All right, welcome to Supernatural Saturday.
I have a couple announcements here at the beginning.
This is the easiest way to get information to all of you,
and that is that our affiliate program
is opening up this weekend.
So for those of you that did not hear
last week's Supernatural Saturday,
please go back and listen, okay?
It's really important that you go back and listen.
That would be, let's see, the 24th.
So August 24th, Supernatural Saturday.
Go back and listen to that session,
because we talk about what God wants to invite
all of us into in order to do what it is
that he would love to do through this community.
It can't just be one or two people.
It has to be all of us taking ownership.
You know, Americans especially,
we get into a consumer mentality, don't we?
We're just consumers.
And we go someplace for the purpose
of getting something for ourselves.
That's the mentality that we have.
But we have to go places, every place, all right?
Not just your work or church or your, you know,
the community groups that you're part of,
you know, the things that you're involved in,
your activities, your family.
You can't go to those places just hoping to receive.
You have to go to those places with a mindset of giving.
What can I add to this group of people today?
How can I serve this group of people today?
I will tell you that I'm always on the lookout
for someone that I can help.
I'm always on the lookout for someone
that I can add value to.
That is just my way of life.
And it has been my way of life
since I met Jesus at 22 years old.
Now, I have my own problems just like anybody else does.
And I get focused and tunnel visioned, right?
Siloed, all of us, that happens.
And there's no harm and no foul with that.
But those should be short little seasons of time
where we're hurting.
That's when God's gonna send people to us.
That's when we're gonna be the receivers, right?
But the majority of the time,
that's why the Bible says it's better to give
than to receive.
Let's think about that for just one second.
Why would it be better to give than to receive?
Well, it's pretty self-explanatory.
If you're the giver,
that means that you have something to give, right?
If you're the giver,
that means that you're probably not postured to receive
because you don't need anything necessarily right now.
It's better to be the person giving
than the person receiving
because oftentimes when you're in the receiving posture,
it's because you're hurting, right?
It's because you're lacking.
So of course, it's better to give than to receive.
And the blessing of giving is, it's amazing, right?
But we also have to be able to receive as well.
If we don't receive,
then we'll not have anything to give.
Eventually, we won't have anything left to give
if we're not receiving.
But we have to stop getting out.
We have to get out of the mindset
that we're just here to receive,
especially at last year's single.
All of you have received amazing things.
You've had life-changing breakthrough.
All of you have gotten upgrades in one way, shape, or form,
but it's time to share that love with others.
And so the Affiliate Program
is going to be a very lucrative program
for those of you that really want to help other people.
You don't wanna just help single people find their mates
because that's amazing and that's noble.
And we all are here
because we wanna see a revival of marriage and family.
But you also wanna see people get closer to the Lord.
You wanna see them become sons and daughters.
You wanna see them come out of their poverty mindsets.
You wanna see them not be alone in life anymore.
You wanna see them full of hope and joy.
There's all kinds of things that you would want for someone
if you shared this community with them,
especially as we go into this new era,
this fall 2024 fall in love era,
where we're expanding rapidly.
You guys, we're increasing rapidly,
not just our student body or our communities,
but also we're increasing in our tools in which to serve.
We have our matchmaking platform.
The intake form for that is going to be available
for all of the women in phase three
and all of the men in our program
on Monday, September 2nd, Labor Day.
For given birth, y'all, we had a little technical glitch
that kept us from being able to share it this last week,
but that is fixed as of two o'clock on Monday,
it will be fixed.
And so sometime later in the afternoon in your groups,
phase three and men, you will find the intake form.
If you're on this call and you're in phase one and phase two,
don't worry, when you get to phase three,
you will have that.
Phase one, for sure, you won't have it
before you get to phase two,
because you're in a dating sabbatical
and we want you to focus on your heart work.
But phase two, as soon as we onboard phase three
and we will be bringing that intake form to you
probably in the next week and a half or so.
You guys, so exciting with that.
But the affiliate program is available now this weekend
and we're gonna have an information session
for that tomorrow night, right?
So we have prayer tomorrow night
and we're gonna have an information session
about the affiliate program halfway through the prayer
or right after the prayer ends tomorrow night.
If you jump on there, you can ask all your questions.
My husband's gonna lead that.
He's gonna share a screen.
He's gonna show you how to sign up to be an affiliate.
For every single person that you bring into this community,
we will give you $75.
Considering y'all that it's only $297 to join our community,
that is a huge percentage of affiliation
and we want it to be that way.
Some of you are gonna make this
a nice little stream of income
and then there's gonna be other things
that you can become affiliates of in the future as well.
And what is that?
That's sharing what God has done for you with someone else.
And that is a motto of this community.
What you help make happen for others,
God makes happen for you.
And so that is one of our mottos.
It's been one of our mottos from the very beginning
because we are a community-based matchmaking community.
That is what we are.
That is what we built this upon.
We coined that phrase community-based matchmaking.
That is something that is exclusive to us
and we are gonna continue to go after
what God has shown us to do.
We've already had somewhere around 800 engagements
and marriages in the last four years.
And I would like to tell you here publicly today
that I believe that we could at the very least double that
going from now into this time next year in 2025.
But we could next year even quadruple that,
triple that, quadruple that depending on whether or not
people really start to get behind the mission
and put their effort into it as well.
And that means we can bring on more staff.
We can open up new single cities.
We're gonna have curated events.
Now that we have the technology to matchmake,
we're gonna have curated events with that technology
in all the cities that we already have single cities in
and some of them that we don't.
We're gonna have meetups that are by invitation
because the algorithm has matched you
with a bunch of people that you need to meet in that area.
And we wanna have some soirees and some get-togethers
where you know you come to that place
and there are at least one or two people
that you have a lot in common with
that it would be great for you to meet.
So we're gonna do our best on our side
utilizing our skills and talents,
our tools and resources that we've invested
lots of money into creating.
And so very excited about what God is gonna do
with that seed that we have sown
into the revival of marriage and family.
So Father God, we thank you this morning
that we are able to gather together.
We thank you that you've made us a community
and that all of us here are revivalists
of marriage and family.
Help us to take ownership of that.
We are not here to consume, Lord, we are here to give.
We are here to give.
We are here to receive and then we are here to give.
We are here to be conduits of heaven and the earth
in the area of healing, in the area of breakthrough,
in the area of heart healing and heart work,
in the area of matchmaking,
in the area of bringing people into the family of God.
Lord, we thank you that you give us opportunities
as we go forward.
Armed with these mindsets that we are revivalists,
we ask that you would give us opportunities,
you would allow our paths to cross with people
that need what we have to offer,
that need this community, that need this service,
that need this program and we thank you for it
in Jesus' name, amen.
All right, all right, so a couple,
you guys, we have a grab bag of thoughts
from the Holy Spirit today.
Once again, if you're new to Supernatural Saturday,
this is the day that we lean in
and we download the current prophetic realities of heaven.
There's our reality on earth
and then there's the reality that's happening
in heaven right now.
That's why when Jesus' disciples said,
teach us how to pray, he said back to them
what we call the Lord's Prayer.
Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.
But part of that says that let your kingdom come
and let your will be done on earth as what?
It's already in heaven.
Let it be done on earth, let it manifest on earth,
let it be seen on earth, let it be done here on earth
as it already is in heaven.
And so on Saturdays, we lean into the already is.
I'm getting swirly already over here, y'all.
We're leaning into the already is.
Guys, say that of yourself.
Put your hand on yourself on your chest and say it already is.
Whatever it is that I have seen in the word of God that has not
manifested in my reality.
It's already true in God's reality.
It's already true, which means that if I begin to speak it out,
I'm not speaking lies.
I know a lot of people have a hard time speaking those things
that are not as though they are, but we have to.
The Bible tells us to.
Why?
Because we are proclaiming what already is in a reality that's
more important than this reality.
In the true reality, in the place where they know you as you are.
Doesn't it say that in the Bible?
It says when you get to heaven or you get into out of this dimension
and you get fully into the dimension of freedom where you're
freed fully from the curse, including the body, the vehicle that
you're in is freed fully from the curse.
It says you will be known as you are known.
What does that tell you?
What does that tell me?
It tells us that in a alternate reality, that is the better reality.
That's the true reality.
That's heaven's reality.
There's a different version of you.
And I guarantee you that version of you does not have the problem
that this version of you has.
But what's so great about it is everybody that's there that's in
that other dimension.
They already know that version of you.
And so that great cloud of witnesses that's cheering us on all of
our departed loved ones, all of the Saints of the faith that have
gone before us.
They are all cheering for the real versions of us.
And this is why friends we can never invite God to our pity parties
because he knows who you really are.
So when we get down the mully grubs and we start, you know, looking
at life through the lens of this reality and all these problems and
all these lies that we're believing.
All this false and fragmented identity that's come from trauma because
remember trauma doesn't just hurt us.
It creates different versions of us when we get down in there and we
allow even for a moment those things to take over and take control.
And we cry out to God in the midst of those things.
And we want him to come with us in that place of pity and sorrow and
you know, empathetic miss.
He doesn't show up like that.
Does he?
I've had God even in those moments say to me many years ago.
He said get up Jackie.
This is not who you are.
I didn't understand that.
That was the only version of me that I knew.
I didn't know a different version of me.
That was the only version of me that I knew riddled with mental health
issues and anxiety not able to even function.
You know that saying I can't even that was my motto.
I can't even.
But I could.
And God knew I could.
And because of him I did and so that those other versions of us, they're
living our lives still friends.
And so we have to continue to do the hard work.
You have to continue to invite Holy Spirit in.
And one of the ways that we do that is we get up and we pray that Lord's
prayer.
I know that that Lord's prayer is maybe something you learn when you were a
child and it seems really juvenile.
It seems really elementary school when it comes to the spirit.
Jesus's disciples were Jews.
You guys they probably memorize most of the Torah what we call the Torah.
They knew all of the of the of the prophecies.
They knew all the prayers, you know, Jews memorize stuff.
They recite stuff.
There's lots of things that you have to do if you're Jewish that you know as
Christians don't do.
And so out of all the prayers out of all the things out of all the rituals.
That they had back in those days.
That's this you have to frame it right when you're talking about this story.
They said to Jesus what you know teach us how to pray because these are people
that you know, the the calisthenics of prayer that they had to go through were
a lot.
You know, not unlike the Muslims of our current day that you have to pray
towards the Holy City several times a day, you know Jews they had to pray to
they had to do this.
They had to do that.
They had to make sure they wash their.
and eat this, you can't eat that with this.
And then you gotta do these prayers every day
when you wake up, every day before you go to bed.
On these high holy holidays,
all these prayers have to be prayed.
You see the kind of people that we're dealing with?
So that's a loaded question when they're saying to Jesus,
hey, you know, you're kind of different, rabbi.
So teach us how to pray.
And then he gives them this simple prayer.
This simple prayer, but it's packed full.
You guys, I didn't have any intention
of going here this morning.
This is all Holy Spirit.
This wasn't even a thought in my head.
It's not even a thought in my head.
Let's go ahead and visit the Lord's Prayer
since Holy Spirit led us here.
I told you that I didn't really grow up in the church,
but I did go to Catholic school.
And the Catholics have the Lord's Prayer nailed down.
I went to Catholic school starting in second grade.
And so this is where I learned the Lord's Prayer.
And so let's go ahead and read it.
By the way, it's in Matthew 6, nine through 13.
And it's also in the book of Luke 11, one through four.
If you want to check it out there.
Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.
Who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come, thy will be done
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread
and forgive us our trespasses
as we forgive those who trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory
forever and ever, amen.
Here's a more contemporary version.
Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name.
Your kingdom come, your will be done
on earth as is in heaven.
Give us today our daily bread,
forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us.
Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil
for the kingdom, the power and the glory are yours
now and forever.
You guys, this is what Jesus taught those Jews
that had all the prayers and all the sacraments
and all the things that they had to do.
He taught them this simple prayer.
Powerful, right?
We want God's will to be done on earth
as it already is in heaven.
Already is done.
And so we need to live from that place.
We need to live from it's an already done place.
How can you live from a place of already done
but not yet seen?
What does that look like?
Done, but not yet.
Now, but not yet seen.
And that's where we all get tripped up.
We get tripped up in that little dash
between now and not yet seen.
Because even though the Bible tells us to walk by faith
and not by sight, walking by sight makes a lot more sense.
But what would happen if we started acting
like it truly was already done?
What would happen if we got up in the morning
and we prayed that prayer and then we walked
throughout our day as if that prayer was true?
That God's will, that God's reality in heaven
has invaded earth through us.
Woo, what would happen?
You guys, it takes us to be mindful.
We have to be mindful.
This is our main problem.
If you wanna see one of our main problems
in this flesh suit, one of our main problems
is that it's very difficult to stay mindful.
We become very distracted.
Raise your hand if you have an issue with distraction.
Raise your hand if you've never seen so many people
claiming ADHD.
So many people claiming ADHD.
Oh, I just, you know, I have an attention deficit.
No, we have too much stimulus.
We have way too much stimulus.
And ADHD is just a fancy word for trauma.
When you have trauma, you will medicate trauma.
And the way that we medicate trauma is.
by procrastination and distraction,
by medicating ourselves with things that are distracting.
I want you to be honest.
Okay, put on your hands.
I want you to be honest if you feel like you have,
put all the hands down.
And guys, this is a safe space.
This is not a space of judgment.
We're not here to judge.
We're just here to find out, right?
Discover and inform.
Raise your hands if you feel like you have a real problem
with scrolling, with media,
with constantly looking at something,
reading something, watching something,
listening to something.
Your phone has become your arch nemesis.
You lose minutes, hours,
when you should have been doing something else.
You go down the social media rabbit hole
or just the media rabbit hole.
And then you merge and you're like, dang,
I could have gotten a lot of stuff done, but I got lost.
All right, quite a bit of people.
All right, put your hands down.
So being mindful is really important
because when we're mindful,
and this is a thought that I jumped on on Thursday
on the ladies' prayer call, and I shared this thought.
When you're mindful, you're thinking about,
listen up, what you're thinking about.
When you're mindful, that means that you know
what's happening in your mind.
You're thinking about what you're thinking about.
You guys, we have so many thoughts a day.
So many thoughts a day.
And a lot of those thoughts,
we don't even know that they came through.
Did you guys know that?
The average person has between 6,000 and 6,200 thoughts a day.
The scientists that did this study
said that our thoughts transition every 6.5 minutes.
Crazy, right?
The Cleveland Clinic says that the brain processes
about 70,000 thoughts a day.
And the National Science Foundation
says that the average person
has between 12,000 and 60,000 thoughts per day.
But it gets better or worse.
Some scientists say that 75% of those thoughts are negative
and 95% of them are repetitive.
What does that mean?
That means that the thoughts that come in your head,
they're regulars.
They've been here before.
95% of the thoughts that you think,
whether you have 6,500 thoughts a day
or you're one of those people
that your mind's going a million miles an hour
and you have 60,000 thoughts a day,
95% of the thoughts that you personally think
are thoughts that are not one-time visitors.
They don't get to park
in the first-time visitor parking spot
in front of the building
because they have been here before
lots and lots and lots of times.
And this study also says that 75% of them
are not carrying good news.
Wow, y'all, we could just really stop right here
and just really think about that for a second
because this whole thing is about
think about what you're thinking about.
Think about what you're thinking about.
The Bible tells us that we're to do something
very specific with thoughts.
The word of God actually covers this topic.
There are lots of topics that the word of God doesn't cover
and we just have to kind of piece together
what we think God thinks about things,
like dating, for instance.
Dating was not something that happened in the old world.
You spotted a woman, you asked her family,
they gave you a goat, you went and had sex, you're married.
Dating was not something.
And who thinks that sounds easier?
Who wants to go back to the tent goat sex days?
Let's go.
You're not gonna have sex with a goat.
If you're coming on right now,
do not hear what I'm not saying.
All right, let's make it.
sure. But the Bible does cover our minds. It does cover our
thoughts. One particular scripture that sticks out to me
right now is we are to take every thought captive. We're to
take every thought captive. You guys, I watched an interview
with one of the young women that was just released from Hamas
from the war in Israel. She was taken captive. He was kidnapped,
taken captive at a music festival in Israel, when all
this started, and then she's been held. And now she was
released. And I felt compelled to watch this interview with
this young woman, even though I knew it was going to be hard to
listen to. And she talked about what it was like to be taken
captive. You guys, the word in Greek, in that scripture means
to apprehend. This girl was apprehended. Okay. She was
taken. It didn't matter what her will was, she was taken. And
these thoughts, we have to treat them that way. We have to
apprehend them. We have to be diligent. We have to be mindful.
We have to think about what we're thinking about. And let's
just let's take the low number. Let's just take the 6500 thoughts
a day. When one of those 6500 thoughts shows up at your mind
gate, you have to ask it what it wants. You can't just let it
in. It doesn't matter if it's one of the 95% of habitual
thoughts that shows up at the gate every day. Some of you, you
don't even have your gate closed. You don't even have a
gate. Look, I'm trying to help you here. As someone who has
dealt with obsessive and intrusive thoughts ever since I
was old enough to know, a thought, I want to help you.
Because thoughts don't stay thoughts. They don't stay
thoughts. They become mindsets and strongholds. They become
behavior, and they become identity. Can't allow them to
stay can't allow them to keep running roughshod. We can't
allow them to come in and take over. We cannot stop them from
coming. Right? I know a lot of people are like they try to not
think about something that they don't want to think about. And
then you just think about it more. You cannot erase you
learn this in the heart work, but you can replace. So when
that thought shows up for the 100,000th time, because it's one
of the 95% of negative habitual thinking that shows up at your
mind gates. Instead of trying to get it to go away. First of all,
you don't let it in, you don't entertain it, you don't allow it
to gain any more territory or ground. Okay, you apprehend it,
you take it captive. But then you replace it. So let's go on
the rest of the scripture. Take every thought captive. Let's
just read it. I believe it's in Colossians. Once again, you guys
respond by the seat of our pants because I did not know we're
going here today. So here we are. Oh, it's in Corinthians.
Chapter 10.
That's not right. Hold on a second.
Why is Bible Gateway not doing the thing today? Okay.
Why is Bible Gateway not doing the thing today?
Okay, so we'll start at 2nd Corinthians 10 for 10 for 10 for y'all for the weapons of
our warfare not carnal but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds.
The casting down of imaginations and every high thing that exalts itself against the
knowledge of God and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ.
We're taking those thoughts captive and we're making them obedient to what to the finished
work of the cross to Christ.
So we can't erase we have to replace so when you take those thoughts captive what's the
next thing that you do with it?
You take that thought captive and then you make that thought come into obedience or into
alignment with the truth of the finished work of the cross.
Let's do some examples.
Let's activate.
All right, so I want you to go ahead and put in the comments guys.
This is where we have to do James 516.
We have to confess our faults and be healed right confess our frailties and our weaknesses
and be healed.
So be honest right now if you want breakthrough if you want healing what is a habitual when
is one of those 95% habitual repetitive thoughts that show up at your gate that are 75% negative.
Let's see them.
Put them in the chat.
Come on Holy Spirit is helping us today.
God wants to see you live free.
Did you know that God wants you to have a good life?
Did you know that?
Remember the curse wasn't God's idea.
The curse came as a result of sin and disobedience.
We can have a part of the garden life on earth now.
That's what Holy Spirit is here to do.
To give us a foretaste of what's happening that Jesus died to give us and what's not
fully arrived.
All of creation is groaning and travailing waiting for the revealing of the sons of God,
but that day is coming.
But in the meantime, we can still live bringing heaven to earth.
All right, so look at these.
Let's look at some of them.
I'm curious to see how.
All right, so many people going to be forever alone.
So many people have habitual thoughts of negativity about themselves, personality, their looks.
Never good enough.
So many people are saying that scarcity mentalities don't have enough.
We'll never have enough.
There's not enough to go around.
Some people are being tormented by the mistakes of their past.
Those thoughts continue to come up.
You should have, you could have, you didn't.
Lots of self-deprecating, self-hatred based thoughts y'all going on here.
Wow.
Lots and lots and lots of stuff.
Okay.
Now I want you to grab a hold of that thought.
You guys see how you're not alone in thinking the things you think.
And do you also see that the enemy is a loser?
He uses the same warfare on everyone.
There's nothing new going on here.
Same lies, different day.
Now I just want to say this and I'm not trying to, I really want you to get free and we're
going to apply truth.
Okay.
We're going to, can't erase, but we're going to replace, we're going to do what the scripture
says.
We're going to take that thought captive and then make it obedient.
Okay.
To the finished work of the cross.
But some of y'all, if you're having a repetitive thought about something that you actually
can change, you ought to change it.
You ought to change it.
You know, when I turned about 47 years old, I started getting up in the morning and not
looking, not liking what I saw in the mirror.
I recognized in that moment that I had to love myself in all my versions because I wanted
to start hating on myself.
I also knew this.
I knew that that wouldn't cause positive change.
It actually would probably cause the exact opposite of what I want to happen.
And you guys, this is not an overnight thing.
I don't want you to think, oh, Jackie's got it all together.
No, Jackie does not, okay?
I've said many a mean thing to myself in my life, trust me, okay?
But I also recognize, because I'm an intelligent woman, that that is working against what I
want.
And so sometimes you do have to fake it until you make it in the way of you do things that
you don't feel like doing.
You say things that you don't entirely believe are true, but that's okay, because the Bible
says call those things that are not as though they are.
A lot of us, when we get up in the morning, especially as we're getting older and we look
at ourselves in the mirror, we're comparing ourselves to a younger version of ourselves.
And if that's what you're doing, you're never going to like what you see, because you're
never going to be that person again.
You're not.
There ain't enough Botox in the world that's going to make you 22 without making you look
like Catwoman.
And not Catwoman from Batman, but Catwoman from the tabloids, that woman who made herself
look like a cat.
God help her, Lord, bless her, okay?
So if you're comparing yourself to an earlier version of yourself, no, stop that, okay?
But we can be evergreen.
We can be great in every season, y'all.
We can be great in every season of our lives.
You got to embrace this older version of you, but you can be the best version of the older
version of you, okay?
I believe that we can age with grace.
We can have muscle until we leave this earth.
We can have muscle.
Guys, muscle is the organ of longevity.
A lot of people are always worried about their organs, that they can't see what's going on
with my liver, what's going on in there, how's my brain doing?
Okay, that's all great, but the muscle that you can see, the organ that you can see is
your muscles.
And they have proven that people that continue to build muscle and take care of muscle have
the best longevity.
Did you know that?
So we can be great versions of ourselves at every age, as long as we are not comparing
ourselves to others or to some earlier version of ourselves.
So loving ourselves at every stage is really important, and so when you get up in the morning,
if you see something that you don't love, that's fixable.
By what?
By eating differently, by moving your body, by hydrating your body.
I would say get a trainer, but you could do that, but you guys, there's so much free information
now, and you know, we do what we want, and we have time for what we want, but getting
on the internet, on Instagram or someplace, and watching these accounts of these personal
trainers, they give you all of their secrets, they give you their daily movements, they
tell you what to eat, they show you how to do your macros, there's really just no excuse,
is there?
Except sometimes we get into a victim mentality where all we want to do is complain and feel
sorry for ourselves, but we don't truly want change.
Now I'm saying that for all of you that are like, I don't really like the way I'm looking
right now.
Okay, well that's fixable.
Okay?
First of all, you gotta love and embrace yourself in every season, but you can better yourself.
You can.
All right?
And sometimes that's what will happen, when we take that thought captive, and we can't
erase it, but we have to replace it, Holy Spirit will come along and say, well, you
know, you could do this, instead of just staying on the merry-go-round of, okay, the thought
comes to the gate, I take it captive, I turn it away, I say some kind of positive mental
attitude thing about that thing, instead I come into, you know, Jesus did it all mindset,
but did that change the thing?
Did it?
Did it change the thing?
No, because sometimes it's a situation where you have to do your part, and then God of
course will always do his.
All right?
So let's be mindful that some of these thoughts that continuously come to the gate, that they
don't just need to be taken captive, they actually need to be taken seriously, because
they're part of a
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
Everyone getting me
Right now I want you to go ahead and put up the
Obedience to Christ version of your thought if you're taking that thought captive at the gate. You're not letting it in
You're not letting it play havoc on your mind, but you are immediately making it obedient to Christ now
What does that thought sound like?
Put up that version
You
All right, that looks great you guys reading those
You guys hopefully you're reading each other's
So, you know the right answer
You know the right answer
When those thoughts show up, you know the right answer, but a lot of times we entertain those thoughts we open the gate
We let them come in. We let them sit down and have a meal with us
Right and pretty soon if you let that thought stay too long, that's not that thought starts to create a stronghold
Right, it moves in it signs the lease it's in there now
And a lot of times when we kick thoughts out once they've been in there for a long time
We don't really kick them all the way out. We just run them a room in the basement
They're still in there
They're not up in the living spaces, but they're still there
Because we have to kick them all the way out
We have to kick them all the way out. We can't let them stay and
Sometimes it feels good to feel sorry for yourself. Yeah, I said it it does in a moment
In those moments, it feels good to feel sorry for yourself. I
Had a habit of picking abusive men my mom was married three times before I was 10 years old all the abusive men
I thought that's what quote-unquote love looked like
Right, and so when I was young woman, I chose
situations that were not good for me and
Then I did what was modeled for me make up and break up makeup and break up
After the breakup you sit down with a box of wine. You listen to Dave Matthews. Remember I was a teenager in the 90s
And you feel sorry for yourself and it hurts so good
Right hurt so good. Oh, you know you sing the lyrics of those songs about how they did me wrong
And I'm never gonna let them do it again and blah blah blah blah
There's pleasure in that for a few moments
You're giving yourself permission to comfort your orphan
But
You guys
If we do that too much
What happens is is?
We stop we're not comforting our orphan. We're becoming our orphan now
Right, and when we get up from that place, it's not a temporary place of feeling sorry for ourself now
It's becoming it's a habit. It's habitual place of feeling sorry for ourselves and
When you are in that counterfeit identity of victim you will attract victimizers
You will lather and repeat you will
So we can't allow these thoughts even to come in we
can't give them an inch because they'll take a mile.
If it does not align with what God said about you
in his word, if it does not align with what Jesus
thought about you when he died for you,
if it does not align with what Jesus said we are
as his body on the earth, then it can't stay.
And some of us have the problem that we're really
not sure what God said we could have.
When people start talking about the promises of God,
a lot of people are like, I don't have any promises
of God because you thought that the promise of God
had to come in some prophetic word or you wrote it down
because someone came up to you and whispered in your ear
during a church service.
No, the promises of God are in the word of God.
Those prophetic words that you receive,
those are great too, as long as they're established.
Do not run off, okay, with a word, quote unquote,
from the Lord before it has been established.
Do not start building on a foundation
that has not been proven.
What does that look like?
It looks like Mary received the word from the angel
and you guys, you would think that that would have
been enough.
I mean, it is an angel.
If I receive a word from an angel, I'm probably not
gonna need much more confirmation than that.
But she still pondered it in her heart.
What did she do?
She said, okay, if this is you, Lord, let it be done
to me according to thy will.
But then she walked away from that place
and it says she pondered in her heart.
She was still allowing it to just be in her heart
where she was continuing to meditate on it.
But then confirmation started happening, right?
She walked into her cousin Elizabeth's house
and Elizabeth's baby leapt in her womb.
And Elizabeth said to her, she was a confirmation
what she said to her.
Stuff started happening, right?
Joseph got a dream because back in those days,
if you got pregnant and you were betrothed to someone
and it wasn't them that got you pregnant,
then you'll be in trouble.
I mean, we're talking about they're gonna stone you, okay?
Kind of big trouble.
So you see the confirmations that started happening.
And so if you have a word from the Lord,
especially if it's about something really important
in your life, some really important decision
that you have to make in your life
or some real important thing that you're called to do
in your life, let's let it get confirmed
before we run off and start building the whole house
on top of it.
Now, I'm not saying don't take actionable steps towards it
because a lot of times that's where the confirmation
start coming.
But the word and the promises of God,
for those of you that don't have those auxiliary words
from other people in the prophetic,
they're still in the Bible.
Those promises are in the word.
That identity for you to compare these thoughts to
is in the word.
Amen?
All right, so now we're getting around to the one thing
that I did have written down on a piece of paper
in front of me.
When I woke up this morning, I heard Holy Spirit say to me,
there's a difference between giving up and surrendering.
Come on.
Even though a lot of people might think those are synonyms,
even if the dictionaries might say that they're synonyms,
in this example, the mindset, the intention behind give up
and surrendering is not the same.
So I did a little quick word study
because this was right before I got on here this morning.
And from what I can see, the word give up
mainly means to stop hoping.
And the word surrender mainly means to stop resisting.
Somebody run, somebody shout, somebody roll on the ground.
Somebody run, somebody shout, somebody roll on the floor.
Can you tell that I was a disciple by the Pentecostals?
You guys, give up means to just stop hoping,
but surrendering means to stop resisting.
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
And a lot of us, you guys, when we think we're surrendering,
what we're really doing is just giving up.
I give up, God.
I give up.
Anyone ever said that?
But you're not saying to him,
God, I'm tired of doing it my way.
I'm tired of resisting you.
I'm tired of thinking.
that I think that I know what's best for me,
I'm surrendering to you.
I'm letting you be the Lord and the master of my life.
I'm letting you drive.
No, that's not what we mean when we say I give up God.
When we say I give up God,
what we're saying is I'm gonna stop hoping.
I give up.
I'm not gonna try anymore.
I'm not gonna desire this anymore.
I'm gonna shut off this area of my heart
and I'm gonna put a do not disturb sign on the door.
Come on y'all.
It's a lot of times so unconscious,
it might even be one of those repetitive,
intruding thoughts that come to the gate.
You should just give up.
This is never gonna change.
You should just give up.
You should stop hoping.
Woo, come on.
Who wants to trade their giving up
for surrendering this morning?
Because I know for sure supernatural surrender,
which is the first lesson in the heart work.
I can tell you from my own life,
it is supernatural and it changes everything.
It changes everything.
I've done plenty of giving up in my life,
giving up on hope,
giving up on prophetic promises,
making a decision that I don't wanna feel
any more disappointment or discouragement or pain
and shutting that part of my life and my heart off.
In fact, when opportunities for the very thing
that I had been believing for finally came my way,
I found myself saying things like,
oh yeah, no thanks, I don't want that anymore.
I'm not even kidding.
I'm not kidding.
Yeah.
And the thing is, is that I wasn't saying that,
oh, poor me, yeah, oh, it's here finally.
Oh, I don't want it anymore.
No, I actually didn't want it anymore.
And the reason why is because the part of my heart
that wanted it is now a desolate wasteland.
Are you guys picking up what I'm putting down?
Do you hear me?
You actually can dry up your womb, y'all,
men included, I'm not talking about physical female wombs.
I'm talking about your spiritual womb.
You can dry up your womb.
Hope is what keeps your womb ready for the seed of God.
It says that he consummates those that delight in him.
He consummates with them and impregnates them
with the desires of their heart.
And impregnates them with the desires of their heart.
So you guys, all of the things,
all of the ingredients that go into us giving up
versus surrendering, a lot of it's just ignorance
of we just don't know.
We think that that's what we're supposed to do.
Like, oh, I guess I give up.
I'm not gonna want this anymore.
I'm not gonna think about it anymore.
Have you ever done this thing?
Well, God, I'm just gonna give this back to you
because it hasn't happened.
So I'm just gonna give it back to you.
And if you really want it for me,
then you'll give it back to me someday.
You guys, and a lot of that comes from bad teaching
and bad theology.
We'll even get into places where there's services going on,
where they'll actually tell us to do this from the platform.
You need to come and just surrender all those desires
to the Lord.
Just come lay them down.
I remember I was at a gathering for women in television,
Christian women in media.
I was at a gathering.
And they said that exact thing.
They had us all hold hands.
And they said, just surrender your desire
to work in media as a Christian woman.
Just surrender it, give it back to God, lay it down.
And I know that this was supposed to be
some like humility thing,
but you guys, it's not scriptural, okay?
Once a word is established, you better run.
And every intruder that comes to the gate
that tries to tell you that you can't have it,
you better kick fear in the face.
So we took hands, and I reluctantly began to recite this prayer that I was being told
to pray.
And as soon as I said, God, I just give it back to you, I lay it down, he said, no, Jackie,
pick it back up.
I gave it to you.
Run.
I just want to let you guys know that the religious spirit is probably that 75% of negative
thoughts and the 95% of intrusive thoughts that show up to your gates probably are laced
with religion.
And it's so sneaky, you guys.
That's why Jesus said that a little leaven leavens the whole lump.
What does that mean?
That means when we get that religious spirit, that idea, because it's, it's, it's, it's,
it's strength is in the law.
It's strength is in the curse.
You realize that, right?
And so when it gets in there, it permeates everything, everything gets tainted by it.
And so if you don't pray any other prayer after today, say, Lord, stop letting me align
myself with religious lies and believing that I'm doing something good and right.
Religion will always make you the victim friends, but the finished work of the cross will make
you the victor.
And I don't think that anyone got it wrong.
Paul, when he wrote your Corinthians and said, cast down those imaginations and every high
thing that exalts itself against God, taking into captivity, every thought and making it
obedient to what to grace, to grace, to grace, to grace, to grace, to grace.
Any thought that tells you that you can't, that you shouldn't, that you don't deserve
to that ain't Jesus.
Anything that tells you that you're not ready, that ain't Jesus.
There isn't any way to be ready except to buy doing.
Okay.
We have to let go of this stuff.
We have to, we have to pray that God would remove all of the leaven from us.
This is not an earn it model.
This is a learn it model.
You cannot deserve this.
I had someone in my messages the other day say, well, you know, I'm going to continue
to trust the Lord.
I'm going to continue to pray and I'm going to continue to do all the things that I need
to do until, you know, God sees fit to give me a husband, you know, until I do enough
things that God gives me a husband.
I'm like, Oh honey, it doesn't work that way.
Gentlemen, you can't go through, jump through all the hoops that culture tells you that
you need to have jumped through in order to be able to be a husband and take a wife.
God has one requirement of you, sir, and that is that you would lift up holy hands to him.
That you would be a son.
Everything else can get worked out.
The finances can get worked out.
The logistics can get worked out.
The only thing that God requires of you in order to promote you to husband is that you
would surrender to him.
And remember, surrender is stop resisting.
Part of our resistance, friends, are this whole laundry list of things that we feel
like we have to cross T's and dot I's on before we can even get anywhere near what we want
in life.
Well, here's the biggest newsflash of this morning.
You have a very limited amount of time on earth and we have no idea what that time is.
And so we best get to stepping.
Trust me, when you're living a surrendered life, you're not resisting God.
You're not resisting his wisdom, his insight, his revelation.
He will steer the car, but you still have to put your foot on the pedal.
Okay?
Father God, we thank you for this morning.
We thank you that you're teaching us the difference between giving up and surrendering.
We don't want to lose hope.
Hope is what keeps our womb open to you.
you, keeps us full of wonder of what you can do in our lives.
We don't want to give up on hope.
We grab a hold of hope like never before today.
All the areas of our heart that we've shut off because we've given up, we've shut them
down.
We put up the do not disturb signs.
I pray that Holy Spirit, you would come alongside those folks today and you would help them
take those signs down.
You would help them open those doors back up, help them sweep out the cobwebs, Lord,
open those rooms and that you would fill those rooms with all the goodness that you have
stored for each and every one of your daughters and sons.
Father, we thank you that this is the time of supernatural surrender.
We will not resist.
We do not know what's best for us, but we do have desires that you've placed in our
heart.
And as we walk towards those desires with confidence, full of victory, knowing that
you are with us, knowing that you are for us, knowing that you yourself have charted
a way for us in this endeavor.
As we do that, we are asking that you would help us by steering us, by giving us insight
and wisdom and revelation.
Even if it doesn't make sense to our human minds, we will not resist that.
We will do the things that seem counterintuitive as we are walking this path with you.
We will do the things that maybe we said we would never do because we had a different
way of thinking about that thing.
We're laying down the never will I evers and we're picking up the you can never fail.
We trust you fully.
We want to be called by your name.
We want to be Matthew five in the earth, salt and light.
We want to be revivalists.
We want our lives to be beacons of hope for others.
And so first and foremost, Lord, we tell you as of today, there isn't going to be any
more victim, but only victor in Jesus name.
Amen.
All right.
Love y'all.
See you soon.