Hey, everyone.
Welcome to Supernatural Saturday.
I hope you are ready to have a supernatural day.
I know that I am.
Today is one week from my youngest child's wedding.
Today y'all, one week from today, I will be handing my daughter over to her husband.
God's really been talking to me a lot about covenant, what that looks like, what it looks
like to partner.
Of course, I'm married, so I should already know that, right?
But I think that we don't fully understand covenant until we're faced with our children
getting married and what that's going to mean for our family and what that's going to mean
for them.
Because they're young and we want what's best for them and we know that they have a lot
of life to live and they have a lot of things to learn.
What does it look like for them to come into that spiritual covering?
What does it look like for them to grow together?
What does it look like for them to learn what God wants them to do in that relationship
with each other?
So many different things and so it's just been really fun to watch this relationship
grow.
First, I want to tell you guys that as we've been praying for our children's spouses pretty
much all of their lives, and I'm sure that those of you that have children have been
doing that as well, and if you haven't, you can start now.
You can, you can start right now, praying that in this myriad of choices out here or
illusions of choices out here with dating apps and all the different crazy stuff that's
going on in 2024, that they would be divinely drawn to someone that they could partner with.
Someone that they could grow with, they could learn with, that they could become better
with.
Those are the important things.
Someone that they could serve God with and serve others with.
And so we've been praying that, but my daughter's relationship, the course of it has not run
smoothly.
It hasn't.
And why is that?
Because people are broken, because the world is broken, because there's a lot of things
out here that are really distracting, including religious voices.
There's all kinds of stuff trying to pull people in a different direction than the one
that God is trying to help them go.
So this relationship, it did start when she was pretty young.
She was only 20 years old when she met him, and they have, it's not been a bad or toxic
relationship.
She just hasn't always been sure that he was the person she should marry because of
some really religious ideas that she was focused on.
My daughter is a musicianary.
If you're not familiar with what that is, she's a music missionary.
She's a very talented singer, songwriter, musician, praise and worship leader.
And because of that gift, a lot of really well-meaning people from the time that she
was really young started talking about what she was going to need in a partner.
She went to a few different ministry schools, and at those ministry schools, people would
always obviously praise the gift, right?
That's what we do in Christianity, unfortunately, is we praise gifts, and they would praise
her gift, and then they would talk about what she would need to partner with in a husband,
someone who also does music, or someone who is some kind of traditional minister, like
an evangelist or someone who's doing traditional ministry.
But that's not true, and that's not what God had for her.
So when she met Trevor, who is going to be her husband in a week, he's amazing.
He's got a lot of gifts, but he works in the marketplace.
He's a designer.
He loves Jesus.
He actually comes from a family where his grandfather was a missionary.
Solid people, solid family, parents still married, seven children, good morals, loves
God, loves the Word of God, following after Christ, but that wasn't good enough because
he wasn't on a stage with a microphone evangelizing, and that had been planted in her head by very
well-meaning people, because that's what they thought that someone like her and her gift
should partner with.
The reason why I start out with this this morning is because if there's any preconceived
ideas that you have about who you should partner with, we need to let those go.
So even though she had never felt more happy or more secure, more safe in a relationship,
not once but twice, she cut and run from this relationship and ran off to ministry school
thinking that God was going to take her desire for this boy away if she just gave her life
fully to Him, to God, so that God could give her whoever He wanted as her mate.
But this boy waited for her.
He was sure about her from the beginning, and God eventually drew her heart back to
understanding that she doesn't have to go and sacrifice herself on the altar of ministry
and just marry some Tom, Dick, and Harry that God has picked out for her.
These were the ideas that she was laboring under, that she couldn't have what she wanted,
because what she wanted couldn't possibly be the same thing that God wanted.
Do you guys feel me?
Do you hear me?
Do you understand?
And we do this in a lot of areas of our lives, not just our love lives.
I'm using that as an example because my daughter's getting married in a week and she's super
happy and they're a really good team, these two.
They're a really great team together and they're only going to get better together and I'm
really excited for them.
I'm really excited for all that they'll do together.
And they'll do more together than if she would have married someone whose lane was traditional
ministry, who only was focused on traditional ministry and crusades and you know, I'm not
down in any of that.
That's great.
But my daughter has business gifts.
Yeah, she's got music gifts, but she's got business gifts too that need to be developed.
She has people gifts that need to be developed and you can't always develop those kinds of
gifts in traditional ministry.
And so I'm excited that she will have an opportunity through her marriage to grow.
And that's what good marriages do.
They grow you.
Sorry guys, my voice keeps going out this morning, so I'm just trying to clear my throat.
All right.
So we need to shift our focus.
God wants to shift our focus.
And so I have a few thoughts written down today.
Hopefully that little nugget helped someone this morning.
I have a few thoughts written down today from Holy Spirit and we're going to go after them
and just see where we go.
So Father God, we thank you.
We thank you that you brought us all here together again and we thank you that you're
leading us and you're guiding us, Lord.
We pray for that, that Christian music family that was killed in that plane crash today
or yesterday, Lord.
Father, we pray for these families and all these communities that will be affected by
this, Lord.
All of the doubt and all of the confusion and chaos, Lord, that will cause of why didn't
you protect them and why is this happened?
And Lord, we just ask God that you would just bring peace that passes all understanding
in this situation.
Lord, we thank you, God, that you are going to comfort and that you are going to surround
those that are grieving in Jesus name.
Amen.
All right, friends, it's time to push.
The thing that popped up to me most this morning was the acronym PUSH back when I was a youth
pastor.
Can you see me as a youth pastor?
I know you can.
You can see me as a youth pastor, but I will tell you this, my youth, they weren't playing.
They did not want to live for Jesus, all right?
They were bored little church kids that had been raised in the church for generations.
Their mamas were saved, their grandmamas saved, their great grandmas were saved, and they
just were bored.
They were bored.
They were the kind of kids that wanted to run out and sow some wild oats because they
were tired of religion and church.
And so to motivate them was very difficult because remember, I'm coming in from, I have
the zeal of a new convert because I didn't have that upbringing like they did.
And I was in love with Jesus.
They weren't in love with Jesus, y'all.
They weren't.
Jesus was just a story that they had been told all their lives.
They had never had a personal experience and encounter with him like I had.
And some of you, that's the problem.
You've just been doing dead religion for so long.
You got to fall in love with Jesus.
In fact, you just got to meet Jesus.
I know you know who he is, but you have to meet him.
I remember when I met him, and I keep meeting him.
And that's why I'm so crazy because I love Jesus.
And I want you to love Jesus too, and he loves you.
And religion will be the biggest blocker of that.
So if you feel bored in your faith, if you feel like you can't really trust God to give
you anything that you want, so you kind of got to go get it yourself.
If you feel like your prayers don't get answered, if you feel like nothing supernatural has
ever happened to you, it's time to step out of just understanding religion and step into
knowing Christ.
Step into the supernatural.
That's what Supernatural Saturday is all about.
We have to live in the supernatural.
I remember, you know, I've had quite a few supernatural things happen to me.
But one of the supernatural things that happened to me when I was away from God, when I wasn't
living for God, when I didn't know God, is I had gotten home from a long night of
partying.
I know, shocking, right?
I got home from a long night of partying.
I was really young, you guys.
I was in my early 20s because, you know, I fully surrendered my heart to Jesus at 22
years old.
So I got, I had gotten home and, you know.
don't know if any of you have ever partied but a lot of times you don't sleep well after drinking too much alcohol and I
Woke up in the middle of the night really thirsty
dehydrated from the alcohol that I had consumed and I went and I got a glass of water and I sat on the couch and
Heard the voice of God. I
Wish I could say that I heeded the voice of God in this moment
But I didn't but I heard the voice of God and he said to me this is what he said
Or I should say the voice of Jesus Jesus said I'm coming
soon
And I was like, whoa, what's this and I want to take you with me to build my kingdom
But I can't
Because you love this world and that's it. That's all that happened
And I was like, what does this mean?
And remember I'm gonna have this grand conversion encounter and I'm gonna learn all kinds of things about
Jesus and his kingdom and I'm gonna learn all kinds of things about God and I'm gonna learn all kinds of things
But I haven't learned that yet
And so one of the takeaways from that moment now that I've learned those things is that we don't live here y'all
We don't live here
We are pilgrims here. The Bible describes us as pilgrims
We are pilgrims here. And for those of you that you know, you haven't really liked this life that much
It hasn't really given you a lot to like about it
you had a hard childhood and then you've been having a hard adulthood and you're like
First of all, it doesn't have to stay that way it can shift and it will shift God wants it to shift for you
He wants you to be blessed to be a blessing in all areas of your life
Prospering even as your soul prospers took me a long time to realize that I had a really hard start in life
And I was gonna have a really hard finish
Until God shifted my mind
It doesn't it's not just enough to get saved quote-unquote. You have to have a mind shift
The Bible says be transformed by the renewing of your mind. What is that? That's heart work
That's not your mind in your head. That's your mind in your heart. That's your identity
That's that epicenter master control of all things that run you also called the soul
We have to be renewed there
But we don't live here
Okay, we're pilgrims here. We're passing through here. God doesn't want us to set up camp here
He doesn't want you to spend your one and only earth journey
Just trying to perfect your earth journey
Okay
You are a supernatural being please hear me having a earthly experience. You're having a natural experience
You're supernatural already
These Saturdays are just to plug you into divine design. You are supernatural
you are a spirit that lives in a body that possesses a soul and
That soul part is where you keep tripping up
Your spirit is redeemed
Your spirit is is is supernatural. It's already connected and seated with Christ in heavenly places
It's your soul that needs convincing every day
And your body is just gonna do what it's told
Whatever your soul
Decides if your soul aligns with your spirit
Your body will fall in line with the spirit if your soul aligns with your flesh your body is just gonna run them up
And guys remember a couple supernatural Saturdays ago, I think it's been a month or more ago now team flesh team spirit
We got a joint team spirit every day this is not our soul has to align with team spirit every day
This is not a one-and-done thing
There are so many things around you that are gonna be pulling for your allegiance and your attention
And a lot of them are debauch as my daughter would say full of debauchery. Okay
Full of the idea and you guys it doesn't have to be like
Noticeably heinous or corrupt or demonic to not be healthy for you not expedient for you
okay, anything that gets you in a
Mindset that's negative anything that gets you into a mindset that you are that this life is all there is for you
And that the greatest hope that you have is not in the future
Anything that keeps you from believing that the best is always yet to come those are all things that wear us down
Those are all things that wear us down super that like wear down our supernatural self and get us in the natural
So the acronym push I had this up for my youth I made them a prayer walk
We had this big youth room and we didn't use it for much
And so I made a prayer walk in it when you walk in the door
It just said push and then underneath it. It said pray until something happens. That's an acronym for
pray until something happens. And then just like the Stations of the Cross, for those of you that
grew up Catholic, this room, all around the room, it had little prayer stations.
And I put the prayer focus above each little prayer station. So you'd walk in the room,
you'd see the acronym, Pray Until Something Happens, you'd go to the first prayer station,
and then there's a banner there that tells you what to pray for here.
And then you would move to the second one. And so it was teaching the kids how to be intercessors.
It was teaching them how to pray. It was teaching them, each prayer station would have a different
type of prayer. Declarations over here, and then over here, praying the word. Do you understand
what I'm saying? And I was trying to teach them what I was learning myself, because I was pretty
much a new convert when I was put into this leadership position over these young people.
Wow, those years are so nostalgic to me. You guys, I had so many supernatural happenings
in those years. And you want to know why? Because I was focused on the Spirit.
And it's easy to not get focused on your Spirit life, and on the real assignment of why you're
on this earth, because life just wears us down. It wears us down, and it gets us thinking about
the very thing the Bible tells us not to think. What are we going to eat? What are we going to
think? What are we going to eat? What are we going to drink? Where are we going to live?
What are we going to wear? If we seek first His kingdom and His righteousness,
someone tell me what righteousness is real quick. In the Spirit, what's righteousness?
Give you a hint, peace, and then what?
Love and joy. Yes. So, seek first that. Seek first His kingdom and that. And all these other
things will work themselves out. I know why we don't live supernatural lives, because we're too
busy living natural lives. But if we live supernatural lives, if we get up every day and say,
this ain't my home. I ain't going to worry about it. I don't live here. I'm just passing through
here. And so, I'm on assignment with you today. God, what do you want to do? What do you want to
do today? I refuse to just spend my one and only earth journey just trying to figure out how to pay
my bills and die. I'm not going to do it. I'm not going to do it. I'm not going to do it.
I'm not going to do it. Right? And so, I'm trying to teach these kids this
about prayer. What is that doing? It's just priming the pump. Because when we pray,
it actually connects us back to our supernatural selves.
That's why praying in the Spirit is so great. And if you don't have your prayer language in
the Spirit, also known as speaking in tongues, if you don't have that, ask God to give you that.
You want to know why? Because it's like priming the pump. You're not going to do it.
Supernaturally. When you have your prayer language, because it actually skips your natural
mind, you don't understand what you're saying. And so, it's a very supernatural experience
instead of a natural experience. A lot of us pray in the understanding in our flesh.
We pray for things that we want. We pray. We complain to God. We call that prayer.
You know, praying is supernatural.
It's you, a supernatural being, conversing and communicating with a supernatural God.
And why am I saying all this today? Why is Holy Spirit focusing us on this?
Because it's time for us to see results, friends.
Everything that ever happens in this natural realm that you're living in,
this world that's not your home, everything that happens here first happens in the Spirit.
It doesn't happen here first. It happens there first.
And it happens as a result of prayer, either yours or somebody else. You guys know there's
someone praying for you right now? There is someone praying for you right now.
Right now, someone's praying for you. I'm going to say it over and over again. I can say it as
many different ways as I can say it until you get it. Someone's praying for you right now,
and they might not be someone you know. In fact, they probably are someone that you don't know.
I can't tell you how many times God has had me pray for people that I do not know.
Scrolling through Facebook, pray about some situation that doesn't involve me and I don't
even know who the people are. Praying in the Spirit. When I'm praying in the Spirit, I'm
praying for things that God is putting upon me as an intercessor that I don't know what they are.
Praying for countries, praying for people, praying for situations. God is using my voice
in intercession to get things done in the supernatural.
so that they can see the results in the natural.
Raise your hand if you've ever prayed for someone
that you don't know.
You heard about a situation, you don't know those people,
and you prayed about it.
Raise your hand if you've ever just been called
in a supernatural intercession
and you were praying for something
and you were grieving and you were interceding
and you don't even know what it was about.
You have no idea.
Okay, put your hands down.
Look at all those hands.
All right, now raise your hand
if the spirit of prayer has come upon you so strong
that you had to go and leave what you were doing
and go pray somewhere,
but you had no idea what you were even praying for.
And then it lifted and then you were done,
but you don't even know what happened.
Look at all those hands.
Friends, someone's praying for you.
I know a lot of times the enemy can try to convince us
that we're alone in this life,
that no one cares about our situation,
but that's not true.
God has intercessors.
God has prayer warriors.
And every time we give ourselves over to prayer to pray,
remind yourself that just like you're doing that,
someone else is doing that too.
But I want you to be really honest now,
because I'm gonna be honest.
Everyone put your hands down.
Everyone has their little hands up still.
Get those hands down,
because I want us to have a little James 5, 16 moment here,
confession and healing.
For all of you that put your hands up
and some of you that didn't,
and because you're like, I'm a prayer warrior, I pray.
God draws me into prayer.
Raise your hand and be honest
if you would admit that you've been praying a lot less
than you used to.
My hands up.
Ever since, for some reason, ever since COVID,
ever since the death of my mom,
ever since all the stress and everything
is just so crazy on fire.
In the world, overwhelming.
Just feel like wanna shut down and medicate.
Just shut down and numb out, scroll on my phone,
watch a movie, you know, whatever, go have some fun.
Just forget about the heaviness of everything around me.
Anyone else?
All right, friends, God's calling us back to prayer.
It's time to push again, to pray until something happens.
I know that life and, you know, the opposing forces,
the enemy, try to get us to believe
that that's just fruitless,
that nothing's gonna happen if we do that,
and it's not true.
Because we should always be suspicious
of any kind of thinking
that tries to keep us away from doing something.
If there's always something pushing against you,
getting something done and doing something,
doing that thing must be really important, huh?
Don't you think?
We gotta get suspicious about that.
There are some of you
that God has told you to do a specific thing,
and it may not seem like that big of a thing.
Maybe it's go get your passports,
or, you know, put your driver's license
back in your maiden name,
or I'm just throwing things out from the spirit.
Who knows what it is?
Have that garage sale, do this,
and you have not done it.
It's a simple thing, whatever the thing is,
and you just have not done that,
and you've also put an emphasis on it in your own mind
that that's not really that important,
and I'll get to it sometime.
I'll get to it sometime.
But you guys don't understand that it's a domino.
God is a strategic God.
Right?
It's a move on the chessboard.
Please hear the spirit right now.
If you do that thing,
it causes a tipping point of some sort.
Yeah, you don't understand it
because you weren't let in on the strategy
because, frankly, it's none of your business.
You don't need to know.
And the reason why we don't need to know
is because we start meddling.
If God gives us too much information at one time,
we start adding our own things to it.
Well, God, that sounds good,
but this would be even better.
Don't tell me you don't because you do, and we all do,
and a lot of times we unconsciously do it.
We unconsciously do it.
We have to pray, it's time for us to pray, it's time for us to do those little things,
tie up those little strings.
I have a student right now that's getting married, she just announced her engagement
and the reason why she's getting married is because God told her to go to LA for New Year's.
She doesn't live in LA, she lives in Northern California.
She likes LA, has friends there, God said go spend New Year's in LA and she did and
she met her husband at that party.
It'd be easy to blow something like that off, especially if you don't have the time or you
don't have the finances or you don't think that it's that big of a deal if you don't
do it.
Here's the thing friends and I want you to hear what I'm saying because it's really important
because otherwise you're going to get into legalism and into religion.
Had she not done that, she would have still met him at a different time.
But how often are we keeping ourselves from breakthrough simply because we're not doing
what we're being instructed to do and we're not being instructed to do anything because
we're not praying?
I can tell you confidently everything that I'm doing right now in my life, including
this movement, has to do with my years in the prayer closet.
It has to do with those years of intercession, it has to do with the dreams and visions that
God showed me in those years, it has to do with the things that God asked me to do.
I'm usually a pretty obedient daughter, usually.
There's times when I'm like, I don't really feel like doing that and then I don't do it,
but mostly I try to do it pretty quickly.
And I feel like God knows how quickly his children are going to be obedient to his instruction
and his timeline kind of lines up with that.
Maybe, you know, he's with you the type of dad who tells you that it's time to go two
hours before it's time to go because he knows that's how long it's going to take you to
get ready to go.
I want to tell you guys something that's so important this morning, and I feel like this,
if you got a hold of this, this would change your life.
God is for you.
He loves you.
He's on your side.
He's not against you.
He's not trying to make this hard so that you fail.
It doesn't matter what you've done.
You're not an earnest model.
If you ever got a hold of the fact, it's not fiction, it's not an idea, it's not a maybe,
but a fact that Jesus already did everything, the heavy lifting, so that you can live an
abundant life.
He did that stuff already.
He suffered.
He took on your punishment for all of your mistakes, past, present, and future.
He did that.
Friends, I know that seems too good to be true, and I know it's really difficult in
this world that we live in that's still under the curse with all the performance and all
the earn it and merit it and you don't deserve it and go get punished in the corner mentality.
I get it.
I know it's hard to keep our minds focused on that.
That's why the Bible says, labor to enter into my rest.
It's hard work to enter into the rest of the finished work of the cross.
I get it.
And that's why every other religion pales in comparison to the true gospel of Jesus
Christ, because it is the only ideology where the deity or the God has done it all for you.
Every other religion, if you've studied and compared religions, you will see that all
the other religions want a pound of flesh.
They want you to suffer.
In fact, several of them make suffering the only way to salvation.
The more you suffer, the holier you become.
And that's why so many people reject this, because it seems too good to be true.
It's like a fairy tale.
And I admit that I used to be one of those people that were like,
well, I'll just, I don't understand.
Well, yeah, you're not going to ever understand with your cursed flesh,
especially if you were raised in any kind of hardness, you're always going
to think you're not doing enough and you haven't done enough, so you don't
deserve anything, and then you start believing the lies as subtle as they
are, that God is not for you, that life is not for you, that you don't deserve X,
Y, Z.
So let's just go ahead and get it on the table this morning.
I think it's important for us to move forward with this thought.
You don't deserve it.
All the good things that are going to happen to you in this
life, you don't deserve them.
You don't, when you think I don't deserve it, you're right.
You don't, because it's not about you deserving it.
I will never forget the day that God spoke to me and said, Jackie, do you
want to live the abundant life of John 10, 10?
I said, absolutely.
And he said, okay, then you're going to have to get used to
receiving things that you never earned.
He said, you're not good at receiving, Jackie.
You're good at earning.
You're good at performing.
You're good at dancing for your supper.
You guys, that's a metaphor.
I'm not actually out there dancing for my supper, but you get it.
He said, you're going to have to be okay with the idea that you are going to
receive things that you do not deserve.
Friends, how good are you at receiving things that you don't deserve?
How good are you receiving in general?
Do you go out to lunch with an old friend you haven't seen in a while and try to
tackle them for the bill when they want to treat you?
If someone offers to give you something or do something for you, do you always
think that there's some kind of strings attached?
Does it make you immediately suspicious of, okay, what do they want?
I mean, how good are you at receiving?
I definitely am not good at receiving to this day.
I'm still just the giver.
I get uncomfortable when people give me things.
So any of you that have given me a gift when you've seen me in person, I thank you
so much.
I cherish that gift that you've given me.
If I seemed awkward in the moment, it's because I'm just not good at receiving.
Has nothing to do with you.
I'm getting better.
But when you come from an orphan mindset, if you have to just go out and get it
yourself, if you're going to get it, you're going to have to go get it yourself
because that's all that I've ever known all of my life up until Jesus.
And even though I've been walking with Jesus for what, 26, seven years now, 28,
whatever the math is, mathing 19.
It was the 1900 y'all.
Let's see.
It was when I met Jesus.
It was 1997.
1997.
Someone tell me how many years that is.
1997.
We have to be good at receiving.
You guys pay attention to your thoughts and feelings when something that you're
trying to do for yourself doesn't work out.
You know, whether you're on the dating apps and you're working it hard or, you
know, you go and you apply for some jobs and you're excited about getting one of
them.
You got your resume, you're doing all your things.
But whatever it is, pay attention to what your thoughts and feelings say when
something doesn't work out.
Because it's going to show you where the lies are that you believe those
disappointments are going to show you where the lies are going to show you
where the hard work needs to be done.
It's going to show you what you believe about what God, what is God's part and
what is your part?
We really are walking through this life as pilgrims on assignments.
Then we also believe that God is making a way for us and he's making all the
crooked places straight.
And then we also have to believe.
Remember, this is kind of a sequence of beliefs.
So if you believe that, then the next thing you're going to believe is that if
something doesn't work out, then it's for your good.
Every no leads to a greater yes.
And while yes, I am not under estimating or undermining that in that moment,
there's some pain involved because we had our hope attached to that instead of
Christ.
I've been there many times.
We should be learning from that to continue to attach our hope to Christ.
Our hope doesn't ever have to be deferred if it's attached to Christ.
What does that mean?
It means that either up or getting up.
There's something bigger and better.
that's happening here.
When I was young and just started living for Jesus, I worked at this daycare that God sent
me to work at, and I hated it there.
And I was learning a lot of things, I was learning a lot of things.
And there was this woman from Africa that worked there, and she's a beautiful regal
woman.
And I can see why people say that African women are queens, and she held herself just
like a queen, and her posture was so perfect.
And she was an older woman, and she had just come to America, and she was working at the
daycare, and she had a son and a father that lived at home that she was supporting.
So an elderly father and a young son, like a son that was maybe 15 or 16 years old.
And so I invited her to come to the church, this daycare was in a church, and I invited
her to come.
And I said, come and visit our church, and she said, oh, thank you.
So she came and visited, and then afterwards, and this is back, I was poor as a church mouse,
I didn't have two nickels to rub together, I was hard-pressed to go out to any kind of
food after church, which is, as you know, a tradition for most Pentecostal people, they
will go out to eat after every service.
And so I said, hey, we're going to go get something to eat at this place, and this place
was called the Hometown Buffet, or the Golden Corral.
It was just a big buffet place, you know, a place with buffets of food.
And she said, oh, yes.
And she had her father and her son with her, and she said, oh, yes, we would love to come.
Now, you guys, I'm from Africa, so I don't know that when someone invites you to come
and dine, you're expected to pay for them, in this culture that this woman's from.
So we all show up at this buffet place, me and my husband at the time, and like I said,
we're going to just, just be able to pay for our own.
And her and her father and her son are all behind us in line.
And I whispered to my husband, and I said, hey, I said, they didn't get me trays.
Like you're supposed to get a tray, and you're supposed to put your plate on the tray, and
you're supposed to do all this stuff, you know, and so that you can pay at the cashier
for what it is that you've ordered.
But they haven't gotten anything.
They're just behind us in line.
And I said, hey, they're not doing, you know, they're not getting the things.
And he's like, I don't care.
And I'm like, I said, I think that they think we're going to pay for them.
I started, I started reading the sign, y'all.
I started seeing that I think these people are going to pay.
I think these people think we're going to pay for them, which we can't.
It's not that we won't.
It's not that we don't want to.
It's just that we cannot.
So I just kind of face forward, and I go through the line.
And pretty soon, you know, we're all through the line.
And I, and I, and I watched them.
They didn't pay.
They just kind of followed us, like just followed us right through.
And then at this, at this restaurant, you go and you sit at a table.
And you know, you have your receipt for your buffets on the table.
And then the waitress comes and brings you plates and stuff.
And then you go to the buffet and you eat, right?
And trust me, they make sure they check those receipts.
They make sure that everyone that's sitting there is paid and all the things.
And so I'm just getting really nervous now, y'all, because I'm like, oh, my God, what's
going to happen?
I don't even know what to do.
And so we're sitting at the table and the waitress comes and she brings us, she brings
us all plates for the buffet.
And she doesn't say anything about the receipt or anything.
She looked at it.
And then now these people are up and they're eating.
And I know that nobody has paid for them to eat and they're eating.
And I'm like, oh, and you guys, I'm all up in, got to earn it.
Got to deserve it.
Oh, my God, what's happening here?
This is criminal.
Let's do it.
And I don't know what to do because there's nothing I can do about it because I can't
even make it right because I can't go up and say, oh, hey, you know, these people are eating
for free, you know, and whatever.
So it's over with now.
And the next time I saw her at work, I told her about what happened.
I said, hey, I said, because, oh, well, here's the other thing.
At the end of the meal, they profusely thanked us.
And then she prayed this really, really powerful prayer about God blessing us for blessing
them and all this stuff.
And y'all, I was just like, oh, my God.
And so the next time I saw them, the next time I saw her at work, I said, hey, I just,
you know, I just really got to tell you.
And I told her, I said, I saw you guys in line.
I didn't know that you guys thought we were going to pay for you.
We really just we don't have the money for that.
And so and then, you know, they brought the plates and all the things.
And she looked at me and she was looking at me and she's looking at me and listening to
me. And at the end, she raised her hand and she goes, praise the Lord.
God made us invisible.
And I was like, what?
That was her takeaway. Her takeaway was God made us invisible. Yes, this is what it looks like to
live a supernatural life. I learned something from that lady that day. I was like, okay,
that wasn't my takeaway. But her takeaway was God made us invisible. Maybe he did.
I don't know. I don't know what happened. But all I know is this is that there's two ways to
live life. There's your way and there's God's way. And God's way doesn't always make sense.
And it doesn't always make sense to the rules that you have in your mind of what's right and
what's wrong. I would have gotten caught up in, oh, that's stealing and this and that.
But God was trying to teach a bigger lesson there that was more important than whatever
the rules or laws of this world are. Do you feel what I'm saying? He's trying to teach a bigger
lesson there. And so it's important that we don't put God into a box of our context.
Don't put God into a box of your context. What does that mean? It means that whatever you believe,
your schema, the way that you've been taught, the way that you believe, God doesn't have to
fit in that. God has his ways and they're above our ways. His thoughts are above our thoughts.
And that's why it's important to not judge other people's situations too. Stay out of judgment
of something. You look at the situation from afar off, you look at it, you start judging what you
think happened there. You start judging what you think is wrong and right about that situation.
You don't know. You don't know that situation and you don't know what God's doing in that
situation and that is none of your business. It isn't. There could be something happening there
where the lesson that's being learned is so much more important than whatever you think is right
or wrong. That's a whole word right there. So let's stay out of judgment. You want to pray
something over a situation from afar off, you just pray, hey God, whatever you're doing there,
let it be done. If the enemy's doing something there, dismantle that, Lord.
Bring deliverance, God. Bring healing, God. That's all you say. That's all you do.
You don't start with your human understanding trying to put your two cents in. Amen.
So guys, it's time to pray until something happens. Don't give up after two tries,
after this prayer call, like, oh, I'm gonna go back to prayer. God's calling us back to prayer.
I'm gonna go back to prayer. God's for us. He wants to see things happen in our lives. We're
gonna do this. And then after two tries, you just, you just give up. Right? No, we're not gonna do
that. We're not going to. It's time. It's time for us to see some shifts. Thank you, Lord. It's
time for us to live supernaturally. It's time for us to come more and more out of religion
that wants a pound of your flesh for every victory. Religion, if you have any victory
with a religious mindset, you're gonna have, you're gonna have to earn it.
You're going to have to give a lot of yourself to get it. If you even get it.
Trust me. I know I lived that way for many, many years, and I had terrible anxiety,
terrible mental health, terrible physical health, because I was trying to get it right. I was trying
to get it perfect. And every time I did it, which was all the time, because there's no
way to get it right or perfect. That's why Jesus came in the first place.
I would just beat myself up. And I didn't know it because it was unconscious. You guys,
you live a very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very,
vast, unconscious life. And you don't know it because it's unconscious.
There are so many things that you are telling yourself every single day about yourself and
about God and about men, women, marriage, money, your health, all different types of things.
And if you pray, God will begin to show you what some of those things are.
Remember my favorite prayer? Teach me, show me, heal me, grow me. It's a very simple prayer. It's
a very powerful prayer. Teach me the things that I need to know. Show me the things that I'm doing
that I don't know. Heal me in the areas that are fueling that. Grow me, heal me, grow me.
I had this thought the other day because I've seen a lot of discouragement in some of you
that want something to happen that hasn't happened yet. And you guys, we all live there.
Once you get that thing that you want so desperately, there'll just be something
else that hasn't happened yet that you're pining after. That's why we have to live a content life.
And so the next thing I'm going to say is going to help you do that.
Because regardless of like, yeah, I know most of you are still wanting a partner.
Some of you already have a partner that are on here, you're already in a relationship,
you know, it's already happening for you and then some of you aren't.
But there's always going to be something after the partner, there's going to be something
else right that's in that space of something that you don't have manifested yet that you're
praying for.
Okay, so this is what I want to say.
So I saw this very clearly the other day, I saw a farmer with fields, not one field,
but different fields and different crops in those fields.
Maybe one field has wheat and one field has strawberries and one field has watermelons
and you get the point.
One field has corn.
All of those have different gestation periods and they all have different harvests and different
seasons of harvest, right?
So as a farmer, if I went out and I sowed all of those fields at different times and
different seasons, but then I went and sat in one field, what if I went and sat in my
watermelon patch and just cried because my watermelons weren't ripe yet?
Would that make any sense?
If I just went over my watermelon patch and I just sat there and just cried and belly
ached because my watermelons hadn't sprouted yet or they haven't, maybe they did, but they
haven't, they're not ripe yet.
When my strawberries are over there rotting on the vine, my strawberries are over there
rotting on the vine while I'm crying over here in my watermelon patch.
And you guys, that's what it looks like, what you're doing right now.
I want to tell you this.
God showed me this.
He showed me this in my own life years ago.
There's always something ripe in your life.
Please write it down.
There's always something ripe in your life.
Always.
It may not be the thing that you want to be ripe, but there's something that's ripe.
And through prayer, you're going to discern what that is.
And that is the thing that you should be focused on in this season.
And this is how we stay out of discontentment.
You get discontent because you are sitting in a timeline, in a watermelon patch that's
not ripe yet when there's a timeline that is ripe and ready for you that you're not
focusing on.
God is, he's the God of times and seasons, not you.
And he's the Lord of the harvest, not you.
But there isn't any reason to ever have an empty basket because there's always a harvest
that's ripe.
We sit around and we cry about our emptiness when there is something to fill it.
So begin to pray, God, what's ripe in my life right now?
Where should my focus be?
What should I put all this time and energy and passion that I have that I want to put
into a relationship that isn't here?
But instead of sitting there and being sad about that, where should I put this time and
energy?
Where should I put this passion?
Where?
What's ready for me?
What's ripe for me?
And a lot of times, friends, you'll see that when you do that thing, the other thing happens
by proxy because remember, it's like a chess game.
It's like a domino thing.
One thing leads to another thing.
It does.
There are some of you that have really important things and I'm just going to address this
and if it's not for you, it's not for you.
But if it is for you, grab a hold of it.
There are people in our community that burn with the desire to mother.
And my question for you is, why aren't you mothering then?
Well, because I don't have a husband and I haven't been impregnated to have a baby.
There's so many, so, so, so many other ways to mother and there are so many children that
need mothers.
And fathers.
Guys, if that's you, I mostly hear that from women, but if that's you, yes.
You can be a temporary foster parent.
It's not that hard to get licensed to do that.
You can do a lot of things.
You can be respite for other foster parents where you're sowing into a child's life because
here's the thing, friends.
It comes down to ego.
Oh, I don't want to do that.
But you said you wanted to mother.
Yeah.
I want to mother my own children.
Okay.
Then you don't want a mother.
You want your own kids.
There's a difference.
And I get it.
I have a womb baby.
I have a daughter in heaven, Abigail, and I have a daughter on earth.
And then I have two bonus children that I did not give birth to that I love just as
much.
Do you get the picture here?
You have no idea how much you can love a child that did not come from your womb until you
love a child that did not come from your womb.
And I have two little squishy grandbabies now from my daughter that did not come from
my womb that I literally, I'm not even kidding, that I would fight a bear for.
The love is so great.
I'm a Nona and when one of them says Nona, I can't even tell you what happens to my heart.
When I hear Nona come out of one of their little mouths, I'm like, that's it.
I just, what can I do?
What can I give you?
How can I, how can I be of service to you, little child?
You guys, the love that you carry, it's, it's, it's limitless, it's limitless.
And so you've been holding yourself back.
You've been sitting around in a watermelon patch crying when there's a cabbage patch
over here full of babies waiting for you.
Remember those cabbage patch dolls?
Come on, come on.
Do you know how many kids are running around?
They don't have a mentor.
You guys, I know you, you know how tragic my childhood was.
You know that there wasn't, there's probably only one adult that I can think of that ever
tried to reach out to me in my pain.
All those teachers, all those coaches, all those camp counselors, nobody, never.
You could be that person.
You could join that big brothers, big sisters thing.
There's all kinds of organizations where you can make the difference in the life of a child
if that is your desire.
If you're burning with the desire to mother, father, okay, all right.
So friends, we're not going to sit in our watermelon patch and cry anymore, right?
I told you it was a hodgepodge today.
We're going to pray until something happens.
We're going to go back to prayer and then we're going to do what we hear in prayer.
We're not going to just be praying.
We're going to be doing, we're going to get instructions.
We're going to get inclinations.
I'm going to have a guest mentor on to talk to you guys in August about how to understand
your dreams and how to cultivate more dreams in your dream life.
You're like, wait, Jackie, can we, can we have more dreams?
Can we get God to give us more dreams?
Yeah.
Well, how do we do that?
By paying attention to the ones that you already get.
Why would God give us more of what we're not even using now?
You can also have people on that help us to do some practical things, like get our finances
in order.
A lot of us, you know, we're planning on being married, you know, it's our last year single.
Great.
But our finances are a wreck.
I love my youngest daughter, but I tell you what, her future husband has his work cut
out for her because she a spender.
She a spendy spender and she's only 23.
I get it.
She, she will grow and she will mature.
You know what?
Nothing matures you faster than not having any money for groceries when you don't live
at mom's house anymore.
So finances are important guys, and the best of the best is coming.
My business mentor is going to show up and, and mentor all of you.
And so lots of exciting things happening in the fall.
I'm calling it back to school because I feel like God's going to really give us a lot of
information in the next couple of months, August, September, October, things that can
really upgrade us and accelerate us in our lives, not just our love lives.
And so I'm excited.
All of our past sessions in phase three, and if you're not there yet, you're going to be
there by then.
Don't worry.
You're going to be there.
And some things are going to be all community.
Some of these sessions, but there, these past sessions are really going to be designed to
help upgrade you spiritually, financially, relationally with other voices besides the
voices that you've heard in this community.
So guest mentors coming in that that is their lane, that is their speciality.
And so that's what God has directed us to do.
And so that's what we're going to be doing.
And you get all of that for your little subscription that you pay.
And so I believe that God is really going to bless, bless us and accelerate us this
fall.
All right.
So father, thank you.
Thank you that we've come together.
Help us draw us into the times of supernatural understanding that we call prayer.
Draw us into the times of supernatural partnership and agreement that we call prayer or draw
us into these places.
The very things that we want, you want for us more than we want them for ourselves.
So Lord, help us to receive those things.
Help us to believe.
Lord, that you're on our side, that you're for us,
that you're with us, that life is for us,
that we can have a beautiful, abundant life on this earth,
that we are pilgrims here,
and as ambassadors from heaven here,
that you, it's your job to supply to us the resources
that we need to finish the assignment.
It's not our job, it's your job.
Our job is just to stay on assignment.
Our job is just to seek your kingdom,
and everything that we need will be added to us, Lord.
Help us to truly live in that supernatural flow,
that supernatural flow.
I just release it over each and every one of us,
including myself, supernatural flow.
We're not worried about resources,
we're not worried about friends or community,
or we're not worried about money, Lord,
because we know that if we will stay
in the supernatural flow, if we will stay focused on you,
if we will be communicating with you
in these prayer times, Lord, you will direct our steps.
You will direct our steps, you will take us to the place
where the things are that we need.
You will take us to the place
where the coin is in the fish's mouth.
You will take us to the place
that you have already provided for us.
You've already called ahead to those other people
and let them know, hey, these people are coming,
give them this.
We take Jesus's life as an example
of how we can stay in the flow.
Everything, at every point that was needed was there,
it was provided, and so Lord, we thank you, God,
that those that are ready for a partner,
those that assignment requires a partner
at this juncture, Lord, that you allow
those divine intersections to come together,
that you allow those divine appointments to be made, Lord,
so that they can meet each other.
And those that are still working
in a different patch in your harvest, Lord,
they're still working on a different patch, Lord,
that they would do it with passion, God,
they would do it with vigor, Lord,
because we're not waiting, we're preparing,
and when we're preparing, we should be serving, Lord,
and so help us to serve, Lord, help us to focus, God,
on becoming the versions of ourselves
that can sustain partnership.
And Lord, let no one have an empty basket,
let everyone have a passionate harvest
that they're excited about getting up every day
to run to in the meantime, in Jesus's name, amen.
All right, friends, love y'all, be praying for us,
this is wedding week, we'll be on the run,
we're gonna focus, and we'll be obviously going live,
posting videos, getting excited, so I'll see you soon.
Bye, everyone.