Welcome to Supernatural Saturday.
This is my favorite time of the week where we all get to lean into heaven together.
I love to lean into heaven.
I love to hear the revelation voice of God.
I do.
I love to hear what he's saying, but it has been brought to my attention just recently
from one of you, someone that had a one-on-one scheduled with me a long time ago when I used
to do one-on-ones, and it kept getting postponed because of their work schedule.
And then finally, we got to connect, and they started to ask me about their life with God,
their spiritual life, and how they really felt like they really wanted just even an
ounce of my spiritual life with God.
They wanted to hear the Lord the way that I hear the Lord, and I just want to say at
the beginning of this Supernatural Saturday that God's voice is available to all of us.
He's always speaking to us, and this has been a journey.
My life has been a journey with God.
I have been following Jesus for 28 years, and so I didn't get to the place that I am
as far as communicating with God overnight.
This has been decades, almost three decades long of trusting God when I can't trace him.
So I don't want you to get it twisted.
I don't want you to get the wrong idea because we show up in so much power on Saturdays.
God is speaking, and supernatural things are happening.
But I, just like you, have had seasons of time in my life where I had to trust God when
I couldn't trace him.
I had to go off the last thing that I heard the Lord say to me or the last thing that
I felt God had directed me to do, even though there was no new information.
Now, did I feel God's presence?
Yes, when I wanted to, and what do I mean by that?
It's easy to not feel God's presence, and it's like, oh, well, you went out of his presence.
No, I don't believe that.
The Bible says that we live inside of God.
We live inside of him.
There's no way to get out of him.
You are inside of him.
We are all inside of him.
He is omniscient.
He is omnipresent.
He is omnipotent, okay, which means he takes up all space and all time, right?
And so there's no way to get out of him.
You're always in him.
The psalmist said that even if you took the wings of the morning and flew to the uppermost
heavens or if you descended to the parts of the deepest, darkest pits of Sheol, that you
would still be in his presence.
Doesn't it say that?
So when I say we can always feel his presence if we want to, I mean, when we're not focused
on our pain and our problems, when we are not giving all of our time and attention to
the negative, then we will feel the love that is surrounding us.
We will feel it if we tune into it.
We have antennas, we can tune into it.
We have receptors, we can tune into it.
Now because of this student coming in and just genuinely, authentically wanting to know
God more and wanting to hear him more, we are going to revisit between now and the end
of the year, the receptors and how do we hear from God?
What does it practically look like to live a prophetic life, to live a life where you
understand the movements of heaven, where you understand what God is saying to you?
So we're going to revisit that teaching with an amazing teacher, a renowned teacher, has
a prophetic ministry, international, well-known person.
And then we are going to do prophesy your year.
For those of you that have never done that, you're in for a treat.
I love prophesy your year.
I participate.
I write the stuff down that God's saying to me.
We're going to basically lean into heaven for all the months of 2025 and see what it
is that God is saying to us about the upcoming year.
And it's super fun.
But we're going to do that receptor stuff before we do prophesy your year so that when
we do prophesy your year, you are ready to hear from the Lord through your brothers and
sisters, through this community, and also through your own receptors.
Okay.
And so that's going to be a fun time.
And that's going to be on January 5th.
So go ahead and mark your calendars.
We'll be sending out emails about that so you can get registered.
But it's time for us to lean into heaven, y'all.
It's time for us to lean into heaven and not just on Supernatural Saturdays.
I love Supernatural Saturdays.
It's a powerful time together.
But we want to lean into heaven every day, not leaning away, not leaning into our carnal
reasoning into our flesh.
We want to be team spirit every day because God is always speaking.
He's always directing.
He always wants to lead us and guide us.
He loves us.
And that's really important for us to understand.
All right.
So let's look to the Lord.
Father God, we're so thankful.
that we've come here today together,
that we're having a divine appointment with you today,
that you have information for us today,
downloads, revelation, wisdom,
that we can't get anywhere else
except in this moment right now, Lord.
And so we're thankful for that.
And we ask that it would impact us.
And ask that our spirit would be open to receive
what it is that you have for us this morning,
corporately, as a community,
and also individually for our own lives.
In Jesus' name, amen.
All right, this one might not be as exciting
as the others, Supernatural Saturday,
but I think it's probably the most important one
we've done this year.
And that's saying a lot,
because we've done some important ones, haven't we?
We've done some important ones.
And so if I was gonna give today's
Supernatural Saturday a title,
it would be Living for the Future Generations.
Living for the future, not just for ourselves.
And the very first thing that God wants us to understand
is that this is not about you.
Go ahead and write that down
if you're writing stuff down today.
This isn't about you.
Or I should say, it's not only about you.
It's partially about you, but it's not only about you.
It's not only about you.
I'm not muted, whoever said that.
I'm live, so something's wrong with your thing.
Check it out.
It's not only about you.
And it's so easy, and I've talked about this
on past Supernatural Saturdays, on past teaching.
When we're getting depressed, when we're feeling depressed,
it is because we've made it all about ourselves.
That's what happens every time for me.
If I start getting down the moly grubs, right?
Nobody likes me, everybody hates me.
I think I'll eat some worms.
You guys remember that little saying?
I might be really old.
It's because I'm focusing too much on myself.
And I've told you story after story
about how God got my focus off me.
He got it onto someone else.
And then my spirits were lifted.
I was sad because I didn't have any friends,
and then I became a friend, and my spirits were lifted.
Right?
I was sad because I didn't have the thing that I needed,
but then I gave to someone else what they needed
because I had that, and my spirits were lifted.
What does that mean?
It means that we're all connected, y'all.
We're all connected.
We are one body.
And when you do to others,
that's why the Bible says,
do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
Part of the curse is isolation.
Write that down.
Part of the curse is isolation.
Remember the very first thing that happened
when Adam and Eve sinned is they were separated from God.
You guys, we don't even understand.
We don't even understand.
Maybe we have a little taste of it.
The Bible says we have a little taste, okay,
of the type of communion, the type of connection
that the first family felt with the divine.
It was seamless.
Do you understand that?
It was seamless.
And even though I told you at the beginning of this call
that the Bible says that we're in God,
we don't always feel in God.
Why?
Because there's the curse of separation.
That's why you don't feel connected to God
the way that they did.
It says that they walked with him and they talked with him.
I mean, they were in this beautiful paradise
communing with God in a way that we have never experienced.
And we have little glimpses of it.
Raise your hand if you've ever felt super connected to God
in a moment where you're just in his presence
and you never wanna leave.
You feel so full of joy and peace and love.
And you're like, whoop.
Y'all, that's what heaven feels like all the time.
That beautiful connection where there's no separation.
Because you know what separates us from God?
Shame, sin, guilt, this flesh.
We're separated from God, but we're not.
Romans tells us that nothing would separate us
from the love of God.
The problem is is that we don't always feel that way.
We know that it's true.
The Bible says it's true.
Jesus died to make it true.
And yet we don't always feel
what you guys are raising your hand and saying,
yes, I have experienced that.
But none of you would raise your hand and say,
I experienced that every moment of every day.
We don't.
And the reason why is because of that nasty thing
called the curse.
So every day we have to get up and we have to reconnect.
Even though we're connected,
we have to believe that we're connected.
Right?
We live in the day and time where we have to labor
to enter into his rest.
There's coming a time when that won't be true.
Right now it's just a taste of it.
We get a taste of it.
And I believe that you can go there as much as you want to.
You can, you can go there as much as you want to.
His presence, we're in, we're already in his presence.
But for you to feel it,
that means that you have to come out of agreement
with a lot of other stuff.
I'm not worthy, I'm not good enough.
God doesn't love me, I messed up.
My performance wasn't enough for him.
I feel guilty, I feel shameful
because of the stuff that I've been doing.
And then of course there's just the inherited
curse of shame.
And I wanna talk about our lineages today
because what's on my heart is living
for the future generations.
You guys, just recently a success story of mine,
a previous student that just got married,
he went down the rabbit hole to find her family,
her lineage.
And she's been working hard at it
and she's actually been able to trace back 70 generations.
Wow, is that not incredible?
So this is just a side note, but I guess the Mormon church,
so the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,
they take lineage super seriously.
And so they have workshops at public libraries
where they will help you,
regardless of whether or not you're a Latter-day Saint
or not, to trace back your lineage.
So you might wanna look that up
if this is something that interests you
and you want to find out more about the people
that came before you.
So she's been going to this workshop at a local library
and she's been finding out all of this information.
They have microfiche, they have all kinds of records
and different things that they have access to
where she has been able to get back 70 generations.
And that's exciting to me.
Now, I tried that years ago.
I went on one of those ancestry sites or whatever,
and I was able to get back like two generations
and then I just kind of gave up.
But that was a long time ago.
And so when she said this, I decided,
well, let me take another look.
So I went on a different site than I had gone on before.
And you guys, I was able to get back in my husband's family
about 20 generations in the doormans.
Not doorman, the doormans, all right?
And there wasn't a doorman in the bunch.
I'm just kidding.
That name actually means gatekeeper and I really love it.
I love it.
I love that David and I get to be gatekeepers
to beautiful, amazing kingdom things.
So I'm able to get back in his generations,
20 generations back, but that doesn't mean much to me
because I don't know these folks, right?
These are not my blood.
I married into this lineage.
So then I tried my family and on my dad's side,
so my maiden name is Mertes
and I was able to get back in that family
about 11 generations.
And then I tried some of their wives too.
I tried to go back in their wives' generations.
I was able to get back two or three generations
in some of the wives of the Mertes men.
And then I went on my mom's side
and I tried to get back in the Berry Hills
and the Rogers and those clans.
And I was able to make it back about five, six generations.
But what happened, friends,
as I was looking at those names on the screen
is it meant nothing to me.
It meant nothing to me.
I don't know who these people are,
save my grandparents and great-grandparents,
which I did not know, died way before I was born.
I had never even heard any of these names before.
And y'all, you'll see some names in your family line.
That's a name.
That's a name right there, Ebenezer.
That's a name.
What's going on over here, right?
And so you might see some names
and some of you might see some names
that you wanna grab for your future children.
That's cool.
But I saw some names,
and I even went in my former husband,
my daughter's dad's family,
and I was able to get back like 10, 11 generations.
And I recognized some of those names too
because I had been in a relationship with him for 20 years
and I had met his great-grandmother actually.
She was still alive.
But what saddened me is that all of these names
of the people that are my ancestors on the screen,
not only do I not know them, I know nothing about them.
of them, nothing about them.
And then I started to realize that I didn't, I don't really
know, except for a few scraps here and there, I don't know about the good
things that run in my family lineage.
I know about the bad things because they're still present.
Like for instance, in my mom's lineage, as I was going back into her
Native American lineage and going back into the Berry Hills and around
with the Irish clan and the people that came before her, there were six
men in that lineage that I saw with my own eyes that died before 40 years old.
Now family urban legend tells me that they all died of alcoholism.
They were Native Americans.
A lot of Native Americans are missing an enzyme that allows
them to process alcohol.
That's why they called alcohol, white man's poison back in the olden days,
because that was something that was introduced to Native American tribes
with the settlers and the pioneers and the pilgrims that came.
And all of these men died before, all of them died in their early to mid thirties.
All of them died in their early to mid thirties, according to what I was
seeing on the computer, because it had birth dates and death dates.
And so I was like, huh, so that urban legend in my family is true.
And so while I don't know what good that they did during their lives or what
they were like, were they creative?
Did they sing?
Did they play?
My daughter is so musically gifted.
You know, where did that come from?
Who did that come from?
You know, who did my speaking gifts come from?
You know, what, what, who, when, how, I don't know.
And I made a decision right then.
And I want you to make the same decision with me today.
And the decision is, is that there are members of my lineage and legacy.
You know, I don't know when Jesus is coming back y'all.
So I'm going to go ahead and live as if he's coming back tomorrow.
And as if he's not coming back during my lifetime.
Okay.
So with that in mind, I've made a decision because there are members of my
family that I will only get to meet in heaven.
I want you to think about that for a second.
There are many members of your lineage, whether they've gone before or they've,
they're coming after that.
You will only get to meet in heaven, but your family, your, your life can
influence them.
Your life can influence these people, even though you're never going to meet
them on earth, you can be the biggest influence in their life.
And I decided that what I do with my life is going to echo in eternity.
Yes.
Because all God ever wanted was a family, right?
So I'm going to focus not on just myself, but living for a future generation.
Because I want the people that come after me to know my name.
Come on, y'all.
I want the people that come after me to know my name.
I want them to be able to look at a screen because I'm sure that genealogy
will be so far advanced by then.
I want them to be able to point to a screen and point to me on the family
tree and say, that's where it all changed.
That's where it all changed.
That's where all the two time and double deal in mean mistreatment,
love and hearts ran out.
That's where the divorce stopped in our family.
That's where the addiction stopped in our family.
That's where the vicious mothers that victimized their daughters and
their sons and their sons and their daughters and their sons and their
That's where the vicious mothers that victimized their daughters with
their pain stopped in our family.
Come on.
That's when the abandonment, the fatherlessness stopped in our family.
Right there.
Nona Jackie and Papa David.
That's right there.
That's where it happened.
That's where, that's where family got prioritized right here in that generation.
That's where they, they began to take a machete and cut through the jungle of
our ancestry to make a path for us.
That's where they began to lay up generational wealth for
the people coming behind.
That's when they began to secure properties and lands and
That's when they began to secure properties and lands and vineyards for
us to dwell in both spiritually and naturally.
Come on y'all.
That's where it changed.
We're not living for ourselves.
We're kinsmen redeemers.
Say that over yourself.
Right now, I am a kinsman redeemer.
I am.
My future ancestors are gonna know my name.
They're gonna see on the family tree
that when I was alive, I used my life
to pivot our generational line towards Jesus.
There's no more divorce now.
There's no more unfaithfulness.
There's no more fatherlessness.
There's heart work.
There's healing.
There's victory.
There's deliverance.
There's no more addiction.
I have six great, six uncles and grandfathers
in a graveyard from alcoholism
before they even turned 40 years old.
Guess what?
That's broken now.
You know why?
Because a man named James Rogers,
affectionately known as Jimmy Rogers,
he gave his life to Jesus when he was 45 years old
at a tent revival in the middle of Missouri
outside of St. Louis.
He laid his cigarettes and his,
he came in there drunk, y'all.
He came in there to drag my nanny out.
He didn't want her at that church meeting.
And he came in there and the power of God hit him.
And he fell down at that altar
and he gave his life to Jesus and he never drank again,
not one drop, not one drop.
That was his family that had all those men dead
in the graveyard before 40 years old.
That was his lineage.
That was his family.
And guess what?
He lived to be 86 years old.
Now, there were some things that my nanny
and my grandpa did not work out during their lifetime.
They got divorced after 50 years of marriage.
That's not a good one, right?
A lot of times people find religion
and they don't find Jesus,
which is why I didn't meet Jesus till I was in my 20s.
You're like, with that kind of hair and his jacket,
you should have been raised in the church.
You're right, I should have been.
But that's okay.
They didn't do it all right, but they did something right.
They did something right, didn't they?
They cut off something, something ended with them.
And now we get to live addiction-free.
No one in my family is an addict.
Nobody is an alcoholic.
I don't even drink alcohol.
Neither does my brother.
No, nothing.
My cousins, all of my cousins are Christians.
None of them, none of them drink.
None of them feed on their husbands and wives.
All of them are married.
Come on, y'all.
All of our parents were divorced more than once.
Of my grandma and grandpa's six kids,
all of them were divorced more than one time.
And all of their kids, none of them are divorced,
except me.
All of them are married.
Isn't that exciting?
Isn't that great?
But guess what?
That stops with me too.
Both my daughters are married and they picked great men
and you guys, you don't have to just be
in an abusive marriage to end up divorced, right?
Because bad things happen and people get disconnected
and they pull away from each other.
But guess what?
They have community and family around them
to support them in those hard times
so that they grow together and not apart.
Amen?
Exodus 26 tells us,
and I will love them and I will bless them
to a thousand generations who love me
and keep my commandments.
Deuteronomy 7, nine says something very similar.
It says, and know that your Lord, your God,
the faithful God, will keep his gracious covenants
for those who love him and obey his commandments
to a thousand generations.
That's an interesting scripture
and I underlined a few parts of it.
Know that your Lord and your God
two different things.
Your master, your Lord, right?
And your God, your creator, your father.
and then it goes on to describe him as the faithful God.
He's not a God who is faithful, he is the faithful God.
Come on, write that down.
He is not a God who is faithful, he is the faithful God.
You're like, Jackie, what's the difference?
It is an identity, it's not an act.
Come on, it's an identity, it's not an act.
If he's the God who is faithful,
that means that he's faithful.
But how often is he faithful?
I don't know, it's an act.
But if he's the faithful God, that's an identity,
which means he doesn't just have faithfulness,
he is faithfulness.
He doesn't just have goodness, he is good.
He doesn't just have love, he is love.
Friends, if we could get pinned down in our own hearts
the character of God, it would change everything.
I've been on a journey to know the character of God
for 28 years.
And it changes everything when you realize,
because remember, we know good people
that are not always good.
They're good people.
Have you ever known someone and you really,
they're a good person, like my pastor that went to prison.
You guys, he did a lot of good things.
He was a good man, he did a lot of good things.
He helped a lot of people, including me.
He saved my life in so many ways.
God sent him to help me, to disciple me,
and to not abandon me.
He was like a father figure to me.
But he did good things, but he wasn't good.
Because the Bible says there's no good thing in us
except for God, right?
And so when we know good people, have you ever,
so my question was this,
have you ever seen someone do something
and you knew them and they were really good
and you're like, wow, man,
I can't believe they did that?
Come on, raise your hand if you've ever thought
that to yourself.
And you see it on the news all the time,
the neighbors of the person who burned down the school
or ended up being a serial killer.
Man, they were such a good neighbor.
They were such a good person.
I can't believe they did that.
Can't believe it.
Right?
And because of this, the reason why I'm asking this
is because of that dichotomy in people,
we apply that to God.
We personify God.
Well, yeah, God's good sometimes to some people,
but not always.
Do you guys feel me?
And that would be true if God just had goodness,
but he doesn't just have goodness, he is good.
The Bible goes as far as to say,
hey, God is not a man that he should lie.
How many of you understand that the most honest person
that you've ever met in your entire life,
they've created a culture of honesty and transparency
and authenticity in their life has definitely lied before.
There isn't one person on this earth who has not told a lie
of either omission or commission in their lives.
That's because humans, given the right circumstances,
we can fit.
Given the right heat and pressure, we will crack.
Even the best of us, even the most moralistic of us,
but not God.
He is constant.
The Bible says that he is the same yesterday,
today, and forever.
He is constant.
The Bible says that he is the same yesterday,
today, and forever.
I didn't plan on saying any of that today,
but someone needs to hear that
because someone is really hurting
and they're really wondering if God is good
because they haven't seen his goodness lately.
And so what I'm gonna say to you, friend,
is open your eyes because God is good
and his goodness is all around you.
Now, the way that you want to see his goodness
may not be happening right now in your life.
You may have an ultimatum of goodness
that you wanna see that you have not seen.
You might have a specific breakthrough that you need
that you want to see happen a certain way
and it has not happened
and that has caused you to wonder if God is good.
But there's other examples and other evidence
of his goodness all around you every day.
And I wanna challenge you to look for those things
in the season that you're in
because the story's not over yet.
I just wanna take a second to minister
to whoever that's for.
The story's not over yet.
Your little hyphen in your family lineage,
your little spot on the tree is not over yet.
It's not done yet.
God has plans and purposes for you.
He does.
And whatever's coming against you right now is not going to keep you down forever.
It isn't.
It's not, it doesn't matter what it is, physical, mental, emotional,
financial, relational, it's all circumstantial and God will deliver you.
It may not be the way you expected, but it will be in a way that causes you and
sets you up for the future that he has for you.
How do I know that?
All right.
I'm going to segue right now.
I didn't plan to go here, but here we go.
I'm gonna go get my Bible.
Imagine that.
All right.
Everyone go to Romans 8 28 with me.
We all know it.
Well, we could quote it.
Probably often do quote it because we're waiting for that payoff, that payday where
everything works out to the good.
I guess sit down the phone.
Guys might be like, why isn't Jackie come on camera during these things?
Because I have to move, have to move.
It's part of my process and downloading the supernatural stuff that I do is I got
to keep moving and it would be very distracting.
I feel like, all right, ready?
And we know Romans 8 28 familiar scripture.
This is about our victory in Christ.
And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love
God and to those who are called according to his purpose.
Man, doesn't that sound a lot like Exodus 26 and Deuteronomy 7, 9.
Yeah.
Where God shows his love and he blesses to a thousand generations.
This is kind of saying that same thing.
God's going to work all things to the good of those that what that love him and
the called according to his purpose.
That really has the same idea of following his commandments, which of course you
guys from the old Testament to the new Testament commandments have changed.
The commandment now is to love God with all your heart, mind, and soul and
strength, and to love your neighbor as you love yourself, right?
Those are the commandments.
Okay.
But we stopped there at that scripture because it's so good and it makes us feel
better about all the bad things that have happened in our lives.
And we're like, Hey, God's going to work it all out to good.
I don't know how he's going to do it though.
But we're remiss if we don't go to the next verse.
29, for why would God do this?
Why is he going to work it all out to our good?
Why, why, why, why, why is that important to him?
Because of what happens in the next verse.
For those whom he foreknew, he also predestined to become
conformed to the image of his son.
So that he would be the firstborn among many brethren and then go down to 30.
And these who he predestined, he also called and these who he called, he also
justified and these who he justified, he also glorified, and then it goes down to
say, if, if God is for us, who can be against us, right?
If God did not spare his own son, but delivered him over for us all, then why
would he not also give us freely all things?
Who can bring a charge against us?
God's elect.
God is the one who justifies who can condemn us.
Christ is the one that died and was raised at the right hand of God
who intercedes for us, powerful.
Who will separate us from the love of Christ?
Will tribulation or distress or persecution or famine or
nakedness or peril or sword?
Just as it is written.
You know, we are for your sake being put to death all day long.
We are sheep being slaughtered guys.
This is obviously written to a persecuted church, but in all these
things, we overwhelmingly conquer through him who loved us, because I'm
convinced that neither death nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor
things present, nor things to come, nor powers or height or depth, or any
other creative thing will be able to separate us from the love of God,
which is in Christ Jesus, our Lord.
The story is not over yet.
Friends, whoever you are, probably more than one person.
God saw you.
He predestined you for good things to be conformed to the image of his son.
And in that to be sanctified and also justified.
You're like, but we're not predestined.
We have free will.
Yeah, we have free will, but do you not know what God, do you not know that
God knows what you did with your free will?
You do have choice.
But the Bible says many are called, but few are chosen.
And I did a study on that years ago, cause that really tweaked my justice gift.
Well, what do you mean that you call a bunch of people,
but you only choose a few?
I had an orphan mentality and I felt for sure I was not going to be picked.
If that's really.
what those scriptures meant.
You're only gonna pick the good people, God.
You're only gonna pick the people
that came from the right families
or did the right things and made the right choices.
But that scripture really means all are called,
but few answer the call.
It's about answering the call.
And I wanna brag on my mom right now.
She's in heaven and in my mind prematurely,
she was only 64 years old when she passed away
and went to heaven.
She got upgraded to her new reality.
I didn't get a lot of time with her on earth
because we were estranged for most of my life.
Those last few years that I got with her,
they were precious and they were powerful.
And I saw my mom returned to God.
Remember I told you that her dad gave his life at an altar.
Come on you guys.
When he was 45 years old,
the problem was is that when he did that,
my mom was in her late teens
and too much damage had already been done.
My grandpa lived for Jesus for the rest of his life,
the best he knew how in the denomination
that he was discipled by, which was very legalistic,
very holiness, penny cost, very condemning.
My grandma, the same thing.
And so the vicious abuse that was happening in their family
before their conversion turned into religious abuse
after their conversion.
And so my mom ran fast and far away from that.
And I didn't know any of this y'all
because I didn't know my family's history.
My mom never talked about herself.
The first decade of my life was tumultuous
with my mom choosing to marry destructive and abusive men
three times before I was 10 years old.
She was always in crisis.
She was always at the bottom of a bottle
or somewhere that she shouldn't be.
And so I didn't know my mom.
I didn't know her pain.
I didn't know where it came from.
I didn't know any of those things.
But I will tell you in the midst of all of that,
my mom knew where her help came from
because when things got too bad,
we would always end up at a church.
And even though all of those little seeds
would not grow a harvest in me until my 20s,
when I really met Jesus,
they were all bricks in my wall, right?
And I say that to say this
because this scripture jogged my memory
that when I was a little girl,
my mom would sing a song and it was kind of a game.
Me and my brother who's 18 months older than me,
and you guys know him as the man
who struggles with his mental health for the last 30 years,
been homeless for 30 years,
got ran over by a car last year
and lives on my property.
That's my brother, Jacob Daniel.
And when we were little, we would crawl in bed with my mom
when whoever she was married to would be out drinking
and cavorting with other women.
We would hide in her bed under the sheets.
And when she would come to bed at night,
we would be in there
and then she wouldn't have the heart to tell us to leave.
And we would draw pictures on each other's backs
and try to see who could guess what was being drawn.
And my mom would sing songs
and she had the voice of an angel.
And one of the songs that she sang
was the scripture, you guys, in Romans.
For I'm convinced that neither death, nor life,
nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present,
nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth,
nor any other created thing
would be able to separate us from the love of God,
which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
And we'd sing it really fast.
I'm persuaded that we'd be good to have separated
from the wonderful love of God.
Up above, it's saying, if you love God,
then you're a long way around.
We try to sing it as fast as we can.
That was the game, right?
We didn't know it was the scripture, you guys.
We didn't know anything about God.
My mom had separated herself from that
because of the hypocrisy and the abuse and the legalism.
She had separated herself from that.
But this scripture had gotten into her heart
and she rehearsed it over us in the form of this song.
Why am I telling you this today?
Because some of you have screwed up as parents
and God wants to bring redemption to you today.
Someday your daughter or your son
is going to be testifying about how you made a mark on them,
the same as I'm saying right now.
Years later, my brother,
who was completely mentally sane at the time,
moved out to Steamboat, Colorado
to be a snowboard instructor.
You know, the Mountain Dew commercials
of the guys do the dew
and they're doing all the crazy stunts and tricks.
That was my brother.
My brother was a BMX biker, he was a skateboarder,
and he was a snowboarder, and he was really talented.
Extreme sports dude.
That was my brother.
Him and his girlfriend Hope moved out to Colorado.
Colorado, and he became an instructor at one of the resorts out there, snowboard instructor.
And two years into them living there when he was about 20, 21 years old, my mom got
a call.
I was already, you guys know that I was sent away to live at 14.
I went to a girl's home and the rest of my teen years are a blur of a lot of things.
And I had been estranged from my brother.
We didn't live in the same household anymore from the time that I was at that young teenage.
And my mom called me, and I barely had a relationship with her at the time, and she said, your brother's
been in a terrible accident, and I'm going to Colorado.
So what had happened is he had snowboarded off the edge of a mountain, y'all.
Not a mountain that you snowboard off of, okay?
He had run off of, he had fallen off of, whatever had happened, off a mountain, and he was falling
to his death.
And as he was falling to his death, he told us this later, but he had so many injuries,
including a brain injury, including whatever has made him like he is today.
But I will tell you that he told me this when I saw him after this accident.
He said, Jackie, when I was falling, he said, I remember that song that mom used to sing
over us.
And I began to sing it as fast as I could, and the next thing I knew, I stopped falling.
He's like, it's like a hand grabbed me and pulled me up against the side of the mountain.
And he was stuck there on the side of the mountain, in some trees and some roots and
the things that grabbed him and pulled him from falling to his death.
What you do matters to your children and your children's children's children's children.
You mean something.
You might not leave them riches and fame, but that's not important because that stuff
is stubble for the fire.
The only thing that matters is what you do for eternity.
Now my brother is still alive, and he's alive for a reason, and he lives on my property
here.
This is the first time that anyone's been able to keep him in one place for almost 30
years because he's a wandering nomad.
Because of the things that have happened to him in his life.
But that car accident, as tragic as it was, that that person running him over while he
was riding his bike, guess what?
It turned into him basically being a captive audience for family.
And us loving on him and us ministering to him and us helping him.
And I just happen to have the space on my property where he can have his own space,
and he gets to, you know, walk again.
He's walking again.
He's walking.
Now, he needs a creative miracle if he's ever going to run or climb or do any of the extreme
things that this man likes to do.
But he is walking again.
God wants you to know that the story is not over yet.
And the story doesn't even end with you.
The story doesn't end with you.
I'm going to give you some homework if you want to do it.
You don't have to come to Sunday night and activate if you can't come to Sunday night.
But if you can, you're going to come there.
And that's what we're going to do on Sunday nights and tomorrow night.
We're going to activate this.
But I want to read over you some of these scriptures.
Number 624 and 26.
The Lord bless you and keep you.
The Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you.
The Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace.
Psalms 90, 17.
Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us and establish the work of our hands upon
us.
Psalm 112, 1 through 3.
Praise the Lord.
Blessed are those who fear the Lord, who find great delight in his commands.
Their children will be mighty in the land.
Psalm 119, 90.
Thy faithfulness is unto all generations.
Thou hast established the earth and it will abide.
And with that being said, one of those scriptures was turned into a song by Kerry Jobe and her
husband and some other people that I don't know.
And it's called the blessing.
And I want to read you the lyrics.
The Lord bless you and keep you.
Make his face shine upon you.
you and be gracious to you.
The Lord turn his face towards you and give you peace.
The Lord bless you and keep you
and may his face shine upon you.
May he be gracious to you and give you peace.
And then it goes on to say,
may his favor be upon you to a thousand generations
and your family and your children
and their children and their children
and your coming and your going in the city,
in the fields, right?
That's another scripture completely
that we'll be blessed going in and we'd be blessed
coming out, that God would go with us
and he would go before us and beside us and around us.
That's the lyrics of this song.
God wants to bless us.
We're his friends.
I'm a friend of God.
Are you a friend of God?
Yeah, he's my father, but I'm also his friend.
I'm his friend.
So for homework, what I want you to do
is I want you to write a celebration of life for yourself.
Some might call it obituary, but that's kind of morbid.
So I'm not gonna call it an obituary.
I'm gonna call it a celebration of life for yourself.
At your celebration of life,
I want you to write what they're gonna read.
I want you to prophesy over yourself,
over what you're gonna accomplish
in your little moment on earth.
Not just for yourself, but for your future generations.
What are you gonna accomplish?
What are you gonna accomplish for eternity?
What do you want them to say at the end of your life?
In that room, prayerfully, there will be your children
and your bonus children,
because blended families, God loves them,
your bonus kids and your children's children
and your children's children's children
and maybe your children's children's children's children,
depending on how old you live and how young they have them.
What are they gonna say about you?
What are they gonna get up and go to the mic
and say about your life?
Come on, y'all.
Now I wanna take a few minutes, that's your homework.
I want you to do it regardless
of whether you come to Sunday or not.
But I want us to take this powerful moment.
I feel the heart of God in this moment.
I feel heaven, feel heaven's attention on us.
You know what else I feel?
I feel those great cloud of witnesses
that have gone before us, rooting us on.
They're cheering us on, you guys.
Those people that you loved,
and some of them maybe didn't love so much,
they're cheering us on right now.
They got our back, literally.
They're just one dimension over from us, cheering us on.
Some of us have people alive still that are ahead of us
in the generations, your in-laws are still alive,
your parents are still alive,
you have aunts and uncles that are from
the greatest generation,
they're from those war generations,
they're still alive on the earth.
I believe we can reach forward with our lives
and impact and influence them.
And we can also reach backward to our children
and their friends and our grandchildren.
I just became a Nona two years ago.
My grandbabies are two years old.
We can reach both directions for the kingdom.
We can influence.
My grandma, before she passed away,
read my book, The Heart Work, and it impacted her greatly.
She had served God for 50 years.
You know what she said to me?
She said, Jackie, she said, this book breaks my heart.
She's like, it's so good,
and I've gotten so much healing from reading it.
But why wasn't this available when I was raising my children?
Why wasn't this information available for my generation?
I made so many mistakes.
I allowed the abuse of my childhood
to come into my mothering.
I was unkind, I was verbally abusive.
And it's true, she was.
And my mom became the same way.
But guess who's not verbally abusive to their daughter?
Guess who that broke off of?
Me.
And so you guys, we have an opportunity.
There are people that are ahead of us
that are still teachable.
They still have an open heart.
They still want to go through those forgiveness exercises
and confession exercises.
My father-in-law is 84 years old.
And before he lost his eyesight to macular degeneration,
he read my book.
like four times, the heart work,
even though I didn't write it for men.
He loves to read.
This is my husband's father, and it rocked his world.
And he said, Jackie, he said, you know,
this is Lieutenant Colonel of the Air Force.
He said, I realized God's been talking to me my whole life.
It's like I always knew that I had insight and wisdom,
and I didn't know where it was coming from,
and now I realize it's been God talking to me all along.
God's been talking to me my whole life.
Yes, we can impact.
And so now what I wanna do is I wanna pray
for the next nine minutes.
You can put your prayer for your family in the chat,
your children, your children's children,
whatever you wanna do, but you can also unmute yourself,
and let's make it short, brief, and powerful,
each prayer so that as many people can go as possible.
If you wanna pray for someone who's alive right now,
if you wanna pray for someone
who will be alive in the future,
whatever you wanna do,
whatever God's laying on your heart,
let's go ahead and do that now.
Father, we pray for Anya.
Today's her birthday, Lord,
and you brought her into the earth for such a time as this.
Her life is significant for your kingdom.
Her life is significant for her lineage,
and her life is significant for legacy.
And so, Lord, we just declare now
that the best of her life will be the rest of her life.
We pray that you would lead and guide her
so she can make a mark,
she can make a mark on her family tree
that lasts for as many generations
as her people will be on the earth.
In Jesus' name, amen.
Okay, who wants to go?
I'll go.
Go ahead.
Father God, I just lift up my family to you right now,
and I thank you, as Jackie has spoken today,
that we are breaking all the things off of our past,
and the future generations
that you have blessed us with today will be in their life.
I thank you that anything they have gone through,
suffering, any financial lack,
anything that has come against the assignment
that you have for them,
you are just gonna bless them greatly
from this day forward, in Jesus' name.
Amen, who's next?
I'll go.
Thank you, Jesus, for my family and my future family
that the curse has ended with being single moms, with me.
Yeah.
No more single mothers in my family,
and I thank you for my future children
that they'll have a dad, and I will be there for them,
and I thank you for my future children
that will not only break the curse of that,
but also break the curse of having no fathers in the home
and having absent fathers as well,
and the alcoholism be gone.
Thank you, Jesus.
And also, no more mental illness in my family,
it stops with me now and in the future.
Thank you, Lord, when I pass away,
that they look at me as they stopped with her,
the blood was there, it all began and ended with her.
She loved the Lord, and she made that clear to us all
to continue to seek the Lord.
So thank you, Jesus, for that.
Amen.
Amen, let it be so, Victoria, let it be so.
Who else?
I'll go.
Lord, I just pray particularly for the men in my family.
I pray for my son and my father, who is 91.
Lord, that is not too late.
It is not too late, God.
I just pray that they would be in your kingdom,
in your throne room, Lord, and time is nothing to you.
And I just pray that not a one would leave this earth
without confessing you.
Thank you, Lord, I'll go.
Lord, I just pray for my sister, Lisa.
I believe that, I just pray you'd heal her mind,
her body, her soul.
I believe that she believes she is a woman and not a man.
Lord, I pray she would turn to you.
I just pray that you'd just deliver her and heal her
and save her this very day in Jesus' name.
I pray for all the men in my family to stand up
and be leaders, running into Jesus' arms,
and to have mentors, my son to have a mentor,
a godly mentor to stand by him.
And I just say no more drug addiction in our family,
no more mental illness, no more.
In Jesus' name, we're all healed.
I'll go, Denise.
I pray that the mental illness, the drug addiction,
the poor choices ends here and that my children
will be able to stand on a firm foundation
with our Lord and Savior and to not make the choices
that were made in the past.
In Jesus' name, I pray, amen.
I'll go.
I pray for longevity.
for faith. I pray this for no addictions in my family, no abuse, no heart disease, religious abuse,
isolation, no more addiction nor codependency in people-pleasing, in drug addiction.
I break all of this off for a thousand generations and more. And I agree, Lord, with all the prayers
and what Jackie had said about you coming into my heart and into my life to make a difference.
And all the future generations will know it was me, but it was because of you in me, Lord. I
give all the glory to you. Thank you, Lord. I pray, Lord, that the fact that there are adult
people in my life or that have gone before that never married, I break that curse. Now,
it will end with me. I have an uncle on my mother's side and an aunt on my father's side.
Every morning, my family, my extended family, will have happy marriages
and families that believe in God move forward with his will.
Father God, I just pray for, I also pray for just the men in my family, both past and future,
just that you will break off any addiction, mental illness. I resonate with so much that's been said.
Just, and we are, just thank you that we are kinsmen redeemers and that we, we are going to
change the trajectory of our family line. And I just pray for the future men in my, in my family
that they will be good fathers, that they will be strong in you and that no mental illness or
addiction will, will take hold of their life. And I just pray for our future generations that we will
be marked as changing, changing the trajectory of our families.
Abba, I pray for the curse of my family of no talk rule, how they keep secrets and we hide
from one another. We hide in our own darkness and we're not walking into the light and sharing with
one another what we're going through. Lord, keeping secrets keeps you sick. And there's so much
in my family with my children that I'm not known. They are not known to me.
And I break this curse, Lord, of isolation of communication, not knowing one another and not
seeking one another with curiosity about what is happening in their lives. I break this Lord
in Jesus name. Lord, I thank you for making us overcomers that we can set a new course for our
family lines. And I stand in the gap for my family. And I declare that that addiction will break with
me. Broken marriages, lack of marriage, miscarriages, cancer, and addictions. I just
thank you, Lord, for setting us free that where the spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. And
I pray also for my nieces and nephews and my whole extended family in Norway. And I just declare that
it's not too late for them that they will know the Lord and yet be saved. Amen. Okay, we're right at
time. You guys, you can always come tomorrow night. Don't forget, write the celebration of
life. Another thing that I felt like I wanted to break off family lines was epilepsy, which that
has to be a word from the Lord. I would never think of that. So if that's in your family line,
just go ahead and declare that that will be broken off and it will not continue.
So write a celebration of life for yourself. You know, I mean, you might consider it obituary,
but it's a celebration of your life, of what you were able to accomplish. You guys prophesy in that
declare what you want to see, call those things that are not as though they are. As you write that
out, do this exercise, regardless of whether or not you share it tomorrow night at Sunday night
activation. You can also share it in your bridal parties with each other guys in your guys group.
This is a powerful activation. And I believe that we have what we say. And so this is a really
amazing time for you to declare what you're going to accomplish with God, of course, on this earth
for your family, for your lineage and for your legacy. Be blessed. I love you so much. Go in God.
See ya.