Right, welcome to Supernatural Saturday.
If you're new, and a lot of you might be,
this is where every week we come together as a community
and we lean into what is the current prophetic reality?
What is God speaking to us?
Not for later, but for right now.
What is the word for today?
What is the word for this month, this week,
individually and corporately,
meaning that what we released on Supernatural Saturdays
is gonna be different for everybody
as far as what it means to you
and how you're gonna implement it.
But for a lot of us,
we're going to come together on Sundays
and we're gonna activate that word.
So if you're available on Sunday evenings,
we have an activation,
we activate whatever's released on Saturday.
Why do we do that?
Because we can't just be hearers of the word,
we have to be doers of the word.
And we need to know in order to do
what God is speaking to us,
we have to know what does that look like for me?
Because once again, it's gonna look different for everybody.
Some stuff's gonna be the same.
If God says, hey, stop complaining,
that's gonna look the same for all of us, right?
But if it's about walking out as promises,
if it's about getting a hold of pruning in our lives,
just different things are gonna mean
different things to different people.
But once a month, on the last Sunday of the month,
we do not have activation of Supernatural Saturday,
we have a corporate prophetic night
where you can come and God will speak to you
through many of our prayer leaders.
We have just a really amazing time together in the spirit.
And so that happens to be tomorrow.
Can you believe this you guys, June is over with.
June is over, we're in July, can you believe that?
It's crazy, right?
I don't know, I've been praying about this a lot lately,
but I feel like time is definitely going faster.
And it's not because I'm older.
People are like, oh, when you get older,
time is gonna go faster.
No, there's always 24 hours in the day, right?
60 minutes in an hour, 60 seconds in a minute for sure.
But the reason why it feels like that is I believe
there's a scripture that talks about how God bends time.
How even though it's still the same 24 hours to us,
how somehow the Lord is bending time.
He said, I'm gonna shut it off.
I'm gonna cut it short in righteousness
is what he says in the scripture.
So I've kind of been praying into, hey, what does that mean?
What does that mean?
I'll let you guys know what I hear.
I have not heard anything yet besides I do have some
precedence of where God bends time, he changes time.
And we will talk about that
on a different Supernatural Saturday.
So when I woke up this morning, God spoke to me
and I said, God, what do you want to say to me?
What do you want to say to your sons and daughters
today on Supernatural Saturday?
And this is simply what he said.
He said, tell them that if they do not quit, they will win.
So I wanna release that over you right now.
Once again, it's gonna mean something different to everyone.
If you don't quit, you win.
It reminded me of an old Misty Edwards song.
If you don't know who that is, you can Google it.
I know that IHOP, that church has been under
a lot of scrutiny, a lot of turmoil going on there.
Has anyone noticed that all of the pedestals
that we have put human people on are toppling?
Anyone noticed that?
All these big ministries, you know, where we've,
we have taken the people that lead, the pastors
or the main people in pulpits and on stages and platforms,
we have put them on these pedestals
as these super Christians.
Nah, y'all, you can't do that.
And you know why I don't do that?
Because my pastor went to prison when I was 32 years old.
The man that discipled me from the time I was 22 to 32
for 10 years, the man that I love,
the man that I thought of as a spiritual father,
the man that was there for me in thick and thin,
he did so many good things.
Here's the other thing.
When people do something wrong,
let's not forget all the things they did right.
All of us are capable of doing things wrong,
especially when people idolize us.
You have no idea what happens to people
when you make them an idol.
And the Lord showed me that in that situation
when he screwed up, he made a lot of mistakes
and he did them for a long period of time
because he did not have the right accountability
in his life.
There wasn't a checks and balance in that place
because that specific denomination
believed that the pastor was always right.
So there wasn't anyone to oppose him.
There wasn't anyone to check him before he wrecked him.
We set people up for failure when we do these things,
when we misunderstand these scriptures.
A lot of people are like, well, the pastor is the angel of the house.
Get out of here.
The pastor is a person, right, who has clay feet.
And we cannot give them that kind of rope to hang themselves with, because they will.
And not just pastors, but other people.
When we idolize them, when we think that they can do no wrong, and then we're shocked and
horrified when we find out, oh, wait, yeah, they can.
So the Lord showed me back then, when everyone else was outside of his house with pitchforks
and torches—no kidding, friends.
The news media was a huge scandal, and where I come from in Columbus, Ohio, and the people
that used to follow him, that he used to lead, some of them family generationally for decades.
His family led their families.
They wanted him strung up.
I was kind of new to the block.
I had only been there for 10 years.
I had not been there for generation after generation of my family.
My husband that I was married to at the time, he was born into that church.
His parents had gone there since they were young teenagers, and he was born into that
church.
And so all of those people, they had a lot more at stake with what happened there than
maybe I did.
But at the same time, the way that it was handled, it was like, it's all him.
But the Lord showed me, it's not all him.
It's everyone, because you create an environment.
You create a dichotomy.
You create the situation when you idolize people.
And so that's a little segue.
I didn't plan on saying any of that, but the Lord showed me years ago that if the enemy
cannot cause you to fall, if he cannot defeat you through your vices, then he will cause
someone to fall whose fall will cause you to fall.
Let's get a hold of that for a second.
Once again, I didn't plan on going here this morning, but I think that people lose their
faith in God because of the sins of man.
And we've got to get a hold of that because that is not how it should be.
If the enemy can't defeat you, he will defeat someone whose defeat will defeat you.
I put this on my Facebook page last week when all of these scandals started coming out and
all these big named Christian celebrities in their ivory towers started crumbling.
And I've seen this happen again and again, friends.
Do not allow the mistakes and failings of others to harden your heart and shake your
faith in God.
Put your trust in God, not in people.
Put your trust in God.
I remember after the days of the indictment, 23 felonies, all financially related, after
the sentencing, after the church fell apart, after I was a young woman now in the midst
of a divorce, because of all this turmoil, in the midst of not having a church family,
this is a small church, it wasn't a church community, it was a family.
Having lost all of that in the blink of an eye, literally overnight, everything that
I knew in my life was ripped away.
And I had nothing because I didn't have any relationship with my own biological family.
And so I was like, whoa, what am I going to do?
And I started going to the church of my next door neighbor, and you guys know that I ended
up marrying that guy.
But I started going to his megachurch.
I went to a small church where the scandal happened.
Now I'm going to a megachurch where it feels kind of sketch, I'm going to be honest.
Everything seems really hyped up.
And after going through and seeing what I already saw, it was very difficult to listen
to any of those sermons without thinking, yeah, whatever.
And one day I just said to the Lord, I said, Lord, I don't trust this guy.
Like, you know, the pastor of that church, like, I don't trust this guy.
And he's like, that's okay.
He's like, you don't have to trust him.
Trust me.
That's okay.
You don't have to trust him.
Just trust me.
And I was like, okay.
He's like, yeah, trust me that I'm leading and guiding you.
Trust me that you're right where you need to be.
Trust me that I will give you what you need when you need it.
In the form of people, right?
Because God is the source, but he's the head of the human resource department.
See, we make the mistake to put our trust in people.
You have to put your trust in God, and then he gives you the grace to trust the people
that you should trust.
We trust in God because that's where our trust is safe.
God is not going to fail you.
Now a lot of times you feel like God failed you because he didn't give you what you wanted.
He didn't meet your expectations.
Well, I just want to tell us all something.
It's really important.
God doesn't work for you.
He's not your employee.
He's not a genie in a bottle.
He doesn't work for us.
And if we understand, and it's taken me a long time to understand this, and many disappointments
that didn't have to happen, friends, huge disappointments that tried to shake my faith,
tried to get me off course, because I put all of my hope and all my trust in an outcome
instead of in God, and I thought that that's the way it needed to happen.
Sometimes I even thought that's the way God told me it was going to happen.
And then when it didn't happen that way, I was shook.
And then I always had to come back to the truth that God sees things different than
we do.
He sees the whole picture.
He sees the big picture.
He understands things beyond what we understand.
And another thing that we have to understand is that what we want in this life, the outcomes
that we hope for so often, they're actually not to our best interest.
Not long-term, not eternally.
And we live for this life.
I remember one such time that I was disappointed, and you guys were going completely off the
word this morning, but we'll get back to it.
One time when I was an early believer, I had just met Jesus.
I didn't have any history with him yet.
Write that down.
Do you have history with God?
I'm 28 years in now, y'all.
I have history, but I didn't have history then, okay?
I didn't have his story.
I only had my story.
I didn't have his story of my life.
I only had my story of my life.
I didn't have history.
And so there were a couple things that happened that caused me to be disappointed.
And when you defer your hope in Christ, your heart gets sick, and sick hearts go looking
for medication.
And so I found myself doing some things that I used to do before I met Jesus.
Anybody else?
It was early in, y'all.
This is like the first four years of following Christ.
I was like, oh yeah, well, I'm going to go over here for a minute.
And specifically, that was to alcohol.
Now a lot of people say to me now, they're like, Jackie, you know, are you, you know,
do you think drinking is wrong and do you, do you have a glass of wine or whatever?
And I don't.
And the reason why I don't is not because I was an alcoholic.
I feel like alcohol is a convenient medicator for many people because it's legal after you're
21 years old and it's highly accessible and it's definitely cultural most places.
So no, I didn't have a problem with alcohol and I do not think that drinking is wrong.
I do think that very few people know how to keep it in moderation when they drink.
I think a lot of people medicate with alcohol and don't want to admit that's what they're
doing.
But for me, it's just something that I don't really feel is expedient or necessary for
my life because even though I was an alcoholic, a lot of people in my family were, a lot of
people.
My mom was, my grandma was, my grandpa was, my grandma and grandpa on the other side of
my family.
They were, my uncles were lots of alcoholics.
So I went and took a little side trail to the club, right?
I'm like, I don't know, 24 years old.
I get home that night and it's late and I just kind of lay on the couch and go to sleep
and I wake up and God said to me, he said, you don't see the big picture.
And I'm like, what do you mean?
He's like, you're so disappointed.
He said, because you love this world.
And I was like, what?
I don't understand.
What do you mean by that?
He's like, you love this world.
He said, you frame everything in life through, are you going to get what makes you feel good
in this world?
He said, but this world is not your home.
You're just passing through here.
And it took me a long time to understand that, friends,
and I don't know that I even fully understand that.
There are some things that cross over between here and there.
There are some really righteous wants and desires that we have,
like marriage and family. Good news, friends.
The desire that you have for marriage and family is very eternal.
It's very righteous.
But maybe ask yourself the question,
have I made it an idol?
Right?
What reason do I want it for?
Do I want it for temporary, more worldly kind of reasons?
Or is it an eternal pursuit?
Do I want it for lineage and legacy?
Let's pray into that because we can make anything an idol.
We can.
And when those idols fall, it hurts.
It definitely does.
So back to Missy Edwards that started this whole bunny trail and IHOP.
There is a song that she spontaneously sung during a prophetic time,
and it became an actual song that was recorded.
And I think it's called, I Knew What I Was Getting Into.
It's a very long song, like most prophetic songs are.
You can go check it out.
But in that song, it says, if you don't give up, don't give in.
If you don't quit, you'll win.
You will win.
If you don't quit.
And so when God said that to me this morning, tell them if they don't quit,
if they don't give up, they're going to win.
So it reminded me of that song, but it also reminded me of Galatians 6-9.
Does it remind you of Galatians 6-9?
I know it does.
Got some Bible people here.
And all that scripture says is do not grow weary in well-doing.
Because in due season, you will reap if you don't faint.
But in modern words, all it says is that do not allow yourself to be sidetracked.
Right?
Do not allow yourself to be loosened, untied, drift aimlessly.
Don't allow this life to wear you down, to make you old before your time in the mission.
Because if you don't give up, you're going to reap.
You're going to win.
You're going to have the things that God said you're going to have.
Guys, the word weariness in Hebrew, that's what it means.
It means to be loosened and untied.
It means to drift away.
It literally means to be worn down and be made old before your time.
Weariness goes all the way to the bones, friends.
I want you to raise your hand if you would be honest and say,
I have felt really weary in some things lately.
Starting to distract yourself, trying to go do something else, numb out.
Look at all those hands, you guys.
So many weary souls.
And I have my hand up too.
Just weary.
And there's a lot of reasons for that.
It's not even just personal battles that we go through.
We live in a culture that is moving so quickly that it just makes you sick and tired really fast.
Sick and tired and then you become sick and tired of being sick and tired.
It's just really difficult.
All right, look at all those hands.
So many.
So we're going to talk about that really quickly because we want to win.
And God has created us to win.
I want you to put your hand on your chest and I want you to say that over yourself.
God has created me to be a winner.
And if I asked you what you were weary of, a lot of you would say all kinds of different things.
I'm weary of the relationship problems in my family.
I'm weary of this job that I don't want to get out of bed and go to every day.
I'm weary of the dating apps.
I think everyone's going to be saying I'm weary of the dating apps.
I'm weary, Lord.
Jesus, deliver me.
Fill in the blank.
Go ahead, fill in the blank, put it in the chat.
You were created to win.
What is tiring you out?
Right away I saw someone say, I'm weary of the waiting.
And that's true.
If any of you have ever been in like a real waiting room,
so like in the passport office,
in the social security office, in the DMV,
where there's really no rhyme and reason
and you have no idea when your number is gonna be called.
The system does not seem to make any sense whatsoever.
You have a number in your hand,
but the numbers on the screen
are not in chronological order.
You do not know what's going on here.
All you know is that you just have to wait.
Those mentalities of those waiting rooms,
they are very wearisome.
They are soul crushing.
And I just wanna encourage you,
if you're in that type of waiting room in life,
then you are in the wrong place.
You took a detour somewhere
and you went out of the kingdom
and you went into the church
because there are no waiting rooms like that
in the kingdom of God.
There's always something to be expectantly preparing for.
There's always hope and anticipation and joy
in the preparation.
And so if it's a waiting room that we're in,
then we need to ask God how we got there.
And we're gonna talk about weariness today
because we're all there in one shape and one form
and we're gonna figure it out, okay?
People are weary of their same old routines,
get up, lay down, eat, sleep.
Weary of men who don't want marriage, just weary of men.
Okay, there you go.
That don't want marriage, weary of those men.
Family relationships, caring for mom,
being pressured by your brother,
weary of chasing female friendships in my age group.
So weary of not having the friends,
weary of sitting back in church by yourself
and just watching, weary in breakthrough,
weary in finances.
Weary, is it ever gonna happen to me?
Lack of close community friendships, weary of the apps,
weary of finances, weary of dating,
weary of your mom, caring burdens for other people,
tired of being tired, delayed breakthrough,
weary of the same apartment, the same job,
weary of living alone.
You guys, these are so honest and so vulnerable
and you're so good.
They're so good.
Some of us can say, I'm just, I'm weary of myself.
I'm weary of tripping over the same obstacles
over and over again.
Weary, tired.
And once again, friends, when we're tired and weary,
we look for medication, right?
Then we just want to sit and veg out
whatever your mode of medicating is,
that's what we wanna do.
And that doesn't make anything better, right?
So what do we do when we're weary?
Because God is saying something to us.
He's saying, do not grow weary.
That means it's progressive, isn't it?
It's something that's progressive, growing weary.
You start out with a little bit of weary
and then if you give into it,
then you're a whole lot weary.
Right, if we allow it to continue,
then we get a whole lot weary.
And then pretty soon our tired turns into bone tired.
We're just a little bit tired right now,
but pretty soon we're gonna be tired
beyond the point of return in our minds.
And that's when we become loosened
and untied from the mast of Christ.
All the siren songs that lure us
into places that we don't wanna be.
You guys, in mythology,
a lot of you had to take that in school.
So please do not write me letters
about me being a new ager or heretic
or witchcraft or anything.
We read these books like the Odyssey
and different things in high school
because it was part of humanities.
If you didn't take humanities in high school,
then okay, you went to a different type of school
than I did, all right?
But in these stories,
the sailors would sail through stormy waters
where the sirens live, the mermaids.
the ones that would lure men to their death.
And for us, y'all, that can be a typology
of anything that's really just not good for us,
anything that lures us from the drudgery of everyday life
and promises us a hope and future that it cannot deliver.
Back then, the sirens were beautiful
and promising all of this pleasure, right?
It's kind of like the story of Pinocchio and the Lost Boy,
like the Pleasure Island thing, remember that too?
I don't know if you guys remember that,
but it's kind of a weird little blip in that story
where Pinocchio kind of gets lured away of,
hey, let's go ride the roller coasters
and we can live here and have fun forever kind of thing.
But the sailors used to tie themselves to the mast.
Pinocchio means something to someone.
That's not a reference that I would normally bring up.
And so Holy Spirit is speaking to someone
that is a significant story in your life.
It means something to you.
There's trauma, family trauma maybe,
that God wants to unearth right there
because maybe that was a special story
or a special movie with you and someone that you loved.
Maybe one of your children
and you're the adult in the story,
or maybe when you were a child with an adult
and God wants to heal some pain
that's associated with that relationship,
not with Pinocchio, but with that relationship.
Also, I'm just really feeling the word liar.
So that's a big part of that story.
Pinocchio lies and his nose grows,
and so something that has to do with lies,
something that has to do with pain around deception.
So whoever that's for,
just go ahead and grab a hold of that.
If you're on replay listening and that's for you,
go ahead and grab a hold of that.
Maybe God wants to clean out that wound.
He wants to heal it.
Yes.
So in the mythology story,
the captain of the ship had the sailors tie him to the mast,
tie him to the mast of the ship.
He had to put beeswax in his ears and in their ears.
Why?
So they could not hear the song of the siren.
They couldn't hear the siren song.
And friends, when we grow weary in this life,
in areas where we feel like we should have reaped a harvest
and we haven't, and we're beginning to get disillusioned
and full of doubt and unbelief,
we have to tie ourselves to Jesus.
There are so many things that are vying for your attention,
vying for your allegiance.
Don't think that you couldn't deconstruct your faith
and then not reconstruct it
because it's happening all over the place,
especially with people that have put their hope in people
and not in Christ.
We have to tie ourselves to the mast of Jesus.
We have to, because there's too many things
that are promising you things
that they absolutely can't deliver.
God is not a man that he should lie.
What he has promised, he will also do.
In fact, as soon as he said it, it was true.
As soon as he said it, it was true.
But all these other things that promise us peace
and promise us fun and joy and all the things,
it doesn't lead anywhere good.
Going adrift, becoming untied from Christ,
being worn down in your morals and your values
and the things that you wanted by weariness
only leads to bad places.
I can say that from experience.
So how do we keep this from happening?
Okay, let's talk about it.
First of all, seek truth in scripture
because we don't walk by feelings.
Because we don't walk by feelings.
We can't walk by feelings.
Your feelings are gonna very rarely ever line up
to what God has asked you and called you
and even told you, instructed you to do.
Your feelings are not gonna say,
yeah, that sounds right.
No, most of the time they're not going to.
If you're a fact person, the facts are not going to line up.
Some of you are so stuck in analysis paralysis in your life.
The reason why you're weary is you have wearied yourself
with all of your analysis paralysis.
You're waiting for it to make sense.
Let me just go ahead and cut to the end.
It doesn't, it doesn't make sense.
Your human reasoning is the enemy of the supernatural.
Your human reasoning is the enemy
of what God wants to supernaturally do in your life.
You're trying to cross the T's and dot the I's.
and to make it compute one plus one equals two?
It doesn't.
That's a word for someone.
Grab a hold of it.
It doesn't.
It doesn't make sense.
Do it anyway.
This is the test.
This is the stretching.
Are you gonna trust your instincts?
Are you gonna trust your reasoning?
Or are you gonna trust God?
What does Proverbs 3 tell us?
Trust in the Lord with all your heart
and lean not to your own understanding,
but in all your ways.
All means all, friends.
In all your ways, acknowledge Him.
Acknowledge what about Him that He is God and you are not?
That He knows best and you do not?
Acknowledge Him and He will direct your path.
He will direct your path.
I saw some of you put up
that you're weary of the same old thing.
Do something different.
What's stopping you?
Faith is spelled R-I-S-K.
I want us to acknowledge on this call this morning,
myself included, that some of us have grown weary
because we have tried to live too safe.
This life is not about safety.
This life is about adventure, just so you know.
The whole idea of, hey, grow up
and get a stable, secure job.
A lot of people took the first job
they got out of high school or college
and they're still there because it's like,
hey, make sure that you stay at the same job.
That's gonna make you look responsible
because we don't live in that world anymore.
We don't live in that world.
And the people that did live in that world,
they're all aging out.
That world doesn't exist anymore.
Even people that tried to do that found out
during the pandemic that they were not essential workers.
A lot of people in middle management jobs
that were supposed to be the most secure job
you could have in this earth lost their jobs.
Safety is overrated.
The only safe place to be
and the only safe place to invest is on the rock.
Building your life on the firm foundation of Christ
and our hope in Christ.
But some of us, we've got to get a little more adventurous.
We have to understand that we are winners.
And so instead of you creating the safe life for yourself,
you have to believe that you can swing out on the trapeze
because he is the safety net.
Your plan is not the safety net.
He is the safety net.
He's the safety net.
Some of you, I can feel it in the spirit.
You have been pondering change for a really long time,
but you, every time you just, you can't pull the trigger.
You can't pull the trigger.
When I was a little girl, I used to live on Lake Erie
and the beach was in my backyard
and it went for miles and miles each direction.
And with my trusty golden retriever,
which I think is interesting
because I married a golden retriever personality.
My greatest companion when I was a child
was a golden retriever.
He's my best friend.
He's really the only person that I was ever with,
even though he's not a person.
But for those of you that have dogs, was he a person?
I think he was a person.
All right.
His name was Nugget, Golden Nugget.
We called him Nugget for short
and we would explore the beach.
And I would walk for miles down this beach, you guys.
And yes, this was the eighties and kids did that back then.
And there was this old boat launch swing
where they would put the boats on the swing
and then they would swing the boat out into the water
and launch it and put it in the water.
And it just looks so fun to swing on y'all.
And every time I would come to that swing,
to that boat launch, and I know that,
that sounds a little dangerous
and definitely wasn't meant for children to swing on,
but I was pretty athletic child and I just wanted to do it.
But I could never bring myself to do it.
I wanted to do it and I would look at it.
Every time I came down the beach and I got to that place
and it was pretty far from my house, I would never do it.
I was like, I'd almost do it.
I'd get up there.
I'd grab a hold of the rope.
I was gonna do it, but then I just didn't do it.
And then one day, my older brother,
he's 18 months older than me.
He came on a walk.
He came on the beach with me.
And I don't even remember, maybe I took him there
because I wanted to show him that boat launch.
But we went there together and he just got up and did it.
He just did it.
He just jumped right on, swung around, had a good old time.
And I was like, dang it.
And some of us, that is our life.
We're seeing other people making moves.
We're seeing other people doing stuff.
And we're like, whoa.
And we feel envious.
We feel jealous.
Sometimes we feel covetous of what they're doing.
Sometimes we're just sincerely happy for them,
but we're very sad for ourselves.
But we don't have to be.
I could have done that the whole time,
but I talked myself out of it.
You know?
And then he does it and makes it look easy.
So the very first thing that we need to do to not grow weary,
not to grow weary, not to become untied and unloosed
from the promises of God in our lives,
from the assignments and the missions that God has given us,
is to seek the truth in scripture.
What did God say?
What did he say?
It doesn't matter what your feelings say.
Circumstances, no.
They don't get to voice here.
The only voice at this table is the truth in scripture.
And then the second thing we have to do,
and we did it here today, and you need to do more,
but you need to make sure that this doesn't become
a negative practice in your life.
We need to confess our doubt and our unbelief.
Some of us have gotten weary to the point
where we just, we actually, if we're just being honest,
we don't really believe that much anymore.
We have a lot of doubt about whether or not
that was even God, or this is even for us,
or that anything's ever gonna change.
Let's see those hands.
A lot of you still have your hands up.
Put your, let's put your hands down first.
Everyone put your hands down.
But put the hands down first
because we can't get a real clear picture
of where people are if hands are up from the old question.
Everyone put your hands down.
Just gonna wait for a sec till all the hands are down.
Okay, now put your hands up if you feel like
you have been entertaining some unbelief and some doubts.
You've been entertaining them.
You've been inviting them over for dinner.
And feeding them.
Someone's got me on echo.
Sorry, I accidentally lowered one of your hands
because I was just trying to mute you instead.
Look at all those hands, you guys.
Lots of hands.
So we have to confess that.
You're confessing that right now.
I have doubt.
I have unbelief.
Years ago, the Lord told me that doubt is uncertainty
that causes us not to take action.
When we have doubt, we won't take action if we have doubt.
It goes back to that famous quote by Nelson Mandela
that you guys all hear me quote
because it's one of my favorite quotes.
You will not prepare for what you secretly believe.
Doubt, right, right there, is not gonna happen.
You won't prepare for what you secretly believe
is not gonna happen.
And a lot of us don't wear our doubts on our sleeve.
On the outside, we look like, we trust God, you know,
we're going to church, we do the things.
How are you?
I'm doing good, sister so-and-so.
How are you doing?
I'm gonna go over here and work in the children's ministry.
I'm gonna do this, I'm gonna do that.
I'm blessed.
I'm highly favored.
But inside, you're like, I'm not gonna do that.
But inside, you're like,
I don't think anything's gonna happen here.
And how is that evident?
It's evident by our inaction.
When we have doubt, it's uncertainty that causes inaction.
And for those of you that really need to be very certain
before you take action, you know, you that analyze,
like I just talked about, you have to make sure
that it makes sense before you take action,
then this is gonna be a double whammy for you.
I'm a fast start.
If you're familiar with the Strength Finder
and the different, you know,
resources in our personalities that help us to succeed,
one of mine is I'm a fast start.
What does that mean?
It can be bad.
I will tell you, it definitely isn't always good.
But I look, I leap before I look.
I leap before I look.
Mostly.
I throw it against the wall to see if it sticks.
I don't sit around for a million years
trying to figure out all of the nuances of something
before I just.
try it. Now, that's not in every area of my life, but that's in areas of inspiration,
especially in business and different things. But some of you,
you're going to dip your toe in for years. You're not going to get in the water.
You're not. And that's why you're weary because you're sitting and you're watching everyone else
swimming. And yeah, it's true. Some of them are drowning, but don't let that keep you from
getting in the water because there is a life preserver for them, whether they want to use it
or not. So we cannot allow doubt and unbelief to get in. And how do we do that? We have to confess
it. When you feel it, you guys confess it. Find someone that's not going to become weary of your
confessions to hold each other accountable. Hey, I'm really struggling today. Can you pray for me?
I'm having a bad day. It's hard to hang on to hope today.
Have a prayer partner like that. Come to prayer. You guys, we have daily prayer.
We have daily prayer. You're like, well, but Jackie, that happens when I'm at work. Okay, great.
Go to a bathroom break for 10 minutes and break in on the call and say, hey, I'm in the bathroom,
but I need prayer. Please pray for me. Or come to Wednesday night or Sunday night.
There's got to be a time that works for you. All right. Next, share your concerns
with others. So confess your doubt and unbelief, but also share your concerns with others
because we weren't created to live this life alone. We have to have people that we can
share our hearts with. The next one, remember God. This is my favorite one that I wrote down here.
How do we combat this weariness? Remember God. I have a good friend. Her name is Annie F. Downs,
and she is a famous New York Times bestselling author, and she has a book called Remember God.
And that book is about her struggle in this life. It's just about her life and about
how things weren't working out the way that she wanted them to. And it's a really great
read and go read it because it's really talking about what we're talking about here in her singleness, too.
But we have to remember God. We have to remember the landmarks. We have to remember the times
that God has come through for us in the past. We have to remember
the fulfilled promises of our lives, and we all have them.
What has God done for you? Remember that. He's the same God. The same God that helped you there
is the same God that's going to help you now. The same God that delivered on his
promises back then is the same God that's going to deliver on his promises now.
Spend time with him. Remember, joy is our strength, and we find joy in his presence. That was
a couple Supernatural Saturdays ago. Put all these Supernatural Saturday thoughts together,
friends. We have to do this, and I'm talking to myself as well. You know, there were certain times
when there were different things that come against me, and I would begin to immediately murmur and
complain. I'd immediately begin to be upset at God and angry with God, and I've seen now that
that's because I didn't really know him very well. I didn't trust that he really was going to
come through, and I immediately, just like the children of Israel when they left Egypt and they
didn't know where they were going, they didn't know God very well. And yeah, he had done some
miraculous things bringing them out of Egypt, but they didn't have enough history with him
to sustain the wilderness.
So if you are a new believer and you don't have enough history
with God to not get negative when things don't go your way and to not start murmuring, complaining,
and you know, doubting, start getting into unbelief, then borrow some victories from others.
I had to do that at the beginning of my discipleship. I didn't have enough history with
God to really trust, but I was around people that I thought were really good people. I knew that
they weren't lying to me. They weren't making up these stories and blatantly lying to my face about
how God had delivered them and healed them and this and that. And so I began to borrow their
stories. You guys, I can remember walking around my apartment and saying, hey God, you did it for
Joyce. You did it for her, Lord. You helped her, you restored her, you healed her, and you're
going to do it for me. You did it for this person. And then when I ran out of people that I
I knew I went to the Bible. You did it for you did it for David. You did it for most you did it for
We have to remember what God has done
Because I'm telling you I'm showing you snapshots from my own life
This is my discipleship. I
Had to do this. I had to press in no one was teaching me how to do this
Holy Spirit was leading me into it. I
I
Had to remember if I couldn't remember my own my own
Landmarks, then I had to remember somebody else's if I didn't have any of my own yet
Then I had to call upon the God of Jacob
And Isaac and Abraham
And what he did for them he will do for me
And now I have history I have my own landmarks I
Have my own landmarks
That I can when something comes and it tries to distract me and it tries to derail me. I could say, oh, you know
I've seen this before and
Everything's gonna be alright
Practice gratitude you guys that's the next thing on my list here practice gratitude
Practice being grateful for something nobody on this call is
Without something to be thankful for you know what I you know, I know cuz you're breathing you woke up today
You're alive
That heart beating in your chest is a sign of God's promises to you God's gift to you
So
Let's practice gratitude
Yeah, we have to confess our doubt and unbelief. We have to with trusted people
Share our complaints, but we also have to practice gratitude
You can't just murmur and complain friends
if you do the first two things that I said for the two and three confessed out and unbelief and then share your
Complaints and concerns with others, but you don't do practice and gratitude. You're gonna get real unbalanced. You're gonna become a super negative Nellie
or Ned
You have to practice gratitude
He is good
And I want to challenge you in the areas where you think that he hasn't been good to you, is that true or
Is that your view?
Because you
Wanted him to do something that he didn't do you guys?
I know that this is really hard to take right now
but I'm gonna say this and I'm gonna say it in love but a lot of us are weary and we're in places of
despondency and despair almost in our lives because we have not acted on the words of the Lord and
Taken the opportunities because they were risky that God had put before us
We talked ourselves out of it
We told ourselves that it wasn't the right time. It wasn't the right thing
We told ourselves I'm not really sure that's God and yet we're still in the same cycle of pain
Still in the same cycle of pain
God does not want you to live in pain. I want to tell you something
It's really important that all of you hear this
You will always have to take imperfect action in this life
There's no such thing as perfect action. And remember doubt is uncertainty that causes inaction
You have to take action
You have to belief requires action. The proof of belief is action
the proof of desire is
Preparation and it will always be imperfect meaning that you kind of know what God wants you to do
But then the rest of it you're just winging it. That's all right
That's how you have to do it
And
Then God will prune it and he will show you. Hey, this is yeah this this works and this doesn't
Does that make sense to everyone? Do you understand?
So the next thing goes with what I just said
After practicing gratitude, we have to walk in the spirit another supernatural Saturdays a couple weeks ago team spirit versus team flesh
We have to walk in the spirit friends. We have to get up and we have to align ourselves with the spirit within us
And the spirits gonna lead you places that you might not want to go in your flesh in places that you might be
Intimidated to go
It's gonna stretch you. It's it's supposed to
But if we don't want to become weary
If we don't want to give up then we have to stop aligning with our flesh and we have to start aligning with our spirit
We have to
I have a private client right now, I'm so proud of her, you know, I gave her a prophetic
word a while back that I thought that she should go, she should go to check out this
specific church in this city that's near her city.
And she's like, no, I don't, you know, that means I would have to drive like 40 minutes
to church every Sunday and I just don't want to do that.
Yeah, it's going to stretch you.
You guys, if you think that God's plan for you is convenient, you better think again.
Every once in a while, it might be convenient, but for the most part, it's going to stretch
you.
It's going to be a sacrifice of some sort.
It is, you're going to have to give up some things to follow Jesus where he wants to take
you.
Someone needs to say that over themselves right now.
I'm going to actually have to give up some things to follow Jesus.
I just heard of a divorce in our community, it saddens my heart.
It was actually a wedding that I officiated and I knew that it was going to be a hard
match.
I knew that there were strong personalities in this, in this union.
I had said to them more than once, hey, are you sure you guys want to get married right
now?
Maybe you should take some time because you have a lot of disagreements.
They didn't.
They wanted to go forward.
They're like, no, we're fine, we're going to make it work.
Both really great people and no reason why either one of them should not get married
and really shouldn't marry each other if they were willing to grow better and not bitter
in these differences of strong personalities and opinions.
But the problem was, is that they had the mentality that they could keep their life
the way it is and then also be married.
Some of you have been single for a really long time and you don't understand that your
life is going to change completely.
You don't hate your single life.
You like your community.
You love the love.
You love the life that you've built, you know, with community and friends and the area that
you live in and it's so familiar to you and, you know, you've done this because, you know,
you're a single person and so you've had to create the support system around you like
your job, all the things, but you still, you also want to be married and you don't understand
that signing up for, you know, being no longer a me, but a we could mean that a lot of the
things that you have come to have security in are going to shift and change.
It's going to be necessary.
And the problem is, is you keep trying to find a love story that fits your life instead
of understanding that you're the puzzle piece of a love story that fits God's plan.
You want someone to come in and just be part of your life that you've built and that isn't
how it works.
It does not work that way.
I have not seen it work that way even one time.
Even people that are like, Oh yeah, you know, it's great.
I'll relocate to you and we'll be together and you know, we'll go to your church.
They don't ever stay, they don't ever stay in that framework.
They might start that way, but it very quickly shifts and changes.
Why?
Because God wants to take you somewhere.
He didn't bring that person there to just stay where you have been.
He wants to take you both now somewhere new in life.
Maybe it's geographically, probably definitely community, different jobs, different things,
different opportunities, all types of different things.
What you were doing was a one person assignment and now God's like, Oh God, two people on
this assignment.
So now I can expand this assignment, right?
One person to find a thousand to 10,000.
Very important.
We have to walk in the spirit, friends.
And then last but not least, we have to trust in the Lord.
A lot of people define that word, that scripture, Isaiah, it says, wait on the Lord.
It will renew your strength, right?
You will run and grow, run and not grow weary.
There's that word weary again.
You'll walk and not faint.
But that word is actually translated to the word trust.
Put your trust in the Lord.
Put your hope in Christ.
Put your trust in God.
Not in your circumstances, not in a timeline, not in a specific outcome, not in anything
but the Lord.
A lot of you have your trust in outcomes.
You have your trust in a specific thing.
Not, and maybe another person, but not in Christ.
And what does that mean to put our trust in God?
It just means, God, I know that you're for me and I know that life is for me.
I know that you've created me to be a winner.
I know that you've created me to prosper.
How do I know this?
Go back to step one.
Seek truth in scripture.
That's how I know it.
Do I know it by my circumstances?
Not all the time, but I know it by scripture.
I know it by scripture.
I know that I'm highly favored by scripture.
I know that I'm valuable and qualified and forgiven and loved and confident and courageous
and extraordinary opportunities are waiting for me.
How?
In scripture.
I know that if I give in to the law of attraction in scripture, because God says I'm the head
and not the tail, I'm above and not beneath it, I'm given God ideas that produce good
things in my life, right?
I can have a prosperous mindset.
I can be blessed to be a blessing.
I can be generous with what I have because I know that there's more coming.
I'll have grace to embrace whatever season I'm in, knowing that this is not the end of
the story.
I don't know about you guys, but my confession in the word of God is that I can do what God
has asked me to do.
He's asked me to do something, and that is take care of my body.
God has asked me to move my body.
I have to do my part.
God's not going to move my body for me.
I'm not a puppet on a string.
I'm going to move my body, but he has promised me if I move my body, he has promised me if
I move my body that I can regain my health, that I can become fit and healthy, full of
energy.
Now, will it just be moving my body?
No, but you know, God understands that a lot of times we can't have more than one instruction
at a time, so he gives us simple instructions.
You guys, God gives us simple instructions.
If you feel like you have some real complicated, hard, impossible instruction from God, it's
probably instruction from religion and not God.
It's probably from a performance-based mindset that you have and not God.
God just told me to move.
I'm moving my body, and then guess what?
He's leading me as I move to other things that are helping me physically.
It is simple, Leah, because it's supposed to be simple.
Do you guys know that the gospel is simple?
It's simple.
Jesus came and died for you and as you so that you no longer have to live under the
curse, but you could be reunited to your royal identity as a son and daughter of God
and all the benefits that come with that.
Now, orphanhood is hard to walk out of, and that's why Jesus himself said, you'll be transformed
bit by bit by the renewing of your mind, and that actually is translated into heart as
well, so it has to do with heart work.
As we continue to do the heart work, continue to renew the mind that is inside of us, not
your brain, but the mind inside of you, that master control, that core thing.
Not erasing the bad things, y'all, but replacing them with truth.
You can't erase them.
It's like that movie Inside Out, that little cartoon, not the second one.
I haven't seen that.
I know there's all this controversy over it, but the first one.
Those were core memories of the little character in the movie, Riley.
Those were her core memories, and they were being touched by sadness, and then Joy was
getting upset because Joy was like, no, no, everything needs to be good and happy.
No, that's not true, but everything's redeemable.
In fact, I'm going to end with this.
The other day, I remembered something really tragic from my childhood, which, you guys,
is very normal for me.
I had many more tragic moments in my upbringing than good ones or happy ones.
If you know the way that a memory is created, a memory is created by strong emotions.
That's why you remember some things from childhood and not others.
It doesn't have to be a negative strong emotion.
It can be a positive strong emotion.
The problem is that I didn't have a lot of positive strong emotions in childhood, so
I remembered something negative, and it caused a little bit of a reaction in my body, a little
bit of anxiety, a little bit of mourning, sadness, and then Holy Spirit challenged me.
He said, can you think of anything good from childhood?
He said, try, he said, try to remember something happy.
It's so easy to gravitate towards all the things
that have not gone right and to remember those things
and to rehearse those things in our minds and in our hearts.
But I want to challenge all of you
the way Holy Spirit challenged me,
because it wasn't very long,
it was maybe two minutes into that conversation
where I'm being challenged to remember something positive
that I remembered something positive.
And I began to rehearse those things.
Well, I remember when my mom's second husband, Pat,
when he did this and this happened.
There's a lot of negative memories with that man,
but I thought of something positive.
I thought of this other thing that happened
that was super fun and really made an imprint on me.
And then I thought of this other thing and this other thing.
And pretty soon I remember a whole bunch of stuff
that were really like happy, defining moments of my life.
And I really want to encourage you.
And I'm asking Holy Spirit,
Holy Spirit, help them remember.
Help them remember some good things,
not just from their families and from their own histories,
but from their history with you,
things that have happened to prove to them
that they are seen, known, and loved by heaven,
and that the best has not even begun yet.
So I release that over you, friends.
Hope in the Lord, hope in Christ, trust in God.
Do not allow weariness to grow.
Stop it right now.
Don't allow it to grow.
Don't become loosened and untied from your assignment.
One of your assignments is to be a revivalist
of marriage and family.
Do not become untied from that
just because it seems impossible.
Everything that God did in the word of God was impossible.
I want you to remember that.
Every single thing that happened in the book
that you used as the manifesto of your life is impossible.
Everything.
You are following a leader into the impossible.
That is what you signed up for.
And 90% of your love story or any other story
that you've been waiting on in your life
is going to be supernatural.
And you can ask God for it.
You guys, I've been doing what God told me to do.
I've been moving.
I've been doing more than moving.
He led me to a Pilates studio.
If you've ever done Pilates,
whoa, baby, it's not easy.
I've been doing that.
And you know what I said to God when I woke up this morning?
I said, hey, you know, God, I've been doing my part,
so I would be totally okay to wake up
to some supernatural weight loss.
Just supernatural weight loss.
And some of you are laughing, but why not?
I did my part.
I'm not sitting around on the couch eating donut holes,
watching Bridgerton, asking God to help me lose weight.
Some of y'all are, though.
By the way, let's not poison ourselves
with the world's view of romance,
because your romance ain't gonna look like that.
Just wanna let you know.
Little sidebar there for you.
But I'm doing what he asked me to do,
so can I not respect,
can I not expect supernatural results?
Am I gonna quit doing it
if I don't have supernatural weight loss?
I'm not gonna quit doing it.
Because first of all, I like it now,
and I like the way that I feel when I do it,
and God knew that I was going to,
and that's why he told me to do it.
God knows you better than you know yourself,
and if you follow his instruction,
it's gonna lead someplace really good for you.
It may not feel good at the beginning,
but it will get good fast.
It will.
There will be breakthrough.
And so I can expect God to do his part,
because I'm doing mine.
So Father God, I thank you for your sons and daughters,
I thank you for this time together.
I pray, Lord, that these words would hit the mark.
They would hit the mark, Lord,
that they would span all of our hearts
to receive more of what you have for us,
that we would not be weary,
that we would not be led astray
by the siren call of culture in this world,
and the enemy's snares and traps
to try to lead us off course,
derail us and keep us from the things
that you have promised us that you would give us
if we would continue the course.
You said, if we don't give up, we will win.
Now we're asking you to give us the grace,
to give us the understanding individually
of what we can do to make sure that
We don't give up in your power, in your grace,
in Jesus name, amen.
All right, love y'all.
See you tomorrow night for prophetic night, bye.