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Welcome to Supernatural Saturday! If it's your first time with us on Saturday,

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welcome! You're in for a treat. Saturday is the day that we all press into what

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is heaven saying to us? What is heaven saying to us individually? What is heaven

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saying to us as a community? What is the current prophetic realities of our lives

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this morning? And so we do that for about an hour here and then we activate it on

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Sunday nights. And so if you've never been to a Sunday night activation, you're

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not alone. I haven't been there either, but I know that the team member that

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leads it and I know it's a powerful time. And so if you feel moved by what Holy

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Spirit is saying to us today, then you're gonna want to follow through with

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activating that tomorrow night 8 p.m. Eastern. That is not recorded. This

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session is. That one's not. And so make sure that you head over there some

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Sunday night when you have available. All right, let's start out. Father God,

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we love you so much. We're so thankful that you have unlimited mercy for us.

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Every morning that we give up, there's a whole fresh supply of mercy. It never

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runs out. Your grace is abundant in our lives. Your grace is sufficient in our

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lives. We thank you for grace and mercy this morning as we lean in. We need it.

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We need it, Lord. And we ask God that you would help us to see the ways that you

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are giving us empowerment from heaven, that grace to do what we cannot do on

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our own and that the ways that you're giving us mercy. We're not getting what

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we deserve, Lord, but we're getting what Jesus deserves because of his finished

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work at the cross. Yes. Thank you, Jesus. Amen. All right, friends, I need that

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mercy this morning because I know you all think I'm perfect. And I just let you

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think that because that's just nice. I like it. But I'm not. I have a couple

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that's a friend that friends of mine. We go way back, way, way back. And they

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moved to Texas not that long ago, probably about two years or so ago. But

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this couple, you know, they got married young. They actually got married a month

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before David and I, but they're much younger than us. They're about 10 years

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younger than us. But they've been married a month longer than we have. So

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they just celebrated 16 years as well. And they're in their 17th year as well

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as us. But unlike us, they've had lots and lots and lots of issues. Okay, got

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married young, a train wreck in a dumpster fire from the very beginning,

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started popping out babies every other year, you know, five babies, boom, boom,

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boom, boom, like a machine gun. And, you know, he was deployed in the military.

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And then one of their children had a health problem. And then all kinds of

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different things happen that were those outside things. And friends, y'all want

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to get married, I understand. And a lot of you understand the kind of marriage

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I'm talking about, where it has more problems than a math book. And a lot of

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those problems come from the outside of things, right. And what they do is they

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escalate the inside of things. So if we don't do our hard work, we're carrying a

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bunch of garbage from our childhoods. And, you know, from experiences in our

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lives, what's going to happen is, is that those outside forces are going to

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trigger those inside wounds, and we're going to have a hot mess express. Right,

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and that happened happened for my friends. And there's been lots of times,

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you know, they've leaned to David and I, in those times, and you know, whether

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they were individually struggling with just some sort of thing inside of

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themselves, anxiety, or depression, or then they were corporately struggling,

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the marriage was struggling, we've always been there for them. And I think all of

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you can think of a friend like that right now, go ahead and picture a friend

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like that. You know, you're the one they come running to, because they trust you

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and you love them. It's not about not loving people. Maybe it's a family

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member. But it gets old after a while, don't it? And go ahead and raise your

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hand if you've been the person that has all the drama, and someone else has been

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there for you over and over and over and over again. You know, when I was

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first getting discipled, my pastor's wife, I swear to you, she has a special

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place in heaven for discipling me. She must be a saint in heaven. I'm telling

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you, y'all. Not kidding. Because I was a wreck. And I was calling her on the

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daily, not the monthly, not the weekly, on the daily, like help me help me help

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me. You know, and I've discipled lots of people like that, too. It's kind of

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like pay it forward, right? But this friendship, you know, it will stand the

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test of time. I'll always be there for her. But when she knocked on my door at

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1am last night, wanting to stay at my house because of trouble in the camp at

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home, I was irritated.

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Y'all, I was annoyed.

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And your girl Jackie, and I know you won't believe this of me. I pretended that I was asleep. I

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Was not going to get up and answer the door

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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

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Yeah, I guess you know, but let me know, you know, let me know. Well, she never let me know

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830 turn into 930 turn into 1030 turn to do 1130 turn into midnight and then I went to bed

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I'm like, oh must have changed her mind, right? Isn't that what you would think?

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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

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No, no, no

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and I will tell you there are elements of this story that already had me triggered because

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There are things that remind me of my own childhood that are

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Elements to this story because a lot of there's a lot of young children involved

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And so I was already kind of triggered you guys if you get mad

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Over someone else's thing something that really doesn't concern you

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It's because there's an element of it that is triggering an unhealed trauma in you

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That includes you're watching the television and you see something and just you're like, oh my god

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And you see something and it just makes you so mad or you hear about something that somebody did maybe they're famous

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Maybe they're not maybe they're um, you know, whoever whatever

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You hear some gossip unfortunately about somebody at your church or whatever and what they did offends you

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Offense is always pointing to an unhealed part of your own heart

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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

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Okay, the shoe fits put it on tie it up and wear it because it's important that we walk on out

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Of all these things that we shouldn't be living in anymore and we go to a better place

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We want to do that

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So I was already irritated. It's already triggered. So I was like, nope, it's not gonna do it

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You know, she can just go ahead and go on home. They can work it out. They can figure it out

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That's literally what I was thinking to myself

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And then my phone started blowing up

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It's her she's in the driveway. She's blowing my phone up

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I'm like, okay. Well, she'll just call once and then she won't call back

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Nope, she called again. She was being what she was being

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Really annoying but also persistent. She's being persistent

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She wanted something

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She wanted my help

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Didn't matter what time it was and so y'all I got out of bed

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I had some choice words

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for her

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I went outside and I was like, what the hell are you doing?

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You know

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How rude how disrespectful?

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Seriously, I mean I've known this girl for a really long time. I'm like what what the heck

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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

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So I took her and I got her settled into her room and I sat there and I listened to

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What was going on and I gave her advice and God softened my heart and

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Hopefully gave me some wisdom from heaven and gave her a hug and then when I went to bed

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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

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And it's only 8 a.m. Here or 9. It's 9

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So you're like jackie, what does this have to do with our supernatural saturday? Well, when I asked the lord

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Before I went to sleep. I'm like, oh lord

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You know

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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

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You want to say to me and to your to your sons and daughters? Like what do you want to say to us?

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You guys, you know god is just so funny, right?

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You guys, you know god is just so funny, right?

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This is a scripture that we're going to launch off of this morning that he put in my heart

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Luke 11 verses 5 through 9. I'm going to read from the message

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He said imagine what would happen if you went to a friend in the middle of the night

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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

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And he said I'm not going to do that. I'm not going to do that. I'm not going to do that

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Said friend lend me three loaves of bread an old friend traveling through just showed up and I don't have anything on hand

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The friend answers from his bed. Don't bother me

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The door is locked. My children are all down for the night. I can't get up to give you anything

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But let me tell you even if he won't get up because he's a friend

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Even if the friendship isn't strong enough for him to get up and give you what you want in my case

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The friendship was strong enough

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If you stand your ground knocking

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And waking up all the neighbors. He'll finally get up and get you whatever

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Here's what I'm saying to you, ask and it shall be given.

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Come on, y'all.

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Seek and you will find.

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Knock and it shall be opened to you.

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Internalize that real quick.

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Internalize that story real quick.

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Super rude neighbor comes at midnight, you guys.

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The story is he comes at midnight.

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You're in bed, you're asleep, your kids are asleep,

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and he wants some bread from you

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because he had a friend show up, also rude,

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in the middle of the night and wanted to stay

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and also just didn't want to stay,

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was hungry and wanted some food.

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It says even if that person's not a good enough friend

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to get up at that time of night and help you out,

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they will get up if you bug them enough.

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If you make a big enough ruckus,

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as my grandpa would say, they will get up.

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And you guys, this is not a one-off in scripture, okay?

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It's not a one-off.

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I want to tell you guys something.

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A lot of you always come to me and say,

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Jackie, how will I know if I'm equally yoked

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with my boyfriend or girlfriend, with my fiance?

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I want to be equally yoked before I marry.

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Well, first of all, you need to know

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that a yoke is not something you find in the barnyard.

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In scripture, what a yoke is, is it is the set of teachings,

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the ideologies, the philosophies of a rabbi.

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It is how they viewed the law.

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All the rabbis were of different schools of thought.

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They viewed the law differently.

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They taught it differently.

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And those teachings were considered their yokes.

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That's why Jesus said, hey, my yoke's better

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than all theirs.

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Take my yoke upon you, because what?

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Grace, right?

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My teaching is easy.

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My burden is light.

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Some of those people were following rabbis

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that put them under the law,

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like put them under the feet of the law,

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like crushed them with all the different things

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that they had to do, the T's they had to cross,

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the I's they had to dot.

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Jesus is like, come to me, all you that are weary

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and heavy laden with what?

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The law.

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And I will give you rest.

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Take my yoke upon you, my teachings.

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Try them on for size, right?

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Because they're easy and my burden is light.

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And so his yoke, you guys, his teachings,

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what I'm reading from right now in Luke,

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it is part of a series of scriptures

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that we call the Sermon on the Mount.

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And that is widely recognized as the yoke of Christ.

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These set of teachings are widely recognized

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as Jesus's yoke.

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Guys know that?

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If you don't, you don't know.

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So guys, this is not a one-off.

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Jesus is teaching us something that is part of his yoke

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that's easy and his burden that's light.

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He wants us to know.

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The story is not just a story.

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It's an analogy.

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Jesus is always talking in metaphors and analogies.

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He wants us to take something from this,

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from our own life.

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He says, seek.

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He says, ask and it shall be given to you.

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Seek and you will find.

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Knock and it shall be opened.

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And so we're gonna just dig into that for a few minutes

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because this happened to me last night

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with a friend wanting something from me late in the night.

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I did get up and you guys remember,

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I didn't get up just because I was tired.

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I didn't get up just because I was a good friend of hers.

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I was just gonna pretend to be asleep

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because I was annoyed.

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I was triggered.

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I thought it was rude.

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I felt disrespected, dishonored in that moment.

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But because she kept blowing up my phone,

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in this case, my heart softened

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because of the persistence of her.

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I didn't, you know, I got up.

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Yeah, I was agitated,

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but I got up because my heart softened.

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Like she was being persistent.

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She really needed something

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and I wasn't going to deny it to her.

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I wasn't gonna deny it to her.

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You guys remember, this is not a one-off with my friend

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in case you start thinking that I'm a meanie.

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I mean, this has like been constant, constant,

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constant situation for the last, you know, nine months.

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but the last nine months, big time.

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So God wants us to know, let's go in order here.

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First of all, we need to ask.

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Let's take these separately.

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You guys wanna take these separately?

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Ask, seek and knock.

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Shall we?

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Cause they all mean something different.

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To kind of like, you're like, oh, ask, seek, knock.

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All right, cool.

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But we need to break them down

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because they all really mean something very different.

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And we need to do not one of them, but all three of them.

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He could have just said, Hey, I'm sure that you asked me for what you want, but he didn't.

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He said, make sure you seek it, make sure you knock for it, right?

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They that ask will receive, they that seek will find, and they that knock, the door will

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be opened.

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That's what it goes on to say.

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So let's jump into asking.

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First of all, you guys, the Bible tells us that God knows what we have need of before

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we ask, doesn't it?

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And yet we still have to ask.

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Because asking shows dependency.

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It shows dependency.

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Who has the authority to give you what it is that you want, that you need?

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God does.

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At your job, you have a job, you have a certain level of authority, but there's still times

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when you have to ask someone who has more authority than you, if you can do something

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that needs to be done, right?

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You might ask to be able to spend over the budget because it needs to happen, but you

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can't just sign off on it yourself unless you are the boss, boss, boss, head boss.

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You have to ask if it, if it's okay, got to ask for that permission, it's important.

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Now say that at your job, that's not for you because you are the head boss, like the boss

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talks with you.

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You guys, you have to make sure you keep your phones muted.

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I can't break my focus and go mute your phone.

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So if you hear a bunch of stuff going on in the bathroom, background, the bathroom, not

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If you hear a bunch of stuff going on in the background, you better go ahead and look and

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see if your little microphone is red because it might be you that's making all that noise.

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If you're the head boss at work and you're used to a great deal of power because you

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know, you're the final decision maker, that's awesome, but you're still answering to somebody.

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You're still answering to somebody.

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In a marriage, you don't just go off and do whatever you want.

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That means you guys, you got to get permission from each other to do things, to make decisions.

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And some of you need to get ready for that.

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You've been alone on your own for a long time, only answering to yourself and God perhaps,

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and maybe not even God half the time.

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And now you're going to have someone else in your life that you have to run things by.

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You can't just, you know, someone calls and says, Hey, do you want to do this?

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You can't just say yes without saying to your mate, Hey, you know, so-and-so wants me to

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go away for the weekend, you know, on a girl's trip or a guy's trip, or, you know, so-and-so

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wants me to go help them move on Sunday.

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And I know, you know, I know you had plans for this, but you know, would it, would it

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be okay with you if I did that?

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You have to ask.

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You can't just go to the store and just buy whatever your little heart desires anymore.

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Even if you can't afford it, you got to run that by your significant other.

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So asking shows respect, it shows honor, it shows dependency.

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It also shows that you know, who's got the answers.

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If we never asked God for anything, and we just run off and do things in our own strength,

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with our own will, with our own wisdom, what is that telling God?

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It's telling God that we don't need you.

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I got it.

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I know what to do.

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So he knows what we need before we even ask, but he wants us to make our requests known

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to him.

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There's a scripture in the Bible that say, make your requests known to God through what?

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Through prayer and supplication.

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You guys, if you read the Lord's Prayer, when Jesus' disciples said, hey, you know,

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teach us how to pray.

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There's a lot of praying that goes on when you're a Jew, especially back in the Bible

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days.

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But they're like, hmm, we're watching you, Jesus, and we're seeing how things are going.

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And you know, there's a lot of prayers that we do.

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And so we need you to tell us what are the most important prayers?

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How should we pray?

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And if you read the Lord's Prayer, which I'm not going to, but all of us could probably

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quote it, right?

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Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done

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on earth as it is in heaven.

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Give us this day our daily.

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After we say that God is sovereign, he is God, he should be praised, he should be hallowed.

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bunch of asks, right? A whole bunch of asks. Oh, hi. I'm there. A whole bunch of asks.

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I'll keep my video off so you guys can hear my voice. I don't have good reception where I live.

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A whole bunch of asks happen, don't they?

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Give us our bread. Show us the way. Do this. Do that for us.

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Forgive us as we forgive those that trespass against us. Forgive us our trespasses. A whole

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bunch of asks happen. So make your requests known to God with prayer and supplication.

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James 4. I never really fully understood the scripture for a really long time,

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and maybe you don't either, okay? And so I'm going to break it down to you really quickly,

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but it's another ask scripture. It says that if any of you lack wisdom, ask for it.

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Ask for wisdom, right? Ask for what it is that you need information on, clarity on,

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and then be ready to receive. Don't just ask, but be ready to receive what you have asked for,

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because you will receive what you ask for. It says you will

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if you don't what? If you don't ask amiss. It says you have not because you ask not.

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And when you ask, sometimes you ask amiss. And what's that mean? It means you're missing the

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mark with your ask, right? And I know a lot of people will make this all about sin,

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and I know the scripture and a couple of translations can get pretty intense,

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but really what I see that as is that we just need to do more hard work.

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We're asking with bad information. We're asking God something. We're wanting him to do something

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for us, but the problem is we have bad information about that thing. We're asking God to give us

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something that either we don't really need or would not be good for us to have, or we're asking

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with the total wrong motivations. Does that make sense to everyone? I believe so.

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So it's important for us to remember that unanswered prayers are just as important as

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answered prayers. And so oftentimes I will say to God because of this scripture, I will say,

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God, I don't know what to ask for in this situation. I'll be in a situation where I

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don't know what the solution is. And a lot of times right there, friends, we are tempted to

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pray from a very carnal point of view, not from a heavenly perch where we're seated with Christ in

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heavenly places, and our enemies are under our feet. We're really tempted to pray from a place

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of fear right at that moment, to ask from a place of fear, to ask from a place of scarcity,

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to ask from a place of limited understanding. And so a lot of times we're asking for very

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specific things too, like, hey God, I need you to do this for me, A, B, and C for me.

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And that's why your Jesus Cares board, for those of you that are just entering heart work,

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that's why it's so important because you put those asks, you put them up on that board,

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you know, in your finite understanding of what it is that you need. And God's able to do what?

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Ephesians 3.20, exceedingly abundantly above all we can ask, think, or imagine by the power

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that works in us. We give him the final sign off because he knows what we have need of before we

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even ask. He wants us to ask because it shows dependency. It shows that we know where our help

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comes from. Remember the psalmist? Where does my help come from? Does my help come from the hills?

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Does it come from the government? Does it come from another, you know, army coming and rescuing

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me? No, my help comes from the Lord. And so you guys, if we go to God first and we ask for what

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it is that we have need of, we're showing him that at the end of the day, we know who's in charge.

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Not all this stuff that's troubling us and tormenting us, not all these problems that

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have creeped up, you know, the old saying that says, you know, don't tell God your problems.

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Don't tell God about your problems. Tell your problems about God.

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And it's not easy to do because you guys, we were born under a curse that Jesus broke,

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but every day we have to walk that out. We have to walk out that salvation. We have to walk

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out that wholeness, mind, body, and spirit every single day. Jesus said you will continue in my

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word and you will know the truth and it will make you free. You got to walk that out every day

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because this curse part of us wants to continue to be in order.

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He wants to continue to run around, independent, trying to figure things out itself, trying

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not to trust anyone, including God.

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Guys, we have to battle that nature, don't we?

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And part of the way that we battle that is becoming like a little child.

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And I'm going to get to that.

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When I get to knocking, remind me if I don't tell you about my kids persecuting me.

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I don't want to leave this call without talking about that.

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God wants us to come to him.

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A lot of us stop coming to him because what happened was we came and we said, hey, God,

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I need help with this.

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And we told him exactly how he could help us.

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And he didn't do it.

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That's because God's not your employee, right?

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He doesn't work for you.

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He works on your behalf, the Bible says.

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But he doesn't work for you.

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He don't answer to you.

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What we do is we invite him into a situation and then we take our hands off of it.

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We're not that good at that.

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This scripture in James talks about if you lack wisdom, ask.

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And if you believe that you receive it, I just I quoted two different James scriptures

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just so y'all know.

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So I quoted from James 2 about if you ask for wisdom, you'll receive it as long as you're

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not double minded.

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What's double minded mean?

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You ask God for his input on it, and then you just go do whatever you need to do your

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own way anyway.

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You're double minded, double minded.

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But James 4, what I was quoting from about you have not because you ask not.

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We don't want to be double minded.

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Sometimes you're gonna have to wait on an answer from the Lord.

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I know you want that problem to go away right now, but that's why you put it on your Jesus

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cares board.

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Because in that scripture in Philippians, he says, cast your care upon me because I

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care for you.

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And the reason why you want the answer right now to whatever the problem is, is because

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it's burdening you.

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But didn't Jesus say that his yoke was easy and his burden was light, meaning that you

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can give him your heavy burden in exchange for his light one.

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You can put it up on the Jesus cares board and you can say, you know what?

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I don't know how this works out, but it does work out in my favor.

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Romans 8, 28, he's promised to work out everything to the good of those that love him and I love

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him.

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And so I'm going to put it up here and I know that if he needs my help with it, if there's

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a part that I need to play, because you guys oftentimes there is, he's going to let me

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know what that is.

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And then you blanket that stuff in prayer.

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You blanket that stuff in supplication.

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You don't tell God how he has to solve your problems.

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You just know that he has a solution and that in the right timing, either that problem's

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just going to go away, which has happened a lot for me, and that it just doesn't even

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become a problem anymore.

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You're like, Oh, where'd that problem go?

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I don't know.

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I guess it wasn't really a problem.

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Or he's going to give you a specific solution that you either can play a part in or you

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get to watch as he does it all.

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Come on y'all.

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Good stuff this morning from Holy Spirit.

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Let's talk about a different ask.

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John 15, it's a great chapter.

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I just encourage you to go there and just soak in John 15.

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It's talking about how Jesus is the vine and you're just a branch.

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I often thought about getting this tattooed somewhere on my body, on my arm, somewhere

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where I can see it, because oftentimes I take on the burden of being the vine, not just

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for myself, but for others, but the source y'all, the source.

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You are not the source, not for your kids.

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After a time of dependency, when your kids are old enough to do things for themselves,

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they ought to be doing that as you're teaching them, not independence, but interdependence.

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If all you ever do is let your kid be dependent on you.

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I know we do that out of fear of abandonment.

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That's what it is, friends.

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I know it sounds, it looks pretty on the outside for a little while where it's like, Oh, you're

456
00:29:12.560 --> 00:29:13.560
such a good parent.

457
00:29:13.560 --> 00:29:15.600
Oh my gosh, your kids are so blessed.

458
00:29:15.600 --> 00:29:16.600
No.

459
00:29:16.600 --> 00:29:17.600
Okay.

460
00:29:17.600 --> 00:29:22.000
Your kids are not being taught interdependence and they're going to grow up and they're going

461
00:29:22.000 --> 00:29:26.000
to turn you out because they're used to you doing everything for them and that's not going

462
00:29:26.000 --> 00:29:27.880
to change because you didn't change it.

463
00:29:27.880 --> 00:29:31.240
And they're going to show up at your door in the middle of the night when they're 26

464
00:29:31.240 --> 00:29:36.360
years old, wanting to live with mom or dad because they didn't learn any life skills.

465
00:29:36.360 --> 00:29:37.360
Okay.

466
00:29:37.360 --> 00:29:42.480
That's a little added tidbit and I know it sounds harsh, but y'all, it's going to be

467
00:29:42.480 --> 00:29:43.480
painful.

468
00:29:43.560 --> 00:29:49.720
I know so many marriages that have been wrecked up by, you know, grown children that never

469
00:29:49.720 --> 00:29:53.360
learned how to live.

470
00:29:53.360 --> 00:29:58.920
They never learned how to live because their parents raised them because you were abused

471
00:29:58.920 --> 00:29:59.920
as a child.

472
00:29:59.920 --> 00:29:59.920


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00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:05.360
them to have any pain. So you shelter them from all the pain and did all the things for them

474
00:30:05.360 --> 00:30:09.200
so that they would never feel burdened. And then this is the product that we get,

475
00:30:10.240 --> 00:30:16.240
right? Kids that don't know how to do things. So you're not the source. You're not divine.

476
00:30:16.240 --> 00:30:20.480
You're just a branch. John 15. I'm just a branch. I'm just a branch. I'm just a branch. And that

477
00:30:20.480 --> 00:30:24.560
should take a whole lot of pressure off you because God is the source, but he's the head

478
00:30:24.560 --> 00:30:29.760
of the human resource department. So you are a branch. The vine isn't what bears fruit. The

479
00:30:29.760 --> 00:30:38.000
branches do. And for all of you, come on, y'all. Wow. Holy spirit. You're so amazing. For all of

480
00:30:38.000 --> 00:30:42.960
you that grew up in some denomination of Christianity, where they try to put fear in

481
00:30:42.960 --> 00:30:49.280
you of stealing God's glory. This verse, this passage of scripture will show you that that's

482
00:30:49.280 --> 00:30:58.720
not possible. Okay. If Jesus wanted the glory, he would have been the branch and not the vine

483
00:31:01.120 --> 00:31:06.240
because where does all the fruit show up? Where's all the glory show up? It shows up in your life.

484
00:31:06.240 --> 00:31:15.440
Doesn't it? Because Jesus is supplying what you need. You get to bear fruit. And the Bible says

485
00:31:16.000 --> 00:31:21.840
it says people on earth will see your good fruit. If your good fruit is not coming from

486
00:31:21.840 --> 00:31:28.480
your hard work and you know, you're striving. If it's coming from heaven, if you're just the branch,

487
00:31:29.360 --> 00:31:34.160
okay. Not trying to be the vine. You're just a branch. The Bible says that people will see your

488
00:31:34.160 --> 00:31:38.960
good works and they'll do what they'll glorify God in heaven because they know you didn't do

489
00:31:38.960 --> 00:31:43.600
that on your own. There's no way that you did that. Uh, I went to middle school with this chick.

490
00:31:43.600 --> 00:31:47.920
I was in sixth grade with her and she was still eating paste. So I know she didn't do that by

491
00:31:47.920 --> 00:31:57.600
herself that had to have a divine origin. That's what happens. That's what happens when we bear

492
00:31:57.600 --> 00:32:05.360
heavenly fruit. You guys paste tasted good. I'm sorry. Smell good. It made you want to taste it.

493
00:32:05.360 --> 00:32:10.560
If you didn't taste paste, I'm sorry. And if you didn't eat the peanut butter off the pine cone

494
00:32:10.560 --> 00:32:14.400
that you were supposed to be putting the birdseed on, then I don't even know who you are.

495
00:32:16.400 --> 00:32:20.800
And if you don't know what I'm talking about, you were not in elementary school in the eighties.

496
00:32:23.680 --> 00:32:29.600
Okay. So we don't have to worry about stealing God's glory because we are his glory.

497
00:32:31.520 --> 00:32:35.200
Children are the glory of the father. He wants us to have

498
00:32:36.080 --> 00:32:41.840
vines, um, branches that are heavy with fruit that are connected to the vine. Jesus goes on

499
00:32:41.840 --> 00:32:46.400
to say, apart from me, you can't do it. Nothing. But we know that that's not true. We do know that

500
00:32:46.400 --> 00:32:50.320
we can do things, but that's not what he means. What he means is you can do nothing of any value

501
00:32:50.320 --> 00:32:54.640
can do nothing of any real value, any heavenly value, any eternal value.

502
00:32:54.640 --> 00:32:58.560
If you want a life of eternal value, then you're only going to get it by being connected to me.

503
00:32:58.560 --> 00:33:02.480
You're not going to get it by all your striving and all you're trying. It's not going to work.

504
00:33:02.480 --> 00:33:06.400
It's not going to happen. Yeah. You'll bear some fruit, but it won't be the eternal kind.

505
00:33:07.360 --> 00:33:10.960
It won't be the kind, you know, when Jesus said to the woman at the well, he said,

506
00:33:10.960 --> 00:33:14.320
yeah, you're drinking water and you keep coming back because you're still thirsty,

507
00:33:14.320 --> 00:33:20.880
but I got this other water. And if you drink of it, you will never thirst again.

508
00:33:21.440 --> 00:33:27.120
That's the kind of fruit we're talking about y'all. Okay. So he says, what does he say in

509
00:33:27.120 --> 00:33:33.360
John 15? As he goes down, he says, abide in me. What does that mean? That means make your home in

510
00:33:33.360 --> 00:33:44.320
me, get comfortable in me, come and rest in me, abide in me. And if you do, if you abided me and

511
00:33:44.320 --> 00:33:52.880
my word abides in you, remember he is the word robed in flesh came dwelt among us. He is the

512
00:33:52.880 --> 00:34:02.400
word. Okay. If my word abides in you, you will ask for what you want and it will be granted.

513
00:34:03.920 --> 00:34:12.159
Guys, look at that. Ask, but you won't just ask regular ask. You'll ask for what Jesus is asking

514
00:34:12.159 --> 00:34:21.280
for. Why? Because his words are now in you, you and him, you guys are simpatico. He's the vine,

515
00:34:21.280 --> 00:34:28.800
your extension of him as the branch you're bearing fruit from the finished work on the cross. It's

516
00:34:28.800 --> 00:34:36.239
eternal. And in this kind of relationship, this intimate relationship, the desires of your hearts

517
00:34:36.239 --> 00:34:40.960
are going to become the desires of heaven. And the Bible says that out of the abundance of the heart,

518
00:34:40.960 --> 00:34:46.560
the mouth speaks. So when you open your mouth to ask for something, you're going to be asking in

519
00:34:46.560 --> 00:34:51.440
agreement with what heaven is already doing it. What God already wants to do. Come on. Isn't this

520
00:34:51.440 --> 00:34:58.640
powerful? And you guys, this is not a place where, you know, it's just like you get here once and you

521
00:34:58.640 --> 00:34:59.920
just stay here in the abiding.

522
00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:05.760
It's a place that you just have to get to every day.

523
00:35:05.760 --> 00:35:06.760
Got to wake up in the morning.

524
00:35:06.760 --> 00:35:16.200
You have to say, you know what, I'm up, I'm ready to go, but order my steps, Lord.

525
00:35:16.200 --> 00:35:21.600
Order my steps, take my feet where you want them to go, put the words in my mouth.

526
00:35:21.600 --> 00:35:28.560
You know, you have to invite, you have to ask, you have to give permission in order

527
00:35:28.560 --> 00:35:31.720
to get on the same page with heaven.

528
00:35:31.720 --> 00:35:34.580
That's what I love about Supernatural Saturday because that's exactly what we're doing.

529
00:35:34.580 --> 00:35:39.760
If you guys are not going out after Supernatural Saturday and just, you know, be in the branch

530
00:35:39.760 --> 00:35:46.000
and letting supernatural stuff like just fall off of you everywhere, then try that today

531
00:35:46.000 --> 00:35:50.720
because you are activated.

532
00:35:50.720 --> 00:35:51.720
Okay.

533
00:35:51.720 --> 00:35:54.000
All right.

534
00:35:54.000 --> 00:35:55.000
So we got to move on.

535
00:35:55.000 --> 00:35:57.640
We can stay on ask the whole time.

536
00:35:57.640 --> 00:35:59.360
I think we can stay on ask the whole time.

537
00:35:59.360 --> 00:36:00.360
Okay.

538
00:36:00.360 --> 00:36:04.960
So he says to ask and it will be given to you, right?

539
00:36:04.960 --> 00:36:05.960
Seek.

540
00:36:05.960 --> 00:36:06.960
Let's talk about seek real quick.

541
00:36:06.960 --> 00:36:09.080
Guys, the word seek implies what?

542
00:36:09.080 --> 00:36:15.120
It means to, it means to go searching for something, doesn't it?

543
00:36:15.120 --> 00:36:18.880
When my mom was sick and you guys, this was the anniversary of my mom passing away.

544
00:36:18.880 --> 00:36:23.240
These next couple of weeks, my birthday's next week and it always falls on my birthday.

545
00:36:23.240 --> 00:36:30.640
I spent several of my birthdays in my forties, you know, sitting next to my mom who was dying.

546
00:36:30.640 --> 00:36:35.680
Very traumatic, you know, not going anywhere, not celebrating, not having a party, but you

547
00:36:35.680 --> 00:36:42.080
know, sitting and comforting my mom who was very, very ill, you know, or just straight

548
00:36:42.080 --> 00:36:48.720
up in the hospital with her or, you know, something like that during those years.

549
00:36:48.720 --> 00:36:53.800
And she's been past it before years on February 3rd, but the three weeks leading up to that,

550
00:36:53.800 --> 00:36:54.800
she was in ICU.

551
00:36:54.800 --> 00:36:59.400
So right now we're in the traumaversary of the ICU days.

552
00:36:59.400 --> 00:37:03.520
And I will tell you that every day when I got up out of the bed and got in the car to

553
00:37:03.520 --> 00:37:09.560
drive to the hospital, you know, the Lord, you know, he said to me, he said, Jackie said,

554
00:37:09.560 --> 00:37:10.560
don't look anywhere else.

555
00:37:10.560 --> 00:37:11.560
Just look at me.

556
00:37:11.560 --> 00:37:15.960
It was a hard, hard, hard season.

557
00:37:15.960 --> 00:37:18.540
He said, do not look at anything.

558
00:37:19.360 --> 00:37:20.360
I'd go in the room and I'd sit next to her.

559
00:37:20.360 --> 00:37:21.900
He's like, don't look at her.

560
00:37:21.900 --> 00:37:22.900
Look at me.

561
00:37:22.900 --> 00:37:23.900
Come on.

562
00:37:23.900 --> 00:37:24.900
This is for somebody.

563
00:37:24.900 --> 00:37:27.020
Don't look at that.

564
00:37:27.020 --> 00:37:29.340
Look at me.

565
00:37:29.340 --> 00:37:31.540
Seek my face.

566
00:37:31.540 --> 00:37:32.540
Seek my face.

567
00:37:32.540 --> 00:37:39.300
And you guys, some days it was so, so emotionally devastating that I'd be riding in the car

568
00:37:39.300 --> 00:37:42.420
and I'd be looking everywhere for him.

569
00:37:42.420 --> 00:37:43.860
I'd be looking on the street signs.

570
00:37:43.860 --> 00:37:45.020
You guys know I love numbers.

571
00:37:45.020 --> 00:37:46.180
I'd be looking at license plates.

572
00:37:46.180 --> 00:37:51.420
I'd be looking anywhere to find him.

573
00:37:51.420 --> 00:37:54.900
And I'd be saying out loud, I'm looking at you.

574
00:37:54.900 --> 00:38:03.660
Look at me.

575
00:38:03.660 --> 00:38:05.500
I'm looking at you.

576
00:38:05.500 --> 00:38:06.500
Look at me.

577
00:38:06.500 --> 00:38:10.340
Show me that you're looking at me.

578
00:38:10.340 --> 00:38:11.340
Where are you?

579
00:38:12.340 --> 00:38:19.340
Some of you are living there right now and you need to say that to the Lord, I'm looking

580
00:38:19.340 --> 00:38:20.340
at you.

581
00:38:20.340 --> 00:38:21.660
Show me your face.

582
00:38:21.660 --> 00:38:22.660
Look at me.

583
00:38:22.660 --> 00:38:27.500
Show me that you're looking at me, that you see me.

584
00:38:27.500 --> 00:38:33.700
And you guys, every day that I would sometimes shout that out to the Lord, I would see him

585
00:38:33.700 --> 00:38:36.340
looking at me.

586
00:38:36.340 --> 00:38:39.580
I would see him looking at me.

587
00:38:39.820 --> 00:38:45.420
He would come up to me in stores and say things like, have you ever heard of God Winks?

588
00:38:45.420 --> 00:38:48.580
Just crazy stuff.

589
00:38:48.580 --> 00:38:54.220
If you look, you will find him because I am very sensitive as an intercessor and as, you

590
00:38:54.220 --> 00:39:01.500
know, a spiritually empathic person, which makes me go to Supernatural Saturday and tune

591
00:39:01.500 --> 00:39:04.220
in to what's happening in the spirit realm.

592
00:39:04.220 --> 00:39:07.780
That can be good and bad sometimes because there's a lot of crazy stuff that's going

593
00:39:07.780 --> 00:39:09.400
on in the spirit realm too.

594
00:39:10.220 --> 00:39:15.280
And so when I go to places like Vegas or New York City, those are two places that I went

595
00:39:15.280 --> 00:39:17.880
last year for different events.

596
00:39:17.880 --> 00:39:24.920
I have a hard time when I first get there because I'm just picking up a lot and it makes

597
00:39:24.920 --> 00:39:26.960
me feel exhausted.

598
00:39:26.960 --> 00:39:31.160
I can feel like the hurt and depression and all the different things all around me.

599
00:39:31.160 --> 00:39:32.520
And it makes me just want to go.

600
00:39:32.520 --> 00:39:36.320
When I went to New York City, I just went into my hotel room and I just laid in there

601
00:39:36.320 --> 00:39:42.560
for days because I just, I was so overwhelmed by the city and by what I was feeling there

602
00:39:42.560 --> 00:39:46.520
of the despondency of humankind, right?

603
00:39:46.520 --> 00:39:50.320
And in order to get out, just recently when I was in Vegas for an event, in order to like

604
00:39:50.320 --> 00:39:55.960
move forward, I had to say, I had to pray this, God, show me where you are in this city.

605
00:39:55.960 --> 00:39:57.120
I'm seeking your face.

606
00:39:57.120 --> 00:39:58.800
I want to see you.

607
00:39:58.800 --> 00:39:59.880
Where are you here?

608
00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:06.040
Cause otherwise you can get in an Elijah mentality like, Oh, Jezebel killed everyone.

609
00:40:06.040 --> 00:40:07.400
I'm the only one left.

610
00:40:07.400 --> 00:40:10.580
You can get like in a real freaked out mentality.

611
00:40:10.580 --> 00:40:19.120
If all you, if all you are is overcome by all the evil around you, you got to ask God

612
00:40:19.120 --> 00:40:20.460
to show you where he is.

613
00:40:20.460 --> 00:40:21.460
You got to seek.

614
00:40:21.460 --> 00:40:23.160
There's so many scriptures in the Bible.

615
00:40:23.160 --> 00:40:29.960
You guys that tell us to seek him, seek him, seek his face, you know, seek his strength,

616
00:40:29.960 --> 00:40:40.080
seek his will, seek him, look for him, search for him, just resonating with anybody.

617
00:40:40.080 --> 00:40:45.680
If you've got a crazy situation going on in your family or whatever, say, Hey God, where

618
00:40:45.680 --> 00:40:47.640
are you in this situation?

619
00:40:47.640 --> 00:40:53.840
Where are you in a lot of inner healing modalities like sozo's and heart sinks and different

620
00:40:53.840 --> 00:40:59.320
things like that, they will actually ask you the practitioner when they're leading you

621
00:40:59.320 --> 00:41:04.600
through old trauma, they will say, Hey, look around, close your eyes, look around this

622
00:41:04.600 --> 00:41:06.800
memory that you have.

623
00:41:06.800 --> 00:41:11.080
Maybe it was when you were a kid and you were being verbally abused by a parent or God forbid,

624
00:41:11.080 --> 00:41:13.480
sexually violated or molested or whatever.

625
00:41:13.480 --> 00:41:20.640
They say, look around and ask Jesus, seek him, say, where, where, where were you?

626
00:41:20.640 --> 00:41:23.600
Where, where are you in this memory?

627
00:41:23.600 --> 00:41:26.800
Cause he promises never to leave us or forsake us, right?

628
00:41:26.800 --> 00:41:28.480
Where are you in this memory?

629
00:41:28.480 --> 00:41:32.520
And some of you need to do that because some of you feel so abandoned by God.

630
00:41:32.520 --> 00:41:35.840
You feel like God just threw you here into the earth realm and he's like, good luck kid.

631
00:41:35.840 --> 00:41:37.120
I hope you make it.

632
00:41:37.120 --> 00:41:40.120
That's not what happened.

633
00:41:40.120 --> 00:41:45.280
Obviously a lot of times we're the victim of people's choices, especially the people

634
00:41:45.280 --> 00:41:53.800
that had, that we were dependent on as children and, but, but Jesus was with us.

635
00:41:53.800 --> 00:41:56.200
He was with us.

636
00:41:56.200 --> 00:42:00.720
And I will tell you when I first heard about that, when I first came to Christ, cause I

637
00:42:00.720 --> 00:42:07.720
have a rough background, I've been through a lot of bad stuff as a child and as an adolescent

638
00:42:07.720 --> 00:42:10.120
and as a teenager and as a young woman.

639
00:42:10.120 --> 00:42:15.800
And when I was told this truth that I'm telling you now, it made me mad because I was like,

640
00:42:15.800 --> 00:42:17.960
well, if you were there, why didn't you stop it?

641
00:42:17.960 --> 00:42:21.120
You know, that was my mentality.

642
00:42:21.120 --> 00:42:27.600
But I will tell you that I have way many years ago understood that because of my infirmities,

643
00:42:27.600 --> 00:42:33.480
the power of the Lord rests upon me, kind of hits differently.

644
00:42:33.480 --> 00:42:34.480
It hits differently.

645
00:42:34.480 --> 00:42:37.880
He didn't rescue me from it, but he did rescue me through it.

646
00:42:37.880 --> 00:42:39.640
And I'm very thankful for that.

647
00:42:39.640 --> 00:42:44.040
And I hope that you will get to that place too, through heart work, okay, get to a place

648
00:42:44.040 --> 00:42:49.280
where you forgive and you're able to confess, you were able to repent, you were able to

649
00:42:49.280 --> 00:42:50.280
let go.

650
00:42:50.440 --> 00:42:52.480
But God is looking at us.

651
00:42:52.480 --> 00:42:56.400
What else does it tell us to seek in the word of God tells us to seek his kingdom.

652
00:42:56.400 --> 00:42:57.400
What is that?

653
00:42:57.400 --> 00:42:58.400
It's his ways.

654
00:42:58.400 --> 00:42:59.400
It's his will.

655
00:42:59.400 --> 00:43:00.400
It's his agenda.

656
00:43:00.400 --> 00:43:01.400
It's his plans.

657
00:43:01.400 --> 00:43:05.080
It's the new covenant, the new covenant.

658
00:43:05.080 --> 00:43:09.000
You guys, a lot of us have a lot of religion in us because just a little bit of it is very

659
00:43:09.000 --> 00:43:10.000
pervasive.

660
00:43:10.000 --> 00:43:13.960
You know, if you were discipled with any kind of religious mindsets by the people that taught

661
00:43:13.960 --> 00:43:19.120
you and they're not bad people, they just didn't have a higher revelation of the word

662
00:43:19.120 --> 00:43:21.840
of God or the character of God.

663
00:43:21.840 --> 00:43:26.080
And so a lot of times you will approach different things that your life from a very religious

664
00:43:26.080 --> 00:43:33.600
legalistic perspective, a very wrong or right, black or white situation perspective, okay.

665
00:43:33.600 --> 00:43:38.880
And even a condemnation perspective, because remember the law kills, but the spirit gives

666
00:43:38.880 --> 00:43:39.880
life.

667
00:43:39.880 --> 00:43:43.760
And so if you find yourself always tangled up in, oh, I should have, and God's mad at

668
00:43:43.760 --> 00:43:46.920
me and God's not going to give me what I want because I didn't do the right thing at the

669
00:43:46.920 --> 00:43:47.920
right time.

670
00:43:47.920 --> 00:43:51.580
If you find yourself caught up in that, I want you to stop yourself.

671
00:43:51.580 --> 00:43:56.840
When you catch yourself thinking along those lines, I want you to stop yourself in that

672
00:43:56.840 --> 00:43:57.840
moment.

673
00:43:57.840 --> 00:43:59.120
And I want you to do what this is saying today.

674
00:43:59.120 --> 00:44:09.800
I want you to seek his kingdom, say, Hey God, where is the yoke of Jesus in this moment?

675
00:44:09.800 --> 00:44:10.800
You know, where's his yoke?

676
00:44:10.800 --> 00:44:11.800
That's easy.

677
00:44:11.800 --> 00:44:12.800
And his burden is light.

678
00:44:12.800 --> 00:44:13.800
Where's that at?

679
00:44:13.800 --> 00:44:16.200
Where's the kingdom of God?

680
00:44:16.200 --> 00:44:21.280
Where are your plans and purposes at in this moment, in this situation, in this failure

681
00:44:21.280 --> 00:44:26.960
of mine or somebody else's show me your kingdom.

682
00:44:26.960 --> 00:44:29.480
Show me your ways.

683
00:44:29.480 --> 00:44:33.240
Show me your Genesis 50, 20, how you turn this to good.

684
00:44:33.240 --> 00:44:36.120
Your Romans eight 28, how you turn this to good.

685
00:44:36.120 --> 00:44:42.760
Show me, remember my favorite prayer for those of you that have done hard work, teach me,

686
00:44:42.760 --> 00:44:46.240
show me, heal me, grow me.

687
00:44:46.240 --> 00:44:48.880
Yeah.

688
00:44:48.880 --> 00:44:54.880
Show me there's gotta be a kingdom solution here.

689
00:44:54.880 --> 00:44:57.080
I'm not going to beat myself up.

690
00:44:57.080 --> 00:44:58.080
Yeah.

691
00:44:58.080 --> 00:44:58.080


692
00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:07.560
I can beat myself up because I know that your kingdom has a solution here.

693
00:45:07.560 --> 00:45:08.560
You have a plan.

694
00:45:08.560 --> 00:45:11.360
Jeremiah 29, 11, it says that you have more than one plan.

695
00:45:11.360 --> 00:45:12.360
Okay.

696
00:45:12.360 --> 00:45:17.440
I messed up 568 of your plans by my own free will and my own choices to zig instead of

697
00:45:17.440 --> 00:45:19.280
zag and to go left instead of right.

698
00:45:19.280 --> 00:45:20.280
But you have a new plan.

699
00:45:20.280 --> 00:45:26.880
So Lord, show me what that is because I'm ready to take that one this time.

700
00:45:26.880 --> 00:45:30.240
He wants us to look at him and he wants to see us looking at him.

701
00:45:30.240 --> 00:45:32.560
He wants us to see him looking at us.

702
00:45:32.560 --> 00:45:33.800
All right.

703
00:45:33.800 --> 00:45:34.800
Last one.

704
00:45:34.800 --> 00:45:35.800
Knock.

705
00:45:35.800 --> 00:45:40.280
I'm going to start this little part off with a little joke that I heard years ago when

706
00:45:40.280 --> 00:45:42.600
I was being discipled by the Pentecostals.

707
00:45:42.600 --> 00:45:47.040
And it was funny because I went to this little, this little women's prayer group.

708
00:45:47.040 --> 00:45:48.520
So it kind of hit home to me.

709
00:45:48.520 --> 00:45:52.880
You guys for at least a decade on Wednesdays, I would show up at this little church that

710
00:45:52.880 --> 00:45:59.480
was discipling me with these, with a little motley crew, a little ragtag crew of old Pentecostal

711
00:45:59.480 --> 00:46:02.420
women and a couple of young ones like me.

712
00:46:02.420 --> 00:46:05.560
And we would just, we would just pray the fire down y'all.

713
00:46:05.560 --> 00:46:06.800
You know how Pentecostals are.

714
00:46:06.800 --> 00:46:11.120
We would just go at it for at least a couple hours interceding.

715
00:46:11.120 --> 00:46:12.280
Okay.

716
00:46:12.280 --> 00:46:16.960
And there was a, you know, an abortion clinic down the street and they would go out there

717
00:46:16.960 --> 00:46:18.720
and they would, you know, circle the building.

718
00:46:18.720 --> 00:46:19.720
They would pray.

719
00:46:19.720 --> 00:46:20.720
They would do very Pentecostal things.

720
00:46:20.720 --> 00:46:26.440
And if you're not aware of, you know, what Pentecostal people are like, it just kind

721
00:46:26.440 --> 00:46:28.560
of gave you an idea.

722
00:46:28.560 --> 00:46:29.560
So here's the joke.

723
00:46:29.560 --> 00:46:31.000
All right.

724
00:46:31.000 --> 00:46:33.680
So Mabel was new to the community.

725
00:46:33.680 --> 00:46:39.240
And so she started going to the little church down on the corner and she went to the women's

726
00:46:39.240 --> 00:46:41.400
prayer group and she loved it.

727
00:46:41.400 --> 00:46:44.200
The women were so friendly and nice and they would pray.

728
00:46:44.200 --> 00:46:48.800
And she noticed that mostly they would pray about the bar across the street on the other

729
00:46:48.800 --> 00:46:49.800
corner.

730
00:46:49.880 --> 00:46:52.960
They say, Lord, will you please shut that bar down?

731
00:46:52.960 --> 00:46:54.920
Can you close that bar down?

732
00:46:54.920 --> 00:46:58.840
You know, George was out here drunk in the middle of the night, you know, and he wrecked

733
00:46:58.840 --> 00:47:02.320
his car on the church property and hurt our only tree.

734
00:47:02.320 --> 00:47:07.400
And you know, there's always all kinds of loose women out here around this bar.

735
00:47:07.400 --> 00:47:11.760
And our husbands are out here looking at these women as they're getting in their cars after

736
00:47:11.760 --> 00:47:16.600
church and Lord, will you just get rid of this bar?

737
00:47:16.600 --> 00:47:20.880
She's just praying that this bar would just go away.

738
00:47:20.880 --> 00:47:25.920
And after a couple of weeks of praying with these ladies, Mabel came in to prayer and

739
00:47:25.920 --> 00:47:28.120
all the ladies were just ecstatic.

740
00:47:28.120 --> 00:47:31.480
They were, they were just praising God and they were jumping up and down.

741
00:47:31.480 --> 00:47:34.000
And she's like, what, what, what's going on?

742
00:47:34.000 --> 00:47:39.400
And they said, Oh, the bar, didn't you see it burnt to the ground last Saturday night?

743
00:47:39.400 --> 00:47:41.720
And she's like, Oh my Lord.

744
00:47:41.720 --> 00:47:44.080
And they're like, yes, our prayers are finally answered.

745
00:47:44.080 --> 00:47:49.560
And they said, you Mabel, we've been praying for years against this bar and this bar that

746
00:47:49.560 --> 00:47:50.560
it would go away.

747
00:47:50.560 --> 00:47:56.080
And as soon as you join us, the Lord answered, they're like, wow, your prayers must be powerful.

748
00:47:56.080 --> 00:48:00.800
And Mabel just looked, she said, Oh no, she says, not my prayers that are powerful.

749
00:48:00.800 --> 00:48:05.800
She said, I believe in putting feet on my prayers.

750
00:48:05.800 --> 00:48:10.120
Mabel burned down the bar, y'all.

751
00:48:10.120 --> 00:48:17.160
She torched that sucker.

752
00:48:17.160 --> 00:48:21.240
And that friends brings us to our last word, knock.

753
00:48:21.240 --> 00:48:24.360
Knock implies action, doesn't it?

754
00:48:24.360 --> 00:48:26.060
We got to take action.

755
00:48:26.060 --> 00:48:28.920
And it's almost always imperfect action.

756
00:48:28.920 --> 00:48:30.600
You're never going to know exactly.

757
00:48:30.600 --> 00:48:31.600
People come to me all the time.

758
00:48:31.600 --> 00:48:34.560
How do I know that what I'm doing is what I'm supposed to do?

759
00:48:34.560 --> 00:48:38.760
Guys, get rid of the word supposed to.

760
00:48:38.760 --> 00:48:40.000
Just get rid of that.

761
00:48:40.880 --> 00:48:45.880
That is going to keep you on the bench of the game of life for the rest of your life.

762
00:48:45.880 --> 00:48:47.640
It's not about supposed to.

763
00:48:47.640 --> 00:48:53.040
Remember the other things, you're the branch connected to the vine, right?

764
00:48:53.040 --> 00:48:57.560
You're asking, you're looking for solutions, you're seeking him in situations.

765
00:48:57.560 --> 00:49:00.560
And then at some point, you're going to have to take imperfect action.

766
00:49:00.560 --> 00:49:01.560
Don't worry.

767
00:49:01.560 --> 00:49:06.360
If it's not the exact thing that, you know, would be beneficial in the situation, God

768
00:49:06.360 --> 00:49:08.840
will redirect you.

769
00:49:08.840 --> 00:49:17.200
He cannot direct a course of a car that's not moving.

770
00:49:17.200 --> 00:49:21.520
You guys, if you turn Siri on, you turn your GPS on in your car, you put in an address

771
00:49:21.520 --> 00:49:25.400
or whatever, it's not going to tell you anything until you move.

772
00:49:25.400 --> 00:49:32.000
Now, if you get to move in and it knows that there's a road closure, there's a delay, there's

773
00:49:32.000 --> 00:49:36.840
a detour, there's an accident ahead and, you know, the traffic is backed up for 30 minutes,

774
00:49:36.840 --> 00:49:40.680
it will give you a course correction, at least mine will.

775
00:49:40.680 --> 00:49:44.240
It says, Hey, this isn't the best route anymore.

776
00:49:44.240 --> 00:49:45.240
Here's a new route.

777
00:49:45.240 --> 00:49:46.240
Do you want to take it?

778
00:49:46.240 --> 00:49:48.720
And you have the opportunity to say yes or no to that.

779
00:49:48.720 --> 00:49:53.720
You can go ahead and sit in that parking lot traffic on the freeway for an hour and a half,

780
00:49:53.720 --> 00:49:59.520
or you can take the detour.

781
00:49:59.520 --> 00:50:00.040
But it will not.

782
00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:08.600
ever do it if you're not moving. You notice that? You got to be moving towards it. If

783
00:50:08.600 --> 00:50:13.520
you start moving towards the goal, towards the promise, towards whatever it is that you

784
00:50:13.520 --> 00:50:19.760
want, God will direct your steps. His word promises us. He will order our steps in his

785
00:50:19.760 --> 00:50:24.880
word. His word will be a light to our feet. I mean, a guide to our feet and a light to

786
00:50:24.880 --> 00:50:35.620
our path. We got to knock. We got to be persistent. Like my friend was last night. She was blowing

787
00:50:35.620 --> 00:50:41.200
up my phone. She was taking action. She wanted something and she was refusing to be refused.

788
00:50:41.200 --> 00:50:45.840
She was denying to be denied. Guys, the Bible says that faith without works is dead like

789
00:50:45.840 --> 00:50:53.360
Mabel. Don't go burning down places. All right. That's called arson. I can get you 15 to 20.

790
00:50:53.360 --> 00:50:59.680
We don't want that. Don't do it. All right. But we do want to put feet on our prayers.

791
00:50:59.680 --> 00:51:05.600
We don't want to just pray things and then just sit idly by in some waiting room. And

792
00:51:05.600 --> 00:51:08.520
none of you are doing that in your love lives. That's why you're in this community. You guys

793
00:51:08.520 --> 00:51:12.440
don't let the enemy chase you out of this community. This community is going to support

794
00:51:12.440 --> 00:51:16.060
you. It's going to clap when you win. It's going to cheer for your love story. It's going

795
00:51:16.060 --> 00:51:20.280
to continue to give you current prophetic reality and help you and encourage you and

796
00:51:20.280 --> 00:51:28.040
exhort you. Comfort you if need be. It's going to help you with advice at every season

797
00:51:28.040 --> 00:51:32.840
of your love story with wisdom from heaven as you navigate these new relationships when

798
00:51:32.840 --> 00:51:37.720
they come. So don't let the enemy chase you out of here like, oh, you know, it hasn't

799
00:51:37.720 --> 00:51:41.040
happened for me yet. So I'm just going to go and just go back in the waiting room or

800
00:51:41.040 --> 00:51:44.720
I'm going to go focus on something else. Y'all, you can focus on other things besides your

801
00:51:44.720 --> 00:51:49.400
love life and still be in this community. The stuff that we preach and teach about,

802
00:51:49.400 --> 00:51:57.000
you can apply to any area of your life for breakthrough. Don't you agree? Amen. All right.

803
00:51:57.000 --> 00:52:00.040
Just because it hasn't happened yet, it doesn't mean it's not going to happen. It is going

804
00:52:00.040 --> 00:52:04.160
to happen. But remember what it says is that, you know, we ask and miss. Sometimes there's

805
00:52:04.160 --> 00:52:09.320
some things, you know, we're asking with bad information from our hearts. God's not giving

806
00:52:09.320 --> 00:52:13.360
you that thing that you keep asking for because the way, the way that you want him to give

807
00:52:13.360 --> 00:52:17.000
it to you or the thing that you're asking for just ain't actually the best thing for

808
00:52:17.000 --> 00:52:21.560
you. All right. That person that you want to make a commitment to you, God knows that

809
00:52:21.560 --> 00:52:26.400
they shouldn't make a commitment to you, that that is not the right situation for you. And

810
00:52:26.400 --> 00:52:32.000
so the fact that he's not answering that means that you need to ask a different question.

811
00:52:32.000 --> 00:52:35.720
Like God, is this person right for me? Instead of God, will you please make this person love

812
00:52:35.720 --> 00:52:44.200
me now? No, y'all. Come on. Okay. Knocking. We're knocking, knocking on heaven's door.

813
00:52:44.200 --> 00:52:48.280
That's a whole different song and it does not mean this. Okay, here we go. Um, there's

814
00:52:48.280 --> 00:52:51.800
another scripture in the Bible that talks about an unjust judge. Let's read that one

815
00:52:51.800 --> 00:52:56.640
because it's very similar to the scripture that I read you about me and my friend last

816
00:52:56.640 --> 00:53:02.280
night and all that stuff. And we want to read it. It's in Luke 18. So if you want to go

817
00:53:02.280 --> 00:53:10.920
there, you can the parable of their persistent widow. Okay. Then Jesus told his disciples

818
00:53:10.920 --> 00:53:16.360
the parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up. He said in a

819
00:53:16.360 --> 00:53:19.960
certain town, there was a judge who neither feared God nor cared what people thought.

820
00:53:19.960 --> 00:53:24.040
And there was a widow in that town who kept coming to him saying, grant me justice against

821
00:53:24.040 --> 00:53:28.640
my adversary. For some time he refused. But finally he said to himself, even though I

822
00:53:28.640 --> 00:53:34.360
don't fear God or care what other people think, this widow keeps bothering me. I'm going to

823
00:53:34.360 --> 00:53:40.440
see that she gets justice so that she won't come, that she won't keep coming. He felt

824
00:53:40.440 --> 00:53:46.120
attacked by her persistence. You know, he felt annoyed by it. He's like, look, I'm not

825
00:53:46.120 --> 00:53:49.000
doing this anymore. I'm just going to give her what she wants. And the Lord said, listen

826
00:53:49.000 --> 00:53:54.280
to what the unjust judge says and will not God bring about justice for his chosen ones

827
00:53:54.280 --> 00:53:59.000
who cry out to him day and night. Will he keep putting them off? I tell you, he will

828
00:53:59.000 --> 00:54:04.200
see that they get justice and quickly. All right. And then it goes on to say, when the

829
00:54:04.200 --> 00:54:09.080
son of man comes, will he find faith on the earth? So he's likening this to faith. He's

830
00:54:09.080 --> 00:54:15.800
saying, be persistent about what? About justice. Okay. And what does that mean about what you

831
00:54:15.800 --> 00:54:19.080
have coming to you? And remember, we live in grace and mercy. So you're like, well,

832
00:54:19.080 --> 00:54:23.080
I don't really deserve anything. Well, Jesus deserves a lot for the price that he paid

833
00:54:23.080 --> 00:54:28.680
on the cross. You want him to get, you want Jesus to get his reward because you're his

834
00:54:28.680 --> 00:54:32.600
reward. And so the next time you think I don't deserve anything, remember that Jesus

835
00:54:32.600 --> 00:54:37.640
paid for it, not just for you, but as you, and that means that you get access to the

836
00:54:37.640 --> 00:54:45.320
kingdom of heaven. Okay. But a lot of times we're asking for things that are just for

837
00:54:45.320 --> 00:54:48.920
us to consume it upon our own loss. It's just about us. It's not going to create lineage

838
00:54:48.920 --> 00:54:54.120
and legacy. That ripple effect is not going to go past you. You just want it for yourself.

839
00:54:54.120 --> 00:55:00.040
Why don't you start knocking on heaven's door? Like the widow is knocking on

840
00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:03.760
on the door of the unjust judge wanting justice

841
00:55:05.320 --> 00:55:06.160
in a certain area.

842
00:55:06.160 --> 00:55:09.120
You guys, anything that you look at that breaks your heart,

843
00:55:09.120 --> 00:55:10.680
if it breaks your heart when you see it,

844
00:55:10.680 --> 00:55:13.600
it's because you are a solution to that problem.

845
00:55:17.480 --> 00:55:18.680
Maybe just the intercessor,

846
00:55:18.680 --> 00:55:20.800
but you're still the solution to that problem.

847
00:55:20.800 --> 00:55:22.080
Maybe it's gonna go beyond that,

848
00:55:22.080 --> 00:55:26.280
but you guys, it always starts with asking and praying.

849
00:55:26.280 --> 00:55:28.280
I can't tell you how many things broke my heart

850
00:55:28.280 --> 00:55:29.960
and I just would start to pray and ask God,

851
00:55:29.960 --> 00:55:32.080
oh, please, Lord, deliver those people

852
00:55:32.080 --> 00:55:33.600
or please help that situation

853
00:55:33.600 --> 00:55:36.000
or Lord, you gotta bring justice to this.

854
00:55:36.000 --> 00:55:39.840
And then after praying that for whatever amount of time,

855
00:55:39.840 --> 00:55:41.480
weeks, months, maybe years,

856
00:55:41.480 --> 00:55:43.160
all of a sudden I had an opportunity

857
00:55:43.160 --> 00:55:44.920
to be part of the solution to that problem.

858
00:55:44.920 --> 00:55:46.680
Anybody else that ever happened to?

859
00:55:47.960 --> 00:55:48.800
Come on, y'all.

860
00:55:50.080 --> 00:55:51.480
So let me ask you a question.

861
00:55:51.480 --> 00:55:52.800
What has God promised you?

862
00:55:56.720 --> 00:55:57.960
What has he promised you?

863
00:55:58.960 --> 00:56:00.800
You guys, and this is what I wanted to get to

864
00:56:00.800 --> 00:56:02.360
and I said, don't let me forget.

865
00:56:02.360 --> 00:56:03.440
When my kids were younger,

866
00:56:03.440 --> 00:56:06.200
if I told them that I was gonna do anything,

867
00:56:06.200 --> 00:56:08.520
take them to the store to look at shoes

868
00:56:08.520 --> 00:56:10.120
because they wanted a pair of tennis shoes

869
00:56:10.120 --> 00:56:11.800
or take them to get ice cream

870
00:56:11.800 --> 00:56:13.400
or we're gonna go to the park,

871
00:56:13.400 --> 00:56:15.200
we're gonna go do this, we're gonna do that,

872
00:56:15.200 --> 00:56:18.120
my kids would persecute me

873
00:56:18.120 --> 00:56:22.720
until I did whatever it was that I said.

874
00:56:22.720 --> 00:56:24.840
I got to the place where I would just not tell them

875
00:56:24.840 --> 00:56:25.720
I was gonna do something

876
00:56:26.040 --> 00:56:28.400
until I was actually ready to walk out the door

877
00:56:28.400 --> 00:56:30.760
because say you say on a Saturday afternoon,

878
00:56:30.760 --> 00:56:32.160
okay, yeah, yeah, I'm taking them all.

879
00:56:32.160 --> 00:56:33.480
I'm taking them all to get some shoes.

880
00:56:33.480 --> 00:56:35.280
Okay, yeah, we're gonna do that.

881
00:56:35.280 --> 00:56:37.560
The whole day is ruined until you do it now

882
00:56:38.520 --> 00:56:39.920
because you're gonna be trying to clean.

883
00:56:39.920 --> 00:56:40.960
You'll be trying to do other things.

884
00:56:40.960 --> 00:56:41.960
I'm like, mom, we're not going.

885
00:56:41.960 --> 00:56:43.840
Mom, hey, mom.

886
00:56:43.840 --> 00:56:46.760
Mom, mom, mom, mom.

887
00:56:49.680 --> 00:56:51.440
I don't know if your kids were like that,

888
00:56:51.440 --> 00:56:53.280
but my kids were and you know what that showed?

889
00:56:53.280 --> 00:56:54.480
Because I can tell you this.

890
00:56:54.480 --> 00:56:57.280
When I was a kid, I didn't ask my parents for nothing.

891
00:56:59.440 --> 00:57:00.880
I just went off and got it myself.

892
00:57:00.880 --> 00:57:02.720
I didn't ask for anything, you guys.

893
00:57:02.720 --> 00:57:05.200
Nothing, nothing, nothing.

894
00:57:06.360 --> 00:57:08.320
I was not used to being taken care of.

895
00:57:08.320 --> 00:57:10.240
I was severely neglected as a child.

896
00:57:10.240 --> 00:57:11.960
I didn't ask for anything.

897
00:57:11.960 --> 00:57:14.200
After a certain age, I stopped asking

898
00:57:16.160 --> 00:57:18.560
and the fact that my kids persecute me

899
00:57:18.560 --> 00:57:20.800
when I tell them I'm gonna do something, it means what?

900
00:57:20.800 --> 00:57:22.480
It means they trust me.

901
00:57:25.160 --> 00:57:28.040
They know mom is gonna do what she said

902
00:57:29.240 --> 00:57:31.320
and they're gonna keep bugging me until I do it

903
00:57:31.320 --> 00:57:35.160
because they know, they know that I'm gonna do

904
00:57:35.160 --> 00:57:39.400
what I said I was gonna do because I promised

905
00:57:39.400 --> 00:57:41.520
and you guys, if we being evil

906
00:57:41.520 --> 00:57:43.400
know how to give good gifts to our children

907
00:57:43.400 --> 00:57:45.800
and we know how to keep promises to our children,

908
00:57:45.800 --> 00:57:47.680
how much more will your father in heaven

909
00:57:47.680 --> 00:57:49.160
keep promises to you?

910
00:57:50.640 --> 00:57:51.480
But you know what?

911
00:57:51.480 --> 00:57:53.640
It shows you don't trust him just like me when I was a kid

912
00:57:53.640 --> 00:57:56.240
and I was in a neglectful place with parents

913
00:57:56.240 --> 00:57:57.920
who were caught up in their own drama

914
00:57:57.920 --> 00:57:59.560
and just could not see me.

915
00:57:59.560 --> 00:58:00.800
Is that what we think of God

916
00:58:00.800 --> 00:58:05.000
when we don't continually knock and ask and seek?

917
00:58:05.000 --> 00:58:06.720
Yes, it is.

918
00:58:06.720 --> 00:58:08.080
We either think we don't deserve it

919
00:58:08.080 --> 00:58:09.640
and so he shouldn't give it to us anyway

920
00:58:09.640 --> 00:58:11.720
because we got some religious upbringing,

921
00:58:11.720 --> 00:58:14.080
religious situation, all right?

922
00:58:14.080 --> 00:58:15.200
We think we have to be perfect.

923
00:58:15.200 --> 00:58:17.560
We think we have to keep punching some time clock

924
00:58:17.560 --> 00:58:20.280
of good works until we finally earn whatever it is

925
00:58:20.280 --> 00:58:21.840
that we're asking for

926
00:58:21.880 --> 00:58:24.640
and or we think it's just easy to try to go

927
00:58:24.640 --> 00:58:28.960
and get some inferior version of that thing ourselves

928
00:58:28.960 --> 00:58:31.120
instead of waiting on God to give it to us

929
00:58:31.120 --> 00:58:32.440
because we have this idea

930
00:58:32.440 --> 00:58:33.720
that when you ask God for something

931
00:58:33.720 --> 00:58:35.800
then he makes you wait years and years for it.

932
00:58:35.800 --> 00:58:37.320
Go sit in the waiting room

933
00:58:37.320 --> 00:58:41.240
until you're good enough to have it, right?

934
00:58:41.240 --> 00:58:42.560
And that might even be your childhood.

935
00:58:42.560 --> 00:58:43.800
You ask your parent for something.

936
00:58:43.800 --> 00:58:45.680
Maybe you did ask them for something

937
00:58:45.680 --> 00:58:46.520
and they were just like,

938
00:58:46.520 --> 00:58:48.920
no, you haven't cleaned your room in a year

939
00:58:48.920 --> 00:58:50.680
so you're not gonna get that.

940
00:58:50.680 --> 00:58:52.400
We had such a punishment system, right?

941
00:58:52.400 --> 00:58:54.360
There's such a layaway system

942
00:58:54.360 --> 00:58:56.080
in a lot of people's upbringings

943
00:58:56.080 --> 00:58:58.840
where you just had to continue to do something,

944
00:58:58.840 --> 00:59:00.880
put it on layaway, put it on layaway

945
00:59:00.880 --> 00:59:03.280
and then maybe someday you'll get it.

946
00:59:06.800 --> 00:59:09.280
Our God is a right now God

947
00:59:09.280 --> 00:59:11.520
and because remember I said you don't wanna ask

948
00:59:11.520 --> 00:59:13.600
and consume it upon your own lust, what's that mean?

949
00:59:13.600 --> 00:59:15.400
It only means you're asking for something

950
00:59:15.400 --> 00:59:17.920
that will only benefit you and nobody else.

951
00:59:20.840 --> 00:59:22.520
But if you start switching your asks

952
00:59:22.520 --> 00:59:24.960
and your knocking for something

953
00:59:24.960 --> 00:59:26.560
that's not just gonna benefit you

954
00:59:26.560 --> 00:59:27.760
but everybody else and you guys,

955
00:59:27.760 --> 00:59:29.400
your marriage is one of those things.

956
00:59:29.400 --> 00:59:30.960
It's about lineage and legacy.

957
00:59:31.920 --> 00:59:35.520
And so let's take a page from the playbook of the widow

958
00:59:35.520 --> 00:59:38.800
and let's be persistent knockers.

959
00:59:38.800 --> 00:59:40.440
Hey God, you promised.

960
00:59:40.440 --> 00:59:42.480
Hey God, remember when you promised?

961
00:59:42.480 --> 00:59:45.440
Hey God, remember here I got it written in my journal,

962
00:59:45.440 --> 00:59:47.040
all right, right here.

963
00:59:47.040 --> 00:59:49.720
January, it's a year anniversary God,

964
00:59:49.760 --> 00:59:51.040
it's a year anniversary.

965
00:59:51.040 --> 00:59:55.840
This day last year, you told me this, you promised.

966
00:59:56.880 --> 00:59:59.080
Hey, you promised Lord.

967
00:59:59.080 --> 01:00:00.280
And so I'm asking you.

968
01:00:00.000 --> 01:00:01.700
there's something that I need to do

969
01:00:01.700 --> 01:00:04.680
to help this promise come to pass,

970
01:00:04.680 --> 01:00:05.760
then I'm willing to do it.

971
01:00:05.760 --> 01:00:08.560
Go ahead and tell me what it is, show me what it is.

972
01:00:08.560 --> 01:00:11.360
But I'm gonna keep on reminding you about this

973
01:00:11.360 --> 01:00:13.400
because it must have been important to you

974
01:00:13.400 --> 01:00:16.740
because you don't take words idly.

975
01:00:18.440 --> 01:00:19.760
And so you sent this word out

976
01:00:19.760 --> 01:00:23.160
and I know it's gonna accomplish your will in the earth.

977
01:00:23.160 --> 01:00:24.000
Come on, y'all.

978
01:00:24.000 --> 01:00:24.840
So thank you, God.

979
01:00:24.840 --> 01:00:27.480
We love you so much and we thank you for this word today.

980
01:00:27.480 --> 01:00:30.280
We ask God that we would be those that ask

981
01:00:30.280 --> 01:00:32.440
and those that seek and those that knock,

982
01:00:32.440 --> 01:00:35.880
that we would not be deterred by a condemnation

983
01:00:35.880 --> 01:00:38.540
of whether or not we're worthy to receive those answers

984
01:00:38.540 --> 01:00:41.560
or whether or not we're worthy to receive those things

985
01:00:41.560 --> 01:00:43.800
that we're asking and seeking and knocking for.

986
01:00:43.800 --> 01:00:45.840
Instead, we're gonna let you work all that out

987
01:00:45.840 --> 01:00:48.760
and we're gonna know that it is your great delight

988
01:00:48.760 --> 01:00:51.080
to bless your children so that we can be blessed

989
01:00:51.080 --> 01:00:53.400
to be a blessing in Jesus' name, amen.

990
01:00:53.400 --> 01:00:55.480
All right, y'all, go have a supernatural day today.

991
01:00:55.480 --> 01:00:57.720
Love you, activate tomorrow night.

992
01:00:57.720 --> 01:00:58.920
See you soon, bye-bye.