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Welcome to Supernatural Saturday.

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As always, if you're new here, you're in for a treat.

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This is the time of the week that we all gather together to lean into what is heaven saying.

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What is the current prophetic reality?

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We have our reality.

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Each and every one of you can look around.

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You can touch the couch next to you, the table next to you, the steering wheel, perhaps if

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you're in your car, and you can see that it's real.

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This is your reality.

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You're here right now in space and time, but there's a whole other reality happening all

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around us.

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Not up in the heavens somewhere, all around us.

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By the way, you guys, just so you know, heaven is not a place, it's a dimension.

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It's not like up in the air somewhere, it's a dimension.

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It's another dimension for those of you that are sci-fi fans.

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It's another dimension.

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That's how it can be all around you.

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That's how you can be in it and not in it, right?

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Now but not yet kind of thing, we're going to have heaven on earth, it's exciting.

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I like the thought of it.

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I don't know about you guys, but I like the thought of being surrounded by something so

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beautiful and so amazing as heaven, being surrounded by it.

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Don't you like that idea?

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Has anyone ever heard that worship song?

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It was one of my mom's favorite songs when she was going through her last final years

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on this earth, in this reality, in this dimension.

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Her favorite song was that song, It May Look Like I'm Surrounded, but I'm Surrounded by

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You.

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I see a lot of you nodding your heads.

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This cat is at my front door wanting to be fed, y'all.

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He thinks I'm his mother.

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I'm not his mother.

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But we're surrounded right now.

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Just sit in that for a second.

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You're surrounded by heaven.

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Now in the reality that you're in, in the dimension that you can see with your eyes

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and taste and touch and hear perhaps in this moment, it may not look like you're going

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to win.

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You may feel actually quite alone in this moment of your life.

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You might feel like you're in a wilderness, and we're going to talk about that in a second.

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But I want you to close your eyes if you can, if you're somewhere where that's appropriate,

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and just think about heaven surrounding you.

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I'm going to keep your eyes closed, I'm going to describe some of what that might look like.

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Think about all the heavenly hosts.

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Think about angels all around you.

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They're in another dimension, but they're right here.

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They're right here.

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Think about all the people that you love, family, friends, leaders, pastors, people

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that have made an impact in your life, that have transitioned to that other dimension,

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that they're all around you right now.

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They're not gone.

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You just can't see them.

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And unfortunately, some of us can see them.

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I don't have that gift, but if you do, bless you, because I'm sure that's a hard gift.

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Some people are like, I'd love to see into the spirit realm.

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Would you though?

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Would you?

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I mean, sure, I'll take it, but I'm sure it would be like, whoo.

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But they're right here.

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What are they doing?

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They're supporting you.

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They're interceding for you.

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They're cheering you on.

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They're partnering with the supernatural for you.

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You're not alone.

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You've never been alone.

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You've never been alone.

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I know people say we're born alone and we die alone, and that's just humanity talking.

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It's not true.

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God himself formed you, knit you together in your mother's womb.

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You were never away from his presence.

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He's always had his hands on you.

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It's amazing, right?

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That we serve an omnipotent and omniscient God

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that can know us all at the same time.

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Isn't that incredible?

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I picked up this book that someone told me

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to get after my mom passed away a few years ago

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called Imagine Heaven,

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and it's just full of near-death experiences, NDEs.

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And I started paging through this book yesterday

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or the day before, I can't remember,

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and just started reading some of the accounts in there.

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They were amazing.

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They were amazing accounts of what happened

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when people started to see this other dimension, right?

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They were kind of hanging in the balance

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between what we call heaven, that other dimension,

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and earth, this earthly body, this earthly reality.

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They were in between,

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and they were able to see both at the same time.

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And the things that they saw were amazing.

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But not just what they saw, what they felt.

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They felt so completely known, but not rejected.

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They felt so completely loved.

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Nothing else was there.

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There was no guilt, there was no shame.

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There was no rejection, complete acceptance.

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What if we could feel that way

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without leaving this dimension, you know?

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And I know that all of you have experienced moments

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where you felt God's pure presence and love,

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and you just didn't wanna leave that moment with him,

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and you felt like you were completely accepted.

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Because the Bible says you are accepted in what?

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In the beloved.

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What is the beloved, what I just described?

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The beloved is that collective of that reality of heaven

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that I just described, that is the beloved.

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You are fully accepted right now

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as you are in the beloved.

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What if we lived from that place?

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You know, the people that are fully there now

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in that dimension, my mom, maybe your mom, your dad,

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your brother, sister, your friends,

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your former wife or husband, those people that are there,

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don't you know that as they're looking here,

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man, they could make a difference if they were here,

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couldn't they?

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Knowing what they know now, it's kinda like us

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when we've lived through a season and we look back,

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they say hindsight is 20-20,

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and you look back and you're like, whoa,

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man, I could've done that better, couldn't I have?

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I could've done that better,

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man, I could've done that better, couldn't I have?

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Shoot, I didn't see that.

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I didn't see that when I was right in the thick of it,

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but now that I'm looking back through this lens,

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I could have done something differently

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that I think would have been more impactful.

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And I'm positive with the revelation

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that the people that have gone on before us

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into that other reality,

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I'm positive with the knowledge that they have,

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they could make a real dent here.

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A real dent in a good way,

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a real impact in a good way with what they know,

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what they're now experiencing.

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But the Bible tells us that we can have that experience now.

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Now we can't have the full experience,

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but we can have enough of the experience

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to really make a difference.

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We call it bringing heaven to earth,

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but I don't really like that

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because that makes it sound like heaven is up

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and we're pulling it down

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when really the truth is is that heaven is all around us.

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But what are we bringing to our earth reality from heaven?

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We're bringing mindsets.

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We're bringing truth, absolute truth,

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not relative truth, absolute truth.

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We're bringing peace.

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We're bringing joy.

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We're bringing the things that the Bible tells us

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have no end.

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Hope.

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Let's just sit in this moment for a second.

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Some of you have really had a lot of grief

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about someone who's crossed over into that other dimension.

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And it's very,

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it's very,

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It's a very happy thought for you that they can see you and that they are involved in

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it's very,

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it's very,

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your journey that you're still on, on this side.

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And so I just want you to sit with that for a minute, let God talk to you about that.

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Let God comfort you with that.

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I especially feel like there's some healing for mom.

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I will tell you, last night in the middle of the night, my daughter, who does not live

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in my house, she's married now, she lives all the way downtown, so about 40 minutes

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away.

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She shook my bed in the middle of the night and said, mom, like you would to wake someone

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up.

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And I woke up startled.

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And then I got up and God began to talk to me and I began to pray.

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Was it my daughter that shook my bed?

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No.

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It wasn't her physically, but in the spirit realm, she needed my attention.

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My daughter needed my attention in the spirit realm.

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This might be a little out there for a lot of you and you might not fully understand

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and that's okay.

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But my daughter's spirit shook my bed and woke me up in the night and told me, mom.

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I followed leaders, people that do see into the supernatural and they are seers and they

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have these gifts where they're able to really see this unseen realm that we're talking about.

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And their spirits, because you guys, we are spirits that live in bodies that possess

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souls and their spirits have wild adventures in the night hours where they're able to see

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things and do things and understand things.

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And, you know, that might go against your theology, but it's biblical.

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If you read in the Bible, and I will tell you that there's been a lot of weird things

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that I've heard over the course of my discipleship of the last 28 years of following Jesus that

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really offended my humanity, that have really offended this flesh body that I live in, in

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my carnal reasoning and human understanding.

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And I will tell you that if you want to have a supernatural life, you have to be willing

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to have your human reasoning offended because God is not human.

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And your ways and your thoughts are much lower than his.

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And quite frankly, God's just weird.

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Have you ever read the Bible?

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It's just a bunch of weird stuff.

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And the people that were really willing to partner with God, they experienced some weird

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stuff.

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Seriously.

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If any of us, if some being showed up and, you know, presented itself to us and had a

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bunch of eyes and a bunch of wings and different things, most of us, we'd be out, be like,

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I'm out.

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Guys, I had a friend once that was just like, God, I'll do anything.

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Just don't show me anything.

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I don't want to see anything.

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Give me the instructions, but don't show me anything, you know?

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I don't know if she ever ended up seeing anything, but she was just, when she started hearing

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stories of other people kind of seeing into that other dimension, she was like, I'm not

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the one.

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But you guys, we walk by faith and not by sight.

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Now, some of us may end up seeing some things.

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I've seen some things in dreams that were incredible and very, very, very real.

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I've seen angels and visions.

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I've had visions.

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You know what visions are, right?

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It's like, it's not really there, but it's there.

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So I've definitely had visions of supernatural things, angels and all kinds of different

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stuff.

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But for some people, it's just there, okay?

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They're not in a vision.

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It's just there, right?

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It's right there.

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And but we walk by faith.

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We walk by faith that this other dimension is real.

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We walk by faith that God has this plan for us and these purposes for us, that God is

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emotionally involved in our lives and all around us.

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Right now, there's a collective of the beloved supporting us and loving us and helping us.

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And so if you have felt isolated and you have felt alone today, it is a lie from hell.

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Why would the devil want you to think that you were alone?

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Why would he want to think that you were isolated?

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Why would he want you to think that you were abandoned and forgotten?

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Because people that are alone and isolated and they believe that they're abandoned and

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they're forgotten, they do crazy stuff.

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Right?

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They make bad decisions, don't they?

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And some people, they just don't make any decisions.

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Because of what?

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They don't feel supported.

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They don't feel like they have any support.

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So they don't do anything.

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Some people make crazy, bad decisions.

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Desperate decisions.

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There's a desperation that comes on some people if they believe those types of lies.

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And then other people, they're just super stagnant.

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They just sit in this victimhood and they never make a move.

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Because like that man of the pool, Bethesda, they don't have anyone to help them.

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Remember that story?

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That man laid there for years and years and years and years and years and years and years.

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And because he wasn't able to get into the water first, because it was only the first person,

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when the angel came and stirred the water, in that season of time when that happened,

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only the first person in the water was going to get healed.

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Which you guys, that's so...

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That's not...

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That's sad.

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I hate that.

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I'm the kind of person that I just want everyone, I want everyone.

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And you know who else is like that?

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God.

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So this is a typology.

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I want you to see that it's a typology.

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What does that mean?

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That means that the story is a representation of a mindset.

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I'm not saying it's not a real story.

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It is a real story.

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But it's to show us a human mindset.

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Of, we have our eyes on what we think is the solution.

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And if we can't have that, then we're going to stay stuck in our problem.

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Not understanding that Jesus is here.

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Right?

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That story was to show what was going on under the curse, under the old covenant.

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Under the old covenant.

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But now under the new covenant that Jesus was bringing, he was talking to man.

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He's like, hey, you know, what's up?

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This guy's like telling his sob story.

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The water, the angel can't get in.

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No support.

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Abandoned forever alone.

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And Jesus was like, well, I'm right here.

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I'm right here.

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What was Jesus doing?

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He was showing what was going to be available in the new covenant.

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For everyone, not just the lucky few that get in the stirred water.

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Right?

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For everyone.

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And so some people, if they believe the lies of isolation and abandonment

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of being forgotten and forsaken,

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they will just sit like that man at the pool of Bethesda in their

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victimhood, in their story.

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That's not God's story for you.

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That's the story that the curse wrote, that people's bad decisions wrote,

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that sin wrote in your life.

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But that is not the story that God wrote for your life.

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I want to try to get back around to the mom idea, because I really feel like

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that's a word for all of us men and women alike.

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I believe that there's a generation that's shaking our bed in the night

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and crying out for leadership.

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You might not be their biological mothers or fathers, but the bottom

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line is, is that they need us.

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But before we can get there, and we are going to get there, let's talk

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about what I was saying about victim perspective.

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Of course, you guys that are not new to Supernatural Saturday, you know

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that none of this is planned.

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It's just kind of a long monologue with Holy Spirits, and usually it's

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pretty profound for all of us, including me, because I don't even

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know what's going to happen until I hear myself saying what I'm saying.

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But I did have something written down, because on a walk the other day,

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God said to me, He said,

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And not when he's saying your, he doesn't just mean me,

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he means us, humanity.

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He said, your way, believe it or not, is the hard way.

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He said, your way is the long way.

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When we do things our way, it's the hard way,

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it's the long way.

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And then immediately he began to bring me ideas

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about a sermon that, you know, I've preached in churches

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very few and far between you guys,

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probably like 35 times in my entire life, okay?

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I don't usually get invited to churches

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because of crazy things that I say on the internet

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or, you know, just I go and I say something

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that Holy Spirit's saying and then the leaders are like,

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oh, we didn't know she was gonna say that.

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And then I don't get invited back and I'm okay with that.

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As long as whatever I said was beneficial

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for whoever was listening.

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But I'm not called to that specific ministry,

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but every once in a while, I get to do it.

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So I spoke on the exodus, okay?

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The pilgrimage out of Egypt, the exodus.

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I spoke on that years ago and so when God spoke to me

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on my walk, your way is the hard way,

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your way is the long way, he began to bring up thoughts

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from that talk that I had years ago, over a decade ago.

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And one thing that's really frustrating for all of us

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is that God has let us all out

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of some kind of proverbial Egypt, hasn't he?

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Raise your hand if God has taken you

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out of some kind of Egypt.

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Egypt in your life would be a place where, you know,

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you were in an orphan or enslaved mentality

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where you were stuck, where you were busted and disgusted.

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You were broke, you were hurting,

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you were being abused or mistreated,

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whatever your Egypt was.

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And you can go ahead and put it in the chat,

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whatever your Egypt was, but he led you out of there.

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He found you there and he led you out.

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Alcoholism, addiction of some sort, pornography,

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anything that had you in bondage,

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anything that had you enslaved,

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maybe an abusive relationship or marriage,

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perhaps just the mindsets and the perspectives

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of your origin family and the places that you came from.

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Maybe it was just not knowing him.

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You're a first generation Christian.

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God led you out of the bondage of sin.

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All of us have been led out of the bondage of sin,

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regardless of whether you were born in the, you know,

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in a Christian family or not.

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We've all been led out of that Egypt.

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We've all been led out.

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Come on, let's go ahead and share.

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Take a moment to share and celebrate what you've come from,

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what you've come out of, what God's delivered you from.

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It's important to revisit in your mind those victories.

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So God leads us out, but he doesn't really fully tell us

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where he's taking us, does he?

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You might have a little bit of an idea.

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You might have a word from the Lord about something.

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The Israelites were told that they were gonna go

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into their own land, which that's big.

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That's big for them, right?

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Because those generations that were alive in Egypt,

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when this happened, they had never known their own land.

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They had only known slavery.

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They had only known slavery.

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I don't know if you could have found someone

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in that migration, in that pilgrimage

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that remembered the years before

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they were enslaved in Egypt.

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Because my Bible tells me that these folks

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had been in Egypt for 430 years.

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Now, people did live a lot longer back then,

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but they didn't live to be 430.

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So those people only knew this life.

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That's all they knew.

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And so they were told that they were gonna have

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a land of their own.

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Wow.

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Raise your hand if God has ever said something to you

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and you couldn't even really picture it

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because you've never experienced that before.

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See, if you told these people you're gonna have a land

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of your own, I'm gonna take you into a place

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where you can be free and you're not enslaved

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and no one's telling you what to do

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and you're not working, breaking your back

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and not ever receiving the profits or the product from that,

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they didn't know that.

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They didn't know what that was.

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And that's like telling a child in a developing country

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you know, an undeveloped country about America.

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They can't even picture the things that you're describing

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because they have never seen them.

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Just making sense to you guys?

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Kind of just have to take God at his word

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because you've never experienced that.

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For some of you, it's, you know,

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God promising you that he's gonna give you

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a healthy relationship.

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Someone who's gonna love and support you.

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You're like, wow, what does that look like?

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I don't even know what that looks like.

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Someone who's gonna be faithful, kind, generous.

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Someone who's gonna follow him.

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That's where these folks are.

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That's where a lot of you are with the things

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that God has spoken over your lives.

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So God leads us out and he might tell us

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some of the ideas that he has for us,

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some of the plans he has for us,

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but he doesn't fully tell us the whole story, right?

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We don't know how we're gonna get there.

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We don't have a map.

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And there are things that happened on this journey out

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for the Egyptians, for the Israelites out of Egypt.

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There were some miracles that happened right off the bat.

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The parting of the Red Sea.

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You know, you would think that that right there

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would kind of seal the deal.

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If the plagues didn't seal the deal,

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because, you know, they saw the plagues.

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They didn't experience them, but they did see them, right?

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They saw what was happening to Egypt.

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If that didn't seal the deal for them,

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as far as, hey, this God, he loves us.

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You know, he's come.

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You know, we've prayed for years for deliverance

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and here we're being delivered.

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Our deliverer has come.

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The parting of the Red Sea.

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I think that would probably be, that would be it, right?

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We think that would be it for us.

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If we saw that, we're like, hey, we're all in.

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We're all in God.

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I see you.

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You're powerful.

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You're real.

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But a lot of us have had real powerful experiences

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with the Lord and we still go back into a place of doubt.

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We still go back into a place of spiritual apathy.

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We still go back into a place of, unfortunately,

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victim, orphan-minded, complaining

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and all different types of stuff.

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And I'm talking about myself.

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I may not be talking about you,

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but I'm definitely talking about me.

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I've seen a lot of powerful things that God has done

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for others in front of me, for me in front of me.

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And it's been amazing.

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It's wonderful.

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It's wonderful.

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It's incredible when I'm thinking about those things.

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Think about some of those things that God has done for you.

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Put them, put them in the chat.

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What are your Red Sea moments?

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What have you seen God do?

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Think about that for a second.

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Guys, God saved me driving my car.

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I did not know him.

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I was in a bad place, really bad place in my life.

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And I had just left a house where I had been very triggered

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and I was in the car and I was like, ugh,

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and I was just feeling really desperate and scared.

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And I just cried out to God.

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I said, you know, who are you?

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Are you real?

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What do you want from me?

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And I had a supernatural experience.

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I had like an out of body experience, y'all.

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I only can describe it humanly as I pass out

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driving my car.

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I can't really describe it to you.

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I don't even really know how to tell you what happened,

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but I will tell you that it was a catalyst

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for me being completely converted.

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It was my road to Damascus.

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For those of you that don't understand that reference,

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Saul became Paul on the road to Damascus.

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He was completely transformed

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as Jesus appeared to him there.

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Now, just like Saul to Paul,

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I had a little bit of a transition.

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That crazy thing happened in my car

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and then I was paralyzed on the left side of my body,

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kind of like Paul,

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who didn't have his eyesight for a minute, okay?

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And people came around me just like Paul had people come

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around me, God sent Cornelius to tell Paul what was up

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and open his eyes.

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And then God sent people to me, Christians to me

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that began to teach me and show me and heal me and grow me.

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And then I was miraculously healed

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of whatever this paralytic situation was

508
00:29:45.560 --> 00:29:47.200
when they laid hands on me.

509
00:29:47.200 --> 00:29:48.600
Y'all, this is a true story.

510
00:29:53.000 --> 00:29:54.680
That's one of my Egypt stories.

511
00:29:54.680 --> 00:29:55.520
I have many.

512
00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:00.840
Think about it.

513
00:30:02.760 --> 00:30:04.440
What's your road to Damascus?

514
00:30:04.440 --> 00:30:05.960
What was the moment when you decided

515
00:30:05.960 --> 00:30:07.580
that you had to follow Jesus?

516
00:30:08.880 --> 00:30:11.200
That yeah, life is hard,

517
00:30:11.200 --> 00:30:13.040
but you realized your way was the hard way

518
00:30:13.040 --> 00:30:14.280
and your way was the long way,

519
00:30:14.280 --> 00:30:16.940
and you're like, I'm gonna follow Jesus.

520
00:30:16.940 --> 00:30:17.780
What's that?

521
00:30:17.780 --> 00:30:20.200
What's that road to Damascus moment for you?

522
00:30:20.200 --> 00:30:21.960
Put that up in the chat.

523
00:30:21.960 --> 00:30:24.520
Look at each other's answers, y'all.

524
00:30:24.520 --> 00:30:27.040
We all come from a lot of similar places.

525
00:30:30.000 --> 00:30:35.000
Look at some of that.

526
00:30:48.000 --> 00:30:50.680
Some of it started with a book that found you.

527
00:30:50.680 --> 00:30:51.660
You didn't find that book.

528
00:30:51.660 --> 00:30:52.860
That book found you.

529
00:30:55.440 --> 00:30:57.760
I've had books find me all the time.

530
00:30:58.760 --> 00:31:02.400
Books stalking me, seeing it everywhere,

531
00:31:02.400 --> 00:31:03.840
and then finally picking it up

532
00:31:05.200 --> 00:31:07.400
and realizing that the very answers that I needed

533
00:31:07.400 --> 00:31:09.720
were right there waiting for me.

534
00:31:09.720 --> 00:31:14.720
Healings, healings that have happened in your body.

535
00:31:16.020 --> 00:31:17.840
Guys, we're in places where you were sick

536
00:31:17.840 --> 00:31:19.600
and you were hurting and you cried out to God,

537
00:31:19.600 --> 00:31:22.260
just like me, and God met you there.

538
00:31:25.400 --> 00:31:27.560
Some of you were delivered from relationships

539
00:31:28.400 --> 00:31:29.600
that were crushing you.

540
00:31:34.800 --> 00:31:36.680
God found all of us in different places,

541
00:31:36.680 --> 00:31:38.560
but he came looking for all of us.

542
00:31:39.400 --> 00:31:41.800
That's what I love about that movie, The Chosen.

543
00:31:43.760 --> 00:31:46.200
It really depicts how Jesus went

544
00:31:46.200 --> 00:31:49.240
and found each and every one of those disciples, didn't he?

545
00:31:51.100 --> 00:31:55.600
Can see him kind of just intentionally,

546
00:31:55.600 --> 00:31:57.680
but it looks like nonchalantly,

547
00:31:57.680 --> 00:32:01.440
but intentionally kind of being over by

548
00:32:01.440 --> 00:32:06.000
where that person was and looking at them

549
00:32:06.000 --> 00:32:07.560
when they're not looking at him.

550
00:32:07.560 --> 00:32:09.480
You can tell who's gonna be who

551
00:32:09.480 --> 00:32:12.320
because his eyes are on them

552
00:32:14.480 --> 00:32:17.440
and his eyes were on each and every one of you.

553
00:32:17.440 --> 00:32:18.520
You've been chosen.

554
00:32:18.520 --> 00:32:21.560
Did you know the Bible says that you've been chosen?

555
00:32:21.560 --> 00:32:23.200
You're a chosen generation.

556
00:32:24.200 --> 00:32:25.560
You're a royal priesthood.

557
00:32:26.880 --> 00:32:27.800
God chose you.

558
00:32:30.320 --> 00:32:32.200
I love how he puts in that we're a royal priesthood

559
00:32:32.200 --> 00:32:34.440
because you had to be part of a certain lineage

560
00:32:34.440 --> 00:32:35.480
to be a priest.

561
00:32:36.400 --> 00:32:38.040
You have to remember, you can't just read the Bible,

562
00:32:38.040 --> 00:32:39.720
you have to read the Bible.

563
00:32:39.720 --> 00:32:42.080
All of those words mean something.

564
00:32:42.080 --> 00:32:43.880
They're all pointing back to types

565
00:32:43.880 --> 00:32:45.920
and shadows of the old covenant.

566
00:32:47.000 --> 00:32:48.280
We've been chosen, you guys.

567
00:32:48.280 --> 00:32:50.520
We've been grafted into a bloodline

568
00:32:51.360 --> 00:32:52.200
We are.

569
00:32:52.200 --> 00:32:53.640
We're part of a bloodline now.

570
00:32:57.400 --> 00:32:58.720
We're chosen.

571
00:32:58.720 --> 00:32:59.840
We've been set apart.

572
00:33:02.960 --> 00:33:05.160
We've been sanctified and justified.

573
00:33:06.640 --> 00:33:10.240
Predestined are good things.

574
00:33:10.240 --> 00:33:12.840
The only kind of predestination you have, my friend,

575
00:33:12.840 --> 00:33:16.680
is to be predestined to do good works

576
00:33:16.680 --> 00:33:19.520
and to be a part of a good life.

577
00:33:20.120 --> 00:33:22.240
And to receive good things.

578
00:33:32.000 --> 00:33:33.200
Going slow today, people.

579
00:33:33.200 --> 00:33:34.320
This is a lot to take in

580
00:33:34.320 --> 00:33:36.000
and it might just seem like a few words

581
00:33:36.000 --> 00:33:37.320
and some of the words may be things

582
00:33:37.320 --> 00:33:38.800
that you feel like you've heard before,

583
00:33:38.800 --> 00:33:41.760
but maybe you haven't fully received these ideas.

584
00:33:44.040 --> 00:33:46.920
Jesus said, you will know my truth

585
00:33:46.920 --> 00:33:48.880
and it will make you free.

586
00:33:50.520 --> 00:33:51.760
You will know the truth.

587
00:33:53.000 --> 00:33:54.880
His truth, because he is truth.

588
00:33:55.880 --> 00:33:57.880
And you will be free.

589
00:33:59.000 --> 00:34:01.720
So let's talk about the perspective of being in bondage.

590
00:34:01.720 --> 00:34:04.360
430 years in Egypt.

591
00:34:04.360 --> 00:34:06.760
And I feel like the longer that you were in bondage,

592
00:34:06.760 --> 00:34:08.320
sometimes the harder it is

593
00:34:08.320 --> 00:34:11.360
to get rid of all that stinking thinking.

594
00:34:13.520 --> 00:34:15.639
But we see very clearly in the story

595
00:34:15.639 --> 00:34:19.040
of the Israelites on their exodus,

596
00:34:19.600 --> 00:34:21.239
to the promised land,

597
00:34:21.239 --> 00:34:23.880
we see very clearly the idea of how your way

598
00:34:23.880 --> 00:34:26.520
is the hard way and your way is the long way.

599
00:34:29.159 --> 00:34:32.400
Geographically, that trip,

600
00:34:32.400 --> 00:34:34.960
if they went through Philistine country,

601
00:34:34.960 --> 00:34:36.840
would have only taken six months.

602
00:34:39.880 --> 00:34:42.000
You guys, God couldn't take them

603
00:34:43.000 --> 00:34:45.520
through Philistine, Philistine country.

604
00:34:45.520 --> 00:34:47.760
Remember I'm bad at phonics.

605
00:34:48.760 --> 00:34:50.880
He couldn't take them through there.

606
00:34:50.880 --> 00:34:53.760
He couldn't take them through the country

607
00:34:53.760 --> 00:34:55.560
that was inhabited by the Philistine.

608
00:34:55.560 --> 00:34:56.440
Why?

609
00:34:56.440 --> 00:34:59.200
Because he knew that they would turn around and go back.

610
00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:06.040
They weren't ready for that, they couldn't go through there right now.

611
00:35:06.040 --> 00:35:09.320
So this journey was going to take, instead of six months geographically, it was going

612
00:35:09.320 --> 00:35:14.880
to take two years, which is still going to be a short amount of time, but what should

613
00:35:14.880 --> 00:35:22.240
have been two years ended up as 42 years, but you guys, you realize that that 40 years

614
00:35:22.240 --> 00:35:27.600
started at the 13th stop.

615
00:35:27.600 --> 00:35:30.560
All along the way they stopped, and you read in the Bible that there was this beautiful

616
00:35:30.560 --> 00:35:39.080
cloud that covered them, right?

617
00:35:39.080 --> 00:35:45.120
There was a pillar of fire by night, and there was a cloud by day.

618
00:35:45.120 --> 00:35:48.240
They were being covered, you guys, they were being, what is that?

619
00:35:48.240 --> 00:35:51.880
That was the guidance of the Lord, that was the glory of the Lord.

620
00:35:51.880 --> 00:35:57.720
There were so many comforting things that were happening.

621
00:35:57.720 --> 00:36:02.520
And this goes to show you, and I really want you to see this, is that you can be in a place,

622
00:36:02.520 --> 00:36:13.720
in a mindset where God can try to comfort you and you're just not receiving comfort.

623
00:36:13.720 --> 00:36:19.320
You feel uncomforted, but the comforter is there.

624
00:36:19.320 --> 00:36:22.000
The comforter is there.

625
00:36:22.000 --> 00:36:27.320
Holy Spirit is there, the comforter is there, wanting to let you know that everything's

626
00:36:27.320 --> 00:36:37.720
going to be all right, wanting to wrap you up in love, wanting to quiet your mind, quiet

627
00:36:37.720 --> 00:36:43.960
your mind, quiet all the what ifs, quiet all the fear with love.

628
00:36:43.960 --> 00:36:44.960
Like what?

629
00:36:44.960 --> 00:36:46.400
Like a mother does, right?

630
00:36:46.400 --> 00:36:53.520
Your mother, a good mother, will wrap you up in her arms, and she'll rock you, and she'll

631
00:36:53.520 --> 00:37:08.320
sing softly over you, or pray softly over you, stroke your head, your cheek, kiss you.

632
00:37:08.320 --> 00:37:13.120
A lot of you don't know what that feels like, you didn't ever have a mother that ever did

633
00:37:13.120 --> 00:37:16.960
that to you.

634
00:37:16.960 --> 00:37:20.800
And my mother didn't do that to me either, but you know what, I did that to my child,

635
00:37:20.800 --> 00:37:25.680
and so I know what it feels like, because I'm the mother in the story.

636
00:37:25.680 --> 00:37:32.000
And maybe you're the mother in the story, maybe you're the father in the story.

637
00:37:32.000 --> 00:37:37.960
You don't know what it's like to have that done to you, but you know what it's like to

638
00:37:37.960 --> 00:37:44.040
do that to someone else.

639
00:37:44.040 --> 00:37:48.800
But the Bible says that even if my mother and father forsake me, the Lord himself will

640
00:37:48.800 --> 00:37:51.960
take me up.

641
00:37:51.960 --> 00:37:56.600
That has been the banner verse over my life, and I release that verse over your life.

642
00:37:56.600 --> 00:38:01.360
God wants to comfort you.

643
00:38:01.360 --> 00:38:06.600
He wants to protect you, he wants to lead you, he wants to guide you, he has a way that

644
00:38:06.760 --> 00:38:11.880
does not make sense, but it is the better way.

645
00:38:11.880 --> 00:38:15.200
It is the better way.

646
00:38:15.200 --> 00:38:23.160
Your way is the hard way, and your way is the long way, I promise you.

647
00:38:23.160 --> 00:38:25.480
Let's look at it, let's look at the people, the Israelites.

648
00:38:25.480 --> 00:38:30.280
So they leave Egypt, and they do this weird thing, they ask all of their Egyptian neighbors

649
00:38:30.280 --> 00:38:38.000
to give them all the silver and gold and fine raiment to take with them.

650
00:38:38.000 --> 00:38:41.000
They were told, they were instructed to do that, why?

651
00:38:41.000 --> 00:38:45.080
Because that was compensation for being slaves.

652
00:38:45.080 --> 00:38:56.880
They worked for these people for generations, without payment, without honor.

653
00:38:56.880 --> 00:39:00.920
And so the Egyptians, they gave it to them, they're like, whew, because they saw the power

654
00:39:00.920 --> 00:39:01.920
of God, right?

655
00:39:01.920 --> 00:39:08.480
And so they gave them these things, this silver, this gold, this fine raiment.

656
00:39:08.480 --> 00:39:12.720
You can see right there in that instruction to receive that from the Egyptians, that there

657
00:39:12.720 --> 00:39:18.400
was, they weren't supposed to stay in the wilderness, they weren't going to stay in

658
00:39:18.400 --> 00:39:19.400
the wilderness.

659
00:39:19.400 --> 00:39:25.400
They were going to set up their own cities in a land that belonged to them.

660
00:39:25.400 --> 00:39:28.720
But what did they do with that stuff, y'all?

661
00:39:28.720 --> 00:39:35.920
Think about it for a second, jog your memory.

662
00:39:35.920 --> 00:39:40.840
When things became confusing on this journey, when they felt like God had abandoned them

663
00:39:40.840 --> 00:39:44.440
or forsaken them, what happened?

664
00:39:44.440 --> 00:39:48.880
They leaned into those orphan mindsets, and the bottom line is, is when you're a slave,

665
00:39:48.880 --> 00:39:54.200
when you have an orphan slave mentality, you're going to take your blessings, maybe

666
00:39:54.200 --> 00:39:58.040
the restoration that God's offering you, maybe the restitution that God wants to give you

667
00:39:58.040 --> 00:39:59.200
and make it an idol.

668
00:39:59.200 --> 00:40:00.040
And that's what happened.

669
00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:06.600
here. That's what happens when you have an orphan mentality. So let's just do a

670
00:40:06.600 --> 00:40:13.080
little overview of what happened. 430 years in Egypt ends up being 42 years in

671
00:40:13.080 --> 00:40:19.280
the wilderness, but the 40 year didn't start until the spies were sent into the

672
00:40:19.280 --> 00:40:24.440
land and they came back with a negative report.

673
00:40:24.440 --> 00:40:31.400
It was the 13th stop. The camp stopped and they say there's about 3 million

674
00:40:31.400 --> 00:40:35.440
including women and children. You guys, I've looked at the logistics of that,

675
00:40:35.440 --> 00:40:40.360
what that would look like, how much diameter that would take up, how many

676
00:40:40.360 --> 00:40:48.720
square miles just that horde of people would take up, and it's pretty, it seems

677
00:40:48.800 --> 00:40:54.960
it seems impossible. Okay, when you read it, when you see it, when you look at it,

678
00:40:54.960 --> 00:40:58.600
you kind of look at the actual

679
00:40:59.000 --> 00:41:03.400
dynamics of what that must have been like. It doesn't seem, I mean just this

680
00:41:03.400 --> 00:41:09.920
year, excuse me for bringing up natural things, but just this year, poop of that

681
00:41:09.920 --> 00:41:15.800
mass of people. Everyone has, everyone poops y'all. Okay, it just seems

682
00:41:15.800 --> 00:41:20.760
impossible that that that horde of people, even just with their bathroom

683
00:41:20.760 --> 00:41:27.560
necessities, that it would be possible for them to to travel together like this

684
00:41:27.560 --> 00:41:35.200
in the type of caravan that was happening. So I believe the story, I

685
00:41:35.200 --> 00:41:38.680
believe it's a real story. A lot of people are like, oh it's just a allegory.

686
00:41:38.680 --> 00:41:44.040
No, I think it's a real story. I think it's a real story. I do. But they stopped

687
00:41:44.040 --> 00:41:51.480
you guys, and it was at the 13th stop, just the 13th stop, that it was time to

688
00:41:51.480 --> 00:42:02.600
go in. It was at the 13th stop, was let's go in, and because those mindsets were not

689
00:42:02.600 --> 00:42:06.400
purged, those orphan mindsets, those slave mindsets were not purged, because they

690
00:42:06.400 --> 00:42:11.520
were not purged, they didn't go in. They didn't get to go in at that 13th stop. So

691
00:42:11.520 --> 00:42:19.120
guess what happened? They ended up, they ended up having 42 more, more moves, 42

692
00:42:19.120 --> 00:42:26.840
more stops over the next 40 years. But I want you to take a really good look at

693
00:42:26.840 --> 00:42:30.920
what happens in that. You guys, one time when David and I first got married, we

694
00:42:30.920 --> 00:42:35.480
moved seven times in seven years. I'm sorry, seven times in eight years. We

695
00:42:35.480 --> 00:42:40.240
moved seven times in eight years, and that's what happens when you rent, right?

696
00:42:40.320 --> 00:42:43.520
There's all kinds of different reasons where you have to move the very next

697
00:42:43.520 --> 00:42:47.840
year. You got to move, right? The landlord doesn't want to rent the place, or it's

698
00:42:47.840 --> 00:42:50.640
not big enough anymore, or you just rented it because there's nowhere else

699
00:42:50.640 --> 00:42:54.160
to rent, and now you got to go. You have a growing family, a kid, you know, we have a

700
00:42:54.160 --> 00:42:57.600
blended family, a kid changes school systems, and now we got to move because

701
00:42:57.600 --> 00:43:03.560
now we're too far away. Whatever. Seven times in eight years, we moved. Our family

702
00:43:03.560 --> 00:43:07.040
did. And remember, we're talking about this huge group of people that are going

703
00:43:07.040 --> 00:43:11.960
to be moving, essentially. They have all this stuff with them because, you guys,

704
00:43:11.960 --> 00:43:18.600
sometimes they would camp for a while, okay, during this 40-year purging. Let's

705
00:43:18.600 --> 00:43:22.400
call it a purging because that's what it was. What was being purged out? That

706
00:43:22.400 --> 00:43:28.000
victim mindset, that orphan mentality. That's what's being purged during this

707
00:43:28.000 --> 00:43:34.040
journey now. Because remember, our way is the hard way, and it's the long way. They

708
00:43:34.040 --> 00:43:37.560
decide not to do things God's way.

709
00:43:38.080 --> 00:43:42.640
They didn't do things God's way. God's way was for them to go in at the 13th

710
00:43:42.640 --> 00:43:44.960
stop.

711
00:43:48.840 --> 00:43:55.880
So it's a pruning, isn't it? And so I will tell you that in those seven moves in

712
00:43:55.880 --> 00:44:00.440
eight years, there were things that I put on that moving truck during that first

713
00:44:00.600 --> 00:44:04.120
move of the seven that were so important to me and I didn't think that I could

714
00:44:04.120 --> 00:44:07.520
live without. And by that eighth move, y'all, that stuff was going to go to

715
00:44:07.520 --> 00:44:13.000
Goodwill. Come on, somebody.

716
00:44:13.520 --> 00:44:18.800
Things that seem so important on the journey, by the time you get to that

717
00:44:18.800 --> 00:44:24.360
eighth move, they're no longer important, are they?

718
00:44:24.840 --> 00:44:32.960
Oh, I gotta have this. Gotta have it. Gotta have Aunt Marie's jello mold that she

719
00:44:32.960 --> 00:44:37.480
left me. So important. Gotta have it.

720
00:44:40.840 --> 00:44:48.320
But by that eighth move, it's like, you know, Marie who? What happens? You realize

721
00:44:48.440 --> 00:44:54.360
that there are so many things from the past that are just weighing you down,

722
00:44:54.360 --> 00:44:58.360
that are keeping you back, that are tethering you, the things that you don't

723
00:44:58.360 --> 00:44:58.920
need.

724
00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:04.480
And that's what happened here with these folks, 42 moves.

725
00:45:04.480 --> 00:45:05.880
The whole camp moved.

726
00:45:05.880 --> 00:45:06.880
They set up camp.

727
00:45:06.880 --> 00:45:07.880
They set up tents.

728
00:45:07.880 --> 00:45:11.360
They do all the things.

729
00:45:11.360 --> 00:45:15.400
And then one day, and the way the Bible says is that they didn't never, they never knew

730
00:45:15.400 --> 00:45:16.880
when they were going to move.

731
00:45:16.880 --> 00:45:21.960
It's when that, when that cloud started moving, that's when you move.

732
00:45:21.960 --> 00:45:24.960
If that cloud, if that cloud resides, you reside.

733
00:45:24.960 --> 00:45:27.160
If that cloud starts moving, you move.

734
00:45:27.160 --> 00:45:30.120
So you see that cloud start moving up, it's time to pack up.

735
00:45:30.120 --> 00:45:31.120
You might've been there for six months.

736
00:45:31.120 --> 00:45:33.120
You might've been there for six weeks.

737
00:45:33.120 --> 00:45:35.720
You might've been there for six years.

738
00:45:35.720 --> 00:45:43.400
And I promise you that there became things that were not that important anymore, right?

739
00:45:43.400 --> 00:45:46.400
They were not that important.

740
00:45:46.400 --> 00:45:58.240
I want you to think about that because I think that we're at the stop where God's like,

741
00:45:58.240 --> 00:45:59.800
hey, let's go in.

742
00:45:59.800 --> 00:46:04.000
That's where I'm, all this is coming around to that, you guys.

743
00:46:04.000 --> 00:46:07.120
I do.

744
00:46:07.120 --> 00:46:10.080
So what are you going to leave behind?

745
00:46:10.080 --> 00:46:14.160
That wilderness experience and all of us have them, you guys, all of us go into them because

746
00:46:14.160 --> 00:46:16.560
there are time of purification.

747
00:46:16.560 --> 00:46:17.560
From what?

748
00:46:17.560 --> 00:46:18.560
From mindsets.

749
00:46:18.560 --> 00:46:23.640
Guys, that entire time in the wilderness was a purification from a slave mindset.

750
00:46:23.640 --> 00:46:25.640
That's all that it was.

751
00:46:25.640 --> 00:46:30.640
God could have taken them the straight way, A to B, straight through Philistine, Philistine,

752
00:46:30.640 --> 00:46:31.960
Philistine country.

753
00:46:31.960 --> 00:46:37.000
I see all my little dyslexia coming out.

754
00:46:37.000 --> 00:46:43.840
He could have taken them straight in, but he couldn't, not because of him, because of

755
00:46:43.840 --> 00:46:49.640
them.

756
00:46:49.640 --> 00:46:55.640
So the wilderness for all of us is a time of just purification from those Egypt mindsets

757
00:46:55.640 --> 00:47:02.080
that inherited trauma, all those ways that we still see ourselves as beneath and not

758
00:47:02.080 --> 00:47:05.520
above for them.

759
00:47:05.520 --> 00:47:10.040
They couldn't go, they still saw themselves as slaves.

760
00:47:10.040 --> 00:47:13.360
That journey was supposed to take a couple of years, not a couple of decades.

761
00:47:13.880 --> 00:47:17.800
There's a scripture in the Bible that says God's increase comes without sorrow.

762
00:47:17.800 --> 00:47:23.120
You know, I don't want you to get into a religious mindset that God's never going to give you

763
00:47:23.120 --> 00:47:24.720
anything good until you're ready.

764
00:47:24.720 --> 00:47:29.960
No, God gives us things that are good to get us ready.

765
00:47:29.960 --> 00:47:33.040
He gave them all of those things to get them ready.

766
00:47:33.040 --> 00:47:36.680
They received all of those things and we live in a new covenant, so it's even more because

767
00:47:36.680 --> 00:47:39.680
Jesus actually paid the price for all the things that we receive.

768
00:47:39.680 --> 00:47:43.440
It's not about our behavior or our performance.

769
00:47:43.440 --> 00:47:51.640
Now it's about faith, but I want you to see that, you know, a lot of times during that

770
00:47:51.640 --> 00:47:55.160
process, you know, they begged for Egypt.

771
00:47:55.160 --> 00:47:56.860
Why?

772
00:47:56.860 --> 00:48:01.080
Because misery loves comfort.

773
00:48:01.080 --> 00:48:05.040
Comfort zones, they could be miserable places.

774
00:48:05.720 --> 00:48:12.600
It can be really comfortable places to an orphan mindset, right?

775
00:48:12.600 --> 00:48:18.520
And so let's really allow Holy Spirit to show us what we need to leave so we can go in.

776
00:48:18.520 --> 00:48:19.520
It's time to go in.

777
00:48:19.520 --> 00:48:26.320
It's time to understand that we are valuable.

778
00:48:26.320 --> 00:48:29.720
It's time to understand that God wants to do good things in our lives.

779
00:48:29.720 --> 00:48:39.560
It's time to understand that we have an entire beloved around us, helping us press forward,

780
00:48:39.560 --> 00:48:49.400
cheering us on, interceding for us, helping us, supporting us to move on, to move in,

781
00:48:49.400 --> 00:48:54.280
to leave behind whatever it is that we don't need anymore.

782
00:48:54.280 --> 00:48:56.280
And some of you, you know, have been on this single journey.

783
00:48:57.280 --> 00:48:59.800
And some of you, you know, have been on this single journey.

784
00:48:59.800 --> 00:49:04.360
Let's just liken it to that since that's why we all know each other in the first place.

785
00:49:04.360 --> 00:49:08.160
A lot of you, there were things when you started your single journey that were so important.

786
00:49:08.160 --> 00:49:10.680
You just had to have them, right?

787
00:49:10.680 --> 00:49:14.840
But now that you've been in your single journey for a few years, some of you even a few decades,

788
00:49:14.840 --> 00:49:19.120
there are things that you no longer need in that other person.

789
00:49:19.120 --> 00:49:21.120
And I'm not talking about settling.

790
00:49:21.120 --> 00:49:23.280
People are so afraid of settling.

791
00:49:23.280 --> 00:49:24.480
What if it's not about settling?

792
00:49:24.480 --> 00:49:25.480
What if it's about surrendering?

793
00:49:29.480 --> 00:49:30.480
What if it's about surrendering?

794
00:49:36.480 --> 00:49:37.480
Right?

795
00:49:42.480 --> 00:49:45.960
What if it's about understanding and realizing that a lot of the things that you thought

796
00:49:45.960 --> 00:49:52.480
that you needed were just ways that, you know, you learned to protect yourself in Egypt?

797
00:49:54.480 --> 00:49:59.480
Those were just protections for the orphan you.

798
00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:07.000
But now the son and daughter of you realizes that you're God-defended.

799
00:50:07.000 --> 00:50:08.000
You're God-defended.

800
00:50:08.000 --> 00:50:17.480
And you guys, let's circle back around to the beginning, okay, as we're closing up.

801
00:50:17.480 --> 00:50:23.520
Let's circle back around to the beginning because this is not just about us.

802
00:50:23.520 --> 00:50:28.440
There's a generation coming behind us that needs us to go into this proverbial promised

803
00:50:28.440 --> 00:50:29.440
land.

804
00:50:29.440 --> 00:50:31.840
They need us to go in, y'all.

805
00:50:31.840 --> 00:50:35.760
We gotta go in.

806
00:50:35.760 --> 00:50:41.800
We cannot be the generation that drags them around another 40 years in the wilderness,

807
00:50:41.800 --> 00:50:44.560
okay?

808
00:50:44.560 --> 00:50:46.280
That's considered a generation, 40 years.

809
00:50:46.280 --> 00:50:47.280
We gotta go in.

810
00:50:47.280 --> 00:50:49.400
We are the generation that goes in, you guys.

811
00:50:49.400 --> 00:50:52.120
We are the revivalists of marriage and family.

812
00:50:52.120 --> 00:50:55.840
It's us.

813
00:50:55.840 --> 00:50:57.560
It's not those that are coming behind us.

814
00:50:57.560 --> 00:51:01.280
It's us.

815
00:51:01.280 --> 00:51:04.680
We gotta go in.

816
00:51:04.680 --> 00:51:05.680
Why?

817
00:51:05.680 --> 00:51:09.480
Because my daughter shook my bed in the night.

818
00:51:09.480 --> 00:51:10.480
She's a newlywed.

819
00:51:10.480 --> 00:51:12.160
She's only been married for two months.

820
00:51:12.160 --> 00:51:23.440
She shook my bed in the night and said, Mom, this generation needs us.

821
00:51:23.440 --> 00:51:26.200
They need us to wake up.

822
00:51:26.200 --> 00:51:27.600
They need us to get up.

823
00:51:27.600 --> 00:51:29.160
They need us to pray.

824
00:51:29.160 --> 00:51:35.800
They need us to model for them what it looks like.

825
00:51:35.800 --> 00:51:41.560
And we can't do that unless we go in.

826
00:51:41.560 --> 00:51:42.560
Who wants to go in?

827
00:51:42.560 --> 00:51:45.040
And this is what we'll activate tomorrow night.

828
00:51:45.040 --> 00:51:48.880
So if you come tomorrow night to activation, we'll activate going in.

829
00:51:48.880 --> 00:51:49.880
It's time to go in.

830
00:51:49.880 --> 00:51:53.440
It's time to step in.

831
00:51:53.440 --> 00:52:00.000
Remember last year, 5784, was the year of the door, but this is the year of manifestation.

832
00:52:00.000 --> 00:52:05.040
Guys, you're important.

833
00:52:05.040 --> 00:52:09.560
Maybe you didn't realize that, but you're important.

834
00:52:09.560 --> 00:52:15.520
And when you see your value, you will treat yourself as something of value.

835
00:52:15.520 --> 00:52:18.320
These are some of the mindsets that we have to leave back.

836
00:52:18.320 --> 00:52:21.160
These are some of those poverty mindsets.

837
00:52:21.160 --> 00:52:24.760
These are some of those orphan mindsets.

838
00:52:24.760 --> 00:52:26.900
You know?

839
00:52:26.900 --> 00:52:33.080
If you're a diamond, would you give yourself to someone who, like, you know, I have a friend,

840
00:52:33.080 --> 00:52:40.480
her name is Mandy, and her five-year-old flushed her diamond engagement ring down the toilet.

841
00:52:40.480 --> 00:52:43.040
Yeah, true story.

842
00:52:43.040 --> 00:52:44.040
That's what happened.

843
00:52:44.040 --> 00:52:45.800
And why is that?

844
00:52:45.800 --> 00:52:49.440
Because he thought it was shiny and pretty and beautiful and amazing, and he played with

845
00:52:49.440 --> 00:52:53.120
it for two seconds and then wanted to see if it could float.

846
00:52:53.120 --> 00:52:58.280
Because that's what happens when you're immature with valuable things.

847
00:52:58.280 --> 00:53:03.280
That's what happens when someone doesn't understand the value of something, right?

848
00:53:03.280 --> 00:53:07.960
They're not going to treat it as something valuable.

849
00:53:07.960 --> 00:53:13.240
And some of you have been allowing other people in situations to treat you like a diamond

850
00:53:13.240 --> 00:53:18.920
ring in a toilet.

851
00:53:18.920 --> 00:53:24.200
Don't put yourself in the hands of someone who doesn't understand your value.

852
00:53:24.200 --> 00:53:29.760
Revisit our sessions on boundaries.

853
00:53:29.760 --> 00:53:32.880
You guys, it's not just about you, your physical human person, okay?

854
00:53:32.880 --> 00:53:34.540
It's about your time.

855
00:53:34.540 --> 00:53:36.040
Your time is valuable.

856
00:53:36.040 --> 00:53:42.000
Your opinion is valuable.

857
00:53:42.000 --> 00:53:43.600
Some of you are trying to hold on to people.

858
00:53:43.600 --> 00:53:46.880
You don't understand that pleasing people is not the same as loving people.

859
00:53:46.880 --> 00:53:48.300
Please write that down.

860
00:53:48.300 --> 00:53:51.580
Pleasing people is not the same as loving people.

861
00:53:51.580 --> 00:53:54.860
You're not a lover of people, you're a pleaser of people and there's a big difference there.

862
00:53:54.860 --> 00:53:55.860
You know what?

863
00:53:55.860 --> 00:54:07.000
That's going to get you stuck in Egypt, stuck in those Egypt mindsets.

864
00:54:07.000 --> 00:54:08.580
You got to accept divine rejection.

865
00:54:08.580 --> 00:54:10.480
Not everyone's going to love you and that's okay.

866
00:54:10.480 --> 00:54:15.420
Not everyone's meant to love you and you don't want everyone to love you because if everyone

867
00:54:15.420 --> 00:54:17.380
loves you, that means you're not being yourself.

868
00:54:17.380 --> 00:54:18.380
You're being fake.

869
00:54:18.380 --> 00:54:23.140
You're in a counterfeit.

870
00:54:23.140 --> 00:54:26.820
We don't want to be pulled backwards anymore, y'all.

871
00:54:26.820 --> 00:54:28.940
We're not going to be pulled backwards anymore.

872
00:54:28.940 --> 00:54:29.940
We're going to go in.

873
00:54:29.940 --> 00:54:33.140
It's time to go in.

874
00:54:33.140 --> 00:54:40.140
So tomorrow night, we're going to activate these ideas individually and corporately of,

875
00:54:40.140 --> 00:54:41.140
hey, it's time to go in.

876
00:54:41.140 --> 00:54:43.620
It's time to be a representation for this generation.

877
00:54:44.220 --> 00:54:55.020
This generation is looking everywhere for someone to show them which way to go.

878
00:54:55.020 --> 00:54:56.260
We're all different generations here.

879
00:54:56.260 --> 00:54:59.060
I think most of us are Gen X.

880
00:54:59.060 --> 00:55:00.020
Let's just take a little...

881
00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:01.720
Everyone, put your hand down.

882
00:55:01.720 --> 00:55:04.240
Let's take one quick little poll.

883
00:55:04.240 --> 00:55:06.680
Push your hand down, down, down, down,

884
00:55:06.680 --> 00:55:08.940
all the way down, all the way down.

885
00:55:08.940 --> 00:55:10.440
Come on, get them down.

886
00:55:10.440 --> 00:55:11.680
Do you not know how to put them down?

887
00:55:11.680 --> 00:55:13.000
Because if not, I can do it.

888
00:55:13.000 --> 00:55:15.720
I can figure it out here on my phone.

889
00:55:23.240 --> 00:55:26.160
Okay, I got them all down.

890
00:55:26.640 --> 00:55:28.560
All right, raise your hand

891
00:55:28.560 --> 00:55:31.240
if you are from the baby boomer generation.

892
00:55:34.480 --> 00:55:37.380
Okay, we have some young baby boomers on here.

893
00:55:37.380 --> 00:55:39.800
They're part of the second wave of baby boomers.

894
00:55:39.800 --> 00:55:41.260
There's two waves.

895
00:55:42.080 --> 00:55:45.560
Those people was having a lot of babies back then, okay?

896
00:55:45.560 --> 00:55:47.200
And so we got those.

897
00:55:47.200 --> 00:55:50.400
And that used to be the biggest generation on earth, y'all.

898
00:55:50.400 --> 00:55:53.840
But the first wave of boomers, they're dying off,

899
00:55:53.840 --> 00:55:54.920
the first wave.

900
00:55:54.920 --> 00:55:56.640
The second wave, the younger boomers,

901
00:55:56.640 --> 00:56:01.280
the people that are in their early 60s to 70s,

902
00:56:01.280 --> 00:56:05.240
those people are, they're the patriarchs and matriarchs

903
00:56:05.240 --> 00:56:07.320
of the earth right now, okay?

904
00:56:07.320 --> 00:56:09.600
So that generation is no longer the biggest generation.

905
00:56:09.600 --> 00:56:11.000
The millennials are actually

906
00:56:11.000 --> 00:56:12.240
the biggest generation on earth.

907
00:56:12.240 --> 00:56:14.960
So, okay, so we see all of the people that we have

908
00:56:14.960 --> 00:56:17.920
that are part of the baby boomer generation.

909
00:56:24.920 --> 00:56:25.760
Hold on.

910
00:56:28.920 --> 00:56:31.080
Okay, now raise your hand if you're Gen X.

911
00:56:34.000 --> 00:56:36.400
Kind of the last generation, the sandwich generation,

912
00:56:36.400 --> 00:56:38.800
the generation that just kind of got forgotten about,

913
00:56:38.800 --> 00:56:41.060
the last key kid generation,

914
00:56:41.060 --> 00:56:42.820
the generation that was the most affected

915
00:56:42.820 --> 00:56:45.680
by women's empowerment and women leaving the homes

916
00:56:45.680 --> 00:56:48.160
and getting divorced and going to work.

917
00:56:48.160 --> 00:56:50.280
Here we are, Gen X.

918
00:56:51.340 --> 00:56:53.860
So the majority of us today on this call

919
00:56:53.860 --> 00:56:57.340
look like baby boomers and Gen X, okay?

920
00:56:57.340 --> 00:56:58.780
Now I'm gonna lower y'all's hands.

921
00:56:58.780 --> 00:57:00.860
Thank you, fellow Gen Xers.

922
00:57:00.860 --> 00:57:02.380
Now there's a little tiny generation

923
00:57:02.380 --> 00:57:05.700
in between the millennials and Gen X called the Xennials.

924
00:57:06.580 --> 00:57:08.920
Okay, it has more to do with technology

925
00:57:08.920 --> 00:57:12.580
and being a native of technology.

926
00:57:12.580 --> 00:57:17.580
If you fall in the Xennial category,

927
00:57:18.460 --> 00:57:19.300
raise your hand.

928
00:57:24.860 --> 00:57:29.860
Okay, just a few people in between Gen X and millennial.

929
00:57:30.660 --> 00:57:32.440
All right, lowering those hands.

930
00:57:33.660 --> 00:57:36.260
Now raise your hand if you're just a straight up millennial.

931
00:57:49.060 --> 00:57:50.840
Okay, got a few of those.

932
00:57:54.860 --> 00:57:57.460
Okay, no one raise your hand now.

933
00:57:57.460 --> 00:57:58.820
Don't raise your hand now

934
00:57:58.820 --> 00:58:01.020
because we're just lowering hands right now.

935
00:58:02.860 --> 00:58:03.700
Okay.

936
00:58:04.780 --> 00:58:07.620
All right, and then raise your hand if you're Gen Z.

937
00:58:08.820 --> 00:58:09.920
Do we have any Gen Z?

938
00:58:13.460 --> 00:58:15.100
Any Gen Z on the call today?

939
00:58:16.560 --> 00:58:21.560
All right, so Gen Z 28, 27, 27, 27 year olds.

940
00:58:24.860 --> 00:58:29.460
All right, one, Natalia.

941
00:58:29.460 --> 00:58:30.900
Look at our one Gen Z.

942
00:58:30.900 --> 00:58:32.700
Hey girl, we see you.

943
00:58:33.980 --> 00:58:35.860
Oh, Brooke, we have a couple.

944
00:58:35.860 --> 00:58:39.300
Anyone who's 27 and down, you're gonna be a Gen Z.

945
00:58:39.300 --> 00:58:41.900
Maybe you just turned 28, you just turned 28.

946
00:58:41.900 --> 00:58:46.900
If you were born in 1996 and down, you're Gen Z.

947
00:58:51.300 --> 00:58:52.620
Oh, she's 23, look at her.

948
00:58:52.620 --> 00:58:53.460
Come on, girl.

949
00:58:54.020 --> 00:58:55.820
All right, so you guys, this generation,

950
00:58:55.820 --> 00:58:58.780
Gen Z and of course the alphas are being born right now.

951
00:59:00.580 --> 00:59:04.340
They need us to show them the way.

952
00:59:04.340 --> 00:59:06.660
Even the millennials, a lot of the millennials,

953
00:59:06.660 --> 00:59:08.300
you guys know that the millennial generation

954
00:59:08.300 --> 00:59:10.780
is the biggest generation on earth now.

955
00:59:10.780 --> 00:59:13.180
It has outnumbered the baby boomers.

956
00:59:13.180 --> 00:59:15.300
It is the biggest generation on earth

957
00:59:15.300 --> 00:59:18.140
and it is the most single generation

958
00:59:18.140 --> 00:59:21.900
that we have ever seen in the history of mankind.

959
00:59:23.740 --> 00:59:26.340
Okay, you guys know a war is going on

960
00:59:26.340 --> 00:59:27.340
and people are getting married.

961
00:59:27.340 --> 00:59:29.500
People are not getting married.

962
00:59:29.500 --> 00:59:30.340
They're not.

963
00:59:30.340 --> 00:59:34.340
This married, this age group, this people group

964
00:59:34.340 --> 00:59:36.620
that is considered the baby making people group

965
00:59:36.620 --> 00:59:39.500
on earth right now because they're in that wheat spot

966
00:59:39.500 --> 00:59:42.260
of that age range, they are not getting married.

967
00:59:42.260 --> 00:59:46.220
And all the big financial firms in the world

968
00:59:46.220 --> 00:59:49.260
that bet on statistics because that's how

969
00:59:49.260 --> 00:59:51.700
they make their money, they have bet

970
00:59:51.740 --> 00:59:53.660
against the millennials in marriage.

971
00:59:53.660 --> 00:59:55.980
They have said the millennials are gonna stay married

972
00:59:55.980 --> 01:00:00.980
at the tune of, stay unmarried at the tune of 70%.

973
01:00:00.000 --> 01:00:12.400
That's a problem, that's a problem, because what do you think Gen Z after them is going

974
01:00:12.400 --> 01:00:13.400
to do?

975
01:00:13.400 --> 01:00:14.400
What do you think?

976
01:00:14.400 --> 01:00:19.040
What do you think is going to happen?

977
01:00:19.040 --> 01:00:23.960
So you guys, we have to go in, it's time for us to go in.

978
01:00:23.960 --> 01:00:29.000
We have to be the example, we have to be the example of God's love, of His victory, we

979
01:00:29.000 --> 01:00:35.040
have to be the example of family and marriage, we have to be the example of so many things,

980
01:00:35.040 --> 01:00:36.760
we have to be the victorious generation.

981
01:00:36.760 --> 01:00:42.520
And you guys, I'm talking to all the generations that are here, okay, I'm talking to us.

982
01:00:42.520 --> 01:00:47.160
We have to be the victorious generation, we have to be the generation that steps into

983
01:00:47.160 --> 01:00:49.000
the promises of God.

984
01:00:49.000 --> 01:00:52.680
And remember, our way, it may have been the long way, it may have been the hard way, but

985
01:00:52.680 --> 01:00:56.200
God is offering us His way right now, just like the man at the pool with Bethesda.

986
01:00:56.400 --> 01:00:59.840
Look, I know what your way was, and I know that you're sitting here waiting it out.

987
01:00:59.840 --> 01:01:02.640
And some of you, your way is really religious.

988
01:01:02.640 --> 01:01:04.560
You think it's God's way, but it's not.

989
01:01:04.560 --> 01:01:08.600
It's religion's way, and that's why you've been in the waiting room all of these years.

990
01:01:08.600 --> 01:01:09.800
It's time for us to go in.

991
01:01:09.800 --> 01:01:10.800
Is it going to be hard?

992
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Maybe.

993
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But God will be with us, we'll have grace.

994
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Is it going to be a little scary?

995
01:01:15.640 --> 01:01:20.760
Absolutely, it is, because nothing that doesn't make you a little afraid is even worth doing,

996
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all right?

997
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It means that you're doing something that, you know, on your own.

998
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God calls us into places that stretch us and that, you know, not the word fear, but

999
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the word afraid, the word that we're afraid, we're not really confident, we have to lean

1000
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on God's confidence, we have to lean on His power, right?

1001
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That's what we have to do in order to take the territories that God has called us to

1002
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in life.

1003
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And that is in every area, relationally, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, physically, all

1004
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the areas that we're to take, all those territories that are set aside for us, we will take those,

1005
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but we will take them through a place of understanding we have to lean on God's power, all right?

1006
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All right.

1007
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So love you guys.

1008
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I bless you.

1009
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We went a little long today.

1010
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I think it was important.

1011
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And I'm excited for you to activate this tomorrow night if you can be there.

1012
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And if you can't listen to the replay, we'll make sure it's recorded.

1013
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All right.

1014
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See you soon.

1015
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Bye, everyone.

1016
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