and welcome to Supernatural Saturday.
Woo-hoo!
It's my favorite day of the week.
I love it.
I hope you love it.
And if you're new to it, welcome.
Welcome.
Today is the day that in our last year single community,
we look to the Lord.
We lean into what is the current prophetic reality
over us individually and corporately as a movement.
What is God speaking to us?
Look, I didn't call myself to be a prophet
to the single nation,
but God called me to be a prophet to the single nation.
And I have answered that call.
I've said, okay, yes, let's do this.
And so every single week,
we gather here to hear what is God saying to us?
What direction is he giving us?
What encouragement is being released from heaven?
What edification, exhortation?
We want all of those things every single week together here
on Supernatural Saturday.
And Holy Spirit never disappoints, does he?
He never disappoints.
And so today's the first day of June.
Welcome.
Welcome to June, everyone.
And June bloom is the theme over our community this month.
So all the classes,
all the things that we're gonna do together in June
are all going to be focused on getting people to blossom.
I believe that we're gonna have a very abundant summertime.
But do you know when summer starts
to be abundant?
In the spring.
And so we have these last few weeks of spring.
I think the summer solstice is like
near to the end of the month of June.
And we have this time
where if we need to do some cultivating,
if we need to do some pruning and some weeding,
then we can do it now.
We can do it now, right?
And it's important that we do that
because in order to have an abundant harvest,
you gotta prune.
You have to weed.
You have to do those things, right?
But I don't even wanna talk about pruning and weeding today.
I wanna talk about reaping and sowing.
I'm gonna talk about reaping and sowing here
for a few minutes at the beginning.
Holy Spirit's given me a hodgepodge of ideas
for today's call.
And I just wanna follow after all of them.
We're just gonna follow after the Spirit
after each one of these little rabbit trails
that I have written down here this morning
and we'll see where we go.
So first of all, there's a scripture in the Bible
that a lot of times people use to try to scare you.
There's a lot of those in there, right?
The scriptures that they take
and they try to use it as a weapon.
First of all, I want to tell you
that the entire Bible is a love story.
From the very, very first word, okay, in the beginning
to the very end, it is a love story.
It is a love story between you and God, God in you.
It's a love story.
And if anyone has ever used it
or anyone has ever put it in a context
where it wasn't a love story, it made God look mad at you.
He's angry, he's mean,
he's a kid with a magnifying glass on an anthill.
If anyone's ever used the words of that Bible
to beat you over the head, to abuse you, to hurt you,
then they did not do that with God's permission.
They didn't.
Now, I know that there's some things
that are very confusing,
especially in the Old Testament of the Bible,
things that we don't understand
because they have to do with Jewish history.
Okay, they have to do with Hebrew history.
And there's a lot of different things
that they're just not contextually for you
in this modern age that you're living in as a Gentile.
All right?
And Paul told us that at the finished work of the cross,
it's level playing ground, right?
There's no longer any Hebrews or Gentiles,
there's no longer slaves or free or even male or female.
We're all one in Christ.
That's good news.
That's good news, y'all.
Everyone has become equal in Christ.
That's great news.
And someone needs to just get ahold of that
and grab ahold of it and let it get in your heart,
let it take root, let it bear good fruit.
But there's a lot of things in the Bible
that you can't really apply to your modern life.
You can read about it and it sounds interesting.
And depending on who's teaching it,
it can sound scary or it can sound amazing.
The teacher makes all the difference, right?
You can read it with the help of Holy Spirit.
You can glean some important truths
about other people's lives and how they lived
and how they trusted God
or what they did and didn't do, correct?
But those people aren't you.
Can I tell you guys one of my pet peeves?
Does anyone wanna know?
My pet peeves is when people come and they're like,
oh, you're an Esther Jackie.
No, I'm not, I'm a Jackie.
I'm not an Esther. I'm a Jackie. Oh
You're Ruth. Oh, you're you're my Naomi. No. Uh-uh. I'm not your Naomi. All right, I get it and
Whatever is a compliment. I receive it and I thank you for it, but I'm
Jackie and
You are
Yamina and Diane and Debbie and Ruth and I'm seeing well Ruth your Ruth, but you're not the other Ruth. You're this Ruth
Alice and Gretchen
I'm just looking at people that are right here on my front screen and it's important that we understand that and we get a hold
Of that we've got to get a hold of that
In fact Gretchen I have driven by a street name named Gretchen and it stood out to me
Twice in the last week and so father whatever it is. You're trying to get to your daughter Gretchen
She's spotlighted and highlighted by heaven and we pray Lord whatever blessings you have for her to pour it out in Jesus name
so
It's important that we own our identity
You know, I was discipled by this group of people called the Pentecostals a lot of you have heard these stories before
But the thing with the Pentecostals is that they're always living in the past
Right the day of Pentecost and the books of book of Acts
They're always living in the Bible stories of the Old Testament and they're always comparing themselves
You know, I want to dance like David danced. I want to worship like this person. I want to be
How about we just be us
Right because I'm gonna tell you something about the people of the Old Testament God love them God bless them
I'm glad that they trusted God
I'm glad that they allowed him to use their lives and they had to do that just the same way you do
Please get a hold of that this morning. They were special people
None of the people that are mentioned they are not special
Okay, they were ordinary people just like you that had an opportunity to become extraordinary
With the power of the Spirit that came upon them. We got it even better, you know, because Jesus has been crucified
The work on the cross is finished and now Holy Spirit
Doesn't just dwell around us. He dwells with us and in us the people in the Old Testament didn't get that that way
That's why David
was so crazy because he was like one of the first people that was able to reach forward and grab a hold of a
dispensation of grace that he wasn't born in
Does somebody hear me this morning
We have to stop comparing ourselves first of all, they were ordinary people but here's what I want you to see
They did not have the same type of warfare that we live in
Yeah, there were war there was warfare there were people practiced in witchcraft and you know
The the enemy and the legions of angels that fell with Lucifer were still busy about their demonic business on the earth
But you guys had much lower stakes
Okay. Yeah, there were wars and there were this and that but we live in a constant war
The moment that you wake up your mind is in a war
Our lives are inundated with so much evil, it's not funny and it's coming at us
everywhere
Everywhere because of technology because of media because of music because of you guys get what I'm saying, right?
we're living in a swirl and not a good one and
So before you're just like oh, wow. I just want to be like this person that lived, you know thousands of years ago
No
Understand that God matched you with this time God trusted you to live in the year 2024 with all of its mess
Right
With all of the intrigue spiritually around us with all of the opposing forces against us God chose you he trusted you
He matched you to live here. And so we idolize and idealize
These people in the Bible and how amazingly spiritual they are I want to
Say to you
Right. I want to I want to propose to you that even the least
spiritual thing that you do in the day and age that we live in is
Just as great as what they did because we have so much more resistance
You feel me
So, let's talk a little bit about sowing and reaping in this scripture
And I want you guys to think about the scriptures that have been spoken over you or taught to you
But they were taught in a way that made you afraid
We're gonna have a June bloom y'all we're gonna have a super bloom this summer and
This and going into the fall and going into Rosh Hashanah in
September but in order to do that some of these rocks and these weeds in the
stuff has to get moved around.
And a lot of it is going to be that the most limiting of all the things is going to be
some religious ideas.
Because here's the thing, if you think God said it to you or you think God said it, period,
then you're going to believe it, right?
And you're going to live your life according to it.
And maybe there are some things that you believe and you think that God said, either just in
general or to you specifically, that are getting in your way, that are keeping you from living
a big and abundant life.
I mean, think about it.
I mean, how sneaky, and remember, the enemy's sneaky, right?
He's a sneaky one.
How brilliant would it be for him to use the very thing that you have built your life upon
to keep your life small, right?
How sneaky would that be?
And this is what happens to so many people.
And so we want to break free from these self-imposed prisons, from these religious imposed prisons.
So one of those scriptures, and I've always heard it to the negative, is you reap what
you sow.
You reap what you sow, right?
And you guys, first of all, so much scripture is taken out of context and it's just applied
however it wants to be applied by whoever's speaking it willy-nilly.
This scripture comes from a passage.
First of all, no scripture is isolated.
So I want to encourage you today that anytime, even if you love the scripture, you know,
people love the scripture, I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength.
And I had that put on a t-shirt for my mom because she wanted it during, you know, her,
you know, the last couple of years of her life when she had cancer and she was going
through a lot of things.
That's Philippians 4.13, right?
But I knew it didn't mean what she thought it meant, but that's what it meant to her.
And that's what it was.
It was giving her strength for in that moment.
So go ahead and slap that on a t-shirt for mom.
But that scripture, I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength.
It doesn't mean that you can do all things.
In fact, I want to propose to you that you're not meant to do all things.
And that's going to offend a whole bunch of people, but you're not meant to do all things.
You're meant to do what you're meant to do.
And so many people miss out on the things that God has called them to because they're
trying to do all things.
And they're trying to do things that they're not gifted to do.
And they're not called to do, but they want to do because they want some kind of significance.
They're comparing themselves to other people, trying to sing like Sister Sally over here,
or trying to do this or that.
Hey, God loves all of our voices heard on high, but it doesn't mean that you need a
microphone and a stage to sing if that ain't your gift, okay?
And so we're not called to do all things.
A lot of people will use this scripture to try to eat the frog.
What's that mean?
I'll get up in the morning and I'll say, Oh, I can do all things through Christ who strengthens
me.
Yes.
Christ gives you strength.
The Holy Spirit empowers you to do things that your flesh doesn't want to do.
But that scripture still doesn't mean that.
You know what that scripture means?
It means if you put it back in context, in the passage that it comes from, it means that
you have the strength to be content in all situations.
That is actually what that scripture means because that's not sexy like that scripture
like that.
I'm like content.
Who wants to be content in all situations?
You're saying I can be content when I'm going through trials and tribulations because I
think that's pretty much what that meant.
I'm like, no and no, right?
So scriptures mean different things to us at different times, but if you put them in
context, then we see what they mean.
And this scripture, you reap what you sow.
It actually goes, God will not be mocked.
Whatever a man sows, that also will he reap.
This is talking about actually sowing to the work of God, sowing into the kingdom.
You can sow to carnal and just natural things that have no spiritual significance and there
will be a harvest, you guys.
You know that scripture that everyone uses as an excuse not to exercise?
Well, the Bible says that bodily exercise profits little.
No.
Yeah, it says that, but what it means is that it profits for a small amount of time because
you're not going to be in this body for eternity.
It doesn't say it's not profitable.
It just says it's not eternally profitable.
Do you guys see the difference here between these things?
These are important things.
A lot of people will focus only on their spirit and not their body, and you know why that's
a mistake?
Because your spirit can't go anywhere that your body can't take it.
Somebody needs to hear that this morning.
Your spirit that lives inside this body, it cannot physically go anywhere, I'm not talking
through prayer and intercession where your spirit just flows all around the world, make
an intercession for people.
I'm talking about your assignment, even marriage, even walking down that aisle.
I had a bride not that long ago who actually could not walk down the aisle because of how
she had cared for her body and some situations in her body.
I had another bride that on her honeymoon had a stroke because of how she had cared
for her body.
Now you guys, some of these things cannot be prevented and we don't even know why they
happen and it's just warfare and it's horrible.
But once again, your spirit cannot go where your body can't take it.
I feel the Holy Spirit just pausing us on this, I'm going to pause here.
God wants to get through to some of y'all that are super spiritual, but you're not very
physical, okay?
Take your praying that you love to do and turn it into a prayer walk.
Walk and pray.
Move that body.
Move it.
Guys, I'm going to be 50 years old in like seven months or six months, seven months,
and I've been out of shape for a minute.
So I started doing Pilates, the kind with like the machine, the reformer, where it's
not like, oh, hey, if I don't want to do this, you know, this move, I don't have to
do this move.
No, honey, you're buckled in.
You're going to go or you're going to die.
You're strapped into that baby, that little torture chamber, you're strapped in there.
And you guys, I have never sweated so much in my whole entire life.
And I used to be an athlete.
I used to be an athlete.
I used to play organized sports.
I mean, when you're 5'10", you got to do something with that big, long body.
I used to play sports.
And every time I show up to do that Pilates, y'all, I do not want to go.
I do not want to go.
I'm dreading it.
In fact, the thing in my mind that I'm saying to myself is, you know, after just a little
bit of time, Jackie, this teacher will be like, okay, we're done for the day.
I'm just waiting for those words.
Okay, we're done.
You know how people get like the exercise high or the runner's high?
I've never in my life gotten that.
I do not enjoy.
And you guys, I would just go play sports as a form of exercise.
But when you're almost 50 years old, there's not a lot of sports to play and there's not
a lot of people to play with.
Yeah, there's, you know, there's some things here and there, but I need regular everyday
exercise and so do you.
So do you.
So we take these scriptures and we take them out of context.
We apply them to what we want to apply them to, or other people apply them to us in the
wrong ways.
And we have to say enough with that.
And the reason why is because, you know, the, the law heals, but the spirit gives life.
Right?
So we have to look at the beautiful love story, the Holy scriptures, the ancient wisdom through
the lens of love.
We have to, we have to see what God is really saying to us.
What does he want to communicate to us?
What is going to be beneficial for our lives?
So let's take this reaping and sowing scripture.
I was talking about sowing through eternal things.
God's not going to be mocked.
If you sow to eternal things, you're going to reap, right?
Remember that other scripture that says that when you give to others, it will be given
back to you, pressed down, shaken together and running over.
Will God give it to you?
No.
But will other people give it to you?
So here's what God said to me.
And you go, oftentimes in my relationship with God, God will not tell me answers.
He will ask me questions because he knows that I'm the kind of daughter that likes to
research things with him, right?
I love a good mystery.
And so one day, years ago, God said to me, hey, do you believe my scripture that what
you sow, you will also reap?
And I was a pretty religious person back then, y'all.
And so immediately I think I'm in trouble because I'd only ever heard that scripture
in a bad connotation, like parents or grandparents saying to kids, oh, what you sow, you're going
to reap, you know, just kind of as a threat.
A threat to them that they better live right and so I'm like, yes, I believe that scripture
just waiting for the hammer to come down right I didn't have the daddy-daughter relationship
with God that I have now and he said okay, so he said so you believe that I'm not going
to be mocked because you guys that's part of the scripture God will not be mocked what
you so you will read and I said no God I don't I don't think that you're going to be mocked
I don't I don't I'm not mocking you know like where we going with this God and he said okay
he said so you so a lot don't you and I'm like well you know once again you guys a lot
of you are seeing your lives as a tragedy like if it was a movie it would be film noir
it would be a tragedy please raise your hand right now if you see your life as a tragedy
you're always looking at things through a negative lens you're always expecting the
other shoe to drop you're always wondering what's going to go wrong next I better see
some hands up here because I know I was not rowing this boat by myself and it's hard to
receive things from the Lord when we continue to feel like if anything happens it's going
to be bad we've got to shift that y'all we have to that's no way to live your life is
not a tragedy I know that there's been some tragic things that have happened in it but
it's not a tragedy and God does not want you to view it through that lens anymore so
we're having this conversation they said you so a lot don't you and at the time you guys
I was struggling with panic disorder and all kinds of mental health issues I had just become
a Christian a few years before and I was a leader in my church because that's what churches
do they take the most messed up people and then they put them in leadership right because
they're gifted they take the most messed up gifted people and they make them leaders come
on in that great and that's what was going on I was hanging by a thread almost every single day
and yet I was an outreach director of my church and so God was right I did so a lot towards the
kingdom a lot a lot of hours a lot of time a lot of prayers a lot of intercession a lot a lot a
lot and so now that I see I'm not in trouble I'm like well yeah I do I so a lot he goes okay he
said where's your harvest somebody needs to hear this this morning please tune in I said what do
you mean and he goes well if you believe that I won't be mocked and that what you so you will
also reap he said what's ripe in your life guys religion will teach you to so so so so so give
give give give till it hurts but it will never ever preach a sermon to you about taking it will
never preach a sermon to you about receiving and reaping and what's right in your life and so now
we're gonna show up here this morning we're gonna ask for those of you that have been selling some
of you for decades good works helping others loving on people and I know you didn't do it
with an expectation of return because the book of love Corinthians tells us that love doesn't
respect or it doesn't expect a return I know that you did it out of the goodness of your heart but
it doesn't change the universal law of God that what you sow you will also reap so what's ripe
in your life for those of you that have all that good seed in the ground and you've had it in the
ground for many many many many many years where's your harvest what's ripe in your life I want you
to pray that right now once you close your eyes and say God I really have sown a lot but I haven't
reaped a lot guys my mother-in-law has a gorgeous yard but she lives in the Midwest she lives in a
suburb in the Midwest that's overrun by deer she has the woods behind her house and the deer they
look look her face is on the Deere's post office wall she is public enemy number one for those deer
if she had a shotgun she would shoot them I'm telling you she's 80 years old and she has the
most beautiful flower beds that you've ever seen but she is out there all the time trying to spray
them down with guys it smells like it's like I don't know it's like beaver urine or something
and it's supposed to it's supposed to keep the deer away and they're like just like just try it
lady and they're still eating the heads off her petunias and all the things you come out there's
all these beautiful flowers with the heads gone right the stems are there but the heads are gone
the blossoms and you guys this is June bloom this is our time to bloom and blossom and these things
are coming and they're raiding what we have sown right remember from the
challenge ladies back in the day?
What are the foxes in the vineyard?
What is right in your life?
God doesn't lie.
Something's right.
And you haven't harvested it because you're used to giving
but you're not that great at receiving.
And let me take it even a step further.
You're not that great at expecting.
You're a good little Christian soldier.
You're out there giving and helping.
When it comes time for you to get help, crickets.
There's no one around.
And the reason why is because you have not cultivated
reciprocal relationships.
You're always the giver.
And the whoever else is always the taker.
Holy Spirit's up to meddling today.
We're in a meddle because God wants us to receive
and he wants us to reap.
And there are things that are rotting on the vine
in your life that have been ripe for a really long time.
They're ripe.
They're ripe for the picking.
But a lot of times we wait for the absence of opposition.
Right?
If my mother-in-law waited for the absence of opposition,
she would never plant her garden every spring.
She would never go out there and plant her flowers.
She knows there's gonna be opposition
and she prepares herself for opposition,
but it does not stop her from taking action.
There's a scripture in the Bible that says that he or she
who regards the weather will never sow or reap.
They won't plant or harvest.
If you're looking at the sky,
if you're looking at the storms and the weather,
you're never gonna get anything done.
If all you're focused on is the opposition,
you're never gonna get anything done.
There was a time in my life, friends,
that I had gone through a lot of hard things.
And I just wanna tell you,
I wanna preface this thought right now with this.
My whole life was hard.
From the time that I came out of my mother's womb,
my life has been hard.
Abused all through my childhood
in every way you can be abused.
Abandoned, orphaned,
sent to live in hostile environments
like girls' homes and foster care.
On my own, couch surfing,
trying to find money in couch cushions.
Couldn't work, too young to work
without a parent's permission.
I didn't have a parent.
And then on and on and on, y'all.
Bullied in school, mistreated.
Even with all that stuff going on
in my home and personal life,
you think that there would be some sort of ray of light
out in the community somewhere.
A teacher, a classmate, something.
But that spirit of opposition was following me.
Hell was after me.
And I didn't even know that
because I didn't know God like that.
But everywhere that I went,
I was targeted for mistreatment.
I ate my lunch in the bathroom.
I did everything I could
to just stay out of the way of people.
And I know that's shocking
because I am such a naturally born leader
and I'm leading and I'm doing what God called me to do.
But this has been hard won
over many, many, many, many, many years of opposition.
And if that wasn't enough, when I became an adult,
even after I met Jesus,
I was moaned down by mental illness.
All of the stress and all the hurt and pain
from all of those years of nonstop stress and abuse
turned into serious mental health issues.
The kind that take people out,
the kind that institutionalize people.
The fact that I'm standing here right now talking to you
and I'm not in some institution somewhere
shows you that we serve a good God.
My only other sibling from those days
that made it out alive,
my older brother who's 18 months older than me,
he is mentally ill.
And I declare over his life that he will be free
and God, you will redeem your servant Jacob
from a hand that is too strong for him.
But my brother Jacob has suffered
with what they call schizophrenia
since he was in his early 20s,
all as a result of the same abuse that I lived through too.
He lives right now on my property because he's been homeless for 30 years and someone ran him over with their car.
And so now he can't walk.
And he's here and he's a captive audience to the love of God.
So we're going to see how this story ends, right?
But a lot of you are waiting and a lot of you, you know, we could open up the mic right now and we could hear horror stories of abuse and tragedy and horrible and terrible things that have happened.
But I say all that to say this.
If you're waiting for the absence of opposition, you don't live in a time and day when that's going to happen.
The glory days are over, y'all.
I know people are looking for world peace, but that's not going to happen.
Have you read the book?
Did you read the book?
And I know there's a lot of people that are like, well, I don't believe in any theology that doesn't have a defeated enemy.
Yeah, the enemy is defeated, but a lot of human beings haven't gotten that memo yet.
And they continue to rearm a defeated enemy.
An anemone, y'all.
They continue to rearm a defeated enemy in their own lives.
Right?
They're out there fighting for the wrong side, the defeated side, the side that's already lost.
Am I wrong?
So, you guys, we cannot wait for the absence of opposition.
My mother-in-law can't wait for no deer in order to plant her garden.
She's got to learn how to thrive in opposition.
You guys, this message today is about June Bloom, but it's also about thriving and blossoming even in the places of transition and opposition.
You can do it.
You can.
Who's ever just walked in the concrete jungle?
You've been in the city.
It's what I call the concrete jungle.
And you're walking through and all of a sudden you see a crack in the cement and there's a flower growing up out of that crack.
Anyone seen that before?
That always sends such an amazing message to me when I see that.
Why? Because I'm like, that little seed persevered.
In the midst of crazy opposition, it persevered.
It did.
God won't be mocked, friends.
Whatever you've sown, and a lot of you have a lot of good seed in the ground.
You've sown to your betterment.
You've sown to your family's betterment.
Yeah, you didn't see that harvest right away.
You didn't see it at all, maybe.
The prayers that you've prayed over people.
You guys, I prayed for my brother for 26 years.
And then I got the phone call in November that he got ran over by a car.
He's being life flighted to the hospital and he was going to come live at my house.
Now, y'all, when I was praying for 26 years, that was not the answer to prayer that I was waiting for.
Now, there are plenty of times when I have not known where on earth he is and I have worried about him.
I've worried if he was okay or if he was alive or what was going on in his life.
Because remember, we grew up together in that crap storm of life.
And then we were separated when I was about 13, 14 years old and we haven't ever been together since.
But he's here now and he's living on my property.
And yes, that was not necessarily the answer to those prayers that I wanted to see.
But you know what?
My story's not over yet.
So many of us check out because we ask God what's ripe in our lives.
And we go and look at the field that's ripe from all the seed that we planted.
And it doesn't look anything like what we planted.
So we're like, oh, I'm not sure about this.
Start reaping it anyway.
Start gathering it anyway.
You may have put a whole bunch of years into college.
And now you're doing something that's not even anywhere near your degree.
And you have no understanding at all of why God opened this door.
Because he's the Lord of the harvest, friends.
He's the Lord of the harvest.
All the way back to Jesus's earthly life.
The harvest fields have been rising.
But there's just been a shortage of laborers.
The Bible even goes on to say, and I hear Holy Spirit saying this now, is that you may
plant and plant and sow and sow, and God may actually have you go reap someone else's harvest.
The Bible talks in several places about going and living in houses and drinking from vineyards
that you did not build and you did not plant.
Oh, I feel Holy Spirit all over that, y'all.
Like a bucket of ice water just got dumped on me.
So what does that tell me?
That tells me that you also have to be willing to receive what you did not earn and you don't
deserve.
Oh, let's go to the, Jesus, let's go to the scripture about the workers and the 11th hour
workers.
There were people that labored and labored and labored.
They had all kinds of sweat equity into that harvest, in that vineyard, and then the master
shows up before the last hour of the day, and there's a bunch of people standing around
idly.
They haven't put any sweat equity in.
They haven't done anything.
In fact, they haven't even gotten a chance to do anything because no one saw any merit
in them.
You know, all the skilled workers that knew what they were doing, they were the ones that
were hired and they were the ones that were out there doing the job.
But here's amateur hour, everyone's standing around at the 11th hour because these are
not people.
They were undesirable in some way, shape, or form.
They got there late.
They didn't have good work ethic.
They didn't know what they were doing.
The master came out and said, oh, hey, all of you, if you get out there now and work
for the last hour, I'll give you the same reward.
You know what that tells me?
It tells me that God doesn't need professional Christians anymore.
There's a lot of people that have gone to seminary, and if you're going to seminary,
bless you.
If you've got all of the credentials and all the different things to be a Christian, you've
gone to all the classes and all the schools of ministry, you know, that's wonderful.
I'm glad that God had you so into that and you will reap a harvest.
But the only criteria, the only qualification for this is that you love, that you follow
Christ and that you're willing to love.
And I think a lot of times the professional Christians lose sight of the main thing.
We've got to keep the main thing the main thing.
And so a lot of times God just wants to send the unskilled people out and see what happens.
You guys, I've been on outreach teams with people that have done outreach for years and
years and years and they know how to do it.
I used to be an outreach director and they can do it down pat and they know exactly all
the protocols and they know how to stay in order and not do anything that's outside the
Word of God, et cetera, et cetera.
But then every once in a while you get a zealous newbie on the team and they have some supernatural
encounters and you want to know why?
Because they don't know all the rules of why they can't.
I love those people.
They're loose cannons and sometimes you're cringing when they open their mouth and they're
talking to someone but somehow the power of the Holy Spirit falls on that person anyway
and you're like, wow.
And you know what that proves more than anything else?
Because it ain't about us.
It's not about us.
It's about Him.
It's about His goodness.
It's about His desire to reach people and to love people.
And if we'll get out of the way, He can do it through us.
One of my most favorite quotes of all time is, preach the gospel and if necessary, use
words.
Right?
So guys, stop looking at the opposition.
Stop looking at the deadness of your own womb, Sarah.
Remember, you're not Sarah.
You're whoever you are.
But I don't know who I'm talking to so put your name in the blank.
Put your name in the blank.
Say that over yourself right now.
Stop looking at the deadness of your womb.
Put your name in.
Why?
Because it's not just about a natural womb that births babies.
It's about a spiritual womb.
It's about the womb of potential.
Your potential that God coded you with.
He hardwired you with when He wired you in your mother's womb.
It's not dead.
In fact, I propose to you that there's a very ripe harvest.
Ready now.
You just don't see it because you might be looking in the wrong field.
You might not be looking at all.
You might have some blind spots.
God wants you to be fruitful.
He wants you to be blessed to be a blessing.
He wants all of those things for you.
Guys, I used to hate to fly, I fly all the time now, and I'll just be honest, the reason
why I hated to fly is because I was a control freak, and I'm not a pilot, I'm not flying
the plane, I have to trust someone else to fly the plane, and I didn't like that.
I didn't.
I was a massive control freak back then, and the reason why is because I, you know, I didn't
know God well enough to trust him.
And one day I was sitting in the plane, and I was just situating myself in the seat and
just planning to have a big old panic attack when God said to me, you know you're not on
this plane, right?
And I was like, okay, God, you see that I'm stressed out, I don't got time for these little
games.
Jackie, you see you're not on this plane right now, and I'm like, no, I don't see that, God,
I'm on a metal tube, 35,000 feet in the air, and he said, no, you're not.
He said, you're in me.
You're not on this plane right now, you're in me, and nothing can remove you, nothing
can hurt you, nothing can harm you.
Guys, that shifted everything for me from that day forward.
It shifted everything for me, but here's the thing about flying, and I think this is important
to this call.
Those huge planes, and I think common sense also gets in our way when we fly, because
we're like, how in the world is this big heavy thing in the air?
And the way that it's in the air, and if none of you have ever looked into this, this is
important for your life too, because one year, my year for the word was fly.
You guys, that was one of the most opposed years I've ever had, and I'm like, what gives,
you said I was going to fly this year, and yet there's been so much opposition that's
keeping me grounded.
He's like, well, that's on you, what do you mean that's on me?
The only way that an airplane can fly, Jackie, is because of the opposing forces.
The only way that that heavy, large airplane, full of potential, full of people, can get
from one destination to another is because of the opposing force of gravity.
The very thing that's trying to keep it down is what causes it to rise up.
Come on, somebody get a hold of that right now.
I was allowing the opposition to basically freak me out and to keep me from even trying,
not understanding that the presence of opposition was the exact evidence that I was going to
fly.
Because without opposition, you're not going to fly.
If there was no gravity, y'all, things would just be floating around, nothing would be
able to be directed anywhere, there'd be no flying.
So with the power of Holy Spirit, think of that as the jet engines on that plane, propelling
it forward with gravity nipping at its heels, it's that propulsion forward and the gravity
and the exact design of the flaps of the plane that cause it to be able to rise and soar.
I propose to you that your design, the way that God created you, plus the opposing forces
that try to keep you from doing what God created you to do, powered by the Holy Spirit, is
a recipe for flight, for soaring.
But a lot of us, once again, we won't do it because of the opposition.
I'm going to give you a couple minutes to think about this.
I want you to think about this really quickly.
I want you to ask God, what's ripe in my life?
And I want you to also ask him, what has been keeping me from even asking that question
and also from moving forward?
I want you to ask him, what are the opposing forces?
What's the gravity?
Can you repeat those questions again, Jackie, please?
What's ripe in your life?
You got a harvest.
You've been sowing.
Where does God want you to reap?
Remember, it might not be your field.
It might be a whole different field.
It might be a whole different area than what you sowed in.
Ask the question, what's ripe in my life?
Where do you want me to reap?
And then also ask him, what opposing forces, what opposition has been shutting you down
and keeping you from...
Even trying to fly.
Name it.
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time or a word that was spoken in a in a sermon or someone who gave you a word
over your life and you just expected that it that was a right now that was a
right now word no that was an invitation to preparation when God gives us the
word he gives us a process I know I say that a lot but I'm gonna continue to say
it because that was a game-changer in my life that was a game-changer in my life
because I had a lot of prophetic words and a lot of prophetic promise over my
life and I was very frustrated with the Lord because I felt like he was holding
out on me I felt like he was you know a false promiser because I'm gonna be
honest with you when I was a child and I still lived at home with my mother my
mother was the kind of person she didn't want to be this kind of person I know
sometimes I say some negative things about her but I want you to know that
she had so much potential and she got to live out some of it but not all of it on
this earth and I want that for you I want you to live out all of your
potential but she was a kind hearted person but you know she made too many
people promises and then she couldn't deliver on those things and
unfortunately her children were the last people that she delivered for she
delivered for the men in her life and she delivered for the people that for
whatever reason they're there they were more significant to her and in the
brokenness that she was living in so my mom would say a lot of things she
wouldn't follow through so I was used to growing up in an environment where
people did not keep their promises people said one thing and then they
never delivered on it they never did it they never made good on it and so when I
became a believer even though obviously I became a new creature in Christ we
have to continue in his word to know the truth and be set free right we continue
to renew our mind to be transformed and there were lots of times when God would
say things to me and if it didn't happen right away I was like he's just like my
mom you know but here's the thing about God y'all he's not a man that he should
lie he's not a human being which means that I know all the reasons why my mom
never made good on her promises because in her human ability she wasn't able to
please 50 people at one time but God is God and if he says it he can also do it
not about what God can do is about what I believe he can do and he can do it he
can do all things in fact there's lots of evidence that once God says that it's
already true remember how he made the world said let there be light and there
was light so when God promises you something and he says it and it's
established that's another thing friends don't just run off with the word
like a bird with a french fry don't just run off yeah I hear an echo so I'll say
it again don't just run off with the word from the Lord like a bird with a
french fry let that word be established the Bible says through the mouth of two
or three witnesses let a word be established wait for some confirmations
of that word especially if it's a big word a crazy word I'm not gonna tell you
the full story but I got a word from the Lord during prayer and I thought it
was crazy and I I went to my my pastors at the time they were just standing there
you know they were talking to people and then they started talking to me and I
just felt a prompting in my heart to say it out loud to them like hey you know I
was just praying and I felt this and guess what they disagreed with it they
didn't feel like it was from the Lord and while in the moment I was just kind
of like well who asked you anyway oh wait I did sometimes you have to be you
have to be willing and the thing is is that they're very Kingdom people they're
very spirit-led people they weren't trying to shut me down because they
didn't want me to have the word you know you obviously don't have wise counsel
with people that are not wise the Bible says in a multitude of wise counsel there
is safety and some of you don't got the kind of community that you need around
your life and that's what we're trying to do here for you and last year single
until you can have that in person we want to be that for you here okay but
there's a process there's a timeline there's an anatomy of a promise and so
instead of just one and off half-cocked with it you have to allow God to mature
it okay and add to it but the initial promise is an invitation for you to
begin to pray into it remember when the angel showed up to Mary I mean y'all
she had an angel it was pretty legit it's pretty much hey this is a legit
word this angel is here he's saying that I'm gonna be the mother of the Messiah
that we've all been waiting for miss you act for all these years that's a pretty
heady word for a little teenage girl but it says that she said okay be it done
unto you unto me according to your will God
She put it back in God's hands of,
hey, if this is you, be it done unto me.
And then it says something very important.
It says, and then she pondered it in her heart.
Guys, that's that marination process.
Where we begin to pray over it.
A lot of people will receive their words,
their instructions, they'll receive an invitation
for preparation, and that's all they'll do.
It'll just be some fun thing that they heard God say to them
through somebody else or a sermon,
something they journaled,
but they don't do nothing with it.
The proof of belief is action.
And the smallest increment of action
that you should be taking over that thing is prayer.
At the very least, you should be praying over your promises.
Every prayer session, you should be praying over things
as Holy Spirit leads you.
Not begging God for those things,
not badgering God with those things.
Although there are times when we have to ask God,
is there not a cause?
He's asked you to get involved
in some social ill in the earth
where you see people dying around your feet
every single day.
Sometimes you don't need his permission
because it was already given to you with the word.
Now you just need to take action.
Imperfect action, yes, but action nonetheless.
You just have to take action
and let God drive that car once it gets in gear.
The Bible says that we know which way to go,
but then God orders our steps.
We know which way we've proposed in our hearts to go,
but then God orders our steps.
And sometimes that's just what you gotta do.
In fact, I will tell you that I feel like you always
have to take some kind of action, even once again,
if you don't feel comfortable doing something imperfectly,
like physically active towards it,
then definitely be praying towards it.
Don't just put it in some dusty journal
that you'll read five years from now and be like,
oh yeah, I remember when God told me that.
What's right in your life?
All right, so now I wanna see the opposing forces.
My family's words are the opposing forces.
I'm estranged from them,
but I still hear their hurtful words.
Okay, we can't replace Alexandria.
We have to replace.
You have to get around people who are going to call you
by your name that God has given you.
Beloved, lovely, good, fearfully and wonderfully made.
You gotta get around people that are gonna bless you
and not purse you.
So you can't erase what your origin family said,
but you can replace those words with life-giving words.
So I'm gonna pray for you.
I'm gonna pray for you.
You can't replace those words with life-giving words
that you speak over yourself
and that you put yourself in community to receive.
You gotta do that, all right?
Loneliness, anxiety, hopelessness,
getting into action over promises,
fear, negative words, people-pleasing,
was-beens words, when I would teach.
True, true, myself, fear, family.
A lot of people getting tripped up by family.
You guys, family in the Bible,
God says God takes the solitary, the orphan,
and he places them in family.
That's not talking about biological origin family.
That's talking about the family of God.
And so a lot of you, you need that peace.
You don't have that peace in your life,
and you need to be praying for that peace
because you need a spiritual community.
And this is one for you.
And please show up.
We wanna speak into your life.
Once a month, last Sunday of the month,
we have a prophetic time
when we really, really start speaking encouraging
and exhortative words over each other.
But we really want to be that family for you,
but you have to have in-person family too.
By the way, announcement,
we just opened a new single city in San Francisco.
So we have a new one in San Francisco.
We have another new one, it's fairly newer,
in Jacksonville that's opening up.
That's, of course, Florida.
And I feel like there's one more.
I'll have to think about that for a second.
But places where you can gather together in-person,
get to know people, do life together.
Also, friends, we're gonna have Heart Connect.
We're gonna start having it every single week,
a time you can come in, be put in small groups,
bury each other's burdens,
seize the stairs boards with each other,
rejoice over each other's wins,
do some other fun, prophetic things together
in small group community.
Get to know people in the community, both men and women.
We're gonna try to start having that every week,
but this month in June, we're gonna have it at least twice.
And those will be on Thursdays.
Two Thursdays this month, we'll have Heart Connect.
Then we'll have all of our teaching and education classes
on Tuesdays this month.
We're gonna have love seats.
We're gonna have love story.
We're gonna get to hear love stories
from a bunch of couples that met and married
or got match made by me or they're super.
for natural stories that are going to fill you full of hope
and show you that if it happened for them,
it surely can happen for you.
We're also gonna have a past session on finances.
Some of you, this is why, this is what's going on.
The opposing forces that are keeping you
from living in abundance from the ripeness in your life
is all of these financial problems and debt
that are stealing it before you ever even get
to do anything with it.
And so there's gonna be one on finances,
some practical things and some supernatural things
that help you become the lender and not the debtor
above and not beneath, okay?
And so that will be our past session this month.
And so I'm really excited.
I hope you're excited.
I love y'all.
I hope you have an amazing Saturday today.
Go do something fun and pray more into this.
God wants to show you where your harvest is waiting on you
and has been for a long time.
Love y'all, bye.