Truth, greater truth, heaven's reality trumps our current temporary reality or our current
facts.
And so it's important for us to lean into heaven and find out what is God saying?
What is God doing?
What's the timeline of what's happening right now so that we can do what?
So that we can make it get into subjection to our reality?
So we can bend it at our will?
So that we can get into alignment to it, correct?
Nod your head.
Nod your head if that's right.
We got to get into alignment with what God's doing.
A lot of times what will happen in religion is we want God, we want to do something, then
we want God to bless it, right?
We want to do what we want to do based on broken information, based on broken hearts,
okay?
And then we want God to bless it.
And we pray that way.
Oh God, bless what I'm doing instead of saying, Hey God, what are you doing?
I call shotgun.
What are you doing?
People always ask me, Jackie, how do you have so many supernatural experiences in your life?
Because I'm simply a shotgun girl.
I learned a long time ago what I'm telling you right now.
And of course, yes, I do things according to my own will.
We all do.
Like this is not a, this is not a perfection destination here.
You're always going to, you know, go back to some element of rebelliousness while you're
still living in this skin suit.
And then you have to say, Oh yeah, wait a second, I don't have to do this on my own.
I don't have to, I can do what God's doing.
I don't have to, you know, ride against the wind.
Then you're reminded when life gets hard and you're like, Oh, this is so hard.
I can't do it anymore.
And then God's like, Oh good, Oh good.
Because no one said you had to except you, right?
It's so true.
And we always come back to that point.
But I'm a shotgun girl.
A lot of times I'll just be like, Hey God, what are you doing?
And he'll be like, I'm doing this.
And I'm like, Oh, can I come?
I want to go.
That sounds super fun.
And then sometimes I'm like, Oh, you're on your own there, God.
I'm not wanting anything to do with that.
And then he's like, are you sure?
Are you sure?
Because maybe you don't know what it really looks like.
And so often that's what happens in life is that the thing that we want is on the other
side of things that we don't really want to do.
And if you're anything like me, how about if I just read my own mail this morning and
you go ahead and listen and we see if maybe you're rowing on the same boat as I am, right?
We do things that we don't want to do.
We look at things and we don't want to do them or we don't want to consistently do them.
So here's how I am.
And this is what I wrote this morning, because we're going to talk about momentum.
I heard the Lord say that March is a month of momentum.
Do you believe that?
What does momentum mean?
It means that you can finally make some progress in areas where it's stop and start, stop and
start, stop and start, stop and start.
You can finally get some breakthrough and see some results in areas where it's take
two steps forward and five steps back, two steps forward and 10 steps back.
March momentum.
Yesterday was March 1st.
Today is March 2nd.
I believe God is a God of times and he's a God of seasons.
And I believe that there's specific anointings on different times.
And the way that you get into that is you call shotgun for that time and season.
By doing what?
By praying and saying, Hey God, what are you doing in the month of March 2024?
What are you doing in the year 5784?
What are you doing during this month?
The Jews are going to celebrate something called Purim, the aster feast, right?
It's a victory.
That's one of those celebration times.
You know, there's a lot of things that are going to go on.
Us Gentiles, we're going to, we're going to celebrate Easter this month, aren't we?
I believe it falls at the very last day of the month, the 31st of March.
We had a special leap day prayer on leap day.
If you didn't hear that because you weren't available in the morning time because that's
when it was, you can get the recording of that.
It's in your groups.
Make sure that you listen to it because we're going to go from that to this and moving forward.
So let me read my own mail.
I am guilty, so to speak, of trying something and then when it doesn't work, immediately
saying that it doesn't work.
Go to the doctor, go to the holistic nutritionist or the naturopath and them saying, okay, here,
take this supplement.
First of all, y'all, I'm just going to be honest with you, I don't like taking anything.
I don't like swallowing any pills, I don't like taking anything, I don't like rubbing
any creams on me, all right, that have hormones in them or whatever is going on.
And I start imagining things when I start doing it.
This doctor gave me some testosterone cream, I'm like, hey, isn't that just for men?
And like, no, no, women have it too in their bodies and you need it, you know, it'll give
you some energy and blah, blah, blah.
So I rubbed it on for two days, swear to you, and then I said to my husband, I think I'm
becoming a man.
And he's like, what?
And I was like, yeah, I feel my voice, my voice is deepening.
I feel, I feel like I'm becoming, I feel aggressive.
He's like, Jackie, it doesn't work that fast, but we believe things work to the negative
very quickly.
This is where I want to get to in this comment right now.
We believe that things work to the negative very quickly, we begin to imagine all kinds
of negative outcome or fallout from something that we might do, but we don't believe that
things can work to the positive quickly.
So I'll start doing something, you know, that's supposed to be good for me or whatever.
Maybe it's exercise, whatever it is.
And then if you don't see an overnight change, you're like, it's not working.
It's not working.
Whatever it is that you've been led to do, and this is what's wrong with that.
We'll pray, we'll put things on our Jesus cares board.
We'll ask God for intervention.
We'll ask him for direction and then he'll give it to us.
And it might be a very practical thing, friends.
It might be just a thought that comes in your head or a conversation that you hear
in passing that is what, that is the answer to that prayer that you posted on your board.
It's an answer.
The problem is, is that when you start to do that, whatever that thing is, a lot of
times if there's not immediate progress or results, you believe that it's, eh, this isn't
the answer.
Anybody else raise your hand.
If you have trouble with consistency when you're not seeing results, look at all those
hands and the rest of y'all are lying because it's the human condition, it's the human condition.
We don't want to go forward doing something if we don't think it's working, if we don't
think it's working.
We want to walk ourselves out of it every day of the week and twice on Sundays.
That is what we'll do.
And then you know what we'll do?
Come on y'all, got to hear this because this is what's warring against our momentum.
There's like two parts to this call this morning.
We're talking about this, then we're going to talk about making space.
So what we'll do when we get discouraged like that, so that's called being discouraged.
Oh, I thought this was the answer, but it's not.
I thought this was the answer.
Come on, I want you to lean into that phrase right there because that, that all of us feel
that deep in our hearts.
I thought this was the answer, but it isn't.
And then we feel hopeless, right?
Then our hope takes a hit.
We start to get discouraged.
Our courage takes a hit.
And then you know what we do?
We self-medicate a lot of times.
That's what we do.
Oh, this isn't working.
Then we soothe our feelings with some sort of distraction and then we go sit in the waiting
room.
Oh, come on y'all.
We go sit in the waiting room.
That's what we do.
We go sit in the waiting room.
Oh, well, that's not the answer.
So I guess I'm just going to go and sit over here and distract myself so I don't have to
feel bad.
I'm just going to come over here and I'm going to numb myself out so I don't have to think
about how I have this pervasive problem and how it's not, you know, the solution that
I thought was going to finally be the thing isn't working.
And now I'm going to go sit in the waiting room and wait until God decides to take a
look at me and smile upon me.
I'm going to sit over here until God decides to notice me until, hey, hey, until God feels
sorry for me enough that he finally decides to help me.
I used to do that.
Like how can I be super pathetic?
How can I be the most pitiful thing that ever walked the earth so that Papa God, the daddy
in the sky would look at me and be like, all right, you pathetic.
little pitiful thing, let me help you.
Guys, I used to take on the posture of victim,
hoping to win what?
Victory.
You do not have to take on the posture of victim
to try to get victory.
First of all, it doesn't work.
I will tell you in one such instance,
I was just laying on the ground,
snotting up the carpet and God's like,
hey, pat me on the shoulder.
Hey, hey, get up.
Get up from there.
This isn't who I called you to be.
This isn't who you are.
You don't have to become a victor,
I mean a victim, hoping that I will give you victory.
And you guys, that was a life-changing moment.
I would love to tell you that I never ever
took on a victim posture again, but it's not true.
But that was 20 something years ago
and I have learned a lot since then.
Have learned a lot.
So we go sit in the waiting room
and I wanna tell you something
that might hurt your feelings this morning,
but it needs to be said, okay?
Gonna speak the truth and love to you this morning.
Whoever's in the waiting room the longest
doesn't mean that you're the next in line
for whatever you've been waiting for.
And unfortunately, this is what a lot of people believe.
Oh, I've been waiting so long, so it's finally my turn.
No.
There are no waiting rooms in the kingdom of God.
This is not the DMV.
You don't pull a number and just simply
because you've been waiting all day
or waiting for 10 years or 20 years,
you come into a group like this.
This group is about what?
It's about kingdom, marriage, and family.
You don't come in and it's not like,
oh, well, I've been waiting the longest,
so it's my turn now.
No, that's not the way it works.
It doesn't work that way
because it's always been your turn.
Not your turn just because you've been waiting.
It's always been your turn,
but the proof of belief is action.
And it will continue to be action
as much as you don't want it to be action.
It will be action, an imperfect action.
And a lot of people just are not willing
to take imperfect action
or they don't have the grace to sustain it.
And that's what we're here to talk about today.
It's not just about taking a step forward.
It's about taking another step forward
and another step forward.
It's about sustaining momentum.
Momentum towards what?
Towards whatever the desire of your heart is.
I know we all look at each other
and we all think different things about each other
based on the outside, based on what you think,
but y'all don't live in my house
and you don't live in my life.
And I'll tell you one thing for certain,
even though I might seem like your fearless leader,
I have bad days too.
And during the last year or so,
there's been a lot of warfare against this movement.
You guys, this is not something that's sitting idly.
It's moving.
It's taking territory in the kingdom.
I was at four airports last weekend traveling,
had lots of little layovers.
I was at four different airports
in the course of going out to California
and coming back to Austin, Texas.
I was going out there for my daughter's engagement.
My daughter got engaged last weekend.
So I was coming out, going back.
And you know, in the course of traveling
at those four different airports,
at those two different legs of travel
to California and then home to California,
on the way to California at two separate airports,
people came up to me and said,
hey, I was a student in your course
and now I'm married because of you.
Or I'm engaged because of you.
What the heck?
You guys, come on.
And then on the way home, it happened again.
I saw this woman getting on the plane,
like I was already seated in my seat.
And she was coming down the aisle
and there was someone behind her that I couldn't see.
And she was turning around to them
and she was whispering and she was pointing at me.
And I'm like, oh, what is going on?
And then as she got up to me, she goes,
yeah, I told you, it's her.
And I'm like, who is it?
I'm looking behind me, who is it?
It's like, oh, it's me.
Okay, who am I?
And she's like, you, because of you, we're married.
And then she kind of like moves aside a little bit
so I can see her husband behind her.
And then there's another guy behind them
who's from Germany.
And she's saying back to him, hey, this is her.
It's Jackie Dorman.
It is her.
I thought it was her.
You need to talk to her.
So they had been talking to this guy
and telling them at the airport about their love story,
which came through me, through our movement.
And there I was.
buzz on their plane.
It's just like, oh my gosh.
And then wanted to introduce him so that he could, you know,
get into the flow of the movement as well.
You guys, what is that?
That's called momentum.
Four years ago, when God tapped me on the shoulder
and said, hey, I want my single sons and daughters married.
Will you take your matchmaking gift?
Will you take your heart work?
And will you put them together?
And will you help me?
And I said, yes.
I was getting on Mr. Toad's wild ride.
It has been a wild ride.
And contrary to popular belief,
it has had a lot of uphill climbing.
But God knew I was good for it.
But how did he know I was good for it?
Because we had been on smaller adventures earlier.
Someone needs to hear this now.
A lot of people want to be where they think you are.
Okay, I've been married for 17 years.
I own my own media company, not just what I do with y'all,
but other media endeavors.
I didn't get there overnight.
And you know how I got there?
I got there because I continued to partner with heaven
and I continued to do my part imperfectly
while believing and expecting God to do his part
and putting one foot in front of the other.
And there were years, friends,
where I wasn't even putting one foot in the other.
I was just standing.
I was just holding my ground.
I was just holding the line.
I was just standing.
Wasn't able to put one foot in front of the other.
There were times when I took several steps back,
but then I had to regain territory.
Lots of times.
And even during this movement,
even though it's partnering with heaven,
even though it was God doing the ask,
there has been all kinds of diversions
and distractions and destructions.
There's been all kinds of things
that have tried to blow me off course.
There's been all kinds of warfare,
if you prefer that word.
There's been discouragement.
And so when I was in the middle of that,
and so when you show up to some airports
and I mean, we're public.
What are the odds of me being there at the same time
as a success story in this movement?
That's what is that?
First of all, that's momentum.
It means that this is gaining traction.
It's picking up speed.
It's gaining territory.
But also it's God's kindness to encourage.
It's God's kindness to encourage.
What was really happening on those days?
He was saying, don't give up, baby girl.
Keep going.
And I wanna speak that over you this morning.
Don't give up.
It's always too soon to give up.
Yeah, you might need to pivot.
Guys, I was born an entrepreneur.
I started my first business when I was like nine years old.
I came from a single mom household.
It was by necessity.
Invention is what?
Necessity is the mother of invention, right?
I need it.
I needed to do it.
Couldn't be eating them sweaty bologna sandwiches every day.
Mom's not home.
Guys, bologna sweats.
It's so disgusting.
Sweats.
Just thinking about it.
And what I know is that you have to pivot.
You have to pivot.
Yeah, it might've seemed like a good idea.
Whatever it was that you wanted to do.
Not just business things, but other ideas.
Anything that you wanted to do.
Maybe you wanted to get sent.
I just looked at a picture from a wedding
that just happened recently.
And it was a young couple that got married
in their early thirties.
And one of the maid of honor,
one of the bridesmaids,
one of the most important people in the wedding party.
I don't remember what position she was holding.
She's a spiritual daughter to me.
And also a success story of mine.
And she sent me a picture of the wedding
and of the people at the wedding.
And you guys, I got so sad
because I'm working with a doctor right now
to try to get my health in order
and my husband and we're both doing it.
And she sent me this picture
and you guys, all the people in the picture,
there were about 10 women in this picture
and they were all young.
They're all like in their late twenties,
maybe 30 years old.
And all of them were objectively overweight,
unhealthily overweight.
And what I realized is that warfare doesn't always come
in the packages that you think it does.
It's not always a little devil
that shows up your front door with a little red suit on,
a little pointy tail and horns.
Oftentimes the enemy's weapons of destruction that come against us are very everyday, nonplussed things.
Every single day things.
And one of the enemy's mass destruction methods is our food system in America.
And for those of you that live outside the country that are on the call, I don't know what your food systems are like, but I went to Italy last summer.
And I didn't have any digestive problems, even though I was eating pasta and bread and things that I would never touch in America.
I didn't have any digestive issues I didn't feel bloated in Italy. I didn't feel.
I lost weight there. I lost several pounds being there. And why? Because you walk a lot, but also because of the food.
The food's just different and I can't explain it because I'm not a scientist or a chemist.
I just know that our food in America is full of garbage.
And it's causing problems.
Maybe it's your diet that you've tried to gain momentum in. Your health you've tried to gain momentum in.
And it feels like it's stop and start, stop and start. But what I have learned in my life is that you have to pivot.
But you can't pivot too quickly. So there's a tension that you have to hold there.
So hear what Holy Spirit's saying to you individually while I'm talking. You got to tune in.
What is Holy Spirit highlighting in your own heart?
The things that you've stopped and started. Maybe you stopped too early. Maybe you tried to pivot too soon.
Oh, this is not working. Let me try this.
I joined this. I joined this fitness model, whatever it is, fast rate of fat loss, whatever, Octavia, a gym, a CrossFit gym, whatever you did.
But you quit too early. You didn't even quit. You pivoted too early.
Like, oh, this isn't working. Let me go over here and do this one.
You guys, success is about consistency.
It's way too soon to say something isn't working.
It's way too soon.
You've got to actually give it a chance to work.
You do.
And you have to trust that if it isn't the right thing, if it's not the right match for you, if it's not the right thing,
that after you put some consistency behind it and you continue to pray into it and ask God to order your steps,
that you're going to see a clear pivot, that God's going to let your road diverge towards a different direction.
But here's the thing you need to hear, and if you don't hear anything else this morning, please hear this.
God cannot direct feet that are not walking.
When I get in the car and I start moving, my GPS suggests course changes.
It suggests to me changes of course as I'm on my journey.
It does not suggest that while I'm just sitting there parked in my driveway.
But when I put the car in drive and I begin to move down the route that I've decided to take, that is when I get directed different directions or I get directed elsewhere.
It's true, right?
God is great to direct you.
He is faithful to direct you.
You're just not moving.
You're not moving.
You're not.
I know that people are like, well, the Bible says be still and see the salvation of the Lord.
You guys, that's not what that means.
It means that you're not operating in your own strength.
It doesn't mean you're not moving.
It means that you're moving in from a place of rest, not from a place of striving.
It means that you know that you're not the hero of the story, but God is.
So many of us are waiting for God to come and be the captain of our ship.
Our dreams pull into port and we're waiting for permission to get on those ships.
We're waiting for God to be the captain of those ships so that those ships can get moving towards whatever it is that you're dreaming of.
But that's not the way this works.
You are the captain of your soul.
You are the captain of the ship.
The ship actually can't leave without you because you're the captain.
God is the God of the wind and the waves. He is the God of the journey.
He will help you get to your destination. He will put the wind in your sails,
but you have to get behind the wheel.
That's why that whole Jesus take the wheel. Jesus has been given a lot of
wheels y'all and he's like, what do you want me to do with this? I'm Jesus.
I know why people are saying that they're basically saying take control and you guys,
that's not a bad prayer, but you can do what I'm saying right now and you have to do what I'm
saying right now in a posture of supernatural surrender. This is not about taking control
of your life, but it is about taking control of your life. It's about taking responsibility
and accountability. Look, I just saw this morning before I got on here. Oh y'all,
if I have a pet peeve, it's this because why? Because it kept me suffering and in waiting rooms
that are not in the kingdom. Let me ask you a question. If there's no waiting rooms in the
kingdom and you're sitting in one, then where are you? Y'all think about that. If there are no
waiting rooms in the kingdom of God and you've been sitting in a waiting room for years, you
got to get up and go look at the label on the front door of that waiting room. Where the heck
am I right now? So just this morning, I stalled this meme that one of my good friends posted on
Instagram. I love her and she's going through a hard time and you guys, when you're going through
a hard time, that is when it's really tempting to just make up theology that's not true.
To try to describe and explain why you're suffering.
That's what we do. And so her little meme that she put up said something like,
if it's God's will, it's going to happen and nothing's going to stop it. Y'all, that's not true.
It's God's will that none should perish, but all should come to everlasting life. Do you think
that's going to happen? I don't want hell to be populated by anyone, but you think that there's
going to be people that go to a devil's hell? Yes, there are. That's not God's will. So how
in the world did that happen? The whole sitting down and saying, well, it's God's will. And if
it's his will, then he'll make a way. And if it's his will, then nothing can stop it and it can
happen. That is a passive posture that we take on because of hurt and disappointment.
That's a passive posture.
You have not been created to live passively. How do I know? Well, case in point, Ephesians 3.20.
To him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all we could ask, think, or imagine by what?
The power that works in and through you.
What is that saying? It's saying, hey, you know what? God's going to blow your mind when you get
moving. When you start following after the spirit and not the flesh, God's going to blow your mind.
Guys, there's a reason why it says to follow after the spirit.
Doesn't say to just sit and soak and marinate. Some of y'all pray a lot, but you don't take any
action. Faith without works, without action is dead religion. There's a lot of people that have
faith in God. There's a lot of people that have faith in heaven, but they don't have any faith
in earth. They don't think anything's going to happen here. They think it's all going to happen
there. And so they pray continuously to God, but they don't have any breakthrough here in this
current reality. We can't live like that, you guys. There's a whole world that's watching to
see whether or not the God that we serve and that we confess is real. And he wants to be real through
your life. Do you think that it does God anything? Do you think that it does God any benefit
for you to live a victory list life?
Seriously, God's kids on the earth, broke, busted, disgusted, disappointed.
And people think we're fools walking around like God is great, but your life is.
not great it's a hot mess express you're like well people will see the perseverance
in in tribulation and in trials people will see the patience that i have and they'll see
how i continue to worship god and say that he's good even though he's not being good to me what
no people don't want any of that like oh yep if i follow this jesus that she follows this
what your co-workers saying man if i follow this jesus that she's following man i can be
i can be uh broke let's see i can be sick i can be single and unhappy about it let's
see what else can i have what no it does not behoove god for you to not live a victorious life
god's not holding out on you please say that over yourself god's not holding out on me
god wants me to prosper even more than i want to prosper
but i have to get the correct theology about what is his part and what is my part
and when i begin to do my part what he will do for me what he will do for me
god's will doesn't just happen it doesn't just it doesn't just happen we have to follow after
the spirit so that we won't what fulfill the lust of the flesh what's the lust of the flesh
the lust of the flesh and stuff that keeps you stuck that's where all that self-medicating lives
that's where all that procrastinating and distraction lives the lust of the flesher
just let me stay comfortable let's let me stay comfortable you guys misery is a comfort zone
misery is a comfort zone
some of you are like man i haven't been comfortable in years but you are you're
comfortable in your misery you get up every day you know what that day is
going to look like because you lived a thousand days before it exactly like it
and you're not just disappointed but you're also lightweight mad at god you might not admit it on
this phone call but you are because you think he's holding out on you because you think he likes
other people more than he likes you because you see other people getting blessed and hey don't
get it twisted there are people that don't seemingly do anything to move forward themselves
that all of a sudden just get some kind of breakthrough but i'm going to tell you something
about that that you're probably not going to like it's not sustainable
whatever breakthrough you saw someone doing when they were just laying around in the waiting room
and mourning and depressed and negative and then you saw them get like this whoa
this amazing thing happened to me it's not sustainable
who they were in that waiting room two minutes before that breakthrough happened
is who they're going to be two months after the breakthrough happened
two months after the breakthrough happened
it's not sustainable god wants to help you become someone
who not only can have the breakthrough but can handle the breakthrough
sustain it back in the 80s there were a lot of groups a lot of music groups a lot of bands that
we called one hit wonders what does that mean it means that they did not come up through the ranks
of playing the clubs and playing in the bars and playing with each other for years and years and
learning each other's skill sets and talents and coming together as a cohesive group they just got
together they got a little earworm that they produced you know those songs you can't get out
of your head and then they they they somehow topped the charts they made it in that top 100
they got a top 100 hit maybe even a top 10 hit but then you never heard from them again
that's why it's called a one-hit wonder so they got the breakthrough but the breakthrough wasn't
sustainable let's take a look at why because i i was curious about that i feel like god put that
on my heart years ago kind of look take a look into that because he was saying to me because
i wanted you guys i wanted the opportunity back back in the day i wanted the opportunity i thought
that i was just waiting on the opportunity i was just waiting on the open door and this is
the year of the open door but some of y'all the door's gonna open you're gonna trip over the
threshold and go fly and face first into the opportunity because you ain't ready for it
and that's what my job is and holy spirit's job threw me today to get you there so i studied this
one-hit wonder phenomenon and what i saw that after the fame and the
fortune of that influence came because of that hit, they couldn't handle it.
They couldn't handle it. Why? Because they barely knew each other. The band members that were
playing together for that song, they started fighting with each other. They didn't prefer
one another. They all wanted to be the star. So they started infighting. They started fighting
with their manager if they had one, but a lot of times they didn't even have one.
And so picking a manager when you're up and coming that believes in you is completely different
than picking a manager or publicist or any other type of person like that when you're already
kind of lightweight famous. Because those people are like wolves, right?
They're not out for your good. They're not believing in some up and coming band and
putting in all of the elbow grease with you. No, they want to now ride the gravy train with you.
So they were attracting the wrong representation. They were infighting with each other.
All of the excess of the fame and the money was causing addictions and other bad behaviors to
rise up out of nowhere. Seemingly, that's what happened to those bands.
And let's just face it. It was a one-off. They didn't even really have the talent because
they hadn't been playing long enough together to actually produce or sustain another hit.
Some of them made other music, but you've never heard of it because it sucks.
You guys, God doesn't want us to be a one-hit wonder. How do I know that? Because in Proverbs,
it says that God's increase, his promotion, his prosperity comes without sorrow. That just simply
means this. God wants to give you all kinds of stuff, but he wants you to be ready for it.
And I don't want you to hear your authoritarian mother or father in that message that I just spoke
saying, oh, well, you can't do it yet. You're not ready. You're not mature enough. You haven't
cleaned your room long enough. Some of you all came from families that gave you open-ended
promises, meaning they said they would do something for you, but they never told you
what you had to do to get it. And you always weren't ready. You always hadn't done
and you always weren't ready. You always hadn't done
something long enough, but they never told you what the length of time was going to be.
And that's very discouraging.
It's very discouraging when your parent says, yeah, well, if you keep good grades, you can
have X, Y, Z, but they don't tell you how long you have to keep good grades. And not that you
wouldn't continue to keep good grades, but you go and you believe them at their word and you keep
good grades. And then that thing that they've told you you can have, you're never good enough
for it yet. Just shoot me. That is a horrible feeling. Raise your hand if you had that in your
life. A boss in your life dangling the carrot of promotion saying, oh, you're doing such a great
job. You know, we're going to promote you someday, but someday never comes.
Guys, that's called manipulation. People use those tactics to keep us doing what they want us to do
because there's some promise of some future reward that never comes. I want to tell you,
that's not God. God is not a carrot dangler. God doesn't dare, King Dela, he doesn't dangle carrots.
Yeah, I almost said Kangal derrits. He doesn't Kangal derrits y'all.
He doesn't. And he doesn't have this elusive will that's just going to happen
regardless of what you do. It's just not true. It's not true.
And I know that the saying is never too late makes all of us feel better, but it's not true.
Now, as long as you're breathing on the earth, does God have promises for you? Does he have
promotion for you? Does he have breakthrough for you? Does he have provision for you? Yeah,
he does. And if you miss out on something because it was timestamped and it did have an expiration
date, you can receive a different version of it. What do I mean by that? Let me give you an example.
Say that you really had a passion for ballet when you were young, but you allowed yourself to
but you allowed people to discourage you and tell you weren't good enough. And then you just kind of
fell off and you quit. You quit dancing. You quit practicing. You quit taking lessons or,
you know, whatever. And now you're in your fifties. Well, you're not going to be a ballerina.
Okay. You're not. I mean, I guess there could be like a crazy creative miracle and you could.
So I should never say never, but probably not. But that love for ballet, that love for dance.
I can take that and channel that into something else
that has to do with dance and ballet
and choreography or something.
God can take what was timestamped
and maybe had kind of an expiration date on it.
He can take it and he can still let you use it
to do something amazing.
He can do that.
Some of you, you know, you never had a child
and maybe you're in your fifties and sixties.
And of course I'm talking to the ladies
because for whatever reason,
God still lets them men be shooting,
shooting some, you know, I don't want to get crass,
but they're not shooting all blanks.
Let's just put it that way.
Could still maybe have a baby.
I mean, look at Mick Jagger and all them.
I'm sure there's some medication involved in that.
But at the same time,
they definitely are siring and fathering.
I said, let me just say siring children
because I'm not really sure they're fathering anybody.
Not judging them,
but I'm not sure how much parenting is going into that.
All right.
But ladies, it seems to be,
and for those of you that are still believing
for a biological child and you're in your fifties,
maybe even 60, listen, I never say never.
God can blow all of our minds.
God can do anything.
But once again, that's probably not what's going to happen.
But your love for children
can absolutely still do something great.
You can still love children.
You can still mother children.
You can adopt children.
You can foster children.
You can marry into a family
where there already are children that need to be fostered,
need to be adopted, need to be just parented
because they belong to the person that you're marrying.
You can have it still.
Basically, that's the bottom line.
It may look different.
There might be a kind of different version of it
that you're going to have,
but you can still have it.
So we have to gain momentum this morning, friends.
It's time for us to gain momentum.
What is momentum?
It's just the force that keeps something moving forward.
And friends, from this time, this call,
through the month of March,
I believe that God is going to give us
the supernatural grace, the ability from heaven,
that wind at our back.
In fact, I wrote down on my paper here,
catch the wind.
We're going to catch the wind this morning.
We're going to catch the wind.
In fact, there's a song,
I think it's by the Helzers called Catch the Wind.
Melissa and Jonathan Helzer, go look it up,
listen to it after we get off this call.
I don't really know what the lyrics say,
but I know it says, catch the wind, right?
I'm going to catch the wind.
And so we're going to catch that wind of momentum.
For some of you, it's going to be a second wind
because you feel gutted.
You feel like you've been punched in the stomach
and you've lost the wind.
Has anyone else ever lost your wind?
Once I was in gym class, I was in elementary school
and we had to run like the 60-yard dash.
Remember the 60-yard dash?
And y'all, I got some long legs, okay?
I can run.
I mean, not anymore, but I could run.
And I ran, I was running so fast,
fast as my skinny little legs could carry me.
And then someone like wasn't paying attention
and they moved out into the line of the race
and they knocked me down when I was running that fast.
And I was laying on the ground and I couldn't breathe.
Why couldn't I breathe?
Because I did what people call, I lost my breath
or I got the wind knocked out of me.
I got the wind knocked out of me.
And some of you that's happened to you.
So Father, we just pray right now
that everyone on this call that feels like
they have lost their breath,
that the wind has been knocked out of them
and they cannot catch their breath.
Lord, we pray that you would put breath
in their lungs right now.
You are the breath in their lungs right now,
that you would fill them full of a second wind God.
If they're exhausted, if they're tired,
if they feel like giving up,
they feel like they can't go another step,
that you would give them a second wind right now.
Fill them full, full of your anointing,
full of your grace, full of your presence in Jesus name.
So we're gonna go forward with momentum
and we're gonna try and we're gonna keep trying,
but we're not gonna quit this time
because there's gonna be that supernatural force
that's pushing us forward.
And if we have to pivot, then we'll pivot.
That means when you have tried one course of action
for a significant amount of time
and you're seeing progress,
but not the progress that you want to see,
then you will see a different option.
You will see a different little road
diverging off of your road.
But you guys, you have to go down the road
you're already on in order to see the options.
You have to, you're not going to see the options. You have to gain some momentum.
And you can only gain that by going forward, even if it seems like, yeah, you know, I don't really
think this is going to be the answer. Go ahead and do it anyway so that God can course correct you.
A lot of us won't take even one step until we have the perfect plan laid out.
Until we know exactly that we know that we know that we know that it was God and
you know, and he sealed it, signed his name on the dotted line,
sent an angel from heaven in a dream that confirmed it. No, y'all.
You have to just be willing to just go forward in faith, believing that if this is not the perfect
course of action, if this is not the course of action that's going to lead to the breakthrough
that I want, that God is going to lead me on the way. He is going to lead me on the way. He is
faithful to lead me on the way. Faithful. Let's just rest in that for a second.
Yes, just receive that.
Hmm. He is faithful.
It's a scripture in the Bible and I put it in my book, The Heart Work, and it just says,
take my feet off this path of pain and lead me back to you.
Yes, Lord.
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
It's time friends. So God has a part to play and he is not a deadbeat. He is always willing to
play his part and to keep his promises.
But there's something that is stronger than the will of God.
And that is the will of man, your will. God has given us this beautiful gift called life and along
with it, the beautiful gift called choice. We have a say, we have a choice, we have what we
have a say, we have a choice, we have what a lot of people call free will.
And your will trumps God's will every day. If it's your will to be defeated,
if it's your will to give up, if it's your will to go sit in the waiting room,
then that is what will happen. Will God continue to send messengers like this message today to try
to woo you to the better part? Yes, he will. He's faithful. He loves us. He wants good things for us
more than we want good things for ourselves. So it's time for us to surrender our will to
God's will, but not in a passive way. We're like, okay, God, I surrender to you. And then
you go sit in the waiting room and you just wait for God to do it all. But you surrender your will
as in, God, I want this thing in my life. I'm not even sure if I should want it, but I do want it.
And I don't really know how to get it, but I'm just going to take this course of action that's
right in front of me right now. But I'm giving you permission to course correct me. I'm giving
you permission to change the desires of my heart as I move forward. You guys remember this thing?
And I'm going to get into the details of what it was because it would be too long of a story,
but I really, really, really wanted it. I wanted it, man. I wanted it. And I started
taking action towards it. I started walking towards it. I started doing the only thing that
I knew to do that practically could lead me there. And as I was doing it, I was doing exactly what I'm
telling you to do. I was putting it before the Lord. This is what you guys can even do in your
dating life. You're like, I'm not sure if this is the person. Just continue to put it before the
Lord. Every time before you go on a date, put it before the Lord. Don't try to cut and run. Don't
try to figure it out yourself. Just start, keep moving forward to yes, until it's a no. And if
it's a no, it will be a hard pass and it will be for a reason. And you will understand the reason.
It won't be like, oh, I guess God just said no. What? No, that's authoritarian parenting.
You can't do it. Why? Because I said so. Guys, that's not what God's like. He's not like that.
We don't always understand his ways because they're higher than our ways and his thoughts
are higher than our thoughts. But at the same time, we're told we can have the mind of Christ.
So I kept moving imperfectly forward. And guess what started happening?
I started actually not wanting this thing anymore.
As I was moving forward,
the desire to have it started to lessen and lessen
until eventually I just really didn't care
whether it happened or not.
It wasn't out of disappointment.
See, a lot of you stop caring about something
you really used to care so much about,
but you don't stop caring about it
because God is removing that desire
because you gave him permission to
and replacing it with something superior.
You're losing the desire
because you're getting disappointed.
You're losing hope.
There's a difference.
I wasn't losing hope.
I was actually losing desire
because God said, if you delight in me,
I will give you the desires of your heart.
But you know what started happening?
I started having desire to do something
that was very similar to this thing,
but just kind of different in a different vein.
And the doors started opening for that other thing
as I was moving forward,
as I was allowing God to give me momentum.
And all of that momentum led to me
being right here with you today.
So whether you love what your season's like,
or you hate what your season's like,
you can move forward in that season
towards something different.
You can.
And so we're gonna catch the wind.
But it requires pruning, you guys.
And I wanted to have a bigger conversation.
Maybe we'll have that next week
because we're not even to the first day of spring yet.
So maybe we'll save that supernatural Saturday
I'm pruning for a time that we have together
here in the coming weeks.
Because we need to,
God says that he'll make our path straight.
He'll clear our path.
And we have a part to play in that, okay?
And so we have to be willing to make room
for the things that we say that we want.
And we can do that spiritually,
mentally, physically, emotionally.
We can do it supernaturally,
and we can also do it practically.
And so we're gonna talk about those things.
I feel like I'm gonna do a whole supernatural Saturday
on pruning,
because a lot of people just really don't know
how to implement that spiritual practice.
It's very powerful.
And I want you to know the reasons why.
All right, all right, all right.
Yes.
So Father, we thank you for the word
that you've given to us today.
If you're someplace where you could just start walking,
I just want you to start putting one foot
in front of the other,
walking around your kitchen like I am right now,
your living room.
Just can start to just move.
If you're not somewhere you can move
because you're at work,
just start to move a part of your body.
Maybe just start to, you know,
move your foot or move your hand or wave your hand, move.
I want you to feel the movement of heaven right now.
The movement of heaven.
I once had a pastor that would say that, you know,
the movement of your body is to express the spirit
that lives inside of it.
Your body exists to express the spirit
that lives inside of it, right?
And your spirit is a spirit of change.
Your spirit is a spirit of innovation.
Your spirit is from heaven.
And it wants to move.
It wants you, your body to take it where it wants to go.
Your body is the vehicle,
the only vehicle that your spirit will get to ride in
on this earth.
And so remember your spirit is not wanting
to just sit around and do nothing.
You're a change agent.
Your spirit wants to create change for you and for others.
Your spirit wants to reform.
It wants to go places.
It wants to do things,
but your body has to be willing to go there as well.
So Father, we thank you that you're willing.
You are here to make us willing,
to be made willing in the day of your power.
We are willing, Lord.
We come to you to be willing,
to be made willing in the day of your power.
Show us that you're a good father.
Show us that you're not an authoritarian parent,
that you're not gonna do it for us,
but you are more than willing to do it with us,
that you are desiring for us to partner with you.
As your word says,
every day your eyes are roaming to and fro
throughout the earth,
looking for someone to partner with,
looking for someone to put your power on and through
to show this world what it is that you are like.
So Lord, we want to be those people
that you choose to work in and through.
We want to be those people whose lives show people
what heaven looks like,
that our marriages show people what heaven looks like,
that our parenting shows people what heaven looks like,
that our jobs and our vocations and our bank accounts.
and our lifestyles and our kindness and our love
show people what heaven looks like.
We want to show people what it looks like
to be a son and a daughter of God.
We want to step into the scripture
that says that all of the earth,
all of creation is groaning and travailing,
waiting for what?
Us, waiting for the revealing
of your sons and daughters in the earth.
So Lord, reveal us, reveal us, reveal us.
Anything that's keeping us back
from being able to move forward in faith.
We walk by faith and not by sight.
And the proof of faith is movement.
The proof of faith is works.
The proof of faith is action.
The proof of belief is preparation.
And so Lord, we just declare that right now.
We release that right now over all of us,
over our hearts, over our minds.
Whatever's keeping us back from trying again, Lord,
we pray that you would break that off with your grace,
with your empowerment from heaven
and get us moving forward again, moving forward again.
Catch the wind, catch the wind, catch the wind.
Story's not over yet.
The story's not done, friend.
The story is just getting started.
God has so many more things for you in this world
and in this life.
So many more plans and purposes for you.
God's plans and purposes are still intact.
Failure doesn't rob you of the plans and purposes
and potential of God, but it has robbed you of confidence.
So right now we release confidence over you.
Confidence that whatever you've been in,
whatever messes that have been made,
that you can step forward and step out of those things.
And you can step into the finished work of the cross
where there's grace and there's mercy
and there's momentum for your life.
In Jesus name, yes, Lord, let it be so.
All right.
Woo!
I love y'all.
I bless you.
It's an amazing Supernatural Saturday.
Remember, child's play Saturday.
Go be a child.
There's so much breakthrough that comes
when we do simple things
and we begin to enjoy the life that God has given us.
Joy rises, hope rises.
And remember, kids think they can do anything.
I mean, literally anything.
They're always faking belief and pretending
because nothing is telling them
that that's not possible for them.
So go get into that heart posture
and see what the Lord will do.
Love y'all.