All right, welcome everyone to Supernatural Saturday.
We are actually welcoming new guests this morning.
We are live streaming to our challenge group to give them a taste of what it looks like
to gather with our community on Saturdays.
And so for their benefit, Supernatural Saturday is a time when we lean into heaven together
for the current prophetic reality.
It's important that we all understand that there's our reality.
Whatever is going on in your life right now, what you can take in through your five senses.
And then there's the reality of heaven.
There's God's reality.
And we want God's reality.
We want to live our lives according to God's reality.
And we want to know what is heaven saying?
What is heaven doing?
You know, God's eyes are roaming to and fro throughout the earth every day, looking for
someone who's looking at him, looking for someone who wants to have heaven to invade
earth through their life every single day.
Every single day.
That's what it looks like.
That's what the Word of God says.
And it says that he's looking for someone to show his power strong on behalf of.
And I don't know about you, but I want to be that person today.
And every Saturday, we remind ourselves that we don't have to live according to our natural
circumstances, that we can press into the supernatural and we can partner with heaven.
So that's what today is all about.
And today we're going to talk a little bit about warfare.
All right.
So get ready for that.
And I want you to get ready to testify, because one of the ways that we defeat the warfare,
the unseen forces, the opposing forces that are always pressing against us, the enemies
of our soul, is by the word of our own testimony, by the blood of Christ and the word of our
testimony.
So towards the end of this call today, you're going to get an opportunity to release something
short and powerful that God has done for you through this community, through Supernatural
Saturday, through the Last Year Single program.
Yes, we got upgrades in our love lives, but what other kinds of breakthrough have you
gotten as a result of being part of this?
We want to help defeat the enemy in other people's lives by showing them what God can
and will do for them.
Did you guys know it's not about what God can do?
God can do anything.
It's about what we believe he can do.
And so when we release our testimonies, it helps other people to understand, hey, God
can do that.
So I can believe that God can do that, because if he did it for them, why wouldn't he do
it for me?
Whether it's healing, whether it's breakthrough, whether it's provision, it doesn't matter
what it is.
It shows people that God can work in that specific situation in your life.
In fact, the word testimony in its original language means, do it again.
Do it again, all right?
So get ready to share.
I'm towards the end of the call, because today is about warfare, and that is one of the weapons
of our warfare, our testimony, the blood of Jesus and our testimony.
All right, so here is how today's subject came up in my heart.
I've been dealing with a lot of stuff.
I know that we think the people that lead us are fearless, but that's not true, okay?
I just do it afraid, just like everybody else.
I do it afraid, just like everybody else.
I lean into heaven just like everybody else.
And so I've been dealing with a lot of stuff, especially health stuff and just different,
all kinds of different things that have been coming against me.
Yes, I've been putting them on my Jesus Cares board.
And for all of you that don't know what that is, you will someday soon, and it's going
to change your life.
But I've been putting those things up on there, and still just wrestling with a lot of things.
And the other night, I had like level 10 back pain, like out of nowhere, and it was during
a live challenge season, and I had already spiked a fever, and I was just feeling really
overwhelmed.
Like, what the heck is going on, you know?
And I'm just laying there, tossing and turning, and I'm doing what a lot of us try to do when
trouble shows up.
I'm trying to figure out a solution.
I'm trying to figure it out.
I want to let you know that there's nowhere in the Bible where God says, good luck, kid.
I hope you figure it out.
But yet we still do it over and over and over and over again.
So I'm laying there like, don't laugh at me, because you all do this too.
I was just tossing and turning like, oh my gosh, what did I do?
Where did I get this virus?
You know, was it on the plane?
Was it in New York City at the singles event?
Like what happened?
How did I get this virus?
What virus is it?
And then I did what we should never do.
I started Googling my symptoms, right?
And of course, the internet told me I'm dying.
So there's that.
And so I'm doing that.
I'm trying to figure it out.
And I'm just getting more and more and more upset and overwhelmed, partnering with fear
now.
And then I start having this back pain out of nowhere.
I mean, it's so bad that I got the heating pad out, I got the ice pack out.
can't get comfortable, all the things going on and I finally get to sleep and I wake up the next
morning. Okay, this is Friday morning, yesterday morning. I wake up the next morning and God just
says to me this, don't you believe in warfare anymore? What? Don't you believe in warfare
anymore? And that is what I want to talk about. That's the current prophetic reality of heaven
today. God wants us to be reminded that we are not supposed to take everything at face value.
I think we get so scared of over spiritualizing everything in our lives that we forget about
warfare. We're always trying to find a natural reason for our problems. We're always trying to
find out what to blame, what we did wrong, where we should have turned right instead of left.
We're always trying to figure it out and fix it with a natural remedy as well,
but sometimes it's just warfare. It's just circumstances that are coming against you
to get you distracted, to get you disrupted, to get you disgusted, all that nasty DIS coming on
you to get you disconnected, discouraged. Come on y'all, come with me today. That's what it is and
guess what? It works. If we don't immediately recognize that this is something coming from
the opposing forces, yeah, it's coming through a natural way and so it seems natural. It does and
there might be natural elements to it, but it doesn't mean that it's not warfare. Somewhere
along the line we got scared that we would become one of those people, at least this is my story,
that just make it all about the devil all the time,
but in that we actually threw out the understanding that it is the devil.
Sometimes it just blatantly is warfare, especially if you are busy about your father's business,
right? You're getting up, you're feeling good. How many times has this happened to you? You're
getting up, you're feeling good, your relationship with God is strong, you know, you're feeling full
of worship and you're feeling like, you know, you can take on the world. You're making plans
to do something you should have done for a long time, like get to the gym and get healthy,
start working on your health, start working on your relationships. Maybe you're coming into this
community, you're like, yes, I believe God's calling me to marriage and family and you're
ready to just go all in and then all hell breaks loose. Literally, you walk out the door and
someone slashed your tire, right? You, of all people, it's like, what? I live in the suburbs,
what's going on? You're on your way to work, you're getting a traffic jam, getting to a fender bender,
this happens, that happens and, you know, if the enemy can't distract you
specifically, he will distract you by distracting someone you love.
Your kid will get messed up at school, there'll be some bullying incident, there'll be this,
there'll be that, there'll be someone else that has a health issue. You have a health issue,
this happens, that happens. What is that? That is you being thrown off course because you're
on to something. You're on to something. Delays, distractions, detours, because you're on to
something and that is the moment that instead of getting overwhelmed, because this is what we do,
this is what I do, we get overwhelmed, oh, I don't understand, I was just about to do this,
I was so excited about it, now I gotta deal with this. No, that's the moment when you say no,
oh no. We have to be self-aware in that moment that this is a demonic
distraction that has come to derail us from what it is that our hearts want to do.
And what your heart wants to do in those moments is coming from heaven, that desire, that excitement,
that anticipation, you're finally ready to take hold of some things. I know a lot of times we
feel like we're a day late and a dollar short. We're like, oh, I should have done this before.
I don't know if you feel like this, but oftentimes when I'm finally ready to do something
that I believe God's been prompting me to do for a while, I often worry that it's too late.
I often worry that I waited too long and now it's too late. That saying, too little, too late,
I often worry about that. And that's scary, right? Because then you begin to get into
this legalistic thinking of, oh, I should have done it when God first
told me but now it's too late and you know and it's just it's if I do it now
it's not gonna have any good results right it's too late to do it I should
have done it before and you know God was trying to warn me God loves me but I
wouldn't listen I was disobedient I didn't do it and so now bad things are
gonna happen no friends it's not too late in fact I submit to you that God
tells us way ahead of time to do things because he knows we're gonna
procrastinate he knows you and God's blessings in your life he has factored
in all of you he knows how you work he knows it's like certain friends that we
have we want them to be on time and we know that that would be a miracle and so
we tell them the wrong time on purpose so that by the time they drag their
little booties to the party or to the event they'll be super late at least
they'll think they are but they'll be right on time because we told them that
the event was at a different time when should I be there I'll be there at 6 we
know the party doesn't start till 830 but that gives them a nice buffer
because we know who they are I believe that God does that to us as well and he's
constantly working to help us to trust he's constantly working to help us to
get to where we can finally just be obedient I know there's a saying out
there that says delayed obedience is disobedience and I just don't believe
that I don't believe that okay it's one thing to just shut your heart down and
say no I won't do it now that's rebellion that's a whole
different situation but there's another heart posture that I think that most of
us have when God's asking us to do something that we're afraid of or that
sounds hard is where we say God I believe help my unbelief when we say I
really want to do this but I'm scared when we drag our feet when you know we
continue to come before the Lord and we continue to put that thing there and he
continues to give us the same input or response and says hey you know this will
be this will be better for you and yeah we prolong our own suffering and we
suffer needlessly when we don't just go ahead and do it but at the same time God
is patient with us he is kind with us now there are moments when there's an
urgency from heaven like gotta do this now okay you got to do this now and I
believe that God makes us willing to be made willing in those moments okay if
there's gonna be some kind of like catastrophe I do believe that but most
the time God's just pruning us he's just molding us on the potter's wheel
that's what most of life looks like being molded and shaped on that potter's
wheel and you know what the opposing forces hate the potter's wheel they hate
us beginning to catch the wind of heaven why because your breakthrough creates
breakthrough for others that's why when you get breakthrough you create
breakthrough for others and so the Word of God tells us here's one of the
warfare scriptures we'll share today that the enemy is just roaming around
looking for someone to mess around with right and when we read that scripture I
know that we think of it like the devil like the devil when my daughter was
little girl she used to call the devil okay he was the devil and one time she
was sitting in the back of the car and her dad you know my former husband was
driving her and she was probably like five or six years old and he said
something and she said something real sassy back to him right just real sassy
I don't remember what it was but he said something to her and then she sassed him
which if you know my daughter is just really not her personality but she sassed
him and then he was like Reagan why did you say that to me and then literally
without missing a beat she said the devil the devil told me to say it so a
lot of us when we read that scripture about roaming to and fro looking for
someone to devour we think of you know the devil Satan Lucifer Beelzebub
whatever you prefer but you guys the devil is not omnipotent he's not
omniscient like God he can't be everywhere right he's a created being
created by God so he's not a spirit like God is he's an actual being you
understand that right he's an angel an angel of light that fell get it okay and
so that is not the person that's showing up at your door and a lot of us we don't
recognize warfare when it comes because we think that it will be just a little
not
knock on the door, you open the door,
and it's a little guy in the red suit
with the horns and the pitchfork, and no.
In fact, oftentimes warfare comes in the form of distraction
in the form of worry, in the form of fear,
in the form of opportunities that don't lead anywhere.
This is why we have to be in tune with the Lord, right?
Because warfare oftentimes doesn't show up as warfare.
It shows up as other things,
and we have to be able to recognize it.
And that starts, you know, it doesn't start just today.
It starts every day, not just today
when we're talking about it, it starts every day.
And that's why Jesus taught his followers to pray like this.
Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come, where?
To earth.
Thy will be done, where?
On the earth.
As it already is, where?
In heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
Y'all, that was figurative and literal, okay?
Yes, feed us, great, that's wonderful.
But also give us the wisdom that we need.
Give us the information that we need.
Remember when Jesus said,
I have bread that you don't know about?
Remember, his disciples were like,
you must be hungry, Jesus.
He's like, I have bread that you don't know about.
Give us this day that bread, that daily bread.
And forgive us of our trespasses
as we forgive those who trespass against us.
And right here, y'all, warfare.
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
Y'all, that should be a part of your everyday confession.
Not just the Lord's Prayer,
but the concepts in the Lord's Prayer.
Every day you should get up
and you should put on your armor.
Some of you get up every day and you take vitamins.
You get up every day and you drink a smoothie.
You get up every day and you take
some other sort of medication or something.
You do something every single day
as a routine to keep yourself well.
This has to become part of our routine.
I'm not just talking to you, I'm talking to myself.
We live in the wicked day.
The Word of God says if you live in the wicked age,
you guys, the world has never been
more wicked than it is now.
I know we think so, but evil has never run
more rampant than it does now.
We're climaxing to something, right?
Something's crescendoing here.
And it's important that we understand
that we live in a day where a lot of evil is very elusive.
It's one thing to live in a day where, you know,
they're rounding up Christians
and they're putting them in the arena
so they can get devoured by lions or gladiators or whatever.
That's pretty overt, that's pretty blatant.
But nowadays, there's something more sinister going on
because it's more covert, amen?
There's a deterioration of society going on all around us.
All around us.
Guys, people are taking their elementary school age children
and having them medically, pharmaceutically castrated.
Come on.
We are living in a very strange time.
We're all around us.
It's like smoke and mirrors.
You don't know what is what.
You don't.
You don't know what to believe anymore.
And it's important that we understand
that the Bible says to us
that if you do not receive a love for Christ,
hey, the love of Jesus in your heart,
if you do not receive that,
then you could be in danger of believing a delusion, right?
That's part of the warfare.
And so there's delusions all around us, y'all.
We're living in Deluluville.
And it's not a situation
where you can just kind of speak out and ask questions
because you can get in big trouble for that.
So it's more of a situation
where we need to know what the weapons of our warfare are
that are not carnal.
And one of the weapons of our warfare
that God has given us is community.
You come together.
What's the model?
Let's go back to the book of Acts.
It says that they were together daily.
Come on, y'all.
They were together daily.
In this community, we have daily prayer.
I know some of you guys have work at that time
and you can't be there,
but come and listen to the things that we have daily.
We have something going on daily.
Come and do that.
Get together with your in-person friends and peers.
Get on the phone with someone every single day.
Get a prayer partner from this community.
Pray over each other.
We should be together daily.
Why did they get together daily
back in the first church in the book of Acts?
Why?
Because there was a lot of evil running rampant.
happened. They got together daily to pray. They got together daily to fellowship with
each other, to remind each other of what the truth is so that no one would be led astray.
That's what you do when you live in a time of deep deception like we live in now. You
have to be around the people of faith that are speaking truth. Are we speaking perfect
truth? No. And what we believe today, will we believe five years from now? God, I hope
not. I hope what we will have grown and we'll know more information because the Bible says
at the end of the age, the knowledge of God will increase. We should know more. Five years
from now, we should have let go of some of the lesser, more inferior, more immature beliefs
that we have about kingdom and we should have grown in it. But we cannot grow in a vacuum.
We have to grow in community with each other. People that have relationship with God and
say, Oh, I'm good. That is not the model. That is fear. That is actual warfare that
the enemy has set up in your life to keep you isolated and to keep you immature and
to keep you a lot of time deceived. Because you know what happens when it's just you talking
to God and you're not getting any outside input? You start hearing things that you think
God is saying that ain't true. You start hearing things that you're ascribing to God that you're
not bouncing off anybody else. The Bible says in a multitude of counselors, there is safety.
The Bible says through the mouth of two or three witnesses, let a word be established.
Why is that? Because God knows in our curse state that we would take our ball and go home
if we weren't forced to play with each other. It's easier to isolate. We think it's safer in
isolation because if we don't have to trust anyone, then we don't get to get hurt. We don't
realize we're already hurt. It's not that you're not going to get hurt. You're already hurt. You're
suffering because you are living outside of your design. You've been designed for a community. And
so you are suffering. You're suffering with loneliness. You're suffering with isolation.
And a lot of times you're suffering with deception because you only have you to be a check and
balance in your life. We need each other. Like, oh, I don't like what the church is doing. Okay,
cool. You don't have to like what's going on. But you still got to gather with somebody,
someplace, because you need each other. You need each other. And that's what we do here.
And on Saturdays, that's what we do because you know why? These are the weapons of our warfare.
So every day we've got to get up and we've got to take those spiritual vitamins. The Lord's
prayer is one of those things where we just acknowledge. We acknowledge that we need God.
Take off your little independent pants and put on worship. What does worship look like? Well,
in my mind, worship just looks like, I trust you, God. I'm leaning into you, God. I need you,
God. It doesn't look like a song. It doesn't look like a certain key. It doesn't look like
a certain note of a song. It doesn't look like your hands raised. It doesn't look like prostrate
on the ground. It doesn't look like anything. The heart posture of it is, I trust you. I'm
looking to you. You are God. I'm not God. I'm looking to you. I'm asking you to keep me. I'm
asking you to help me. I'm telling you that I'm putting my trust in you again today. That's what
worship looks like. Every time you stick something on your Jesus cares board, that's what worship
looks like. I trust you. So getting up every day in worship, surrendering your will to God's will,
telling him, you know, that he knows better than you putting on that armor. We'll go over all the
pieces of the armor sometime, but you guys go read it. All right. I think it's in Galatians,
right? It's the armor. It's in Ephesians. Thank you.
Ephesians chapter six, 11, chapter six, 11 through 17, put on the full armor of God so
that you can stand so that you can take your stand against the devil schemes for our struggles,
not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the
powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.
Therefore put on the full armor of God so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to
stand your ground. You guys were living in that day. And after you have done everything to stand,
stand firm with the belt of truth. Buckle up.
around your waist because it's important that we understand that we gird our loins with truth
and the reason why our loins are girded with truth okay is because that is where your
reproductive place is right that's a typology of reproduction whatever you believe you're
going to reproduce so we want to gird our loins with truth that's really important okay um
um the breastplate of righteousness in place that's important why that typology is important
the breastplate of righteousness is covering what it's covering your heart and why righteousness
because it's not about you and it's not about your performance it's about jesus and his performance
every day you have to guard your heart with the understanding that you are not acceptable to god
because you do acceptable things you're acceptable to god when you receive christ as your savior
you're acceptable to god when you receive that righteousness from the finished work of the cross
the bible says that your righteousness no matter how good you are remember that scripture is being
written to pharisees and and jews that were cross and t's and dot and i's i think they have something
like 623 rules currently right now that they have to follow besides moses the the commandments of
moses and so they were just jumping through all the hoops trying to make sure that they did
everything right every single day they had to get up and try to follow all 600 plus of those rules
every day and not break one right and so that scripture was written to them when it says your
righteousness is filthy rags no matter how good you know paul said i'm the pharisee of the pharisees
i'm the i'm the i'm the cheapest among them i'm the best of the best i'm really good rule keeper
so ironic that god chose him as his disciple and when he converted him from saul to paul
he became the biggest rule breaker i love that y'all that's right up my alley
so we have to guard our hearts with the understanding that god accepts us that he loves us
that he is providing for us that he is blessing us not according to our performance but because
of jesus who died for you and as you on the cross that day and so every day we have to guard our
heart from religion and from condemnation from legalism by wearing that breastplate of righteousness
because you know what will happen if you don't the enemy will show up and said oh well
and very sneaky it doesn't sound like the enemy it sounds like your own thoughts saying
well you know i'd really like to ask god for this but i don't you know i don't feel worthy of it
you know why would god do this for me
you start to have unworthy behavior then you start to try to do things yourself you go back
into orphan mode because you think in your mind that you know god's not going to help me because
i haven't crossed the t's and died of the eyes and so unconsciously you just start trying to do
stuff in your own strength and so the thing that you need to understand this morning and hopefully
this will be a warfare buster in your life is that you are not worthy you are not worthy of
god's attention you are not worthy of his help you are not worthy of his blessing or his provision
you are not worthy and you never will be worthy in and of yourself and so go ahead and stop trying
to be worthy instead surrender to the love that was given you at the cross stop laying in the bed
that you have made by your bad decisions and move over and lay in the bed that jesus made
with his obedience the bible says that through one man one one man's disobedience and we all
know who that was we all became sinners through one man's disobedience we all became sinners
you know it doesn't say through you know one couple's disobedience why is that because the
woman was deceived and all you ladies on the call need to understand that the feminine that you are
has a higher rate of deception because of the way that you are made up physiologically
because of the way that you operate at a higher level of intuition and emotion you
have a higher tendency to get deceived so the the woman was tricked but the man disobeyed
the man decided he would rather please the woman than please god he was disobedient so through one
man's disobedience we all became sinners but the scripture doesn't stop there it says but
through one man's obedience jesus we all became righteous yeah we all were born into a curse
not because of what we did but because of what someone else did but guess what
we all also were reconciled to righteousness because of what some
and did, and not because of what we did.
Come on, get a hold of that today.
That can change your life right there.
That is a life-changing statement right there.
So we have that breastplate of righteousness on every day.
And then with our feet fitted,
with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace,
what's that mean?
That means you're gonna walk in peace.
You're gonna walk in shalom.
Everywhere you go, chaos and confusion
is gonna be devoured when you walk in peace.
You're walking in the gospel of peace.
There's no longer war happening inside of you.
You have surrendered to the prince of peace,
and you're gonna walk in peace.
You're gonna bring peace.
You're gonna bring the gospel of peace to people.
You're gonna bring hope to people.
People are gonna look at you and say,
why are you so chipper today?
And you're gonna say, I'm blessed.
And you're gonna mean it.
And then when people wanna know more,
you're gonna be able to tell them
because you're walking in peace.
In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith
with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows
of the evil one and take the helmet of salvation
and the sword of the spirit, which is the word of God.
So we see all these different things
that we should be applying to our lives every day.
That shield of faith.
Remember, we already have that breastplate
of righteousness on, right?
So we're already covered there,
but that shield is that extra thing.
Because what does the Bible say about faith?
It says without faith, it's impossible to please God.
And people stop right there when they quote that scripture.
And it sounds so hard, right?
It's like, oh, without faith, it's impossible to please God.
And then you conjure up in your mind
whatever you think faith looks like.
And usually you come up with someone
who you think is perfect and they don't have any problems
and they're always able to trust the Lord
no matter what happens.
And then you just compare yourself to them
and then you just feel lacking.
That is not what the scripture says.
It says without faith, it's impossible to please God
because people that have faith
are the ones that come to him like children
and crawl up in his lap and expect him to bless them.
That's what having faith looks like.
You're not running from God, you're running to God.
You're not hiding from daddy, you're coming to daddy.
That's what faith looks like.
Faith looks like regardless of what you've done
or what anyone else has done,
you're coming and looking for the father.
You're calling, Abba, where are you?
And then you go and you get up in his lap
and you let him comfort you.
Even if you're the villain of the story,
whatever story you're gonna tell him,
you let him comfort you, you let him love you,
you let him bless you, even when you don't deserve it.
That's what having faith looks like.
So we take up that shield of faith,
that shield of knowing that our father is for us
and he is with us and life is for us because of him.
Who can separate us from the love of God is what is written.
That is what that shield of faith looks like.
You can't separate me from the love of my father.
My daddy loves me.
And yeah, things might look a little crazy right now,
but he's gonna show up
because I'm gonna keep coming to him
because I believe that he is a rewarder
of those that seek him.
That's what faith looks like.
So we take up that shield of faith
and it says we can extinguish
all the flaming arrows of the evil one.
And we put on that helmet of salvation.
That word salvation is sozo.
That means healed mind, body, and spirit.
We put on that sozo helmet and it keeps our mind, right?
It keeps our mind.
The Bible says when you keep your eyes on Jesus,
he'll keep your mind in perfect peace.
We put on that helmet knowing that this isn't my,
this isn't my thing.
It's not my job.
It's Jesus's job.
I can't save myself.
He already saved me on the cross.
It's not by might or by power, but by his spirit.
And then we take up that sword
and we begin to speak in agreement with heaven.
You guys, you gotta know the word of God.
I'm not reading scriptures off some thing right now.
I mean, I am reading Ephesians 6 to you right now,
but I already know what this says
without looking at it.
I just didn't kind of know where it was,
but I have a lot of scripture inside of me.
All the scriptures that I'm quoting right now
as I'm just riffing with you
are just things that are inside of me
because I have spent time in his word,
because I've spent time getting to know him, right?
And so you gotta have that sword ready to go.
And you can't have it ready to go
if you don't know what it is.
And so these are things that we have to have.
These are things that we have to have,
and there's so much more in you than you know.
So much more in you that God has deposited than you know
Yes
Romans tells us that in all things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us
So we are more than a match
For all of these schemes of the enemy and the great thing is is that if we press in with God every morning
He'll show us the schemes of the enemy
He'll show us
Right, one of my favorites favorite favorite passages of Scripture to take as a daily vitamin would be Psalm 91
He that dwells in the secret place of the Almighty
That's what we got to get into every morning
I'm gonna give him that secret place because if you read the rest of that chapter you see that you are protected
You are kept from the things that are trying to stalk you and destroy you
Any traps that the enemy's trying to set for you, he's gonna fall in himself
Right, that's what's happening there
So many good things
Whoo
All right
One of the other things that I want to touch on right now that I feel coming up in my heart
That is a weapon of our warfare that maybe we don't realize is is forgiveness
You guys we have to walk in forgiveness
We must
Walk in forgiveness. Yes. Do people deserve to be forgiven? No, and do you know?
Most people are not even sorry or even aware of the things that they have done
They're not and
So it's important that we walk in forgiveness that we keep a very short list and by the end of the day
We have forgiven everyone on those lists
Okay, and the only reason you're keeping a list is so you remember to forgive them before you go to sleep
One thing that my husband and I definitely do is we do not go to bed angry at each other we can have a
blowout
Crazy argument and we have had those in 17 years of marriage
One of us is massively triggered in a place where we're not fully healed and then all heck breaks loose
And yes, that does happen in
Marriage even in the best of marriages, but we don't stay in that state
We don't stay in that state. We don't harden our hearts
We don't
We forgive we come together
If we got to be up till 4 o'clock in the morning
We will forget and I'm not talking about arguing. I will tell you that I cannot sleep until
Things are made right
Not, you know, maybe that the situation can't be made right the argument, you know
You have to disagree to disagree in the moment right now
but we can come into a place where we can acknowledge that we love each other and
Let go of anger
Put away wrath and bitterness, right?
You don't ever want to let bitterness get a foothold in your heart and the same way
My husband is the exact same way neither one of us
partnering with pride
But both of us partnering with humility
That's the kind of marriage you got to have got to have that kind of marriage
This is all warfare
Gotta forgive
Yes, they might not be. Sorry
Yes, they might not have apologized to you
Yes, they might not ever be. Sorry and remember when I say forgiveness. I'm not saying reconciliation
There are some people that you'll forgive and you'll love from a distance, but they won't be part of your life anymore
Sometimes God separates us from people to protect us
Simply because he knows that the state of mind and heart that they're still operating in all they're gonna do is continually hurt you
I wish I could say that once we've been hurt by a person in a certain way
That we're kind of immune to that hurt and they can't ever hurt us like that again, but it's just not true
It isn't and so sometimes God will put some distance
But it's not distance because of anger it's not distance because of bitterness, please don't get it twisted that's not what it's about
It's not you using the code word boundaries because you're still mad at this person and you still just kind of hate them
No, and you know why that has to be part of warfare forgiveness because the Bible says that if you don't walk in forgiveness
then you can't receive the finished work of the cross and
you have to otherwise you're living under the curse and
The Bible also says that if you don't forgive you won't be forgiven and the Bible also says not to give place to the enemy
What's that mean? Don't invite him over for dinner by your bitterness
You
Don't invite trouble to come knocking on your door simply because you refuse to let go of
the failures and the sins of someone else.
I will tell you a blind spot that I have always seen in my own life is when I sit in judgment
of someone else.
Because there's a why behind the what every time, friends.
There's a why behind the what.
It doesn't make it okay, but there is a why.
And God in his compassion, he understands people fully.
That's why it says that we see the outside, but he sees the heart.
He understands fully what makes people the way they are.
And he is always full of love and compassion for them.
And he can do that because he's God.
Sometimes we have misplaced loyalties and misplaced human compassion that can get us
in trouble.
It's important that we're operating in God's wisdom and not our own when it comes to dangerous
people that have aligned themselves and yoked themselves with evil.
That's really important in this story right now.
But we have to understand that when we can see the why behind the what, we can extend
compassion and we can extend forgiveness.
We can extend that as well, right?
We can.
Because when we sit in judgment of other people, it causes a blind spot.
It causes a blind spot where sometimes you'll start maybe falling prey to the same lusts
and temptations maybe as they did.
It might just look a little different.
In fact, I will be honest with you and tell you that anytime in my mind, I'll see someone
doing something and I'll say to my mind, in my mind, I don't know about that.
Immediately Holy Spirit will be like, well, you do that.
And then it'll show me like how I do something similar in my pride.
And then I have to say, and this is what I always say back, I say, oh, touche, touche.
That's true.
And then immediately what happens is it forges a place of compassion in my heart for that
person.
And I'm able to say a prayer for them, whoever they are.
Maybe there's some celebrity, maybe they're, you know, someone that I don't know, someone
that I'm seeing from afar.
We have a habit of judging people either that we think we know really well or that we don't
know at all.
You don't know the intentions of someone's heart.
So stop acting like you do just because you have intuition.
Intuition when it's overextended by judgment becomes suspicion.
And it's important that we release that to the Lord.
Because only he knows the intentions of people's hearts.
Now there is a gift of the spirit called discernment.
And all that's allowing you to do is to discern whether or not someone's intentions are aligned
with heaven or not.
Right?
Because sometimes people can be doing some crazy stuff on the outside, but you know what?
Their heart is still aligned with heaven.
And it's important that we don't sit in judgment of those people and their calling and what
they might be doing or what God might be doing through some imperfect action that they're
taking.
Yeah, maybe they're not doing it exactly right or the way the churchy you would do it.
But still, if it has an eternal outcome, then God's in the mix.
I hope this is helping someone today because it's certainly helping me.
And so we're right here at the 15 minute mark, got about 15 minutes left.
And I would love for you to use that other weapon of our warfare.
It's not carnal, right?
Because the breakthroughs that you're going to praise God for right now, they didn't come
as a result of your hard work and your striving.
They came as a result of you coming into supernatural community, you surrendering, you applying
the spiritual truths that God has given you through the teaching and through the things
that happen here.
And so I want you to give just short, brief, powerful testimonies of how last year's single
program has changed your life emotionally, mentally, physically, relationally, spiritually.
However, but let's go ahead and popcorn those.
Who wants to go first?
I do, Jackie.
It brought me back to a relationship with Jesus and the transformation that my mom saw
allowed her to let God rescue her from a really abusive situation, too.
Praise God.
Keep them coming.
I love it.
I've got to go into work right now, but this program has been transformational to me.
My ex was a pastor and I always felt like, you know, he was a better Christian than me
in all ways, shapes, forms.
And I've come to realize how God loves me and talks to me and have my very own relationship
with Papa God.
And it's a pearl of great price to me.
Thank you, Jackie.
Praise God.
Love it.
Keep going.
I want to say something.
I just want to thank this program for all the truth.
The first week, even though I could hardly get on all the Zooms in December, all the
lies just kept dropping off.
One by one by one, everything you're saying in your book is like the most amazing thing.
And now guess what?
I'm in a secure, I respond to insecure, not anxiety, not avoidance, but my attachment
is secure.
I passed the test.
You are the icing on the cake.
You are the icing on my wedding cake, Jackie, you're amazing.
And I just pray that you just live forever and that everybody comes.
And I want all the men, come on, man, just as many women, I actually want more men than
there are women.
Come on.
Thank you, Jackie.
I love you.
Hey, thank you, Gwen.
I'm the icing on someone's wedding cake.
That's very funny.
I've never heard that.
Hey, we have guys on the call.
They're just quieter.
So if a guy wants to testify, let's go.
I'd like to share the forgiveness piece of the heart work was a wonderful preparation
very quickly after the heart work, it was by September, God led me right into deliverance
and I was prepared for it because I had done all that forgiveness work.
So that was the big, big thing for me.
Love it.
Patricia.
So good.
I agree.
Oh, sorry.
Go ahead.
Come on.
I'm really grateful for this program.
It's really shifted my priorities.
I've had a lot of breakthrough, especially with mental health.
I mean, I'm still working through things, but I've forgiven so many people that certain
things that used to take years and months affect me like forgiving people when they
really hurt me, like just takes me days or maybe even if it's a really, really long
time, maybe a week, but the amount of like how my life's been freed up, like a year ago,
I was struggling during this time of year, busy season, I'm now walking like five miles
a day with the walking challenge and I'm able to do my work and be a better mom.
And if it wasn't for all these things that have just been lifted so far, and I thank
you, Jackie, for seeing me even in most times, I always feel like leaders of TV, I'm like
the odd one out, the odd no one likes.
So I'm just really grateful for this community where the leaders are not respecters of persons,
but they're led by God.
Awesome, Jackie.
That's awesome.
Love that testimony.
Come on, you guys.
And I feel like some of you need to share some more private things.
I know this is a public call.
Remember, there are people listening that your breakthrough creates breakthrough for
them.
So go ahead and testify because this is warfare right now.
I have three big, oh, can I?
Sorry.
Yeah, go ahead.
Thank you.
I just have three quick ones.
Mashonda released a grace and a testimony over us about family reconciliation.
And a family member that I haven't spoken to in two years reached out and apologized
to me.
And now we're having regular communication and it's healthy.
The second one was doing the hard work, unearth a very deep childhood trauma, a sexual trauma.
But it felt it was done safely.
And I was able to share it with some of the ladies.
And I've gotten deliverance from the harm that that was doing.
And then the last one is trusting community again, because I'm like shaking when I'm doing
this.
Trusting community again.
And that's a big one.
I didn't think it was reconcilable.
So the women here are incredible.
It's safe.
The leaders are safe.
And I have not been able to say that before.
So.
Love that so much.
Praise God.
I love that y'all will confess your faults to one another and be healed.
But if you don't trust other people, how are you supposed to, how are you supposed to do
James 516, but she's able to do it in this community and get the healing that God promises
in that scripture.
And I love that so much.
All right.
Come on.
Keep them coming.
I'd love to share.
I'm driving to Colorado right now, but I wanted to share the biggest thing.
I was in a relationship for four years and I had the Lord give me visions and dreams
and a lot of them came true and marriage was part of it.
And I kept holding on to that vision.
And it was you, Jackie, that prophetic words have an expiration date.
And I had never heard that before.
And I, when we broke up, he split it up.
I was so heartbroken and my daughter was heartbroken and I couldn't accept free will because free
will people use their will to hurt me growing up and and so God had been speaking free will
to me the entire time but I couldn't accept that in the beginning of the breakup and he
said daughter you were faithful to my word that I gave you because like just like you
said earlier God knows our heart and I did not know that prophetic words could have an
expiration date so I was warfaring that relationship and so I just thank you so much I've just
had so many breakthroughs um that was probably the biggest one breakthrough you guys you
hear what she's saying she was fighting for something continuously because she didn't
understand that you know sometimes you just have to let things go other people have the
choices that they make so she thought hey if God gave me this word then I have to fight
for it how many of you fought for abusive marriages to be changed and healed for years
just keeping yourself in deeper and deeper and deeper and deeper abuse I was one of those
people and so yes it's important that we know when to walk away and we know when to run
and that's all sanctioned by the Lord and so that's a huge breakthrough and I love that
all right who's next
okay let's let Charles go let's let a guy go when guys finally speak up come on guys we know
you're here there's 279 of us on this call there were 300 so go ahead Charles short and
powerful
yeah so over the course of all God protected me multiple times like over 100 times where I
could have died while traveling or supernatural things would happen where a where things
were thwarted that could have took me out and I just want to say again but what God
ordained like when he got it God protects us when he calls us he protects us so Charles we
want to know how this program has changed your life that is the that is the testimony that we
want well every time I come on on a call to any anyone see some type of breakthrough and I
feel like weight a shift in my spirit and things just start clicking so yeah love it yes thank you
Charles so much thank you come on more guys let's go go ahead go ahead Scott okay I'm sure I've
cut the other guy off but thank you so yeah I know by the way I've been trying to but you girls
are fast
it's only been four weeks and I am I got my calendar filled with with this and it's I drive
myself every day to get on here where's the prayer everything it's just it's and it's
energizing is what I'm getting at it's enthusiasm for me and it's it's I'm faster than I'm older
and I've been a pastor for a chaplain for 40 years and I can tell you this is awesome so thank
you so much to be a part of this community I love that so much see right to see it just shows us
even when we're in spiritual leadership we still need community we still get breakthrough by
hearing other leaders and other you know other brothers and sisters talk about the things they're
going through and what God's doing in their lives and so that's such a high you know recommendation
and review saying hey I've been a chaplain for 40 years and this still is just so blessing my
life and I love that all right so who's next I can go this is Stacy Stacy I'm in Austin Texas
and this program has helped me with number one realizing that there's nothing wrong with me
number two that I can be divinely feminine and still be a leader and then also to take risks
and go on low-stakes dates with men that I would never be physically attracted to but it could
happen and so that's what's happened with me awesome and to answer the person's questions
about meeting in person yes we have a whole list of in-person meetups that we're gonna release by
March 1st and you will probably see a city near you on that so definitely make sure that you take
time to get together with your brothers and I heard a guy's voice before Stacy came on great
testimony Stacy who is that guy go for it Jackie Nevin I think hard work was one of the most
important aspects of the program it really helped me identify the lies and the unbelief that I had
with regards to relationships so it was very transformational in identifying and then dealing
with those yes thank you Nitin love it see ladies men do hard work and they want to do hard work so
there's there's a there's a the defeating what the enemy tries
It's a lie to us because that's warfare.
The lies of the enemy are warfare, especially if they cause you to live
your life in a certain way.
And a lot of times we live our lives in opposition to each other because we
believe the lies of the enemy about each other.
Okay.
So a lot of times when we're like, yeah, you know, men don't want to do the
work, they don't want to do inner healing, you know, blah, blah.
Well, there you go.
That just defeated that lie, the blood of Jesus and the word of
Nitton's testimony, praise God.
Have just a couple more minutes.
Pick a couple more.
Let's say two more.
Becky, I would like to share, um, go ahead, Kelly.
Um, I've learned through this that God sees me and, um, he knows where I am,
what I need and how to get it to me.
Um, and I've also really learned how to put my pen down and trust him.
And another thing, didn't you?
But didn't you get physically healed too?
Yes.
Yeah.
And that, and that, that came, that came through the soul ties and, and, and.
Unexpectedly watching that video thinking I don't have soul ties and realizing that
it was towards a doctor that had done a procedure wrong on me and, and I was, and
I was released and can hike now everything.
Um, so yeah, I can hear that now.
I really feel like there's this weight on your physical healing testimony.
People need to understand that your physical ailments, a lot of times
are connected to emotional trauma.
Not always, but a lot of times I want you to raise your hand right now.
If you have had some sort of physical breakthrough in this group, something
that used to plague you no longer plagues you, you've had some kind of
physical breakthrough, you've had healing.
I remember when Jen red river here on zoom, I remember when she had two
blood clots in her lungs dissolve after a prayer call that the
doctor said were unresolvable.
She had all kinds of things.
God's continuing to work in her body.
I talked to one of our sisters this morning who was, you know, given a
catastrophic health report and the doctor told her that she is 90% healed.
Y'all we'll take that and we'll say more Lord, a hundred percent.
Come on, look at all those hands of people that have had physical healings
as a result of this community, all kinds of people, all kinds of people.
One of my students had a paralyzed arm and prayed over her on a prayer call
in the dream that she had that night.
She met with Jesus and Jesus said, move your arm.
She said, I can't, it's paralyzed.
He said, try again.
And in the dream, she tried again and she could move it.
And she woke up healed.
She no longer had a paralyzed arm and she no longer does to this day.
So this is what happens on these kinds of prayer calls and praise the Lord.
All right.
So remember to wrap it up.
Remember not everything that is going on in your life, you can take it face value.
I'm not trying to get you to see a devil behind every bush, but I am trying to get
you to understand that you are a spirit that lives in a body that possesses a soul.
And so the things that happened to you are always spiritual
because you're not a body.
You're a spirit.
You're not a body.
Say it with me.
I'm a spirit.
I'm not a body.
I'm a spirit.
And so the things that come at me in the natural, they have a supernatural root.
Everything has a supernatural root.
Now, instead of going around and, you know, and rebuking everything, what we do is
we come into alignment in the morning with heaven.
We put on that armor.
We let our mind take on the mind of Christ, and then we're led and guided.
We surrender the things on our Jesus cares board that we cannot handle.
And we are overwhelmed by things where we're confused.
Okay.
Places of chaos where we have no wisdom and no revelation.
And we allow God to lead us to the people that have that breakthrough,
lead us to the right voices, the wise voices, lead us to whatever we need to
be led to, to have that breakthrough.
And sometimes that breakthrough comes without any action on our part at all.
So we surrender those things.
We let God do his part.
And sometimes he will ask us to do a part and sometimes he won't.
But that is like living a surrendered life where we're submitting unto God.
And the Bible says, submit unto God and resist the devil and he will flee from you.
And so, Father, we just thank you today.
We thank you for these truths from heaven.
We thank you that you've met with us.
We thank you that you've given us so many things to ponder in our heart, but
you've also given us encouragement and understanding that we are not in this
alone. We are in this with you.
And if you are for us, nothing can be against us.
But we're also in this together.
So as we lock arms with you and as we lock arms with each other, we pray victory
over everyone on this call today.
Whatever they need relationally, physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually.
Let them have it.
Be delivered. Be set free.
Be healed. Be enlivened.
Be encouraged.
In Jesus name.
Amen.
Y'all have an amazing Saturday.