Good morning, welcome to Supernatural Saturday.
If you're new, if you're brand new, we have some newbies.
This is the time where we as a community lean into the prophetic reality of heaven.
What is God saying to us right now?
Not later, not tomorrow, not next week, because there'll be a new Supernatural Saturday next
week.
Right now, what does God want us to know?
And this morning, as soon as I woke up, the Lord said, it's time to let go.
New beginnings require endings.
Come on, y'all.
We're going to really dig into this.
There's going to be a lot of activation today, so get ready to activate.
Get ready to share.
Get ready to type in the chat, because we are going to be activating during this call
this morning.
Tomorrow night, we have our All-Community Prophetic Night.
We have that once a month.
It's usually the last Sunday of the month, and so that's tomorrow night.
Make sure that you're there.
We're going to be heading into Rosh Hashanah.
Rosh Hashanah is this coming week.
What does that mean?
That means, Rosh means head, and then Shana means of the year, so it's the head of the
year.
It is the beginning or the New Year celebration of the Hebraic calendar, which I happen to
believe is God's calendar.
It's the first calendar, y'all.
It is the first calendar of God's timing and of His seasons, and so I really do pay
a lot of attention to what's going on, and it always overlaps with our year as well.
So we're in the year 2024 right now.
We are overlapping with the Hebraic years 5784 and 5785, because we're going to head
into 5785 this coming week.
I think it's October 2nd through the 4th.
So next Saturday, Supernatural Saturday, I'm going to talk to us about our times and seasons
and about what does that year mean, and what is God speaking to us through those numbers?
What is He saying to us?
Because God lets us know what He's doing.
I know a lot of people are like, oh, God's just a mystery.
Well, there are mysteries, but God invites us to unlock those mysteries.
We're not going to know everything while we're wearing this earth suit.
It's true.
We're not going to know everything.
Some things are going to be right, just right, a little bit out of sight for us, but you
can know a lot more than you know now.
You can have a lot more clarity, a lot more direction, a lot more instruction than you
have now.
So don't just be like, oh, I don't know.
You know, God's ways are higher than our ways.
His thoughts are higher.
Yes.
Did you know that it's impossible for God to think like you?
Because He sees the big picture.
That's why it's very difficult for God to get into our pity parties with us, because
God already knows.
He knows all.
He's omniscient.
So it's really important that we understand that when the Scripture says that His ways
are higher and His thoughts are higher, that's an invitation for us to come higher.
It's not just a, oh, well, you know, you can't think like God.
No, we actually can have the mind of Christ.
We can.
And so we're going to talk a little bit about that next week as we come into this beautiful
new year.
And what is God saying to us?
What does God want to do in our lives?
This is a very supernatural month, October, very supernatural month, because it starts
out with that introduction into the new year.
And then it goes into what the Jews call the days of atonement.
Okay.
The days of awe, where we're invited into a place of introspection and repentance.
We're invited to really take a look at what hasn't been working in our lives and really
invite God into those places so that we can have an abundant new year.
And then it ends with Yom Kippur, which is the day of repentance and atonement, where
we just let go of all of those things.
And so we're going to start out right now on this Saturday with, it's time to let go.
New beginnings require endings.
Guys, I'm just going to be honest with you.
New beginnings are not for the faint of heart because they don't just require endings.
They require funerals.
All right.
They require funerals.
They require you to take the bodies out of your trunk and bury them.
You've been carrying a lot of stuff around with you for a long time.
I see several of you are actually driving your cars with your bodies in your trunk.
I see you behind the wheel of your car right now.
I see you.
It's time you guys.
We cannot carry this stuff around with us anymore.
Did you know that there was an ancient torture practice?
Guys, I know I know a lot of things.
I know a lot of things, a lot of very weird things because I read a lot and I used to
read even more back in the day when I had more time.
But one of the ancient punishment practices of the ancient world.
world was that when you were convicted of whatever crime, that the penalty was death.
So you were convicted of a crime and the penalty is death.
In some ancient cultures, they would tie a corpse to you.
They would actually put a dead person on your back, around your body, and they would shackle
that dead weight, that dead person to you.
And what would happen is, is as that person decomposed, it would kill you.
You would die because you were literally carrying something dead on you.
Do you guys hear what I'm saying?
And do you see the typology of that?
Do you see the typology of what happens when we carry around dead stuff?
But some of y'all have taken Jesus's words out of context.
He said, you know, go out and preach the gospel to the, to the small and to the great and
cast out demons and raise the dead.
And you took that literally and every thing in your life that's trying to die off, every
single thing that you should have just let die, you've been signing a, do not recess,
you've been signing a resuscitate order on.
You keep trying to raise it from the dead, raise it from the dead, raise it from the
dead.
You got to sign the DNR, friends.
Do not resuscitate this thing.
Let it die.
Let that friendship die.
That person ain't been a good friend to you in years.
Why do you keep calling them trying to get together?
Do you want a good friend?
Because if you want a good friend, you're going to have to let go of that not good friend.
But you don't understand, Jackie, we've known each other since kindergarten.
All right.
Well, that's been too long.
You've known each other too long.
You're lonely.
You don't have anyone to do anything with.
And the reason why is because you're trying to hold on to relationships that don't fulfill
you.
They're dead, friends.
I know it's sad.
Let's have a little funeral for it.
Let's pay our respects and let's move on.
That idea that God gave you a long time ago, it was a good idea.
It was a really good idea, okay?
And you tried to make it work and it worked a little bit, but it didn't have the wow factor
that you were looking for.
And every once in a while, you circle back around to maybe I should try again.
Well, maybe you shouldn't.
Maybe you need a new idea.
Maybe that idea was just your training wheels on the bike.
That's all.
That idea was just to get you out of the garage, get you moving down the street.
That's all that idea was.
You guys, I have a hundred good ideas before breakfast, okay?
Can't go after all of them.
Some of them are God ideas though.
How do you know?
You don't know.
You don't know until you throw it against the wall and see what sticks.
And if it doesn't stick, then you throw another one against the wall.
There will be times when God lets you know that you need to persevere in a certain lane,
and that's cool.
But a lot of times, it's just you trying something new that is the point.
And as you try new things, you realize I don't really like that as much as I thought I would.
But this over here, I didn't ever think that I would like this.
I was just reading through some success stories of our students today, people that have met
and gotten married.
And one lady wrote, this city girl is marrying a farmer.
Jackie, I never thought this would ever happen.
Sometimes you don't know what you like, and you will never know what you like if you don't
start trying new things.
But we can't try new things if we are so consumed and so cluttered with everything
old.
Amen?
Now, before you get out the matches and you start burning bridges down, right?
Don't do that.
There are some of you that have some harder relationships and some harder assignments,
and it isn't time to give up on that stuff yet.
So don't be saying, Jackie gave me permission to give up.
If you have a check in your heart that you know that that thing is not dead yet, okay?
Yes, it might be on life support.
And yes, you might really want to pull the plug.
But Holy Spirit's like, no, it's not time yet.
It's not time yet.
There's a timing with things.
But everything else, you guys, things...
that have not, they haven't been bearing fruit for years,
whether they're relationships, activities, assignments,
it's time for a new one, and you can't get a new one
if you keep messing around with the old ones,
and so it's time to let go.
So our call this morning is gonna be about letting go.
Letting go, I want you to close your eyes right now
if you can, for those of you that I see
are behind the wheel of a car,
please do not close your eyes.
Everybody else, close your eyes.
I want you to picture yourself with clenched fists,
and within those clenched fists are all the things
that you're holding onto, all the thoughts, ideas, dreams,
people, places, things, activities, assignments,
that have not been bearing fruit for a long time.
They have not brought any joy, any peace,
any satisfaction for a very, very long time.
They're dormant at best, they're dead at worst,
and I want you to picture yourself opening up those hands
and letting it go, letting those things go,
like when you blow a dandelion and all the seeds just go,
I want you to see those things just flying
out of your hands.
I want you to name those things
as they're leaving your hands.
I want you to say in your heart right now, inside,
I want you to say inside,
and then let it come out of your mouth to the outside,
I'm letting go, God, I'm letting go.
Let your heart first come into agreement with that,
and let your heart speak out of your mouth, out loud,
God, I'm letting go,
and then just start filling in what those things are.
Just start saying what they are.
And if you wanna chat, if you wanna chat them up,
if you wanna put them in the chat,
just start letting them go.
I'm gonna give us a specific list
of things we can let go of,
but right now I want you just to let go of the things
that were in your hands that you can see right now
in your mind's eye.
Start telling us, what is it?
What are you letting go?
What's being released right now from your hands to God?
I'm not gonna hold onto this anymore.
I'm not gonna try to make this work anymore.
I'm not, not gonna beat this dead horse anymore.
Letting it go.
Not gonna volunteer at this place anymore.
I know you'll open the door for a new place
for me to volunteer.
This hasn't brought me joy for a long time,
not seeing any fruit in this anymore.
I'm not gonna try to get this person's attention anymore,
whether it's a parent or a sibling or a friend.
There are people that wanna be in my life.
There are people that wanna do things with me
that are gonna enjoy my company.
I'm not gonna go,
I'm not gonna go to this spiritual community anymore.
I've been going here for 10 years
and I still haven't found any friends here.
I don't have any community here.
I'm not getting anything.
I don't feel fed.
I feel hungry when I leave this place.
This place is not bringing me any satisfaction.
Father, I need you to open the door.
I need to let go of this so you can open a new door for me.
Come on.
Letting go, letting go, letting go, letting go.
So you guys, just recently I was on a lot of planes,
as you know,
and one of those interesting things
that I have learned over the course of my life
has been how planes fly.
And it's brought a lot of peace to me
because if you've ever looked at a plane,
you're sitting, you're in the airport,
you're looking out the window,
you're seeing this big, huge hunk of metal
and you're thinking to yourself,
how in the world is that gonna go up 35,000 feet?
It's so heavy.
How does it get up there?
And what happens is gravity.
Gravity, although gravity is meant
to keep things on the ground,
gravity works with the design of the airplane
to keep it airborne.
So basically what's happening is,
is the jet engines are propelling it forward
and the design of the wings are causing it
to be able to get air, to get lift.
And then gravity, that opposing force
is actually what keeps it up in the air
with those other two factors.
So when you have all those factors together,
you have flight.
Isn't that interesting?
And so God wants you to know this morning
that the opposing forces cannot keep you grounded.
If you have the right ingredients,
which, you know, God wants to give you,
the opposing forces.
will actually cause you to fly.
Isn't that interesting?
I know that we think,
oh, I'm only gonna have success when there's no opposition.
That's not true.
And so I was on this plane just recently
and I was, oh, I wanted to get home, you guys.
20 hours plus of travel that day
and I just really wanted to get home to my own bed
and I was really excited to get home
and the flight was delayed because of rain
and this and that happened.
And then we finally get on the plane.
The end is in sight.
Finally on the plane thinking, okay,
got four more hours and we're gonna be home
and we're just sitting there.
We're sitting there, we're sitting there.
And finally the pilot and I just,
the pilot's not even in the cockpit.
He's just standing there,
just yucking it up with the stewardesses
and I'm like, we're not going anywhere, anywhere soon.
Anytime soon, we're not going anywhere.
And then he gets on the little CB, little speaker
and he says, hey guys, sorry, but we needed to refuel
and then we refueled and then they over-fueled us.
So now we're taking fuel off the plane.
So we didn't have enough fuel
and so they came to give us fuel
and then they gave us too much fuel.
And it's just like, well, okay, so what?
So the gas tank's full, let's go.
Who cares, let's burn it off later, right?
No, it has to do with weight.
Did you guys know that?
It has to do with weight.
They only put as much fuel on the airplane
as is needed for the actual flight.
That's why they weigh your bags.
That's why your bags are only supposed to be a certain amount.
I know we're like, oh, they weigh our bags
because they want to charge us extra money.
No, they need to know how much weight is on this plane.
That's why sometimes they'll come down the aisle
and they'll make you switch seats
if all the tickets were bought on a certain side
of the plane or a certain place in the plane,
all the cheap tickets in the back,
they'll have people move forward.
This is because what are they doing?
They're redistributing the weight of the plane.
And this is why if they run into something up in the air
where they can't land because the runway's not clear
or this has happened or whether,
this is why they end up diverting
and landing at a different airport
or even sometimes turning back around
and going back to the airport they've come from
because they only have so much fuel.
Because of what reason?
Because of weight.
And so now they're balancing us out so that we can take off.
And of course, God begins to talk to me
because you guys, if we want to fly, come on.
If we want to fly, we have to let go of everything
that is holding us back, weighing us down
and keeping us grounded.
We are too heavy.
We're too heavy.
And some of you have actually been dealing with heaviness.
I want you to raise your hand right now
if you've been dealing with heaviness.
And I'm not talking about on the scale.
I'm talking about in your spirit.
Come on, let's see those hands.
Come on.
I see one of our sisters saying that being a nurse
has not brought her joy in years.
And so take that gift of caring for others,
people that are drawn into helping professions
like social work, nursing, even teaching at some level.
Take that gift that God has given you
and apply it to something different.
I know you went to school and you did all the things
and you paid all the money.
I get it.
But at the same time, we have to live with joy.
God wants us to live with joy and excitement,
anticipation for the things that we put our hands to.
I have a friend right now who is a first grade teacher.
She's a good friend of mine.
And she's been a first grade teacher for over 10 years
and it no longer brings her joy.
The rules in the classroom, the public school system,
even the charter school system,
the level of parenting that's going into
these children's lives, the level of neglect
and behavior problems that she has to deal with
in her students.
And this is a good school system.
She just doesn't bring her joy.
She doesn't want to do that.
So you know what she started doing?
She started taking her creativity.
What drove her to be a first grade teacher
is she's very creative, really good at arts and crafts
and imagination type of things.
So she took her creative gifts and she started making.
the prettiest, most intricate cookies.
Like you need cookies for a party,
special event or whatever.
I mean, the prettiest cookies I think I've ever seen.
And she's starting a little business.
She's starting to use her creative talents
in a different way besides just in the classroom
of first graders.
Why is that?
Because it's not bringing her joy.
And so sometimes there has to be
a,
you know, we can't just pull the Band-Aid off.
So our friend here says, I don't enjoy being a nurse.
Well, maybe she can't just quit being a nurse tomorrow,
but she can start walking.
There can be a transitional time
where she's walking towards using her helping gifts
in a different way.
And until that fully manifests in an opportunity
in which she can support herself through,
she's gonna have to kind of double dip.
She's gonna have to do both at the same time.
Guys, don't be afraid of that.
I can't tell you how much time in my life
I was working on things that I did not really enjoy
because it was provision on the way to the vision.
And I'm still in that.
I'm still doing some things that I don't wanna do
so that I can do other things that I wanna do later.
So you guys, we're heavy and it's time for us to let go.
For those of you that raised your hands
that I've just have heaviness on me.
The Bible talks about that.
It talks about what?
Talks about putting on a garment of praise
for the spirit of heaviness.
I really wanna encourage you
that are dealing with spiritual heaviness,
emotional heaviness, mental heaviness.
I wanna encourage you to put on that garment of praise.
Put on that music.
Get yourself in the book of Psalms, find some praise Psalms,
not the melancholy ones,
but the ones that are full of joy and exuberance.
The ones that are full of praise and exhortation
and begin to read those out loud over yourself.
Find some scriptures within those books
and write them down on note cards and carry them with you.
I will make a joyful noise.
Begin to praise.
And you're like, well, I don't really have much
to praise God for right now.
Come on, yes you do.
You're alive right now, you're breathing, aren't you?
You guys, when I was laying in bed this morning
before I got up, before I opened the curtains,
thankfulness came over me.
I began to thank God for the things
that he's done in my life.
Instead of looking at everything
that isn't the way that I wanted it to be,
I started looking at all the things that used to be
not the way I wanted them to be that are now good.
And so that's the first thing on our let go list today,
y'all.
You can write these down if you want to.
You can come back and listen to the replay
and write it down later.
Let go of negativity.
Guys, we're letting go today.
It's time to let go.
The things that are keeping us heavy,
holding us back, keeping us grounded.
And one of the biggest ones
is we have to let go of negativity.
We have to let go of it.
You guys, negativity, being negative
has never changed your life for the better.
Complaining, grumbling,
it has not ever changed your life for the better.
It might feel good in the moment
to be all upset and negative,
but it actually is just perpetuating
that heaviness on your heart.
It's not making it go away.
It's actually causing it to go deeper.
And so even if you don't feel like,
you're like, well, Jackie, this is the way I feel.
Okay, great.
You have your feelings.
Your feelings don't have you.
We can't side with our feelings.
Our feelings don't get to vote.
We have to grab a hold of faith
and you have to speak what you know is true
deep in your heart through faith,
not just what your circumstances
are dictating through your feelings.
Okay, we'll do a whole different
Supernatural Saturday on that someday.
But today we're gonna let go of negativity.
So let go of the ideas of nothing ever goes right,
all the whining, all the complaining.
I know a lot of us say this,
but we say things like this is how it's always gonna be.
Nothing ever changes.
Guys, these are negative confessions.
And so in order to lighten up so that we can fly,
we have to let go of this heavy load.
And when those sayings come to your heart
and out of your mouth,
because the out of the abundance of the heart.
the mouth speaks, realize that you have some hard work to do.
When those things come out of your mouth,
when you hear yourself,
you have to immediately ask yourself, why do I feel this way?
Why do I feel like nothing's ever going to change?
Why do I feel like nothing's ever going to go right?
You guys, I post success stories.
Let's just talk about marriage for one second.
I post success stories on my Instagram all the time.
By the way, for those of you that follow me on Instagram,
please don't pay attention to the things that I post there.
If they're different than the things that you hear about in your program pages,
like on the app, on the platforms in the program,
because those people are not my students.
And so I might be saying something different to them.
I might be posting a private client so that I can get more people, you know,
to possibly, you know, introduce that person to,
there could be all different types of things that I'm doing over on my public
social media. Please don't pay attention to that.
If it is in any kind of,
if it's different than, if it's in opposition to anything in the platform,
because it just means that it's something completely different and it doesn't
matter. Okay.
But I post success stories over there all the time.
And I was thinking to myself,
you would think all these success stories would draw a lot more people in
because it's like, Hey, if it can happen for this person, it can happen for me.
You would think that street cred and success,
all the supernatural success that that would, that would, you know,
that would be a big thing, but it's not. And you know why it's not?
Cause this is what God told me.
He said people believe that good things can happen to other
people. They just don't believe good things can happen to them.
Come on, y'all. Let's stay there for just a second.
People believe that good things can happen to others. They don't deny that.
They know good things happen to other people all the time. Someone gets healed.
Someone gets a breakthrough. Someone gets married,
but they just don't believe that that someone is going to be them.
Everyone take your hands down. You have your hand up, put it down.
All right. I want you to raise your hand. Honestly,
if you're one of the people that really truly believe that God is good to others
and that he is going to,
he's going to show up in other people's lives and give them what they need.
But you do not necessarily believe that that person's going to be you.
Come on, get honest.
I want you to raise your hand.
Honestly, if you're one of the people that really,
truly believe that God is good to others and that he is going to,
come on, come on, come on. And you guys, that's usually rooted in something.
It's rooted in a disappointment. You came to God, you needed something,
and it didn't happen. Whether it was somebody's healing,
it might've been your own healing. Maybe it was a situation where, you know,
you were trusting God for some kind of supernatural provision,
financial this or that, or whatever, and it didn't happen.
You were in a bad situation in your life.
You were in a bad situation and you needed deliverance and in your mind,
it didn't happen. Come on.
So it's rooted somewhere.
And so I want you to really take inventory as you're,
as you're pruning. Okay. You guys, by the way, you don't prune in the fall.
October is not a good month to prune. Like if you're, you know, a plant person,
trees, bushes, you know, foliage, all the things,
unless it's dead.
The only kind of pruning the experts will tell you to do in the fall,
like in October right now,
unless you live in a really cold climate where it's already winter in October.
But if it's fall climate where you live,
the only kind of pruning that is allowed in October is dead stuff.
And so you guys, as we're doing this inventory in our lives,
so we can cut off dead weight.
Those of you that really have a hard time believing that God's going to ever do
anything good in your life. You have to get down to the root of that.
It is rooted in a disappointment. It is.
It is rooted in somewhere where you feel like God failed you.
And the Bible says that love can't fail. And remember, God is love.
He doesn't just have love. He is love, which means God can't fail.
So whatever it was that didn't happen the way that you wanted it to happen,
it was not a failure of God. It was not,
it was not a breakdown of heaven's response system.
It wasn't.
I know we want to believe that because we go to churches that are naming and
claiming and blabbing and grabbing. If we speak it, then it's going to happen.
And God has to do it. If we have the faith for it, you guys,
that's not the way it works.
Remember how we started out this Supernatural Saturday with
talking about how God's ways are higher
and his thoughts are higher.
God sees big pictures, okay?
He doesn't see small keyholes like we do.
When we pray, a lot of times we are praying
in direct opposition of what would be best in a situation.
But we have come into agreement
with so many humanistic ideas
when it comes to faith, prayer,
the character of God.
And so all of those layers have to get pulled back
and it's not fun.
Trust me, it's not.
And a lot of us have really religious ideas of who God is
and what is required for God to work on our behalf.
And I just wanna let you guys know,
nothing is required except the finished work of the cross.
Nothing is required except for the payment
that was already paid by your Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
It is truly a finished work.
There's all kinds of things that are working themselves out
here on earth that are currently beyond our pay grade
of understanding, but once again,
we can ask for understanding.
We can.
We can ask and be invited into revelation and we should.
Okay, so I can't get into all that on this call
because I wanna get through these categories of letting go,
but we have to let go of negativity.
And for some of us,
that means we're gonna have to dig it out by the root.
All right, because it's dead.
And we gotta remove those dead roots
because we are not believing
that God can do anything good for us.
And he wants to show us,
he wants to show us his love, he does.
And we have to be able to allow that to happen, okay?
So we want a gratitude to come over us, y'all.
We do.
We want a gratitude to come over us.
And the only way that's gonna happen
is if we really realize that God has been good to us
in spite of ourselves.
And so I just pray that,
release that over all of us right now, God,
that you would show your sons and daughters your goodness.
Your word says that we would see your goodness,
that your goodness would actually pursue us and overtake us
where now here in the land of the living.
And so, Lord, for all of those that raised their hand
and said that, they just don't know
if you are going to show up for them in their lives
or that you're gonna be good to them in their situations.
I pray, God, that before we even gather together again,
that they see your goodness in their lives.
They see that you care about them,
that you're emotionally involved with them in Jesus' name.
All right, here's the next thing
that we're gonna let go of so that we can fly.
We're gonna let go of perfect, okay?
Some of y'all are bullies, right?
I love you, but you're bullies.
And who are you bullying?
You're bullying yourself.
That's who you're bullying, right?
You are bullying you.
The way you talk to yourself is ridiculous
and it's got to stop.
And once again, it's rooted somewhere.
So when these things start coming out of your mouth,
you're gonna have to ask Holy Spirit to show you
what dead thing it's rooted in
so that we can prune that dead thing off, okay?
So we have to stop giving ourselves such a hard time.
Everyone has messed up.
Everyone's forgot about something important.
We've all lost our patience with other people,
with our kids.
We've all yelled at someone before.
Well, most of us have.
We've all done the things that we know we shouldn't do.
That's everyone.
We've all left the house with two different shoes on.
Well, that actually might just be me.
It happens.
It happens, y'all, okay?
We got to let go of perfect
because perfect is not real except in the person of Jesus.
You are perfectly imperfect.
Write that down, tattoo it on your forehead if you have to.
You are perfectly imperfect.
And so you have to stop being so hard on yourself.
Some of you are not succeeding
because you are being kept back by hatred, okay?
The problem is is it's self-hatred.
It's not other people.
It's not mean, hateful people
trying to keep you from succeeding.
It's you being mean and hateful towards yourself.
And this is hard work stuff, you guys.
This is deeper stuff.
We can't get into it today.
But if you know you have trouble in this area
and it's holding you back and pushing you down,
then you got to get to the root of it.
You have to.
All right, here's the next thing we're gonna let go of.
We're gonna let go of guilt.
Did you guys know that guilt is not, it's not a kingdom emotion?
We've all experienced guilt, but it's actually a kingdom of darkness emotion.
And I know a lot of people think, well, guilt is godly because no, y'all, remorse and guilt
are not the same thing.
Remorse says that you have done something unworthy of you and you know it and you're
aware of it and you want to make it right.
Guilt says that you're unworthy.
It's not the same.
It's not the same thing.
I see that there's a possibility that I'm breaking up.
Am I breaking up?
No?
Okay, good.
So you guys, we have to let go of guilt.
Guilt is not a productive emotion.
In fact, I want to let you know something.
If you have guilt in your heart, it's there illegally.
It's an illegal emotion.
It's not from the kingdom of heaven.
And I know that you probably thought that guilt was godly because, oh, I should just
feel so bad about what I did.
You guys, repentance is not feeling bad about what you did.
Repentance is realizing that what you did is unworthy of you and that you should turn
away from it and turn towards God.
I know we all have been in relationships where someone came to us and they seemed so sorry
for what they did because they were crying and boohooing and snotting up the carpet and
begging us to forgive them and give us another chance.
And they just went and got right up after we said, yes, I forgive you, and they did
the same thing again, didn't they?
Didn't they do it?
That's because that is not the proof of, I'm sorry, tears, snotty nose, begging.
No, the proof of, I'm sorry, is changed behavior.
Repentance is that.
Repentance means changed behavior.
So you guys, we're going to let go of this.
We're going to let go of guilt.
Yes, feel remorse for your mistakes.
Yes.
Operate in repentance, operate in confession, for sure.
Realize that you didn't know what you didn't know when you didn't know it, okay?
But now you can because you know, and now you're going to do much better, right?
You're going to do much better.
So forgive yourself, forgive others, and release the regret that leads to guilt, okay?
All right, next one that's holding us back, holding us down, these are just some notes
I have here.
Let go.
This is going to be a big one for so many of us.
You guys ready for it?
Let go of busyness.
You guys, years ago, because I'm a busy bee, I'm a busy, busy, busy, busy, busy bee.
All right, years ago, God showed me the word busy, B-U-S-Y.
He showed me an acronym for it, and for me, it was being under Satan's yoke.
It was being under Satan's yoke because you guys, I was doing so many things out of perfectionism,
out of the need to earn my keep with the Lord, okay?
All of that good works, good works, good works.
I did not have a revelation of the finished work of the cross.
I was killing myself trying to please God, and I was under Satan's yoke.
And so for all of us that live in this American culture, I want to say this.
Busyness is not a status symbol.
Some people will list out everything they're going to do before 10 a.m., and I'm just exhausted
reading it on Facebook.
Oh, I got up at 5.45 this morning, and I already worked out.
I had my coffee.
I did my devotion.
You know, I made 50, you know, batches of cookies for the school's field trip and just
all the things.
I'm like, oh, my God.
What is happening here?
So here's your new mantra.
I'm not going to be busy, but I'm going to be abundant.
I'm going to be abundant.
You guys, when someone asks you, hey, how are you doing, a lot of times we'll answer,
oh, I'm so busy.
Don't we?
Don't we say that?
How's life going?
Oh, we've just been so busy.
If we're making an excuse of why we haven't talked to someone in a while, I'll be like,
oh, I'm so sorry.
Things have been so busy.
Haven't we said that?
We've said all those things, haven't we?
All right.
So let me ask you this.
What would happen if you pruned off the dead things that you have?
You shouldn't be doing that are rooted in all kinds of bad stuff,
like the reasons behind why you do them.
But if you prune that stuff off, what if you only did things that you felt were
truly your assignment before the Lord or things that brought you joy?
Okay.
And hopefully those things are not mutually exclusive, but
sometimes we'll do things, we'll eat the frog, we'll do things that
we don't really enjoy doing, but we know God wants us to do it.
But it shouldn't be the majority of the things on our list.
And the other things we do because we genuinely enjoy doing them.
We feel like it's a ministry and I don't mean like a church ministry y'all.
When you know Jesus, everything that you do is ministry.
You are a minister.
The moment that you meet Jesus, you are a living ambassador of heaven.
Okay.
And so we do things that we really enjoy doing.
What if our to-do list, our daily schedule was abundant instead of overwhelmed?
What would life look like?
And the only way that you're going to get there is what I'm going to say next.
Say no.
Let no become your favorite word.
You guys, I say no five times more than I say yes.
And I say no to things that sometimes sound pretty interesting, but I know
that in order to do it, I would have to kill myself.
I would have to like kill myself trying to do it.
I would, it'd be massive overwhelmed to try to get there and do it because it
just does not fit in what I've already laid out for myself, my smart goals in my life.
Okay.
And I hate to say no, I used to hate it.
Um, I don't, I, I don't hate to say no.
I hate to disappoint people.
We all hate to disappoint people, but sometimes you got to disappoint
people in order to please God.
Write that down.
Sometimes you have to disappoint people in order to please God.
Cause it's not pleasing to God for you to be overwhelmed, stressed out, busy with a
bunch of things that don't have any eternal value because God loves you.
Okay.
And he wants this life that he's given you to be a gift.
Okay.
So say no.
And the other thing you have to do is you have to stay in your lane.
Yes.
Stay in your lane.
I hate injustice.
You guys, I have a justice gift, but there's a better use for my justice gift than me
getting caught up in American politics.
Now, if I was going to school to be a politician, which I thought about doing,
you guys, I really did.
I thought about getting into politics when I was younger, I was going to go to
school to be a lawyer and I was going to be living in DC and being involved in
politics.
Some of you could see me doing that.
I could see myself doing that, but it's not what was the better choice for me.
So I didn't do it.
But I am drawn to those fights a lot.
I'm drawn to those arguments.
I'm drawn to those debates, but I got to stay in my lane.
This justice gift that God's given me, there's a better use for it than me
arguing with people who really are never going to change their mind.
Right.
There's a better gift for my, there's a better use for my justice gift.
And some of you, you have a gift that is overextended because you're not using it
in your lane and now it's become a weakness.
You have a gift from God and you are not using it for the purpose he gave it to
you for.
So his become overextended.
Now it's a weakness.
Now it's hurting you instead of helping you.
It's hurting you.
Instead of helping others, it's hurting others.
And what's happening?
You're overextended.
You got to get back in your lane.
All right.
So God's Holy Spirit hopefully is talking to somebody about what that is.
So stay in your lane.
And we got to give ourselves permission to stay in our lane and let go of
everybody else's responsibilities.
Some of you, the reason why you're so busy is you're so busy doing stuff for
other people.
There are some of you that when you go to work, other people literally stop by
your desk and they give you their work that they should be doing.
And you do it for them.
Oh, can you help me with this?
Honey, you got to learn how to use the copy machine yourself.
Okay.
If you don't know how to use it by now, you're what, 43 years old, then there's
no hope for your future.
You've got to learn how to use it.
You've got to say no to those people that have used your good nature and your
willingness to help because you have a helping gift.
They're using it against you now.
Do you see how it's being used against you?
Someone comes to you and says, Hey, can I get advice about this?
And you're like, sure, I'll give you advice about this.
And you give them advice.
advice, and now instead of learning how to pray, learning how to seek God on their own,
they're coming to you every single day with some kind of situation where they want you
to give them input or basically tell them what to do with their lives.
No.
That causes exhaustion.
That might be flattering at first, like, oh, all my friends, all my friends come to me
for advice.
Well, do they actually ever take your advice, or do they come to you with their problems
and they take up all your time complaining and grumbling and murmuring, and you trying
to use your encouragement gift to pull them out of the mulligrabs for 24 hours until they're
back in the mulligrabs again calling you back?
Some of you are laughing because you know that that shoe fits you and you tied it up
and you're wearing it.
Do you guys know that for all the people that you are using your encouragement gift on that
are not changing their lives with that exhortation, there is someone else that's dying for encouragement,
but you can't give them your gift.
It would change their lives if you gave them your gift, but you're over here being distracted
by all these other people that are just takers, that are just bleeding you dry.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah, we got to let go of that.
We got to let go of that.
The next time that someone comes to you, a repeat offender.
The next time someone comes to you to get encouraged and to get exhorted by you, to
get advice about their problem, I want you to ask them what they did with the last encouragement,
exhortation, and advice that you gave them.
I want you to ask them what they did with it.
What kind of feet did they put on those prayers?
How did they walk that out?
If they don't have an answer for that, then you don't give them any more.
When I was in my 20s, Joyce Meyer literally saved my life.
Her books literally saved my life.
Her preaching tapes literally saved my life, okay?
Because I had such bad anxiety disorder.
Literally saved me.
But one of the funniest things I've ever heard Joyce say, and that's saying something big
because she's a funny lady.
One of the funniest things I ever heard her say was that she tried to actually be a biblical
counselor before she started doing what she does.
She said people would come to her office and they would tell her their problems and she
would tell them what they should do.
And then the next week they would come back with the same problems and she basically would
be like, get out.
She did not have a mercy gift, y'all.
But some of you listen to me, please listen.
You have a mercy gift.
And because you have a mercy gift, you're giving people chance after chance after chance
after chance after chance after chance.
And that is not the correct use of that gift.
That is not the correct use of it.
That's burning you out.
That's causing you to live an overwhelmed life.
I need to have a, probably need to have a special session for boundaries for people
who have helping gifts, mercy gifts, exhortation, encouragement gifts.
I probably need to do that sometime, but you guys, we have to let go.
We have to let go, okay?
I want you to let go of, here's the next thing, okay?
So to kind of end that one, all right, letting go of everything right now, some of you have
permission to let go of everything that does not bring you life or joy, because some of
you have way too much of that going on.
Okay.
Here's the next one.
Let go of someday.
We've got to let go of someday, because this week is made up of seven days and not one
of them is called someday, all right?
And have you ever noticed that tomorrow's always today?
Have you noticed that?
There's no such thing as tomorrow.
There's only today.
Y'all, there's only today.
There's only ever today, because when tomorrow gets here, it becomes today.
And so you got to do today well.
You have to do today well.
And you know how you do today well?
You make the call, right?
You put in the resumes, you offer the apology, you sign up, you show up, you step up, you
buy the ticket, you say the words, you do it today, because someday is never going to
come.
You guys, someday, I feel Holy Spirit all over that.
Someday is never going to come.
Well, Jackie, I'm afraid of getting out of God's timing.
Stop that.
That's so religious.
That's not a real thing.
God lives outside of time.
You're never going to get ahead of God.
You are never, ever going to get ahead of God.
That was just something that someone preached one day.
It sounded good to everyone and everyone adopted it.
It is not truly biblical.
You cannot get ahead of God, but you know what you can do?
You can get way far behind him.
All right.
So let's stay in step with Holy Spirit for our lives.
And that means you can't compare your timeline to other people's, just
because they had to go through all this and it took this much time
and this is the way they did it.
And so now they are told everyone, this is the right way to do it.
That might not be your right way.
When people look at your story, it may not make any sense.
People are like, Hey, that should have never happened that quickly.
Well, you know what?
Today was the day.
So I did today.
Well, and it just worked out.
Not going to make apologies for that.
Do it y'all.
I really feel like whoever worked for Nike on that slogan had that
inspiration from heaven, just do it because the worst that's going to
happen if you just do it is it's not, that door's not going to open, but
you're going to continue to do it.
The worst that's going to happen is you're going to learn something.
Write this down.
There's no lose in the kingdom.
There's only winner learn.
Guess what?
You're going to learn the, you're going to learn another way that's
not productive to do something.
It's going to be fine.
You're going to learn.
Okay.
Here's the next one.
Let go of should.
Ladies, this is especially for you, but gentlemen, it's for you as well.
Let go of should let go of it.
Please.
Should.
I should be, I should be.
I should be.
We gotta stop shooting on ourselves, right?
I should be wiser by now.
I should be better by now.
I should be married by now.
I should have learned my lesson by now.
I should do this.
I should do that.
Go ahead and put in the chat right now what your shoulds are.
You guys all have them.
I want to see them.
Come on.
What are your shoulds?
Let's activate this.
222 people on the call right now.
Coincidence?
I don't think so.
God's asking us to come into agreement.
He wants us to fly.
We've been created to fly.
You've been born to fly.
You can't fly because you got too much dead weight.
222 is the number of the bride, the bride of Christ.
Not just the bride of man, the bride of Christ.
Right now, all of us are the bride of Christ on this call.
Look at all those, you guys.
Some of you are like, wow, I recognize that should.
I have that should as well.
Very important for us to understand
that we're not in this alone.
So you guys, come on.
We have to stop.
Next, let go of blame.
Let go of blame, you guys.
We've got to let go of blame.
I know that it sounds crazy, but we
don't have to assign blame when something goes wrong.
It doesn't have to be anyone's fault.
It doesn't.
Sometimes it's just the effects of the curse,
the effects of people who don't have the knowledge that they
need at the time that they need it.
And it's OK for it to just be what it is.
It's OK for life to be messy.
It doesn't have to always have a fall guy or a fall girl.
When we let go of blame, healing can begin.
If you guys are still in the blame portion of something,
then healing has not started yet.
Got to let go of blame.
And then right arm and arm with that
is we have to let go of judgment.
Guys, we have to let go of judgment.
Some of y'all would do a lot better in life
if you just kept focused on your own self in your own lane
and live and let live.
We have to give grace.
We have to hold the space for people who are still learning.
People do not change, including you,
when we point fingers at them.
So you've been pointing fingers at yourself.
You should, you should, you should.
And that always ends up with us pointing fingers
at other people.
Because I'm going to tell you right now, whoever God is to you,
he will be through you.
And if you feel like God's the God of judgment,
then you're going to judge yourself
because you feel like God's judging you.
And then you're going to judge everybody else too.
People change when they're loved.
That includes you.
True.
Start loving yourself.
Start letting God love you.
God wants to love you.
He doesn't want to punish you.
He doesn't want to judge you.
If you feel judged and punished, it's because you are judging and punishing yourself.
Jesus took your punishment on the cross.
The fruit that came out of the finished work of the cross is that you get to walk in grace,
meaning that you're going to have access to things that you don't deserve, and you get
to walk in mercy, which means you're not going to get what you do deserve.
Come on.
And when you walk in mercy and grace, it's going to be very easy for you to give that
to other people.
So we got to let go of judgment, okay?
Hold the space for those that are still learning, including yourself.
You are still learning, and you're going to be still learning for the rest of your life.
This is your childhood.
Falling down and bruising up and skinning up your knees, that's part of the dispensation
that we're living in right now.
You are a spiritual, eternal being having a very temporary, natural experience.
Let go of fear is the last one.
You guys, we got to let go of fear.
Remember, love, the opposite of it is not hate, it's fear.
Hate is a byproduct of fear.
The opposite of love is fear.
So if we're not living in love, we're living in fear.
And there are places in our lives that we probably live and embrace love, and there
are other areas of our lives where we embrace fear.
I want you to pay attention to those things.
Where are the areas where you really can't live in love?
You're not rooted and grounded in love.
A lot of fear comes to you in that area.
There's a root there.
There's something that needs to be pruned.
There's something dead there that needs to be let go of, because it's time to live out
loud.
Guys, it's time to make your stomach queasy every day by doing something that makes you
feel afraid in a good way, right?
Let's do it.
Let's do those things.
Do the exact opposite.
Here, this is something that I actually started doing, because you guys know that I dealt
with massive anxiety in my life.
I started doing the exact opposite of whatever fear was telling me.
Oh, it was so scary, but whatever fear was telling me, I did the exact opposite of it.
I did the exact opposite, y'all.
I know some of you know this, and I know it sounds crazy, and this is your leader, but
I used to have an intrusive thought that people had poisoned whatever I was drinking.
You guys, in my own house, by myself, with no one else around, you have contaminated
it.
A lot of times, I would just throw away that bottle of water.
I would throw away that drink.
I would pour it out or whatever, but just to give you a little example of doing the
opposite of what fear is telling you, when I began to get healing, when I began to do
the hard work, when I began to get deliverance, and this is important for a lot of you, those
thoughts didn't actually go away.
I had to not resist them.
I had to replace them, okay, with action, and so when I would have that thought, I would
just chug it.
I would just chug whatever that drink was.
Well, the only way to put this baby to bed is just to go ahead and chug it.
So whatever those intrusive fear thoughts are telling you, do the opposite of them.
Oh, nobody likes you here.
You know, you shouldn't come here anymore.
Come there more.
Oh, don't talk to that person.
You know, that person, hmm, yeah, that's not, that's going to be an awkward conversation.
Talk to them.
Who cares if it's awkward?
99.9% of my conversations are awkward.
You know what?
It's kind of my thing.
I don't know.
Do the opposite of whatever it is, you guys.
You can't go back to school.
You're too old.
Go back to school.
Do it afraid.
You're braver than you know.
It's time for us to let go of everything, everything, you guys, that doesn't make you
want to do a little dance.
We have a rule in our family, and this is where I will close, we have a rule in our
family because there's so much fast fashion from China, and it's like $25, and the kids
are like, I like this shirt.
I like this.
I want this.
I want that.
We have a rule in our family that when you go in the dressing room and you try it on,
if you don't like it, you can't do it.
don't wanna do a little dance, you don't buy it.
You can't do it.
If you go in the dressing room and it's just okay,
You can't do it.
kinda awkward fit here and there,
you know, I don't like the way this puckers out,
you looking at yourself from all sides, no.
If you put it on and you look at yourself in the mirror
and you wanna do a little dance,
make a little love, get down tonight,
then you buy that, whatever that is.
That dress, that top, guys, this could even work for you.
Those jeans, every woman likes a sharp dress man, all right?
So if those jeans look good on you, brother,
then you get them, all right?
They make your butt look good, you get those jeans, right?
Yes, this just took a carnal turn, but it's okay.
It's okay, y'all.
Look, I just wanna say this at the end.
I know I said I was gonna end there, but I wanna say this.
If your version of God does not have a sense of humor,
you don't know the same God that I know.
Because my God's full of joy.
My God's full of joy, okay?
And my God thinks I'm funny, he does.
He likes me and he thinks I'm funny, my papa, all right?
Okay, all right, I love y'all.
So Father, we thank you for today.
You're gonna help us to let go of the dead weight.
You're gonna help us to prune in this fall season
anything that's dead, anything that's dying,
anything that cannot be resuscitated,
anything that's holding us back or keeping us down
from the beautiful life that you have given us,
from flying, from soaring with you, Lord.
We ask that you would speak to us individually
and corporately about what those things are.
We pray, God, that we would have transformation
from this conversation, in Jesus' name, amen.
I love y'all, see you tomorrow night, bye, everyone.