Alright, welcome to Supernatural Saturday. If you're new to Supernatural Saturday, this is the day where we lean into current prophetic realities as a community.
What is heaven saying to us today? What is heaven saying to us during this season of our community, of our movement, but also individually?
And so that is what we do on Saturdays. I am on location this Saturday. I am in Daytona Beach for a birthday party.
My twin niece and nephew turned 18 on Friday, and we are here to celebrate them.
And I'm going to talk about that a little bit, about just a few things that I think are really pertinent.
But before we do that, let's look to the Lord.
Father God, we're so thankful. We're so thankful that we are able to come together on this Resurrection weekend and remember what your Son did for us.
That he came, you sent him to us as a gift to the world to come and to sacrifice himself so that we would all be reunited to you together.
That he would be the firstborn among many brethren, and we are those brothers and sisters.
And so we thank you that you have reconciled us to yourself.
We thank you that we are now seated with Christ in heavenly places because of his sacrifice.
Today, as we wait for the Victory Resurrection morning tomorrow, we come into agreement with what happened on that cross.
We come into agreement with what was done for us and as us, Lord.
And this morning, we ask that you would lead us and guide us into a greater revelation of that for our own lives and for our families.
In Jesus' name, amen.
I think it's important when we talk about the Resurrection, when we talk about Easter, when we talk about, you know, the finished work of Calvary, that we remember that Jesus didn't just die for us.
Hebrews 6 tells us very clearly that he also died as us.
Go ahead and pause on that for a second.
I want you to think about that.
And the reason why it's important is because I heard, even though I had not really had my spiritual awakening yet, I hadn't had my real come to Jesus moment in my life yet.
When I was young, I heard about the finished work of the cross.
I heard about Calvary.
I heard about Jesus coming and dying for the sins of mankind.
I heard that.
But guess what?
It wasn't personalized to me.
When I heard that story as a young person, you know, in the context of Easter specifically, it didn't mean anything to me.
It didn't mean anything to me because it wasn't personalized.
And it's really easy, especially when you feel far away from God or you don't feel emotionally involved with God or Him emotionally involved with you.
Those are just stories.
Those are just stories that people tell, you know, about, you know, some sort of some sort of legend behind a holiday.
Right.
And it's like, OK, great.
Jesus died for the sins of the world.
But you don't personalize that.
That doesn't really have anything to do with your life.
If you even believe it's true.
So it's important for us this morning to pause and reflect that Jesus didn't just die for us because you can opt out of that.
You can opt out of that.
Well, he didn't die for me because, you know, what I've done is unforgivable or what's happened to me means that, you know, I'm not important or I'm insignificant to this story.
But he didn't just die for you.
He also died as you.
Each and every one of us, whether we like this idea or not, were born under a curse.
We were born into a counterfeit identity.
Think about it that way.
You were born into a counterfeit identity.
The heart in you was shrouded under the death clothes of sin.
You were born into it.
And I've had a front row seat.
And, you know, it's easy to forget what your children are like.
My youngest is 23 years old.
And it's easy to forget what they're like as babies.
But as a grandparent, I have a front row seat to twin 18 month olds.
And guess what?
They're mean to each other.
And they have been since they came out of the womb.
Are they sweet babies?
Yes, they're sweet babies.
But the innocence of children, when we're like, oh, babies are so innocent and they're so sweet, they're also born under a curse.
And if we don't teach them, if we don't train them in the way that they go, the way they should go in life, to share, to be kind, to be loving, if we don't impress upon them the kingdom and we don't show them by our example of what it looks like to be a Christ follower,
then they're going to grow up and be whatever the curse leads them to be.
That curse state is going to continue and continue and continue and continue.
My little 18-month-old granddaughter, when she was born.
He was about 13 months old, came right in front of me,
and just smacked her brother in the face
for no reason at all.
And I'm like, oh yeah, I see it, Lord, I see it.
I see the tendencies in the flesh, right?
Because this flesh is born cursed.
And so what happened on that resurrection day,
that Good Friday, Saturday, Sunday,
what happened on that is that Jesus did not just die
for you so that you can get into heaven someday.
He died as you.
He put to death the curse that was holding you hostage.
And when we step into that new life,
and that's why it's a new life experience,
it's a new birth experience.
When you receive Christ as your savior,
you're not just saying, okay, Jesus,
thank you for dying for me
so that I can get into heaven someday.
You're saying, I accept that you didn't just die for me
because you're the spotless lamb,
because you're the only sacrifice
that could end this curse of sin and death.
But because you died as me, now I can be born new.
I can be born, you were born from your mother's womb,
cursed, but you were born from the womb
of the finished work of the cross, redeemed.
Come on, y'all.
If we got ahold of that, it really could change everything.
And the reason why is because he was wounded
for our transgressions, bruised for our iniquities,
the chastisement of our peace was upon him,
and by his stripes we are healed.
But we don't fully understand that passage of scripture,
and part of the reason why is because we don't know
the actual language that it was written in.
There might be someone here on this call this morning
that speaks Hebrew, but most people don't.
And so we just take it at face value,
and I really wanna encourage you,
all of you, and myself, of course,
to understand that our English language,
and some of you might be native Spanish speakers,
or you might have a first primary language
that's not English, but this call is in English.
Most of us here are native English speakers.
When the Bible was translated into English,
it's not that it lost things in translation,
but some of the words that we understand in English
to mean something very one-faceted,
the actual Hebrew word that was translated
into that one-faceted word for us is very multi-faceted.
What I'm trying to say is that there's depth
in the word of God, there's depth.
You can't just take it at surface value.
And I know that we have these
Read the Bible in a Year programs,
and those are awesome, and I think it's great
for you to get the word in your heart,
and if you wanna be on one of those reading schedules,
and you just wanna accomplish that, that's great.
But in my heart, a lot of times we would be better off
to take one little passage of scripture,
maybe even one verse of scripture,
and meditate on it for months.
Meditate on it for months,
allow it to really get inside of you,
and the meaning behind it to really get inside of your heart,
to really get inside of your heart,
the true meaning behind it,
to really research it and go to the depths of it.
You know, take any really popular passage of scripture
that people love, like this one that I just quoted,
and if you really dug into it,
and you really meditated on it, what does that mean?
That means that to rehearse it over yourself,
to kind of chew on it every single day,
to declare it over yourself,
until you get the full meaning of it,
the full meaning of it, you make it your own,
you apply it to yourself.
So I'm gonna dig into this,
and I wanna talk about just being here at the beach too,
so hopefully I don't forget to do that,
because there's a lesson to be learned in that as well,
this morning, but let me just go ahead
and talk about just a little piece of this verse today.
Okay, Isaiah 53, five.
The Hebrew word, okay,
that's translated among his wounds and bruises,
among his bruises, that word bruise
actually is a word in Hebrew that I can't say,
I'll butcher it, I butcher English,
I'm definitely gonna butcher Hebrew,
but shabura, it means the blueness,
it means the blueness, right, the bruise is blue,
like when you get bruised, it's kind of blue,
that's why it's like, oh, I'm black and blue, right?
And that word, the root word, shabar,
means to join together, to unite, to have fellowship,
to become a couple even, right?
So it's on that cross, when he was bruised for us,
that we were united to him,
almost like in a marriage type of way, right?
It's very interesting that that is happening.
So we have become one in his suffering.
He suffered for us.
We were joined together to that suffering.
We were united to that.
Our iniquities, his purity,
we were united in that situation.
And that's where he died, not just for us,
but he died as us.
He died as us.
But the word peace is what I really wanted to focus on.
The chastisement of our peace was upon him.
And that word is the Hebrew word shalom.
And I oftentimes find myself saying this
when I'm praying over people, I will pray shalom over them.
The word shalom means to devour the chaos
and confusion of a situation.
So if I'm praying over someone's body,
even for healing, I'll pray shalom over it.
Whatever chaos and confusion is happening in their body,
in the cells in their body,
that shalom would come, right?
To the devour of chaos and confusion.
But that word means more than that.
It means peace, prosperity, wholeness, success, well-being.
And so I wanna focus on that for the majority of this call
that not only did Jesus die for you,
but he also died as you.
For what reason?
So that you can go to heaven someday and have eternal life?
Yes, that's one of the many reasons.
So that you can have your rightful place in eternity.
Okay, so that you can be a son and daughter of God
on this earth.
Not so that you can go to heaven someday only,
but that you can have heaven invading earth
on your behalf through you daily.
That's one reason.
But what does it look like
when heaven invades earth through you?
It means that you have a life that is marked by peace,
by that shalom, by prosperity, by wholeness,
by success, by well-being.
All of these things have come
through the finished work of the cross.
I know a lot of Christians from different denominations
who are just waiting for that payday.
What Jesus paid for on the cross,
they're waiting to receive that someday
when they go to heaven.
That's what they're waiting to receive.
They can't wait.
They're like, oh, you know,
someday when we all get to heaven,
what a day of rejoicing that will be, right?
When we all see Jesus,
we're gonna sing and shout the victory.
That's not how this works, y'all.
My grandma used to sing all those songs.
I got more to go to heaven for that I had yesterday.
All of those things are a future payday
of the finished work of the cross.
You guys, the finished work of the cross is finished.
And this might be, you know, for you, Sunday School 101,
but we don't live like it's true.
I'm talking to myself.
We don't live like it's true.
We don't.
We don't live like it's a finished work.
We live like it's an unfinished work.
One day when we get to heaven, we'll be healed.
We'll be whole.
We'll have all the things that Jesus died to give us.
Guys, the things that Jesus died to give us
is the garden you before the curse.
And I say this and I've said this at churches
and I know that it's not necessarily
something that is widely received,
but we will contend for things like healing
because we believe that Jesus died to give us those things.
But we won't contend for marriage.
And yet marriage is part of the whole garden story,
isn't it?
Isn't that what happened in the garden?
That's what my Bible says.
My Bible says that in the garden, there was just a man.
There was just a vessel, one vessel,
which contained the masculine and feminine of God.
And God's like, this is not good.
There needs to be two of them.
They need to be separated.
The masculine and feminine need to exist in their own forms.
Why?
So they can come together in unity.
So they can come together in family.
So that they can procreate.
So that they can look like the holy family of heaven,
Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
Three but one, right?
And the family looks like that as well.
That's the whole oneness mystery of marriage.
Two separate becoming one.
You see this?
But when we talk about what Jesus died to give us,
we don't include that.
He's putting everything right.
Everything that went wrong through the curse,
he's putting right on the finished work of the cross.
He's giving us shalom.
He's giving us access once again to what?
To peace, prosperity, wholeness, success.
well-being. Part of that word wholeness has to do with reconnecting you to your original design.
Guys, everything that happened in the garden was part of OG design. It's original design.
It's God's original intent for you. And so that means that when you think about the finished work
of the cross and what Jesus died and paid for for you, you can also think of marriage.
That goes against a lot of modern theology, doesn't it? The modern theology of the gift
of singleness and, oh, you know, maybe some of you are going to get married and maybe you're not.
There is no doubt that there are people on this earth that have a very different type of assignment.
It does not include any kind of domestic life.
Any kind of domestic life. It doesn't. They have a different refining process
that they've been chosen for, and I will tell you they are few and far between.
There are very few of them.
Okay, very, very few of them. But what has happened because of sin and because of the
curse, and remember the curse that Jesus broke on the cross, because of that and because
oftentimes we realign ourselves to a broken curse rather than to the finished work,
we take on ideas and even theologies that will allow us to stay in our pain. Am I right?
I will tell you this, friends. I would rather spend every breathing moment of my life on this earth
trying my best to align myself to the finished work of the cross than to just to sit down and
accept a counterfeit theology because it's easier and it's less disappointing.
When my mom laid in that ICU bed four years ago,
till she took her last breath and even kind of afterwards,
I was waiting for her to be raised up.
You might say, well, are you disappointed because it didn't happen? Instead, you know,
she had a greater resurrection. I know that she had the greater resurrection. She went to heaven.
I wanted her to have the lesser resurrection because I'm selfish and I wanted her to stay here.
But at the same time, because by his stripes, we were healed, because he said that it says in the
word of God that all the sick came to him and were healed because of the theologies of
Jesus that I have accepted, the words of Christ that I've accepted. I sat there every single day
sat there every single day and I prayed into agreement with heaven and fully expected and
wanted there to be a earth healing. And when there wasn't, I accepted that and I accepted that,
you know, that there was a better way for my mom. And I walked on from there, but not a moment
before that. You understand that, right? And I don't regret one second of it.
And guess what else? At her celebration of life, there were sick among us and we laid hands on
them and prayed for them. But wait a second, that didn't work for your mom. So why do you
still believe that? Because I believe it. I believe that Jesus died, that we could be free
from dis-ease and disease in this life. That is not part of the life that we are meant to live.
That is not part of the life that we are meant to live on this earth.
And so can we apply that to marriage?
Can we apply that to family? The word is very clear that,
you know, God places a solitary in family in the book of Proverbs.
What does that tell me? That means that in our natural state, in our divine state,
in our original state that Jesus sacrificed to give back to us,
there is no scenario in which you are created to be alive and alone.
You have been created first and foremost for family, for community, and I also believe for
marriage. So why are so many people single? Because there's a lot of hurt in the world.
There's a lot of people still operating under a broken curse. A lot of people.
And we do people to save. We do people to save. We do people to save.
And we do people to service when we say, oh, you know, you heard about
Jesus, everything's better now, or you met Jesus, everything's better now. There's a process.
Jesus said himself, if you continue in my words, if you continue in my words,
you will know the truth and it will make you free.
Why will you know the truth if you continue in the words of Jesus? Because he is the truth.
And the more that you continue in his words, friends, the more that you know him and the
more free you become. It's not about the more you'll know the Bible. He was being very specific
about, hey, if you continue in my words, you will know me. And what does he say so many times on
earth? He says, if you've known me, you know the father. So if you want to know the father and the
son, then go into your New Testament and focus on the words in red.
Focus on the red letter words. After this resurrection celebration tomorrow,
I want to encourage all of you to focus on the red letter words.
Read them in several translations. I know a lot of you know them, even know them by heart.
Read them in several translations. Take something that Jesus said. If you want some place to start,
start at the Sermon on the Mount, which is really the yoke of Jesus.
As a rabbi, all rabbis had yokes. Their teachings, the set of teachings that rabbis taught,
because all of them taught different sets of teachings from the Torah,
all of them taught different sets of teachings that they really focused on,
that they were known for. The Sermon on the Mount would be Jesus' yoke. And that's why he said,
all you that are weary and heavy laden with what? With the law, with these yokes of all
these other rabbis that are oppressing you. I have come to what? To take that off of you,
because my yoke is easy and my burden is light. He was saying, come and listen to my teachings.
They will take that heavy yoke of the bondage of the law off of you.
So if you want to be under Jesus' yoke with him, then go to the red letters and study Jesus.
Because if you know his word, his words, if you continue in his word, you will know him.
Because he says, you will know the truth and it will make you free. And he is the truth.
He is the truth. And guess who will help you? The spirit of truth. If you read the words of Jesus
with the help of Holy Spirit, you will know Jesus better and better and better and better and better
and better. And guess what will happen then? You will become one of his true disciples.
People will see Jesus in you. One of the best compliments that I have ever received in my life
is someone who says, I can tell you've been with Jesus. I can tell you've been hanging out with
Jesus. Other people have admonished me and said, you know, Jackie, you have a mercy gift and it's
a little too strong sometimes. You know, sometimes you, you know, you need, you shouldn't be so
merciful. What? Now I understand when you don't have boundaries and you have a mercy gift, you
get yourself in a lot of trouble. It is true. It's true. And so we want to be careful. If you
have a mercy gift as well, that is great. But if you don't have boundaries, you definitely can
hurt yourself with your own mercy gift. And so let's make sure that we're having mercy on ourselves
and not just others. Very important. Very, very important stuff, right?
So Jesus, we are so thankful that you didn't just die for us, but as us and help us to understand
that you are inviting us into knowing you more intimately,
knowing you not through the lens of fear, not through the lens of religion,
legalism, but through the lens of love. Holy Spirit, we're asking that you would come
and help us specifically in this area.
Teach us the ways of Jesus. Help us be furthered into knowing you more intimately.
His words and His teachings and fully understand them and not just understand them for a bygone
era, but understand what they mean and how we could apply them in this modern life that we live.
How can we apply them not just for ourselves, but the laws of love for others in this modern
era in which we have been matched with? What does it look like? What do those scriptures look like
in 2024?
Blessed are the merciful for they shall obtain mercy.
Blessed are the pure of heart because they will see God. What does this mean for us now?
Help us in Jesus name. I want to challenge all of you to do that and you don't have to start
you don't have to start the Sermon on the Mount, you don't have to start with the Beatitudes,
you can start wherever you want, but let's celebrate Jesus from Easter on by really
getting to know Him better. Can we? Can we do that? I feel like it will be life-changing for
all of us. All right, so I want to transition into talking about being here, you know, Daytona
Beach, you know, when you think of beaches, this is not the beach that you think of and you're like,
wow, that's amazing, you know, not like Rosemary Beach or Destin or, you know, some beach in the
south of France. I mean, Daytona is objectively a little raggedy, right? I would say it.
My older brother brought the twins over here because it was close to where they live in Orlando
and everything else was super, super, super crowded and so this is where we came. But still,
even if it is a raggedy beach, y'all, it is still the ocean and it is still majestic,
right? It is majestic, it is beautiful and so we're staying here at, you know, a place that he
got for us at the Hilton, all of us, the whole family's here, so it's a good time. But we were
at the front desk checking in and he got a block of rooms for all of us and they wanted to keep us
together on the same floor. They couldn't though because they had overbooked and so they had to
move one of us to the eighth floor and instead of having just a regular room, if that person was
willing to leave the group and go to the eighth floor, they would have a ocean view room. Come on,
y'all, they'd have an ocean view room, right? And so we were chosen as the people because we're the
only couple amongst the group, me and my husband, and the only other beds that were available was
one bed, a king bed, not two double queens. And so we were chosen to get the upgrade and go to the
eighth floor to have the ocean view room. You got a door, you open it, you can look at the ocean.
All right, that's all wonderful. That sounds great. It's like, woo,
winter, winter chicken dinner, right? It's incredible. But y'all, is it? It's beautiful
looking at the ocean, hearing the waves. It's all really nice. But guess what? The ocean doesn't shut
off at nighttime. It doesn't. So when you're trying to sleep, the ocean is not partying.
It is with its waves and its cute little, you know, ocean self out here, just
burning up all night long. And it's loud. So we're turning up the heat or the air in our room,
trying to drown out the loud ocean. All right, and then at the butt crack of dawn, people,
people, they want the ocean. That's what they're here for. So what are they doing?
They're out on the beach, blasting their music at six o'clock in the morning,
out here partying with the ocean. I'm trying to sleep. I just want to get some sleep.
I've not played volleyball for like 15 years. But on this trip, I was asked to play some sand
volleyball, not just regular volleyball, y'all, sand volleyball. All right, sand volleyball.
You know how that uses every muscle in your entire body. When I came back to the room last
night, after two hours of sand volleyball, I felt like I was 150 years old. Every single muscle in
my body hurt muscles that I have not seen since childhood. I didn't even know they still lived
here. Right? It was not a good thing. And all I wanted to do was get in bed and go to sleep.
But no, the ocean was partying.
It was up all night, windy out there, big huge waves and then you guys, it's like six
o'clock in the morning, some crazy people decided that they were going to get a megaphone
and get a whole bunch of carnival music and they were going to have an Easter egg roll
on the beach.
I was hitting my husband, I was like hitting him next to me, I'm like, turn off that music,
why is that your phone, you have an alarm set, what is that, why are you have that music
going, he's like, and he thinks it's himself.
So he gets up, he starts checking all of his devices, he's like, yeah, yeah, I'll turn
it off, I'll turn it off, he's half away because that dude could sleep in a hurricane.
Look he would have been sleeping with Jesus on the boat, him and Jesus would have both
been asleep, it doesn't matter how bad that storm is, my husband, as soon as he gets on
any vehicle, a boat, a plane, a train, he's immediately snoring, it's the most ridiculous
thing you've ever seen and also an amazing talent.
But he gets up and he tries to find it and then he looks out the window, he goes, oh
no babe, he goes, it's not me, it's this.
And why am I telling all of you this?
Because whatever you think would be the most amazing thing in the world is going to have
parts of it that you don't like.
And I want you really to apply that to your love stories.
The thing that you've been dreaming of, objectively I think that it would be amazing to stay on
the beach, in fact I've thought in the past that I would even love, wouldn't it be great
to have a house on the beach?
Well after this trip, not so much because the ocean, I'd never go to sleep and I'm not
one of those people that can just put in earplugs and go to sleep, if it's loud, I'm just going
to be up.
So some of the things that I thought that I wanted and I thought would be fun or nice,
guess what?
They're not exactly how I expected them to be.
It's so great, I'm so thankful for the experience, but it's not exactly what I imagined.
And what am I learning?
I'm learning that there are some aspects of the quote unquote dream that I actually in
reality don't really like that much and probably would have wanted to do again.
So I called the front desk this morning and I said, hey, I said now that everyone is leaving
for the weekend, Sunday, tomorrow, this last night, did you have anything open back up
on the fifth floor where the rest of the family is?
I said, preferably without an ocean view.
And she's like, oh really?
She goes, well, we have a roof view and I was like, I'll take it.
I'll take that roof view.
She's like, yeah, most people don't prefer that.
I said, yeah, I'm not most people.
I want that roof.
Give me that roof view, that quiet roof that goes to sleep at night, that doesn't party
all night long.
I'll take that roof.
Some of you guys need to understand that these things that you've been dreaming about in
the opposite sex are not necessarily things that you would like up close, personal and
in real time.
And that is why it's really important that you meet a variety of people because whatever
it is that you thought that you wanted, you might not actually want.
You might be happier with a roof view.
Why?
Because we value different things.
I can go outside and I'm going to after this call and I can look at the ocean all day long.
I don't need to see it from my room.
And when I go to sleep at night, I can go to sleep in a peaceful, quiet room that's
not facing the ocean.
I can kind of have my cake and eat it too, right?
So I want you to think about that with Holy Spirit.
What are some things on my list that I need to check that out?
They don't do a lot of this and they should do more of this, but when kids are in high
school and my niece and nephew, they're going to graduate next year, they just turned 18.
They were held back when they were really young because they started school early.
And so they're turning 18 now and they're going to go their senior year next school year.
But trying things out as a young person is super important.
I've never understood the idea of us having kids go straight from school to college and
choose what they want to do for the rest of their life and not only choose it, but put
a lot of money down on it.
It makes more sense to give them an opportunity to go and intern and co-op with all different
types of professions.
Doesn't that make more sense?
So that they can see what those professions look like up close and personal.
When I was a kid, I wanted to be a lawyer, but specifically wanted to be a lawyer because
of L.A. Law, the TV show.
Guess what?
That's not what being a lawyer looks like.
Being a lawyer for the most part is super boring and I wouldn't have liked it.
It's a lot of paperwork and it's super boring and I wouldn't have enjoyed doing that.
And so I really want to encourage you to start testing out some of the things that you think
that your life would be so much better if you could have those things.
Start testing that out.
What does that look like?
Because some of the things that we think we want, and I'm not just talking about the characteristics
in the opposite sex and in a romantic possibility, but some of the things that we think we want
so much in life are things that are based on some broken and wounded part of us.
And if we could only have this, whatever it is, X, Y, or Z, then that part of us would
be healed.
But guess what?
That we can have wholeness from the finished work of the cross.
We can have wholeness from the finished work of the cross.
Isaiah 53.5 in the Passion Translation says, but it was because of our rebellious deeds
that he was pierced and because of our sins that he was crushed.
He endured the punishment that made us completely whole and in his wounding, we found our healing.
Nothing is missing and nothing is broken, friends.
Shalom.
Shalom to you.
You're not waiting for some outward opportunity to heal the inward you.
We can walk in wholeness now.
And what will happen is those outward opportunities will only reinforce that you're healed.
They reinforce it.
They make that healing stronger.
They show you that you're healed.
How many of you would be honest and say that after you did the heart work, you actually
saw that healing in real time when you were faced with situations and you realized you
didn't react the way that you used to?
What is that?
That's just the evidence of healing.
And the reason why it's important that we adopt the idea that we can be made whole and
that we have been made whole by what Jesus did for us is because when we have these opportunities,
we will be able to receive these things at face value instead of through some sort of
rose-colored glass.
You guys know what I'm saying?
If you're not looking for a man or a woman to complete you or heal you, then you're able
to accept what they bring to the table, good, bad, and ugly.
Because remember, everyone's going to bring stuff to the table.
You're able to accept that when you're not looking, you're not sifting through the stuff
that they bring to the table, trying to find something in that pile to heal yourself with.
But you're able to come to each other in process and it becomes true that we're whole in Christ,
completed in assignment through marriage, and then healed in family.
What is that healed in family part of it?
It is that we get to deeper and deeper and deeper and deeper understanding of the healing
that Jesus did in us and for us at the cross through the scenarios that come through family.
Just making sense?
It's important because otherwise you're going to wait your whole life to have this opportunity
to be in a room that faces the beach.
And then you're going to realize once you're there that I don't really like this that much.
I don't really want this that much.
You can apply that to whatever it is that you've been pining away after.
And you can start to understand your own heart and your own mind to a place where I believe
you can know what it is that you really want and not what some broken heart wants
in order to feel special.
It saved a lot of time, guys.
It would save a lot of time.
Going back to the analogy of kids being able to test things out after they get out of high school,
before they have to go to college and learn all about one thing that once they start doing it,
they probably may not even like.
I've worked a lot of.
crazy jobs in my life like serving and retail.
And I was always surrounded by people
that had bachelor's degrees,
sometimes even master's degrees and PhDs.
What were they doing working in a restaurant serving tables?
They didn't like whatever they got their degree in.
They went to work and did it
and realized that they didn't like it
or that I didn't make enough money
to cover their student loans
or whatever the reason was.
And so I want to ask all of you
when it comes to your love lives,
try some new things out.
Try some new people out.
Go out with people that, you know,
wouldn't make your short list before
as far as like maybe what they do
or where they come from or what they look like
or the color of skin they have
or their native language or it doesn't matter what it is.
I cannot tell you how many of our love stories
start with the phrase,
this person was not my type.
So many of them.
And so I really felt in my heart to reinforce those ideas.
I know that we teach this,
we teach this in your love story accelerator,
teach this in a lot of the dating calls,
the coaching Ask Jackie calls that I do.
But I want to reinforce it today
because number one, when Jesus died on that cross,
he reunited all of us as a family.
We're all family now.
And so no matter where you come from
or where, you know, your ancestors have come from,
we're all going to the same place now
and that's called being equally yoked.
Doesn't matter where you come from,
all that matters is where you're going.
And if we're going the same direction
then we can travel together, right?
And who does that apply to?
That applies to people who have accepted
and received what Jesus did for them.
Guys, you don't have any business
messing around with someone who doesn't have that.
They haven't accepted Jesus as their savior.
They're not a Christ follower.
And they don't have to be your brand of Christ follower.
They don't have to have followed him
as long as you have followed him.
They don't have to know the scriptures
the same way that you know them
or to the degree that you know them.
Some of y'all could be like theologians.
You could be Bible school teachers.
And just remember, needing to have
another Bible school teacher type person be your spouse
might be the equivalent of wanting a room
that faces the ocean.
That might not be what you think it is.
Because I'm gonna tell you, in a man,
and my husband is very wise.
He knows the Lord very well.
And he actually used to be a Bible school teacher.
But I will tell you this, that's why we fit
because I'm not and I wasn't and I didn't.
And I'll tell you that when I want him to do something
I don't want him to quote me a Bible verse about it.
I want him to fix the door or whatever.
I don't want him to write me a song about it.
But he's an amazing worship gift in the Bible,
in the Bible, in the body of Christ.
They used to, his name is David and he was named aptly
because he can sing and he can play the instruments
and he can do the things.
But when it comes to being married, I like that about him.
But that's not what I like best about him.
I like what I like best about him
is that he's a good partner.
And when it's time to get stuff done,
he knows how to do stuff.
Like for instance, when the snowpocalypse hit Austin
and all the pipes in that city on the houses
are not buried far underground
because guess what?
It doesn't snow there.
It's not cold there at all.
It hadn't snowed in 36 years when this happened.
And I blame us.
You know, we moved from Ohio
and we were in the weather protection program
but then the weather found us in Austin, Texas.
And it blew that city up.
They don't even have salt in that city, y'all.
They don't even know what to do with snow and ice.
It's just crazy.
And my husband, so our pipes broke
and water's just everywhere gushing out, you know,
and all the plumbers in the city were tied up obviously
because everyone's pipes were broken.
And my husband was out there fixing our pipes.
I kept looking out the window at him.
I'm like, dang, that's hot.
Wow, he's out there fixing this problem.
And he knows how, he knows how to do it.
How does he know how?
I don't know.
Is that man school?
I'm not sure.
I don't know, as far as I knew in the first, you know, 15 years of our marriage before
this happened, I had never seen him fix a pipe, but somehow he just knew how to do it.
And it was just amazing.
So I like that in a partner.
What do you like in a partner?
Make a list and then check it out.
Check it out, meet some people that have some stuff on that list and see if that is really
what you like.
Is it really what you like?
Is it really what you need?
Because my Bible says that God knows what you have need of before you even ask.
And maybe it might be what you think you need in this season of your life, but also is it
what you need where you're going, where you're headed someday?
Because remember, we want to be partnered with people that can't just be partnered with
us in this season, but also in all the seasons to come.
All the seasons to come.
So remember, friends, the finished work of the cross doesn't just have to do with your
healing.
It doesn't just have to do with your salvation, your sozo, your shalom.
It has to do also with your relationships.
It has to do with putting us back into alignment with God's original intent and our original
design.
And his original intent for us is that we would live in families.
Come on, y'all.
We would live in families.
We would live in marriages and families.
is the random outlier that's called to a different ministry and assignment than that in the day
and age that we live in.
But you guys, that only happened because of the curse.
You know that, right?
It only happened because of the curse.
People having these ministry assignments where, you know, they're missionaries and they don't
take anyone with them, like the Paul's of the world.
That wouldn't be a thing without the curse, right?
And those people just want what they want.
That's it.
They don't.
They don't want.
They're not sitting around me and like, oh, I wish that I had a different assignment.
I wish that God didn't call me to this.
I would love to be married and have a family, but no, it's God's will that I be alone.
That is not what these people are like.
The evidence that you want to partner tells me that you have been created to partner.
Now, that being said, I will tell you that there has been a recent word, a prophetic
word that God gave me that I released in a couple different places already that where
God was talking about this harvest that's coming.
Throw out the net, right?
Pull in all the fish, so to speak, and let me sort them out.
And in that net and in that harvest, I believe there are, I believe that God said to me that
there are a lot of partners for our community.
A lot of the single people that have been waiting for partners, their partners are coming
in this evangelistic harvest that's happening right now.
So if you do the math with me, that means that the person that you partner with would
be a new believer.
And so my question to you is, are you willing to do that?
Are you willing to do that?
And here's something that I want to say to you.
When I met Jesus at 22, I was radically converted and I never turned back around ever again.
Do you believe in radical conversions of people or do you believe that they have to kind of
test it out for years and years before you can trust that they're really going to follow
Jesus?
There is a type of conversion that happens to people where they never turn back around
to their old ways.
And you might be like, well, Jackie, you know, you were just a good person already.
No, I wasn't.
I was a thief.
I was a foster kid.
I stole stuff to survive all kinds of different things.
And guess what?
When I met Jesus, I never stole another thing ever again in my life.
And that's been 28 years again.
The Bible says that, you know, if you were a thief, steal no more.
Doesn't it?
Just so you know, a lot of people that steal are not criminals.
A lot of people that steal, steal out of necessity because they're poor or homeless.
or destitute.
I was also a liar.
I was a liar all of my life
from the time that I started getting sexually abused
by my grandfather at three years old, I became a liar.
Lying was a necessity for survival for me.
Secrecy.
And guess what?
I'm one of the most honest people that you'll ever meet.
Kind of to a fault.
My pendulum swung a little bit too far the other way.
If I even smell deception, I don't like it.
I don't even like to do things that I think are dishonest,
like park in a parking spot that is meant for somebody else
and just be like, oh, I didn't see it.
Because I've been with people that are like,
oh, you know, it's fine.
Like, no, it's not, it's dishonest.
So I say all that to say this,
that when you truly meet Jesus,
you become a new creature in Christ.
And I guess I want to tell you that
because I want to give you an example
of what it looks like to be truly converted
so that you understand that the people
that are coming in this harvest,
they can also have that new birth experience
and you don't have to judge them by their past.
You can deal with them from their future to their present
instead of from their past to their present
because they're seated with Christ in heavenly places.
And I feel like that's a really important word
for some of you because some of you
are going to have the opportunity,
just like we've been talking about today,
to test this out in real life really soon.
You're going to have the opportunity to test this out
because you're going to come across people.
And I'm just going to be honest with you.
I love all of you, you know, and I'm here to coach you.
And, you know, we're here to help you.
But some of y'all as religious as you can be,
I ain't judging you
because I was discipled by the Pentecostals
and you can't really get more religious than that.
Those people don't even think women
are allowed to wear pants.
Seriously, murdering someone and wearing makeup,
same thing, going to hell.
So I know I've been exposed to lots and lots and lots
and lots of religion, but you know what?
Deep inside my heart, it never sat right with me.
Just never really felt like that's who God was.
I didn't feel like he was like this big,
mean judge in the sky waiting to just slam you
every time you did something
outside of his quote unquote will.
There was something inside of me
that just said, that's not true.
And what was it?
That was Holy Spirit, the Spirit of truth,
leading and guiding me into all truth,
helping me to continue in the teachings of Jesus.
And that's why I want you guys to start studying Jesus
from this Easter, this resurrection day on.
I want you to study it.
I want you to get in it.
I want you to ask Holy Spirit to help you to understand
what the nature of Jesus is,
because some people will use the words of Jesus,
the words that are written and read to hurt people
because they have the words of Jesus,
but they don't have the heart of Jesus.
And this world needs to see Jesus.
It needs to see Jesus.
And the only Jesus it's ever gonna see is you and me.
And I'm gonna tell you, because I'm married
and I've been married for 17 years,
the person that you're gonna have to show Jesus to
more than anybody else in your entire life
is your partner and your children.
And if you're not ready to do that,
then you're not ready to be married.
I've had to forgive David more than anyone
I've ever had to forgive in my entire life.
And not because he's some evil, bad man,
but because when you live in close proximity like that,
you're gonna offend each other right and left,
especially if you're coming into the marriage
with a heart that's already been offended a lot
and already has a lot of bruised and broken places.
You know that old saying that says, don't go to bed angry.
We don't even go an hour angry.
It's nothing about going the whole day
and making sure you make up
before you go to sleep at night.
No, we keep a very, very short list of our offenses.
We talk things out, we talk things out pretty quickly.
Hey, what you just did hurt my feelings.
Oh, it did, okay.
Why?
Hey, I don't like it.
My husband just started hormone replacement.
You guys, he's given himself testosterone shots.
Don't tell him I said that,
because maybe I shouldn't.
I'm not sure.
This is where my filter, this is very confusing.
But all of you guys over 50,
you should give it a shot
because dude is losing weight
and he's got more energy than I've ever seen him.
All right.
But it is testosterone.
So he's been a little, you know,
a little bit like a bro lately.
Been a little bit bro-ish lately,
a little frat boy-ish lately
in the way that he's a her, rah, rah, rah.
And I'm like, excuse me, sir.
I will kill you in your sleep
and make it look like an accident.
All right.
Because if you want to keep on taking
your little magic shots,
you're going to act better.
And then of course, we both start laughing about it.
Really enjoying and loving your spouse,
but really enjoying them
and being friends with them
is 100% necessary for a good marriage, you guys.
All right.
So that should be on the top of your qualities list.
Someone who has, you know,
good rebound rate from offense,
you know, someone who has a good sense of humor,
you know, someone who you actually like.
Very important stuff.
So I really feel like that's what God wants us
to take away from this today,
is that, you know, we have an assignment.
And in order to know that assignment,
we have to really know what happened for us on that cross,
what we were reconnected to,
what we can have now as a result of it,
not in heaven someday, but here on earth,
but also to be able to know Jesus,
to be able to know God,
to be able to know Jesus,
not just his words, but his heart,
so that we can keep that going.
What Jesus did didn't end with him.
He said it was finished, but guess what?
It gets finished through us.
Greater than these things will you do
because I go to my father.
And you guys, if there's any greater than
in this day and age that we live in, it's love.
It's not better miracles.
It's not better dead raisings.
It's love.
If we're still able to love after everything
that we've experienced in this life,
that is a miracle.
And that is really the only miracle
that people need to see now.
And they're gonna see it through you.
They're gonna see it through your future marriages.
They're gonna see it through the children that you raise.
People come to me all the time.
Your children are amazing.
Wow, your children are so kind.
Your children are so gracious.
Wow, you must be so proud.
I'm gonna cry.
I am so proud because guess what?
Those children come from a broken,
but mended and blended family.
And they still turned out like that.
So for all of you that have kids,
don't let the enemy tell you that,
even if your kids are acting a little crazy right now,
I believe that God has kinsmen
redeeming relationships for you.
I believe that God is going to give you what you need,
not just what you want
and also what your children need,
not just what they want.
So that someday when they're adults,
people will come to you amazed
at how amazing your children are.
And I release that over you.
David and I are not special, okay?
We're just showing everyone who's been divorced
and remarried what is possible
through the power of the finished work of the cross
and the ministry of Holy Spirit and laid down lives.
So Father, we thank you for today.
We ask that you would just take everything
that is from heaven
and that you would help get it planted in our hearts.
And I pray that you would water it quickly,
that you would give a quick increase to it.
Help us to be ready for whatever's coming.
Help us to let go of the things that we don't really need.
And they aren't really things that we would want.
And help show us and highlight to us
what it is that we really need
and what we really want
if we were operating in our most authentic selves.
Let us go from this place.
Let us represent you well in the earth.
When people see us, they see our Father.
Help us to understand not just the words,
but the heart of your son.
In Jesus name, amen.
I love y'all.
Have a supernatural Saturday,
and I'll see you soon.