Welcome to Supernatural Saturday.
If you're new and there are a lot of new people, we just want to tell you we are so glad you're
here with us.
And on Saturdays, we look to the Lord together.
Supernatural Saturday is a time of what is the current prophetic reality?
What is God saying to us individually and corporately?
It is a time where we lean into Holy Spirit so we can hear directions, blueprints, anything
and everything that God wants to say to us.
And today we're going to talk about worry, we're going to talk about, don't worry, just
worship.
I wrote that down on my paper.
There's a lot of people that are worried right now.
We have a really important election happening in America.
If you don't live in America, you might not feel it in the atmosphere.
But if you live in America, you can feel the tension in the atmosphere, am I right?
People are scared either way.
People are scared.
But the very first thing that I want to say for all of you empaths, for all of you intercessors
that are picking up all of that ick in the atmosphere right now, is you can turn it,
you can turn it off.
You can tune it out by worship.
All right, we're going to talk about that for a little while this morning.
And then I want to see everyone's hands that would just go ahead and admit, I worry.
I worry.
You know, I have intrusive negative thoughts that come and sometimes I invite them over
for dinner and let them stay for a while, eat a couple of meals together with those
thoughts.
Let me see your hands.
It doesn't mean that it has to be a chronic habit.
You don't have to be a worry wart.
I don't even know where that came from.
Worry wart.
Someone look up that saying and find out what that means or where that came from.
But you just worry.
You find yourself worrying sometimes about certain things.
You have reoccurring thoughts about certain subjects or remember to use your Jesus cares
board and if you're brand new to phase one heart work, you're going to find out what
that is and make sure you make it and make sure you use it because it will change your
life if you cast your cares on him because he cares for you.
But for those of you that are real sensitive to other people's feelings and you're real
sensitive to the atmosphere, you might feel yourself getting kind of depressed right now
in this season.
Heaviness is on you.
It doesn't belong to you.
Okay.
It belongs to what's happening in the atmosphere and you need to learn how to let that go.
Otherwise it will crush you.
Okay.
And so you have to learn how to release that if you have that gift.
Guys, gifts overextended.
I'm going to say this a couple of times today.
A gift that is overextended becomes a weakness.
And so if you have that gift of empathy, if you are an empath, if you are an intercessor,
a prayer warrior, then you are going to pick up what's going on in other people's hearts.
You can be out in the shopping mall and all of a sudden you don't feel so good.
You're starting to feel depressed.
You're starting to have, you know, intrusive negative thoughts and maybe you were feeling
great that morning that you got up.
All was right with the world and now you're feeling this way.
Well, guess what?
It's not you.
It's not you that's feeling that way.
You're picking up somebody else's stuff.
You're walking around out there in the world and you're picking up what someone else is
going through.
And so if you ever have those feelings that feel very outside of yourself, like, Hey,
where did this come from?
It came from someone else and all you have to do is just start praying, Lord, whoever's
feeling that way right now, whoever's feeling despondent, whoever's feeling hopeless, whoever's
feeling discouraged right now, I ask that you would touch them.
Sometimes God may even point out to you who it is and you can go over and try to encourage
them with a word of knowledge about their lives, but don't own it.
Don't own it yourself.
Don't say, Oh my gosh, I'm having a bad day now.
Don't start going down that bunny trail with that feeling or that thought because it doesn't
belong to you.
Okay.
It's really important that you don't do that and that you learn how to use that gift.
Remember because when a gift gets overextended, it becomes a weakness.
And I've known lots of intercessors, being an intercessor myself, being an empath myself,
I've known lots of people who haven't had good teaching on how to use that gift that
just lived their lives depressed and melancholy because they were always picking up other
people's stuff and they didn't know it and they just owned it themselves and just thought
that they were a depressed person or a melancholy person, someone who was always worried, someone
who was always thinking about bad things and it wasn't true.
Okay.
So let's go ahead and release that to the Lord.
And so let's talk about worry versus worship because all worship is and some of you, you
might come from a charismatic church where worship is on Sunday mornings when you gather
with your family.
your church, your church community,
and there's people playing electric guitars,
and drums, and singing, and the lights are usually off,
and maybe there's a smoke machine.
You know, and there's a lot of,
you guys, I don't want you to get the impression
that modern worship gets on my nerves,
but modern worship kind of gets on my nerves,
because it's so melancholy.
Oh God, we're just little worms.
Thank you for looking at us.
I don't like, I don't like it, right?
I like it when they play songs that you can jump around to.
That's the kind of worship that I like,
but you guys, none of it is necessarily worship.
It's music, okay?
Worship is about your heart posture.
Who is on the throne of your heart?
Is it King Jesus there?
That's what worship is about.
What do you allow to be on the throne of your heart?
Okay, otherwise, you know, you're just singing,
but if you're singing from a place of worship,
because Jesus is on the throne, right?
Because God is still in control.
He's still in charge.
You're not worried because you know
that if you surrender your free will to him,
that everything's gonna be all right.
You know, that's what worship is.
Worship is when we decide not to look at the circumstances
in front of us, or what everyone else in the world is saying,
and we choose to come into agreement
and alignment with the word of God.
That's worship.
You can worship anything.
You can make anything your source.
You know that, right?
You can worship people.
You can worship relationships.
You can worship money.
You can worship whatever it is
that you think is your strength,
or you can worship God.
And sometimes we will find ourselves worshiping
other things, letting other things dictate who we are.
Putting way too much emphasis and faucets
on the wrong syllable, as my pastor used to say.
But then all you have to do is you just have to shift.
When you realize you're doing that, you just have to shift.
Say, no, I'm not gonna worship that.
I'm not gonna worship that because that can't save me.
I'm not gonna worship that because that hasn't saved me.
I'm not gonna worship that
because that isn't gonna change my life.
That doesn't deserve my worship, but God does.
So let's talk about worry.
I'm gonna give you a definition if you wanna write it down.
I think it's really powerful.
The definition of worry is to give way.
You guys, you have to make the way for worry.
You have to clear the path for worry.
You have to make a way for it to come, to come through.
To give way to anxiety and unease,
and allow yourself to dwell on difficulty and trouble.
You guys, you see this?
You have to give way to it and you have to allow it.
Worry has to be allowed.
You allow yourself to dwell, to dwell.
That's to abide.
That word means to live somewhere.
Live down in the moly grubs.
Live down in the depths of despair.
Any Anna Green Gable fans?
Remember that?
The depths of despair, so dramatic.
To live there, to dwell there.
To dwell where?
To dwell on difficulty and trouble.
Here's some synonyms of worry.
To torment oneself.
I just wanna let you guys know, I've come a long way,
but you guys know I had panic disorder in my 20s.
You guys know I had panic disorder in my 20s
and in my early 30s.
And when I married David, what he found
was he found someone who was, you know,
worried about everything, pretty much.
Anxious all the time.
Had generalized anxiety because I had seen too much stuff.
A lot of times when you have a generalized anxiety disorder,
any kind of anxiety disorder,
it is as a result of complex post-traumatic stress disorder.
You've been through a lot.
And so I definitely had COPD, PTSD.
I had that.
And so I could get worked up about a lot of things.
I was a worst case scenario person.
I know that's hard to believe,
but I'm confessing that to you.
I was a worst case scenario person.
I knew Jesus.
But I also didn't know that I was God defended.
I knew a lot of religion back 20 years ago.
And if I crossed all the T's and dotted all the I's,
then yes, God was, you know, had to take care of me.
He had to do it if I did what I was.
supposed to do, but as soon as I stepped outside the lines and you guys,
I think you can imagine that I'm a step outside the line or kind of girl.
And as soon as I did that, in my mind,
he was no longer obligated to take care of me.
He was not on the hook anymore to do his part. If I did anything wrong,
anything that I thought was wrong.
And when I tell you that I had high standards for myself and others,
when I told, when I tell you that when I met Jesus,
I was discipled by religious people who gave me a religious mindset,
black and white, wrong and right.
I didn't want to be that way, but that's what I was being told.
And that was what I was being taught. And that's what I began to believe.
And so I was always trying to stay out of God's displeasure,
out of his wrath,
out of all the things that I had been told about the character of God.
And I just want, if that's you this morning,
I just want to release you from that. God is not a rule keeper.
Okay. He's not a ledger keeper.
It's not writing down all of your faults and all of your flaws. Hey,
he's not keeping track of those things. You know what he is keeping track of?
The hairs on your head.
He's keeping track of the tears that you,
that fall from your eyes. That's what the Bible says.
It says he's keeping track of the loving thoughts that he has towards you that
are more than the sand grains on the seashore or the stars in the sky.
Whoa, whoa. That's quite a different character of God, isn't it?
Says that he has lovingly written you on his hand.
Your name, you there.
That's amazing, right?
Isn't that beautiful? There's beautiful words, beautiful prose.
And it's true.
And even though you fully can't comprehend how God could do such a thing,
because I ran into a woman the other day. I know her.
And she was like,
I'm not going to do this. I'm not going to do this.
And I said,
I'm not going to do such a thing because I ran into a woman the other day.
I know her and she is in her early seventies and she had a fall.
She tripped over something, fell, broke her leg.
And she had surgery on it,
got some pins put in and I haven't seen her since the summertime.
So I ran into her and gave a big hug and I noticed that she had a caint with
her. I said,
Oh, you're still not fully, fully you know,
Rehabilitated from, you know, the surgery. And she said, no,
I'm going to have to get another surgery. And I said, what happened?
And she said, I'm allergic to my body's rejecting the,
the metal that they put in it.
And I'm like, Oh wow. Okay. Well, we're going to,
we're going to have to pray. And, and she stops me and, and, you know,
she is a believer, but she stops me and she goes, Oh,
I don't want to bother God. He has more things to worry about.
I don't even want him to think about me because he has more things to worry
about than me, bigger problems in the world, people that need more than me.
I'm just, you know, I'm just, and then she,
and then she turns it into gratitude. Like, Oh,
I'm just thankful to be alive. I'm just thankful, you know,
I'm blessed and I'm not going to worry God about my little leg problem.
I want you to raise your hand. If you feel like that too,
like you don't want to bother God with your little problems.
There's people dying in the world. They're suffering. You know,
there's all kinds of people that, you know,
should be first in line for God's attention. And you don't want him,
you don't want to bother him with your petty little problems.
Look at all those hands. There shouldn't even be one hand up. Listen, y'all.
I know that that sounds really noble of you, but that's not how it works.
And I didn't say this to her because she probably would have given me a spanking.
But I will say this. That's not how this works.
God's omnipotent. He's omniscient. He's not one.
He's not a person. Okay?
You are inside of him right now.
Isn't that cool how that works?
You're inside of him and he's inside of you.
What?
You are all encompassed by God.
Every thought, every thought before you think it, he knows it.
Every word before you speak it, he knows it.
The Bible says he knows what you have need of before you even ask.
But you still have to ask. You know why?
Because you have free will. You have choice.
He knows your needs, but you still have to ask him to meet them.
He takes, just so you know,
I know church wants to take away our free will all the time.
You know, the wrong type of teaching.
But I will tell you that God takes your choice and your free will.
free will very seriously, very seriously.
That's why the very first lesson of heart work is surrender.
And that is not something that you're going to do once.
You're going to continue to do that throughout your entire life.
Hopefully every day you're going to surrender
because God sees things that you can't see.
He knows things that you don't know,
but let's go back and just keep thinking about what the word says about God
being with us and God being for us and God never leaving us and never forsaking
us. That nothing can separate us from his love.
You're the psalmist.
David talks about how if he flew up on the wings of the morning that he would be
in God's presence still.
And if he took and went down into the depths of Sheol,
which is the dark place, the forsaken and forgotten place,
you guys know that hell is less about fire and brimstone and more about
separation from God.
You have never known what it is like to be separated from God as a believer.
When we were all in our sin before we became, you know,
a reborn,
the rebirth process of receiving Christ as our savior and being reconnected to
father God,
reconnected,
reconciled,
dead in sin and now alive in Christ.
Can you imagine what it would be like to be separated from eternity from God?
So the psalmist is saying,
even if I chose my bed in Sheol,
you would still be there,
right?
Because that's obviously not the final thing.
We haven't come to that and all these people that want to send so many people
to hell for their sin.
They don't understand that those people right now,
they don't understand
the separation that they have from God right now.
They don't understand.
And it's our job to help them to understand.
It's our job to show the world what Jesus looks like.
That's our job.
And so back to my original story,
but I think that's an important segue for those of you that have the wrong
idea about the character of God.
He is good and he loves you.
He loves you.
I know we love Romans 8,
28 and I've said it before and I'm going to say it again.
We shouldn't stop there.
We should read 29 and we should go into the,
the end of those verses.
And we should go into the next verse and the next verse and the next verse
because it's telling a story.
It's not just about God working all things to our good.
It's about why he would work all things to our good because he foreknew us and
he predestined us to be glorified with his son.
Isn't that beautiful?
It's beautiful.
You've been called and if you've answered that call, you've been chosen.
And so we can have gratitude right now this morning for that,
if for nothing else.
All right.
So worry is giving way to anxiety and unease,
allowing ourselves to dwell on difficulty and trouble.
And one of the synonyms of worry is to torment one's self.
So I told you that when David got me,
when, when, when God gave, gave him a wife,
the wife that he got was someone who was tormented a lot with fear.
And worry.
And guess what?
My husband's not like that.
All right.
All worriers have some calm person in their life, right?
They have a calm person in their life, no matter who that person is.
That's clipping their toenails while the Titanic is sinking.
All right.
Everybody has one of these people and these people, you're just like,
are you going to get, are you going to get worked up over anything?
Does anything get a rise out of you?
What are we doing here?
Cause that's another synonym of worrying is to get worked up.
And I'm telling you right now, you cannot get David Dorman worked up.
You cannot get him worked up.
And that is annoying to me.
All right.
If I'm going to go and run around, the sky is falling.
Remember Chicken Little?
I'm really dating myself today with all of these references to all this stuff.
My husband will not run around with me.
If I want to run around with my hair on fire, he's just going to sit there and
watch, he is not going to participate.
Okay.
So to torment oneself.
and David would be like, he would say to me often,
he's like, Jackie, why are you suffering needlessly?
Come on, somebody needs to write that down.
Why are you suffering needlessly?
You guys, we all know that worry has let us down,
meaning that 99.9% of the stuff you've worried about
has never happened.
Worry is a liar.
Fear is false evidence appearing real, right?
It has let you down time and time and time again.
You spent all this time giving all of this bandwidth
and all of this mind space to worry,
and yet it has not, it has not come through.
And in the meantime, you're suffering needlessly.
You're torturing yourself.
And that's a synonym of worry, to torment one's self.
Let's get really honest here.
How many of you get so vivid with your negative imagination
that not only are you worrying about it happening,
you are there.
You can see it and smell it and taste it.
Someone is 15 minutes late to get home,
and you're at their funeral crying.
Oh, they got in a car accident.
And you start worrying about,
oh, what if they got in a car accident?
And the next thing you know, you're at their funeral,
and you're shedding a tear, like in your mind,
in the movie in your mind.
Anybody else, or I'm just probably crazy.
That's fine.
I have a vivid imagination.
I have a gift of imagination,
and I used to use it incorrectly.
And we're gonna get to that here in a second,
because it's important.
Because remember what I said at the beginning of this?
We have gifts, but if they get overextended by trauma,
they become weaknesses.
And the imagination is one of those gifts
that can become a weakness very quickly.
All right, so there's a story that I read years ago.
It was in some kind of online magazine.
It was a news story, and it was about a Japanese airline
that was being sued by its passengers.
And so I read the story,
and basically what happened in the story
is that the pilots had to quickly go down, descend,
because you guys know when you're in an airplane,
the airplane descends slowly.
Cabin pressure, all that.
And so when they start making their descent,
you know, and the pilot comes on,
there's about 35, 40 minutes left in the flight,
and he said, we're now gonna begin our descent.
Because it goes down slowly so that everything can acclimate
to the change in cabin pressure
and to the change of altitude and all the things.
But for whatever reason,
there was something that happened
that caused these pilots to have to descend quickly.
So they went down 20,000 feet
in about less than 10 minutes.
And what happened as a result of that
is the little airbags in the ceiling,
you know, where your seats,
they always tell you, hey, up here above you,
there's some bags that will drop down
if cabin pressure changes.
Well, the masks dropped out of the ceiling.
But you guys, there was never any real danger, okay?
The cabin pressure was still fine.
This was something that just happened
because they descended so quickly.
And instead of understanding what was going on,
the crew and the pilots were not communicating correctly.
And so the flight crew, when there was such a quick descent
and then the mask dropped out of the ceiling,
they freaked out.
The flight crew was running around the plane,
screaming and crying as if the plane was going to crash.
What happened?
They got all worked up.
But you guys, they got all worked up over nothing
because the plane was not crashing.
And I want you to ask yourself right now,
really be honest with yourself.
How often do you get all worked up over nothing?
Come on, it's really good, you know it is.
How often do you get all worked up over nothing?
You see one thing that's out of place
and you've taken it 100 miles an hour down a dead-end road.
And that's the thing about worry.
If you give it an inch, it will take 10,000 miles.
It will.
So they were running around the plane, screaming, crying,
and the plane was in working order.
Nothing was wrong.
The sky is not falling.
It's false evidence that's appearing real.
Do you guys know that worry is meditation?
Some of you may go to yoga or some other type of class where
they want you to clear your mind.
They want you to meditate.
You know, the Bible even tells us to meditate.
Doesn't it?
In the book of Psalms, Psalm 1, it says that they that meditate.
That's what the word is there.
There'll be like trees planted by the brooks of water who will
give their fruit in every season.
Meditate on what?
On God's word, on his goodness.
And what meditate means is just to think of something over and
over and over and over and over and over and over again.
It's actually the same.
It's the same kind of the same kind of premise as chewing cud.
Have you ever seen a cow that chews its cud?
The cow's not eating you guys.
It's just chewing the cud.
Just chewing and chewing and chewing and chewing and I think
it's part of this digestion process, right?
Wow, that's a whole word in itself.
If we chew on the word of God, if we meditate on it, if we
chew it and chew it and chew it, then we can digest it.
Undigested food does not work for your body.
It does not bring your body nutrients, but digested food
disperses to all the cells in your body so that it can get
all the nutrients that it needs.
And so chewing
on the word of God is what the word meditate means in the
Bible.
But when we worry you guys, we're chewing on fear.
We're meditating
on the wrong thing.
We're meditating on it, right?
We're letting our mind go over and over and over again on
something negative.
So if you can worry,
you can also worship.
If you know how to worry,
then you also know how to worship because that's what
worship is as well.
Worship is meditating on the positive, letting your mind go
over and over again about the majesty of God and the
goodness of God and the love of God, the power of God.
Is this helping anyone?
Let me see your hands.
I look at your faces and you're like,
we already read the back of the book, y'all.
Everything works out in the end.
And if it's not worked out yet, then it's not the end, right?
There's a lot that goes into the middle.
I get that.
So much of what we call responsible is really just
living in fear.
A lot of you have a lot of responsibility in your life.
And those are the things that you worry about.
You worry about, you know,
You worry about doing the things that you know that you
have to do and that you have to accomplish and your
responsibilities.
But for a lot of people, that is just a synonym for living
in fear.
Well, I have to think about this, Jackie, because not
thinking about this right now makes me irresponsible.
No, you can give that to the Lord.
You sitting around and thinking about
thinking about something you can't control
and thinking about it is not going to change.
It is called worry, not responsibility.
I'm going to say that again.
You sitting around and you sitting around and dwelling on
something
that you can't change your control
is not called
responsibility.
It's called living in fear.
Constantly staring at it and looking at it is not going to
change it.
But worshiping will.
Getting in
the presence of the Lord and casting your care upon him and
putting him back on the throne of your heart and worshiping
and knowing that he has a good plan and a hope in a future
and a hope in a future for you that doesn't include whatever
these negative things are that are trying to take up all of
your bandwidth.
That is worship.
Now, I'm going to tell you,
I used to be the queen of turning molehills into
mountains.
Taking one little thing.
Okay, one little thing.
Oh, I have a sniffle.
I have a sniffle.
Okay.
Well, what about my co-pay?
I don't have insurance.
I can't go see the doctor.
What the sniffle turns into the flu.
What the flu turns into
straight-up Ebola,
you know, I would take it all the way to some crazy place,
you guys.
When I first married David, it'd be normal for me to lay in
bed at night and say,
I have a pain in my side.
Do you think I'm dying?
Do you think it's this?
Do you think it's that?
Do you think it's my muscle?
Do you think I pulled a muscle?
Or do you think it's internal?
Do you think it's an organ?
You guys, I would take a molehill
and make it into a mountain.
And you know why?
Because I grew up in a destructive, okay, home
full of abuse where I had to sleep with one eye open.
I had to always be alert and awake
and looking over my shoulder.
And that had given me a hypervigilance about my safety.
And that hypervigilance about my safety
as I got older turned into chronic anxiety
and worry over every little thing.
But there came a point in my life,
and that's why you guys have the Jesus Cares Board,
when God said, hey, Jackie, who do you belong to?
And I said, you.
And he said, who do all these perceived problems
that you have belong to?
Well, they belong to me.
No, they don't, Jackie.
If you belong to me, then these things belong to me as well.
I need you to give them to me.
And that is where the Jesus Cares Board was born.
I'd love to tell you that from that moment forward,
I cast all my worry and care on him, but I did not.
It took me years and years and years and years and years
to get to where I am.
And I wanna fast track you this morning.
Worry is not gonna change anything.
It's not gonna better your life.
It's gonna steal your life.
You know, your mind is powerful.
It's a magnifying glass.
And whatever you continually think about, you magnify it.
Now, I don't believe in what people say,
because I think it's really scary.
Oh, if you think on bad things,
then bad things are gonna happen to you.
You know, if you worry out loud
and talk about bad things happening,
those things are gonna happen to you.
I do believe that death and life
are in the power of the tongue,
but I do not believe that every time
you've ever murmured something that you were scared about,
that you've now brought that thing upon yourself.
I don't believe that, okay?
Because quite frankly, friends, if that worked,
then that would have to work in the opposite direction.
And what about all the good things that you've said
that haven't happened either?
And so the bottom line is, is that that's not true.
But it does magnify in your mind.
Your mind will make it bigger and bigger.
Like I said, turning molehills into mountains.
And then what happens is you're consumed by it.
You can't see anything else.
This thing has become bigger than your God.
It has.
And that's all you can see.
You can't see anything but that.
I remember a story of a missionary years and years ago,
and he said that, and I don't know if I heard this story
firsthand or secondhand,
it might be just like one of those urban legends,
but I really like it.
He arrived in the foreign land
and he was with indigenous people,
people that had never seen someone of his race
or someone of his stature, because he was tall.
These people were smaller statured people
that had never seen his skin tone.
And they were amazed by him.
And he was talking to them through an interpreter about God.
Telling them about God.
And they began to tell him about their God.
They had a God too.
They had a medicine man.
They had someone that they worshiped as a deity.
And they told him, they were excited.
They said, you're here just in time
because our God is coming.
Our God is coming to our village.
And he was like, oh, really?
And so they waited at the docks.
This was a water based people, got everywhere by boat.
And they waited at the docks of the village.
And pretty soon here comes the boat.
And he said, this little man,
this tiny little man got out of the boat.
This was their God.
This was their deity.
And they were like, look here, here, this is our God.
And they saw that he was taken aback by this little man
that was getting out of the boat and coming towards them.
And the legend has it that he said to them,
this is your God?
And they said, yes.
They said, are you surprised?
Yes, I'm very surprised.
Why are you surprised?
I'm surprised at how small he is.
And they said, oh, you think he's small?
How big is your God?
What a question for us to ask ourselves today.
How big is your God?
I know that we all worship the same God,
but I think that he's different sizes to all of us.
Right?
Based on whatever we're going through in life.
And you guys, I'm talking to myself.
I'm not where I used to be 20 years ago,
but I still allow myself occasionally.
only to dwell on the evil forebodings,
to make God small and my worry big,
to magnify my problems and to minimize God's grace
and his love and his protection and his power.
Ask yourself that.
Let's get honest right now.
Put in the chat what you chronically worry about.
It has to be something that,
not you don't worry, you haven't worried,
oh, I worried about this one time.
No, it's something that keeps popping back up.
Yeah, you push it down,
you put it on your Jesus Cares board,
but it does try to keep coming over for dinner.
What is the thing?
If you were gonna worry about anything,
what would the thing be?
Come on, let's get honest.
Confession is good.
James tells us confess and be healed.
I'm gonna give you guys a chance.
There isn't anyone here who doesn't have
some kind of reoccurring worry that tries to pop up.
Read over it.
See how similar all of you are
in the things that try to overwhelm your mind.
You guys know that scientifically proven
that women worry more than men?
Not that men don't worry, they do,
but that women have a tendency
to be more of the worriers than men.
Get them all out there.
Come on, we're giving you guys space.
Confess, confess, confess.
Let's break the back of this thing
so it doesn't have power over you anymore.
Let's magnify God so he becomes bigger
and minimize these lies from the enemy,
this worry, this fear.
And you guys, there are some things
that I see you putting up
that you definitely could take steps towards
to change already.
All of you that are worried about never being a mother
or never having a family,
there are so many children that need families right now.
Family is whatever you choose to be a family.
You realize that, right?
Being a bonus mom, I understand that.
I know that.
Raising children that I did not give birth to
has been one of the greatest,
greatest opportunities and blessings of my life.
And a lot of us are talking about worrying about money,
we're worrying about where we're gonna live, those things.
The Bible talks about that very specific worry,
doesn't it?
It says, seek first the kingdom of God.
What does that mean?
That means God on the throne and his righteousness.
That's Jesus in your heart.
And all these other things
that people that don't know God,
the pagans, the people that are running around
in this orphan state, trying to take care of themselves,
all these other things that they're all worried about,
all that stuff will be provided for you, right?
Have you ever noticed that when you chase money,
it runs away?
But when you chase God, money chases you.
You ever had that experience?
I had that experience.
I had to pay a really big bill, y'all,
the biggest one I've ever paid.
I had to make a very big investment.
And I was concerned about it because I also knew
that my daughter and my brand new twin grandbabies
was coming to my house in Texas for an entire month.
And I wasn't gonna be able to do any coaching,
any private coaching, anything that I do
to kind of monetize my life.
And I had already made a promise to her
that I wasn't going to work while she was there,
that I was going to spend time,
because they live far away,
with her and my son-in-law and my grandbabies,
just doing family.
And I did it.
I just put away my worry.
I didn't chase after trying to take care of my own needs.
I'm like, God, you'll take care of us.
Just had to pay out all this money
and now not able to bring any more in.
Because normally, you would go into beast mode.
Like, what do I gotta do to make some money?
I gotta drive Uber?
Do I gotta go do DoorDash?
What do I gotta do?
Instead, I spent that time with my daughter
and my grandbabies and my son-in-law,
and so did my husband.
And the day that we put her on the airplane
to go back to Ohio, I got a phone call.
own call with an opportunity that made, uh, made more money than I had paid out.
I mean, over the course of time, of course, God took care of me when I put the kingdom
first.
Family is kingdom, right?
Now, does that mean that you can sit on your couch and pray for people all day on the telephone
and God's just going to pay your bills for you?
No, that's not, that's not what that means.
That means that you have a unique set of skills.
You have a unique gift set.
And when you focus on God being your provider, when you focus on the fact that you are part
of a family that has unlimited resources and you let your thoughts and your time and your
energies be invested into that, everything else kind of takes care of itself at different
levels.
I've been in full-time ministry for 28 years and I've lived at every level, friends.
I've lived at the level where I don't know where the rent's coming from this month.
And I've lived at the level of being able to pay someone else's rent for them that month.
Okay?
Ebbs and flows, seasons of life.
But you know what's unchanging?
God.
So if we're going to put our hopes and our dreams in anything, let us put it into something
that's unshakeable.
Because we're living in the time where the Bible says, and everything that can be shaken
will be shaken.
So that what cannot be shaken has room to expand.
We're in an expansion time, friends.
And all the enemy wants you to do is look at what's shaking all around you and start
getting worried about it.
The economy's shaking.
The government's shaking.
The gas prices is shaking.
Inflation is shaking.
This is inflating.
All this is shaking, shaking, shaking, shaking.
And it is shaking.
But instead of looking at what's shaking, why don't you look around to find out, hmm,
God said, when there's the shaking, there would be the immovable things.
There'd be the things that are not shaking, and those are the things that are expanding.
Let me look around and see what's not shaking.
Isn't that what we're supposed to do as believers?
Don't we have an inside track?
Instead of running around with everybody else on the plane that's not crashing with our
hair on fire, aren't we supposed to be looking to see what's going on with the rock of ages?
What's God doing right now?
Let me get on board that ship.
Let me do that.
Do you guys know that it takes the same amount of energy to be positive than to be negative?
Because the what ifs work both ways.
Come on, you guys.
The what ifs work both ways.
For those of you that have ever played the good gossip game with us, that's where it came from.
One of the ways that God helped me to get over my chronic anxiety as I was getting deeper
and deeper and deeper into grace, first of all, I had to come out of religion because
religion will fuel your anxiety, you know, every day of the week and twice on Sundays.
Because it's based on your performance, and if your performance isn't good enough, then
God isn't obligated to take care of you.
And so that was really making me more and more afraid all the time.
What if God doesn't save me?
What if I haven't earned my saving this week kind of thing?
So the more and more that I came out of religion into grace, into his love and into his character,
the more that he taught me things that were going to heal me from my childhood, where
I was always waiting for the other shoe to drop.
And some of you are still waiting for the other shoe to drop.
Waiting for the next bad thing that's going to happen.
Always ready to hear the bad news.
Well, what if it's time for good news?
Isn't that why Jesus said, it's the good news?
It's the good news.
And so God taught me to play the good gossip game because the what ifs work both ways.
You can sit around, well, what if the world ends?
And what if this person gets elected?
And what if this happens?
And what if the economy crashes tomorrow?
What if there's bread lines from the Great Depression again?
And what if, and what if, and what if?
What if everything goes good?
What if the light gets brighter in the darkness?
What if the people of God get the curtain rises and it's the children of God's time
on the earth, Matthew 5, to be the light that cannot be hid on the hill?
What if that happens?
What if you get the job?
What if there isn't anything wrong on the doctor's report?
What if they ask you for a second date or a third date or a fourth date?
What if?
You know, it's so much better to live in the what if on the positive hope side.
I said worry has let you down, but hope never has never let you down.
Because hope turns into faith and faith turns into miracles.
If you let hope stick around for long enough, it will become faith.
And then faith will turn into miracles.
You know that, right?
Don't let go of your hope.
Go go watch my supernatural hope session.
Don't let it go.
Don't defer it.
God doesn't defer our hope.
We do.
We postpone our hope.
We put our hope on pause.
To do what?
To worry.
Okay, this hope thing is not working up.
I got my hopes up.
Nothing's happening.
So I'm gonna go over here and worry a little bit.
Don't defer hope.
The Bible says it makes you heart sick.
And remember, sick hearts go looking for medication.
And that's never good.
That's gonna take you down the rabbit hole.
You're gonna go down.
No.
So let's change those what ifs to work for us.
And this is what God taught me to do.
He said, Jackie, instead of sitting around and imagining all the bad things that can
happen and everything that can go wrong, what if you use that same power of imagination
to dream?
He said, because really, daughter, this is a gift that's been overextended by trauma
in your life.
This vivid imagination that you have, this ability to have this movie playing in your
mind of things.
He said, it is a gift that I've given you.
Now it's become a weakness because you're using it to the negative.
But what if you used it to the positive?
Women worry more than men.
I don't know if it's because we have more imagination.
I'm not saying that at all.
But what I am saying is, is that that gift, the ability to worry is the gift of creativity
and imagination.
You're just using it wrong.
It's become overextended by trauma.
Now it's become a weakness.
If you guys have ever seen that cartoon Inside Out 2, it's the second one.
I watched it on the plane on my way here.
Riley is the girl who has all the characters living in her head, you know, all the feelings,
all the emotions, and anxiety shows up as Riley becomes a teenager.
And anxiety wants to go into Riley's dream world and turn all of her dreams into fear.
You guys, if that was not prophetic, I don't know what is.
Instead of dreaming at nighttime of all the good things, anxiety, which is the little
emotional character that's shown up to help Riley in her teen years, has now has all the
dream, all the dream workers, all Riley's dream workers coming up with terrible scenarios.
So Riley's tossing and turning all night, imagining the wrong things.
Wow.
You guys, whatever that thing is that keeps you up at night and doesn't allow you to have
the sweet, peaceful sleep that God says that is his children's right.
It is your right.
He gives us sleep.
He gives us rest.
Psalms tells us that he provides for his lovers while they're sleeping.
Come on.
I love that verse.
This is my favorite.
He provides for his lovers even while they're sleeping.
So whatever's keeping you up at night, whatever's going around and around in your mind that
you're worried about, that thing's an idol.
Let's cast it at the feet of Jesus.
Let's worship.
At nighttime, my mom, at the end of her life, she would have a constant playlist of worship
songs playing over her so that she could keep herself into alignment with God's goodness
and his love for her in the night season so that she could peacefully and restfully sleep.
And you guys, I've had seasons of life, like seasons of time in my life too, where I had
to get aggressive with my peace.
Some of you all need to protect your peace.
You got to get aggressive with protecting your peace and putting up boundaries.
Got to stop looking at the internet and at the news and anything that feeds fear, anything
that is the wheelhouse.
of worry. You've got to turn it off. You've got to guard your peace. You've got to cultivate
your peace. Light some candles. Put on some worship music. Spend some time in his presence.
Read the word over yourself and not the Old Testament. Stay in the New Testament unless
you're in Psalms or Proverbs. I've had clients that they're like, man, I'm reading the Bible
and I'm more afraid than ever. I'm like, what are you reading? Where are you at? Where are
you at? Where are you? What are you reading at? Oh, you know, I was, I was reading some
stuff and you know, and then they say something. I'm like, oh no, stay out of that. Stay out
of that book. Don't go there. Come on, go over here. Go into Roman. Go into Galatians.
Ephesians, that's a good one. Ephesians, one of my favorites. Stay there if you want
to read something besides just the gospels. But some of us, you know, we need to get in
the good news. So you guys, it's time for us to play that good gossip game. So God would
have me talking about myself in third person. I do talk to myself a lot. So if you see me
in public and it looks like I'm talking, I am probably, and I'll play it off when people
pass me like I'm singing or something, but I'm talking to myself a hundred percent of
the time and it's because I have an ongoing conversation with God. So you guys, I want
you to take a look in the mirror. This is going to be your homework into Sunday night.
Go look in the mirror and I want you to tell yourself, I am a dreamer and I have an amazing
imagination. And starting now, I'm going to use it to partner with heaven over the
dreams on my life. Because if I can see it, I can be it. And if I can believe it, I can
have it. Remember you guys, this is the year of manifestation. 5785, this is the year of
manifestation and I'm going to call it, this is the year of imagination. Your imagination
is a gift from God. It's time for you to partner with God, with your imagination and
not use it to the negative, not worry, but use it to the positive worship. Use it to
the positive dream. The Bible says when they came out of captivity, they became as those
that dream. It's time for us to step out of captivity, to step out of Egypt, to step out
of bondage and to step into the dreams of God over our lives. And for some of us, just
like for me, it was hard. It was hard. I had to work it like a job because I was so
used to being negative. I was so used to chewing on the worry and the bad things. And so if
you come tomorrow night, we'll teach you how to play the good gossip game over yourself.
We'll even play it. Some of you have already played it before, but we're going to play
it together. It's going to be amazing. You guys, this could be a turning point for your
life because I really do believe that this has the power not only to help you live a
happier life and a healthier life, but it also has the power for you to be able to step
into the promises of God over your life. Okay. To get out of those proverbial waiting rooms
and to step into what has been waiting for you all along. I love you guys. Have a supernatural
Saturday and I'll see you soon.