All right last year single community welcome to Supernatural Saturday
If you are new, we always tell you that this is our time of current prophetic reality
We all get together. We lean into heaven together and find out what is God saying to us today?
What does God want us to be focused on at this time in our lives together?
What does he want us to ponder and what questions does he want us to ask or answer?
Those are the things that we do on Supernatural Saturday and it is always pretty supernatural
So welcome if it's your first time with us
It is available in replay
and so if you can't stay the whole time you definitely can come back and listen later and also there's a time a of
Supernatural activation on Sunday nights where we either activate what we've learned on
Saturday or we activate something else that is important right now in our lives, right?
So as we get started today, I will tell you I wake up in the morning on Saturdays, and I just ask God
What do you want to say to your kids?
What do you want to say to your sons and daughters this morning?
And this morning the very first thing that I heard was tell them
That I'm coming soon and that can elicit all different types of responses from you depending on what kind of you know
Denomination you come from
Depending on you know
What is your ideas of eschatology and the return of Jesus to the earth to set up?
Fully set up his kingdom right and we know the disciples at least a few of them
back when Jesus walked the earth in his skin suit and
He gathered his disciples that followed him a few of them thought that was what he was here to do the first time
Right, but we know that he was here to demonstrate a kingdom
He was here to become the sacrifice for mankind
He was here to die for us and as us so that we can
Be reconnected to our royal identity as the children of God
So we know what he was up to but this morning when I woke up
I heard I heard him say very clearly tell them that I'm coming soon. So what's that soon word mean?
Does it mean during our lifetimes? Will we see?
Will we see Christ returned to the earth during our lifetimes? Well, I sure hope so. I don't know
I remember when I was a kid
I had a Pentecostal grandmother and even though I didn't have my conversion experience until I was in my 20s
You know, I would spend I spent a couple summers with her
Around the Pentecostal kind of flavor of Christianity and it was always about the rapture
All right
The that that type of Pentecostal the one that my grandma the churches that she went to down south in Tennessee
Shelbyville, Tennessee, um, it was always about the rapture. You better be ready for the rapture
You better not be caught unaware of the rapture any moment. The rapture is coming, you know
The area of Tennessee that she lived in was really prone to thunderstorms in the summertime
I mean you guys bad ones where you think there's any time any at any moment?
There could be like a tornado coming through you look up you expect to see a funnel cloud
Because that's how bad these storms were and they would come out of nowhere
so it's really storm alley right there and when I was a kid because of all the things that I would hear my grandma say
In those summertime two or three weeks when we would stay with her about the rapture and about things
I didn't understand because that was not something I was being taught at home when I was with my mom
That wasn't something that was being reinforced anywhere else except for these brief visits with my grandmother
I was like, oh, oh, no, it's a rapture
This thing called the rapture. Whatever that thing is. It's here
And it was a bad thing, right? It was a scary thing
and a lot of people still feel that way about the coming of Christ because of you know, bad teaching or you know,
Misguided eschatology and that's and that's okay. If that's you we're not here to trigger you
I'm not here to trigger you Jesus did not tell me that this morning to trigger you but it's more of a sobering idea of
Remind them what they're really here for
And I know that all of us are here on this call to
Revive marriage and family because that's all God ever wanted was a family because all he ever wanted
I really need you to wrap your head and your heart around that right now. Let's just take a second to think about that
Say that phrase over and over again out loud if you can, you know, wherever you are
Or in your mind if you can't if you're at work or someplace else say it all God ever
Wanted was a family
It wasn't a byproduct of what God wanted. It wasn't something that happened as a result of what God wanted
It wasn't a second or third
thing that God wanted all of this
All of creation, everything was made for one purpose and that was what happened on that
sixth day when he made his family.
All of it, all of it, everything.
The sun being just the perfect amount of distance away from the earth.
A little further, we'd freeze to death.
A little closer, we'd burn up.
The solar system, everything that's in alignment that causes us to be able to orbit, that causes
us to be able to have the seasons that we have, to have the life on earth that we have.
The plants that grow, the trees, all of the crazy ecosystems that exist on earth.
Have you ever watched Animal Planet or any of those things?
We're not talking about the big, the mammals and the animals.
We're talking about like the tiniest little teeny tiny thing that you didn't even know
existed that's keeping this whole ecosystem going.
All of that was for one reason and one reason alone.
God wanted a family.
He wanted a family and we are that family.
And as part of that family, he wanted us to have family.
Go back to the Genesis and look.
As part of that family, he wanted us to have family.
Otherwise, what?
Adam could have stayed alone in the garden.
If all he wanted was a son, then Adam could have stayed alone in the garden.
He could have stayed alone.
What was the purpose of him having Eve?
What was the purpose of him having a helpmate to do what?
The assignment.
What was the assignment?
To prosper, to steward.
That was the assignment.
Adam and Eve.
This is not a one person job.
This is a family job.
And if there's two, then there's going to be more.
That was the purpose.
Not just that Adam and Eve could, you know, have a, you know, creation and chill.
That wasn't what was up.
Adam and then Eve.
No, because when you have a man and woman, there's going to be children, there's going
to be family.
And that's what God wanted.
He wanted us to exist in family the same way that Father, Son, and Holy Spirit exist
in community and family.
He wanted us to have family that was like us.
Yes, we're created in his image, but he wanted us to have others that were like us
so that we could do what?
Relate to him in a deeper way.
Do you know that?
That's what human relationship does for you because we've all been created in the image
of God, but you can't see God.
No one has seen God.
You can't see God.
He's a spirit.
So in order for us to be able to relate to something that we can't see, even as far back
as the garden, right, it's important that we understand that the way that we relate
to God is by seeing the God in others, by seeing what we can see.
Good relationships and bad relationships with others will cause you to draw closer
to God.
Let's focus.
Let's not have cross chat in the comments today.
Let's focus on what Holy Spirit is saying to us.
It's so important.
He wants us to know what he's like.
He wants us to see him in others.
The other day I told my husband, guys, I come from a very troubled childhood.
In fact, today is the day when the person that I loved more than anything, the person
that hurt me more than anyone has ever hurt me on the earth, the person that I loved more
than anyone on the earth went to heaven, my mother.
Today is the day that she went to heaven.
This afternoon, four years ago, my mother went to heaven, and because of the things
that happened in my childhood, and I want to make sure I tell you, I think my mom was
doing the best she could.
I do.
I think she was doing the best that she could.
It took me years and years and years to understand that, that she was broken, that she was hurting,
that she was, you know, operating from a very messed up playbook.
I didn't know any of that stuff.
All I knew is that I needed to put distance between myself and her, you know, from pretty
much the time I was a teenager on because it just wasn't a safe space to be.
But at the end of her life, I got to see some glimpses of who she really was.
I got to spend some time with her.
I got to do some heart work with her.
There was forgiveness.
There was closure on some things.
There was time.
time together. There was revival and reconciliation and all kinds of amazing things. And those
last two years were incredible in the way that I finally got what I always wanted, and
that was a mother and my mother. And of course, I'm going to have to wait till eternity to
continue that story, even though I know she is with me and she is for me and she is in
that great arena of witnesses that are cheering us on and helping us and interceding for us
in ways that we cannot even imagine, friends. And so if you have that same situation where
people that you love more than anything are no longer visible on earth, trust me, they
are with you and they are for you and they are helping you in ways that you cannot understand.
But because of those trust issues, it's been hard for me to attach. And I know that in
our communities, we're talking about attachment style and we're going to continue to do that.
And if you're in phase one and phase two, don't worry, you're not going to be left out.
You're going to also have those conversations as you navigate the phases. I promise you
that's going to be a part of the course and curriculum going forward because it's so important.
But I had so much trouble attaching. I had so much trouble trusting. And I've been married
for 17 years, you guys, and it's still been a journey of trust for me. I'll take three steps
forward and then I'll take two steps back in trusting others to what? To take care of me,
to have my best interests at heart, to do things instead of doing things myself.
But the other day I said to my husband, I said, I just want to let you know that I trust the
God in you. And you guys, that's a bigger compliment than saying, I trust you.
Because let's just face it, humanity really can't be trusted. The flesh really can't be trusted.
It's very unpredictable. We have no idea what it's going to do or not do. I know that people
pride themselves on thinking that they could never do anything horrible, right? That they
could not be capable of doing something that really damages or hurts others. But given the
right circumstances, the right situation, the right catalyst, who knows what, but God.
And so it's more important to understand that we don't put our trust in people. We put our
trust in the God in people. We put our trust in God. That's why as you're navigating these single
waters, it's important for you to look and only attach your boat, your ship to one that is also
going the same direction. And that's following Christ. Because when push comes to shove,
whatever it is that happens, you need to know that that person is going to be able to lean into God,
to lean into the supernatural, to get wisdom beyond themselves, right? That's what we want.
And so that's why that is so vitally important. And my husband has proven that over and over and
over and over again. And so I trust the God in him. And so going back to my original thought,
this is why we need each other. This is why God created a family. And that's why we're all here
together because we are showing each other what God looks like. And we're also showing each other
what God doesn't look like, right? It's important. There's never any scenario where you've been
created to be alive and alone. And so it's not just about having that spirit mate.
That's going to be great. But it's also about having friends. It's also about having community,
people of faith. Now, I do think it's important also that we share our lights with the darkness,
meaning that we have people in our lives that are not necessarily believers.
That we don't only hang out with other people that know Jesus, but we also allow ourselves to
be generous with our lives, with others as well that don't know Jesus. Why? Because they'll be
able to see the God in us. This is how they'll be able to attach to an invisible God, through a
visible child of God. All of us have the same purpose, and that's to show this world what it
looks like to be a son or daughter of God. That is our highest calling and purpose on this earth,
to be his family and to show this world what his family looks like.
John 17, one of Jesus's last prayers before he ascended to the Father. So this is after the
crucifixion, after the resurrection, when Jesus continued to teach his followers more about the
kingdom and more about their part to play and what was going to happen when he went to the Father,
in one of those last prayers in John 17, you see that Jesus is saying,
Father, make them one like we're one. So why? So that this world will know that I
truly was your son. By what? By their love for one another.
Right? By their love for one another.
Just go ahead and focus. Give yourself permission. You don't got to write in the comments. Just
focus. Focus on what God is saying to you this morning, because this is an important talk.
Because right now I'm going to venture into something that I don't usually do. There's
222 people on here. 222 people, y'all. Come on. 222 people. That is the number of family. That's
the number of God's family. That's the number of marriage. That's the moment when Adam got
his helpmate in Genesis. Holy Spirit is confirming what we're hearing right now.
And I'm going to venture into a subject that maybe you didn't expect to hear in a dating
marriage spirit mate program. And that is evangelism.
It's evangelism. We have a purpose on earth. And Matthew 5, if you look, the Sermon on the Mount
is really the yoke of Jesus. So when he says, come to me, my yoke is easy, my burden is light.
His yoke as a rabbi, the teachings of him as a rabbi, his yoke, that's what they called it back
in the day, back in the Bible days, back in the rabbi days, is really the Sermon on the Mount.
So go and read those chapters and see what Jesus is talking about. It's so simple.
Keep it simple, sweetheart. It's so simple. It's so easy. It's so simple. And it's your
only assignment. It's your only assignment. And in Matthew 5, it says, we're the light,
right? We're the city that's set on a hill. We're the light that's set on the lampstand.
For what reason? To shine like a lighthouse on a hill, to shine. And in the message translation,
if you read those scriptures, it says, be generous with your lives. Keep open house,
keep open house. So for what reason? So that people will see you and they will glorify God.
They will glorify God. In fact, in the message translation, it says something fun. I'm just
paraphrasing because I don't have it in front of me, but it's one of my favorite passages
of scripture. It just says, we're taking this thing public. We're taking what public? God,
we're taking him public. He's not a secret to be kept, right? He's not a secret to be kept.
We're taking this thing public. Live your life out loud. And does that mean that you have to
somehow figure out how to shove the word Jesus into every sentence that you say to everyone that
you talk to? No. In fact, one of my favorite quotes of all time, I think that it might be
St. Augustine, correct me if I'm wrong, that's fine. It just basically says, or it might've been
St. Francis of Assisi. It basically says this. It says, preach the gospel. And if necessary,
use words. Preach the gospel. And if necessary, use words. What does that mean? That means
your life speaks volumes. Your life speaks volumes and not the perfect bits of your life.
Not the bits that you show everybody like, oh, hey, look, I'm perfect. I do everything right.
I'm a Christian. I'm talking about your humility and your authenticity, your vulnerability.
It speaks volumes, your kindness and compassion, even in times of stress.
It speaks volumes. The Bible says that we are volumes. We're books known and read of all men.
That's what we are. And you guys, that's a tall order. And that's why we have to have Holy Spirit.
We have to have Holy Spirit. If you go through your life understanding that if they've seen me,
then they've seen the Father. Why? Because he lives in me. That's why Jesus said that. He said,
if you've seen me, you've seen the Father. You guys, we are the extension of that now.
We are the Christ agents on the earth, empowered by the Spirit of God, by Holy Spirit.
We can't do this on our own. Don't even try. Don't even try to do it on your own.
Don't feel like, oh, God, I can't do this. He's like, good,
because I didn't ask you to now move over and let me do it through you.
Friends, we have to be about our Father's business. I know that everyone here in this community
is desiring the gift of marriage. Because why? Because God gave
gave you the desire.
Once again, all that God ever wanted was a family,
and family starts with marriage.
This whole thing started with a marriage in the garden,
and the whole thing's gonna end with another wedding,
another marriage in the garden.
And yes, there's been a lot of things that are lost,
and people ask me all the time,
why are so many people single
that don't wanna be in this generation?
Evil, that's why.
If you don't think that marriage and family
is public enemy number one to the opposing forces
in the kingdom of darkness,
then you missed the whole point of why we're here.
Marriage and family is the number one thing on the hit list
of the opposing forces.
The darkness, that is the number one thing.
Why?
Because it's all God ever wanted.
Let's go back to the beginning of this talk.
It is the main thing.
It's the main thing.
Guys, the miracle signs and wonders aren't the main thing.
The churches certainly are not the main thing.
They're not the main thing.
Family is the main thing.
In fact, back in the original model in the book of Acts,
that's what it was supposed to look like.
The spiritual community part of it.
Now we have big buildings full of strangers.
It's supposed to look like family.
And in America, I'll go ahead and say it,
we got big business and we call it church.
Right?
And people feel disconnected.
A lot of times they go to buildings
and they participate in music
and things that we have called worship
and they don't know the people
that are sitting next to them.
Guys, I went to church the other day
and because I travel a lot,
someone tried to like, which I appreciate.
I don't want you to get the wrong idea
about what I'm about to say.
But someone tried to win me to the Lord
at my church.
And you know what?
I didn't correct them.
Because I thought it was great.
Thought it was great that they were trying
to introduce me to Jesus.
I thought it was great that they were trying
to help me to connect to my father in heaven through them.
And so I just went along with it
as if I didn't know any different.
We can all use to meet Jesus again
and again and again and again and again and again.
But you guys, we're here for a reason.
And I know that gets lost,
especially for those of you that are in America.
I know we have international people in this program
and I haven't lived in your countries.
And so I can imagine that they're pretty Westernized
as well, but I will tell you,
America, we definitely are very focused
on things that are not eternal.
Very focused and it's really hard, y'all.
When you get out of bed in the morning
before your little foot even hits the floor,
or men, your big foot, it's all good.
And ladies, some of you got some big feet too.
And that's all right.
Before it even hits the floor,
regardless of the size of it,
you're already thinking about a million cares
of the world that have no eternal value.
None, no eternal value.
In fact, if you stopped and asked yourself the question,
does this matter eternally?
The answer 95% of the time would be no.
You guys, if we keep the main thing, the main thing,
then all of those other cares would start to dissipate.
They would start to fix themselves.
And that's why the Jesus Cares Board exists.
If you haven't made one yet, make one.
It's to remind you to keep the main thing, the main thing.
It's to remind you that God is bigger.
It's to remind you that you're not an orphan
and that you're not meant to go running through this life,
trying to figure out your own problems,
trying to make it.
Nowhere in the Bible does it say,
hey, good luck kid, I hope you make it.
It doesn't say that in there.
But there's lots of typology where he's saying,
come to me, rest, relax.
Let it go.
Stand.
Let me take care of it.
Let me fight for you.
So many times.
And we have to be a model of that so that we can model that for others.
People are exhausted, you guys.
They're exhausted.
Can you imagine?
I want you to remember for one moment, and some of you can't because you're like my daughters
and my son, my daughters and my son, you've always known God.
You were raised in a home where you were taught and know God.
But for the rest of us, I want you to remember a time when you were living in this crazy
world without God, at least without you knowing that you had God.
Without you knowing that he knew you.
Without his help.
That was scary times, right?
We made a lot of mistakes during those times.
We hurt ourselves.
We jumped out of a lot of frying pans into a lot of fires back then, didn't we?
We did.
Without the empowerment of the spirit, without the knowledge of the love of God, without
the finished work of the cross of Jesus.
I definitely have done it imperfectly, but I will tell you from the moment, from the
moment that love called my name at 22 years old, from the moment that I met him, I have
not turned back.
I have followed him imperfectly for the last 28 years.
Because it's just too good.
I know what it's like.
I know what it's like to live in fear.
I know what it's like to not know where your next meal is coming from.
I know what it's like to couch surf and not have a home and not have resources.
I know what it's like to worry and fret and have mental illness level anxiety.
I know what it's like.
I know what it's like not to trust people.
I know what it's like to feel unsafe every moment of every day.
I know what that's like.
There are people all around us every day that are living that reality.
And they may not look like it on the outside, because you know why?
Because people are desensitized even to their own pain.
Dysregulation is a huge word.
It's a buzzword right now about nervous systems and most people, that is just their norm.
That's just their norm, because that's why disease is rampant in the earth.
It doesn't start as disease.
It starts as stress.
It starts as anxiety.
It starts as, you know, no rest.
There's no rest.
And I know when we read those scriptures that say things like there's no rest for the wicked,
we think like the wicked, like the people that are up to no good and they're out there
like in the night hours, you know, doing the bad things in the underbelly of the earth.
No, that's just talking about how there's no rest outside the finished work of the cross.
There's just two types of people, y'all.
There's no shades of gray.
You're either lost or found.
You're either lost or you're found.
I like to say it this way.
You're either a believer or you're a pre-believer, because I want everyone to believe.
You're either pre-believer or you're a believer.
And that brings me to something.
I was watching, okay, I went and saw The Chosen movie last night.
Y'all, it's rough.
I'm just going to go ahead and warn you.
It's long because it's three episodes and you're in the theaters.
It's like three hours and it's good and there's a lot of really important things that are
being said and I feel like a whole generation is learning scripture because there's so much
scripture that's correctly applied within that show, okay?
But it's rough.
It's a rough one.
There's so many spoilers, but it's rough.
So if you go to it, just know that you're probably afterwards going to be having some
really existential kind of thoughts, okay?
But I wanted to catch up on the last episode of season three, so I was just kind of skimming
through it.
And then I remembered how I started watching The Chosen during COVID, during quarantine
in 2020, because that's when they released the first season.
And I'm like, you know what?
I really love that episode where Jesus calls Peter, right?
That whole, they play out that part of the Bible where he's like, go out and drop your
nets and you're going to catch some fish this time, you know, kind of thing.
And so I went and I...
found season one and I was watching that episode and something so powerful and so simple was stated
there that if we allow it to it could really change our hearts and our lives.
So Peter you know he's all up you know he's he's just he's all upset he owes a bunch of taxes a
bunch of things you guys some of this is creative license some of these stories are kind of put
together and they're not really in order and that's okay. So Jesus comes this is when he's
going to call Peter to follow him and Peter's just like agitated he's got an attitude problem
and I'm pretty sure that's probably like what Peter was like and Jesus said hey can I borrow
your boat I want to teach these people but they're crowding me and I need to kind of push out from
the shore a little bit so he does that and then after he's done and during his parables that he's
telling these people he uses some fishing parables because he's on a boat and he picks up the net
and he says to Peter what do you do with this net it's like what's this what's this used for
and Peter says it it gathers and Jesus said uh-huh and he goes it gathers and then Peter
because he's annoyed he's just like it gathers fish and so Jesus talking to the crowd says
just like this net gathers fish and then these fishermen take that net full of fish to the shore
and then they sort it out and then they keep the good and then they throw away the the ones that
are not good they discard the ones that are not fit right he said this is what it'll be
like at the end of the age please hear what I'm about to say hear the spirit
it is not your job to sort people out Jesus went on to say at the end of the age the angels will
come and they will gather all people all people and then what's going to happen next God's going
to sort them out right at the end of the age God's going to sort them out it's not your job to
pre-qualify people it's not your job to decide or judge people's lifestyles or what they're doing
or what they're not doing it's not your job to sort them out it's only your job to gather them
it's just your job to throw out a net to be a fisher
of men and women that is all your job is to do God will sort them out you're not holy spirit
it's not your job to convict them now there will be every once in a while someone who's assigned
to you to disciple that person is someone that you're going to teach and that you're going to
help and that you're going to model your life for them to follow
but the rest of them it's just your job to show people what heaven looks like
it's not your job to judge their choices or their lifestyle or their sin you're not their judge
you're not he didn't say catch the fish and then clean them and then fillet them
he didn't say that he just said gather them
once again hunter no cross talk we're focusing right now
focus friends heaven is trying to tell us something i saw a post a couple days ago
uh from from a girl that i met when i worked at a restaurant in my 20s you guys i was an
imperfect christ father i was following christ i was doing the things that i was supposed to do
you guys i was an imperfect christ father i was following christ i was doing my best
i came from a rough background but i was doing my best to follow christ
she was six years younger than me so i was in my mid to late 20s and she
turned 20 years old while we were working with each other at this restaurant
and we were friends and we were hanging out and doing things you know and i would say some things
about jesus to her because you know i was a new believer and so i was pretty zealous and
definitely didn't you know there wasn't any chill i didn't have a lot of chill
okay and so working at this restaurant together and then you know she started doing a few things
and i judged her i was just like you know you shouldn't be doing that that's messed up she was
in a marriage she got married to her high school sweetheart when she was 18 years old and she was
just doing some things that were really you know not good for her life and so she stopped talking
to me and pretty soon i didn't work at that restaurant anymore and i went on my way and one
day you guys i was walking around my house and i was a new mom i had like a my daughter was under
two years old and i was walking around my house i was in a troubled marriage and i was a new christ
follower i'd only been following christ for about five six years and i was walking around my house
and she popped into my head and i began to pray for her and i said lord please help her i said god
i i wasn't a great witness to her and and i
And, you know, I repent of that.
You know, I, I really want you to send someone into her life that can, that can
tell her more about you and show, show her what you're like and disciple her.
And I was just praying for her guys.
I'm not kidding.
The very next day, there was a knock on my door, my front door of my house.
It was 10 o'clock at night.
I looked through the peephole and it was her.
She was standing at my front door.
I hadn't talked to her in probably 10 months.
I opened the door and here's the other thing, you guys, she'd
only been to my house one time.
You have to remember, this is back before cell phones and GPS and all the things.
And I was like, Whoa, Hey, Hi, where, where'd you come from?
How'd you get here?
And she said, I'm desperate.
She's crying.
She's like, I'm desperate.
And I prayed and I asked God to show me where you lived.
And I remembered how to get here.
You guys, she was in trouble with the law.
She had been separated from her husband and she got involved with a con artist.
I knew that she was on a really bad road.
When we worked together, she was doing things that I thought
we're going to get her in trouble.
Maybe even in criminal trouble.
And she was, and now she was facing like all kinds of like time in prison.
Not only is she separated from her husband and getting divorced, she has a small
child, one that's just a little bit younger than mine, so still less than two
years old and she's facing time in prison for like racketeering and grand theft
auto and all kinds of stuff, y'all.
And she's just young.
She's like 21 years old.
And we began to pray.
She came in and I sat down and I prayed with her and then I began to disciple
her and I began to walk through this with her and I went to court with her
and I did all these things and I began to sow into her life and I began to pray
into her life and I began to give of myself to this girl and then eventually
to her husband, Josh, because they got back together.
You know, I was a catalyst and a bridge for that.
Like I was for so many of my friends, either matchmaking them or helping
them to stay in matches that were not bad, but they were just too broken to
attach.
Ironic, right?
Me, myself being too broken to attach, but helping others to attach because God
doesn't call the qualified.
He calls the available.
And so doing all that for years and years, you guys, and a decade of
discipleship, a decade of rollercoaster, guess what?
All charges were dropped against her.
Yes, all kinds of miracles happened in that decade, all kinds of things.
And then her and her husband moved away to another state and we lost touch.
And then every once in a while, you know, we'll say hi to each other on
Facebook.
Y'all, she made a post two days ago on her Facebook page.
It was really, really long.
It was talking about how God has changed her life and how she was living a life
of destruction and how God called her out.
And she began to talk about a friend who came along beside her and discipled her
and spoke the words of God into her life and helped her and all the pictures that
she put on this post or how her and her son, you guys, they are real estate
investors and they are multimillionaires.
They own all these properties.
They do all this amazing stuff and she gives all the glory to God for each and
every property that she has and owns.
You guys, this girl was a dumpster fire when I knew her, but God knew what was
inside of her.
He knew what she could become.
Her and her husband stayed together.
They ended up having several more children, two more children.
They're all grown up.
They're all amazing.
It's amazing family.
They went through other ups and downs.
Sure.
She's had health problems.
She had Lyme disease.
She had all kinds of things, but through it all, y'all, she kept her faith.
Those seeds of faith that were planted in her.
They continue to grow.
I'm sure that over the years, other people have watered them and they've
continued to grow.
And now look, what a beautiful example of the restoration of the finished work of
the cross, right?
Oh my gosh.
So amazing.
And so sometimes we will go the extra mile with people and we will walk with
them.
We will.
But all the rest of the people, no.
It's not your job to tell them what you think of their lifestyle or their
choices.
Your job is to love them because the goodness of God is what leads people to
turn around from their way and go God's way.
It's the goodness of God that leads to repentance.
repentance. And that is what the word repentance means. It's not our job to tell them what
the Bible says about their sin. It's not our job to judge their body dysmorphia and transgenderism
or homosexuality. It's not your job to sort the fish. It's not your job. Because what
might not be valuable to you might be really valuable to God. What doesn't fit your schema
and your paradigm of Christianity might really fit a kingdom paradigm because God doesn't
see the outside. He sees the heart. God sees the heart. He knows what potential is there.
He knows what someone could become or what could happen in their life as a result of
people showing up and just continuing to show them what the kingdom looks like. Remember,
if you're not discipling them, then you're just a brick in their wall. I want you to
remember that. Say that to yourself right now. If I'm not discipling them, I'm just
a brick in their wall. I'm just a paver on their path. When they meet you, maybe you're
not their tipping point. Maybe you're not the person that finally says the next thing,
the next supernatural thing that's going to cause them to finally surrender and be
discipled. But guess what? You're chipping away at it. You're going to become a long
line of kingdom people that they ran into on their path that kept pointing them in the
right direction. And that's to the heart of Jesus, to the heart of Jesus, not the judgment
of Jesus, to the love of God, not the wrath of God. Come on, you guys. You might never
get to see that fruit until heaven. When someone comes up to you that you don't recognize and
says, oh, hey, thank you so much. Thank you for that kind word that day in the supermarket.
You have no idea how troubled I was. Thank you for this. Thank you for that. You guys,
every single one of us, every single one of us that are following Christ right now,
it is made up of so many touch points with heaven. So many touch points with heaven had
to go into this. So many. I know this will be shocking to you, but a woman came to me.
She's now in heaven. I love her, but you know, she had to love me when I was unlovable
because she came up to me before I met Jesus. I was married. She was someone who went to
my previous husband's church, had known him since he was a little boy, and she came up
to me at an event. Him and I were estranged. We were separated. We were getting divorced.
Remember, I haven't had my conversion experience yet. And she was so passionate. She had tears
in her eyes and she grabbed my hand and she said, do you want to save your marriage? Do
you want to give your heart to Jesus? And I looked her straight in the face, hold it
stone. And I said, no, I don't. And that was the truth. I didn't. My heart was hard as
a rock. I didn't want to do any of the things that she was asking me to do. Didn't. But
guess what? Her words chipped away. It chipped away at that hardened heart. And then another
thing happened that chipped away. And then another thing happened that chipped away.
And then another thing happened. It chipped away. And pretty soon I'm laying awake at
night and thinking about my existence on earth and what am I even doing here? I'm having
those existential questions. And then another thing happened that chipped away. And another
thing and another thing until I'm driving my car one day and I just cry out, who are
you? God, are you real? What do you want from me? And bam, passed out, driving my car, had
an out of body experience, met the Lord. I know it doesn't happen for everyone radically
like that, but it did happen for me that way. Didn't hurt anyone. Didn't hurt myself. But
began a, whoa, God, you're real. Tell me more. And I began to devour the Bible, just reading it,
reading it. I lost my job because after that situation happened, I just wasn't, I couldn't
work. I had some, I had some, some numbness, some, some, some paralysis in the left side of my body.
They couldn't find anything wrong with me. And guess what? As I just.
sat and devoured the Bible and was asking God,
tell me more, who are you, what's happening?
People began to show up in my life.
This nurse named Aileen, she showed up in my life
and she started to disciple me,
she started to come over every day
and teach me the things, she was a new believer,
but to teach me the things she knew
and then another person, then another person.
And then pretty soon, a bunch of people came
and they laid hands on me and prayed for me
and then all the paralysis and everything left my body
and then I was baptized in the spirit in my living room
and then the next thing happened
and the next thing happened and the next thing happened.
But you guys, if I was to sit down and make a timeline
of my introduction to Jesus, it would start with,
it would start with my mom humming a song
from her childhood that said something about God or Jesus
because my mom had run away from religion
and she did not live that out until the end of her life,
she did not reconnect with Jesus until the end of her life
because of spiritual abuse.
Please don't spiritually abuse people,
please don't tell them that God is a hard task master
and he's unpleasable,
please don't put the yoke of religion on people.
Jesus said, I have come to free you from that.
My yoke is easy, my burden is light.
If you're weary with what?
With religion, with the law,
with a bunch of rules that you could never, ever, ever,
if you tried all your life, keep.
And so maybe a song or two of her singing that
and then being sent to stay with my grandmother
and even though that was a very legalistic place,
I saw things, I heard things, I felt things.
And then a camp that I went to and then this and then that.
It's a lot of different people
and a lot of different things.
And every day that you walk this earth,
you can point someone towards heaven.
You might not get to be the person that sees them
fully surrender their heart to Jesus.
You might not be the person that's assigned to disciple them.
We can disciple very few people, especially at a time.
It's a lot of work.
It's a lot of work, right?
Yeah, it is, especially nowadays.
I know this has been a very different type of call for us,
but God wants us to get focused back
on keeping the main thing, the main thing.
We are here to be light and salt in the earth.
We are here to be that city that's set on a hill
that cannot be hid.
All of us together, we are that city.
We are that lighthouse.
We are here to be generous with our lives,
to keep open house with our lives.
You guys, go look him up, go follow him.
He's this kid and he's very imperfect.
A friend of mine went to Bible college with him.
My daughter saw him just recently at her school.
His name is Jimmy Darts, he's on Instagram.
But all this kid does, and he had this idea to do this,
and then God started blessing it.
But what he does is he just goes up to strangers
at stores like Walmart and different places,
and he pretends to not be able to buy something small.
Like, oh, hey, I really wanna buy this pair of shoes,
but I need one more dollar.
Do you have a dollar you can give me?
And if they say yes and they give him whatever it is,
he gives them 500 or $1,000 in return.
And sometimes those interactions turn into a real,
where the person starts breaking down
when they're given that money and they just begin
to thank him and thank God, and they can't believe it,
and they needed it so bad, and then a story spills out
about a surgery that they just had
that they couldn't pay for, or this or that,
or homelessness, or all kinds of different things.
And then he starts to GoFundMe page for those people,
and then just rocks their socks off.
But he says, Jesus loves you.
He's like, oh, he's like, tell me, what's going on?
He's like, Jesus loves you.
He's like, Jesus sent me to you today.
It's just powerful.
And just get some tissues,
because you're gonna cry like a squishy little baby
when you watch those videos.
Because it's just so beautiful to see something.
What a great idea.
And you know what, God has an idea for you
on how you can impact people's lives
for the kingdom of God.
And can I tell you that whatever that idea is,
he has a partner for you to help you to do it.
Do you want your spirit mate?
Be busy about the father's business,
not just the business of non-eternal things
so you can pay bills and die someday.
Be busy about the father's business, and guess what?
You will very quickly connect with someone
who's also busy about the father's business.
I've seen so many missionaries get married
since I started doing this 40 months ago,
you know, really specifically focusing in
on helping people find their matches.
How many people?
Did you guys know that the sexual part
of your relationship, so the romantic part
of your relationship, and it doesn't matter
if you're super, super, super sexual,
like on our Simbis reports that you guys will take
when you get into those pre-marriage relationships,
it says, you know, what's your expectations
of sex in this relationship?
Once a day, twice a day, once a week,
once every two weeks?
Yeah, there's a question on there like that
because we want to make sure people
are on the same realistic page
about what that's gonna look like, right?
Some people put twice a day.
So even if you're a twice a day-er on the Simbis,
you're still going to have sexual interaction
with your partner less than 2% of your marriage.
What are you gonna do for the other 98%, y'all?
Less than 2%.
What are you gonna do for the other 98%?
You're gonna be about your father's business together.
You're gonna raise a family together,
a family of world changers together.
You're gonna change things.
You're here to change things.
All right, come on, y'all.
Now it's your turn.
In the chat, in the chat, ask God to make you a soul winner.
Ask God to make you a fisher of people.
I'm gonna ask you to do the same thing.
You are here right now
because of somebody else's yes to God.
Every one of you,
even those of you that were raised in Christian families,
you are here because of someone else's yes to God.
You are not here on your own.
You are here because of someone else that said yes.
Some of you may have a burden for a specific population.
Obviously, y'all, you know I have a burden for you guys.
God's single sons and daughters
and the revival of marriage and family in the earth,
the perfection of blended family in the earth.
But you might have a burden for teenagers or for kids.
Guys, can I ask you to do the same thing for me?
I'm gonna ask you to do the same thing for me.
For teenagers or for kids.
Guys, can I tell you that when I was a child
in an abusive home
and I went to things like camps and school and stuff,
not one adult noticed my pain.
Not one adult tried to help me.
Guys, I even ended up going to a church camp
for like three summers in a row
and I was being abused in my private life
and not one adult picked up on that.
Not one adult was used by heaven to come alongside me
or to come to me and to comfort me or speak over my life.
Not one time, you guys.
How many children out there are suffering right now?
And no one sees them.
People are so busy in their own problems,
in their own lives, no one sees them.
For those of you that are teachers,
I know, I understand that the government
shortens your hand in what you can do,
but the kind words to a verbally, mentally
or emotionally abused child can change their life.
Tell them that you're proud of them.
Tell them how nice they look or how talented they are
or how good they did, powerful.
For those of you that yearn for fatherhood or motherhood,
become a foster parent.
Someone has put it in the chat.
You could become a foster parent
even before you find your partner.
You could become an adoptive parent.
They do that now, you guys.
There's that many people in the system.
There's that many children that do not have families.
I watched a video on the internet the other day
where this two people were giving this little girl
who's probably about 10 years old,
one last Christmas present and she opened it up
and in it was something that said
that she was being adopted by them.
They were her foster parents and she began to weep.
This little girl began to weep
and you could tell that these were tears of joy
but they were also tears of relief.
They were also tears of just exhaling
after a life of holding her breath
and wondering what's gonna happen next.
No little 9- or 10-year-old child should have the weight of the world like that on them.
And I know what that's like.
I live that way.
Guys, we can make such a big difference.
Please stop waiting for your life to start.
Your life starts now.
Your life has been started.
You've been living it all of this time.
This little phrase kept coming in my mind before I got on the call today.
It says, only one life, how short it will pass.
Only what we do for Christ will last.
Only one life, how quick it will pass.
Only what we do for Christ will last.
And for those of you that feel like you're in the, you know, fourth quarter of your life,
you're needed.
It's not time for you to retire, go sit on the bench somewhere.
God, no one retires in the kingdom.
We're eternal people.
We refire.
We don't retire.
And so we need you.
We need you.
It's time for you to get a new release on life.
A new lease and a release on life.
Thank you, Holy Spirit.
Let's just thank him right now.
Thank you, Holy Spirit.
Help us.
We can't do this on our own.
We know that you're not asking us to do it on our own, God.
You're not asking us to do it on our own.
Empower us.
Give us the grace.
Give us the grace to come out of the burdened lives that we live in this age.
We live burdened lives and we're burdened with so many things that don't matter.
They're not eternal things.
If we seek first your kingdom and your righteousness, then everything else will be added to us.
Your word declares that.
If we focus on the main thing, if we keep the main thing, the main thing, you'll take
care of all the lesser things.
If we're busy about your business, you will take care of our business.
Lord, we declare that right now.
We believe that right now.
Empower the people that are on here, going to listen and replay with a spirit of evangelism.
Put in each and every one of them the desire to win souls, to point souls to you, to show
this world what it looks like to be a daughter or son of God.
Yes, Lord, let it be so.
And I pray that you would spotlight them to a partner that has the same heart, that
you would highlight them to a spirit mate that wants to lock arms with them and follow
after you.
Yes, Lord.
Let it be so.
Let it be done.
In Jesus name.
Amen.
All right.
I'm going to go ahead and hit the recording off and for the last few minutes, I just want
us to just, you know, thank God for this message.
Just hold on one second.
So everyone who's listening and replay, just go ahead and have a praise break after you
listen to this message, because we receive the word of the Lord with gladness and joy
in our hearts.
Right.
That's how we receive the word of the Lord.
And so you guys do that.
But so it doesn't sound kind of, well, you know what, let's just let it be recorded.
Go ahead.
If you want to unmute yourself and just, you know, take a little praise break.
Let's go ahead and do that.
Thank you, Lord.
Thank you, Jesus.
Thank you, Lord.
Thank you, Jesus.
Hey, thank you.
Yeah.
God.
Thank you for your kindness. Thank you for loving. Thank you, Father. Thank you for healing
my broken heart. Thank you, Father. Thank you for healing my broken heart. Thank you
for clarity and love that you're bringing to me. Praise you, God. All right, go with
God. Go shine like you were created to do and we'll see you soon. Bye, everyone.