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Good morning, everybody. Welcome to Supernatural Saturday.

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I'm going to be a little bit

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something this morning because I didn't get much sleep last

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night.

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It's kind of been a rough week.

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Anyone else?

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Let me see some hands.

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Has it been a rough week

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for anybody on here?

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Have anything happened this week?

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Get a little bullied by anybody this week?

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Maybe something didn't turn out the way you expected it.

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Maybe you didn't feel good.

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Maybe you didn't sleep well.

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Let me see the hands.

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Yeah, everyone's kind of rowing that boat.

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So Father, we just thank you that we're here.

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We made it to Saturday, Lord.

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We thank you that you love us and that you're always with us

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and for us.

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We come into agreement with those things regardless of how

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our feelings and our circumstances may dictate the

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opposite.

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We thank you Lord that we can come together and that we have

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community with each other.

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Supernatural community that continues to propel us forward

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into our greatest life,

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into our highest and most authentic self, Lord.

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We just thank you for all of these things this morning.

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Holy Spirit,

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we ask you to just be with us in weakness this morning.

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Speak to me, speak through me, Lord.

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I'm leaning into you and not any gifts that I may possess

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from you, Lord.

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I thank you God that you have a word for us because you said

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that when we gather together

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that you are with us in a special way, in a unique way.

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And so Lord, encounter us this morning here together in Jesus

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name.

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Amen.

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All right.

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So,

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two different words this morning.

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Okay.

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And you are going to be one or the other and you may, you may

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wish that you were the other.

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You may wish that you were the one that you're not.

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But then in different areas of your heart and in your life,

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you might be both.

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You're going to understand really soon here what I mean by

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this.

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And so I'm going to start by reading two different Facebook

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posts, one that I put out yesterday and one that I put

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out just now before this call.

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And then you're going to see the different camps that we have

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to choose from this morning.

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All right.

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So the two, the two camps are let go and hold on.

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All right.

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So let me read the first one.

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A few years ago, I was given a key as a gift.

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The key just simply said let go.

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That has been a very personal message for me because you see

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I'm a giver.

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I'm a keeper.

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I'm a lifer.

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I hold on too long.

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I give too much and I love too hard.

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I only have one gear and that's full-throttle all-in ride-or-die.

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But I have learned often the hard way that not everything

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deserves that type of devotion.

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And unfortunately, also not everyone.

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Sometimes things, relationships, jobs, assignments, communities

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are only meant to be temporary, to teach us, to awaken us, to

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break us, to heal us, to change us.

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And then it's time to move on, to move forward, to move ahead.

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There's no need for hard feelings, blame.

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Nothing has to be wrong with something to leave it behind.

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Often, it's just time for change.

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It has served its purpose and you served yours.

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So go ahead and give yourself permission to turn the page,

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adjust your sails and trust God.

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It's time to let go.

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All right, that's the first camp, friends.

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All right, let's go and look at the second camp.

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And a lot of you, if you're in any kind of hard circumstance,

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you want to be in that camp.

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You're like, oh, yeah, ha ha.

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L-I-G-A, baby, let it go.

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But you may be in this camp.

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Many people resonated with my post about letting go yesterday.

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I know it was a timely encouragement for a lot of people.

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But as I was running errands, I heard the Lord say,

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that's not for everyone.

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There are many people that don't need to let go yet.

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Instead, they need to hold on.

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So for all of you that would love to cut and run from that

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hard relationship, that hard assignment, community, season,

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don't do it.

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Just hold on.

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Something greater is happening in you than what is happening

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to you.

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God is working in your heart important things that your

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future self will need to be successful.

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These hard times don't define you, but they will refine you

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if you let them.

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Ask God for grace to ride it out, to choose love, and to

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finish this season well.

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It probably won't be easy, but you don't need easy.

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You just need worth it.

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Let's just lean in a little bit.

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I want you to think of those two words, let go and hold on.

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I want you to close your eyes, if you can, if you're somewhere

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that you can.

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And I want you to ask Holy Spirit, which camp you're in,

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and if you're a hybrid,

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there's one area where you need a necessary ending.

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You need to let go.

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But there's other places where, you know, you need to press in

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and hold on.

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I want you to go ahead.

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to spend a few moments with the Lord this morning.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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All right, we're going to move on forward here with these ideas.

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So once again, there's going to be different areas where you may have both because you

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need to prune a little bit.

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Everything you guys life is full of necessary endings.

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You can't have new beginnings without endings.

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But oftentimes people want to end something just because it's hard.

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They don't want to go through that gauntlet.

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And I get it.

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Trust me.

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I have a tendency to be the type of person who is in the first camp that needs to be

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told to let go, which is why I got that key as a present.

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It's one of those keys that you hang around your neck.

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It's called a giving key, and it just simply had the word let go on them.

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Some keys have the word hope or faith or joy or healing or whatever, and someone gives

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you the key as a present, it's a gift, and then you wear it because it's your word.

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And then when it's no longer your word, you're supposed to give that key to someone else.

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Someone else that needs that word over their life in that moment.

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So I really needed that word over my life because what I wrote in that post is true

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of me.

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I'm usually in the camp of over my dead body.

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You will have to pry it from my lifeless hands.

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I have always been a very tenacious person.

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I was born in a place where if I had not been a perseverer, an overcomer, I probably would

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not be here today to talk to you.

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But that's not all the way good, friends, because there's a lot of times you just have

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to let go.

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I remember I said that about my marriage, oh, you know, over my dead body will I be

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divorced?

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I almost got my wish there, almost died several times not letting go of something that needed

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to be released.

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It needed to be released.

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So go ahead and put in the comments which camp you think that you're more in right now.

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And it might have been not a happy message for you this morning because you were gearing

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up to let go and God's telling you to hold on.

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He's not done yet.

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He's not done.

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The king has one more move, right?

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It's not done.

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And then some of you, you haven't been letting go because you want it to change.

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You want it to be better.

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You want it to turn out.

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You want the ending.

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You don't mind if there's an ending.

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You just don't want this ending.

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So you're holding on, you're holding on for a better ending.

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You're holding out for a better outcome.

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A lot of you guys have hold-ons, interesting, I like it, well then you're really going to

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love what I release now.

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How many of you got a chance to hear the special prayer time the other day with the, I think

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that it was recorded, with God's reshuffling the deck?

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How many of you raised your hand if you heard that special prayer call the other morning?

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God's reshuffling the deck, he's dealing you a new hand.

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Okay, a lot of you, if you didn't, it's in your replays, just go listen to it.

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I talked about this famous painting of a chess game and an actual chess master saw this painting

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this artist had painted and the title of the painting was called Checkmate, but the famous

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chess player, as he was studying the painting, he realized that it actually wasn't true,

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that the king had one more move.

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The positioning of the pieces in the painting, him as a master of chess, realized that it

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wasn't truly chessmate, that the king had one more move that he could make.

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And so often we need to hear that because we personify God.

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What does that mean?

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That means we make God into a person.

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We make him into a fallible person.

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We make him into someone who can fail.

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We make God into someone instead of something.

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We make him into someone who can break his promises.

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Someone who can have good intentions, but doesn't have the resources to follow through.

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Oh my gosh, let's all laugh at that this morning.

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Can we laugh at that?

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What have we done?

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What have we done?

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Let's laugh at this together.

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Friends, we have to reframe God and remember that he is omnipotent, that he's omniscient,

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that he is everywhere, that we are in him right now.

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You are inside of God.

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You're in him and his spirit is in you, but you're in him.

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God doesn't just have a limited amount of love.

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He is love.

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I want you to say these things over yourself.

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God doesn't have, you know, he doesn't have love.

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He is love.

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It's not just part of his character and when I'm good and when I perform well and behave

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myself and he shows me that side of him.

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Come on, we're going after something deep right here.

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He is love.

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He is love.

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He doesn't just show you that side of himself when you deserve it or what you have earned

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This is how you personify God.

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You think he is like your earthly mother or father or some other authority figure in your

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life that made you beg for it.

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That only rewarded you when you came into alignment with what they thought you should

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be.

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And even for those of you that had really good parents that tried really hard, still

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you cannot take that visage of them and apply that to God.

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And I know that we think that love is always a big sloppy wet kiss or a big fuzzy warm

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hug and that's great.

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But love looks like something, it's a verb.

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It looks like something.

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So God not only loves us, but he doesn't want to leave us in any unworthiness that would

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cause us pain.

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And that's why the scripture says, take my feet off this path of pain, Lord, and lead

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me back to you.

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And sometimes love leads you back to him in a way that it snatches you by the back of

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your shirt before you fall off the cliff.

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And that doesn't feel good in that moment.

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When the Bible says that the children that God loves, he corrects.

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Some of you may take that word and you might transpose it into punishes.

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Because that was a type of correction that once again, you experienced in your life.

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But God doesn't punish us.

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Someone needs to get a hold of this truth right now.

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This can be life-changing for you if you grab a hold of it.

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In your let go or your hold on season because some of you might think that you're being punished

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God punished Jesus as you on the cross

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Jesus took the punishment for sin on the cross. He took it

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He took not a little bit of it. He didn't take some people's punishment

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He took everybody's punishment on the cross all the people that have lived and will ever live. He took their punishment

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He didn't just die for you. He died as you

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Please get a hold of that with me today. I have to keep reminding myself of that

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That is something you're gonna have to remind yourself of as well. He didn't just die for me. He died as me

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what does that mean that that means in this life right here as

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You are walking on this earth in the first heaven and you are experiencing an earthly experience

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whether it's one more week or

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Hundred more years. Okay, Methuselah, whatever

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God will never not today or ever during your earth life be punishing you

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Never will he be punishing you

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Grab it

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Oh Jackie, I really messed up and and now these this this is going on in my life, you know

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I just God it's God's unhappy with me. He's punishing me. Nope. Sure. Not

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It's not true you guys not Bible

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It's not biblical

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The only rock that we have in foundation to stand on is the rock of Jesus Christ

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Which is the Word of God made flesh and it's not true

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Now it feels like it you want to know why because you're dealing with shame and

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Shame separates us from God and it always tells us that God's mad at us and God doesn't like us anymore

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And you know and we're unworthy and what what do we do when we feel shame?

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We pull away from God and then there feels like there's an emptiness there

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Right, it feels like disapproval and a lot of you have had that experience with authority figures or people that you really really want it to

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Accept you and love you and appreciate you. But when they got upset at you they withdrew from you

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They gave me the silent treatment. They gave you the cold shoulder. They gave you dirty looks

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They verbally abused you and told you you know how worthless you were

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They may have even physically corrected you in a way that's not correction, but abuse or punishment

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With the whipping and the straps and the switches and the belts and the all the things

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Your true investment

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Your true and best self it's unworthy of you we call this sin, right we go our own way we do things our own way and

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And then it usually has bad consequences not because God's punishing us

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But because there's just natural consequences the doing things that are not smart or wise

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Right and so but when we do that then we expect the hammer to come down because that is what we're used to and so

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I want you to release that right now. I

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Remember for years I needed to let go of something and I would not let go because I was so afraid of punishment

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There were people talking in my ear religious voices telling me that God was going to punish me

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He was gonna punish me if I didn't do the things that they basically were telling me to do in the name of the Lord

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There was a certain job that I had for church that I went to when I was young in my 20s and you guys I

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hated this job and

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While at first it wasn't time to let go because God was working some very important things inside of me

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He really was and I wanted to let go because it was hard and I just did not enjoy it

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I really felt like I needed to hold on and I did

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But there came a point in time when there was a release and it was time to let go

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But because they were short-staffed and because it was a very you know

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Unfavorable job that other people didn't want high turnover rates. They guilted me and even manipulated me

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With God into staying

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Anybody else ever experienced that raise your hand if someone used well God would really want you to do this

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to manipulate you well, God really wouldn't want you to stop or quit or

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You know kind of thing people working your desire to please the Father against you through manipulation

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And I just want to let you know, for those of you that are raising your hand right now,

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God sees why you did what you did.

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He knows that you did those things and continue to do those things to please Him, because

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you were told and you believed at the time that what you were doing was pleasing Him

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and you had a desire, even though you didn't want to do these things anymore.

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You had a desire to please the Father, even though you would have rather gone on your

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way and let go of that.

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And He wants you to know that it's not about the outside, it's about the inside.

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It's about the heart.

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And you did those things, even though He wasn't requiring them of you.

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You did those things because you believed that they pleased Him.

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And guess what?

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That pleases Him.

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Even though you were being deceived and manipulated, you believed you were doing something to please

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the Father.

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And He wants you to know that He is pleased with your heart intention.

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Grab that right now.

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Feel the pleasure of your Father.

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And even though that turned into some hard things for you, possibly, some hard times

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and maybe some fallout, God wants to restore that.

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Because friends, you need to know this, and it's important that you remember this, that

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it isn't about what we do, it's about what we know to do.

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It isn't about what you do, it's about what you know to do.

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People can absolutely do the wrong thing because they think that they're doing the right thing

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and it can still turn into blessing.

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Do you believe that?

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It'll still turn into blessing, but you're like, how in the world did that turn out well?

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That was absolutely the wrong decision.

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Well, they thought it was the right one.

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They were working with the only information that they had.

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The only information that they had.

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You were working with the only information that you had.

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When we know to do better, hopefully we do better.

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I feel like the Holy Spirit wants to peel a few layers of remorse and guilt and, you

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know, how hindsight is 20-20, but a lot of times you look back and you really regret

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things.

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Instead of looking back and just being thankful that you made it through that time, thankful

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that you know better now than you knew then, we feel guilty.

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We feel shame.

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Oh, I wish I would have made a better decision.

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I wish I would have done something different.

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You couldn't.

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You couldn't have done anything different.

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You didn't know anything more.

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Let it go.

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Remember today?

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Hold on or let it go.

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That's something that all of you need to L-I-G it.

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Let it go.

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Let go of your past mistakes and your failures.

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You didn't know what you know now.

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Yeah, if you would have relived that, I literally said this to God yesterday.

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I said, I was thinking about something in the past specifically to do with my mother

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at the end of her life.

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And I said, Lord, I believe that I was a good daughter to my mother.

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I said, but I'm a different person now, four years later.

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And if I would have known what I know now, I could have been an even better daughter.

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Like I was still in this idea in my mind that I didn't do well.

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Do you know that love covers a multitude of mistakes and failures and weaknesses?

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What does that mean?

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That means that you're looking back because you're now a evolved version of yourself.

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You know a lot more than you did back then.

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And you look back and you say, wow, you know, I should have done this, or I should have

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done that.

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And that could have turned out so much better.

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But what you don't understand is that because you did what you did back then with the highest

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intention of good towards yourself and others, even with less information than you know now,

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because love covers, it still was God's best.

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It still turned out to the best, even though you don't know it.

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Because you have to understand, there's a lot of things you're not going to see until

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you get to heaven.

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Until you leave this earth experience and you're fully in your spirit experience, you

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are not going to know some things.

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And I know that you think that, oh, that could have turned out better, you know.

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You don't know because you don't know other people's hearts.

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You don't know how it affected them.

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You don't know what they felt inside.

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I have no way of knowing how my mother experienced those last moments of her life because I'm

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not her.

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I didn't live in her body.

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And I can't talk to her now.

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But God was showing me that what you think happened is not really what happened.

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So let's let go of remorse today.

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Let's let go of regret today.

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Can we let go of that?

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Let's let go of constantly bargaining in our mind and wishing that we would have done something

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different than what we did because now we have more information than we had.

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Let's let that go.

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Think about how much heart space that's been taking up.

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And you can't change it anyway, so why in the world would you hold on to it?

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Let go of regret.

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Let go.

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All right.

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And as we're holding on, as we're letting go of regret, let's hold on to peace.

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Let's grab a hold of peace.

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Let's hold it close.

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Shalom, shalom.

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Let's hold peace close to us.

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Peace that what passes understanding.

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It passes our human reasoning and intellect.

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So good, that peace.

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Not temporary peace, Jesus said, like the world gives.

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Temporary peace.

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What does that mean?

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That means a temporary stay of execution, a temporary like, oh, everything's going to

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be okay.

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A calm before the storm.

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Jesus is saying, I'm the prince of peace.

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Okay.

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What does that mean?

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That means in my kingdom, that's how we do life.

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We do life in peace.

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We do life in peace.

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Friends, we want to step out of the church age and into the kingdom age because the church

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age is full of guilt and it's full of regret and it's full of punishment and it's full

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of all the stuff that we've been talking about this morning.

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So if you want to let go of something this morning, let's go, let go of the church age.

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And I don't mean the ecclesia, I mean church incorporated church, big business church,

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big box church.

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Let's let go of church incorporated and let's hold on to the finished work of the cross.

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Let's hold on to the kingdom that Jesus came and he preached and he introduced and he demonstrated

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and now we get to live in that kingdom as that kingdom invades earth from heaven through us.

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As an ambassador of that kingdom, we get to demonstrate it.

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Jesus started it.

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John preached it.

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John told everyone what it looked like, right?

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And people chose that and they came and they were baptized into that.

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But then Jesus came and he demonstrated it further.

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He taught on it and he demonstrated it and now he has left all of us his followers.

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If you ever want to know what it really is like to be a true quote unquote Christian

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because that's what, and that's what all the enemies of the cross called the people that

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follow Jesus.

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Just so you know, those were derogatory terms.

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But if you want to be a true Christ follower, if you want to know what are one of the things

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that would mark you as a true Christ follower, it would be demonstrating the kingdom.

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Guys ever go into like Costco and they're having like a demonstration of the Vitamix

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blender and they're there.

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Or maybe a demonstration of all these really sharp knives that you don't need, but you

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really want because they're like cutting through things that you're never going to cut through.

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Or my favorite, the shammy wow.

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Anyone ever seen the demonstration of the shammy wow?

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I mean at the fair or at Costco, I mean you need the shammy wow.

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How have you been doing life without the shammy wow?

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Seriously, if you've never seen this thing, they could literally, an oil tanker could

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have a spill on the freeway and they would get out the shammy wows and that would be

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gone.

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It would be gone without a trace and the shammy wow would, would, would not even be damaged

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by it.

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It wouldn't even be dirty because that is how amazing and supernatural the shammy wow

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is.

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And you guys are like, you're like, what's a shammy wow?

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It's a little piece of like material made in China that somehow cleans up the worst

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messes.

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But you guys, I've seen demonstrations of all of these things in person at, you know,

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state fairs and at Costco.

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In fact, I bought a Vitamix because of the demonstration at Costco years ago.

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I couldn't afford that baby, so I didn't buy it from Costco.

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I left Costco and I went on Craigslist and I found someone selling their Vitamix and

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I bought it.

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And guess what?

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It's still right here in my kitchen 15 years later because that thing will not, will not

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quit and it's still just in great condition.

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Why am I saying these things?

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Because we can't just tell them, we got to show them.

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And so one of the things that we need to hold on to this morning is we need to hold on to

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the revelation that we are ambassadors of an unseen kingdom that can only be seen through

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us.

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It can only be seen through us.

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I bought that Vitamix because someone showed me what it could do.

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I would have bought the Shamee Wows, but my husband was like, we don't need that.

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Or me, it's the opposite.

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He said he wanted it, but I was like, we don't need that.

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So I didn't want to spend the money on the Shamee Wow.

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But I did recognize that it was amazing.

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Got the knives, bought the knives because they're amazing.

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And so friends, this isn't just about evangelism.

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It isn't just about being on the street and asking someone if they have pain in their

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body and, and I'm not making fun of that, but I feel like this is the only demonstration

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of the kingdom that people know about anymore.

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And if you're from the Bethel stream, you know what I'm talking about on the streets

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asking people if they have, they need healing and praying for people and praying for people's

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legs to grow out.

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Cause apparently all of us have one leg that's kind of shorter than the other.

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And I've actually seen this happen in person.

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I've seen people's legs grow out.

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They have someone sit down and put their legs out straight and sure enough, one of their

485
00:31:24.840 --> 00:31:31.240
legs, because you know, we all have bad posture and hip flexor dysfunction and sacroiliac and

486
00:31:31.240 --> 00:31:32.240
all the things.

487
00:31:32.240 --> 00:31:38.840
And you know, sciatica and one of their heels is just like an inch or half an inch shorter

488
00:31:38.840 --> 00:31:39.840
than the other.

489
00:31:39.840 --> 00:31:44.960
And then the person prays and then right in front of you, their legs become equal.

490
00:31:44.960 --> 00:31:47.840
And you're like, Whoa, wow, what did I just see?

491
00:31:47.840 --> 00:31:49.600
What has happened here?

492
00:31:49.600 --> 00:31:52.560
But you guys, it's more than that.

493
00:31:52.560 --> 00:31:54.200
Once again, not downplaying that.

494
00:31:54.560 --> 00:31:55.560
It's amazing.

495
00:31:55.560 --> 00:31:59.840
And if that grabs someone's heart for the Lord, just that simple thing.

496
00:31:59.840 --> 00:32:02.000
And they see that and that's a miracle for them.

497
00:32:02.000 --> 00:32:04.440
I remember the sign from heaven.

498
00:32:04.440 --> 00:32:10.520
That was a miracle for me that got me that the taste and see that I had of the kingdom

499
00:32:10.520 --> 00:32:16.720
of heaven was in my living room after I had radically encountered Jesus driving my car

500
00:32:16.720 --> 00:32:21.960
and I was crying out to God, you know, to, to help me and to heal me.

501
00:32:21.960 --> 00:32:26.880
Because I was very sick at the time, um, with an unknown ailment that the doctors couldn't

502
00:32:26.880 --> 00:32:27.880
figure out.

503
00:32:27.880 --> 00:32:34.400
And I was only 22 years old and he baptized me in the spirit.

504
00:32:34.400 --> 00:32:36.480
I'll never forget it.

505
00:32:36.480 --> 00:32:39.520
The craziest experience.

506
00:32:39.520 --> 00:32:44.660
I was talking, I was praying out loud the best that I knew how I didn't really know

507
00:32:44.660 --> 00:32:46.160
how to do anything.

508
00:32:46.160 --> 00:32:48.320
I hadn't been discipled yet.

509
00:32:48.320 --> 00:32:52.760
And the next time I opened my mouth, instead of English coming out, some other language

510
00:32:52.760 --> 00:32:55.320
came out that I don't know how to speak.

511
00:32:55.320 --> 00:33:00.200
And it was fluent and it was beautiful.

512
00:33:00.200 --> 00:33:03.840
And then I began to sing in this other language.

513
00:33:03.840 --> 00:33:10.480
And while I was singing in this other language, the English interpretation of it was playing

514
00:33:10.480 --> 00:33:11.800
in my mind.

515
00:33:11.800 --> 00:33:17.200
Like I heard myself singing in this language that I did not understand with my human mind

516
00:33:17.200 --> 00:33:19.200
because it's not a language that I spoke.

517
00:33:19.200 --> 00:33:24.360
But in my mind, I heard the English translation of what I was singing.

518
00:33:24.360 --> 00:33:28.440
And I believe that the Lord did that little miracle for me so that I wouldn't get scared.

519
00:33:28.440 --> 00:33:36.040
Because once again, I didn't have any schema for what was happening to me at that moment.

520
00:33:36.040 --> 00:33:41.840
Miracles, demonstrations of the kingdom.

521
00:33:42.840 --> 00:33:48.400
Now that's not a demonstration that I would, even though I possess that gift now, it's

522
00:33:48.400 --> 00:33:54.160
not a demonstration that I would do in front of other people because it would be just weird

523
00:33:54.160 --> 00:33:58.640
to them because they don't understand that language that I'm speaking.

524
00:33:58.640 --> 00:34:00.520
And they'd be like, what is this person doing?

525
00:34:00.520 --> 00:34:04.280
That's what happened in the book of Acts.

526
00:34:04.280 --> 00:34:08.360
All of them that had been holding on, right, they were in their hold on season.

527
00:34:08.360 --> 00:34:11.120
Jesus ascended into heaven after teaching them.

528
00:34:11.120 --> 00:34:12.280
He resurrected from the dead.

529
00:34:12.280 --> 00:34:14.360
He taught them for another 40 days.

530
00:34:14.360 --> 00:34:15.920
And then he said, I got to go now.

531
00:34:15.920 --> 00:34:17.719
I'm gonna leave y'all in charge.

532
00:34:17.719 --> 00:34:23.440
Go over here and wait until you receive power.

533
00:34:23.440 --> 00:34:25.440
Power beyond your humanness, right?

534
00:34:25.440 --> 00:34:26.960
Power from high.

535
00:34:26.960 --> 00:34:30.520
And so they went and they dwelt in the upper room during the feast days of Jerusalem.

536
00:34:30.520 --> 00:34:32.840
This was high holy days in Jerusalem.

537
00:34:32.840 --> 00:34:37.520
And all, if you ever watched The Chosen, all them rogue people were in the city.

538
00:34:37.520 --> 00:34:40.000
All those Sadducees and Pharisees and all the thieves.

539
00:34:40.040 --> 00:34:42.320
They were all there, y'all, okay?

540
00:34:42.320 --> 00:34:45.840
Because it was a time when everyone went into Jerusalem.

541
00:34:45.840 --> 00:34:47.280
And so guess what?

542
00:34:47.280 --> 00:34:53.360
If you are the followers, if you are the protégés of a rebel rabbi, guess where you don't want

543
00:34:53.360 --> 00:34:56.000
to be during the high holy days?

544
00:34:56.000 --> 00:34:58.040
There.

545
00:34:58.040 --> 00:34:59.920
There in Jerusalem in the epicenter.

546
00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:06.580
of religion. You don't want to be there. They just crucified 40 days ago, the guy you follow,

547
00:35:06.580 --> 00:35:10.620
and now you're going to go here and someone might recognize you. Peter got recognized

548
00:35:10.620 --> 00:35:19.460
three times during the weekend of the crucifixion, right? That happens. But what happened when

549
00:35:19.460 --> 00:35:24.900
that power that they were holding on for? So some of you, you're holding on, you're

550
00:35:24.900 --> 00:35:28.740
in a season of holding on. You don't know what to do. You have no idea. You have no

551
00:35:28.740 --> 00:35:33.340
clarity. You know it's not time to let go, but you also don't have any clarity to move

552
00:35:33.340 --> 00:35:38.820
forward. So you're just holding on. You tied a knot at the end of your rope and you're

553
00:35:38.820 --> 00:35:46.940
just swinging right now. You're just swinging. And so they went there and the day of Pentecost

554
00:35:46.940 --> 00:35:50.900
happened. And you guys, the day of Pentecost is actually a feast. It's the feast of the

555
00:35:50.900 --> 00:35:58.080
Jews. And now, you know, we've created a denomination out of it called Pentecostal. And these people

556
00:35:58.080 --> 00:36:01.200
like to speak in tongues, y'all, just so you know, because they took what happened

557
00:36:01.200 --> 00:36:06.360
on that day seriously. And they're like, this is it. We are going to build our entire theology

558
00:36:06.360 --> 00:36:13.880
on this one thing. And once again, tongues are amazing. They're beautiful, but they are

559
00:36:13.880 --> 00:36:21.280
not a gift for public consumption unless there's an interpretation. So what we see happen next

560
00:36:21.280 --> 00:36:25.840
is they all roll out of that upper room. Once that power hits them, they roll on out of

561
00:36:25.840 --> 00:36:33.080
there. They're just, baby, got the spirit. And so they appear drunk to everyone that's

562
00:36:33.080 --> 00:36:41.160
watching, especially all these religious folks. And all of these religious folks, you know,

563
00:36:41.160 --> 00:36:47.280
they're from different areas. And so they all speak different languages, but they heard

564
00:36:47.280 --> 00:36:53.880
these followers of Christ prophesying and praising God in all of their different languages.

565
00:36:53.880 --> 00:36:57.200
And y'all, racism was big back then. Like, they're looking at them like, wait a second,

566
00:36:57.200 --> 00:37:06.000
these are Galileans or Judeans. Like, wait, how are these people speaking our languages?

567
00:37:06.000 --> 00:37:10.720
We can tell by their clothes and by their skin color and by their hair and by the way

568
00:37:10.720 --> 00:37:19.760
they look, where they come from. And so how are they talking in our languages? And that

569
00:37:19.760 --> 00:37:31.720
was a miracle. And it's sad that a lot of people were added to the faith that day. So

570
00:37:31.720 --> 00:37:35.920
friends, the thing that you're holding on for, it could just be the miracle, not only

571
00:37:35.920 --> 00:37:40.920
that you're waiting for, but that someone else is waiting for. Your yes to not quitting,

572
00:37:40.920 --> 00:37:52.120
to not letting go. Because Psalm 126 tells us that we will reap if we faint not, right?

573
00:37:52.120 --> 00:37:59.560
And so what is it saying? It's saying here that when we're holding on, we might end up

574
00:37:59.560 --> 00:38:03.280
being the answer that someone else is praying for. And I believe that for you. And so if

575
00:38:03.280 --> 00:38:07.240
you believe that too, receive that this morning, that, you know, the payoff for this is not

576
00:38:07.240 --> 00:38:11.400
just for you, but it's for your children and your children's children. It's for the

577
00:38:11.400 --> 00:38:14.880
people that have been watching you in your struggle. There are people that have been

578
00:38:14.880 --> 00:38:22.000
watching you in your struggle, you know, and they may be even a little bit in on it. And

579
00:38:22.000 --> 00:38:25.840
some of them secretly might have been like, yeah, you know, you should just give up. You

580
00:38:25.840 --> 00:38:31.320
should just give up and move on. Cut your losses. No one to hold them. No one to fold

581
00:38:31.320 --> 00:38:35.320
them. No one to walk away and no one to run. Kenny Rogers taught us that, right? And they're

582
00:38:35.320 --> 00:38:43.960
probably like, it's time to go. I will tell you, I have a friend that, that got married

583
00:38:43.960 --> 00:38:49.320
a couple of weeks ago and I walked through her, through her situation, through her season.

584
00:38:49.320 --> 00:38:52.440
I'm sure that's not surprising to you guys, because that's kind of what I do. I fill up

585
00:38:52.440 --> 00:38:57.120
with the mystical magical matchmaking, Nanny McPhee, but we're good friends. And we used

586
00:38:57.120 --> 00:39:01.720
to go to church together and I knew her in her first marriage. In fact, her husband and

587
00:39:01.720 --> 00:39:06.040
my husband worked at a cable company together, selling cable door to door. This is all back

588
00:39:06.040 --> 00:39:12.280
in the day. And he was fine then, but then he had a descent into mental illness. He had

589
00:39:12.280 --> 00:39:16.880
a psychotic break. Some things happened and he was never the same. And the man that she

590
00:39:16.880 --> 00:39:20.600
was married to, he no longer left the house and he didn't get out of bed and he was in

591
00:39:20.600 --> 00:39:27.080
chronic pain and, and, and suicidal ideation and just all kinds of things for years, you

592
00:39:27.080 --> 00:39:35.600
guys, for over a decade. And I will tell her that I knew in my heart that while God

593
00:39:35.600 --> 00:39:40.760
is an amazing God of deliverance and healing and all of those things, the times that I

594
00:39:40.760 --> 00:39:46.400
had encountered her husband after he had shut himself in, I knew that, that there was something

595
00:39:46.400 --> 00:39:52.720
more that was happening there that required his permission for deliverance and that she

596
00:39:52.720 --> 00:39:59.160
was going to end up needing to get a divorce. A lot of times people will give us a word

597
00:39:59.160 --> 00:40:00.000
that we're not.

598
00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:04.160
and not capable and don't have the grace to receive yet.

599
00:40:04.160 --> 00:40:05.000
Amen?

600
00:40:07.400 --> 00:40:09.080
It's not that the word is wrong,

601
00:40:09.080 --> 00:40:11.480
we just can't receive it yet.

602
00:40:13.000 --> 00:40:15.040
And so every time I would get together with her

603
00:40:15.040 --> 00:40:17.320
and she would cry and she was so broken

604
00:40:17.320 --> 00:40:19.680
and she didn't know what to do

605
00:40:19.680 --> 00:40:21.280
and she had exhausted everything

606
00:40:21.280 --> 00:40:22.880
and she felt so isolated

607
00:40:22.880 --> 00:40:26.280
because nobody understood and all the things.

608
00:40:26.280 --> 00:40:27.960
I wanted to give her that word,

609
00:40:27.960 --> 00:40:28.920
but I knew that I couldn't

610
00:40:28.920 --> 00:40:31.960
because she was not ready to receive it.

611
00:40:35.000 --> 00:40:36.000
And then little by little,

612
00:40:36.000 --> 00:40:37.680
after years and years had gone by,

613
00:40:37.680 --> 00:40:39.720
I started seeding the ground a little bit.

614
00:40:39.720 --> 00:40:44.000
You know, Sarah, you can't get divorced.

615
00:40:44.000 --> 00:40:45.520
I know it's not what you want, trust me.

616
00:40:45.520 --> 00:40:48.240
Nobody says, when I grow up, I wanna be divorced,

617
00:40:48.240 --> 00:40:51.040
but the abandonment that's happening here,

618
00:40:51.040 --> 00:40:53.520
because guys, they couldn't live.

619
00:40:53.520 --> 00:40:55.920
She's a professional artist

620
00:40:55.920 --> 00:41:00.120
and she was out trying her best to create a life for them

621
00:41:00.120 --> 00:41:02.760
and sustain them and keep a roof over their head

622
00:41:02.760 --> 00:41:04.920
and it was just so hard.

623
00:41:06.600 --> 00:41:09.440
And she would come home to all of that crazy

624
00:41:09.440 --> 00:41:11.400
every single day.

625
00:41:12.760 --> 00:41:14.400
For years, you guys, not for months,

626
00:41:14.400 --> 00:41:18.160
not for days, not for weeks, years and years and years.

627
00:41:19.320 --> 00:41:23.240
Just saw her just diminishing and falling apart

628
00:41:23.240 --> 00:41:25.720
and getting thinner and sickly

629
00:41:25.720 --> 00:41:28.200
and it was just really difficult to see.

630
00:41:29.560 --> 00:41:33.040
And then one day she called me and she said,

631
00:41:34.280 --> 00:41:35.120
it's done.

632
00:41:36.440 --> 00:41:37.440
She's like, I'm done.

633
00:41:37.440 --> 00:41:39.680
Something had happened and I'm not gonna share what happened

634
00:41:39.680 --> 00:41:41.200
but it was really bad.

635
00:41:41.200 --> 00:41:44.280
And she said, I felt a release from God

636
00:41:44.280 --> 00:41:48.600
and I have to, I have no choice, but I have to leave

637
00:41:48.600 --> 00:41:50.120
because it was time to let go.

638
00:41:51.040 --> 00:41:52.960
We hold on because remember a lot of times

639
00:41:53.640 --> 00:41:54.480
we want a different outcome.

640
00:41:54.480 --> 00:41:56.680
We want there to be a different verdict,

641
00:41:56.680 --> 00:41:58.600
a different ending to the story.

642
00:41:59.920 --> 00:42:00.920
We do.

643
00:42:00.920 --> 00:42:02.400
And it's not inappropriate.

644
00:42:03.760 --> 00:42:07.040
I knew just prophetically that there was gonna be a time

645
00:42:07.040 --> 00:42:10.840
when she would need to let go and it wasn't time yet

646
00:42:10.840 --> 00:42:13.520
but she felt the timing and she released.

647
00:42:16.240 --> 00:42:17.200
When she released.

648
00:42:17.200 --> 00:42:19.080
When my mom was in the ICU,

649
00:42:19.080 --> 00:42:21.200
I had all the faith that she could be raised up.

650
00:42:21.200 --> 00:42:24.040
I had all the faith that she could live.

651
00:42:24.040 --> 00:42:26.040
I felt no fear whatsoever.

652
00:42:26.040 --> 00:42:28.680
We went in her room and we praised and people

653
00:42:28.680 --> 00:42:30.600
because I have so many amazing friends.

654
00:42:30.600 --> 00:42:34.040
They would call in from all over the country on the phone

655
00:42:34.040 --> 00:42:36.560
and I put them on speaker and they'd pray over her.

656
00:42:36.560 --> 00:42:39.520
I mean, it was amazing y'all.

657
00:42:39.520 --> 00:42:42.480
But then one night I went home and I went to bed

658
00:42:42.480 --> 00:42:45.720
and I woke up that next morning ready to go after it again

659
00:42:45.720 --> 00:42:47.680
and God said, it's time to let her go.

660
00:42:48.880 --> 00:42:49.720
There was a release.

661
00:42:49.720 --> 00:42:50.680
It's time to let go.

662
00:42:51.360 --> 00:42:53.040
A lot of times you guys, we won't let go

663
00:42:53.040 --> 00:42:54.480
because we think that it's quitting.

664
00:42:54.480 --> 00:42:56.680
We won't let go because we think that it's failing.

665
00:42:56.680 --> 00:42:57.520
It's not.

666
00:42:59.880 --> 00:43:01.400
We won't let go because we don't want that

667
00:43:01.400 --> 00:43:02.440
to be the end of the story.

668
00:43:02.440 --> 00:43:04.160
And I wanna tell you this morning

669
00:43:04.160 --> 00:43:06.160
that it's not the end of the story.

670
00:43:08.280 --> 00:43:10.040
It's just the end of that chapter of the story

671
00:43:10.040 --> 00:43:12.280
but it's not the end of the story.

672
00:43:12.280 --> 00:43:15.280
Once again, you might not know the whole story

673
00:43:15.280 --> 00:43:18.680
until you get to heaven and all the blocks

674
00:43:18.680 --> 00:43:20.640
and all the filters in which we see life

675
00:43:20.960 --> 00:43:22.200
through are removed.

676
00:43:25.800 --> 00:43:27.640
You might not know because remember the painting,

677
00:43:27.640 --> 00:43:29.280
the king always has one more move.

678
00:43:29.280 --> 00:43:30.240
You don't know.

679
00:43:33.640 --> 00:43:35.200
The guilt that you're holding onto

680
00:43:35.200 --> 00:43:37.320
because of that loved one that committed suicide

681
00:43:37.320 --> 00:43:40.440
and you just think, oh, I should have shown up that day.

682
00:43:40.440 --> 00:43:41.280
I should have been there.

683
00:43:41.280 --> 00:43:42.200
I should have talked to them.

684
00:43:42.200 --> 00:43:44.040
I should have told them about Jesus.

685
00:43:44.040 --> 00:43:48.360
You don't know what happened between them

686
00:43:48.360 --> 00:43:52.040
and their creator before they left this life.

687
00:43:54.360 --> 00:43:55.200
You don't know.

688
00:44:00.040 --> 00:44:02.000
Do you know the reason why it was a miracle

689
00:44:02.000 --> 00:44:05.600
for Jesus to raise Lazarus from the dead on the fourth day?

690
00:44:05.600 --> 00:44:08.600
Do you know the reason why Jesus had to wait three days

691
00:44:08.600 --> 00:44:11.680
and he had to tarry after he heard that Lazarus was sick

692
00:44:11.680 --> 00:44:14.000
because he knew that this miracle

693
00:44:14.000 --> 00:44:17.520
was going to shoot him into being infamous

694
00:44:17.560 --> 00:44:19.240
and was really gonna put a target on his head

695
00:44:19.240 --> 00:44:20.960
that would lead to the crucifixion?

696
00:44:23.160 --> 00:44:24.040
Because this was something

697
00:44:24.040 --> 00:44:25.880
that the Jews took really seriously, y'all.

698
00:44:25.880 --> 00:44:28.480
No one had raised anyone from the dead, okay?

699
00:44:29.360 --> 00:44:32.240
And necromancy and messing with the dead and all the stuff,

700
00:44:32.240 --> 00:44:35.640
that was a big, big no-no in Judaism

701
00:44:36.800 --> 00:44:39.400
and being a Hebrew, right?

702
00:44:39.400 --> 00:44:42.960
Everybody knew that from the rabbis down to the people.

703
00:44:45.320 --> 00:44:46.920
But the reason why it had to be the fourth day

704
00:44:47.320 --> 00:44:48.240
is because the Jews believe

705
00:44:48.240 --> 00:44:51.760
that your spirit does not go anywhere until the fourth day.

706
00:44:58.720 --> 00:44:59.920
So without.

707
00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:02.760
getting into weird stuff that makes you feel uncomfortable,

708
00:45:02.760 --> 00:45:05.880
there were probably things surrounding your loved one's death,

709
00:45:05.880 --> 00:45:07.800
their transition, I don't even want to call it a death

710
00:45:07.800 --> 00:45:10.320
because they're not dead, they're fully alive.

711
00:45:10.320 --> 00:45:13.720
But following that transition in those first few days,

712
00:45:13.720 --> 00:45:16.800
you know, nobody wants to come back into this body.

713
00:45:16.800 --> 00:45:18.960
I know we pray that people get raised from the dead,

714
00:45:18.960 --> 00:45:20.720
but there's very few people that are like,

715
00:45:20.720 --> 00:45:22.040
yeah, I'm coming back.

716
00:45:22.040 --> 00:45:24.120
No, they don't want to come back.

717
00:45:24.120 --> 00:45:26.040
They're experiencing amazing things.

718
00:45:26.040 --> 00:45:28.560
But I get back to those of you that are holding on regret

719
00:45:28.560 --> 00:45:30.280
because someone that committed suicide

720
00:45:30.280 --> 00:45:32.560
and you think that you know the end of the story.

721
00:45:32.560 --> 00:45:34.880
You weren't there in those final moments

722
00:45:34.880 --> 00:45:37.520
when they seemingly took their life.

723
00:45:37.520 --> 00:45:40.160
You weren't there, you don't know what happened.

724
00:45:40.160 --> 00:45:44.960
For all the people that you have just assigned to hell

725
00:45:44.960 --> 00:45:46.960
because of something that they did or didn't do

726
00:45:46.960 --> 00:45:48.640
during their lifetime,

727
00:45:48.640 --> 00:45:51.200
and they got into a car accident before they could repent

728
00:45:51.200 --> 00:45:52.960
or before they could receive Jesus in the way

729
00:45:52.960 --> 00:45:55.680
that's meaningful to you or before this or before that,

730
00:45:55.680 --> 00:45:59.680
you don't know their ending.

731
00:45:59.680 --> 00:46:04.680
You do not know in the last moments of their earthly life,

732
00:46:05.040 --> 00:46:06.080
what happened.

733
00:46:07.040 --> 00:46:07.880
You don't know.

734
00:46:09.960 --> 00:46:10.800
You don't.

735
00:46:12.960 --> 00:46:15.160
The Lord has spoken this to me.

736
00:46:15.160 --> 00:46:19.360
He's told me, he's shown me so many times

737
00:46:20.640 --> 00:46:22.160
when ministering to other people

738
00:46:22.160 --> 00:46:23.440
that are dealing with this kind of grief.

739
00:46:23.440 --> 00:46:24.640
And I believe that there are people here

740
00:46:24.640 --> 00:46:25.880
or people in replay that are dealing

741
00:46:25.880 --> 00:46:30.880
with this kind of regret and grief and even shame,

742
00:46:32.800 --> 00:46:35.480
because you think that what you did or didn't do

743
00:46:35.480 --> 00:46:37.640
cost someone their eternity.

744
00:46:37.640 --> 00:46:39.280
Let go of that, let it go.

745
00:46:40.440 --> 00:46:42.520
Let it go, it's not true.

746
00:46:42.520 --> 00:46:45.400
So she calls and she said, I'm ready to let go.

747
00:46:46.840 --> 00:46:48.840
And I was one of the only people that she was telling him.

748
00:46:48.840 --> 00:46:50.680
The reason why is because she knew

749
00:46:50.680 --> 00:46:53.360
that she would find support with me.

750
00:46:55.240 --> 00:46:58.960
And I supported her in what God was telling her to do.

751
00:46:58.960 --> 00:47:00.000
And she let it go.

752
00:47:00.000 --> 00:47:02.200
And you guys, very quickly after that,

753
00:47:03.400 --> 00:47:05.520
she met the man who is now her husband.

754
00:47:05.520 --> 00:47:08.160
Very, very soon after she let that go,

755
00:47:08.160 --> 00:47:09.400
he'd been tearing for years,

756
00:47:09.400 --> 00:47:12.120
hoping that the man that she knew to be her husband

757
00:47:12.120 --> 00:47:16.200
would come back to his right mind and he did not.

758
00:47:16.200 --> 00:47:17.320
And he still has not.

759
00:47:19.960 --> 00:47:22.280
And she moved on, she let go.

760
00:47:22.280 --> 00:47:24.400
She moved on very quickly after that.

761
00:47:24.400 --> 00:47:26.520
At a conference for artists,

762
00:47:26.520 --> 00:47:29.680
she met the man that she is now married to

763
00:47:29.680 --> 00:47:31.480
and they're having their reception today.

764
00:47:31.480 --> 00:47:33.320
And so God, we bless them, Lord.

765
00:47:33.320 --> 00:47:36.520
We thank you, God, for that rainbow, Lord.

766
00:47:36.520 --> 00:47:39.240
Guys, they got married in Hawaii and literally,

767
00:47:39.240 --> 00:47:41.240
and I know this is not a stretch for Hawaii,

768
00:47:41.240 --> 00:47:43.440
but as the photographer was taking the picture,

769
00:47:43.440 --> 00:47:46.040
a huge rainbow disappeared behind them.

770
00:47:47.800 --> 00:47:49.520
Huge rainbow appeared.

771
00:47:50.520 --> 00:47:52.120
And I have that picture.

772
00:47:52.120 --> 00:47:55.080
In fact, I might post that picture today to honor them.

773
00:47:55.080 --> 00:48:00.080
But I know that we think when we let go that all is lost,

774
00:48:01.120 --> 00:48:04.680
but it's not because new beginnings require endings.

775
00:48:06.000 --> 00:48:07.680
They require endings.

776
00:48:07.680 --> 00:48:10.320
You cannot have the new beginning without the ending.

777
00:48:11.240 --> 00:48:12.080
You can't.

778
00:48:13.680 --> 00:48:16.480
And so for those of you that are in the let go camp,

779
00:48:16.480 --> 00:48:17.320
just let go.

780
00:48:18.320 --> 00:48:20.000
Trust God, just let go.

781
00:48:20.000 --> 00:48:21.720
It's gonna be okay.

782
00:48:21.720 --> 00:48:25.160
My youngest child is getting married

783
00:48:25.160 --> 00:48:29.240
in two weeks from today and I have to let go.

784
00:48:31.040 --> 00:48:32.520
I'm always gonna be her mom,

785
00:48:34.440 --> 00:48:35.880
but there's gonna be a shift.

786
00:48:36.920 --> 00:48:39.200
And if I try to keep things the way they are right now

787
00:48:39.200 --> 00:48:43.000
and not let go of this dynamic in our relationship,

788
00:48:43.000 --> 00:48:44.640
it wouldn't be good for her and her husband.

789
00:48:44.640 --> 00:48:45.720
They need to cleave.

790
00:48:48.040 --> 00:48:50.280
I'll always be there for her, always be her mom.

791
00:48:50.280 --> 00:48:53.440
Someday I'll be the Nona of her babies.

792
00:48:55.240 --> 00:48:57.240
But I have to let go of a season

793
00:48:58.120 --> 00:49:00.920
that I have spent most of my adult life in.

794
00:49:02.080 --> 00:49:05.360
And that is the active raising of my children

795
00:49:05.360 --> 00:49:06.880
into adulthood.

796
00:49:08.120 --> 00:49:09.160
I have to let that go.

797
00:49:09.160 --> 00:49:12.520
Some people call it the empty nest season.

798
00:49:12.520 --> 00:49:14.840
I gotta step forward into another season.

799
00:49:15.800 --> 00:49:18.320
Yes, there's some mourning, there's some grief there,

800
00:49:18.320 --> 00:49:21.360
but if I try to hold on, try to insert myself,

801
00:49:21.360 --> 00:49:26.120
try to have the same type of influence with my children

802
00:49:26.120 --> 00:49:28.640
that I did when I was raising them,

803
00:49:28.640 --> 00:49:30.920
then that's gonna cause boundary issues.

804
00:49:30.920 --> 00:49:32.200
It's gonna cause hard feelings.

805
00:49:32.200 --> 00:49:35.480
It's gonna cause them to not thrive and grow

806
00:49:35.480 --> 00:49:37.480
and become who God's created them to be.

807
00:49:38.520 --> 00:49:42.640
It's time for me to move on to a new main assignment.

808
00:49:42.640 --> 00:49:43.840
This is still an assignment.

809
00:49:44.240 --> 00:49:45.640
I'm still gonna be their mom

810
00:49:46.560 --> 00:49:48.760
as long as we're on the earth together,

811
00:49:48.760 --> 00:49:52.640
but I have another main assignment now.

812
00:49:52.640 --> 00:49:54.120
And I feel the shift.

813
00:49:54.120 --> 00:49:56.440
For those of you that need to let go,

814
00:49:56.440 --> 00:49:58.920
if you let go, you will begin to feel the shift.

815
00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:06.080
So we talked about the people that are holding on, you're not just holding on for you, you're

816
00:50:06.080 --> 00:50:08.560
holding on for others.

817
00:50:08.560 --> 00:50:12.400
The breakthrough that's going to come from you holding on, the things that are going

818
00:50:12.400 --> 00:50:17.280
to happen because you persevered and you didn't let go, you continue to pray, you continue

819
00:50:17.280 --> 00:50:22.000
to push, you continue just to trust the Lord and just stand on his word, whatever it is

820
00:50:22.000 --> 00:50:26.880
that you're doing, it's going to pay big dividends, not just for you, but for people that you

821
00:50:26.880 --> 00:50:30.920
don't even know are noticing.

822
00:50:30.920 --> 00:50:36.840
Your faith and your hope and your trust in your, in your, I hate to call it a waiting

823
00:50:36.840 --> 00:50:41.400
season because you know I don't believe in waiting rooms, but in your preparation season

824
00:50:41.400 --> 00:50:44.440
because this holding on is preparing you.

825
00:50:44.440 --> 00:50:47.960
Remember what I read in the post that I put up today?

826
00:50:47.960 --> 00:50:53.300
Your future self needs whatever's happening right now.

827
00:50:53.300 --> 00:50:55.460
The pregnancy is what creates the mother's heart.

828
00:50:55.460 --> 00:51:01.260
The gestation period, remember it's not a waiting period, it is a preparing period.

829
00:51:01.260 --> 00:51:05.020
It is important.

830
00:51:05.020 --> 00:51:10.220
And then for those of you that need to let go, you see, I know that the fear of the unknown

831
00:51:10.220 --> 00:51:11.620
causes us not to let go.

832
00:51:11.620 --> 00:51:16.060
We don't know what we would be like without this job, without this assignment, without

833
00:51:16.060 --> 00:51:19.740
this relationship, without this thing like we've, it's been in our life for so long.

834
00:51:19.740 --> 00:51:25.100
We just don't know what life looks like without it and you're never going to know until you

835
00:51:25.100 --> 00:51:27.980
let go.

836
00:51:27.980 --> 00:51:31.740
But I promise you one thing, it's going to look good.

837
00:51:31.740 --> 00:51:33.740
It's going to look different, but it's going to look good.

838
00:51:33.740 --> 00:51:36.780
It's going to open doors.

839
00:51:36.780 --> 00:51:39.580
Remember the person that gave me the gift of the let go key?

840
00:51:39.580 --> 00:51:40.580
It was a key.

841
00:51:40.580 --> 00:51:45.740
It's a key that unlocks doors.

842
00:51:45.740 --> 00:51:52.940
Yes.

843
00:51:52.940 --> 00:51:57.860
Thank you, Lord.

844
00:51:57.860 --> 00:51:59.100
Thank you, Lord.

845
00:51:59.100 --> 00:52:04.140
And for some of you that let go, I hit it on the head, it has to do with your children.

846
00:52:04.140 --> 00:52:08.100
You keep trying to do anything and everything for them, even though they're grown adults

847
00:52:08.100 --> 00:52:14.460
and the boundaries are all blurry and they continue to come to you because you have become

848
00:52:14.460 --> 00:52:15.460
their source.

849
00:52:16.180 --> 00:52:19.180
They need to know that the era of free money is over.

850
00:52:19.180 --> 00:52:24.180
That's not the way it works in this life and it's not going to make them better people.

851
00:52:24.180 --> 00:52:27.180
If you're always cleaning up their messes and solving their problems, that's not going

852
00:52:27.180 --> 00:52:34.180
to give them the skills that they need to be abundant and successful in this life.

853
00:52:34.180 --> 00:52:36.180
And so remember, you're not just doing it for you.

854
00:52:36.180 --> 00:52:39.180
You're doing it for them.

855
00:52:39.180 --> 00:52:42.180
They need you to let go.

856
00:52:42.900 --> 00:52:45.900
They need you to let go.

857
00:52:46.900 --> 00:52:52.900
And when we've had really bad boundaries for a long time with people and we let go, people

858
00:52:52.900 --> 00:52:53.900
aren't going to like it.

859
00:52:53.900 --> 00:52:59.380
One of my friends told me yesterday, she said that her daughter, who is very used to mom

860
00:52:59.380 --> 00:53:06.900
doing exactly what she wants, has been coming to her and being like, I want my mom.

861
00:53:06.900 --> 00:53:07.900
Where's my mom?

862
00:53:07.900 --> 00:53:08.900
Who are you?

863
00:53:08.900 --> 00:53:09.900
I don't want you.

864
00:53:09.900 --> 00:53:11.900
I want my mom.

865
00:53:12.620 --> 00:53:18.620
And I could just feel like if that happened to me, because it's manipulative, right?

866
00:53:18.620 --> 00:53:23.620
But at the same time, it makes you sad because you want to give your child what they want.

867
00:53:23.620 --> 00:53:27.620
But what they want is not always good for them.

868
00:53:27.620 --> 00:53:30.620
And we have to apply the same thing to Papa.

869
00:53:30.620 --> 00:53:31.620
Papa God.

870
00:53:31.620 --> 00:53:34.620
And you might be like, Jackie, why do you call him Papa?

871
00:53:34.620 --> 00:53:35.620
Why do you call him Daddy?

872
00:53:35.620 --> 00:53:38.620
Because he was my father first.

873
00:53:39.340 --> 00:53:43.340
My dad walked out when I was six months old and he never came back.

874
00:53:43.340 --> 00:53:47.340
And the men my mom married after that didn't want to be my dad.

875
00:53:47.340 --> 00:53:49.340
They wanted my mom, but they didn't want me.

876
00:53:49.340 --> 00:53:53.840
And I'm going to tell you right now, I'm not fatherless because I had a father before any

877
00:53:53.840 --> 00:53:57.340
of that ever happened.

878
00:53:57.340 --> 00:53:59.340
And God is my father.

879
00:53:59.340 --> 00:54:03.340
And I'm a daddy's girl.

880
00:54:03.340 --> 00:54:08.340
That's why.

881
00:54:09.060 --> 00:54:12.060
And Papa God oftentimes does not give us exactly what we're praying for.

882
00:54:12.060 --> 00:54:16.060
Because just like this story about the mother and the daughter, he knows it's not good for

883
00:54:16.060 --> 00:54:17.060
you.

884
00:54:17.060 --> 00:54:20.060
Because he knows more than you know.

885
00:54:20.060 --> 00:54:24.060
And then that's why during the hold on phase, we just got to trust.

886
00:54:24.060 --> 00:54:27.060
Because we're like, oh, no.

887
00:54:27.060 --> 00:54:30.060
This is not what I want.

888
00:54:30.060 --> 00:54:32.060
I want this.

889
00:54:32.060 --> 00:54:35.060
And yet this door is not opening.

890
00:54:35.780 --> 00:54:39.780
So whatever transition you're in, friends that are holding on, whether you're waiting

891
00:54:39.780 --> 00:54:44.780
for some pain to leave your body and you're working on it.

892
00:54:44.780 --> 00:54:47.780
Friends, there's always going to be things for you to do in the hold on period.

893
00:54:47.780 --> 00:54:48.780
Don't just be waiting.

894
00:54:48.780 --> 00:54:49.780
Remember, you're preparing.

895
00:54:49.780 --> 00:54:54.780
Don't just go sit in a waiting room and just wait for God to fix it.

896
00:54:54.780 --> 00:54:55.780
You're not doing that.

897
00:54:55.780 --> 00:54:59.780
If you're holding on because you're waiting for a job and you're not quitting.

898
00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:03.880
but you don't have a career or a vocation or an assignment yet,

899
00:55:04.680 --> 00:55:09.680
keep putting your feelers out there, continue to network, meet more people.

900
00:55:10.440 --> 00:55:14.400
I have learned in my short life of 50 years coming up in six months,

901
00:55:14.400 --> 00:55:17.560
it was my half birthday a couple of days ago, happy birthday to me,

902
00:55:18.960 --> 00:55:23.960
that God hides what we're looking for inside people.

903
00:55:23.960 --> 00:55:28.960
The resources and the breakthroughs that you need are in some person, okay?

904
00:55:33.640 --> 00:55:36.760
And this is how it gets us to play with each other because we have orphan

905
00:55:36.760 --> 00:55:38.520
mindsets. We'll just take our ball and go home.

906
00:55:39.640 --> 00:55:44.640
This is how it gets us to play with each other is because we need each other.

907
00:55:45.600 --> 00:55:50.160
And oftentimes when you go someplace looking for an answer in some sermon,

908
00:55:50.600 --> 00:55:53.000
the answer is probably sitting right next to you on the seat.

909
00:55:54.960 --> 00:55:55.800
Okay?

910
00:55:55.880 --> 00:55:58.920
And the person that you sat next to at the conference or at the seminar or at

911
00:55:58.920 --> 00:56:03.080
the thing. So be networking. Those of you that are in the hold on phase.

912
00:56:03.680 --> 00:56:05.520
And for those of you in the let go phase,

913
00:56:06.160 --> 00:56:09.960
begin to fill that space with God, not with something else.

914
00:56:10.200 --> 00:56:13.520
You're letting go, but you're not, you're leaving that space empty.

915
00:56:13.560 --> 00:56:15.360
And that's going to be the painful part. And a lot of you,

916
00:56:15.360 --> 00:56:19.760
that's why you haven't let go because you don't want that space to be empty of

917
00:56:19.760 --> 00:56:21.360
that thing that's been there for so long.

918
00:56:22.000 --> 00:56:25.080
But that thing's not been fruitful for a long time and it's time for you to let

919
00:56:25.080 --> 00:56:29.200
it go. And when you let it go, do not fill it back up. Do not medicate it.

920
00:56:29.200 --> 00:56:32.920
Do not fill it up. Spend time with the Lord in that space.

921
00:56:35.000 --> 00:56:40.000
Fill him, let him fill himself with that space so that when it's time to choose

922
00:56:41.000 --> 00:56:43.840
something new to be in that space, you are,

923
00:56:44.080 --> 00:56:46.440
you're choosing the thing that is, you know,

924
00:56:46.440 --> 00:56:50.520
part of this beautiful story of you that God has written.

925
00:56:52.360 --> 00:56:56.160
Okay. Thank you, Lisa. Lisa, you need to let go.

926
00:56:56.160 --> 00:56:57.600
I saw that earlier for you.

927
00:56:58.000 --> 00:57:00.120
There's at least one thing that you need to let go of.

928
00:57:00.120 --> 00:57:03.520
And so we just bless you with the grace right now to let go,

929
00:57:05.200 --> 00:57:06.320
to just L-I-G it.

930
00:57:07.880 --> 00:57:12.120
Just hands out in front of you, just open. God, you can go ahead.

931
00:57:12.120 --> 00:57:14.880
You can have it, whatever that is.

932
00:57:14.880 --> 00:57:18.400
You can have it because he wants to fill it with something so much better,

933
00:57:19.400 --> 00:57:22.680
so much better, no more worry, no more fret, no more.

934
00:57:22.680 --> 00:57:25.480
How am I going to make it or how am I going to do this or do that?

935
00:57:26.120 --> 00:57:28.960
God wants to provide for you.

936
00:57:29.200 --> 00:57:33.120
He wants to show you how much he loves you.

937
00:57:33.880 --> 00:57:36.240
And so Lord, we thank you for that. All right, friends,

938
00:57:36.280 --> 00:57:38.320
go and have a supernatural Saturday.

939
00:57:38.320 --> 00:57:43.320
Remember that you are the ambassadors of a kingdom and you're bringing it to

940
00:57:43.480 --> 00:57:46.560
earth. So many good nuggets from Holy Spirit during this time together.

941
00:57:46.920 --> 00:57:49.800
Thank you, Holy Spirit for that. Lord, go with us,

942
00:57:50.360 --> 00:57:53.440
speak through us and to us as we go forward in this day,

943
00:57:53.880 --> 00:57:57.680
show us what we need to hold on to and let go of. Help us to prune,

944
00:57:58.080 --> 00:57:59.040
help us to purge,

945
00:57:59.040 --> 00:58:03.080
help us to make room for all the good things you have for us for the second

946
00:58:03.080 --> 00:58:07.920
half of 2024 in Jesus name. Amen. Love y'all.

947
00:58:08.040 --> 00:58:08.600
Have a great day.