Hi there, I'm back.
I'm here for a heart check-in.
I know that after signing that permission slip, you probably need one.
This means that you have finished part one of the course.
You did the reading material, you did the bonus questions at the end of each chapter,
you journaled those.
Don't mail this in, okay?
Don't go halfway, go all the way.
There's a bonus worksheet there for you as well, and then of course the videos.
And I really want to encourage you to just take your time, really digest the material,
process it, invite Holy Spirit in to talk to you about what you're reading, because
that is how you're going to get the most out of it.
So after signing that permission slip, I know sometimes we're like, what did I just do?
You know, is this crazy?
Yeah, it's crazy in a good way, because things are going to start getting out of your hands
and into God's hands, and that's where you want those things.
There's so many things in your life that you are never going to be able to get in your
own power.
Can I tell you something?
The only thing that you're ever asked to do in your own power is surrender.
And that's what we did in this first part of the course, supernatural surrender.
That's the only thing that God has ever asked any of us to do in our own strength.
And once we truly do that, we will be divinely empowered by His strength to do everything
else, everything.
So all of those amazing, beautiful dreams in your heart that God has given you as they
become uncovered during this course, you're not going to get those things on your own.
You're never going to deserve them or earn them or merit them.
You can't perform well enough to receive them.
They're going to come by divine empowerment.
And so this is just getting you ready for that.
We have to live surrendered lives if we want to have those abundant lives that Jesus died
to give us.
And I know you want that.
You're sick and tired of being sick and tired and being able to only get what you can do
in your own strength.
Ever since we were little kids, we're like, I do it myself.
You know, my daughter, when she was a toddler, I'm trying to help her, trying to help her
put on her shoes.
I do it.
You know, that's one of the first things that we learn how to say, because we're born into
that cursed orphan mentality.
But God's peeling back the layers of that during this course so that you can become
the real you.
And the real you is not self-defended.
The real you is God-defended.
Just recently, my kids bought me a gift, a gift that I think was more for them.
And that was a ziplining trip.
I don't like heights.
At least that's what I thought before I went on this ziplining trip.
And if you don't know what ziplining is, it's basically crazy.
You just go up really, really high on a tiny little platform, and then you jump off because
you're tethered to a cable, and you swing through the air like Tarzan to another little
platform.
And a lot of times they're really long, these cables are, and they're over water, they're
over the woods.
And it just really is crazy.
I've never understood why people jump out of planes or jump off mountains.
That's not really something I want to do.
But before this trip, I always thought that I was afraid of heights.
But you know what I realized after I did it?
I'm not afraid of heights at all.
The heights didn't bother me.
You know what bothered me?
The fact that I had to put my safety and well-being in the hands of this 21-year-old kid, who
I'm pretty sure just smoked a joint behind the barn over there, and now he's tethering
me to a cable and saying, jump.
I had a problem with that.
Why?
Because it seemed really dangerous.
And I have been taking care of myself for a really long time.
And maybe you have too.
Just taking care of yourself, keeping yourself alive, making sure that whatever bad thing
happened to you before never gets a chance to happen to you again.
I remember a similar situation where I was on a plane, and I never used to like to fly.
Why?
Same reason.
I don't know the pilot.
I'm not flying the plane.
I'm going to put my well-being, I'm going to trust him and get on the plane and just
trust that he's going to take us 35,000 feet in the air in a metal tube that, to my mind,
how does this thing even fly in the first place?
Maybe you're just like me.
You're like, this doesn't make sense.
And so I didn't like it.
Every time I would get on a plane, because I have to fly for what I do, I would feel
a lot of anxiety.
And one day God just spoke to me.
I was sitting there.
I was buckled up, ready to take off.
And he said, hey, you know you're not on this plane, right?
And I was like, what?
He said, you're not on this plane.
And I said, I'm not?
And he said, no.
He said, you are in me.
You're in me.
He said, and nothing can harm you.
Nothing can remove you from me.
And that really powerfully changed my life.
He said, you've taken care of yourself for a really long time.
And you've done a good job, but you're going to have to let me take it from here.
And he's saying the same thing to you.
If you really want to have the
amazing life that you're seeing little glimpses of already as you start this course, you're
going to have to allow God to protect you.
You cannot continue to go forward in your life being self-defended.
You have to allow yourself to be God-defended.
It's very important.
And that includes all the things that you've done to mess stuff up.
I know a lot of times we think we have to lay in the bed that we made, we got to dig
ourselves out of the hole that we dug.
I get it.
I was like that too.
In fact, just a few years ago, I got myself into some really dumb circumstances.
I had made some mistakes.
I had gotten involved in some things that I shouldn't have gotten involved in because
I wasn't paying attention to all the red flags that were flapping in my face.
I was just driving on by, you know, dumb and happy, right?
And I would lay in bed at night and just wonder, how in the world am I going to fix this?
You know, I already love Jesus.
I was already a leader.
I was already a mentor, a coach.
You know, we make mistakes too.
How am I going to fix this?
How am I going to make this right?
So night after night, I would worry and worry and worry, how am I going to get myself out
of this?
And finally, one night, God was just like, hey, how long are you going to do this for?
What?
How long are you going to lay here and worry?
But God, I just don't know what to do.
I don't know how to get out of this situation.
He said, Jackie, who do you belong to?
And I said, I belong to you.
And he said, well, who do your problems belong to?
I had to think about that one for a second, because, you know, I already told you that
this was my mistake.
I made this mess.
And so we think, I made the mess, I got to clean it up.
And so I'm like, um, is this a trick question?
My problems belong to me.
And he said, no, if you belong to me, then your problems belong to me.
He said, and guess what?
I don't have any problems.
Boom.
Boom shakalaka.
We have to remember that.
If we belong to God, then everything that concerns us belongs to God.
And God doesn't have any problems.
God's not staying up at night worried.
Do you know that it says in the book of Psalms that God provides for his lovers even while
they're sleeping?
Woo.
That should get you excited.
That means you can work yourself to the bone on your own strength and never ever even make
a dent in what you could do.
If you just surrender to God and went to sleep, took a little nap and allow God to make a
way for you.
And so I believe that during this course, you're going to become more God defended than
you've ever been in your life.
And you know how we're going to start that?
We're going to start that with an activation during this heart check-in.
I love activations.
I do.
I feel like it helps you to move forward in the things that you're learning.
And so I have something called a Jesus cares board.
You know what it is?
It's just a big post-it note on the wall in my bedroom with little post-it notes all over
it.
And it has a scripture at the top.
First Peter 5-7.
If you're not familiar with that scripture, that scripture simply says, cast your care
upon me because I care for you.
And I take that seriously now because remember, God said I belong to him and everything that
concerns me, everything that I care about also belongs to him.
And so if I have an issue in my life that I can't fix, if there's a problem that I can't
solve, if there's something that I'm confused about and I can't figure it out, I don't know
which way to go.
I don't know what decision to make.
By the way, if you don't have peace about something, it's okay to not do anything.
It's okay to just sit still until you do have peace.
All right?
That's wise advice.
And so you know what I do?
I just write it on a little post-it note and I stick it on that big post-it note on my
wall.
That's what I do with it.
I'm releasing it from my hands into his hands and I'm telling him, hey, you got this.
I don't got this.
You got this.
And if there's anything that I need to do to help you to solve this problem, to rectify
this situation, if there's something that I need to do, then I'm trusting you to let
me know what my part is, but I'm allowing you to play your part now.
I am.
I'm giving you control in this situation.
And you know that those problems that I put on there, a lot of times they just disappear.
I don't even know how they disappear, but apparently they weren't a problem after all.
And then other things I continue to just pray over and continue to release to him and you
have no idea how freeing this is.
And I really want to encourage you to make this part of your lifestyle as well.
Just learning how to cast your care upon him, learning how to be God defended, learning
how to let him take care of you, learning how to depend on him because that is how he
created you.
He created you to depend on him, not on yourself.
All right.
I cannot wait to get started in understanding these hearts.
We're going to find out how they got broken in the first place.
Where all this bad information came from and how it got stuck there and how it's getting
in the way of us living this big, beautiful life that God created us to live.
And I'll meet you over there.