Hello, everybody.
Hello, hello. We're on here at nighttime together look at us.
What in the world right.
It is still the sun has not set here in Austin, Texas, and so we are right in time to start stepping into what is known as Rasha Shana.
So, if you're not familiar with the one of the holiest high and holy days of the Jewish faith, and it is also the new year for the Hebraic calendar and so we're going to talk about that for just a few seconds.
And then we're just going to begin to release hope and faith and joy this is not a somber holiday.
This is an exciting fun holiday just like just like New Year's Eve that happens on December 31st into January 1st is a time of new beginnings it's a time of anticipation for what God has in store for us in the future.
Right.
So we're not here to intercede, we'll do that later. We won't do that tonight.
But we will do that as we go into this new year there is something called the days of awe, and that is a time of repentance a time of self awareness and reflection self reflection introspection, and we will be doing something for that in our community, because I, I believe that an ounce of
I believe that if we come into partnership with all the things that God wants to do in our lives, then we will be able to step forward into new places and new things will begin that will be able to activate all the good things that God has in store for us.
Amen.
I was giving people just a few minutes to jump on got about 68 people live with us that's really great. Thanks for joining me tonight I'm not going to keep you long, because we have Supernatural Saturday tomorrow morning, and that is where I'm going to dig in with you guys and release, what I feel are some promises that God has over this overlapping year 2023 on the Gregorian calendar, that's our calendar that we use in America that's you know that's the
English calendar, and we're going to overlap with this year 5784, which is that Hebraic year that we're entering into tonight.
Tonight at sundown begins the new year.
All right, so we're all in different places. Some of you guys already may have sundown going on there. I don't quite have it here yet.
You might ask hey you know Jackie and I'll and I'll speak to this a little bit tomorrow as well. You know why, why would we celebrate this we're not Jewish well I am Jewish, actually, both my mother and father's side.
So, that is why that is why I tried to step into some of these, some of the things that are available in the heritage and culture that I come from. I wasn't raised in any kind of heritage and culture of, you know, of Judaism, but I also wasn't really raised in a lot of the Christian culture either.
And so, and not because of that either. This is a situation where a lot of us have found ourselves with all of the 23andme and all the ancestry.com and all the different things that we have access to a lot of us are finding lineages and legacies that we didn't know we had, aren't we.
But from the time I was really young, I've always worked for Jewish people, and they have always sensed that I was carrying that heritage, they're always like hey Jackie are you Jewish and I'm like no and not that I know of I don't think so.
And they're like, I bet you are. I bet you are you know you you seem Jewish to me you know you seem, you know, there's something about you and so all of my jobs that I've ever had that were any kind of career oriented job I've always worked for amazing Jewish people and so I know that that was the Lord giving me favor.
So I've tried to dig in a little bit without getting into any kind of legalism. And so for all of you that are like hey you know Jesus came to fulfill the law of the prophets yes he did for sure and we're not trying to put any legalistic ideas on anyone tonight, but I believe we can have the best of both worlds.
I do. And I believe that when this whole thing started, it started with a timeline. The Bible says that God is the God of times and seasons. And I believe that the most accurate timeline that we have is actually the Hebraic calendar.
Because that is that goes all the way back right that's the one that's the one that
that got put into play before all of our modern increments of time,
all of our modern keeping of time.
And so it is a moon, it's a lunar calendar, much different than the
calendar that most of us go by.
And so that is why I'm always excited to celebrate this head of the year.
That is what loosely translated, that is what this, this holiday is all
about, and that is what it means.
So the beginning of the year, the head of the year, the Jews believe that
whatever happens now is what will be sealed in for the year, right?
That's why a lot of Jewish people will say, which means, you know,
may you be blessed this year.
May you be sealed with the favor of God this year.
And so that is also what that, the days of are all about.
It's about repentance.
It's about, you know, maturity.
It's about laying down grievances about forgiving and being forgiven so that you
can step into the things that God has for you for that year and they
can be sealed over your life.
And so I don't think those are bad concepts.
Do you?
I think those are pretty great concepts.
Um, obviously we all know that we live by grace, that we are justified
by grace through faith.
All of us.
Um, we're all Christ followers.
And so we know that, but at the same time, I do think that there are some
things, um, that are in this, this Jewish heritage that are, are very,
um, beneficial for all of us.
Okay.
So, uh, it is a time of celebration, time of celebration, time to get excited
about what God has planned for this next 365 days of our life.
And we are going to be doing, um, besides supernatural Saturday tomorrow.
Uh, we are going to be doing prophesy your year.
Now we will probably, um, I, I can't say that.
I'm not going to say that we did it last year in January and
this year we're doing it now.
So we're doing it now at this head of the year.
So some of you that did it last year, you still have a few months left on your
calendars of what God said that he was going to do.
And it'd be really fun for you to do it now.
I'm in the fifth, this fourth quarter of 2023 and see how, when you do it now,
how, whatever you had written for October, November, December, how that
coincides with, you know, what you're going to, um, right on there now with
going, going in, going in this way, you know, going in through the Hebrew new
year.
And so I think that's going to be fun, um, to, to start there and to do that.
And so, um, I can't say that we'll do it again in January.
I was going to say that, but I'm not going to say that.
Cause I don't, I don't teach this class.
This class is actually a much more expensive workshop.
Um, but the director of the prophetic out in Bethel Reading, she, this is her
creation, she created this workshop and she will teach it live on Sunday night.
Um, she has given our communities a discount in order for us to participate
in that.
And so, um, that's a hundred dollars off.
So it's $50.
It's well worth it.
The replay is available.
If you can't be there live.
Uh, I will tell you, I did it last year in January when we had it before.
And the things that I wrote down came true.
You guys, I wrote down, listen to this.
I wrote down in April.
I just, I felt the Lord saying that I was going to.
And at that point I had never been out of the country yet that I was going to
travel, I was going to travel internationally and that, um, someone was
going to, and that, that there was going to be full of upgrades that I was going
to have all these upgrades and that I was going to be offered an all expense
paid trip internationally, right?
That month, I got a phone call from a friend that I haven't seen in years.
And she, uh, travels and she speaks and ministers all over the world.
And she said, Hey, she said, would you be, would you be able
to come to Columbia with me?
She said, all expense paid trips.
She said, I'll fly you first class.
I'll meet you there.
Um, you know, to come and help me with this thing.
So it literally happened just like I wrote it down on the calendar, y'all.
And, um, wrote it down on, you know, on that part of the prophesy your year.
So I'm telling you in several other things as well, I just want to encourage
you, uh, the Bible says that we should know our times and seasons that we
should be like the sons of Issachar and know our times and seasons.
And it's important because God is a God of times and seasons.
He is, and we want to be on page with him.
We don't want to just be on page.
him. We want to be in the same paragraph as him, the same sentence as him. You know, we want to
walk with him that closely where, you know, we understand what he's doing and what he wants to do.
When I think of all the things that God has wanted to do in my life that I haven't taken
advantage of because I just simply was too distracted, I'm sure that that list is very long.
And so as we step into this new year tonight, this new season, this new time that's on God's
calendar, this is the Hebrew calendar, you know, as we step into that, one of the things that I'm
going to say to all of you is that I want to spend this next year not distracted.
I once heard a saying that really stuck with me and it just says this,
whatever distracts you is your enemy. Your enemy is whatever distracts you from God,
from what God is doing. Whatever distracts you, distraction,
that is your enemy. And we all know that we live in a world of distraction.
Right? So much distraction. Everywhere distraction. You can't even think straight.
You go out shopping, you go to the mall, you go wherever. Have you ever noticed that everywhere
you go in, all the stores are playing loud music? I'm very sensitive to sound. I'm very
sensitive to stimulus. So I noticed that. And you know why that is, is because pretty soon you
start humming those songs. You start, you know, you know, that's what starts happening. It's like
mind gum, your gum, your mind starts chewing gum with that music in the background. And you can't
think straight. You forget what you're doing. You forget things that you needed at the grocery
store. A lot of times in clothing stores, they've proven that the music that plays in those stores,
the tempo of that music, the beat of that music, it's kind of like celebratory music.
It gets people to buy things that they wouldn't normally buy.
You get in there and you get, you get happy and excited and you start like do a little dance and
then you want to buy stuff. All right. But it's all very distracting. Sometimes you just want to
get in the quiet so you can think straight. Have you ever said that to yourself? Man,
I just can't think straight right now. I'm going to go over here and just I'm apart from all this
stuff and so I can think straight. And so there's a lot of distraction. Obviously we have these
appendages that grow out of our body called phones. And, you know, I mean, let's just face
it. If it's not in your hand, if you feel naked, you feel like something's missing. I felt like
that after COVID when we didn't have to wear the masks anymore after like a year plus of wearing
them. I just, every time I went somewhere, I felt like something was missing. I felt like I had to,
like, I would look down to make sure that I was wearing pants because I felt like naked for some
reason. And that's how I feel a lot of times when I don't have my phone. Anybody else, you leave
your phone behind accidentally and then the whole day you just feel all weird and discombobulated
because you're used to your phone, right? So that's what I want. If we're going to make
New Year's resolutions tonight, that'd be fun. You want to do that? I'm going to say, and listen,
I'm not even going to tell you what we're going to talk about tomorrow about what the meaning of
this year is and what the prophets are saying and what God's saying to me as a prophet
to the single nation about this 5784 overlapping 2023 and what that means to our lives and our
love lives and all the things. But I think it'd be fun to do some New Year's resolutions. And so
my New Year's resolution for this Rosh Hashanah is to not allow myself to be distracted,
to pay attention first and foremost to God. I want to celebrate y'all. I want us to get excited
and anticipate what God's doing. And can you imagine what God could do in my life if I gave
him my full focus, if he got the first fruits of my attention? We always talk about first fruits
with offerings and money and different things, but what if God got the first fruit of my attention,
y'all? If God got the first fruit of my attention in the morning, instead of reaching for my phone,
instead of getting to work, helping all y'all, what if instead of doing any of that, God got
the best of me instead of the rest of me? What could happen this year in my life?
What kind of downloads could I get? How much more successful could I be at matchmaking and
doing all the things instead of running off to the races every morning? Yeah, that's mine.
Anybody else have one? You can unmute yourself. You can put it in the chat.
The question was, like, what is the New Year resolution that you can partner with Heaven
on?
Because I don't know if you can hear me, but I don't see anything.
Okay, so everyone's going to take mine.
That's what we're doing.
All right.
I have one, Jackie.
Okay.
So I'm going to not immediately say no to something that the Lord is calling me to step
out on, which usually means getting in front of people and talking when he knows I'm usually
trying to play background.
And my instinct is usually, oh, I don't know, let me pray about it, knowing I'm just going
to be like, oh, they forgot, so I have to do it.
So no more of that.
I've been getting better, but definitely giving God that first place in doing what he calls
me to do without playing the I'm not good enough card to be doing.
So that means that you're going to be leading prayer again, correct?
Girl, you should have known you were going to step into that one.
Wow.
I didn't even see it coming.
It just hit you like a backtrack.
We can have an offline conversation about that.
Yes.
Let's do that.
Okay.
Bye.
Goodbye.
See you.
Done.
Everyone's like, yes, Marilyn.
Yes.
All right.
So you guys think about those.
Think about what those could be.
I think that that's a fun exercise for all of you, but, you know, let's, let's get excited.
You know, who, who wants to get excited about, you know, the anticipation.
I don't know about you guys, but I know the seasons are changing.
That's, you know, that's one of the things that I love about the Hebrew new year is it
comes in the fall when the seasons are changing.
You can just walk outside and you're like, there's change in the air.
Something's different.
I'm looking out my window right now and the sun is setting, but the trees are starting
to turn.
I'm at the tops of them.
I see different color besides just green.
You know, I've seen the bird patterns changing.
Things are changing.
You walk outside and you're like, yes, change is upon us.
And I think that's really exciting when you're thinking about new things in new years.
Right.
I mean, the other one just comes in the dead of winter.
The Gregorian calendar one is just like, okay, everything's dead already.
Anyone else just recently feeling like, oh, I think I feel change in the air.
I think today was like a literal reset for me because the power completely shut off and
everything did finally come back on.
But my brother and his family are moving in tonight.
So it's interesting how it's on the new year.
The power went out.
Everything's happening all at the same time.
And yes, reset.
Jackie, I was just talking to my therapist about this last night and how the I'm in Texas
too and we have had such a hot summer that my garden is literally just halfway dying.
But I was saying last night, I was like, I feel like this is so symbolic.
It's not dead and they're not dormant.
They've just taken a lot of heat and there hasn't been a lot of rain, but these are perennials.
And so the beautiful thing is that it will nurture the soil.
And as the season changes, it's bringing relief.
We've already had more rain in the last week and a half than we've had in the whole summer.
And it's just been such a picture for me of what the father's doing of, hey, you've
had a lot of heat and there's been a lot of plants that are going to need pruning just
because they're just kind of suffering over here.
But they're coming back and they're going to come back with more vibrancy in the rest,
in the tending.
And so I just agree that it's been the season is changing in the natural and even creation
is like.
reminding me of that.
Yes.
Sorry, I live in Texas too,
and we just got some rain a little bit last
night and some more today, thank God, because
we had a red flag alert.
We might have a forest fire, because
it was so hot and dry all summer,
and thank God, the rain
has come this week, so
that's definitely a change that I've been perceiving.
Yeah.
The rains have been coming, y'all.
It's been raining here after
a whole season
of drought, months and months
and months with no rain. I don't think we've had
any rain in at least maybe
four or five months, and here it comes,
and we've had it every day for
the last few days, where I live in
Texas, and so change
is upon us.
Change is upon us. The winds
have changed.
The winds of change are blowing.
It's kind of like, um,
you ever notice how fall, especially for those
of you that live in places where you really get
fall, you ever notice how it's just
kind of like a supernatural
time, isn't it?
It feels supernatural.
In the air, it feels supernatural,
not just because Halloween is
in October and all the things.
It just feels supernatural, doesn't it?
It always does. It feels supernatural
to me, so there are things
that are happening. All right, who else
wants to, who else wants
to celebrate that the winds of change are
blowing? Jackie, this is
Nitin. I am expecting that
all my senses will be finally
tuned to the
spirit realm and to what God is
saying regarding 5784
for my life.
Amen, Nitin, and you're
going to want to go to that prophesy your year class
because you're really going to get
some downloads from
heaven about what God wants to
and what you can partner with him in
every month of that
new time
and season, so
I agree with you. I see some
friends, I see some friendly faces on
here that I haven't seen in a while, and
yes, I'm now David Dorman. See,
change is upon us. I'm now David
Dorman because my phone died.
All right, who else?
Hey, Jackie.
I feel like
the Lord is just bringing me into a season of
putting
childish things away and even
like, it's like when we're younger
and we get into adulting, quote unquote,
like we first get a checking account, we first get
our first car, or we go off
to college or something. Well, now it's
it's that third level
of adulting, like growing up
more and more and more.
You know, I turned 40 this year
and there's all this new stuff happening
that's, I
can't live like I'm in my 20s and 30s
anymore. So
that advancement is happening,
particularly in the area of just
becoming more of a man that I think he really
wants me to be.
And that's scary and exciting.
I love that. God wants to put
more weight on your life, James.
And you guys, I don't want this to turn
into a somber mood because this is a happy
holiday.
But I wrote
an article years ago
about the Days of Awe, which are going to start
right after this weekend. And
it was called the Days of More.
That's what God called it to me.
The Days of Promotion, James.
That he wants to promote us.
That he's looking, his eyes are roaming
to and fro throughout the earth, looking
for someone that he can
show his power through.
You know, use his power on behalf
of, be a conduit
to his power. And so
that requires God to be able to put more
weight on us and for us to mature.
It's time for us to put away
childish things, right, and step
into that. So that's good stuff. All right,
who else?
So actually, when you said
promotion, it actually made me think that
I actually, my promotion was announced
today at my company. So I really do start
a new year and a new season
now.
So it's a great new position
that I get to,
I think it'll really grow me
in confidence and
just being
out in front of people more than I have
been. So I'm
really excited about that new season.
That was really a surprise. I didn't
pursue this. It was just
came to me. So praise
the Lord.
Yes. Okay. What's your name? Jamie.
So Jamie, when you were talking,
I heard the Lord say that
you're actually going to have a double promotion.
And so I just want to release
that over you. So it sounds like you got
one promotion, but the Lord says
that you're going to actually get a double promotion.
So I don't know what that
means, and I don't know in what area that is
referring to.
but I want to make sure that I release that over you. Thank you for sharing. Yes. Keep us posted
on that. All right. Not just being upgraded once, but twice. And so Lord, we thank you for that.
All right. Who else? I'm believing that it could be a change and of leaving behind and starting
a new chapter. I've been fighting retirement and I don't know for sure exactly when it's
going to happen, but the Lord keeps prompting me, it's coming, it's coming. And it's coming
because I need to leave the old behind to embrace the new. And I'm really looking forward to this
prophesying the new year. Yes, Miriam. Yes, yes, yes. When you were talking, I heard redemption
for this new year. Cause normally for me, fall is not a good season. I've had a lot of
sickness due to just the weather during the fall. And God's really been showing me a new season
for this month. And I just heard redemption when you were talking about the goodness of the fall.
Yes. No more, no more season of sickness, Lord. We thank you for that, God. We thank you. This
is going to be a much different type of season for your daughter. Love that.
I feel like I have been in hibernation for the past three years since we've had lockdown
and it's time to get out of hiding. I feel like I'm like that bear coming out of the
cave for the first time and seeing a new light. Cause it does, it feels so fresh right now for me.
I don't know how to explain it, but it just feels fresh. So I want to start to listen to
God more, which means that I'm going to have to have more quiet time like I used to. And
see what God's doing. Cause I want to jump in and I want to be a part of what God is doing
in this time. Amen. And God wants you to be a part of what he's doing, Tracy.
That's an invitation. That desire in your heart is God inviting you to call shotgun and jump into
the passenger seat and go crazy places on crazy adventures with him. Yes, you guys, it's an
invitation. As we were just kind of thinking about this, I started to think about last few years.
Um, I've started to think new thoughts about myself that I've never had before.
And I felt as we were sitting here, the Lord was really inviting me to like, this is the time to
fully step into that identity instead of this back and forth, um, where it's been one step
forward into this new identity and the finding myself back into this negative thinking and
doubting or, um, living in old narratives that are based in really in lies that robbed me of
God's abundance. So I feel like this is a time where he's saying it's, it's time to fully step
into this new. Amen. We agree with you. New, new, new things. New, new things don't always feel the
greatest at first, right? They don't. I mean, you got to get used to them. And sometimes like if
it's clothing, it can be a little itchy or scratchy until it's washed a few times and
shoes sometimes, you know, even though they're the right size, they can rub you the wrong way a
little bit and until you break them in. And, you know, so new is exciting and I love the word new,
but I also understand because of maturity that new is stretches us. New makes us uncomfortable,
doesn't it? Why? Because it's new. It's something new. And even though if it, even though it may
be the thing that you wanted so much for so long, there's still going to be a transitional time with
whatever that is. And so y'all just know that and just be ready for that and be excited about that
and just know that that is what causes us to be able to be stretched to the capacity to be able
to sustain that new. We want to be able to sustain it. It's good. All right. Who else?
I feel like there's something on surprises lately, like giving a yes to God with the change of
season without even knowing what's coming. I just recently went to a wedding a week ago and across
the country and some, I was feeling in my spirit, Oh, there's like a shift. There's a change.
of season coming. I had no idea what that looked like, except to just be like, God,
you have my yes, whatever is coming. And then all these really crazy things happen in a matter of
two days of this trip and really cool open doors to come and just be here, be back, fly back across
the country. The night that I got back the next morning, I was like, I think I'm supposed to take
them up on their offer to just come and the God within days figured out a place to stay a car,
just resources, um, stuff that I've been passions that I've been dreaming into for a really long
time. It just feels like there's the way that he's woven in and orchestrated every hour of,
of the adventure, just not only the past trip, but even since I've been here, the last week has
just been so divine and feels very much stretching in the new, but, um, something that I could never
have planned or orchestrated on my own. So I think there's something really on giving a yes
and being open-handed to just, Hey, I don't know what's coming, but I'm just gonna jump.
I'm buying the plane tickets and I have no idea what the rest of the details are and trusting,
um, that every step of the way he's just, he it's been mind-blowing how much he's
leveling things up and just providing in ways I couldn't have asked for imagined.
Amen. Love that. Love that. Love God inviting you into that. He's so kind. That is so kind
to y'all. And if you don't know him in, in, you don't know him in that, that character,
if you don't know him that way, um, through that context, then I just invite you into, um, knowing
the kind father, so kind, cares about us, emotionally involved with us, wants us to
experience things that we enjoy and love and wants to see a smile, wants to see joy on our faces.
Did you know the God of the universe loves to hear you laugh? He loves to see your smile.
In fact, he likes to do things to get you to smile and laugh, you know, all good and perfect
gifts come from the father. And so all the wholesome things that, that, that, uh, that
tickle your heart that, you know, I, I had this experience a couple of times just recently, and,
and, and so, so sad that I found it a little bit embarrassing. It just shows you that, you know,
we're just too full of self and I'll just be the first person to admit that and just fear of man
and fear of what people think. But a couple of times just recently when I was different places
within the spiritual community in the United States, holy laughter hit me. And that's not
something usual for me. And, um, and when it happened, you know, it just felt so good. I
just can't, it's a whole different kind of belly laughing. It's a whole different type of joy
and I needed it. And actually it began to break off the grief and mourning from my mother's passing
is really what was doing. And, um, but you know, people are looking at you like, Oh, what, what is
she like? What's going on over there? Kind of thing. Um, but it feels so good. And God loves
for us to experience that, to experience his joy. The Bible says that's unspeakable
and full of glory. And so we just declare that right now, whoever needs that, a revelation that
God loves your smile. He loves your laugh. He loves to see you excited and happy. That is,
that's God's plan for you in this world. Yes, there is trials that are tribulation. There are
sad things that happen. Um, there's people suffering all around us, but for in the midst of
that, you know, the Bible says for the joy that was set before him, Christ endured the cross.
And so there can be joy even in the midst of all that. And God loves to see you. Did you know that
your, um, that your original state is joy? Your original state, the real you, the O-G-U is joy.
Your original state is joy. Yeah. I just feel this word. I just, you know, there's a lot of people
in all of your lives that really love and respect you. And, um, you know, you have relationship with
whether they're friends or family or siblings or, um, best friends or coworkers. And I just hear the
Lord saying this. They think they know you, but they've never seen you in joy. And they're about
to. And, and the confession on your lips is like, wait till you see me.
Wait till you see me in good times.
Wait till you see me in joy.
They already think you're great.
They've already watched you overcome and persevere
and they've already watched you be kind and generous
even in lean times, but they've never seen you in abundance.
They've never seen you in joy.
They've never seen you winning.
They haven't seen you in good times.
They've seen you in other kinds of times,
but wait till they see you, that's the word.
Wait till they see you in joy.
So I just release that over all of us, including myself.
Who else?
Yeah, Jackie, I just want to say,
since I joined this program and in this community,
I've been so blessed and I think God's really built
my faith and hope throughout this all,
just in my life and every area specifically,
not just to meet somebody, but just as a man,
being confident in the work I'm doing.
Like I also got a promotion a few weeks,
or a month ago now, and it just really been helping me
in many areas of my life as well,
and my identity and everything.
So it's been a blessing.
And I just feel like a real boldness and confidence
and faith and point of faith in the things I'm doing
and some of the declarations I'm making.
So it's really, I feel stronger than ever before
and with a vision and a purpose of going forward.
So, and I think God's saying, just keep that up,
keep what I'm doing up in the new year
and not look back and not fall back
and revert to old ways and whatever.
And so I just want to, I'm just encouraging myself,
but also encouraging the community,
people to keep moving forward.
And with God, what he's done is continuing to do.
Yeah, wanted to share that.
Yeah.
About a couple of months ago,
my brother took me out to lunch
and he said that he had a word for me.
And he gave me the word that God was saying
that it was time to get back in the game.
And that kind of confirmed some things
that I had been going through.
I think I put myself on the sidelines
after the divorce and all the hurt.
And I was just not wanting to get hurt again.
So I put myself on the sidelines
and this season of change that is going on.
And I feel it, not just in the weather when I step outside,
but I think that me getting back in the game,
when he gave that to me,
I was still going through the heart work process.
And so I think I put in my head
what that game was going to be.
And I think God is saying,
we know the seasons, we know winter and then spring,
and we kind of fall into that.
And I think he's saying,
don't put it in a category.
Don't think you know what's coming.
Don't think you know what the game is gonna be.
I guess that's what it is.
So I'm excited.
I've got a prophecy, people praying over me.
Tomorrow, I've got that going
and then I've already signed up for Sunday.
So I'm excited.
He's changing.
He's changing me.
Amen.
Love that, Kathy.
And sometimes we need to take a time out to heal.
But I love that God's saying,
hey, it's time now.
It's time to try out that healing.
It's time to get back in there and see.
When athletes get hurt on the field,
unless it's a catastrophic injury,
they get back on the field to see if they can walk on it,
if they can play on it, if they can shake it off.
And so they take time to go through
whatever rehabilitation they need.
And then the only way to test and see
whether or not you're well is to get back out there, right?
That's what has to happen.
And then the other thing that Al was saying,
I was muted and I couldn't unmute myself for some reason.
He said something really powerful.
So Al, I'm so glad.
And there were a couple guys in our community
that God sent me to go get,
meaning that I got invited years ago,
back in 2020, to speak for some men's thing.
I, me, a woman, I got invited to go speak
at some, an online men's thing.
I don't even remember the name of the person right now
or the name of the thing.
But there were a couple guys,
there was a handful of guys, a few guys
that saw me that night speaking there
and they came into our community.
Um, one of them, um, is in a very marriage minded courtship with, uh,
one, you know, one of our incredible women now, and then, and then another,
and then, and then Al is one of those guys as well.
And so, um, so I'm so glad that, um, I really felt that when I went that
night and then, um, and then you guys came over and connected to what we're
doing, cause I knew that the Lord was, was bringing you and wooing y'all over to this.
So I'm so thankful that you're still here and that you've gotten breakthrough and
that your life is changing and all the things that are happening, but you said
something really important that I think everyone can benefit from hearing.
And that is in order for Al to continue and progress and what God is saying, he
needs to, you know, it's about community.
So, and we don't want to fall back.
We don't want to get stagnant again.
Then we need to be around people that are moving forward.
We need to be around people.
The Bible says that provoke us to good works because faith without works is dead.
We want to provoke one another, um, to, to have that hopeful expectation and that
preparation and to keep moving forward.
The reason why so many people fared so poorly during COVID is because, uh, bad
habits and even sin thrive in isolation.
When we're, we're not meant to live isolated.
There is nowhere in God's plan that he ever meant for us to be alive and alone.
Ever.
And a lot of single people, especially during COVID, especially the ones that
had that elderly parents that weren't receiving anyone to their homes.
Um, they were very isolated.
Okay.
There was a lot of isolation.
And so it's important that we understand that that gave us, it gave us a, um, a
view into what happens when we're isolated, when we're not in community.
It led us, it's a cautionary tale, isn't it?
And so for all of us to move forward into what God is going to speak to our
hearts in the next couple of days about what this new year of our lives looks
like and what the new year for all of us corporately looks like as he speaks to us
about that, it's going to take all of us locking arms and continuing to encourage
each other forward in order for us to continue to move forward and walk that
out.
So thank you for sharing that, Al, because that is the truth, right?
All right.
Um, who else?
Yeah, Jackie, I just want to say, um, when we're doing the heart work, you
talked a lot about people potentially moving and I was never against it, but
I was like, I'm just pretty new and where you've just placed me Lord.
But this last week I just applied for a job that would have me move across the
country and so much change God's done in my heart this year.
And, um, and a few really important milestones and prophetic words I've had
have feel like it's going to be a season of like what you just said of joy and
opening up and connecting me back to more of my ministry call and putting me
in community and around people I haven't been in for a couple of years.
So yeah, totally out of the blue, didn't, didn't see myself moving.
Um, and the funny thing is in my job, it's been about a delay of about a month
to, uh, revise my job description and prepare me for my visa because I'm on a
work visa over here.
So, um, it was just, I had to be really patient and not get stressed about it
because I'm trying to book travel to go home and it's really expensive.
Um, and then I see this other opportunity open up and had everything
else sort of happened earlier with my current job, I would have, uh, being on
a completely different schedule and a different focus.
So yeah, I just see, um, and yeah, feel excited about potentially this new
opportunity that opens me up a whole lot more to, uh, ministry and, and
giftings and callings in my life.
So it's exciting.
Praise God.
Yes.
Amen.
So when you say move across the country, you just mean to another part of
the country that you're already in?
Yeah.
In the U S yeah.
I'm in the U S yeah.
Oh, you're in the U S okay.
All right.
So, okay.
Awesome.
That's so great.
So that's exciting.
That's exciting.
Change is exciting.
Remember it's not always easy, but it's definitely worth it.
It's definitely worth it.
So that's exciting.
Thank you for sharing that, Wendy.
Who else?
I wanted to share something.
I don't know if you guys can hear me though.
Yeah, we can hear you.
Can you hear me?
So I wanted to read a scripture that, um, it actually popped into my head today,
but God was just doing such work that I just was not noticing it until like right
now, um, Hebrews chapter 12.
Uh, therefore, since we are surrounded by such great cloud of witnesses, let
us throw off everything that hinders.
the sin that so easily entangles,
and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us,
fixing our eyes on Jesus,
the pioneer and perfecter of faith.
For the joy set before him, he endured the cross,
squirting its shame,
and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Consider him who endured such opposition from sinners
so that you will not grow weary and lose heart."
I feel like I am losing all hindrances,
everything that has been like literally heavy on me,
worrying me.
I am like literally just restarted
just being more mindful,
aware of the things that are like extra in my life
that God put on me, things even in my home.
So I found my home was fine,
but like I'm finding left in there's clutter there
and I'm physically removing foods from the fridge
that are not supposed to be there.
And I'm like effortlessly losing weight,
I'm getting more joy.
I am like doing things I enjoy doing.
I have now time for that.
I'm worrying about less of things.
And I just have this new level of gratitude
growing with each day to God.
I could understand how and all of that.
I thought it was just, you know,
some spiritual discipline or whatever.
And now I see it's just this grace of God
is accelerating me into some purpose that he has for me.
And to me, it does not need to be anything
big or spectacular, but just to be his child,
to be his daughter, just to enjoy life,
to rediscover this joy, this simple living.
And like, I am just kind of going,
I thought I didn't have too much access of this and that.
And like, it looks like I did.
And it was weighing me down.
And now I'm just like,
I feel like I'm just going all these sentences,
like lightweight.
And so I'm just kind of,
I used to think the scripture was about hard things
and like you're sacrificing and all of that.
It's actually the don't belong to us.
And Jesus Christ died on the cross for these things.
And we just like let go of these things and focus on Jesus.
We're gonna have that joy that was set before Jesus.
Anyway, I just wanted to share that
because I am just like enjoying every single day.
It's been consistent ever since I came back
from country Ukraine, I'm noticing God is doing something.
And when I was going upstream and things were difficult
and I was asking, begging God,
God, show me your purpose, show me your plan,
which way to go, how should I do this?
And it's like, God just was just giving me
these opportunities where it was effortless.
And he was showing me, okay, see how this was effortless.
That's me opening and paving the door.
See all the hard things that you were trying to do that.
That's you just trying to go against and resist
and all of that and go on your own way.
And I don't know, to me, I'm just delighted
and just like really joyful and happy
that God's yoke is easy.
I thought it was hard and going to be hard and it's not.
And I'm just so happy, even more motivated
to let go of anything and everything
and to pray that prayer to God,
God search my heart, what else is in me that is a weight,
that is unnecessary weight,
that is just putting this burden.
Sorry, I spoke so long, but-
No, Angela, it's good to hear you speak.
You usually don't speak and that was powerful
and good and so important for all of us.
So what weights, friends, are you carrying needlessly?
I remember God used to say to me all the time,
because I would worry a lot and I would fret
and I would obsess about negative things.
Yes, you, me, Jackie, I would do that.
And God would say, you know that you're suffering?
And I'd say, yes, Lord, I am suffering.
He said, no, let me finish.
You're suffering needlessly.
You're choosing to suffer.
You're choosing to think about all these things
and worry about all these things
and fret about all these things.
No one else is causing you to do that.
You're doing that.
You're suffering needlessly.
And so let's decide that we're gonna lay aside the weights,
not just the things that easily entangle us,
but the weights that we don't need to carry.
We don't need to carry that weight.
And some of you, Angela said something very important.
Some of you, like Angela,
and I feel like I used to think this as well,
you're expecting a battle.
You're expecting life to be hard.
You expect life to be hard.
And I know that you've had some hard times.
We've all had hard times,
but the majority of our life isn't supposed to be hard.
The majority of your life, yeah,
you will go through trials and tribulations.
Both of those are, you know, depictions of seasons, trials, and tribulations.
Both of those are depictions of seasons and temporary situations.
But if your whole life is one big trial and one big tribulation, if it's hard and you're
expecting it to be hard, then we're obviously not partnering with Jesus, right?
We're not believing that He's with us and for us, that God is with us and for us, that
life is with us and for us.
We're not expecting grace.
We're not expecting mercy.
We're expecting to have to white-knuckle it through, whatever it is.
So whatever that is for you tonight, whether you're trying to break free from some sin
that has easily entangled you, whether you are tired of carrying around the debt—I
just feel that in the spirit right now—the weight that you've been carrying around is
debt.
You just have so much debt that you're carrying around.
That could be spiritual debt.
That could be emotional debt.
That could be relational debt.
It also could be financial debt.
God said, I haven't created you to be a debtor.
I've created you to be a lender.
I've created you to be the head and not the tail.
In fact, one of the prayers the Jews say during this—and I'm not going to try to say it
in Hebrew because there's no way that I'm going to be able to do that because I just
don't have the phlegm in my throat to do it—is that, may God make you the head and
not the tail this year.
I just release that over all of us.
God already said we could be the head and not the tail, but we have to release the debt.
We have to release the weight that is weighing us down and making us feel like losers instead
of winners.
And I'll just tell you, I know that we have a very North American Christianity, but what
it looks like to be a winner is that you are blessed to be a blessing.
It doesn't look like an entitlement.
It doesn't look like elitism.
It doesn't look like any of that.
It doesn't look like capitalism.
It looks like a humble life where you know that everything you have is because God has
blessed you and favored you, and that makes you compassionate and able to give to others
freely, be a cheerful giver.
Some of us are like, man, I want that.
I want to have enough to give.
Well, everyone has enough to give.
Start giving away the things that you don't feel like you have enough of, whether that's
peace or joy or a word.
Even though you're really hungry for a word, give a word to somebody else.
You know, there's all kinds of ways that we can walk that out, regardless of what our
bank account looks like.
But let's lay aside that debt, and I really feel like for a lot of you it's financial
debt, and you feel like, I made this bed, and now I have to lay in it.
I made bad decisions on the other side of the divorce, on the other side of whatever,
the bankruptcy, blah, blah, blah.
I didn't make the right decision.
I didn't see the signs on the wall.
I lived above my means.
I medicated myself with stuff.
It doesn't matter, because the Bible tells us that because Christ died for us and as
us, we get to lay in the bed that Jesus made, not in the bed that we made.
So we can step out of those hard consequences of our mistakes, and we can step into his
grace.
Now, does that mean that you're not going to have to do anything?
No, but it does mean what Angela said, his yoke is easy and his burden is light.
Religion makes us think that we have to pay it all back, whatever we've done wrong.
We got to pay it all back with a pound of flesh, and that it's going to be super hard.
It's going to take a really long time.
And God wants you to know that if you will trust him, and right now I'm speaking to
financial debt.
If you will trust him, regardless of how you got it, God will help you to pay that back
in record time, or it will just be outright forgiven.
So I just release that over you right now.
Come on, you guys got to get ahold of that.
I feel like God wants us to walk into this new year with that weight off of us.
For those of you that have debt, God wants to erase that debt.
He wants to repay that debt quickly.
He wants to cause you to be forgiven of that debt.
Just the other day, I have a friend, and he had over $100,000 in student loans, and he's
a teacher.
He's a fifth grade history teacher, and he's a really great, amazing teacher, and he's
a good man.
In fact, ladies, he's single.
He's 52 years old.
I'll tell you about him later.
Anyway, he has been diligently paying on that school debt, but because the loans get sold
from one company to another company, and then the interest rates change, and this happens,
and that happens, it seemed like he was never making a dent in it.
Then all of a sudden, he heard about a program that if you've been paying your loans for
a certain amount of time, you could apply to have them forgiven.
He qualified for it.
And he about ran around the block shouting when he got the email at,
you know, midnight, cause he just happened to check his email and it was midnight.
And he was like, he was like, there was no one to call.
It was too late.
He says, so I literally went outside and I ran down the street.
Cause I was so excited that my, my loans were forgiven.
And so I just want to release that over you.
I believe that God has crazy supernatural favor for you.
If you would stop beating yourself up, if you would stop sitting around and
thinking and being resentful towards whoever got you in this mess in the
first place, someone who ran up your credit card that used to be in
relationship with, or your adult kids.
I have at least one of you, one student that, you know, took out a student loan
for her daughter when she was in college.
Cause back then they made your parents take it out.
And now that her daughter has grown up and has a good job, she refuses to help
mom pay the loan and mom's retirement age.
And so we got to forgive that daughter for, for not being kind and not being
caring and not taking on her own debt and leaving mom to pay that debt, even
though mom is elderly and, and she's young and she has the finances.
And so we've got to release people like that because God wants you to
know that they ain't your source.
He's your source.
Someone needs to hear this.
That man that you had children with that you were married to or not married to
that child support that he isn't paying is not your source.
That alimony that he hasn't paid is not your source.
God is your source.
He wants to take care of you.
May I speak into that please?
Yes.
Go ahead, Michael.
Yeah.
I wanted to share a story around that.
So, um, about seven years ago, I was in a lot of debt, had gone through a
divorce and was paying child support and I was paying an amount that wasn't fair.
And, um, and then my son moved in to live with me because the situation at
his home wasn't really bearable for him.
Well, he lived with me for nine months and I was still paying child support.
And I just wanted to have him in my home.
Well, I had a friend that helped me get things turned around
that the child support got cut off.
I slowly was able to get out of debt.
And, um, and next two weeks from Tuesday, I'm going to be, well, actually before
that, the home that we have was foreclosed on in 2016 and, um, but then
God really began to really turn things around for me financially.
I was able to retire.
Um, I was able to start my own, um, counseling practice and in two weeks
I'm going to be, I'm going to be closing on a home and, um, and it's,
and it's been an amazing milestone.
I'm completely out of debt.
Uh, I've been able to travel, um, out of the country without any credit card debt.
And all of this has been kind of like in a matter of seven years.
So yes, I mean, God definitely, um, has and can turn things around for us
financially, I know that we hear a lot of stories about, uh, women who have
been, um, done wrong by, you know, maybe ex-husbands, but I'm a man speaking
that, you know, I was in a situation where I feel like I was wrong in the
amount of child support I was paying, even though my son was staying with
me for a part of the time and yet God used that situation and I've been
able to be a blessing, you know, to others.
And, um, so, so I'm grateful.
So I, I definitely can testify to how God has, has, um, solved my situation
and has, um, kept me steadfast and, and not wanting to be in debt and really
being serious about working hard to get out of it and having something to
provide, you know, for my son and, uh, and really excited about an
opportunity to, to own a home again.
So I just wanted to share that and encourage people that
might need to hear that.
Thank you.
Yes.
Amen.
All right.
We're going to go ahead and we're going to wrap up.
So thanks.
Thank you for that, Michael, and praise God.
And, um, so friends, I bless you.
Shana Tova.
I bless you.
May the Lord bless you with a sweet and good year.
Let's just, let's just, uh, let's just greet each other with that right now.
Shana Tova.
Come on, y'all.
Shana Tova.
Yes.
Thank you, Lord.
All right.
So tomorrow morning, Supernatural Saturday, Sunday night, we have Prophesy Your Year.
Um, make sure you tune in to that as well.
sure you sign up for that. If you haven't, the signups are in all of your groups.
And, uh, if you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to us.
Just look for the pinned post saying that the September to remember stuff that
we have going on for this weekend.
And I believe that we're going to shift and just get ready as we,
as we enter into next week, we're going to,
we're going to really be going after the days of more.
That's what we're going to be going after the days of more.
We're going to do it together.
And I believe that we're going to have lots of crazy, amazing, um,
testimonies in our group that tell us that God definitely has his eyes on us.
All right. Love y'all and see you tomorrow. Bye everyone.
Thank you, Jackie.
Good night, everybody.
Bye everyone.
Yeah.
Good night.
And turn around abundantly above all you did ask me.
Good night, everybody.