WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.960 --> 00:00:06.720 Welcome everyone to Supernatural Saturday. Like I always say, if you're new to Supernatural Saturday, 2 00:00:06.720 --> 00:00:12.640 welcome. We're going to have a supernatural time together today. Supernatural Saturday is a time 3 00:00:12.640 --> 00:00:18.640 where we lean into the prophetic reality of what God is doing. What is heaven saying? What's 4 00:00:18.640 --> 00:00:25.520 happening right outside of our five senses? What's happening? What is that we have to tune into and 5 00:00:25.520 --> 00:00:32.320 use our spirit to follow after? That is what we do on Supernatural Saturday. I'm going to give us 6 00:00:32.320 --> 00:00:38.240 all a challenge. Because this is the month of momentum, this March is about momentum. I don't 7 00:00:38.240 --> 00:00:42.480 know if you're seeing it, but I'm definitely seeing it. If you didn't listen to last week's 8 00:00:42.480 --> 00:00:47.840 Supernatural Saturday, or even the week before, make sure that you catch up because we're going 9 00:00:47.840 --> 00:00:53.680 somewhere. God is building, and so we need to go together. But I am definitely seeing momentum in 10 00:00:53.680 --> 00:00:58.240 different areas. And when things start moving fast, you start to notice where you're not 11 00:00:58.240 --> 00:01:05.360 prepared, don't you? That's what starts happening. When you start moving fast, you start noticing 12 00:01:05.360 --> 00:01:10.640 where you're not prepared. And so guess what? We have the grace on our lives right now to go ahead 13 00:01:10.640 --> 00:01:15.520 and continue to prepare because we know that the momentum is going to continue to increase. 14 00:01:15.520 --> 00:01:19.680 So to add to that momentum, and I know that Bethany has been saying something about this on 15 00:01:20.480 --> 00:01:25.840 Faith Friday, let's come out of hiding. And starting next week on Supernatural Saturday, 16 00:01:25.840 --> 00:01:31.600 including myself, let's try to be on camera if we can. In fact, try to be on camera for every live 17 00:01:31.600 --> 00:01:39.280 event that we do in March. Okay, that's online. Let's try. Because we are going to start doing 18 00:01:39.280 --> 00:01:45.760 things in person as well. We just started, let's just give a big woohoo. We started, 19 00:01:46.640 --> 00:01:53.520 we launched, Soft Launched, our last trip single brand with a intimate private retreat. You guys, 20 00:01:53.520 --> 00:01:57.600 if you got an email about that, you're like, woo, that's out of my price range. Don't worry about 21 00:01:57.600 --> 00:02:02.960 that. That's just one trip. Okay? If you can go on that trip, awesome. It's going to be incredible. 22 00:02:02.960 --> 00:02:06.480 It's going to be amazing. But that's just the first trip that's released. There's going to 23 00:02:06.480 --> 00:02:11.120 be another trip released here really soon with a lower price point. And there's going to be a lot 24 00:02:11.120 --> 00:02:17.280 of local trips and different things that you will be able to share with your local brothers and 25 00:02:17.280 --> 00:02:23.120 sisters. But this is just one of those private retreats. We kept the price down as much as we 26 00:02:23.120 --> 00:02:29.280 could. And I know that it's going to be an amazing time for those that can go. How many people here 27 00:02:29.280 --> 00:02:35.200 know that everybody has it different? Some people have a lot of money, but they don't have a lot of 28 00:02:35.200 --> 00:02:42.960 time. Some people have a lot of time, but they don't have a lot of money. Right? I see a few 29 00:02:42.960 --> 00:02:49.520 nodding your head like, yeah, yeah, yeah. Some people don't have either. They don't have time 30 00:02:49.520 --> 00:02:54.560 or money. You know, some people have a lot of grace and a lot of patience and other people 31 00:02:54.560 --> 00:03:00.080 have a lot of ingenuity and creativity. You guys, that's why we all need each other because we all 32 00:03:00.080 --> 00:03:05.600 have it differently. And it's, it's easy to always look at someone else and say, oh, I wish I had it 33 00:03:05.600 --> 00:03:10.960 like them, but you would have all the problems that come along with whatever it is that they have. 34 00:03:12.000 --> 00:03:18.880 Right? Everybody suffers. I want us to just get that through our head right now. Everybody suffers. 35 00:03:18.880 --> 00:03:23.120 We just all suffer differently. Right? So that's the housekeeping. I want to get out of the way 36 00:03:23.120 --> 00:03:28.160 and I'm going to jump in. This might possibly be one of the most important supernatural Saturdays 37 00:03:28.160 --> 00:03:31.840 that we've ever done. So let's look to heaven. Father God, I thank you so much for your goodness 38 00:03:31.840 --> 00:03:35.840 and your grace. I thank you for everything that you're doing your sons and daughters lives, 39 00:03:35.840 --> 00:03:40.160 including mine. I thank you, Lord, that you're going to speak to us and through us today that 40 00:03:40.160 --> 00:03:44.960 you have a message for us to receive today. That's important. That could change our lives and the 41 00:03:44.960 --> 00:03:50.560 lives of those around us. If we will receive it, give us ears to hear, give us hearts to receive 42 00:03:50.560 --> 00:03:56.960 in Jesus name. Amen. Okay. I want to tell you guys something very important. 43 00:03:58.400 --> 00:04:06.640 The fields ever since Jesus's time, they have been ripe and ready and waiting for harvest. 44 00:04:07.360 --> 00:04:14.000 In fact, Jesus looks up, he raises his eyes, picture it with me. He raises his eyes to the 45 00:04:14.000 --> 00:04:20.720 fields. He's with his disciples. He looks up and he says, don't say that the harvest is in this month 46 00:04:21.519 --> 00:04:26.560 or in this time. Look up, there it is. It's ready and waiting. The harvest is now 47 00:04:27.120 --> 00:04:29.760 and it's white and it's ripe and ready to go. 48 00:04:32.080 --> 00:04:38.960 As Jesus performed his earthly ministry, there were people that were ripe for the picking and 49 00:04:38.960 --> 00:04:43.280 they began to follow Jesus. There were people that he said, if you have ears to hear, 50 00:04:44.560 --> 00:04:50.480 hear, if you can understand what I'm saying through these parables, then that means what? 51 00:04:50.480 --> 00:04:55.440 You're ready. You're ready. You're not going to be offended by the kingdom. You're going to be 52 00:04:55.440 --> 00:04:59.920 excited by the kingdom. There were those people. So there was harvest. 53 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:04.100 It's happening as the good shepherd walked the earth. 54 00:05:04.100 --> 00:05:07.380 And then after, obviously, after he ascended to heaven 55 00:05:07.380 --> 00:05:10.360 and the great commission was put upon the followers 56 00:05:10.360 --> 00:05:12.660 to continue in his work with the help of who? 57 00:05:12.660 --> 00:05:13.860 Holy Spirit. 58 00:05:13.860 --> 00:05:15.980 He said, hey, listen, I'm going to heaven. 59 00:05:15.980 --> 00:05:17.180 I'm gonna go with my father 60 00:05:17.180 --> 00:05:19.460 and I'm gonna prepare a place for you to come to. 61 00:05:19.460 --> 00:05:21.660 But in the meantime, I need you to finish the work 62 00:05:21.660 --> 00:05:22.920 that I started here, 63 00:05:22.920 --> 00:05:24.340 but you're not gonna do it on your own. 64 00:05:24.340 --> 00:05:26.340 In fact, don't do it on your own. 65 00:05:26.340 --> 00:05:27.740 I want you to go to Jerusalem 66 00:05:27.740 --> 00:05:28.940 and I want you to wait there 67 00:05:28.940 --> 00:05:32.380 until the one that I'm sending comes. 68 00:05:32.380 --> 00:05:34.000 You guys notice that he called Holy Spirit 69 00:05:34.000 --> 00:05:35.300 the one that I'm sending. 70 00:05:36.260 --> 00:05:38.900 It's not just a spirit, it's a person. 71 00:05:38.900 --> 00:05:40.360 Holy Spirit is a person. 72 00:05:41.440 --> 00:05:45.120 The three persons of the Holy community of heaven, 73 00:05:45.120 --> 00:05:46.540 Father, Son, Holy Spirit. 74 00:05:47.540 --> 00:05:48.380 Okay? 75 00:05:48.380 --> 00:05:49.340 The Spirit of God. 76 00:05:49.340 --> 00:05:51.380 And that Spirit came, we know, 77 00:05:51.380 --> 00:05:53.360 on the day of Pentecost, Acts chapter two. 78 00:05:53.360 --> 00:05:55.200 If you want to go read about it, 79 00:05:55.200 --> 00:05:57.000 there were people waiting. 80 00:05:57.000 --> 00:05:58.120 They were waiting. 81 00:05:58.120 --> 00:06:00.200 Bible says they were tarrying, which means waiting. 82 00:06:00.200 --> 00:06:02.400 They were waiting for the promise 83 00:06:02.400 --> 00:06:04.640 that Jesus had spoken to them 84 00:06:04.640 --> 00:06:06.160 before he ascended into heaven. 85 00:06:06.160 --> 00:06:07.760 He said, hey, go wait. 86 00:06:07.760 --> 00:06:09.480 And this one's gonna show up. 87 00:06:09.480 --> 00:06:13.640 He's not gonna just be with you like me in a human body 88 00:06:13.640 --> 00:06:15.800 because Jesus couldn't crawl inside their skin, right? 89 00:06:15.800 --> 00:06:17.840 He couldn't direct and lead them around. 90 00:06:17.840 --> 00:06:19.040 He could only use his words. 91 00:06:19.040 --> 00:06:20.240 He could only use his actions. 92 00:06:20.240 --> 00:06:21.960 He said, he's not gonna just be with you. 93 00:06:21.960 --> 00:06:23.580 He's gonna be in you. 94 00:06:26.040 --> 00:06:26.880 In you. 95 00:06:27.840 --> 00:06:29.080 Indwelling, y'all. 96 00:06:29.080 --> 00:06:30.280 And that just goes to show you, 97 00:06:30.280 --> 00:06:31.920 and I want you to see this, please, 98 00:06:31.920 --> 00:06:36.200 that you can be a Christian, a Christ follower, 99 00:06:36.200 --> 00:06:39.400 but not yet, there's the good word, 100 00:06:39.400 --> 00:06:41.940 not yet be indwelled by the Spirit. 101 00:06:44.100 --> 00:06:44.940 Right? 102 00:06:44.940 --> 00:06:46.920 We all have that moment in our lives 103 00:06:46.920 --> 00:06:49.160 where we're indwelled by the Spirit. 104 00:06:49.160 --> 00:06:52.720 I believe from the moment that you become a believer, 105 00:06:52.720 --> 00:06:55.360 when you profess your belief in Christ, you're saved. 106 00:06:55.360 --> 00:06:58.080 The Bible says, if you, what? 107 00:06:59.680 --> 00:07:00.600 If you believe in your heart, 108 00:07:00.600 --> 00:07:02.120 if you confess with your mouth 109 00:07:02.120 --> 00:07:04.600 that Jesus Christ is Lord, you'll be saved. 110 00:07:04.600 --> 00:07:05.800 Amen? 111 00:07:05.800 --> 00:07:08.200 That's good theology right there. 112 00:07:08.200 --> 00:07:10.880 So for all of you that are worried about your grandma 113 00:07:10.880 --> 00:07:13.640 and papa and all the people that maybe didn't get indwelled 114 00:07:13.640 --> 00:07:15.080 by the Spirit in this lifetime, 115 00:07:15.080 --> 00:07:16.360 you're like, oh, did they go to heaven? 116 00:07:16.360 --> 00:07:17.720 Yes, ma'am. 117 00:07:17.720 --> 00:07:18.560 Yes, sir. 118 00:07:19.640 --> 00:07:20.760 First of all, what you need to know 119 00:07:20.760 --> 00:07:23.720 is God's not trying to keep anybody out of heaven. 120 00:07:23.720 --> 00:07:24.560 All right? 121 00:07:24.560 --> 00:07:26.800 He's not sitting around with a clipboard 122 00:07:26.800 --> 00:07:30.760 trying to mark off things, trying to keep you out of heaven. 123 00:07:30.760 --> 00:07:33.680 This is not like getting into some exclusive club 124 00:07:33.680 --> 00:07:35.800 and you're outside and you're not dressed right 125 00:07:35.800 --> 00:07:37.200 or you're not important enough 126 00:07:37.200 --> 00:07:39.560 or you're not rich enough or whatever 127 00:07:39.560 --> 00:07:40.560 and they just don't let you in. 128 00:07:40.560 --> 00:07:42.160 That's not what this looks like. 129 00:07:45.240 --> 00:07:47.000 In fact, a lot of people are always hung up 130 00:07:47.000 --> 00:07:48.400 on the will of God. 131 00:07:48.400 --> 00:07:50.360 They're like, oh, I just wanna be in the will of God, 132 00:07:50.360 --> 00:07:52.120 the will of God, the will of God. 133 00:07:52.120 --> 00:07:53.480 Well, I'll tell you one thing that I know 134 00:07:53.480 --> 00:07:55.080 is definitely the will of God 135 00:07:55.080 --> 00:07:56.560 and that's straight from scripture. 136 00:07:56.560 --> 00:07:59.920 It says that it is his will that none should perish 137 00:07:59.920 --> 00:08:02.560 but all should come to everlasting life. 138 00:08:03.440 --> 00:08:04.280 That's his will. 139 00:08:04.280 --> 00:08:06.400 If you ever wanna know what the will of God is, 140 00:08:06.400 --> 00:08:08.840 it's that God so loved the world 141 00:08:08.840 --> 00:08:10.560 that he sent his only son, 142 00:08:11.480 --> 00:08:13.040 that through him, what? 143 00:08:13.040 --> 00:08:15.200 We would be saved, not condemned. 144 00:08:16.360 --> 00:08:17.720 Correct? 145 00:08:17.720 --> 00:08:19.880 That's correct theology. 146 00:08:19.880 --> 00:08:24.040 So if you're around so-called Christian people 147 00:08:24.040 --> 00:08:27.840 that have a big, huge, long list of detractions 148 00:08:27.840 --> 00:08:29.240 and things that they're using 149 00:08:29.240 --> 00:08:31.720 to try to keep people away from the kingdom 150 00:08:31.720 --> 00:08:33.480 because they're not ready yet 151 00:08:33.480 --> 00:08:34.720 or they're not good enough 152 00:08:34.720 --> 00:08:36.600 or they're living in some kind of sin 153 00:08:36.600 --> 00:08:38.240 according to these people 154 00:08:38.240 --> 00:08:39.919 and that disqualifies them, 155 00:08:39.919 --> 00:08:42.640 that is not the heart of God 156 00:08:42.640 --> 00:08:44.440 and that is not the mind of Christ. 157 00:08:46.520 --> 00:08:47.960 It's not the mind of Christ. 158 00:08:48.960 --> 00:08:50.400 And that's what I wanna talk about today. 159 00:08:50.400 --> 00:08:52.640 I wanna talk about supernatural evangelism 160 00:08:52.640 --> 00:08:54.120 and why would I talk about that 161 00:08:54.120 --> 00:08:56.600 on one of our calls in our community? 162 00:08:56.600 --> 00:08:58.840 Because a lot of your, come on, 163 00:08:58.840 --> 00:09:01.600 a lot of your spouses are in this harvest. 164 00:09:03.200 --> 00:09:05.600 God spoke that to me the other day 165 00:09:05.600 --> 00:09:07.960 and I know that you've been going to all the church events 166 00:09:07.960 --> 00:09:11.240 and you've been going to every spiritual community 167 00:09:11.240 --> 00:09:13.520 that you can and all the church conferences 168 00:09:13.520 --> 00:09:15.240 just trying to scout out your spouse 169 00:09:16.160 --> 00:09:18.280 and I don't think you should stop going 170 00:09:18.280 --> 00:09:20.800 and being with the brothers and sisters in Christ. 171 00:09:20.800 --> 00:09:22.160 I think you should. 172 00:09:22.160 --> 00:09:23.200 And I think it's possible 173 00:09:23.200 --> 00:09:25.240 that you might meet someone amazing there 174 00:09:25.240 --> 00:09:28.440 because you're in a supernatural time right now. 175 00:09:28.440 --> 00:09:31.240 The grace of this movement for sure is on you 176 00:09:31.240 --> 00:09:33.240 and I know that God has given us grace 177 00:09:33.240 --> 00:09:34.800 to help people get married 178 00:09:34.800 --> 00:09:36.160 and you're not here by accident. 179 00:09:36.160 --> 00:09:37.480 So continue to do that 180 00:09:37.480 --> 00:09:38.960 but I want you to know 181 00:09:38.960 --> 00:09:41.760 that a lot of your spouses 182 00:09:41.760 --> 00:09:43.200 and just people ask me all the time, 183 00:09:43.200 --> 00:09:44.800 why are so many Christian people single? 184 00:09:45.360 --> 00:09:46.800 And there's a huge long list of reasons why 185 00:09:46.800 --> 00:09:48.360 and someday I can tell you all of those 186 00:09:48.360 --> 00:09:50.200 but not on this call. 187 00:09:50.200 --> 00:09:53.440 There's a huge long list of reasons why 188 00:09:53.440 --> 00:09:55.360 that have to do with the times that we're living in 189 00:09:55.360 --> 00:09:57.120 that have to do with warfare. 190 00:09:57.120 --> 00:09:59.040 See, we forget that when we get a promise, 191 00:09:59.040 --> 00:10:00.200 it has a process. 192 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:02.440 And that process includes warfare. 193 00:10:03.880 --> 00:10:06.640 You guys forget about warfare when it comes to the things 194 00:10:06.640 --> 00:10:09.000 that you believe that you should have that you don't have. 195 00:10:09.000 --> 00:10:14.000 You forget that there is an entire kingdom around you, 196 00:10:14.920 --> 00:10:17.240 okay, not the kingdom of heaven, 197 00:10:17.240 --> 00:10:19.760 the kingdom of the world around you 198 00:10:19.760 --> 00:10:22.600 that is trying to keep you from getting the tools 199 00:10:22.600 --> 00:10:25.680 and resources that you need to live a victorious life. 200 00:10:28.400 --> 00:10:29.800 But the reason why you forget about that, 201 00:10:29.800 --> 00:10:32.560 you're just like, oh, little old me, little old me. 202 00:10:34.320 --> 00:10:37.080 The opposing forces don't care about little old me. 203 00:10:38.160 --> 00:10:39.040 That's not true. 204 00:10:40.920 --> 00:10:41.920 That's not true. 205 00:10:41.920 --> 00:10:44.240 You're powerful, you're important. 206 00:10:45.280 --> 00:10:48.480 And the more that you know about the kingdom of heaven, 207 00:10:48.480 --> 00:10:50.420 the more dangerous you become. 208 00:10:53.160 --> 00:10:56.680 And so if you don't think that there's all kinds 209 00:10:56.680 --> 00:10:59.480 of border bullies trying to keep you from passing over 210 00:10:59.560 --> 00:11:02.800 into your little promised land of marriage and family 211 00:11:02.800 --> 00:11:05.760 or financial breakthrough, whatever it is, 212 00:11:05.760 --> 00:11:07.840 that you feel like you take three steps forward 213 00:11:07.840 --> 00:11:09.880 and 10 steps back, then you're wrong. 214 00:11:11.440 --> 00:11:12.840 You're like, well, Jackie, what do we do? 215 00:11:12.840 --> 00:11:15.480 What we do is, is we stop focusing on ourselves 216 00:11:15.480 --> 00:11:17.720 and we start focusing on this harvest. 217 00:11:17.720 --> 00:11:19.240 Because God has already promised us 218 00:11:19.240 --> 00:11:20.840 that if we'll be about his business, 219 00:11:20.840 --> 00:11:23.120 that he'll be about ours. 220 00:11:24.000 --> 00:11:26.160 If you will be about the business of the kingdom, 221 00:11:26.160 --> 00:11:28.120 if you will be about the business of the father, 222 00:11:28.120 --> 00:11:29.640 then he will be about yours. 223 00:11:29.640 --> 00:11:31.920 And you guys, that looks a lot different than people think. 224 00:11:31.920 --> 00:11:33.720 It's not a churchy thing to say. 225 00:11:33.720 --> 00:11:37.280 I'm not asking you to go knock on doors and hand out tracts, 226 00:11:37.280 --> 00:11:39.480 try to get people to come to church. 227 00:11:39.480 --> 00:11:40.640 That's not what I'm talking about. 228 00:11:40.640 --> 00:11:43.640 I'm talking about you being a Matthew five city 229 00:11:43.640 --> 00:11:47.760 that cannot be hid, that lives on a hill 230 00:11:47.760 --> 00:11:50.240 that shines brightly. 231 00:11:52.160 --> 00:11:53.720 I want people to look at your lives 232 00:11:53.720 --> 00:11:55.360 and know that this is what heaven looks like. 233 00:11:55.360 --> 00:11:58.000 This is what it looks like to be a son and daughter of God 234 00:11:58.880 --> 00:11:59.880 because you're so full of joy and peace 235 00:11:59.880 --> 00:12:01.240 and love for other people. 236 00:12:01.240 --> 00:12:03.320 We're gonna talk about that today. 237 00:12:03.320 --> 00:12:04.960 Jesus wasn't trying to get us to go out 238 00:12:04.960 --> 00:12:05.960 and do more miracles. 239 00:12:05.960 --> 00:12:09.240 He was saying the greatest of these things would be love. 240 00:12:09.240 --> 00:12:10.640 And I think that we can all agree 241 00:12:10.640 --> 00:12:13.840 that if you still have love living in this world nowadays, 242 00:12:13.840 --> 00:12:14.920 then that is a miracle. 243 00:12:14.920 --> 00:12:17.280 And that means that God is in you and with you. 244 00:12:18.240 --> 00:12:20.080 We're gonna talk about that today. 245 00:12:21.760 --> 00:12:24.600 Being about his business, being that city, 246 00:12:24.600 --> 00:12:25.920 Matthew five, go read it. 247 00:12:26.600 --> 00:12:30.200 It's from the Sermon on the Mount. 248 00:12:30.200 --> 00:12:32.040 Beautiful set of scriptures. 249 00:12:33.720 --> 00:12:35.480 If you read in the message translation, 250 00:12:35.480 --> 00:12:36.880 it says something really important. 251 00:12:36.880 --> 00:12:39.840 It says, we're taking this thing public. 252 00:12:41.240 --> 00:12:43.360 A lot of y'all are private Christians. 253 00:12:43.360 --> 00:12:44.840 What does that mean? 254 00:12:44.840 --> 00:12:47.600 That means that you go to church 255 00:12:47.600 --> 00:12:49.600 with the people that you go to church with, 256 00:12:49.600 --> 00:12:53.000 but when you're out and about in real life, 257 00:12:53.000 --> 00:12:55.680 at your job, wherever, you know, 258 00:12:56.440 --> 00:12:58.720 and I'm not talking about trying to shove the word Jesus 259 00:12:58.720 --> 00:13:01.400 into every sentence that you speak to other people, 260 00:13:02.720 --> 00:13:04.960 but you don't have a lot of grace for other people. 261 00:13:04.960 --> 00:13:06.480 That's how you're a private Christian. 262 00:13:06.480 --> 00:13:07.880 You don't have a lot of peace. 263 00:13:07.880 --> 00:13:09.360 You don't have a lot of joy. 264 00:13:09.360 --> 00:13:10.560 You're negative. 265 00:13:10.560 --> 00:13:12.760 You're always complaining about something. 266 00:13:12.760 --> 00:13:16.040 Look, nobody wants to get in on that life. 267 00:13:17.280 --> 00:13:18.920 And that's what we have to do our heart work 268 00:13:18.920 --> 00:13:20.440 and find out, hey, you know what? 269 00:13:20.440 --> 00:13:21.840 Where did I lose my joy? 270 00:13:21.840 --> 00:13:23.040 And where can I find it? 271 00:13:24.040 --> 00:13:26.800 Father, we're asking that you restore the joy 272 00:13:26.800 --> 00:13:27.920 of our salvation. 273 00:13:27.920 --> 00:13:28.760 And a lot of times, 274 00:13:28.760 --> 00:13:30.600 I'm just gonna tell it plain this morning, 275 00:13:30.600 --> 00:13:33.280 and you guys know that that's just who I am anyway. 276 00:13:34.160 --> 00:13:36.160 A lot of times that we have lost the joy 277 00:13:36.160 --> 00:13:39.040 of our own salvation because we have believed a lie 278 00:13:39.040 --> 00:13:42.320 about this list of rules and regulations 279 00:13:42.320 --> 00:13:43.800 that we call Jesus. 280 00:13:46.120 --> 00:13:48.840 Jesus is the law of love, 281 00:13:48.840 --> 00:13:51.240 not this big list of do's and don'ts, 282 00:13:52.240 --> 00:13:55.560 and you notice that every denomination of Christianity 283 00:13:55.560 --> 00:13:57.400 has a whole different list. 284 00:13:57.400 --> 00:13:59.680 These people over here are like, no, don't drink, 285 00:13:59.680 --> 00:14:00.520 don't smoke. 286 00:14:00.520 --> 00:14:03.280 These people over here are like, don't have sex. 287 00:14:03.280 --> 00:14:05.280 These people over here, you know, 288 00:14:05.280 --> 00:14:08.800 don't hang out with people that, you know, 289 00:14:08.800 --> 00:14:11.280 aren't following Jesus. 290 00:14:11.280 --> 00:14:12.800 But let me tell you one thing. 291 00:14:14.360 --> 00:14:16.000 Christians have their own language 292 00:14:16.000 --> 00:14:17.400 that nobody else understands. 293 00:14:17.400 --> 00:14:18.520 We call it Christianese. 294 00:14:18.560 --> 00:14:21.520 And the reason why is because you don't hang around 295 00:14:21.520 --> 00:14:24.160 with anyone who doesn't go to church with you, 296 00:14:25.040 --> 00:14:26.240 or doesn't go to a church, 297 00:14:26.240 --> 00:14:28.080 or who doesn't go to your kind of church. 298 00:14:28.080 --> 00:14:29.680 And you know what's wrong with that? 299 00:14:29.680 --> 00:14:32.600 First of all, can't do the Great Commission that way, 300 00:14:32.600 --> 00:14:34.640 because we have to do life with people. 301 00:14:35.760 --> 00:14:38.200 One of my favorite quotes of all time, 302 00:14:38.200 --> 00:14:40.080 and you would think because it's a favorite quote, 303 00:14:40.080 --> 00:14:41.320 I would know who said it. 304 00:14:43.480 --> 00:14:45.320 But let's just say that it was, 305 00:14:45.320 --> 00:14:47.480 and someone can fact check it and put it up. 306 00:14:47.480 --> 00:14:51.640 Let's say that it was St. Francis. 307 00:14:51.640 --> 00:14:53.800 It could have been St. Augustine, not sure. 308 00:14:53.800 --> 00:14:54.640 Just said this. 309 00:14:54.640 --> 00:14:59.360 It said, preach the gospel, and if necessary, use words. 310 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:01.060 Which means what? 311 00:15:01.060 --> 00:15:02.500 It means your life should tell a story 312 00:15:02.500 --> 00:15:03.820 of the goodness of God. 313 00:15:03.820 --> 00:15:06.520 Your life should tell a story of the love of God. 314 00:15:06.520 --> 00:15:10.540 Your life should tell a story of the grace and mercy of God 315 00:15:10.540 --> 00:15:13.020 without you ever having to preach at anyone 316 00:15:13.020 --> 00:15:17.060 or put up scripture in someone's face. 317 00:15:17.060 --> 00:15:19.460 You guys, that's not the way it works. 318 00:15:20.860 --> 00:15:22.620 That's just the way that we've been doing things 319 00:15:22.620 --> 00:15:26.040 in North America for the last however many years. 320 00:15:26.960 --> 00:15:29.260 Trying to convict people of their sin. 321 00:15:29.260 --> 00:15:31.820 Actually, the Bible doesn't ever say to do that. 322 00:15:31.820 --> 00:15:33.300 That actually isn't part of it. 323 00:15:33.300 --> 00:15:35.800 It says, be the good news. 324 00:15:37.820 --> 00:15:41.060 Tell the good news to every person that you ever meet, 325 00:15:41.060 --> 00:15:42.420 no matter how important they are 326 00:15:42.420 --> 00:15:45.340 or in your mind how unimportant they are. 327 00:15:47.020 --> 00:15:48.160 That's what it says. 328 00:15:49.620 --> 00:15:52.820 And then, yeah, it throws in some miracle signs and wonders 329 00:15:52.820 --> 00:15:55.580 where it's like, heal the sick, raise the dead, 330 00:15:55.580 --> 00:15:56.500 cast out demons. 331 00:15:56.500 --> 00:15:57.940 That's all great, you guys. 332 00:15:57.940 --> 00:16:00.260 But there's some denominations of Christianity 333 00:16:00.260 --> 00:16:02.020 that have made that the main thing. 334 00:16:03.340 --> 00:16:05.120 Y'all, this morning, we gotta get back 335 00:16:05.120 --> 00:16:07.920 to keeping the main thing the main thing, and that's love. 336 00:16:07.920 --> 00:16:09.740 Gotta get back to keeping the main miracle. 337 00:16:09.740 --> 00:16:12.340 The main miracle, once again, in this world is love. 338 00:16:13.540 --> 00:16:15.140 Let's keep the main thing the main thing. 339 00:16:15.140 --> 00:16:16.380 And yeah, like I said, 340 00:16:16.380 --> 00:16:17.900 I'm not against miracle signs and wonders. 341 00:16:17.900 --> 00:16:19.940 Those are great, but we cannot have an encounter 342 00:16:19.940 --> 00:16:23.360 of Christianity where we're just going around 343 00:16:23.360 --> 00:16:25.020 and we don't love people, 344 00:16:25.020 --> 00:16:26.540 but we're walking around Walmart 345 00:16:26.540 --> 00:16:28.260 and we're trying to find someone 346 00:16:28.260 --> 00:16:29.980 who's got some visible injury, 347 00:16:29.980 --> 00:16:33.500 like a cast or one of those Oscar Mayer wiener buns 348 00:16:33.500 --> 00:16:34.620 on their leg, you know, 349 00:16:34.620 --> 00:16:36.220 because they've hurt their knee or whatever. 350 00:16:36.220 --> 00:16:37.660 And then we can ask them if we can pray 351 00:16:37.660 --> 00:16:39.740 for their leg to grow out or something. 352 00:16:39.740 --> 00:16:43.060 Y'all know who you are, okay? 353 00:16:43.060 --> 00:16:48.060 Love you, but no, that is not the Great Commission. 354 00:16:49.620 --> 00:16:50.460 It isn't. 355 00:16:51.380 --> 00:16:52.460 It's to love people. 356 00:16:52.460 --> 00:16:55.420 It's to be kind to people, right? 357 00:16:56.420 --> 00:16:57.460 That's what it is. 358 00:16:57.460 --> 00:16:59.500 It's to preach the good news once again, 359 00:16:59.500 --> 00:17:02.140 with your life and if necessary, use words. 360 00:17:02.140 --> 00:17:05.400 And that requires us at some level to do life with people. 361 00:17:07.660 --> 00:17:11.020 Life with people who are not following Jesus. 362 00:17:11.020 --> 00:17:14.740 If all we ever do is just show up to rooms once a week 363 00:17:14.740 --> 00:17:17.660 where a whole bunch of other Christ followers are 364 00:17:17.660 --> 00:17:21.780 and we like shine our little flashlights at each other, 365 00:17:21.780 --> 00:17:24.420 you know, the light belongs in the darkness. 366 00:17:25.940 --> 00:17:27.420 This is not a flashlight show. 367 00:17:28.540 --> 00:17:30.620 Like, look at me, I love Jesus. 368 00:17:30.620 --> 00:17:31.500 Look at me. 369 00:17:31.500 --> 00:17:34.180 No, you're in a room full of people that love Jesus. 370 00:17:34.180 --> 00:17:37.020 Go out and show other people what Jesus looks like, 371 00:17:37.020 --> 00:17:39.060 how he loves, how he forgives, 372 00:17:39.980 --> 00:17:43.300 how he is there and never leaves. 373 00:17:43.300 --> 00:17:46.620 Show other people that have never experienced that. 374 00:17:46.620 --> 00:17:48.260 Show them that. 375 00:17:48.260 --> 00:17:49.940 All right, I want to give you a couple of scriptures here. 376 00:17:49.940 --> 00:17:51.300 1 Peter 4, 17. 377 00:17:52.340 --> 00:17:54.940 It basically just says there's gonna come a time 378 00:17:54.940 --> 00:17:58.020 when the family of God is gonna have to go first. 379 00:17:59.220 --> 00:18:01.060 There's coming a time when God's judgment 380 00:18:01.060 --> 00:18:01.900 is gonna come to the earth. 381 00:18:01.900 --> 00:18:03.140 And when people hear judgment, 382 00:18:03.140 --> 00:18:04.980 especially if you come from a Pentecostal background, 383 00:18:04.980 --> 00:18:06.700 you start thinking hellfire and brimstone 384 00:18:06.700 --> 00:18:08.580 and the rapture and all kinds of stuff. 385 00:18:08.580 --> 00:18:10.340 No, that's not what this is talking about. 386 00:18:10.340 --> 00:18:12.060 It's talking about, you know, 387 00:18:12.060 --> 00:18:14.860 there are things that are still happening on the earth 388 00:18:14.860 --> 00:18:15.900 that are part of the curse 389 00:18:15.900 --> 00:18:19.700 instead of part of the ministry of re-reconciliation. 390 00:18:19.700 --> 00:18:21.940 And so those things are gonna start falling apart 391 00:18:21.940 --> 00:18:23.940 so that better things can fall together. 392 00:18:23.980 --> 00:18:25.620 And when they start falling apart 393 00:18:25.620 --> 00:18:27.820 so that better things can fall together, 394 00:18:27.820 --> 00:18:30.940 you know, we have to be a part of that. 395 00:18:30.940 --> 00:18:33.540 We wanna be a part of that from the very beginning. 396 00:18:35.220 --> 00:18:36.420 We wanna be a part of that. 397 00:18:36.420 --> 00:18:39.020 Please make sure your phones are muted, okay? 398 00:18:40.020 --> 00:18:41.980 And so somebody's gotta go first. 399 00:18:41.980 --> 00:18:46.140 Somebody's gotta volunteer to have their own life inspected 400 00:18:46.140 --> 00:18:49.780 for, you know, living lower than you need to, 401 00:18:49.780 --> 00:18:51.780 living lesser than you should. 402 00:18:52.780 --> 00:18:56.420 Have our own lives inspected for whether or not 403 00:18:56.420 --> 00:18:59.180 we're living that good, good life, the good, good life, 404 00:18:59.180 --> 00:19:00.220 where we're prosperous, 405 00:19:00.220 --> 00:19:04.100 where we're full of joy and peace and love, right? 406 00:19:04.100 --> 00:19:05.420 1 Peter 4, 17. 407 00:19:05.420 --> 00:19:06.860 And it goes on to say that 408 00:19:06.860 --> 00:19:09.060 if the family of God doesn't go first, 409 00:19:10.020 --> 00:19:11.900 then there's no hope for anyone else. 410 00:19:13.860 --> 00:19:16.060 What hope is there for anyone else 411 00:19:17.580 --> 00:19:19.020 if there's no prototype, 412 00:19:19.540 --> 00:19:21.540 if there is no example? 413 00:19:24.220 --> 00:19:25.860 Y'all hear? 414 00:19:25.860 --> 00:19:27.580 Nod your head if you're still listening 415 00:19:27.580 --> 00:19:31.300 or if I lost you somewhere along this windy road here. 416 00:19:31.300 --> 00:19:32.140 Okay. 417 00:19:32.140 --> 00:19:33.660 So guys, what's a prototype? 418 00:19:33.660 --> 00:19:34.500 It's a remnant. 419 00:19:34.500 --> 00:19:35.340 What's a remnant? 420 00:19:35.340 --> 00:19:36.860 All of you that sew, 421 00:19:36.860 --> 00:19:39.060 all of you that do any kind of quilting, 422 00:19:39.060 --> 00:19:40.580 you know what I'm talking about. 423 00:19:40.580 --> 00:19:43.900 A remnant is just enough fabric 424 00:19:43.900 --> 00:19:47.100 that's left of the original pattern 425 00:19:47.100 --> 00:19:50.460 that you can use to now mass produce. 426 00:19:52.180 --> 00:19:54.100 If you have one little shred 427 00:19:54.100 --> 00:19:57.780 of original pattern in fabric, 428 00:19:57.780 --> 00:19:59.980 you can use that as a. 429 00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:03.440 prototype, you can replicate it and mass produce it. 430 00:20:05.480 --> 00:20:10.920 It's time for us to rise up as the remnant that's left in the earth. 431 00:20:15.080 --> 00:20:19.760 Because if we go first, then there's hope for everybody else. 432 00:20:20.480 --> 00:20:22.360 A lot of people are always looking for their purpose. 433 00:20:22.360 --> 00:20:23.040 What's my purpose? 434 00:20:23.040 --> 00:20:23.680 What's my purpose? 435 00:20:23.680 --> 00:20:24.480 What's my purpose? 436 00:20:24.720 --> 00:20:27.920 I'll go ahead and give you a blanket statement of what your purpose is. 437 00:20:28.160 --> 00:20:33.080 And this applies to everyone, every Christ follower on the earth. 438 00:20:33.240 --> 00:20:35.560 This is what your main purpose is. 439 00:20:35.560 --> 00:20:37.640 And remember, we want to keep the main thing, the main thing. 440 00:20:37.640 --> 00:20:40.760 And for those of you that are already disconnecting, cause you're 441 00:20:40.760 --> 00:20:44.360 offended, cause I said, Oh, it's not about encounters, miracle signs and 442 00:20:44.360 --> 00:20:45.960 wonders rolling around in gold dust. 443 00:20:47.440 --> 00:20:51.760 Guys, I know people that were actually raised from the dead when they were a 444 00:20:51.760 --> 00:20:56.640 child that do not serve the Lord, that do not love God, that do not know God, 445 00:20:56.640 --> 00:21:01.760 that were never discipled, they, they were a participant in one of the biggest 446 00:21:01.760 --> 00:21:03.360 miracles that you can imagine. 447 00:21:03.680 --> 00:21:04.480 They were laid out. 448 00:21:04.480 --> 00:21:05.040 They were dead. 449 00:21:05.040 --> 00:21:06.840 The coins were on their eyes already. 450 00:21:07.720 --> 00:21:11.880 God used a passerby that was filled with compassion when they, when he heard 451 00:21:11.880 --> 00:21:15.560 that this family had a death and that their child who was nine or 10 years old 452 00:21:15.560 --> 00:21:21.640 had died and he stopped and he went in and he began to hug the child that was 453 00:21:21.640 --> 00:21:25.840 laid out for the showing and she came back to life and I know, I know who she 454 00:21:25.840 --> 00:21:29.560 is, she's, well, she's no longer alive again, but I knew who she was when she 455 00:21:29.560 --> 00:21:35.080 was alive, but she wasn't a Christ follower after that you would think, Oh, 456 00:21:35.080 --> 00:21:37.760 wow, if you got raised from the dead, then you would definitely follow Jesus. 457 00:21:37.760 --> 00:21:38.120 Right? 458 00:21:40.960 --> 00:21:41.160 No. 459 00:21:41.160 --> 00:21:47.160 If you were loved by God, fully loved without any small prints, without any 460 00:21:47.160 --> 00:21:50.160 exceptions without, well, he'll love you, but you got to get this first. 461 00:21:50.160 --> 00:21:51.240 You got to do that first. 462 00:21:51.440 --> 00:21:54.240 If you're fully loved by God, without any of that, then that is 463 00:21:54.240 --> 00:21:56.040 when you would follow Jesus. 464 00:21:58.040 --> 00:21:58.920 I'm going to talk about that. 465 00:21:59.000 --> 00:22:00.600 So we have one purpose, all of us. 466 00:22:00.600 --> 00:22:01.200 And what is that? 467 00:22:01.240 --> 00:22:04.360 It's to show this world, what it looks like to be a son and daughter of God. 468 00:22:04.840 --> 00:22:08.200 It's to show this world, what God looks like to show this world, what heaven 469 00:22:08.240 --> 00:22:11.120 looks like, and not just the miracle signs and wonders part of it. 470 00:22:14.040 --> 00:22:17.400 If you didn't know this already, then you haven't been in this community very long, 471 00:22:17.560 --> 00:22:19.160 but I'm going to go ahead and repeat it here. 472 00:22:19.160 --> 00:22:24.080 And that is all God ever wanted was a family, this entire thing, all of it at 473 00:22:24.120 --> 00:22:28.200 the end of it is going to be about, did you love all of it at the end of it 474 00:22:28.200 --> 00:22:29.680 is going to be about family. 475 00:22:30.120 --> 00:22:32.680 My daughter yesterday, she's off in California. 476 00:22:32.680 --> 00:22:33.400 She's at school. 477 00:22:33.400 --> 00:22:34.400 She's having a hard time. 478 00:22:34.400 --> 00:22:35.440 She's struggling with anxiety. 479 00:22:35.440 --> 00:22:36.560 Different things are happening. 480 00:22:37.000 --> 00:22:40.120 And late at night, last night, she called me. 481 00:22:40.120 --> 00:22:41.040 She said, mom, I'm sorry. 482 00:22:41.040 --> 00:22:41.960 I know you're so busy. 483 00:22:41.960 --> 00:22:43.600 And I said, Hey, I'm going to do this and that for you. 484 00:22:43.600 --> 00:22:45.400 And she said, mom, I know you don't have time to do that. 485 00:22:45.400 --> 00:22:48.920 I said, if I don't have time to do this, what do I have time to do? 486 00:22:49.920 --> 00:22:53.720 If I lead all these people and I help them restore their lineages and legacies, 487 00:22:53.880 --> 00:22:59.280 but I don't minister to the needs of my own family, what purpose would I have 488 00:22:59.280 --> 00:23:04.840 served, what purpose would I have served? 489 00:23:05.600 --> 00:23:06.800 And so many people do that. 490 00:23:06.800 --> 00:23:08.840 You know, there's so many orphans in the name of the Lord. 491 00:23:08.840 --> 00:23:10.760 They run off and they're trying to save the world. 492 00:23:10.760 --> 00:23:14.640 And their own family is lost somewhere in the gutter, hurting. 493 00:23:14.680 --> 00:23:16.200 Does that make any sense to anyone? 494 00:23:18.040 --> 00:23:21.320 And I understand that there's times when we can't help our family and we feel 495 00:23:21.320 --> 00:23:25.880 helpless, but that's when God will send someone else as we help someone else's 496 00:23:25.880 --> 00:23:28.720 family member, God will send someone else to our family member, right? 497 00:23:29.400 --> 00:23:33.240 But in this instance, I can help my daughter and I will help my daughter. 498 00:23:33.440 --> 00:23:36.800 So we have one purpose and that is to show this world what it looks like 499 00:23:36.800 --> 00:23:39.000 to be the family of God and families of God. 500 00:23:39.000 --> 00:23:39.960 And so we're going to do that. 501 00:23:39.960 --> 00:23:40.720 We're going to do that. 502 00:23:40.720 --> 00:23:41.440 We're going to do that. 503 00:23:41.480 --> 00:23:44.280 To show this world what it looks like to be the family of God and 504 00:23:44.280 --> 00:23:45.520 family is all God ever wanted. 505 00:23:45.520 --> 00:23:49.400 And if you like me, you're part, you've been part of a origin family that you 506 00:23:49.400 --> 00:23:52.400 have to keep a safe distance from because they're unsafe people, then you 507 00:23:52.400 --> 00:23:54.200 continue to pray and intercede for them. 508 00:23:54.400 --> 00:23:55.960 You watch God do what he can do. 509 00:23:56.080 --> 00:23:57.240 He will send a missionary. 510 00:23:57.240 --> 00:23:58.600 He will send a voice to them. 511 00:23:58.600 --> 00:24:02.040 That's not yours because prophets have no honor in their own country 512 00:24:02.040 --> 00:24:03.600 and among their own kin folk. 513 00:24:03.600 --> 00:24:05.200 We know that for sure. 514 00:24:06.840 --> 00:24:08.120 We know that for sure. 515 00:24:09.040 --> 00:24:14.200 But I will tell you when my brother was roaming the streets, homeless, 516 00:24:15.040 --> 00:24:19.680 completely, you know, had a psychotic break, mentally ill, all the 517 00:24:19.680 --> 00:24:21.240 things for 20 something years. 518 00:24:21.560 --> 00:24:23.920 Guys, I never knew where he was every year. 519 00:24:23.920 --> 00:24:28.480 So he would hop up and call me and I would find out he's still 520 00:24:28.480 --> 00:24:30.560 live and he's okay or whatever. 521 00:24:31.080 --> 00:24:35.200 But what I would do and what God would allow me to do is I would run into all 522 00:24:35.200 --> 00:24:37.360 kinds of young men that were in distress. 523 00:24:39.400 --> 00:24:43.200 Daniel and Caleb and, you know, my brother's name is Jacob Daniel. 524 00:24:43.200 --> 00:24:45.800 All of them would have these Bible names too, but I would run into them. 525 00:24:45.800 --> 00:24:49.720 I'd be walking downtown Austin on sixth street and I would see some young man, 526 00:24:49.720 --> 00:24:53.920 20 years old, drunk out of his mind, laying on the ground, not homeless, but 527 00:24:54.240 --> 00:24:58.800 obviously putting himself in a permission and a position of vulnerability to be 528 00:24:58.800 --> 00:25:00.000 robbed, who knows what. 529 00:25:00.000 --> 00:25:05.000 You know, drinking like that, laid out on the street, you know, getting, you know, picking 530 00:25:05.000 --> 00:25:10.600 him up, cleaning him up, putting him in a hotel room, going on to, you know, help him 531 00:25:10.600 --> 00:25:16.000 because he had a horrible addiction, help him with that and you know, get with his parents, 532 00:25:16.000 --> 00:25:19.080 you know, contact his mom who hadn't heard from him forever. 533 00:25:19.080 --> 00:25:20.520 She didn't know if he was dead or alive. 534 00:25:20.520 --> 00:25:22.000 What was I doing? 535 00:25:22.000 --> 00:25:26.440 I was helping someone else's son, someone else's brother, someone else's uncle, someone 536 00:25:26.440 --> 00:25:31.040 else's daughter, whatever, but usually it was men at this time because I couldn't help 537 00:25:31.040 --> 00:25:32.040 my brother. 538 00:25:32.040 --> 00:25:35.640 I felt, I felt helpless to help Jake. 539 00:25:35.640 --> 00:25:38.120 So I just said to God, I said, listen, I can't help Jake. 540 00:25:38.120 --> 00:25:43.500 I don't know where he is, but you know, I will help anyone that you put in my path. 541 00:25:43.500 --> 00:25:49.640 And as I help these young men, you will send someone to help my brother. 542 00:25:49.640 --> 00:25:52.240 And God did. 543 00:25:52.240 --> 00:25:57.680 He put them in my path, driving down the road, lost trying to make it to a prayer meeting. 544 00:25:57.680 --> 00:26:01.680 It's like five degrees below zero in Columbus, Ohio in the wintertime. 545 00:26:01.680 --> 00:26:06.880 And there's a young man walking down the side of the road in the country, y'all with no 546 00:26:06.880 --> 00:26:08.760 coat on. 547 00:26:08.760 --> 00:26:11.800 I pull over, he gets in. 548 00:26:11.800 --> 00:26:13.600 I was like, I was like, look, what's going on? 549 00:26:13.600 --> 00:26:15.800 He's like, Oh, I just had to get out of where I was. 550 00:26:15.800 --> 00:26:16.800 He said, I just had to leave. 551 00:26:16.800 --> 00:26:20.440 And I ran out without my coat and you know, I need to get to my cousin's house. 552 00:26:20.640 --> 00:26:22.480 And I said, look, I got to go to this prayer meeting. 553 00:26:22.480 --> 00:26:23.720 I got to go to this place. 554 00:26:23.720 --> 00:26:24.720 I'm late. 555 00:26:24.720 --> 00:26:26.400 I said, and I'm lost. 556 00:26:26.400 --> 00:26:28.080 I said, but when I find it, I'm going to go there. 557 00:26:28.080 --> 00:26:29.440 I'm going to be there for about an hour. 558 00:26:29.440 --> 00:26:31.600 And then when it's over with, I'll take you to your cousin. 559 00:26:31.600 --> 00:26:33.000 So he agreed to go with me. 560 00:26:33.000 --> 00:26:34.000 And guess what? 561 00:26:34.000 --> 00:26:36.560 I took him right back to the house that he ran out of. 562 00:26:36.560 --> 00:26:38.120 And why did he run out of that house? 563 00:26:38.120 --> 00:26:41.560 Because his dad had brought him to a prayer meeting because he had just gotten out of 564 00:26:41.560 --> 00:26:45.640 jail and he's only 19 years old and he was on the wrong road and his dad had brought 565 00:26:45.640 --> 00:26:46.640 him there. 566 00:26:46.640 --> 00:26:51.000 And his conviction of the Holy spirit was so strong, not of his sin, but of his need 567 00:26:51.000 --> 00:26:56.480 to surrender his life to God that he ran out of the house, even forgot his coat behind. 568 00:26:56.480 --> 00:27:01.360 Then God sent me to take his little booty right on back. 569 00:27:01.360 --> 00:27:06.600 When I pulled up in the driveway of that place, that kid's eyes got as big, as big as they 570 00:27:06.600 --> 00:27:07.600 could be. 571 00:27:07.600 --> 00:27:08.600 And he was like, Whoa, Whoa, wait. 572 00:27:08.600 --> 00:27:10.160 He's like, you're going here. 573 00:27:10.160 --> 00:27:11.160 And I was like, yeah. 574 00:27:11.160 --> 00:27:14.840 And he's like, this is where I just left. 575 00:27:14.840 --> 00:27:16.320 And I was like, no kidding. 576 00:27:17.000 --> 00:27:18.000 I said, interesting. 577 00:27:18.000 --> 00:27:21.280 I said, I guess God wants you to stay here, doesn't he? 578 00:27:21.280 --> 00:27:22.480 And he was like, I guess so. 579 00:27:22.480 --> 00:27:24.680 So he went in, he surrendered his life. 580 00:27:24.680 --> 00:27:28.280 I'm happy to say that that young man is a minister of the gospel. 581 00:27:28.280 --> 00:27:30.160 He serves the Lord to this day. 582 00:27:30.160 --> 00:27:31.160 And guess what? 583 00:27:31.160 --> 00:27:35.960 Just a few years later, his precious father passed away, but he got to see his son saved. 584 00:27:35.960 --> 00:27:38.200 He got to see his son safe. 585 00:27:38.200 --> 00:27:41.400 I know we use this word, save, save, not save. 586 00:27:41.400 --> 00:27:46.600 I believe that you're either a believer or you're pre-believer and there's no other category. 587 00:27:46.600 --> 00:27:48.120 Why? 588 00:27:48.120 --> 00:27:52.680 Because the word of God says that he has planted a seed in the heart of every single person 589 00:27:52.680 --> 00:27:58.160 that he is, that he is. 590 00:27:58.160 --> 00:28:00.120 You guys, a lot of those seeds need watered. 591 00:28:00.120 --> 00:28:02.200 They just need watered. 592 00:28:02.200 --> 00:28:04.280 A lot of people have seeds in them. 593 00:28:04.280 --> 00:28:08.600 I mean, everyone has a seed in them, but a lot of people have even more seed than that. 594 00:28:08.600 --> 00:28:12.600 They've had little, little touches of heaven throughout their life, but no one explained 595 00:28:12.600 --> 00:28:14.440 it to them. 596 00:28:14.440 --> 00:28:19.880 God was talking to them, but there was no one there to interpret. 597 00:28:19.880 --> 00:28:22.760 And God wants to bring them across your path. 598 00:28:22.760 --> 00:28:23.760 He does. 599 00:28:23.760 --> 00:28:25.720 And we're going to activate this at the end. 600 00:28:25.720 --> 00:28:26.720 So don't leave. 601 00:28:26.720 --> 00:28:29.160 We're going to activate this at the end. 602 00:28:29.160 --> 00:28:32.720 So I was able to pick that kid up the side of the road and I was able to take him back 603 00:28:32.720 --> 00:28:34.920 there. 604 00:28:34.920 --> 00:28:35.920 And guess what? 605 00:28:36.240 --> 00:28:40.560 Every time I would talk to my brother, Jacob, he would tell me about the kindness of some 606 00:28:40.560 --> 00:28:44.480 stranger, someone who gave him a meal, someone who gave him a ride. 607 00:28:44.480 --> 00:28:48.320 His bike broke down in the middle of nowhere, his bicycle that he was riding. 608 00:28:48.320 --> 00:28:54.120 And the nearest place where he could get it fixed was hundreds of miles away. 609 00:28:54.120 --> 00:28:56.720 And someone just pulled over on the side of the road and picked him up. 610 00:28:56.720 --> 00:28:59.920 And people don't pick up hitchhikers anymore unless they're crazy. 611 00:28:59.920 --> 00:29:05.320 And they picked him up and they took him all the way to where he needed to go. 612 00:29:05.800 --> 00:29:09.920 Things like that happened over and over and over and over again. 613 00:29:09.920 --> 00:29:12.840 So for those of you that feel so devastated about your family and you know they won't 614 00:29:12.840 --> 00:29:14.240 listen to you, it's okay. 615 00:29:14.240 --> 00:29:16.680 They'll listen to someone and God knows who. 616 00:29:16.680 --> 00:29:18.680 Because God knows who they are, where they are. 617 00:29:18.680 --> 00:29:21.680 He knows what they need and he knows how to get it to them. 618 00:29:21.680 --> 00:29:23.960 But guess what? 619 00:29:23.960 --> 00:29:27.640 You are something that someone needs. 620 00:29:27.640 --> 00:29:30.960 When I say that all the time, I was what Candace needs. 621 00:29:30.960 --> 00:29:34.600 And if you haven't heard the story of Candace, it's in some of the teachings somewhere in 622 00:29:34.600 --> 00:29:35.600 your portal. 623 00:29:35.600 --> 00:29:36.600 You'll eventually hear the story. 624 00:29:36.600 --> 00:29:38.920 I can't tell it today. 625 00:29:38.920 --> 00:29:40.080 But I was the help. 626 00:29:40.080 --> 00:29:43.880 There was a need and I was the help that God was sending. 627 00:29:43.880 --> 00:29:47.360 And you are the help that God is sending. 628 00:29:47.360 --> 00:29:51.560 And remember, what we do for others, God helps make happen for us. 629 00:29:51.560 --> 00:29:57.680 I believe that there are spouses in this harvest, lots of them. 630 00:29:57.680 --> 00:29:58.680 Lots of them. 631 00:29:58.680 --> 00:30:00.080 So we have to be about the kingdom. 632 00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:04.080 Business that God has put us on earth to do. The only reason that you're still on earth 633 00:30:04.800 --> 00:30:09.960 Is to show this world what it looks like to be a son daughter of God to invite other people into the family 634 00:30:10.660 --> 00:30:15.920 To save them a seat at the table. That is why we're still here. That is our purpose 635 00:30:16.560 --> 00:30:21.520 Doesn't matter how much money you make it doesn't matter what you do for a living if it doesn't all lead back to the kingdom 636 00:30:21.520 --> 00:30:23.520 Then you wasted your life 637 00:30:24.120 --> 00:30:26.120 You wasted your life 638 00:30:26.880 --> 00:30:28.880 If 639 00:30:29.400 --> 00:30:33.440 God called you to be a lawyer or schoolteacher. That is to show those 640 00:30:34.440 --> 00:30:40.000 Metrons those spheres of influence what it looks like to be a child of God 641 00:30:40.720 --> 00:30:43.920 All of it has to come back to what's eternal 642 00:30:45.720 --> 00:30:50.500 And the only thing that's in eternal friends as people the only thing that's going to be in heaven is people 643 00:30:51.460 --> 00:30:52.540 It 644 00:30:52.540 --> 00:30:57.700 Heaven's move-in ready. You don't got to bring your nice furniture there. You don't got to bring your car there 645 00:30:57.820 --> 00:31:04.180 You don't got to bring your nice clothes that you've compiled there. It is move-in ready. It's all-inclusive resort 646 00:31:04.220 --> 00:31:10.740 Okay, you don't take anything with you except you and the other people that you invited to the party 647 00:31:11.380 --> 00:31:14.180 Come on, that's the only thing that happens 648 00:31:15.180 --> 00:31:16.820 And 649 00:31:16.820 --> 00:31:22.260 I'm about to be 50 years old and I have never been more cognizant of time 650 00:31:23.220 --> 00:31:28.220 we get a limited amount of time in this earth suit on this planet and 651 00:31:28.580 --> 00:31:35.500 We have to be about the business of the kingdom and the things that you want and not just that spouse 652 00:31:35.740 --> 00:31:39.180 But the other things that you want guess what they're in that harvest 653 00:31:40.060 --> 00:31:46.580 The answers to your prayers and even your problems are in the form of other people God is the source 654 00:31:46.580 --> 00:31:50.100 Yes, but he is the head of the human resource department 655 00:31:50.100 --> 00:31:53.500 And so if you've been praying for breakthrough in any area of your life 656 00:31:54.060 --> 00:31:58.900 God has heard those prayers and he has sent the answer in the form of a person 657 00:32:00.700 --> 00:32:06.340 Case in point me little Jackie D. You're like, oh god. I'm so tired of being single 658 00:32:06.780 --> 00:32:11.180 Lord I just want to be married. He's like enter Jackie. Hello 659 00:32:12.540 --> 00:32:18.420 Do I have a word for you? I just feel like what it's calling the veggie tails veggies. Okay, so 660 00:32:20.940 --> 00:32:22.940 Let's talk about that 661 00:32:23.220 --> 00:32:25.140 thing that Jesus said 662 00:32:25.140 --> 00:32:30.820 To his disciples when they were like, oh miracle signs wonders. Whoa, so cool 663 00:32:31.020 --> 00:32:37.380 He was like greater than these things will you do because they were watching Jesus do all this really cool stuff and they were like 664 00:32:37.380 --> 00:32:38.300 Whoa? 665 00:32:38.300 --> 00:32:42.100 Greater than this greater than these things that I'm doing healing the sick 666 00:32:42.980 --> 00:32:46.220 Causing blind eyes to open lame legs to walk 667 00:32:47.100 --> 00:32:53.020 Raising the dead casting out demons what greater than these things will you do because I go to my father 668 00:32:53.420 --> 00:32:59.860 You guys was he talking about better dead raisings? Oh, this person is just a little more dead than the person that Jesus raised 669 00:33:00.020 --> 00:33:02.020 No y'all 670 00:33:02.100 --> 00:33:06.620 He was talking about what does the Bible say? The greatest of these things are love 671 00:33:07.700 --> 00:33:11.580 Three things are eternal faith hope and love and the greatest of these things is love 672 00:33:11.780 --> 00:33:16.020 when he said greater than these things will you do he was saying you will love and 673 00:33:17.180 --> 00:33:20.740 He was prophesying. He was saying there's gonna come a time. That's so dark 674 00:33:21.420 --> 00:33:23.420 so evil 675 00:33:23.660 --> 00:33:29.420 So disconnected so divisive but in the midst of all of it, you're gonna still love 676 00:33:30.260 --> 00:33:32.260 that's gonna be the miracle of 677 00:33:32.580 --> 00:33:34.060 the future 678 00:33:34.060 --> 00:33:36.700 Because remember the Bible says that evil will 679 00:33:37.380 --> 00:33:43.620 Evil will just abound so much. It'll be so prevalent that people's love would wax cold 680 00:33:45.220 --> 00:33:53.300 People's love would wax cold. And so that means that as people's love is waxing cold people don't care. They're desensitized 681 00:33:54.300 --> 00:33:58.820 They hear about people being murdered and killed and mass shootings are like, oh well 682 00:33:59.380 --> 00:34:03.380 Guess someone better know something about that, you know go on with their lives 683 00:34:03.940 --> 00:34:09.540 But then there's this passionate people group in the earth that still care 684 00:34:10.100 --> 00:34:13.139 About the plight of others that still have empathy 685 00:34:14.860 --> 00:34:16.540 That still have compassion 686 00:34:16.540 --> 00:34:21.980 Did you guys know the word compassion means to step into or enter into the suffering of another with them? 687 00:34:22.460 --> 00:34:25.100 That are willing to sit down in the suffering 688 00:34:25.100 --> 00:34:30.420 You're not suffering but you're willing to get into the suffering of someone else with them and suffer with them 689 00:34:31.020 --> 00:34:33.020 Love them 690 00:34:33.020 --> 00:34:35.020 through those dark nights of the soul 691 00:34:36.219 --> 00:34:44.179 Compassion is a form of love said that Jesus had compassion on them. He was moved with compassion. He felt their suffering. He felt it 692 00:34:45.139 --> 00:34:48.380 There's a group of people on the earth that are not going to turn a blind eye 693 00:34:49.300 --> 00:34:50.980 They're not 694 00:34:50.980 --> 00:34:54.380 Because they're full of the love of God. They're full of the Spirit of God 695 00:34:55.060 --> 00:34:59.060 We don't do this on our own you guys. It's not our human love that causes us to do this 696 00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:02.640 It is the Holy Spirit that lives within us, 697 00:35:02.640 --> 00:35:04.640 that causes us to do this. 698 00:35:04.640 --> 00:35:07.560 John 13, this is one of Jesus' last prayers 699 00:35:07.560 --> 00:35:09.360 before he was crucified. 700 00:35:09.360 --> 00:35:13.560 He said, make them one as we are one. 701 00:35:13.560 --> 00:35:14.640 He's talking to Father God. 702 00:35:14.640 --> 00:35:19.640 Make them, my followers, make them one as we are one, 703 00:35:20.080 --> 00:35:22.400 so that when they have love for one another, 704 00:35:22.400 --> 00:35:26.160 they will know, they that see them will know 705 00:35:26.160 --> 00:35:29.960 that I was your son and that they are my disciples. 706 00:35:31.200 --> 00:35:32.480 You guys, it says right here, 707 00:35:32.480 --> 00:35:35.000 there's gonna be one litmus test 708 00:35:35.000 --> 00:35:36.200 when people are watching us 709 00:35:36.200 --> 00:35:40.200 of whether or not Jesus was the son of God. 710 00:35:41.160 --> 00:35:44.040 It says by us having love for one another, 711 00:35:44.040 --> 00:35:48.720 we are going to prove to people that Jesus was here. 712 00:35:50.760 --> 00:35:51.600 How are you? 713 00:35:53.320 --> 00:35:55.040 Jesus was here. 714 00:35:56.920 --> 00:35:57.800 He was here. 715 00:35:59.000 --> 00:35:59.920 He lived. 716 00:36:01.040 --> 00:36:02.600 He died for us. 717 00:36:02.600 --> 00:36:04.480 How do we prove that to people? 718 00:36:04.480 --> 00:36:07.960 By our love, by our love. 719 00:36:09.560 --> 00:36:11.520 You guys all know, some of you came in those ads. 720 00:36:11.520 --> 00:36:13.320 I started running ads just recently. 721 00:36:13.320 --> 00:36:16.280 At the end of 2023, I started running my first ads. 722 00:36:16.280 --> 00:36:17.880 I was no longer on the radio anymore, 723 00:36:17.880 --> 00:36:19.760 and it was necessary because God said, 724 00:36:19.760 --> 00:36:22.160 I want you to throw out nets. 725 00:36:22.200 --> 00:36:26.880 Throw out nets and bring them in and let me sort them out. 726 00:36:26.880 --> 00:36:28.560 Guys, that's actually a scripture. 727 00:36:29.640 --> 00:36:31.480 Jesus said, throw out the nets. 728 00:36:32.400 --> 00:36:34.240 It was a parable that he was telling. 729 00:36:35.520 --> 00:36:37.000 And he said, at the end of the age, 730 00:36:37.000 --> 00:36:39.160 he said, the angels will throw out the nets. 731 00:36:39.160 --> 00:36:42.080 He said, and just like the fishermen that come in, 732 00:36:42.080 --> 00:36:43.640 they bring in their nets. 733 00:36:43.640 --> 00:36:45.240 They're not discriminating against fish. 734 00:36:45.240 --> 00:36:47.080 They're not pole fishing. 735 00:36:47.080 --> 00:36:48.880 So I asked my ad guy, I said, 736 00:36:48.880 --> 00:36:50.280 hey, I said, how are we gonna do this? 737 00:36:50.280 --> 00:36:51.560 He goes, well, we're not gonna pole fish. 738 00:36:51.960 --> 00:36:53.200 I said, what's pole fishing mean? 739 00:36:53.200 --> 00:36:56.200 He said, pole fishing is when you spend a lot of money 740 00:36:56.200 --> 00:36:58.520 to get a very, very qualified lead, 741 00:36:58.520 --> 00:37:01.360 someone who is your ideal audience, 742 00:37:01.360 --> 00:37:02.960 but it takes a lot of money to get there. 743 00:37:02.960 --> 00:37:04.440 He said, but what we're just gonna do 744 00:37:04.440 --> 00:37:06.680 is we're just gonna put out an APB, 745 00:37:06.680 --> 00:37:09.880 an all points bulletin, a big net, 746 00:37:09.880 --> 00:37:11.680 and anyone who wants to come will come. 747 00:37:11.680 --> 00:37:13.840 It doesn't mean that they're gonna join. 748 00:37:13.840 --> 00:37:15.520 It doesn't mean that they're gonna be interested 749 00:37:15.520 --> 00:37:17.000 in what you have to say. 750 00:37:17.000 --> 00:37:18.880 He said, but in that group of people, 751 00:37:18.920 --> 00:37:21.800 there will be people that are ready 752 00:37:21.800 --> 00:37:23.640 for the message that you're carrying. 753 00:37:24.520 --> 00:37:26.000 And that's what Jesus did, right? 754 00:37:26.000 --> 00:37:28.120 He wasn't pole fishing. 755 00:37:28.120 --> 00:37:29.920 Every once in a while, 756 00:37:29.920 --> 00:37:30.800 every once in a while, 757 00:37:30.800 --> 00:37:34.240 he stopped and had the conversation with the one 758 00:37:34.240 --> 00:37:35.800 because he knew that they were marked by heaven, 759 00:37:35.800 --> 00:37:36.760 whether it was the kiosk, 760 00:37:36.760 --> 00:37:38.760 whether it was the woman at the well, 761 00:37:38.760 --> 00:37:42.040 but for the most part, he was throwing out a net. 762 00:37:43.200 --> 00:37:45.400 Whosoever will, come on. 763 00:37:45.400 --> 00:37:46.840 Whoever's hungry, come on. 764 00:37:46.840 --> 00:37:49.080 Whoever's weary and heavy laden with what? 765 00:37:49.080 --> 00:37:51.800 The law, with the rules and the regulations 766 00:37:51.800 --> 00:37:56.120 and wants the freedom of the law of love in life 767 00:37:56.120 --> 00:37:57.640 that wants to come into the kingdom 768 00:37:57.640 --> 00:38:00.680 and come out of the religious synagogues, come. 769 00:38:02.160 --> 00:38:03.800 Come. 770 00:38:03.800 --> 00:38:05.160 Throwing out the nets 771 00:38:05.160 --> 00:38:07.800 because Jesus said in that parable, 772 00:38:07.800 --> 00:38:09.240 the angels are gonna throw out the nets. 773 00:38:09.240 --> 00:38:10.480 It's gonna be this great harvest. 774 00:38:10.480 --> 00:38:12.240 And once again, I believe that we're part of that. 775 00:38:12.240 --> 00:38:14.760 I believe that we're part of that net throwing out. 776 00:38:14.760 --> 00:38:15.680 And for those of you that are like, 777 00:38:15.680 --> 00:38:16.840 oh yeah, man, we need to learn 778 00:38:16.840 --> 00:38:18.720 how to work with the angels. 779 00:38:18.720 --> 00:38:20.800 Yeah, angels are on assignment in your life 780 00:38:20.800 --> 00:38:22.120 every single day. 781 00:38:22.120 --> 00:38:25.400 And if you want to work with the angels, 782 00:38:25.400 --> 00:38:28.480 then work with God because the angels work for him. 783 00:38:30.680 --> 00:38:31.520 You don't have to figure out 784 00:38:31.520 --> 00:38:32.920 how to communicate to your angels 785 00:38:32.920 --> 00:38:34.240 because they work for God. 786 00:38:34.240 --> 00:38:37.600 And so you need to figure out how to communicate with God 787 00:38:37.600 --> 00:38:39.800 and receive communication from God. 788 00:38:39.800 --> 00:38:42.200 And you do that through speaking his word. 789 00:38:43.200 --> 00:38:45.560 You want to activate the angels in your life? 790 00:38:46.760 --> 00:38:50.360 Come into agreement with the word of God out loud. 791 00:38:50.360 --> 00:38:52.160 That's what activates them. 792 00:38:52.160 --> 00:38:54.840 That's what commands the angels 793 00:38:56.320 --> 00:39:00.560 is when they hear the voice of the creator 794 00:39:00.560 --> 00:39:01.960 coming out of you. 795 00:39:03.000 --> 00:39:05.280 Some of you need some surelys in your life. 796 00:39:05.280 --> 00:39:07.120 Surely the Lord will show up. 797 00:39:07.120 --> 00:39:09.200 Surely the Lord will deliver me. 798 00:39:09.200 --> 00:39:11.480 Surely the righteous will not be. 799 00:39:11.520 --> 00:39:13.720 Surely the righteous will not be forsaken. 800 00:39:15.440 --> 00:39:17.880 You got to start coming to agreement with heaven. 801 00:39:19.560 --> 00:39:21.000 Heaven, heaven, heaven. 802 00:39:21.000 --> 00:39:22.240 So we're not pole fishing, you guys. 803 00:39:22.240 --> 00:39:23.880 We're net fishing. 804 00:39:23.880 --> 00:39:24.720 We're net fishing. 805 00:39:24.720 --> 00:39:25.560 We're throwing out a net. 806 00:39:25.560 --> 00:39:26.400 And you know what? 807 00:39:26.400 --> 00:39:27.240 We're going to let God sort them out. 808 00:39:27.240 --> 00:39:28.200 Don't you sort them out? 809 00:39:28.200 --> 00:39:29.880 Don't you say, oh, this one right here 810 00:39:29.880 --> 00:39:31.520 doesn't look that healthy. 811 00:39:31.520 --> 00:39:33.120 This one right here looks too dirty. 812 00:39:33.120 --> 00:39:34.840 This one's missing a fin. 813 00:39:34.840 --> 00:39:36.800 Oh, no. 814 00:39:38.320 --> 00:39:39.400 This one looks diseased. 815 00:39:39.400 --> 00:39:41.440 No, that's not your job. 816 00:39:41.960 --> 00:39:44.280 It says that God looks on the inside. 817 00:39:44.280 --> 00:39:45.920 He sees the Heart. 818 00:39:46.880 --> 00:39:49.120 We're the ones that judge books by the cover. 819 00:39:52.120 --> 00:39:54.720 God is the one that sees the inside 820 00:39:54.720 --> 00:39:57.120 and he will let you see the inside too 821 00:39:59.120 --> 00:40:03.600 if you will allow him to. 822 00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:02.000 That is high level discernment. 823 00:40:02.000 --> 00:40:03.360 That's what discernment is. 824 00:40:05.240 --> 00:40:06.840 Discerning the hearts of people, 825 00:40:06.840 --> 00:40:07.800 whether their hearts, 826 00:40:07.800 --> 00:40:09.840 regardless of what their actions are doing, 827 00:40:09.840 --> 00:40:12.600 regardless of what their outside looks like, 828 00:40:12.600 --> 00:40:15.560 there could be seed in there that just needs to be watered. 829 00:40:16.820 --> 00:40:17.660 Now, a lot of you are like, 830 00:40:17.660 --> 00:40:20.160 Jackie, are you giving us permission to missionary date? 831 00:40:20.160 --> 00:40:22.200 You guys, this is not about dating. 832 00:40:22.200 --> 00:40:25.760 This is about an assignment that you have been given 833 00:40:25.760 --> 00:40:29.360 the moment that you said, yes, 834 00:40:29.360 --> 00:40:33.100 I surrender, Jesus is my Lord and Savior. 835 00:40:34.640 --> 00:40:36.780 This is an assignment that we all have, 836 00:40:36.780 --> 00:40:38.280 and that's to live out loud, 837 00:40:39.680 --> 00:40:41.640 to show people what the kingdom of God looks like 838 00:40:41.640 --> 00:40:42.480 through our lives. 839 00:40:42.480 --> 00:40:44.120 You guys, we're not gonna do it perfectly, 840 00:40:44.120 --> 00:40:46.160 but if you follow after the spirit every day, 841 00:40:46.160 --> 00:40:48.440 if you get up, I know this is Supernatural Saturday, 842 00:40:48.440 --> 00:40:52.280 but if you get up every day and you lean into heaven, 843 00:40:52.280 --> 00:40:54.200 then you're more likely to follow after the spirit 844 00:40:54.200 --> 00:40:55.560 and not the flesh that day. 845 00:40:56.160 --> 00:40:57.000 You're more likely, 846 00:40:57.000 --> 00:40:58.600 I'm not gonna say you're for sure going to, 847 00:40:58.600 --> 00:40:59.960 but you're more likely to. 848 00:41:01.360 --> 00:41:03.840 From the moment that your feet hit the ground in the morning, 849 00:41:03.840 --> 00:41:07.360 there's all kinds of things that are coming against us 850 00:41:07.360 --> 00:41:08.400 from the opposing forces, 851 00:41:08.400 --> 00:41:12.760 trying to keep us from focusing on that assignment. 852 00:41:12.760 --> 00:41:15.680 All kinds of distractions, all kinds of disruptions, 853 00:41:15.680 --> 00:41:17.000 all kinds of everything. 854 00:41:18.080 --> 00:41:18.920 Amen? 855 00:41:18.920 --> 00:41:20.280 We all know it, it's true. 856 00:41:20.600 --> 00:41:21.440 Amen? 857 00:41:21.440 --> 00:41:22.800 We all know it, it's true. 858 00:41:27.920 --> 00:41:28.840 It's true, it's true. 859 00:41:28.840 --> 00:41:30.440 Okay, let's keep going. 860 00:41:31.960 --> 00:41:33.480 So God's gathering, you guys, 861 00:41:33.480 --> 00:41:36.200 he's gathering the creatives, the misfits, 862 00:41:36.200 --> 00:41:37.580 the rebels of religion. 863 00:41:39.320 --> 00:41:41.280 The people that you may have thought, 864 00:41:41.280 --> 00:41:42.760 yeah, they don't want any of this. 865 00:41:42.760 --> 00:41:43.640 They don't want God. 866 00:41:43.640 --> 00:41:45.880 No, they don't want religion. 867 00:41:45.880 --> 00:41:47.120 They don't want religion. 868 00:41:48.120 --> 00:41:49.840 They do want God, 869 00:41:49.840 --> 00:41:52.480 but someone somewhere along their life told them that, 870 00:41:52.480 --> 00:41:53.880 hey, this is what God looks like, 871 00:41:53.880 --> 00:41:55.320 and they didn't want that. 872 00:41:55.320 --> 00:41:57.440 They didn't want an angry God, a hateful God, 873 00:41:57.440 --> 00:42:00.000 a God that was waiting around with a clipboard, 874 00:42:00.000 --> 00:42:01.520 just waiting to cross them off 875 00:42:01.520 --> 00:42:03.720 as soon as they did something wrong, 876 00:42:03.720 --> 00:42:05.640 waiting to cross them off, 877 00:42:05.640 --> 00:42:06.960 cross them off the list. 878 00:42:08.680 --> 00:42:10.040 They didn't want that. 879 00:42:10.040 --> 00:42:12.280 And you guys, honestly, who would want that? 880 00:42:14.880 --> 00:42:16.880 Let's just recap here for a second. 881 00:42:17.920 --> 00:42:22.920 Say that you're a pre-believer, okay? 882 00:42:23.480 --> 00:42:24.720 Some of you were raised in church. 883 00:42:24.720 --> 00:42:26.520 You don't even remember when you were a pre-believer. 884 00:42:26.520 --> 00:42:28.160 You've just believed Jesus all your life, 885 00:42:28.160 --> 00:42:29.520 and that's amazing. 886 00:42:29.520 --> 00:42:34.000 But a lot of us, we were raised by wolves in the desert 887 00:42:34.000 --> 00:42:37.640 or in the wilderness, the woods, okay? 888 00:42:37.640 --> 00:42:40.960 And we remember the moment that we found out 889 00:42:40.960 --> 00:42:43.280 about the good news in Jesus. 890 00:42:43.280 --> 00:42:45.160 A lot of us were adults when that happened. 891 00:42:45.280 --> 00:42:46.480 I was. 892 00:42:46.480 --> 00:42:48.120 And there were seeds, though. 893 00:42:48.120 --> 00:42:49.200 There were seeds in me. 894 00:42:49.200 --> 00:42:50.040 I can't lie. 895 00:42:50.040 --> 00:42:51.240 There were seeds in me. 896 00:42:51.240 --> 00:42:54.120 They never got watered, but they were there. 897 00:42:54.120 --> 00:42:56.240 And so when finally I had that, 898 00:42:56.240 --> 00:42:58.640 because remember the Bible says one plants, one waters, 899 00:42:58.640 --> 00:43:01.480 and I, the Lord, give the increase, right? 900 00:43:01.480 --> 00:43:04.920 He causes that acceleration of growth to happen. 901 00:43:04.920 --> 00:43:07.560 So I remember when that happened. 902 00:43:07.560 --> 00:43:09.840 But quite frankly, up until the point 903 00:43:09.840 --> 00:43:13.200 when I had an intersection with Jesus, the real Jesus, 904 00:43:14.160 --> 00:43:15.880 and why do I say the real Jesus? 905 00:43:15.880 --> 00:43:17.760 Because there were plenty of times before that, 906 00:43:17.760 --> 00:43:21.120 because my grandma was in this very religious denomination, 907 00:43:21.120 --> 00:43:23.880 that I had had people come to me and say things 908 00:43:23.880 --> 00:43:25.680 that I'm sure that they meant well. 909 00:43:26.680 --> 00:43:27.800 I'm sure that they meant well. 910 00:43:27.800 --> 00:43:29.200 They were just telling me, 911 00:43:29.200 --> 00:43:32.000 guys, whoever God is to you, he will be through you. 912 00:43:32.880 --> 00:43:34.400 And they believed that God was hard. 913 00:43:34.400 --> 00:43:36.160 He's a hard taskmaster. 914 00:43:36.160 --> 00:43:37.320 He was a judger. 915 00:43:37.320 --> 00:43:38.560 He was a condemner. 916 00:43:38.560 --> 00:43:41.880 And so they would come and they would try to scare me 917 00:43:41.880 --> 00:43:44.960 into surrendering to God. 918 00:43:44.960 --> 00:43:45.960 Oh, you're gonna go to hell, 919 00:43:45.960 --> 00:43:47.760 or you're gonna this, or you're gonna that, 920 00:43:47.760 --> 00:43:50.720 or even calling you names, you're a heathen, 921 00:43:50.720 --> 00:43:52.200 or you're a whore. 922 00:43:52.200 --> 00:43:55.400 Guys, just so you know, this is not evangelistic. 923 00:43:58.200 --> 00:44:00.280 It's not, it doesn't work. 924 00:44:00.280 --> 00:44:02.360 And if you can scare someone 925 00:44:02.360 --> 00:44:05.600 into getting in a church pew somewhere, 926 00:44:05.600 --> 00:44:08.120 very quickly, because love is not the thing 927 00:44:08.120 --> 00:44:10.160 holding them there, it's not sustaining them there, 928 00:44:10.160 --> 00:44:12.920 it's fear, very quickly, they're gonna be gone again. 929 00:44:14.840 --> 00:44:17.520 Until the next moment that now they're scared. 930 00:44:17.520 --> 00:44:19.360 So recap with me. 931 00:44:20.280 --> 00:44:23.880 Who would want to surrender their life 932 00:44:23.880 --> 00:44:27.920 to someone who is mean, and vengeful, 933 00:44:27.920 --> 00:44:30.800 and antagonistic, petty? 934 00:44:31.800 --> 00:44:34.920 This is the way a lot of religions make God to sound. 935 00:44:34.920 --> 00:44:35.760 Who's selfish. 936 00:44:35.760 --> 00:44:37.280 I mean, let's just face it. 937 00:44:37.320 --> 00:44:40.440 A lot of people make God sound like a straight up narcissist. 938 00:44:43.400 --> 00:44:44.600 I am God. 939 00:44:45.520 --> 00:44:46.480 And he made this world, 940 00:44:46.480 --> 00:44:48.560 and he put all of us little minions on it 941 00:44:48.560 --> 00:44:50.440 to do his bidding, and his will, 942 00:44:50.440 --> 00:44:53.400 and all he wants all day long is to be worshiped. 943 00:44:53.400 --> 00:44:55.640 You guys, that sounds scary. 944 00:44:58.640 --> 00:45:00.640 My favorite are the people that are like. 945 00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:02.280 Yeah, we get to heaven, we're just gonna worship God 946 00:45:02.280 --> 00:45:03.600 all day long for eternity. 947 00:45:03.600 --> 00:45:04.580 I'm like, what? 948 00:45:07.800 --> 00:45:09.360 That's a long eternity. 949 00:45:12.260 --> 00:45:13.760 That's not what it looks like. 950 00:45:15.120 --> 00:45:16.560 You got God is love. 951 00:45:16.560 --> 00:45:18.760 He doesn't just have love, he is love. 952 00:45:18.760 --> 00:45:21.960 And we have to represent him that way. 953 00:45:21.960 --> 00:45:23.780 He's full of grace, he's full of mercy, 954 00:45:23.780 --> 00:45:25.240 he's full of patience. 955 00:45:25.240 --> 00:45:27.560 People are like, well, what about the Old Testament? 956 00:45:27.600 --> 00:45:30.360 You are not rightly dividing the scriptures. 957 00:45:30.360 --> 00:45:33.640 You are not understanding what's happening there. 958 00:45:33.640 --> 00:45:35.280 Trust me, I had all those questions too, 959 00:45:35.280 --> 00:45:39.480 and I don't have time to do a theological discussion 960 00:45:39.480 --> 00:45:42.520 about the nature of God this morning. 961 00:45:42.520 --> 00:45:45.440 But I promise that if we're not full of grace 962 00:45:45.440 --> 00:45:47.960 and hope and joy, if we don't believe that God is with us 963 00:45:47.960 --> 00:45:50.400 and for us and that life is for us, 964 00:45:50.400 --> 00:45:51.720 if we don't believe those things, 965 00:45:51.720 --> 00:45:53.760 then we will never be able to convey those things 966 00:45:53.760 --> 00:45:55.520 to other people successfully. 967 00:45:55.560 --> 00:45:58.840 Whoever God is to us, he will be through us. 968 00:45:58.840 --> 00:46:00.080 He will. 969 00:46:00.080 --> 00:46:01.240 So there are all these people, 970 00:46:01.240 --> 00:46:02.440 and this is where I wanted to get to today, 971 00:46:02.440 --> 00:46:03.700 that are marked by heaven, you guys. 972 00:46:03.700 --> 00:46:05.000 They already belong to the shepherd. 973 00:46:05.000 --> 00:46:06.360 They already belong to the good shepherd. 974 00:46:06.360 --> 00:46:07.760 They're marked by heaven. 975 00:46:07.760 --> 00:46:09.220 They had some sort of encounter. 976 00:46:09.220 --> 00:46:10.680 They didn't even know what it was. 977 00:46:10.680 --> 00:46:11.680 They couldn't explain it. 978 00:46:11.680 --> 00:46:13.840 They might've even been a child. 979 00:46:13.840 --> 00:46:17.280 And it's time for us to harvest them first, okay? 980 00:46:17.280 --> 00:46:18.600 Because they're the harvesters 981 00:46:18.600 --> 00:46:20.200 that are gonna work with us in the fields. 982 00:46:20.200 --> 00:46:22.880 And so we have to harvest the harvesters. 983 00:46:22.880 --> 00:46:24.520 Those are leaders in the body of Christ. 984 00:46:24.520 --> 00:46:26.220 Those are our future spouses. 985 00:46:27.280 --> 00:46:29.580 Matthew 13 talks about the nets. 986 00:46:30.800 --> 00:46:34.480 Matthew 13, I think that I wrote this in my notes here 987 00:46:34.480 --> 00:46:36.880 because you guys know the scripture 988 00:46:36.880 --> 00:46:39.720 about the vineyard and the 11th hour workers. 989 00:46:39.720 --> 00:46:42.080 So these are the people that we're talking about. 990 00:46:42.080 --> 00:46:44.920 So these workers are just standing around in the marketplace 991 00:46:44.920 --> 00:46:46.680 and no one has hired them, right? 992 00:46:46.680 --> 00:46:47.720 And the master of the house, 993 00:46:47.720 --> 00:46:49.240 which is the typology of Jesus, 994 00:46:49.240 --> 00:46:50.200 he comes and says, 995 00:46:50.200 --> 00:46:51.920 hey, why aren't you guys out there 996 00:46:51.920 --> 00:46:53.720 working with the rest of them? 997 00:46:54.040 --> 00:46:55.440 I'm willing to pay you the same, 998 00:46:55.440 --> 00:46:58.000 even the same as the people that have worked all day 999 00:46:58.000 --> 00:46:59.440 if you go now. 1000 00:46:59.440 --> 00:47:00.760 And they're like, well, we haven't gone 1001 00:47:00.760 --> 00:47:04.040 because no one saw any value in us. 1002 00:47:04.040 --> 00:47:04.880 Why is that? 1003 00:47:04.880 --> 00:47:05.700 Because you guys, 1004 00:47:05.700 --> 00:47:08.180 the people that were the skilled laborers in the vineyard, 1005 00:47:08.180 --> 00:47:10.420 let's call them the professional Christians. 1006 00:47:10.420 --> 00:47:12.520 Because this is an analogy 1007 00:47:12.520 --> 00:47:15.240 to reaping the harvest of souls, right? 1008 00:47:15.240 --> 00:47:17.320 The vineyard is the harvest of souls. 1009 00:47:17.320 --> 00:47:19.220 They get put out there first, right? 1010 00:47:19.220 --> 00:47:21.400 And a lot of us, we just sit idly by 1011 00:47:21.400 --> 00:47:23.200 and we let the professionals do the job. 1012 00:47:23.560 --> 00:47:26.400 Come on, someone, this is for you. 1013 00:47:26.400 --> 00:47:28.080 Oh, let the preachers do it. 1014 00:47:28.080 --> 00:47:29.240 Let the prophets do it. 1015 00:47:29.240 --> 00:47:31.400 Let the song people do it. 1016 00:47:31.400 --> 00:47:34.380 Those of you that go to regular traditional church services 1017 00:47:34.380 --> 00:47:36.540 where there's a platform and the special people, 1018 00:47:36.540 --> 00:47:41.080 the skilled laborers are up there reaping the harvest, 1019 00:47:41.080 --> 00:47:41.920 right? 1020 00:47:41.920 --> 00:47:43.520 That's what this parable is saying. 1021 00:47:43.520 --> 00:47:44.760 These people, they're standing around. 1022 00:47:44.760 --> 00:47:46.520 No one saw any value in us 1023 00:47:46.520 --> 00:47:48.280 because we're not skilled. 1024 00:47:48.280 --> 00:47:51.040 Jesus is like, you're my favorite kind. 1025 00:47:51.040 --> 00:47:52.500 Get out there. 1026 00:47:52.500 --> 00:47:55.300 You can do more through your inexperience 1027 00:47:55.300 --> 00:47:59.240 than people can do through their professional Christianity. 1028 00:47:59.240 --> 00:48:01.380 You can do more through just testifying 1029 00:48:01.380 --> 00:48:03.660 about what God's done for you. 1030 00:48:03.660 --> 00:48:06.140 You know, when you were tore up from the floor up, 1031 00:48:06.140 --> 00:48:07.500 busted and disgusted 1032 00:48:07.500 --> 00:48:10.840 than people can do in a lifetime of platform ministry. 1033 00:48:11.820 --> 00:48:13.260 So he sends them out. 1034 00:48:13.260 --> 00:48:14.100 Because why? 1035 00:48:14.100 --> 00:48:15.020 Because it's time. 1036 00:48:16.260 --> 00:48:18.020 Doesn't matter if you're not skilled. 1037 00:48:18.020 --> 00:48:19.500 You don't have to have the words. 1038 00:48:19.500 --> 00:48:22.660 The Bible promises you that he'll give you the words 1039 00:48:22.660 --> 00:48:23.940 when you open your mouth. 1040 00:48:25.220 --> 00:48:26.060 It's time. 1041 00:48:27.300 --> 00:48:28.260 We gotta go. 1042 00:48:28.260 --> 00:48:30.480 2024 is the table for more. 1043 00:48:31.780 --> 00:48:33.300 Guys, we're not gonna build bigger walls 1044 00:48:33.300 --> 00:48:34.660 to keep people out. 1045 00:48:34.660 --> 00:48:39.420 Bigger rules, you know, bigger prerequisites 1046 00:48:39.420 --> 00:48:41.900 of what they need to do in order to come into our life 1047 00:48:41.900 --> 00:48:43.420 or come into the kingdom. 1048 00:48:43.420 --> 00:48:45.700 We're gonna build bigger tables. 1049 00:48:45.700 --> 00:48:47.380 Imagine big banquet tables 1050 00:48:47.380 --> 00:48:49.540 full of food for the hungry. 1051 00:48:50.740 --> 00:48:51.580 It's time. 1052 00:48:53.460 --> 00:48:55.020 It's time. 1053 00:48:55.020 --> 00:48:56.860 You guys, we're really quick to discard people, 1054 00:48:56.860 --> 00:48:58.180 really quick to write people off. 1055 00:48:58.180 --> 00:48:59.740 I want you to know something really important. 1056 00:48:59.740 --> 00:49:00.940 I'm gonna try not to cry. 1057 00:49:00.940 --> 00:49:02.540 I was a discarded fish. 1058 00:49:04.100 --> 00:49:06.500 I was a discarded fish, y'all. 1059 00:49:06.500 --> 00:49:08.020 By humans, not by God. 1060 00:49:08.020 --> 00:49:10.420 I was a discarded fish. 1061 00:49:10.420 --> 00:49:13.780 When I was young and my family was so broken and troubled, 1062 00:49:13.780 --> 00:49:15.540 you guys, I was in a foster care system 1063 00:49:15.540 --> 00:49:17.240 that was attached to a church 1064 00:49:18.100 --> 00:49:18.940 that had a school. 1065 00:49:18.940 --> 00:49:19.880 And I went to that school 1066 00:49:19.880 --> 00:49:21.480 when I was living in that foster home. 1067 00:49:21.480 --> 00:49:23.120 And you guys, I smoked cigarettes. 1068 00:49:23.120 --> 00:49:25.680 Oh my God, just burned me at the stake. 1069 00:49:28.360 --> 00:49:29.820 I was 16 years old. 1070 00:49:31.360 --> 00:49:35.760 And the pastor of that church told my mother, 1071 00:49:35.760 --> 00:49:37.560 I remember I lived in a foster home 1072 00:49:37.560 --> 00:49:40.000 and the foster home was kicking me out 1073 00:49:40.000 --> 00:49:42.280 and my mother had been contacted 1074 00:49:42.280 --> 00:49:44.800 and she wasn't gonna take me back. 1075 00:49:44.840 --> 00:49:47.120 But that pastor told my mother, 1076 00:49:47.120 --> 00:49:50.960 pastor of a church, you need to forget about this one. 1077 00:49:50.960 --> 00:49:52.260 She's a lost cause. 1078 00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:04.800 I don't know if that man's still alive. I blessed him if he is. He obviously was looking through 1079 00:50:04.800 --> 00:50:09.520 the filter of religion. And I'm sure through the filter of religion, I look like a lost cause. 1080 00:50:09.520 --> 00:50:13.920 But here's what I got to say. How do you like me now? Come on. 1081 00:50:18.240 --> 00:50:24.960 I have probably won more souls to the Lord through my, you know, through my imperfect efforts than 1082 00:50:24.960 --> 00:50:32.880 that man ever did through his religious mindset. Come on. If it was a contest, I'm winning. 1083 00:50:32.880 --> 00:50:43.360 And that's all I know. You guys, it is not your job to judge other people and their potential. 1084 00:50:44.080 --> 00:50:49.600 Now someone's unsafe, obviously, you have to keep a clear safe distance from them and just bless 1085 00:50:49.600 --> 00:50:54.960 them and block them. We know that. But just because they don't have the Christian ease and 1086 00:50:54.960 --> 00:50:58.880 they don't know the scriptures that you know, it doesn't mean that they're not marked by heaven. 1087 00:50:58.880 --> 00:51:03.600 Look for fruit. You guys, that seed in there always bears some fruit. Are they kind? 1088 00:51:04.240 --> 00:51:09.120 Do they show compassion? You know, are they patient? 1089 00:51:12.560 --> 00:51:16.640 Right? And you guys, we don't really evangelize people by sitting them down necessarily and 1090 00:51:16.640 --> 00:51:22.400 teaching them a Bible study. Sometimes we just, we just, we get them by loving them, right? 1091 00:51:24.720 --> 00:51:29.680 Just loving them. There's so much more here. And I wish I could say the rest of it. Maybe 1092 00:51:29.680 --> 00:51:33.040 we'll have a longer session. Maybe we'll continue tomorrow night. We're going to have a prophetic 1093 00:51:33.040 --> 00:51:36.400 night, but there are three nets that we need to throw out. And I get to get this thing because 1094 00:51:36.400 --> 00:51:41.280 I want to activate us a Matthew five net. You guys hear the nets. You guys, it's time to throw 1095 00:51:41.280 --> 00:51:43.920 out the nets. And these are the nets that I want you to throw out. In fact, there'll be, there's 1096 00:51:44.640 --> 00:51:50.240 Matthew five. What is that net? Just you shining. You're a city that set on a hill that cannot be 1097 00:51:50.240 --> 00:51:54.480 hid. Keep open house that that same scripture. If you read it in the, in the, in the message 1098 00:51:54.480 --> 00:51:58.960 translation, it says, you know, we're taking this thing public, be generous with your lives. 1099 00:51:58.960 --> 00:52:03.760 You guys be generous with your lives. Don't keep yourself, hold yourself back to just a, 1100 00:52:03.760 --> 00:52:07.600 you know, us four and no more that go to your church. Be generous with your lives. Have some 1101 00:52:07.600 --> 00:52:12.160 friends that don't profess Christ. They're not going to lead you astray. If you love Jesus, 1102 00:52:12.160 --> 00:52:17.360 come on, don't be scared of that kind of stuff. Be willing to share your life and be generous with 1103 00:52:17.360 --> 00:52:21.600 others. That's the first net. There are people that need you. And you just been hanging around 1104 00:52:21.600 --> 00:52:25.920 with just a bunch of other Christians all the time, Matthew 13, and you guys, your inner, 1105 00:52:25.920 --> 00:52:29.840 inner circle, your confidants, the people that lead and guide and give you counsel. 1106 00:52:29.840 --> 00:52:33.520 Yes. Those people need to be Christ followers. I'm talking about people that you just go to the 1107 00:52:33.520 --> 00:52:39.600 game with, right? You just go shopping at the mall with this is what I'm talking about. Matthew 13, 1108 00:52:40.560 --> 00:52:46.240 throw out the nets. Let God sort them out later. This is that scripture where he's like, Hey, 1109 00:52:46.240 --> 00:52:52.800 just throw out the nets, pull them in. Let me sort them out later. Everyone throw out the nets. 1110 00:52:53.760 --> 00:52:58.320 Luke five. This is, this is where the, I think this is where they had been fishing all night 1111 00:52:58.320 --> 00:53:02.560 and they had caught nothing. And then Jesus was like, Hey, put your nuts down on the other side. 1112 00:53:02.560 --> 00:53:07.760 This is where God puts his stupor on your natural. You've been doing a certain activity over and over 1113 00:53:07.920 --> 00:53:13.440 again with no results, but it's time for what it's time for God to put his stupor on your natural 1114 00:53:13.440 --> 00:53:18.240 time for you to listen to the direction of the Lord in that area so that you can be abundant. 1115 00:53:19.760 --> 00:53:24.880 So try again, but this time don't try harder. Try softer. 1116 00:53:27.360 --> 00:53:33.440 Okay. And there's also a premise in that net that we have to have the collaborations of others 1117 00:53:33.440 --> 00:53:38.080 because if God puts a stupor stupor on our natural, we're going to have such great results 1118 00:53:38.080 --> 00:53:42.080 that we're going to need to partner with others to pull in that harvest. So you guys don't be 1119 00:53:42.080 --> 00:53:46.320 afraid to partner up with other people. A lot of us are like really lone Rangers. We've got to do 1120 00:53:46.320 --> 00:53:51.680 it on our own. No collaborate with others for the harvest because remember their nets began to break 1121 00:53:51.680 --> 00:53:57.760 and they had to call the other fishermen that were in that region to come and to, and to get their 1122 00:53:57.760 --> 00:54:04.560 boats in, you know, to, to get their boats there too, to, to take the fish because there's a really 1123 00:54:04.560 --> 00:54:11.040 great depiction of that in one of the seasons of the chosen when Matthew, I think it's the 1124 00:54:11.040 --> 00:54:17.600 first season of the chosen, maybe second, third episode when, um, when Peter gets called and 1125 00:54:17.600 --> 00:54:25.360 that they show that exact Luke five parable right there. Okay. John 13, this is another net 1126 00:54:25.360 --> 00:54:30.720 love one another. Then you'll be my true disciples. We'll be known by our love. We're going to be 1127 00:54:30.720 --> 00:54:38.640 known by our love. Yeah. Cheat sheet, right? What's the cheat sheet of loving? You know, 1128 00:54:38.640 --> 00:54:42.000 it's not about how you walk with the great. It's about how you walk with the broken. 1129 00:54:43.200 --> 00:54:49.520 Jesus washed the feet of all of his disciples, but even his betrayer, right? He extended grace. 1130 00:54:49.520 --> 00:54:54.560 He extended love. And remember, this is not an indictment this morning. Don't hear religion. 1131 00:54:54.560 --> 00:54:57.680 If you hear religion, then that's, what's wrong. This is an invitation. 1132 00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:04.720 so many missing resources that are coming in this harvest, including love stories, and it's time for 1133 00:55:04.720 --> 00:55:10.240 us to participate. You guys, bring people to this community. If you're like, well, where should I 1134 00:55:10.240 --> 00:55:15.200 bring them to? Like, how am I harvesting them? Bring them here. You guys, you have an amazing, 1135 00:55:15.200 --> 00:55:20.080 you know, kind of like sneaky Jehovah sneaky thing that you can use, and it's singleness. 1136 00:55:21.360 --> 00:55:26.240 People are miserable out there. They're lonely. They're miserable. A lot of them don't have 1137 00:55:26.240 --> 00:55:32.080 families, so they don't even have that to lean into. Bring them here. Say, oh, hey, I'm part of 1138 00:55:32.080 --> 00:55:37.440 this amazing singles community. You know, it's great. It's been a life changer for me. Bring 1139 00:55:37.440 --> 00:55:42.160 them here. Harvest them here. They might not be your husband or wife, but they might be somebody 1140 00:55:42.160 --> 00:55:48.240 else's husband or wife that's in this community. We've had so many people in this community have 1141 00:55:48.240 --> 00:55:52.720 success and get married because one of their brothers and sisters in this community brought 1142 00:55:52.720 --> 00:55:56.400 that person here, made that introduction. Come on, let's do that. All right, here's your 1143 00:55:56.400 --> 00:56:01.520 activation. Here's your assignment. Here's your mission. Should you choose to accept it? Are you 1144 00:56:01.520 --> 00:56:10.080 ready? Take your phone and scroll. Go to your contacts. You guys, we all have lots of contacts 1145 00:56:10.080 --> 00:56:15.840 in our phone that we put in there, and we don't know those people. They got in there somehow. 1146 00:56:16.880 --> 00:56:20.240 You know, I have hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of contacts, and if I don't even put 1147 00:56:20.800 --> 00:56:26.000 a little memo about who the person is, their name means nothing to me. Their name means nothing, 1148 00:56:26.000 --> 00:56:29.600 and I have no idea who they are. And so I want you to scroll through your phone, 1149 00:56:29.600 --> 00:56:33.840 and I don't mean look at it. I want you to go to the contact page and just, if you have an iPhone, 1150 00:56:33.840 --> 00:56:37.280 I don't know how droids works. Y'all are on your own that have droids, because I don't know how 1151 00:56:37.280 --> 00:56:42.480 that works. But go to your iPhone, go to your mess, go to your contacts, and I want you to 1152 00:56:42.480 --> 00:56:48.000 close your eyes and just flip your finger on the screen, you know, scroll, and then put your finger 1153 00:56:48.000 --> 00:56:53.520 down, and whatever name your finger is on, I want you to text that person. And if it ends up being 1154 00:56:53.520 --> 00:56:57.600 a landline, you can't text them, then do it again. Scroll with your eyes closed and find someone, 1155 00:56:57.600 --> 00:57:02.000 until you find someone you can actually text message. And I want you to text them and just 1156 00:57:02.000 --> 00:57:09.120 say, hey, you know, I was just thinking about you today. You came on my mind, and, you know, 1157 00:57:09.120 --> 00:57:13.040 it doesn't matter if you don't know the person. And just say, and then just give them encouragement. 1158 00:57:13.040 --> 00:57:17.200 Just encourage them. Just say, you know, I hope you're having a great day. I hope you have a 1159 00:57:17.200 --> 00:57:20.560 great day today. If it's simple like that, if you're a more prophetic person, you know, you can 1160 00:57:20.560 --> 00:57:26.320 lean into God for a word. You can lean into the Spirit for a word for them. But just a simple, hey, 1161 00:57:26.320 --> 00:57:30.720 I hope you're having a great day, thinking about you. If it's someone that you know, if it's not 1162 00:57:30.720 --> 00:57:35.360 someone you know, say, hey, you might not know me, but you were on my phone, and your name popped up 1163 00:57:35.360 --> 00:57:40.320 today. And I just want to let you know that God loves you. You guys, it's as simple as that. It's 1164 00:57:40.320 --> 00:57:44.960 as simple as that. It's as simple as that. That message should change someone's day. They could 1165 00:57:44.960 --> 00:57:51.760 change their month. It could change their life, because they know that God sees them. And trust me, 1166 00:57:51.760 --> 00:57:55.600 God will let your little finger do the walking right to the person who needs that message that 1167 00:57:55.600 --> 00:58:03.920 will be a life changer for them. Amen? This is how we do it. This is how we throw our nuts out 1168 00:58:03.920 --> 00:58:08.800 into that harvest. All right. So, Father God, I thank you. I thank you for this word today. 1169 00:58:08.800 --> 00:58:14.480 We receive it. We believe it. We know that we are the hands and feet of Jesus. We are the mouth. 1170 00:58:14.480 --> 00:58:19.520 We're the ears. We're the eyes. We know that you're guiding us. You're leading us. As we follow 1171 00:58:19.520 --> 00:58:24.240 after your spirit, you are leading us to the hungry. You're leading us to the hurting. You're letting 1172 00:58:24.240 --> 00:58:29.680 us be the words of life for someone. And Father, we just thank you for that assignment. And we ask 1173 00:58:29.680 --> 00:58:35.440 God that you would continue to give us the grace to be soul winners, the grace to be soul winners, 1174 00:58:35.440 --> 00:58:41.120 the grace to point people to the direction of the finished work of the cross, the love of God, 1175 00:58:41.680 --> 00:58:46.240 you that was shown through your son on that cross. And so, Lord, we thank you for that. 1176 00:58:46.240 --> 00:58:50.480 We thank you for this great harvest and all the people that are coming through it. We thank you 1177 00:58:50.480 --> 00:58:56.480 for the future spouses that are in that harvest, the partners for your children so that they can 1178 00:58:56.480 --> 00:59:01.120 go forward and they can further your kingdom. We thank you for those partners, Lord. We thank you 1179 00:59:01.120 --> 00:59:06.640 that they will accelerate quickly in the ways of the Lord. They will accelerate quickly, God, in 1180 00:59:06.640 --> 00:59:11.840 love and in grace and in understanding. They will accelerate in the word quickly, Lord. They will 1181 00:59:11.840 --> 00:59:17.760 not stay babies in the faith for long. They will raise up fast. And so, Lord, we thank you for them. 1182 00:59:17.760 --> 00:59:21.600 We thank you for all the other resources that are coming in the form of people, all the 1183 00:59:21.600 --> 00:59:26.960 collaborations, all the partnerships, all the kingdom businesses, all the things that are needed, 1184 00:59:26.960 --> 00:59:32.560 the healings, the deliverances, all the things that are coming in the form of the gifts and talents 1185 00:59:32.560 --> 00:59:37.920 and things that you've placed in these people that have not yet come into the family of God. 1186 00:59:37.920 --> 00:59:43.920 And so, we thank you for it in Jesus' name. Amen. All right. I love y'all. Go with God. Have a 1187 00:59:43.920 --> 00:59:50.320 supernatural night. Guys, tomorrow night, prophetic night, prophetic words, activations, fun time. 1188 00:59:50.320 --> 00:59:53.120 Our whole prayer team will be there. Hope to see you soon. Bye.