All right, good morning everyone and welcome to Supernatural Saturday.
I am out on the West Coast, Best Coast so it's very early.
So kudos to all of you West Coasters that come regularly to prayer.
I know it's early for you.
So if I sound a little sexy this morning, it's just my morning voice.
Welcome to it.
All right, so Supernatural Saturday is a time every week where we get together and we look
to heaven to find out what heaven's saying, what's the current prophetic reality of our
life as a community individually.
And we hope that you will come live to this session.
If not, it is always available in replay.
All right, so here's the thought that God dropped in my heart.
First of all, I want to let you know that my daughter got engaged yesterday.
That is why I'm out here.
It was a surprise engagement.
It was amazing.
She had no idea.
She knew that her parents, me and her dad were out here to visit her.
She knew that her boyfriend was here to visit her.
She knew that her brother was here to visit her, but she did not know that her sister
and her sister's husband had flown in.
She did not know that her now fiance's sister and her husband had driven down.
She did not know that her fiance's mother had flown in.
And so there was a lot of surprises.
It was amazing, you guys.
She's so happy.
Let the wedding planning begin.
So I only have one more single child, my oldest son, 29.
I will auction him off later to someone.
I'm just kidding.
All right, so we're going to get started.
I'm sitting out in the car because the whole house is asleep.
And it was a long day yesterday, big party afterwards at the house here at the Airbnb.
And so I'm out in the car just ready to talk to you guys this morning.
And I woke up this morning and I was like, Lauren, what are we going to talk about?
And here's the one thought that he gave me.
He actually gave it to me a little bit yesterday.
And I was like, no, that can't be what we're going to talk about.
So I kind of dismissed it.
Anyone else do that?
I just dismissed it.
I'm like, no, that's not it.
All right.
I'll just wait.
God, you'll tell me.
I know you're going to tell me.
And then this morning, same thing.
And I'm like, all right, let's go.
Let's go.
And here's the one thought that we're going to launch off of this morning.
Are y'all ready?
You ready for this?
He said, and I had a dream actually that sort of coincides with this as well, that I'll
tell you briefly about, this is what he said.
He said, are you enjoying your one and only life?
You guys, you only get, you only get one life on earth.
You're going to live for eternity.
You're eternal.
Your spirit is eternal.
You're going to have an eternal life.
Okay.
So this, this, um, limited engagement, this show, my brother, I have an older brother
that always texts me and he'll say to me, how's your show?
And what he means is my life.
This is my show.
I'm the star of this show.
How's my show?
Right.
And so your show is a limited, has a limited earthly engagement.
Are you enjoying your show?
Are you enjoying your life?
So I want you to just close your eyes and ask yourself that and be honest, please.
And then we're going to talk about it.
Close your eyes, ask yourself, am I having fun?
Am I enjoying my life?
Or is it get up and try to survive every day?
Is it get up and try to figure out how to make it through another day?
Is it lots and lots of problems and trouble and conflict?
And then every once in a while, an enjoyable moment, am I living for those very few and
fleeting enjoyable moments?
Do I live my life for the weekend?
Do I live my life for a brief week of vacation in the summertime?
Do I live my life for Christmas, the holidays, a three day weekend, a long weekend?
Do I live my life for, you know, those short little brief blips of happiness?
Come on, let's get honest.
Do I describe life as hard?
Is life hard?
Do I have a whole big, huge list of rules and do's and don'ts for myself?
Whole big list of rules of do's and don'ts.
And some of my favorite things, some things that I look longingly at, would love to try
or do is kind of on my list of Christians don't do that kind of thing.
All right.
So let me just, while you're thinking and while you're meditating on that, closing your
eyes and thinking about it, I'm going to share a little blip of my dream last night.
So in a little blip of my dream last night, I was in some kind of Christian sort of events
and it was all women and the woman that was speaking, she was saying something and then
she like said a few, a few words.
from a Taylor Swift song and then I picked up
where she left off and I just kind of belted it out
and then she kind of gave me a look.
And you guys, I'm used to getting the look
because I'm very, very rarely not out of order
in some way, shape or form.
I was made that way.
All right.
And so she gave me the look and I said,
I said, come on.
I said, that was fun.
I said, let's go dancing.
And then I looked around
and everyone was just kind of giving me the side eye.
And I was like, what, are we the Christians
that don't dance?
I'm sorry.
Is this the group of, is this,
is this effective Christianity where we don't dance?
And really what I was saying is like,
is this the group of people where we don't have fun?
We don't know how to have fun over here.
Remember that?
Who's those, who saw that movie Footloose?
Those kids were being kids and they got in trouble
and someone got hurt and got killed.
And that happens because y'all, that happens, right?
But then it's like, no one's ever dancing again.
No dancing allowed.
Guys remember that movie, Kevin Bacon back in the day?
I think they remade it, but all remakes are horrible.
So yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Remember.
So we have to ask ourselves, am I having fun?
I want you to picture father God
as a really good daddy, all right?
I know it's difficult to do that
if you haven't had a good earthly role model example
of that, but I want you to,
you have to know someone who has a good father.
Someone who has an engaged father, a present father,
a loving father, a fun father.
Fathers should be fun.
Yes, they definitely need to be fathers.
They definitely did teach us right from wrong
and correct our behavior.
You guys not punish our behavior.
Come on, stay with me this morning.
We're going somewhere important.
Not punish our behavior.
The Bible doesn't talk about punishing your children.
It talks about correcting them.
A lot of you were punished.
You were done, something was done to you
that would be considered child abuse now a days.
You were sent to your room and you were grounded
to your room for maybe weeks, right?
That happened to me.
Not allowed to come out.
Go to school, come back, go back in your room.
Isolation, solitary confinement.
Guys, that's not healthy for children.
Yeah, give them a little time out
to think about what they've done
and then let's have a conversation about what you've done.
A lot of times parents don't wanna deal with kids
that have done something wrong
or they don't wanna deal with their kids at all.
And so it's a really easy out for them to just,
oh, go to your room and leave the kid there
for days and weeks.
Only having to deal with them
when they come out for meals or school.
Why?
Because they don't wanna be a parent.
And that's sad.
They don't wanna have to deal with you.
And all that does in a child's heart
is sparks rebellion and depression.
When I get out of here, when I get out of this house,
I'm gonna do whatever I want.
You know, when you over correct a child,
when you're too strict with them,
when you're too controlling with them,
all it does is the pendulum swings over
to just total anarchy, right?
And rebellion, that's what happens.
So some of you were over-disciplined.
You were spanked, but you were spanked with a belt
or a spoon or a paddle or a strap or a switch or something
because you're being punished, not corrected.
You're being punished, not corrected.
I remember going to a softball practice
when I was like 10 years old.
My legs were covered with welts
from a very thin belt that my mom had used.
As I was running around my room trying to avoid it,
it's like being whipped, like when we whip a horse,
you know?
And you guys, that's not the heart of God.
God doesn't teach us to punish our children that way.
That type of punishment does not correct behavior.
All it does is create distance between you
and where you don't trust them,
where you see them as violent,
where you see them as unsafe people, right?
A lot of you are putting up some horror stories
in the chat right now.
And so this is a problem, right?
Because a lot of times when we find religion, okay,
we find this new family, this new family of God,
and we haven't come from such a great biological family.
We just assume, especially if we're being discipled
by the elders of this new family,
to tell us that God loves rules.
He's real strict.
He's very controlling, right?
We have to try to somehow make him happy, make him.
And a lot of you have experienced that in childhood
where you didn't ask for anything
until your parent was in a good mood
and they were rarely in a good mood.
You had to make sure that they had.
had a good day at work,
or they weren't fighting with each other.
There was a peace and calm in the house
where you could go and ask if you could borrow the car,
ask for some money, for some shoes, for something,
or whatever it was.
You had to make sure they were in a good mood,
or you had to wait until they weren't drunk,
or you had to wait until they were drunk,
because that's when they were in a good mood.
All different types of people here today on the call,
and all of us have experienced something different
when it comes to family and parenting and being parented.
But good news, here's the good news today.
God's not like that.
He's not like your earthly father, your earthly mother.
He's not like those people.
That means when he gives us a gift,
and he did, he gave us lots of gifts.
And the first one we wanna talk about today
is the gift of life.
He gave us the gift of life.
He knit you together in your mother's womb.
He gave you the gift of life.
And then like any good parents
that would give a child a present on their birthday,
or Christmas, or some other special occasion,
or just for no special occasion at all, just because.
You watch that child open that gift,
and then you want to see the surprise on their face,
the excitement on their face.
You wanna see them playing with that gift.
You wanna see them enjoying that gift.
And your Papa in heaven is looking down,
and his question is,
are you enjoying the gift that I gave you?
Are you enjoying it?
Do you love it?
Because here's the news.
Here's the news flash this morning, friends.
If we're not enjoying it, we're doing it wrong.
I know that a lot of us, and I could feel this way,
and I used to feel this way.
We feel like, you know, we were born a day late
and a dollar short.
We were born with all of these things
that were already against us in life,
and we're never gonna catch up.
We didn't come from a good family,
not a good lineage, not a good legacy.
We didn't have opportunities like other kids
that we went to school with.
Maybe we didn't get to go to college.
Maybe we had to go right to the workforce.
You know, maybe we did get to go to college,
but we chose something that we didn't really wanna do
because we didn't have a lot of input.
We didn't have anyone cheering us on
and telling us to go after our dreams.
We didn't even know what our dreams were.
And now we have a bunch of debt from school,
or, you know, we're working someplace
where we don't want to.
Here is the good news.
It's not too late to change your life.
It's not too late to do something different.
It's not too late.
Yes, it's not going to be easy at first.
Yes, you're going to have to, you know,
stretch a little bit.
You're going to have to make some sacrifices
to go after something else,
but it's not too different to enjoy this one and only life.
For those of you that are surrounded by relationships
that are hard and difficult,
and, you know, you go to a job every week, every day
that you don't like because the people there are difficult
and the job is grueling and there's no satisfaction,
you don't have to do that.
You don't.
There's a whole big wide world out there
of all kinds of things where you can go
and you can do something that you really enjoy.
And you get the opportunity to find out what that is.
You don't just have to jump out of the frying pan
into the fire.
You can actually go find out what it is that you enjoy.
You're like, Jackie, how do I do that?
By sampling.
Do something that I call sampling.
Go and take a class.
Don't sign up for four years of college.
Go take a class.
Most colleges will let you audit a class.
You don't even have to pay.
As long as you don't want to get the credit for it,
you can go audit it.
You can just go sit in.
Don't have to pay for it.
You can just go sit in and see if you like it,
whatever it is.
And then if you see that you like it, then guess what?
You sign up and you pay for it and you take it for real.
Guys, there's all kinds of colleges that have, you know,
classes where you can learn stuff.
You're not necessarily trying to get a degree.
You just want to sign up and take a couple of credit hours
to do what?
To do an art class.
Maybe you want to go do an art class.
Maybe you want to, you know, do a pottery class
or do a drawing class or painting class.
You just want to see all kinds of people.
Your neighborhoods have rec centers where they have classes,
dance classes.
Remember my dream was about dancing.
By the way, yes, we are the Christians who dance.
We're the Christians who dance.
Now we might not booty dance, all right?
If your dance, if you're dancing equals looking like
you're having sex out in public,
you might want to switch that up, all right?
Looking like, you know, everyone in the room's just like,
hey, you know, that girl or that guy, you know,
wants to have sex.
That's the takeaway.
You might want to switch that up a little bit,
but we have been.
created to move our body.
Your body wants to express the life that's inside of it.
We have been created, listen please, to move, to move.
You have not been created to sit around.
You are not a potato.
Just so you know, you're not a potato.
You might look in the mirror and feel like a potato.
You might even look a little bit like a potato right now.
That all can be, that can all be fixed.
By what?
By moving.
When we sit around a lot,
we start to resemble things that sit around a lot,
like potatoes.
Okay, that's why they call it a couch potato.
And so let's get up and move our bodies.
Your body's been created to move.
It's been created to move y'all.
That's why you have those legs and those feet.
That's why you have that core
that keeps your body stabilized and that spine.
That's why you have those bones and those muscles.
Your body's been created to move.
So walk, dance, run if you can, jog,
do other types of movement, exercise.
I know that people are like, yoga's bad.
It's worshiping the devil or the God of the sun.
I don't believe any of that.
To the pure, all things are pure, y'all.
Okay, greater is he that is in us
than he that's in the world.
If I accidentally do some pose
that pagans do to their sun god,
I'm not doing it to their sun god.
It doesn't automatically become me worshiping a sun god.
It doesn't.
It doesn't, y'all.
There's a lot of, there's something called hard intention
that goes into anything.
You think you can accidentally just walk out of your house
and make the wrong movement with your body
and all of a sudden you're worshiping the devil?
Come on.
Why do people believe this?
Now, if you used to be a part of the occult
and you used to worship other gods
or you used to be a Wiccan or a white witch
or something like that,
then maybe that's a trigger for you.
But don't put that on everybody else.
It could be a trigger for you
because you were participating in something
with a hard intention.
With a hard intention.
You see how that's necessary?
You were participating in something occultish
with a hard intention to do something
other than worship the one true and living God.
So maybe that stuff now is a trigger for you.
Those movements are a trigger for you.
They take you someplace you don't want to go.
Okay, we get that.
And we bless you to do something different with your life
that feels peaceful, that brings you shalom,
that doesn't trigger you.
But the rest of us, we just fat, dumb, and happy out here
just moving our bodies and stretching.
Leave us alone, okay?
We want to be flexible
so that when we're old, we don't break.
You understand?
The best thing you can do for yourself as you are aging,
ladies and gentlemen, is stretch your body.
Stretch your body.
Pilates, yoga, things like this
that cause you to be flexible, all right?
Weebles wobble, but they don't fall down.
We want to be flexible.
We want to make sure we are.
Because if we're not, then we start breaking bones.
We start getting problems.
And so we don't want to do that.
We don't want to be stiff.
We don't want to be stiff old people, y'all.
And so we have to move.
Just so you know, movement is worship to God.
Movement is worship to God.
When we move, we're worshiping the Lord.
We're doing what God created us to do.
And anytime you do anything that God hardwired you
and created you to do, that is worship to him.
Let's go on and talk about a couple other things.
He created you to dance.
David was a man after his own heart,
and that man danced like a fool.
Okay, he did some other things too.
And we're going to get to that in a second,
because I believe that this life is our childhood,
and God expects us to fall down and skin up our knees.
He wants to pick us up from that position
and dust us off and love us up and set us back on our way.
You're allowed to make mistakes,
and we're going to talk about that in a second.
We're going to talk about movement still, though.
He created us to move.
He created us to take deep, deep belly breaths,
you guys, like babies.
Breathe it all in.
Breathe it in, breathe it out.
Inhale love and exhale fear.
You've been created to breathe and to move and to dance.
You've been created to do these things.
You've been created to sing, that's right.
You've been created to sing.
I don't care if no other human being
likes the sound of your voice.
Your father in heaven loves the sound of your singing.
Sing, belt it out, sing off key, do it.
It's fine.
For people who think that they're tone deaf,
you're really not.
You just don't have a lot of experience with music
and you just don't hear it,
maybe like other people do
that are naturally gifted to hear that.
that beat or that key of the song, but just pray.
Say, hey God, will you help me to hear it?
I really love to sing.
I really love to sing out more.
I even love to sing out in church,
but people give me the side eye
because I'm not singing the right key.
Lord, can you just help me with that?
And he will.
He will.
Guys, I just had my first piano lesson
because I'm a child in this grownup body.
And if I get to be 110 years old on this earth,
I'm still gonna be a child in this body
because this is my childhood.
This whole entire life is your childhood.
You're here to learn.
You're here to grow.
You're here to love and be loved
because you're made from love.
That is what you're here for.
Please watch and observe children,
how they get on the playground
and they're not ashamed to say goofy
and crazy things to strangers.
How they're not ashamed to try it out
and to be afraid to try it out, but to do it afraid.
How they're not ashamed to go up to each other
and give each other a big hug,
even though they don't know each other.
They're not ashamed to do these things.
God said, be a little child, come into the kingdom.
He said, you know what?
You can't even experience,
you can't even see the kingdom
if you don't come as a child.
You gotta come as a child.
The problem is a lot of us,
our child has got robbed from us.
We didn't get to be children when we were children.
We had to grow up too fast
because of the environments that we were in were not safe.
We came out of our mother's wombs running for our lives,
but guess what?
We get a do over, not in heaven someday, right now.
Just so you know, Supernatural Saturday
used to be called Child Something Saturday.
Who remembers what we used to call it?
Free Child Saturday or?
Child's Play.
Child's Play Saturday.
Thank you so much.
Child's Play Saturday.
Guys, we are never, never closer to heaven
than when we are doing things like children.
God wants to see the wonder and awe on your face.
He wants you to get out of bed with your heart beating fast
because you're so excited about your life.
He wants you to live that way.
What are some of the things that have robbed us of that?
Our childhoods.
We had authoritarian parents.
They were strict.
Maybe they were abusive.
What else has robbed us?
Permissive childhoods
when your parents just let you do whatever.
There were no rules, there were no boundaries, right?
You didn't feel safe.
On the other side of the spectrum,
your parent wasn't too hard on you.
They weren't too controlling.
They weren't too abusive.
They were abusive in a different way.
They acted like they were not, they didn't care.
Oh, whatever you want to do.
Right?
And then maybe some of you went to legalistic churches
when you were young.
Maybe that's who discipled you.
Those religious churches tell us God's not fun.
You're not allowed to have fun.
God's not fun.
God's a rule keeper.
God's watching.
He's watching to make sure you don't have any fun.
Everything, there's a rule against everything.
Can't do this, can't do that.
Right?
No.
God wants us through childhood.
Remember, we're here to learn.
We're here to make mistakes.
We are here to make mistakes.
That is how we learn.
But not mistakes that come from sin
because sin comes from a lack of trust.
You guys, all sin is, is you running out
and trying to get for yourself something
without asking God to help you get it.
That's all that sin is.
Sin is when we think that we are getting something
that God doesn't want for us.
Let's take a few big, you know,
areas of sin that people have.
Sex, let's talk about sex.
Let's talk about sex, baby.
Listen, God created sex.
He wants you to have sex.
Sex is God's idea.
I want you to say that to yourself.
Sex is God's idea.
I know that a lot of people think sex
just came because of the fall.
And now Adam and Eve,
they were going to be forced into having sex.
Here's your punishment, Adam and Eve.
You're going to have sex now.
And then Eve, you're going to bear children
and it's going to hurt like the Dickens.
Okay.
And then you're going to raise rebellious children
that say, I hate you by the time they're 17 years old.
Yeah.
Yeah, that might be part of the curse, but sex is not.
Adam and Eve were going to have sex in the garden,
you guys.
Why do you think when Adam saw her,
he was like, woo, man, woman.
Yes.
There was going to be.
and more life.
Adam and Eve were just the starter set.
There was going to be more humans
and they were going to come from Adam and Eve
in this beautiful divine lineage of divine design.
You guys, I think that there's a redeemed version
of sex we can get back to,
where it's not layered with shame.
You know what happened to sex after the fall?
It became shameful.
It's like, oh, I'm doing this.
I'm married.
I know I'm allowed, but there's something in me
that's like, oh, this is not right.
I shouldn't be doing this.
I shouldn't be feeling this way.
What if God's watching?
God is watching.
That's a buzzkill.
But listen, the only reason it is a buzzkill
is because we've somehow believed that sex
is something that should be secretive, right?
Now we don't do it open and in public
because it's intimate and it's something
that is very private between you and your spouse.
It's a time of intimacy, a type of oneness for each other.
But at the same time, it's not shameful.
Do you guys know that they used to not let pregnant women
out of the house when they started showing?
They had the time of confinement.
Why?
Because being pregnant in public was considered indecent.
Why?
Because everyone knew you had sex.
What?
Get the hell out of here.
You guys, we were raised in this society.
Why do you think we're not fun anymore?
Everything's shameful.
That's good and fun and feels good.
God created sex.
Please tell yourself that.
God created sex.
He created sex.
God loves sex.
He wants you to have intimacy.
He wants you to have oneness.
He wants you to have orgasms.
He made it that way.
All right, so religion has this big, huge list of things
that you're not allowed to do,
and all of them are the fun things to do.
Sex is not something that God hid from us.
He placed it in covenant for us
because that's the only place that it's safe,
especially now because of the curse in the earth.
People will use and abuse each other, right?
For their own pleasure, and that's why it's where it is.
God wants to redeem some things in your heart right now.
He wants to redeem some things in your heart.
I'm gonna go even further and say this.
Modesty is a heart posture.
If you walk out the door in the morning,
gentlemen or ladies, with the intention
of seducing someone sexually with your appearance,
that's on you, boo.
But our skin and our bodies just in general are not,
we can't weaponize them sexually.
Stop weaponizing your body
because you came from some modest as hottest church
where the women had to cover up
like they were stinking nuns or something.
Y'all, I live in Texas and it's hot.
It's hot outside.
It's already 85 degrees there, and it's February, okay?
I don't walk out my door
trying to get some man to look at my goodies, all right?
But I'll tell you this.
If he does try to look at my no-no places,
that's on him, not me.
That's on him.
Ladies, we are not here to police men's morality.
Gentlemen, you don't want us to do that, do you?
We're not here to keep you from lusting.
That is your issue, not our issue.
Now, if we walk out the house
purposely trying to get people to lust after us,
whether we're male or female,
then you don't have a modest heart.
It's not about having a modest body.
It's about having a modest heart.
My skin is not evil.
It's not evil.
Ladies, for those of you that are battling this
and it's making you no fun,
it's making you frigid and rigid,
I really want to just release this over you right now.
God wants you to glow,
and he showed me that it's an acronym,
and the acronym means this.
God loves our womanhood.
Those little milk sacks on your chest,
those are to feed babies.
And if you don't feed babies with them, guess what?
They don't go away.
They're still there.
That's what they're for.
And if people are offended by them, that's their problem.
If people want to sexualize your body, that's on them.
Please don't sexualize your body.
Please don't sexualize your body, y'all.
Can you be free to be in your skin?
I live in the country,
and I went outside and sat on my porch
butt naked the other day.
You know why?
Because my skin likes the sun.
There's nobody around but if someone's using binoculars from their house far far away to look at me, that's their problem
Right, I'm not famous enough for the paparazzi to be taking pictures of me so I'm safe
But my I don't see my body
Sexually now my husband does because we have that type of relationship and if someone else out there does
That's their problem because I'm not trying to get them to see it that way. Do you guys see where I'm going with this?
All of this makes us no fun
We're constantly trying to cross every T and dot every I we're so worried about
Getting in trouble and doing the wrong thing you guys that's gonna rob you of your enjoyment of life
It's gonna rob you of your enjoyment of life
I
Been to a lot of beaches and you know what I
Do not remember the best body person on that beach or the worst body person on that beach
I have never seen anyone in a bathing suit
That I was just that that made some kind of impression on me that I remember them forever now
What am I trying to say by that
Go have fun. Even if you think your body don't look good in a bathing suit. No one cares
You go swim in the ocean breathe in the salt air
We all have stretch marks we all have cellulite gravity is taking its toll on everyone
It's time to have fun
Gentlemen dad bods are in go to the beach
Dad bods are sexy right now. It's a thing
Sexy and you know it come on
You guys you recognize this isn't like a normal prayer call you like oh my god, are we having prayer right now?
Yes, because God's fun
God is fun. And that's that's the message today that he's trying to get across to you. I'm fun
So I feel like God's asking us. Um
What what do you think? Heaven's like?
Do you think heaven's the somber place y'all
Just so you know all the stuff in its original form from the garden that we have now
But we're not enjoying because it's weaponized and it's got all this red tape around it
That's what heaven's like heaven's like the garden was at the beginning
There's not all these rules anymore
There's not all these rules anymore, there's not all this stuff that's keeping us from being able to enjoy
The life that God has given us
So I say that we just bring heaven earth and start right now
Right, okay, so let's talk about David for a second because God said hey I
Like this kid. I
Don't just love him. I like this kid. Why because he was willing to try things
He's willing to trust God, right?
Remember when he broke into the showbred and ate it all the priests were like, what are you doing?
David's like I was hungry. He wasn't being disrespectful
He was just being like, you know, I think we can all like I see David kind of as like a good-hearted frat boy
It's like well
Kind of making some mistakes. They're a little immature little immature, but at the same time got a good heart and
That's what it's all about. It's about having a good heart, you know, David did some big big bad things, right?
Bath Sheba that whole dealio
Uriah her husband all the things we know that was that was not good. That was bad
But you know what David repented David saw the error of his ways David came to God
you know
Asked for forgiveness wanted to do better and you don't see David making those kinds of mistakes for the rest of his life
you guys the proof of I'm sorry has changed behavior, but we'll never ever change our behavior if we believe that God is
Against us and not for us
Why is that?
Because all sin stems from us believing God's not gonna give us something because he doesn't want it for us
So we have to go get it ourselves
Whether that's peace
right, whether that's healing whether that's
some other kind of
Gratification for some God-given desire that you have God's giving you the desires that you have
And he wants to fulfill those things through things that are not going to cause you more pain and shame
Righteous ways not churchy ways. Please hear me
There's two different versions of the right way to do things. There's a righteous way, which is God's way, which is fun and freeing
and makes you feel free makes you feel like you can go sit on your porch naked and then there's the religious or churchy way of doing things.
And some of y'all super churchy and I appreciate it, because I used to be super churchy too and there's a reason why they call it leaven once you get that yeast in the dough it's hard to get out.
I was about to say we're yeasty but that's gross, so we don't want that mm no.
I happen to think that God is funny and i'm funny i've been craving God's image, and I think that God likes it that i'm funny I think that God, I think I make God laugh I think he's like man you're funny.
I do.
I really do I think that.
yeah that's why I like the early episodes of that show the chosen because it shows Jesus it shows him with a sense of humor right.
It shows him light hearted and silly and with a sense of humor and I know it's getting serious because he's headed to the cross and he's getting a little more somber and I get that.
But I love to see a Jesus that's you know, full of reverence for heaven, because you can hold those two things together those things can be held in your body simultaneously a reverence for God and all of God and honor of God i'm not down with the God is my homeboy kind of idea I I am in awe of God.
At the same time, I really do think God is fun.
I think that he doesn't just love me he likes me.
A lot of times our conversations, even when he's correct me i'll just be going about my business i'll be doing my thing and i'll see someone else doing their thing and then i'll be a little side I be a little judgy be like oh I don't know about that right and then immediately Holy Spirit like you do that.
And i'm like touche uh I see you're right, I do and that's why i'm noticing this other person doing it and that's usually my response is touche i'm like oh touche mm hmm and that's kind of the relationship now there's other times when things get serious, but a lot of times it's a light hearted correction that happens where it's like i'm able to be shown the error of not being able to do the right thing.
of my ways very quickly i'm being able to be led by the eyes of God he doesn't have to sit me down and correct me correct me because i'm teachable.
I don't get a hard heart like no I don't I don't do that i'm perfect that's not I don't do that.
But if you do that it might be because you don't feel like you're allowed to make mistakes and therefore it's hard for you to admit when you make them.
Oh y'all, this is good, this is good today.
Almost almost didn't lead prayer I almost was like hey can someone take it this morning because it's seven o'clock in the morning and i'm tired and it's cold outside and everyone in the House is asleep.
And all the excuses and i'm glad I came because this ministering to me to sometimes I forget to have fun.
Now.
That pendulum can swing too far not everything's going to be fun in life, sometimes you got to do the dirty work that you don't want to do so that you can have the fun.
You got to make sure there's not and not anything that you do in life, no, no job that you have no vocation no ministry you're not going to like all the parts of it.
Now, like all the parts of it.
Right.
I mean I love making engagement announcements and wedding announcements I love going to people's weddings I love you know getting excited with you because you're getting a breakthrough I don't like the hard parts that we have to all get to get there, the hard work stuff it's rewarding yeah but it's hard right.
But we got to do it.
And we do it together.
We push through.
So we can get to the good stuff.
The good parts.
yeah alright so i'm going to reinstitute starting today, it is supernatural Saturday but we're bringing back child's play child's play day.
We got to get back in touch with our free child that lives inside of us.
that's your divine design, you are hardwired for that.
you're hardwired.
To have fun.
you're hardwired to believe that God loves you and likes you not just loves you but likes you for God so love the world that he sent his son and I don't think he minds me saying for God so liked the world.
that he sent his son. He likes you.
I believe that heaven is going to be amazing.
Are we going to be, are we going to learn things for eternity? Sure, we're going to learn things.
We're going to be stretched. We're going to grow. We're going to evolve.
Otherwise, think about it, y'all. It's eternity. We have to be stretching, evolving, and changing.
Otherwise, it doesn't make sense, does it? It doesn't make sense.
Some of you worry too much, and you need to start moving your body and worshiping,
right? You won't worry if you stop sitting around like a potato, right?
One thing that helps with worry, just, I know this for just personal experience, is moving.
Turn on the music. Have a little dance party in your kitchen. Move your body. Move it.
I like to move it, move it, move it. You got to move it. You'll stop thinking if you start moving.
Start being. You are a being.
Yes, I'm seeing your comments. Yes, yes, yes. Start moving. You want less anxiety? Start moving.
There's things that you want to do that you've been afraid to try, afraid to do.
I want you to really be honest with yourself, you know. Am I enjoying myself? Am I enjoying myself?
I want you to really be honest with yourself, you know. Am I enjoying this gift called life
that God has given me? Or is it 80% drudgery for the 20% of fleeting fun?
Fleeting fun. You guys, I just said that there are going to be hard parts,
but it shouldn't be the majority. If the majority of your life is hard,
then we got a problem, Houston. We do. The majority of your life cannot be hard.
There's a verse in the Bible that says, take my feet off this path of pain and lead me back to
you. Yes, we do have moments of pain in life. That stretches us. Pain is our friend. Pain creates
change. A lot of times necessary change, but it's not supposed to stay indefinitely.
It's just here to guide us to some change. And if we're really teachable, we can avoid the pain
and just change before the pain comes. Woo. Come on.
So I want you to begin to pray as of today. And I want you to, I want you to activate this by
making it child's play day. Do something that you would do when you were a child.
You know, I know you're on keto, but have an ice cream cone today. It's not a slippery slope.
It could be coconut milk, whatever you not, whatever you need. It can be the adult version
of it. Eat the cookie by the shoes sometimes. Now, if you do that every single day, then,
that every single day, then, you know, you might end up with potato with good shoes on.
But you have to be, you have to, you have to be willing to sometimes color outside the lines.
Can't do everything perfect. And if you have the mentality that you have to do it,
this is where we have to start. You need to do something messy.
I remember I have a, I have a best friend and I remember she's the kind of person who always looks
put together. When we were younger, she wouldn't walk out of the house. Her makeup was perfect.
Her hair was perfect. Her clothes were perfect. There was a wrinkle on her clothes to be seen.
Everything was perfect. She never had any stains on her shirt like me. Cause I dropped a bunch of
crap on myself when I was eating, you know, she never had any of that stuff. Her house was perfect.
Clothes were folded perfectly, hospital corners on her bed, all the things. And I said, Hey,
I signed up for this mud volleyball game. I said, do you want to come? She gasped. What? Mud
volleyball? I was like, yeah, just put on some old clothes and let's go. I don't know.
I finally talked this girl into doing this. And you guys,
you have never seen someone have more fun in their lives.
Just give herself permission to be fully covered with mud.
Right. And just so you know, she only came to watch me. So she didn't even wear clothes that
could get muddy. Right. So she's with me to go watch me. And we're, we're headed towards the
volleyball court and this, this like a tournament thing. So all these mud volleyball courts and
everyone's super excited.
For muddy and having fun and we finally get to the one that we're going to be i'm going to be playing at and i'm like come on.
And she's like oh no, no, no, so I reached down in the mud and I put my hand in it, and then I just put my handprint right on her boob big muddy handprint right on her shirt.
Shots have been fired friends shots have been fired she was super mad at me, but we are best friends, so I knew she'd get over it.
She was super mad at me and then you know what she got down because I hadn't neither one of us had any mud on us yet and she threw some mud at me.
And then it ensued into a full on mud fight and then so she was so muddy and then she got involved in the day, and it was the best day of her life.
Best day ever.
You guys.
Look, I know we're eternal so we don't die, but no one's getting out of this life alive all right.
This body is not getting out of here alive.
So you better go ahead and ride it to the wheels fall off.
This is it.
Some other things that you need to know is that, you know, the, the marriage kind of marriage that we're talking about that's reserved for this life.
So gentlemen, ladies, there's no time better than now.
And you're going to have to grow. We were toasting my new son in law to be and my daughter last night, and just saying hey we know they're going to grow together we know that they're going to give each other grace.
We know that they're going to overcome things together. You know, that's all that it takes. Just choose someone that you want to, you know, overcome the obstacles of life with that you're willing to give all the grace that you've ever given anyone.
You're willing to forgive more than anyone that you're willing to, you know, make, you know, give mercy to more than anyone.
And let's get the show on the road.
Because what we're talking about here, it's only for this life. Yeah, there'll be a marriage in heaven but we'll all be involved in it, it's going to be different.
It's going to be different. And so this one is for now. This one's to get you ready for that one.
Marriage and family is God's maturity process. Let it mature you.
Let it make you more easygoing, let it make you more fun, let it make you, you know, less rigid.
That's what it's here to do.
More full of grace, more full of mercy.
Choose someone.
Seriously, choose someone who's teachable, someone who's going to listen to the voice of the Lord, that's the most important thing.
Because when you can't talk to them, God can.
Someone with a soft heart towards God, and let's just go.
Yes, yes, yes.
All right.
I have about nine minutes left here so think about what you're going to do today and put it in the chat.
What are you going to do?
To find the little girl, little boy that lives inside of you, what are you going to do?
What did you used to like to do when you were a child before people told you you need to grow up?
By the way, going back to the modest thing for a second, you have to remember that America was founded by the Puritans, right?
And so, so much of what we consider quote unquote modest has just been handed down for us from a whole lot of very religious ideas.
So keep that in mind when you dress like it's winter time and it's 100 degrees outside.
People are going to go to the park and swing, anything, listen, anything that activates that child-likeness inside of you.
That's it. Let's do it.
Maybe it's doing something creative.
Why don't you get, why don't you get some paper and some paints and, you know, do some finger painting.
Get messy. You guys, kids are messy. Get messy.
Get the ingredients and get in your kitchen and make something that you don't let yourself eat all the time.
Make some cookies. Get your hands in that dough. Get your hands in there.
Get messy.
Go out and for those of you that it's a you know, whether appropriate go out and do some gardening dig in the dig in the dirt
Start thinking about what you're gonna plants and what you're gonna do and you know ground yourself you guys. That's another thing
We've been created from creation and we need it
If you're the kind of person that's like, oh, yeah, I don't like to go outside. Then you have to change
That is not your natural state your natural state is I don't like the outdoors that is not
Healthy for you. It's not healthy for you
Some of you just need to go lay in the grass you're like, well, what about ticks and Lyme disease? Come on y'all
Take your shoes off when you see grass and put your feet in it
Put your feet in it climb a tree.
Pick some wildflowers.
I want to see the hands of the women that either made Danny line crowns mama had a baby in her head fell off.
Or put it under your chin to see if you liked butter. Right. You know what I'm talking about. Are you picked wildflowers make crowns out of them or just pick them. Give them your mom or your auntie. Come on, let's see our
Come on, let's see our and then of course the adults in our lives are like, those are weeds. They're pretty to me. They're flowers to me. That's what I feel like God's like
People like those are weeds and God's like, no, they're flowers.
I want to see the hands of the ladies. Come on, and gentlemen, you as well. Let's see that. Let's see the hands of the guys that
You know, had a bike that's chain was off and you were constantly fixing the chain on your bike or pumping up a tire going looking for crawl dads in the creek or tadpoles or ladies, you too.
I was a total tomboy so tadpoles crawfish crawl dads crayfish who knows what you call them. They nasty people eat those things. Alright, so went fishing
Let's see. Sometimes you've got to go fishing. Right. I always threw him back but you can go fishing. If you're going to eat it, you can catch it. Don't kill it unless you're going to eat it. All right. That's not fair.
If you're gonna eat it. Cool. There's not there's not very many hands up
Guys are not fun. I don't know what's happening.
Look, I'm just going to tell you something about myself that you probably already figured out. And that's if it's not fun if there's not fun involved somehow in it. I don't want to do it.
Yeah, there can be hard parts. Sure. But the majority of it has to be fun.
So that some of you need to build something you like to build you want to build
Go to Lowe's or Home Depot and buy the stuff and build something
Rochelle wants to ride a horse. Come on. Or you maybe see your name, Rachel. I'm not sure because I never now.
Right.
Come on.
Legos. Yes, Legos. My husband loved Legos.
Go out at nighttime and catch some fireflies.
Don't paint your fingernails with it. That's cruel.
I didn't do that, y'all. I never wanted to hurt or kill anything, but I had girlfriends who painted their fingernails with the firefly butts. Look, our nails glow. Yeah, but you kill that bug.
It's not a it's a good bug. Not a bad bug.
You put them in lanterns. Just make sure you let them go after you enjoy them for a moment.
You guys, we have to be kind to nature. We have to be kind, you know, God created that ecosystem, even those spiders and those bugs that you don't like they're doing something important in the earth.
And so if you can let them go free. Let them go three free. The only things that I give you permission to kill. You don't need my permission is flies.
I know they do a good job decomposing things y'all I know but remember death is not part of anything but the curse. And so anything that only exists to decompose things. I got a problem with that.
I'm going to go ahead and do a little bit of a
I know they do a good job decomposing things y'all I know but remember death is not part of anything but the curse. And so anything that only exists to decompose things. I got a problem with that.
Spiders are good. They keep all the ugly nasty mosquitoes and stuff away.
And does that mean that I want a spider crawling in and out of my mouth while I'm sleeping. No.
You guys, I saw that on the internet and I've never been okay since.
That's another thing that might be robbing you of your joy.
Don't look at the internet.
If the internet makes you feel like you're not enough and you're not pretty enough or
this enough or that enough or you're not successful enough or it gives you scary ideas about spiders
crawling in and out of your mouth while you're sleeping, then don't look at it.
Seriously.
Get outside, all right?
Go to the farmer's market.
You guys, it's Saturday.
There's farmer's markets.
Go to the farmer's market.
Get in touch with your crunchy hippie that lives inside of you.
Guys, I believe in our core, all of us are crunchy granola hippie people.
I believe that's what the garden looked like, okay?
Walking around, breastfeeding our children in public, buying sourdough starters.
Let's go.
All right, I love you and I bless you.
Father God, I thank you for your sons and daughters.
I thank you that they're going to come alive like never before.
Childlikeness is going to come out of them, something that's pure, Lord, and lovely.
Joy is going to rise up.
Hope is going to rise up.
They're going to start enjoying this one and only time on earth called their life.
Lord, I pray that you would give them opportunities for enjoyment and pleasure and excitement
and anticipation, Lord.
I pray that you would begin to take this seed and water it and water it and water it until
all of us are living that John 10, 10 fully alive experience in Jesus name, amen.
Love y'all.
Bless you.