Good morning, everybody
Happy Saturday
My favorite day of the week because we get to come together for supernatural Saturday and if you are new
Welcome. We're so glad you're here with us partnering with us as we lean into the reality of heaven
Did you know there's two realities? There's your reality and then there's
Reality, which is what is God doing? What is he saying? What's going on in heaven?
Remembering when the disciples were like, hey, we do a lot of praying because we're Jews
But Jesus because you're kind of shaking things up and doing everything differently teach us how to pray
What's the most important prayers to pray?
And so he taught them what we all know as the Lord's Prayer and it said let it be done on earth as it
Is where in heaven in?
Heaven that means that there's an alternate reality. And so if you don't like your reality, there's good news
There's a better one
Whatever is happening in heaven. I promise you is full of love. It's full of joy
It's full of peace and we want to step into that and so that is what supernatural Saturday is all about
It's about us leaning in to the spirit together and finding out
Hey, what should I really be focused on today instead of this whole list this laundry list of problems?
Confusion
Circumstances, what should I really be focusing on because if I focus on you Lord and your kingdom
You've promised to take care of everything that pertains to me. I'll never forget the day that God said to me
The Jackie if you will be about my business the business of heaven, right if you will be about that business
He said I'll take care of yours and I owned a business at the time
So it made sense, right if you'll be about my business if you'll seek my kingdom
Then I will take care of the things that pertain to you and I promise you that
You will never go wrong taking God up on that offer
You won't now does that mean that everything will fall in place exactly when you want it to know?
But if you purpose in your heart that you are going to be in tune with heaven
The Bible says if we walk after the Spirit, then we won't find ourself in the consequences of the flesh
Our flesh gets us in all kinds of trouble
It does and that's the kind of trouble that maybe some of you are thinking about because some of you're like man
You know, I don't do that. I
Don't feel I don't settle live a life of sin and I don't have you know, promiscuous sex
I don't do this or do that and a lot of times when we think of the lust of the flesh
That's what we're thinking of but that really isn't what that's describing
Yeah, that is some of it, but a lot of us have overcome that part of our flesh
Okay, we're walking free from that type of
Entanglement but
Daily, we're in worry. Do you know that's the lust of the flesh fear is a lust of the flesh
all of those things in that category fear worry anxiety
depression all the lust of the flesh a lot of times the
Consequences of our of walking after our flesh is that we make bad decisions
Because we feel hurried and rushed and we don't know what to do and we're in confusion
And so we go ahead and do it
We live outside of our means because we don't think that we're ever going to have enough to be able to do the things that
We want so we go ahead and we do the thing that doesn't sit right in our spirit
We don't have peace about it, but we do it. Anyway, what do we do?
And we're out there
Grasping like little orphans trying to get what we think we need instead of allowing our father to provide those things
For us right and so that is what it's talking about
So there's an alternate reality that we can step into and on Saturdays. That's what we do
And today it's going to be about consistency and discipline
Do we love those words? No, we don't
We don't love those words. I
Had a dream years ago
I've always been quite a dreamer y'all
And I don't just mean at night. I mean like during the day
I think that it was an escape mechanism for me as a child because I was living a
Human reality that was pretty terrible
Right in a family full of abuse and rejection and hurt and pain
And so I did live in a make-believe land in my mind
I was constantly daydreaming and writing stories which benefits all of you because now I'm a writer and I'm able to
Use those self-defense mechanisms now for the good of all
but I
Just always was pretending. I was always pretending and I was a living in a
Very
That's just imaginative world but a very detailed imaginative world and you know what that caused that caused the people that were around me
Just to think that I was a liar
You know any new kid that I would meet I would tell these huge tales to
and you know and just dream up all of these different things and
And of course I'm very persuasive, so it seemed very real.
And it was real to me, but it just wasn't real.
But it was the reality that I created for myself
to keep myself safe and to keep myself
from feeling the pain that I was in, right?
And so in my adult life, I had a dream.
And I was already married to David.
I had a dream and I had been going after
all of these really incredible goals.
In this dream, there was this woman.
And at the time, she was the mega church
that David and I were at.
We were on staff at this mega church,
this humongous church, thousands of people.
And she was the pastor's wife.
So I knew this woman that showed up in my dream.
And in the dream, we were sitting down,
kind of having tea, talking, and I was telling her
about all these big, hairy, audacious goals that I had.
I was gonna do this, and I was gonna do that,
and this was gonna happen, and that was gonna happen.
And just telling her all of these things
that I believe God promised me
and that I was going to do in my life.
And she was listening very intently, very enthusiastically.
And at the end of me telling her,
she said, that's amazing, Jackie.
She said, there's only one thing that you lack.
There's only one thing that you lack to have that.
And I was like, what is it?
And she said, discipline.
Dun, dun.
What?
Discipline.
And so, I knew that that was the word from the Lord.
And that was coming from a mother-type person
in this dream, right, that was telling me,
hey, I'm rooting for you, I'm cheering for you,
I want that for you, but the one thing
that you lack to make it happen is discipline.
But isn't God gonna make it happen?
That's what we think, right?
We go to all these charismatic churches,
and it's like, God's gonna do it.
God's on the way.
God's coming.
He'll be here any minute now.
No, that's not how it works.
First of all, God is not coming.
I really want to tell you that,
and if that hurts your feelings and offends you,
then good, because you need to get out of the mindset
that something is coming, that God is coming,
that he's about to show up,
that he's about to give you whatever it is
that you've been in this proverbial waiting room
looking for, okay?
Jesus said, it is finished.
It is done.
On where?
The cross.
That means everything that you will ever need
in this life has been released to you.
The problem is that we are in our own way,
and that hurts all of our feelings,
because there are things that we wanted yesterday,
we wanted last year, we wanted 15 years ago,
that we don't have.
Most of the time, it is as a result of inconsistency.
It's as a result of the lack of disciplining,
not just our actions, not just our bodies, but our minds.
Right?
And I don't like that word.
Y'all, this word's for me too, it's not just for you.
It's definitely for me.
So she was telling me that I needed this thing,
and I knew that it was a word from the Lord.
And I saw all the places in my life where, like you,
I was waiting for God to show up and give me whatever it is
that he had promised me.
I was living this realm of God's promises,
but these promises weren't coming true.
And I want to tell you something even scarier,
because I wasn't a new believer,
but I had only been following Jesus for about 12 years
at the time of this dream,
maybe actually 10 years at the time of this dream.
I would go to church,
and this is not some diatribe against church,
please don't hear it that way, okay?
But I would go to church,
and I would sit in the pews with other people
that had been waiting 20 years, 30 years,
40 years for promises.
That did not bode well, friends.
I was like, oh no, I've only been waiting 10 years
for all these amazing things that I feel like God
put in my heart and promised me that I could do
and achieve and see and have.
And yet there's all these other people
that have been sitting here waiting a whole lot longer.
And so if we're at the DMV,
I'm not anywhere near getting served.
All these people are ahead of me, right?
Thank God there are no waiting rooms in the kingdom.
I want you to internalize that right now, please.
I want that to go from your ears and your head
to your heart.
There are no waiting rooms in the kingdom of God.
This is what God shared with me.
This is why I wrote the heart work.
This is why I do what I do.
I am sick and tired of waiting.
I'm tired of seeing God's children in proverbial waiting rooms, waiting for resources in order
to do kingdom work on the earth.
Whether that's finances, whether that's partners, because your assignment's not a one-person
job, it's a two-person job, it's a family job, right?
So waiting for partners, waiting for breakthrough, waiting for healing, waiting for you, put
it in the blank, waiting.
I'm tired of seeing that because God gave me the revelation back in this day that I'm
talking about that there are no waiting rooms in the kingdom.
There are only preparation rooms because we've got to get prepared for the things that we're
asking for.
Ladies, when you find out that you're pregnant, for those of you that have had a child, the
baby doesn't come two days later.
You get to find out that you're pregnant in order to prepare.
That's what God's promises look like.
He gives you that certification.
He gives you that declaration that something is coming for you, that it's not just coming,
it's already gestating, please, if you will.
It's gestating inside of you.
This thing is growing inside of you, and there's going to be a due date for it.
He lets you know that that is what is happening inside of your heart, inside of your life,
so that you can do what?
So you can prepare.
God's promises come with a process.
I say this all the time.
People don't like it.
I didn't like it when God first started talking to me about it because we want it now, but
we're not fully capable of stewarding it now, which is why we get this beautiful gift called
time to prepare to be able to steward it, right?
And I know that we hate process, but I want you to write this down.
The process is the point.
The process is even more important than the promise, because the process is going to change
you into someone who can live at that new level of life, not because we're all here,
but because you want to have a partner to walk through this life with.
I will just tell you that I've had a front row seat to lots of success stories, and I've
had a front row seat to lots of one hit wonder type of success stories where they tried to
skip the process, they skipped the preparation, they came in here, they got excited about
what I was saying, they grabbed the first person of the opposite sex that they saw,
and they married them, even though we were like, Hey, hey, hey, don't do that.
They did it because why they didn't want to work on themselves.
Guess what?
They're either in a really messed up marriage right now, or they're already divorced.
You're like, Jack, you have divorces already?
Yes.
And in every single one of those instances, what I'm saying right now is what happened.
Friends, you can't skip the process.
You would be better served to focus on yourself and becoming the best version of you mentally,
emotionally, physically, spiritually, and understanding that God is the matchmaker and
he has a partner for that version of you.
Does that mean that you can't have a spouse until some future date of perfection?
No, that partner will come on the road that you're preparing on somewhere.
And a lot of times when you least feel like you're ready for it, because you know that
you still have work to do, but the work that you still have to do can only be done within
relationship.
Remember, hurt in family, healed in family, hurt in marriage, healed in marriage, hurt
in sex, healed in sex.
We had a sex talk the other night for those of you that missed it.
It was pretty candid and I think really good session.
God's promises come with a process and the process is the point.
The process is the point.
Back when I was a kid in the 80s and 90s, there were songs that hit the top 100, sometimes
the top 10, and they were really catchy little earworms and everyone was singing them and
loving them for a brief moment of time.
And every once in a while, the band that had that song was someone that nobody had ever
heard of.
It wasn't the staple artists of the day that had albums out and won awards for them.
It was just some rando band.
What did we call those?
called those One Hit Wonders.
Why?
Because they never had another song,
they never had another track on the Top 100.
Why is that?
Because it was a fluke, so to speak.
These are bands that had kind of come together,
they hadn't played with each other for very long,
they hadn't paid their dues,
they hadn't gone through process,
they hadn't played the bar circuits or the club circuits,
they hadn't gotten out there,
they hadn't perfected their music,
they didn't have producers or managers or publicists,
they didn't have that in place because they weren't ready.
And without that infrastructure around them,
they usually imploded.
They imploded, they started fighting with each other
when the fame came, right?
They hadn't played with each other long enough,
they didn't have that deep love for each other,
so they started fighting against each other,
they didn't have the right management,
they ended up getting taken advantage of,
and long story short, they didn't put out any more hits.
God doesn't want that for you.
He doesn't want you to be a one-hit wonder in this life.
And I will tell you right now,
and I feel impressed to say this by Holy Spirit,
and that is good marriages require good community,
good community.
So maybe the first step in you finding your spirit mate
or meeting your spirit mate
or intersecting with your spirit mate
is for you to get into good community
because you're going to need a supportive community
that loves you and is cheering for you
during your marriage.
You're going to need that.
And if you don't have that,
if you're not in community or you're in a community
where you just felt really dry for a long time,
you don't feel refreshed, you feel exhausted,
a lot of times you're trying to think of excuses
not to go to that spiritual community,
you don't feel seen, known, and loved in that community,
it's time for you to make a transition.
Time for you to get ready to be around people
that can cheer you on,
not just you, but also your spirit mate.
Just recently, I had a student have success
in meeting someone great
and began that dating courting process.
And I was like, okay, this is great,
but neither one of you have a community,
so what's going to happen?
What's going to happen now?
Because you need to have a community,
you can't be Lone Rangers,
it's not going to just be the two of you against the world.
That is not what God's plan for our lives looks like.
And it's a really bad idea.
There are going to be things that come at you
and your partnership that are going to require
you to be surrounded by a hedge of protection
called community and family.
You're going to need that.
And so why not get it now?
So let's talk about discipline and consistency
because in my dream, she said,
this is the thing that you lack.
She said, this is the only thing that you lack.
So what does that mean?
That means I was hardwired for success
in the areas that I was talking to her about.
I had the gifts, I had the talents,
I had the passion, I had the desire,
I had the wherewithal.
Now, I know y'all don't know me personally,
like, you know, in a community way,
like, you know, we're doing life together in person,
but I will tell you, I am as persistent as a pit bull.
I was born that way.
I'm a persistent person.
I do not give up.
All right?
That is not in my vocabulary.
So I was hardwired with that already,
but that's not what discipline looks like.
Discipline doesn't look like persistence.
Discipline is when there's a plan of action
and that you are willing to continue to do that
even when you don't see results.
It is something that becomes a habit.
It is something that becomes part of your character
and part of, you know, who you are.
The people that I know that are physically fit,
they do not work out to be physically fit and healthy.
They work out because it is part of their lifestyle.
The byproduct of it is that
they are physically fit and healthy.
You guys see where I'm going here?
That is a discipline of their lives.
People that get up early in the morning,
that is a discipline of their lives.
They get to reap the benefits of that.
There are great benefits to that,
as long as you get to bed at an early hour.
Here's the caveat.
If you get up at 5 a.m., if you're in the 5 a.m. club,
but you don't go to bed till midnight,
then you're screwing up your body.
You could discipline yourself to get up at 5 a.m.,
even though you're burning the candle at both ends
and not going to bed till midnight.
You could set the alarm, you could force yourself
and discipline yourself,
but now you're only getting five hours of sleep.
And scientifically, it's been proven
that we need at least seven, most people.
Right?
And so, that's not good for you.
We wanna discipline ourselves to have habits
and to have lifestyles that are beneficial for us.
But the people that I know that are disciplined people,
they do whatever it is that they do
because that is part of who they are,
and then they get to reap the benefit of it.
So let's talk really quickly about the word consistency.
Let's talk about it.
I'm gonna go ahead and just look up the definition
so I can just read it to you.
All right.
The quality of always behaving or performing
in a similar way,
or of always happening in a similar way.
Consistency.
It's kind of a sister word to continuity, right?
Always happening in a similar way.
It's consistent.
You can bet on it.
It's going to stay the same.
And so, this is something we really need
to talk about this morning.
And I know that this is kind of less spiritual
for some of you,
because I know sometimes we hoot and holler,
and maybe we'll get there today,
but it's important that we understand
that this is keeping us from the things that we want.
This is keeping us from the things that we want.
And I propose to you that the reason why
we're not consistent in our actions and behaviors
is because we're double-minded.
And that is what the book of James talks about.
It talks about you can receive from the Lord what you ask.
You can receive wisdom.
You can get things from God,
if, what, you're not double-minded.
And what happens to us is that we allow our feelings
and our emotions to change our minds too often, don't we?
We do, don't we?
How many times, let's be honest.
I want to see your hands.
How many times have you been super excited
about something that was in your heart
that you felt like was an invitation from the Lord
to do something, to create something, to be something,
to accomplish something,
and you run out and you start doing it?
Maybe you buy all the gear to do it,
or you do this, or you do that.
You get prepared to start whatever that thing is,
and you start doing it,
and then you talk yourself out of it.
You have one-off day or one-off moment,
or some circumstance comes at you fast,
and then all of a sudden you're like,
eh, it doesn't matter.
It wouldn't have worked anyway.
Come on.
We do it, we all do it.
But I want you to think right now,
because you have that thing in your mind, right?
Think about the last thing that you started,
and then you just gave up on, whatever it was.
Whether it was a health plan, an eating plan,
whether it was some sort of plan
to get out of the job that you do now,
and to pad your resume with new things,
or whether it was to go back to school,
whatever it was, okay?
To get on that dating app
and just give it a good old college try,
whatever it was.
I want you to get that thing in your mind.
And I want you to realistically ask yourself,
if I would have continued and just been consistent,
guys, not perfect, but just consistent.
What does that mean?
That means you just don't stop.
Some days you're running, some days you're just walking,
and some days you're just standing your ground,
but you're not stopping, right?
And that's part of our problem.
We feel like if we can't do something 100%,
if we can't do something perfectly,
then what's the point of doing it?
Guys, done is better than perfect.
I learned that a long time ago.
I learned that a long, long, long time ago.
Showing up at 20% is better than showing up at 0%, right?
So much in life is just about showing up, friends.
It's just about showing up.
I used to go to this terrible thing called bar.
If you love the bar class, I bless you.
That was the most grueling hour of my life when I would show up to this class called bar.
And for gentlemen, it's like some kind of cross between Pilates and ballet and yoga and like hell.
But it felt good to do something that was hard because I can do hard things.
And I would, you guys, I would show up.
I would show up.
I would just drag myself there and show up.
But by the end of the class, I would feel so accomplished.
Right?
At the beginning of the class, I'm just sitting there and I feel, oh, God.
Oh, an hour of this, you know?
But by the end of the class, I felt so accomplished.
Just about showing up.
I just continued to show up.
I didn't want to.
But sometimes, write this down, your feelings don't get a vote.
We're so used to, oh, how do you feel?
How are you feeling about it?
Mm-hmm.
I know.
Yeah.
Mm-hmm.
Oh, man.
Are you seeing?
No.
Our feelings don't get a vote.
They don't get to vote.
Think about how many times your feelings have kept you from good things.
They've kept you from hard things.
They've allowed you to stay in victim mode.
No.
No, no, and no.
They don't get to vote.
Now, think of that thing that you gave up on.
You quit before it started getting good.
I'll tell you, with working out, y'all,
you're going to have to be in it to win it.
Okay?
Because this whole runner's high thing people get,
I ain't experienced that.
I'm telling you, I just got to do it.
I showed up to this Pilates class on this reformer thing yesterday.
I thought that woman was trying to kill us.
All right?
And she was all chipper in her microphone.
She was like, come on, girl.
There's an espresso martini waiting for you.
It's Friday.
I was like, no, no, lady.
First of all, I don't even drink.
And second of all, and then I promise you, she said, you need this.
It's the only thing you need except Jesus and a husband.
And I was like, oh, my God.
Who is this woman?
Anyway,
think about that thing that you gave up on before the getting got good.
I know it's going to hurt a little bit.
But think about if, what would have happened if you kept doing it?
Where would you be now?
Would you be a pianist?
Because it was some sort of piano lessons.
Would you be more in shape than you are now?
Because it was physically related.
Would you financially be in better shape?
Because it was some kind of debt snowball where you're paying off debt.
And then you just went crazy.
And then you ran up your credit card because you couldn't take it anymore.
Where would you be?
Maybe it was that relationship that really wasn't bad,
but you talked yourself out of it because you were like, I don't know.
I just don't feel anything.
Give yourself a chance to feel anything.
The Bible gives us evidence that in the end of the age,
which I don't know how long the end of the age lasts.
Okay.
I don't nobody does, but I know that we're in it.
Okay.
Why do I know that?
Because Jesus gave signs of what it would look like.
You know, when I look out my window,
I know what season it is by what's going on outside.
It's very obviously spring.
Okay.
Sometimes in Texas, we skip spring and go straight to summer.
So it might be summer here already y'all.
Cause it's like 88 degrees, but it's very obviously springtime.
You know, when it's fall, you know, when it's winter time, you look outside,
you see the signs and that's what Jesus said.
He said, when you see these things come to pass,
Keep your eyes on me because I'm coming back soon.
And if you've ever read through that list,
you will know that there isn't one thing we can't cross off.
Right.
So that being said, he said that at the end of the age, people's love would.
He describes in the Bible as waxing cold, but it would diminish.
It would be more protective.
right? Our hearts would be more hardened and harder to soften. Why? Because we've just
seen too much garbage. We've just seen too much garbage. You know, even little children,
little children, you know, where they're hugging each other and loving each other and sharing
and all different things. Little kids aren't even like that anymore. They're like little
bugs. Why? Because they're already seeing that life isn't safe, that people aren't safe.
They were surrounded by a world full of pain and full of hurt and full of danger, danger,
danger. So let me, let me just say it this way. You know, if you're out here wanting
to meet a partner for the rest of your life, isn't it possible that it's going to take
a while for you to open your heart and really trust someone? Yeah. And for a lot of us,
our emotions of excitement, anticipation, and you know, like even sexual desire or attraction
are attached to safety. They're attached to who is this person? This person is stranger
to me. It's not natural for us to just meet strangers off the internet. So give yourself
a chance to get to know someone before you're just like, nah. Give yourself a chance to
see the character of that person, the heart of that person. And if you're going to marry
someone, please marry somebody's heart. Marry good hearted people, soft hearted people,
kind hearted people. You should be looking for hearts. Gentlemen, and ladies have the
supplies to some, some ladies, the supplies to pick a woman, choose a woman that helps
you live from your heart and not your head. So friends, it's time. Why don't you go ahead
and put in the chat right now. Um, what, what did you start to do and then talk yourself
out of? You weren't consistent. You weren't disciplined. What was that thing? Let's see
it. All right. We got my degree, a podcast, job hunting, started growing my, my YouTube
channel. I think that's what that means. Wellness, coaching, certification, training,
guitar, college, dating, weight watchers, debt, snowball finances, health, small business,
vlog. Wait, keep losing my place here. A book, making art, meal prep. So many of you gave
up on creative things, right? Cause it's like, Oh, who's got time for that? Um, a neural
retraining program. All right. Physical health. So many of you physical health. So many of
you physical health gave up on marriage, gave up on journaling, physical health, physical
health, physical health, physical health. Okay. All right. I'm glad to see all those
physical health while all that other stuff is great. It's wonderful. I will tell you
something that I believe is true. If you can discipline your body, you can achieve anything.
You know, you can achieve anything if you can discipline your body. Another scripture that
says, you know, physical exercise profits little, that's not the correct interpretation of that.
What it's saying is, is that it profits, but for a short amount of time, right? Cause you're
going to get a new body. You're going to get a new body, a different body. When you leave this
earth experience that you're having right now, you're having an earth experience. You notice
that I didn't say your earthly life because your life goes on and on and on. You're eternal, but
you're having an earth experience. Okay. You're a supernatural being having a natural experience
here on earth. And during your earth experience, you're in a corruptible form, meaning that this
body is decaying and deteriorating. Right. But I believe that we can, as heaven invades earth
through us, we can apply the principles of heaven and the way that we live and the way that we eat
and do the things that we do that can cause this body to, you know, when we do leave the earth
experience, we're not leaving because our cars broke down on the side of the road, our body.
I believe that we can do that.
that. And I also believe all these beautiful, amazing things
that you put in the chat that you gave up on, if you will
start with your body and disciplining it and not allowing
it to do whatever it wants to do and not allowing to eat whatever
it wants to eat, and not, you know, allowing it to just lay
around. Okay, you're not tired, you're bored. Your life is
boring. There's nothing to look forward to except the same old
same old every day. And you haven't liked whatever it is
that you're doing for years. You guys know that sedentariness
sitting is the new smoking. Sitting is the new smoking.
What does that mean? It means it's going to kill you a lot
faster than you're supposed to be going. If we will discipline
our appetites, our bodies, I think that you could rule the
world. I do. You could definitely rule your world. So
what's that gonna look like for you? I'm watching my husband do
it. My husband's like a whole different man since he started
going to this CrossFit place. I've known him for 17 years.
When I met him, he was 36 years old. And he was kind of fluffy.
But y'all, when you're younger and fluffy, you have a lot more
energy and stuff because you're just younger, right? It hasn't
kind of caught up with you yet. He was probably about 40 pounds
overweight when I met him. And he said, I'm gonna be in the
best shape of my life by 40 years old. But it's easier to
medicate ourselves with food. And it's easier to sit around
and medicate ourselves with entertainment. And to, you know,
not love our lives. And instead of going and changing that
through discipline and consistency, to just medicate
it. And so that's what we do. And that's what he did. And me
too. And actually, I was very thin when I met him doesn't mean
I was healthy, but I was thin. And then, then I gained a bunch
of weight just right along with him. It's like, hey, it's a
party. Let's go. And so I saw a shift, he received this word,
the word that I'm giving you right now is a word that he
received. If you take control of your body of your health, you
will be able to do a lot like all these other things that he
wanted to do, right. And so he started doing it. It hasn't been
easy, but he has been consistent. And guess what, all
kinds of other things in his life have started to come
alive. My husband's an amazing music gift. He's an amazing
musician. He's an amazing singer. He hasn't touched music
in years. All of a sudden, things are coming alive inside
of him things that have been dormant. We're the dormant
dormant. And those things are waking up. And they're coming
alive. Why? Because of one simple thing. I see Corey out
there walking, it doesn't take much friends. All you have to do
is just make a decision that you are going to take control of
your carnal appetite. You're gonna take control of it. And if
you need help with that, you're going to get support. And you're
going to take control of it. Because if you can control
yourself, you will be able to accomplish so many other things
who's in
I've had people come to me and say, Oh, Jackie, I have a bum
knee. You don't understand. I just I can't walk. I can't walk
for long periods of time. Because we had a woman in our
inaugural course, when I first launched this four years ago, we
did a water walking, wearing dresses challenge, hydrating,
walking, and wearing dresses, feminine challenge. And she
could only walk for five minutes a day, five minutes.
That's it. That's all she could do. She had a work related
injury. She just couldn't go any further. But she did not stop.
Y'all that woman now four years later, she doesn't just walk,
she hikes, she goes on all kinds of things and does all kinds of
stuff. She regained her health. She regained her life. Why she
didn't stop. One day, you might be able to, you know, go hard.
And then the next day, you might just be good to show up. But at
least you did a couple other things. Holy Spirit had me right
down here. And I want to make sure that I tell you guys,
anything that distracts you, whatever breaks your focus on
what we're talking about today is your enemy. I want you to
treat it like an enemy. I mean, if it's a person, obviously, be
kind and, you know, you know what I'm saying, but don't allow
it have a boundary there. Whatever
breaks your focus is your enemy.
It's trying to keep you.
I know that we think that the devil always shows up at our front door with a little red
suit on with horns and a tail and a pitchfork, but that is not what the opposing forces look
like.
The opposing forces show up in all kinds of good intention things that are breaking your
focus.
It's difficult to say no to people, but it is not part of what you're focusing on right
now in your life, and it's going to drag you away and, and keep you from being able to
be consistent.
Then you have to say no.
You have to say no, no, I'm sorry.
I can't do that.
Yeah.
They might think you're a jerk.
Well, that's too bad.
Sometimes you have to offend other people in order to love yourself, write it down.
You have to offend other people in order to love yourself.
And some of you people pleasing is what's kept your life stuck for so long.
Whatever breaks your focus is your enemy.
Now, that being said, one thing that's definitely going to break your focus, and I know it doesn't
seem like this would keep us, um, from being consistent because it's very, uh, covert.
I got all these C words, consistent, covert.
I'm going to give you some more C words, clutter, specifically in your calendar, your closet,
in your car.
Look at all those C's, what in the world's going on?
If you are surrounded by things that energetically suck the life out of you, that exhaust you,
you will not be consistent.
Picture with me.
You're walking around your apartment, your house, your townhouse, your condo, whatever
you live in, your van, your RV, your trailer, whatever, however, you're walking around and
you're, you woke up, you're walking around, you're getting ready for the day.
You got this big plan for the day.
You do all this stuff, but all of a sudden there's just all kinds of things around you
that are yelling for attention, plans that need to be watered, things that need to be
put away, you know, clutter and chaos and laundry and blah.
Guys, I read this amazing book.
I want to warn you that if you do read it or listen to it on audio, you can't unhear
it.
Okay?
It will change you and, and the changes that it makes in you are going to require and demand
attention.
And so I'm just going to warn.
That's my disclaimer for this.
It's by a man named John Mark Comer and the book is called The Ruthless Elimination of
Hurry.
That's the first book that I will have read in like 10 years because God had me on a reading
hiatus because I was a little bookworm and it was causing me to zig and zag and go left
instead of right and just all over the place.
Okay?
So I wanted to have some time to just spend with him and listen to him and download my
own stuff besides just reading other people's stuff.
So 10 years of no book reading and then that book, yo, that book rocked my world.
And one of the things in it that rocked my world is this, every single thing that you
bring into your life, okay?
You bring it into your life, whether it's a relationship, whether it's something that
you buy a store, an article of clothing, a food item, it doesn't matter.
Anything that you bring into your life has a ripple effect.
It has a ripple effect, y'all.
Everything that you buy, somebody made that, right?
Someone's getting money from that.
Some corporation or organization is pocketing the proceeds and who knows what they're doing.
I will tell you, everything I buy, every time I buy something off Amazon, I feel a little
sick that I'm giving Jeff Bezos more money.
I'm like, bleh.
But also there's all kinds of people that make their livings off selling things off
of Amazon, single moms, all different types of people.
And so yes, I get it.
There's a ripple effect.
All that fast fashion that we buy that's made in Indonesia and China and Taiwan, those people
are in slave labor.
And you might say, well, you know, if we don't buy it, then they don't have a job at all.
Well, I mean, if that's the way you want to think about it.
But you guys, we have way too much stuff.
And I didn't realize this, but energetically, because you are a spirit.
And so that word is not new age, y'all.
Don't let, because other people are explaining what we are better than what our, what our
our little Sunday school teachers knew about
the spirit, soul, and body,
don't automatically brand that new age.
You know, your 80-year-old Sunday school teacher
didn't understand the relationship
between spirit, mind, and body,
but guess what we do now?
We understand that trauma is held in the heart spot,
in the soul place,
that our spirit that's eternal
is already seated with Christ in heavenly places,
but our body is the one that holds the score.
That's why the bad things you've been through
show up as dis-ease and disease in your body.
We know these things now,
and we're not gonna look away
just because it sounds new agey.
Energetically, spiritually,
all the stuff that is around you,
all the clutter in your life,
you guys, it could be a clutter of friendships.
If you go through your phone right now,
I want you to be honest,
you guys, ooh, Holy Spirit is so in this.
Please listen.
Go through your phone,
when you get off here,
this is a great activate for this,
and look at all the contacts you have in your phone
that you don't even know who that person is.
It just has a name.
You can't even place that name.
You don't know who that person is.
You have no idea who they are.
There's people in there that you maybe met one time,
never had anything to do with,
ever again put them in your contacts,
or possibly all kinds of people in there
that you don't ever talk to anymore.
You're not going to be talking to them.
Those are past seasons of your life.
Those ships have sailed.
You guys, we don't have to feel like
we have to gather all this stuff and keep it.
You know, prune your phone.
Yes, if you're like,
Jackie, is this gonna become a pruning call?
Yes, it is.
It's springtime, y'all.
It's time to prune.
If you wanna be consistent,
if you wanna be disciplined,
you gotta get rid of the clutter.
And we're gonna go into more of this
tomorrow night on Activate,
for those of you that can come.
We're gonna have our prophetic time
that we have once a month,
but we're also gonna go back into pruning as well.
All right?
So prune those phone contacts.
Prune the pictures on your phone.
Put them to the cloud.
Delete them.
Get rid of them.
Get rid of the stuff in your house
that you don't use anymore.
Let someone else use it that needs it.
Let someone else use it.
Get rid of the clutter.
Your calendar is cluttered.
Remember I said calendar, closet, car.
Get rid of all those clothes you don't need.
Don't be holding onto them.
If they don't fit you,
you haven't worn them in a year, they're gone.
Do the Marie Kondo thing.
Bless them and send them on.
All right?
Calendar.
If you have all kinds of stuff on your calendar,
you can't get any momentum, can you?
Because you're always overscheduling yourself.
And so you never have time to do the things for yourself.
You couldn't be consistent if you wanted to.
Because your calendar looks like
a really busy city street
full of stop lights and stop signs.
Go, stop.
You need a big old country road.
You need a whole lot of runways
so this plane can take off.
And in order to get that,
you're gonna have to move this stuff out of the way.
You're gonna have to use the word no.
No, no, no, no, no, no, yes.
You should be saying no far more than you're saying yes.
Far, far, far more.
Your yeses should be very few and far between,
unless they're to the Lord.
Your car.
Has your car become a catch-all?
Another C word.
All the C's today.
A catch-all for all kinds of junk?
Look in your car and you can tell what you've been up to.
You've been going through the fast food drive-thru?
Mm-hmm.
You got debris in there.
Get it out.
If you declutter your space,
you will declutter your mind.
You will.
There is nothing better than being in a space
where there is nothing drawing your attention
and breaking your focus.
And some of us just simply have too much stuff, okay?
We're like Madame Blueberry from the McStuff Mart.
For those of you that have kids in the veggie tales,
you know what I'm talking about.
She had all this stuff.
We gotta get rid of the stuff.
I will tell you that what your space looks like
is oftentimes what your mind and heart look like.
Clutter, stuff.
And of course, I'm talking to myself.
I'm not preaching to you, okay?
I'm just being a conduit of Holy Spirit
to just say out loud what needs to be said
and what needs to be heard.
You guys.
you're not going to do all of this in one day, but you have to bite it off in bite-sized pieces and
you have to be consistent and follow through and
When you do fall off
You got to start again
You can't say oh, well, oh I quit it's too late, you know
No, you just start again and you ask Holy Spirit to show you what caused you to fall off
What caused you to quit what caused you to quit was it a bad memory that came up
Did you just like look at yourself in the mirror and you didn't see any measurable results from all of your hard work?
You're like, what's this? What's the use? I'm just always gonna be fat. I'm always gonna be this. I'm always gonna be that
If you feed your body the right things
The right macros you guys that's just a fancy word for protein carbs and fats and veggies
okay, if you feed your body the right thing and
You move your body and you hydrate your body
Whatever your body looks like is what you look like and then you just have to make peace with that
I've never been a fan of people, you know
Doing an intense and extreme things to their body to try to get their body to be a certain size or certain shape
I do not believe that is what God intended for us
He intended us to move
That's why you have all these muscles. We have those muscles for it's because we're intended to move
Do you know that the more you sit the shorter those muscles become that's why you have lower back pain. That's why you have sciatica
That's why you have all this stuff is because we are a sitting generation
Have you ever seen that cartoon WALL-E?
where all the fat people are rolling around and they're in their remote-controlled chairs and
Drinking slurpees like big huge sugary drinks or whatever. I feel that that's pretty accurate
All
We have to do to get rid of our lower back pain. It's like it's a big catch-22, right?
We have it so we don't want to move so we sit and the sitting is what causes it
We got to move
We got to move. We got to be consistent
We got to move and so whatever you do if you're doing that if you're fueling your body with real food with whole foods
Okay, and you're moving your body in whatever way you have to start and then building up and building up and building up every
Every one of us that's over 40 years old or really 35 years old. We should all be doing weight-bearing activities
Whether that's wall push-ups
you can use your own body weight as weight because why because of our bones if
We want to have strong bones and we don't want to be hunched over. Have you seen all those older people that are hunched over?
you know
We don't want that we don't want osteoporosis. We don't want these things
we want to have strong bones and one of the ways one of the easiest ways to balance your hormones and
To get strong bones is to do weight-bearing exercise
Get yourself some dumbbells off of a Amazon put them in your house
Just those little hand weights and go after it get some fives and some tens gentlemen
You might need a little bit heavier than that guys. It doesn't take much
But when you take care of yourself
But when you take care of your body like this, whatever your body looks like is what you look like
It's what you look like make peace with it
Don't join some extreme. I don't believe God is in the extremes. I really don't don't join some extreme diet plan
Don't join some extreme exercise plan trying to get your body to you know
Be smaller than it was when you were a toddler
Come on y'all
I weighed a hundred pounds when I was like ten
You know for some of you you're tiny little people and that's like a thing for you but for some of us
That's not a thing. I feel my best. I feel the healthiest in my body when I'm about a hundred and seventy pounds
And for me that translates to about a size eight
Ten eight ten somewhere in there
I've been living a large for me. I've been living a large life for me at a 14 and 16 at 200 pounds
I don't feel good in my body
But I know that it's because of stress
It's because of having a cluttered calendar
It's because of having a cluttered calendar and a cluttered life full of activities and not enough help and it's about you know
Eating convenient food. There's that c-word again. It's not convenient if it's destroying your body and not moving
Specifically not moving because I'm an athlete. I was born an athlete. I've always played sports competitive sports
You know and I haven't done that in many many years and you guys I was I was
I was
at a birthday party for my twin niece and nephew that turned 18, and there was a family
volleyball game, beach volleyball, which you all know is going to use every muscle in your
body.
I hadn't played volleyball in like 13, 14 years, but I used to play volleyball.
I used to play volleyball on a team.
And I got out there, and I can't tell you, I came alive.
And it reminded me that my body wants to be athletic.
My body is an athlete.
And I loved it.
And yes, I could not walk the next day.
I couldn't sit down on the toilet.
Y'all know what I'm talking about.
You could not get down to save your life, but you know what?
That pain felt so good because it reminded me that I have all these muscles that I'm
not using that want to be used.
So I just release that over all of you right now, regardless of whether you've, you know,
to have no athletic ability whatsoever, or you like me love, you know, love to get out
there.
Love to do something athletic, walk, run, hike, pickleball, volleyball, you know, something
just release over you, the consistency and the discipline to make it a priority.
If you can get a hold of your body and your appetites, you will accomplish so many other
things that you posted in the chat today.
So Father God, we thank you for this time together.
Spirit, we're, we're relying on you to come alongside us in this word and to give us the
empowerment that we need to follow through, to quicken our mortal bodies with the power
of heaven, to be able to do what we need to do to keep it at the top of our mind, to keep
it alive in our spirit, to soak that fire and to help us continue to surround us by
people that can help us and partner with us and lock arms with us, prayer partners, but
also workout partners, Lord, people that will help us to get to where it is that we need
to go.
Voices of, of wisdom in these areas, wherever we need help.
We thank you God that you have called us to be consistent and disciplined.
And you said to us that if we don't give up, we will win.
Your word says that.
I released that word over all of us, that they, that do not become weary in doing what
they know is right will reap.
They will win if they don't give up.
And so we lean into that Psalm today.
We believe it.
We receive it in Jesus name.
Let it be so.