WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.760 Hey everybody, we're back. 2 00:00:01.760 --> 00:00:04.440 We're back on Saturday, Supernatural Saturday. 3 00:00:04.440 --> 00:00:08.320 Very excited for what's coming, you guys. 4 00:00:08.320 --> 00:00:11.520 I have to admit to being a little giddy this morning 5 00:00:11.520 --> 00:00:16.200 because we were working on all of the marketing 6 00:00:16.200 --> 00:00:21.200 and logo for, wait for it, Spirit Mate Match. 7 00:00:21.360 --> 00:00:23.440 Spirit Mate Match is here. 8 00:00:23.440 --> 00:00:26.720 We have the technology to go forward. 9 00:00:26.720 --> 00:00:29.960 We have the platform to go forward. 10 00:00:29.960 --> 00:00:32.920 And we are going to be going forward fast. 11 00:00:32.920 --> 00:00:35.580 If you don't know, this one thing about me, 12 00:00:35.580 --> 00:00:37.160 which you should definitely know now, 13 00:00:37.160 --> 00:00:38.920 is that I love to throw it against the wall 14 00:00:38.920 --> 00:00:40.460 and see what sticks. 15 00:00:40.460 --> 00:00:42.720 That is the type of entrepreneur I am. 16 00:00:42.720 --> 00:00:47.720 And I feel in my heart, you really can't do something 17 00:00:50.060 --> 00:00:51.380 unless you're just willing to try it out. 18 00:00:51.380 --> 00:00:53.040 You just gotta try it out, see what works, 19 00:00:53.040 --> 00:00:56.240 see what doesn't work, tweak it, bring it back. 20 00:00:56.240 --> 00:00:59.800 And so we are ready for that beta testing level 21 00:01:00.640 --> 00:01:01.480 of Spirit Mate Match. 22 00:01:01.480 --> 00:01:02.520 And guess what? 23 00:01:02.520 --> 00:01:04.760 It pays to hang in there, doesn't it? 24 00:01:04.760 --> 00:01:08.040 Because all of you are grandfathered into that. 25 00:01:08.040 --> 00:01:13.040 All of you are grandfathered into the testing of this. 26 00:01:13.160 --> 00:01:16.200 It's unlike anything that's out there. 27 00:01:16.200 --> 00:01:19.400 I'm really excited about how we're gonna use it 28 00:01:19.400 --> 00:01:20.680 and what we're gonna do. 29 00:01:20.680 --> 00:01:24.000 I put in all of your app groups. 30 00:01:24.000 --> 00:01:25.440 If you're not in your app yet, 31 00:01:25.440 --> 00:01:27.360 you gotta get in your app, okay? 32 00:01:27.400 --> 00:01:29.920 Gotta get in the app that we also had customized 33 00:01:29.920 --> 00:01:31.040 and built for you, 34 00:01:31.040 --> 00:01:33.440 so that you would have your curriculum at your fingertips, 35 00:01:33.440 --> 00:01:36.200 so you would have each other at your fingertips, 36 00:01:36.200 --> 00:01:39.080 so that it would be a more cohesive place of community 37 00:01:39.080 --> 00:01:41.840 besides being spread all out over social media. 38 00:01:41.840 --> 00:01:43.160 And so if you're not over there 39 00:01:43.160 --> 00:01:44.740 on our last year single app, 40 00:01:44.740 --> 00:01:46.920 then email us because you should be there. 41 00:01:46.920 --> 00:01:48.480 You should have been there. 42 00:01:48.480 --> 00:01:49.600 I think there's only one group 43 00:01:49.600 --> 00:01:53.560 that is kind of still migrating over there. 44 00:01:53.560 --> 00:01:56.820 So if you're in phase one on the app, 45 00:01:57.260 --> 00:01:58.300 if you're in heart work still, 46 00:01:58.300 --> 00:01:59.760 don't email us. 47 00:01:59.760 --> 00:02:02.940 We will email you because we're just slowly migrating you 48 00:02:02.940 --> 00:02:06.860 as you graduate out of phase one into phase two 49 00:02:06.860 --> 00:02:08.940 and into the app, okay? 50 00:02:08.940 --> 00:02:11.180 But I did post something over there. 51 00:02:11.180 --> 00:02:12.940 And just so I don't leave anyone out, 52 00:02:12.940 --> 00:02:15.580 I'll go ahead and post it in our Facebook groups as well, 53 00:02:15.580 --> 00:02:18.180 even though we're phasing those out slowly. 54 00:02:18.180 --> 00:02:20.160 I will post it and it just asks you, 55 00:02:20.160 --> 00:02:22.100 where are you in the world? 56 00:02:22.100 --> 00:02:23.760 What's your city, state, country? 57 00:02:23.760 --> 00:02:27.360 And the reason why is because I'm going to be using 58 00:02:27.360 --> 00:02:30.520 our SpiritMate match platform 59 00:02:30.520 --> 00:02:34.380 to put together curated matchmaking events. 60 00:02:34.380 --> 00:02:35.640 Yes, that's right. 61 00:02:35.640 --> 00:02:38.440 Events where you show up and you know 62 00:02:38.440 --> 00:02:40.700 that there's at least one or two people 63 00:02:40.700 --> 00:02:43.480 that have matched with you behind the scenes. 64 00:02:43.480 --> 00:02:44.880 And we're gonna have some fun with that. 65 00:02:44.880 --> 00:02:46.200 Maybe we'll tell you who they are. 66 00:02:46.200 --> 00:02:48.140 Maybe we won't tell you who they are. 67 00:02:48.140 --> 00:02:49.240 We're also going to set up 68 00:02:49.240 --> 00:02:51.840 for different levels of clientele, 69 00:02:51.840 --> 00:02:54.200 blind dates, shuffle dates. 70 00:02:54.200 --> 00:02:55.200 What's a shuffle date? 71 00:02:55.200 --> 00:02:57.460 It's when you have more than one date in a day 72 00:02:57.460 --> 00:02:59.360 where you get to meet several different matches 73 00:02:59.360 --> 00:03:01.160 that we have put together for you. 74 00:03:01.160 --> 00:03:02.600 Guys, I'm excited about this. 75 00:03:02.600 --> 00:03:05.660 I hope you are because wow. 76 00:03:06.820 --> 00:03:08.280 And guess what? 77 00:03:08.280 --> 00:03:10.480 We've decided to use for our logo 78 00:03:10.480 --> 00:03:13.960 for our brand new global matchmaking platform. 79 00:03:13.960 --> 00:03:16.120 That's right, the little toucan. 80 00:03:16.120 --> 00:03:18.760 Because one can't, but two can. 81 00:03:18.760 --> 00:03:22.040 And so that cute little toucan, that little buddy, 82 00:03:22.040 --> 00:03:23.640 he is our little mascot. 83 00:03:23.640 --> 00:03:25.220 And all of us behind the scenes, 84 00:03:25.220 --> 00:03:27.120 we know what that means, right? 85 00:03:27.120 --> 00:03:29.320 That rhymed, so that must be Holy Spirit. 86 00:03:29.320 --> 00:03:31.740 All of us behind the scenes, we know what that means. 87 00:03:31.740 --> 00:03:35.360 We know that that little toucan means that God is on this. 88 00:03:35.360 --> 00:03:36.920 He gave us that word. 89 00:03:36.920 --> 00:03:38.800 He said that we were better together. 90 00:03:38.800 --> 00:03:41.740 He said that we needed to partner in this season 91 00:03:41.740 --> 00:03:43.360 more than ever before. 92 00:03:43.360 --> 00:03:45.800 And so I'm excited. 93 00:03:45.800 --> 00:03:47.180 I'm so excited. 94 00:03:47.180 --> 00:03:48.380 In fact, I'm staring at the side 95 00:03:48.380 --> 00:03:49.940 of my refrigerator right now. 96 00:03:49.940 --> 00:03:51.340 And I can't let you see my face 97 00:03:51.340 --> 00:03:54.260 because I had a procedure done on it yesterday. 98 00:03:54.260 --> 00:03:56.340 Oh, who knows that aging is not fun. 99 00:03:56.340 --> 00:03:58.460 I had a little microneedling done on my face 100 00:03:58.460 --> 00:04:00.960 and I literally look crazy. 101 00:04:01.940 --> 00:04:05.980 But I'm looking at the side of my fridge right now. 102 00:04:05.980 --> 00:04:09.180 And the side of my fridge is full of pictures 103 00:04:09.180 --> 00:04:11.500 of couples that I have helped come together. 104 00:04:11.500 --> 00:04:14.940 And there's a little toucan magnet from Cartagena. 105 00:04:14.940 --> 00:04:16.820 He's sitting there too. 106 00:04:17.459 --> 00:04:18.660 But couples that I've helped come together, 107 00:04:18.660 --> 00:04:22.260 wedding invitations, reception announcements, 108 00:04:22.260 --> 00:04:25.460 all of that is here on the side of my fridge. 109 00:04:25.460 --> 00:04:26.860 And one such couple, 110 00:04:26.860 --> 00:04:29.160 I just happen to be looking at them right now, 111 00:04:30.060 --> 00:04:32.340 have such a supernatural love story. 112 00:04:32.340 --> 00:04:34.660 Before we even get into Supernatural Saturday 113 00:04:34.660 --> 00:04:36.300 and the word that we have from the Lord, 114 00:04:36.300 --> 00:04:38.340 I just wanna encourage all of you 115 00:04:38.340 --> 00:04:43.200 that I have seen the craziest love stories come to pass. 116 00:04:43.200 --> 00:04:45.620 If you think that your situation is impossible, 117 00:04:45.620 --> 00:04:47.820 then you're in good company. 118 00:04:47.820 --> 00:04:50.780 Because the things that I have seen happen 119 00:04:50.780 --> 00:04:52.020 in the last four years, 120 00:04:52.020 --> 00:04:55.740 as I've had a front row seat on this wild ride with God 121 00:04:56.780 --> 00:04:59.340 to help in the revival of marriage and family, 122 00:04:59.340 --> 00:05:00.180 it's just... 123 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:03.440 of this world, the stuff that has happened. It could never 124 00:05:03.440 --> 00:05:06.480 happen. I went and saw a love story last night. It was 125 00:05:06.480 --> 00:05:08.840 supposed to be a love story. I haven't been to the movies in a 126 00:05:08.840 --> 00:05:12.240 million years. I went with my husband to see this. It ends 127 00:05:12.240 --> 00:05:15.040 with us. I didn't really hear about what the movie was about. 128 00:05:15.040 --> 00:05:17.520 I just knew Blake Lively was in it and this cute guy and I was 129 00:05:17.520 --> 00:05:20.800 like, Oh, this is a love story. Yeah, kind of. It's kind of a 130 00:05:20.800 --> 00:05:23.760 love story. It's more about domestic violence. So if that is 131 00:05:23.760 --> 00:05:26.360 your background, trigger warning, you probably don't want 132 00:05:26.360 --> 00:05:29.960 to go see that movie. Okay, you probably don't want to because 133 00:05:29.960 --> 00:05:32.440 it alludes to enough doesn't show anything really graphic, 134 00:05:32.440 --> 00:05:36.320 but it alludes enough to it, that if that is something that 135 00:05:36.320 --> 00:05:39.080 you're still healing from, you probably do not want to see 136 00:05:39.080 --> 00:05:44.360 that. But Hollywood tries their best to come up with these love 137 00:05:44.360 --> 00:05:48.280 story scenarios. And there's at least here's a spoiler alert. So 138 00:05:49.080 --> 00:05:51.240 plug your ears if you don't want anything spoiled for you about 139 00:05:51.240 --> 00:05:55.640 that movie. But they try to kind of allude to a soulmate 140 00:05:55.640 --> 00:06:00.600 situation. Okay, a meant to be together met when we were kids, 141 00:06:00.640 --> 00:06:05.440 you're my person kind of situation. And it just falls 142 00:06:05.440 --> 00:06:11.920 flat, in my opinion. It just falls flat. Because most 143 00:06:11.920 --> 00:06:14.960 everything that Hollywood tries to do, they try to do it from 144 00:06:14.960 --> 00:06:18.600 that flesh place, right? They are definitely hashtag team 145 00:06:18.600 --> 00:06:22.320 flesh, aren't they? And so they try to do from that flesh place 146 00:06:22.320 --> 00:06:26.080 and never really able to get into that spirit place. And so I 147 00:06:26.080 --> 00:06:29.520 really want to encourage all of you this morning that God has a 148 00:06:29.520 --> 00:06:35.880 spirit mate for you. A spirit mate for you. That is different 149 00:06:35.880 --> 00:06:40.040 than a flesh mate. That's even different than a soulmate. It is 150 00:06:40.400 --> 00:06:45.240 it is a person. Okay, a human being that's walking around, but 151 00:06:45.240 --> 00:06:49.920 inside of that flesh casing, they have a spirit that is 152 00:06:49.920 --> 00:06:54.440 intertwined in your story. They have a spirit that can partner 153 00:06:54.440 --> 00:06:58.080 with your spirit. And you guys can get things done. It's like 154 00:06:58.080 --> 00:07:03.560 the scripture that says one can put to flight 1000. But to 10,000. 155 00:07:03.840 --> 00:07:07.120 And right if you keep doing the math, and it exposes exponentially 156 00:07:07.120 --> 00:07:10.440 it keeps increasing, doesn't it? And that's why we don't just 157 00:07:10.440 --> 00:07:13.680 need our spirit mate, we also need our spirit mates. And we 158 00:07:13.680 --> 00:07:17.400 need to be surrounded by community. We have to have 159 00:07:17.400 --> 00:07:21.680 community. And so what are some of the things that you can be 160 00:07:21.680 --> 00:07:25.680 doing while your love story is unfolding? Remember, you're not 161 00:07:25.680 --> 00:07:28.520 waiting for your love story, your love story is unfolding. 162 00:07:28.840 --> 00:07:31.880 Right now the life that you're living is part of your story. It 163 00:07:31.880 --> 00:07:34.640 is your story. And it's part of your love story. And it's 164 00:07:34.640 --> 00:07:37.640 important for you to think from that perspective. That's a 165 00:07:37.640 --> 00:07:40.560 heavenly perspective. Because if you don't, you're going to go sit 166 00:07:40.560 --> 00:07:43.840 in some dusty, musty waiting room. And you're not going to get 167 00:07:43.840 --> 00:07:47.880 any prep work done. You're not going to get any prep work done. 168 00:07:48.120 --> 00:07:51.720 Remember, the word wait, actually means to expectantly 169 00:07:51.760 --> 00:07:56.960 prepare, like being pregnant. And so you need to be preparing 170 00:07:57.440 --> 00:08:01.520 as you're gestating. You're not waiting, you're gestating. Say 171 00:08:01.520 --> 00:08:06.320 that over myself. I'm not waiting. I'm gestating. I'm 172 00:08:06.320 --> 00:08:11.840 gestating. The things that I'm hoping for, they already exist. 173 00:08:12.800 --> 00:08:16.840 They already exist. It's not a situation where I'm wishing and 174 00:08:16.840 --> 00:08:21.400 hoping that this will manifest. It already exists. God has 175 00:08:21.400 --> 00:08:25.720 already spoken it into motion. Now what do we need to do? We 176 00:08:25.720 --> 00:08:29.160 need to be partnering with that. We've got to be partnering with 177 00:08:29.160 --> 00:08:32.600 that. And so that is the that's the perspective shift that you 178 00:08:32.600 --> 00:08:37.000 want to have is that I have an assignment on this earth. That's 179 00:08:37.000 --> 00:08:39.760 not a one person assignment. It's a two person assignment. 180 00:08:40.760 --> 00:08:45.560 I've been doing the best that I can with what I have up until 181 00:08:45.560 --> 00:08:50.440 now. But there's coming a day very soon, when I'm going to 182 00:08:50.440 --> 00:08:57.680 need a partner for what is to come. One can't, but two can. 183 00:08:58.400 --> 00:09:01.720 Right. And so these are the perspective shifts that you have 184 00:09:01.720 --> 00:09:07.440 to make in order to stay in a place of hope. You have to stay 185 00:09:07.720 --> 00:09:10.560 in a place of hope. There's a scripture in the Bible that says 186 00:09:10.560 --> 00:09:15.480 perfect love casts out all fear. Why? Why does it cast out all 187 00:09:15.480 --> 00:09:18.960 fear? Why does it banish fear from our lives? It doesn't just 188 00:09:18.960 --> 00:09:21.960 rent fear a room in the basement, it kicks it out 189 00:09:21.960 --> 00:09:26.120 totally. The more that we allow love in, the more there's no 190 00:09:26.120 --> 00:09:30.040 room for fear to abide. And it's important that we understand 191 00:09:30.040 --> 00:09:35.520 that because with fear comes torment. Raise your hand if you 192 00:09:35.520 --> 00:09:40.680 have worrisome thoughts that torment you in different areas. 193 00:09:41.320 --> 00:09:43.960 You know, when they come, you try to push them aside, you 194 00:09:43.960 --> 00:09:46.240 know, and you do a good job for the most part, but they just 195 00:09:46.240 --> 00:09:50.640 come right back. They come right back. Maybe fears about your 196 00:09:50.640 --> 00:09:53.520 health, maybe fears about your wealth, am I going to have 197 00:09:53.520 --> 00:09:56.560 enough money to make it through? Maybe fears about this subject? 198 00:09:56.560 --> 00:10:00.080 Am I going to die alone? You know, maybe fears about 199 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:03.240 about your children, fears about other relationships, 200 00:10:03.240 --> 00:10:05.040 maybe even fears about eternity, 201 00:10:05.040 --> 00:10:06.700 like what's that look like? 202 00:10:08.480 --> 00:10:09.800 Lots and lots of hands up, 203 00:10:09.800 --> 00:10:11.240 pretty much every hand should be up 204 00:10:11.240 --> 00:10:12.520 because there's no one I don't think 205 00:10:12.520 --> 00:10:15.640 that doesn't have intrusive and unwanted thoughts 206 00:10:15.640 --> 00:10:16.660 at some level. 207 00:10:17.960 --> 00:10:20.880 But if you have reoccurring intrusive and unwanted thoughts, 208 00:10:20.880 --> 00:10:24.280 especially in a certain area, there's a root there. 209 00:10:25.440 --> 00:10:26.840 There's a root system there. 210 00:10:27.800 --> 00:10:30.200 Yesterday, I had a situation, 211 00:10:30.200 --> 00:10:31.600 I can't go into the full story 212 00:10:31.600 --> 00:10:33.000 because I feel like it would be too long 213 00:10:33.000 --> 00:10:35.120 and I'd have to give too much backstory. 214 00:10:35.120 --> 00:10:37.720 But I was faced with a situation that caused me 215 00:10:37.720 --> 00:10:42.720 to understand that I don't trust God in this area of my life 216 00:10:43.520 --> 00:10:46.280 because it's easy to say that we trust God 217 00:10:46.280 --> 00:10:49.560 when what is happening in our life is still in our control. 218 00:10:52.600 --> 00:10:54.320 Right, does that make sense? 219 00:10:54.480 --> 00:10:59.000 It's easy to say, let's get that person muted real quick 220 00:10:59.000 --> 00:10:59.980 so that we can, 221 00:11:03.520 --> 00:11:05.400 make sure your little microphone is red 222 00:11:05.400 --> 00:11:07.200 because if it's not, then it's you. 223 00:11:12.040 --> 00:11:12.880 All right. 224 00:11:15.620 --> 00:11:17.960 It's easy to say we trust 225 00:11:17.960 --> 00:11:22.420 when there's nothing to trust for, right? 226 00:11:22.420 --> 00:11:26.820 What's happening is definitely fully in our control 227 00:11:27.820 --> 00:11:32.820 and we don't have to lean in to God's love. 228 00:11:33.360 --> 00:11:35.220 We don't have to lean into, 229 00:11:35.220 --> 00:11:37.380 hey, you know, I believe he's gonna defend me. 230 00:11:37.380 --> 00:11:38.740 Remember, we talk about something 231 00:11:38.740 --> 00:11:40.940 in this community called being God defended. 232 00:11:42.780 --> 00:11:44.820 And it's easy to believe that you're God defended 233 00:11:44.820 --> 00:11:47.380 when you don't have any reason to be God defended. 234 00:11:47.380 --> 00:11:49.140 Do you guys see where I'm going here? 235 00:11:50.140 --> 00:11:52.460 And I ran into that yesterday. 236 00:11:52.460 --> 00:11:54.900 You know, I love God, I believe he loves me. 237 00:11:54.900 --> 00:11:56.940 I believe he's for me and he's with me. 238 00:11:57.820 --> 00:11:59.940 I believe that life is for me because of him. 239 00:11:59.940 --> 00:12:01.900 I know that nothing is ever gonna be perfect. 240 00:12:01.900 --> 00:12:03.260 I'm not looking for perfection, 241 00:12:03.260 --> 00:12:05.780 looking for progress in my life. 242 00:12:05.780 --> 00:12:07.980 But yesterday I was faced with a situation 243 00:12:07.980 --> 00:12:11.100 where it was out of my control to know 244 00:12:11.100 --> 00:12:13.380 whether or not I was in a safe place. 245 00:12:14.620 --> 00:12:16.380 I couldn't check the boxes. 246 00:12:16.380 --> 00:12:18.380 I couldn't look at the fine print. 247 00:12:18.860 --> 00:12:21.540 I just had to shoot up a prayer to God and say, 248 00:12:21.540 --> 00:12:24.220 hey, I need you to take care of this situation right now, 249 00:12:24.220 --> 00:12:25.900 right here in real time, 250 00:12:25.900 --> 00:12:27.460 because I'm not sure that the things 251 00:12:27.460 --> 00:12:29.020 that are being done behind the scenes 252 00:12:29.020 --> 00:12:30.420 are in my best interest. 253 00:12:32.300 --> 00:12:34.380 And I started to get a lot of anxiety, 254 00:12:34.380 --> 00:12:35.900 started to panic a little bit, 255 00:12:37.300 --> 00:12:39.260 because it was a situation where 256 00:12:39.260 --> 00:12:41.420 if those things were not in my best interest, 257 00:12:41.420 --> 00:12:43.980 there could be a lot of harm that would come to me. 258 00:12:44.940 --> 00:12:46.700 And in those moments of me not being able 259 00:12:46.700 --> 00:12:48.060 to control that outcome, 260 00:12:48.060 --> 00:12:50.420 or not being able to even control the information 261 00:12:50.420 --> 00:12:51.860 that I was receiving, 262 00:12:51.860 --> 00:12:55.100 I had to do what God has asked us to do 263 00:12:55.100 --> 00:12:57.020 every day of our lives anyway, 264 00:12:57.020 --> 00:13:00.900 and that is come up in his secret place, 265 00:13:00.900 --> 00:13:02.660 come up under his wings of protection. 266 00:13:02.660 --> 00:13:04.060 Remember Psalm 91? 267 00:13:07.940 --> 00:13:10.180 To trust him to protect me. 268 00:13:10.180 --> 00:13:12.460 And it was in that moment that he whispered this to me, 269 00:13:12.460 --> 00:13:14.540 and I'm gonna whisper it to you. 270 00:13:14.540 --> 00:13:16.620 He said, Jackie, you have to trust me. 271 00:13:18.740 --> 00:13:19.900 You have to trust me. 272 00:13:20.860 --> 00:13:21.980 I can't just say that I trust him, 273 00:13:21.980 --> 00:13:23.980 I have to trust him. 274 00:13:23.980 --> 00:13:24.820 That he is what? 275 00:13:24.820 --> 00:13:27.420 That he is defending me, that he is taking care of me. 276 00:13:28.700 --> 00:13:31.420 That he is making sure that nothing is happening to me, 277 00:13:31.420 --> 00:13:35.100 even when I can't make sure that nothing's happening to me. 278 00:13:35.100 --> 00:13:36.980 Come on y'all, follow me here. 279 00:13:38.660 --> 00:13:42.340 Even when I can't make sure that nothing's happening to me. 280 00:13:45.380 --> 00:13:46.620 And then he went on to say, 281 00:13:46.620 --> 00:13:51.620 and the reason why is because if you can't trust me 282 00:13:51.620 --> 00:13:53.580 in these kind of smaller things, 283 00:13:53.580 --> 00:13:58.580 then how can I take you where I wanna take you? 284 00:13:59.900 --> 00:14:03.500 Where there's gonna be much bigger things to trust me in. 285 00:14:03.500 --> 00:14:04.540 Do you guys feel that? 286 00:14:07.500 --> 00:14:09.860 Look, I'm not downplaying singlehood. 287 00:14:09.860 --> 00:14:12.060 I know singlehood is hard. 288 00:14:12.580 --> 00:14:14.340 I was a single mom for a brief moment. 289 00:14:14.340 --> 00:14:15.940 I understand the fear and the worry 290 00:14:15.940 --> 00:14:17.380 and all the different things. 291 00:14:17.380 --> 00:14:20.300 And I understand that not having two incomes 292 00:14:20.300 --> 00:14:22.340 or not having someone to lean on in hard times. 293 00:14:22.340 --> 00:14:24.380 I mean, the list can go on and on and on. 294 00:14:26.100 --> 00:14:27.420 But I'm gonna tell you right now 295 00:14:27.420 --> 00:14:30.780 that marriage is public enemy number one 296 00:14:30.780 --> 00:14:32.580 to the forces of darkness. 297 00:14:34.700 --> 00:14:35.980 Okay? 298 00:14:35.980 --> 00:14:38.540 And so when you ask God for a partner 299 00:14:38.540 --> 00:14:39.820 and you're asking for marriage, 300 00:14:39.860 --> 00:14:41.100 when you're asking for marriage, 301 00:14:41.100 --> 00:14:44.060 what you're really asking for is an uptick in warfare. 302 00:14:47.540 --> 00:14:48.380 You are. 303 00:14:49.780 --> 00:14:50.820 You know that, right? 304 00:14:53.100 --> 00:14:55.580 Now you don't just have to trust God for yourself 305 00:14:55.580 --> 00:14:56.540 and for your own wellbeing. 306 00:14:56.540 --> 00:14:59.380 You have to trust him for another person 307 00:14:59.380 --> 00:15:00.220 and for a partner. 308 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:07.660 partnership, and if you're in this age bracket, for a family. 309 00:15:07.660 --> 00:15:12.400 And possibly that partner comes with a ready-made family already. 310 00:15:12.400 --> 00:15:13.580 So do you see what I'm saying? 311 00:15:13.580 --> 00:15:17.760 There's going to be an increase in your need to trust God. 312 00:15:17.760 --> 00:15:22.040 And that's what he was saying to me, he was saying, Jackie, this is small potatoes compared 313 00:15:22.040 --> 00:15:28.040 to the potatoes that you have to trust me for if you want to go where I have promised 314 00:15:28.040 --> 00:15:32.400 to take you. 315 00:15:32.400 --> 00:15:42.520 So raise your hand if you feel like you could use some more trust. 316 00:15:42.520 --> 00:15:46.120 Raise your hand if you're in the boat with me where, you know, we think we trust God 317 00:15:46.120 --> 00:15:50.640 until we're faced with a situation where we're really not in control. 318 00:15:50.640 --> 00:15:55.800 And now we're just really not that sure if it's going to work out okay. 319 00:15:55.800 --> 00:16:01.360 Yeah, me too, me too, hashtag me too. 320 00:16:01.360 --> 00:16:04.760 But the Bible says that perfect love casts out fear. 321 00:16:04.760 --> 00:16:07.440 Remember, fear is the opposite of love, not hate. 322 00:16:07.440 --> 00:16:08.440 Fear. 323 00:16:08.440 --> 00:16:10.280 Hate's just a byproduct of fear. 324 00:16:10.280 --> 00:16:12.800 You know what else is a byproduct of fear? 325 00:16:12.800 --> 00:16:13.800 Control. 326 00:16:13.800 --> 00:16:16.380 Control is a byproduct of fear. 327 00:16:16.380 --> 00:16:19.040 That's why I write about control in the beginning of the heart work. 328 00:16:19.040 --> 00:16:22.840 In the beginning of that curriculum, you see a lot about fear there, you see a lot about 329 00:16:22.840 --> 00:16:24.280 control there. 330 00:16:24.280 --> 00:16:31.400 The reason why is because that is the antithesis of what God is. 331 00:16:31.400 --> 00:16:32.560 God doesn't just have love. 332 00:16:32.560 --> 00:16:34.000 He is love. 333 00:16:34.000 --> 00:16:37.080 He is love. 334 00:16:37.080 --> 00:16:43.000 It's important for us to understand that because when we're in fear, we're outside of God. 335 00:16:43.000 --> 00:16:44.000 Come on. 336 00:16:44.000 --> 00:16:49.460 Come on, friends, let's do this. 337 00:16:49.460 --> 00:16:55.820 We are separating ourselves from the love in which we live and breathe and have our 338 00:16:55.820 --> 00:16:58.940 being. 339 00:16:58.940 --> 00:17:01.020 Now are we physically actually separated from God? 340 00:17:01.020 --> 00:17:02.620 No, you're always in God. 341 00:17:02.620 --> 00:17:04.859 But we're mentally separating ourselves from God. 342 00:17:04.859 --> 00:17:14.420 We're emotionally separating ourselves from God when we side with fear, when we side with 343 00:17:14.420 --> 00:17:16.060 the evil forebodings. 344 00:17:16.060 --> 00:17:19.420 We all have the intrusive thoughts. 345 00:17:19.420 --> 00:17:20.420 We can't get away. 346 00:17:20.420 --> 00:17:21.420 That's the human condition. 347 00:17:21.420 --> 00:17:22.619 I don't care who you are. 348 00:17:22.619 --> 00:17:23.780 You have intrusive thoughts. 349 00:17:23.780 --> 00:17:28.900 You have unwanted thoughts that show up, knock at the door, want to come in, want to hang 350 00:17:28.900 --> 00:17:29.900 out for a while. 351 00:17:29.900 --> 00:17:35.820 Some of us let them hang out a little too long, right? 352 00:17:35.820 --> 00:17:40.020 Some of us may have an issue with letting them hang out a little too long. 353 00:17:40.020 --> 00:17:45.180 Even the irrational ones, the irrational thoughts, the thoughts that if we told other people 354 00:17:45.180 --> 00:17:49.100 what it is that we were struggling with in our thought life, they might think we're a 355 00:17:49.100 --> 00:17:54.220 little cray-cray because the thought is that irrational. 356 00:17:54.220 --> 00:17:58.460 I want to tell you that I have that problem. 357 00:17:58.460 --> 00:18:00.500 I've come a long way, baby. 358 00:18:00.500 --> 00:18:02.060 I have. 359 00:18:02.060 --> 00:18:07.820 In my 20s, I had such severe what they call obsessive compulsive disorder that if I left 360 00:18:07.820 --> 00:18:15.380 my water bottle in my house where there is no one else, but if I left it unattended and 361 00:18:15.380 --> 00:18:19.420 came back to it, I would wonder what happened to it. 362 00:18:19.420 --> 00:18:25.420 I would have intrusive thoughts about it being tampered with and possibly poisoned. 363 00:18:25.420 --> 00:18:26.920 What is that, friends? 364 00:18:26.920 --> 00:18:31.660 That is complex post-traumatic stress disorder at its finest. 365 00:18:31.660 --> 00:18:38.660 That is being so hypervigilant about my safety and my well-being that my mind actually fragmented 366 00:18:38.820 --> 00:18:45.420 and started to become so hypervigilant of danger that it was creating dangerous scenarios 367 00:18:45.420 --> 00:18:49.540 that were causing severe anxiety for me. 368 00:18:49.540 --> 00:18:52.700 Anyone else relate to this? 369 00:18:52.700 --> 00:18:58.580 Anyone else relate to irrational thoughts, things that don't make any sense, things that 370 00:18:58.580 --> 00:19:04.100 there's a very slim to no chance of ever happening and yet somehow it's renting space in your 371 00:19:04.100 --> 00:19:07.780 head? 372 00:19:07.780 --> 00:19:11.420 Somehow it's renting space in your head. 373 00:19:11.420 --> 00:19:19.140 If you want to be brave this morning and practice James 516, well, go ahead and confess what 374 00:19:19.140 --> 00:19:20.140 those things are. 375 00:19:20.140 --> 00:19:21.140 I just told you one of mine. 376 00:19:21.140 --> 00:19:23.140 I do not have that issue anymore. 377 00:19:23.140 --> 00:19:27.940 I still don't like to drink after other people, but it has nothing to do with being poisoned. 378 00:19:27.940 --> 00:19:30.100 Go ahead and put those in the chat. 379 00:19:30.100 --> 00:19:33.100 What are the scenarios that torment your mind? 380 00:19:33.100 --> 00:19:36.380 They're irrational. 381 00:19:36.380 --> 00:19:40.620 You know that you shouldn't worry about it. 382 00:19:40.620 --> 00:19:44.940 You try to turn those fears over to God, but they do come back, the areas where they do 383 00:19:44.940 --> 00:19:45.940 come back. 384 00:19:45.940 --> 00:19:50.900 I turn my fears over to God too, friends, but there are things, there are areas that 385 00:19:50.900 --> 00:19:56.060 continue to try to torment me in certain areas. 386 00:19:56.060 --> 00:20:00.020 Let's call it habitual worry. 387 00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:05.440 free if that makes you feel better instead of evil, foreboding, intrusive thoughts. 388 00:20:05.440 --> 00:20:12.920 We can just call it habitual worry. 389 00:20:12.920 --> 00:20:16.800 There's things. 390 00:20:16.800 --> 00:20:21.120 There's things that try to continue to steal our joy and separate us from the love that 391 00:20:21.120 --> 00:20:22.120 we're living in. 392 00:20:22.120 --> 00:20:28.280 God is love. 393 00:20:28.280 --> 00:20:29.840 God is love. 394 00:20:29.840 --> 00:20:31.120 You are loved. 395 00:20:31.120 --> 00:20:32.200 You live in love. 396 00:20:32.200 --> 00:20:40.800 You have been made for and made by love. 397 00:20:40.800 --> 00:20:45.480 So I had kind of more of a clinical issue in this area, right? 398 00:20:45.480 --> 00:20:52.480 And I got it honestly because my father before me had been diagnosed with these disorders 399 00:20:52.480 --> 00:20:57.680 and my brother, who's been homeless for almost 30 years, had been diagnosed with these disorders. 400 00:20:57.680 --> 00:21:03.240 And as I met Jesus in my 20s and it didn't get better, I want to make sure that I say 401 00:21:03.240 --> 00:21:08.040 that because we do such a disservice when we say, oh, you met Jesus, everything's better 402 00:21:08.040 --> 00:21:09.040 now. 403 00:21:09.040 --> 00:21:10.040 No. 404 00:21:10.040 --> 00:21:14.680 I had the potential of everything getting better, but even Jesus himself said that you 405 00:21:14.680 --> 00:21:21.880 will need to continue in my word and you will know the truth and it will make you free. 406 00:21:21.880 --> 00:21:27.640 So don't give up on Jesus just because everything hasn't been better in the snap of your finger. 407 00:21:28.600 --> 00:21:32.320 I promise you one thing, because I've lived both ways, because remember, I didn't meet 408 00:21:32.320 --> 00:21:36.800 Jesus until I was, you know, an adult. 409 00:21:36.800 --> 00:21:43.120 It's better to suffer with him than without him. 410 00:21:43.120 --> 00:21:44.120 It is. 411 00:21:44.120 --> 00:21:45.120 Okay. 412 00:21:45.120 --> 00:21:47.080 In this life, there will be suffering. 413 00:21:47.080 --> 00:21:49.360 There will be times of hurt and pain. 414 00:21:49.360 --> 00:21:50.880 There will be trial and tribulation. 415 00:21:50.880 --> 00:21:52.520 There will be. 416 00:21:52.520 --> 00:21:56.280 But suffering with him is much better than suffering without him. 417 00:21:56.280 --> 00:21:57.280 But there's good news. 418 00:21:57.280 --> 00:22:00.280 And the good news is that he has overcome the world. 419 00:22:00.280 --> 00:22:03.080 He has overcome the things that want to overcome you. 420 00:22:03.080 --> 00:22:04.320 Say that to yourself. 421 00:22:04.320 --> 00:22:11.520 Jesus has overcome the things that are trying to overcome me. 422 00:22:11.520 --> 00:22:16.600 Every single thing that those, those fears, those unwanted and intrusive thoughts are 423 00:22:16.600 --> 00:22:21.160 rooted in, he has overcome at the finished work of the cross. 424 00:22:21.160 --> 00:22:24.800 That memo just hasn't caught up to your body yet. 425 00:22:24.800 --> 00:22:29.400 A lot of us, we have been through so much hard times and so much abuse that our body 426 00:22:29.400 --> 00:22:32.920 is hypervigilant of our safety. 427 00:22:32.920 --> 00:22:34.320 That's where the anxiety comes from. 428 00:22:34.320 --> 00:22:36.360 That's where the panic attacks come from. 429 00:22:36.360 --> 00:22:39.640 That's where the intrusive worry comes from. 430 00:22:39.640 --> 00:22:45.160 It's just you trying to protect you. 431 00:22:45.160 --> 00:22:46.160 You trying to protect you. 432 00:22:46.160 --> 00:22:47.640 That's what worry is. 433 00:22:47.640 --> 00:22:51.760 Worry is hypervigilance, right? 434 00:22:51.760 --> 00:22:55.880 We're thinking about something over and over and over again, as if by thinking about it, 435 00:22:55.880 --> 00:22:58.680 we can keep it from happening or we can be ready for it. 436 00:22:58.680 --> 00:23:04.320 We don't have to get sacri punched or blindsided because we're keeping it in our scope. 437 00:23:04.320 --> 00:23:08.680 No, we can let it go. 438 00:23:08.680 --> 00:23:09.680 We can LIG it. 439 00:23:09.680 --> 00:23:10.680 We can let it go. 440 00:23:10.680 --> 00:23:16.240 He said, cast all your care upon me because I care for you. 441 00:23:16.240 --> 00:23:19.840 And this is not an advertisement for your Jesus cares board, but if you haven't made 442 00:23:19.920 --> 00:23:25.040 one, you definitely should because can I tell you after I've been explaining to you the 443 00:23:25.040 --> 00:23:30.520 way that my mind worked from having complex post-traumatic stress disorder, my childhood 444 00:23:30.520 --> 00:23:35.240 was the type of childhood where you did not know what was going to happen from moment 445 00:23:35.240 --> 00:23:36.680 to moment. 446 00:23:36.680 --> 00:23:39.840 You did not know what was going to happen. 447 00:23:39.840 --> 00:23:48.080 So often when you had your guard down, something terrible happens in my childhood. 448 00:23:48.080 --> 00:23:50.760 And so I learned to live guarded. 449 00:23:50.760 --> 00:23:53.360 I learned to live looking over one shoulder. 450 00:23:53.360 --> 00:23:55.480 I learned to sleep with one eye open. 451 00:23:55.480 --> 00:23:57.400 Do you feel me? 452 00:23:57.400 --> 00:24:01.880 And those are hard habits to break. 453 00:24:01.880 --> 00:24:07.000 I've come such a long way in the 28 years that I've been walking with Jesus, but hopefully 454 00:24:07.000 --> 00:24:11.680 it is encouraging to you to know that I'm not all the way there. 455 00:24:11.680 --> 00:24:15.080 I still have to choose team spirit. 456 00:24:15.080 --> 00:24:16.840 I still do. 457 00:24:16.840 --> 00:24:23.440 There's still irrational, unwanted thoughts that try to come and steal my joy. 458 00:24:23.440 --> 00:24:27.800 The difference now is, is I don't let them hang around for long. 459 00:24:27.800 --> 00:24:33.520 I used to let them hang around for days and weeks and months and sometimes years. 460 00:24:33.520 --> 00:24:40.400 In my twenties I had been diagnosed with anxiety disorders and panic disorder, obsessive compulsive, 461 00:24:40.400 --> 00:24:42.800 you just name them. 462 00:24:42.800 --> 00:24:48.120 And all they were was my inability to cast my cares upon Jesus. 463 00:24:48.120 --> 00:24:51.400 I didn't know him that well yet. 464 00:24:51.400 --> 00:24:52.480 Let's just be honest. 465 00:24:52.480 --> 00:24:53.480 I met him. 466 00:24:53.480 --> 00:24:54.480 It was amazing. 467 00:24:54.480 --> 00:24:59.240 It was incredible, but I didn't know him that well yet. 468 00:24:59.240 --> 00:25:00.040 There were little things. 469 00:25:00.000 --> 00:25:04.640 that I could give into his care, but the bigger things I still thought were my issues to bear. 470 00:25:06.960 --> 00:25:10.480 Especially if I had created the problem myself. 471 00:25:12.720 --> 00:25:16.400 That's an important thing to look at, especially if I had created the problem myself. 472 00:25:17.200 --> 00:25:22.880 If my bad decisions had created the problem, then there was no way that I was going to give him the 473 00:25:22.880 --> 00:25:27.360 consequences. I was going to hold on to those consequences. I was going to live and suffer 474 00:25:27.360 --> 00:25:32.560 in those consequences. This morning, I'm here to tell you that you no longer have to lay in 475 00:25:32.560 --> 00:25:37.840 the bed that you made. You can lay in the bed that Jesus made at the finished work of the cross. 476 00:25:38.640 --> 00:25:42.160 I want to encourage you to do that. The sheets are so soft. They smell so good. 477 00:25:43.760 --> 00:25:46.000 It's such a place of rest and comfort. 478 00:25:48.800 --> 00:25:54.160 It's not you that have been discipled by religion and legalism. It's not you 479 00:25:54.240 --> 00:25:58.720 copping out of the consequences. It's not you getting away with it. 480 00:26:01.280 --> 00:26:05.440 The hard truth is that when Jesus died for you and as you, 481 00:26:05.440 --> 00:26:10.320 he vindicated you and he declared you innocent. I know that's hard to handle, 482 00:26:10.320 --> 00:26:14.720 friends, especially for those of us that have been raised with punishment. 483 00:26:18.080 --> 00:26:21.440 But when you understand that kind of love right there, guess what? 484 00:26:21.440 --> 00:26:27.760 It kicks all fear to the curb, doesn't it? It kicks all fear to the curb, doesn't it? 485 00:26:29.280 --> 00:26:34.640 That's what it means when it says perfect love casts out fear. If you really believe 486 00:26:34.640 --> 00:26:38.960 that Jesus loved you like that, then there's nothing to be afraid of. 487 00:26:42.480 --> 00:26:43.920 There's nothing to be afraid of. 488 00:26:44.080 --> 00:26:47.280 Because if he died for you, wouldn't he also give you everything that you need? 489 00:26:49.840 --> 00:26:53.200 He would. I want to talk about the word shalom. 490 00:26:55.040 --> 00:26:59.680 It may be a new word to you. It may be a word that some of you use all the time because you've 491 00:26:59.680 --> 00:27:09.520 heard other people use it and you're into the whole Hebrew plus English movements of church. 492 00:27:10.480 --> 00:27:17.680 Like me, you celebrate Rosh Hashanah and you're into all the things that I believe are just, 493 00:27:17.680 --> 00:27:21.840 we're just a continuation and a fulfillment of a lot of the things 494 00:27:21.840 --> 00:27:26.480 that our Hebrew brothers and sisters had access to. 495 00:27:29.200 --> 00:27:32.240 We're not a new thing, we're a continuation of a thing. 496 00:27:32.880 --> 00:27:39.120 So the word shalom, a lot of people use that word to greet people, to leave people. Shalom, 497 00:27:39.120 --> 00:27:46.400 shalom. People use it to talk about peace, our English word peace. And when we think about the 498 00:27:46.400 --> 00:27:53.280 word peace in the Bible, the scripture that jumps out at me more than any is that I will give you 499 00:27:53.280 --> 00:28:01.280 my peace that I will give you my peace. And I will give you my peace that I will give you my peace. 500 00:28:02.800 --> 00:28:08.000 Understanding. What is that about? That's about human understanding, human intellect. 501 00:28:08.560 --> 00:28:14.880 Something is happening when that supernatural peace and the prince of peace come to us, 502 00:28:14.880 --> 00:28:19.520 Jesus. When that happens, when that comes to us through the power of Holy Spirit, 503 00:28:19.520 --> 00:28:26.640 it surpasses circumstances and understanding. It doesn't make sense, that peace. It's where 504 00:28:26.640 --> 00:28:33.040 you can have confidence and peace, where you can feel held and grounded. You can feel like 505 00:28:33.040 --> 00:28:41.360 you're on solid ground when everything around you is shaking. Right? There's quicksand all around 506 00:28:41.360 --> 00:28:46.800 you, but you're on this little patch of solid ground. It's that kind of peace. The kind of 507 00:28:46.800 --> 00:28:51.840 peace that doesn't make any sense. I remember having that kind of peace when my mother was 508 00:28:51.920 --> 00:28:59.520 leaving this life and transitioning in the ICU. The visage before me was pretty gruesome. 509 00:29:00.320 --> 00:29:05.440 And yet when I walked into that room, all I felt was peace, the peace of God. 510 00:29:06.320 --> 00:29:16.400 That's all I felt. I didn't even shed a tear in those times because I was being so held by 511 00:29:17.360 --> 00:29:23.600 love and peace. And even joy was coming and paying visits. 512 00:29:25.760 --> 00:29:29.200 All right, you guys, it doesn't make any sense. It doesn't make any natural sense. 513 00:29:29.200 --> 00:29:32.800 So let's talk about the word shalom, because I believe that we're going to supernaturally 514 00:29:32.800 --> 00:29:40.080 release that word over all of the worry, over all the intrusive and obsessive and unwanted thoughts, 515 00:29:40.640 --> 00:29:44.800 over all the reoccurring narratives of, hey, this isn't going to work out. And I'm not just 516 00:29:44.800 --> 00:29:50.160 talking about your love story, because you're already in a love story. You already have a love 517 00:29:50.160 --> 00:29:55.760 story and you're already in that love story. The other character, the partner that God has 518 00:29:55.760 --> 00:29:59.440 for you for the assignment, that might not have shown up yet in the story, but 519 00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:02.000 You're already in the story. 520 00:30:02.000 --> 00:30:04.000 It started with you and God. 521 00:30:04.000 --> 00:30:06.000 Right? 522 00:30:06.000 --> 00:30:08.000 That's the love story. 523 00:30:08.000 --> 00:30:10.000 And yes, there are other characters in this story 524 00:30:10.000 --> 00:30:12.000 that will come in and out of our lives 525 00:30:12.000 --> 00:30:14.000 as we walk forward. 526 00:30:16.000 --> 00:30:18.000 And one of those being a partner. 527 00:30:18.000 --> 00:30:20.000 And yeah, I do say in and out 528 00:30:20.000 --> 00:30:22.000 because we say till death or till transition 529 00:30:22.000 --> 00:30:24.000 do we part, 530 00:30:24.000 --> 00:30:26.000 but there are people here 531 00:30:26.000 --> 00:30:28.000 that will outlive their partner. 532 00:30:28.000 --> 00:30:30.000 You will. 533 00:30:30.000 --> 00:30:32.000 Your partner will come and they will be with you 534 00:30:32.000 --> 00:30:34.000 for a season, who knows how long that season is, 535 00:30:34.000 --> 00:30:36.000 but you'll outlive them 536 00:30:36.000 --> 00:30:38.000 and some of them will outlive you. 537 00:30:38.000 --> 00:30:40.000 You see what I'm saying, right? 538 00:30:40.000 --> 00:30:42.000 The permanent relationship 539 00:30:42.000 --> 00:30:44.000 in the love story 540 00:30:44.000 --> 00:30:46.000 is between you and God. 541 00:30:46.000 --> 00:30:48.000 You and your Abba. 542 00:30:50.000 --> 00:30:52.000 It's important for us to remember that. 543 00:30:52.000 --> 00:30:54.000 And all of the other people 544 00:30:54.000 --> 00:30:56.000 are players in this story. 545 00:30:56.000 --> 00:30:58.000 People that have been written into the chapters 546 00:30:58.000 --> 00:31:00.000 and lines and prose 547 00:31:00.000 --> 00:31:02.000 of our story 548 00:31:02.000 --> 00:31:04.000 to help us to heal 549 00:31:04.000 --> 00:31:06.000 and to learn 550 00:31:06.000 --> 00:31:08.000 and to accomplish and to 551 00:31:08.000 --> 00:31:10.000 finish assignments and all different 552 00:31:10.000 --> 00:31:12.000 types of amazing things. 553 00:31:12.000 --> 00:31:14.000 And you have to hold it like that. 554 00:31:14.000 --> 00:31:16.000 You have to hold it like that. 555 00:31:16.000 --> 00:31:18.000 You are not waiting for your one true love. 556 00:31:18.000 --> 00:31:20.000 He's already here. 557 00:31:22.000 --> 00:31:24.000 He's already here. 558 00:31:24.000 --> 00:31:26.000 I love my husband. 559 00:31:26.000 --> 00:31:28.000 I love David. 560 00:31:28.000 --> 00:31:30.000 He's a great partner. 561 00:31:30.000 --> 00:31:32.000 He has brought so much healing. 562 00:31:32.000 --> 00:31:34.000 And I don't want you guys to get this twisted 563 00:31:34.000 --> 00:31:36.000 or think this is weird, but in a lot of ways 564 00:31:36.000 --> 00:31:38.000 my husband has fathered me. 565 00:31:40.000 --> 00:31:42.000 Is there anything kinky or weird going on 566 00:31:42.000 --> 00:31:44.000 here, y'all? 567 00:31:44.000 --> 00:31:46.000 So don't imagine what's not true. 568 00:31:46.000 --> 00:31:48.000 But he has been a father to me 569 00:31:48.000 --> 00:31:50.000 in so many ways. 570 00:31:50.000 --> 00:31:52.000 I was a fatherless woman 571 00:31:52.000 --> 00:31:54.000 and I have bucked and kicked 572 00:31:54.000 --> 00:31:56.000 against that fathering 573 00:31:56.000 --> 00:31:58.000 where he's trying to protect me 574 00:31:58.000 --> 00:32:00.000 and he's trying to help me 575 00:32:00.000 --> 00:32:02.000 in a very 576 00:32:02.000 --> 00:32:04.000 fatherly way. 577 00:32:04.000 --> 00:32:06.000 And then there's another layer 578 00:32:06.000 --> 00:32:08.000 of our relationship that's very much 579 00:32:08.000 --> 00:32:10.000 him being a husband 580 00:32:10.000 --> 00:32:12.000 and a lover. 581 00:32:12.000 --> 00:32:14.000 People can be things to you 582 00:32:14.000 --> 00:32:16.000 and God will send people 583 00:32:16.000 --> 00:32:18.000 to be things to you and to fill in 584 00:32:18.000 --> 00:32:20.000 places where 585 00:32:20.000 --> 00:32:22.000 you have been hurt. 586 00:32:22.000 --> 00:32:24.000 And they will help bring that healing 587 00:32:24.000 --> 00:32:26.000 that you need. 588 00:32:26.000 --> 00:32:28.000 But that being said, I love him. 589 00:32:28.000 --> 00:32:30.000 But if he transitioned 590 00:32:30.000 --> 00:32:32.000 from this life, 591 00:32:32.000 --> 00:32:34.000 I would still live. 592 00:32:34.000 --> 00:32:36.000 Yes, that would be 593 00:32:36.000 --> 00:32:38.000 a dark night of the soul. That would be a devastating 594 00:32:38.000 --> 00:32:40.000 situation, but 595 00:32:40.000 --> 00:32:42.000 I would still live. 596 00:32:42.000 --> 00:32:44.000 I would still live. I would still go forward. 597 00:32:44.000 --> 00:32:46.000 I would still complete assignment. 598 00:32:46.000 --> 00:32:48.000 I would still raise my children. 599 00:32:48.000 --> 00:32:50.000 Do you see what I'm saying? I mean, they're raised, 600 00:32:50.000 --> 00:32:52.000 but I would still be there for my family 601 00:32:52.000 --> 00:32:54.000 and my grandchildren. Do you hear me? 602 00:32:58.000 --> 00:33:00.000 These players in your story, 603 00:33:00.000 --> 00:33:02.000 these characters in your story, 604 00:33:02.000 --> 00:33:04.000 these partners in your story, 605 00:33:04.000 --> 00:33:06.000 if they're good, they're here 606 00:33:06.000 --> 00:33:08.000 to help 607 00:33:08.000 --> 00:33:10.000 connect you even more 608 00:33:12.000 --> 00:33:14.000 to Abba. 609 00:33:15.000 --> 00:33:17.000 That is the purpose of these relationships. 610 00:33:17.000 --> 00:33:19.000 The purpose of relationship 611 00:33:19.000 --> 00:33:21.000 between humans 612 00:33:21.000 --> 00:33:23.000 is to show each other 613 00:33:23.000 --> 00:33:25.000 what God looks like. 614 00:33:27.000 --> 00:33:29.000 Do you hear me? 615 00:33:32.000 --> 00:33:34.000 So it's time for us to let 616 00:33:34.000 --> 00:33:36.000 Shalom in. 617 00:33:36.000 --> 00:33:38.000 Let's let Shalom 618 00:33:38.000 --> 00:33:40.000 in our lives. 619 00:33:40.000 --> 00:33:42.000 Shalom is not just a word. 620 00:33:42.000 --> 00:33:44.000 It's a picture. 621 00:33:44.000 --> 00:33:46.000 It's a picture. 622 00:33:46.000 --> 00:33:48.000 So back to, you know, 623 00:33:48.000 --> 00:33:50.000 we say the word. 624 00:33:50.000 --> 00:33:52.000 We think we know what we mean when we say the word, 625 00:33:52.000 --> 00:33:54.000 but the beautiful thing about the Hebrew 626 00:33:54.000 --> 00:33:56.000 language is the Hebrew language 627 00:33:56.000 --> 00:33:58.000 is a picture language. 628 00:33:58.000 --> 00:34:00.000 Who's played Pictionary? 629 00:34:00.000 --> 00:34:02.000 Raise your hand. 630 00:34:02.000 --> 00:34:04.000 Who's ever played Pictionary charades? 631 00:34:04.000 --> 00:34:06.000 Anything that, you know, 632 00:34:06.000 --> 00:34:08.000 you've had to go up to a board 633 00:34:08.000 --> 00:34:10.000 or to a big paper pad 634 00:34:10.000 --> 00:34:12.000 and people with your crude drawings 635 00:34:12.000 --> 00:34:14.000 have to somehow guess what it is 636 00:34:14.000 --> 00:34:16.000 that you're talking about. 637 00:34:16.000 --> 00:34:18.000 That's what Pictionary is. 638 00:34:18.000 --> 00:34:20.000 You guys know what Pictionary is? 639 00:34:20.000 --> 00:34:22.000 You're allowed to draw things, and if you're like me 640 00:34:22.000 --> 00:34:24.000 and you can't draw at all, then people 641 00:34:24.000 --> 00:34:26.000 have to kind of guess what it is that you're drawing 642 00:34:26.000 --> 00:34:28.000 and they have to guess the phrase. 643 00:34:28.000 --> 00:34:30.000 They have to guess 644 00:34:30.000 --> 00:34:32.000 whatever it is that you're trying to communicate 645 00:34:32.000 --> 00:34:34.000 through the drawing. 646 00:34:34.000 --> 00:34:36.000 So it's like picture charades. 647 00:34:36.000 --> 00:34:38.000 Okay, a lot of you have played that. 648 00:34:38.000 --> 00:34:40.000 Good. Well, that's like 649 00:34:40.000 --> 00:34:42.000 the Hebrew language. 650 00:34:42.000 --> 00:34:44.000 The Hebrew language is like Pictionary 651 00:34:44.000 --> 00:34:46.000 where 652 00:34:46.000 --> 00:34:48.000 letters and numbers 653 00:34:48.000 --> 00:34:50.000 interchangeable 654 00:34:50.000 --> 00:34:52.000 a lot of times, and a lot of times 655 00:34:52.000 --> 00:34:54.000 symbols, right? 656 00:34:54.000 --> 00:34:56.000 There's symbols 657 00:34:56.000 --> 00:34:58.000 for things, and if you look 658 00:34:58.000 --> 00:35:00.000 at the word 659 00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:02.000 Shalom 660 00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:16.840 If you look in the groups, but if you look at it, it's a series of little pictures, little 661 00:35:16.840 --> 00:35:23.600 squiggly lines, specifically four of them. 662 00:35:23.600 --> 00:35:30.960 And they mean something, they mean something powerful, more than just your understanding 663 00:35:30.960 --> 00:35:36.720 of the word shalom, peace, greetings, so much more than that. 664 00:35:36.720 --> 00:35:42.120 So let's go through the little pictures in this word. 665 00:35:42.120 --> 00:35:50.160 The first picture looks like a little W, and it means strong teeth to destroy. 666 00:35:50.160 --> 00:35:58.120 That's what the meaning of that is, and it kind of looks like teeth, like a little side 667 00:35:58.120 --> 00:36:01.020 thing of an animal, maybe, kind of thing. 668 00:36:01.020 --> 00:36:08.560 And then the next picture looks like a hook, like a really crude kind of backwards J, and 669 00:36:08.560 --> 00:36:10.640 that's a shepherd's staff. 670 00:36:10.640 --> 00:36:13.760 That's a depiction of authority. 671 00:36:13.760 --> 00:36:21.040 And the next little picture sort of looks like a cactus that lost an arm, or a really 672 00:36:21.040 --> 00:36:29.760 crude little Y, and that little picture stands for attaching, like a tent peg. 673 00:36:29.760 --> 00:36:36.160 Remember, these were nomadic people, they lived in tents, right? 674 00:36:36.160 --> 00:36:42.000 And they used the tent pegs, pulled those tents down. 675 00:36:42.000 --> 00:36:47.960 There's so many Bible stories, there's so many allusions in the Bible to tent pegs. 676 00:36:47.960 --> 00:36:53.200 And then the last little picture is like the first picture, the W, but it's the other way, 677 00:36:53.200 --> 00:36:59.720 and it's a little longer, looks like little mountains, and that's chaos. 678 00:36:59.720 --> 00:37:08.440 It's a depiction of water, also meaning chaos. 679 00:37:08.440 --> 00:37:13.320 Now let's put all that together, can we? 680 00:37:13.320 --> 00:37:18.520 Strong teeth to destroy, a shepherd's staff for authority, a tent peg to attach, and water 681 00:37:18.520 --> 00:37:20.520 in chaos. 682 00:37:20.520 --> 00:37:26.000 And the meaning of the word shalom is to destroy the authority attached to chaos. 683 00:37:26.000 --> 00:37:29.280 Oh, come on, Jesus. 684 00:37:29.280 --> 00:37:35.720 To destroy the authority attached to chaos. 685 00:37:35.920 --> 00:37:43.640 When you say shalom, you are saying chaos has no authority on me. 686 00:37:43.640 --> 00:37:46.240 It cannot attach to me. 687 00:37:46.240 --> 00:37:51.880 These situations that are attached to chaos, they are no longer attached to me. 688 00:37:51.880 --> 00:37:53.880 Come on, y'all. 689 00:37:53.880 --> 00:37:55.880 Can you feel Holy Spirit? 690 00:37:55.880 --> 00:38:01.880 Because I can feel Holy Spirit all up in here. 691 00:38:02.880 --> 00:38:07.880 Oh, Jesus. 692 00:38:13.880 --> 00:38:18.880 To destroy it. 693 00:38:18.880 --> 00:38:28.440 To destroy the chaos, the confusion, the swirl, but not the good swirl, there's a good swirl 694 00:38:28.440 --> 00:38:33.440 and there's a bad swirl, the bad swirl. 695 00:38:33.440 --> 00:38:41.440 When your thoughts start swirling, full of intrusive, unwanted, and obsessive thoughts, 696 00:38:41.440 --> 00:38:48.440 you start to spiral into anxiety, shalom. 697 00:38:49.440 --> 00:38:57.440 When the evil foreboding show up and try to tell you the story is going to end differently 698 00:38:57.440 --> 00:39:03.440 than what your Jesus has said through his word, shalom. 699 00:39:08.440 --> 00:39:17.440 When you partner with a page from the wrong playbook of this world and tell yourself that 700 00:39:17.440 --> 00:39:22.440 it's impossible, shalom. 701 00:39:25.440 --> 00:39:28.440 Don't partner with the world's playbook. 702 00:39:28.440 --> 00:39:30.440 That playbook is obsolete. 703 00:39:30.440 --> 00:39:39.440 Those plays have already been run by Satan and the spirits of darkness and Jesus has 704 00:39:39.440 --> 00:39:46.440 come and taken the keys of death and hell and said it's finished. 705 00:39:46.440 --> 00:39:50.440 Those plays don't work. 706 00:39:50.440 --> 00:39:53.440 They only work if you let them work. 707 00:39:53.440 --> 00:39:56.440 And that's why shalom. 708 00:39:56.440 --> 00:39:59.440 That is your declaration and you coming into agreement 709 00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:01.760 It's what has already been done. 710 00:40:09.200 --> 00:40:10.360 It's already been done. 711 00:40:14.280 --> 00:40:15.960 There's a scripture in the Bible, 712 00:40:15.960 --> 00:40:19.120 spent 10 years just in the word 713 00:40:19.120 --> 00:40:22.120 because I was so mentally sick 714 00:40:22.120 --> 00:40:24.280 that I couldn't do really anything else. 715 00:40:24.280 --> 00:40:26.100 There were long stretches of time 716 00:40:26.100 --> 00:40:28.720 where I couldn't even leave my house in my 20s. 717 00:40:28.720 --> 00:40:30.280 And this is as a believer. 718 00:40:31.800 --> 00:40:34.920 But one of the scriptures that I kept going back to 719 00:40:34.920 --> 00:40:36.360 and I kept holding on to, 720 00:40:36.360 --> 00:40:39.680 and it became a scripture for me. 721 00:40:39.680 --> 00:40:41.840 And I actually wrote it on a note card 722 00:40:41.840 --> 00:40:45.480 and I carried it around with me in my purse 723 00:40:49.440 --> 00:40:54.360 so that I could, I'm just pulling it up, 724 00:40:54.360 --> 00:40:56.500 look at it whenever I needed to. 725 00:40:59.720 --> 00:41:02.720 Whenever I needed to look at it, I could look at it. 726 00:41:04.240 --> 00:41:08.040 It says, fear not, I am with you. 727 00:41:08.040 --> 00:41:11.260 Do not be dismayed, I am your God. 728 00:41:13.720 --> 00:41:17.080 I will strengthen you and I will help you 729 00:41:17.080 --> 00:41:21.520 and I will uphold you with my righteous right hands. 730 00:41:23.400 --> 00:41:25.040 All who rage against you 731 00:41:25.040 --> 00:41:27.520 will surely be ashamed and disgraced 732 00:41:27.560 --> 00:41:32.360 and those who oppose you will be as nothing and perish. 733 00:41:36.760 --> 00:41:40.640 But then, this is Isaiah 41, 10 and 11, I just read. 734 00:41:40.640 --> 00:41:44.640 But don't forget 12, you will search for your enemies 735 00:41:44.640 --> 00:41:46.300 but you will not find them. 736 00:41:47.800 --> 00:41:49.840 And those who wage war against you 737 00:41:49.840 --> 00:41:52.500 will be as nothing at all. 738 00:41:58.380 --> 00:42:00.880 Yeah, I know you've been in little skirmishes with humans, 739 00:42:00.880 --> 00:42:02.920 y'all, you've been in some arguments and fights 740 00:42:02.920 --> 00:42:05.120 and maybe you've even had to go no contact 741 00:42:05.120 --> 00:42:07.240 with family members because they're not safe, 742 00:42:07.240 --> 00:42:09.240 but I'm talking about spirits here 743 00:42:12.120 --> 00:42:15.360 that have been assigned and attached to your life 744 00:42:15.360 --> 00:42:17.640 to try to destroy you and keep you 745 00:42:17.640 --> 00:42:20.200 from fulfilling the beautiful God destiny 746 00:42:20.200 --> 00:42:21.560 you've been created for. 747 00:42:27.520 --> 00:42:30.040 They have tried to attach, but what do we say? 748 00:42:30.040 --> 00:42:31.260 We say, shalom. 749 00:42:35.000 --> 00:42:36.720 You cannot attach to me. 750 00:42:37.600 --> 00:42:40.760 Destruction, discouragement, disappointments, 751 00:42:40.760 --> 00:42:42.680 you cannot attach to me. 752 00:42:42.680 --> 00:42:45.120 You cannot bring your chaos here 753 00:42:50.200 --> 00:42:53.800 because God has upheld me with his righteous right hand. 754 00:42:53.800 --> 00:42:54.640 What is that? 755 00:42:54.640 --> 00:42:55.480 That is Jesus Christ. 756 00:42:58.520 --> 00:42:59.720 Shalom. 757 00:43:01.760 --> 00:43:03.280 You guys, I lived this scripture. 758 00:43:03.280 --> 00:43:04.920 I quoted it over my life. 759 00:43:04.920 --> 00:43:08.340 I would sometimes have 20 or more panic attacks a day. 760 00:43:08.340 --> 00:43:11.020 The emergency room knew me by name. 761 00:43:17.760 --> 00:43:20.480 I comforted myself with the thought of death 762 00:43:22.920 --> 00:43:23.760 as a believer 763 00:43:24.760 --> 00:43:27.760 because I didn't know the one and true and living God. 764 00:43:30.760 --> 00:43:34.240 In fact, truth be told, when I was in the world 765 00:43:35.320 --> 00:43:39.120 living for the other gods, 766 00:43:39.120 --> 00:43:42.080 because I didn't know the one and true and living God, 767 00:43:45.040 --> 00:43:48.040 the forces of darkness left me alone for the most part. 768 00:43:48.040 --> 00:43:49.240 Yeah, I was miserable. 769 00:43:49.240 --> 00:43:51.760 I was a product of abuse and all different types of things, 770 00:43:51.760 --> 00:43:52.600 to the lamp. 771 00:43:56.800 --> 00:43:59.560 All of hell tried to attach itself to me. 772 00:44:04.560 --> 00:44:06.640 And so if you're wondering what you've done wrong 773 00:44:06.640 --> 00:44:07.800 to cause so much warfare, 774 00:44:07.800 --> 00:44:09.720 maybe you should shift your perspective 775 00:44:09.720 --> 00:44:11.120 of what you've done right. 776 00:44:15.160 --> 00:44:17.200 And start using the weapons of your warfare 777 00:44:17.200 --> 00:44:20.400 that are not carnal to shut that down 778 00:44:20.400 --> 00:44:22.880 because you are seated with Christ in heavenly places 779 00:44:22.880 --> 00:44:24.600 and the devil is under your feet. 780 00:44:27.320 --> 00:44:28.160 Shalom. 781 00:44:30.280 --> 00:44:32.560 Sometimes you won't be able to say anything more 782 00:44:32.560 --> 00:44:34.120 because your mind is racing 783 00:44:34.120 --> 00:44:35.560 and there's a whole different story 784 00:44:35.560 --> 00:44:37.120 that's wanting you to partner with it. 785 00:44:37.120 --> 00:44:39.800 And all you will be able to get out is shalom, 786 00:44:39.800 --> 00:44:40.840 but it's enough. 787 00:44:43.600 --> 00:44:44.520 Keep saying it. 788 00:44:45.840 --> 00:44:47.680 Keep declaring it over yourself. 789 00:44:47.680 --> 00:44:49.720 Keep partnering with that. 790 00:44:49.720 --> 00:44:51.520 I partnered with this scripture, y'all. 791 00:44:51.520 --> 00:44:52.600 I wrote it on note cards. 792 00:44:52.600 --> 00:44:54.240 I had it in my purse. 793 00:44:54.240 --> 00:44:56.080 In fact, it was the courage that allowed me 794 00:44:56.080 --> 00:44:57.720 to get in the car and leave the house 795 00:44:57.720 --> 00:44:59.760 and go five miles from my home. 796 00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:06.000 I can't tell you how many grocery stores and how many restaurants I've had to leave during those years 797 00:45:06.000 --> 00:45:12.000 because I was having such a bad anxiety attack, and I just had to leave. 798 00:45:15.000 --> 00:45:20.000 Just had to leave my shopping cart in the middle of the store full of food and just leave. 799 00:45:21.000 --> 00:45:26.000 My greatest desire in those years was to be a normal person that could do normal things, 800 00:45:26.000 --> 00:45:28.000 like go to the grocery store. 801 00:45:31.000 --> 00:45:36.000 I live these scriptures. Not only was God with me, not only did he help me, 802 00:45:36.000 --> 00:45:39.000 he transformed me in those years, he changed me in those years, 803 00:45:39.000 --> 00:45:40.000 but that very last scripture that says, 804 00:45:40.000 --> 00:45:43.000 you will look for your enemies and you will not be able to find them, 805 00:45:44.000 --> 00:45:45.000 that happened to me. 806 00:45:47.000 --> 00:45:52.000 One day I just realized that I didn't have anxiety anymore, 807 00:45:52.000 --> 00:45:54.000 and that I hadn't had anxiety for quite some time. 808 00:45:54.000 --> 00:45:58.000 In fact, I hadn't had a panic attack in forever. 809 00:46:01.000 --> 00:46:07.000 I just realized that the things that tormented me no longer had any access to me, 810 00:46:08.000 --> 00:46:12.000 and it was so seamless that I didn't even notice it when it went away. 811 00:46:12.000 --> 00:46:13.000 Come on. 812 00:46:16.000 --> 00:46:22.000 I will tell you part of that was practical, and part of it was supernatural. 813 00:46:22.000 --> 00:46:25.000 You're like, what is the practical part? I got divorced. 814 00:46:26.000 --> 00:46:30.000 I'm not an advocate for divorce, but my divorce was a rescue mission, 815 00:46:30.000 --> 00:46:32.000 and if I had stayed there, I would be dead. 816 00:46:34.000 --> 00:46:36.000 I would not be alive. 817 00:46:37.000 --> 00:46:42.000 At the very end of that marriage, if we can call it that, 818 00:46:42.000 --> 00:46:46.000 at the very end of that marriage, I was in bad shape. 819 00:46:49.000 --> 00:46:52.000 Some bad shape, real bad shape. 820 00:46:56.000 --> 00:47:01.000 My pastor going to prison, all the chaos that ensued because of that, 821 00:47:01.000 --> 00:47:07.000 God picked me up, pulled me out, and put me in a shalom bubble. 822 00:47:12.000 --> 00:47:14.000 And I get to be here today, 823 00:47:15.000 --> 00:47:18.000 and I can't tell y'all how many times I've gone into a restaurant 824 00:47:18.000 --> 00:47:21.000 or I've been sitting in a waiting room somewhere or doing something, 825 00:47:21.000 --> 00:47:25.000 and God has focused my eyes onto someone else in that room 826 00:47:25.000 --> 00:47:28.000 who, even though no one else may notice it, 827 00:47:28.000 --> 00:47:32.000 I notice that they're having a panic attack. 828 00:47:32.000 --> 00:47:34.000 I notice their breathing. 829 00:47:34.000 --> 00:47:37.000 I notice the look in their eyes and on their face, 830 00:47:37.000 --> 00:47:41.000 and I have been able to go and sit next to them and put my hand on them 831 00:47:41.000 --> 00:47:44.000 and say, it's just a panic attack. You're going to be okay. 832 00:47:46.000 --> 00:47:49.000 And then they have melted into tears in my arms 833 00:47:49.000 --> 00:47:55.000 or moved closer and almost cuddled into me for protection. 834 00:47:55.000 --> 00:47:57.000 What am I saying there? 835 00:47:57.000 --> 00:48:00.000 Is that whatever it is that you've been through, 836 00:48:02.000 --> 00:48:04.000 it's not for no reason. 837 00:48:06.000 --> 00:48:10.000 God didn't bring you to it. He will bring you through it. 838 00:48:10.000 --> 00:48:15.000 But He also will use it, Genesis 50-20, to help so many other people. 839 00:48:20.000 --> 00:48:22.000 Your suffering is sacred. 840 00:48:22.000 --> 00:48:24.000 Please say that of yourself. 841 00:48:24.000 --> 00:48:26.000 My suffering is sacred. 842 00:48:28.000 --> 00:48:30.000 My suffering is sacred. 843 00:48:31.000 --> 00:48:33.000 So sacred. 844 00:48:36.000 --> 00:48:38.000 Yes, shalom, friends. 845 00:48:38.000 --> 00:48:40.000 Shalom, shalom. 846 00:48:41.000 --> 00:48:43.000 And I believe with all my heart 847 00:48:43.000 --> 00:48:46.000 that we are coming into a time in this earth 848 00:48:46.000 --> 00:48:52.000 where shalom is going to be more needed than ever before. 849 00:48:52.000 --> 00:48:55.000 That's not a doom and gloom profession. 850 00:48:55.000 --> 00:48:59.000 That's just me saying that it's our turn. 851 00:48:59.000 --> 00:49:04.000 The curtain is rising and the bearers of shalom, 852 00:49:05.000 --> 00:49:09.000 the people that's feet bring shalom in the gospel, 853 00:49:09.000 --> 00:49:11.000 it's our turn to come on the scene. 854 00:49:12.000 --> 00:49:14.000 It's our turn on the stage. 855 00:49:14.000 --> 00:49:19.000 It's our turn to take center stage 856 00:49:21.000 --> 00:49:23.000 in your schools and in your communities, 857 00:49:23.000 --> 00:49:27.000 in your places of employment, in the restaurants, 858 00:49:27.000 --> 00:49:30.000 in the places that you go in your communities, 859 00:49:30.000 --> 00:49:32.000 the shopping malls, the TJ Maxx. 860 00:49:34.000 --> 00:49:36.000 You are a bearer of shalom. 861 00:49:37.000 --> 00:49:39.000 And you are bringing it. 862 00:49:39.000 --> 00:49:42.000 And everywhere you go, chaos has to leave. 863 00:49:43.000 --> 00:49:45.000 It has to cease. 864 00:49:46.000 --> 00:49:47.000 It's not just for you. 865 00:49:47.000 --> 00:49:49.000 You didn't think it was just for you, did you? 866 00:49:49.000 --> 00:49:50.000 It's not just for you. 867 00:49:52.000 --> 00:49:54.000 And please do not let it be lost on you 868 00:49:54.000 --> 00:49:57.000 that there's 222 people on this call right now. 869 00:49:58.000 --> 00:50:00.000 Do not let it be lost. 870 00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:04.160 lost all of the little God winks that we have. 871 00:50:05.920 --> 00:50:09.200 Partnership, agreement, divine revival 872 00:50:09.200 --> 00:50:12.560 of marriage and family, original design. 873 00:50:12.560 --> 00:50:15.020 That's what 222 is all about, favor. 874 00:50:17.520 --> 00:50:21.860 It's our turn to bring Shalom to that boardroom, 875 00:50:21.860 --> 00:50:23.480 to bring Shalom to that hospital. 876 00:50:23.480 --> 00:50:26.480 There's so many nurses that are in this program, 877 00:50:27.480 --> 00:50:30.040 male and female, to bring Shalom, 878 00:50:33.440 --> 00:50:35.760 to bring Shalom to the families that you deal with 879 00:50:35.760 --> 00:50:38.640 as a social worker, as a teacher, as a counselor, 880 00:50:38.640 --> 00:50:43.480 as a therapist, to bring Shalom to the place 881 00:50:43.480 --> 00:50:47.640 where you work, one of you works at a DSW. 882 00:50:47.640 --> 00:50:49.920 I mean, shoes are pure joy already, 883 00:50:49.920 --> 00:50:54.720 but you're bringing Shalom to that shoe store. 884 00:50:56.720 --> 00:50:57.560 Shalom. 885 00:51:03.240 --> 00:51:04.120 It's our turn. 886 00:51:04.980 --> 00:51:06.300 It's a Matthew five moment. 887 00:51:06.300 --> 00:51:07.220 You're like, what does that mean? 888 00:51:07.220 --> 00:51:08.780 Go read it. 889 00:51:08.780 --> 00:51:11.160 Go read it in the message translation. 890 00:51:11.160 --> 00:51:12.900 In fact, I will. 891 00:51:16.040 --> 00:51:17.600 Thank you, Holy Spirit, I will. 892 00:51:17.600 --> 00:51:22.600 Y'all, the preach got on me today. 893 00:51:26.720 --> 00:51:28.480 We got a preach going on here. 894 00:51:31.280 --> 00:51:36.280 My nanny who's in heaven, if she's watching me, 895 00:51:36.320 --> 00:51:38.280 she'd be proud of me. 896 00:51:38.280 --> 00:51:41.000 She always wanted me to be a preacher. 897 00:51:41.000 --> 00:51:42.160 I guess here we are. 898 00:51:48.520 --> 00:51:49.360 Okay. 899 00:51:53.600 --> 00:51:54.760 In the message. 900 00:51:54.760 --> 00:51:57.200 So this is known as the Sermon on the Mount. 901 00:51:57.200 --> 00:51:59.720 This is part of the Sermon on the Mount, I should say, 902 00:51:59.720 --> 00:52:01.400 talking about you're blessed when you're this 903 00:52:01.400 --> 00:52:02.560 and you're blessed when you're that 904 00:52:02.560 --> 00:52:04.880 and all the beautiful things and go read it. 905 00:52:04.880 --> 00:52:08.080 But I want us to go down to verse 13, 906 00:52:09.720 --> 00:52:10.560 Matthew five. 907 00:52:10.560 --> 00:52:12.080 This is the message translation. 908 00:52:12.080 --> 00:52:15.680 Let me tell you a little bit about the message translation. 909 00:52:16.640 --> 00:52:19.040 Let me tell you why you are here. 910 00:52:20.000 --> 00:52:21.080 Come on. 911 00:52:21.080 --> 00:52:22.600 Let me tell you why you are here. 912 00:52:22.600 --> 00:52:24.640 If you've ever wondered, why am I here? 913 00:52:24.640 --> 00:52:25.880 Why am I on this earth? 914 00:52:25.880 --> 00:52:26.800 Why am I live? 915 00:52:26.800 --> 00:52:28.160 What is life? 916 00:52:28.160 --> 00:52:30.200 Let me tell you why you are here. 917 00:52:30.200 --> 00:52:33.580 You're here to be salt seasoning 918 00:52:33.580 --> 00:52:36.840 that brings out the God flavors of this earth. 919 00:52:38.200 --> 00:52:39.720 If you lose your saltiness, 920 00:52:39.720 --> 00:52:42.140 how will people taste godliness? 921 00:52:43.280 --> 00:52:44.760 You've lost your usefulness 922 00:52:44.760 --> 00:52:47.180 and you will end up in the garbage. 923 00:52:47.180 --> 00:52:49.520 But here's another way to put it. 924 00:52:49.520 --> 00:52:51.440 You're here to be light, 925 00:52:51.440 --> 00:52:54.640 bringing out the God colors in the world. 926 00:52:54.640 --> 00:52:56.420 This is my favorite part. 927 00:52:56.420 --> 00:52:58.920 God is not a secret to be kept. 928 00:52:58.920 --> 00:53:01.760 We're going public with this, 929 00:53:01.760 --> 00:53:04.800 as public as a city on a hill. 930 00:53:04.800 --> 00:53:06.840 If I make you light bearers, 931 00:53:06.840 --> 00:53:09.160 you don't think I'm going to hide you under a bucket, 932 00:53:09.160 --> 00:53:10.120 do you? 933 00:53:10.120 --> 00:53:12.640 I'm putting you on a light stand. 934 00:53:12.680 --> 00:53:15.800 And now that I've put you there on a hilltop, 935 00:53:15.800 --> 00:53:17.280 on a light stand, 936 00:53:17.280 --> 00:53:18.640 shine, 937 00:53:19.600 --> 00:53:21.220 keep open house, 938 00:53:21.220 --> 00:53:23.320 be generous with your lives. 939 00:53:23.320 --> 00:53:24.840 By opening up to others, 940 00:53:24.840 --> 00:53:27.880 you'll prompt people to open up with God, 941 00:53:27.880 --> 00:53:30.860 this generous father in heaven. 942 00:53:31.880 --> 00:53:33.200 Is that not powerful? 943 00:53:34.160 --> 00:53:36.120 You've been created to shine. 944 00:53:36.120 --> 00:53:37.640 You've been created to be seen. 945 00:53:37.640 --> 00:53:40.000 You've been created to be on a light stand, 946 00:53:40.000 --> 00:53:43.040 not hidden away in some place of isolation. 947 00:53:43.040 --> 00:53:45.120 God's proud of you. 948 00:53:45.120 --> 00:53:46.320 He's proud of you. 949 00:53:48.520 --> 00:53:50.720 He wants to show you off to the world. 950 00:53:50.720 --> 00:53:52.360 Yeah, you're going to make mistakes. 951 00:53:52.360 --> 00:53:54.580 You're going to drop the ball for sure. 952 00:53:55.920 --> 00:53:58.000 But he can bring more people to himself 953 00:53:58.000 --> 00:54:00.640 through your failures than through 954 00:54:00.640 --> 00:54:03.360 whatever perfection you think you have in your flesh. 955 00:54:06.560 --> 00:54:07.920 As long as, 956 00:54:08.920 --> 00:54:10.160 no matter what, 957 00:54:10.160 --> 00:54:12.960 you continue to go back to the source 958 00:54:14.640 --> 00:54:15.780 and be God defended. 959 00:54:17.520 --> 00:54:21.640 As long as you invite him into those messes 960 00:54:21.640 --> 00:54:24.620 so that he can Romans 8, 28 to you, 961 00:54:24.620 --> 00:54:26.620 turn everything to your good. 962 00:54:30.240 --> 00:54:31.640 Because people are watching. 963 00:54:33.360 --> 00:54:35.440 People need 964 00:54:35.480 --> 00:54:37.980 Shalom more than ever before. 965 00:54:40.480 --> 00:54:43.040 And friends, I know that you need a partner 966 00:54:43.040 --> 00:54:44.800 for your assignment, 967 00:54:44.800 --> 00:54:46.360 but you don't start your assignment 968 00:54:46.360 --> 00:54:47.680 when you get your partner. 969 00:54:49.760 --> 00:54:50.800 You don't. 970 00:54:50.800 --> 00:54:51.640 You start it now. 971 00:54:52.780 --> 00:54:54.640 And your assignment, you just heard it. 972 00:54:54.640 --> 00:54:56.640 It is to be salt and light in the earth. 973 00:54:58.400 --> 00:55:00.240 It is to make people thirsty. 974 00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:07.080 for God because of what they see in you, and to shine the light into the dark 975 00:55:07.080 --> 00:55:14.800 places, and to keep a generous and open heart, life, and home. 976 00:55:16.800 --> 00:55:22.720 Shalom. And so now when you meet your brothers and sisters in Christ, now you 977 00:55:22.720 --> 00:55:28.000 know why the ancient members of our family used to say shalom to each other. 978 00:55:28.000 --> 00:55:35.800 Now you understand, right? Now you understand. And so let's adopt that, if you 979 00:55:35.800 --> 00:55:41.120 want to, when we see each other in person. Let's declare shalom over each other, 980 00:55:41.120 --> 00:55:47.720 the devouring of all the chaos, the keeping us attached, John 15 to the vine. 981 00:55:47.720 --> 00:55:51.880 We want to be attached, friends, but we don't want to be attached to chaos. We 982 00:55:51.880 --> 00:55:59.160 want to be attached to Jesus, the author and the finisher of our faith. Father God, 983 00:55:59.160 --> 00:56:02.720 I love you so much. I thank you for today. I thank you for this message for 984 00:56:02.720 --> 00:56:09.000 myself. I take it for myself, Lord. I want to walk in peace. Shalom. Everywhere I go, 985 00:56:09.000 --> 00:56:14.800 I want to be a purveyor of peace. When I walk in the room, I want chaos to walk 986 00:56:14.800 --> 00:56:19.920 out of the room. Lord, I thank you for my brothers and sisters in Christ, and I 987 00:56:19.920 --> 00:56:23.600 declare shalom over each and every one of them, over their households, over their 988 00:56:23.600 --> 00:56:29.560 bodies, over their finances, over their relationships, over their futures. I 989 00:56:29.560 --> 00:56:34.080 declare shalom over them. Lord, I thank you, God, for the big beautiful story that 990 00:56:34.080 --> 00:56:38.960 you wrote about each and every one of them, the love story that they're already 991 00:56:38.960 --> 00:56:44.400 living. I thank you for a shift in perspective. From this moment forward, a 992 00:56:44.400 --> 00:56:49.600 shift in their perspective about why they are here, who they are, and whose 993 00:56:49.600 --> 00:56:56.920 they are, shift in Jesus' name. Let them leave this call with confidence, 994 00:56:56.920 --> 00:57:02.040 supernatural confidence that they have never felt before in you, and in your 995 00:57:02.040 --> 00:57:07.640 word, and in your promises. Let perfect love overtake us. Help us to stop running 996 00:57:07.760 --> 00:57:15.120 from it. Let it consume us, overwhelm us, overcome us, and cast out all fear and 997 00:57:15.120 --> 00:57:21.800 all control. We ask all of these things in your beautiful, wonderful, precious 998 00:57:21.800 --> 00:57:28.200 name. In Jesus' name, amen. I love all of you. I believe God's taking us to a very 999 00:57:28.200 --> 00:57:33.360 supernatural place. As we head into Rosh Hashanah next month, I told you guys 1000 00:57:33.800 --> 00:57:37.680 we're going back to school. We had a dream interpretation session, but we're 1001 00:57:37.680 --> 00:57:40.960 going to have a dream lab. For those of you that want to dig into your dreams, 1002 00:57:40.960 --> 00:57:45.000 you want to learn how to interpret other people's dreams and your own dreams, 1003 00:57:45.000 --> 00:57:48.160 you're going to be able to go into a dream lab. It's not going to be teaching 1004 00:57:48.160 --> 00:57:52.160 at you. It's going to be interaction. You're going to be in breakouts with 1005 00:57:52.160 --> 00:57:58.440 different purposes. If that sounds great to you, then hold tight. Spirit Mate Match 1006 00:57:58.440 --> 00:58:02.360 is going to be launched in beta here in the next week or so. All of you will be 1007 00:58:02.360 --> 00:58:07.400 filling out a dating profile that will be customized to include non-negotiables 1008 00:58:07.400 --> 00:58:13.120 and all different types of things so that we can really use this beautiful 1009 00:58:13.120 --> 00:58:18.560 technology that we have access to in order to help God do what he's already 1010 00:58:18.560 --> 00:58:23.120 doing, and that's play matchmaker. I love you guys. Thank you so much for 1011 00:58:23.120 --> 00:58:26.560 believing in this movement and being part of it, being missionaries and 1012 00:58:26.560 --> 00:58:30.520 revivalists to marriage and family. May God bless you. See you soon.