WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:06.920 Hello everybody, welcome to Supernatural Saturday. We have a lot of new people. So if it's your first time with us, welcome 2 00:00:07.700 --> 00:00:12.060 Saturday is the day that we lean into heaven for what is our current 3 00:00:12.760 --> 00:00:17.800 Prophetic reality. What does that mean? That means what is heaven saying to us right now? 4 00:00:18.880 --> 00:00:24.680 Obviously the Word of God scripture is full of all kinds of amazing things that we can study that we can learn from that God 5 00:00:24.680 --> 00:00:27.560 Can use to speak to our current life and situations? 6 00:00:28.040 --> 00:00:32.759 But when we lean in together and we ask we don't just want the Logos word which is written in the Bible 7 00:00:32.759 --> 00:00:36.280 We want the Rhema. We want that hot fresh bread from heaven 8 00:00:36.720 --> 00:00:38.720 What is he saying to us? 9 00:00:39.000 --> 00:00:46.440 Remember that the prayer that Jesus taught his disciples give us this day our daily bread and that is what that daily bread is 10 00:00:46.600 --> 00:00:48.400 It's not just the bread that we eat 11 00:00:48.400 --> 00:00:54.240 It's also the nourishment that we receive from heaven the words of the Lord, right? 12 00:00:54.400 --> 00:01:00.120 So we want that that word that fresh word so we're gonna lean in together father God we love you so much 13 00:01:01.320 --> 00:01:05.880 We're so thankful for the life that you've given us for life in general 14 00:01:05.880 --> 00:01:10.160 We woke up this morning Lord, and this is the day that you have made and we're rejoicing together 15 00:01:10.640 --> 00:01:13.200 We have decided to be glad in it 16 00:01:13.520 --> 00:01:16.480 We know that you are for us and because you are for us 17 00:01:16.760 --> 00:01:20.920 Nothing can be against us because you are for us life is also for us 18 00:01:20.920 --> 00:01:24.520 And so we lean into that truth this morning that any 19 00:01:24.800 --> 00:01:32.120 Circumstance in our life that is is lying to us and telling us a different story any circumstance that is opposed to that truth 20 00:01:32.240 --> 00:01:34.240 That it would be abolished 21 00:01:35.200 --> 00:01:37.200 that it would be 22 00:01:37.680 --> 00:01:40.920 Cast down every word that has spoken about us Lord 23 00:01:40.920 --> 00:01:44.200 That doesn't come into alignment with the identity that you've given us in heaven 24 00:01:44.280 --> 00:01:48.440 We pray that those things Lord those weapons formed against us would not prosper 25 00:01:48.440 --> 00:01:53.600 And we ask that you would speak to us and through us this morning in Jesus name. Amen 26 00:01:55.280 --> 00:01:57.280 All right, so a little a 27 00:01:58.680 --> 00:02:00.680 Little froggy here 28 00:02:01.400 --> 00:02:03.240 But we're gonna go ahead and go for it 29 00:02:03.240 --> 00:02:07.760 So God put a whole bunch of a grab bag a whole bunch of ideas a grab bag 30 00:02:07.760 --> 00:02:11.600 If you will have ideas into my heart the last few days that I want to try to 31 00:02:12.080 --> 00:02:16.400 Patch work quilt together this morning and I want to start out with this 32 00:02:16.760 --> 00:02:17.360 You know 33 00:02:17.360 --> 00:02:23.600 I was laying there in my bed when I was just you know in bed all day for several days and I was thinking about 34 00:02:23.600 --> 00:02:28.400 This and this is the thought that came to my mind that the past is a lie. I 35 00:02:29.320 --> 00:02:32.040 Want to submit that to you this morning for just a second 36 00:02:33.400 --> 00:02:38.560 The past is a lie. And this is what Holy Spirit was saying to me. I 37 00:02:39.240 --> 00:02:43.200 Was you know when you have a lot of time on your hands because I'm used to go go go go 38 00:02:43.200 --> 00:02:49.360 That is my speed. Usually I was laying there not doing anything and I started thinking about 39 00:02:50.040 --> 00:02:51.640 my mother 40 00:02:51.640 --> 00:02:55.960 you know, this is the time of year around my birthday when she got very ill and 41 00:02:56.320 --> 00:03:00.440 Passed away in just a couple weeks will be the anniversary of her going to heaven 42 00:03:00.440 --> 00:03:05.200 And I began to think about those last moments of her life and I don't know about you 43 00:03:05.200 --> 00:03:10.760 But my imagination is very vivid and I'm able to put myself in the place of what I'm thinking about 44 00:03:10.760 --> 00:03:17.720 which is why I need to use my imagination carefully because I will experience all the emotions of those moments and 45 00:03:18.480 --> 00:03:20.920 Even if it's a hypothetical that hasn't happened 46 00:03:21.360 --> 00:03:25.880 I've been known to sit around and think about things and then be there and usually they're not 47 00:03:26.720 --> 00:03:31.720 Happy things usually they're negative or sad things my imagination 48 00:03:32.360 --> 00:03:38.080 God told me this he said you this beautiful gift that I've given you of being able to imagine 49 00:03:38.680 --> 00:03:44.440 It has been turned negative by trauma and that's happened to a lot of you. Yeah, you have a vivid imagination 50 00:03:44.760 --> 00:03:47.240 But it's only imagining bad things 51 00:03:47.840 --> 00:03:51.960 that's all it ever imagines is what could go wrong or what will go wrong or 52 00:03:52.600 --> 00:03:55.560 Something not working out or something terrible happening 53 00:03:55.840 --> 00:03:59.920 Someone's 10 minutes late getting home and you're already imagining yourself at the funeral 54 00:04:00.320 --> 00:04:02.320 Right, you're you start to feel sad 55 00:04:02.320 --> 00:04:08.840 You might shed a tear or two while you're imagining these things because you have a vivid imagination. That's a gift 56 00:04:08.840 --> 00:04:13.320 It's a beautiful gift, but a lot of times trauma or post-traumatic stress disorder 57 00:04:14.000 --> 00:04:16.240 Which is something that I've struggled with all my life 58 00:04:17.480 --> 00:04:23.440 It turns those things bad. It turns those gifts it overextends them and those gifts become weaknesses 59 00:04:23.560 --> 00:04:26.960 So I was laying in bed and my little imagination was added again 60 00:04:26.960 --> 00:04:31.840 And I was thinking about some things that I shouldn't be thinking about and then all of a sudden God just says to me 61 00:04:31.840 --> 00:04:33.560 You know, the past is a lie 62 00:04:33.560 --> 00:04:35.400 was like 63 00:04:35.400 --> 00:04:39.720 Excuse me. What's she talking about? The past is a lie 64 00:04:41.720 --> 00:04:43.720 Passes a lie 65 00:04:44.080 --> 00:04:49.440 What does he mean by that it means that it's no longer true friends and 66 00:04:50.440 --> 00:04:54.560 Somebody including this somebody myself needs to get a hold of that today 67 00:04:54.800 --> 00:04:59.160 The reason why is because we're gonna venture into another topic here in a second 68 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:05.560 That a lot of things that happened in the past affect this other topic. 69 00:05:05.560 --> 00:05:12.320 If you're still living where you used to live, okay, in the years past, if you're still living 70 00:05:12.320 --> 00:05:16.880 in those places where those traumas happened, and I don't mean physically living there, 71 00:05:16.880 --> 00:05:22.600 I mean mentally, emotionally, if your reality is still in those places, if you're still 72 00:05:22.600 --> 00:05:28.880 getting your information about yourself, about God, about others from those past situations, 73 00:05:28.880 --> 00:05:32.120 then you are living a lie. 74 00:05:32.120 --> 00:05:34.960 My mother is no longer sick in the hospital. 75 00:05:34.960 --> 00:05:37.600 She is safe in heaven. 76 00:05:37.600 --> 00:05:42.800 You see how that's a lie? 77 00:05:42.800 --> 00:05:45.920 You're no longer the abused little child. 78 00:05:45.920 --> 00:05:49.360 You're a grown man or woman. 79 00:05:49.360 --> 00:05:57.560 You're no longer living in that scenario that when it comes, it begins to tell you who you 80 00:05:57.560 --> 00:06:02.400 are and what to believe, and when you think about it, you're able to go back into those 81 00:06:02.400 --> 00:06:04.880 places and feel those same things again. 82 00:06:04.880 --> 00:06:09.980 That's affecting your current reality, and it's a lie. 83 00:06:09.980 --> 00:06:13.560 You're not being bullied at school anymore. 84 00:06:13.560 --> 00:06:19.440 Whatever situation that you found yourself in in the past, as an abused wife or husband, 85 00:06:19.440 --> 00:06:26.200 in a place of abandonment, in a place of complete destruction of some type, you're not there 86 00:06:26.200 --> 00:06:29.720 anymore. 87 00:06:29.720 --> 00:06:33.480 And so that means that what happened back there, yeah, it did happen. 88 00:06:33.480 --> 00:06:39.160 I'm not trying to say it didn't, but it's no longer true. 89 00:06:39.160 --> 00:06:44.880 It's no longer true, and so because of that, it cannot be allowed to affect our current 90 00:06:44.880 --> 00:06:50.600 reality. 91 00:06:50.600 --> 00:06:57.200 So go ahead and put in the chat right now, what's no longer true? 92 00:06:57.200 --> 00:06:58.640 What's no longer true about you? 93 00:07:20.600 --> 00:07:24.360 Come on, look at all those things. 94 00:07:24.360 --> 00:07:25.720 Those things are no longer true. 95 00:07:25.720 --> 00:07:28.320 Some of you had some serious traumas. 96 00:07:28.320 --> 00:07:32.360 You lost your job, and you were jobless for a while. 97 00:07:32.360 --> 00:07:33.360 You were unemployed. 98 00:07:33.360 --> 00:07:34.360 It's no longer true. 99 00:07:34.360 --> 00:07:37.120 You're now gainfully employed, and if it is still true, then guess what? 100 00:07:37.120 --> 00:07:38.880 The story's not over yet. 101 00:07:38.880 --> 00:07:41.800 Some of you had breakups right before you got married. 102 00:07:41.800 --> 00:07:48.360 The venue was rented, the dress was purchased. 103 00:07:48.360 --> 00:07:53.600 You're no longer a forsaken bride-to-be. 104 00:07:53.600 --> 00:08:01.080 Some of you lost businesses, went bankrupt. 105 00:08:01.080 --> 00:08:05.080 You got divorced. 106 00:08:05.080 --> 00:08:10.200 You know, when people ask you what your status is, don't say, I'm divorced. 107 00:08:10.200 --> 00:08:12.960 Yeah, you were divorced, but you're not divorced. 108 00:08:12.960 --> 00:08:15.280 Do you understand what I'm saying? 109 00:08:15.280 --> 00:08:16.560 Don't let that be your identity. 110 00:08:16.560 --> 00:08:17.560 It's not your identity. 111 00:08:17.760 --> 00:08:19.000 Don't say, yeah, you were divorced. 112 00:08:19.000 --> 00:08:21.080 Divorced is a thing that happens. 113 00:08:21.080 --> 00:08:25.600 It's not an identity. 114 00:08:25.600 --> 00:08:31.320 So the correct answer was, I was married in the past, but then we got divorced. 115 00:08:31.320 --> 00:08:32.440 You're not divorced. 116 00:08:32.440 --> 00:08:33.440 You had a divorce. 117 00:08:33.440 --> 00:08:34.440 Feel me? 118 00:08:34.440 --> 00:08:40.120 You're like, but Jackie, that's just mincing words. 119 00:08:40.120 --> 00:08:41.120 No, honey. 120 00:08:41.120 --> 00:08:42.120 Words are powerful. 121 00:08:42.120 --> 00:08:47.920 They shape and form our identity, which is what we're about to get into, if you didn't 122 00:08:47.920 --> 00:08:49.920 see that coming. 123 00:08:49.920 --> 00:08:52.840 All right. 124 00:08:52.840 --> 00:08:53.840 Anyone else? 125 00:08:53.840 --> 00:09:02.560 Just giving you space. 126 00:09:02.560 --> 00:09:04.000 There we go. 127 00:09:04.000 --> 00:09:07.120 No longer under the yoke of addictions. 128 00:09:07.120 --> 00:09:10.280 Look at all that. 129 00:09:10.280 --> 00:09:14.320 That's why I always, you guys, when I was in school, I was in school to be a psychologist 130 00:09:14.320 --> 00:09:20.400 and a mental health counselor, and they would make us go during different quarters of the 131 00:09:20.400 --> 00:09:25.960 year, we had to have real field experience. 132 00:09:25.960 --> 00:09:31.400 And for one quarter, I remember I had to go to AA meetings. 133 00:09:31.400 --> 00:09:38.760 And I always thought that it was very interesting that people would say at those meetings, I'm 134 00:09:38.760 --> 00:09:39.760 so-and-so. 135 00:09:39.760 --> 00:09:40.760 I'm an alcoholic. 136 00:09:40.760 --> 00:09:46.000 Y'all, I didn't really know the Lord that well back then. 137 00:09:46.000 --> 00:09:57.160 I was just a new believer, but something sounded off about that to me, right? 138 00:09:57.160 --> 00:09:58.160 It sounded off. 139 00:09:58.160 --> 00:10:00.040 But we're going to talk about the power. 140 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:04.800 of our words today. And so here are the thoughts that we're going to launch off with. These 141 00:10:04.800 --> 00:10:10.320 are the things that God put in my own heart. He said, are you tripping? Well, he said to 142 00:10:10.320 --> 00:10:14.160 me, you're tripping over your own tongue. But my question is going to be to you. Are 143 00:10:14.160 --> 00:10:25.260 you tripping over your own tongue? Does your speech have you stuck? Are you trapped by 144 00:10:25.260 --> 00:10:33.620 your own talking? All of those questions are based on scriptures and snared by the words 145 00:10:33.620 --> 00:10:43.100 of your mouth. Okay. Life and death and the power of the tongue. So ask yourself that, 146 00:10:43.100 --> 00:10:49.860 am I tripping over my own tongue? Have you ever been out walking? You know, you're getting 147 00:10:49.860 --> 00:10:54.260 into a groove, you got to go in, you're doing that speed walk thing. Maybe you're even running 148 00:10:54.260 --> 00:11:00.740 because you're one of those crazy people. We bless you if you're a jogger or a runner. 149 00:11:00.740 --> 00:11:04.540 And then you, you know, you hit the sidewalk wrong. Maybe the sidewalk's uneven or maybe 150 00:11:04.540 --> 00:11:09.220 there's a root that's growing out there. Something happens and you just, you stumble a little 151 00:11:09.220 --> 00:11:17.620 bit. What happens when that happens? It slows you down, right? Sometimes, God forbid, you 152 00:11:17.620 --> 00:11:24.620 might even fall. Might hurt yourself a little bit, but it always keeps you from gaining 153 00:11:24.620 --> 00:11:32.220 momentum at that moment. So imagine you're going about in life and things are going really 154 00:11:32.220 --> 00:11:36.980 well and you're gaining some momentum in the areas of your life where you want to gain 155 00:11:36.980 --> 00:11:42.980 momentum and then all of a sudden there's that trip and then another trip and then another 156 00:11:42.980 --> 00:11:49.860 trip. That's going to keep you from being able to get up to speed, right? And God wants 157 00:11:49.860 --> 00:11:57.700 us to know that what we're tripping over a lot of times is our own tongues. What has 158 00:11:57.700 --> 00:12:07.780 us stuck so often is our own speech. And we are trapped or ensnared by the words of our 159 00:12:07.780 --> 00:12:12.540 mouth or by our talking, right? And what does that look like? What does that mean? 160 00:12:12.540 --> 00:12:16.460 Well, people would argue with me a lot of times. I've talked about this in the past. 161 00:12:16.460 --> 00:12:21.260 They'd say, how can, why do words matter that much? You know, how, how can words make me 162 00:12:21.260 --> 00:12:26.240 well or how can words set me free? Well, I submit to you that words are the things that 163 00:12:26.240 --> 00:12:31.780 have you trapped and they're the things that are making you sick in the first place. Let's 164 00:12:31.780 --> 00:12:35.740 go to scripture and look at it. Now, for those of you that come from any kind of evangelical 165 00:12:35.740 --> 00:12:40.060 or charismatic background, this might be a little bit of a trigger. So I'm gonna give 166 00:12:40.060 --> 00:12:44.540 you a trigger warning because you might have come from some mega church that kind of preach 167 00:12:44.540 --> 00:12:50.700 blab it and grab it, right? Say it and you can have it, blab it and grab it, right? Name 168 00:12:50.700 --> 00:12:59.260 it and claim it. Yes, I have a million dollars. Yes, I have a car. Yes. Well, you guys, I 169 00:12:59.260 --> 00:13:05.500 want to tell you that I had a realtor friend once who went to a church like that and well, 170 00:13:06.060 --> 00:13:11.100 they didn't go to a church like that. My husband went to a church like that and they knew that I 171 00:13:11.100 --> 00:13:17.420 went to that church because I married him. And they said to me one day, we were like having lunch 172 00:13:17.420 --> 00:13:23.500 or something and they said, you know, I don't like the people from your church. And I was like, 173 00:13:23.500 --> 00:13:27.980 guys, this is a mega church, right? Like a big one, a big, big, big one. And I was like, 174 00:13:27.980 --> 00:13:32.220 I just laughed and I was like, yeah, some of them can be pretty kooky. And they were like, 175 00:13:32.220 --> 00:13:38.700 no, no, seriously. They're like messing up my job. Y'all ready for this? I don't know if you're 176 00:13:38.700 --> 00:13:44.540 ready for this. And I was like, okay, I'll bite. What do you mean? What do you mean they're messing 177 00:13:44.540 --> 00:13:51.020 up your job? Remember this friend is a realtor. She said, there's been several houses that I have 178 00:13:51.020 --> 00:13:58.060 not been able to sell because they've claimed them as their own. Y'all, I'm not kidding. 179 00:13:58.060 --> 00:14:04.380 And I was like, tell, you know, tell me about this. Like, what are you, 180 00:14:04.380 --> 00:14:09.820 what are you talking about? She's like, yeah. She goes, I know for sure that because you guys, 181 00:14:09.820 --> 00:14:14.780 very small area of town with a big mega church, a lot of people on that side of town. And of 182 00:14:14.780 --> 00:14:19.660 course the houses that she's talking about on that side of town, the houses. And she said that 183 00:14:20.380 --> 00:14:26.940 in several instances, you know, she has shown houses to people that could not afford to buy 184 00:14:26.940 --> 00:14:31.900 them. Come on, y'all do the math with me. Could not afford to buy them, came to look at them 185 00:14:31.900 --> 00:14:38.940 because they believe that God gave them the house, offered some kind of crazy deal in order to buy 186 00:14:38.940 --> 00:14:42.700 the house. And when it was turned down, said, well, you know, this is my house and God's going 187 00:14:42.700 --> 00:14:50.940 to give it to me somehow. And then that house would just sit on the market. You're like what? 188 00:14:50.940 --> 00:14:59.660 Because y'all, our words are powerful. She said there was even one person that was. 189 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:03.600 around the house, claiming it for them, for the Lord. 190 00:15:03.600 --> 00:15:05.300 From the Lord. 191 00:15:05.300 --> 00:15:07.940 And we laugh and we think it's funny. 192 00:15:07.940 --> 00:15:09.940 But it was true. 193 00:15:09.940 --> 00:15:11.740 True conversation, true thing. 194 00:15:14.640 --> 00:15:16.580 And so I want to encourage you 195 00:15:17.620 --> 00:15:22.120 to not put your words on things that don't belong to you. 196 00:15:24.520 --> 00:15:26.160 Okay? 197 00:15:26.160 --> 00:15:27.820 Yeah, we all have things that we want. 198 00:15:27.820 --> 00:15:29.520 We all have things that we desire. 199 00:15:30.400 --> 00:15:31.900 You know? 200 00:15:31.900 --> 00:15:33.000 And that's why we should pray, 201 00:15:33.000 --> 00:15:34.500 hey God, if it be your will, 202 00:15:34.500 --> 00:15:36.100 I would love to have that thing. 203 00:15:38.080 --> 00:15:40.880 And if not that thing, God, you know best for me. 204 00:15:40.880 --> 00:15:43.640 You know, I have a desire for something 205 00:15:43.640 --> 00:15:45.180 that's similar to that. 206 00:15:47.280 --> 00:15:49.120 You know, David and I went house shopping 207 00:15:49.120 --> 00:15:50.680 before we bought this property. 208 00:15:50.680 --> 00:15:52.420 And I can tell you that all the properties 209 00:15:52.420 --> 00:15:54.860 that I wanted so badly before this property 210 00:15:54.860 --> 00:15:56.820 were inferior to this. 211 00:15:56.820 --> 00:15:58.360 And I want to remind you of that. 212 00:15:58.360 --> 00:15:59.720 God knows best. 213 00:16:01.960 --> 00:16:03.800 God knows best. 214 00:16:03.800 --> 00:16:06.300 Now I wasn't tying those other houses up 215 00:16:06.300 --> 00:16:08.860 in the spirit realm with my confession. 216 00:16:08.860 --> 00:16:11.140 A lot of you don't know how powerful you are. 217 00:16:12.540 --> 00:16:14.740 And I guess that's the point of this whole conversation. 218 00:16:14.740 --> 00:16:18.040 I'm hoping to help you to understand how powerful you are 219 00:16:18.040 --> 00:16:19.640 and how powerful your words are. 220 00:16:22.380 --> 00:16:23.780 So we saw a couple houses. 221 00:16:23.780 --> 00:16:26.060 We actually even made offers on a couple houses. 222 00:16:26.060 --> 00:16:27.680 And then you have to sit on pins and needles, 223 00:16:28.340 --> 00:16:29.880 especially in a market like Austin, 224 00:16:29.880 --> 00:16:32.420 where people are literally bringing wheelbarrows 225 00:16:32.420 --> 00:16:34.240 full of cash to buy houses 226 00:16:34.240 --> 00:16:36.220 because they moved from California. 227 00:16:36.220 --> 00:16:38.080 They're like, oh, I'll buy it in cash, sir. 228 00:16:38.080 --> 00:16:39.380 I'm like, get out of here. 229 00:16:40.620 --> 00:16:42.020 No offense to all you Californians, 230 00:16:42.020 --> 00:16:44.320 but that made it a mess here for a long time. 231 00:16:45.500 --> 00:16:47.500 And so we just had to wait. 232 00:16:47.500 --> 00:16:48.700 And one by one by one, 233 00:16:48.700 --> 00:16:50.260 we were turned down for all those houses. 234 00:16:50.260 --> 00:16:52.100 But you know what I wasn't doing? 235 00:16:52.100 --> 00:16:54.940 I wasn't already, I wasn't saying, oh, that's my house. 236 00:16:54.940 --> 00:16:56.640 I claim that house. 237 00:16:56.700 --> 00:16:59.340 In Jesus name, I claim that house, that's my house. 238 00:16:59.340 --> 00:17:01.600 Nobody else can have that house, Lord, it's my house. 239 00:17:01.600 --> 00:17:03.680 Don't let anybody else have that house. 240 00:17:03.680 --> 00:17:05.040 That belongs to me. 241 00:17:05.040 --> 00:17:07.180 I didn't do that because I don't know that. 242 00:17:08.380 --> 00:17:09.319 I don't know that. 243 00:17:10.380 --> 00:17:11.619 I just know I like it. 244 00:17:13.680 --> 00:17:15.920 I just know my heart has a desire for a house 245 00:17:15.920 --> 00:17:18.020 and this one seems favorable to me. 246 00:17:20.260 --> 00:17:22.020 Even if I felt like God said, 247 00:17:22.020 --> 00:17:25.400 even if I felt like I had a dream, okay? 248 00:17:25.420 --> 00:17:28.800 Even if I felt like I had a word about the house, 249 00:17:28.800 --> 00:17:29.760 I still didn't do that. 250 00:17:29.760 --> 00:17:31.960 I still just did what Mary did. 251 00:17:31.960 --> 00:17:33.700 I pondered it in my heart. 252 00:17:36.640 --> 00:17:39.900 Because we have to hold things open handed. 253 00:17:39.900 --> 00:17:42.000 Even if you think God gave it to you, 254 00:17:42.000 --> 00:17:46.420 your unique receiving position 255 00:17:46.420 --> 00:17:48.820 should be with hands wide open. 256 00:17:50.280 --> 00:17:55.280 So God can take out and put in what he wants when he wills. 257 00:17:56.320 --> 00:17:59.660 And the reason for that is, 258 00:17:59.660 --> 00:18:02.100 is because God is an upgrade kind of God. 259 00:18:03.160 --> 00:18:05.000 If you got a closed fist, 260 00:18:05.000 --> 00:18:08.100 because you think that you want that thing 261 00:18:08.100 --> 00:18:09.800 and you grabbed a hold of it tight, 262 00:18:09.800 --> 00:18:12.300 you could be missing out on an even bigger blessing. 263 00:18:12.300 --> 00:18:14.280 God is an upgrade kind of God. 264 00:18:14.280 --> 00:18:15.480 That's how he works. 265 00:18:16.980 --> 00:18:17.820 That's how he works. 266 00:18:17.820 --> 00:18:19.880 Good best, good better best. 267 00:18:22.380 --> 00:18:23.620 He loves to give us more. 268 00:18:23.620 --> 00:18:25.020 He wants us to overflow. 269 00:18:26.120 --> 00:18:28.260 And we're gonna talk about that here in a second. 270 00:18:29.400 --> 00:18:32.260 So she said that these houses were getting tied up 271 00:18:32.260 --> 00:18:34.200 and she didn't even fully understand, 272 00:18:34.200 --> 00:18:36.760 but she saw it, y'all. 273 00:18:36.760 --> 00:18:41.180 She saw that somehow these houses were getting tied up 274 00:18:41.180 --> 00:18:43.040 by the words of these people, 275 00:18:43.040 --> 00:18:44.440 tied up in the spirit realm. 276 00:18:46.840 --> 00:18:48.220 Wow, crazy, right? 277 00:18:48.480 --> 00:18:53.480 So let's put that idea to scripture. 278 00:18:55.840 --> 00:18:58.240 Let's talk about it for a few minutes here. 279 00:18:58.240 --> 00:19:00.980 So we know that Proverbs tells us that death and life 280 00:19:00.980 --> 00:19:02.680 are in the power of the tongue. 281 00:19:04.020 --> 00:19:05.660 And they that love to talk 282 00:19:05.660 --> 00:19:07.420 will eat the fruit of their mouth. 283 00:19:07.420 --> 00:19:08.860 Ooh, that's me. 284 00:19:10.460 --> 00:19:14.000 Raise your hand if you had detention for talking in class 285 00:19:14.000 --> 00:19:15.440 most of your life. 286 00:19:15.480 --> 00:19:18.820 Raise your hand if your report card says talks too much. 287 00:19:18.820 --> 00:19:20.280 Talks too much in class. 288 00:19:20.280 --> 00:19:21.120 Raise your hand. 289 00:19:21.120 --> 00:19:23.600 I wanna see all y'all that talk too much. 290 00:19:23.600 --> 00:19:24.960 Let's see the hands. 291 00:19:24.960 --> 00:19:27.800 I mean it, put all the avatar hands up. 292 00:19:27.800 --> 00:19:28.880 I wanna see it. 293 00:19:28.880 --> 00:19:31.920 Talks too much was written on your report cards. 294 00:19:31.920 --> 00:19:35.180 Great student, they just always talking in class. 295 00:19:36.840 --> 00:19:39.140 Always talking, talking, talking, talking. 296 00:19:41.200 --> 00:19:43.800 My own grandmother said to me when I was a child 297 00:19:43.800 --> 00:19:45.440 and I break this off, 298 00:19:45.440 --> 00:19:47.480 she said the best thing that could ever happen to you 299 00:19:47.480 --> 00:19:51.400 is you could go mute and permanently lose your voice forever. 300 00:19:51.400 --> 00:19:53.720 Literally my grandma cursed me with that. 301 00:19:54.640 --> 00:19:55.480 Come on y'all. 302 00:19:56.440 --> 00:19:57.680 Someone in your life told you, 303 00:19:57.680 --> 00:20:00.120 oh, I wish you would just not be able to talk. 304 00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:06.560 anymore. All right, not as many people as I thought, not as many 305 00:20:06.560 --> 00:20:10.720 people as I thought, not even a quarter. That's all right. All 306 00:20:10.720 --> 00:20:15.480 right. So all you talkers, all you chatty Kathy's and chatty. 307 00:20:16.040 --> 00:20:24.040 What's a good guy's name? Ken's. All right. We got to even be 308 00:20:24.040 --> 00:20:29.120 more careful, right? Because we don't weigh our words, do we? We 309 00:20:29.120 --> 00:20:34.600 got the gift to gab, things just come on out sometimes. And 310 00:20:34.600 --> 00:20:39.360 that's a gift. It's a gift. It's amazing. But a lot of times, it 311 00:20:39.360 --> 00:20:44.160 can cause you to say things that you're like, oof. Go ahead and 312 00:20:44.160 --> 00:20:48.280 put your hands down. It can cause you to say things that you 313 00:20:48.280 --> 00:20:53.720 kind of wish you didn't say. We stumble over our words, we're 314 00:20:53.720 --> 00:20:58.800 trapped by our words, we offend people. Maybe say things that we 315 00:20:58.800 --> 00:21:01.720 weren't supposed to say or shouldn't have said, or maybe 316 00:21:01.720 --> 00:21:04.080 that person wasn't supposed to know that thing. And then we 317 00:21:04.080 --> 00:21:07.680 just got to talking and then we said it, we're like, oh, now I 318 00:21:07.680 --> 00:21:11.920 ruined it, the surprise or this or that or whatever it was. Maybe 319 00:21:11.920 --> 00:21:14.600 we told someone else's business because we just got to talking 320 00:21:14.600 --> 00:21:16.920 and we forgot that we weren't supposed to say anything about 321 00:21:16.920 --> 00:21:20.320 that. Or there could be all kinds of things that happen when 322 00:21:20.360 --> 00:21:27.640 you're talking a blue streak. And so we have to take our words 323 00:21:28.800 --> 00:21:33.920 more seriously. Because death and life are in the power of the 324 00:21:33.920 --> 00:21:36.520 tongue and they that love to talk will eat the fruit of their 325 00:21:36.520 --> 00:21:40.240 words. Got to take that seriously. Let's let's talk 326 00:21:40.240 --> 00:21:45.440 about where in the world do the words come from? The Bible tells 327 00:21:45.440 --> 00:21:49.680 us that we speak out of the overflow of our heart, out of 328 00:21:49.680 --> 00:21:55.120 the overflow of our heart, our mouth communicates. We're 329 00:21:55.120 --> 00:22:01.000 communicating always from the overflow of our hearts. That 330 00:22:01.000 --> 00:22:03.320 doesn't mean that whatever you're saying, there's a little 331 00:22:03.320 --> 00:22:09.280 bit of it in your heart. It means that whatever is the 332 00:22:09.280 --> 00:22:13.720 majority of what's in your heart is what's going to continually 333 00:22:13.720 --> 00:22:16.680 come out of your mouth. And we all go through negative seasons, 334 00:22:16.680 --> 00:22:18.920 friends, and I don't want you to feel like you cannot show up in 335 00:22:18.920 --> 00:22:22.040 our community in a hard season because you can. And when we 336 00:22:22.040 --> 00:22:24.840 show up in hard seasons, a lot of times we have so much sadness 337 00:22:24.840 --> 00:22:27.560 and so much trauma in our heart that that is what's overflowing 338 00:22:27.560 --> 00:22:33.000 out of our mouth. And that is okay. You are allowed to have a 339 00:22:33.000 --> 00:22:39.480 hard season. You are allowed to, you know, be woeful at times. God 340 00:22:39.480 --> 00:22:44.000 created us to emote and sadness is an emotion. Mourning is an 341 00:22:44.000 --> 00:22:48.560 emotion. Confusion, even though it's not from God, we do 342 00:22:48.560 --> 00:22:51.840 experience it a lot in our lives. And you're allowed to 343 00:22:51.840 --> 00:22:56.000 show up. You are, for sure. But if you're always showing up 344 00:22:56.000 --> 00:23:00.560 negative, if you're always showing up critical, whether 345 00:23:00.560 --> 00:23:04.480 it's of yourself or somebody else, then take a look at that. 346 00:23:05.040 --> 00:23:08.280 Because a critical heart is a broken heart. Because out of the 347 00:23:08.280 --> 00:23:15.560 overflow of that heart, that mouth is communicating. When I 348 00:23:15.560 --> 00:23:21.240 was a little girl, my mom really had a thing for Pooh Bear. She 349 00:23:21.240 --> 00:23:25.760 bought me all these Pooh Bear beanie babies. They all like 350 00:23:25.760 --> 00:23:30.040 were dressed differently, like Pooh going to a party or Pooh 351 00:23:30.040 --> 00:23:33.120 dressed like Tigger, you know, or just all these different 352 00:23:33.120 --> 00:23:41.120 things. And, you know, I remember that as I was watching 353 00:23:41.120 --> 00:23:45.240 those Pooh cartoons and stuff, I just really remember that Eeyore 354 00:23:45.240 --> 00:23:51.520 character. Right? The donkey with the tail that was kind of 355 00:23:51.520 --> 00:23:58.080 pinned on with a pin. And, you know, an Eeyore is a thing, 356 00:23:58.400 --> 00:24:05.000 y'all, that we can become. I talk about it all the time, that 357 00:24:05.000 --> 00:24:09.200 Eeyore complex, that, you know, it's not much of a life, but 358 00:24:09.200 --> 00:24:13.440 it's the only life I've got. That is what that attitude is. 359 00:24:13.880 --> 00:24:18.240 It's just constantly pessimistic, constantly, you 360 00:24:18.240 --> 00:24:21.000 know, and even if you watch the cartoon, there's like a little 361 00:24:21.000 --> 00:24:26.280 rain cloud that follows Eeyore around. Everything's, you know, 362 00:24:26.280 --> 00:24:32.080 bad and getting worse. But you notice that Eeyore's not up in 363 00:24:32.080 --> 00:24:35.760 arms about it. It's bad and getting worse, but Eeyore's not 364 00:24:35.760 --> 00:24:38.000 like, Oh, what am I gonna do? You know, he's not frantically 365 00:24:38.000 --> 00:24:41.080 running around trying to fix it. He's just succumbed to it, 366 00:24:41.120 --> 00:24:45.080 hasn't he? He doesn't expect anything better out of life. 367 00:24:45.120 --> 00:24:49.520 It's just this is the way life is. So I want you to ask 368 00:24:49.520 --> 00:24:54.600 yourself how many times in your life you have said it is what it 369 00:24:54.600 --> 00:25:00.000 is. You've said that it is what it is. Well, you know, it is 370 00:25:00.000 --> 00:25:06.600 It's what it is. 371 00:25:06.600 --> 00:25:10.560 No it isn't what it is. 372 00:25:10.560 --> 00:25:13.320 It's what you make it. 373 00:25:13.320 --> 00:25:14.820 It isn't what it is. 374 00:25:14.820 --> 00:25:17.880 So out of the overflow of the heart the mouth communicates. 375 00:25:17.880 --> 00:25:21.840 What is your mouth been communicating and you guys you're going to have to for a little 376 00:25:21.840 --> 00:25:26.120 while you're going to have to take inventory of your words and that's going to be the assignments 377 00:25:26.120 --> 00:25:27.120 all right. 378 00:25:27.120 --> 00:25:32.120 We are going to finish prophesy your year tomorrow night but I promise you we will activate 379 00:25:32.120 --> 00:25:33.120 this. 380 00:25:33.120 --> 00:25:35.360 This is so important and I want to activate this. 381 00:25:35.360 --> 00:25:38.000 We might just have two different settings. 382 00:25:38.000 --> 00:25:40.960 We might have all the people that go to prophesy your year go to a different thing. 383 00:25:40.960 --> 00:25:44.360 I'll try to figure that out with the team today and we'll post it in the groups. 384 00:25:44.360 --> 00:25:50.240 Pay attention to your groups for instructions about tomorrow night for activation. 385 00:25:50.240 --> 00:25:54.560 But I want you to take an inventory and maybe it's better if we don't do it for a week. 386 00:25:54.880 --> 00:26:00.120 I'll give you a week assignment to take an inventory of your words. 387 00:26:00.120 --> 00:26:04.600 Because we're talking and we're not even listening to ourselves. 388 00:26:04.600 --> 00:26:06.240 Let's listen to ourselves. 389 00:26:06.240 --> 00:26:13.280 Let's see what are the things that we say and I'm not just talking about the words that 390 00:26:13.280 --> 00:26:14.280 come out of your mouth. 391 00:26:14.280 --> 00:26:19.200 I'm also talking about your internal dialogue. 392 00:26:19.200 --> 00:26:21.160 What is your internal dialogue? 393 00:26:21.160 --> 00:26:22.160 Is it negative? 394 00:26:22.160 --> 00:26:24.120 Is it critical towards yourself towards others? 395 00:26:24.680 --> 00:26:25.680 Is it insecure? 396 00:26:25.680 --> 00:26:31.040 Do you have a lot of words that are insecure words? 397 00:26:31.040 --> 00:26:35.880 You can't, you're not enough. 398 00:26:35.880 --> 00:26:41.720 Any version of insecurity, oh they're not going to like me anyway, or I wish, or I hope. 399 00:26:41.720 --> 00:26:44.520 Because those are words of discouragement, words of disappointment. 400 00:26:44.520 --> 00:26:48.360 You're always like, oh I wish, oh I wish that would happen. 401 00:26:48.360 --> 00:26:53.360 And a lot of times it's so ironic but we'll use the words I hope. 402 00:26:53.600 --> 00:26:56.600 And people will say, wow, you know, and they'll be all excited for us. 403 00:26:56.600 --> 00:26:59.240 You'll be like, yeah, I hope it works out. 404 00:26:59.240 --> 00:27:05.440 You know, you're saying that out of a place of what, insecurity. 405 00:27:05.440 --> 00:27:08.320 I know that it's kind of sneaky, right? 406 00:27:08.320 --> 00:27:13.400 It's sneaky because you're using the word hope. 407 00:27:13.400 --> 00:27:14.400 You're using that word hope. 408 00:27:14.400 --> 00:27:20.920 And so we're going to have to really watch ourselves. 409 00:27:20.920 --> 00:27:25.920 Maybe you say things like, oh, this always happens, or that never works out, or that 410 00:27:25.920 --> 00:27:28.040 never happens for me. 411 00:27:28.040 --> 00:27:36.880 Maybe you say this word, you say this phrase, you say, it figures. 412 00:27:36.880 --> 00:27:41.520 Something doesn't work out and you're like, yeah, well, it figures. 413 00:27:41.520 --> 00:27:46.600 It is what it is. 414 00:27:46.600 --> 00:27:51.480 You guys, these all seem really benign, right? 415 00:27:51.480 --> 00:27:56.120 But they're not. 416 00:27:56.120 --> 00:28:02.560 If you want to gauge your heart, all you have to do is listen to your words, both external 417 00:28:02.560 --> 00:28:06.280 and internal words. 418 00:28:06.280 --> 00:28:08.440 Maybe you're always saying that you don't feel good. 419 00:28:08.440 --> 00:28:11.720 Now, you might not feel good. 420 00:28:11.720 --> 00:28:15.200 But how does it help to constantly say it? 421 00:28:15.200 --> 00:28:16.600 I went through a whole season of that. 422 00:28:16.600 --> 00:28:20.400 You guys, when I had panic disorder, when I had chronic fatigue syndrome and Epstein-Barr, 423 00:28:20.400 --> 00:28:27.800 when I had all the things wrong that were wrong with me in my 20s, I never, ever said 424 00:28:27.800 --> 00:28:32.320 anything positive about how I felt. 425 00:28:32.320 --> 00:28:38.720 I said things like, I'm sad, I'm scared, I'm hurt, I don't feel good, I don't feel good, 426 00:28:38.720 --> 00:28:42.600 I'm sick all the time, y'all. 427 00:28:42.600 --> 00:28:43.760 And you know what? 428 00:28:43.760 --> 00:28:49.960 It never made me feel better and it never made me get better. 429 00:28:49.960 --> 00:28:53.040 And so you're like, okay, well, Jackie, am I supposed to lie to myself and everybody 430 00:28:53.040 --> 00:28:54.040 else? 431 00:28:54.040 --> 00:28:57.000 No, but you should find a greater reality. 432 00:28:57.000 --> 00:29:05.840 We got to find a greater reality. 433 00:29:05.840 --> 00:29:06.920 What's the higher reality? 434 00:29:06.920 --> 00:29:08.840 What does God's word say about us? 435 00:29:08.840 --> 00:29:12.920 And you guys, you know that I am not one of the people that just splats the scripture 436 00:29:13.080 --> 00:29:14.080 on it and now it's all better. 437 00:29:14.080 --> 00:29:23.560 Oh, we're just going to slap a scripture on this horrible bullet hole and we're not going 438 00:29:23.560 --> 00:29:28.000 to bleed out anymore, no. 439 00:29:28.000 --> 00:29:31.840 But at some point in time, we have to align to a greater truth. 440 00:29:31.840 --> 00:29:34.000 We have to align to a greater truth. 441 00:29:34.000 --> 00:29:39.520 Yeah, we know that it's not true yet in our lives, but we know that God's truth is greater 442 00:29:39.560 --> 00:29:44.160 than our fact. 443 00:29:44.160 --> 00:29:45.160 And what does that show? 444 00:29:45.160 --> 00:29:46.160 That shows faith. 445 00:29:46.160 --> 00:29:47.160 You know why? 446 00:29:47.160 --> 00:29:49.920 Because God says that without faith, it's impossible to please him. 447 00:29:49.920 --> 00:29:50.920 But why? 448 00:29:50.920 --> 00:29:56.120 Because they that have faith come to him and they expect to receive from him. 449 00:29:56.120 --> 00:29:59.920 They expect to receive what it is that they're coming to him for. 450 00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:01.000 Right? 451 00:30:01.000 --> 00:30:09.400 Because he's a rewarder of those that come to him, that seek him. 452 00:30:09.400 --> 00:30:10.400 And I know it's not easy. 453 00:30:10.400 --> 00:30:15.080 It's not easy to ignore the situation that's right in front of you and I'm not even asking 454 00:30:15.080 --> 00:30:16.320 you to ignore it. 455 00:30:16.320 --> 00:30:22.000 But what I am asking you to do is realize that someday, come on y'all, we're going to 456 00:30:22.000 --> 00:30:28.720 go here, someday in the very near future, whatever you're experiencing now will be a 457 00:30:28.720 --> 00:30:38.520 lie because it will no longer be true. 458 00:30:38.520 --> 00:30:44.320 All the things that I was sitting in my bed, you know, reminiscing about y'all in a bad 459 00:30:44.320 --> 00:30:47.640 way, none of that's true anymore. 460 00:30:47.640 --> 00:30:54.280 And pretty soon everything right now in your life that you do not want to be true will 461 00:30:54.280 --> 00:30:57.600 no longer be true. 462 00:30:57.600 --> 00:31:02.160 Those facts will have new information applied to them and they will, they will no longer 463 00:31:02.160 --> 00:31:03.160 be true. 464 00:31:03.160 --> 00:31:05.280 They will be proven false. 465 00:31:05.280 --> 00:31:08.480 Just like a paternity test on Maury Povich. 466 00:31:08.480 --> 00:31:09.480 It will be true. 467 00:31:09.480 --> 00:31:10.480 It'll be proven not true. 468 00:31:10.480 --> 00:31:17.400 And if y'all don't know what I'm talking about, then you're a good person. 469 00:31:17.400 --> 00:31:23.680 You're a good person to have never watched that. 470 00:31:23.680 --> 00:31:28.160 So just think about that. 471 00:31:28.160 --> 00:31:29.880 You guys, they used to think the earth was flat. 472 00:31:29.880 --> 00:31:38.440 I mean, literally, and my son still does because he's a flat earther, but it's not. 473 00:31:38.440 --> 00:31:39.440 Because why? 474 00:31:39.440 --> 00:31:41.720 They got new information and I love this. 475 00:31:41.720 --> 00:31:46.040 They got information from a higher perspective, right? 476 00:31:46.040 --> 00:31:52.200 They went up and then they saw the world and they're like, oh yeah, it's pretty round. 477 00:31:52.760 --> 00:31:57.760 It's spherical, spherical, okay? 478 00:31:57.760 --> 00:32:02.080 Which means that if you sail, guys, they used to think they were going to sail off the edge 479 00:32:02.080 --> 00:32:05.480 of the world in their boats. 480 00:32:05.480 --> 00:32:08.600 Don't go too far because you'll fall off the edge of the world. 481 00:32:08.600 --> 00:32:12.920 That sounds ridiculous to a modern era. 482 00:32:12.920 --> 00:32:20.600 It sounds ridiculous to us, right? 483 00:32:21.000 --> 00:32:23.520 Why? 484 00:32:23.520 --> 00:32:24.520 Because there's new information. 485 00:32:24.520 --> 00:32:25.680 And guess what? 486 00:32:25.680 --> 00:32:30.320 There's new information about each of our situations in life. 487 00:32:30.320 --> 00:32:37.560 Pretty soon, whatever it is that you're struggling with now is going to be a lie. 488 00:32:37.560 --> 00:32:38.720 It's going to no longer be true. 489 00:32:38.720 --> 00:32:45.000 All right, so let's read what James has to say about this little tongue in our mouths. 490 00:32:45.000 --> 00:32:49.360 It's so little, seems so harmless, right? 491 00:32:49.360 --> 00:33:01.640 Let's read about it. 492 00:33:01.640 --> 00:33:06.560 My brothers and sisters, not many of you should become teachers knowing that we shall receive 493 00:33:06.560 --> 00:33:07.640 the greater judgment. 494 00:33:07.640 --> 00:33:11.440 We all err, hold on. 495 00:33:11.440 --> 00:33:13.960 We all err, oops, I'm sorry. 496 00:33:13.960 --> 00:33:17.320 Don't be in any rush to become a teacher, my friends. 497 00:33:17.320 --> 00:33:19.160 Teaching is highly responsible work. 498 00:33:19.160 --> 00:33:23.240 Teachers are held to the strictest standards and none of us is perfectly qualified. 499 00:33:23.240 --> 00:33:27.040 We get it wrong nearly every time we open our mouths, whoa. 500 00:33:27.040 --> 00:33:30.960 If you could find someone whose speech was perfectly true, you'd have a perfect person 501 00:33:30.960 --> 00:33:36.640 in perfect control of life, wow. 502 00:33:36.640 --> 00:33:40.720 A bit in the mouth of a horse controls the whole horse. 503 00:33:40.720 --> 00:33:45.840 A small rudder on a huge ship in the hands of a skilled captain sets a course in the 504 00:33:45.840 --> 00:33:48.240 face of the strongest winds. 505 00:33:48.320 --> 00:33:56.280 A word out of your mouth may seem of no account, but it can accomplish nearly anything or destroy 506 00:33:56.280 --> 00:33:57.280 it. 507 00:33:57.280 --> 00:33:58.280 Look at that, y'all. 508 00:33:58.280 --> 00:34:06.080 A word out of your mouth may seem of no account, but it can accomplish nearly anything or destroy 509 00:34:06.080 --> 00:34:09.040 it, or destroy it. 510 00:34:09.040 --> 00:34:12.639 It only takes a spark, remember, to set off a forest fire. 511 00:34:12.639 --> 00:34:17.600 A careless or wrongly placed word out of your mouth can do that. 512 00:34:17.600 --> 00:34:23.480 By our speech, we can ruin the world, turn harmony into chaos, throw mud on a reputation, 513 00:34:23.480 --> 00:34:27.560 send the whole world up in smoke and go up in smoke with it. 514 00:34:27.560 --> 00:34:30.080 Smoke right from the pit of hell. 515 00:34:30.080 --> 00:34:31.080 This is scary. 516 00:34:31.080 --> 00:34:33.080 You can tame a tiger, but you can't tame a tongue. 517 00:34:33.080 --> 00:34:34.520 It's never been done. 518 00:34:34.520 --> 00:34:36.760 The tongue runs wild, a wanton killer. 519 00:34:36.760 --> 00:34:38.360 With our tongues, we bless God our father. 520 00:34:38.360 --> 00:34:43.480 With the same tongues, we curse the very men and women he made in his image. 521 00:34:43.480 --> 00:34:48.000 Curses and blessings out of the same mouth. 522 00:34:48.000 --> 00:34:49.280 My friends, this can't go on. 523 00:34:49.280 --> 00:34:54.000 A spring doesn't gush fresh water one day and brackish the next, does it? 524 00:34:54.000 --> 00:34:56.239 Apple trees don't bear strawberries, do they? 525 00:34:56.239 --> 00:34:58.360 Raspberry bushes don't bear apples, do they? 526 00:34:58.360 --> 00:35:00.040 You're not going to dip into a polluted mud. 527 00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:03.360 and get a cup of clear, cool water, are you? 528 00:35:07.160 --> 00:35:08.240 What is that saying? 529 00:35:08.240 --> 00:35:09.920 It's basically saying in a roundabout way 530 00:35:09.920 --> 00:35:13.800 that out of the spring of our heart 531 00:35:15.760 --> 00:35:17.280 comes our words, right? 532 00:35:20.280 --> 00:35:23.640 And a lot of our wells have been poisoned with bitterness. 533 00:35:26.640 --> 00:35:28.440 A lot of our wells have been poisoned 534 00:35:28.480 --> 00:35:31.440 with bitter disappointment and discouragement and hurt, 535 00:35:31.440 --> 00:35:34.840 and we've waited for so long for breakthrough 536 00:35:34.840 --> 00:35:38.040 and it hasn't come, and I understand all of those things. 537 00:35:39.440 --> 00:35:41.000 But this scripture is basically telling us 538 00:35:41.000 --> 00:35:45.360 how powerful words are, how powerful the tongue is. 539 00:35:47.080 --> 00:35:48.520 There's another scripture in Proverbs 540 00:35:48.520 --> 00:35:52.880 that says that a wise woman builds up her house 541 00:35:52.880 --> 00:35:57.200 with her words, okay? 542 00:35:57.200 --> 00:35:58.640 Or she tears it down. 543 00:35:59.680 --> 00:36:01.200 Builds it up or tears it down. 544 00:36:03.040 --> 00:36:04.560 So for those of you ladies, 545 00:36:04.560 --> 00:36:05.800 and I know all of you are here, 546 00:36:05.800 --> 00:36:07.600 some of you are already in relationships, 547 00:36:07.600 --> 00:36:12.120 and it does say a woman, it doesn't say a man, 548 00:36:12.120 --> 00:36:14.320 and I'm not saying that men can't be verbally abusive 549 00:36:14.320 --> 00:36:16.320 because we know to the contrary, 550 00:36:16.320 --> 00:36:20.480 but I will tell you that because we don't have the brawn, 551 00:36:22.840 --> 00:36:25.680 a lot of times our anger comes out of our tongues. 552 00:36:28.200 --> 00:36:32.160 A lot of times women will fight with words 553 00:36:33.320 --> 00:36:35.440 because they can't fight with their fists. 554 00:36:36.400 --> 00:36:38.200 And so just keep that in mind. 555 00:36:38.200 --> 00:36:40.720 I have twin grandbabies, boy and girl. 556 00:36:42.440 --> 00:36:45.800 That little girl started running her little mouth so fast, 557 00:36:45.800 --> 00:36:47.800 she was just talking up a storm. 558 00:36:48.880 --> 00:36:50.960 And then my little grandson would be like, 559 00:36:50.960 --> 00:36:54.960 ball, ball, sit. 560 00:36:54.960 --> 00:36:57.160 He had one word, it was ball. 561 00:36:58.000 --> 00:37:00.320 And she was like, mama and daddy and Nona and papa, 562 00:37:00.320 --> 00:37:04.000 and she was like all the words, little phrases. 563 00:37:04.000 --> 00:37:06.120 My mom said that I talked when I was eight months old, 564 00:37:06.120 --> 00:37:07.720 I think we can all believe that. 565 00:37:09.400 --> 00:37:13.360 So ladies, we have a propensity to language. 566 00:37:13.360 --> 00:37:16.520 Language comes easier to women, it's scientifically proven. 567 00:37:17.920 --> 00:37:20.400 So it's a gift that God has given you to communicate. 568 00:37:20.400 --> 00:37:21.920 Women have a gift of communication. 569 00:37:21.920 --> 00:37:24.160 There's a joke that says men say four words 570 00:37:24.160 --> 00:37:26.400 for every thousand words of a woman, right? 571 00:37:28.160 --> 00:37:32.320 I text my husband huge long paragraphs and he answers okay. 572 00:37:36.320 --> 00:37:38.800 Right, we have more words than men do. 573 00:37:38.800 --> 00:37:40.000 It is a proven thing. 574 00:37:40.000 --> 00:37:42.640 Now there are some men that are chatty, it's true. 575 00:37:42.640 --> 00:37:44.400 So it's not across the board, 576 00:37:44.400 --> 00:37:48.120 but it mostly is the way that we're saying, 577 00:37:48.120 --> 00:37:49.760 the majority of it. 578 00:37:54.880 --> 00:37:56.360 All right, the majority of it. 579 00:37:56.400 --> 00:37:58.920 So we have to be careful with this gift. 580 00:37:58.920 --> 00:38:01.240 Gifts overextended become weaknesses. 581 00:38:01.240 --> 00:38:04.160 Gifts overextended by trauma become weaknesses. 582 00:38:07.640 --> 00:38:09.720 They become weaknesses. 583 00:38:09.720 --> 00:38:12.720 We have to use our words for life. 584 00:38:15.680 --> 00:38:17.240 We have to bring life. 585 00:38:17.240 --> 00:38:19.800 It said in James that we can tear a friend down, 586 00:38:19.800 --> 00:38:22.640 but you know, in another scripture, 587 00:38:22.640 --> 00:38:23.720 I think it's in Proverbs, 588 00:38:23.720 --> 00:38:26.840 it says that a word fitly spoken 589 00:38:26.840 --> 00:38:29.920 is like apples of gold and pictures of silver. 590 00:38:35.360 --> 00:38:38.560 James is on here, he's like, I talk a lot. 591 00:38:38.560 --> 00:38:39.400 I'm a man. 592 00:38:40.600 --> 00:38:45.040 There are exceptions to every single scientific thing. 593 00:38:45.040 --> 00:38:46.360 There are anomalies. 594 00:38:48.000 --> 00:38:49.920 There are, James. 595 00:38:49.920 --> 00:38:51.880 And I think it's interesting that the book of talking 596 00:38:51.880 --> 00:38:52.920 is the book of James. 597 00:38:52.920 --> 00:38:53.960 And so there we go. 598 00:38:56.280 --> 00:38:57.680 We gotta be careful with our words. 599 00:38:57.680 --> 00:39:00.280 And you guys, it's not just about 600 00:39:00.280 --> 00:39:02.000 what we think our words mean. 601 00:39:02.000 --> 00:39:03.880 What is the hearer of our words? 602 00:39:03.880 --> 00:39:06.840 What are, yes, they are definitely responsible 603 00:39:06.840 --> 00:39:09.040 for how they receive things, 604 00:39:09.040 --> 00:39:10.320 but to a certain degree, 605 00:39:10.320 --> 00:39:13.040 we are responsible for how things are delivered 606 00:39:14.560 --> 00:39:16.880 and how things will be received. 607 00:39:16.880 --> 00:39:18.760 So that's just a little added thing there. 608 00:39:18.760 --> 00:39:20.480 Guys, people were posting, 609 00:39:20.520 --> 00:39:23.040 I was posting, my birthday was Tuesday, 610 00:39:23.040 --> 00:39:25.040 and then I got the flu afterwards, 611 00:39:25.040 --> 00:39:29.360 and I was reading all of the comments 612 00:39:29.360 --> 00:39:31.200 that people commented on my Facebook page 613 00:39:31.200 --> 00:39:33.000 wishing me a happy birthday. 614 00:39:33.000 --> 00:39:35.720 And I just did a blanket response to everyone. 615 00:39:35.720 --> 00:39:38.160 It'd be difficult to respond to all of those people. 616 00:39:38.160 --> 00:39:40.840 I felt very honored to have that many people show up 617 00:39:40.840 --> 00:39:42.600 and wish me a happy birthday. 618 00:39:42.600 --> 00:39:46.440 And I just said, hey, thank you so much. 619 00:39:46.440 --> 00:39:49.400 Last year of my 40s, 49, 620 00:39:49.400 --> 00:39:51.200 gonna do it upright kind of thing, 621 00:39:51.200 --> 00:39:52.120 like let's go. 622 00:39:53.920 --> 00:39:57.240 And some well-meaning lady who's not in this program, 623 00:39:57.240 --> 00:39:59.600 so I can say this without offending anyone. 624 00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:01.880 Because I care about offending people, y'all. 625 00:40:01.880 --> 00:40:04.240 Sometimes God will offend us 626 00:40:04.240 --> 00:40:07.040 because he wants to invoke change in us. 627 00:40:07.040 --> 00:40:10.660 Offense will a lot of times show you 628 00:40:10.660 --> 00:40:12.300 where there's a broken part of your heart. 629 00:40:12.300 --> 00:40:13.140 It really will. 630 00:40:13.140 --> 00:40:15.600 It will point directly to a broken part of your heart. 631 00:40:15.600 --> 00:40:17.840 But I don't offend people on purpose, all right? 632 00:40:17.840 --> 00:40:20.360 Unless it's just something that's gotta be said 633 00:40:20.360 --> 00:40:22.200 in order to invoke change. 634 00:40:22.200 --> 00:40:25.720 Okay, so this lady, she posts on my post 635 00:40:25.720 --> 00:40:27.000 about, hey, thanks everyone. 636 00:40:27.000 --> 00:40:28.840 Last year of my 40s, let's go. 637 00:40:28.840 --> 00:40:31.440 She posts, yeah, you better enjoy it 638 00:40:31.440 --> 00:40:34.120 because once you hit 50, it's all over. 639 00:40:34.120 --> 00:40:36.800 You know, I mean, basically said all this crazy stuff 640 00:40:36.800 --> 00:40:39.200 about turning 50 and how horrible it was. 641 00:40:39.200 --> 00:40:43.860 And I was like, well, aren't you Pollyanna? 642 00:40:43.860 --> 00:40:45.000 My God. 643 00:40:48.320 --> 00:40:50.860 Way to make it sound like I have, you know, 644 00:40:50.860 --> 00:40:53.880 364 days left of my life. 645 00:40:54.840 --> 00:40:55.680 Why? 646 00:40:57.040 --> 00:40:57.880 Why? 647 00:40:57.880 --> 00:40:59.760 Because that's her experience, y'all. 648 00:40:59.760 --> 00:41:04.200 And so often, all the time, we speak from our experience 649 00:41:04.200 --> 00:41:08.000 unless we believe in a greater experience 650 00:41:08.000 --> 00:41:10.360 and that's the one that Jesus had on the cross. 651 00:41:12.480 --> 00:41:14.880 We gotta come into alignment with that, friends. 652 00:41:16.200 --> 00:41:18.400 All right, so I want you to go ahead and confess 653 00:41:18.400 --> 00:41:20.600 because James 5.16 says that confession 654 00:41:20.600 --> 00:41:23.280 is not just good for the soul, but it actually heals us. 655 00:41:23.640 --> 00:41:24.800 So if we confess our faults to one another, 656 00:41:24.800 --> 00:41:28.840 we will be set free from whatever has ensnared us. 657 00:41:29.960 --> 00:41:31.680 So we don't wanna trip over our tongues anymore. 658 00:41:31.680 --> 00:41:32.880 We wanna go fast. 659 00:41:32.880 --> 00:41:35.040 We want momentum, right? 660 00:41:36.440 --> 00:41:39.240 We don't wanna be trapped by the words of our mouth anymore. 661 00:41:39.240 --> 00:41:40.960 We don't want that. 662 00:41:40.960 --> 00:41:43.840 So I want you to go ahead and put in the chat 663 00:41:43.840 --> 00:41:46.000 what phrase you say a lot that you know 664 00:41:46.000 --> 00:41:48.760 is coming from a broken place in your heart. 665 00:41:48.760 --> 00:41:50.480 It's that hurting heart 666 00:41:50.480 --> 00:41:52.640 that's now flowing out of your mouth. 667 00:41:52.720 --> 00:41:54.880 What are those words that you know are not gonna bring? 668 00:41:54.880 --> 00:41:57.240 You guys, I know it feels good to say it 669 00:41:57.240 --> 00:41:59.360 and remember, we're allowed to have a bad week. 670 00:41:59.360 --> 00:42:00.960 We're allowed to have a bad day. 671 00:42:00.960 --> 00:42:03.840 Some of us will even have a bad month sometimes 672 00:42:03.840 --> 00:42:04.720 and it's a one-off. 673 00:42:04.720 --> 00:42:05.840 We're not usually like that, 674 00:42:05.840 --> 00:42:08.600 but we're back to believing in the Lord's goodness. 675 00:42:08.600 --> 00:42:10.200 We're back to aligning ourselves 676 00:42:10.200 --> 00:42:12.760 and coming into agreement with heaven, 677 00:42:12.760 --> 00:42:14.440 which is the most important thing. 678 00:42:14.440 --> 00:42:16.280 And sometimes, yeah, it won't be easy 679 00:42:16.280 --> 00:42:17.600 to come into agreement with heaven, 680 00:42:17.600 --> 00:42:21.400 but we walk by faith and not by sight, right? 681 00:42:21.400 --> 00:42:24.200 We have to continue to come into agreement with heaven. 682 00:42:26.320 --> 00:42:27.600 So who's gonna admit? 683 00:42:27.600 --> 00:42:30.920 What are the things that you say habitually? 684 00:42:37.440 --> 00:42:39.840 Oh yeah, language of disappointment. 685 00:42:39.840 --> 00:42:40.960 It doesn't matter. 686 00:42:40.960 --> 00:42:42.560 I didn't want it anyway. 687 00:42:45.760 --> 00:42:46.800 Come on, put them up. 688 00:42:51.400 --> 00:42:52.240 I'm fine. 689 00:42:55.280 --> 00:42:56.520 I'm fine. 690 00:43:03.600 --> 00:43:04.440 Ooh. 691 00:43:05.440 --> 00:43:07.680 Mom was always telling me if I didn't have bad luck, 692 00:43:07.680 --> 00:43:09.920 I wouldn't have any luck at all. 693 00:43:09.920 --> 00:43:13.240 Come on, y'all, some of this language was inherited. 694 00:43:13.240 --> 00:43:15.200 It's inherited trauma. 695 00:43:15.200 --> 00:43:18.480 You heard your parents say it or your grandparents say it 696 00:43:19.480 --> 00:43:22.040 and now you're saying it. 697 00:43:23.120 --> 00:43:23.960 I'm good. 698 00:43:23.960 --> 00:43:25.120 Yeah, I'm good. 699 00:43:33.600 --> 00:43:34.520 Look at all these, you guys. 700 00:43:34.520 --> 00:43:36.280 Hopefully you're watching 701 00:43:36.280 --> 00:43:38.600 what your brothers and sisters are putting up. 702 00:43:49.480 --> 00:43:51.480 Just wasn't meant to be. 703 00:43:55.480 --> 00:43:57.680 Nothing good ever happens to me. 704 00:43:59.800 --> 00:44:02.160 I guess this is just my cross to bear. 705 00:44:03.960 --> 00:44:07.880 Anybody ever say the Lord won't put more on me 706 00:44:07.880 --> 00:44:09.000 than I can bear? 707 00:44:10.440 --> 00:44:12.640 That's such an Eeyore thing to say, you know? 708 00:44:12.640 --> 00:44:13.680 I'm just gonna say it. 709 00:44:13.680 --> 00:44:14.520 I'm just gonna say it. 710 00:44:14.520 --> 00:44:15.360 I'm just gonna say it. 711 00:44:15.360 --> 00:44:16.200 I'm just gonna say it. 712 00:44:16.200 --> 00:44:17.040 I'm just gonna say it. 713 00:44:17.040 --> 00:44:18.760 That's an Eeyore thing to say, you know? 714 00:44:18.760 --> 00:44:21.280 Oh, the Lord wouldn't give it to me 715 00:44:21.280 --> 00:44:23.280 if I couldn't handle it. 716 00:44:23.280 --> 00:44:24.120 What? 717 00:44:25.560 --> 00:44:27.800 First of all, we gotta get to the root 718 00:44:27.800 --> 00:44:29.120 of that religious lie. 719 00:44:29.120 --> 00:44:32.600 God does not give us bad things. 720 00:44:32.600 --> 00:44:34.680 He's the giver of good and perfect gifts. 721 00:44:34.680 --> 00:44:36.760 He's the father of light. 722 00:44:36.760 --> 00:44:38.520 He doesn't give us darkness, y'all. 723 00:44:38.520 --> 00:44:39.720 He doesn't give us disease. 724 00:44:39.720 --> 00:44:41.520 He doesn't give us hard times. 725 00:44:42.480 --> 00:44:44.040 We live in a fallen world 726 00:44:45.000 --> 00:44:47.000 that's full of chaos and confusion. 727 00:44:47.000 --> 00:44:50.440 And yes, that trouble comes to our doorstep sometimes, 728 00:44:50.440 --> 00:44:52.200 but his word actually says 729 00:44:52.200 --> 00:44:54.480 that many are the adversities of the righteous, 730 00:44:54.480 --> 00:44:56.440 but he delivers us out of them all. 731 00:44:56.440 --> 00:44:57.720 So he didn't bring us to it, 732 00:44:57.720 --> 00:44:59.440 but he will bring us through it. 733 00:44:59.440 --> 00:45:00.280 Amen? 734 00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:00.840 Amen? 735 00:45:02.720 --> 00:45:03.560 Amen? 736 00:45:03.560 --> 00:45:04.380 Yes. 737 00:45:06.080 --> 00:45:08.080 Yes, you will have trouble in this world. 738 00:45:08.080 --> 00:45:11.040 There is tribulation here, that's for sure. 739 00:45:11.040 --> 00:45:13.440 But God promises to rescue us. 740 00:45:13.440 --> 00:45:15.560 He promises to be with us in trouble 741 00:45:15.560 --> 00:45:18.280 and to give us a way of escape from temptation. 742 00:45:18.280 --> 00:45:20.520 He promises us those things. 743 00:45:20.520 --> 00:45:22.880 And sometimes that trouble ends up at our address 744 00:45:22.880 --> 00:45:27.440 because we gave our address to trouble with our decisions. 745 00:45:27.440 --> 00:45:29.360 And then I got even better news for you. 746 00:45:29.400 --> 00:45:31.480 You don't even have to lay in the bed that you made. 747 00:45:31.480 --> 00:45:33.440 You can still lay in the bed that Jesus made 748 00:45:33.440 --> 00:45:34.960 at the finished work of the cross. 749 00:45:34.960 --> 00:45:38.880 There's grace, there's mercy that's new every single day. 750 00:45:38.880 --> 00:45:40.520 Y'all, God doesn't just pick words 751 00:45:40.520 --> 00:45:41.880 because he knows how powerful they are. 752 00:45:41.880 --> 00:45:45.080 Because remember, he created the world with his words. 753 00:45:45.080 --> 00:45:47.920 Everything that you're experiencing right now 754 00:45:47.920 --> 00:45:51.360 in this physical world was created with the words of God. 755 00:45:51.360 --> 00:45:54.720 Except for you, you were created with the hands of God. 756 00:45:54.720 --> 00:45:56.880 He knit you together in your mother's womb. 757 00:45:56.880 --> 00:46:00.880 The first family also was created with his hands. 758 00:46:00.880 --> 00:46:03.760 He molded and shaped them from the dust or from the rib 759 00:46:03.760 --> 00:46:06.640 because that's how much he is emotionally involved 760 00:46:06.640 --> 00:46:07.760 with our lives. 761 00:46:07.760 --> 00:46:09.400 He knows how important words are, 762 00:46:09.400 --> 00:46:12.480 so pay attention to words that he says. 763 00:46:12.480 --> 00:46:15.000 He's not mincing his words. 764 00:46:15.000 --> 00:46:15.840 He's not. 765 00:46:17.000 --> 00:46:20.320 So we have to understand that when he says it, he means it. 766 00:46:21.200 --> 00:46:25.380 And so if he says, my mercy is new every morning, 767 00:46:25.380 --> 00:46:29.500 then that must mean that we need it every single day. 768 00:46:32.380 --> 00:46:34.140 But a lot of us, we just jump out of bed 769 00:46:34.140 --> 00:46:36.580 and we run out without God's mercy. 770 00:46:36.580 --> 00:46:38.660 We run out in our own power. 771 00:46:38.660 --> 00:46:40.180 What would happen even for those of you 772 00:46:40.180 --> 00:46:42.820 that are really gifted people and you're type A 773 00:46:42.820 --> 00:46:44.640 and you're out there getting her done? 774 00:46:44.640 --> 00:46:47.100 What would happen if you leaned into God's strength 775 00:46:47.100 --> 00:46:48.340 instead of your own? 776 00:46:48.340 --> 00:46:51.100 How much more successful could you be 777 00:46:51.100 --> 00:46:54.180 if you would lean into God's strength instead of your own? 778 00:46:55.020 --> 00:46:57.460 Because we need his grace and we need his mercy, 779 00:46:57.460 --> 00:46:59.460 but a lot of times it's just laying there. 780 00:46:59.460 --> 00:47:01.940 It's a fresh supply of what we're not using. 781 00:47:01.940 --> 00:47:03.200 We're not using it. 782 00:47:05.660 --> 00:47:07.980 We're living in the consequences of our actions, 783 00:47:07.980 --> 00:47:09.540 of other people's actions, 784 00:47:11.540 --> 00:47:13.260 and then we're feeling sorry for ourselves. 785 00:47:13.260 --> 00:47:15.620 You guys, I used to have a perpetual pity party 786 00:47:15.620 --> 00:47:17.900 for myself in my 20s when I was sick 787 00:47:17.900 --> 00:47:19.500 because I was a believer 788 00:47:19.500 --> 00:47:22.340 and I became a believer at 22 years old 789 00:47:22.340 --> 00:47:25.780 and I knew that I wasn't supposed to have to live this way 790 00:47:25.780 --> 00:47:29.020 and yet I was, and so I felt so sorry for myself. 791 00:47:29.020 --> 00:47:32.820 Like I was God's stepchild, right? 792 00:47:36.540 --> 00:47:37.940 And I knew I deserved it 793 00:47:37.940 --> 00:47:42.140 because I already had this root of rejection inside of me 794 00:47:42.140 --> 00:47:44.220 from my childhood and all the words 795 00:47:44.220 --> 00:47:46.460 that had been spoken over me that I was bad 796 00:47:46.460 --> 00:47:48.700 and that I should've never been born 797 00:47:48.700 --> 00:47:49.860 and all of those things, 798 00:47:49.860 --> 00:47:52.320 and so that stuff didn't get eradicated from my heart. 799 00:47:53.300 --> 00:47:54.240 I didn't know my heart work yet. 800 00:47:54.240 --> 00:47:55.760 I brought all that stuff with me 801 00:47:55.760 --> 00:47:57.200 into my new birth experience 802 00:47:57.200 --> 00:47:59.400 and remember those new hearts, 803 00:47:59.400 --> 00:48:01.920 we don't get them right away, you guys. 804 00:48:01.920 --> 00:48:06.420 We get those hearts by the washing of the water of his word. 805 00:48:06.420 --> 00:48:08.000 We continue in his word 806 00:48:08.000 --> 00:48:09.140 and that's when we know the truth 807 00:48:09.140 --> 00:48:10.600 and that's when we're made free. 808 00:48:10.600 --> 00:48:15.080 Yes, we have an amazing radical experience at conversion 809 00:48:15.080 --> 00:48:16.820 when he comes into our heart, 810 00:48:16.820 --> 00:48:19.480 but then that's when the house cleaning's gotta start. 811 00:48:20.480 --> 00:48:23.400 And this crazy world we live in 812 00:48:23.400 --> 00:48:26.800 wants to put new stuff in the heart every day 813 00:48:26.800 --> 00:48:29.040 and that's why you gotta guard your heart. 814 00:48:29.040 --> 00:48:29.880 The Bible says, 815 00:48:29.880 --> 00:48:31.400 guard your heart because out of it 816 00:48:31.400 --> 00:48:33.940 flows the quality of your life. 817 00:48:35.160 --> 00:48:36.760 And why is that? 818 00:48:36.760 --> 00:48:38.360 Because that's where your language 819 00:48:38.360 --> 00:48:40.000 and your communication comes from 820 00:48:40.000 --> 00:48:42.020 and words have power. 821 00:48:42.020 --> 00:48:44.020 They're little power containers. 822 00:48:46.360 --> 00:48:48.400 So we're gonna go forth from this call 823 00:48:48.400 --> 00:48:50.980 and you're gonna take inventory of those words. 824 00:48:52.840 --> 00:48:55.240 Do you feel sorry for yourself like me in my 20s? 825 00:48:56.200 --> 00:48:58.300 Always having a pity party for myself. 826 00:48:59.300 --> 00:49:02.180 Always crying and complaining. 827 00:49:02.180 --> 00:49:03.120 Are you a complainer? 828 00:49:03.120 --> 00:49:04.120 Do you complain a lot? 829 00:49:04.120 --> 00:49:05.720 Do you whine a lot to God? 830 00:49:11.280 --> 00:49:16.280 I remember one day I was just level 10 whining, 831 00:49:17.120 --> 00:49:21.840 complaining, in a fear response, crying out. 832 00:49:23.720 --> 00:49:27.120 God help me, help me, help me, help me kind of thing. 833 00:49:28.760 --> 00:49:33.240 And God just very gently, very calmly said to me, 834 00:49:33.240 --> 00:49:34.120 Jackie, get up. 835 00:49:36.280 --> 00:49:37.360 Get up. 836 00:49:37.360 --> 00:49:39.360 Because I was laying on the floor, 837 00:49:39.360 --> 00:49:41.480 snotting up the carpet. 838 00:49:41.480 --> 00:49:42.320 Get up. 839 00:49:43.300 --> 00:49:45.800 This is not who I created you to be. 840 00:49:47.280 --> 00:49:52.280 It was very sobering that day, very sobering. 841 00:49:52.960 --> 00:49:54.680 And so my next question was, 842 00:49:54.680 --> 00:49:57.960 well, if this is not who I am, then who am I? 843 00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:06.640 If I'm not this pathetic, broken, mentally ill, messed up person, if this is not who 844 00:50:06.640 --> 00:50:10.480 you created me to be, then who am I? 845 00:50:10.480 --> 00:50:16.200 And that's when it all started, friends. 846 00:50:16.200 --> 00:50:18.620 And now I'm who I am in front of you today. 847 00:50:18.620 --> 00:50:23.840 But I will propose to you that not only did that not happen overnight, it did not happen 848 00:50:23.840 --> 00:50:30.560 by aligning with the broken words of my past. 849 00:50:30.560 --> 00:50:38.480 The broken identities, the labels, any of those things. 850 00:50:38.480 --> 00:50:43.200 And it's not a fake it till you make it type of situation. 851 00:50:43.200 --> 00:50:44.200 It isn't. 852 00:50:44.200 --> 00:50:49.960 Because you're not faking anything. 853 00:50:49.960 --> 00:50:53.620 Who God says you are is who you are. 854 00:50:53.620 --> 00:50:58.420 It is who you are. 855 00:50:58.420 --> 00:51:03.460 So I want you to take inventory of who you're saying you are by your words, what you're 856 00:51:03.460 --> 00:51:07.620 saying about your life by your words, what you're saying about God by your words. 857 00:51:07.620 --> 00:51:09.940 You're like, well, I'm not saying anything bad about God. 858 00:51:09.940 --> 00:51:19.500 No, but you might be saying something about his ability to come through on some things. 859 00:51:19.500 --> 00:51:23.220 What you're saying about your life, about your potential, what you're saying about your 860 00:51:23.220 --> 00:51:27.540 love life, your health. 861 00:51:27.540 --> 00:51:30.180 I want you to take inventory. 862 00:51:30.180 --> 00:51:36.980 And then we will activate this either this coming tomorrow night, or we will activate 863 00:51:36.980 --> 00:51:37.980 it. 864 00:51:37.980 --> 00:51:40.780 We'll give you a week to take some inventory and activate it next Sunday night. 865 00:51:40.780 --> 00:51:44.380 When you show up tomorrow night, whatever happens will happen. 866 00:51:44.380 --> 00:51:45.860 We might just do some prophesy your year. 867 00:51:45.860 --> 00:51:47.500 You're like, well, I didn't buy that course. 868 00:51:47.500 --> 00:51:49.220 That's okay. 869 00:51:49.220 --> 00:51:52.340 I feel like you could still jump into the activations that we're doing. 870 00:51:52.700 --> 00:51:56.660 That would be a blessing to you if that's how we do it. 871 00:51:56.660 --> 00:51:58.940 And then we'll put this off to the next Sunday. 872 00:51:58.940 --> 00:51:59.940 Sound good? 873 00:51:59.940 --> 00:52:01.340 All right. 874 00:52:01.340 --> 00:52:04.540 So go forth today and let's watch our words. 875 00:52:04.540 --> 00:52:06.100 Let's pay attention. 876 00:52:06.100 --> 00:52:07.700 What is coming out of our heart? 877 00:52:07.700 --> 00:52:12.780 What do we really believe about ourselves and others and God and all the things in life? 878 00:52:12.780 --> 00:52:13.780 What do we really believe? 879 00:52:13.780 --> 00:52:16.980 And for those of you that pick your words really carefully, you're a really careful 880 00:52:16.980 --> 00:52:20.180 person with your words. 881 00:52:20.180 --> 00:52:22.340 Is your word bearing fruit? 882 00:52:22.340 --> 00:52:26.820 Because God says, out of the mouth, death and life are the power of the tongue. 883 00:52:26.820 --> 00:52:30.620 And they that talk will eat the fruit. 884 00:52:30.620 --> 00:52:32.300 Are you eating the fruit of your good words? 885 00:52:32.300 --> 00:52:34.860 Because if not, there's a harvest waiting for you. 886 00:52:34.860 --> 00:52:38.540 If you're choosing your words carefully, if you're making sure that you're speaking life 887 00:52:38.540 --> 00:52:40.540 and not out of fear. 888 00:52:40.540 --> 00:52:44.300 I know some people, they will not let a negative thing come out of their mouth, even if it 889 00:52:44.300 --> 00:52:45.300 needs to. 890 00:52:45.300 --> 00:52:49.700 My grandmother-in-law is one of those people and I love her so much, but she can't even 891 00:52:49.700 --> 00:52:53.380 talk about the reality of something that needs to be talked about because she feels like 892 00:52:53.380 --> 00:52:54.380 she's speaking death. 893 00:52:54.380 --> 00:52:56.860 So she's taking that scripture completely wrong. 894 00:52:56.860 --> 00:53:01.620 You guys, we have to be real people that are able to discuss the situation. 895 00:53:01.620 --> 00:53:04.820 Just because we're discussing the situation doesn't mean that we're like bringing death 896 00:53:04.820 --> 00:53:05.820 upon ourselves. 897 00:53:05.820 --> 00:53:11.900 Okay, let's not get superstitious and weird about it. 898 00:53:11.900 --> 00:53:17.140 You know the difference between being negative and speaking death over situations because 899 00:53:17.140 --> 00:53:23.580 of disappointment and discouragement and despair and all the dis and just talking about something 900 00:53:23.580 --> 00:53:26.060 because it needs to be discussed. 901 00:53:26.060 --> 00:53:27.060 That's different. 902 00:53:27.060 --> 00:53:28.060 Okay. 903 00:53:28.060 --> 00:53:31.340 And so if you're one of those people that never says anything negative because you're 904 00:53:31.340 --> 00:53:40.340 superstitious about it, then let's go ahead and let's live in reality as far as there 905 00:53:40.340 --> 00:53:44.740 are things that go wrong and it's okay to say, Hey, this is going wrong. 906 00:53:44.740 --> 00:53:48.980 You know, I need to, I need God to help me, you know, get this to go, right. 907 00:53:48.980 --> 00:53:49.980 It's okay. 908 00:53:49.980 --> 00:53:51.180 You're allowed to do that. 909 00:53:51.180 --> 00:53:52.180 All right. 910 00:53:52.180 --> 00:53:53.340 So I bless you. 911 00:53:53.340 --> 00:53:55.340 Go forth, go forth in life. 912 00:53:55.340 --> 00:53:59.940 I just speak life over you and over your bodies and over your situations and over your finances 913 00:53:59.940 --> 00:54:01.580 and over your love lives. 914 00:54:01.580 --> 00:54:07.260 We speak life over every single element of your life and we believe that good things 915 00:54:07.260 --> 00:54:08.260 are coming. 916 00:54:08.260 --> 00:54:10.420 We believe that God loves us. 917 00:54:10.420 --> 00:54:12.820 We believe that God is with us and for us. 918 00:54:12.820 --> 00:54:14.820 And so go in his power in Jesus name. 919 00:54:14.820 --> 00:54:15.820 Amen. 920 00:54:15.820 --> 00:54:16.820 All right. 921 00:54:16.820 --> 00:54:17.820 Love y'all. 922 00:54:17.820 --> 00:54:17.820