Good morning everyone, welcome to Supernatural Saturday.
Good morning, good morning, good morning.
I'm a little bit late, about a one minute late, because I was arguing with my husband
and it's a perfect, it's a perfect example of what we're going to talk about today.
It's a perfect example of what we're going to talk about today.
And so let's look to the Lord.
Father God, we're so thankful for you.
We're so thankful that you give us a fresh supply of mercy and grace every day.
And so we want to step into that.
We want to grab a hold of that with both hands.
Thank you that you love us, that you're a patient and long suffering with us, that you
understand what we're made out of, which is pretty much dirt.
And so Lord, we thank you.
We thank you Lord, that even though our frame is fragile, our spirit is strong.
The good things that are inside of us are you.
The good things that are inside of us, all are you Lord.
And so we're so thankful for all of those things.
And we ask God that you would be with us, that you would speak to us and through us
this morning.
In Jesus name.
Amen.
All right.
So guys, today's Supernatural Saturday is so important.
And Holy Spirit has asked that you would help me to deliver this with the intensity that
you want it delivered in.
Because I feel like today, like all Supernatural Saturdays, that the topics are life changing,
I think, and I'm learning right along with you as Holy Spirit downloads the information
for me as well.
But today especially, I really feel like this could be a massive life changing, game changing
thing if we would grab a hold of it and we would put it before our eyes.
The Bible says that you can't just be a hearer of the word, you have to be a doer of the
word.
And in order to be a doer of the word, you know, some of you make to-do lists, I'm sure.
I feel like the older I get, the more, if I don't write it down, I'll forget about it.
I have a good memory, but I'll forget about it.
If I don't put it on my calendar, if I don't schedule it.
I had a friend that used to say, you don't get what you expect, you get what you inspect.
That's really good.
And I think you guys should grab a hold of that because it's not just about having expectations,
right?
They all have good intentions, but it's about inspecting, it's about keeping it in front
of you.
It's about looking at it.
And so when you hear today and you hear anything that God's sharing with you, make sure that
you put it in a place where you can look at it, where you can meditate on it, where you
can do well in it, abide in it.
You know, John 15 says that if you abide in me and my words abide in you, that's when
you're going to have a lot of fruit in your life, right?
That's when we're going to have a lot of fruit.
And so we want to meditate on what God says.
We don't want to just be hearers of the word, we want to be doers of the word.
In order to be a doer of the word, you got to put it on a to-do list, don't you?
Got to put it on a to-do list.
That's a novel idea.
And so whatever it is that you glean from today, I want you to put that on a to-do list
for yourself to continue.
Truly every day, put it in front of you so that you can remind yourself.
And this is one of those things that we're going to have to remind ourselves of.
You know why?
Because it is in us intrinsically, in our flesh, okay?
In our flesh, we're hardwired to do something opposite than that.
I want to let you know that in each and every one of you dwells divine detail.
In each and every one of you dwells divine destiny.
In each and every one of you, including me, dwells divine design.
It's in there.
It's in there, you guys.
But along with it, there's an opposition.
Along with all of that divine detail and divine design and divine destiny, there's an opposition.
And it lives with you and in you.
You know what it's called?
Your flesh.
The thing that you see in the mirror, that's opposing you.
And so I never give a title to our Supernatural Saturdays, but I'm going to give one today.
And it's just titled, War in Your Members.
There's a war going on inside of you every single day.
Every single day, there's a war waging inside of you.
You can read about it all through the New Testament.
Jackie's not just making this up today, but God highlighted it to me this week because
of my own life, because of some war going on in my own members.
And he wanted me to see that winning that war had a lot to do with what I chose to side
with.
Spirit or team flesh?
What are you gonna side with?
You guys, and here's the thing,
even if you've been siding with one
and not the other for a minute,
every day is a new day to pick sides.
Every day is a new kickball game.
Remember all of us from the 80s and 90s?
It's a new time to pick sides,
to pick teams for the kickball, all right?
I was never chosen for that.
I don't know why.
I'm really tall, I have long legs.
You think that people would see that I'm athletic,
but I am athletic.
And guess what?
The people that didn't pick me, losers.
Okay, so here we go.
Which team are you gonna choose?
And you gotta choose every single day.
And you can't choose according to your feelings,
because I'm gonna tell you what,
your feelings usually are gonna have you picking team flesh.
Your feelings are your foes, friends.
In my life, very, very seldom have my feelings
ever lined up with my faith.
Very seldom in my life have my feelings ever lined up
with the promises of God,
and the things that God was telling me
were gonna happen in my life.
Let's talk about that.
And we're gonna talk about,
we're gonna talk about how that all comes to pass
in just a second.
I wanna stay here for a second, though.
Team spirit or team flesh?
And every day we have a new choice, right?
We have a new choice.
I wanna tell you something that, religious ideas,
and this is probably gonna offend some people,
but I'm gonna go ahead and go for it,
because God's trying to break us out of a prison.
He wants us to be free.
Who the son has set free is free, okay?
Who the son has set free is free indeed.
He's free, she's free.
Okay, so someone needs to hear this this morning.
The law, okay?
Religion, the law.
It came for a very specific purpose.
It came for the purpose to show you that your flesh is weak,
and you can't save yourself, and you need a savior.
That is what the law was meant to do.
God has his creation running around fatherless,
thinking that we don't need him,
having an independent spirit, an orphan spirit,
trying to get everything on our own.
So he had Moses give the people the law
so that they would see that as they tried to,
and you guys, they only just had,
they just only had 10 little laws at the beginning.
And do you know that the Jews,
that they have expanded that to 627 precepts now?
That means if you're an Orthodox Jew,
there's 627 things that you have to make sure
that you do or don't do every single day.
That sounds exhausting, y'all.
By one man's disobedience, we all became sinners,
but by one man's obedience, we all became righteous.
Jesus was called the second Adam for a reason.
And so God has his creation running around,
his kids running around.
They're not fatherless, but they're acting fatherless.
They're acting like orphans.
They're trying to do everything in their own strength,
their own power, because that's what the curse did to us.
It didn't just separate us from God.
It separated us from our own identity.
It separated us from our own royal identity.
And so we're running around paupers.
And so the law came, 10 little laws.
Can you do it?
Can you keep this law?
No, they can't.
And then they started adding, this is what flesh does.
This is what humans do.
They started adding all kinds of other things.
Okay, well, let's add to that.
Don't go by anything dead.
Don't touch anything dead.
Oh, let's add to that.
Don't get near a menstruating woman.
Let's put her outside the camp somewhere until she's done,
because she's got a bad attitude anyway,
so that makes sense to us.
Let's do that.
And then let's add this and add that and add this.
You guys, the law was created to show us
how desperately we need a savior.
That's why Jesus said this,
all you that are weary and heavy laden come to me
and I will give you rest.
What do you think he was talking about?
He was talking about rest from all of this law,
rest from all of these rules and regulations
and all this stuff that you just cannot do.
You can't save yourself and I'm here to save you.
And so the reason why I'm saying this
in today's Supernatural Saturday
is because we're talking about team spirit
versus team flesh, right?
And I want you to see very clearly
that the law is only powered by your flesh.
So if you're in the law, if you're in religion,
you're living in your flesh.
Come on, y'all.
Someone's got to get ahold of that right now.
You're living in your flesh.
You are living in your flesh.
The law is only powered by the flesh.
It's only things that you can do in your own strength.
In your own power, in your flesh.
If you're living in religion,
you are living in your flesh.
If you are alive in the law,
you are dead in the spirit, friends.
And we want to be team spirit, don't we?
I do.
I'm going to tell you right now.
I want to be team spirit for sure.
So there's this war going on inside of us every day.
And the reason why I use that as an example,
because sometimes the war can seem good on the outside.
You're going along in your little self-righteousness
and you're crossing all your T's
and you're dotting all your I's
and you're quoting the scriptures
and you're just as religious
as you can be judging people
that aren't doing the right thing, doing all the stuff.
And then boom, you trip over a pothole
and fall flat on your face.
Because that's what happens in the flesh.
If you were in the spirit,
Holy Spirit would have been like,
hey, there's a pothole there.
Oh, yes, you're right.
But as long as you think you can do it on your own,
guess what?
God will let you.
He will let you do it on your own if you think you can.
Why does he do that?
Because he wants you to see that you need him.
So he's given us this beautiful thing called free will.
It's a gift of choice.
And you can choose or not choose.
So every day, if you're gonna choose team spirit,
there's going to be a supernatural surrender.
You're gonna get up and you're gonna say,
hey, you know, God, I know that I can't do this myself.
In me, there's no good thing except for you.
You are the good thing in me.
And so I'm asking for your protection.
I'm asking for your help.
I'm asking for your grace and for your mercy.
And while I'm getting that from you,
I'm gonna give it to others.
Because I'm gonna tell you right now,
I have learned this the hard way
over the course of my life.
Whoever God is to you, he will be through you.
Whoever God is to you,
he will be that same thing through you.
If God is a taskmaster, then through you,
people are gonna learn that God is a taskmaster.
You're gonna make God a taskmaster to other people.
If God's a judger, that's what he's gonna be through you.
But if God is a gracious father,
if he is kind and good,
then that is the God that you will display
in your life as well.
That's what will happen.
So when we are on Team Spirit,
we're gonna get up every day and we're gonna say,
hey, I can't do this on my own.
And God's like, oh, I'm so glad to hear you say that
because you weren't created to do this on your own.
Yes.
So years ago, I heard a story,
and I'm sure you guys have heard this story too,
about the man that went on a journey,
the young man that went on a journey
to find out the meaning of life
and to find out all the secrets that he needed to know.
And he heard about a wise man
that lived on top of the mountain.
And he climbed this mountain
to get to this portal of wisdom, this oracle.
And when he got there, he asked him,
he said, listen, he said,
I have this dream, and in this dream,
there are these two dogs inside of me
that are always fighting.
They're always fighting, he said,
and I know that this is important for my life.
I know that it's kind of my dark side
and my light side that are fighting inside of me.
And I just wanna ask you the question,
which one is gonna win?
The question that torments me is,
which one is gonna win?
And the wise man simply said,
whichever one you feed the most.
Whichever one you feed the most.
And the good news for all of us is that
this is not a one and done situation.
If you've been feeding your flesh
and your life is an example of you feeding your flesh,
then it's time for you to switch teams.
You can start feeding the spirit.
It doesn't have to take a long time
for you to start seeing the fruit of that.
In fact, let's talk about that for a second.
Hang on there, everyone, hang tight.
Feel like Holy Spirit's taking us somewhere.
Right, Galatians 5 is what popped into my spirit, so I went there.
It is for freedom that Christ has set us free.
Whoa!
We can just stop there and just stay here and just pray for the rest of the time that
we're together.
It is for freedom that Christ has set you free.
I want you to say that over yourself, it is for freedom.
Why did God, why did Christ set you free?
So you could be a good little soldier, so you could do what you're told, so that you
can, you know, be, you know, good and not bad.
No, it is for freedom that Christ has set you free.
God wants you to live in freedom.
It is for the sake of freedom that Christ has set you free.
So stand firm and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.
What's that talking about?
It's talking about the law right there.
Mark my words, I, Paul, tell you that if you let yourselves be circumcised, Christ
will be of no value at all to you.
So he's talking to the Galatians, and why is he talking to them?
Because when you read the New Testament, especially the letters that are written, whether they're
from Peter or Paul or Timothy, it's important that you understand, or actually Paul wrote
to Timothy, but if whoever the letter is from, why are they writing it?
Who are they writing it to and why?
So who's writing it, why are they writing it, and who are they writing it to?
Now can we glean information for our current modern age from these letters?
Yes, but not everything is for us.
Not everything is for us.
Everything in the Bible, I believe, is inspired of God.
I do.
It's all the inspired word of God through his messengers, but not all of it's going
to apply to your life in a modern age.
It just isn't, okay?
Because it was for a specific people at a specific time.
Everything in the Gospels are things that you should really grab a hold of, although
a lot of it cannot be fully understood without an understanding of Judaic history.
You need to understand Hebrew history to understand some of the things that are happening there.
Case in point, if you've listened to my Divorce and Remarriage session, I fully explain what
Jesus meant when the Pharisees were trying to trip him up and ask him about divorce and
adultery.
And if you listen to my teaching, you'll hear that unpacked fully.
Because what Jesus meant by what he said, you'd have to be a Jew to understand.
And so these are important things, friends.
And the reason why I'm saying that this morning, because I feel like Holy Spirit's trying to,
is for freedom that Christ has set you free.
Some of you are entangled in the law, you're entangled in religion, and I'm just going
to go a little further.
You're even entangled in bad teaching of religious ideas.
Not only are you entangled in religion, but you're also entangled with teachers that have
been teaching things that they're not teaching correctly.
Because they were taught it the wrong way, and now they continue to teach it the wrong
way.
They're not bad people.
They're just not people that have grown in their understanding.
The Bible says that if you're going to be a teacher, which is a five-fold gift, right?
Pastor, teacher, evangelist, prophet, apostle.
If you're one of those gifts that Christ gave to the body for the edification of it,
for the education of it, for the purification of it, then the teacher gift is one that you
have to continue in continuing education.
The Bible says continue to study, right?
To show yourself approved.
And so you cannot propose to teach, even if you have the gift, if you're not willing to
continue to learn.
Come on.
All right, let's keep reading.
So Paul was dealing with these Galatians.
They were one of his church plants, so to speak.
They were conversions to Christ.
They became Christ's followers.
But now some Jews had come along and were trying to get them to get circumcised.
It was a mixture.
It was like, oh yeah, you're following Christ.
Okay, great.
Let's cut your wieners now.
Okay?
That was an old covenant.
That was an Old Testament covenant that God made with Abraham.
It wasn't a new covenant.
And you guys, if you want new wine, you got to throw out old wine skins.
You have to.
Whoa.
I felt that.
I think you felt that.
If you want new wine, you got to throw out the old wine skins.
The Bible says you can't put new wine in old wine skins because the old wine skins cannot
contain it.
They will burst.
And so Father, we're asking you right now to give us new mind skins.
We need new mind skins.
You said, be transformed by the renewing of your minds, Father, renew our minds in Christ
right now.
Woo.
You guys, I'm about to have a Holy Spirit party.
Woo.
Mm.
I got more goose pimples than a goose.
Come on.
You don't have to do this.
This is not going to make you holy.
In another, in another, I believe it's even in Galatians, in another, in another passage
of scripture, Paul says, who has bewitched you?
You know, who's trying to bring you into Christian witchcraft, where you're doing all these things
in your own self and in your own power, trying to get God.
If you've begun in the spirit, you can't continue in the flesh, but he says, and you're
like, Whoa, Jackie, Christian witchcraft.
That's that's strong.
No, not really.
Because the Bible actually, we make it strong.
We make it, because we're watching all these, you know, witchcraft movies and, you know,
makes it look like you gotta, you know, have green skin and, you know, be doing all this
crazy stuff.
No witchcraft is just rebellion.
Rebellion against what?
Rebellion against God being father and you being child.
Rebellion against the idea of your divine design, which is he is God and you are not.
He is your protector and your provider.
He is all of those things.
He's Jehovah Jireh.
He's Jehovah Nissi and Rapha.
He's all those things.
And you're the recipient of his goodness.
I know that kind of makes it a whole different story, doesn't it?
Like, oh, whoa, rebellion, rebellion.
Huh?
And it calls stubbornness, idolatry.
Why is stubbornness, idolatry?
Because you're stubborn.
You're making the things that you want to do an idol, right?
You're putting those on the throne instead of King Jesus.
You guys, we all do it.
There isn't one of us here.
When we choose in the morning team flesh that are not operating in what the Bible calls
rebellion and stubbornness or witchcraft and idolatry, if you prefer.
I kind of prefer the rebellion and stubbornness, but that's fine.
And we get really freaked out by that, not understanding that it's just about us surrendering,
giving the pen to God.
Yeah, there's going to be things that we have to do, but we're going to be empowered to
do them.
What does Ephesians 3.20 tell us?
To him who is able to exceedingly abundantly above all we can ask, think, or imagine by
the power that works in us.
What power is that?
Is that the power of our flesh?
No, that's the power of our surrendered will in the Holy Spirit.
You have a will and it's yours and you can choose what to do with it every single day
of your life.
A surrendered will makes you an available vessel that God can work through.
And that's what Ephesians 3.20 is talking about.
So let's go on.
Again, I declare to every man who lets himself be circumcised that he is obligated to obey
the whole law.
You can't just obey parts of it that you like.
If you decide to live by the law, you're going to die by the law, friends.
You got to do all of it, all of it, not just a little thing of it.
So you who are trying to be justified by the law have been alienated from Christ.
That's such strong language right there.
You have fallen away from grace.
For through the Spirit, we eagerly await by faith the righteousness for which we hope.
For in Christ Jesus, neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value.
The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love.
You were running a good race.
Who cut in on you to keep you from obeying the truth?
That kind of persuasion does not come from the one who calls you.
A little yeast works through the whole batch of dough.
That's talking about the leaven of the Pharisees.
Remember what Jesus was talking that the leaven leavens the whole lump.
For those of you that bake, you understand that a tiny little bit of yeast, a little
half a teaspoon of yeast, it permeates all of the dough.
So it's saying a little bit of the law, a little bit of legalism, a little bit of religion
is going to make y'all religious, all of you, like your whole person.
I'm confident in the Lord that you will take no other view.
The one who is throwing you into confusion, whoever that may be, will have to pay the
penalty.
All right.
So I'm going down.
I came here to get to the fruit of the spirit versus the works of the flesh, because I told
you team spirit, team flesh.
And even if you haven't been choosing team spirit, if you start choosing team spirit,
you're going to start to see the fruit of that right away.
It's not going to take forever to see the fruit.
And if you're choosing team flesh, the same, the same applies.
It's not going to take you forever to see the fruit.
So let's talk about it.
So I say, walk by the spirit and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.
Okay.
Another scripture, another translation says, if you walk after the spirit, you won't fulfill
the lusts of the flesh, right?
For the flesh desires what is contrary to the spirit and the spirit, what is contrary
to the flesh.
They are in conflict with each other so that you are not to do whatever you want.
But if you are led by the spirit, you are not under the law.
The acts of the flesh are obvious.
Okay, so here are some, if you choose team flesh,
here's some situations you might find yourself in,
and you're like, no, never, not me.
Well, the Bible says it.
So let's go for it.
Sexual immorality, impurity, debauchery,
idolatry, and witchcraft, hatred, discord,
jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition,
dissensions, factions, envy, drunkenness,
orgies, orgies, whoa, and the like.
I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this
will not inherit the kingdom of God.
But the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace,
forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
gentleness, and self-control.
Against such things, there is no law.
The reason why it says that there is no law
is because Jesus came and fulfilled the law.
And he gave us the comforter, he gave us the counselor,
he gave us the teacher, Holy Spirit,
to be with us and in us, right?
To lead us into all abundance, right?
To lead us into all truth.
And so when we're choosing team spirit,
we're gonna see this fruit in our lives.
We're gonna see love, and joy, and peace,
patience, and kindness, and goodness,
and faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.
And this is why I tell you when you're dating,
when you're out there meeting people,
instead of being gift inspectors,
because the gifts of God are without repentance.
And so someone can have a smooth talk in tongue,
they have the gift to be able to communicate,
they can talk, they can quote scriptures,
they can do all the things,
they can, for those of you that are the more charismatic
Pentecostal types, they can speak in tongues,
and they can go to those five-hour worship services
and raise their hands and roll in the gold dust.
Okay, great.
But do they have the fruit?
Is it evident in their life
that they have been following after the spirit,
that they have been choosing team spirit?
Or can you tell right away
that they've been eating their carnal cornflakes
every morning?
They've been choosing their carnality, right?
This is important stuff.
As I'm having some church up in here in my own body.
All right, so I wanna tell you something important.
And you're like, okay, well, you know, Jackie,
I'm gonna try.
I'm gonna try to choose team spirit.
And I'm gonna tell you back to you.
I'm gonna tell you back.
I'm gonna try too.
And you know why I'm gonna try to choose team spirit
every day?
Because your flesh is trying to kill you.
Please write that down.
Your flesh is trying to kill you.
You are sleeping with the enemy.
It might seem kind of harmless to choose the flesh
every once in a while.
And you guys were going to,
because we're not perfect.
And we're not supposed to be.
And that's what grace and mercy are for.
But hopefully you won't be very far into your day
before you realize that you ate your carnal cornflakes.
And you're like, oh no, I gotta come back.
I gotta come back and eat some.
I gotta come back and eat some manna.
I gotta eat some angel sponge cake or whatever.
I don't remember what it is.
I know that the devil has devil food cake.
But isn't there some angel food cake too?
I think there is.
Okay.
Your flesh is trying to kill you.
There's a scripture in the Bible that says,
if you sow to the flesh, you will reap death.
But if you sow to the spirit, you will have life and peace.
What does that mean to sow?
What does it mean to sow to something?
It means to invest in it, right?
As a farmer goes out and sows his fields for a crop.
Remember we just talked about the fruit of the spirit
or the works of the flesh.
When you sow to your flesh, when you invest in your flesh,
when you continue to let your flesh have its own way,
because it feels good in a moment.
And we're gonna talk about that in a second
because it really does.
The product of that or the outcome of that is death.
And you guys, not just physical death.
I know when we hear the word death, we're like,
oh yeah, physical death.
You're gonna get yourself in a situation
that's gonna get you killed.
Yeah, maybe, but that's not what I'm talking about.
I'm talking about just death,
walking around in death, not alive, right?
Walking around with death in your emotions
and in your mind and in your body,
dis-ease and disease and depression and anxiety
and all kinds of stuff.
But if we sow to the spirit,
how do you sow to the spirit?
By coming into alignment with the word of God
instead of your feeling.
How do we sow to the flesh?
We sow to the flesh by what?
Every thought comes in our head, we just run with it.
The Bible tells us very clearly
that we have to take our thoughts captive.
Friends, do you think that God would waste his time
using a messenger to tell us
that we need to take our thoughts captive?
In the passages of scripture about warfare
and spiritual warfare,
at the top of the hierarchy of spiritual warfare,
he's talking about your thoughts.
Let's take, let's read the scripture.
I feel like some of you just need proof
and we're just gonna go there.
Didn't plan on doing that, but we're gonna go there.
You guys, I don't want you to think I'm preaching at you,
I'm preaching to myself, all right?
I really am.
All right, so you guys are gonna go to 2 Corinthians 10.
I'm gonna look at it in a specific translation
because I wanna see what it says there.
Oh, I love this, I thought it would be good, okay.
All right, so it says,
we can demolish every deceptive fantasy that opposes God
and breaks through every arrogant attitude
that is raised up in defiance of the true knowledge of God.
We capture like prisoners of war, every thought,
and insist that it bow in obedience to the anointed one.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
We can demolish every deceptive fantasy.
Some of y'all have some problems with fantasizing.
And that is going to your flesh,
that's being on team flesh, you're fantasizing.
You're fantasizing about things.
You're watching movies and you're listening to music.
You're reading books that are spicy.
Come on, I know you are.
And you might even be going further than that.
You might be watching porn.
You guys, porn rewires your brain and not in a good way.
Okay, it rewires your brain.
I know all of you know
that there's things called triggers, right?
And triggers are things that, like little booby traps.
Triggers are like little booby traps.
And so when someone sets off a booby trap in your life
by a word that they speak or an action
or a facial expression or a situation,
that little booby trap inside of you, okay,
it causes there to be massive chaos, right?
It flips a switch inside of you
that causes physical, mental, emotional upheaval.
But we have to get those traps,
all those traps have to be deactivated.
I had a mouse in my garage
and I had to activate a mouse trap, right?
And that mouse trap is on a hair trigger.
It's meant to be.
So that if anything activates it, it's gonna snap shut.
We have those things going on inside of us.
And that's what the heart work is all about.
And so I don't want you to continue to live in heart work.
I don't want you to,
I'm not telling you to go back to the heart work module.
Some of you are still there, that's great.
And definitely spend your time there well.
But I am saying that all through your life,
when you see these triggers
and you feel these booby traps go off in your heart
and in your mind,
it's important for you to take inventory in that moment
of what you were thinking about, of what was happening.
Gotta get to the root of that trigger
because we want to deactivate it
so that it doesn't go off anymore.
And we deactivate it through repentance
and confession and forgiveness.
And we wanna do that.
But let's go back to the porn thing.
What happens to all of us
is that things are associated with other things, right?
When there's trauma.
And porn is a trauma.
Porn is sexual abuse that happens to you.
When you participate in pornography,
you are sexually abusing yourself.
Okay, and as an adult survivor of sexual abuse,
I was sexually abused from the ages of two to 10 years old
by a family member.
And as an adult survivor of incest and sexual abuse,
I can tell you that there were certain smells
and there were certain things
that correlated to that abuse.
And unfortunately, the people that are partaking of porn,
and this is the enemy's plot against you,
is that the pleasure that you are deriving from that,
the climaxes, the things that are happening in your body,
they have now become their own triggers.
What does that mean?
That means that sex is gonna bring you shame.
It means that when you feel the feelings of arousal,
when you're trying to go.
about your life with your spouse in the future
and enjoy the physical intimacy
that God has gifted you with,
you are gonna feel shame.
You are going to feel all kinds of sinister
and negative things.
But there's good news.
You can be healed of that.
You do not want a beautiful gift that God has given you
to be tethered to trauma.
We don't want that.
And so fantasies, y'all, every deceptive fantasy,
all that stuff happening in those pornographic movies,
that's all fantasy.
That's not real.
That's not what real human sexuality looks like,
not according to God's design.
All the other things that you lose yourself in
that are fantastical,
demolishing those things is what the scripture says.
All that opposes God and opposes the God in you,
opposes the God design and the God destiny inside of you
and breaks through every arrogant attitude
that is raised up in defiance of the true knowledge of God.
The true knowledge of God, what is that?
That he's a father?
What is that arrogant defiance, orphanhood?
Any thought that comes in your head
that you have to do this life yourself,
that you've been thrown here into this earth realm.
Good luck, kid, I hope you make it.
That independent spirit leads us
into all types of entanglements
when we're out here running around
trying to make our lives happen for us.
We capture like prisoners of war every thought
and insist that it bow in obedience to the anointed one.
Every thought, you guys, every thought.
And I love how it says that,
I had never read it in that translation before,
but it really lines up because I struggled
because of my childhood and because of the abuse
and the trauma that I had been through,
I struggled with what people call mental illness.
All through my late teens and 20s and into my early 30s,
I had diagnosed issues, okay, of mental problems.
And one of those problems was obsessive thoughts,
compulsive thoughts, things that they call OCD,
intrusive thoughts, unwanted thoughts.
And so years ago, and that's why the scripture
in this translation is so beautiful to me,
years ago when God was delivering me of this,
because when God brings deliverance,
and he will if you ask him to,
when he brings deliverance, and what is deliverance?
Because we've been having a lot of talk about that
in our communities.
Deliverance is when you have not been able
to choose team spirit,
because something has been blocking and opposing you,
some kind of oppression, you have been entangled in.
And there's a moment when you're untangled.
You're free to think again for yourself,
you're free to choose.
But then you have to walk out that deliverance,
and here's the problem,
a lot of people just keep coming back to deliverance.
They get delivered and now they're free
to choose team spirit again.
But then they don't, they choose team flesh again,
and they get back entangled in their back
at the deliverance line again.
No, you friends, that's not how this works.
You have to walk it out.
The yoke is broken over you,
you're no longer yoked with that fantasy,
you're no longer yoked with that addiction,
you're no longer yoked, you're not in the yoke.
Remember the yokes, the animals are inside by side,
you're locked in, you gotta go, there's nothing you can do.
That thing's pulling you along, that yoke is now broken,
and you are able to choose, but you still have to choose.
And I'm gonna tell you from experience,
the more that you choose his righteousness and not your own,
the more that you choose truth,
the more that you choose team spirit,
the easier it becomes to do that.
So back in those days when I had all of these unwanted,
obsessive and intrusive thoughts,
and you guys, I'm gonna tell you it was bad.
I couldn't even drink a drink if I had left it unattended
in my own home where nobody else was.
Bottle of water just sitting there, here's an example.
Come back to the bottle of water, wanna take a drink?
Can't take a drink, why?
Because someone's poisoned it.
Well, Jackie, that's ridiculous, there's no one here.
I know, but they snuck in somehow and they poisoned it.
I know that sounds crazy, you guys,
but that was an obsessive thought of mine,
just one of many, many, many, many, many, many millions.
My mind was broken, didn't work properly.
And I'd love to tell you that one day.
Jesus swooped in and just said, you're better now.
And I think people do a disservice to all of us
when they say, oh, but you've met Jesus.
Everything's better now.
Yes.
Meeting Jesus is the best thing that ever happened to me.
And I had a radical conversion of love with him
when I became a believer.
But you know what?
For whatever reason, all of these mental issues,
I had to walk out siding with team spirit.
And if you continue in my word, you will know the truth
and the truth will make you free.
Those are the words of Jesus.
And I think that probably the reason why
I had less deliverance and more discipline,
not discipline from him, me disciplining my mind,
me taking thoughts captive.
The reason why my discipleship looked more like
instead of just moments of huge radical deliverance,
which I had those.
It was more of walking out the truth every day
in the word of God and coming into agreement with his word
and not with my flesh.
Choosing team spirit day after day after day
is so that I could show up here today
and be qualified to deliver this message to you.
Because I know what it takes.
I know what it takes.
So back in those days, God said to me, he said,
Jackie, he said, every single time a thought
comes in your head.
And you guys, we have like a bazillion thoughts a day
that are conscious thoughts.
And we have even more unconscious thoughts.
We're not gonna get into that today.
That'll be for another Supernatural Saturday, okay?
Our lives are being powered by our unconscious identity.
We'll talk about that later.
But right now the conscious thoughts
are what I wanna talk about.
We have thoughts that come into our minds.
This could be so important.
Please listen.
This is the game changer.
Here's the life changer.
And God said to me, and this has been years ago,
decades ago, God said to me, he said, Jackie,
he said, you cannot trust your thoughts.
He said, just because you think a thought
doesn't mean it belongs to you.
And he showed me the three origins of my thoughts.
They either come from him in the spirit,
they come from my flesh and my own brokenness
and my own experiences,
or they come from the opposing forces.
Write it down.
Those are the three origins of your thoughts.
They come from culture, your own experience,
things that you read and look at and see.
And some of that has been put in front of you
by the opposing forces.
Please believe that.
And some of that's been put in front of you by God.
And then they come from,
your thoughts come from divine inspiration,
from the word, from the spirit.
Sometimes even from angels.
I have a revelation angel that shows up sometimes
and I just start thinking revelatory thoughts.
God showed me what that was.
And then from the opposing forces,
also, the prince and power of the air.
That's another origin, those three origins.
So what you consciously think a thought,
and some of you guys need to slow down
and think about what you're thinking about.
Sometimes you're just going about your day
and everything's great.
And all of a sudden you start feeling like anxious
and you're worried and you start feeling bad
and your body starts feeling bad and tired and depressed.
I need you to stop right then and think about,
what have I been thinking about all day?
Because sometimes we're going so fast and furious
in our lives that we don't even realize
all the thoughts that we're having
until they start showing up as feelings in our body.
So we're gonna stop.
And we're gonna take inventory.
Remember, we don't get what we expect,
we get what we inspect.
We're gonna take inventory of our thought life.
Every day as you're choosing team spirit,
as you go about your day,
when a thought comes in your head,
you're gonna grab it.
This is what God told me to do.
He said, Jackie, grab those thoughts
by the collar of their shirt,
just like you would an intruder coming in your house.
You're a mama bear.
An intruder's gonna come in your house,
you're gonna grab that intruder by its neck
and you're gonna say, what are you doing here?
What is your purpose?
What is your business with me?
Is it friend or foe, y'all?
You have to treat your thoughts like that.
Take them captive, like a prisoner of war.
Because you are in a war, there's a war in your members.
Death and life are fighting inside of you.
And your thoughts are the soldiers and we have to come here.
And the thoughts don't just stay thoughts,
that's the problem.
Your thoughts become words, friends.
And then your words become actions.
And then your actions become behavior that becomes your identity
Your thoughts become words and your words become actions your actions become
Habitual behavior that becomes your identity
This is why I can't fake it till you make it because you're gonna be it and
Everyone's gonna see it. That's what's gonna happen in your life
Behavior does not follow identity
Identity doesn't follow behavior behavior follows identity is what I mean to say
So it's gonna become who you are your thoughts are gonna become eventually who you are I
See a lot of you posting in your group saying things like oh
It's been having all these thoughts lately that I'm be forever alone that no one's gonna love me that this and that
And you know just all kinds of negative things and I'm not against y'all
Confessing James 516 and telling us where you are in your thought life
But my next question is gonna be to you. How long you gonna stay there?
Because I think that we have gotten this idea that thoughts are harmless and they're not
You can't control this another thing that God told me he said you can't control what comes in but you absolutely can't control
Guys we cannot control what comes in
You're gonna have all kinds of thoughts come in your head even like me unwanted in an intrusive thoughts raise your hand right now if
You have unwanted intrusive thoughts that other people if you told them they would say it that sounds crazy
Let me see your thoughts let me see let me see your hands let me see your hands
Let me see your thoughts. Let me see your thoughts. Let me see your hands
Let me see your thoughts let me see let me see your hands if you have crazy thoughts see people
That haven't probably had too much complex post-traumatic stress disorder like me
You can dismiss those thoughts as oh, that's crazy
And then you can just move on with your life
But I didn't used to be able to dismiss those thoughts those those thoughts would torment me and the more stressed out that I was
In life even as a believer the more I would succumb to that because of complex post-traumatic stress
Look at all those hands people admitting
Okay
So friends it's at the thought level that we want to catch
These intruders right it's at the thought level that we want to catch them
But sometimes you're not going to know what you were thinking about until you start hearing your words
Why is that because the Bible says out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks
Guys, it's it's saying out of the overflow of the heart
Out of the overflow
You
Just give you guys some time to process write it down if you want to it's important that we understand
Everything that Holy Spirit is trying to give us today
You guys this doesn't mean that you can just get positive a mental attitude or you can get into it
Oh, I'm gonna blab it and grab it. I'm gonna name it and claim it whatever I say
I can have no, but you do need to take your words very seriously because they are connected to a thought pattern
Into a root system that wants to destroy you
They are the physical manifestation
Right, they're the out loud manifestation
They're gonna your words are going to become the actions and the behavior that becomes your identity
The Bible says that what we believe in our hearts in our heart y'all the out of the abundance of the heart
What you believe in your heart you become
Your heart womb is where all of this is germinating
All the works of the flesh or all the fruit of the Spirit are gonna come from the heart place
And that's why we do the heart work
And then they're gonna spill out of your mouth and Proverbs tells us that death and life are in the power of the tongue and they
That love to talk are gonna eat the fruit of their words
So for all of you that love to talk like me got to be extra careful what you're thinking about because you're gonna start
So in all kinds of word seed, right?
I
Don't want to want to get religious and weird on me and people are gonna think that I'm a weirdo
I'm a weirdo. I don't want to get religious and weird on me and be like, oh my god
I say negative things and now bad things are gonna happen to me. No
That's what grace and mercy are for friend
But God's trying to show you that you're poisoning the only you're you are poisoning
poisoning the well of your own life.
Bitter and sweet water can't come from the same well
and you are poisoning your own well.
So what do we do about it?
You choose team spirit, but how do we choose team spirit?
We talked about how we choose team flesh.
You might say, well, Jackie, what are we supposed to do?
You know, well, some of the things I'm gonna say right now,
some of you are not gonna like, and I don't like it either,
but I'm gonna say it anyway, and that's this.
We gotta stop putting all of the things in front of us
that cause us to choose team flesh.
The TV shows you're watching,
some of y'all post about TV shows that you're watching
in our groups, and I'm like, my God.
Look, I ain't holy.
I ain't sister holy over here,
but I'm gonna tell you right now,
even I know that that's gonna poison your well.
Some of us have taken that grace a little far
to the place where it's not grace.
You guys, if it's harming you, it's not grace.
Yes, Paul said that all things are lawful,
but not all are expedient.
You need to dig a little deeper into what that means.
It means that Jesus fulfilled the law,
and now you can do as you choose,
but it's not necessarily going to edify you or help you.
Drinking, I'm sorry, some of you, okay,
so if you're gonna ask me, okay, well, Jackie,
because people love rules, right?
So you might come to me and say,
well, Jackie, what about this TV show?
Is it bad?
Well, you know, Jackie, I'd like to go out with friends
and have an old-fashioned a couple times a week.
Is that bad?
What about this?
What about that?
Is that bad?
Look, I'm not your judge and jury.
I'm about the furthest person from someone
who is gonna give you rules.
I don't like rules, and I'm not gonna give you any,
but I'm gonna tell you this.
What does it produce in you?
That's what you should ask yourself.
Does it produce more flesh in you,
or does it produce more spirit in you?
Does it produce the desire to join team spirit
or team flesh?
Does it produce negativity in you?
Look at the works of the flesh.
Does it have you dreaming and fantasizing
about sexual immorality?
You know, having sex with some stranger
or doing this or that, or does it bring up things?
You know, people always ask me, is masturbation wrong?
Well, what does it produce in you?
Does it produce a fantasy life in you?
Does it produce, you know, thoughts of immorality in you?
Very few people can masturbate
without fantasizing about something.
It's not about right or wrong, y'all.
You need to get rid of right or wrong.
Is it building your spirit or your flesh?
Is it producing death or life inside of you?
Well, Jackie, can I watch Bridgerton?
I don't know.
What does it produce in you?
Does it produce the lust of the flesh, the pride of life?
Or does it produce the spirit, brute?
Does it have you batting for the wrong team?
Does it rearm the enemy in your life?
You guys, the enemy has been defeated.
Okay, Jesus made him his footstool, all right?
He has been defeated.
Your enemy has been defeated.
But that doesn't mean that we don't rearm the enemy
all the time.
We give him, he's been defeated, he's been disarmed.
Jesus disarmed him, but we rearm him.
We give him ammunition against us.
We give him weapons of mass destruction
against us and our families,
in our thought life, in our word choices.
Remember, it's not about thinking the thought,
it's about letting it stay there.
We invite the enemy in and those thought origins
that come from the opposing forces
about how bad you are and how unworthy you are
and all of those things.
We sometimes, we invite those things for dinner
and we let them stay a while.
So my question to you, not is, is this bad?
If you want a list of rules,
I want you to go back to the religion talk
at the beginning of this and say,
am I religious?
Am I legalistic?
I obviously wanna live by a bunch of rules.
The only rules that you should be living by
are the law of love.
That you are loved.
That you are made by love, from love, for love, to love.
But what I, by your daily behaviors,
I want you to ask yourself, what is it producing in me?
The movies you watch.
Do you watch the songs you listen to,
the social media scroll that you scroll, scroll, scroll?
Is it producing jealousy in you, envy, competition, comparison?
What's it producing in you?
Is it producing negative things, fleshly things, deathly things?
And if it is, stop doing it.
Make a decision.
No one's going to make you stop.
You're a grown up.
You have to make a decision that I
don't want that fruit in my life.
I don't want those works in my life anymore.
I don't want that.
I want to be free from that.
If doing this makes it harder for me
to join team spirit every day, then I'm
not interested in this anymore.
Guys, we have to make sacrifices.
I know that we have all the sloppy agape out there.
But I'm just going to tell you, yes, grace and mercy
is for you every single day.
But in order to choose that merciful and grace-filled path,
it's a narrower path.
You're not going to do everything
that everybody else does.
And that's not legalism.
And that's not rules.
That's just wisdom.
All things are lawful for you now.
But not all things are edifying.
They're not.
Someone learn something today?
I certainly did.
Father, I'm so thankful for today and for everything
that you've said to us today.
And I believe that we can be people
that align ourselves with you.
And I hear Holy Spirit just nudging me and saying, hey,
tell him that when you do grab those thoughts captive
and you make them obedient to the knowledge of Christ
and that he died for you and that he is King Jesus
on the throne of your heart and that you are worthy
and that you are loved and you are accepted
and that life is for you and God is for you.
You have to make those thoughts come
into alignment with the truth.
And the way you're going to do that is by knowing Jesus.
And the way you're going to know Jesus is by knowing his word
because he is his word.
And so all of those years of me taking those thoughts captive,
I had to compare them because I didn't know if they
were good, bad, or ugly, right?
I had to take them and compare them to a constant.
And the constant is the word of God.
That is the litmus test of whether that thought
can stay or go.
Does it line up to my identity in Christ?
Does that thought line up to what
I have learned in the word because I have studied it
of who I am and whose I am?
So Father, we thank you that you're
going to give us the grace because you're not even
asking us to do what you're telling us this morning
on our own.
You're saying that you will empower us to do it.
You will help us do it if we will just surrender to you
daily and ask for your help and ask for your empowerment
and ask for your will and not our own
and ask for your strength and not our own.
And so Father, we thank you for these things.
We thank you that you're always for us.
You're always with us.
We thank you that you're charting a course before us.
We have a lot of plans, Lord, but when we let you,
you order our steps and order our steps in your word, Lord.
Let your word be a lamp to our feet
and a light to our path.
In Jesus' name, amen.
All right, you guys know I love you.
Tomorrow night, we're going to activate some more of this.
So if you feel like you need some more help in this area,
come to Sunday Night Activation, and we'll see you there.
Bye.