All right, okay, let's get started.
Father God, we're so thankful for tonight.
Thankful, Lord, that you help us to put our hearts
into alignment with heaven.
You have so many plans for us, so many purposes for us
that we have yet to even think about living out.
And so as we go forward tonight, Lord,
I pray that you would restore supernatural hope
in our future, that you would restore supernatural faith
in the goodness that you are, the love that you are for us,
that you would put our hearts into alignment
with you like never before, in Jesus' name, amen.
All right, so we are going to do an advanced
heartwork session tonight around the idea of hope.
I want you to raise your little avatar hand
here in the group if you did the hope scale.
You either redid it because we posted it
in your group today, or you just have your score
from the original time you did it, either is fine.
Let's go ahead and get all of those hands up.
I want to see, I want to see the hands.
If you don't know how to, looks like a lot of you know
how to put your hand up, go ahead.
All right, everyone put your hands down.
I think this is a better question.
Put all of your hands down.
I want to rob anyone of this very powerful session.
All right, so put your hands down, Karen, Maggie,
get your hands down there.
All right, so now I want you to put your hand up
if you have not done the hope scale.
You do not have a score from your hope scale.
You did not do this activation yet, this worksheet.
Joanna, Cecilia, Bina, is that it, just three?
Okay, so if you're answering yes to yes,
I did not do this yet, I want you to leave here,
and I want you to go over to your group to,
if you're a man, go over to the mentorship.
If you're a woman, go over to bride school,
and tagged in the featured section
is a worksheet called the hope scale.
It will take you all of five minutes to do it, okay?
And so I want you to go over there.
You know, you don't have to print it out.
All you have to do is just write down your numbers
for each category on a piece of paper, add them up,
get your final score, and come back over here.
So if that's you, go do it right now, hurry up.
We'll try to stall a little bit for you,
so go ahead and go, go, go, go,
because I don't want you to, like I said,
rob yourself of this breakthrough.
If you do this session without having done that first,
it will change your results, so go do it.
Come on, you're on the honor system.
If you haven't done it, go do it.
Go do it, Nanette, go do it.
Go do it, y'all, go on.
We'll wait for you.
We'll try to wait for you, hurry up.
Hurry up.
Nanette, you have your hand up.
So you either have your hand up because you didn't do it.
Oh, you're gone.
Okay, she disappeared.
All right, guys, I just, I really,
this is a very powerful session.
It's a very supernatural session,
and so I want to make sure that people
are not robbing themselves of the results of it,
and so I want you to go do that,
and we'll just hang out here for two seconds
and wait for them.
I'm just going into the Bride School here
to make sure it's very, very easy for them to find that,
because the last thing we want is for people to be like,
I went to do it, and I couldn't find it,
because that would be super annoying too, right?
All right, so there it is.
Move to the left.
All right.
Where did you say it was located?
It is located in the Featured section of your group,
so right there at the top.
The top little toolbar of your group,
that's where it's located.
All right.
Let's take a look here.
We've got about 64 people on live.
That's not very many in our community of hundreds and hundreds.
So hopefully nobody is lost.
I know it is a Monday night and some people have other commitments on Mondays.
Right.
It's about 710.
We'll give them about five minutes.
Guys.
We'll start at 715 here.
We'll give about five minutes to finish that and get people back here.
Okay.
Let's take a look here.
Does your score get off since I don't have kids and can't account for
that number?
I don't understand the question now. What do you mean?
Does your score get off?
I know unless that's a typo. I don't know what that means.
Yeah, you guys, you don't have to have kids to,
to rank the parenthood category.
You know, what is your hope about parenthood,
about having children of your own or about, you know,
you being a mother or father.
In this lifetime. That is what that is about.
It's not about the children that you already have.
It is about you as a parent. What is your hope for that?
So go ahead and make sure that you fill in that spot too.
You want to make sure that you fill in the spot.
Because I think that's the most important thing to do.
If you're not sure where you're at,
you should fill in the spot too. No spots should be.
Empty.
Yeah, while we're waiting,
if you guys want to go ahead and put your scores up.
You want to put your score up in the.
In the.
In the chat here.
And remember you guys, first of all, if you had a,
if you had a perfect score of 40, you'd be lying.
That's a lie.
You are not a perfect score.
And I think that's where, you know,
we are struggling with really believing that good things are coming
for us, everybody at some level.
And so we'll just do this exercise while we're waiting for people to
get back. I think that would be really good is.
How many of you, you can raise your avatar hand. How many of you.
One hopeless to shred of hope.
I have a shred of hope in this area.
I'm not going to change that area of my life.
And I'm not going to change that area of my life.
And won't ever change that area of my life. And remember this, this,
these areas of our lives are not exhaustive.
There's more areas than just these that we've put here,
just these two, four, six, eight, 10 areas.
There's obviously more areas that we could put there. Right.
And I like, I think that.
Yeah, there's, there's several areas that we could include,
but these are just generalizations.
Okay.
So I have a shred of hope in this area.
I have a shred of hope in this area.
Two, I have a shred of hope in this area.
It might improve, but I'm not going to hold my breath.
All right.
Three hopeful.
This thing has a pulse. I'm cautiously optimistic.
And then four, I'm full of hope. I'm overflowing with hope.
It's amazing. It's successful. It's abundant.
This area of my life.
Now having read off all of those.
I have a shred of hope in this area.
And if you had at least one.
One.
If you had at least one area where you marked it a one,
I'm just hopeless.
I don't really see any change on the horizon.
There is a light at the end of the tunnel, but it might be a train.
It might be a train coming at me. I'm not sure,
but it could be a train.
All right.
Look at, okay.
Lots of people have a one on this.
Worksheet somewhere. Thank you for being honest.
All right. Hands down.
Okay.
You had at least one, two.
You had a two on here.
You have a shred of hope.
You're not holding your breath.
You know,
Things seem to get, you know, bad or worse in that area.
Lots of people with some twos. All right. So how many of you.
Go ahead and put your hands down.
How many of you.
Had at least one three.
Or you're hopeful.
Things are looking up.
Okay.
So how many of you had at least one two.
And how many of you finally had at least one.
Full of hope for.
On this worksheet.
All right.
So this proves what we learn in the heart work.
And what is that?
That just because you have one area of your life,
that's completely messed up. It's tore up from the floor up,
And it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's,
it's just a mess.
And so if you are really far removed from your heart work,
you've been with me for a really long time.
You might want to revisit.
That material.
we consider hopeless.
Those are the areas where we are believing the most lies
because trauma doesn't just hurt us.
It actually creates different versions of us.
And it's not the trauma that's gonna keep you
from living a full of hope life in that area.
It's the lies that you believe because of the trauma
that are gonna keep you from living
that full of hope life in that area, right?
Yes.
And so you can have one area that's overflowing with hope.
In fact, you're super successful,
maybe in your finances, maybe in your career,
maybe in your friendship relationships,
but your romantic life is just a hot mess express.
Or maybe, you're a widow or a widower in here
and you had an amazing romantic life.
You had an amazing marriage.
And then of course your spouse went on to heaven
ahead of you, they changed addresses
and you're full of hope for this area of your life
because you already know how amazing it can be.
You already know that.
But maybe you're kind of hopeless about your finances
because them passing away left you in a financial deficit
and you don't know how to get out
because maybe they were the breadwinner and you're not.
And I don't know if I'm giving words of knowledge
out right now, but that sounds pretty specific for somebody.
And then there's other varying levels of hope
with those middle two categories
of shred of hope and hopeful.
So you don't have to, just because you are hopeless
in one area does not mean that your entire life
is completely bereft of hope.
It doesn't mean that.
All right, so hopefully everybody's back.
I'm full of hope that everybody is back here
and ready to roll on tonight's bonus session.
So I just recently spoke in New York City.
I spoke at a singles conference there.
And I think that you guys know that there's some areas,
there's some regions of our country and of our world
that were hit harder by 2020 and by pandemic,
by quarantine, by lockdown, by the negative effects of COVID.
And New York is one of those places.
Now, I had never been to New York before 2020,
so I can't really attest to what it was like before,
but I will tell you as a prophet and as an empath
and as someone who's very in tune
to the spiritual atmospheres over places
that there's a lot of hopelessness in New York City.
There's a lot.
And I feel like the Lord gave me a word of knowledge
that a lot of that has to do with a place
that was already pretty disconnected,
that became very, very disconnected
because of that whole year and a half of lockdown.
And so God sent me there as his prophet to the single nation
to begin to speak, not just revival over New York City
in the area of family and relationships and marriage,
but also the restoration of hope.
And there have been other places as well
that God has used me to do that.
And that includes in this single nation.
And so God gave me an amazing word about hope
when I went and spoke at that conference
at the beginning of June.
And the Lord asked me to release this word
several different places, including in our community.
And so I know that you're gonna be
very encouraged by tonight and supernaturally,
you are going to receive hope back into your life
in areas where you have lost it.
So I wanna go ahead and dig into this
cause we don't have a lot of time.
We've burned about 18 minutes here.
So we're gonna go ahead and jump in
to what the Lord has for us tonight.
Okay, so I'm gonna pray one more time
now that we've went over this.
Lord, I'm asking that you help us to open our eyes
and open our ears and open our hearts
and open our spirits to receive
your supernatural words tonight,
to help us reattach to the eternal things
of faith, hope, and love,
to help us to reattach to them, Lord,
and anything that's standing in the way of that,
any lies that we're believing,
any circumstances that we're experiencing,
that those things fall down like the idols that they are,
and that you and your truth are the only things
left standing at the end of this session.
And that truth being that you are good
and that you are for us and that life is for us
and that anything that's happened has only happened for us.
Let's release that Romans 8, 28 right now
over each and every one of us.
Everything working to our good.
In Jesus name, let it be so, amen.
All right.
All right, all right.
Okay, so we just kind of went over that worksheet
and we'll revisit that a little bit in a little while,
but we're gonna revisit another worksheet,
Revealing for Healing.
And so if you have that, if you have access to it,
you can have it up later.
I am gonna share my screen so that you can see it.
So we'll all look at it together.
So if you don't have it easily accessible, that's okay.
Don't worry about it.
So now I'm gonna trick you a little bit
because God does love to trick us.
Sometimes he has to in order to get us to see
what it is that he really wants us to see.
We think we're coming for one reason.
and then we think we're doing pretty well.
And then the Lord kind of flips the script a little bit.
Maybe that's a better way to say instead of trick us,
he flips the script.
So God's gonna flip the script here right now.
So while all of you that had some fours on your worksheet
felt pretty good about yourself.
Yeah, I'm feeling really good about that area of my life
and I'm feeling really good about myself
that I'm full of hope.
And then a lot of times we probably felt pretty good
about those threes and those twos as well.
Hey, after everything that I've been through in this area,
the fact that I'm at a level two, I'm doing good.
And I'm not stealing that from you.
I'm not taking that away from you.
And then maybe even a level three,
you're like, whoa, those threes are pretty good.
I mean, that's really close.
If we were in school right now, it would be a B, right?
It's a B, Bs are good.
How many of you were okay with Bs in school?
You're like, hey, it's a B, I'm gonna take it.
Some of you were like, I'll take a C, a C is passing.
I like the C, C is good.
And that's fine because Western education
does not teach people the way they learn.
Western education sucks.
For those of you that are teachers,
we pay you great honor right now
because how difficult is it to be in a classroom
and not be able to teach kids the way that they learn?
That is hard, okay?
Raise your hand if you just didn't like school that much
because of that reason.
Fell asleep in class, didn't do really well,
but you're super smart, aren't you?
You're super smart.
But once again, it's not really grading people
on the right things a lot of times.
Okay, so feeling good about those Bs and even those Cs,
some of you might even feel good
about having that D, that hopeless.
I don't really have any Fs on here.
I think F would be completely something else.
Like what's hope, right?
But here's where I wanna flip the script.
God wants us to be able to,
and we've been created to be able to,
beyond circumstances, live at level four.
God wants you to be able to live at level four.
And I'm gonna prove that to you tonight.
And I believe there's gonna be a supernatural grace
that's gonna come upon you to get some fours
in some of these categories,
regardless of whether your circumstances
have shifted yet or not.
Okay?
So I'm going to go over these again,
and I'm gonna give a new definition
that's not off the worksheet.
These are my definitions.
Number four, instead of it's going amazing,
it's successful and abundant.
I'm gonna say this.
Level four, and this is the level
that God wants you to be able to live at.
You're living full of hope,
overcoming beyond circumstances.
You're overflowing with anticipation and expectancy.
Life is for you.
God is with you.
Your bags are packed at the door and you're ready to go.
You're living.
You're living on ready to go all the time.
Level three.
That's that hopeful level.
This is how I'm gonna define that level now.
Because remember, we wanna live at that level four level.
And while this one seems good,
you know, I'm cautiously optimistic.
I wanna give you a different definition of your threes
that are on your worksheet.
Level three is where we begin
to approach things with hesitancy.
We start to guard our hope.
We say things like, I hope that works out.
I hope so.
People say, hey, this is gonna happen.
You say, I hope so.
That would be nice.
Man, that would be awesome.
What are we doing there?
We're not going all in.
And the reason why is because we're guarding our hope now.
We've been disappointed just enough
that yeah, we still have a lot of hope
for this area of our lives or just our lives in general.
But now we're starting to guard it a little bit.
We're starting to protect ourselves
in case it doesn't work out the way we want it to, right?
All right, level two.
Over here, it's shred of hope.
Here's the new definition for level two.
This is the level where we begin to live
according to what can be achieved in our own strength.
We don't realize we're doing it,
but we have lost faith
that God is going to be with us in this area.
So we start living very natural lives
instead of supernatural lives.
Instead of stretching supernaturally with Holy Spirit,
we start striving in the flesh.
It's at this level that I call plan B or plan me.
And for some of you that are go-getters and you're doers,
you can get a whole lot of crap done.
You can, you can make a whole lot of stuff
happen for yourself.
But there's other people that are not doers.
They're more thinkers, they're more beers,
and they really struggle.
If they get to a level two,
they're gonna really struggle
because nothing's gonna get done
because they're not doing it.
And so that's a great example of how to be a good God.
Plan me for them doesn't look really great because they're not type a,
they're not kicking butts and taking names later.
All right, level three.
And for those of you that are feeling pretty good about yourself,
because plan plan me kind of works out for you sometimes.
I want to let you know that this is part of the reason why you're not living a
supernatural life is part of the reason why,
where you don't ask God for very much in life in general,
because if you can't get it yourself, you just don't worry about it.
This is actually a level of hopelessness and you don't realize it.
So plan B or plan me starts forming at this stage.
This is where we begin to orchestrate and build our lives around the idea that
if these things are going to happen, because they're probably not going to happen,
but if they do happen, I'm going to have to make it happen for myself.
I'm going to have to take responsibility for my life. And for a lot of you,
responsibility is just a fancy word for fear of disappointment.
These places that you're taking responsibility for your life,
and you're trying to make things happen for yourself.
It's just a fancy word for disappointment.
For those of you that are out there on those dating apps,
working them like a job,
you're trying to make something happen in your own strength.
You're not leaning in. You're not brimming overflowing a supernatural hope.
You're not, you're not meeting every opportunity with supernatural hope.
You're out there trying to find a needle in a haystack and it is stealing your
joy.
And that's how you know that you're at one of these lesser levels of hope is
when you just really hate what you're doing,
but you're doing it because you think that you have to,
because you think that that is your part to play. Okay.
This is also the level, level two,
where competition starts thriving a little bit,
starts to thrive, start to try to be there first, got to be the first in line,
start elbowing people out of the way.
And this is where cynicism starts to be nurtured.
Cynicism is a lot of things.
I mean, cynics, you guys know what they are, right?
They're the people that we can't, I have,
I have a couple of people in my life privately,
personally that are cynics and they're really hard to be around because anytime
you say anything positive or hopeful, they are quick to meet you with the facts.
They're quick, quick to meet you with, with, with whatever they think reality is.
And then they'll say to you, they don't realize they're cynics.
They think they're realists. They'll be like, well, you know, Jackie,
I'm just a realist. And in my mind, I'm like,
I'm not going to say anything out loud because I'm not going to get into a
debate because that's a broken place of the heart.
So at level two, this is where we become doubtful. We're not,
we're not total doubters yet,
but we're becoming doubtful of whether or not this area is even worth our
time. I want you to be honest right now.
And I want you to tell me whether or not there's some areas here where you've
just given up because on these areas,
because you just have never been successful in that area.
Instead you put all of your energy and all of your investment into areas where
you know that you can be successful,
where you know you can live at that level for you start to kind of just let this
stuff go that you're not good at the stuff that has not been happening for you
in your life.
And you start to really focus all your energy on where, you know, you can win.
You know what I'm saying? You're like, I know I can win over here.
And so I'm not going to worry about this over here.
And so for some people that looks like putting all their time and effort and
energy into their bodies, they got really nice bodies.
They know how to work out.
They know how to do their macros and all the things. And you know,
they got muscles on muscles and they're defined and all the thing,
all that stuff is going good for them.
They're full of hope about their physical health because they're so good at that
stuff, but their relationships are total train wreck.
They're putting all their time and energy into this because they know that they
can be successful here,
but this other area they don't put any time or effort into it because they just
can't be, they haven't been able to be. And they've just given up.
They become cynical about that area of their lives.
Maybe it's finances that you put all your time and energy into,
because you know that you know how to make money.
You know how to be successful at your job.
You just keep getting promoted and promoted and promoted and promoted because
you're good at what you do. So the list can go on and on.
Hopefully you guys are starting to understand
what I'm talking about here. All right. Okay.
And then we're getting down to number one on our worksheet. This is hopeless,
but I want to give it an even bigger definition.
And you guys,
you can take notes or you don't have to take notes because remember this is
available in replay.
So you can just listen and just soak it in if that's what you want to do as
well.
Okay, at number one, in this new definition that I believe Holy Spirit gave me hope, you're
not just hopeless.
You believe that hope is foolish and it's for fools.
Hope is for fools.
Life is what it is.
Grow up.
Not everything happens for everyone.
You actually become an aggressive evangelist for hopelessness in that area.
Do you see that?
This is the area.
This is that level where bitterness grows, where this is the level where jealousy thrives.
Offense with God and with others is abundant at this level.
I have a private client who's not old.
She's really young.
She's only like 30, 31 years old.
I was applauding her because she has found a way to live without social media.
I would love to live without social media.
Obviously, I have social media because of what I do as a ministry and as a business.
She's been able to live without social media for years now.
I just thought that was incredible until she told me why.
She told me that she lives without social media because she's living at this level one
of hopelessness.
She can't stand to see other people's lives on social media because it makes her feel
so angry.
She doesn't want to see her classmates and her friends from her hometown getting engaged
or getting married or having babies.
She doesn't want to see people thriving in areas where she has lost all hope for herself
at such a young age, right?
Please pay attention to the teaching right now and just really allow Holy Spirit to speak
to you.
There isn't any reason to be blowing up the chat feed with anything right now.
I'm not discouraging you from confessing or contributing, but maybe write that down as
you're listening and maybe post it later because right now I want you to really focus on what
Holy Spirit wants to say to you.
I want you to raise your hand if you will admit that you have felt that way before.
It's very difficult being happy for others.
Have felt just like you want to totally shut it all out.
You don't want to deal with it anymore.
Don't want to see it.
Lots of people, lots and lots and lots of people and thoughts start coming up like why
them and why not me and you know, they don't deserve that and why would God bless them
that way?
And then we start getting angry at God because we start seeing him as a God who healed some
people and doesn't heal others, blesses some people and doesn't bless others.
And you know, we've, you know, I can't tell you how many women specifically guys, I have
heard maybe a few guys say this, but women that grew up in the church and they did everything
right.
You know, they were virgins until they got married and you know, they, they, in their
minds they did everything there, they did everything God's way.
And then they ended up either, you know, being broken up with right before the wedding started
or they ended up marrying the person and then finding out that that person wasn't who they
said they were.
And you know, that, that person ended up divorcing them or cheating on them.
It's just really, really, really difficult to deal with why.
And that's why I posted that song in your groups the other day.
I don't know if I posted it in the men's group, but I did post it in the bride school.
It's by Corey Asbury and it's called kind.
And it's a hard song to listen to.
If you, if you have your hand up right now, cause it's going to speak to that, it's going
to speak to the feelings that we have of, you know, if God's good, then why?
And I think it's a really important song.
I do.
I think it's really important song.
And I think that it will hit home for a lot of people.
And I'm glad that Corey wrote it.
Okay.
Go ahead and put your hands down.
So offense is really abundant at this level one.
And let me tell you something.
When you get to this level one, there's actually a spiritual blindness that comes at this stage.
This stage of hopelessness actually has a spiritual blindness that prevents you from
seeing God's hand on your life.
It prevents you from seeing options and possibilities and opportunities and open doors.
It's not that they're not there.
You just can't see them anymore.
Because of the hardness of heart that you have in this area.
And I don't want you to feel discouraged.
We're just going over this right now, but you know, by the end of tonight, you're, this
isn't, you're going to have a heart of flesh again in this area, your heart's going to
be softened.
You're going to supernaturally be able to hope where you weren't be able to hope before.
And hope is the building blocks of miracles.
she didn't know that. So, as I said at the beginning, God wants us to live at level four.
He wants us to be able to live there. And why? Because we're overcomers.
We have the ability to overcome any and all objections that come our way to living a life of
hope. 1 Peter 3.15. Sorry, guys, I didn't write this down. Okay.
Okay. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for
the hope that you have. Okay. I'm just paraphrasing that scripture. And you want to know why that
scripture exists? Because hope is foreign to a world that's still aligning with a broken curse.
The curse is broken, you guys, from the finished work of Calvary. It is broken,
but there's a lot of people that are still aligning to it. And because we have free will,
we can do that. And so hope is foreign to a world that's aligning with a broken curse.
And that is why this scripture is telling us that you will always need to be ready to explain your
hope. If you're living full of hope, you're going to have to explain yourself. Why are you so chipper?
Why are you so chipper? Don't you know we're in a recession?
Why are you so happy? Why do you have a smile on your face?
Why do you have peace? Why do you have joy? Why do you have hope?
Just in case you guys didn't know this, as kingdom people that are pilgrims in the earth,
we are not held accountable to the world or to its systems, which means we can opt out of
recession. We can. We can opt out of recession. God clearly showed us that example during the
plagues of Egypt, where the Israelites were not experiencing the same things that the Egyptians
were experiencing. That juxtaposition was showing us very clearly what we can do if we are a kingdom
within a culture. Right? It's true. Okay. So our hope is in the Lord, the maker of heaven and earth,
right? We can opt out of some of these things. So let's talk about hope. What does it do? It
rolls you out of bed in the morning. It puts a spring in your step. Hope is what keeps you
taking in. People think faith is what keeps you going. It's not faith. It's hope. I'm going to
show you why faith without hope is really actually kind of dangerous in a little while here. Okay.
Actually, I mean, we'll show you the whole thing. You'll see it in a second. So hope rolls you out
of bed. What people call faith, it can't happen without hope. And if you have what people call
faith and it didn't come from hope, then that's, what's dangerous. And we'll talk about it in a
second. So hope rolls you out of bed in the morning. Hope puts a spring in your step. Hope
keeps you taking imperfect action towards the dream of your heart and preparing for the good
that's coming. The good that's coming one way or another. Good things are coming for me. They're
hunting me down. The hounds of heaven are hunting me down. They're going to find me. Goodness is
going to overtake me. The Psalmist said that goodness and mercy will pursue me all the days
of my life. Right? That's what hope tells you. God is for me. Life is for me. The best is always
yet to come. The story isn't over yet. That's hope talking. Hope keeps you out of the waiting
room of despair. There is no DMV in the kingdoms. You guys in the kingdom, we have talked about this
lots and lots of times you guys have been to the DMV, right? The department of motor vehicles.
That is a very, very sad place. It's full of broken dreams. Smells like disappointment.
It's a hard place to be. I don't have to go there anymore since COVID. Thank you for COVID in that
way, because now you can just apply online for all your stickers and your registration. And you
don't have to go to the DMV anymore, except like once every like four or five years, get your
picture taken. So in the kingdom, if there isn't waiting rooms, what are there? What are there in
the kingdom? If there's not waiting rooms, there's green rooms, staging rooms. You guys, basically,
most of this life is one big staging area, just in case you didn't know that. This entire earth
timeline that you're living is one big staging area. So we have green rooms or staging areas
where we're being.
prepped for something that God already intends to give us.
He's maturing us.
He's accelerating us so that we can receive so that we can sustain.
God doesn't want any of us to be one hit wonders.
What's a one hit wonder.
Those are all the people that made one song that you absolutely love.
And it was like an earworm.
It was a total hit.
It was incredible, but then you never heard from that band ever again.
And you don't want to know why you never heard from him ever again, because
those are bands that somehow got a hit that charted, but they didn't have
managers, they didn't have good relationships with each other because
they hadn't been playing with each other in the clubs and in the highways and
byways for years and years and years and years, they automatically accelerated
to the top and they couldn't sustain being there.
And so they failed
because without the process, if you get the promise without the process,
you will not be able to sustain it.
You will not.
You got to have the process.
You have to have it.
And that's why God doesn't want anyone hit wonders.
So there's lots of staging rooms in our lives, lots of green rooms
where we're being prepared.
And then what is there?
One other kind of room birthing rooms.
What is that?
We're being prepared in one place and we're being manifested in another place.
There's birthing rooms when you, when it's time, time for you to go
into that birthing stage.
Okay.
So process, remember, I just told you that every promise has a process
attached to it and process that staging, that prep time of our lives in that
area is usually where people start to lose hope and, you know, there's a lot
of different reasons why you guys remember, I, I, I met Jesus in my twenties.
I didn't, wasn't raised in the church, but I got a lot of
bad information in my twenties.
I was discipled by all different types of thinkings.
And I was, I was discipled by all different types of interpretation of
scripture, and I'm just going to tell you right now that if you are young
in your faith, it doesn't matter how old you are on the earth, but
if you are young in your faith.
You need to start studying things out.
Please don't just take things at face value.
A lot of times scripture can be the most discouraging thing.
I can't tell you how many times when the word of God was twisted in
a way that caused me to lose hope.
That's right.
The Bible was preached to me in a way that caused me to lose hope.
Prophetic words were given to me in a way that caused me to lose hope.
If you walk out of a spiritual community, discouraged and with less
hope than you went in, something's not right, and I'm not talking that
people are going to be padded, caking for Jesus, and they're just going to
tell you all the things that you want to hear, and they're going to tell
you that you can have the promises with no process, because there
are churches like that too.
And guess what those churches or those spiritual communities
make you lose hope as well.
You want to know why?
Because what they're saying is not true.
And then when it doesn't happen, then you start to get super discouraged.
Because you have this idea that whatever it is, that that's being
promised to you, that God's about to do for you, you think it's going
to happen in the next 24 hours.
And then when it doesn't, you're like, what the heck?
And so there's all different types of zigging and zagging and
rollercoaster rides that happen as a result of bad spiritual teaching.
And so I really want to encourage you that if you're young in this, that
you need to get teachers around you that know how to rightly divide the
word of God, and there's a lot of them.
And I hope that I'm one of them.
I take teaching extremely seriously, you guys, and part of the reason
why, and you guys, for those of you that done the hard work, you see
at the very beginning of that course in the book, if you have the book,
that's the reason why it exists because I needed God to show me how his
word could actually manifest in my life.
I was crazy enough to believe that his word was true and that his promises
were true, but they weren't true in my life because they weren't happening.
And so a lot of times we're not taught about the timeline of a
promise, which is called process.
And so every promise in our lives has a process to it.
And process is not fun.
It isn't fun.
It isn't Jesus, Jesus had process because of the joy.
Okay.
Some translations even say hope because of the hope that was set before him,
he endured the suffering of the cross.
He endured that process of pain and suffering because he believed what was
coming, he believed in the promise.
He didn't Isaiah 40, 31 is one of the main scriptures where
people talk to us about waiting and they I can't.
I mean, you guys, if I had a dollar for every time, uh, single son
or daughter of God came to me and told me exactly what he told me.
He didn't tell me about the God of the waiting end of the promise.
me that the place where they've received the most discouragement about whether or not they will get
But he told everybody about the God of the coming.
He said, I only want a one bill promise.
married is at their church. I would have at least probably about $325. Okay. Because that happens,
it happens. And you guys, I don't think people are doing it on purpose. I think that they
actually are living at level one of hope for you to get married. They don't believe that you're
going to get married. And so they want to help you not be disappointed by believing you are.
And that can happen in other areas too. It's not just marriage. People don't believe for
your breakthrough. You guys, I will never forget. I used to work at the homeless shelter as a,
as like a kind of a social worker. Um, when I was first, first meeting Jesus. So I met Jesus
and then I went right into ministry. And so, um, I was working with trafficked women and
homeless people and chemically dependent, mentally ill people, you know, I just like,
and those were some of the most exciting times of my life, just so you know, but I will never forget
that. I started bringing this woman from the homeless shelter to a church with me and she
got radically saved. She got converted. Her name was Shelly Whitman, you know? And, um, she was
just incredible. She was super funny, but the reason why she was homeless is because she was
an alcoholic and she would do really, really well. And then she would fall off and go back
into alcoholism. And you guys, I don't mean just like regular alcoholism. I mean like drunk on the
street alcoholism. Right. And so she was doing really, really well. She was doing so well,
you guys, that she was able to get custody of her daughter back because she had lost custody
because of all these binges, all these drinking binges that she had gone on in the past. And so
she got her daughter back and Shana and I, um, and Shana and Shelly and I, we became thick as thieves.
That's her daughter's name. And her daughter was like 10 or 11 years old. And I was discipling her,
even though I was new myself to the whole faith thing. But one day she went on a drinking binge.
Her daughter called me. They lived really close to my apartment, called me and said, I need you to
come over. And my mom never came home last night. And so I went over there and her mom wasn't there.
Her mom had gone on a binge on a bender and had never returned. And so I'm trying to figure out
what to do right now, because I don't want to report her to the authorities. And she had been
doing so good for so long. Like we're talking like years good. Right. And so I took Shana to my house
and I took care of her. And eventually her mom showed back up and, you know, started trying to
deal with what can we do to help this never happen again. So I asked my pastor, I said all that to
say this and I'm not trying to throw them under the bus. You guys, no one's perfect, but I never
forgot this as a young convert, because I asked my pastor, Hey, what do you think I should do about
this? I need advice. What should I do about this situation? And this is literally what he said to
me. He said, forget about the mom. He said, focus on the doctor daughter. He said, the mother's
hopeless. That's literally what I was told. Stop wasting your time and energy on the mother.
She's a lost cause focus on the kid. Dang. And you know what guys?
So many of us, even though we haven't said those words out loud, we've thought that stuff
about ourselves and other people we've thought that self's about even about ourselves.
And so it's easy to sit in judgment of him and be like, man, what a jerk,
you know, but at the same time, we've thought this stuff about ourselves. We thought this stuff
about these different areas of our lives. We have been that naysayer in our own lives and
in the lives of other people, whether we just do it in our mind or we say it out loud. And
y'all know it's true. I know I've done it. I've thought those thoughts about myself and about
others. So it's important that we understand that everyone has a process. I wish I could tell you
what happened to Shelly. I lost, she did start doing good again. I lost track of her. I mean,
this is 20 years ago. So that daughter of hers would be like 30 something years old.
And I have no idea how they're doing. And I hope, I hope, I hope well,
right? I believe, well, I'm going to, my hope is extended to that fact that they would be doing
well. So Isaiah 40, 31 talks about that waiting room that people think exists in the kingdom,
but those who wait upon the Lord will gain new strength and renew their power. But the word
wait in that translation, because you guys remember the Bible's not written in English.
And so a lot is a lost in translation. And when I say lost in translation, I mean like the meanings
of words. We have a lot of words in our language that aren't really the best interpretation from
the actual original, and this is.
It's one of those, because when we think wait, we think, wait, we think waiting
rooms, we think I'm out of control to make this happen.
My only job is just to go wait and God may do it, or he may not do it.
Um, but that word actually means to expect, look for and hope for.
So what does it mean?
It means to hopefully and expectantly prepare.
That's what that word hope means to hopefully and expectantly prepare for
what, for the goodness of God, when in the land of the living right now in this
life, because all the things that you're hoping for, all the things that you're
expectantly preparing for, you don't need them in heaven.
So in the only sense that anything makes is that all the promises of God are for
you and for your lineage and legacy.
And for your generations, they're not for heaven someday.
Okay.
So in this process of preparation, and some of us are not preparing.
We are simply waiting.
We're over here.
We're waiting and we're not waiting patiently.
You guys have seen those people in line.
They are certainly waiting, but they are not waiting patiently
and they're not preparing.
One of the most frustrating things for me.
When I'm in a line is that the people in front of me would not be ready to go by
the time they get to the front of the line they're in front of me.
And it's like, they don't even know where they are.
What have you been doing this whole time that you've been standing in this line,
waiting to order that food or waiting to do whatever it's like, they get to the
front of the line, it's their turn.
And it's like, okay, what's your order?
It's like, I don't know.
What do you have?
What are you talking about?
It's Taco Bell.
They have bread and cheese and sour cream and beef and chicken and all
different types of scenarios.
And that's all they have and beans.
So choose one of the combinations of these five ingredients and move on.
But this is what happens when we're just waiting and we can be waiting and not
preparing.
And then we get to the front and we're like, I don't, I don't know.
What do you mean?
You don't know at the airport.
People are in the TSA line.
I just traveled to Europe.
They're in the TSA line.
What are you in the TSA line for?
You're going to have your ID checked.
Then please explain to me why you waited for 45 minutes.
And when you get up to the agent, you don't have your ID out.
In fact, you don't know where it is.
You're digging through your bag.
Okay.
You're unpacking your suitcase.
What are we doing?
Did you not know what kind of line you're in?
That's very frustrating, very frustrating because why?
Because never be waiting.
You guys, I say all that to say this don't ever be waiting.
There's no such thing as waiting.
You should always be preparing with what with hopeful expectancy.
All right.
So anyway, this waiting process, this is where people start to erode their hope.
And I know that sound, it makes me sound like a Karen.
And for those of you that are named Karen, I'm so sorry.
Shouldn't have said that.
Um, that makes me sound like whatever it is that people say that people that have
no patience are called nowadays.
Um, but at the same time, it isn't, it's just someone with common sense.
That's a common sense thing.
And sometimes common sense is not that common.
Um, but I think that we live in a generation where people are so used to just
waiting all the time that they don't even think about being prepared in their weight.
And so this is where we start to erode our hope ever so slowly and a lot of times.
Unknowingly that is the, that is the point that I want to make with you.
I know.
I'm so sorry.
Karen got, got into, uh, got into that cultural thing.
Just got in my head.
Sorry.
It's terrible.
I take it back.
Karen's are amazing.
It means pure.
I agree with you.
Okay.
So, um, it erodes slowly and a lot of times unknowingly, you guys unknowingly.
And so if you've lost hope in an area, it's important for you to allow Holy
spirit to help you retrace your steps and see where it is that you lost it.
If you had a lot of hope for something, and then all of a sudden you just
realized you just don't really have any hope for that thing anymore.
Ask Holy spirit to show you what was the straw that broke the camel's back.
What was the where, where, where did you unknowingly cause the erosion was
happening, finally let go of your hope balloon where, where did that happen at?
All the Karen's are ganging up on me.
Y'all I'm so sorry.
I really am.
When you say things like that, you never think about, Hey, that's somebody's name.
So I apologize.
Please forgive me.
Okay.
All right.
So, unknowingly, our hope starts eroding and here's one of the reasons why it happens unknowingly sometimes we allow you guys we give permission to ourselves. We allow our hope to be attached to a certain timeline, or a specific outcome.
And when that doesn't happen.
We begin to entertain that even the tiniest seed of doubt and that's where the erosion starts to happen.
We allow we allow our hope to be connected to a certain timeline a specific outcome.
That's what we do.
That's what we do you guys.
I've done it you've done it, go ahead and put some examples in the chat of where you've done that you allowed your hope for something, some area of your life, some situation to be connected to a specific outcome.
And then when that thing did not happen the way that you expected it to it really took a hit in your hope you took a really big hit in your hope.
Anyone.
I'll go ahead and let you guys put something up.
Not getting married by 27 so good Joanne Thank you.
Yes.
You guys you're talking to someone on a dating app I know it's so simple but they're just amazing and wonderful and the conversation is going so good you get so excited they're the one I know it.
And then you, you show up in person to meet them and it's like, like, not anything of what you thought it was going to be like and then you're like,
not getting married by 35 and having kids having a child by 30. Okay.
Hope in medicine. Yeah, for those of you that have dealt with chronic illness and inflammation.
Yes, every single time there was a new thing that you were going to try it was like you got you get your hopes up at this time this is it this is it this is it.
All right.
A lot of getting married and marrying general having children finances married by 30 a lot of you guys are putting stuff up. Okay.
And some of these things you guys are putting out the ships not sailed on this yet.
You might not have gotten married by that certain age but you're, you know, you're still going to have a spirit mate I have all the supernatural hope for you.
And some of you are saying like growing old with that person well, yeah, you can still grow old with them, you haven't grown old yet. So there's still time.
Okay.
All right.
All right, so many good things hopefully you guys are seeing each other's responses to that so you know that you're not alone in some of those things okay.
So we allow we are the ones that allow our hope to be defined by something that has to happen has to happen this way has happened by certain time.
And then if that doesn't happen, we, a lot of times unknowingly start to entertain the tiniest seeds of doubt, and those things grow pretty quickly.
By the way, the opposite of hope is doubt.
And this is how doubt is defined doubt is defined as uncertainty.
You feel uncertain right because your hope was tied to a specific outcome it didn't happen and that's made you feel uncertain now because that's a tiny seed of doubt of uncertainty doubt is defined as uncertainty that now causes in action.
That's what will happen when you start losing hope, you'll have enough doubt enough uncertainty that will cause you not to not to take in perfect action anymore.
God can't fail love can't fail but you're going to stop doing yours, you're going to stop expectantly preparing with hope you get it.
Little by little you're going to Nelson Mandela said something it's my favorite quote if you never heard me say it then you must not know me very well, because I always say you will never prepare for set for anything, while secretly believing
that it's not going to happen. Why is the word secret in there.
Because behavior follows identity.
You're not going to truly prepare for anything, while you're entertaining a seed of doubt and uncertainty that it's not going to happen. And sometimes that's a secret even from yourself.
And if you want to find out where doubt lives in your heart, and in your life. All you have to do is find the areas where you're just really not taking any kind of expectant hopeful action anymore.
So, this is the state of being you guys where we begin to do something called defer our hope.
If you have anything else out of tonight please pay attention to what I'm going to say next.
Now I know that there's a scripture and it's in Proverbs
and a lot of people use it to explain
why they're just not happy right now
because things aren't going their way.
Their hope was tied to a certain outcome
and that thing didn't happen.
And now my hope has been deferred
and it's making me heart sick.
Please be honest and raise your hand
if you have said this before.
If you have read that scripture
and then you commiserate it with it,
you're like, yes, yes, my hope, my hope has been deferred.
And now, now my heart is broken.
My heart is sick.
Look at all those hands.
So many people.
Okay, put them down.
The problem with this scripture
is that people do not understand what it is saying.
And it is not saying what I just said.
It is saying that when you, not God, defer your hope,
you make yourself heart sick.
When you defer your hope,
not when some circumstance or some outcome doesn't happen,
not when God's holding out on you
and not giving you what you've prayed for,
because trust me and let's be honest,
when we quote that scripture,
there's a little teeny tiny bit of us that's saying,
you know, well, God didn't give me what I asked for,
what I've been praying for,
what I've been waiting for all this time.
And so I'm heart sick.
But when that longing is fulfilled,
it'll be a tree of life, right?
So we try to make it better.
But really what we're saying
is we're accusing God of deferring our hope.
We're accusing God of holding out on us.
And it's easy to do you guys.
And I'm not gonna make you admit that you've done it
because I know you have.
And so have I.
I know you have, all right.
But here's the funny thing about hope.
It's not a fruit of the spirit.
It's actually one of the three things
that are eternal and constant and available always,
faith, hope, and love.
What?
Yes.
It is not something
that you have to cultivate.
It is something that you can simply have supernaturally
because these three things will remain,
faith, hope, and love.
That means when everything's over, you guys, all of it,
all the cray-cray, all of it's done.
Finally, this broken curse,
everybody will be in alignment.
Every tongue, every knee will bow.
Every tongue will confess.
All of it will be restored when that happens.
The only three things that will remain,
all the stuff that we're putting all our time and energy
with, it will be over.
It will be gone.
There will be no need for it,
but faith, hope, and love will remain.
So God is not holding out on you.
We defer our hope.
We defer it because we're believing lies.
We are looking at circumstances.
We got our eyes off Jesus.
I've done it a million times.
And so have you.
We start to entertain doubt.
We start to, we start to,
religion starts to put it on us.
We start to entertain doubt that we even deserve this thing.
And we have not punched our time clock enough.
You know, spiritually, we haven't done enough things
in order to earn a husband or a wife.
We haven't, because I'm using that as an example,
because all of you are here because you want a spirit mate.
But you can just, you can just fill in the blank
with whatever you want to.
And so we start deferring our hope
because we believe that we're unworthy.
We believe that we don't deserve whatever it is
that we've been waiting for.
And that's why God's not giving it to us
because we don't deserve it.
So we start to entertain those doubtful ideas.
And here's the newsflash
that all of you need to get ahold of.
You absolutely don't deserve it.
And you never will.
You don't deserve anything that God wants to give you.
And if you want to live an amazing,
incredible life on this earth,
then you need to get really comfortable
with receiving lots of stuff
that you absolutely don't deserve.
Absolutely.
Those people used to get on my last nerve, you guys,
because I was discipled by religious people.
And they started having me think,
even though I was converted by love
and converted by the supernatural power of the giver,
the ultimate giver, which is God,
these people had me believe in,
and I had to earn and merit and deserve everything
from that point forward after I started getting discipled.
Now, there were some good things I was taught,
and I'm very thankful for my discipleship.
Don't hear what I'm not saying.
But at the same time, I saw all kinds of people around me
that I knew were living bad lives,
and they were being blessed.
And I was like, what?
What the what, what the what, what is happening, you know?
And I'm not talking about like sinners, like David,
you know, he sees the wicked prospering
and God's like, you don't see their end.
I'm talking about children of God that were not religious
and were willing to be perfectly imperfect
and still let God bless them
even though they didn't deserve it.
I'm not about those people.
And they were so infuriating to me
because I'd be in relationship with some of them
and they'd be like, yeah, well,
I'm just believing God for this thing.
And I'd think to myself, why?
You don't deserve that.
And then they get it.
I'd be like, what, what's happening?
So glad that Pharisee Jackie no longer lives.
She is dead.
I'm no longer a Pharisee, y'all.
I didn't know any better.
I was discipled to be a Pharisee.
And I wasn't good at it, you guys,
because I really just have a heart of grace.
And I always have.
And something deep inside of me always knew
that this cannot be this way.
It really, this cannot be correct,
which is why the hard work became a thing
because my life was so messed up
and I wasn't living in freedom in any area.
And then I was just like, God, what's going on?
Someone put rest in peace, Pharisee Jackie.
That's so good, Nora.
I love it.
Love it.
Okay, back on track.
We defer it.
We defer our hope and it makes us heart sick, you guys.
And please listen to what I'm about to say next.
When we are heart sick, when our hearts are sick,
our hearts start looking for medication.
Sick hearts start looking for medication.
Plan me starts taking shape.
I didn't get what I wanted when I wanted it.
And if God isn't gonna give it to me,
I'm gonna go get it myself.
Or I'm gonna be really a mean and abusive
and hurtful to myself until God feels sorry enough
for me to give it to me.
Oh, come on, you guys.
I have watched so many people drink poison
to try to get God's attention.
There are no trophies for trauma
and taking on a posture of victimhood,
you guys will not give you victory.
Taking on a posture of victimhood will not get you victory.
I know this is always a really hard lesson
for people to learn.
It was hard for me to learn because you guys know
I came from a really complicated,
very abusive childhood, okay?
But God does not feel sorry for you.
God does not bless us based on need.
He blesses us based on faith.
And you will not ever have true faith without hope.
I'm very glad that God doesn't just bless based on need
because if that's the truth,
people in developing countries would have his full attention
and none of us would ever get his attention in America.
Amen.
It was based on need.
We would never get the attention of God
because there would always be someone
who's in more need than us, for sure.
There are people eating dirt cookies right now, y'all.
Seriously, okay?
All right.
So when we defer our hope, it makes us heart sick.
And when we are heart sick, we start looking for medication
and then plan me starts taking shape.
We start taking things into our own hands.
We try to solve one problem, we create 99 new problems.
That's what happens.
So what does the word defer really mean?
It means to put off to a later time or postpone.
Another synonym of defer is suspend.
This means what?
This means I'm waiting for more information
before making a final decision or taking action.
When you suspend something,
whether it's a cash register
that's suspending the transaction
because you forgot your wallet in your car
and now you gotta run out and get it.
What are they waiting for?
They're waiting for more information
before they make a decision or take action.
I don't know about you guys,
but I was suspended from school probably every other month.
I'm not kidding.
I was suspended from school all the time.
I was on three-day suspension.
Sometimes I was on in-school suspension.
Sometimes I was just on straight up suspension
while they decided what?
Whether or not they should expel me.
Suspension means that the people
that are making the decision are trying to decide
whether or not they wanna keep you in this class
or in this thing.
I never got expelled, but I was suspended a lot.
So what do we do when we are deferring our?
hope, suspending our hope, what are we doing?
We're waiting to have hope.
We're deferring it until there's evidence that it's safe
to get our hopes up about this thing again.
We wanna know, is it safe?
Am I gonna be disappointed?
I'm waiting for evidence
that I'm not gonna be disappointed again.
So I'm just gonna have level one or two of hope here
because I don't have enough evidence.
I don't have enough proof
that this time God's gonna deliver.
Is anyone hearing me out there?
Do you resonate?
Is it hitting home with you?
Do you know that this is you that I'm talking about?
Okay.
So the problem with this deferment, you guys,
or this suspension of hope,
instead of just having ridiculously beautiful lives
that glisten with hope, regardless of circumstances,
and that's really the building blocks of miracles,
instead of doing that, we defer our hope,
we suspend our hope,
and the problem with that is it makes us heart sick.
And then that broken heart
actually goes looking for medication.
That's how you get in situationships.
That's how you start settling for less than what you deserve
because when you're looking for medication,
something to fill the void right now
while you're waiting to see whether or not
anything's really ever gonna happen for you in this area,
you start to erode your hope even further
because it's a very slippery slope.
Psalm 43.5, this is the psalmist talking.
David, he's talking to his heart part.
The soul and heart are interchangeable in the word of God.
He's saying, hey, heart, hey, soul,
because it's that soul realm
where all the bad information is kept.
And hopelessness is rooted in bad information, okay?
So, hey, soul, why are you restless?
Why are you sick?
He's talking to his heart.
His heart is sick.
He's been believing bad information
and now he's losing hope,
but he's trying to rally himself and he's saying,
don't be restless, don't be sick, hope in God.
And I'm releasing that over you, brothers and sisters.
Don't be restless, don't be sick.
Don't be over here wasting your time
with things that are not gonna satisfy you
because you're going and looking for medication.
Please be in the right place at the right time
with the right heart, because God wants to bless you.
Don't be over here digging ditches
where it's not gonna rain just because you're bored,
because you feel like you've waited too long
for God to come through.
Yes, don't be numbing the pain.
Feel all the pain and then ask it why it's there.
Because if we're in pain during the waiting process,
usually that pain is because we feel like
we've been rejected, left out, left behind, forgotten.
That's why we're in pain.
And those are all lies.
If you knew something absolutely was gonna happen
and you knew it would be on a shadow of a doubt,
a hundred percent, a million percent,
you would not be full of pain.
You'd be full of anticipation and excitement.
You'd be decorating the walls.
Ladies, when the doctor told you
you were gonna have a baby,
you didn't sit around and worry about miscarriages
and whether or not you're really gonna have a baby.
You ran out from that doctor's office
and you went and bought little tiny clothes
and all kinds of furnishings.
And even though you weren't showing yet,
you couldn't wait to wear maternity clothes.
You wanted to just go all in
because you believed with all your heart
that nine months from now,
there's a baby coming home with you from the hospital.
You were excited at some level.
All right.
So let's ask God.
We're not gonna defer our hope anymore, you guys.
As Salma said, stop it, heart.
Stop being sick.
Put your hope in God.
So let's not defer our hope.
Let's put it safely in the right place.
Let's activate it tonight.
Let's ask God to renew our hope
because here's the trajectory.
Here is the timeline of events.
Loss of hope leads to doubt,
that leads to uncertainty,
that leads to inaction,
that leads to unbelief,
that leads to dead religion.
And no one in here is gonna have a dead religion
on my watch, okay?
Because let me show you the scripture.
Faith without action is dead.
Who takes action?
Hope.
Hope takes action, doesn't it?
Hope is the one that takes action.
Hope is expectantly preparing and not waiting, right?
And so that means faith without hope is dead.
Faith without action is dead.
You will never take action if you don't have hope,
that things are gonna work out.
Because remember, the opposite of hope is doubt.
And what is doubt?
It's uncertainty that leads to inaction.
So faith without hope is dead.
Faith without.
Hope is dead religion.
And we see it all the time, you guys,
powerless traditions that actually breed fear
and disconnection from God.
Going through the motion, powerless traditions
that nothing happens from them.
And what does it do?
It continues to reinforce the idea that you can be hopeless
because there ain't nothing good that's gonna happen.
All the good stuff happened long time ago,
2000 years ago on a cross
and nothing good is gonna happen now.
You just gotta wait to heaven to get there.
Ephesians 3.20 says,
to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly
above all we can ask, think, or imagine
by the power that works in us.
The power of what?
The eternal things, faith, hope, and love.
The Holy Spirit, the eternal things.
Why?
Because he can only do exceedingly abundantly
through the power that works in us.
Faith is trust in what God already did for us,
but hope is trust in what he's still yet to do.
Faith is trust in what's already done.
Hope is trust in what's going to happen.
Through what?
Through you.
Because God is always doing a new thing.
Is it already done?
Yes.
Is it yet to come?
Yes.
He's the author and finisher.
He's the beginning and end.
He's the Alpha and the Omega.
But the middle, the middle is you and your hope.
The middle is you and your hope.
Author, finisher, Alpha, Omega, start, end.
Middle, you and your hope.
Yeah, soak in it.
Listen to the replay as many times as you need to.
Guys, I used to get my nails done at this place
that was owned by Buddhists
and they had these little Buddha statues everywhere.
And up at the front, they had a Buddha statue
that always had food in front of him.
And I went there to get my nails done
and this Buddha statue had a little plate
of McDonald's French fries sitting in front of him.
Somebody forgot the food offering
and then they had to just kind of mail it in, right?
And so she's doing my nails
and I'm not trying to be an arrogant Christian.
I was a young believer
and I really honestly wanted to understand their process.
And I just said, hey, she spoke pretty good English.
And I just said, hey, what's up with the French fries
in front of the Buddha?
And she said, oh, that's a food offering.
And I was like, okay, well, I'm going to ask you a question.
Does Buddha ever eat the food that you give him?
And she started laughing at me,
like not like in my face, but like with me,
like just funny, like realizing how ridiculous it was
to put the fries in front of the Buddha, right?
And you guys, that's what we look like
when we live our lives with faith and no hope.
We do all kinds of stuff
that we expect no true outcome from.
They put those fries in front of the Buddha
knowing dang well that that little fat statue
was not going to eat those fries.
But why did they do it?
Dead religion.
And instead of judging them,
we need to look at our own lives
and to really ask ourselves
how much of what I'm doing is dead religion.
I'm just going through the motions.
I don't truly expect anything in my life to change
in these areas of where I'm doing this stuff.
I'm just going to tell you,
if you're a broke and you have been broke
for a really long time, but you pay your tithes,
maybe you should stop.
Because perhaps you're doing that for the wrong reasons.
Maybe that's dead religion for you.
Maybe you should consider asking God
to give you a revelation of his provision
and also of you being blessed to be a blessing.
I don't know who that's for, but.
I don't usually say stuff like that.
I don't try to meddle in people's religious ideas.
I ain't trying to meddle.
But I'm just going to say what I'm saying.
Because if you're doing something over and over
and over and over again,
and the thing that the Bible says is supposed to happen
is not happening,
then you might want to think about
why you're doing that thing.
That's all.
That's all I'm going to say.
Okay?
Because I'm not against anything.
If something is done with trust in the Lord
and it's done with hope,
because hopes are the building blocks of faith.
Let's read this scripture.
Faith is the evidence of things hoped for.
It's the evidence of it.
Things that are hoped for and still yet unseen.
What does that mean?
That means that you can't have true faith without hope.
It's the building blocks of faith.
And that is why we have so many marriage miracles
in this group, because I have supernatural hope
for your love story.
And if you don't have any,
I've been allowing you to borrow mine.
But after tonight, I believe you're going to have your own.
Jeremiah 29, 11 says,
I know the plans, once again, plural plans,
not just one plan, more than one plan.
Thank goodness.
I know the plans.
They are mine, not yours.
That's what God's saying.
They're not your plans.
It's not planned.
Plan B or Plan Me, it's Plan Him.
I know the plans, they're mine, not yours.
And there's more of them
than the ones that you already screwed up.
And what are they plans for?
They're plans to give you, come on, y'all say it with me,
hope and a future.
What does that mean?
That means hope is tied to your future.
If you want a good future,
then you're gonna have to have hope.
And another translation says,
to give you a future full of hope.
And yet another translation says,
to give you the future that you're hoping for.
Come on, get excited about that.
What future are you hoping for?
Because he says that his plan
is to give you the future that you're hoping for.
So is it possible that your future
being huge and big and amazing
is tied to whatever you're hoping for?
What are you hoping for?
This is a good enough reason than any
to go ahead and get your hopes up.
If your future that God wants to give you
is tied to what you're hoping for,
some of you aren't hoping for much.
You're not hoping for much.
I've seen your Jesus cares boards
and you're not hoping for much.
And the reason why is because you're guarding your hope.
You're protecting yourself from disappointment.
Stop it, stop it.
You either win or you win.
You're either up or you're getting up.
Stop protecting yourself from disappointment.
If God doesn't give you your dream,
it's because it was too small.
He's never gonna give you less than what you're asking for.
He's always gonna give you more than what you're asking for
and different than what you're asking.
So some of you guys, you don't realize it,
but you signed up to receive the best thing
that you never knew you ever even wanted.
And that's why you're here.
You're here to get out of your own way
and get out of God's way
because what you've been hoping for is really pathetic.
No offense, I'm sorry.
It just really is.
And God wants to give you so much better
because he doesn't just understand who you are now,
he understands who you are later.
And he knows that if you knew who you truly were later,
you would not be asking for that pathetic thing.
And so he, because he is God,
is aligning you to something else.
But what you've thought is that he just forgot about you
in some preparation room somewhere.
And he didn't, he's not.
All those ships that you think sailed
from the port without you,
all of them are coming back.
They're coming back into port.
You're ready to get on them.
You have the tools.
You have what it is that you need to go.
And so what we're gonna do now, you guys,
is we're gonna go after our lost hope.
And that includes our mantles, our giftings, our callings.
We're gonna go after it.
Okay, so I'm gonna get to the revealing for healing.
It's our last part.
For those of you who need to go to bed, bedtime.
All right, this is it.
I'm gonna go ahead and share this screen with you.
Can you all see this?
Can everyone see it?
Yes.
All right, I don't know why is it,
why is it so small for me?
Stop share.
Let me try something else, hold on.
It's weird.
Okay.
Okay, let's try it again.
Let me see.
Can you guys see it?
Cause it's so little for me.
Is it big for you?
It was bigger before.
Okay.
Right.
Thank you.
Maybe if you hit the green button, it'll make it bigger.
I did do that.
Okay.
Is it big now?
Is it big?
Yes.
All right.
So you guys, you can use this revealing for healing cycle
for any negative emotions, okay?
Any negative emotions, you can put them,
you can plug them into this
and you can get to the root of them.
You can get to God's truth about them, okay?
All right, but what I want you guys to do is a homework
and men you'll do it in your mentorship group
and women do it in your bride school group.
I want you to plug the negative emotion of hopelessness
into the pink circle.
And then I want you to ask Holy Spirit to show you
where you started losing hope for that area of your life.
So hopelessness about whatever,
plug it in the pink area, the pink bubble,
and then.
Let Holy Spirit show you the painful memories, the trauma stories, all the different things
that have been attached to you losing hope in that area. And then I want you to ask for the
lies that are behind those stories. So it's going to go to a painful memory of some sort.
And then the story that you've been telling yourself about that memory, about that experience,
about that situation. And then that story is full of lies. So what lies are you believing
about your ability to be successful going forward in whatever that area is.
And then when you see the lies, ask Holy Spirit to help you within the word of God,
find the truth within his, not just the agape, not just the logos word, but also the agape word.
Ask him to give you words. Some of you are afraid of promises. You're afraid to even let God talk
to you because before when you thought he talked to you, the things that you thought he said to
you didn't happen. Well, the story's not over yet. And sometimes some of the things that you
thought he said, you have a little bit out of balance, but that's okay. Because God knows that
you are receiving those things with a pure heart. Those are pure whispers of your heart that you
believed that he was telling you that they were going to happen. Cause here's what happens with
promises. We'll hear God say something. And then we start adding onto it. It's like the telephone
game. Every time we think about that, we start adding our own, you know, things to it.
And that's what gets us in trouble. So go back down to the pure strip downward. And a lot of
times we add stuff to it because it doesn't make a lot of sense to us. And so we try to make it
make sense with our human reasoning. And we start adding on things that we wish that it meant.
Don't do that. Don't do that. If it doesn't make sense now, it can make sense later. You don't need
to add your human reasoning to it because this is where you get disappointed and this is where
you get messed up. Okay. So this is the homework, take the hopelessness that you feel about a
certain part of your life, find the painful memory, find the trauma story, find the lies,
and then let God reveal the truth. All right. All right.
Sorry. I had to sneeze. Okay. All right. You guys have a good time tonight. I know it was a little,
you know, it was tight, but it was right. As the preachers say it was, and it will change your life.
It will because your supernatural hope wants to rise up spring up. Oh, well, close your eyes right
now. Spring up. Oh, well spring up. Oh, well spring up spring up. Well of hope. Anything that's capped
that well, I just speak to it right now. Remove yourself, move out of the way, all the lies,
move out of the way, all the lies, all the disappointments, all the circumstances.
We command those things to get off your hope right now so that they can spring up.
We just declare that right now. I hear the Lord saying that as you do this work, as you come to
me and you ask me where the hope went, where the mantles, where the giftings went, where the
promises went. When you come to me to renew the promises that I've given you, I am going to give
you revelation. I'm going to give you wisdom. I'm going to give you hope. I'm going to give you joy,
all the things that you lost in the process. I'm going to give you back. And I'm not just going to
give it back to you in small portions. I'm going to give it back to you, pressed down, shaken
together and running over. I just declare that right now. I thank you for it, Lord. We declare
it right now. We declare it right now. Some people have lost their hope from inherited trauma. Like
there hasn't been any hope in your family line in certain areas for a really, really, really long
time. In fact, every time you say anything to your family about getting married, people just laugh.
Nobody in your family is married. Everybody's divorced or everybody never got married in the
first place. And they just have no hope for that for you because that has been stolen from the
generations. And God wants you to know that you are a kinsmen redeemer. Your marriage is a kingdom
alliance and you are going to restore in your family line, marriage and family. So we declare
that over you right now. God, we thank you for that right now. Some of you are so hopeless about your
finances. Some of you have failed businesses. God said, it's time to try again. You're going to get
your hope up. Things are going to change. They're going to shift. They're going to shift. They're
going to shift. They're going to shift. They are. They're going to shift. Hope shifts the car. Hope
puts things in gear. Hope creates the faith that brings the miracles. That is what happens. Father,
we thank you. We thank you, Lord, that people's finances are going to come alive. People are going
to stop going through dead rituals of religion when it comes to their finances. And they're going
to start investing and they're going to start sowing because your word says, my word will not
be mocked. Where you sow, you will also reap. And so I just declare over your children right now
that those that have sowed will be expecting a harvest. They will be expecting a harvest. They
will not believe any longer that sowing can continue without there being some sort of harvest
time. And so, Lord, we thank you.
Thank you, God.
We thank you that the laws of the universe
that you have set in motion,
say that we cannot sow without also reaping.
And so right now, Father,
show them what's ripe in their life.
Show them what's ripe in their life.
What's ripe, what's ripe, what's ripe.
What harvest fields are ripe
where they have sown in the past,
into people, into ministries.
What is ripe in their lives?
Those God that have faithfully tied, Lord,
those that have believed that word to be your truth, Lord,
that you would open the windows of heaven
and pour out upon them a blessing
that they could not contain.
God, I declare right now that no longer
will their harvest be devoured by religion.
No longer will their harvest be devoured by religion.
We curse the polymer worm and the canker worm
and the locust right now, God,
and we declare, Joel, too, over these people
that they will receive the harvest, God,
that you have given them.
You will receive, they will receive the harvest
that you've already given them, God.
Hopelessness and blindness have come upon them,
but right now, God, their eyes are opening
and they're gonna start seeing the blessings.
They're gonna start seeing the ripe fields of harvest
where they can go and they can eat
because you give bread to the eater
and you give seed to the sower, Lord,
and we declare that right now.
We declare your word.
Your word is true.
It will not return void.
Everything that you set it out to do
when you spoke it at the beginning of time
is still in motion.
It's still in motion.
You guys, nothing has yet to come.
It's all already here.
And so, Lord, we just declare that right now,
that everything that you spoke at the beginning, Lord,
is now in process and we're in process, Lord,
with an expected outcome, like Jeremiah 29, 11 says,
the plans that you have for us,
the purposes that you have for us,
they cannot be thwarted, Lord,
to give us the future, Lord, that we have hoped for.
And so, God, we just thank you for that.
We thank you for that.
We step into that.
We grab ahold of that.
Come on, y'all, we grab ahold of that.
We grab ahold of that.
We thank you for it, Lord.
You guys, the only appropriate response
to tonight's teaching is just praise and worship,
just worshiping the Lord because he's not forgotten us.
He has not forsaken us.
He has not left us out.
In fact, coming out of agreement with all the ideas
that we've been rejected, that we've been left out,
that we've been left behind,
just coming out of agreement
with all of those voices of hopelessness and doubt
and coming into agreement with radical belief
and action called hope.
Yes, Lord, we thank you for it, God.
We thank you for it, God.
Yes, yes, people are already getting freedom tonight.
If you gotta go, we understand you can come back
and watch the rest of the replay,
but we're just gonna stay here
and minister for a few more minutes
because people are beginning
to feel supernatural expectation coming upon them,
supernatural expectation coming upon them.
There are people right now
that are experiencing the promises of God
leaping in their womb, men and women.
You don't gotta have a womb.
Men and women leaping in their womb right now,
feeling that expectancy.
They're being impregnated right now.
The Bible says that when we delight in the Lord,
that word is consummate.
When we have intimate time with the Lord
like we are having right now,
he actually impregnates us with the desires in our heart.
He impregnates us.
He does, he puts inside of us,
he plants within us the desires,
his desires in our heart.
So when we release our desires right now,
the things that we've been waiting for,
that we feel so hopeless about that are not from you,
there are things that you don't want for us
because there's so much less than what you have for us.
We release those things.
We release those false promises right now.
We do, we release those false promises.
And we ask God that you would impregnate our hearts anew,
that you would implant in our hearts anew
your plans and purposes for us,
your ideas for us.
Yes, we're receiving it.
We're delighting with you right now
so that we can receive the desire for you in our hearts,
but not just for you,
but for the things that you have and want for us right now.
Some of you are gonna come away from tonight
and you're gonna want things you've never wanted before.
Your tastes and things are gonna start changing.
You're gonna start wanting to go after things.
You're gonna all of a sudden have a desire
to do something that you've never thought of
ever before in your life.
Why is that?
Because right now God is implanting in your heart
his desire for you,
not your desire for yourself
based on what your parents wanted
or based on what you thought you had to do
to prove yourself or based on some old archaic word
you received from the Lord
that you totally took out of context.
And now you've been zigging and zagging and digging
whether it's not gonna rain.
God wants to take that from you.
And he wants to give you a real,
a real promise that he's going to fulfill
in accelerated time, in accelerated time,
because you're gonna finally be in alignment.
Everything's gonna happen as a result of divine alignment.
You're finally gonna be in alignment
like you've never been before,
never ever been.
before. Come on, come on, let's go. Come on, you guys grab a
hold, grab a hold, grab a hold, grab a hold, grab a hold. Yes,
yes, yes, yes, yes. Yes. And amen. Come on. Come on. Yes,
Lord. Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord. Clean us out. God, take all those old
rotten promises. Just do some just do some housekeeping in our
hearts right now. God just remove those we give them to you
right now. We don't need them anymore. We don't want them
anymore. They've caused us nothing but frustration. They've
actually contributed to our hopelessness. God, we ask that
you would take them from us right now. And we ask that you
would implant in us a new impregnate our hearts and new in
this moment right now with a new desire, your desires for us,
God, your plans and purposes for us, Lord, your ideas for our
lives, God, right now, God, we just receive that right now we
receive it, we believe it. We receive it and believe it. Come
on, we receive it and believe it. Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord. Yes,
Lord. Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord. Some of you guys, you're
never will I ever fall into the ground right now. You believe
that God told you specific things about your future love
story. And it was really just you trying to keep yourself
safe. And so now you don't even pay attention. You don't even
get excited about situations or opportunities that don't fully
fit completely what you think God said about your future love
story. And God said, please give that to me. You're in your
own way. And you're in my way. Please give it to me. Just let
go, let go, let go, let go, let go, let go, let go. You can let
go. You can let go. You don't have to try to keep yourself
safe with that idea of what this is going to look like. Let it
go. Let it go. Let it go. I've been trying to bring you
something completely different, almost opposite of what you've
been believing for, because it's so much better for you. So much
better for you. You're going to love it so much more because I
know you better than you know yourself says the Lord. I know
you better than you know yourself says the Lord. Trust
me. I created you. I created you. I know you better than you
know yourself. I created the real you and I know what the
real you needs to feel satisfied and feel fulfilled. Trust me.
Let go. Let go. Let go. Let go. Come on y'all. Let go. Let go.
Yes. Let go. Let go. Let go. How do we let go? Yes. How do we
let go? You just say, God, I'm willing to let go. Give me the
grace to let go. I'm willing to let go, Lord. I'm willing to
let go right now. I'm willing to surrender to you. Teach me,
show me, heal me, grow me. I'm willing, Lord. Help me to let
go. Give me the grace to let go in this moment to let go. Yes,
Lord. Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord. I can do nothing without you. You
are the vine. I'm just a branch. I'm just a branch. I'm just a
branch. I'm just a branch. I'm just a branch. I desire to
reconnect to you and not to myself. I don't want plan me
anymore. I don't want plan B anymore. I want you. I want your
plan, your plans. Your plans for me are full of hope. Your plans
for me are full of hope, God. They're good. They're good plans,
full of hope. Yes, Jesus. Yes, Jesus. I connect to you.
Anything that's not of you, anything that you haven't
wanted for me, anything that's inferior and not worthy of my
one and only life, help me let go of it right now. You don't
even have to tell me what it is, but if you want to, I'm
listening. Otherwise, I just let go of it right now. Just go
ahead and remove it. Prune me, prune me, prune me, prune me,
prune me. Cut it off. Anything that I've made of my own hands,
anything that I've created with my own intellect, anything that
I've been believing for that's so beneath me, I just let it go
right now. I let it go right now. Whatever it is, I don't
even need to know. Whatever it is, whatever it is, I just let
it go. I let it go. The only thing that I want to have
remain in my life from this moment forward and from this
night forward is whatever you are renewing in my spirit right
now. Whatever you are impregnating and implanting in
my heart right now, I just team up with the prophets and with
the psalmist right now and I say, create in me a clean heart,
oh Lord. Create in me a clean heart, oh Lord. Renew in me a
right spirit, a righteous spirit that comes into alignment
with your big and beautiful plans for my life. Yes, Lord,
purge me with it. Purge me, Lord. Purge me with hyssop.
Prune me. Prune me. Wash me. Wash me clean of all this chaos
and all this confusion, Lord. Wash me clean of it, Lord. Yes,
Lord. Yes, Lord. Come on, you guys. Come on. His plans are
better than yours. They just are. They're so much better.
Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord. Eighty-eight
people on the call right now. Eighty-eight people left. Yes,
double new beginnings. Double, double, double, double, double,
double, double. Yes, Lord. Thank you, God. Thank you, God. We
just release that, God. We release that.
release multiple new beginnings over people's lives and multiple areas of their lives, Lord.
Don't just renew God, but restore. Let there be restitution that's released. Restitution
that is released over your sons and daughters. Yes, God. Yes, God. Yes, God. Yes, God. Yes,
God. God doesn't want to just restore you from the hurt that you've gone through. He also wants
to repay you for what has been lost and stolen. He wants to repay you. Yes.
Restoration is great. Restitution is better. Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord. They go together.
We want restoration, but we don't want things just restored to their original state. We want
the interest of what has been lost, don't we? Yes, we do. We want the time that's been lost.
We want the resources that have been lost. We want the favor that's been lost,
the hope and joy that's been lost. We want it all back. Come on. We're going to get in
with Thai tribute right now. I want it all back. Come on. You know that song?
If you don't, you should Google it and you should sing it over yourself. After you get
off this call, that's old school gospel right there. I want it all back. Everything, everything,
everything. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, y'all. I just went straight up evangelical
on you guys. I just went Pentecostal on you, but you do want it all back for sure. No doubt.
So Lord, we just thank you. We thank you for your love. We thank you for your goodness tonight,
Lord. We thank you, God, that this is not hype, that this is real and it is true. And if we will
partner with it, we will have it. Some of you are still, you're just so scared to hope in what's
happening right now because you've been so hurt by the prophetic and by that supernatural. Okay.
And here is what I want to tell you about the prophetic. It ain't prophetic if it don't come true.
All right. It's not. Back in the olden days, the way that they judged a prophet is,
is if what you said came true, they didn't kill you. And if it didn't, they did.
I'm going to tell you right now, you don't have to be afraid of the prophetic because the truth
of it is, is that it's only God if it comes to pass, but you have to partner with it first.
First, you have to partner with it first, you guys.
Yes. A hundred percent. Someone said they love the mug. All right, you guys. I believe,
I believe, I believe. For those of you that are having a hard time believing right now,
do exactly what the centurion said. Say, I believe,
or the man with the son. Oh, what a beautiful, what a beautiful scripture reference. Let's
press into that right now as we're, as we're ending, there was a man that had a son that had
been really tormented for a really long time. Go look up this Bible story. His son had been
tormented for a really long time. And this father had watched his son going through all this demonic
stuff over and over and over again. Right. And when God came, he said, you know, when Jesus came,
he said, you know, do you believe? And he said, I believe help my unbelief.
Why did he say that? Cause he said, I wouldn't be here basically, if I didn't believe in y'all
wouldn't be here. If you didn't have some level of hope left, some level of belief yet left.
But when you have gotten your hopes up so many times that something is going to happen,
cause I'm sure that that man had taken his, his child to the religious leaders of the day.
He'd probably taken his child to doctors. He probably taken his child to exorcist. He probably
took his child to anything and everything he could. And then when he brought him to Jesus,
because he probably heard about who Jesus was and what Jesus could do.
He did it because he did have belief, but he also had some unbelief in there as well. And so if
that's where you're living right now, I just want to let you know that you're in good company because
that man got his miracle. And I believe you're going to get your miracles as well, but just be
honest with God, say, God, I believe I want you to help my unbelief. What does that mean there?
That means I want you to, I want you to turn my unbelief. Don't judge me because I have some
unbelief. I'm being transparent with you, Lord. I can't hide anything from you. You know, you know,
my heart, there's some hard places where I've been hurt over and over and over and over and
over and over again, but I'm giving you access to that place right now. I'm telling you, I believe,
but I need you to help that hard place. I need you to help that unbelief hard.
place right there. I need you to soften it. I need you to show me your goodness. I need
you to give me favor. I need you to heal me, heal me, show me, teach me, show me, heal
me, grow me. I need you to do it, Lord. I need you to do it. Yes, yes, yes, yes. Come
on. Some of you, that's your, if you raise your hand, if that's where you are right now,
this all sounds well and good, but you've just been too burnt by the, by the spiritual
before you've gotten all excited. Okay. That's your prayer then you guys, for those of you
that are raising your hand right now, that's your prayer. That's it. That's it. Ask God
to help you to have the release that you need. Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord. Just pray
over all of these right now. We release your goodness. Jesus name. We release your favor.
God show them your goodness, Lord. Let them taste and see that you are good. Let it be.
I want to hear testimonies, you guys, and I want to see homework. So I want you to do
this. And then I want to hear testimonies of how your hope is increased, how you have
a spring in your step, how you're rolling out of bed, how you're taking imperfect action
again in these areas, how you're seeing fruit in places where you've sown, where you thought
there was a dry, barren wasteland. And now you're beginning to see that the fields are
actually ripe to harvest. And you're beginning to be able to, to get some of the things that
you have been going in. All right. I love you guys. I'm rooting for you. I'm the head
cheerleader of your love story of your lineage of your legacy. I believe I released my hope
upon you. Um, while yours is being cultivated while it is not being cultivated by while
it's being restored. Um, I released that. I released it. I released it. I released it.
All right. Have an amazing night.