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All right, welcome to Supernatural Saturday.

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I have a couple announcements here at the beginning.

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This is the easiest way to get information to all of you,

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and that is that our affiliate program

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is opening up this weekend.

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So for those of you that did not hear

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last week's Supernatural Saturday,

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please go back and listen, okay?

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It's really important that you go back and listen.

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That would be, let's see, the 24th.

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So August 24th, Supernatural Saturday.

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Go back and listen to that session,

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because we talk about what God wants to invite

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all of us into in order to do what it is

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that he would love to do through this community.

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It can't just be one or two people.

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It has to be all of us taking ownership.

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You know, Americans especially,

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we get into a consumer mentality, don't we?

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We're just consumers.

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And we go someplace for the purpose

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of getting something for ourselves.

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That's the mentality that we have.

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But we have to go places, every place, all right?

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Not just your work or church or your, you know,

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the community groups that you're part of,

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you know, the things that you're involved in,

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your activities, your family.

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You can't go to those places just hoping to receive.

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You have to go to those places with a mindset of giving.

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What can I add to this group of people today?

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How can I serve this group of people today?

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I will tell you that I'm always on the lookout

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for someone that I can help.

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I'm always on the lookout for someone

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that I can add value to.

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That is just my way of life.

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And it has been my way of life

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since I met Jesus at 22 years old.

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Now, I have my own problems just like anybody else does.

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And I get focused and tunnel visioned, right?

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Siloed, all of us, that happens.

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And there's no harm and no foul with that.

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But those should be short little seasons of time

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where we're hurting.

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That's when God's gonna send people to us.

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That's when we're gonna be the receivers, right?

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But the majority of the time,

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that's why the Bible says it's better to give

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than to receive.

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Let's think about that for just one second.

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Why would it be better to give than to receive?

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Well, it's pretty self-explanatory.

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If you're the giver,

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that means that you have something to give, right?

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If you're the giver,

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that means that you're probably not postured to receive

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because you don't need anything necessarily right now.

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It's better to be the person giving

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than the person receiving

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because oftentimes when you're in the receiving posture,

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it's because you're hurting, right?

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It's because you're lacking.

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So of course, it's better to give than to receive.

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And the blessing of giving is, it's amazing, right?

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But we also have to be able to receive as well.

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If we don't receive,

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then we'll not have anything to give.

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Eventually, we won't have anything left to give

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if we're not receiving.

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But we have to stop getting out.

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We have to get out of the mindset

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that we're just here to receive,

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especially at last year's single.

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All of you have received amazing things.

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You've had life-changing breakthrough.

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All of you have gotten upgrades in one way, shape, or form,

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but it's time to share that love with others.

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And so the Affiliate Program

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is going to be a very lucrative program

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for those of you that really want to help other people.

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You don't wanna just help single people find their mates

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because that's amazing and that's noble.

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And we all are here

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because we wanna see a revival of marriage and family.

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But you also wanna see people get closer to the Lord.

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You wanna see them become sons and daughters.

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You wanna see them come out of their poverty mindsets.

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You wanna see them not be alone in life anymore.

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You wanna see them full of hope and joy.

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There's all kinds of things that you would want for someone

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if you shared this community with them,

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especially as we go into this new era,

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this fall 2024 fall in love era,

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where we're expanding rapidly.

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You guys, we're increasing rapidly,

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not just our student body or our communities,

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but also we're increasing in our tools in which to serve.

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We have our matchmaking platform.

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The intake form for that is going to be available

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for all of the women in phase three

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and all of the men in our program

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on Monday, September 2nd, Labor Day.

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For given birth, y'all, we had a little technical glitch

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that kept us from being able to share it this last week,

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but that is fixed as of two o'clock on Monday,

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it will be fixed.

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And so sometime later in the afternoon in your groups,

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phase three and men, you will find the intake form.

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If you're on this call and you're in phase one and phase two,

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don't worry, when you get to phase three,

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you will have that.

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Phase one, for sure, you won't have it

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before you get to phase two,

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because you're in a dating sabbatical

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and we want you to focus on your heart work.

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But phase two, as soon as we onboard phase three

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and we will be bringing that intake form to you

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probably in the next week and a half or so.

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You guys, so exciting with that.

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But the affiliate program is available now this weekend

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and we're gonna have an information session

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for that tomorrow night, right?

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So we have prayer tomorrow night

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and we're gonna have an information session

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about the affiliate program halfway through the prayer

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or right after the prayer ends tomorrow night.

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If you jump on there, you can ask all your questions.

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My husband's gonna lead that.

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He's gonna share a screen.

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He's gonna show you how to sign up to be an affiliate.

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For every single person that you bring into this community,

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we will give you $75.

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Considering y'all that it's only $297 to join our community,

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that is a huge percentage of affiliation

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and we want it to be that way.

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Some of you are gonna make this

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a nice little stream of income

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and then there's gonna be other things

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that you can become affiliates of in the future as well.

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And what is that?

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That's sharing what God has done for you with someone else.

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And that is a motto of this community.

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What you help make happen for others,

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God makes happen for you.

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And so that is one of our mottos.

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It's been one of our mottos from the very beginning

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because we are a community-based matchmaking community.

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That is what we are.

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That is what we built this upon.

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We coined that phrase community-based matchmaking.

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That is something that is exclusive to us

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and we are gonna continue to go after

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what God has shown us to do.

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We've already had somewhere around 800 engagements

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and marriages in the last four years.

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And I would like to tell you here publicly today

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that I believe that we could at the very least double that

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going from now into this time next year in 2025.

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But we could next year even quadruple that,

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triple that, quadruple that depending on whether or not

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people really start to get behind the mission

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and put their effort into it as well.

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And that means we can bring on more staff.

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We can open up new single cities.

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We're gonna have curated events.

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Now that we have the technology to matchmake,

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we're gonna have curated events with that technology

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in all the cities that we already have single cities in

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and some of them that we don't.

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We're gonna have meetups that are by invitation

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because the algorithm has matched you

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with a bunch of people that you need to meet in that area.

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And we wanna have some soirees and some get-togethers

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where you know you come to that place

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and there are at least one or two people

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that you have a lot in common with

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that it would be great for you to meet.

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So we're gonna do our best on our side

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utilizing our skills and talents,

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our tools and resources that we've invested

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lots of money into creating.

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And so very excited about what God is gonna do

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with that seed that we have sown

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into the revival of marriage and family.

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So Father God, we thank you this morning

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that we are able to gather together.

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We thank you that you've made us a community

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and that all of us here are revivalists

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of marriage and family.

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Help us to take ownership of that.

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We are not here to consume, Lord, we are here to give.

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We are here to give.

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We are here to receive and then we are here to give.

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We are here to be conduits of heaven and the earth

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in the area of healing, in the area of breakthrough,

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in the area of heart healing and heart work,

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in the area of matchmaking,

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in the area of bringing people into the family of God.

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Lord, we thank you that you give us opportunities

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as we go forward.

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Armed with these mindsets that we are revivalists,

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we ask that you would give us opportunities,

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you would allow our paths to cross with people

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that need what we have to offer,

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that need this community, that need this service,

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that need this program and we thank you for it

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in Jesus' name, amen.

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All right, all right, so a couple,

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you guys, we have a grab bag of thoughts

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from the Holy Spirit today.

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Once again, if you're new to Supernatural Saturday,

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this is the day that we lean in

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and we download the current prophetic realities of heaven.

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There's our reality on earth

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and then there's the reality that's happening

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in heaven right now.

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That's why when Jesus' disciples said,

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teach us how to pray, he said back to them

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what we call the Lord's Prayer.

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Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.

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But part of that says that let your kingdom come

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and let your will be done on earth as what?

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It's already in heaven.

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Let it be done on earth, let it manifest on earth,

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let it be seen on earth, let it be done here on earth

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as it already is in heaven.

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And so on Saturdays, we lean into the already is.

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I'm getting swirly already over here, y'all.

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We're leaning into the already is.

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Guys, say that of yourself.

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Put your hand on yourself on your chest and say it already is.

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Whatever it is that I have seen in the word of God that has not

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manifested in my reality.

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It's already true in God's reality.

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It's already true, which means that if I begin to speak it out,

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I'm not speaking lies.

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I know a lot of people have a hard time speaking those things

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that are not as though they are, but we have to.

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The Bible tells us to.

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Why?

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Because we are proclaiming what already is in a reality that's

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more important than this reality.

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In the true reality, in the place where they know you as you are.

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Doesn't it say that in the Bible?

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It says when you get to heaven or you get into out of this dimension

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and you get fully into the dimension of freedom where you're

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freed fully from the curse, including the body, the vehicle that

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you're in is freed fully from the curse.

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It says you will be known as you are known.

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What does that tell you?

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What does that tell me?

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It tells us that in a alternate reality, that is the better reality.

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That's the true reality.

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That's heaven's reality.

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There's a different version of you.

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There's a different version of you.

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And I guarantee you that version of you does not have the problem

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that this version of you has.

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But what's so great about it is everybody that's there that's in

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that other dimension.

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They already know that version of you.

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our departed loved ones, all of the Saints of the faith that have

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gone before us.

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They are all cheering for the real versions of us.

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And this is why friends we can never invite God to our pity parties

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because he knows who you really are.

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So when we get down the mully grubs and we start, you know, looking

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at life through the lens of this reality and all these problems and

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all these lies that we're believing.

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All this false and fragmented identity that's come from trauma because

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remember trauma doesn't just hurt us.

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It creates different versions of us when we get down in there and we

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allow even for a moment those things to take over and take control.

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And we cry out to God in the midst of those things.

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And we want him to come with us in that place of pity and sorrow and

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you know, empathetic miss.

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He doesn't show up like that.

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I've had God even in those moments say to me many years ago.

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He said get up Jackie.

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This is not who you are.

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I didn't understand that.

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That was the only version of me that I knew.

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I didn't know a different version of me.

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That was the only version of me that I knew riddled with mental health

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issues and anxiety not able to even function.

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You know that saying I can't even that was my motto.

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I can't even.

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But I could.

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And God knew I could.

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And because of him I did and so that those other versions of us, they're

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living our lives still friends.

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And so we have to continue to do the hard work.

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You have to continue to invite Holy Spirit in.

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And one of the ways that we do that is we get up and we pray that Lord's

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prayer.

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I know that that Lord's prayer is maybe something you learn when you were a

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child and it seems really juvenile.

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It seems really elementary school when it comes to the spirit.

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Jesus's disciples were Jews.

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You guys they probably memorize most of the Torah what we call the Torah.

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They knew all of the of the of the prophecies.

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They knew all the prayers, you know, Jews memorize stuff.

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They recite stuff.

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There's lots of things that you have to do if you're Jewish that you know as

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Christians don't do.

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And so out of all the prayers out of all the things out of all the rituals.

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That they had back in those days.

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That's this you have to frame it right when you're talking about this story.

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They said to Jesus what you know teach us how to pray because these are people

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that you know, the the calisthenics of prayer that they had to go through were

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a lot.

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You know, not unlike the Muslims of our current day that you have to pray

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towards the Holy City several times a day, you know Jews they had to pray to

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they had to do this.

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They had to do that.

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They had to make sure they wash their.

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and eat this, you can't eat that with this.

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And then you gotta do these prayers every day

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when you wake up, every day before you go to bed.

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On these high holy holidays,

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all these prayers have to be prayed.

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You see the kind of people that we're dealing with?

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So that's a loaded question when they're saying to Jesus,

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hey, you know, you're kind of different, rabbi.

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So teach us how to pray.

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And then he gives them this simple prayer.

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This simple prayer, but it's packed full.

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You guys, I didn't have any intention

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of going here this morning.

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This is all Holy Spirit.

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This wasn't even a thought in my head.

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It's not even a thought in my head.

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Let's go ahead and visit the Lord's Prayer

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since Holy Spirit led us here.

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I told you that I didn't really grow up in the church,

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but I did go to Catholic school.

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And the Catholics have the Lord's Prayer nailed down.

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I went to Catholic school starting in second grade.

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And so this is where I learned the Lord's Prayer.

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And so let's go ahead and read it.

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By the way, it's in Matthew 6, nine through 13.

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And it's also in the book of Luke 11, one through four.

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If you want to check it out there.

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Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.

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Who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.

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Thy kingdom come, thy will be done

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on earth as it is in heaven.

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Give us this day our daily bread

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and forgive us our trespasses

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as we forgive those who trespass against us.

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And lead us not into temptation,

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but deliver us from evil.

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For thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory

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forever and ever, amen.

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Here's a more contemporary version.

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Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name.

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Your kingdom come, your will be done

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on earth as is in heaven.

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Give us today our daily bread,

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forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us.

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Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil

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for the kingdom, the power and the glory are yours

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now and forever.

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You guys, this is what Jesus taught those Jews

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that had all the prayers and all the sacraments

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and all the things that they had to do.

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He taught them this simple prayer.

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Powerful, right?

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We want God's will to be done on earth

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as it already is in heaven.

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Already is done.

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And so we need to live from that place.

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We need to live from it's an already done place.

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How can you live from a place of already done

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but not yet seen?

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What does that look like?

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Done, but not yet.

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Now, but not yet seen.

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And that's where we all get tripped up.

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We get tripped up in that little dash

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between now and not yet seen.

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Because even though the Bible tells us to walk by faith

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and not by sight, walking by sight makes a lot more sense.

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But what would happen if we started acting

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like it truly was already done?

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What would happen if we got up in the morning

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and we prayed that prayer and then we walked

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throughout our day as if that prayer was true?

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That God's will, that God's reality in heaven

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has invaded earth through us.

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Woo, what would happen?

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You guys, it takes us to be mindful.

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We have to be mindful.

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This is our main problem.

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If you wanna see one of our main problems

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in this flesh suit, one of our main problems

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is that it's very difficult to stay mindful.

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We become very distracted.

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Raise your hand if you have an issue with distraction.

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Raise your hand if you've never seen so many people

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claiming ADHD.

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So many people claiming ADHD.

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Oh, I just, you know, I have an attention deficit.

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No, we have too much stimulus.

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We have way too much stimulus.

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And ADHD is just a fancy word for trauma.

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When you have trauma, you will medicate trauma.

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And the way that we medicate trauma is.

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by procrastination and distraction,

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by medicating ourselves with things that are distracting.

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I want you to be honest.

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Okay, put on your hands.

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I want you to be honest if you feel like you have,

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put all the hands down.

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And guys, this is a safe space.

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This is not a space of judgment.

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We're not here to judge.

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We're just here to find out, right?

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Discover and inform.

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Raise your hands if you feel like you have a real problem

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with scrolling, with media,

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with constantly looking at something,

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reading something, watching something,

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listening to something.

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Your phone has become your arch nemesis.

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You lose minutes, hours,

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when you should have been doing something else.

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You go down the social media rabbit hole

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or just the media rabbit hole.

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And then you merge and you're like, dang,

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I could have gotten a lot of stuff done, but I got lost.

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All right, quite a bit of people.

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All right, put your hands down.

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So being mindful is really important

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because when we're mindful,

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and this is a thought that I jumped on on Thursday

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on the ladies' prayer call, and I shared this thought.

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When you're mindful, you're thinking about,

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listen up, what you're thinking about.

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When you're mindful, that means that you know

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what's happening in your mind.

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You're thinking about what you're thinking about.

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You guys, we have so many thoughts a day.

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So many thoughts a day.

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And a lot of those thoughts,

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we don't even know that they came through.

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Did you guys know that?

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The average person has between 6,000 and 6,200 thoughts a day.

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The scientists that did this study

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said that our thoughts transition every 6.5 minutes.

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Crazy, right?

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The Cleveland Clinic says that the brain processes

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about 70,000 thoughts a day.

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And the National Science Foundation

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says that the average person

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has between 12,000 and 60,000 thoughts per day.

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But it gets better or worse.

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Some scientists say that 75% of those thoughts are negative

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and 95% of them are repetitive.

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What does that mean?

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That means that the thoughts that come in your head,

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they're regulars.

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They've been here before.

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95% of the thoughts that you think,

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whether you have 6,500 thoughts a day

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or you're one of those people

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that your mind's going a million miles an hour

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and you have 60,000 thoughts a day,

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95% of the thoughts that you personally think

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are thoughts that are not one-time visitors.

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They don't get to park

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in the first-time visitor parking spot

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in front of the building

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because they have been here before

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lots and lots and lots of times.

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And this study also says that 75% of them

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are not carrying good news.

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Wow, y'all, we could just really stop right here

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and just really think about that for a second

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because this whole thing is about

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think about what you're thinking about.

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Think about what you're thinking about.

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The Bible tells us that we're to do something

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very specific with thoughts.

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The word of God actually covers this topic.

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There are lots of topics that the word of God doesn't cover

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and we just have to kind of piece together

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what we think God thinks about things,

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like dating, for instance.

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Dating was not something that happened in the old world.

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You spotted a woman, you asked her family,

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they gave you a goat, you went and had sex, you're married.

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Dating was not something.

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And who thinks that sounds easier?

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Who wants to go back to the tent goat sex days?

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Let's go.

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You're not gonna have sex with a goat.

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If you're coming on right now,

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do not hear what I'm not saying.

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All right, let's make it.

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sure. But the Bible does cover our minds. It does cover our

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thoughts. One particular scripture that sticks out to me

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right now is we are to take every thought captive. We're to

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take every thought captive. You guys, I watched an interview

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with one of the young women that was just released from Hamas

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from the war in Israel. She was taken captive. He was kidnapped,

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taken captive at a music festival in Israel, when all

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this started, and then she's been held. And now she was

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released. And I felt compelled to watch this interview with

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this young woman, even though I knew it was going to be hard to

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listen to. And she talked about what it was like to be taken

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captive. You guys, the word in Greek, in that scripture means

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to apprehend. This girl was apprehended. Okay. She was

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taken. It didn't matter what her will was, she was taken. And

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these thoughts, we have to treat them that way. We have to

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apprehend them. We have to be diligent. We have to be mindful.

520
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We have to think about what we're thinking about. And let's

521
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just let's take the low number. Let's just take the 6500 thoughts

522
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a day. When one of those 6500 thoughts shows up at your mind

523
00:26:46.520 --> 00:26:52.600
gate, you have to ask it what it wants. You can't just let it

524
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in. It doesn't matter if it's one of the 95% of habitual

525
00:26:58.600 --> 00:27:04.040
thoughts that shows up at the gate every day. Some of you, you

526
00:27:04.040 --> 00:27:06.200
don't even have your gate closed. You don't even have a

527
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gate. Look, I'm trying to help you here. As someone who has

528
00:27:12.240 --> 00:27:16.600
dealt with obsessive and intrusive thoughts ever since I

529
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was old enough to know, a thought, I want to help you.

530
00:27:22.480 --> 00:27:27.880
Because thoughts don't stay thoughts. They don't stay

531
00:27:27.880 --> 00:27:32.760
thoughts. They become mindsets and strongholds. They become

532
00:27:32.760 --> 00:27:38.000
behavior, and they become identity. Can't allow them to

533
00:27:38.000 --> 00:27:41.320
stay can't allow them to keep running roughshod. We can't

534
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allow them to come in and take over. We cannot stop them from

535
00:27:46.360 --> 00:27:50.760
coming. Right? I know a lot of people are like they try to not

536
00:27:50.760 --> 00:27:53.520
think about something that they don't want to think about. And

537
00:27:53.520 --> 00:27:58.120
then you just think about it more. You cannot erase you

538
00:27:58.120 --> 00:28:04.520
learn this in the heart work, but you can replace. So when

539
00:28:04.520 --> 00:28:09.160
that thought shows up for the 100,000th time, because it's one

540
00:28:09.200 --> 00:28:13.800
of the 95% of negative habitual thinking that shows up at your

541
00:28:13.800 --> 00:28:19.720
mind gates. Instead of trying to get it to go away. First of all,

542
00:28:19.720 --> 00:28:22.480
you don't let it in, you don't entertain it, you don't allow it

543
00:28:22.480 --> 00:28:26.640
to gain any more territory or ground. Okay, you apprehend it,

544
00:28:26.640 --> 00:28:33.760
you take it captive. But then you replace it. So let's go on

545
00:28:33.760 --> 00:28:36.560
the rest of the scripture. Take every thought captive. Let's

546
00:28:36.560 --> 00:28:44.120
just read it. I believe it's in Colossians. Once again, you guys

547
00:28:44.120 --> 00:28:46.120
respond by the seat of our pants because I did not know we're

548
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going here today. So here we are. Oh, it's in Corinthians.

549
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Chapter 10.

550
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That's not right. Hold on a second.

551
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Why is Bible Gateway not doing the thing today? Okay.

552
00:29:49.320 --> 00:29:52.320
Why is Bible Gateway not doing the thing today?

553
00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:23.280
Okay, so we'll start at 2nd Corinthians 10 for 10 for 10 for y'all for the weapons of

554
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our warfare not carnal but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds.

555
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The casting down of imaginations and every high thing that exalts itself against the

556
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knowledge of God and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ.

557
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We're taking those thoughts captive and we're making them obedient to what to the finished

558
00:30:50.280 --> 00:30:53.440
work of the cross to Christ.

559
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So we can't erase we have to replace so when you take those thoughts captive what's the

560
00:30:57.720 --> 00:31:00.480
next thing that you do with it?

561
00:31:00.480 --> 00:31:05.220
You take that thought captive and then you make that thought come into obedience or into

562
00:31:05.220 --> 00:31:10.600
alignment with the truth of the finished work of the cross.

563
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Let's do some examples.

564
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Let's activate.

565
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All right, so I want you to go ahead and put in the comments guys.

566
00:31:17.600 --> 00:31:19.720
This is where we have to do James 516.

567
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We have to confess our faults and be healed right confess our frailties and our weaknesses

568
00:31:24.720 --> 00:31:25.840
and be healed.

569
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So be honest right now if you want breakthrough if you want healing what is a habitual when

570
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is one of those 95% habitual repetitive thoughts that show up at your gate that are 75% negative.

571
00:31:44.360 --> 00:31:45.360
Let's see them.

572
00:31:45.360 --> 00:31:50.880
Put them in the chat.

573
00:31:50.880 --> 00:31:56.320
Come on Holy Spirit is helping us today.

574
00:31:56.320 --> 00:31:57.480
God wants to see you live free.

575
00:31:57.480 --> 00:32:00.480
Did you know that God wants you to have a good life?

576
00:32:00.480 --> 00:32:05.640
Did you know that?

577
00:32:05.640 --> 00:32:07.840
Remember the curse wasn't God's idea.

578
00:32:07.840 --> 00:32:12.280
The curse came as a result of sin and disobedience.

579
00:32:12.280 --> 00:32:15.600
We can have a part of the garden life on earth now.

580
00:32:15.600 --> 00:32:17.240
That's what Holy Spirit is here to do.

581
00:32:17.240 --> 00:32:24.800
To give us a foretaste of what's happening that Jesus died to give us and what's not

582
00:32:24.800 --> 00:32:25.800
fully arrived.

583
00:32:25.800 --> 00:32:31.120
All of creation is groaning and travailing waiting for the revealing of the sons of God,

584
00:32:31.120 --> 00:32:32.960
but that day is coming.

585
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But in the meantime, we can still live bringing heaven to earth.

586
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All right, so look at these.

587
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Let's look at some of them.

588
00:32:41.520 --> 00:32:43.760
I'm curious to see how.

589
00:32:43.760 --> 00:32:53.200
All right, so many people going to be forever alone.

590
00:32:53.200 --> 00:33:04.600
So many people have habitual thoughts of negativity about themselves, personality, their looks.

591
00:33:04.600 --> 00:33:05.600
Never good enough.

592
00:33:05.600 --> 00:33:10.600
So many people are saying that scarcity mentalities don't have enough.

593
00:33:10.600 --> 00:33:11.600
We'll never have enough.

594
00:33:11.600 --> 00:33:16.000
There's not enough to go around.

595
00:33:16.000 --> 00:33:19.600
Some people are being tormented by the mistakes of their past.

596
00:33:19.600 --> 00:33:21.200
Those thoughts continue to come up.

597
00:33:21.200 --> 00:33:28.440
You should have, you could have, you didn't.

598
00:33:28.440 --> 00:33:34.440
Lots of self-deprecating, self-hatred based thoughts y'all going on here.

599
00:33:35.440 --> 00:33:36.440
Wow.

600
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Lots and lots and lots of stuff.

601
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Okay.

602
00:33:40.440 --> 00:33:43.000
Now I want you to grab a hold of that thought.

603
00:33:43.000 --> 00:33:46.360
You guys see how you're not alone in thinking the things you think.

604
00:33:46.360 --> 00:33:54.320
And do you also see that the enemy is a loser?

605
00:33:54.320 --> 00:33:57.040
He uses the same warfare on everyone.

606
00:33:57.040 --> 00:34:00.680
There's nothing new going on here.

607
00:34:00.920 --> 00:34:06.440
Same lies, different day.

608
00:34:06.440 --> 00:34:11.159
Now I just want to say this and I'm not trying to, I really want you to get free and we're

609
00:34:11.159 --> 00:34:12.159
going to apply truth.

610
00:34:12.159 --> 00:34:13.159
Okay.

611
00:34:13.159 --> 00:34:16.360
We're going to, can't erase, but we're going to replace, we're going to do what the scripture

612
00:34:16.360 --> 00:34:17.360
says.

613
00:34:17.360 --> 00:34:20.960
We're going to take that thought captive and then make it obedient.

614
00:34:20.960 --> 00:34:22.719
Okay.

615
00:34:22.719 --> 00:34:24.320
To the finished work of the cross.

616
00:34:24.320 --> 00:34:28.800
But some of y'all, if you're having a repetitive thought about something that you actually

617
00:34:28.800 --> 00:34:36.480
can change, you ought to change it.

618
00:34:36.480 --> 00:34:40.760
You ought to change it.

619
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You know, when I turned about 47 years old, I started getting up in the morning and not

620
00:34:44.360 --> 00:34:49.760
looking, not liking what I saw in the mirror.

621
00:34:49.760 --> 00:34:55.639
I recognized in that moment that I had to love myself in all my versions because I wanted

622
00:34:55.639 --> 00:34:59.800
to start hating on myself.

623
00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:01.240
I also knew this.

624
00:35:01.240 --> 00:35:04.200
I knew that that wouldn't cause positive change.

625
00:35:04.200 --> 00:35:07.960
It actually would probably cause the exact opposite of what I want to happen.

626
00:35:07.960 --> 00:35:10.160
And you guys, this is not an overnight thing.

627
00:35:10.160 --> 00:35:12.120
I don't want you to think, oh, Jackie's got it all together.

628
00:35:12.120 --> 00:35:16.760
No, Jackie does not, okay?

629
00:35:16.760 --> 00:35:22.200
I've said many a mean thing to myself in my life, trust me, okay?

630
00:35:22.200 --> 00:35:29.240
But I also recognize, because I'm an intelligent woman, that that is working against what I

631
00:35:29.240 --> 00:35:31.240
want.

632
00:35:31.240 --> 00:35:35.960
And so sometimes you do have to fake it until you make it in the way of you do things that

633
00:35:35.960 --> 00:35:37.560
you don't feel like doing.

634
00:35:37.560 --> 00:35:41.480
You say things that you don't entirely believe are true, but that's okay, because the Bible

635
00:35:41.480 --> 00:35:49.360
says call those things that are not as though they are.

636
00:35:49.360 --> 00:35:52.080
A lot of us, when we get up in the morning, especially as we're getting older and we look

637
00:35:52.080 --> 00:35:57.840
at ourselves in the mirror, we're comparing ourselves to a younger version of ourselves.

638
00:35:57.840 --> 00:36:00.920
And if that's what you're doing, you're never going to like what you see, because you're

639
00:36:00.920 --> 00:36:03.520
never going to be that person again.

640
00:36:03.520 --> 00:36:04.520
You're not.

641
00:36:04.520 --> 00:36:08.160
There ain't enough Botox in the world that's going to make you 22 without making you look

642
00:36:08.160 --> 00:36:10.040
like Catwoman.

643
00:36:10.040 --> 00:36:17.680
And not Catwoman from Batman, but Catwoman from the tabloids, that woman who made herself

644
00:36:17.680 --> 00:36:20.480
look like a cat.

645
00:36:20.480 --> 00:36:26.120
God help her, Lord, bless her, okay?

646
00:36:26.120 --> 00:36:35.320
So if you're comparing yourself to an earlier version of yourself, no, stop that, okay?

647
00:36:35.320 --> 00:36:36.480
But we can be evergreen.

648
00:36:36.480 --> 00:36:38.560
We can be great in every season, y'all.

649
00:36:38.560 --> 00:36:41.080
We can be great in every season of our lives.

650
00:36:41.080 --> 00:36:45.400
You got to embrace this older version of you, but you can be the best version of the older

651
00:36:45.400 --> 00:36:47.760
version of you, okay?

652
00:36:47.760 --> 00:36:52.300
I believe that we can age with grace.

653
00:36:52.300 --> 00:36:55.040
We can have muscle until we leave this earth.

654
00:36:55.040 --> 00:36:56.040
We can have muscle.

655
00:36:56.040 --> 00:36:58.040
Guys, muscle is the organ of longevity.

656
00:36:58.040 --> 00:37:02.120
A lot of people are always worried about their organs, that they can't see what's going on

657
00:37:02.120 --> 00:37:05.600
with my liver, what's going on in there, how's my brain doing?

658
00:37:05.600 --> 00:37:10.480
Okay, that's all great, but the muscle that you can see, the organ that you can see is

659
00:37:10.480 --> 00:37:12.080
your muscles.

660
00:37:12.080 --> 00:37:18.200
And they have proven that people that continue to build muscle and take care of muscle have

661
00:37:18.200 --> 00:37:19.200
the best longevity.

662
00:37:19.200 --> 00:37:20.200
Did you know that?

663
00:37:20.200 --> 00:37:26.120
Did you know that?

664
00:37:26.120 --> 00:37:32.880
So we can be great versions of ourselves at every age, as long as we are not comparing

665
00:37:32.880 --> 00:37:39.040
ourselves to others or to some earlier version of ourselves.

666
00:37:39.040 --> 00:37:42.520
So loving ourselves at every stage is really important, and so when you get up in the morning,

667
00:37:42.520 --> 00:37:46.440
if you see something that you don't love, that's fixable.

668
00:37:46.440 --> 00:37:47.440
By what?

669
00:37:47.440 --> 00:37:54.960
By eating differently, by moving your body, by hydrating your body.

670
00:37:54.960 --> 00:38:00.840
I would say get a trainer, but you could do that, but you guys, there's so much free information

671
00:38:00.840 --> 00:38:06.880
now, and you know, we do what we want, and we have time for what we want, but getting

672
00:38:06.880 --> 00:38:11.200
on the internet, on Instagram or someplace, and watching these accounts of these personal

673
00:38:11.200 --> 00:38:17.240
trainers, they give you all of their secrets, they give you their daily movements, they

674
00:38:17.240 --> 00:38:21.920
tell you what to eat, they show you how to do your macros, there's really just no excuse,

675
00:38:21.920 --> 00:38:24.800
is there?

676
00:38:24.800 --> 00:38:32.880
Except sometimes we get into a victim mentality where all we want to do is complain and feel

677
00:38:32.880 --> 00:38:36.480
sorry for ourselves, but we don't truly want change.

678
00:38:36.480 --> 00:38:42.480
Now I'm saying that for all of you that are like, I don't really like the way I'm looking

679
00:38:42.480 --> 00:38:43.480
right now.

680
00:38:43.480 --> 00:38:44.480
Okay, well that's fixable.

681
00:38:44.720 --> 00:38:45.720
Okay?

682
00:38:45.720 --> 00:38:51.680
First of all, you gotta love and embrace yourself in every season, but you can better yourself.

683
00:38:51.680 --> 00:38:52.680
You can.

684
00:38:52.680 --> 00:38:53.680
You can.

685
00:38:53.680 --> 00:38:55.640
All right?

686
00:38:55.640 --> 00:39:00.120
And sometimes that's what will happen, when we take that thought captive, and we can't

687
00:39:00.120 --> 00:39:04.080
erase it, but we have to replace it, Holy Spirit will come along and say, well, you

688
00:39:04.080 --> 00:39:14.440
know, you could do this, instead of just staying on the merry-go-round of, okay, the thought

689
00:39:14.920 --> 00:39:22.680
comes to the gate, I take it captive, I turn it away, I say some kind of positive mental

690
00:39:22.680 --> 00:39:30.040
attitude thing about that thing, instead I come into, you know, Jesus did it all mindset,

691
00:39:30.040 --> 00:39:35.720
but did that change the thing?

692
00:39:35.720 --> 00:39:36.720
Did it?

693
00:39:36.720 --> 00:39:37.720
Did it change the thing?

694
00:39:37.720 --> 00:39:42.280
No, because sometimes it's a situation where you have to do your part, and then God of

695
00:39:42.280 --> 00:39:44.480
course will always do his.

696
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All right?

697
00:39:47.080 --> 00:39:54.080
So let's be mindful that some of these thoughts that continuously come to the gate, that they

698
00:39:54.080 --> 00:39:58.840
don't just need to be taken captive, they actually need to be taken seriously, because

699
00:39:58.840 --> 00:39:59.840
they're part of a

700
00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:07.340
Deeper root system and there are some things that we need to do in order to make sure that that root doesn't bear fruit

701
00:40:09.800 --> 00:40:11.800
Everyone getting me

702
00:40:16.840 --> 00:40:19.560
Right now I want you to go ahead and put up the

703
00:40:22.040 --> 00:40:27.720
Obedience to Christ version of your thought if you're taking that thought captive at the gate. You're not letting it in

704
00:40:27.720 --> 00:40:34.000
You're not letting it play havoc on your mind, but you are immediately making it obedient to Christ now

705
00:40:34.000 --> 00:40:36.000
What does that thought sound like?

706
00:40:36.440 --> 00:40:38.440
Put up that version

707
00:40:57.720 --> 00:41:00.720
You

708
00:41:27.720 --> 00:41:29.720
You

709
00:41:57.720 --> 00:41:59.720
You

710
00:42:05.200 --> 00:42:07.640
All right, that looks great you guys reading those

711
00:42:09.040 --> 00:42:11.120
You guys hopefully you're reading each other's

712
00:42:12.320 --> 00:42:14.320
So, you know the right answer

713
00:42:16.320 --> 00:42:18.080
You know the right answer

714
00:42:18.080 --> 00:42:23.760
When those thoughts show up, you know the right answer, but a lot of times we entertain those thoughts we open the gate

715
00:42:23.760 --> 00:42:26.640
We let them come in. We let them sit down and have a meal with us

716
00:42:27.080 --> 00:42:32.400
Right and pretty soon if you let that thought stay too long, that's not that thought starts to create a stronghold

717
00:42:33.800 --> 00:42:38.320
Right, it moves in it signs the lease it's in there now

718
00:42:41.040 --> 00:42:44.640
And a lot of times when we kick thoughts out once they've been in there for a long time

719
00:42:44.640 --> 00:42:47.560
We don't really kick them all the way out. We just run them a room in the basement

720
00:42:48.520 --> 00:42:50.320
They're still in there

721
00:42:50.320 --> 00:42:53.320
They're not up in the living spaces, but they're still there

722
00:42:53.760 --> 00:42:55.760
Because we have to kick them all the way out

723
00:42:56.400 --> 00:42:59.920
We have to kick them all the way out. We can't let them stay and

724
00:43:00.440 --> 00:43:06.200
Sometimes it feels good to feel sorry for yourself. Yeah, I said it it does in a moment

725
00:43:07.120 --> 00:43:11.920
In those moments, it feels good to feel sorry for yourself. I

726
00:43:15.640 --> 00:43:21.040
Had a habit of picking abusive men my mom was married three times before I was 10 years old all the abusive men

727
00:43:21.040 --> 00:43:23.400
I thought that's what quote-unquote love looked like

728
00:43:24.160 --> 00:43:28.080
Right, and so when I was young woman, I chose

729
00:43:28.880 --> 00:43:31.720
situations that were not good for me and

730
00:43:33.960 --> 00:43:38.960
Then I did what was modeled for me make up and break up makeup and break up

731
00:43:39.600 --> 00:43:45.280
After the breakup you sit down with a box of wine. You listen to Dave Matthews. Remember I was a teenager in the 90s

732
00:43:47.280 --> 00:43:50.120
And you feel sorry for yourself and it hurts so good

733
00:43:51.360 --> 00:43:57.480
Right hurt so good. Oh, you know you sing the lyrics of those songs about how they did me wrong

734
00:43:57.480 --> 00:44:01.200
And I'm never gonna let them do it again and blah blah blah blah

735
00:44:05.520 --> 00:44:09.440
There's pleasure in that for a few moments

736
00:44:11.360 --> 00:44:15.480
You're giving yourself permission to comfort your orphan

737
00:44:15.480 --> 00:44:17.480
But

738
00:44:19.760 --> 00:44:21.760
You guys

739
00:44:21.880 --> 00:44:23.880
If we do that too much

740
00:44:24.440 --> 00:44:26.440
What happens is is?

741
00:44:26.600 --> 00:44:30.120
We stop we're not comforting our orphan. We're becoming our orphan now

742
00:44:31.200 --> 00:44:36.720
Right, and when we get up from that place, it's not a temporary place of feeling sorry for ourself now

743
00:44:36.720 --> 00:44:40.960
It's becoming it's a habit. It's habitual place of feeling sorry for ourselves and

744
00:44:41.640 --> 00:44:47.080
When you are in that counterfeit identity of victim you will attract victimizers

745
00:44:49.760 --> 00:44:53.400
You will lather and repeat you will

746
00:44:56.080 --> 00:45:00.000
So we can't allow these thoughts even to come in we

747
00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:02.960
can't give them an inch because they'll take a mile.

748
00:45:02.960 --> 00:45:06.000
If it does not align with what God said about you

749
00:45:06.000 --> 00:45:09.400
in his word, if it does not align with what Jesus

750
00:45:09.400 --> 00:45:11.860
thought about you when he died for you,

751
00:45:11.860 --> 00:45:15.400
if it does not align with what Jesus said we are

752
00:45:15.400 --> 00:45:20.260
as his body on the earth, then it can't stay.

753
00:45:23.160 --> 00:45:24.680
And some of us have the problem that we're really

754
00:45:24.680 --> 00:45:27.180
not sure what God said we could have.

755
00:45:27.180 --> 00:45:28.960
When people start talking about the promises of God,

756
00:45:28.960 --> 00:45:30.740
a lot of people are like, I don't have any promises

757
00:45:30.740 --> 00:45:33.240
of God because you thought that the promise of God

758
00:45:33.240 --> 00:45:36.300
had to come in some prophetic word or you wrote it down

759
00:45:36.300 --> 00:45:38.260
because someone came up to you and whispered in your ear

760
00:45:38.260 --> 00:45:39.620
during a church service.

761
00:45:40.820 --> 00:45:44.520
No, the promises of God are in the word of God.

762
00:45:46.460 --> 00:45:48.140
Those prophetic words that you receive,

763
00:45:48.140 --> 00:45:50.880
those are great too, as long as they're established.

764
00:45:50.880 --> 00:45:55.880
Do not run off, okay, with a word, quote unquote,

765
00:45:55.880 --> 00:45:59.140
from the Lord before it has been established.

766
00:45:59.140 --> 00:46:01.280
Do not start building on a foundation

767
00:46:01.280 --> 00:46:02.540
that has not been proven.

768
00:46:04.020 --> 00:46:04.920
What does that look like?

769
00:46:04.920 --> 00:46:08.600
It looks like Mary received the word from the angel

770
00:46:08.600 --> 00:46:10.220
and you guys, you would think that that would have

771
00:46:10.220 --> 00:46:11.060
been enough.

772
00:46:11.060 --> 00:46:12.140
I mean, it is an angel.

773
00:46:12.140 --> 00:46:14.120
If I receive a word from an angel, I'm probably not

774
00:46:14.120 --> 00:46:16.580
gonna need much more confirmation than that.

775
00:46:16.580 --> 00:46:19.760
But she still pondered it in her heart.

776
00:46:19.760 --> 00:46:20.840
What did she do?

777
00:46:20.840 --> 00:46:24.580
She said, okay, if this is you, Lord, let it be done

778
00:46:24.640 --> 00:46:26.640
to me according to thy will.

779
00:46:26.640 --> 00:46:28.160
But then she walked away from that place

780
00:46:28.160 --> 00:46:29.960
and it says she pondered in her heart.

781
00:46:29.960 --> 00:46:34.060
She was still allowing it to just be in her heart

782
00:46:34.060 --> 00:46:36.460
where she was continuing to meditate on it.

783
00:46:37.800 --> 00:46:40.400
But then confirmation started happening, right?

784
00:46:40.400 --> 00:46:42.540
She walked into her cousin Elizabeth's house

785
00:46:42.540 --> 00:46:45.500
and Elizabeth's baby leapt in her womb.

786
00:46:45.500 --> 00:46:49.840
And Elizabeth said to her, she was a confirmation

787
00:46:49.840 --> 00:46:51.200
what she said to her.

788
00:46:51.200 --> 00:46:53.560
Stuff started happening, right?

789
00:46:53.620 --> 00:46:56.740
Joseph got a dream because back in those days,

790
00:46:56.740 --> 00:47:00.860
if you got pregnant and you were betrothed to someone

791
00:47:00.860 --> 00:47:02.580
and it wasn't them that got you pregnant,

792
00:47:02.580 --> 00:47:04.700
then you'll be in trouble.

793
00:47:04.700 --> 00:47:07.780
I mean, we're talking about they're gonna stone you, okay?

794
00:47:07.780 --> 00:47:09.120
Kind of big trouble.

795
00:47:09.120 --> 00:47:10.940
So you see the confirmations that started happening.

796
00:47:10.940 --> 00:47:12.620
And so if you have a word from the Lord,

797
00:47:12.620 --> 00:47:14.280
especially if it's about something really important

798
00:47:14.280 --> 00:47:17.580
in your life, some really important decision

799
00:47:17.580 --> 00:47:18.780
that you have to make in your life

800
00:47:18.780 --> 00:47:22.060
or some real important thing that you're called to do

801
00:47:22.060 --> 00:47:23.880
in your life, let's let it get confirmed

802
00:47:23.880 --> 00:47:26.760
before we run off and start building the whole house

803
00:47:26.760 --> 00:47:27.600
on top of it.

804
00:47:29.320 --> 00:47:31.760
Now, I'm not saying don't take actionable steps towards it

805
00:47:31.760 --> 00:47:33.360
because a lot of times that's where the confirmation

806
00:47:33.360 --> 00:47:34.200
start coming.

807
00:47:36.080 --> 00:47:38.640
But the word and the promises of God,

808
00:47:38.640 --> 00:47:42.760
for those of you that don't have those auxiliary words

809
00:47:42.760 --> 00:47:45.040
from other people in the prophetic,

810
00:47:45.040 --> 00:47:47.080
they're still in the Bible.

811
00:47:48.520 --> 00:47:50.840
Those promises are in the word.

812
00:47:50.860 --> 00:47:55.300
That identity for you to compare these thoughts to

813
00:47:55.300 --> 00:47:56.700
is in the word.

814
00:48:00.380 --> 00:48:01.220
Amen?

815
00:48:03.940 --> 00:48:06.940
All right, so now we're getting around to the one thing

816
00:48:06.940 --> 00:48:11.020
that I did have written down on a piece of paper

817
00:48:11.020 --> 00:48:12.620
in front of me.

818
00:48:12.620 --> 00:48:16.740
When I woke up this morning, I heard Holy Spirit say to me,

819
00:48:17.740 --> 00:48:21.060
there's a difference between giving up and surrendering.

820
00:48:22.600 --> 00:48:23.440
Come on.

821
00:48:27.960 --> 00:48:30.160
Even though a lot of people might think those are synonyms,

822
00:48:30.160 --> 00:48:32.820
even if the dictionaries might say that they're synonyms,

823
00:48:32.820 --> 00:48:37.820
in this example, the mindset, the intention behind give up

824
00:48:39.860 --> 00:48:42.120
and surrendering is not the same.

825
00:48:43.120 --> 00:48:45.620
So I did a little quick word study

826
00:48:45.620 --> 00:48:48.620
because this was right before I got on here this morning.

827
00:48:48.620 --> 00:48:51.300
And from what I can see, the word give up

828
00:48:52.700 --> 00:48:54.820
mainly means to stop hoping.

829
00:48:59.620 --> 00:49:04.620
And the word surrender mainly means to stop resisting.

830
00:49:06.980 --> 00:49:09.980
Somebody run, somebody shout, somebody roll on the ground.

831
00:49:10.000 --> 00:49:13.040
Somebody run, somebody shout, somebody roll on the floor.

832
00:49:13.040 --> 00:49:15.920
Can you tell that I was a disciple by the Pentecostals?

833
00:49:19.000 --> 00:49:24.000
You guys, give up means to just stop hoping,

834
00:49:26.880 --> 00:49:29.860
but surrendering means to stop resisting.

835
00:49:30.840 --> 00:49:36.640
Whoa, whoa, whoa.

836
00:49:37.580 --> 00:49:40.900
And a lot of us, you guys, when we think we're surrendering,

837
00:49:40.900 --> 00:49:43.000
what we're really doing is just giving up.

838
00:49:45.740 --> 00:49:47.180
I give up, God.

839
00:49:48.880 --> 00:49:50.320
I give up.

840
00:49:50.320 --> 00:49:51.480
Anyone ever said that?

841
00:49:53.540 --> 00:49:54.980
But you're not saying to him,

842
00:49:54.980 --> 00:49:57.580
God, I'm tired of doing it my way.

843
00:49:57.580 --> 00:49:59.280
I'm tired of resisting you.

844
00:49:59.280 --> 00:50:00.380
I'm tired of thinking.

845
00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:02.880
that I think that I know what's best for me,

846
00:50:02.880 --> 00:50:04.920
I'm surrendering to you.

847
00:50:04.920 --> 00:50:08.240
I'm letting you be the Lord and the master of my life.

848
00:50:08.240 --> 00:50:09.440
I'm letting you drive.

849
00:50:09.440 --> 00:50:11.640
No, that's not what we mean when we say I give up God.

850
00:50:11.640 --> 00:50:12.760
When we say I give up God,

851
00:50:12.760 --> 00:50:14.920
what we're saying is I'm gonna stop hoping.

852
00:50:18.920 --> 00:50:20.000
I give up.

853
00:50:20.000 --> 00:50:21.880
I'm not gonna try anymore.

854
00:50:24.680 --> 00:50:26.560
I'm not gonna desire this anymore.

855
00:50:26.560 --> 00:50:28.680
I'm gonna shut off this area of my heart

856
00:50:28.680 --> 00:50:31.360
and I'm gonna put a do not disturb sign on the door.

857
00:50:35.280 --> 00:50:36.280
Come on y'all.

858
00:50:43.680 --> 00:50:45.960
It's a lot of times so unconscious,

859
00:50:45.960 --> 00:50:49.480
it might even be one of those repetitive,

860
00:50:49.480 --> 00:50:53.120
intruding thoughts that come to the gate.

861
00:50:54.040 --> 00:50:55.280
You should just give up.

862
00:50:56.360 --> 00:50:57.840
This is never gonna change.

863
00:50:57.880 --> 00:50:58.840
You should just give up.

864
00:50:58.840 --> 00:51:00.120
You should stop hoping.

865
00:51:05.080 --> 00:51:07.080
Woo, come on.

866
00:51:07.080 --> 00:51:09.320
Who wants to trade their giving up

867
00:51:09.320 --> 00:51:10.480
for surrendering this morning?

868
00:51:10.480 --> 00:51:12.440
Because I know for sure supernatural surrender,

869
00:51:12.440 --> 00:51:14.760
which is the first lesson in the heart work.

870
00:51:14.760 --> 00:51:17.520
I can tell you from my own life,

871
00:51:17.520 --> 00:51:20.760
it is supernatural and it changes everything.

872
00:51:25.720 --> 00:51:27.080
It changes everything.

873
00:51:27.880 --> 00:51:30.120
I've done plenty of giving up in my life,

874
00:51:31.560 --> 00:51:32.760
giving up on hope,

875
00:51:33.920 --> 00:51:35.920
giving up on prophetic promises,

876
00:51:39.000 --> 00:51:40.480
making a decision that I don't wanna feel

877
00:51:40.480 --> 00:51:42.600
any more disappointment or discouragement or pain

878
00:51:42.600 --> 00:51:45.400
and shutting that part of my life and my heart off.

879
00:51:49.200 --> 00:51:52.120
In fact, when opportunities for the very thing

880
00:51:52.120 --> 00:51:55.880
that I had been believing for finally came my way,

881
00:51:55.880 --> 00:51:57.680
I found myself saying things like,

882
00:51:57.680 --> 00:52:00.000
oh yeah, no thanks, I don't want that anymore.

883
00:52:00.000 --> 00:52:01.600
I'm not even kidding.

884
00:52:05.400 --> 00:52:06.480
I'm not kidding.

885
00:52:07.600 --> 00:52:09.000
Yeah.

886
00:52:09.000 --> 00:52:11.080
And the thing is, is that I wasn't saying that,

887
00:52:11.080 --> 00:52:13.320
oh, poor me, yeah, oh, it's here finally.

888
00:52:13.320 --> 00:52:14.720
Oh, I don't want it anymore.

889
00:52:14.720 --> 00:52:17.920
No, I actually didn't want it anymore.

890
00:52:17.920 --> 00:52:20.160
And the reason why is because the part of my heart

891
00:52:20.160 --> 00:52:24.160
that wanted it is now a desolate wasteland.

892
00:52:26.880 --> 00:52:31.160
Are you guys picking up what I'm putting down?

893
00:52:31.160 --> 00:52:32.120
Do you hear me?

894
00:52:35.680 --> 00:52:39.840
You actually can dry up your womb, y'all,

895
00:52:41.400 --> 00:52:45.200
men included, I'm not talking about physical female wombs.

896
00:52:45.200 --> 00:52:47.040
I'm talking about your spiritual womb.

897
00:52:47.040 --> 00:52:48.640
You can dry up your womb.

898
00:52:49.640 --> 00:52:54.640
Hope is what keeps your womb ready for the seed of God.

899
00:52:57.640 --> 00:53:02.640
It says that he consummates those that delight in him.

900
00:53:03.640 --> 00:53:07.640
He consummates with them and impregnates them

901
00:53:07.640 --> 00:53:09.200
with the desires of their heart.

902
00:53:09.640 --> 00:53:13.080
And impregnates them with the desires of their heart.

903
00:53:21.720 --> 00:53:24.120
So you guys, all of the things,

904
00:53:24.120 --> 00:53:28.920
all of the ingredients that go into us giving up

905
00:53:28.920 --> 00:53:31.280
versus surrendering, a lot of it's just ignorance

906
00:53:31.280 --> 00:53:33.520
of we just don't know.

907
00:53:33.520 --> 00:53:35.400
We think that that's what we're supposed to do.

908
00:53:35.400 --> 00:53:37.040
Like, oh, I guess I give up.

909
00:53:37.040 --> 00:53:38.200
I'm not gonna want this anymore.

910
00:53:38.200 --> 00:53:39.640
I'm not gonna think about it anymore.

911
00:53:39.640 --> 00:53:40.840
Have you ever done this thing?

912
00:53:40.840 --> 00:53:44.360
Well, God, I'm just gonna give this back to you

913
00:53:44.360 --> 00:53:45.680
because it hasn't happened.

914
00:53:45.680 --> 00:53:47.400
So I'm just gonna give it back to you.

915
00:53:47.400 --> 00:53:48.880
And if you really want it for me,

916
00:53:48.880 --> 00:53:51.080
then you'll give it back to me someday.

917
00:53:54.760 --> 00:53:57.000
You guys, and a lot of that comes from bad teaching

918
00:53:57.000 --> 00:53:58.440
and bad theology.

919
00:53:58.440 --> 00:54:03.440
We'll even get into places where there's services going on,

920
00:54:03.760 --> 00:54:07.120
where they'll actually tell us to do this from the platform.

921
00:54:07.120 --> 00:54:10.440
You need to come and just surrender all those desires

922
00:54:10.440 --> 00:54:11.360
to the Lord.

923
00:54:12.240 --> 00:54:14.040
Just come lay them down.

924
00:54:14.040 --> 00:54:18.440
I remember I was at a gathering for women in television,

925
00:54:18.440 --> 00:54:19.800
Christian women in media.

926
00:54:19.800 --> 00:54:20.840
I was at a gathering.

927
00:54:21.960 --> 00:54:23.920
And they said that exact thing.

928
00:54:23.920 --> 00:54:25.480
They had us all hold hands.

929
00:54:25.480 --> 00:54:29.160
And they said, just surrender your desire

930
00:54:29.160 --> 00:54:33.720
to work in media as a Christian woman.

931
00:54:33.720 --> 00:54:36.760
Just surrender it, give it back to God, lay it down.

932
00:54:37.680 --> 00:54:39.080
And I know that this was supposed to be

933
00:54:39.080 --> 00:54:41.560
some like humility thing,

934
00:54:42.640 --> 00:54:46.160
but you guys, it's not scriptural, okay?

935
00:54:46.160 --> 00:54:48.640
Once a word is established, you better run.

936
00:54:53.200 --> 00:54:55.080
And every intruder that comes to the gate

937
00:54:55.080 --> 00:54:57.120
that tries to tell you that you can't have it,

938
00:54:57.120 --> 00:54:59.200
you better kick fear in the face.

939
00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:08.000
So we took hands, and I reluctantly began to recite this prayer that I was being told

940
00:55:08.000 --> 00:55:09.000
to pray.

941
00:55:09.000 --> 00:55:15.360
And as soon as I said, God, I just give it back to you, I lay it down, he said, no, Jackie,

942
00:55:15.360 --> 00:55:16.360
pick it back up.

943
00:55:16.360 --> 00:55:17.360
I gave it to you.

944
00:55:17.360 --> 00:55:18.360
Run.

945
00:55:18.360 --> 00:55:32.840
I just want to let you guys know that the religious spirit is probably that 75% of negative

946
00:55:32.840 --> 00:55:38.360
thoughts and the 95% of intrusive thoughts that show up to your gates probably are laced

947
00:55:38.360 --> 00:55:45.640
with religion.

948
00:55:45.640 --> 00:55:47.080
And it's so sneaky, you guys.

949
00:55:47.080 --> 00:55:51.360
That's why Jesus said that a little leaven leavens the whole lump.

950
00:55:51.360 --> 00:55:53.240
What does that mean?

951
00:55:53.240 --> 00:55:58.720
That means when we get that religious spirit, that idea, because it's, it's, it's, it's,

952
00:55:58.720 --> 00:55:59.960
it's strength is in the law.

953
00:55:59.960 --> 00:56:01.240
It's strength is in the curse.

954
00:56:01.240 --> 00:56:04.000
You realize that, right?

955
00:56:04.000 --> 00:56:12.800
And so when it gets in there, it permeates everything, everything gets tainted by it.

956
00:56:12.800 --> 00:56:20.920
And so if you don't pray any other prayer after today, say, Lord, stop letting me align

957
00:56:20.920 --> 00:56:36.440
myself with religious lies and believing that I'm doing something good and right.

958
00:56:36.440 --> 00:56:40.620
Religion will always make you the victim friends, but the finished work of the cross will make

959
00:56:40.620 --> 00:56:41.680
you the victor.

960
00:56:41.680 --> 00:56:44.240
And I don't think that anyone got it wrong.

961
00:56:44.240 --> 00:56:51.240
Paul, when he wrote your Corinthians and said, cast down those imaginations and every high

962
00:56:51.240 --> 00:56:57.400
thing that exalts itself against God, taking into captivity, every thought and making it

963
00:56:57.400 --> 00:57:06.820
obedient to what to grace, to grace, to grace, to grace, to grace, to grace.

964
00:57:06.820 --> 00:57:09.520
Any thought that tells you that you can't, that you shouldn't, that you don't deserve

965
00:57:09.520 --> 00:57:11.640
to that ain't Jesus.

966
00:57:11.640 --> 00:57:15.200
Anything that tells you that you're not ready, that ain't Jesus.

967
00:57:15.200 --> 00:57:18.720
There isn't any way to be ready except to buy doing.

968
00:57:18.720 --> 00:57:19.800
Okay.

969
00:57:19.800 --> 00:57:22.120
We have to let go of this stuff.

970
00:57:22.120 --> 00:57:32.200
We have to, we have to pray that God would remove all of the leaven from us.

971
00:57:32.200 --> 00:57:36.840
This is not an earn it model.

972
00:57:36.840 --> 00:57:40.040
This is a learn it model.

973
00:57:40.040 --> 00:57:45.040
You cannot deserve this.

974
00:57:45.040 --> 00:57:48.600
I had someone in my messages the other day say, well, you know, I'm going to continue

975
00:57:48.600 --> 00:57:49.600
to trust the Lord.

976
00:57:49.600 --> 00:57:53.200
I'm going to continue to pray and I'm going to continue to do all the things that I need

977
00:57:53.200 --> 00:57:58.680
to do until, you know, God sees fit to give me a husband, you know, until I do enough

978
00:57:58.680 --> 00:58:01.520
things that God gives me a husband.

979
00:58:01.520 --> 00:58:06.640
I'm like, Oh honey, it doesn't work that way.

980
00:58:10.720 --> 00:58:15.840
Gentlemen, you can't go through, jump through all the hoops that culture tells you that

981
00:58:15.840 --> 00:58:23.240
you need to have jumped through in order to be able to be a husband and take a wife.

982
00:58:23.240 --> 00:58:30.400
God has one requirement of you, sir, and that is that you would lift up holy hands to him.

983
00:58:32.440 --> 00:58:37.520
That you would be a son.

984
00:58:37.520 --> 00:58:39.000
Everything else can get worked out.

985
00:58:39.000 --> 00:58:41.320
The finances can get worked out.

986
00:58:41.320 --> 00:58:43.120
The logistics can get worked out.

987
00:58:43.120 --> 00:58:51.640
The only thing that God requires of you in order to promote you to husband is that you

988
00:58:51.640 --> 00:58:54.560
would surrender to him.

989
00:58:54.560 --> 00:58:59.560
And remember, surrender is stop resisting.

990
00:58:59.600 --> 00:59:03.880
Part of our resistance, friends, are this whole laundry list of things that we feel

991
00:59:03.880 --> 00:59:09.760
like we have to cross T's and dot I's on before we can even get anywhere near what we want

992
00:59:09.760 --> 00:59:10.760
in life.

993
00:59:10.760 --> 00:59:13.680
Well, here's the biggest newsflash of this morning.

994
00:59:13.680 --> 00:59:19.200
You have a very limited amount of time on earth and we have no idea what that time is.

995
00:59:19.200 --> 00:59:26.840
And so we best get to stepping.

996
00:59:26.840 --> 00:59:32.360
Trust me, when you're living a surrendered life, you're not resisting God.

997
00:59:32.360 --> 00:59:37.520
You're not resisting his wisdom, his insight, his revelation.

998
00:59:37.520 --> 00:59:43.320
He will steer the car, but you still have to put your foot on the pedal.

999
00:59:43.320 --> 00:59:44.640
Okay?

1000
00:59:44.640 --> 00:59:49.440
Father God, we thank you for this morning.

1001
00:59:49.440 --> 00:59:54.720
We thank you that you're teaching us the difference between giving up and surrendering.

1002
00:59:54.720 --> 00:59:56.800
We don't want to lose hope.

1003
00:59:56.800 --> 01:00:00.000
Hope is what keeps our womb open to you.

1004
01:00:00.000 --> 01:00:06.120
you, keeps us full of wonder of what you can do in our lives.

1005
01:00:06.120 --> 01:00:07.280
We don't want to give up on hope.

1006
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We grab a hold of hope like never before today.

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All the areas of our heart that we've shut off because we've given up, we've shut them

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down.

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We put up the do not disturb signs.

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I pray that Holy Spirit, you would come alongside those folks today and you would help them

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take those signs down.

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You would help them open those doors back up, help them sweep out the cobwebs, Lord,

1013
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open those rooms and that you would fill those rooms with all the goodness that you have

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stored for each and every one of your daughters and sons.

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Father, we thank you that this is the time of supernatural surrender.

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We will not resist.

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We do not know what's best for us, but we do have desires that you've placed in our

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heart.

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And as we walk towards those desires with confidence, full of victory, knowing that

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you are with us, knowing that you are for us, knowing that you yourself have charted

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a way for us in this endeavor.

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As we do that, we are asking that you would help us by steering us, by giving us insight

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and wisdom and revelation.

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Even if it doesn't make sense to our human minds, we will not resist that.

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We will do the things that seem counterintuitive as we are walking this path with you.

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We will do the things that maybe we said we would never do because we had a different

1027
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way of thinking about that thing.

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We're laying down the never will I evers and we're picking up the you can never fail.

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We trust you fully.

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We want to be called by your name.

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We want to be Matthew five in the earth, salt and light.

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We want to be revivalists.

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We want our lives to be beacons of hope for others.

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And so first and foremost, Lord, we tell you as of today, there isn't going to be any

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more victim, but only victor in Jesus name.

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Amen.

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All right.

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Love y'all.

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See you soon.