WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.640 --> 00:00:03.520 All right, welcome to Supernatural Saturday. 2 00:00:03.520 --> 00:00:05.840 Today is going to be a very unpredictable 3 00:00:05.840 --> 00:00:07.360 Supernatural Saturday, 4 00:00:07.360 --> 00:00:11.040 because I have twin 18-month-old grandchildren at my house, 5 00:00:11.040 --> 00:00:14.440 and their mom and dad stayed at a hotel last night 6 00:00:14.440 --> 00:00:16.960 in downtown Austin because they had a wedding, 7 00:00:16.960 --> 00:00:18.680 which is why they're in town, 8 00:00:18.680 --> 00:00:23.320 and Nona and Papa were on sleep duty, 9 00:00:23.320 --> 00:00:25.840 and of course, the babies didn't sleep. 10 00:00:25.840 --> 00:00:26.680 They didn't sleep. 11 00:00:26.680 --> 00:00:29.440 They were pretty much up and down all night, 12 00:00:29.480 --> 00:00:31.160 and so now they're pretty cranky, 13 00:00:31.160 --> 00:00:33.320 and Papa is out there blowing bubbles, 14 00:00:33.320 --> 00:00:35.400 trying to keep them entertained, so we'll see. 15 00:00:35.400 --> 00:00:36.680 We'll see what happens this morning, 16 00:00:36.680 --> 00:00:40.440 but it's a perfect segue to today's topic. 17 00:00:40.440 --> 00:00:41.880 So if you're new to Supernatural Saturday, 18 00:00:41.880 --> 00:00:45.560 if you're brand new to last year's single program, welcome. 19 00:00:45.560 --> 00:00:47.720 This is the day where we lean into 20 00:00:47.720 --> 00:00:50.080 what is heaven saying to us? 21 00:00:50.080 --> 00:00:52.000 What does God want us to know? 22 00:00:52.000 --> 00:00:54.200 What are the current prophetic realities 23 00:00:54.200 --> 00:00:56.040 of the unseen realm? 24 00:00:56.040 --> 00:00:58.180 Now, there's stuff all around us that we can all see. 25 00:00:58.180 --> 00:00:59.820 We all know our own circumstances. 26 00:00:59.820 --> 00:01:02.460 We know the facts of our life, right? 27 00:01:02.460 --> 00:01:04.620 What's going on in our life that is fact, 28 00:01:04.620 --> 00:01:08.340 but this is the day that we lean into truth, God's truth. 29 00:01:08.340 --> 00:01:10.220 God's truth always trumps our fact, 30 00:01:10.220 --> 00:01:12.540 and there's always something more happening 31 00:01:12.540 --> 00:01:14.180 than what we can see. 32 00:01:14.180 --> 00:01:15.580 One of my favorite things to say 33 00:01:15.580 --> 00:01:18.380 that Holy Spirit told me a long time ago 34 00:01:18.380 --> 00:01:21.180 is what you see is not what you get. 35 00:01:21.180 --> 00:01:22.460 That's a famous saying, right? 36 00:01:22.460 --> 00:01:24.740 What you see is what you get, 37 00:01:24.740 --> 00:01:27.820 but one day, Holy Spirit came alongside and said, 38 00:01:27.900 --> 00:01:30.100 what you see is not what you get. 39 00:01:30.100 --> 00:01:32.900 What you say is what you get. 40 00:01:32.900 --> 00:01:35.480 And so it's about what you're coming into agreement with. 41 00:01:35.480 --> 00:01:38.180 What is the higher agreement that you can come into 42 00:01:38.180 --> 00:01:40.620 in your life today? 43 00:01:40.620 --> 00:01:42.900 And that is what Supernatural Saturday is all about. 44 00:01:42.900 --> 00:01:44.460 So the grandbabies being here 45 00:01:44.460 --> 00:01:45.800 and everything kind of being chaotic 46 00:01:45.800 --> 00:01:49.240 is a perfect introduction to today's topic, 47 00:01:49.240 --> 00:01:51.460 what God has been putting on my heart, 48 00:01:51.460 --> 00:01:53.240 and that is counting the cost. 49 00:01:55.060 --> 00:01:57.260 The book of Luke talks about Jesus 50 00:01:57.700 --> 00:02:00.540 telling a parable about counting the cost. 51 00:02:00.540 --> 00:02:02.540 And it's not just about a building project, 52 00:02:02.540 --> 00:02:05.740 although that is the analogy that he is using. 53 00:02:05.740 --> 00:02:07.420 Who would start to build something 54 00:02:07.420 --> 00:02:10.380 unless they knew they could finish it, right? 55 00:02:10.380 --> 00:02:13.740 That is really the gist of the story. 56 00:02:13.740 --> 00:02:17.540 And so this is what we do here in last year's single program. 57 00:02:17.540 --> 00:02:20.660 We want to help you to be able to sustain 58 00:02:20.660 --> 00:02:25.660 what it is that you are desiring to build in your life. 59 00:02:25.820 --> 00:02:28.940 Okay, whether that is friendships or community, 60 00:02:28.940 --> 00:02:32.700 obviously marriage is the reason why all of you are here. 61 00:02:32.700 --> 00:02:34.740 And so can you sustain it? 62 00:02:34.740 --> 00:02:36.520 Have you counted the cost? 63 00:02:36.520 --> 00:02:39.760 Do you have what it takes to not just, you know, 64 00:02:39.760 --> 00:02:44.760 get to a certain place of finish, completeness 65 00:02:44.780 --> 00:02:47.860 with the building project, with the relationship, 66 00:02:47.860 --> 00:02:50.980 with the meet cute, you met him and you met her, 67 00:02:50.980 --> 00:02:52.640 and now you're in a relationship. 68 00:02:52.640 --> 00:02:54.580 But do you have what it takes 69 00:02:54.580 --> 00:02:56.580 to not just go all the way to the altar? 70 00:02:56.580 --> 00:02:59.380 A lot of people can get to the altar, right? 71 00:02:59.380 --> 00:03:01.020 A lot of people ignore a lot of things 72 00:03:01.020 --> 00:03:03.100 that they shouldn't ignore to get to the altar, 73 00:03:03.100 --> 00:03:04.500 let's just be honest. 74 00:03:04.500 --> 00:03:05.660 And then they get to the altar, 75 00:03:05.660 --> 00:03:08.420 but after all of that's kind of worn off, 76 00:03:08.420 --> 00:03:10.980 all the excitement and the fun of that has worn off, 77 00:03:10.980 --> 00:03:14.220 then we have a situation where can you sustain 78 00:03:14.220 --> 00:03:16.900 this relationship for a lifetime? 79 00:03:16.900 --> 00:03:19.580 Because that is what that relationship is for, 80 00:03:19.580 --> 00:03:20.500 is for a lifetime. 81 00:03:20.500 --> 00:03:23.020 And yes, that relationship is supposed to grow you, 82 00:03:23.020 --> 00:03:25.420 it's supposed to mature you, it's supposed to change you, 83 00:03:25.420 --> 00:03:27.080 it's supposed to stretch you. 84 00:03:28.220 --> 00:03:30.460 It's not supposed to be easy. 85 00:03:30.460 --> 00:03:34.380 A lot of people end up breaking up relationship 86 00:03:34.380 --> 00:03:37.580 in their lives because they're under this weird idea 87 00:03:37.580 --> 00:03:42.580 that if this person was the one, then it would be easy. 88 00:03:42.860 --> 00:03:44.900 Now, I'm not advocating for abuse. 89 00:03:44.900 --> 00:03:48.780 Obviously, if it's not easy because it's abusive, 90 00:03:48.780 --> 00:03:50.420 then that's a whole different story. 91 00:03:50.420 --> 00:03:52.940 But it's not supposed to be easy. 92 00:03:53.700 --> 00:03:56.340 We have a couple in our community right now 93 00:03:56.340 --> 00:03:59.220 that are going through an immigration process. 94 00:04:00.060 --> 00:04:02.460 He's Canadian, she's American. 95 00:04:02.460 --> 00:04:04.860 They met through me and they met in this community. 96 00:04:04.860 --> 00:04:07.200 So they met through this community and through me. 97 00:04:07.200 --> 00:04:09.460 There were a lot of different touch points 98 00:04:09.460 --> 00:04:12.820 in this relationship where other people like myself 99 00:04:12.820 --> 00:04:16.260 had to get involved to help them stay together, 100 00:04:16.260 --> 00:04:20.519 help encourage them that yes, this is a great relationship, 101 00:04:20.519 --> 00:04:24.320 it's not going to be easy, it's just going to be worth it. 102 00:04:24.320 --> 00:04:27.440 Even yesterday, I messaged the man, 103 00:04:27.440 --> 00:04:29.440 they're engaged now, they're getting married, 104 00:04:29.440 --> 00:04:32.800 and said, I know that this has been a really rocky road. 105 00:04:32.800 --> 00:04:34.240 Why has it been rocky? 106 00:04:34.240 --> 00:04:38.160 Because they met right during the same time 107 00:04:38.160 --> 00:04:42.280 as a lot of restrictions for COVID 108 00:04:42.280 --> 00:04:45.840 were still on the countries and on the borders. 109 00:04:46.360 --> 00:04:50.560 They got to know each other virtually for a long time, 110 00:04:50.560 --> 00:04:53.720 wondering if they were ever going to get to meet in real life. 111 00:04:53.720 --> 00:04:56.480 And there were a lot of things that stood in their way of that. 112 00:04:56.480 --> 00:04:59.560 And then finally, when they were able to meet, 113 00:04:59.560 --> 00:05:00.400 what happened? 114 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:02.240 what I knew was going to happen in my heart happened. 115 00:05:02.240 --> 00:05:06.240 And that was they realized that everything that they had felt for each other 116 00:05:06.240 --> 00:05:10.960 virtually was transferring over to in-person, but it still wasn't easy. 117 00:05:11.240 --> 00:05:13.800 We're talking about a lot of investment, a lot of time investment, 118 00:05:13.800 --> 00:05:17.440 a lot of money investment, a lot of travel investment, right? 119 00:05:17.440 --> 00:05:21.400 Now they have to have lawyers. It's not a normal, Hey, I like you, 120 00:05:21.400 --> 00:05:24.160 you like me let's date. Okay. 121 00:05:24.160 --> 00:05:27.760 And now let's go down to the chapel and get married. No, 122 00:05:28.360 --> 00:05:32.000 their love story has a lot of stuff in it that other people's doesn't, 123 00:05:33.160 --> 00:05:35.120 but they're continuing to press forward. 124 00:05:35.200 --> 00:05:38.520 And I believe they're going to have a beautifully blessed marriage because right 125 00:05:38.520 --> 00:05:43.200 now what's happening is their resolve is being 126 00:05:43.200 --> 00:05:45.840 strengthened. They're in it to win it. 127 00:05:45.920 --> 00:05:50.000 And it's being strengthened over and over and over again. You know, 128 00:05:50.000 --> 00:05:54.800 their desire to be with each other is being questioned against 129 00:05:55.640 --> 00:06:00.200 comfort. Do I really want this? Or do I just want something easy? 130 00:06:00.480 --> 00:06:02.920 Do I really want this? Or do I just want this to be comfortable? 131 00:06:03.360 --> 00:06:04.760 This is really uncomfortable. 132 00:06:06.040 --> 00:06:08.960 There's long stretches of time where we don't get to see each other because it's 133 00:06:08.960 --> 00:06:12.760 just so expensive to travel and, you know, 134 00:06:12.760 --> 00:06:16.440 and there's all kinds of different rules that we have to follow because of the 135 00:06:16.440 --> 00:06:20.160 governments and the immigration. And, you know, is it, 136 00:06:20.240 --> 00:06:21.360 is it going to be worth it? 137 00:06:21.400 --> 00:06:26.240 Or would it be just better just to find someone local, 138 00:06:26.800 --> 00:06:31.800 someone easier? And for some people, the question that the answer to that question 139 00:06:31.800 --> 00:06:36.760 is yes, because I'm not trying to be offensive. I love y'all. You know, I do, 140 00:06:36.760 --> 00:06:38.080 but you don't got what it takes. 141 00:06:40.560 --> 00:06:44.120 You don't. Could you get what it takes? Yeah. 142 00:06:45.000 --> 00:06:49.240 But right now you don't got it right now. You don't got what it takes. 143 00:06:50.120 --> 00:06:54.040 And I want to go ahead and expand on that because I really feel like this is a, 144 00:06:54.080 --> 00:06:56.920 this conversation that Holy Spirit wants us to get real with. 145 00:06:56.920 --> 00:07:00.600 You guys want to have some real conversation. 146 00:07:03.160 --> 00:07:07.040 Even if you met someone, even if it was easy, even if they were local, 147 00:07:07.480 --> 00:07:09.720 you don't have what it takes to sustain relationship. 148 00:07:12.040 --> 00:07:14.040 You got what I call cut and run itis. 149 00:07:15.040 --> 00:07:19.160 At the first sign of trouble, you're going to be gone. 150 00:07:20.880 --> 00:07:21.720 You are. 151 00:07:22.800 --> 00:07:25.960 And the reason why is because you have created for yourself, 152 00:07:26.240 --> 00:07:28.600 even though you're like, I want to be married. 153 00:07:28.600 --> 00:07:32.280 It's the most important thing in my life. It isn't. It's not. 154 00:07:33.200 --> 00:07:36.440 You've created a life for yourself. That's very comfortable for you. 155 00:07:37.680 --> 00:07:40.480 There are things of course, that you want, that you don't have, 156 00:07:41.040 --> 00:07:46.040 but you're not willing to stretch and get uncomfortable in order to get those 157 00:07:46.880 --> 00:07:49.960 things. And those things could be anything. 158 00:07:50.240 --> 00:07:52.440 Those things could be your health back. 159 00:07:54.960 --> 00:07:57.560 Y'all, when we get to a certain age, our health is a slippery slope. 160 00:07:57.560 --> 00:08:00.320 It really is. And not that younger people can't get, you know, 161 00:08:00.320 --> 00:08:03.280 sickness and dis-ease and disease in their body. Of course they can. 162 00:08:04.280 --> 00:08:09.280 But it happens usually after long periods of neglect. 163 00:08:11.480 --> 00:08:14.720 Sickness and disease doesn't usually happen out of nowhere. 164 00:08:14.960 --> 00:08:19.960 It happens after long periods of neglect where there were lots and lots and lots 165 00:08:20.760 --> 00:08:23.880 of signs that things were going the wrong direction. 166 00:08:25.040 --> 00:08:28.320 Now the good news is that I believe that there's grace and I believe that of 167 00:08:28.320 --> 00:08:31.200 course there's healing, but beyond healing, 168 00:08:31.440 --> 00:08:36.440 there has to be a want and a commitment to do the work to get back to where you 169 00:08:36.919 --> 00:08:38.799 need to be. And when I said a slippery slope, 170 00:08:38.799 --> 00:08:41.080 what I mean is that when you get to a certain place, 171 00:08:41.120 --> 00:08:45.120 it's not easy to get back to where you need to be, is it? 172 00:08:46.880 --> 00:08:50.960 It's not easy to get back. You know, your joints hurt. 173 00:08:51.840 --> 00:08:54.320 You got, you get, it's not easy to get up. 174 00:08:55.200 --> 00:08:58.920 It's easy to get down and sit down, 175 00:08:58.920 --> 00:09:02.440 but it's not easy to stand up and get up and do the things. 176 00:09:02.480 --> 00:09:06.200 And it's not going to be easy as you go forward. It's not going to be easy. 177 00:09:06.680 --> 00:09:09.800 You're just going to have to continue to choose it and want it because here's 178 00:09:09.800 --> 00:09:14.200 the thing that's important for you to understand. It doesn't get any better. 179 00:09:17.360 --> 00:09:18.600 It doesn't get any better. 180 00:09:20.240 --> 00:09:24.840 It's not going to be easier next week or next month or next year. In fact, 181 00:09:24.880 --> 00:09:28.840 I propose to all of you that because this message is being released, 182 00:09:28.880 --> 00:09:32.800 I propose to all of you that because this message is being released and I 183 00:09:32.800 --> 00:09:33.960 believe from heaven and you know, 184 00:09:33.960 --> 00:09:36.280 sometimes there are corrective things that come. 185 00:09:36.840 --> 00:09:40.360 So please don't hear this through the, through the filter of religion. 186 00:09:40.440 --> 00:09:43.120 God's not punishing you. No one's getting spanked today. 187 00:09:43.400 --> 00:09:47.960 God's correction comes because he wants to help us. 188 00:09:50.280 --> 00:09:53.040 He doesn't want us to be in pain. There's a scripture that says, 189 00:09:53.040 --> 00:09:56.920 take my feet off this path of pain, this path of pain that I chose. 190 00:09:56.920 --> 00:10:00.280 I chose this path of pain, but take my feet off. 191 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:02.600 Get off of this path of pain and what? 192 00:10:02.600 --> 00:10:04.800 Lead me back to you. 193 00:10:05.900 --> 00:10:07.240 Lead me back to you. 194 00:10:10.320 --> 00:10:12.680 But we have to say yes. 195 00:10:12.680 --> 00:10:14.000 We have to want it. 196 00:10:14.000 --> 00:10:16.720 Do I believe that there's a fresh wind from heaven 197 00:10:16.720 --> 00:10:20.120 that comes and helps us and pushes us forward? 198 00:10:20.120 --> 00:10:22.820 Yeah, but a lot of times you don't feel it right away. 199 00:10:24.680 --> 00:10:25.880 Is God with us? 200 00:10:25.880 --> 00:10:27.720 Is his strength made perfect in weakness? 201 00:10:27.720 --> 00:10:29.200 Yeah, it is. 202 00:10:29.200 --> 00:10:32.160 But sometimes you don't feel it right away. 203 00:10:32.160 --> 00:10:35.080 Sometimes you just have to want it. 204 00:10:35.080 --> 00:10:37.420 Sometimes you just have to push through, 205 00:10:38.640 --> 00:10:40.620 get up every day, do the thing, 206 00:10:41.880 --> 00:10:46.680 and then it'll start getting more intuitive. 207 00:10:46.680 --> 00:10:48.680 I don't even want to use the word easier 208 00:10:48.680 --> 00:10:53.360 because it may not ever feel easier as far as in your body 209 00:10:53.360 --> 00:10:56.160 because we're talking about physical fitness right now, 210 00:10:56.160 --> 00:10:58.340 but in your mind it will get easier. 211 00:10:59.920 --> 00:11:02.800 The results will be so beneficial 212 00:11:02.800 --> 00:11:06.560 that it'll be something that before you couldn't do 213 00:11:06.560 --> 00:11:08.080 and you didn't want to do, 214 00:11:08.080 --> 00:11:09.120 and then it becomes something 215 00:11:09.120 --> 00:11:11.160 that you can't live without doing, right? 216 00:11:12.880 --> 00:11:14.600 And that's called a habit. 217 00:11:14.600 --> 00:11:16.880 That's about creating habits. 218 00:11:16.880 --> 00:11:19.600 And that's about creating momentum. 219 00:11:19.600 --> 00:11:20.820 We have to do that. 220 00:11:20.820 --> 00:11:23.000 So where is this conversation coming out of? 221 00:11:23.000 --> 00:11:26.120 It's coming out of that we have a lot, 222 00:11:26.120 --> 00:11:28.480 a lot, a lot, a lot, a lot of wishbone, 223 00:11:28.480 --> 00:11:33.280 but we do not have any, you know, backbone, 224 00:11:33.280 --> 00:11:36.080 any work ethic in those areas 225 00:11:36.080 --> 00:11:38.180 that we want and want and want and want. 226 00:11:41.080 --> 00:11:42.080 Right? 227 00:11:42.080 --> 00:11:43.820 And it's time for that to shift. 228 00:11:45.240 --> 00:11:47.200 God doesn't want you to live like that. 229 00:11:48.400 --> 00:11:49.360 He doesn't. 230 00:11:49.360 --> 00:11:50.960 And so whatever area of your life 231 00:11:50.960 --> 00:11:54.120 that Holy Spirit's gonna highlight to you, 232 00:11:54.120 --> 00:11:57.800 that's an area where you're going to have to start 233 00:11:57.800 --> 00:12:02.800 to understand that you have to do the harder work, okay? 234 00:12:05.080 --> 00:12:07.520 You're going to have to do the harder work. 235 00:12:07.520 --> 00:12:10.000 So the Golden Bachelor, 236 00:12:10.000 --> 00:12:12.520 a lot of you probably didn't watch that show, 237 00:12:12.520 --> 00:12:15.000 but there's been a show on television 238 00:12:15.000 --> 00:12:17.460 for over 20 years called The Bachelor. 239 00:12:17.460 --> 00:12:19.560 And I hate the show. 240 00:12:19.560 --> 00:12:21.920 I personally think that it's everything 241 00:12:21.920 --> 00:12:23.440 that's wrong with television. 242 00:12:23.440 --> 00:12:25.960 It's like sports for women in a way 243 00:12:26.000 --> 00:12:27.280 that all of these girls, 244 00:12:27.280 --> 00:12:28.960 you're like betting on your girl to win, 245 00:12:28.960 --> 00:12:30.680 like a horse race or something. 246 00:12:30.680 --> 00:12:34.080 Like, oh, Christy over here, I'm betting on her to win. 247 00:12:34.080 --> 00:12:35.000 Yeah, I want her to win. 248 00:12:35.000 --> 00:12:37.360 But you know, the whole show is about 249 00:12:37.360 --> 00:12:40.260 what woman can make an emotional and physical 250 00:12:40.260 --> 00:12:42.600 and sexual connection with this man 251 00:12:42.600 --> 00:12:46.720 to the point where he chooses her by the end of the show 252 00:12:46.720 --> 00:12:49.100 to quote unquote get engaged to. 253 00:12:49.100 --> 00:12:51.880 Very, very, very, very, very few people 254 00:12:51.880 --> 00:12:55.160 have ever gotten actually married on The Bachelor. 255 00:12:55.200 --> 00:12:57.000 There's just been a handful of marriages 256 00:12:57.000 --> 00:12:59.440 and most of them happen on The Bachelorette show, 257 00:12:59.440 --> 00:13:00.280 not The Bachelor. 258 00:13:00.280 --> 00:13:02.260 With The Bachelorette, same thing. 259 00:13:02.260 --> 00:13:04.480 She picks from 20 or so guys. 260 00:13:04.480 --> 00:13:05.680 A lot of times The Bachelorette 261 00:13:05.680 --> 00:13:08.680 actually does marry the choice that she picks. 262 00:13:08.680 --> 00:13:10.960 But The Bachelor, not so much. 263 00:13:10.960 --> 00:13:13.200 They usually break up after a few months 264 00:13:13.200 --> 00:13:15.420 and they want to get their prize money. 265 00:13:15.420 --> 00:13:18.040 So they stay together long enough to get that prize money 266 00:13:18.040 --> 00:13:20.200 and then they break up, right? 267 00:13:20.200 --> 00:13:21.200 So here's the thing. 268 00:13:22.080 --> 00:13:23.740 They did it for older people. 269 00:13:24.580 --> 00:13:27.860 That show is usually of millennial age people. 270 00:13:27.860 --> 00:13:30.820 I'd say anywhere from 25 to 40-ish. 271 00:13:30.820 --> 00:13:32.500 And so they decided what it would look like 272 00:13:32.500 --> 00:13:33.700 if we had an older Bachelor. 273 00:13:33.700 --> 00:13:35.500 They called him the Golden Bachelor. 274 00:13:36.620 --> 00:13:39.320 72 years old, I believe is how old he was. 275 00:13:39.320 --> 00:13:41.780 Of course, he was well-preserved. 276 00:13:41.780 --> 00:13:43.740 Let's just say that way. 277 00:13:43.740 --> 00:13:46.380 And all the women that were fighting for his affection, 278 00:13:46.380 --> 00:13:49.100 they were all well-preserved as well. 279 00:13:49.100 --> 00:13:52.580 But he picked one of them and he married her. 280 00:13:52.580 --> 00:13:54.340 That was three months ago. 281 00:13:54.340 --> 00:13:55.780 They're now getting divorced. 282 00:13:59.180 --> 00:14:01.420 Why am I telling you this? 283 00:14:01.420 --> 00:14:06.420 Because older people, for the most part, 284 00:14:07.660 --> 00:14:09.180 are very set in their ways. 285 00:14:11.940 --> 00:14:14.260 And a lot of you are old enough to know better. 286 00:14:14.260 --> 00:14:17.900 Now this doesn't leave all of you that are under 50 out. 287 00:14:19.580 --> 00:14:20.980 It doesn't leave you out. 288 00:14:21.020 --> 00:14:23.980 Because certain personalities can be like this as well. 289 00:14:23.980 --> 00:14:27.180 And you definitely need to make sure 290 00:14:27.180 --> 00:14:29.220 that if the shoe fits, you put it on, 291 00:14:29.220 --> 00:14:31.260 you tie it up and wear it. 292 00:14:31.260 --> 00:14:32.500 Now if I'm a little distracted today 293 00:14:32.500 --> 00:14:34.420 it's because I hear my husband out there 294 00:14:34.420 --> 00:14:36.980 trying to entertain the troops. 295 00:14:36.980 --> 00:14:39.700 And I hear them screaming and, you know, 296 00:14:39.700 --> 00:14:41.860 my grandson pinched my granddaughter 297 00:14:41.860 --> 00:14:44.020 and all the things are happening, right? 298 00:14:44.020 --> 00:14:47.780 Right without, right on the outside of your ear shot, 299 00:14:47.780 --> 00:14:48.980 I can hear that. 300 00:14:48.980 --> 00:14:51.620 And it sounds like a three ring circus out there 301 00:14:51.620 --> 00:14:53.380 and David is doing his best. 302 00:14:55.420 --> 00:14:57.100 He's doing his best. 303 00:14:57.100 --> 00:14:59.740 Go Papa, go, go Papa, go. 304 00:14:59.740 --> 00:15:00.580 All right. 305 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:08.560 So I really felt like the Lord wanted us to have this conversation because you know that 306 00:15:08.560 --> 00:15:12.880 we've had lots and lots and lots and lots and lots of engagements and marriages in this 307 00:15:12.880 --> 00:15:19.720 community, but we've also had a few divorces. 308 00:15:19.720 --> 00:15:26.300 This community has only been around for four years y'all and we've already had a few divorces. 309 00:15:26.300 --> 00:15:39.380 In every single instance of divorce, the reason for the divorce was selfishness. 310 00:15:39.380 --> 00:15:41.600 Was I am set in my way. 311 00:15:41.600 --> 00:15:44.220 This is the way that I do things. 312 00:15:44.220 --> 00:15:47.100 This is the way that I want things done. 313 00:15:47.100 --> 00:15:48.320 This is my schedule. 314 00:15:48.320 --> 00:15:49.320 This is my life. 315 00:15:49.320 --> 00:15:51.060 Now you fit in it. 316 00:15:51.060 --> 00:15:55.580 Come and fit in it. 317 00:15:55.580 --> 00:16:02.940 Every single one of them y'all and they all were with people that were late forties and 318 00:16:02.940 --> 00:16:07.580 up. 319 00:16:07.580 --> 00:16:11.080 This is a life that I've built for myself. 320 00:16:11.080 --> 00:16:12.080 You weren't around. 321 00:16:12.080 --> 00:16:13.460 I built this life for myself. 322 00:16:13.460 --> 00:16:14.460 These are my friends. 323 00:16:14.460 --> 00:16:15.460 This is my community. 324 00:16:15.460 --> 00:16:17.780 This is the church that I go to. 325 00:16:17.780 --> 00:16:21.080 These are the clothes that I wear and these are the hobbies that I do. 326 00:16:21.080 --> 00:16:22.080 This is my house. 327 00:16:22.080 --> 00:16:23.420 See how it's set up. 328 00:16:23.420 --> 00:16:25.380 This is how I want it set up. 329 00:16:25.380 --> 00:16:26.380 See this furniture? 330 00:16:26.380 --> 00:16:27.380 This is my furniture. 331 00:16:27.380 --> 00:16:28.380 See this cat? 332 00:16:28.380 --> 00:16:29.380 This is my cat. 333 00:16:29.380 --> 00:16:31.980 I don't care if you don't like my cat. 334 00:16:31.980 --> 00:16:34.980 My cat's here to stay. 335 00:16:34.980 --> 00:16:37.360 Don't let the door hit you where the good Lord splits you. 336 00:16:37.360 --> 00:16:43.360 If you don't like my cat, y'all, we have someone getting divorced right now over a cat. 337 00:16:43.360 --> 00:16:46.580 I'm not freaking kidding. 338 00:16:46.580 --> 00:16:51.980 All right. 339 00:16:51.980 --> 00:17:03.300 I want my life the way I want it and then I want you to come and just be part of it 340 00:17:03.300 --> 00:17:08.700 the way that I already have it. 341 00:17:08.700 --> 00:17:10.900 I don't want to relocate for you. 342 00:17:10.900 --> 00:17:16.700 Yeah, I know that I said I would and I know that when we were all lovey-dovey and rose-colored 343 00:17:16.700 --> 00:17:25.380 glasses on, it sounded like a good thing, but now that we're married, I changed my mind. 344 00:17:25.380 --> 00:17:27.819 You guys, I'm not joking around. 345 00:17:27.819 --> 00:17:32.340 I know I'm being funny because I really don't know how else to be. 346 00:17:32.340 --> 00:17:33.340 That's just who I am. 347 00:17:33.340 --> 00:17:34.340 All right. 348 00:17:34.340 --> 00:17:36.380 A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down. 349 00:17:36.380 --> 00:17:39.300 Remember Mary Poppins? 350 00:17:39.300 --> 00:17:42.980 But I'm just going to tell you right now that this is truth. 351 00:17:42.980 --> 00:17:44.720 I'm not making up these scenarios. 352 00:17:44.720 --> 00:17:46.440 These are real things that are happening. 353 00:17:46.440 --> 00:17:51.600 Oh, I know I married you and I know that now it's time for you to move into my house because 354 00:17:51.600 --> 00:17:55.960 that's what we decided on, but you can't bring any of your furniture with you because I decided 355 00:17:55.960 --> 00:17:58.560 that I don't like your furniture. 356 00:17:58.560 --> 00:18:01.520 I decided that I don't have room for your furniture. 357 00:18:01.520 --> 00:18:03.480 I like my house the way that it is. 358 00:18:03.480 --> 00:18:04.480 You can't bring your stuff. 359 00:18:04.480 --> 00:18:12.440 In fact, I'm not sure if you're even allowed to move in. 360 00:18:12.440 --> 00:18:16.240 You guys, these are real things. 361 00:18:16.240 --> 00:18:18.280 These are real things. 362 00:18:18.280 --> 00:18:25.240 And so the question that God has for all of us this morning is, have you counted the cost? 363 00:18:25.240 --> 00:18:31.560 Because this is going to hurt, y'all. 364 00:18:31.560 --> 00:18:35.640 Now is it going to be equal, equally great and wonderful? 365 00:18:35.640 --> 00:18:36.640 Yes. 366 00:18:36.640 --> 00:18:43.160 But it's going to be pain associated with your love story. 367 00:18:43.160 --> 00:18:45.820 You are going to be stretched. 368 00:18:45.820 --> 00:18:49.040 You are going to be challenged. 369 00:18:49.040 --> 00:18:57.600 Your life cannot and will not remain the same. 370 00:18:57.600 --> 00:19:02.280 Even some good stuff about it. 371 00:19:02.280 --> 00:19:05.960 I know a lot of people are like, oh, you know, I just, I just have everything. 372 00:19:06.280 --> 00:19:07.280 I just love my life. 373 00:19:07.280 --> 00:19:09.680 And all that it's missing is just a man or a woman. 374 00:19:09.680 --> 00:19:16.480 Well, you guys, that's actually the wrong mindset. 375 00:19:16.480 --> 00:19:20.960 Because when you find that man or woman, the life that you love so much, you're going to 376 00:19:20.960 --> 00:19:23.560 have to give it up in some aspects. 377 00:19:23.560 --> 00:19:29.600 And if you're so happy and you love it so much, then you might not want to rock the 378 00:19:29.600 --> 00:19:34.200 boat. 379 00:19:34.240 --> 00:19:38.080 I know this is deep, y'all, and it's probably not what you were thinking about. 380 00:19:38.080 --> 00:19:40.040 Now it's different when we're kids, right? 381 00:19:40.040 --> 00:19:44.720 We meet in high school and then you get married and you don't got a pot to pee in. 382 00:19:44.720 --> 00:19:46.440 There's nothing going on in your life. 383 00:19:46.440 --> 00:19:53.200 In fact, you probably have the same friends and everything because that's the age that 384 00:19:53.200 --> 00:19:58.640 you have that friend group and all that stuff going on. 385 00:19:58.640 --> 00:20:00.080 Not that young marriages work out. 386 00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:02.080 and not that they're not stretched. 387 00:20:02.080 --> 00:20:05.440 They, their, their challenge is to grow together 388 00:20:05.440 --> 00:20:08.460 and not grow apart as they're maturing 389 00:20:08.460 --> 00:20:09.720 and getting older, right? 390 00:20:10.800 --> 00:20:13.660 Because you change a lot from 20 years old 391 00:20:13.660 --> 00:20:15.160 to 40 years old, don't you? 392 00:20:17.640 --> 00:20:20.880 And so it's about growing together and not growing apart. 393 00:20:23.460 --> 00:20:25.360 But when you get married, when you're older, 394 00:20:25.360 --> 00:20:26.940 you're old enough to know better, 395 00:20:26.980 --> 00:20:30.860 whether that's at any age where you've established a life. 396 00:20:30.860 --> 00:20:32.860 You know, I'm kind of focusing on all you folks 397 00:20:32.860 --> 00:20:36.300 that are 45 and up, but even you people 398 00:20:36.300 --> 00:20:38.460 that are younger than that, if you have children, 399 00:20:38.460 --> 00:20:39.860 you have shared parenting agreements, 400 00:20:39.860 --> 00:20:42.300 you have support systems. 401 00:20:42.300 --> 00:20:46.580 I've seen so many couples almost get to engagement 402 00:20:46.580 --> 00:20:48.980 and then break up because they don't want 403 00:20:48.980 --> 00:20:52.260 to leave the support system that they've created 404 00:20:52.260 --> 00:20:53.780 for themselves as a single, 405 00:20:54.780 --> 00:20:57.120 as a single parent or just as a single. 406 00:20:57.120 --> 00:20:59.220 I don't want to leave my church community. 407 00:21:00.460 --> 00:21:02.740 It's taken me a long time to find this church community 408 00:21:02.740 --> 00:21:05.380 and I've been in this church community for 10, 15 years. 409 00:21:05.380 --> 00:21:07.100 The whole time I've been a single adult 410 00:21:07.100 --> 00:21:08.640 and I don't want to leave it. 411 00:21:10.420 --> 00:21:12.900 You guys, I need to tell you something really important. 412 00:21:12.900 --> 00:21:14.860 If you're leaving a kingdom life, 413 00:21:16.760 --> 00:21:18.780 not a church life, you can go live a church life 414 00:21:18.780 --> 00:21:21.340 if you want to, and it can be us four and no more. 415 00:21:21.340 --> 00:21:23.340 You can stay at the same church that you were saved at 416 00:21:23.420 --> 00:21:25.620 till you die, go for it. 417 00:21:25.620 --> 00:21:28.140 But if you want to live a kingdom life, 418 00:21:28.140 --> 00:21:30.540 change is going to be part of your life. 419 00:21:34.460 --> 00:21:36.420 Change is going to be part of your life. 420 00:21:38.260 --> 00:21:39.740 If you're living a kingdom life, 421 00:21:39.740 --> 00:21:41.460 you're going to show up a year from now 422 00:21:41.460 --> 00:21:43.780 and we'll have a conversation and you're not going to believe 423 00:21:43.780 --> 00:21:46.420 the same things that you believe right now a year from now. 424 00:21:46.420 --> 00:21:47.260 Why? 425 00:21:47.260 --> 00:21:48.700 Because you should be evolving. 426 00:21:49.660 --> 00:21:52.660 Now, we don't go throwing out the baby with the bath water, 427 00:21:53.740 --> 00:21:57.500 but I can tell you that when I stepped out of the church age 428 00:21:57.500 --> 00:21:59.980 and into the kingdom age in 2009, 429 00:22:01.220 --> 00:22:05.620 God opened up a whole realm of possibilities 430 00:22:05.620 --> 00:22:07.700 for me to use my ministry gifts 431 00:22:07.700 --> 00:22:12.500 outside of traditional church settings in the marketplace 432 00:22:12.500 --> 00:22:13.620 and I shifted. 433 00:22:13.780 --> 00:22:15.660 The things that I believed in 2009, 434 00:22:15.660 --> 00:22:18.380 the things that I believe in 2024 are vastly different. 435 00:22:18.380 --> 00:22:20.300 I've continued to grow and evolve. 436 00:22:21.740 --> 00:22:24.220 Even to the place where a lot of church people 437 00:22:24.220 --> 00:22:26.340 that knew me back when I first got saved, 438 00:22:26.340 --> 00:22:27.740 wonder if I'm saved. 439 00:22:30.300 --> 00:22:31.980 I don't know if she's still saved. 440 00:22:33.100 --> 00:22:34.980 She was doing church ministry, 441 00:22:34.980 --> 00:22:36.540 she was speaking on the platform, 442 00:22:36.540 --> 00:22:38.780 she was a preacher and now she owns a business. 443 00:22:38.780 --> 00:22:41.460 I think that she sold out back in 2009. 444 00:22:41.460 --> 00:22:42.300 She owns a business. 445 00:22:42.300 --> 00:22:44.020 I think that she sold out and backslid. 446 00:22:44.020 --> 00:22:44.860 What? 447 00:22:44.860 --> 00:22:45.700 Get out of here. 448 00:22:47.340 --> 00:22:50.380 This is the most spiritually alive thing 449 00:22:50.380 --> 00:22:51.980 that I've ever done in my life. 450 00:22:53.020 --> 00:22:55.100 I mean, this is a ministry, obviously. 451 00:22:55.100 --> 00:22:58.060 It's a business tree is what I call it, a business ministry. 452 00:22:59.060 --> 00:23:01.060 We're not all called to be on platforms 453 00:23:01.060 --> 00:23:03.300 and buildings we call churches. 454 00:23:03.300 --> 00:23:05.140 And the reason why I say that we call churches 455 00:23:05.140 --> 00:23:07.620 is because in the Bible, that's not what the church was. 456 00:23:07.620 --> 00:23:10.260 The church was a group of people, it wasn't a place. 457 00:23:12.460 --> 00:23:15.500 You are the church, you are the ecclesia. 458 00:23:18.940 --> 00:23:21.460 All of us together are the ecclesia, 459 00:23:21.460 --> 00:23:24.140 regardless of whether we have a building or not. 460 00:23:24.140 --> 00:23:25.380 This is completely off topic, 461 00:23:25.380 --> 00:23:27.900 but I know a lot of people that wanna plant churches 462 00:23:27.900 --> 00:23:30.260 and the first thing that they focus on is a building. 463 00:23:30.260 --> 00:23:32.860 Don't focus on a building, focus on people. 464 00:23:34.620 --> 00:23:36.180 Can meet in the basement of your house, 465 00:23:36.180 --> 00:23:38.420 you can meet in your living room. 466 00:23:38.420 --> 00:23:39.860 You can meet at a local coffee shop. 467 00:23:39.900 --> 00:23:41.140 There's a lot of people around 468 00:23:41.140 --> 00:23:42.780 that probably need to hear the kind of stuff 469 00:23:42.780 --> 00:23:43.980 y'all are talking about. 470 00:23:46.460 --> 00:23:49.140 Why do we hide away in church buildings? 471 00:23:53.820 --> 00:23:56.060 We keep adding more and more and more stuff 472 00:23:56.060 --> 00:23:59.180 in the buildings so that nobody ever has to leave. 473 00:24:04.180 --> 00:24:05.780 Oh, you need coffee, we got you. 474 00:24:06.380 --> 00:24:09.780 Mm-hmm, you need a bookstore, we got you. 475 00:24:10.860 --> 00:24:11.700 We're ready. 476 00:24:12.620 --> 00:24:14.540 We got everything you need here. 477 00:24:14.540 --> 00:24:16.140 You need childcare, you need daycare. 478 00:24:16.140 --> 00:24:18.540 Oh, you need a school, yep, we got you. 479 00:24:18.540 --> 00:24:20.340 We got everything and anything 480 00:24:20.340 --> 00:24:22.380 that you could possibly ever need, 481 00:24:22.380 --> 00:24:23.980 we got it all in this building. 482 00:24:27.340 --> 00:24:28.180 Right? 483 00:24:29.220 --> 00:24:31.500 And then depending on what the name is over the door, 484 00:24:31.500 --> 00:24:33.340 it's gonna keep out everybody else. 485 00:24:34.340 --> 00:24:37.180 You guys ever notice how churches have some weird names? 486 00:24:39.300 --> 00:24:43.020 This is the World of Pentecost Apostolic Church of Christ 487 00:24:43.020 --> 00:24:44.620 of the Redeemed Savior. 488 00:24:44.620 --> 00:24:46.780 What in the world just happened? 489 00:24:52.660 --> 00:24:54.900 Guys, we are called to be kingdom people. 490 00:24:54.900 --> 00:24:56.460 And if you wanna be a kingdom person, 491 00:24:56.460 --> 00:24:59.220 then you are going to have to be open to change. 492 00:25:00.000 --> 00:25:05.540 If you want to have a kingdom marriage, then you are going to have to be willing to be 493 00:25:05.540 --> 00:25:09.160 stretched and be open to change. 494 00:25:09.160 --> 00:25:15.360 A lot of you have given up on really good potential partners because you didn't want 495 00:25:15.360 --> 00:25:16.360 to stretch. 496 00:25:16.360 --> 00:25:22.200 And you're hoping to find someone who fits into your puzzle. 497 00:25:22.200 --> 00:25:28.640 You're hoping to find someone who fits into your puzzle and I hope you don't because if 498 00:25:28.640 --> 00:25:33.160 you do that, that means that you're going to stay stagnant and you might not feel like 499 00:25:33.160 --> 00:25:36.360 you're stagnant yet, but I promise you five years from now, you're going to feel like 500 00:25:36.360 --> 00:25:41.120 you're stagnant because that's the nature of this thing. 501 00:25:41.120 --> 00:25:49.280 You don't, you don't immediately know that you didn't opt in to the upgrade. 502 00:25:49.280 --> 00:25:54.080 It isn't until everyone around you has all kinds of emojis that you don't have and their 503 00:25:54.080 --> 00:25:59.000 phones can do all kinds of things that yours can't. 504 00:25:59.000 --> 00:26:04.320 Your signal is dropping, your wifi stinks that you realize, Oh, two and a half years 505 00:26:04.320 --> 00:26:12.360 ago there was a new operating system and I didn't download it. 506 00:26:12.360 --> 00:26:16.520 Everybody else, even the people that have the year and a half old operating system are 507 00:26:16.520 --> 00:26:20.280 ahead of me here, right? 508 00:26:20.280 --> 00:26:29.240 It's not always apparent and a lot of people are just happy that they let go of that opportunity 509 00:26:29.240 --> 00:26:32.240 because they didn't want to be stretched in that moment. 510 00:26:32.240 --> 00:26:36.760 And it feels good to say, Oh, you can go back to normal now. 511 00:26:36.760 --> 00:26:39.880 Yeah, I know. 512 00:26:39.880 --> 00:26:44.760 I thought I loved that person, but yeah, they were really stretching me and there were all 513 00:26:44.760 --> 00:26:50.360 kinds of things that were scary and I didn't want to do them yet and now they're gone and 514 00:26:50.360 --> 00:26:53.840 now I can relax. 515 00:26:53.840 --> 00:26:56.400 Go back to my same old, same old. 516 00:26:56.400 --> 00:26:57.680 Here's the problem though. 517 00:26:57.680 --> 00:27:05.320 Your same old, same old is going to start getting massively stale. 518 00:27:05.320 --> 00:27:09.320 What you didn't want to change and you didn't want to stretch for, you're going to start 519 00:27:09.320 --> 00:27:14.760 to not like anymore. 520 00:27:14.760 --> 00:27:15.760 You want to know why? 521 00:27:15.760 --> 00:27:28.520 Because that person that came, God sent them, God sent them and you want to know why he 522 00:27:28.520 --> 00:27:29.640 sent them? 523 00:27:29.640 --> 00:27:32.600 Because you've been praying for them. 524 00:27:32.600 --> 00:27:39.520 You've been praying for the opportunity to have more, to do more, to be more, and oftentimes 525 00:27:39.520 --> 00:27:44.680 shows up in packages that are uncomfortable. 526 00:27:44.680 --> 00:27:48.960 I've had so many people say to me, man, why couldn't God just give me a local love story? 527 00:27:48.960 --> 00:27:51.400 Why do I got this long distance love story? 528 00:27:51.400 --> 00:27:54.040 What's going on here? 529 00:27:54.040 --> 00:28:02.560 You know, well, you're the one that prayed to be changed and transformed. 530 00:28:03.520 --> 00:28:08.160 You're the one who, you don't remember it, but in a fit of passion during a personal 531 00:28:08.160 --> 00:28:15.040 encounter with the Lord, you said, anything you want, God, anything you want, here I am, 532 00:28:15.040 --> 00:28:19.720 send me, but you didn't mean it. 533 00:28:19.720 --> 00:28:25.400 You meant it in the moment, but then when the here I am, send me shows up, you're like, 534 00:28:25.400 --> 00:28:32.360 Oh, Oh, Oh, this is not what I had in mind. 535 00:28:33.160 --> 00:28:34.160 Guys, I've all been there. 536 00:28:34.160 --> 00:28:35.160 I've been there. 537 00:28:35.160 --> 00:28:36.160 I'm laughing at myself. 538 00:28:36.160 --> 00:28:42.680 Oh, no, no, no, no. 539 00:28:42.680 --> 00:28:43.680 All you ladies. 540 00:28:43.680 --> 00:28:46.680 I just want my Boaz. 541 00:28:46.680 --> 00:28:49.680 Where's my Boaz? 542 00:28:49.680 --> 00:28:51.880 Boaz shows up. 543 00:28:51.880 --> 00:28:54.760 He's 10 years older than you expected him to be. 544 00:28:54.760 --> 00:28:58.680 You know, he's got a little bit of a limp. 545 00:28:59.000 --> 00:29:06.000 Look, he's not a peg-legged pirate, y'all. 546 00:29:06.000 --> 00:29:15.240 He's got some random ear hair and you're like, Oh no, no, anyone but that one, Lord, you 547 00:29:15.240 --> 00:29:19.200 didn't even give him a chance. 548 00:29:19.200 --> 00:29:26.560 He's super funny and, and intelligent and has all this stuff together. 549 00:29:26.560 --> 00:29:32.080 I mean, you guys, everyone is going to have a yellow flag or two. 550 00:29:32.080 --> 00:29:35.480 Everyone's going to have one. 551 00:29:35.480 --> 00:29:40.520 Women are the worst at saying, just send him, just, Oh, I need him, I want him, I want him. 552 00:29:40.520 --> 00:29:42.320 And then five guys ask her out. 553 00:29:42.320 --> 00:29:45.960 She's like, Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope. 554 00:29:45.960 --> 00:29:47.960 All right. 555 00:29:47.960 --> 00:29:50.960 All right. 556 00:29:50.960 --> 00:29:54.960 You guys, we have to get serious here. 557 00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:03.000 We've got to get serious here. 558 00:30:03.000 --> 00:30:07.760 If you really do want whatever upgrade it is that you want, 559 00:30:07.760 --> 00:30:10.520 you're going to have to be willing to be stretched, 560 00:30:10.520 --> 00:30:14.200 and you got to count the cost. 561 00:30:15.040 --> 00:30:17.800 You got to go ahead and count the cost. 562 00:30:17.800 --> 00:30:19.340 Because the worst thing to do, 563 00:30:19.340 --> 00:30:21.560 and it's happened to so many of you now, 564 00:30:21.560 --> 00:30:25.020 is you get halfway through the building process of a relationship, 565 00:30:25.020 --> 00:30:27.120 and then you opt out because you realize that 566 00:30:27.120 --> 00:30:29.960 you don't have what it takes to finish the job. 567 00:30:29.960 --> 00:30:35.760 That breaks hearts. 568 00:30:35.760 --> 00:30:37.920 Now, can God use it all to our good? 569 00:30:37.920 --> 00:30:40.160 Yeah. But I don't know about you, 570 00:30:40.160 --> 00:30:42.800 but can we just skip to the good part 571 00:30:42.800 --> 00:30:46.400 instead of always having a Romans 8.28 everything in our lives? 572 00:30:46.400 --> 00:30:50.160 I mean, does everything have to have a Romans 8.28, 573 00:30:50.160 --> 00:30:52.080 God will work it out to the good? 574 00:30:52.080 --> 00:30:54.320 Why can't it just start good? 575 00:30:54.320 --> 00:30:59.520 Anybody else? I know 576 00:30:59.520 --> 00:31:00.800 we all are like, well, 577 00:31:00.800 --> 00:31:03.120 I'm sure this is a blessing in disguise. 578 00:31:03.120 --> 00:31:07.760 Well, excuse me if I want some blessings that are not wearing disguises. 579 00:31:08.560 --> 00:31:12.560 I want some of my blessings to not be wearing disguises, 580 00:31:12.560 --> 00:31:16.440 where I have to sit and pray and try to find the silver lining. 581 00:31:16.440 --> 00:31:24.640 I don't want that. I don't want it. 582 00:31:24.640 --> 00:31:27.040 Love has no guarantees, you guys. 583 00:31:27.040 --> 00:31:31.760 L-O-V-E is spelled R-I-S-K. 584 00:31:31.760 --> 00:31:34.480 You're not going to keep clean hands. 585 00:31:34.480 --> 00:31:37.600 Love is a messy business, especially in the year 2024. 586 00:31:37.600 --> 00:31:40.600 You're going to have to be willing to get your hands dirty. 587 00:31:40.600 --> 00:31:44.840 You're going to have to be willing to go through some healing with people eventually. 588 00:31:44.840 --> 00:31:46.680 It may not come out right in the courtship, 589 00:31:46.680 --> 00:31:47.480 but it's going to come out. 590 00:31:47.480 --> 00:31:48.960 And if it does come out in the courtship, 591 00:31:48.960 --> 00:31:52.680 because you've been in a long courtship, great. 592 00:31:52.680 --> 00:31:55.600 But that is not an excuse to cut and run. 593 00:31:55.600 --> 00:31:57.120 You're not getting a perfect person. 594 00:31:57.120 --> 00:31:59.480 You're not supposed to be getting a perfect person. 595 00:31:59.480 --> 00:32:01.480 Are they teachable? 596 00:32:01.480 --> 00:32:05.440 Not by you, but are they teachable to the Lord? 597 00:32:05.440 --> 00:32:06.480 Do they want to listen to him? 598 00:32:06.480 --> 00:32:08.680 Do they hear from him? 599 00:32:08.680 --> 00:32:10.440 You guys, I'm telling you, this is gold. 600 00:32:10.440 --> 00:32:13.120 You find a person like this, you do not let them go. 601 00:32:13.120 --> 00:32:17.760 Someone who's following Christ, someone who learns from their mistakes, 602 00:32:17.760 --> 00:32:23.360 someone who wants to, you know, communicate with you and grow with you 603 00:32:23.360 --> 00:32:30.240 and change and evolve with you as you both follow Christ, 604 00:32:30.240 --> 00:32:34.200 that's the Holy Grail, y'all. 605 00:32:34.200 --> 00:32:36.080 It is. 606 00:32:36.080 --> 00:32:49.360 Someone who apologizes and then begins to change their behavior based on that apology, 607 00:32:49.360 --> 00:32:51.880 these are big things. 608 00:32:51.880 --> 00:32:55.120 Someone who wants to talk things out when there's a disagreement, 609 00:32:55.120 --> 00:32:57.800 and not just so that you can hear their side, 610 00:32:57.800 --> 00:33:02.680 but because they really do value connection. 611 00:33:02.680 --> 00:33:07.160 They value connection with you. 612 00:33:07.160 --> 00:33:10.360 If you find someone like that, you better move heaven and earth for them. 613 00:33:10.360 --> 00:33:12.240 Seriously. 614 00:33:12.240 --> 00:33:13.760 If it takes moving and you can, 615 00:33:13.760 --> 00:33:21.120 because you don't have a shared parenting agreement, do it. 616 00:33:21.120 --> 00:33:23.120 Do it. 617 00:33:32.200 --> 00:33:33.680 Let's just pause and pray right now. 618 00:33:33.680 --> 00:33:36.160 I just really feel a lot of weightiness on this call. 619 00:33:36.160 --> 00:33:38.000 I don't know if you feel it, but I do. 620 00:33:38.000 --> 00:33:38.720 I do. 621 00:33:38.720 --> 00:33:41.720 I'm just going to unmute my phone here, 622 00:33:41.720 --> 00:33:46.960 and I want y'all to just take a few minutes to really just begin to seek the Lord 623 00:33:46.960 --> 00:33:51.320 on this, what's happening right now for your own heart. 624 00:33:51.320 --> 00:33:53.520 Lay your heart open to Him. 625 00:33:53.520 --> 00:33:59.560 Allow Him to show you some of these points of disconnection, 626 00:33:59.560 --> 00:34:02.840 some of these future stumbling blocks. 627 00:34:02.840 --> 00:34:04.720 Some of you are not in a relationship yet, 628 00:34:04.720 --> 00:34:08.280 but these are going to be things that trip you up for sure. 629 00:34:08.280 --> 00:34:10.440 Let Him begin to show you what's going on, 630 00:34:10.440 --> 00:34:12.600 and it might not even be a relationship that He shows you. 631 00:34:12.600 --> 00:34:17.280 It might be other areas where you have not counted the cost, 632 00:34:17.280 --> 00:34:19.480 and you will not be able to go all the way. 633 00:34:23.040 --> 00:34:24.760 So let's go ahead and pray for a few minutes. 634 00:34:30.760 --> 00:34:34.159 Dear God, we just come to you. 635 00:34:34.159 --> 00:34:34.840 Not out loud. 636 00:34:34.840 --> 00:34:36.719 We're just going to pray to ourselves. 637 00:34:36.719 --> 00:34:37.360 Thank you, Mickey. 638 00:34:37.360 --> 00:34:41.199 But hold that, because as soon as we're done being introspective, 639 00:34:41.199 --> 00:34:42.719 then you can come back and do that. 640 00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:02.060 you 641 00:35:30.000 --> 00:35:32.060 you 642 00:36:00.000 --> 00:36:02.060 you 643 00:36:11.740 --> 00:36:16.300 all right let's take a couple people to pray over the group here Mickey you can 644 00:36:16.300 --> 00:36:18.620 go first 645 00:36:18.660 --> 00:36:28.500 dear God I just pray that we get serious and that we do count the cost and that 646 00:36:28.500 --> 00:36:38.560 we are serious about what we're wanting and for us to really know that God is 647 00:36:38.560 --> 00:36:42.400 with us in Jesus name 648 00:36:43.600 --> 00:36:55.600 men couple more yeah Holy Spirit I just asked that you'd help us to focus and to 649 00:36:55.600 --> 00:37:01.980 regularly just notice the distractions and put them aside I pray that you just help us 650 00:37:01.980 --> 00:37:06.620 to like do to identify them I think there's so many distractions and we just need your 651 00:37:06.620 --> 00:37:15.780 help we need help we need wisdom to know what to focus on with so many dreams bubbling up 652 00:37:15.780 --> 00:37:24.200 I pray you give us focus and wisdom in Jesus name Jesus I just pray you give courage courage 653 00:37:24.200 --> 00:37:29.460 to press into the one that doesn't seem like it's they're not the polished road but just 654 00:37:29.460 --> 00:37:33.900 just that we would walk with you and lockstep and when you call us to do something even 655 00:37:33.900 --> 00:37:38.460 when it's hard we'd have the courage to push through and to be obedient and everything 656 00:37:38.460 --> 00:37:42.160 and Lord I just pray that everybody here like hope deferred we just break that off in Jesus 657 00:37:42.160 --> 00:37:47.460 name and that you will see it is on and be obedient and abide and everything will become 658 00:37:47.460 --> 00:37:53.760 we'll come to you in Jesus name amen amen Lord I thank you that you just showed me that 659 00:37:53.760 --> 00:38:04.960 sorry go ahead I've been praying that my mate would like all the same things I like and 660 00:38:04.960 --> 00:38:10.520 you just showed me that was that's the wrong prayer and I thank you for that and now I 661 00:38:10.520 --> 00:38:16.000 pray that she would help me to be vulnerable and allow stretching and getting out of my 662 00:38:16.000 --> 00:38:24.460 comfort zone yes amen such a good prayer you guys you don't have to have all the things 663 00:38:24.460 --> 00:38:28.620 in common you don't have to like all the same things you know there's already one of you 664 00:38:28.620 --> 00:38:33.940 you don't need two of you I'm gonna tell you being married to someone who's exactly like 665 00:38:33.940 --> 00:38:38.380 you would not be a fun marriage I know that it sounds easy the reason why you want it 666 00:38:38.380 --> 00:38:43.780 because it's easy you don't need to change right you don't need to get new hobbies or 667 00:38:43.880 --> 00:38:47.600 you know do something that you might not like to do because your partner likes to do it 668 00:38:47.600 --> 00:38:52.200 and you do it for them I don't really like to golf but I'll drive a little cart around 669 00:38:52.200 --> 00:39:00.200 so David can hit some golf balls right I'll find something fun to do because your marriage 670 00:39:00.200 --> 00:39:04.760 is about lineage and legacy you're gonna be on this earth for such a brief amount of time 671 00:39:04.760 --> 00:39:09.920 even if you live to be as old as old can be that's still in the light of eternity very 672 00:39:09.920 --> 00:39:16.620 very short amount of time right very short amount of time you're gonna be on this earth 673 00:39:16.620 --> 00:39:21.420 and should Jesus tarry and not set up his kingdom on earth you know in the next few 674 00:39:21.420 --> 00:39:27.060 generations we're talking about a generations and generations of your lineage and legacy 675 00:39:27.060 --> 00:39:33.960 and maybe God wants to change up what it looks like hey Jack no some of you all some of you 676 00:39:33.960 --> 00:39:40.140 all have lineages and legacies that God wants to change up what they look like maybe you're 677 00:39:40.140 --> 00:39:44.540 the kind of person who's like you know there's never been anyone in our family who's married 678 00:39:44.540 --> 00:39:51.060 outside of the race of whatever it is that you are right and so anytime anyone says anything 679 00:39:51.060 --> 00:39:54.820 about interracial marriage you just kind of like look to the person next you like oh that 680 00:39:54.820 --> 00:39:59.940 must be for you that's not for me because my family doesn't do that they never have 681 00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:05.680 done it. Well, maybe God wants your family to do it. Maybe that is a word for you. Maybe what 682 00:40:05.680 --> 00:40:12.960 runs in your family is not, you know, same-race marriage. Maybe it's prejudice, and maybe you're 683 00:40:12.960 --> 00:40:20.480 the turning point for it. Maybe you're the turning point for that in your lineage and legacy. 684 00:40:21.360 --> 00:40:27.280 Maybe God's using that person that, you know, has fallen in love with you, 685 00:40:28.160 --> 00:40:34.320 that doesn't live where you live, to get you out of your geographic area to a different one. 686 00:40:34.320 --> 00:40:41.600 I've seen this happen over and over and over and over again, where God has used a relationship and, 687 00:40:41.600 --> 00:40:49.360 you know, a love-interest relationship to get someone to move from where they are to where 688 00:40:49.360 --> 00:40:54.400 the other person is, because God had a plan for them in that other area, and this was just part 689 00:40:54.400 --> 00:41:00.480 of the plan. I've seen God use jobs to do that. I've seen him use potential love stories to do 690 00:41:00.480 --> 00:41:04.720 that and actual love stories to do it. You're like, what's a potential love story? Well, 691 00:41:04.720 --> 00:41:08.560 you really start liking someone and you move to where they live because you guys have to, 692 00:41:08.560 --> 00:41:13.120 you know, do life together to see what works out, and then it doesn't work out with that person, 693 00:41:13.680 --> 00:41:20.000 but that area works out for you. It becomes the best thing that ever happened to you, right? 694 00:41:20.880 --> 00:41:21.360 And so... 695 00:41:26.000 --> 00:41:30.000 This is Carla. I'm sorry to interrupt, but I wanted to say something about what you were saying, 696 00:41:30.000 --> 00:41:30.640 if that's okay. 697 00:41:31.440 --> 00:41:33.520 Yeah, can you just wait till I'm done? 698 00:41:33.520 --> 00:41:34.240 Sure. 699 00:41:34.240 --> 00:41:37.760 That'd be great. Thanks. And yeah, we do want to hear from you, Carla, because I know 700 00:41:37.760 --> 00:41:44.960 you've had a lot of stretching lately. So these are things that I really want you to ponder and 701 00:41:44.960 --> 00:41:49.600 consider. I don't want this to be a supernatural Saturday that goes in one ear and out the other. 702 00:41:49.760 --> 00:41:56.320 I really want you to think, how does what's being said this morning apply to me? Not to my neighbor, 703 00:41:56.320 --> 00:42:01.760 not to my friend, not to someone that I was talking to the other day about this very subject. 704 00:42:01.760 --> 00:42:06.400 Maybe you were talking to them about this very subject because God is trying to confirm it to you, 705 00:42:06.960 --> 00:42:09.680 not them. All right, go ahead, Carla. I'll let you share. 706 00:42:11.040 --> 00:42:15.520 Thank you. And I'm sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt you, but I literally, as you guys 707 00:42:15.520 --> 00:42:21.520 maybe know, I had this life-threatening brain tumor and this miraculous surgery of the best 708 00:42:21.520 --> 00:42:27.440 doctors in the world. And the whole story is amazing. But when I came home, not a single 709 00:42:27.440 --> 00:42:31.840 human was paying any attention to me because my family was so broken and traumatized and all having 710 00:42:31.840 --> 00:42:36.320 other medical emergencies. And it was Easter weekend and it was spring break. So I literally 711 00:42:36.320 --> 00:42:42.400 almost died in the four days when I got home. And I faced death directly. And first of all, 712 00:42:42.400 --> 00:42:46.880 I learned that it was a beautiful thing because I've been walking so closely with Jesus and I was 713 00:42:46.880 --> 00:42:54.000 sitting in my dad's chair who died and I was so at peace and it felt amazing. And also because my 714 00:42:54.000 --> 00:42:58.400 brain deteriorated so much, it actually kind of exploded out into this way that I can actually see 715 00:42:59.120 --> 00:43:05.760 all the connections of my life. And I know for a fact that, well, for the fact of what I believe, 716 00:43:06.720 --> 00:43:12.400 is that we are all here to heal our own hearts. Because the life that you've had, every moment in 717 00:43:12.400 --> 00:43:18.480 your life is ordained, every moment of the good and the bad. And when you heal yourself, just like 718 00:43:18.480 --> 00:43:23.520 Jackie is teaching us, and I've looked at healing all across the land, all across the world. And 719 00:43:23.520 --> 00:43:28.800 Jackie, yours is the gentlest, best way because it's with Jesus. And that's what Jesus is telling 720 00:43:28.800 --> 00:43:34.320 us. Do everything you're doing, be who you are, heal your hurts, heal your traumas because you 721 00:43:34.320 --> 00:43:37.920 were meant to heal it. And everything you were saying about just because your family didn't do 722 00:43:37.920 --> 00:43:43.600 it, it doesn't matter. You heal your heart, you heal it for your family and you heal it for the 723 00:43:43.600 --> 00:43:50.400 world. And when you heal yourself, then you're coming from a complete place of unconditional 724 00:43:50.400 --> 00:43:55.040 love and forgiveness, which is exactly where I am. And even when no human was paying attention 725 00:43:55.040 --> 00:44:00.560 to me, I had to forgive and love people through that too. And I am living this magical life. I 726 00:44:00.560 --> 00:44:05.920 am going to Stanford. Everything is happening magically, perfectly in amazing ways. It's an 727 00:44:05.920 --> 00:44:09.200 incredible story. I'm getting ready to write my story. The last person I met in Stanford as a 728 00:44:09.200 --> 00:44:14.640 ghostwriter, like every single thing has been supernatural since I started walking with Jesus 729 00:44:14.640 --> 00:44:21.680 in May. And this is the only thing anybody has to do. You do what you do of who you are and your 730 00:44:21.680 --> 00:44:25.440 gifts and your strengths and your experiences and you heal your heart. And when you get to a point 731 00:44:26.080 --> 00:44:28.720 where you do truly feel unconditional love and forgiveness, 732 00:44:29.680 --> 00:44:34.720 then that it's when everybody does that, that will heal the world. And I do not know if it's true, 733 00:44:34.720 --> 00:44:38.000 but I know a lot of prophets and a lot of people who are watching religion, who are saying 734 00:44:38.800 --> 00:44:44.400 that he is here. And even that my surgery is hard for me to believe, but all right. 735 00:44:44.400 --> 00:44:50.240 Okay. Well, thank you for sharing. Carla is a new, a new believer. And so you see the zeal of a new 736 00:44:50.240 --> 00:44:55.440 believer. And while some of you are like, wow, you know, you know, she's, she's talkative and 737 00:44:55.440 --> 00:44:59.760 she's, you know, excited. Well, you know, maybe y'all have known Jesus a little too long. 738 00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:02.000 And now you need to get some excitement out of that. 739 00:45:02.000 --> 00:45:04.480 Well, that's also apparently part of my feeling of my tumor that it's not too much. 740 00:45:04.480 --> 00:45:05.280 I'm going to mute myself. 741 00:45:06.000 --> 00:45:06.960 Oh, no, no, no, no. 742 00:45:06.960 --> 00:45:13.760 But I'm saying that when people meet Jesus in their early relationship with Jesus, 743 00:45:13.760 --> 00:45:17.120 she just said that she became a believer in May, okay? 744 00:45:18.160 --> 00:45:19.920 That means not even a year ago. 745 00:45:20.960 --> 00:45:23.200 People are usually very zealous. 746 00:45:23.200 --> 00:45:29.840 And so, friends, when we're zealous, and, you know, I remember when I met Jesus 28 years ago, 747 00:45:30.720 --> 00:45:33.200 I was, I'm still pretty zealous, actually. 748 00:45:33.200 --> 00:45:36.640 But it was like, whatever you want, Lord. 749 00:45:36.640 --> 00:45:37.520 Whatever you want. 750 00:45:38.800 --> 00:45:39.760 Whatever you want. 751 00:45:41.040 --> 00:45:42.480 I'm here, whatever you want. 752 00:45:44.880 --> 00:45:48.960 So Carla still has that going for her, and I hope she never loses it. 753 00:45:48.960 --> 00:45:49.600 Whatever you want. 754 00:45:49.600 --> 00:45:51.360 You want me to move to Stanford? 755 00:45:51.360 --> 00:45:52.640 I'll move to Stanford. 756 00:45:52.640 --> 00:45:53.440 Whatever you want. 757 00:45:54.000 --> 00:45:57.200 And that is how I felt when I first met Jesus. 758 00:45:57.200 --> 00:46:02.400 Now, there's been times during the last 28 years where I definitely wasn't asking God 759 00:46:02.400 --> 00:46:03.120 what he wanted. 760 00:46:03.120 --> 00:46:07.120 I was just kind of doing my own thing and building my own life and really not checking 761 00:46:07.120 --> 00:46:11.360 in with him to see if, you know, if it was something that, you know, he was calling me 762 00:46:11.360 --> 00:46:11.680 to do. 763 00:46:12.960 --> 00:46:16.480 I will tell y'all that there's a lot of things that I have done that I didn't even pray about 764 00:46:16.480 --> 00:46:16.880 first. 765 00:46:18.640 --> 00:46:24.080 Now, thank goodness they weren't disastrous things, and they weren't humongous big things. 766 00:46:24.080 --> 00:46:27.520 I'm not saying you have to pray and ask God about every tiny little thing you do. 767 00:46:27.520 --> 00:46:31.840 I believe that you come to a place of relationship where he is guiding you with his eye. 768 00:46:32.720 --> 00:46:33.760 I do believe that. 769 00:46:33.760 --> 00:46:39.840 As you mature in Christ, that starts to happen where his desires and your desires are the 770 00:46:39.840 --> 00:46:40.640 same. 771 00:46:40.640 --> 00:46:46.320 But friends, we have so much of what we want going on in our lives, and we have, we've 772 00:46:46.320 --> 00:46:47.280 taken back the pen. 773 00:46:49.600 --> 00:46:50.800 We've taken back the pen. 774 00:46:51.680 --> 00:46:54.800 We're not zealous about the works of the kingdom. 775 00:46:55.360 --> 00:46:58.240 Your marriage, your future marriage is the work of the kingdom. 776 00:46:59.040 --> 00:47:00.160 It's for a purpose. 777 00:47:00.160 --> 00:47:03.600 If you are here to have a kingdom marriage, you want to just have an ordinary marriage, 778 00:47:03.600 --> 00:47:06.560 then, you know, that can be a whatever you want it to be. 779 00:47:07.600 --> 00:47:09.120 You can choose whoever you want. 780 00:47:09.120 --> 00:47:11.840 You can choose your carbon copy if that's what you want. 781 00:47:11.840 --> 00:47:15.840 And y'all can go live, you know, in a van down by the river, whatever it is you want 782 00:47:15.840 --> 00:47:16.320 to do. 783 00:47:16.960 --> 00:47:19.440 But if you want a kingdom marriage, you also might live. 784 00:47:19.520 --> 00:47:21.840 You also might live in a van by the river. 785 00:47:21.840 --> 00:47:26.880 But if you want a kingdom marriage, then, you know, that's going to be allowing God 786 00:47:26.880 --> 00:47:28.960 to play matchmaker, right? 787 00:47:29.600 --> 00:47:34.320 And that's going to be you understanding the cost. 788 00:47:34.880 --> 00:47:39.040 When all of us decide to follow Jesus, we're told to count the cost of that. 789 00:47:39.840 --> 00:47:41.120 Because what does the Bible tell us? 790 00:47:41.760 --> 00:47:47.840 That whoever puts their hand to the plow and then turns back is not fit for the kingdom 791 00:47:47.840 --> 00:47:48.320 of God. 792 00:47:49.120 --> 00:47:49.920 What does that mean? 793 00:47:49.920 --> 00:47:51.280 That can sound really condemning. 794 00:47:51.280 --> 00:47:52.160 Oh, you know what? 795 00:47:52.160 --> 00:47:53.200 You're not good enough. 796 00:47:53.200 --> 00:47:55.040 You're not fit for the kingdom of God. 797 00:47:55.040 --> 00:47:59.600 No, what it's saying is it's saying that you don't have a kingdom mindset. 798 00:48:00.560 --> 00:48:06.480 If you put your hand to the plow and then you turn back, you have not had a kingdom 799 00:48:06.480 --> 00:48:07.120 conversion. 800 00:48:08.720 --> 00:48:10.160 You don't have a kingdom mindset. 801 00:48:10.960 --> 00:48:13.120 You have a fair weather mindset. 802 00:48:13.120 --> 00:48:15.120 I'll do it as long as it's convenient. 803 00:48:15.120 --> 00:48:16.800 I'll do it as long as it feels good. 804 00:48:16.800 --> 00:48:18.800 I'll do it as long as it benefits me. 805 00:48:20.960 --> 00:48:24.800 Guys, we're living in a day and age where people come to Christ and as soon as Christ 806 00:48:24.800 --> 00:48:29.120 doesn't become their slave and do what they want him to do and bless them the way they 807 00:48:29.120 --> 00:48:30.400 want to be blessed, they're gone. 808 00:48:32.240 --> 00:48:38.800 We're living in a time when people's heart soil is so full of rocks and thorns and thistles 809 00:48:38.800 --> 00:48:42.800 and all the things that you guys read about when you did your heart work and all you newbies, 810 00:48:42.800 --> 00:48:44.960 you'll be doing that very soon. 811 00:48:45.520 --> 00:48:51.040 It chokes out the words of Jesus, the kingdom words of Jesus. 812 00:48:51.040 --> 00:48:53.120 It chokes out the good, good life. 813 00:48:55.040 --> 00:49:01.120 The good, good life, John 10, 10 does not come without pain. 814 00:49:02.240 --> 00:49:04.160 It does not come without stretching. 815 00:49:04.160 --> 00:49:07.680 It does not come without obstacles and challenges. 816 00:49:07.680 --> 00:49:09.520 It does not come without adversity. 817 00:49:10.400 --> 00:49:11.280 Y'all, we can do this. 818 00:49:13.120 --> 00:49:18.960 Holy Spirit will enable us and empower us, but we have to continue to choose yes. 819 00:49:19.920 --> 00:49:21.600 We have to continue to choose yes. 820 00:49:22.160 --> 00:49:28.560 And just because Holy Spirit is empowering us, that is not the staples easy button. 821 00:49:31.360 --> 00:49:34.560 I think a lot of people are going to say, well, I don't want to do that. 822 00:49:34.560 --> 00:49:36.000 Staples easy button. 823 00:49:38.640 --> 00:49:43.040 I think a lot of people really do believe that like, oh, well, if Holy Spirit's in it, 824 00:49:43.040 --> 00:49:44.640 then it's going to be easy. 825 00:49:44.640 --> 00:49:48.000 Who, what, how, where does it say that? 826 00:49:51.200 --> 00:49:53.120 No, it's just going to be possible. 827 00:49:53.120 --> 00:49:54.960 Come on, write that down. 828 00:49:56.400 --> 00:49:58.080 Holy Spirit doesn't make it easy. 829 00:49:58.080 --> 00:49:59.280 He makes it possible. 830 00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:16.320 Because without him it's impossible, you can't do it at all. 831 00:50:16.320 --> 00:50:27.200 Can't do it at all. 832 00:50:27.200 --> 00:50:40.600 When's the last time you were so full of excitement about your life, gushing like Carla? 833 00:50:40.600 --> 00:50:41.600 When's the last time? 834 00:50:41.600 --> 00:50:48.840 Carla just had a freaking brain tumor removed from her brain. 835 00:50:48.840 --> 00:50:51.560 She just went through dark night of the soul. 836 00:50:51.560 --> 00:50:55.400 She just went through fire with gasoline underwear on. 837 00:50:56.400 --> 00:51:02.640 And she's super excited about it, and what it's leading to, and what's opening the doors 838 00:51:02.640 --> 00:51:05.520 now and this move. 839 00:51:05.520 --> 00:51:12.000 I remember I was reading through the posts and I saw the post where Carla was at the 840 00:51:12.000 --> 00:51:17.080 hospital and then I saw the post where she said what they found, she had a headache, 841 00:51:17.080 --> 00:51:18.080 she went. 842 00:51:18.080 --> 00:51:19.080 They weren't even going to give her an MRI. 843 00:51:19.080 --> 00:51:20.920 She said, no, you need to. 844 00:51:20.920 --> 00:51:23.240 Like Holy Spirit was leading her. 845 00:51:23.240 --> 00:51:24.520 And they did it. 846 00:51:24.520 --> 00:51:25.760 They gave her favor, they did. 847 00:51:25.760 --> 00:51:27.280 They gave her an MRI. 848 00:51:27.280 --> 00:51:32.560 She's bossing them around now and they gave it to her and then they found what they found. 849 00:51:32.560 --> 00:51:35.480 And then the next thing you know, she's getting operated on. 850 00:51:35.480 --> 00:51:40.520 And literally when they found what they found, instead of showing up and posting and being 851 00:51:40.520 --> 00:51:47.040 like, oh, woe is me and I can't believe this happened to me, which guys, people would pretty 852 00:51:47.040 --> 00:51:49.040 much have a right to do, right? 853 00:51:49.040 --> 00:51:53.240 That's scary and shocking news to just get out of the blue, out of nowhere. 854 00:51:53.240 --> 00:51:57.680 And no harm and no foul to anyone who needs to have a moment to process that. 855 00:51:57.680 --> 00:52:02.200 But she jumps right into this better not mess up my move to Sanford. 856 00:52:02.200 --> 00:52:08.640 I was like, come on, woman, that's awesome. 857 00:52:08.640 --> 00:52:12.400 And right then, I mean, we did pray, obviously all of you guys on the healing call for her 858 00:52:12.400 --> 00:52:17.700 and I do believe that God moved, but she already knew he was going to. 859 00:52:17.700 --> 00:52:23.580 And so, you know, getting that serious about your future and about what you want and what 860 00:52:23.580 --> 00:52:29.660 you believe in alignment with what God wants for you and having zeal and excitement about 861 00:52:29.660 --> 00:52:36.020 this one and only life that God has given you and how you can live it supernaturally. 862 00:52:36.020 --> 00:52:40.220 Right, you guys, it's not going to be easy. 863 00:52:40.220 --> 00:52:41.380 It isn't. 864 00:52:41.380 --> 00:52:47.980 And I do not want to count you among the people that came and tried to take the easy road, 865 00:52:47.980 --> 00:52:53.060 picked someone, did this, did that, and then got halfway through the relationship and then 866 00:52:53.060 --> 00:53:00.700 had to go because you just weren't willing to be stretched any further than that. 867 00:53:00.700 --> 00:53:02.820 I don't want that for any of you. 868 00:53:02.820 --> 00:53:05.180 And so I really want you to make this a matter of prayer. 869 00:53:05.180 --> 00:53:10.420 We'll activate this on tomorrow night's activate, okay, activate some of this and give you guys 870 00:53:10.460 --> 00:53:15.700 a chance to kind of talk and pray and and get it out there. 871 00:53:15.700 --> 00:53:16.900 Okay. 872 00:53:16.900 --> 00:53:19.180 And some of you, you've already done this. 873 00:53:19.180 --> 00:53:24.700 You've already cut and run from relationship that, you know, was definitely of God. 874 00:53:24.700 --> 00:53:27.660 And you you talked yourself out of it. 875 00:53:27.660 --> 00:53:32.580 You told yourself that there's probably something better and something easier. 876 00:53:32.580 --> 00:53:36.580 You know, it's possible that those relationships could still come full circle. 877 00:53:36.580 --> 00:53:41.980 I do believe that there's a few of you that could actually, you know, go back and try 878 00:53:41.980 --> 00:53:44.460 again with that person. 879 00:53:44.460 --> 00:53:46.540 And so if that's you, pray into that as well. 880 00:53:46.540 --> 00:53:47.540 All right. 881 00:53:47.540 --> 00:53:49.300 So Father God, I thank you for your sons and daughters. 882 00:53:49.300 --> 00:53:50.580 I thank you for this time together. 883 00:53:50.580 --> 00:53:56.900 God, I receive this as well for every area of our lives, Lord, where we are just not 884 00:53:56.900 --> 00:54:01.460 being willing to be stretched to a place where we could have the good good that you have 885 00:54:01.460 --> 00:54:02.460 for us. 886 00:54:03.140 --> 00:54:07.500 You have all these amazing things for us, and there's a little bit out of reach because 887 00:54:07.500 --> 00:54:10.660 we have to stretch for them. 888 00:54:10.660 --> 00:54:12.620 We have to be stretched for them. 889 00:54:12.620 --> 00:54:17.100 And so, Lord, I'm asking God that you would make us willing to be made willing in the 890 00:54:17.100 --> 00:54:18.220 day of your power. 891 00:54:18.220 --> 00:54:20.700 And I believe that we are in the day of your power. 892 00:54:20.700 --> 00:54:21.700 And now it's time. 893 00:54:21.700 --> 00:54:27.540 It's time for the children of the true and living God to stand up and to volunteer to 894 00:54:27.540 --> 00:54:28.780 go first. 895 00:54:28.780 --> 00:54:34.780 We just declare and release First Peter 417 over this community, that we have to come 896 00:54:34.780 --> 00:54:38.860 first to the judgment, that the things in our lives and in our hearts and in our actions 897 00:54:38.860 --> 00:54:43.460 and our behaviors and our patterns that are not kingdom, those things must be judged. 898 00:54:43.460 --> 00:54:44.460 They must be revealed. 899 00:54:44.460 --> 00:54:50.340 They must be healed so that everyone else who's watching, they see us go first and there's 900 00:54:50.340 --> 00:54:51.340 hope for them. 901 00:54:51.340 --> 00:54:55.300 Because if we don't go first as your family, there's no hope for anyone else. 902 00:54:55.300 --> 00:54:56.820 That's what your scripture says. 903 00:54:56.820 --> 00:55:00.500 So we ask God that we have a First Peter 417 moment. 904 00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:05.000 in this community, in our own lives, in Jesus' name, amen. 905 00:55:06.240 --> 00:55:09.060 All right, so I know it's, I'm not sorry 906 00:55:09.060 --> 00:55:11.840 that it's a little heavy and serious, 907 00:55:11.840 --> 00:55:15.520 but it's important, you guys, really important. 908 00:55:15.520 --> 00:55:18.840 Also, this is the weekend to go see someone like you. 909 00:55:18.840 --> 00:55:21.320 You guys, let's rock out the theaters 910 00:55:21.320 --> 00:55:23.480 for Christian Love Stories. 911 00:55:23.480 --> 00:55:24.820 You guys, it's so moving. 912 00:55:24.820 --> 00:55:27.120 I cried three times during that movie. 913 00:55:27.120 --> 00:55:29.360 It was phenomenal, one of the best love stories 914 00:55:29.400 --> 00:55:32.080 I've ever seen, got some sad parts, 915 00:55:32.080 --> 00:55:33.840 got some really redeeming parts, 916 00:55:33.840 --> 00:55:37.400 but we want to show the movie theaters 917 00:55:37.400 --> 00:55:39.480 and we wanna show the production studios 918 00:55:39.480 --> 00:55:41.840 that this is what we wanna see. 919 00:55:41.840 --> 00:55:45.320 We wanna see more of this, great acting, not cheesy. 920 00:55:45.320 --> 00:55:46.960 This is the kind of stuff, you guys, 921 00:55:46.960 --> 00:55:49.900 if we wanna get this kind of stuff funded 922 00:55:49.900 --> 00:55:52.720 and more made of it, then we have to show up 923 00:55:52.720 --> 00:55:56.560 in the theaters and actually buy the tickets, all right? 924 00:55:56.560 --> 00:55:57.860 So please go do it. 925 00:55:57.860 --> 00:56:00.980 If you did see it already, post on your social media, 926 00:56:00.980 --> 00:56:04.620 post links to tickets, have people go get them, all right? 927 00:56:04.620 --> 00:56:07.020 Don't just be like, oh, I saw it and it was great 928 00:56:07.020 --> 00:56:10.300 and it was wonderful, no, be an influencer, all right? 929 00:56:10.300 --> 00:56:12.020 Love y'all, see you soon, bye-bye.