WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.120 Welcome to Supernatural Saturday. 2 00:00:04.120 --> 00:00:09.160 If you're new and there are a lot of new people, we just want to tell you we are so glad you're 3 00:00:09.160 --> 00:00:10.160 here with us. 4 00:00:10.160 --> 00:00:13.520 And on Saturdays, we look to the Lord together. 5 00:00:13.520 --> 00:00:17.160 Supernatural Saturday is a time of what is the current prophetic reality? 6 00:00:17.160 --> 00:00:20.000 What is God saying to us individually and corporately? 7 00:00:20.000 --> 00:00:26.720 It is a time where we lean into Holy Spirit so we can hear directions, blueprints, anything 8 00:00:26.720 --> 00:00:29.040 and everything that God wants to say to us. 9 00:00:29.080 --> 00:00:33.280 And today we're going to talk about worry, we're going to talk about, don't worry, just 10 00:00:33.280 --> 00:00:34.280 worship. 11 00:00:34.280 --> 00:00:37.280 I wrote that down on my paper. 12 00:00:37.280 --> 00:00:39.480 There's a lot of people that are worried right now. 13 00:00:39.480 --> 00:00:42.240 We have a really important election happening in America. 14 00:00:42.240 --> 00:00:45.600 If you don't live in America, you might not feel it in the atmosphere. 15 00:00:45.600 --> 00:00:51.080 But if you live in America, you can feel the tension in the atmosphere, am I right? 16 00:00:51.080 --> 00:00:52.960 People are scared either way. 17 00:00:52.960 --> 00:00:53.960 People are scared. 18 00:00:54.760 --> 00:00:59.440 But the very first thing that I want to say for all of you empaths, for all of you intercessors 19 00:00:59.440 --> 00:01:04.680 that are picking up all of that ick in the atmosphere right now, is you can turn it, 20 00:01:04.680 --> 00:01:05.680 you can turn it off. 21 00:01:05.680 --> 00:01:09.000 You can tune it out by worship. 22 00:01:09.000 --> 00:01:14.120 All right, we're going to talk about that for a little while this morning. 23 00:01:14.120 --> 00:01:19.160 And then I want to see everyone's hands that would just go ahead and admit, I worry. 24 00:01:19.160 --> 00:01:20.600 I worry. 25 00:01:20.600 --> 00:01:26.920 You know, I have intrusive negative thoughts that come and sometimes I invite them over 26 00:01:26.920 --> 00:01:31.240 for dinner and let them stay for a while, eat a couple of meals together with those 27 00:01:31.240 --> 00:01:32.240 thoughts. 28 00:01:32.240 --> 00:01:34.620 Let me see your hands. 29 00:01:34.620 --> 00:01:37.000 It doesn't mean that it has to be a chronic habit. 30 00:01:37.000 --> 00:01:38.480 You don't have to be a worry wart. 31 00:01:38.480 --> 00:01:40.200 I don't even know where that came from. 32 00:01:40.200 --> 00:01:41.200 Worry wart. 33 00:01:41.200 --> 00:01:46.120 Someone look up that saying and find out what that means or where that came from. 34 00:01:46.120 --> 00:01:47.280 But you just worry. 35 00:01:47.280 --> 00:01:51.660 You find yourself worrying sometimes about certain things. 36 00:01:51.660 --> 00:01:58.240 You have reoccurring thoughts about certain subjects or remember to use your Jesus cares 37 00:01:58.240 --> 00:02:01.600 board and if you're brand new to phase one heart work, you're going to find out what 38 00:02:01.600 --> 00:02:05.340 that is and make sure you make it and make sure you use it because it will change your 39 00:02:05.340 --> 00:02:10.940 life if you cast your cares on him because he cares for you. 40 00:02:10.940 --> 00:02:14.220 But for those of you that are real sensitive to other people's feelings and you're real 41 00:02:14.220 --> 00:02:18.900 sensitive to the atmosphere, you might feel yourself getting kind of depressed right now 42 00:02:18.900 --> 00:02:20.900 in this season. 43 00:02:20.900 --> 00:02:22.060 Heaviness is on you. 44 00:02:22.060 --> 00:02:23.540 It doesn't belong to you. 45 00:02:23.540 --> 00:02:24.540 Okay. 46 00:02:24.540 --> 00:02:28.660 It belongs to what's happening in the atmosphere and you need to learn how to let that go. 47 00:02:28.660 --> 00:02:30.580 Otherwise it will crush you. 48 00:02:30.580 --> 00:02:31.580 Okay. 49 00:02:31.580 --> 00:02:36.180 And so you have to learn how to release that if you have that gift. 50 00:02:36.180 --> 00:02:37.180 Guys, gifts overextended. 51 00:02:37.180 --> 00:02:39.940 I'm going to say this a couple of times today. 52 00:02:39.940 --> 00:02:43.700 A gift that is overextended becomes a weakness. 53 00:02:43.700 --> 00:02:49.500 And so if you have that gift of empathy, if you are an empath, if you are an intercessor, 54 00:02:49.500 --> 00:02:56.860 a prayer warrior, then you are going to pick up what's going on in other people's hearts. 55 00:02:56.860 --> 00:03:01.180 You can be out in the shopping mall and all of a sudden you don't feel so good. 56 00:03:01.180 --> 00:03:02.740 You're starting to feel depressed. 57 00:03:02.740 --> 00:03:07.120 You're starting to have, you know, intrusive negative thoughts and maybe you were feeling 58 00:03:07.120 --> 00:03:09.900 great that morning that you got up. 59 00:03:09.900 --> 00:03:12.380 All was right with the world and now you're feeling this way. 60 00:03:12.380 --> 00:03:13.380 Well, guess what? 61 00:03:14.060 --> 00:03:15.060 It's not you. 62 00:03:15.060 --> 00:03:16.300 It's not you that's feeling that way. 63 00:03:16.300 --> 00:03:19.860 You're picking up somebody else's stuff. 64 00:03:19.860 --> 00:03:23.820 You're walking around out there in the world and you're picking up what someone else is 65 00:03:23.820 --> 00:03:24.820 going through. 66 00:03:24.820 --> 00:03:29.340 And so if you ever have those feelings that feel very outside of yourself, like, Hey, 67 00:03:29.340 --> 00:03:31.100 where did this come from? 68 00:03:31.100 --> 00:03:36.060 It came from someone else and all you have to do is just start praying, Lord, whoever's 69 00:03:36.060 --> 00:03:42.300 feeling that way right now, whoever's feeling despondent, whoever's feeling hopeless, whoever's 70 00:03:42.300 --> 00:03:46.380 feeling discouraged right now, I ask that you would touch them. 71 00:03:46.380 --> 00:03:50.060 Sometimes God may even point out to you who it is and you can go over and try to encourage 72 00:03:50.060 --> 00:03:55.500 them with a word of knowledge about their lives, but don't own it. 73 00:03:55.500 --> 00:03:56.500 Don't own it yourself. 74 00:03:56.500 --> 00:04:00.860 Don't say, Oh my gosh, I'm having a bad day now. 75 00:04:00.860 --> 00:04:07.180 Don't start going down that bunny trail with that feeling or that thought because it doesn't 76 00:04:07.180 --> 00:04:08.940 belong to you. 77 00:04:08.940 --> 00:04:10.140 Okay. 78 00:04:10.140 --> 00:04:15.500 It's really important that you don't do that and that you learn how to use that gift. 79 00:04:15.500 --> 00:04:20.420 Remember because when a gift gets overextended, it becomes a weakness. 80 00:04:20.420 --> 00:04:24.940 And I've known lots of intercessors, being an intercessor myself, being an empath myself, 81 00:04:24.940 --> 00:04:29.060 I've known lots of people who haven't had good teaching on how to use that gift that 82 00:04:29.060 --> 00:04:33.820 just lived their lives depressed and melancholy because they were always picking up other 83 00:04:33.820 --> 00:04:38.460 people's stuff and they didn't know it and they just owned it themselves and just thought 84 00:04:38.500 --> 00:04:42.540 that they were a depressed person or a melancholy person, someone who was always worried, someone 85 00:04:42.540 --> 00:04:46.300 who was always thinking about bad things and it wasn't true. 86 00:04:46.300 --> 00:04:47.620 Okay. 87 00:04:47.620 --> 00:04:50.020 So let's go ahead and release that to the Lord. 88 00:04:50.020 --> 00:04:54.540 And so let's talk about worry versus worship because all worship is and some of you, you 89 00:04:54.540 --> 00:04:58.860 might come from a charismatic church where worship is on Sunday mornings when you gather 90 00:04:58.860 --> 00:04:59.980 with your family. 91 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:02.420 your church, your church community, 92 00:05:02.420 --> 00:05:04.960 and there's people playing electric guitars, 93 00:05:04.960 --> 00:05:07.880 and drums, and singing, and the lights are usually off, 94 00:05:07.880 --> 00:05:09.580 and maybe there's a smoke machine. 95 00:05:11.260 --> 00:05:13.480 You know, and there's a lot of, 96 00:05:13.480 --> 00:05:15.880 you guys, I don't want you to get the impression 97 00:05:15.880 --> 00:05:18.400 that modern worship gets on my nerves, 98 00:05:18.400 --> 00:05:20.680 but modern worship kind of gets on my nerves, 99 00:05:20.680 --> 00:05:24.520 because it's so melancholy. 100 00:05:24.520 --> 00:05:27.680 Oh God, we're just little worms. 101 00:05:27.680 --> 00:05:29.100 Thank you for looking at us. 102 00:05:29.100 --> 00:05:31.980 I don't like, I don't like it, right? 103 00:05:31.980 --> 00:05:35.740 I like it when they play songs that you can jump around to. 104 00:05:35.740 --> 00:05:37.300 That's the kind of worship that I like, 105 00:05:37.300 --> 00:05:39.500 but you guys, none of it is necessarily worship. 106 00:05:39.500 --> 00:05:41.940 It's music, okay? 107 00:05:41.940 --> 00:05:44.140 Worship is about your heart posture. 108 00:05:45.700 --> 00:05:47.920 Who is on the throne of your heart? 109 00:05:47.920 --> 00:05:49.480 Is it King Jesus there? 110 00:05:50.580 --> 00:05:52.780 That's what worship is about. 111 00:05:52.780 --> 00:05:57.780 What do you allow to be on the throne of your heart? 112 00:05:58.620 --> 00:06:01.060 Okay, otherwise, you know, you're just singing, 113 00:06:01.060 --> 00:06:04.300 but if you're singing from a place of worship, 114 00:06:04.300 --> 00:06:08.740 because Jesus is on the throne, right? 115 00:06:08.740 --> 00:06:10.580 Because God is still in control. 116 00:06:10.580 --> 00:06:11.740 He's still in charge. 117 00:06:11.740 --> 00:06:13.220 You're not worried because you know 118 00:06:13.220 --> 00:06:16.700 that if you surrender your free will to him, 119 00:06:16.700 --> 00:06:18.660 that everything's gonna be all right. 120 00:06:18.660 --> 00:06:20.620 You know, that's what worship is. 121 00:06:20.620 --> 00:06:23.740 Worship is when we decide not to look at the circumstances 122 00:06:23.740 --> 00:06:27.100 in front of us, or what everyone else in the world is saying, 123 00:06:27.140 --> 00:06:29.500 and we choose to come into agreement 124 00:06:29.500 --> 00:06:31.260 and alignment with the word of God. 125 00:06:33.540 --> 00:06:35.180 That's worship. 126 00:06:35.180 --> 00:06:36.860 You can worship anything. 127 00:06:36.860 --> 00:06:38.340 You can make anything your source. 128 00:06:38.340 --> 00:06:39.420 You know that, right? 129 00:06:40.860 --> 00:06:41.820 You can worship people. 130 00:06:41.820 --> 00:06:43.140 You can worship relationships. 131 00:06:43.140 --> 00:06:45.260 You can worship money. 132 00:06:45.260 --> 00:06:47.260 You can worship whatever it is 133 00:06:47.260 --> 00:06:49.060 that you think is your strength, 134 00:06:49.060 --> 00:06:50.320 or you can worship God. 135 00:06:51.220 --> 00:06:53.180 And sometimes we will find ourselves worshiping 136 00:06:53.180 --> 00:06:56.540 other things, letting other things dictate who we are. 137 00:06:58.100 --> 00:07:02.100 Putting way too much emphasis and faucets 138 00:07:02.100 --> 00:07:06.300 on the wrong syllable, as my pastor used to say. 139 00:07:08.020 --> 00:07:10.660 But then all you have to do is you just have to shift. 140 00:07:10.660 --> 00:07:13.180 When you realize you're doing that, you just have to shift. 141 00:07:13.180 --> 00:07:14.980 Say, no, I'm not gonna worship that. 142 00:07:16.900 --> 00:07:20.220 I'm not gonna worship that because that can't save me. 143 00:07:20.220 --> 00:07:22.620 I'm not gonna worship that because that hasn't saved me. 144 00:07:22.620 --> 00:07:23.540 I'm not gonna worship that 145 00:07:23.540 --> 00:07:26.140 because that isn't gonna change my life. 146 00:07:26.140 --> 00:07:28.980 That doesn't deserve my worship, but God does. 147 00:07:30.060 --> 00:07:31.140 So let's talk about worry. 148 00:07:31.140 --> 00:07:33.180 I'm gonna give you a definition if you wanna write it down. 149 00:07:33.180 --> 00:07:35.260 I think it's really powerful. 150 00:07:35.260 --> 00:07:38.500 The definition of worry is to give way. 151 00:07:38.500 --> 00:07:41.260 You guys, you have to make the way for worry. 152 00:07:41.260 --> 00:07:43.440 You have to clear the path for worry. 153 00:07:44.700 --> 00:07:47.840 You have to make a way for it to come, to come through. 154 00:07:49.140 --> 00:07:52.820 To give way to anxiety and unease, 155 00:07:53.820 --> 00:07:58.820 and allow yourself to dwell on difficulty and trouble. 156 00:07:58.940 --> 00:07:59.880 You guys, you see this? 157 00:07:59.880 --> 00:08:02.980 You have to give way to it and you have to allow it. 158 00:08:04.400 --> 00:08:05.980 Worry has to be allowed. 159 00:08:07.620 --> 00:08:10.740 You allow yourself to dwell, to dwell. 160 00:08:10.740 --> 00:08:12.380 That's to abide. 161 00:08:12.380 --> 00:08:14.560 That word means to live somewhere. 162 00:08:17.060 --> 00:08:18.700 Live down in the moly grubs. 163 00:08:19.180 --> 00:08:21.380 Live down in the depths of despair. 164 00:08:21.380 --> 00:08:23.260 Any Anna Green Gable fans? 165 00:08:23.260 --> 00:08:24.260 Remember that? 166 00:08:24.260 --> 00:08:27.860 The depths of despair, so dramatic. 167 00:08:27.860 --> 00:08:29.940 To live there, to dwell there. 168 00:08:29.940 --> 00:08:31.020 To dwell where? 169 00:08:31.020 --> 00:08:33.140 To dwell on difficulty and trouble. 170 00:08:34.620 --> 00:08:36.860 Here's some synonyms of worry. 171 00:08:36.860 --> 00:08:39.980 To torment oneself. 172 00:08:39.980 --> 00:08:43.059 I just wanna let you guys know, I've come a long way, 173 00:08:43.059 --> 00:08:46.780 but you guys know I had panic disorder in my 20s. 174 00:08:46.940 --> 00:08:48.940 You guys know I had panic disorder in my 20s 175 00:08:48.940 --> 00:08:50.100 and in my early 30s. 176 00:08:50.100 --> 00:08:52.900 And when I married David, what he found 177 00:08:52.900 --> 00:08:56.460 was he found someone who was, you know, 178 00:08:56.460 --> 00:08:58.740 worried about everything, pretty much. 179 00:08:58.740 --> 00:09:00.060 Anxious all the time. 180 00:09:00.060 --> 00:09:04.900 Had generalized anxiety because I had seen too much stuff. 181 00:09:04.900 --> 00:09:08.180 A lot of times when you have a generalized anxiety disorder, 182 00:09:08.180 --> 00:09:09.620 any kind of anxiety disorder, 183 00:09:09.620 --> 00:09:13.340 it is as a result of complex post-traumatic stress disorder. 184 00:09:14.420 --> 00:09:15.720 You've been through a lot. 185 00:09:17.340 --> 00:09:20.980 And so I definitely had COPD, PTSD. 186 00:09:20.980 --> 00:09:21.820 I had that. 187 00:09:23.660 --> 00:09:26.260 And so I could get worked up about a lot of things. 188 00:09:26.260 --> 00:09:29.220 I was a worst case scenario person. 189 00:09:29.220 --> 00:09:30.300 I know that's hard to believe, 190 00:09:30.300 --> 00:09:32.180 but I'm confessing that to you. 191 00:09:32.180 --> 00:09:34.580 I was a worst case scenario person. 192 00:09:34.580 --> 00:09:35.700 I knew Jesus. 193 00:09:38.940 --> 00:09:42.940 But I also didn't know that I was God defended. 194 00:09:43.900 --> 00:09:47.300 I knew a lot of religion back 20 years ago. 195 00:09:49.220 --> 00:09:51.620 And if I crossed all the T's and dotted all the I's, 196 00:09:51.620 --> 00:09:56.460 then yes, God was, you know, had to take care of me. 197 00:09:57.660 --> 00:10:00.220 He had to do it if I did what I was. 198 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:03.840 supposed to do, but as soon as I stepped outside the lines and you guys, 199 00:10:03.880 --> 00:10:07.200 I think you can imagine that I'm a step outside the line or kind of girl. 200 00:10:10.640 --> 00:10:13.000 And as soon as I did that, in my mind, 201 00:10:13.020 --> 00:10:15.800 he was no longer obligated to take care of me. 202 00:10:18.120 --> 00:10:23.120 He was not on the hook anymore to do his part. If I did anything wrong, 203 00:10:24.440 --> 00:10:26.200 anything that I thought was wrong. 204 00:10:26.800 --> 00:10:30.120 And when I tell you that I had high standards for myself and others, 205 00:10:30.120 --> 00:10:33.160 when I told, when I tell you that when I met Jesus, 206 00:10:33.160 --> 00:10:37.720 I was discipled by religious people who gave me a religious mindset, 207 00:10:37.720 --> 00:10:39.600 black and white, wrong and right. 208 00:10:42.880 --> 00:10:45.440 I didn't want to be that way, but that's what I was being told. 209 00:10:45.440 --> 00:10:48.680 And that was what I was being taught. And that's what I began to believe. 210 00:10:49.000 --> 00:10:53.600 And so I was always trying to stay out of God's displeasure, 211 00:10:53.760 --> 00:10:54.720 out of his wrath, 212 00:10:55.200 --> 00:10:59.800 out of all the things that I had been told about the character of God. 213 00:11:00.440 --> 00:11:02.240 And I just want, if that's you this morning, 214 00:11:02.240 --> 00:11:07.160 I just want to release you from that. God is not a rule keeper. 215 00:11:07.240 --> 00:11:08.880 Okay. He's not a ledger keeper. 216 00:11:09.120 --> 00:11:13.680 It's not writing down all of your faults and all of your flaws. Hey, 217 00:11:13.680 --> 00:11:17.280 he's not keeping track of those things. You know what he is keeping track of? 218 00:11:17.600 --> 00:11:18.640 The hairs on your head. 219 00:11:19.640 --> 00:11:22.640 He's keeping track of the tears that you, 220 00:11:22.680 --> 00:11:27.680 that fall from your eyes. That's what the Bible says. 221 00:11:27.680 --> 00:11:32.680 It says he's keeping track of the loving thoughts that he has towards you that 222 00:11:32.680 --> 00:11:37.680 are more than the sand grains on the seashore or the stars in the sky. 223 00:11:37.680 --> 00:11:42.680 Whoa, whoa. That's quite a different character of God, isn't it? 224 00:11:42.720 --> 00:11:46.720 Says that he has lovingly written you on his hand. 225 00:11:46.720 --> 00:11:49.720 Your name, you there. 226 00:11:49.720 --> 00:11:52.720 That's amazing, right? 227 00:11:52.720 --> 00:11:56.720 Isn't that beautiful? There's beautiful words, beautiful prose. 228 00:11:56.720 --> 00:11:57.720 And it's true. 229 00:11:57.720 --> 00:12:00.720 And even though you fully can't comprehend how God could do such a thing, 230 00:12:00.720 --> 00:12:03.720 because I ran into a woman the other day. I know her. 231 00:12:03.720 --> 00:12:04.720 And she was like, 232 00:12:04.720 --> 00:12:07.720 I'm not going to do this. I'm not going to do this. 233 00:12:07.720 --> 00:12:08.720 And I said, 234 00:12:08.760 --> 00:12:11.760 I'm not going to do such a thing because I ran into a woman the other day. 235 00:12:11.760 --> 00:12:16.760 I know her and she is in her early seventies and she had a fall. 236 00:12:16.760 --> 00:12:19.760 She tripped over something, fell, broke her leg. 237 00:12:19.760 --> 00:12:22.760 And she had surgery on it, 238 00:12:22.760 --> 00:12:26.760 got some pins put in and I haven't seen her since the summertime. 239 00:12:26.760 --> 00:12:31.760 So I ran into her and gave a big hug and I noticed that she had a caint with 240 00:12:31.760 --> 00:12:32.760 her. I said, 241 00:12:32.760 --> 00:12:35.760 Oh, you're still not fully, fully you know, 242 00:12:35.800 --> 00:12:38.800 Rehabilitated from, you know, the surgery. And she said, no, 243 00:12:38.800 --> 00:12:42.800 I'm going to have to get another surgery. And I said, what happened? 244 00:12:42.800 --> 00:12:47.800 And she said, I'm allergic to my body's rejecting the, 245 00:12:47.800 --> 00:12:49.800 the metal that they put in it. 246 00:12:51.800 --> 00:12:53.800 And I'm like, Oh wow. Okay. Well, we're going to, 247 00:12:53.800 --> 00:12:56.800 we're going to have to pray. And, and she stops me and, and, you know, 248 00:12:56.800 --> 00:12:59.800 she is a believer, but she stops me and she goes, Oh, 249 00:12:59.800 --> 00:13:02.800 I don't want to bother God. He has more things to worry about. 250 00:13:02.840 --> 00:13:05.840 I don't even want him to think about me because he has more things to worry 251 00:13:05.840 --> 00:13:10.840 about than me, bigger problems in the world, people that need more than me. 252 00:13:10.840 --> 00:13:12.840 I'm just, you know, I'm just, and then she, 253 00:13:12.840 --> 00:13:14.840 and then she turns it into gratitude. Like, Oh, 254 00:13:14.840 --> 00:13:17.840 I'm just thankful to be alive. I'm just thankful, you know, 255 00:13:17.840 --> 00:13:21.840 I'm blessed and I'm not going to worry God about my little leg problem. 256 00:13:21.840 --> 00:13:25.840 I want you to raise your hand. If you feel like that too, 257 00:13:25.840 --> 00:13:27.840 like you don't want to bother God with your little problems. 258 00:13:27.840 --> 00:13:31.840 There's people dying in the world. They're suffering. You know, 259 00:13:31.880 --> 00:13:33.880 there's all kinds of people that, you know, 260 00:13:33.880 --> 00:13:37.880 should be first in line for God's attention. And you don't want him, 261 00:13:37.880 --> 00:13:41.880 you don't want to bother him with your petty little problems. 262 00:13:41.880 --> 00:13:44.880 Look at all those hands. There shouldn't even be one hand up. Listen, y'all. 263 00:13:44.880 --> 00:13:50.880 I know that that sounds really noble of you, but that's not how it works. 264 00:13:50.880 --> 00:13:54.880 And I didn't say this to her because she probably would have given me a spanking. 265 00:13:54.880 --> 00:13:58.880 But I will say this. That's not how this works. 266 00:13:58.920 --> 00:14:02.920 God's omnipotent. He's omniscient. He's not one. 267 00:14:02.920 --> 00:14:05.920 He's not a person. Okay? 268 00:14:05.920 --> 00:14:08.920 You are inside of him right now. 269 00:14:08.920 --> 00:14:11.920 Isn't that cool how that works? 270 00:14:11.920 --> 00:14:16.920 You're inside of him and he's inside of you. 271 00:14:16.920 --> 00:14:17.920 What? 272 00:14:19.920 --> 00:14:23.920 You are all encompassed by God. 273 00:14:23.960 --> 00:14:29.960 Every thought, every thought before you think it, he knows it. 274 00:14:29.960 --> 00:14:33.960 Every word before you speak it, he knows it. 275 00:14:33.960 --> 00:14:37.960 The Bible says he knows what you have need of before you even ask. 276 00:14:37.960 --> 00:14:41.960 But you still have to ask. You know why? 277 00:14:41.960 --> 00:14:43.960 Because you have free will. You have choice. 278 00:14:43.960 --> 00:14:47.960 He knows your needs, but you still have to ask him to meet them. 279 00:14:47.960 --> 00:14:50.960 He takes, just so you know, 280 00:14:51.000 --> 00:14:55.000 I know church wants to take away our free will all the time. 281 00:14:55.000 --> 00:14:57.000 You know, the wrong type of teaching. 282 00:14:57.000 --> 00:15:00.000 But I will tell you that God takes your choice and your free will. 283 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:03.440 free will very seriously, very seriously. 284 00:15:03.440 --> 00:15:06.280 That's why the very first lesson of heart work is surrender. 285 00:15:07.040 --> 00:15:09.040 And that is not something that you're going to do once. 286 00:15:09.060 --> 00:15:12.160 You're going to continue to do that throughout your entire life. 287 00:15:12.880 --> 00:15:16.560 Hopefully every day you're going to surrender 288 00:15:18.640 --> 00:15:21.300 because God sees things that you can't see. 289 00:15:21.300 --> 00:15:23.080 He knows things that you don't know, 290 00:15:23.760 --> 00:15:28.760 but let's go back and just keep thinking about what the word says about God 291 00:15:28.760 --> 00:15:33.600 being with us and God being for us and God never leaving us and never forsaking 292 00:15:33.600 --> 00:15:36.720 us. That nothing can separate us from his love. 293 00:15:37.600 --> 00:15:38.360 You're the psalmist. 294 00:15:38.360 --> 00:15:43.360 David talks about how if he flew up on the wings of the morning that he would be 295 00:15:43.840 --> 00:15:44.980 in God's presence still. 296 00:15:44.980 --> 00:15:48.440 And if he took and went down into the depths of Sheol, 297 00:15:48.460 --> 00:15:52.260 which is the dark place, the forsaken and forgotten place, 298 00:15:52.260 --> 00:15:56.400 you guys know that hell is less about fire and brimstone and more about 299 00:15:56.400 --> 00:15:57.760 separation from God. 300 00:15:58.120 --> 00:16:03.120 You have never known what it is like to be separated from God as a believer. 301 00:16:06.520 --> 00:16:10.320 When we were all in our sin before we became, you know, 302 00:16:10.320 --> 00:16:11.280 a reborn, 303 00:16:11.400 --> 00:16:16.400 the rebirth process of receiving Christ as our savior and being reconnected to 304 00:16:17.160 --> 00:16:18.000 father God, 305 00:16:19.400 --> 00:16:20.320 reconnected, 306 00:16:20.320 --> 00:16:21.480 reconciled, 307 00:16:22.360 --> 00:16:24.840 dead in sin and now alive in Christ. 308 00:16:25.800 --> 00:16:30.800 Can you imagine what it would be like to be separated from eternity from God? 309 00:16:33.680 --> 00:16:34.840 So the psalmist is saying, 310 00:16:34.840 --> 00:16:37.680 even if I chose my bed in Sheol, 311 00:16:38.400 --> 00:16:39.440 you would still be there, 312 00:16:40.920 --> 00:16:41.760 right? 313 00:16:42.840 --> 00:16:45.680 Because that's obviously not the final thing. 314 00:16:46.200 --> 00:16:51.200 We haven't come to that and all these people that want to send so many people 315 00:16:51.960 --> 00:16:53.360 to hell for their sin. 316 00:16:53.520 --> 00:16:56.160 They don't understand that those people right now, 317 00:16:56.160 --> 00:16:58.080 they don't understand 318 00:17:00.760 --> 00:17:03.400 the separation that they have from God right now. 319 00:17:04.880 --> 00:17:05.920 They don't understand. 320 00:17:05.920 --> 00:17:08.119 And it's our job to help them to understand. 321 00:17:08.119 --> 00:17:12.880 It's our job to show the world what Jesus looks like. 322 00:17:15.240 --> 00:17:16.079 That's our job. 323 00:17:19.560 --> 00:17:22.640 And so back to my original story, 324 00:17:23.359 --> 00:17:26.880 but I think that's an important segue for those of you that have the wrong 325 00:17:26.880 --> 00:17:28.480 idea about the character of God. 326 00:17:28.720 --> 00:17:31.280 He is good and he loves you. 327 00:17:32.440 --> 00:17:33.360 He loves you. 328 00:17:36.320 --> 00:17:37.440 I know we love Romans 8, 329 00:17:37.440 --> 00:17:39.560 28 and I've said it before and I'm going to say it again. 330 00:17:39.560 --> 00:17:40.480 We shouldn't stop there. 331 00:17:40.480 --> 00:17:45.480 We should read 29 and we should go into the, 332 00:17:45.920 --> 00:17:47.680 the end of those verses. 333 00:17:47.680 --> 00:17:50.680 And we should go into the next verse and the next verse and the next verse 334 00:17:50.680 --> 00:17:52.000 because it's telling a story. 335 00:17:53.440 --> 00:17:55.640 It's not just about God working all things to our good. 336 00:17:55.640 --> 00:18:00.640 It's about why he would work all things to our good because he foreknew us and 337 00:18:01.360 --> 00:18:04.640 he predestined us to be glorified with his son. 338 00:18:06.240 --> 00:18:07.200 Isn't that beautiful? 339 00:18:09.000 --> 00:18:09.840 It's beautiful. 340 00:18:10.560 --> 00:18:14.440 You've been called and if you've answered that call, you've been chosen. 341 00:18:16.120 --> 00:18:19.160 And so we can have gratitude right now this morning for that, 342 00:18:19.680 --> 00:18:20.800 if for nothing else. 343 00:18:22.360 --> 00:18:22.760 All right. 344 00:18:22.760 --> 00:18:25.680 So worry is giving way to anxiety and unease, 345 00:18:25.720 --> 00:18:28.520 allowing ourselves to dwell on difficulty and trouble. 346 00:18:29.120 --> 00:18:33.560 And one of the synonyms of worry is to torment one's self. 347 00:18:34.880 --> 00:18:38.000 So I told you that when David got me, 348 00:18:39.040 --> 00:18:42.280 when, when, when God gave, gave him a wife, 349 00:18:42.960 --> 00:18:47.960 the wife that he got was someone who was tormented a lot with fear. 350 00:18:50.160 --> 00:18:51.000 And worry. 351 00:18:53.280 --> 00:18:53.880 And guess what? 352 00:18:53.880 --> 00:18:55.080 My husband's not like that. 353 00:18:56.200 --> 00:18:56.720 All right. 354 00:18:56.720 --> 00:19:00.680 All worriers have some calm person in their life, right? 355 00:19:00.720 --> 00:19:03.480 They have a calm person in their life, no matter who that person is. 356 00:19:03.840 --> 00:19:06.840 That's clipping their toenails while the Titanic is sinking. 357 00:19:07.160 --> 00:19:08.000 All right. 358 00:19:08.160 --> 00:19:12.120 Everybody has one of these people and these people, you're just like, 359 00:19:12.160 --> 00:19:15.080 are you going to get, are you going to get worked up over anything? 360 00:19:15.640 --> 00:19:17.400 Does anything get a rise out of you? 361 00:19:17.480 --> 00:19:18.480 What are we doing here? 362 00:19:18.920 --> 00:19:22.520 Cause that's another synonym of worrying is to get worked up. 363 00:19:24.760 --> 00:19:27.720 And I'm telling you right now, you cannot get David Dorman worked up. 364 00:19:27.800 --> 00:19:29.320 You cannot get him worked up. 365 00:19:29.720 --> 00:19:32.040 And that is annoying to me. 366 00:19:33.200 --> 00:19:34.040 All right. 367 00:19:34.360 --> 00:19:37.920 If I'm going to go and run around, the sky is falling. 368 00:19:39.440 --> 00:19:40.320 Remember Chicken Little? 369 00:19:41.720 --> 00:19:45.280 I'm really dating myself today with all of these references to all this stuff. 370 00:19:46.120 --> 00:19:48.240 My husband will not run around with me. 371 00:19:48.560 --> 00:19:51.680 If I want to run around with my hair on fire, he's just going to sit there and 372 00:19:51.680 --> 00:19:55.200 watch, he is not going to participate. 373 00:19:56.960 --> 00:19:57.480 Okay. 374 00:19:57.800 --> 00:19:59.560 So to torment oneself. 375 00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:02.280 and David would be like, he would say to me often, 376 00:20:02.280 --> 00:20:07.280 he's like, Jackie, why are you suffering needlessly? 377 00:20:07.520 --> 00:20:09.720 Come on, somebody needs to write that down. 378 00:20:09.720 --> 00:20:12.840 Why are you suffering needlessly? 379 00:20:12.840 --> 00:20:16.040 You guys, we all know that worry has let us down, 380 00:20:16.040 --> 00:20:19.160 meaning that 99.9% of the stuff you've worried about 381 00:20:19.160 --> 00:20:20.260 has never happened. 382 00:20:22.440 --> 00:20:23.840 Worry is a liar. 383 00:20:23.840 --> 00:20:26.320 Fear is false evidence appearing real, right? 384 00:20:26.320 --> 00:20:29.840 It has let you down time and time and time again. 385 00:20:29.840 --> 00:20:34.260 You spent all this time giving all of this bandwidth 386 00:20:34.260 --> 00:20:36.920 and all of this mind space to worry, 387 00:20:36.920 --> 00:20:41.020 and yet it has not, it has not come through. 388 00:20:43.440 --> 00:20:45.320 And in the meantime, you're suffering needlessly. 389 00:20:45.320 --> 00:20:47.000 You're torturing yourself. 390 00:20:47.920 --> 00:20:52.920 And that's a synonym of worry, to torment one's self. 391 00:20:54.080 --> 00:20:55.680 Let's get really honest here. 392 00:20:55.680 --> 00:20:59.960 How many of you get so vivid with your negative imagination 393 00:20:59.960 --> 00:21:02.360 that not only are you worrying about it happening, 394 00:21:02.360 --> 00:21:03.920 you are there. 395 00:21:03.920 --> 00:21:06.760 You can see it and smell it and taste it. 396 00:21:06.760 --> 00:21:09.560 Someone is 15 minutes late to get home, 397 00:21:09.560 --> 00:21:12.580 and you're at their funeral crying. 398 00:21:12.580 --> 00:21:16.320 Oh, they got in a car accident. 399 00:21:16.320 --> 00:21:17.760 And you start worrying about, 400 00:21:17.760 --> 00:21:19.000 oh, what if they got in a car accident? 401 00:21:19.000 --> 00:21:22.000 And the next thing you know, you're at their funeral, 402 00:21:22.000 --> 00:21:23.960 and you're shedding a tear, like in your mind, 403 00:21:24.280 --> 00:21:26.160 in the movie in your mind. 404 00:21:26.160 --> 00:21:28.760 Anybody else, or I'm just probably crazy. 405 00:21:28.760 --> 00:21:29.600 That's fine. 406 00:21:31.660 --> 00:21:33.880 I have a vivid imagination. 407 00:21:33.880 --> 00:21:37.220 I have a gift of imagination, 408 00:21:37.220 --> 00:21:39.200 and I used to use it incorrectly. 409 00:21:39.200 --> 00:21:41.680 And we're gonna get to that here in a second, 410 00:21:41.680 --> 00:21:42.720 because it's important. 411 00:21:42.720 --> 00:21:44.960 Because remember what I said at the beginning of this? 412 00:21:44.960 --> 00:21:48.080 We have gifts, but if they get overextended by trauma, 413 00:21:48.080 --> 00:21:50.220 they become weaknesses. 414 00:21:50.220 --> 00:21:52.080 And the imagination is one of those gifts 415 00:21:52.080 --> 00:21:54.880 that can become a weakness very quickly. 416 00:21:54.880 --> 00:21:57.440 All right, so there's a story that I read years ago. 417 00:21:57.440 --> 00:22:00.400 It was in some kind of online magazine. 418 00:22:00.400 --> 00:22:04.200 It was a news story, and it was about a Japanese airline 419 00:22:04.200 --> 00:22:06.720 that was being sued by its passengers. 420 00:22:08.160 --> 00:22:09.320 And so I read the story, 421 00:22:09.320 --> 00:22:11.720 and basically what happened in the story 422 00:22:11.720 --> 00:22:16.720 is that the pilots had to quickly go down, descend, 423 00:22:17.980 --> 00:22:19.760 because you guys know when you're in an airplane, 424 00:22:19.760 --> 00:22:22.080 the airplane descends slowly. 425 00:22:22.080 --> 00:22:23.960 Cabin pressure, all that. 426 00:22:23.960 --> 00:22:25.880 And so when they start making their descent, 427 00:22:25.880 --> 00:22:27.360 you know, and the pilot comes on, 428 00:22:27.360 --> 00:22:30.760 there's about 35, 40 minutes left in the flight, 429 00:22:30.760 --> 00:22:33.120 and he said, we're now gonna begin our descent. 430 00:22:34.960 --> 00:22:39.960 Because it goes down slowly so that everything can acclimate 431 00:22:40.060 --> 00:22:42.000 to the change in cabin pressure 432 00:22:42.000 --> 00:22:45.740 and to the change of altitude and all the things. 433 00:22:45.740 --> 00:22:47.540 But for whatever reason, 434 00:22:47.540 --> 00:22:49.440 there was something that happened 435 00:22:50.120 --> 00:22:53.580 that caused these pilots to have to descend quickly. 436 00:22:53.580 --> 00:22:56.860 So they went down 20,000 feet 437 00:22:56.860 --> 00:23:00.060 in about less than 10 minutes. 438 00:23:00.060 --> 00:23:02.640 And what happened as a result of that 439 00:23:02.640 --> 00:23:06.180 is the little airbags in the ceiling, 440 00:23:07.580 --> 00:23:08.580 you know, where your seats, 441 00:23:08.580 --> 00:23:11.340 they always tell you, hey, up here above you, 442 00:23:11.340 --> 00:23:13.620 there's some bags that will drop down 443 00:23:13.620 --> 00:23:15.400 if cabin pressure changes. 444 00:23:15.400 --> 00:23:18.500 Well, the masks dropped out of the ceiling. 445 00:23:20.420 --> 00:23:24.560 But you guys, there was never any real danger, okay? 446 00:23:24.560 --> 00:23:26.220 The cabin pressure was still fine. 447 00:23:26.220 --> 00:23:27.720 This was something that just happened 448 00:23:27.720 --> 00:23:30.280 because they descended so quickly. 449 00:23:30.280 --> 00:23:35.100 And instead of understanding what was going on, 450 00:23:35.100 --> 00:23:40.100 the crew and the pilots were not communicating correctly. 451 00:23:40.100 --> 00:23:43.340 And so the flight crew, when there was such a quick descent 452 00:23:43.340 --> 00:23:45.400 and then the mask dropped out of the ceiling, 453 00:23:45.400 --> 00:23:47.640 they freaked out. 454 00:23:48.640 --> 00:23:51.860 The flight crew was running around the plane, 455 00:23:51.860 --> 00:23:56.760 screaming and crying as if the plane was going to crash. 456 00:24:01.180 --> 00:24:02.060 What happened? 457 00:24:02.060 --> 00:24:03.340 They got all worked up. 458 00:24:04.220 --> 00:24:07.420 But you guys, they got all worked up over nothing 459 00:24:07.420 --> 00:24:10.020 because the plane was not crashing. 460 00:24:10.020 --> 00:24:12.020 And I want you to ask yourself right now, 461 00:24:12.020 --> 00:24:13.380 really be honest with yourself. 462 00:24:13.380 --> 00:24:16.620 How often do you get all worked up over nothing? 463 00:24:18.100 --> 00:24:20.820 Come on, it's really good, you know it is. 464 00:24:20.820 --> 00:24:24.660 How often do you get all worked up over nothing? 465 00:24:24.660 --> 00:24:27.900 You see one thing that's out of place 466 00:24:27.900 --> 00:24:32.580 and you've taken it 100 miles an hour down a dead-end road. 467 00:24:34.020 --> 00:24:35.580 And that's the thing about worry. 468 00:24:35.580 --> 00:24:39.340 If you give it an inch, it will take 10,000 miles. 469 00:24:40.220 --> 00:24:41.060 It will. 470 00:24:41.840 --> 00:24:42.680 It will. 471 00:24:49.320 --> 00:24:52.600 So they were running around the plane, screaming, crying, 472 00:24:52.600 --> 00:24:56.140 and the plane was in working order. 473 00:24:56.140 --> 00:24:57.220 Nothing was wrong. 474 00:24:58.960 --> 00:25:00.280 The sky is not falling. 475 00:25:00.000 --> 00:25:03.800 It's false evidence that's appearing real. 476 00:25:04.700 --> 00:25:06.800 Do you guys know that worry is meditation? 477 00:25:10.000 --> 00:25:12.980 Some of you may go to yoga or some other type of class where 478 00:25:13.000 --> 00:25:14.400 they want you to clear your mind. 479 00:25:14.400 --> 00:25:15.800 They want you to meditate. 480 00:25:16.000 --> 00:25:17.900 You know, the Bible even tells us to meditate. 481 00:25:19.000 --> 00:25:19.600 Doesn't it? 482 00:25:19.600 --> 00:25:23.500 In the book of Psalms, Psalm 1, it says that they that meditate. 483 00:25:24.900 --> 00:25:26.300 That's what the word is there. 484 00:25:26.700 --> 00:25:29.680 There'll be like trees planted by the brooks of water who will 485 00:25:29.680 --> 00:25:31.280 give their fruit in every season. 486 00:25:31.280 --> 00:25:32.160 Meditate on what? 487 00:25:32.180 --> 00:25:34.080 On God's word, on his goodness. 488 00:25:35.780 --> 00:25:40.160 And what meditate means is just to think of something over and 489 00:25:40.180 --> 00:25:43.680 over and over and over and over and over and over again. 490 00:25:44.580 --> 00:25:45.580 It's actually the same. 491 00:25:45.580 --> 00:25:49.080 It's the same kind of the same kind of premise as chewing cud. 492 00:25:49.180 --> 00:25:51.380 Have you ever seen a cow that chews its cud? 493 00:25:53.180 --> 00:25:55.180 The cow's not eating you guys. 494 00:25:55.180 --> 00:25:56.880 It's just chewing the cud. 495 00:25:57.380 --> 00:26:00.160 Just chewing and chewing and chewing and chewing and I think 496 00:26:00.180 --> 00:26:02.480 it's part of this digestion process, right? 497 00:26:04.180 --> 00:26:06.480 Wow, that's a whole word in itself. 498 00:26:07.280 --> 00:26:10.260 If we chew on the word of God, if we meditate on it, if we 499 00:26:10.280 --> 00:26:14.080 chew it and chew it and chew it, then we can digest it. 500 00:26:15.380 --> 00:26:17.580 Undigested food does not work for your body. 501 00:26:17.580 --> 00:26:20.680 It does not bring your body nutrients, but digested food 502 00:26:21.080 --> 00:26:24.760 disperses to all the cells in your body so that it can get 503 00:26:24.780 --> 00:26:26.380 all the nutrients that it needs. 504 00:26:26.580 --> 00:26:27.980 And so chewing 505 00:26:29.080 --> 00:26:31.460 on the word of God is what the word meditate means in the 506 00:26:31.480 --> 00:26:32.180 Bible. 507 00:26:32.380 --> 00:26:35.280 But when we worry you guys, we're chewing on fear. 508 00:26:37.080 --> 00:26:38.180 We're meditating 509 00:26:38.780 --> 00:26:39.980 on the wrong thing. 510 00:26:41.480 --> 00:26:42.980 We're meditating on it, right? 511 00:26:43.780 --> 00:26:47.260 We're letting our mind go over and over and over again on 512 00:26:47.280 --> 00:26:48.680 something negative. 513 00:26:51.080 --> 00:26:53.280 So if you can worry, 514 00:26:54.480 --> 00:26:55.880 you can also worship. 515 00:26:57.380 --> 00:26:59.580 If you know how to worry, 516 00:27:01.880 --> 00:27:04.260 then you also know how to worship because that's what 517 00:27:04.280 --> 00:27:05.480 worship is as well. 518 00:27:05.880 --> 00:27:08.560 Worship is meditating on the positive, letting your mind go 519 00:27:08.580 --> 00:27:11.860 over and over again about the majesty of God and the 520 00:27:11.880 --> 00:27:15.980 goodness of God and the love of God, the power of God. 521 00:27:17.680 --> 00:27:18.580 Is this helping anyone? 522 00:27:18.580 --> 00:27:19.580 Let me see your hands. 523 00:27:20.280 --> 00:27:21.780 I look at your faces and you're like, 524 00:27:27.380 --> 00:27:29.180 we already read the back of the book, y'all. 525 00:27:29.780 --> 00:27:30.980 Everything works out in the end. 526 00:27:30.980 --> 00:27:33.580 And if it's not worked out yet, then it's not the end, right? 527 00:27:34.080 --> 00:27:35.280 There's a lot that goes into the middle. 528 00:27:35.280 --> 00:27:36.080 I get that. 529 00:27:41.480 --> 00:27:44.560 So much of what we call responsible is really just 530 00:27:44.580 --> 00:27:45.480 living in fear. 531 00:27:45.480 --> 00:27:49.460 A lot of you have a lot of responsibility in your life. 532 00:27:49.480 --> 00:27:51.280 And those are the things that you worry about. 533 00:27:52.480 --> 00:27:53.980 You worry about, you know, 534 00:27:54.080 --> 00:27:56.460 You worry about doing the things that you know that you 535 00:27:56.480 --> 00:27:58.660 have to do and that you have to accomplish and your 536 00:27:58.680 --> 00:28:00.080 responsibilities. 537 00:28:00.880 --> 00:28:03.960 But for a lot of people, that is just a synonym for living 538 00:28:03.980 --> 00:28:04.680 in fear. 539 00:28:06.980 --> 00:28:09.460 Well, I have to think about this, Jackie, because not 540 00:28:09.480 --> 00:28:12.180 thinking about this right now makes me irresponsible. 541 00:28:12.480 --> 00:28:15.980 No, you can give that to the Lord. 542 00:28:19.680 --> 00:28:22.480 You sitting around and thinking about 543 00:28:22.680 --> 00:28:25.880 thinking about something you can't control 544 00:28:26.680 --> 00:28:28.780 and thinking about it is not going to change. 545 00:28:28.780 --> 00:28:32.280 It is called worry, not responsibility. 546 00:28:32.980 --> 00:28:33.880 I'm going to say that again. 547 00:28:34.180 --> 00:28:37.760 You sitting around and you sitting around and dwelling on 548 00:28:37.780 --> 00:28:38.780 something 549 00:28:39.380 --> 00:28:41.680 that you can't change your control 550 00:28:42.680 --> 00:28:43.880 is not called 551 00:28:44.380 --> 00:28:45.480 responsibility. 552 00:28:45.480 --> 00:28:47.180 It's called living in fear. 553 00:28:47.980 --> 00:28:50.660 Constantly staring at it and looking at it is not going to 554 00:28:50.680 --> 00:28:51.480 change it. 555 00:28:54.480 --> 00:28:56.980 But worshiping will. 556 00:29:00.680 --> 00:29:01.980 Getting in 557 00:29:02.480 --> 00:29:07.160 the presence of the Lord and casting your care upon him and 558 00:29:07.180 --> 00:29:11.160 putting him back on the throne of your heart and worshiping 559 00:29:11.180 --> 00:29:15.660 and knowing that he has a good plan and a hope in a future 560 00:29:15.760 --> 00:29:19.840 and a hope in a future for you that doesn't include whatever 561 00:29:19.860 --> 00:29:22.840 these negative things are that are trying to take up all of 562 00:29:22.860 --> 00:29:23.960 your bandwidth. 563 00:29:24.160 --> 00:29:25.860 That is worship. 564 00:29:27.360 --> 00:29:28.360 Now, I'm going to tell you, 565 00:29:28.760 --> 00:29:30.940 I used to be the queen of turning molehills into 566 00:29:30.960 --> 00:29:31.860 mountains. 567 00:29:33.060 --> 00:29:34.260 Taking one little thing. 568 00:29:35.460 --> 00:29:37.060 Okay, one little thing. 569 00:29:37.060 --> 00:29:38.160 Oh, I have a sniffle. 570 00:29:38.860 --> 00:29:39.660 I have a sniffle. 571 00:29:40.160 --> 00:29:40.760 Okay. 572 00:29:41.360 --> 00:29:43.060 Well, what about my co-pay? 573 00:29:43.060 --> 00:29:43.960 I don't have insurance. 574 00:29:43.960 --> 00:29:45.160 I can't go see the doctor. 575 00:29:45.160 --> 00:29:46.760 What the sniffle turns into the flu. 576 00:29:46.760 --> 00:29:48.060 What the flu turns into 577 00:29:48.660 --> 00:29:49.860 straight-up Ebola, 578 00:29:50.160 --> 00:29:54.340 you know, I would take it all the way to some crazy place, 579 00:29:54.360 --> 00:29:55.060 you guys. 580 00:29:56.260 --> 00:29:58.440 When I first married David, it'd be normal for me to lay in 581 00:29:58.460 --> 00:29:59.560 bed at night and say, 582 00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:02.120 I have a pain in my side. 583 00:30:02.120 --> 00:30:03.960 Do you think I'm dying? 584 00:30:03.960 --> 00:30:05.320 Do you think it's this? 585 00:30:05.320 --> 00:30:07.560 Do you think it's that? 586 00:30:07.560 --> 00:30:08.920 Do you think it's my muscle? 587 00:30:08.920 --> 00:30:09.840 Do you think I pulled a muscle? 588 00:30:09.840 --> 00:30:11.360 Or do you think it's internal? 589 00:30:11.360 --> 00:30:12.960 Do you think it's an organ? 590 00:30:12.960 --> 00:30:15.360 You guys, I would take a molehill 591 00:30:15.360 --> 00:30:17.000 and make it into a mountain. 592 00:30:17.000 --> 00:30:18.160 And you know why? 593 00:30:18.160 --> 00:30:22.960 Because I grew up in a destructive, okay, home 594 00:30:22.960 --> 00:30:26.480 full of abuse where I had to sleep with one eye open. 595 00:30:26.480 --> 00:30:28.800 I had to always be alert and awake 596 00:30:28.840 --> 00:30:30.480 and looking over my shoulder. 597 00:30:32.200 --> 00:30:35.520 And that had given me a hypervigilance about my safety. 598 00:30:36.920 --> 00:30:39.240 And that hypervigilance about my safety 599 00:30:39.240 --> 00:30:43.840 as I got older turned into chronic anxiety 600 00:30:43.840 --> 00:30:46.080 and worry over every little thing. 601 00:30:47.560 --> 00:30:49.000 But there came a point in my life, 602 00:30:49.000 --> 00:30:51.480 and that's why you guys have the Jesus Cares Board, 603 00:30:51.480 --> 00:30:54.960 when God said, hey, Jackie, who do you belong to? 604 00:30:54.960 --> 00:30:55.800 And I said, you. 605 00:30:55.800 --> 00:30:58.840 And he said, who do all these perceived problems 606 00:30:58.840 --> 00:31:00.280 that you have belong to? 607 00:31:00.280 --> 00:31:01.400 Well, they belong to me. 608 00:31:01.400 --> 00:31:03.240 No, they don't, Jackie. 609 00:31:03.240 --> 00:31:05.840 If you belong to me, then these things belong to me as well. 610 00:31:05.840 --> 00:31:07.400 I need you to give them to me. 611 00:31:07.400 --> 00:31:10.640 And that is where the Jesus Cares Board was born. 612 00:31:10.640 --> 00:31:13.000 I'd love to tell you that from that moment forward, 613 00:31:13.000 --> 00:31:15.640 I cast all my worry and care on him, but I did not. 614 00:31:15.640 --> 00:31:17.960 It took me years and years and years and years and years 615 00:31:17.960 --> 00:31:19.080 to get to where I am. 616 00:31:19.080 --> 00:31:21.280 And I wanna fast track you this morning. 617 00:31:23.160 --> 00:31:25.040 Worry is not gonna change anything. 618 00:31:26.720 --> 00:31:28.360 It's not gonna better your life. 619 00:31:29.360 --> 00:31:30.920 It's gonna steal your life. 620 00:31:33.320 --> 00:31:35.080 You know, your mind is powerful. 621 00:31:35.080 --> 00:31:36.360 It's a magnifying glass. 622 00:31:36.360 --> 00:31:39.520 And whatever you continually think about, you magnify it. 623 00:31:40.600 --> 00:31:43.360 Now, I don't believe in what people say, 624 00:31:43.360 --> 00:31:44.640 because I think it's really scary. 625 00:31:44.640 --> 00:31:46.160 Oh, if you think on bad things, 626 00:31:46.160 --> 00:31:48.200 then bad things are gonna happen to you. 627 00:31:48.200 --> 00:31:50.440 You know, if you worry out loud 628 00:31:50.440 --> 00:31:52.320 and talk about bad things happening, 629 00:31:52.320 --> 00:31:53.800 those things are gonna happen to you. 630 00:31:54.040 --> 00:31:55.400 I do believe that death and life 631 00:31:55.400 --> 00:31:56.520 are in the power of the tongue, 632 00:31:56.520 --> 00:31:58.720 but I do not believe that every time 633 00:31:58.720 --> 00:32:01.720 you've ever murmured something that you were scared about, 634 00:32:01.720 --> 00:32:03.840 that you've now brought that thing upon yourself. 635 00:32:03.840 --> 00:32:06.400 I don't believe that, okay? 636 00:32:08.000 --> 00:32:10.360 Because quite frankly, friends, if that worked, 637 00:32:10.360 --> 00:32:12.320 then that would have to work in the opposite direction. 638 00:32:12.320 --> 00:32:13.960 And what about all the good things that you've said 639 00:32:13.960 --> 00:32:15.400 that haven't happened either? 640 00:32:16.480 --> 00:32:19.800 And so the bottom line is, is that that's not true. 641 00:32:19.800 --> 00:32:22.480 But it does magnify in your mind. 642 00:32:22.480 --> 00:32:24.480 Your mind will make it bigger and bigger. 643 00:32:24.480 --> 00:32:26.680 Like I said, turning molehills into mountains. 644 00:32:26.680 --> 00:32:28.600 And then what happens is you're consumed by it. 645 00:32:28.600 --> 00:32:30.600 You can't see anything else. 646 00:32:30.600 --> 00:32:32.920 This thing has become bigger than your God. 647 00:32:34.960 --> 00:32:35.880 It has. 648 00:32:37.320 --> 00:32:39.320 And that's all you can see. 649 00:32:39.320 --> 00:32:41.400 You can't see anything but that. 650 00:32:45.840 --> 00:32:48.680 I remember a story of a missionary years and years ago, 651 00:32:48.680 --> 00:32:52.000 and he said that, and I don't know if I heard this story 652 00:32:52.520 --> 00:32:53.360 firsthand or secondhand, 653 00:32:53.360 --> 00:32:55.760 it might be just like one of those urban legends, 654 00:32:55.760 --> 00:32:57.440 but I really like it. 655 00:32:57.440 --> 00:32:59.920 He arrived in the foreign land 656 00:32:59.920 --> 00:33:02.640 and he was with indigenous people, 657 00:33:02.640 --> 00:33:06.240 people that had never seen someone of his race 658 00:33:06.240 --> 00:33:09.360 or someone of his stature, because he was tall. 659 00:33:09.360 --> 00:33:12.680 These people were smaller statured people 660 00:33:12.680 --> 00:33:14.960 that had never seen his skin tone. 661 00:33:14.960 --> 00:33:16.680 And they were amazed by him. 662 00:33:16.680 --> 00:33:20.440 And he was talking to them through an interpreter about God. 663 00:33:22.080 --> 00:33:23.400 Telling them about God. 664 00:33:23.400 --> 00:33:26.120 And they began to tell him about their God. 665 00:33:26.120 --> 00:33:27.120 They had a God too. 666 00:33:27.120 --> 00:33:28.240 They had a medicine man. 667 00:33:28.240 --> 00:33:33.120 They had someone that they worshiped as a deity. 668 00:33:33.120 --> 00:33:34.640 And they told him, they were excited. 669 00:33:34.640 --> 00:33:36.000 They said, you're here just in time 670 00:33:36.000 --> 00:33:37.200 because our God is coming. 671 00:33:37.200 --> 00:33:39.000 Our God is coming to our village. 672 00:33:39.000 --> 00:33:40.680 And he was like, oh, really? 673 00:33:40.680 --> 00:33:42.600 And so they waited at the docks. 674 00:33:42.600 --> 00:33:47.040 This was a water based people, got everywhere by boat. 675 00:33:47.040 --> 00:33:49.120 And they waited at the docks of the village. 676 00:33:49.120 --> 00:33:51.040 And pretty soon here comes the boat. 677 00:33:51.080 --> 00:33:52.520 And he said, this little man, 678 00:33:52.520 --> 00:33:55.480 this tiny little man got out of the boat. 679 00:33:55.480 --> 00:33:56.560 This was their God. 680 00:33:56.560 --> 00:33:57.720 This was their deity. 681 00:33:57.720 --> 00:34:02.720 And they were like, look here, here, this is our God. 682 00:34:03.000 --> 00:34:07.880 And they saw that he was taken aback by this little man 683 00:34:07.880 --> 00:34:10.760 that was getting out of the boat and coming towards them. 684 00:34:10.760 --> 00:34:14.040 And the legend has it that he said to them, 685 00:34:14.040 --> 00:34:15.639 this is your God? 686 00:34:15.639 --> 00:34:16.960 And they said, yes. 687 00:34:16.960 --> 00:34:18.199 They said, are you surprised? 688 00:34:18.199 --> 00:34:19.400 Yes, I'm very surprised. 689 00:34:19.400 --> 00:34:20.360 Why are you surprised? 690 00:34:20.360 --> 00:34:22.600 I'm surprised at how small he is. 691 00:34:22.600 --> 00:34:27.600 And they said, oh, you think he's small? 692 00:34:27.600 --> 00:34:29.280 How big is your God? 693 00:34:32.719 --> 00:34:34.679 What a question for us to ask ourselves today. 694 00:34:34.679 --> 00:34:36.080 How big is your God? 695 00:34:38.440 --> 00:34:39.760 How big is your God? 696 00:34:42.040 --> 00:34:44.400 I know that we all worship the same God, 697 00:34:44.400 --> 00:34:47.679 but I think that he's different sizes to all of us. 698 00:34:48.679 --> 00:34:50.199 Right? 699 00:34:50.199 --> 00:34:53.000 Based on whatever we're going through in life. 700 00:34:53.000 --> 00:34:55.320 And you guys, I'm talking to myself. 701 00:34:55.320 --> 00:34:58.280 I'm not where I used to be 20 years ago, 702 00:34:58.280 --> 00:35:00.240 but I still allow myself occasionally. 703 00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:03.080 only to dwell on the evil forebodings, 704 00:35:04.160 --> 00:35:06.640 to make God small and my worry big, 705 00:35:06.640 --> 00:35:11.640 to magnify my problems and to minimize God's grace 706 00:35:11.640 --> 00:35:14.840 and his love and his protection and his power. 707 00:35:19.320 --> 00:35:21.240 Ask yourself that. 708 00:35:21.240 --> 00:35:22.200 Let's get honest right now. 709 00:35:22.200 --> 00:35:25.600 Put in the chat what you chronically worry about. 710 00:35:25.600 --> 00:35:27.640 It has to be something that, 711 00:35:27.640 --> 00:35:29.160 not you don't worry, you haven't worried, 712 00:35:29.200 --> 00:35:30.720 oh, I worried about this one time. 713 00:35:30.720 --> 00:35:33.200 No, it's something that keeps popping back up. 714 00:35:33.200 --> 00:35:34.360 Yeah, you push it down, 715 00:35:34.360 --> 00:35:35.880 you put it on your Jesus Cares board, 716 00:35:35.880 --> 00:35:39.000 but it does try to keep coming over for dinner. 717 00:35:39.000 --> 00:35:40.220 What is the thing? 718 00:35:43.440 --> 00:35:45.000 If you were gonna worry about anything, 719 00:35:45.000 --> 00:35:46.240 what would the thing be? 720 00:35:48.960 --> 00:35:50.120 Come on, let's get honest. 721 00:35:50.120 --> 00:35:51.320 Confession is good. 722 00:35:52.240 --> 00:35:55.020 James tells us confess and be healed. 723 00:35:57.240 --> 00:35:58.440 I'm gonna give you guys a chance. 724 00:35:58.440 --> 00:36:00.360 There isn't anyone here who doesn't have 725 00:36:00.360 --> 00:36:04.360 some kind of reoccurring worry that tries to pop up. 726 00:36:07.360 --> 00:36:08.200 Read over it. 727 00:36:08.200 --> 00:36:10.880 See how similar all of you are 728 00:36:10.880 --> 00:36:15.400 in the things that try to overwhelm your mind. 729 00:36:24.040 --> 00:36:26.200 You guys know that scientifically proven 730 00:36:26.200 --> 00:36:28.020 that women worry more than men? 731 00:36:29.360 --> 00:36:31.880 Not that men don't worry, they do, 732 00:36:31.880 --> 00:36:33.640 but that women have a tendency 733 00:36:33.640 --> 00:36:35.880 to be more of the worriers than men. 734 00:36:42.480 --> 00:36:43.320 Get them all out there. 735 00:36:43.320 --> 00:36:45.400 Come on, we're giving you guys space. 736 00:36:45.400 --> 00:36:47.920 Confess, confess, confess. 737 00:36:47.920 --> 00:36:49.400 Let's break the back of this thing 738 00:36:49.400 --> 00:36:52.520 so it doesn't have power over you anymore. 739 00:36:52.520 --> 00:36:55.920 Let's magnify God so he becomes bigger 740 00:36:56.920 --> 00:37:01.140 and minimize these lies from the enemy, 741 00:37:02.040 --> 00:37:03.840 this worry, this fear. 742 00:37:12.040 --> 00:37:13.200 And you guys, there are some things 743 00:37:13.200 --> 00:37:14.280 that I see you putting up 744 00:37:14.280 --> 00:37:16.800 that you definitely could take steps towards 745 00:37:16.800 --> 00:37:18.840 to change already. 746 00:37:18.840 --> 00:37:20.800 All of you that are worried about never being a mother 747 00:37:20.800 --> 00:37:21.880 or never having a family, 748 00:37:21.880 --> 00:37:24.800 there are so many children that need families right now. 749 00:37:26.880 --> 00:37:29.640 Family is whatever you choose to be a family. 750 00:37:29.640 --> 00:37:31.560 You realize that, right? 751 00:37:31.560 --> 00:37:34.500 Being a bonus mom, I understand that. 752 00:37:34.500 --> 00:37:35.400 I know that. 753 00:37:37.920 --> 00:37:40.160 Raising children that I did not give birth to 754 00:37:40.160 --> 00:37:41.640 has been one of the greatest, 755 00:37:41.640 --> 00:37:44.660 greatest opportunities and blessings of my life. 756 00:37:52.320 --> 00:37:54.680 And a lot of us are talking about worrying about money, 757 00:37:54.680 --> 00:37:57.360 we're worrying about where we're gonna live, those things. 758 00:37:57.360 --> 00:37:59.640 The Bible talks about that very specific worry, 759 00:37:59.640 --> 00:38:01.000 doesn't it? 760 00:38:01.000 --> 00:38:03.960 It says, seek first the kingdom of God. 761 00:38:05.940 --> 00:38:06.780 What does that mean? 762 00:38:06.780 --> 00:38:11.780 That means God on the throne and his righteousness. 763 00:38:11.880 --> 00:38:13.420 That's Jesus in your heart. 764 00:38:15.880 --> 00:38:17.280 And all these other things 765 00:38:18.280 --> 00:38:19.560 that people that don't know God, 766 00:38:19.560 --> 00:38:24.560 the pagans, the people that are running around 767 00:38:24.600 --> 00:38:27.120 in this orphan state, trying to take care of themselves, 768 00:38:27.120 --> 00:38:30.040 all these other things that they're all worried about, 769 00:38:30.040 --> 00:38:33.500 all that stuff will be provided for you, right? 770 00:38:37.360 --> 00:38:39.600 Have you ever noticed that when you chase money, 771 00:38:39.600 --> 00:38:40.580 it runs away? 772 00:38:43.160 --> 00:38:46.400 But when you chase God, money chases you. 773 00:38:46.400 --> 00:38:47.900 You ever had that experience? 774 00:38:49.200 --> 00:38:50.500 I had that experience. 775 00:38:50.500 --> 00:38:52.920 I had to pay a really big bill, y'all, 776 00:38:52.920 --> 00:38:54.460 the biggest one I've ever paid. 777 00:38:55.300 --> 00:38:56.940 I had to make a very big investment. 778 00:38:56.940 --> 00:38:59.180 And I was concerned about it because I also knew 779 00:38:59.180 --> 00:39:02.700 that my daughter and my brand new twin grandbabies 780 00:39:02.700 --> 00:39:05.400 was coming to my house in Texas for an entire month. 781 00:39:06.300 --> 00:39:09.140 And I wasn't gonna be able to do any coaching, 782 00:39:09.140 --> 00:39:11.140 any private coaching, anything that I do 783 00:39:11.140 --> 00:39:13.060 to kind of monetize my life. 784 00:39:13.060 --> 00:39:15.420 And I had already made a promise to her 785 00:39:15.420 --> 00:39:17.940 that I wasn't going to work while she was there, 786 00:39:17.940 --> 00:39:19.620 that I was going to spend time, 787 00:39:19.620 --> 00:39:21.320 because they live far away, 788 00:39:21.320 --> 00:39:24.800 with her and my son-in-law and my grandbabies, 789 00:39:24.800 --> 00:39:26.240 just doing family. 790 00:39:27.220 --> 00:39:29.240 And I did it. 791 00:39:29.240 --> 00:39:30.960 I just put away my worry. 792 00:39:30.960 --> 00:39:33.600 I didn't chase after trying to take care of my own needs. 793 00:39:33.600 --> 00:39:35.660 I'm like, God, you'll take care of us. 794 00:39:35.660 --> 00:39:37.640 Just had to pay out all this money 795 00:39:37.640 --> 00:39:41.040 and now not able to bring any more in. 796 00:39:41.040 --> 00:39:43.960 Because normally, you would go into beast mode. 797 00:39:43.960 --> 00:39:45.460 Like, what do I gotta do to make some money? 798 00:39:45.460 --> 00:39:46.560 I gotta drive Uber? 799 00:39:46.560 --> 00:39:47.720 Do I gotta go do DoorDash? 800 00:39:47.720 --> 00:39:48.560 What do I gotta do? 801 00:39:48.560 --> 00:39:49.380 What do I gotta do? 802 00:39:49.380 --> 00:39:51.100 Instead, I spent that time with my daughter 803 00:39:51.880 --> 00:39:53.220 and my grandbabies and my son-in-law, 804 00:39:53.220 --> 00:39:54.660 and so did my husband. 805 00:39:54.660 --> 00:39:57.120 And the day that we put her on the airplane 806 00:39:57.120 --> 00:40:00.260 to go back to Ohio, I got a phone call. 807 00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:08.120 own call with an opportunity that made, uh, made more money than I had paid out. 808 00:40:08.120 --> 00:40:14.800 I mean, over the course of time, of course, God took care of me when I put the kingdom 809 00:40:14.800 --> 00:40:16.320 first. 810 00:40:16.320 --> 00:40:19.320 Family is kingdom, right? 811 00:40:19.320 --> 00:40:26.440 Now, does that mean that you can sit on your couch and pray for people all day on the telephone 812 00:40:26.440 --> 00:40:28.600 and God's just going to pay your bills for you? 813 00:40:28.600 --> 00:40:31.880 No, that's not, that's not what that means. 814 00:40:31.880 --> 00:40:35.240 That means that you have a unique set of skills. 815 00:40:35.240 --> 00:40:38.120 You have a unique gift set. 816 00:40:38.120 --> 00:40:45.440 And when you focus on God being your provider, when you focus on the fact that you are part 817 00:40:45.440 --> 00:40:52.880 of a family that has unlimited resources and you let your thoughts and your time and your 818 00:40:52.880 --> 00:40:59.120 energies be invested into that, everything else kind of takes care of itself at different 819 00:40:59.120 --> 00:41:00.120 levels. 820 00:41:00.120 --> 00:41:05.280 I've been in full-time ministry for 28 years and I've lived at every level, friends. 821 00:41:05.280 --> 00:41:10.640 I've lived at the level where I don't know where the rent's coming from this month. 822 00:41:10.640 --> 00:41:16.280 And I've lived at the level of being able to pay someone else's rent for them that month. 823 00:41:16.280 --> 00:41:17.280 Okay? 824 00:41:17.280 --> 00:41:20.720 Ebbs and flows, seasons of life. 825 00:41:20.720 --> 00:41:23.520 But you know what's unchanging? 826 00:41:23.520 --> 00:41:24.520 God. 827 00:41:24.520 --> 00:41:30.040 So if we're going to put our hopes and our dreams in anything, let us put it into something 828 00:41:30.040 --> 00:41:31.040 that's unshakeable. 829 00:41:31.040 --> 00:41:35.400 Because we're living in the time where the Bible says, and everything that can be shaken 830 00:41:35.400 --> 00:41:38.040 will be shaken. 831 00:41:38.040 --> 00:41:42.840 So that what cannot be shaken has room to expand. 832 00:41:42.840 --> 00:41:46.360 We're in an expansion time, friends. 833 00:41:46.360 --> 00:41:49.400 And all the enemy wants you to do is look at what's shaking all around you and start 834 00:41:49.400 --> 00:41:51.840 getting worried about it. 835 00:41:51.840 --> 00:41:54.200 The economy's shaking. 836 00:41:54.200 --> 00:41:55.680 The government's shaking. 837 00:41:55.680 --> 00:41:57.480 The gas prices is shaking. 838 00:41:57.480 --> 00:41:58.480 Inflation is shaking. 839 00:41:58.480 --> 00:41:59.480 This is inflating. 840 00:41:59.480 --> 00:42:09.000 All this is shaking, shaking, shaking, shaking. 841 00:42:09.000 --> 00:42:11.000 And it is shaking. 842 00:42:11.160 --> 00:42:15.640 But instead of looking at what's shaking, why don't you look around to find out, hmm, 843 00:42:15.640 --> 00:42:18.840 God said, when there's the shaking, there would be the immovable things. 844 00:42:18.840 --> 00:42:22.920 There'd be the things that are not shaking, and those are the things that are expanding. 845 00:42:22.920 --> 00:42:27.000 Let me look around and see what's not shaking. 846 00:42:27.000 --> 00:42:29.720 Isn't that what we're supposed to do as believers? 847 00:42:29.720 --> 00:42:32.840 Don't we have an inside track? 848 00:42:32.840 --> 00:42:36.360 Instead of running around with everybody else on the plane that's not crashing with our 849 00:42:36.360 --> 00:42:43.720 hair on fire, aren't we supposed to be looking to see what's going on with the rock of ages? 850 00:42:43.720 --> 00:42:45.800 What's God doing right now? 851 00:42:45.800 --> 00:42:49.080 Let me get on board that ship. 852 00:42:49.080 --> 00:42:52.600 Let me do that. 853 00:42:52.600 --> 00:42:58.680 Do you guys know that it takes the same amount of energy to be positive than to be negative? 854 00:42:58.680 --> 00:43:00.680 Because the what ifs work both ways. 855 00:43:00.680 --> 00:43:02.240 Come on, you guys. 856 00:43:02.240 --> 00:43:04.120 The what ifs work both ways. 857 00:43:04.520 --> 00:43:09.240 For those of you that have ever played the good gossip game with us, that's where it came from. 858 00:43:09.240 --> 00:43:14.440 One of the ways that God helped me to get over my chronic anxiety as I was getting deeper 859 00:43:14.440 --> 00:43:17.640 and deeper and deeper into grace, first of all, I had to come out of religion because 860 00:43:17.640 --> 00:43:23.480 religion will fuel your anxiety, you know, every day of the week and twice on Sundays. 861 00:43:23.480 --> 00:43:27.080 Because it's based on your performance, and if your performance isn't good enough, then 862 00:43:27.080 --> 00:43:29.720 God isn't obligated to take care of you. 863 00:43:29.720 --> 00:43:33.720 And so that was really making me more and more afraid all the time. 864 00:43:33.720 --> 00:43:34.920 What if God doesn't save me? 865 00:43:34.920 --> 00:43:37.960 What if I haven't earned my saving this week kind of thing? 866 00:43:38.680 --> 00:43:46.360 So the more and more that I came out of religion into grace, into his love and into his character, 867 00:43:47.320 --> 00:43:52.760 the more that he taught me things that were going to heal me from my childhood, where 868 00:43:52.760 --> 00:43:54.760 I was always waiting for the other shoe to drop. 869 00:43:54.760 --> 00:43:57.240 And some of you are still waiting for the other shoe to drop. 870 00:43:58.760 --> 00:44:00.680 Waiting for the next bad thing that's going to happen. 871 00:44:01.640 --> 00:44:04.200 Always ready to hear the bad news. 872 00:44:04.200 --> 00:44:06.280 Well, what if it's time for good news? 873 00:44:07.320 --> 00:44:10.040 Isn't that why Jesus said, it's the good news? 874 00:44:12.120 --> 00:44:13.080 It's the good news. 875 00:44:13.880 --> 00:44:18.920 And so God taught me to play the good gossip game because the what ifs work both ways. 876 00:44:19.960 --> 00:44:22.040 You can sit around, well, what if the world ends? 877 00:44:22.040 --> 00:44:23.800 And what if this person gets elected? 878 00:44:23.800 --> 00:44:25.080 And what if this happens? 879 00:44:25.080 --> 00:44:27.480 And what if the economy crashes tomorrow? 880 00:44:27.480 --> 00:44:29.800 What if there's bread lines from the Great Depression again? 881 00:44:29.800 --> 00:44:31.800 And what if, and what if, and what if? 882 00:44:31.800 --> 00:44:35.000 What if everything goes good? 883 00:44:38.360 --> 00:44:41.560 What if the light gets brighter in the darkness? 884 00:44:42.280 --> 00:44:49.880 What if the people of God get the curtain rises and it's the children of God's time 885 00:44:49.880 --> 00:44:55.080 on the earth, Matthew 5, to be the light that cannot be hid on the hill? 886 00:44:56.440 --> 00:44:57.560 What if that happens? 887 00:44:57.560 --> 00:44:59.800 What if you get the job? 888 00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:05.280 What if there isn't anything wrong on the doctor's report? 889 00:45:05.280 --> 00:45:11.920 What if they ask you for a second date or a third date or a fourth date? 890 00:45:11.920 --> 00:45:12.920 What if? 891 00:45:12.920 --> 00:45:24.880 You know, it's so much better to live in the what if on the positive hope side. 892 00:45:24.880 --> 00:45:29.760 I said worry has let you down, but hope never has never let you down. 893 00:45:29.760 --> 00:45:35.800 Because hope turns into faith and faith turns into miracles. 894 00:45:35.800 --> 00:45:41.320 If you let hope stick around for long enough, it will become faith. 895 00:45:41.320 --> 00:45:43.240 And then faith will turn into miracles. 896 00:45:43.240 --> 00:45:45.840 You know that, right? 897 00:45:45.840 --> 00:45:46.840 Don't let go of your hope. 898 00:45:46.840 --> 00:45:49.080 Go go watch my supernatural hope session. 899 00:45:49.080 --> 00:45:50.080 Don't let it go. 900 00:45:50.080 --> 00:45:51.520 Don't defer it. 901 00:45:51.520 --> 00:45:52.680 God doesn't defer our hope. 902 00:45:52.680 --> 00:45:54.180 We do. 903 00:45:54.180 --> 00:45:55.360 We postpone our hope. 904 00:45:55.360 --> 00:45:57.580 We put our hope on pause. 905 00:45:57.580 --> 00:45:58.580 To do what? 906 00:45:58.580 --> 00:45:59.580 To worry. 907 00:45:59.580 --> 00:46:03.340 Okay, this hope thing is not working up. 908 00:46:03.340 --> 00:46:04.340 I got my hopes up. 909 00:46:04.340 --> 00:46:05.340 Nothing's happening. 910 00:46:05.340 --> 00:46:10.340 So I'm gonna go over here and worry a little bit. 911 00:46:10.340 --> 00:46:11.660 Don't defer hope. 912 00:46:11.660 --> 00:46:15.620 The Bible says it makes you heart sick. 913 00:46:15.620 --> 00:46:20.880 And remember, sick hearts go looking for medication. 914 00:46:20.880 --> 00:46:21.880 And that's never good. 915 00:46:22.580 --> 00:46:24.280 That's gonna take you down the rabbit hole. 916 00:46:24.280 --> 00:46:26.280 You're gonna go down. 917 00:46:26.280 --> 00:46:27.280 No. 918 00:46:27.280 --> 00:46:31.600 So let's change those what ifs to work for us. 919 00:46:31.600 --> 00:46:32.920 And this is what God taught me to do. 920 00:46:32.920 --> 00:46:36.280 He said, Jackie, instead of sitting around and imagining all the bad things that can 921 00:46:36.280 --> 00:46:42.440 happen and everything that can go wrong, what if you use that same power of imagination 922 00:46:42.440 --> 00:46:45.040 to dream? 923 00:46:45.040 --> 00:46:49.600 He said, because really, daughter, this is a gift that's been overextended by trauma 924 00:46:49.600 --> 00:46:50.600 in your life. 925 00:46:50.920 --> 00:46:56.000 This vivid imagination that you have, this ability to have this movie playing in your 926 00:46:56.000 --> 00:46:57.880 mind of things. 927 00:46:57.880 --> 00:47:01.620 He said, it is a gift that I've given you. 928 00:47:01.620 --> 00:47:04.160 Now it's become a weakness because you're using it to the negative. 929 00:47:04.160 --> 00:47:08.760 But what if you used it to the positive? 930 00:47:08.760 --> 00:47:09.760 Women worry more than men. 931 00:47:09.760 --> 00:47:11.760 I don't know if it's because we have more imagination. 932 00:47:11.760 --> 00:47:12.920 I'm not saying that at all. 933 00:47:12.920 --> 00:47:21.040 But what I am saying is, is that that gift, the ability to worry is the gift of creativity 934 00:47:21.040 --> 00:47:22.120 and imagination. 935 00:47:22.120 --> 00:47:27.280 You're just using it wrong. 936 00:47:27.280 --> 00:47:28.960 It's become overextended by trauma. 937 00:47:28.960 --> 00:47:31.520 Now it's become a weakness. 938 00:47:31.520 --> 00:47:34.920 If you guys have ever seen that cartoon Inside Out 2, it's the second one. 939 00:47:34.920 --> 00:47:37.560 I watched it on the plane on my way here. 940 00:47:37.560 --> 00:47:42.240 Riley is the girl who has all the characters living in her head, you know, all the feelings, 941 00:47:42.240 --> 00:47:46.920 all the emotions, and anxiety shows up as Riley becomes a teenager. 942 00:47:46.920 --> 00:47:53.400 And anxiety wants to go into Riley's dream world and turn all of her dreams into fear. 943 00:47:53.400 --> 00:47:59.440 You guys, if that was not prophetic, I don't know what is. 944 00:47:59.440 --> 00:48:04.040 Instead of dreaming at nighttime of all the good things, anxiety, which is the little 945 00:48:04.040 --> 00:48:10.360 emotional character that's shown up to help Riley in her teen years, has now has all the 946 00:48:10.360 --> 00:48:17.680 dream, all the dream workers, all Riley's dream workers coming up with terrible scenarios. 947 00:48:17.680 --> 00:48:26.160 So Riley's tossing and turning all night, imagining the wrong things. 948 00:48:26.160 --> 00:48:30.160 Wow. 949 00:48:30.160 --> 00:48:33.680 You guys, whatever that thing is that keeps you up at night and doesn't allow you to have 950 00:48:33.680 --> 00:48:38.280 the sweet, peaceful sleep that God says that is his children's right. 951 00:48:38.280 --> 00:48:39.280 It is your right. 952 00:48:39.280 --> 00:48:42.360 He gives us sleep. 953 00:48:42.360 --> 00:48:45.240 He gives us rest. 954 00:48:45.240 --> 00:48:50.440 Psalms tells us that he provides for his lovers while they're sleeping. 955 00:48:50.440 --> 00:48:51.440 Come on. 956 00:48:51.440 --> 00:48:52.440 I love that verse. 957 00:48:52.440 --> 00:48:53.440 This is my favorite. 958 00:48:53.440 --> 00:48:58.380 He provides for his lovers even while they're sleeping. 959 00:48:58.380 --> 00:49:02.800 So whatever's keeping you up at night, whatever's going around and around in your mind that 960 00:49:02.800 --> 00:49:08.920 you're worried about, that thing's an idol. 961 00:49:08.920 --> 00:49:14.200 Let's cast it at the feet of Jesus. 962 00:49:14.200 --> 00:49:17.960 Let's worship. 963 00:49:17.960 --> 00:49:23.280 At nighttime, my mom, at the end of her life, she would have a constant playlist of worship 964 00:49:23.280 --> 00:49:30.660 songs playing over her so that she could keep herself into alignment with God's goodness 965 00:49:30.660 --> 00:49:36.960 and his love for her in the night season so that she could peacefully and restfully sleep. 966 00:49:37.000 --> 00:49:42.080 And you guys, I've had seasons of life, like seasons of time in my life too, where I had 967 00:49:42.080 --> 00:49:46.800 to get aggressive with my peace. 968 00:49:46.800 --> 00:49:48.440 Some of you all need to protect your peace. 969 00:49:48.440 --> 00:49:53.880 You got to get aggressive with protecting your peace and putting up boundaries. 970 00:49:53.880 --> 00:49:58.360 Got to stop looking at the internet and at the news and anything that feeds fear, anything 971 00:49:58.360 --> 00:50:00.040 that is the wheelhouse. 972 00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:07.000 of worry. You've got to turn it off. You've got to guard your peace. You've got to cultivate 973 00:50:07.000 --> 00:50:14.360 your peace. Light some candles. Put on some worship music. Spend some time in his presence. 974 00:50:14.360 --> 00:50:19.640 Read the word over yourself and not the Old Testament. Stay in the New Testament unless 975 00:50:19.640 --> 00:50:27.600 you're in Psalms or Proverbs. I've had clients that they're like, man, I'm reading the Bible 976 00:50:27.640 --> 00:50:33.640 and I'm more afraid than ever. I'm like, what are you reading? Where are you at? Where are 977 00:50:33.640 --> 00:50:36.960 you at? Where are you? What are you reading at? Oh, you know, I was, I was reading some 978 00:50:36.960 --> 00:50:41.680 stuff and you know, and then they say something. I'm like, oh no, stay out of that. Stay out 979 00:50:41.680 --> 00:50:53.680 of that book. Don't go there. Come on, go over here. Go into Roman. Go into Galatians. 980 00:50:53.680 --> 00:51:03.000 Ephesians, that's a good one. Ephesians, one of my favorites. Stay there if you want 981 00:51:03.000 --> 00:51:06.120 to read something besides just the gospels. But some of us, you know, we need to get in 982 00:51:06.120 --> 00:51:12.200 the good news. So you guys, it's time for us to play that good gossip game. So God would 983 00:51:12.200 --> 00:51:17.480 have me talking about myself in third person. I do talk to myself a lot. So if you see me 984 00:51:17.480 --> 00:51:23.680 in public and it looks like I'm talking, I am probably, and I'll play it off when people 985 00:51:23.680 --> 00:51:27.680 pass me like I'm singing or something, but I'm talking to myself a hundred percent of 986 00:51:27.680 --> 00:51:34.200 the time and it's because I have an ongoing conversation with God. So you guys, I want 987 00:51:34.200 --> 00:51:37.080 you to take a look in the mirror. This is going to be your homework into Sunday night. 988 00:51:37.080 --> 00:51:43.680 Go look in the mirror and I want you to tell yourself, I am a dreamer and I have an amazing 989 00:51:43.680 --> 00:51:51.280 imagination. And starting now, I'm going to use it to partner with heaven over the 990 00:51:51.280 --> 00:51:58.640 dreams on my life. Because if I can see it, I can be it. And if I can believe it, I can 991 00:51:58.640 --> 00:52:05.320 have it. Remember you guys, this is the year of manifestation. 5785, this is the year of 992 00:52:05.320 --> 00:52:09.960 manifestation and I'm going to call it, this is the year of imagination. Your imagination 993 00:52:09.960 --> 00:52:14.480 is a gift from God. It's time for you to partner with God, with your imagination and 994 00:52:14.480 --> 00:52:21.200 not use it to the negative, not worry, but use it to the positive worship. Use it to 995 00:52:21.200 --> 00:52:28.080 the positive dream. The Bible says when they came out of captivity, they became as those 996 00:52:28.080 --> 00:52:32.440 that dream. It's time for us to step out of captivity, to step out of Egypt, to step out 997 00:52:32.440 --> 00:52:39.040 of bondage and to step into the dreams of God over our lives. And for some of us, just 998 00:52:39.040 --> 00:52:46.040 like for me, it was hard. It was hard. I had to work it like a job because I was so 999 00:52:46.040 --> 00:52:54.400 used to being negative. I was so used to chewing on the worry and the bad things. And so if 1000 00:52:54.400 --> 00:52:58.760 you come tomorrow night, we'll teach you how to play the good gossip game over yourself. 1001 00:52:58.760 --> 00:53:01.360 We'll even play it. Some of you have already played it before, but we're going to play 1002 00:53:01.360 --> 00:53:06.040 it together. It's going to be amazing. You guys, this could be a turning point for your 1003 00:53:06.040 --> 00:53:13.320 life because I really do believe that this has the power not only to help you live a 1004 00:53:13.320 --> 00:53:18.840 happier life and a healthier life, but it also has the power for you to be able to step 1005 00:53:18.840 --> 00:53:24.920 into the promises of God over your life. Okay. To get out of those proverbial waiting rooms 1006 00:53:24.920 --> 00:53:30.920 and to step into what has been waiting for you all along. I love you guys. Have a supernatural 1007 00:53:30.920 --> 00:53:32.400 Saturday and I'll see you soon.