Welcome, everyone, to Supernatural Saturday.
I know we have a lot of new people joining our community and if you are new to this session,
this is where we lean into the prophetic reality of heaven.
God is always speaking, but we're not always listening.
And so this is the time that we set aside every week to lean into what is heaven saying
to us and through us together.
And so, Lord, we thank you for this time together.
We thank you, Lord, that you always want to communicate with us, that you're always
trying to get information to us that's going to benefit our lives and the lives of others
around us.
And so, Lord, we tune in today.
We ask that you would help us, give us the grace to have our minds and our hearts and
our spirits open to receive what you are saying, even if it's not what we expect, even if it's
not what we were doing already.
Lord, speak to us and through us in Jesus' name, amen.
So, I know all of you are probably aware that just a couple days ago, a couple things happened
a couple days ago.
A couple days ago, we hit the halfway mark of 2024, according to the Gregorian calendar.
So if you go by the American calendar, the regular calendar, we are halfway through the
year 2024.
And really we are, no matter what, I mean, we're halfway through.
Now there's another simultaneous calendar that's going on right now, the Hebraic calendar,
and we will celebrate that new year in just a couple months in September.
So we're towards the end of that year, 5784, but we are midway through 2024.
Midway.
Guys, you have a half a year left.
And so the very first thing that I feel like heaven wants to release over us is the knowledge
that the story is not over yet.
Just grab a hold of that this morning.
The year's not over yet.
There's a whole half a year left.
And you know what I noticed?
I noticed that people on Facebook are always rushing ahead.
They're always talking about, hey, you know, winter's coming.
What?
I don't know about y'all, but it's 100 degrees outside at my house right now, and it's going
to be this way for the next three months.
I don't see winter on the horizon.
Now, if I sat around and thought about it, I know I can do the deductions, the math maths
that someday winter's going to come.
Yes, it is, but it's not here now.
And we have to learn how to enjoy to be in the present moment.
And right now we are halfway through the year.
The year still has a whole six months to go, and there's so much that can happen.
I have learned myself in my life that there are so many things that can happen in such
a short amount of time because of something called a tipping point, because of something
called a suddenly.
There are those times when it seems like there's nothing there, seems like there's nothing
different, there's nothing new on the horizon, and then all of a sudden there's an open door.
And I will tell you, in case you have not been in our community long enough to remember
our Supernatural Saturdays around the new year of the Hebraic year, 5784, but we are
in the year of the door.
And those doors, friends, they show up out of nowhere.
And so at the beginning of this call, I just want to encourage you that it doesn't matter
if you don't like where you are now.
Everything's changing.com.
It always is.
That's kind of like a little saying I always say, everything's changing.com, because it
always is changing.
It is.
And even if you cannot see the manifestation of those changes with your naked eye, it does
not mean that it's not happening.
I want you to sit with that for a second.
God is always moving.
You guys, the kingdom of heaven is not a stationary kingdom.
It's always moving.
It's always advancing.
Get a hold of that right now in your heart.
I want you to close your eyes and I want you to meditate on that.
I want you to speak that over yourself that God is always on the move.
God is always on the move.
And I know it doesn't feel like that in our own lives, because a lot of times we'll wake
up to the same old, same old, same old.
And I want to propose something to you this morning, and I don't want it to offend you
in the wrong way, but I want it to offend you in the right way.
Because when it offends us in the right way, it can cause us to change.
Now, if it offends us in the wrong way, then we just kind of take our ball and go home,
right?
I don't want to play with you anymore, Jackie.
I'm going to take my ball and go home.
So I don't want you to hear what I'm about to say this morning through the ears of condemnation
or legalism or religion.
I just want you to hear it through the words of a loving Father in heaven, an Abba, that
wants to invite you into the more.
The more.
There's always the more.
You know, we hear all these scriptures about the kingdom of heaven and we hear about how
it's, you know, peace, joy, and righteousness and the Holy Spirit.
We hear about how God wants us to prosper, even as our souls prosper and so many other
things that I know a lot of people are like, it's not a prosperity gospel, but it really
is friends.
It really is a prosperity gospel.
Now is it a.
You take your liberty and use it to oppress others gospel?
No.
So if only if you only want to abound and be abundant so that you can leave a bigger
footprint on the earth, meaning like a carbon footprint, like buy more stuff, you know,
hoard it up, have barns full of stuff for yourself.
Then yeah, you know that that's the wrong kind of prosperity, but the kind of kingdom
prosperity is blessed to be a blessing.
You're blessed to be a blessing.
And so the gospel, the kingdom gospel is absolutely a prosperity gospel.
And God is always, the Bible says, looking for someone to get his resources into the
earth through.
He's always looking for someone to get his resources into the earth through because he
has decided friends to work through humanity.
Could he do a sovereign act?
Yes.
Does he sometimes do a sovereign act?
Yes.
But the majority of the time, what God does is he works through his family on the earth
to get someone anything they need.
Remember God is the source, but I like to say he's the head of the human resource department.
If you go into the human resource department in heaven, you will see God, his little name
tag there.
Okay.
His little, little desk tag.
He's the head.
He is the human resource director.
And then all kinds of angels doing his multitasking for him, right?
All kinds of angels, just making his will known on the earth.
And someday we'll do a Supernatural Saturday about angelic undergirding because it's very
real.
And it's how a lot of those doors that we're talking about right now get opened.
But I really want to stay focused.
I want to stay focused because we just celebrated, America just celebrated freedom.
We just celebrated freedom from tyranny and oppression, freedom from taxation without
representation.
We just celebrated all kinds of things that our forefathers left their homeland to go
find another nation that they could have freedom to live life as they chose to pursue life,
liberty, happiness, all of those things in the form of their governments, their religion,
all the things, right?
The problem is, is that oftentimes when we forget what we've been freed from, we end
up oppressing others.
And that's what's happened here.
And that's what happens every time, everywhere.
And why is that?
Humanity, the curse, right?
All of us, even though we have been redeemed in our spirits and we are heaven bound, all
of us have things in our flesh that will keep us oppressed and help us to oppress
others.
You're like, well, Jackie, I don't oppress anyone.
Well, of course you do.
We all do.
We all use our liberty to oppress others in a lot of ways.
We'll speak things over other people and we'll participate in activities that are bringing
oppression.
Like, here's a little small example.
A small example is, you know, there's all this gossip out there.
And now that we have all this social media, it's always in front of our face.
It's gossip about all kinds of people.
It can be gossip about your neighbors or your friends, people that you went to church with
at one point in time in your life or people you worked with.
And it can be, and oftentimes is, gossip about people that you've never met and you're never
going to meet.
misleaders and politicians and celebrities, and it's just coursing through the internet.
And a lot of times we read it and we make a judgment on it.
We come into agreement with it.
Oh yeah, I can see that.
Yeah.
Bennifer J. Lo and Ben Affleck.
Yeah.
Oof.
I knew that was a train wreck coming.
You know, that's none of my business.
That's not my business.
Right.
And oftentimes, instead of just praying, what we do is we come into agreement with whatever
it is that is being said.
sourced against those people. And that's oppression. Gossiping
about people slandering people, it's it's a form of oppression.
And so it's, I'm using that example to show you how easy it
is to get involved with something that is hurting other
people, keeping other people hostage. And I say all that to
get to where I want to get to because there are open doors.
There's information from heaven, God wants us to go forward, he
wants us to move forward. But there's all kinds of little tiny
things that entangle us and keep our minds shut down. It's about
our minds being free friends. And it's about us being able to
go forward in the freedom with which we've been set free. So
here's the idea that keeps coming into my heart, into my
spirit into my mind over the course of the last week or so,
who the sun sets free, is free. Who the sun sets free is free.
And I use the example of America and all that because we're
celebrating freedom, but we're really not that free. We might
have been free for a moment, you know, after the Revolutionary
War and after everything settled down, but then immediately the
ideas of humanity. Yeah, they're in a different form than they
were in the original oppression, but they come back to oppress
again. Are you with me? Are you with me? We may we may be more
free. Okay, then. I don't know. We may be more free than
somebody else. And this is where this is where we this is where
we settle for less friends, is that a lot of times we will
compare our freedom to someone who is, in our opinion, visibly
more oppressed. Do you get what I'm saying? Well, compare our
freedom to someone who is visibly more oppressed than us.
Well, I'm glad I'm not that guy. I'm glad I'm not her. You know,
I used to be in a really scary marriage, but I'm free now. But
are you free? Are you free from the effects of that thing? And
you can't answer that question right now because you guys we
make 35,000 decisions every single day based on unconscious
things. 35,000 that's just the average person. So we have to
get free free, right? And that is going to be a process because
Jesus himself says in his word, if you continue in my words, you
will know the truth, and it will make you free. That's a
process, isn't it? Now before you thought this was going to be
a real buzzkill downer today, I want to share the main thing.
Matthew 2028 says that the Son of Man came not to be served,
but to serve and to lay down his life or give his life as a
ransom for many. I want us to focus on that. Because I believe
there's a lot of open doors in the second half of 2024. In the
second half of 5784, the year of the door, I believe there's a
lot of opportunities waiting for each and every one of you.
They're waiting for each and every one of you. But I need you
to see clearly because remember, the greatest weapon of the
oppressor is the mind of the oppressed. We have to have a mind
shift. And not just one, but many, we have to have mindset
shifts, and we have to have them every day. And you guys, if you
haven't noticed, Supernatural Saturday has been building up
line upon line, precept upon precept, we've been building,
we've been going somewhere. Last week, we talked about if you
don't give up, you win. And before that, we talked about
team spirit and team flesh. And you see that we're going
somewhere. And you can't just, it can't just be for a moment on
Saturday mornings when you hear the word, but to be doers of the
word, we have to get momentum. Basically, all these puzzle
pieces have to be put together. And I believe that God's going
to give us the grace to be able to do that in each of our own
separate lives. And then of course, as a community, God wants
us to be free. Saturday morning is a is a stoke to the fire.
God blowing on the kingdom embers in our hearts. You guys
going to church is just not enough. It isn't. And depending
on what you're being taught there, you could actually be
sabotage.
to be sabotaged.
And I don't say that because I'm not a friend
or an ally of local church.
I am a friend.
I am an ally to local church, good local church.
And when I say good local church,
where they are teaching the Bible
through the lens of Christ,
through the lens of the finished work of the cross,
not when people are being oppressed.
Remember, don't let your liberty be used to oppress others.
And we see this all through the Bible, right?
Don't we see it?
We see it even in the disciples.
And if you think that it can't happen, it can happen.
You know, they're running around.
Jesus has ascended into heaven
and they're running around with their version
of what he left behind.
And there's old tendencies that start creeping in.
Right?
It starts creeping in where now it's not good enough
to just believe on Jesus.
Now you have to be circumcised again
and you have to do this and you have to do that.
Friends, I want you with the help of Holy Spirit
to examine and see if you really believe the scripture.
He gave his life as a ransom for many.
Do you guys know what the word ransom means?
The ransom means something of value
that's given in exchange for the release
of a prisoner or a hostage.
You guys, we were being held hostage.
We were prisoners to the curse.
As soon as you were born,
you didn't have to do anything.
As soon as you were born,
you came out of your mother's womb,
a prisoner, a hostage to the curse.
You were gonna get an opportunity to get freed from that.
You were gonna get an opportunity to have a savior.
Okay?
And each and every one of you took that opportunity.
That's why you're here.
But then oftentimes,
we exchange one bondage for another bondage.
And Paul talks about this in one of his letters.
He says, have you begun in grace
now to continue in your flesh?
What?
And what was he talking about
when he was talking about flesh?
He was talking about a different captor,
a different thing that holds people hostage,
and that's the law.
So you were born oppressed,
under an oppressor,
a prisoner, a hostage,
and then you were set free,
but a lot of people exchanged that freedom
for then another oppressor,
which is the law,
which is legalism,
religion.
Guys, the Bible says that true religion
is just taking care of the widows and the orphans.
If it's a list of things that you use
to keep yourself back,
to hold yourself back,
and to hold others back,
because you think this is the only right way to do it,
and if they're not doing it this way,
then you're gonna make sure that you tell them.
I mean, raise your hand
if someone has ever said to you
in a spiritual community or context,
a church context,
that you should not want the things that you want,
whatever it is that you're wanting,
a marriage, a baby,
that you should just be content where you are.
You should just go ahead and suck it up.
This is what God might want for you.
Because it doesn't mean that they're bad people,
once again,
just misinformed.
I remember when I was a very young believer,
and I don't even wanna use the word believer anymore,
a very young follower of Christ.
A lot of people believe in God
and they don't follow Jesus.
Coming up with our own language
that sounds cool and trendy,
I'm a believer.
Well, the devil believes,
but he's definitely not a Christian.
And the word Christian is really misinformed too,
because it can mean anything now.
But I was a very young follower of Christ.
I had just had my awakening,
my conversion experience,
and I was doing something that I did not enjoy,
and I do know that God was stretching me with it,
I do know that it was a very important part
of my discipleship.
But I had a spiritual mother type figure
who was much, much older than me.
She was at least,
she's old enough to be my mom.
And she came by one day
while I was working at the church,
working in the daycare,
doing things that I just did not enjoy doing.
And I complained to her.
I told her that I was unhappy,
and that I had other things that I wanted to do,
and other desires,
and other ambitions,
and ideas even of things that I could do
for God in his kingdom,
because I wanted to do it.
to serve the Lord.
The ideas that I had weren't like,
oh, I wanna run out and I'll make a bunch of money
and I'm gonna buy some stuff.
No, it was about ministry.
It was about serving the Lord.
It was about going out and specifically working
with down and out people.
And I did end up doing that.
I did end up going to school to be a social worker
and a psychologist.
I did end up working at homeless shelters on staff
and working with dual diagnosis men and women
that's mentally ill and chemically addicted.
I did end up doing all of that.
I ended up running the outreach department of that church,
driving a church van to the least of these
for over a decade of my life.
I did end up doing all that stuff,
but this was the first step in getting to those places.
And so friends, please do not despise small beginnings
towards what it is that you wanna do.
But you can't stay there.
You can't stay in those small beginnings.
And so this voice showed up in my life that day
and she said, you should just learn to be content here
because God has chosen this for you to do.
And I was like, well, not forever.
And she's like, baby, it might be forever.
You need to just go ahead and make peace with the idea
that this might be your life.
What? No, friends.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Okay?
Yes, we can have power to be content wherever we are.
You know that scripture everyone quotes of everyone loves?
I think it's Philippians 4.13.
He gives me strength.
I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.
That actually is about contentment.
That scripture, Paul wrote that scripture.
You guys realize that one of the most joyous books
of the Bible was written from prison?
It was written as a real prisoner.
Not like you guys, the gate's open, y'all.
We can go.
We're not held hostage here.
Jesus freed us, but he was straight up a real prisoner.
Okay?
He was imprisoned for the ministry that he was in doing
when he wrote that book.
And so, and that's where that comes from,
that scripture that says,
and I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength.
I can suffer.
I can be content in being imprisoned.
I can, you know, it's about contentment.
So yes, friends, we can be content doing things
that we don't love and we can do them cheerfully
because God loves a cheerful giver.
And oftentimes the thing that you don't love
is leading to something that you do love.
Write that down.
The thing that you don't love is actually leading
to something that you do love if you keep moving forward.
If you just sit down and feel sorry for yourself
in whatever it is that you don't want,
then you can't have what God is inviting you into.
Not because God's not gonna let you have it,
but because you're not gonna allow yourself to have it.
Right?
We're always, you guys, we're never staying in.
We're always going through.
We're going through.
We're passing through.
Remember, the kingdom of God is moving.
And so if you've been stuck and stagnant
in something that you just really don't like for years,
then you're the one that missed the turnoff.
You're the one.
And you can pray today and just say,
God, take my feet off this pathway of pain
and lead me back to you.
Lead me back to your purpose for my life.
We all get detoured and sidetracked, friends.
We all get delayed.
It's part of our fragile form that we're living in.
God knows our fragile form.
He knows it.
So Jesus claimed to be a ransom for many.
So I'm gonna say something to you right now.
Remember, this is the good kind of offense.
This is the kind of offense that shows you
the hard parts of your heart
that are keeping you from fully being abundant.
Ready?
Nobody is coming to rescue you.
And I know that the modern church, quote unquote,
because you guys, we are the church.
The word church in the ancient text is ecclesia.
And it is a military word.
It is a military unit of people, right?
It's a, them are fighting words, okay?
The word church.
And that's when Jesus said, upon this rock,
I will build my church and the gates of hell
will not prevail against it.
Okay?
That's the church that Christ is coming back for.
And it is a group of people.
It is not a building.
Okay?
So I know that in the buildings called church,
the buildings, we hear a lot about,
he's coming, he's coming, he's coming, he's coming,
he's coming, he's coming, he's coming.
He's gonna do it, he's gonna do it, he's gonna do it.
Yeah.
But he did it.
He did it.
He's not going to do it.
He did it.
So when you hear that, God's gonna, God's gonna, God's gonna, God's gonna, God's gonna, God did.
He did. And you have to live in the finished work of the cross. God did. And so when I say
nobody's coming to rescue you, what I'm really saying is no one's coming to rescue you because
He already came.
Friends, I know that that is a very small kind of change in words, but it means so much,
and it's really important that you understand that it's not semantics.
If we get a hold of what I'm saying right now, it'll change your entire life.
Because waiting to be rescued by Jesus means that you are sitting in a waiting room.
It means that you are helpless and hopeless waiting for Him to ride in on His white horse
and save the day. And there will be a time that Jesus returns to earth on a white horse,
I believe, in Christ setting up His kingdom on earth fully. But in the meantime, friends,
we are the people that are bringing the kingdom of heaven to earth. He's gonna bring it fully
to earth, and He's gonna rule and reign. That is gonna happen. But in the meantime,
we are giving people that foretaste with the help of Holy Spirit of what heaven looks like.
We are here not to get into heaven someday, but to get heaven into us in the earth. That is what
we are here to do. And if you are waiting for something that already happened, and think about
it, there are whole people groups waiting for something that already happened. The Jews are
waiting for Messiah. Messiah has already been here. He's already been here. And if we call
ourselves Christians, which are Christ followers, then we are the ones that know better than anybody
that He's been here. He's already been here. Can we even really call ourselves Christ followers
if we're still living in the law? Can we call ourselves Christ followers if we're still living
in bondage, waiting to be ransomed, still being held hostage by a set of rules, by a set of
ideologies that God only gave to the earth to show us our need for a Savior? Guys, the law was a
schoolmaster to teach you when you were young that you are in need of a Savior, to teach you
when you were in your incomplete phase, to teach you of a completion phase.
And now, as we continue in the life-giving words of Christ, as we continue in the bondage-breaking
acts of Christ, the finished work of the cross, we become more and more free. And our freedom
should create freedom for others. That's how you can always tell if you're being spirit-led
or flesh-led, but still being a Christian. Does your freedom oppress other people, or does it
set other people free? Do the things that you preach and tell other people, does it cause their
countenance to fall or light up with joy? Are you always telling people a list of rules and things
that they have to do to please God, or are you letting them know that they have an Abba in heaven
that's crazy about them? Because the Bible says it's the goodness of God that leads people to
turn away from themselves and towards Him. Not the condemnation of God, not the punishment of God.
Friends, we have to live fully ransomed. We have to live fully ransomed. We're celebrating freedom
in America, and we all know that America ain't that free. Now, we're free from some things that
we used to be entangled with, but we got all kinds of other bondage going on here.
And that's often what happens. We'll leave something that imprisoned us just to choose a new
We'll leave something that imprisoned us just to choose a new prison. We don't want that.
Raise your hand if you're like, I don't want that. I want to be free. I want to live free.
I want to live free. Guys, there's a song that's popular in churches right now, and
part of it just says, I don't remember what I was doing before I met you.
You know, singing to Jesus. But you guys, I fully remember what I was doing before I met Jesus.
I fully remember the bondage that I was in before I met Jesus. I remember the drugs. I remember the
alcohol. I remember the shenanigans and the debauchery. I remember the fear and the anxiety.
and the mental illness. I remember the sleepless nights. I remember the
homelessness. I remember the pain. I remember all of it. I remember. And so
that's a nice song, but it doesn't apply to me because I remember the bondage
that I was in. But let me go further and forward with you. I remember those first
days of meeting Jesus. And you guys, I know that there were a lot of people
that were probably bricks in that wall, people that said something to me when I
was a child. I remember my grandmother telling me something about Jesus. But
once again, you know, she was in that legalistic kind of vein of following,
following Jesus. So it's always about, he's coming for you, he gonna get you,
you're gonna get in trouble, you know, kind of idea. So I really wasn't. I was
like, okay, that's good. I'm gonna stay over here. But there were little things,
little line items in the story. Okay, little sentences in the story. But when I
did fully meet him, I met him in my car, driving by myself. I asked God who he was
and he answered with fire.
It was a radical conversion. Just thinking about it makes me emotional. It
was a radical conversion. And you guys, I was then a week later in my living
room, baptized in the Spirit. Once again, by myself with just one other person. My
former husband was there. Baptized in the Spirit. Singing in languages that I had
never learned and fully understanding myself in English in my mind. Crazy
things. And then, if that wasn't enough, after that night, I woke up and not only
was I transformed, not only was I full of joy, not only was I in peace for the very
first time in my life, I came out of my mother's womb running for my life. Not
only was I finally in a place of rest and peace and felt fully taken care of
and loved in a supernatural way that I could not understand, because remember, I
have not been discipled yet. All I know is that whoever I was before no longer
lives here anymore. Waking up the next day and receiving information from
heaven about other people and where they are and how to go find them. Go to the
airport. This is back before 9-11, so you could go to the airport, y'all. You could
just go in the airport. I don't know. You guys remember this, right? You could just
go in the airport. You didn't have to have a ticket. You could just go. You go
through TSA and you could go sit down and wait at a gate for someone to come
in, whatever. Go to the airport, Jackie. Go to this terminal. Go to this place. Go
to this bench. Sit here and wait. There's gonna be a girl that comes by and this
is what she looks like. She has on a red puffy coat and this is what she looks
like and this is the message that I want you to give to her and sure enough, y'all
went to the airport, sat down, did the thing and there she came and I gave her
the message and then that kept happening and it kept happening and it was so
amazing, exciting to see people receive these prophetic words, these words of
knowledge. You guys know, I didn't know what they were because no one had told
me yet. I was free and I was using my liberty to create liberty for others.
It was crazy but then the religious people got their hands on me. They got
their hands on me through my former husband. I was like, come to church now.
Come to church. Be discipled. Do this and you guys, once again, I'm not against
local church. I'm an ally of spiritual community but that stopped my growth and
introduced all kinds of ideas to me that I did not have which are God's mad at
you and now you need to do this list of things to make him happy and you guys,
that and of course discipleship is super important but we have to be discipled in
the spirit.
Jesus is the word. We have to be discipled and we have to disciple others
and I know that we've all, all of us have had these layers put on us but you guys
it's taken a long time to peel those layers off and I didn't even get a
chance. That would be the next 10 years of my life. I'd be being programmed
the wrong direction and guess what I started suffering from again? Fear and
mental health issues. All the things that I've been set free from and delivered
from came back upon me but now in a religious context, now I felt like God
was doing it to me because he wasn't happy with me.
And I would remain that way.
I almost lost my life several times as a follower of Christ
because of my mental health,
after being discipled by religion and by legalism.
And the worst kind, y'all, like the kind of people
that have just added so much stuff.
And remember, it's not about the people.
They were literally just teaching me what they knew.
They were just teaching me what they knew.
They weren't bad people at all.
They were good people for the most part,
except the pastor ended up going to prison.
You guys know that story, okay?
But besides that, like, Jackie, that's a big thing.
Besides that, they were well-meaning people
that had just been generationally following
what they had been taught, that women shouldn't speak.
How do you think I did there?
Baby, come on.
How do you think I did in a spiritual community
that believed that women were to be seen and not heard,
unless it was in the nursery or something with the babies,
and women were to wear dresses only
and not cut their hair
because of some very misinterpreted scriptures?
Yeah, you guys, it was hard.
But I learned a lot of things.
One thing that I learned to do is I learned to really pray.
I learned to intercede.
And that's what I did pretty much for that 10 years,
besides all that social work stuff
that I just told you about.
You guys, I've had to repent, though.
I've had to come to God and say,
you know, I know that during that timeframe
when I was being told and taught,
what I was being told and taught,
that I taught and told a lot of other people that as well,
at a homeless shelter here or there or whatever.
The freedom with which I had been made free
was now entangled,
and it was mixed with all this other stuff.
And friends, I'm not trying to tell you or myself
that that's not gonna be the case.
We're always gonna have some entanglement of flesh
and the power of the flesh, which is the law.
You know that the law is only powered by the flesh, right?
Because it's all about you, and it's not about Jesus.
It's all about you.
It's all about what you can do.
It's not about what Jesus can do through you
or what Jesus already did.
It's about you.
And so there is gonna be, there is a mixture,
and we have to continue to ask God
to help us to make free, help make us free,
and show us the areas where we're still believing a lie,
where we still have mindsets
that are keeping us from living in abundance.
And that's what this life looks like.
It looks like walking it out, enjoy,
and also, friends, enjoying where you are now.
We cannot be in constant hard work.
We can't be constantly looking
for where we're not believing the truth
or not surrendering to Jesus.
We have to enjoy this life.
But friends, when that pastor fell and he went to prison,
it was like, I was like a bird with a French fry.
When I tell you that the door was open
and I ran out as fast as I could,
and immediately, I want you to see something,
immediately on the other side of stepping out of that,
I began to get better.
My mental health began to come into alignment.
All the issues and problems that I had in my body
and in my mind began to fade away
until one day I literally woke up
and I realized that I no longer had any of them anymore,
and I hadn't had them for a long time.
Isn't that crazy?
It's crazy, and it's good, because here's the thing,
and I remember so many times during that
when I would cry out to God.
In fact, one time, and I really feel like
Holy Spirit wanted me to share this.
One time, I was just snotting up the carpet, you guys.
I was just, I was in a victim posture.
I was broken, and I was crying out to God to help me,
and I was just in a place of anxiety and fear,
and I was just freaking out, freaking out.
I don't know if any of you have ever been there,
but I was freaking out, and I was begging God to help me,
begging Him to help me.
I did not think that I was gonna make it,
and very calmly and very gently, but also very firmly,
I heard the Lord say to me, get up, Jackie.
This is not who you've been created to be,
and y'all, I didn't know what that meant yet,
but I felt, I felt the strength of my Abba in that moment,
and I knew that whatever I was operating in
was not my true self, and that's where the heart work
was born, if you ever wonder where it came from.
And so, that's where the heart work was born.
It was born on the true spirit discipleship that started after that.
And so, that's where the heart work was born.
I already told you that I was discipled by man and by religion,
but then a new discipleship started, and it was a discipleship of the heart.
It was a spiritual discipleship.
And because I didn't have a human person to lead me through it,
God let me be the pioneer of that specific protocol.
And I know there's a lot of great protocols out there of true discipleship,
but I'm just saying that is where it came from.
And I began once again, like I told you,
to get more and more and more free and more and more and more abundant.
I'm 28 years into walking with Jesus, and this is where I've gotten to.
So friends, let freedom ring.
Nobody's coming to rescue you because Jesus already did it.
You know, he's the beginning and the end.
He's the Alpha and he's the Omega, right?
But you notice he's not the middle because you're the middle.
You're the middle.
He's the beginning.
He's the end.
He's the Alpha, the Omega, the beginning and the end.
You are the middle.
You have to walk out what Jesus ransomed for you.
We have to walk that out, and you guys, we're going to walk it out imperfectly.
We're going to walk it out imperfectly.
One thing that I wrote down here is that you have to stop
oppressing yourself with your words.
A lot of you have had a lot of criticism in your lives from a lot of different sources,
and now you've become your own biggest critic.
You've become your own biggest critic.
Those voices, and unfortunately, those voices are voices of people that also,
once again, were being oppressed by others.
They were being oppressed by others, and then that oppression was handed down to you
in the form of verbal aggression and probably even abuse.
And so now you verbally abuse yourselves.
I can say that because I'm one of those people.
I know that I encourage you all, and I love you all,
and I'm very careful to try to be as life-giving as I can to others,
but I'm not like that with myself all the time.
I was severely verbally abused all of my life.
From the time that I could understand language,
someone was telling me that I was out of order, I wasn't right,
or I should have never been born, or I'm the worst thing that ever happened to them,
or the best thing that could ever happen to me is that I could lose my voice
and never be able to speak again, and on and on and on and on and on.
You guys, we have to break that.
Nobody's going to break it but you.
Jesus already gave you the power to break it.
He died on the cross, not just for you, but as you.
He died as you.
You've been ransomed.
You're not a hostage anymore to any of the brokenness that comes from sin,
to any of the brokenness that comes from religion.
You are not a hostage.
You can be free.
For the second half of 2024, it can look totally different than the first half
because the first half, you might have been waiting for Jesus to rescue you.
I want you to raise your hand and be honest
if you've been waiting for God to do something for you,
and that's why you're praying.
You're just waiting for God to do something for you.
Some area of your life is really stuck, it's torn from the floor up,
and you're just waiting for God to fix it.
Just hoping one day you're going to wake up and it's going to be your turn.
It's going to be your turn for God to fix it.
And you're going to be the person that's making the post and praising God because God did it.
Y'all, he already did it.
Now you have to take imperfect action towards that with faith.
It's not an accident that the Bible says we walk by faith and not by sight.
And not by sight.
It doesn't say we sit in the waiting room by faith.
It doesn't say we sit at all.
It doesn't say we sleep by faith.
It doesn't.
It's an action.
It's an action verse.
We walk by faith.
And friends, if you are walking by faith, hey, you know what?
God told me I can have this and I can have it.
I don't know where it is.
I don't know how to get it, but I'm going to start moving towards whatever direction
I think that I can go right now.
It doesn't say we run by face because we walk by face.
I'm going to walk.
I'm going to head out.
I'm going to head towards it.
I'm going to make like a baby and head out.
I'm going to head out.
Here I go.
And guess what?
Proverbs 3, 5 says to us, trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not to your own
understanding, but in all your ways, you are walking, you're making a way in all your
ways and you're doing acknowledge him and he will direct your path.
And that is indicative of steps.
What does that look like?
Friends?
It looks like, Hey, you know what, God, you said that I can have this.
Do I deserve it?
No, I really don't.
But you said I can have it.
So I'm going to head towards it.
A lot of you, thank you, Holy Spirit.
A lot of you are not heading towards it because you don't think you deserve it.
And you're waiting for God to give it to you out of pity.
Just wipe that slime off of yourself right now.
I don't know where that thought came from, but someone slimed you with that because that's
not true.
If this was about us earning it, we're all doomed.
If this was about deserving it, then what is the purpose of the death of Christ?
What's the purpose of the death of Christ?
If you have to be good enough to have it, it's not about you, it's about Jesus.
And every single time you make it about you, I want you to remember if you've got a tattoo
it on your arm.
It's not about me, it's about Jesus.
And if you think that's going to give you a license to just act any old way you want
to and still expect to be blessed by God, it isn't.
Because it's the law that actually makes people cut up and act wrong.
It actually empowers your flesh because it makes it all about you and what you do or
don't do, black and white, wrong and right.
But when you make it about Jesus, there's a love that comes over you like you haven't
experienced before.
Remember, I experienced it before the law got a hold of me.
I know what it feels like.
I know what it feels like to not know anything different but Him.
That's why Paul says, I purpose to know nothing but Christ.
He knew a lot of stuff, y'all.
He was a Pharisee of the Pharisees.
He's like, I don't want to know nothing but Christ.
I don't want to know nothing but Christ.
I don't want to know about the 620 precepts that the Jews have to do to be righteous.
I don't want to know nothing but Christ.
And you see some of Paul's harshness and legalism leaking into some of his letters, but for
the most part, he stood strong in Jesus.
He said, oh, I don't do what I should do and the things that I should do, I don't do.
And oh, but Jesus, friends, we have to do this because our freedom creates freedom for
others.
You have the keys to unlock someone's cage.
You do.
You have the words to call someone out of their grave clothes.
They were dead in their flesh.
Wow.
Thank you, Holy Spirit.
Do you guys know that in your flesh, you can only be dead?
You can be dead in your flesh or alive in the spirit.
If you're in legalism, if you're in the law, if you're in religion, you are dead in your
flesh.
But if you're following after Jesus and you have purposed to live a finished work of the
cross life where he already did it, then you are alive in the spirit.
And remember, go back to the Supernatural Saturday from a few weeks ago.
You have to, it's a daily choice.
It's a daily choice.
You guys, I wish that I could say it's a one and done, but it's not a one and done.
There are all kinds of voices everywhere.
They're going to try to drag you back into good, but that's not God.
It sounds good.
It's going to sound good to your flesh because your flesh likes to be abused.
Your flesh wants it to be hard.
Otherwise it's not, it's not God.
I'm talking about your religious, the religious power that, that the, the empowered, the flesh
in religion, the power that religion has over the flesh.
When Jesus said, come to me, all you that are weary and heavy laden, and I will give
you rest.
Guys, he was talking about from the curse and the law.
Take my yoke upon you, because my yoke is easy and my burden is light.
Back in the Bible times, rabbis, which Jesus was known as one, which is why the religious
leaders were after him, he wasn't just some citizen.
He was a teacher.
He was a teacher of the scrolls and the Torah.
He was a teacher of the prophets.
He was a teacher.
And so he was a rabbi.
And that's why he was a heretic to them.
That's why he was blasphemous.
That's why, because he was a rabbi.
But back in those times, every set of teachings that a rabbi was known for, every rabbi was
known for like kind of a different soapbox, right?
A different set of teachings.
And it was called their yoke.
If you didn't know that, that's why that scripture says that.
A lot of people are like, man, Jesus wants us to get into a yoke with him or, you know,
what are we going to do?
Are we going to plow the field?
Okay.
Yeah.
Of course, harvest is part of the new birth experience.
That's typology.
That's language that's used in the New Testament.
But that's not what Jesus is talking about.
He's saying my set of teachings are things you've never heard before.
These other teachings, they have you weary and heavy laden with what?
With trying to perform, with trying to please God through your precepts, through your works,
through your flesh.
Come to me and I will give you rest.
Take my yoke upon you.
Listen to my teachings because my teachings are empowered through the spirit, right?
They're easy and the burden is light.
That's going to be an epiphany for someone listening to this right now, live or in replay.
Friends, 35,000 decisions are made every day and they're going to be made from not
who God is, but who you believe he is.
Not from who God really is, but from who you believe he is.
Because whoever he is to you, he will be through you.
If he is a taskmaster, if he is a hard hair splitting, rule keeping God, then that is
what you will be like to yourself and others.
And when you do not measure up and friends, you will not measure up.
That's why we needed a savior.
When you do not measure up and you will not, you're going to be really hard on yourself
and you're going to criticize yourself and that's going to flow out of you into others.
If you always have to be perfect, you're going to make sure that everyone around you is trying
to be perfect too.
It's time for us to step into grace.
It's time for us to live a life of mercy.
It's time for us to live in the finished work of the cross.
It's time for us to live a rescued life.
We've been released.
The prison door is open.
Get up and walk out.
Get up and walk out and be empowered by the spirit.
God, I can't do this, but you can do this through me.
I can't do this, but you did this for me and as me and I want to live in that finished work.
God, I don't want to live in the bed that I have made anymore.
I want to live, I want to sleep in the bed that Jesus made.
I don't want to sleep in the bed that I made.
I want to sleep in the bed that Jesus made at the finished work of the cross.
What does that mean, friends?
It means that if you are continuing to walk in the consequences of things that you've
been repented of and been forgiven of, then you have chosen to punish yourself because
God is not punishing you.
And I'm going to say that again.
If you continue to live in the consequences, physically, mentally, emotionally, financially,
relationally, of things that you've repented of and been forgiven of or you've forgiven
other people of because they're the ones that did it, then you are still living in those
consequences because you have chosen to be in a place of punishment instead of being
in a place of freedom.
That means the bankruptcy.
That means the divorce that caused the bankruptcy, that caused this and that, the financial things,
the $25,000 that you gave to the scammer on the dating site, whatever it was, the bad
marriages or relationships that you were in, which caused you to not be able to parent
effectively and now your children, they don't talk to you.
If you're living in those consequences, and we can't force anyone else, but I promise
you, if you will begin to see yourself on the other side of the cross, if you begin
to see yourself free from your mistakes and from your wrongdoings, from your frailties,
from the things that you didn't know to do better, so you didn't do better, and you see
yourself fully redeemed.
by the blood of Jesus, you've repented, you've forgiven,
and you've been forgiven, those things will start to shift.
And you can speak to those things,
and you can say, hey, you know what?
I've been forgiven.
If someone that was vindicated in a court case,
they were being tried for some heinous crimes,
and they were acquitted,
regardless of whether they were guilty or not.
God calls you not guilty because Jesus paid for your guilt.
It's important that you get ahold of this.
If someone in a court trial was acquitted,
how weird would it be for them to still go with the bailiff
and make a decision to go sit in the prison cell
for the rest of their life?
Why?
Why would they do that?
They wouldn't do that.
But that's what we do.
That's what we do.
By one man's disobedience, Adam, sin came into the earth,
the curse came upon us,
but by one man's obedience, we've all been set free.
We've all been made righteous.
That, what does that mean?
That means right standing with God.
You guys know that last year's single
is all about being restored in our relationship
with God, ourselves, and others, including our spirit mates.
Stepping into divine design, to original design,
as sons and daughters of God, through Christ Jesus.
As sons and daughters of God, through Christ Jesus,
through the ministry of reconciliation.
This came into the world through the curse,
but re-came into the world through Jesus.
And you guys, it's not a situation where we can just like,
oh yeah, I love that, that sounds so good.
Yeah, uh-huh, I believe that, I'm gonna do that.
No.
Every day, you have to choose this.
You have to, the Bible says, take your thoughts captive
and make them align to what?
To Christ.
It says every high and lofty thing, what is that?
That's human reasoning, that's your ideas
and ideologies of man, that includes religion.
Anything that tries to set itself up
against the knowledge of Christ, we have to pull it down.
These are the high places, these are the strongholds.
We have to pull it down, through what?
Through our own power?
No.
Through his power, through the power of the Holy Spirit.
Friends, I don't want you to live in condemnation anymore.
I want you to be free.
Who the son sets free is free.
You are free.
All the things that you don't like about your life
are empowered by the curse and they are empowered
by religion, but Jesus has given you power
to overcome the world.
He has overcome it and he has created you
to be an overcomer of what?
Of all of that stuff that we just said.
And I believe that you'll start seeing these doors.
They're open, they're waiting for you to walk through them
and you'll start seeing them.
I woke up at 6.16 this morning, you guys,
and I end with this.
The ancient of days has ancient ways.
It was 6.16 on the clock when I woke up.
The ancient of days has ancient ways
and if you ask him to show you where the good path is
and then you take it, you will live your life in shalom.
Your peace will increase.
Shalom, shalom, my friends.
We are to live in peace.
We are to turn our back on confusion and chaos
and we are to be free so that we can, everywhere we go,
create freedom for others.
Father God, we thank you for this word today.
We ask that you would help us to activate it
in our own hearts and lives.
Anywhere where we have been siding with or aligning with
or partnering with lies that are powered by the curse
or powered by religion about ourselves, about others,
I pray that you would reveal and heal those in us.
Help us to align with the finished work of the cross.
You have come to rescue us and set us free
and you have done that work and it is done.
So let us be people that walk truly free
from everything that has beset us,
everything that hinders us and let us be abundant
so that we have something to bless
and be a blessing with others with every day of our lives.
In Jesus' name, amen.
All right, I love you guys, see you soon.
Bye, everyone.