Welcome to Supernatural Saturday.
As always, if you're new here, you're in for a treat.
This is the time of the week that we all gather together to lean into what is heaven saying.
What is the current prophetic reality?
We have our reality.
Each and every one of you can look around.
You can touch the couch next to you, the table next to you, the steering wheel, perhaps if
you're in your car, and you can see that it's real.
This is your reality.
You're here right now in space and time, but there's a whole other reality happening all
around us.
Not up in the heavens somewhere, all around us.
By the way, you guys, just so you know, heaven is not a place, it's a dimension.
It's not like up in the air somewhere, it's a dimension.
It's another dimension for those of you that are sci-fi fans.
It's another dimension.
That's how it can be all around you.
That's how you can be in it and not in it, right?
Now but not yet kind of thing, we're going to have heaven on earth, it's exciting.
I like the thought of it.
I don't know about you guys, but I like the thought of being surrounded by something so
beautiful and so amazing as heaven, being surrounded by it.
Don't you like that idea?
Has anyone ever heard that worship song?
It was one of my mom's favorite songs when she was going through her last final years
on this earth, in this reality, in this dimension.
Her favorite song was that song, It May Look Like I'm Surrounded, but I'm Surrounded by
You.
I see a lot of you nodding your heads.
This cat is at my front door wanting to be fed, y'all.
He thinks I'm his mother.
I'm not his mother.
But we're surrounded right now.
Just sit in that for a second.
You're surrounded by heaven.
Now in the reality that you're in, in the dimension that you can see with your eyes
and taste and touch and hear perhaps in this moment, it may not look like you're going
to win.
You may feel actually quite alone in this moment of your life.
You might feel like you're in a wilderness, and we're going to talk about that in a second.
But I want you to close your eyes if you can, if you're somewhere where that's appropriate,
and just think about heaven surrounding you.
I'm going to keep your eyes closed, I'm going to describe some of what that might look like.
Think about all the heavenly hosts.
Think about angels all around you.
They're in another dimension, but they're right here.
They're right here.
Think about all the people that you love, family, friends, leaders, pastors, people
that have made an impact in your life, that have transitioned to that other dimension,
that they're all around you right now.
They're not gone.
You just can't see them.
And unfortunately, some of us can see them.
I don't have that gift, but if you do, bless you, because I'm sure that's a hard gift.
Some people are like, I'd love to see into the spirit realm.
Would you though?
Would you?
I mean, sure, I'll take it, but I'm sure it would be like, whoo.
But they're right here.
What are they doing?
They're supporting you.
They're interceding for you.
They're cheering you on.
They're partnering with the supernatural for you.
You're not alone.
You've never been alone.
I know people say we're born alone and we die alone, and that's just humanity talking.
It's not true.
God himself formed you, knit you together in your mother's womb.
You were never away from his presence.
He's always had his hands on you.
It's amazing, right?
That we serve an omnipotent and omniscient God
that can know us all at the same time.
Isn't that incredible?
I picked up this book that someone told me
to get after my mom passed away a few years ago
called Imagine Heaven,
and it's just full of near-death experiences, NDEs.
And I started paging through this book yesterday
or the day before, I can't remember,
and just started reading some of the accounts in there.
They were amazing.
They were amazing accounts of what happened
when people started to see this other dimension, right?
They were kind of hanging in the balance
between what we call heaven, that other dimension,
and earth, this earthly body, this earthly reality.
They were in between,
and they were able to see both at the same time.
And the things that they saw were amazing.
But not just what they saw, what they felt.
They felt so completely known, but not rejected.
They felt so completely loved.
Nothing else was there.
There was no guilt, there was no shame.
There was no rejection, complete acceptance.
What if we could feel that way
without leaving this dimension, you know?
And I know that all of you have experienced moments
where you felt God's pure presence and love,
and you just didn't wanna leave that moment with him,
and you felt like you were completely accepted.
Because the Bible says you are accepted in what?
In the beloved.
What is the beloved, what I just described?
The beloved is that collective of that reality of heaven
that I just described, that is the beloved.
You are fully accepted right now
as you are in the beloved.
What if we lived from that place?
You know, the people that are fully there now
in that dimension, my mom, maybe your mom, your dad,
your brother, sister, your friends,
your former wife or husband, those people that are there,
don't you know that as they're looking here,
man, they could make a difference if they were here,
couldn't they?
Knowing what they know now, it's kinda like us
when we've lived through a season and we look back,
they say hindsight is 20-20,
and you look back and you're like, whoa,
man, I could've done that better, couldn't I have?
I could've done that better,
man, I could've done that better, couldn't I have?
Shoot, I didn't see that.
I didn't see that when I was right in the thick of it,
but now that I'm looking back through this lens,
I could have done something differently
that I think would have been more impactful.
And I'm positive with the revelation
that the people that have gone on before us
into that other reality,
I'm positive with the knowledge that they have,
they could make a real dent here.
A real dent in a good way,
a real impact in a good way with what they know,
what they're now experiencing.
But the Bible tells us that we can have that experience now.
Now we can't have the full experience,
but we can have enough of the experience
to really make a difference.
We call it bringing heaven to earth,
but I don't really like that
because that makes it sound like heaven is up
and we're pulling it down
when really the truth is is that heaven is all around us.
But what are we bringing to our earth reality from heaven?
We're bringing mindsets.
We're bringing truth, absolute truth,
not relative truth, absolute truth.
We're bringing peace.
We're bringing joy.
We're bringing the things that the Bible tells us
have no end.
Hope.
Let's just sit in this moment for a second.
Some of you have really had a lot of grief
about someone who's crossed over into that other dimension.
And it's very,
it's very,
It's a very happy thought for you that they can see you and that they are involved in
it's very,
your journey that you're still on, on this side.
And so I just want you to sit with that for a minute, let God talk to you about that.
Let God comfort you with that.
I especially feel like there's some healing for mom.
I will tell you, last night in the middle of the night, my daughter, who does not live
in my house, she's married now, she lives all the way downtown, so about 40 minutes
away.
She shook my bed in the middle of the night and said, mom, like you would to wake someone
up.
And I woke up startled.
And then I got up and God began to talk to me and I began to pray.
Was it my daughter that shook my bed?
No.
It wasn't her physically, but in the spirit realm, she needed my attention.
My daughter needed my attention in the spirit realm.
This might be a little out there for a lot of you and you might not fully understand
and that's okay.
But my daughter's spirit shook my bed and woke me up in the night and told me, mom.
I followed leaders, people that do see into the supernatural and they are seers and they
have these gifts where they're able to really see this unseen realm that we're talking about.
And their spirits, because you guys, we are spirits that live in bodies that possess
souls and their spirits have wild adventures in the night hours where they're able to see
things and do things and understand things.
And, you know, that might go against your theology, but it's biblical.
If you read in the Bible, and I will tell you that there's been a lot of weird things
that I've heard over the course of my discipleship of the last 28 years of following Jesus that
really offended my humanity, that have really offended this flesh body that I live in, in
my carnal reasoning and human understanding.
And I will tell you that if you want to have a supernatural life, you have to be willing
to have your human reasoning offended because God is not human.
And your ways and your thoughts are much lower than his.
And quite frankly, God's just weird.
Have you ever read the Bible?
It's just a bunch of weird stuff.
And the people that were really willing to partner with God, they experienced some weird
stuff.
Seriously.
If any of us, if some being showed up and, you know, presented itself to us and had a
bunch of eyes and a bunch of wings and different things, most of us, we'd be out, be like,
I'm out.
Guys, I had a friend once that was just like, God, I'll do anything.
Just don't show me anything.
I don't want to see anything.
Give me the instructions, but don't show me anything, you know?
I don't know if she ever ended up seeing anything, but she was just, when she started hearing
stories of other people kind of seeing into that other dimension, she was like, I'm not
the one.
But you guys, we walk by faith and not by sight.
Now, some of us may end up seeing some things.
I've seen some things in dreams that were incredible and very, very, very real.
I've seen angels and visions.
I've had visions.
You know what visions are, right?
It's like, it's not really there, but it's there.
So I've definitely had visions of supernatural things, angels and all kinds of different
stuff.
But for some people, it's just there, okay?
They're not in a vision.
It's just there, right?
It's right there.
And but we walk by faith.
We walk by faith that this other dimension is real.
We walk by faith that God has this plan for us and these purposes for us, that God is
emotionally involved in our lives and all around us.
Right now, there's a collective of the beloved supporting us and loving us and helping us.
And so if you have felt isolated and you have felt alone today, it is a lie from hell.
Why would the devil want you to think that you were alone?
Why would he want to think that you were isolated?
Why would he want you to think that you were abandoned and forgotten?
Because people that are alone and isolated and they believe that they're abandoned and
they're forgotten, they do crazy stuff.
Right?
They make bad decisions, don't they?
And some people, they just don't make any decisions.
Because of what?
They don't feel supported.
They don't feel like they have any support.
So they don't do anything.
Some people make crazy, bad decisions.
Desperate decisions.
There's a desperation that comes on some people if they believe those types of lies.
And then other people, they're just super stagnant.
They just sit in this victimhood and they never make a move.
Because like that man of the pool, Bethesda, they don't have anyone to help them.
Remember that story?
That man laid there for years and years and years and years and years and years and years.
And because he wasn't able to get into the water first, because it was only the first person,
when the angel came and stirred the water, in that season of time when that happened,
only the first person in the water was going to get healed.
Which you guys, that's so...
That's not...
That's sad.
I hate that.
I'm the kind of person that I just want everyone, I want everyone.
And you know who else is like that?
God.
So this is a typology.
I want you to see that it's a typology.
What does that mean?
That means that the story is a representation of a mindset.
I'm not saying it's not a real story.
It is a real story.
But it's to show us a human mindset.
Of, we have our eyes on what we think is the solution.
And if we can't have that, then we're going to stay stuck in our problem.
Not understanding that Jesus is here.
Right?
That story was to show what was going on under the curse, under the old covenant.
Under the old covenant.
But now under the new covenant that Jesus was bringing, he was talking to man.
He's like, hey, you know, what's up?
This guy's like telling his sob story.
The water, the angel can't get in.
No support.
Abandoned forever alone.
And Jesus was like, well, I'm right here.
I'm right here.
What was Jesus doing?
He was showing what was going to be available in the new covenant.
For everyone, not just the lucky few that get in the stirred water.
Right?
For everyone.
And so some people, if they believe the lies of isolation and abandonment
of being forgotten and forsaken,
they will just sit like that man at the pool of Bethesda in their
victimhood, in their story.
That's not God's story for you.
That's the story that the curse wrote, that people's bad decisions wrote,
that sin wrote in your life.
But that is not the story that God wrote for your life.
I want to try to get back around to the mom idea, because I really feel like
that's a word for all of us men and women alike.
I believe that there's a generation that's shaking our bed in the night
and crying out for leadership.
You might not be their biological mothers or fathers, but the bottom
line is, is that they need us.
But before we can get there, and we are going to get there, let's talk
about what I was saying about victim perspective.
Of course, you guys that are not new to Supernatural Saturday, you know
that none of this is planned.
It's just kind of a long monologue with Holy Spirits, and usually it's
pretty profound for all of us, including me, because I don't even
know what's going to happen until I hear myself saying what I'm saying.
But I did have something written down, because on a walk the other day,
God said to me, He said,
And not when he's saying your, he doesn't just mean me,
he means us, humanity.
He said, your way, believe it or not, is the hard way.
He said, your way is the long way.
When we do things our way, it's the hard way,
it's the long way.
And then immediately he began to bring me ideas
about a sermon that, you know, I've preached in churches
very few and far between you guys,
probably like 35 times in my entire life, okay?
I don't usually get invited to churches
because of crazy things that I say on the internet
or, you know, just I go and I say something
that Holy Spirit's saying and then the leaders are like,
oh, we didn't know she was gonna say that.
And then I don't get invited back and I'm okay with that.
As long as whatever I said was beneficial
for whoever was listening.
But I'm not called to that specific ministry,
but every once in a while, I get to do it.
So I spoke on the exodus, okay?
The pilgrimage out of Egypt, the exodus.
I spoke on that years ago and so when God spoke to me
on my walk, your way is the hard way,
your way is the long way, he began to bring up thoughts
from that talk that I had years ago, over a decade ago.
And one thing that's really frustrating for all of us
is that God has let us all out
of some kind of proverbial Egypt, hasn't he?
Raise your hand if God has taken you
out of some kind of Egypt.
Egypt in your life would be a place where, you know,
you were in an orphan or enslaved mentality
where you were stuck, where you were busted and disgusted.
You were broke, you were hurting,
you were being abused or mistreated,
whatever your Egypt was.
And you can go ahead and put it in the chat,
whatever your Egypt was, but he led you out of there.
He found you there and he led you out.
Alcoholism, addiction of some sort, pornography,
anything that had you in bondage,
anything that had you enslaved,
maybe an abusive relationship or marriage,
perhaps just the mindsets and the perspectives
of your origin family and the places that you came from.
Maybe it was just not knowing him.
You're a first generation Christian.
God led you out of the bondage of sin.
All of us have been led out of the bondage of sin,
regardless of whether you were born in the, you know,
in a Christian family or not.
We've all been led out of that Egypt.
We've all been led out.
Come on, let's go ahead and share.
Take a moment to share and celebrate what you've come from,
what you've come out of, what God's delivered you from.
It's important to revisit in your mind those victories.
So God leads us out, but he doesn't really fully tell us
where he's taking us, does he?
You might have a little bit of an idea.
You might have a word from the Lord about something.
The Israelites were told that they were gonna go
into their own land, which that's big.
That's big for them, right?
Because those generations that were alive in Egypt,
when this happened, they had never known their own land.
They had only known slavery.
I don't know if you could have found someone
in that migration, in that pilgrimage
that remembered the years before
they were enslaved in Egypt.
Because my Bible tells me that these folks
had been in Egypt for 430 years.
Now, people did live a lot longer back then,
but they didn't live to be 430.
So those people only knew this life.
That's all they knew.
And so they were told that they were gonna have
a land of their own.
Wow.
Raise your hand if God has ever said something to you
and you couldn't even really picture it
because you've never experienced that before.
See, if you told these people you're gonna have a land
of your own, I'm gonna take you into a place
where you can be free and you're not enslaved
and no one's telling you what to do
and you're not working, breaking your back
and not ever receiving the profits or the product from that,
they didn't know that.
They didn't know what that was.
And that's like telling a child in a developing country
you know, an undeveloped country about America.
They can't even picture the things that you're describing
because they have never seen them.
Just making sense to you guys?
Kind of just have to take God at his word
because you've never experienced that.
For some of you, it's, you know,
God promising you that he's gonna give you
a healthy relationship.
Someone who's gonna love and support you.
You're like, wow, what does that look like?
I don't even know what that looks like.
Someone who's gonna be faithful, kind, generous.
Someone who's gonna follow him.
That's where these folks are.
That's where a lot of you are with the things
that God has spoken over your lives.
So God leads us out and he might tell us
some of the ideas that he has for us,
some of the plans he has for us,
but he doesn't fully tell us the whole story, right?
We don't know how we're gonna get there.
We don't have a map.
And there are things that happened on this journey out
for the Egyptians, for the Israelites out of Egypt.
There were some miracles that happened right off the bat.
The parting of the Red Sea.
You know, you would think that that right there
would kind of seal the deal.
If the plagues didn't seal the deal,
because, you know, they saw the plagues.
They didn't experience them, but they did see them, right?
They saw what was happening to Egypt.
If that didn't seal the deal for them,
as far as, hey, this God, he loves us.
You know, he's come.
You know, we've prayed for years for deliverance
and here we're being delivered.
Our deliverer has come.
The parting of the Red Sea.
I think that would probably be, that would be it, right?
We think that would be it for us.
If we saw that, we're like, hey, we're all in.
We're all in God.
I see you.
You're powerful.
You're real.
But a lot of us have had real powerful experiences
with the Lord and we still go back into a place of doubt.
We still go back into a place of spiritual apathy.
We still go back into a place of, unfortunately,
victim, orphan-minded, complaining
and all different types of stuff.
And I'm talking about myself.
I may not be talking about you,
but I'm definitely talking about me.
I've seen a lot of powerful things that God has done
for others in front of me, for me in front of me.
And it's been amazing.
It's wonderful.
It's incredible when I'm thinking about those things.
Think about some of those things that God has done for you.
Put them, put them in the chat.
What are your Red Sea moments?
What have you seen God do?
Think about that for a second.
Guys, God saved me driving my car.
I did not know him.
I was in a bad place, really bad place in my life.
And I had just left a house where I had been very triggered
and I was in the car and I was like, ugh,
and I was just feeling really desperate and scared.
And I just cried out to God.
I said, you know, who are you?
Are you real?
What do you want from me?
And I had a supernatural experience.
I had like an out of body experience, y'all.
I only can describe it humanly as I pass out
driving my car.
I can't really describe it to you.
I don't even really know how to tell you what happened,
but I will tell you that it was a catalyst
for me being completely converted.
It was my road to Damascus.
For those of you that don't understand that reference,
Saul became Paul on the road to Damascus.
He was completely transformed
as Jesus appeared to him there.
Now, just like Saul to Paul,
I had a little bit of a transition.
That crazy thing happened in my car
and then I was paralyzed on the left side of my body,
kind of like Paul,
who didn't have his eyesight for a minute, okay?
And people came around me just like Paul had people come
around me, God sent Cornelius to tell Paul what was up
and open his eyes.
And then God sent people to me, Christians to me
that began to teach me and show me and heal me and grow me.
And then I was miraculously healed
of whatever this paralytic situation was
when they laid hands on me.
Y'all, this is a true story.
That's one of my Egypt stories.
I have many.
Think about it.
What's your road to Damascus?
What was the moment when you decided
that you had to follow Jesus?
That yeah, life is hard,
but you realized your way was the hard way
and your way was the long way,
and you're like, I'm gonna follow Jesus.
What's that?
What's that road to Damascus moment for you?
Put that up in the chat.
Look at each other's answers, y'all.
We all come from a lot of similar places.
Look at some of that.
Some of it started with a book that found you.
You didn't find that book.
That book found you.
I've had books find me all the time.
Books stalking me, seeing it everywhere,
and then finally picking it up
and realizing that the very answers that I needed
were right there waiting for me.
Healings, healings that have happened in your body.
Guys, we're in places where you were sick
and you were hurting and you cried out to God,
just like me, and God met you there.
Some of you were delivered from relationships
that were crushing you.
God found all of us in different places,
but he came looking for all of us.
That's what I love about that movie, The Chosen.
It really depicts how Jesus went
and found each and every one of those disciples, didn't he?
Can see him kind of just intentionally,
but it looks like nonchalantly,
but intentionally kind of being over by
where that person was and looking at them
when they're not looking at him.
You can tell who's gonna be who
because his eyes are on them
and his eyes were on each and every one of you.
You've been chosen.
Did you know the Bible says that you've been chosen?
You're a chosen generation.
You're a royal priesthood.
God chose you.
I love how he puts in that we're a royal priesthood
because you had to be part of a certain lineage
to be a priest.
You have to remember, you can't just read the Bible,
you have to read the Bible.
All of those words mean something.
They're all pointing back to types
and shadows of the old covenant.
We've been chosen, you guys.
We've been grafted into a bloodline
We are.
We're part of a bloodline now.
We're chosen.
We've been set apart.
We've been sanctified and justified.
Predestined are good things.
The only kind of predestination you have, my friend,
is to be predestined to do good works
and to be a part of a good life.
And to receive good things.
Going slow today, people.
This is a lot to take in
and it might just seem like a few words
and some of the words may be things
that you feel like you've heard before,
but maybe you haven't fully received these ideas.
Jesus said, you will know my truth
and it will make you free.
You will know the truth.
His truth, because he is truth.
And you will be free.
So let's talk about the perspective of being in bondage.
430 years in Egypt.
And I feel like the longer that you were in bondage,
sometimes the harder it is
to get rid of all that stinking thinking.
But we see very clearly in the story
of the Israelites on their exodus,
to the promised land,
we see very clearly the idea of how your way
is the hard way and your way is the long way.
Geographically, that trip,
if they went through Philistine country,
would have only taken six months.
You guys, God couldn't take them
through Philistine, Philistine country.
Remember I'm bad at phonics.
He couldn't take them through there.
He couldn't take them through the country
that was inhabited by the Philistine.
Why?
Because he knew that they would turn around and go back.
They weren't ready for that, they couldn't go through there right now.
So this journey was going to take, instead of six months geographically, it was going
to take two years, which is still going to be a short amount of time, but what should
have been two years ended up as 42 years, but you guys, you realize that that 40 years
started at the 13th stop.
All along the way they stopped, and you read in the Bible that there was this beautiful
cloud that covered them, right?
There was a pillar of fire by night, and there was a cloud by day.
They were being covered, you guys, they were being, what is that?
That was the guidance of the Lord, that was the glory of the Lord.
There were so many comforting things that were happening.
And this goes to show you, and I really want you to see this, is that you can be in a place,
in a mindset where God can try to comfort you and you're just not receiving comfort.
You feel uncomforted, but the comforter is there.
The comforter is there.
Holy Spirit is there, the comforter is there, wanting to let you know that everything's
going to be all right, wanting to wrap you up in love, wanting to quiet your mind, quiet
your mind, quiet all the what ifs, quiet all the fear with love.
Like what?
Like a mother does, right?
Your mother, a good mother, will wrap you up in her arms, and she'll rock you, and she'll
sing softly over you, or pray softly over you, stroke your head, your cheek, kiss you.
A lot of you don't know what that feels like, you didn't ever have a mother that ever did
that to you.
And my mother didn't do that to me either, but you know what, I did that to my child,
and so I know what it feels like, because I'm the mother in the story.
And maybe you're the mother in the story, maybe you're the father in the story.
You don't know what it's like to have that done to you, but you know what it's like to
do that to someone else.
But the Bible says that even if my mother and father forsake me, the Lord himself will
take me up.
That has been the banner verse over my life, and I release that verse over your life.
God wants to comfort you.
He wants to protect you, he wants to lead you, he wants to guide you, he has a way that
does not make sense, but it is the better way.
It is the better way.
Your way is the hard way, and your way is the long way, I promise you.
Let's look at it, let's look at the people, the Israelites.
So they leave Egypt, and they do this weird thing, they ask all of their Egyptian neighbors
to give them all the silver and gold and fine raiment to take with them.
They were told, they were instructed to do that, why?
Because that was compensation for being slaves.
They worked for these people for generations, without payment, without honor.
And so the Egyptians, they gave it to them, they're like, whew, because they saw the power
of God, right?
And so they gave them these things, this silver, this gold, this fine raiment.
You can see right there in that instruction to receive that from the Egyptians, that there
was, they weren't supposed to stay in the wilderness, they weren't going to stay in
the wilderness.
They were going to set up their own cities in a land that belonged to them.
But what did they do with that stuff, y'all?
Think about it for a second, jog your memory.
When things became confusing on this journey, when they felt like God had abandoned them
or forsaken them, what happened?
They leaned into those orphan mindsets, and the bottom line is, is when you're a slave,
when you have an orphan slave mentality, you're going to take your blessings, maybe
the restoration that God's offering you, maybe the restitution that God wants to give you
and make it an idol.
And that's what happened.
here. That's what happens when you have an orphan mentality. So let's just do a
little overview of what happened. 430 years in Egypt ends up being 42 years in
the wilderness, but the 40 year didn't start until the spies were sent into the
land and they came back with a negative report.
It was the 13th stop. The camp stopped and they say there's about 3 million
including women and children. You guys, I've looked at the logistics of that,
what that would look like, how much diameter that would take up, how many
square miles just that horde of people would take up, and it's pretty, it seems
it seems impossible. Okay, when you read it, when you see it, when you look at it,
you kind of look at the actual
dynamics of what that must have been like. It doesn't seem, I mean just this
year, excuse me for bringing up natural things, but just this year, poop of that
mass of people. Everyone has, everyone poops y'all. Okay, it just seems
impossible that that that horde of people, even just with their bathroom
necessities, that it would be possible for them to to travel together like this
in the type of caravan that was happening. So I believe the story, I
believe it's a real story. A lot of people are like, oh it's just a allegory.
No, I think it's a real story. I think it's a real story. I do. But they stopped
you guys, and it was at the 13th stop, just the 13th stop, that it was time to
go in. It was at the 13th stop, was let's go in, and because those mindsets were not
purged, those orphan mindsets, those slave mindsets were not purged, because they
were not purged, they didn't go in. They didn't get to go in at that 13th stop. So
guess what happened? They ended up, they ended up having 42 more, more moves, 42
more stops over the next 40 years. But I want you to take a really good look at
what happens in that. You guys, one time when David and I first got married, we
moved seven times in seven years. I'm sorry, seven times in eight years. We
moved seven times in eight years, and that's what happens when you rent, right?
There's all kinds of different reasons where you have to move the very next
year. You got to move, right? The landlord doesn't want to rent the place, or it's
not big enough anymore, or you just rented it because there's nowhere else
to rent, and now you got to go. You have a growing family, a kid, you know, we have a
blended family, a kid changes school systems, and now we got to move because
now we're too far away. Whatever. Seven times in eight years, we moved. Our family
did. And remember, we're talking about this huge group of people that are going
to be moving, essentially. They have all this stuff with them because, you guys,
sometimes they would camp for a while, okay, during this 40-year purging. Let's
call it a purging because that's what it was. What was being purged out? That
victim mindset, that orphan mentality. That's what's being purged during this
journey now. Because remember, our way is the hard way, and it's the long way. They
decide not to do things God's way.
They didn't do things God's way. God's way was for them to go in at the 13th
stop.
So it's a pruning, isn't it? And so I will tell you that in those seven moves in
eight years, there were things that I put on that moving truck during that first
move of the seven that were so important to me and I didn't think that I could
live without. And by that eighth move, y'all, that stuff was going to go to
Goodwill. Come on, somebody.
Things that seem so important on the journey, by the time you get to that
eighth move, they're no longer important, are they?
Oh, I gotta have this. Gotta have it. Gotta have Aunt Marie's jello mold that she
left me. So important. Gotta have it.
But by that eighth move, it's like, you know, Marie who? What happens? You realize
that there are so many things from the past that are just weighing you down,
that are keeping you back, that are tethering you, the things that you don't
need.
And that's what happened here with these folks, 42 moves.
The whole camp moved.
They set up camp.
They set up tents.
They do all the things.
And then one day, and the way the Bible says is that they didn't never, they never knew
when they were going to move.
It's when that, when that cloud started moving, that's when you move.
If that cloud, if that cloud resides, you reside.
If that cloud starts moving, you move.
So you see that cloud start moving up, it's time to pack up.
You might've been there for six months.
You might've been there for six weeks.
You might've been there for six years.
And I promise you that there became things that were not that important anymore, right?
They were not that important.
I want you to think about that because I think that we're at the stop where God's like,
hey, let's go in.
That's where I'm, all this is coming around to that, you guys.
I do.
So what are you going to leave behind?
That wilderness experience and all of us have them, you guys, all of us go into them because
there are time of purification.
From what?
From mindsets.
Guys, that entire time in the wilderness was a purification from a slave mindset.
That's all that it was.
God could have taken them the straight way, A to B, straight through Philistine, Philistine,
Philistine country.
I see all my little dyslexia coming out.
He could have taken them straight in, but he couldn't, not because of him, because of
them.
So the wilderness for all of us is a time of just purification from those Egypt mindsets
that inherited trauma, all those ways that we still see ourselves as beneath and not
above for them.
They couldn't go, they still saw themselves as slaves.
That journey was supposed to take a couple of years, not a couple of decades.
There's a scripture in the Bible that says God's increase comes without sorrow.
You know, I don't want you to get into a religious mindset that God's never going to give you
anything good until you're ready.
No, God gives us things that are good to get us ready.
He gave them all of those things to get them ready.
They received all of those things and we live in a new covenant, so it's even more because
Jesus actually paid the price for all the things that we receive.
It's not about our behavior or our performance.
Now it's about faith, but I want you to see that, you know, a lot of times during that
process, you know, they begged for Egypt.
Why?
Because misery loves comfort.
Comfort zones, they could be miserable places.
It can be really comfortable places to an orphan mindset, right?
And so let's really allow Holy Spirit to show us what we need to leave so we can go in.
It's time to go in.
It's time to understand that we are valuable.
It's time to understand that God wants to do good things in our lives.
It's time to understand that we have an entire beloved around us, helping us press forward,
cheering us on, interceding for us, helping us, supporting us to move on, to move in,
to leave behind whatever it is that we don't need anymore.
And some of you, you know, have been on this single journey.
Let's just liken it to that since that's why we all know each other in the first place.
A lot of you, there were things when you started your single journey that were so important.
You just had to have them, right?
But now that you've been in your single journey for a few years, some of you even a few decades,
there are things that you no longer need in that other person.
And I'm not talking about settling.
People are so afraid of settling.
What if it's not about settling?
What if it's about surrendering?
Right?
What if it's about understanding and realizing that a lot of the things that you thought
that you needed were just ways that, you know, you learned to protect yourself in Egypt?
Those were just protections for the orphan you.
But now the son and daughter of you realizes that you're God-defended.
You're God-defended.
And you guys, let's circle back around to the beginning, okay, as we're closing up.
Let's circle back around to the beginning because this is not just about us.
There's a generation coming behind us that needs us to go into this proverbial promised
land.
They need us to go in, y'all.
We gotta go in.
We cannot be the generation that drags them around another 40 years in the wilderness,
okay?
That's considered a generation, 40 years.
We gotta go in.
We are the generation that goes in, you guys.
We are the revivalists of marriage and family.
It's us.
It's not those that are coming behind us.
It's us.
We gotta go in.
Why?
Because my daughter shook my bed in the night.
She's a newlywed.
She's only been married for two months.
She shook my bed in the night and said, Mom, this generation needs us.
They need us to wake up.
They need us to get up.
They need us to pray.
They need us to model for them what it looks like.
And we can't do that unless we go in.
Who wants to go in?
And this is what we'll activate tomorrow night.
So if you come tomorrow night to activation, we'll activate going in.
It's time to go in.
It's time to step in.
Remember last year, 5784, was the year of the door, but this is the year of manifestation.
Guys, you're important.
Maybe you didn't realize that, but you're important.
And when you see your value, you will treat yourself as something of value.
These are some of the mindsets that we have to leave back.
These are some of those poverty mindsets.
These are some of those orphan mindsets.
You know?
If you're a diamond, would you give yourself to someone who, like, you know, I have a friend,
her name is Mandy, and her five-year-old flushed her diamond engagement ring down the toilet.
Yeah, true story.
That's what happened.
And why is that?
Because he thought it was shiny and pretty and beautiful and amazing, and he played with
it for two seconds and then wanted to see if it could float.
Because that's what happens when you're immature with valuable things.
That's what happens when someone doesn't understand the value of something, right?
They're not going to treat it as something valuable.
And some of you have been allowing other people in situations to treat you like a diamond
ring in a toilet.
Don't put yourself in the hands of someone who doesn't understand your value.
Revisit our sessions on boundaries.
You guys, it's not just about you, your physical human person, okay?
It's about your time.
Your time is valuable.
Your opinion is valuable.
Some of you are trying to hold on to people.
You don't understand that pleasing people is not the same as loving people.
Please write that down.
Pleasing people is not the same as loving people.
You're not a lover of people, you're a pleaser of people and there's a big difference there.
You know what?
That's going to get you stuck in Egypt, stuck in those Egypt mindsets.
You got to accept divine rejection.
Not everyone's going to love you and that's okay.
Not everyone's meant to love you and you don't want everyone to love you because if everyone
loves you, that means you're not being yourself.
You're being fake.
You're in a counterfeit.
We don't want to be pulled backwards anymore, y'all.
We're not going to be pulled backwards anymore.
We're going to go in.
It's time to go in.
So tomorrow night, we're going to activate these ideas individually and corporately of,
hey, it's time to go in.
It's time to be a representation for this generation.
This generation is looking everywhere for someone to show them which way to go.
We're all different generations here.
I think most of us are Gen X.
Let's just take a little...
Everyone, put your hand down.
Let's take one quick little poll.
Push your hand down, down, down, down,
all the way down, all the way down.
Come on, get them down.
Do you not know how to put them down?
Because if not, I can do it.
I can figure it out here on my phone.
Okay, I got them all down.
All right, raise your hand
if you are from the baby boomer generation.
Okay, we have some young baby boomers on here.
They're part of the second wave of baby boomers.
There's two waves.
Those people was having a lot of babies back then, okay?
And so we got those.
And that used to be the biggest generation on earth, y'all.
But the first wave of boomers, they're dying off,
the first wave.
The second wave, the younger boomers,
the people that are in their early 60s to 70s,
those people are, they're the patriarchs and matriarchs
of the earth right now, okay?
So that generation is no longer the biggest generation.
The millennials are actually
the biggest generation on earth.
So, okay, so we see all of the people that we have
that are part of the baby boomer generation.
Hold on.
Okay, now raise your hand if you're Gen X.
Kind of the last generation, the sandwich generation,
the generation that just kind of got forgotten about,
the last key kid generation,
the generation that was the most affected
by women's empowerment and women leaving the homes
and getting divorced and going to work.
Here we are, Gen X.
So the majority of us today on this call
look like baby boomers and Gen X, okay?
Now I'm gonna lower y'all's hands.
Thank you, fellow Gen Xers.
Now there's a little tiny generation
in between the millennials and Gen X called the Xennials.
Okay, it has more to do with technology
and being a native of technology.
If you fall in the Xennial category,
raise your hand.
Okay, just a few people in between Gen X and millennial.
All right, lowering those hands.
Now raise your hand if you're just a straight up millennial.
Okay, got a few of those.
Okay, no one raise your hand now.
Don't raise your hand now
because we're just lowering hands right now.
Okay.
All right, and then raise your hand if you're Gen Z.
Do we have any Gen Z?
Any Gen Z on the call today?
All right, so Gen Z 28, 27, 27, 27 year olds.
All right, one, Natalia.
Look at our one Gen Z.
Hey girl, we see you.
Oh, Brooke, we have a couple.
Anyone who's 27 and down, you're gonna be a Gen Z.
Maybe you just turned 28, you just turned 28.
If you were born in 1996 and down, you're Gen Z.
Oh, she's 23, look at her.
Come on, girl.
All right, so you guys, this generation,
Gen Z and of course the alphas are being born right now.
They need us to show them the way.
Even the millennials, a lot of the millennials,
you guys know that the millennial generation
is the biggest generation on earth now.
It has outnumbered the baby boomers.
It is the biggest generation on earth
and it is the most single generation
that we have ever seen in the history of mankind.
Okay, you guys know a war is going on
and people are getting married.
People are not getting married.
They're not.
This married, this age group, this people group
that is considered the baby making people group
on earth right now because they're in that wheat spot
of that age range, they are not getting married.
And all the big financial firms in the world
that bet on statistics because that's how
they make their money, they have bet
against the millennials in marriage.
They have said the millennials are gonna stay married
at the tune of, stay unmarried at the tune of 70%.
That's a problem, that's a problem, because what do you think Gen Z after them is going
to do?
What do you think?
What do you think is going to happen?
So you guys, we have to go in, it's time for us to go in.
We have to be the example, we have to be the example of God's love, of His victory, we
have to be the example of family and marriage, we have to be the example of so many things,
we have to be the victorious generation.
And you guys, I'm talking to all the generations that are here, okay, I'm talking to us.
We have to be the victorious generation, we have to be the generation that steps into
the promises of God.
And remember, our way, it may have been the long way, it may have been the hard way, but
God is offering us His way right now, just like the man at the pool with Bethesda.
Look, I know what your way was, and I know that you're sitting here waiting it out.
And some of you, your way is really religious.
You think it's God's way, but it's not.
It's religion's way, and that's why you've been in the waiting room all of these years.
It's time for us to go in.
Is it going to be hard?
Maybe.
But God will be with us, we'll have grace.
Is it going to be a little scary?
Absolutely, it is, because nothing that doesn't make you a little afraid is even worth doing,
all right?
It means that you're doing something that, you know, on your own.
God calls us into places that stretch us and that, you know, not the word fear, but
the word afraid, the word that we're afraid, we're not really confident, we have to lean
on God's confidence, we have to lean on His power, right?
That's what we have to do in order to take the territories that God has called us to
in life.
And that is in every area, relationally, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, physically, all
the areas that we're to take, all those territories that are set aside for us, we will take those,
but we will take them through a place of understanding we have to lean on God's power, all right?
All right.
So love you guys.
I bless you.
We went a little long today.
I think it was important.
And I'm excited for you to activate this tomorrow night if you can be there.
And if you can't listen to the replay, we'll make sure it's recorded.
All right.
See you soon.
Bye, everyone.