for what you want, but he didn't.
He said, make sure you seek it, make sure you knock for it, right?
They that ask will receive, they that seek will find, and they that knock, the door will
be opened.
That's what it goes on to say.
All right.
So let's jump into asking.
First of all, you guys, the Bible tells us that God knows what we have need of before
we ask, doesn't it?
And yet we still have to ask.
You know why?
Because asking shows dependency.
It shows dependency.
Think about that for a second.
It also shows authority.
Who has the authority to give you what it is that you want, that you need?
God does.
At your job, you have a job, you have a certain level of authority, but there's still times
when you have to ask someone who has more authority than you, if you can do something
that needs to be done, right?
You might ask to be able to spend over the budget because it needs to happen, but you
can't just sign off on it yourself unless you are the boss, boss, boss, head boss.
You have to ask if it, if it's okay, got to ask for that permission, it's important.
Now say that at your job, that's not for you because you are the head boss, like the boss
talks with you.
You guys, you have to make sure you keep your phones muted.
I can't break my focus and go mute your phone.
Okay.
So if you hear a bunch of stuff going on in the bathroom, background, the bathroom, not
the bathroom.
If you hear a bunch of stuff going on in the background, you better go ahead and look and
see if your little microphone is red because it might be you that's making all that noise.
All right.
Okay.
If you're the head boss at work and you're used to a great deal of power because you
know, you're the final decision maker, that's awesome, but you're still answering to somebody.
You're still answering to somebody.
In a marriage, you don't just go off and do whatever you want.
You have to submit to one another in love.
What does that mean?
That means you guys, you got to get permission from each other to do things, to make decisions.
And some of you need to get ready for that.
You've been alone on your own for a long time, only answering to yourself and God perhaps,
and maybe not even God half the time.
And now you're going to have someone else in your life that you have to run things by.
You can't just, you know, someone calls and says, Hey, do you want to do this?
You can't just say yes without saying to your mate, Hey, you know, so-and-so wants me to
go away for the weekend, you know, on a girl's trip or a guy's trip, or, you know, so-and-so
wants me to go help them move on Sunday.
And I know, you know, I know you had plans for this, but you know, would it, would it
be okay with you if I did that?
You have to ask.
You can't just go to the store and just buy whatever your little heart desires anymore.
Even if you can't afford it, you got to run that by your significant other.
So asking shows respect, it shows honor, it shows dependency.
It also shows that you know, who's got the answers.
If we never asked God for anything, and we just run off and do things in our own strength,
with our own will, with our own wisdom, what is that telling God?
It's telling God that we don't need you.
I got it.
I know what to do.
So he knows what we need before we even ask, but he wants us to make our requests known
to him.
There's a scripture in the Bible that say, make your requests known to God through what?
Through prayer and supplication.
You guys, if you read the Lord's Prayer, when Jesus' disciples said, hey, you know,
teach us how to pray.
And remember, these were Jews, they were used to praying.
There's a lot of praying that goes on when you're a Jew, especially back in the Bible
days.
But they're like, hmm, we're watching you, Jesus, and we're seeing how things are going.
And you know, there's a lot of prayers that we do.
And so we need you to tell us what are the most important prayers?
How should we pray?
And if you read the Lord's Prayer, which I'm not going to, but all of us could probably
quote it, right?
Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily.
And then what starts happening right after that?
After we say that God is sovereign, he is God, he should be praised, he should be hallowed.
What happens next?
bunch of asks, right? A whole bunch of asks. Oh, hi. I'm there. A whole bunch of asks.
I'll keep my video off so you guys can hear my voice. I don't have good reception where I live.
A whole bunch of asks happen, don't they?
Give us our bread. Show us the way. Do this. Do that for us.
Forgive us as we forgive those that trespass against us. Forgive us our trespasses. A whole
bunch of asks happen. So make your requests known to God with prayer and supplication.
James 4. I never really fully understood the scripture for a really long time,
and maybe you don't either, okay? And so I'm going to break it down to you really quickly,
but it's another ask scripture. It says that if any of you lack wisdom, ask for it.
Ask for wisdom, right? Ask for what it is that you need information on, clarity on,
and then be ready to receive. Don't just ask, but be ready to receive what you have asked for,
because you will receive what you ask for. It says you will
if you don't what? If you don't ask amiss. It says you have not because you ask not.
And when you ask, sometimes you ask amiss. And what's that mean? It means you're missing the
mark with your ask, right? And I know a lot of people will make this all about sin,
and I know the scripture and a couple of translations can get pretty intense,
but really what I see that as is that we just need to do more hard work.
We're asking with bad information. We're asking God something. We're wanting him to do something
for us, but the problem is we have bad information about that thing. We're asking God to give us
something that either we don't really need or would not be good for us to have, or we're asking
with the total wrong motivations. Does that make sense to everyone? I believe so.
So it's important for us to remember that unanswered prayers are just as important as
answered prayers. And so oftentimes I will say to God because of this scripture, I will say,
God, I don't know what to ask for in this situation. I'll be in a situation where I
don't know what the solution is. And a lot of times right there, friends, we are tempted to
pray from a very carnal point of view, not from a heavenly perch where we're seated with Christ in
heavenly places, and our enemies are under our feet. We're really tempted to pray from a place
of fear right at that moment, to ask from a place of fear, to ask from a place of scarcity,
to ask from a place of limited understanding. And so a lot of times we're asking for very
specific things too, like, hey God, I need you to do this for me, A, B, and C for me.
And that's why your Jesus Cares board, for those of you that are just entering heart work,
that's why it's so important because you put those asks, you put them up on that board,
you know, in your finite understanding of what it is that you need. And God's able to do what?
Ephesians 3.20, exceedingly abundantly above all we can ask, think, or imagine by the power
that works in us. We give him the final sign off because he knows what we have need of before we
even ask. He wants us to ask because it shows dependency. It shows that we know where our help
comes from. Remember the psalmist? Where does my help come from? Does my help come from the hills?
Does it come from the government? Does it come from another, you know, army coming and rescuing
me? No, my help comes from the Lord. And so you guys, if we go to God first and we ask for what
it is that we have need of, we're showing him that at the end of the day, we know who's in charge.
Not all this stuff that's troubling us and tormenting us, not all these problems that
have creeped up, you know, the old saying that says, you know, don't tell God your problems.
Don't tell God about your problems. Tell your problems about God.
And it's not easy to do because you guys, we were born under a curse that Jesus broke,
but every day we have to walk that out. We have to walk out that salvation. We have to walk
out that wholeness, mind, body, and spirit every single day. Jesus said you will continue in my
word and you will know the truth and it will make you free. You got to walk that out every day
because this curse part of us wants to continue to be in order.
He wants to continue to run around, independent, trying to figure things out itself, trying
not to trust anyone, including God.
Guys, we have to battle that nature, don't we?
And part of the way that we battle that is becoming like a little child.
And I'm going to get to that.
When I get to knocking, remind me if I don't tell you about my kids persecuting me.
I don't want to leave this call without talking about that.
God wants us to come to him.
A lot of us stop coming to him because what happened was we came and we said, hey, God,
I need help with this.
And we told him exactly how he could help us.
And he didn't do it.
That's because God's not your employee, right?
He doesn't work for you.
He works on your behalf, the Bible says.
But he doesn't work for you.
He don't answer to you.
What we do is we invite him into a situation and then we take our hands off of it.
We're not that good at that.
This scripture in James talks about if you lack wisdom, ask.
And if you believe that you receive it, I just I quoted two different James scriptures
just so y'all know.
So I quoted from James 2 about if you ask for wisdom, you'll receive it as long as you're
not double minded.
What's double minded mean?
You ask God for his input on it, and then you just go do whatever you need to do your
own way anyway.
Right?
You're double minded, double minded.
But James 4, what I was quoting from about you have not because you ask not.
We don't want to be double minded.
Sometimes you're gonna have to wait on an answer from the Lord.
I know you want that problem to go away right now, but that's why you put it on your Jesus
cares board.
Because in that scripture in Philippians, he says, cast your care upon me because I
care for you.
And the reason why you want the answer right now to whatever the problem is, is because
it's burdening you.
But didn't Jesus say that his yoke was easy and his burden was light, meaning that you
can give him your heavy burden in exchange for his light one.
You can put it up on the Jesus cares board and you can say, you know what?
I don't know how this works out, but it does work out in my favor.
Romans 8, 28, he's promised to work out everything to the good of those that love him and I love
him.
And so I'm going to put it up here and I know that if he needs my help with it, if there's
a part that I need to play, because you guys oftentimes there is, he's going to let me
know what that is.
And then you blanket that stuff in prayer.
You blanket that stuff in supplication.
You don't tell God how he has to solve your problems.
You just know that he has a solution and that in the right timing, either that problem's
just going to go away, which has happened a lot for me, and that it just doesn't even
become a problem anymore.
You're like, Oh, where'd that problem go?
I don't know.
I guess it wasn't really a problem.
Or he's going to give you a specific solution that you either can play a part in or you
get to watch as he does it all.
Come on y'all.
Good stuff this morning from Holy Spirit.
Let's talk about a different ask.
John 15, it's a great chapter.
I just encourage you to go there and just soak in John 15.
It's talking about how Jesus is the vine and you're just a branch.
I often thought about getting this tattooed somewhere on my body, on my arm, somewhere
where I can see it, because oftentimes I take on the burden of being the vine, not just
for myself, but for others, but the source y'all, the source.
You are not the source, not for your kids.
After a time of dependency, when your kids are old enough to do things for themselves,
they ought to be doing that as you're teaching them, not independence, but interdependence.
If all you ever do is let your kid be dependent on you.
I know we do that out of fear of abandonment.
That's what it is, friends.
I know it sounds, it looks pretty on the outside for a little while where it's like, Oh, you're
such a good parent.
Oh my gosh, your kids are so blessed.
No.
Okay.
Your kids are not being taught interdependence and they're going to grow up and they're going
to turn you out because they're used to you doing everything for them and that's not going
to change because you didn't change it.
And they're going to show up at your door in the middle of the night when they're 26
years old, wanting to live with mom or dad because they didn't learn any life skills.
Okay.
That's a little added tidbit and I know it sounds harsh, but y'all, it's going to be
painful.
I know so many marriages that have been wrecked up by, you know, grown children that never
learned how to live.
They never learned how to live because their parents raised them because you were abused
as a child.
them to have any pain. So you shelter them from all the pain and did all the things for them
so that they would never feel burdened. And then this is the product that we get,
right? Kids that don't know how to do things. So you're not the source. You're not divine.
You're just a branch. John 15. I'm just a branch. I'm just a branch. I'm just a branch. And that
should take a whole lot of pressure off you because God is the source, but he's the head
of the human resource department. So you are a branch. The vine isn't what bears fruit. The
branches do. And for all of you, come on, y'all. Wow. Holy spirit. You're so amazing. For all of
you that grew up in some denomination of Christianity, where they try to put fear in
you of stealing God's glory. This verse, this passage of scripture will show you that that's
not possible. Okay. If Jesus wanted the glory, he would have been the branch and not the vine
because where does all the fruit show up? Where's all the glory show up? It shows up in your life.
Doesn't it? Because Jesus is supplying what you need. You get to bear fruit. And the Bible says
it says people on earth will see your good fruit. If your good fruit is not coming from
your hard work and you know, you're striving. If it's coming from heaven, if you're just the branch,
okay. Not trying to be the vine. You're just a branch. The Bible says that people will see your
good works and they'll do what they'll glorify God in heaven because they know you didn't do
that on your own. There's no way that you did that. Uh, I went to middle school with this chick.
I was in sixth grade with her and she was still eating paste. So I know she didn't do that by
herself that had to have a divine origin. That's what happens. That's what happens when we bear
heavenly fruit. You guys paste tasted good. I'm sorry. Smell good. It made you want to taste it.
If you didn't taste paste, I'm sorry. And if you didn't eat the peanut butter off the pine cone
that you were supposed to be putting the birdseed on, then I don't even know who you are.
And if you don't know what I'm talking about, you were not in elementary school in the eighties.
Okay. So we don't have to worry about stealing God's glory because we are his glory.
Children are the glory of the father. He wants us to have
vines, um, branches that are heavy with fruit that are connected to the vine. Jesus goes on
to say, apart from me, you can't do it. Nothing. But we know that that's not true. We do know that
we can do things, but that's not what he means. What he means is you can do nothing of any value
can do nothing of any real value, any heavenly value, any eternal value.
If you want a life of eternal value, then you're only going to get it by being connected to me.
You're not going to get it by all your striving and all you're trying. It's not going to work.
It's not going to happen. Yeah. You'll bear some fruit, but it won't be the eternal kind.
It won't be the kind, you know, when Jesus said to the woman at the well, he said,
yeah, you're drinking water and you keep coming back because you're still thirsty,
but I got this other water. And if you drink of it, you will never thirst again.
That's the kind of fruit we're talking about y'all. Okay. So he says, what does he say in
John 15? As he goes down, he says, abide in me. What does that mean? That means make your home in
me, get comfortable in me, come and rest in me, abide in me. And if you do, if you abided me and
my word abides in you, remember he is the word robed in flesh came dwelt among us. He is the
word. Okay. If my word abides in you, you will ask for what you want and it will be granted.
Guys, look at that. Ask, but you won't just ask regular ask. You'll ask for what Jesus is asking
for. Why? Because his words are now in you, you and him, you guys are simpatico. He's the vine,
your extension of him as the branch you're bearing fruit from the finished work on the cross. It's
eternal. And in this kind of relationship, this intimate relationship, the desires of your hearts
are going to become the desires of heaven. And the Bible says that out of the abundance of the heart,
the mouth speaks. So when you open your mouth to ask for something, you're going to be asking in
agreement with what heaven is already doing it. What God already wants to do. Come on. Isn't this
powerful? And you guys, this is not a place where, you know, it's just like you get here once and you
just stay here in the abiding.
It's a place that you just have to get to every day.
Got to wake up in the morning.
You have to say, you know what, I'm up, I'm ready to go, but order my steps, Lord.
Order my steps, take my feet where you want them to go, put the words in my mouth.
You know, you have to invite, you have to ask, you have to give permission in order
to get on the same page with heaven.
That's what I love about Supernatural Saturday because that's exactly what we're doing.
If you guys are not going out after Supernatural Saturday and just, you know, be in the branch
and letting supernatural stuff like just fall off of you everywhere, then try that today
because you are activated.
Okay.
All right.
So we got to move on.
We can stay on ask the whole time.
I think we can stay on ask the whole time.
Okay.
So he says to ask and it will be given to you, right?
Seek.
Let's talk about seek real quick.
Guys, the word seek implies what?
It means to, it means to go searching for something, doesn't it?
When my mom was sick and you guys, this was the anniversary of my mom passing away.
These next couple of weeks, my birthday's next week and it always falls on my birthday.
I spent several of my birthdays in my forties, you know, sitting next to my mom who was dying.
Very traumatic, you know, not going anywhere, not celebrating, not having a party, but you
know, sitting and comforting my mom who was very, very ill, you know, or just straight
up in the hospital with her or, you know, something like that during those years.
And she's been past it before years on February 3rd, but the three weeks leading up to that,
she was in ICU.
So right now we're in the traumaversary of the ICU days.
And I will tell you that every day when I got up out of the bed and got in the car to
drive to the hospital, you know, the Lord, you know, he said to me, he said, Jackie said,
don't look anywhere else.
Just look at me.
It was a hard, hard, hard season.
He said, do not look at anything.
I'd go in the room and I'd sit next to her.
He's like, don't look at her.
Look at me.
Come on.
This is for somebody.
Don't look at that.
Look at me.
Seek my face.
And you guys, some days it was so, so emotionally devastating that I'd be riding in the car
and I'd be looking everywhere for him.
I'd be looking on the street signs.
You guys know I love numbers.
I'd be looking at license plates.
I'd be looking anywhere to find him.
And I'd be saying out loud, I'm looking at you.
Look at me.
I'm looking at you.
Look at me.
Show me that you're looking at me.
Where are you?
Some of you are living there right now and you need to say that to the Lord, I'm looking
at you.
Show me your face.
Look at me.
Show me that you're looking at me, that you see me.
And you guys, every day that I would sometimes shout that out to the Lord, I would see him
looking at me.
I would see him looking at me.
He would come up to me in stores and say things like, have you ever heard of God Winks?
Just crazy stuff.
If you look, you will find him because I am very sensitive as an intercessor and as, you
know, a spiritually empathic person, which makes me go to Supernatural Saturday and tune
in to what's happening in the spirit realm.
That can be good and bad sometimes because there's a lot of crazy stuff that's going
on in the spirit realm too.
And so when I go to places like Vegas or New York City, those are two places that I went
last year for different events.
I have a hard time when I first get there because I'm just picking up a lot and it makes
me feel exhausted.
I can feel like the hurt and depression and all the different things all around me.
And it makes me just want to go.
When I went to New York City, I just went into my hotel room and I just laid in there
for days because I just, I was so overwhelmed by the city and by what I was feeling there
of the despondency of humankind, right?
And in order to get out, just recently when I was in Vegas for an event, in order to like
move forward, I had to say, I had to pray this, God, show me where you are in this city.
I'm seeking your face.
I want to see you.
Where are you here?
Cause otherwise you can get in an Elijah mentality like, Oh, Jezebel killed everyone.
I'm the only one left.
You can get like in a real freaked out mentality.
If all you, if all you are is overcome by all the evil around you, you got to ask God
to show you where he is.
You got to seek.
There's so many scriptures in the Bible.
You guys that tell us to seek him, seek him, seek his face, you know, seek his strength,
seek his will, seek him, look for him, search for him, just resonating with anybody.
If you've got a crazy situation going on in your family or whatever, say, Hey God, where
are you in this situation?
Where are you in a lot of inner healing modalities like sozo's and heart sinks and different
things like that, they will actually ask you the practitioner when they're leading you
through old trauma, they will say, Hey, look around, close your eyes, look around this
memory that you have.
Maybe it was when you were a kid and you were being verbally abused by a parent or God forbid,
sexually violated or molested or whatever.
They say, look around and ask Jesus, seek him, say, where, where, where were you?
Where, where are you in this memory?
Cause he promises never to leave us or forsake us, right?
Where are you in this memory?
And some of you need to do that because some of you feel so abandoned by God.
You feel like God just threw you here into the earth realm and he's like, good luck kid.
I hope you make it.
That's not what happened.
Obviously a lot of times we're the victim of people's choices, especially the people
that had, that we were dependent on as children and, but, but Jesus was with us.
He was with us.
And I will tell you when I first heard about that, when I first came to Christ, cause I
have a rough background, I've been through a lot of bad stuff as a child and as an adolescent
and as a teenager and as a young woman.
And when I was told this truth that I'm telling you now, it made me mad because I was like,
well, if you were there, why didn't you stop it?
You know, that was my mentality.
But I will tell you that I have way many years ago understood that because of my infirmities,
the power of the Lord rests upon me, kind of hits differently.
It hits differently.
He didn't rescue me from it, but he did rescue me through it.
And I'm very thankful for that.
And I hope that you will get to that place too, through heart work, okay, get to a place
where you forgive and you're able to confess, you were able to repent, you were able to
let go.
But God is looking at us.
What else does it tell us to seek in the word of God tells us to seek his kingdom.
What is that?
It's his ways.
It's his will.
It's his agenda.
It's his plans.
It's the new covenant, the new covenant.
You guys, a lot of us have a lot of religion in us because just a little bit of it is very
pervasive.
You know, if you were discipled with any kind of religious mindsets by the people that taught
you and they're not bad people, they just didn't have a higher revelation of the word
of God or the character of God.
And so a lot of times you will approach different things that your life from a very religious
legalistic perspective, a very wrong or right, black or white situation perspective, okay.
And even a condemnation perspective, because remember the law kills, but the spirit gives
life.
And so if you find yourself always tangled up in, oh, I should have, and God's mad at
me and God's not going to give me what I want because I didn't do the right thing at the
right time.
If you find yourself caught up in that, I want you to stop yourself.
When you catch yourself thinking along those lines, I want you to stop yourself in that
moment.
And I want you to do what this is saying today.
I want you to seek his kingdom, say, Hey God, where is the yoke of Jesus in this moment?
You know, where's his yoke?
That's easy.
And his burden is light.
Where's that at?
Where's the kingdom of God?
Where are your plans and purposes at in this moment, in this situation, in this failure
of mine or somebody else's show me your kingdom.
Show me your ways.
Show me your Genesis 50, 20, how you turn this to good.
Your Romans eight 28, how you turn this to good.
Show me, remember my favorite prayer for those of you that have done hard work, teach me,
show me, heal me, grow me.
Yeah.
Show me there's gotta be a kingdom solution here.
I'm not going to beat myself up.
Yeah.
I can beat myself up because I know that your kingdom has a solution here.
You have a plan.
Jeremiah 29, 11, it says that you have more than one plan.
Okay.
I messed up 568 of your plans by my own free will and my own choices to zig instead of
zag and to go left instead of right.
But you have a new plan.
So Lord, show me what that is because I'm ready to take that one this time.
He wants us to look at him and he wants to see us looking at him.
He wants us to see him looking at us.
All right.
Last one.
Knock.
I'm going to start this little part off with a little joke that I heard years ago when
I was being discipled by the Pentecostals.
And it was funny because I went to this little, this little women's prayer group.
So it kind of hit home to me.
You guys for at least a decade on Wednesdays, I would show up at this little church that
was discipling me with these, with a little motley crew, a little ragtag crew of old Pentecostal
women and a couple of young ones like me.
And we would just, we would just pray the fire down y'all.
You know how Pentecostals are.
We would just go at it for at least a couple hours interceding.
Okay.
And there was a, you know, an abortion clinic down the street and they would go out there
and they would, you know, circle the building.
They would pray.
They would do very Pentecostal things.
And if you're not aware of, you know, what Pentecostal people are like, it just kind
of gave you an idea.
So here's the joke.
All right.
So Mabel was new to the community.
And so she started going to the little church down on the corner and she went to the women's
prayer group and she loved it.
The women were so friendly and nice and they would pray.
And she noticed that mostly they would pray about the bar across the street on the other
corner.
They say, Lord, will you please shut that bar down?
Can you close that bar down?
You know, George was out here drunk in the middle of the night, you know, and he wrecked
his car on the church property and hurt our only tree.
And you know, there's always all kinds of loose women out here around this bar.
And our husbands are out here looking at these women as they're getting in their cars after
church and Lord, will you just get rid of this bar?
She's just praying that this bar would just go away.
And after a couple of weeks of praying with these ladies, Mabel came in to prayer and
all the ladies were just ecstatic.
They were, they were just praising God and they were jumping up and down.
And she's like, what, what, what's going on?
And they said, Oh, the bar, didn't you see it burnt to the ground last Saturday night?
And she's like, Oh my Lord.
And they're like, yes, our prayers are finally answered.
And they said, you Mabel, we've been praying for years against this bar and this bar that
it would go away.
And as soon as you join us, the Lord answered, they're like, wow, your prayers must be powerful.
And Mabel just looked, she said, Oh no, she says, not my prayers that are powerful.
She said, I believe in putting feet on my prayers.
Mabel burned down the bar, y'all.
She torched that sucker.
And that friends brings us to our last word, knock.
Knock implies action, doesn't it?
We got to take action.
And it's almost always imperfect action.
You're never going to know exactly.
People come to me all the time.
How do I know that what I'm doing is what I'm supposed to do?
Guys, get rid of the word supposed to.
Just get rid of that.
That is going to keep you on the bench of the game of life for the rest of your life.
It's not about supposed to.
Remember the other things, you're the branch connected to the vine, right?
You're asking, you're looking for solutions, you're seeking him in situations.
And then at some point, you're going to have to take imperfect action.
Don't worry.
If it's not the exact thing that, you know, would be beneficial in the situation, God
will redirect you.
He cannot direct a course of a car that's not moving.
You guys, if you turn Siri on, you turn your GPS on in your car, you put in an address
or whatever, it's not going to tell you anything until you move.
Now, if you get to move in and it knows that there's a road closure, there's a delay, there's
a detour, there's an accident ahead and, you know, the traffic is backed up for 30 minutes,
it will give you a course correction, at least mine will.
It says, Hey, this isn't the best route anymore.
Here's a new route.
Do you want to take it?
And you have the opportunity to say yes or no to that.
You can go ahead and sit in that parking lot traffic on the freeway for an hour and a half,
or you can take the detour.
But it will not.
ever do it if you're not moving. You notice that? You got to be moving towards it. If
you start moving towards the goal, towards the promise, towards whatever it is that you
want, God will direct your steps. His word promises us. He will order our steps in his
word. His word will be a light to our feet. I mean, a guide to our feet and a light to
our path. We got to knock. We got to be persistent. Like my friend was last night. She was blowing
up my phone. She was taking action. She wanted something and she was refusing to be refused.
She was denying to be denied. Guys, the Bible says that faith without works is dead like
Mabel. Don't go burning down places. All right. That's called arson. I can get you 15 to 20.
We don't want that. Don't do it. All right. But we do want to put feet on our prayers.
We don't want to just pray things and then just sit idly by in some waiting room. And
none of you are doing that in your love lives. That's why you're in this community. You guys
don't let the enemy chase you out of this community. This community is going to support
you. It's going to clap when you win. It's going to cheer for your love story. It's going
to continue to give you current prophetic reality and help you and encourage you and
exhort you. Comfort you if need be. It's going to help you with advice at every season
of your love story with wisdom from heaven as you navigate these new relationships when
they come. So don't let the enemy chase you out of here like, oh, you know, it hasn't
happened for me yet. So I'm just going to go and just go back in the waiting room or
I'm going to go focus on something else. Y'all, you can focus on other things besides your
love life and still be in this community. The stuff that we preach and teach about,
you can apply to any area of your life for breakthrough. Don't you agree? Amen. All right.
Just because it hasn't happened yet, it doesn't mean it's not going to happen. It is going
to happen. But remember what it says is that, you know, we ask and miss. Sometimes there's
some things, you know, we're asking with bad information from our hearts. God's not giving
you that thing that you keep asking for because the way, the way that you want him to give
it to you or the thing that you're asking for just ain't actually the best thing for
you. All right. That person that you want to make a commitment to you, God knows that
they shouldn't make a commitment to you, that that is not the right situation for you. And
so the fact that he's not answering that means that you need to ask a different question.
Like God, is this person right for me? Instead of God, will you please make this person love
me now? No, y'all. Come on. Okay. Knocking. We're knocking, knocking on heaven's door.
That's a whole different song and it does not mean this. Okay, here we go. Um, there's
another scripture in the Bible that talks about an unjust judge. Let's read that one
because it's very similar to the scripture that I read you about me and my friend last
night and all that stuff. And we want to read it. It's in Luke 18. So if you want to go
there, you can the parable of their persistent widow. Okay. Then Jesus told his disciples
the parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up. He said in a
certain town, there was a judge who neither feared God nor cared what people thought.
And there was a widow in that town who kept coming to him saying, grant me justice against
my adversary. For some time he refused. But finally he said to himself, even though I
don't fear God or care what other people think, this widow keeps bothering me. I'm going to
see that she gets justice so that she won't come, that she won't keep coming. He felt
attacked by her persistence. You know, he felt annoyed by it. He's like, look, I'm not
doing this anymore. I'm just going to give her what she wants. And the Lord said, listen
to what the unjust judge says and will not God bring about justice for his chosen ones
who cry out to him day and night. Will he keep putting them off? I tell you, he will
see that they get justice and quickly. All right. And then it goes on to say, when the
son of man comes, will he find faith on the earth? So he's likening this to faith. He's
saying, be persistent about what? About justice. Okay. And what does that mean about what you
have coming to you? And remember, we live in grace and mercy. So you're like, well,
I don't really deserve anything. Well, Jesus deserves a lot for the price that he paid
on the cross. You want him to get, you want Jesus to get his reward because you're his
reward. And so the next time you think I don't deserve anything, remember that Jesus
paid for it, not just for you, but as you, and that means that you get access to the
kingdom of heaven. Okay. But a lot of times we're asking for things that are just for
us to consume it upon our own loss. It's just about us. It's not going to create lineage
and legacy. That ripple effect is not going to go past you. You just want it for yourself.
Why don't you start knocking on heaven's door? Like the widow is knocking on
on the door of the unjust judge wanting justice
in a certain area.
You guys, anything that you look at that breaks your heart,
if it breaks your heart when you see it,
it's because you are a solution to that problem.
Maybe just the intercessor,
but you're still the solution to that problem.
Maybe it's gonna go beyond that,
but you guys, it always starts with asking and praying.
I can't tell you how many things broke my heart
and I just would start to pray and ask God,
oh, please, Lord, deliver those people
or please help that situation
or Lord, you gotta bring justice to this.
And then after praying that for whatever amount of time,
weeks, months, maybe years,
all of a sudden I had an opportunity
to be part of the solution to that problem.
Anybody else that ever happened to?
Come on, y'all.
So let me ask you a question.
What has God promised you?
What has he promised you?
You guys, and this is what I wanted to get to
and I said, don't let me forget.
When my kids were younger,
if I told them that I was gonna do anything,
take them to the store to look at shoes
because they wanted a pair of tennis shoes
or take them to get ice cream
or we're gonna go to the park,
we're gonna go do this, we're gonna do that,
my kids would persecute me
until I did whatever it was that I said.
I got to the place where I would just not tell them
I was gonna do something
until I was actually ready to walk out the door
because say you say on a Saturday afternoon,
okay, yeah, yeah, I'm taking them all.
I'm taking them all to get some shoes.
Okay, yeah, we're gonna do that.
The whole day is ruined until you do it now
because you're gonna be trying to clean.
You'll be trying to do other things.
I'm like, mom, we're not going.
Mom, hey, mom.
Mom, mom, mom, mom.
I don't know if your kids were like that,
but my kids were and you know what that showed?
Because I can tell you this.
When I was a kid, I didn't ask my parents for nothing.
I just went off and got it myself.
I didn't ask for anything, you guys.
Nothing, nothing, nothing.
I was not used to being taken care of.
I was severely neglected as a child.
I didn't ask for anything.
After a certain age, I stopped asking
and the fact that my kids persecute me
when I tell them I'm gonna do something, it means what?
It means they trust me.
They know mom is gonna do what she said
and they're gonna keep bugging me until I do it
because they know, they know that I'm gonna do
what I said I was gonna do because I promised
and you guys, if we being evil
know how to give good gifts to our children
and we know how to keep promises to our children,
how much more will your father in heaven
keep promises to you?
But you know what?
It shows you don't trust him just like me when I was a kid
and I was in a neglectful place with parents
who were caught up in their own drama
and just could not see me.
Is that what we think of God
when we don't continually knock and ask and seek?
Yes, it is.
We either think we don't deserve it
and so he shouldn't give it to us anyway
because we got some religious upbringing,
religious situation, all right?
We think we have to be perfect.
We think we have to keep punching some time clock
of good works until we finally earn whatever it is
that we're asking for
and or we think it's just easy to try to go
and get some inferior version of that thing ourselves
instead of waiting on God to give it to us
because we have this idea
that when you ask God for something
then he makes you wait years and years for it.
Go sit in the waiting room
until you're good enough to have it, right?
And that might even be your childhood.
You ask your parent for something.
Maybe you did ask them for something
and they were just like,
no, you haven't cleaned your room in a year
so you're not gonna get that.
We had such a punishment system, right?
There's such a layaway system
in a lot of people's upbringings
where you just had to continue to do something,
put it on layaway, put it on layaway
and then maybe someday you'll get it.
Our God is a right now God
and because remember I said you don't wanna ask
and consume it upon your own lust, what's that mean?
It only means you're asking for something
that will only benefit you and nobody else.
But if you start switching your asks
and your knocking for something
that's not just gonna benefit you
but everybody else and you guys,
your marriage is one of those things.
It's about lineage and legacy.
And so let's take a page from the playbook of the widow
and let's be persistent knockers.
Hey God, you promised.
Hey God, remember when you promised?
Hey God, remember here I got it written in my journal,
all right, right here.
January, it's a year anniversary God,
it's a year anniversary.
This day last year, you told me this, you promised.
Hey, you promised Lord.
And so I'm asking you.
there's something that I need to do
to help this promise come to pass,
then I'm willing to do it.
Go ahead and tell me what it is, show me what it is.
But I'm gonna keep on reminding you about this
because it must have been important to you
because you don't take words idly.
And so you sent this word out
and I know it's gonna accomplish your will in the earth.
Come on, y'all.
So thank you, God.
We love you so much and we thank you for this word today.
We ask God that we would be those that ask
and those that seek and those that knock,
that we would not be deterred by a condemnation
of whether or not we're worthy to receive those answers
or whether or not we're worthy to receive those things
that we're asking and seeking and knocking for.
Instead, we're gonna let you work all that out
and we're gonna know that it is your great delight
to bless your children so that we can be blessed
to be a blessing in Jesus' name, amen.
All right, y'all, go have a supernatural day today.
Love you, activate tomorrow night.
See you soon, bye-bye.