WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.320 Welcome to Supernatural Saturday. 2 00:00:04.320 --> 00:00:06.600 If you are new here, we just want to welcome you. 3 00:00:06.600 --> 00:00:08.600 We want to embrace you with open arms. 4 00:00:08.600 --> 00:00:12.800 We want to let you know that you have found your tribe, you have found your family. 5 00:00:12.800 --> 00:00:17.400 And this family gathers together on Saturday mornings to look to heaven and find out what 6 00:00:17.400 --> 00:00:19.040 is God doing? 7 00:00:19.040 --> 00:00:20.040 What is God saying? 8 00:00:20.040 --> 00:00:21.440 What does he want us to know? 9 00:00:21.440 --> 00:00:23.360 How can we partner with heaven? 10 00:00:23.360 --> 00:00:27.600 And so Supernatural Saturday is all about what is the current prophetic reality of our 11 00:00:27.600 --> 00:00:28.980 lives? 12 00:00:28.980 --> 00:00:30.340 God is always doing something new. 13 00:00:30.340 --> 00:00:32.259 Did you guys know that? 14 00:00:32.259 --> 00:00:37.420 The Bible says, behold, I do an old thing. 15 00:00:37.420 --> 00:00:38.420 Look around. 16 00:00:38.420 --> 00:00:39.420 You've all seen it all before. 17 00:00:39.420 --> 00:00:41.700 Is that what it says? 18 00:00:41.700 --> 00:00:45.340 No, it says, behold, I do a new thing. 19 00:00:45.340 --> 00:00:48.460 And then it goes on to say, can you not perceive it? 20 00:00:48.460 --> 00:00:49.980 Do you not know it? 21 00:00:49.980 --> 00:00:54.780 And so it's an invitation for us to lean in. 22 00:00:54.780 --> 00:00:59.620 To lean into perceiving what is God doing, right? 23 00:00:59.620 --> 00:01:01.380 And so that's what we do on Saturday mornings. 24 00:01:01.380 --> 00:01:04.900 We lean in to find out, hey, God, what are you up to? 25 00:01:04.900 --> 00:01:11.100 What is written into the story right now, today? 26 00:01:11.100 --> 00:01:18.140 What's written into the story on Saturday, November 30th, 2024? 27 00:01:18.140 --> 00:01:19.140 What does that look like in my life? 28 00:01:19.140 --> 00:01:21.900 What does it look like in the lives of my friends? 29 00:01:21.900 --> 00:01:23.780 And so that's what we do on Saturdays. 30 00:01:23.780 --> 00:01:26.020 So make sure you come live if you can. 31 00:01:26.020 --> 00:01:28.740 If not, always listen to the replay. 32 00:01:28.740 --> 00:01:33.100 And then on Sunday nights, we activate what we learn here because we can't just be hearers 33 00:01:33.100 --> 00:01:34.100 of the word. 34 00:01:34.100 --> 00:01:36.100 We have to be doers of the word. 35 00:01:36.100 --> 00:01:40.380 And so how can we take what God is saying to us and put it into practical action in 36 00:01:40.380 --> 00:01:41.980 our own lives? 37 00:01:41.980 --> 00:01:45.260 And that is what we do on Sundays, except the last Sunday of every month, we have a 38 00:01:45.260 --> 00:01:47.460 fun prophetic time. 39 00:01:47.460 --> 00:01:52.940 All of our prayer team comes and we just release prophetic words and it's a good time. 40 00:01:53.100 --> 00:01:57.420 We now actually have a artist, I don't know if any of you have been to churches where 41 00:01:57.420 --> 00:02:00.300 they paint during worship. 42 00:02:00.300 --> 00:02:06.420 Well, the last Sunday of the month, while we are prophesying, we have a fellow artist 43 00:02:06.420 --> 00:02:13.340 here in our community who will be drawing out those prophetic words and that is going 44 00:02:13.340 --> 00:02:14.340 to be super fun. 45 00:02:14.340 --> 00:02:19.660 So for those of you that are visual learners and you'd love to see those prophetic words 46 00:02:19.660 --> 00:02:23.180 in picture form, guess what? 47 00:02:23.180 --> 00:02:24.180 That's going to happen. 48 00:02:24.180 --> 00:02:25.180 All right. 49 00:02:25.180 --> 00:02:30.300 So we're excited about having that ministry also available with that. 50 00:02:30.300 --> 00:02:33.520 So Father God, we look to you today. 51 00:02:33.520 --> 00:02:35.720 We know that you're always doing a new thing. 52 00:02:35.720 --> 00:02:39.400 We know that you're always inviting us into that new thing. 53 00:02:39.400 --> 00:02:43.580 And so Lord, we're asking that you would give us revelation and wisdom and insight. 54 00:02:43.580 --> 00:02:47.980 Holy Spirit, take charge of this conversation. 55 00:02:47.980 --> 00:02:51.060 Speak to me, speak through me. 56 00:02:51.060 --> 00:02:59.340 We ask that we would be let in on whatever it is that heaven is up to today. 57 00:02:59.340 --> 00:03:05.780 Align our hearts with yours so that we can be abundant in the earth and that everyone 58 00:03:05.780 --> 00:03:09.380 would know that Jesus was the son of God. 59 00:03:09.380 --> 00:03:11.740 In Jesus name, amen. 60 00:03:11.740 --> 00:03:14.020 So I have a couple of different thoughts this morning. 61 00:03:14.020 --> 00:03:15.940 You know, I'm not at my house. 62 00:03:15.940 --> 00:03:19.300 I'm actually staying downtown Austin watching a dog. 63 00:03:19.300 --> 00:03:25.500 I'm puppy sitting this weekend and I thought it would be fun. 64 00:03:25.500 --> 00:03:29.580 I live out in the country kind of, and it'd be fun to get into the city and be closer 65 00:03:29.580 --> 00:03:33.180 in proximity to my kids that all live downtown. 66 00:03:33.180 --> 00:03:37.020 And even though it's only a 45 minute drive, sometimes it feels like they live a world 67 00:03:37.020 --> 00:03:38.020 away. 68 00:03:38.020 --> 00:03:41.380 I hardly see them because like, ah, we don't want to come to the suburbs, mom. 69 00:03:41.380 --> 00:03:43.700 We don't want to come out to the country, mom. 70 00:03:43.700 --> 00:03:46.520 We're down here in the city where the action is. 71 00:03:46.520 --> 00:03:50.220 And so this opportunity popped up. 72 00:03:50.220 --> 00:03:52.900 People were traveling for the holidays. 73 00:03:52.900 --> 00:03:58.140 And so I came down and staying in their little apartment down here with their big dog, big, 74 00:03:58.140 --> 00:03:59.140 big dog. 75 00:03:59.140 --> 00:04:00.140 His name is Tucker. 76 00:04:00.140 --> 00:04:02.180 And, but it's walkable. 77 00:04:02.180 --> 00:04:06.740 It's in proximity to the things that I want to be in proximity to. 78 00:04:06.740 --> 00:04:10.940 It's close to where my kids are, three miles away from my daughter. 79 00:04:10.940 --> 00:04:16.220 It's a half a mile away from a really cool street where there's lots of shops and lots 80 00:04:16.220 --> 00:04:20.579 of restaurants and coffee and matcha and all kinds of things. 81 00:04:20.579 --> 00:04:25.420 And so the very first thing that I want to release over you today is what is it that 82 00:04:25.420 --> 00:04:26.420 you want? 83 00:04:26.420 --> 00:04:31.620 I want you to think about that for a second. 84 00:04:31.620 --> 00:04:34.280 What is it that you want? 85 00:04:34.280 --> 00:04:36.740 And then I want you to ask yourself this question. 86 00:04:36.740 --> 00:04:43.060 How can I get in proximity to it? 87 00:04:43.060 --> 00:04:50.540 How can I move my physical body closer to what it is that I want? 88 00:04:50.540 --> 00:05:00.020 You guys, where there's a will and specifically where there's God's will, there's a will. 89 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:05.800 way. And I know that we have a lot of religious thinking about what God's will is, but I will 90 00:05:05.800 --> 00:05:09.720 tell you what God's will is. Go ahead and write it down. And anytime you get confused 91 00:05:09.720 --> 00:05:16.840 about is this the will of God for my life? I want you to look back at this. God's will 92 00:05:16.840 --> 00:05:26.920 is for you to prosper even as your soul prospers. His will for you is to be in health. His will 93 00:05:26.920 --> 00:05:31.800 for you is to live in abundance and have an overflow of abundance in your life that you 94 00:05:31.800 --> 00:05:39.560 can share with others. His will for you is for you to be the lender and not the borrower. 95 00:05:39.560 --> 00:05:47.720 His will for you is for you to glisten with hope and be able to give others an explanation 96 00:05:47.720 --> 00:06:01.320 of your hope everywhere you go. I remember a long time ago, I was having a conversation 97 00:06:01.320 --> 00:06:05.560 with the Lord. It was at least a decade or more ago. I was having a conversation with 98 00:06:05.560 --> 00:06:10.320 the Lord and he said, I was reading John 10, 10, that beautiful scripture that talks about 99 00:06:10.320 --> 00:06:17.400 how the thief has come to steal and to kill and to destroy. But Jesus speaking, he says, 100 00:06:17.400 --> 00:06:25.880 but I have come. I'm not coming. I have come. I'm here. I have come that you might have 101 00:06:25.880 --> 00:06:31.880 life, but not just any life, abundant life. And that word abundant in different translations 102 00:06:31.880 --> 00:06:39.000 of the Bible, but in the original Greek means overflowing, fully alive. That you might have 103 00:06:39.000 --> 00:06:45.360 this overflowing, fully alive, fully alive life. What does that look like? It looks like 104 00:06:45.360 --> 00:06:52.000 maybe we're not fully alive before Jesus. Maybe we're dead men walking before Jesus. 105 00:06:52.000 --> 00:06:59.240 Dead in sin, disconnected from our royal heritage, not understanding our identity because our 106 00:06:59.240 --> 00:07:04.080 identity is in Christ. And so without him, you can't understand who you are. You'll always 107 00:07:04.080 --> 00:07:08.280 be who someone else says you are. You'll always be what trauma says you are. Well, you always 108 00:07:08.280 --> 00:07:12.520 be what society and culture says you should be. That's what you'll be striving for. But 109 00:07:12.560 --> 00:07:17.120 when you're in Christ, you're fully alive. You know that you're accepted in the beloved 110 00:07:17.120 --> 00:07:24.560 just as you are. Nothing's missing, nothing's lacking, nothing's broken. And I was having 111 00:07:24.560 --> 00:07:30.000 this conversation with the Lord and I was reading that scripture and I wanted that. I wanted to live 112 00:07:30.000 --> 00:07:36.960 abundantly because I wasn't. Just like you and even today for me, there are areas of my life 113 00:07:36.960 --> 00:07:44.480 that do not show John 10 10 in my life. I'm not living in abundance. I'm not living fully alive. 114 00:07:44.480 --> 00:07:52.200 I'm not living overflow in those areas. And so I was reading the scripture and back then, 115 00:07:52.200 --> 00:07:58.400 oh, I had a lot of areas that weren't living abundantly. I wasn't living abundantly. And I 116 00:07:58.400 --> 00:08:03.720 was reading the scripture and I believe the word of God. And so I was asking God about it. And he 117 00:08:03.720 --> 00:08:08.360 said, do you want to live abundantly? Do you want to live the John 10 10 life? And I said, 118 00:08:08.360 --> 00:08:13.520 well, of course I do. And he said, well, then there's one thing that you have to do. What? 119 00:08:13.520 --> 00:08:19.840 Just one thing. Wow. All right. Give it to me. Lay it on me, God. I want to know what's this 120 00:08:19.840 --> 00:08:26.320 one thing that I have to do to live in abundance. He says you have to be able to receive what you 121 00:08:26.320 --> 00:08:41.559 do not deserve. Please write that down. Please get that tattooed on your arm. I'm kidding. But 122 00:08:41.559 --> 00:08:47.960 if you want to, you have to be able to receive what you do not deserve. This was a particularly 123 00:08:47.960 --> 00:08:54.000 interesting message for me. Hard to receive. It was hard for me to even receive the message, 124 00:08:54.000 --> 00:09:00.680 let alone the meaning of the message, because I had had to work and earn everything in my life. 125 00:09:00.680 --> 00:09:07.880 I came from a very desolate place, very broken place, very abandoned place. If I wasn't going 126 00:09:07.880 --> 00:09:12.560 to do it, there wasn't going to be anyone else to do it. As far as I knew, I had never been helped 127 00:09:12.560 --> 00:09:21.280 by anyone. I had often thought about my childhood and how I was surrounded by all kinds of adults 128 00:09:21.280 --> 00:09:28.400 at camps, at different church activities that I had been sent to by someone. I was the odd 129 00:09:28.400 --> 00:09:33.560 person out. I didn't go to these people's churches. I wasn't part of these kid groups of these camps 130 00:09:33.560 --> 00:09:37.240 where everyone knew each other and all the families knew each other. But none of these 131 00:09:37.240 --> 00:09:44.000 adults, these counselors, these ministers, these people, not even one of them ever reached out to 132 00:09:44.000 --> 00:09:49.720 me. I was a broken and hurting child. I was being emotionally, physically, mentally, spiritually, 133 00:09:49.840 --> 00:09:54.040 sexually abused. You think none of them, none of them had discernment to say like, 134 00:09:54.040 --> 00:09:59.760 oh, this child's hurting. We should reach out to this kid. Not nobody, ever. 135 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:08.440 And so I grew up with the idea that, hey, you know what, I'm all I've got. 136 00:10:11.240 --> 00:10:12.760 I'm all that I've got. 137 00:10:13.800 --> 00:10:15.960 And if I don't take care of myself, who's going to? 138 00:10:17.800 --> 00:10:22.440 Now, thankfully it didn't give me this, this personality where I was taking from 139 00:10:22.440 --> 00:10:27.480 others and I mean, not, not really, like I've always had a heart of compassion for 140 00:10:27.480 --> 00:10:29.320 other people that are hurting as well. 141 00:10:30.120 --> 00:10:30.640 Okay. 142 00:10:30.840 --> 00:10:31.560 Which is good. 143 00:10:32.400 --> 00:10:37.120 You know, and I've always had a strong sense of, you know, not, you know, it, 144 00:10:37.120 --> 00:10:41.280 it never, it never was okay for me to betray or hurt somebody else 145 00:10:41.280 --> 00:10:42.920 that really ate me up inside. 146 00:10:44.000 --> 00:10:45.560 So God was always with me. 147 00:10:45.560 --> 00:10:47.040 The spirit was always with me. 148 00:10:48.240 --> 00:10:52.320 And I can see how, when I was a really small child at my grandmother's house, 149 00:10:52.320 --> 00:10:56.000 when I was about eight or nine years old, I gave my, I gave my life to Jesus. 150 00:10:56.000 --> 00:10:58.320 I didn't really know what I was doing, but I did it. 151 00:10:58.560 --> 00:10:59.240 And guess what? 152 00:10:59.480 --> 00:11:05.400 His scripture that says that what you have given to me, I will in no, for no 153 00:11:05.400 --> 00:11:09.760 reason, he says, I will in no wise, but for no reason in just modern English, 154 00:11:10.040 --> 00:11:11.800 I will no reason turn it away. 155 00:11:12.960 --> 00:11:15.920 I will never turn away anything that's brought and given to me. 156 00:11:17.120 --> 00:11:18.200 And so that happened. 157 00:11:19.440 --> 00:11:21.160 That happened for me throughout my life. 158 00:11:21.160 --> 00:11:23.040 God was with me, even though I didn't know him. 159 00:11:23.280 --> 00:11:28.400 And then at 22 years old, I had a real amazing introduction to Jesus. 160 00:11:28.400 --> 00:11:32.920 And I have been following him and being a disciple of his ever since. 161 00:11:33.760 --> 00:11:38.440 So when I got this message, probably about 15 years ago of, Hey, you have to 162 00:11:38.440 --> 00:11:40.600 be able to receive what you do not deserve. 163 00:11:40.600 --> 00:11:43.920 It was a hard message for me because I didn't know how to do that. 164 00:11:43.920 --> 00:11:48.480 Because even though I knew Jesus now, I was still striving in my 165 00:11:48.480 --> 00:11:50.200 own strength to make things happen. 166 00:11:50.200 --> 00:11:52.360 I was still, now I was serving God. 167 00:11:52.560 --> 00:11:56.680 You know, a lot of us will even use the, the, the, uh, the language with God. 168 00:11:57.000 --> 00:11:59.840 Um, use me, Lord, use me, use me. 169 00:11:59.840 --> 00:12:00.760 Let me ask you a question. 170 00:12:00.760 --> 00:12:02.400 Have you ever been used by anybody? 171 00:12:05.000 --> 00:12:07.520 Raise your hand if you've ever been used by anybody. 172 00:12:09.720 --> 00:12:14.720 Used by a romantic relationship, used by a so-called friend, 173 00:12:14.720 --> 00:12:16.840 used by your company, your boss. 174 00:12:23.360 --> 00:12:25.000 It doesn't feel good to be used. 175 00:12:26.440 --> 00:12:29.600 And I don't know where we got this language from, what scripture we 176 00:12:29.600 --> 00:12:34.520 translated into modern language to think about God using anybody. 177 00:12:35.160 --> 00:12:38.880 But the scriptures that I see say, God, here I am, send me. 178 00:12:43.040 --> 00:12:46.880 The scriptures that I see are, be it done unto me, Lord, according 179 00:12:46.880 --> 00:12:49.680 to your word and your will. 180 00:12:50.640 --> 00:12:51.920 It doesn't say use me. 181 00:12:52.560 --> 00:12:57.320 That came out of some song somewhere, some preacher sermon somewhere, 182 00:12:57.480 --> 00:12:59.440 because we don't, God doesn't use us. 183 00:13:00.040 --> 00:13:01.680 The devil uses people. 184 00:13:05.200 --> 00:13:09.240 People are used as pawns in his game all the time. 185 00:13:09.240 --> 00:13:12.920 People are used as puppets on his string all the time. 186 00:13:13.120 --> 00:13:13.720 Amen. 187 00:13:13.720 --> 00:13:15.000 Go ahead, you can put your hands down. 188 00:13:16.520 --> 00:13:21.280 Probably have some, a little bit more interaction today, some activations. 189 00:13:24.480 --> 00:13:25.480 God doesn't use us. 190 00:13:25.520 --> 00:13:26.760 He doesn't want to use you. 191 00:13:29.680 --> 00:13:33.360 He wants to protect you and love you. 192 00:13:34.120 --> 00:13:35.520 He wants to care for you. 193 00:13:37.480 --> 00:13:38.640 He wants you to serve him. 194 00:13:38.640 --> 00:13:39.960 He wants you to be his servant. 195 00:13:39.960 --> 00:13:41.160 He wants you to be his friend. 196 00:13:41.160 --> 00:13:42.360 He wants you to be his servant. 197 00:13:42.840 --> 00:13:45.480 He wants you to serve others because he served you. 198 00:13:47.960 --> 00:13:50.240 He wants you to love others because he loved you. 199 00:13:51.720 --> 00:13:53.320 That's where it has to come from. 200 00:13:54.000 --> 00:14:01.600 It has to come from a do unto others as you would want it to be done to you. 201 00:14:02.000 --> 00:14:02.520 Right? 202 00:14:03.160 --> 00:14:04.880 And we're going to talk about that because that's really what 203 00:14:04.880 --> 00:14:06.440 today is about when we get there. 204 00:14:08.160 --> 00:14:11.040 So God said, you have to be able to receive what you don't deserve, Jackie. 205 00:14:11.040 --> 00:14:14.360 And I, you know, I really wrestled with that and I continue to wrestle with that. 206 00:14:14.720 --> 00:14:20.400 I continue to, you know, sometimes default into orphan tendencies. 207 00:14:20.960 --> 00:14:24.440 Sometimes I attended default into my own strength. 208 00:14:26.040 --> 00:14:28.640 And then I catch myself and say, Hey, that's what the Jesus 209 00:14:28.640 --> 00:14:29.840 cares for is all about y'all. 210 00:14:29.840 --> 00:14:31.000 That's what it was born out of. 211 00:14:31.320 --> 00:14:37.040 It was born out of me not being able to fix things for things that were out of 212 00:14:37.040 --> 00:14:40.400 my control, out of my jurisdiction, out of my authority. 213 00:14:40.400 --> 00:14:46.600 I could not fix those things and I was destroying myself trying. 214 00:14:47.840 --> 00:14:54.520 And God very kindly came to me and said, Hey, you've done a really great job, 215 00:14:54.520 --> 00:14:59.760 kid, taking care of yourself all these years, but I'm going to take it from here. 216 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:07.000 Somebody needs to hear that today. 217 00:15:07.000 --> 00:15:11.540 I posted something on my Facebook page this morning about, you're turning a corner. 218 00:15:11.540 --> 00:15:12.540 That has been in the Word. 219 00:15:12.540 --> 00:15:18.680 That has been the Word in the Spirit on this day for the last 11 years. 220 00:15:18.680 --> 00:15:23.760 God has reiterated that message. 221 00:15:23.760 --> 00:15:28.800 For the last 11 years, the first time that God gave me that Word that I posted on my 222 00:15:28.800 --> 00:15:34.080 Facebook page today was 11 years ago. 223 00:15:34.080 --> 00:15:35.960 And He continues to give it. 224 00:15:35.960 --> 00:15:40.080 He continues to reiterate it. 225 00:15:40.080 --> 00:15:41.080 Turning a corner. 226 00:15:41.080 --> 00:15:46.520 The hardest part of the process of whatever you've been in is over. 227 00:15:46.520 --> 00:15:49.040 The hardest part of that process is over. 228 00:15:49.040 --> 00:15:54.480 I want you to receive that. 229 00:15:54.480 --> 00:15:58.480 So God told me, hey, I'm going to take it from here. 230 00:15:58.480 --> 00:15:59.640 I need you to surrender to me. 231 00:15:59.640 --> 00:16:01.280 I need you to let me care for you. 232 00:16:01.280 --> 00:16:08.240 One of my favorite scriptures in the Bible is Psalm 126, and it just says this, God provides 233 00:16:08.240 --> 00:16:16.320 for His lovers even while they're sleeping. 234 00:16:16.320 --> 00:16:24.080 The other part of the verse talks about how it's vanity to try to think you can fix all 235 00:16:24.080 --> 00:16:28.760 your problems, to stay up late trying to worry and figure it out. 236 00:16:28.760 --> 00:16:29.760 And that used to be me. 237 00:16:29.760 --> 00:16:34.800 I was a stay up later, worrier, figure it out-er. 238 00:16:34.800 --> 00:16:36.400 And sometimes I could. 239 00:16:36.400 --> 00:16:37.760 And some of you can relate to that. 240 00:16:37.760 --> 00:16:39.480 You're like, I'm a get-or-done kind of person. 241 00:16:39.480 --> 00:16:41.400 I can figure it out a lot. 242 00:16:41.400 --> 00:16:45.000 But then there are things that come that you can't fix. 243 00:16:45.000 --> 00:16:47.000 You can't figure them out. 244 00:16:47.000 --> 00:16:48.240 You can't change them. 245 00:16:48.240 --> 00:16:54.560 They're way beyond your control. 246 00:16:54.560 --> 00:16:58.640 And I didn't know what to do with those things, but after that conversation with the Lord, 247 00:16:58.640 --> 00:17:03.960 I started to cast my cares upon Him because He cares for me. 248 00:17:03.960 --> 00:17:05.599 Guess what? 249 00:17:05.599 --> 00:17:12.000 I started seeing His power in my surrender. 250 00:17:12.000 --> 00:17:13.480 Write that down. 251 00:17:13.560 --> 00:17:18.640 I started seeing His power in my surrender. 252 00:17:18.640 --> 00:17:25.440 When I released those things and took my hands off of them, He could put His hands on them. 253 00:17:25.440 --> 00:17:30.680 Oftentimes we pray for God to intervene in situations that we still have tightly in our 254 00:17:30.680 --> 00:17:35.400 grip. 255 00:17:35.400 --> 00:17:39.120 And as soon as the situation looks like it's going away that we don't want it to go, we 256 00:17:39.120 --> 00:17:42.880 start to try to control it. 257 00:17:42.880 --> 00:17:44.680 But I want you to know something. 258 00:17:44.680 --> 00:17:50.280 Sometimes things have to fall apart so that better things can fall together. 259 00:17:50.280 --> 00:17:53.280 And I know if you were fixing the problem, you wouldn't fix it that way. 260 00:17:53.280 --> 00:17:54.840 But you know what? 261 00:17:54.840 --> 00:17:56.320 You can't fix the problem. 262 00:17:56.320 --> 00:18:05.280 And the one that can is not going to do it the way that you think it should be done. 263 00:18:05.280 --> 00:18:10.800 I can't tell you how often in my life things looked like they were going the opposite way 264 00:18:10.800 --> 00:18:19.200 of what I thought was right, what I thought was good. 265 00:18:19.200 --> 00:18:22.960 When I took my hands off of them. 266 00:18:22.960 --> 00:18:30.160 Right now some of you have people in your life that you're trying to fix. 267 00:18:30.160 --> 00:18:34.120 You're trying to hold them together. 268 00:18:34.120 --> 00:18:38.600 They're constantly in crisis and they're people that you love and people that you can't turn 269 00:18:38.600 --> 00:18:40.160 your back on. 270 00:18:40.160 --> 00:18:42.720 They're people that you're responsible for. 271 00:18:42.720 --> 00:18:48.560 For some of you, it's your children and they're not even adults yet. 272 00:18:48.560 --> 00:18:50.960 But you have to give them to the Lord. 273 00:18:50.960 --> 00:18:54.480 You have to release these people to the Lord. 274 00:18:54.480 --> 00:18:56.440 You cannot fix what's wrong. 275 00:18:56.440 --> 00:18:59.960 Now that doesn't mean that you don't parent and you don't set boundaries. 276 00:18:59.960 --> 00:19:02.520 That doesn't mean you're just like, oh, well, I gave it to the Lord, just go do whatever 277 00:19:02.520 --> 00:19:03.520 you want. 278 00:19:03.520 --> 00:19:09.920 It doesn't mean that, but it does mean that you're nagging and you're criticism and you're 279 00:19:09.920 --> 00:19:15.200 trying to fix them with your words is not working. 280 00:19:15.200 --> 00:19:24.720 Hey, it's not working because there's a deeper problem. 281 00:19:24.720 --> 00:19:28.400 And only God can fix that deeper problem. 282 00:19:28.400 --> 00:19:34.200 And so praying over them, let's not let our praying knees get lazy, friends. 283 00:19:34.200 --> 00:19:36.920 Prayer is powerful. 284 00:19:36.920 --> 00:19:45.840 So praying over them, asking God to intervene in the situation, not telling him how he has 285 00:19:45.840 --> 00:19:54.400 to do it and how you think it should be done, but just allowing him to do it. 286 00:19:54.400 --> 00:19:57.920 And when things start happening that are not on your list. 287 00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:02.300 understanding and believing that God is in it. 288 00:20:03.720 --> 00:20:06.440 That somehow God is in it 289 00:20:07.400 --> 00:20:09.200 and that we're just gonna trust him. 290 00:20:11.880 --> 00:20:13.240 We're just gonna trust him. 291 00:20:14.320 --> 00:20:16.520 All of this is just building experience with God. 292 00:20:16.520 --> 00:20:18.560 It's building trust with God 293 00:20:18.560 --> 00:20:20.800 so that you can say, well, you know, 294 00:20:20.800 --> 00:20:22.140 I don't know how it works out, 295 00:20:22.140 --> 00:20:23.400 but I know that it works out 296 00:20:23.400 --> 00:20:27.400 because when I release things to God, 297 00:20:27.400 --> 00:20:28.540 he takes care of them. 298 00:20:31.000 --> 00:20:31.880 There was an old preacher 299 00:20:31.880 --> 00:20:34.840 when I was a young disciple of Christ 300 00:20:34.840 --> 00:20:38.400 that just said, how will we know 301 00:20:38.400 --> 00:20:42.040 that God could solve our problems 302 00:20:42.040 --> 00:20:43.260 if we didn't have any? 303 00:20:46.840 --> 00:20:48.160 That always stuck with me. 304 00:20:49.160 --> 00:20:51.360 Yes, friends, in this world, we will have adversity. 305 00:20:51.360 --> 00:20:52.400 We will have struggle. 306 00:20:52.400 --> 00:20:53.240 We will have trouble. 307 00:20:53.240 --> 00:20:54.900 We will have process, 308 00:20:55.840 --> 00:20:58.040 but the Bible tells us that we will overcome 309 00:20:59.040 --> 00:21:01.480 because Christ has overcome, we will overcome. 310 00:21:01.480 --> 00:21:03.520 So I don't know who needed that first part of the message. 311 00:21:03.520 --> 00:21:05.540 That's not today's Supernatural Saturday, 312 00:21:05.540 --> 00:21:06.880 but it was important to share it 313 00:21:06.880 --> 00:21:08.180 because that's where someone is. 314 00:21:08.180 --> 00:21:10.440 That's where a lot of someones are 315 00:21:10.440 --> 00:21:12.960 and God wants you to know that he sees where you are. 316 00:21:12.960 --> 00:21:16.480 He knows where you are and he just wants you to release. 317 00:21:17.640 --> 00:21:19.440 He wants you to release it. 318 00:21:19.440 --> 00:21:20.920 He wants you to L-I-G it. 319 00:21:20.920 --> 00:21:22.720 He wants you to let it go. 320 00:21:22.720 --> 00:21:24.560 He wants you to put it on your Jesus Cares board 321 00:21:24.560 --> 00:21:25.400 and leave it there. 322 00:21:25.400 --> 00:21:27.920 He wants you to take your hands off of it. 323 00:21:28.680 --> 00:21:29.560 If it's someone that you're trying to fix 324 00:21:29.560 --> 00:21:30.440 that's driving you nuts, 325 00:21:30.440 --> 00:21:32.480 he wants you to take your mouth off of it. 326 00:21:33.720 --> 00:21:35.560 Speak life, not death. 327 00:21:36.600 --> 00:21:37.680 Speak life. 328 00:21:42.320 --> 00:21:43.240 Speak life, you guys. 329 00:21:43.240 --> 00:21:45.700 People are hurting, so we have to be gentle. 330 00:21:46.940 --> 00:21:48.680 We have to save the advice 331 00:21:48.680 --> 00:21:51.080 on how to fix their lives for later, okay? 332 00:21:51.080 --> 00:21:53.120 Because this is not the most wonderful time of year 333 00:21:53.120 --> 00:21:56.040 for a lot of people, right? 334 00:21:56.040 --> 00:21:56.880 Keep this in mind. 335 00:21:56.880 --> 00:22:01.120 If people are bleeding out, they don't need tough love. 336 00:22:01.120 --> 00:22:02.280 They need a tourniquet. 337 00:22:03.280 --> 00:22:05.180 They need someone to bind up their wounds. 338 00:22:05.180 --> 00:22:06.480 Isn't that what Jesus did? 339 00:22:06.480 --> 00:22:09.000 He bound up the wounds. 340 00:22:09.000 --> 00:22:11.280 The wounds, ha, the wounds. 341 00:22:11.280 --> 00:22:13.740 The wounds, he bound up the wounds. 342 00:22:15.360 --> 00:22:16.720 All right, I just wanna read real quickly 343 00:22:16.720 --> 00:22:19.680 before we stop this part of Supernatural Saturday 344 00:22:19.680 --> 00:22:21.160 and we go on to the other thoughts 345 00:22:21.160 --> 00:22:23.600 that the Holy Spirit gave me this morning. 346 00:22:23.600 --> 00:22:25.600 I'm just gonna read what I put on Facebook. 347 00:22:25.600 --> 00:22:28.360 A lot of you probably don't follow this Facebook page 348 00:22:28.360 --> 00:22:29.920 that I posted this on, 349 00:22:29.920 --> 00:22:33.080 and so I'm gonna go ahead and say it out loud. 350 00:22:33.080 --> 00:22:34.680 You're turning the corner. 351 00:22:34.680 --> 00:22:37.160 The most difficult part of the process you've been in 352 00:22:37.160 --> 00:22:41.320 is ending, and things are going to begin turning around. 353 00:22:41.320 --> 00:22:43.640 Okay, the word turn, you guys. 354 00:22:43.640 --> 00:22:45.560 We have a word in the Spirit right now 355 00:22:45.560 --> 00:22:49.360 that we all should be praying over, 356 00:22:49.360 --> 00:22:54.000 that God has given all of us, and that is what? 357 00:22:55.000 --> 00:22:57.800 The word that I've been releasing over all of us 358 00:22:57.800 --> 00:23:00.040 is everything's coming full circle. 359 00:23:01.200 --> 00:23:03.880 So things that have gone wrong in the past, 360 00:23:03.880 --> 00:23:06.100 opportunities that you missed out on. 361 00:23:06.100 --> 00:23:08.440 There's a couple Supernatural Saturdays ago 362 00:23:08.440 --> 00:23:11.400 I released that word, and so this word's kind of similar. 363 00:23:12.320 --> 00:23:14.120 Right, we're turning a corner. 364 00:23:15.800 --> 00:23:19.520 Process is being completed. 365 00:23:19.520 --> 00:23:21.960 Things are beginning to turn around. 366 00:23:21.960 --> 00:23:23.000 Okay, I'm gonna read the rest of this. 367 00:23:23.000 --> 00:23:25.520 Rest, rest in knowing that. 368 00:23:27.760 --> 00:23:29.120 Rest in knowing that. 369 00:23:30.040 --> 00:23:32.040 Expect progress. 370 00:23:32.040 --> 00:23:33.560 Expect breakthrough. 371 00:23:33.560 --> 00:23:35.160 Expect harvest. 372 00:23:36.160 --> 00:23:39.920 They that go forth weeping, bearing precious seed, 373 00:23:39.920 --> 00:23:43.480 will for sure come again celebrating, 374 00:23:43.480 --> 00:23:45.520 bringing their harvest with them. 375 00:23:45.520 --> 00:23:47.400 And so here are the questions that I wrote down 376 00:23:47.400 --> 00:23:49.600 on this post, and these are the questions 377 00:23:49.600 --> 00:23:51.900 that God has been asking for 11 years. 378 00:23:52.820 --> 00:23:54.680 What have you been weeping over? 379 00:23:55.780 --> 00:23:58.420 Through the years, what have you been crying out 380 00:23:58.420 --> 00:23:59.940 to God concerning? 381 00:24:01.140 --> 00:24:04.180 Your family, your marriage, your singleness, 382 00:24:04.180 --> 00:24:06.300 your purpose, your finances, your health? 383 00:24:08.620 --> 00:24:10.660 Take courage, dear friend, it's time to reap. 384 00:24:10.660 --> 00:24:14.060 Every tear has been a seed that went down 385 00:24:14.060 --> 00:24:16.820 into the fertile soil of God's mercy and grace. 386 00:24:16.820 --> 00:24:19.140 It's time to turn the corner into your harvest. 387 00:24:19.140 --> 00:24:22.060 It's time to see the fruit of the labor of your soul. 388 00:24:24.180 --> 00:24:26.100 Heart work, you guys. 389 00:24:26.100 --> 00:24:29.180 It's time to see the fruit of the labor of your heart. 390 00:24:29.180 --> 00:24:33.500 When I had the heart work translated into Spanish, 391 00:24:33.500 --> 00:24:38.500 the title went from the heart work to la labor del corazon, 392 00:24:40.260 --> 00:24:44.540 the labor of the heart, the labor of the soul. 393 00:24:46.220 --> 00:24:48.260 It's time to see the fruit of your labor. 394 00:24:50.100 --> 00:24:52.980 It's time to see why God signed you up 395 00:24:54.340 --> 00:24:59.180 and you came in the first place. 396 00:25:00.000 --> 00:25:04.280 Because remember, heart work was never just about singleness. 397 00:25:04.280 --> 00:25:08.240 It was about all the other things as well. 398 00:25:08.240 --> 00:25:14.600 All the other areas of abundance that Jesus died to give us. 399 00:25:14.600 --> 00:25:22.080 And so saying that, I want to go ahead and transition into why would we need to be abundant? 400 00:25:22.080 --> 00:25:25.560 Why? 401 00:25:25.560 --> 00:25:28.680 Why would we just need to have enough for ourselves? 402 00:25:28.680 --> 00:25:29.960 I mean, right? 403 00:25:29.960 --> 00:25:34.160 Why would we need to overflow? 404 00:25:34.160 --> 00:25:37.560 Why? 405 00:25:37.560 --> 00:25:43.720 And for some of us, that's kind of the question of maybe why we're not overflowing. 406 00:25:43.720 --> 00:25:55.460 Because we still have that me, mine kind of mentality, right? 407 00:25:55.460 --> 00:26:05.460 We have to begin to expand our thinking that we are blessed to be a blessing. 408 00:26:05.460 --> 00:26:10.900 If we're the lender and not the borrower, then who are we lending to? 409 00:26:10.900 --> 00:26:13.020 Who are we helping? 410 00:26:13.020 --> 00:26:16.260 And so at this time of year, years and years ago, you guys have always been up to some 411 00:26:16.260 --> 00:26:18.100 kind of shenanigans. 412 00:26:18.100 --> 00:26:28.780 And years ago, I had this wild hair to do a project at this time of year with my kids. 413 00:26:28.780 --> 00:26:34.580 I used to always love to get my kids involved in any kind of charity stuff, not just at 414 00:26:34.580 --> 00:26:40.420 the holidays, but any kind of serving people, especially the less fortunate. 415 00:26:40.420 --> 00:26:47.620 And at this time of year, years ago, we started something called Project Good Cheer. 416 00:26:47.620 --> 00:26:51.580 And it was just about random acts of kindness, small ones. 417 00:26:51.580 --> 00:26:54.640 They don't have to be large ones, small ones. 418 00:26:54.640 --> 00:27:00.180 It was about leaving post-it notes with cute sayings on bathroom mirrors and gas stations, 419 00:27:00.180 --> 00:27:05.380 you know, with inspirational things and scriptures and just things that said, Jesus loves you 420 00:27:05.380 --> 00:27:09.340 and just things that would brighten someone's day. 421 00:27:09.340 --> 00:27:13.340 You know, buying someone a cup of coffee in the Starbucks line that's behind you in the 422 00:27:13.340 --> 00:27:14.340 car. 423 00:27:14.340 --> 00:27:16.300 Guys, it doesn't have to be big. 424 00:27:16.300 --> 00:27:24.820 You have no idea what even the smallest, smallest act of kindness can do for someone. 425 00:27:24.820 --> 00:27:27.820 I remember once I was at an airport, and this is what I felt the Holy Spirit wanted me to 426 00:27:27.820 --> 00:27:31.180 do is just kind of tell stories a little bit. 427 00:27:31.180 --> 00:27:35.060 Because when you're in pain, all you can think about is yourself. 428 00:27:35.060 --> 00:27:37.260 I understand that. 429 00:27:37.260 --> 00:27:44.820 And there were many times during the decades that I was in excruciating pain, mentally, 430 00:27:45.820 --> 00:27:52.100 spiritually, that God continued to remind me that there's someone who's in more pain 431 00:27:52.100 --> 00:27:54.940 than me. 432 00:27:54.940 --> 00:27:59.660 And I cannot tell you how much joy it brings you to take your eyes off yourself and put 433 00:27:59.660 --> 00:28:04.660 it on someone else. 434 00:28:04.660 --> 00:28:09.020 Living a self-centered life is not abundant life. 435 00:28:09.020 --> 00:28:12.300 Living a life where all you can think about is yourself and what you need and what you 436 00:28:12.300 --> 00:28:15.660 don't have is not an abundant life. 437 00:28:15.660 --> 00:28:23.940 And it is that kind of micro-focusing on yourself that will cause you to feel even more pain. 438 00:28:23.940 --> 00:28:25.780 Even more pain. 439 00:28:25.780 --> 00:28:30.220 But when we lose our lives, we gain our lives. 440 00:28:30.220 --> 00:28:31.500 What does that mean? 441 00:28:31.500 --> 00:28:34.340 Not just following Christ, but following the ways of Christ. 442 00:28:34.340 --> 00:28:39.220 Not thinking of ourselves, but thinking of others, putting others first. 443 00:28:39.220 --> 00:28:43.060 I know all of you are here in my program because you want a partnership. 444 00:28:43.060 --> 00:28:46.780 But I'm just going to tell you, and I told David this this morning, I asked him to, you 445 00:28:46.780 --> 00:28:50.220 know, we're not at our house and I left something out in the car and it's parked out on the 446 00:28:50.220 --> 00:28:55.460 street somewhere because this is the city and it's not parked in a driveway at a home. 447 00:28:55.460 --> 00:28:57.460 And I asked him if he would go get that for me. 448 00:28:57.460 --> 00:29:03.260 And he very happily obliged and went out in the cold, it's cold here this morning, and 449 00:29:03.260 --> 00:29:07.660 went and walked down to wherever that car is parked and got that for me. 450 00:29:07.660 --> 00:29:10.820 And when he came back, I said, thanks, babe. 451 00:29:10.820 --> 00:29:15.380 I said, you're a good friend. 452 00:29:15.380 --> 00:29:18.420 I need to tell you guys something. 453 00:29:18.420 --> 00:29:25.900 Marriage is 90% friendship. 454 00:29:25.900 --> 00:29:32.140 If you're not a good friend, you're not going to be a good partner, a good married person. 455 00:29:32.140 --> 00:29:35.020 Okay? 456 00:29:35.260 --> 00:29:37.820 David is my best friend. 457 00:29:37.820 --> 00:29:40.700 But a lot of times we've called someone our best friend that really wasn't that great 458 00:29:40.700 --> 00:29:42.020 of a friend to us. 459 00:29:42.020 --> 00:29:43.820 I had a best friend like that. 460 00:29:43.820 --> 00:29:46.420 I love saying the words, oh, I have a best friend. 461 00:29:46.420 --> 00:29:48.220 I love the idea of having a best friend. 462 00:29:48.220 --> 00:29:49.220 But guess what? 463 00:29:49.220 --> 00:29:54.700 I was a best friend, but she wasn't a best friend back. 464 00:29:54.700 --> 00:29:59.260 I was a good friend and I prided myself on being a good friend, on being loyal and being 465 00:29:59.260 --> 00:30:00.020 available. 466 00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:03.700 and, you know, and always helping and serving, 467 00:30:03.700 --> 00:30:05.300 but I wasn't getting that in return. 468 00:30:05.300 --> 00:30:06.660 It wasn't a reciprocation. 469 00:30:06.660 --> 00:30:09.380 There wasn't reciprocal relationship there. 470 00:30:09.380 --> 00:30:11.660 I was the giver and she was the taker. 471 00:30:12.860 --> 00:30:16.080 And you guys, in marriage, that can happen. 472 00:30:16.080 --> 00:30:19.060 If you marry someone who's a taker, 473 00:30:19.060 --> 00:30:20.900 and you're gonna see this even in courtship, 474 00:30:20.900 --> 00:30:25.100 even during the time that you are not married, 475 00:30:25.100 --> 00:30:27.380 the time that you're getting to know each other, 476 00:30:27.380 --> 00:30:28.980 you have to have two givers. 477 00:30:28.980 --> 00:30:31.140 Two givers have to marry each other. 478 00:30:33.380 --> 00:30:35.180 Can't have a giver and a taker, 479 00:30:35.180 --> 00:30:37.780 because eventually, you know, it might feel okay at first, 480 00:30:37.780 --> 00:30:40.980 especially if you get your identity and your significance 481 00:30:40.980 --> 00:30:42.940 from giving and serving others, 482 00:30:42.940 --> 00:30:44.460 but if you're not being served in return, 483 00:30:44.460 --> 00:30:46.420 you're gonna get burnt out. 484 00:30:46.420 --> 00:30:47.800 Then you're gonna get resentful. 485 00:30:47.800 --> 00:30:48.860 Then you're gonna get angry. 486 00:30:48.860 --> 00:30:50.300 Then you're gonna get bitter. 487 00:30:53.100 --> 00:30:53.940 Okay? 488 00:30:55.660 --> 00:30:58.900 Now, there will be times, there will be times, 489 00:30:59.700 --> 00:31:00.540 that's the doggie. 490 00:31:00.540 --> 00:31:02.140 There will be times when, 491 00:31:05.900 --> 00:31:08.500 there will be times when you're the person 492 00:31:08.500 --> 00:31:12.140 that really needs to be served in the relationship, 493 00:31:13.180 --> 00:31:15.700 because you're really going through something. 494 00:31:15.700 --> 00:31:18.120 But then you'll have the opportunity to do that back. 495 00:31:18.120 --> 00:31:20.300 So anyway, my husband went out today and he came back 496 00:31:20.300 --> 00:31:23.180 and I started singing that song from the Golden Girls. 497 00:31:23.180 --> 00:31:25.540 Thank you for being a friend. 498 00:31:25.540 --> 00:31:26.460 And it was just cute. 499 00:31:26.460 --> 00:31:27.900 And then he started singing it with me 500 00:31:27.900 --> 00:31:29.740 and then we both started singing it, 501 00:31:29.740 --> 00:31:31.460 because we're goofy like that. 502 00:31:31.460 --> 00:31:36.140 And I just wanna tell you that he's my best friend 503 00:31:36.140 --> 00:31:37.880 and he's such a good friend. 504 00:31:39.060 --> 00:31:40.940 He's such a good friend, you guys. 505 00:31:41.820 --> 00:31:45.500 And so your friendship for your future marriage, 506 00:31:45.500 --> 00:31:46.700 it starts now. 507 00:31:48.060 --> 00:31:50.660 Not just with others, but with Jesus. 508 00:31:50.660 --> 00:31:52.420 You know, he's a good friend to you. 509 00:31:52.420 --> 00:31:53.840 He's your elder brother. 510 00:31:54.900 --> 00:31:57.340 But the Bible says that he is the friend 511 00:31:57.700 --> 00:31:59.140 that sticks closer than a brother. 512 00:31:59.140 --> 00:32:01.540 And we want that kind of friendship. 513 00:32:01.540 --> 00:32:03.420 And so we have been served by him. 514 00:32:03.420 --> 00:32:04.740 We wanna serve others. 515 00:32:05.860 --> 00:32:06.740 We wanna serve others. 516 00:32:06.740 --> 00:32:09.260 That's what it looks like to be a disciple of Christ, 517 00:32:09.260 --> 00:32:11.480 is to do what Jesus does, right? 518 00:32:14.140 --> 00:32:19.140 And I promise you, your problems will begin to lessen 519 00:32:19.340 --> 00:32:22.380 when you begin to help other people. 520 00:32:22.380 --> 00:32:24.380 Do you know that we have not been designed 521 00:32:24.380 --> 00:32:26.260 to carry our own burdens? 522 00:32:27.460 --> 00:32:30.660 Bible says we should cast our burdens on the Lord. 523 00:32:30.660 --> 00:32:31.740 But then it goes on to say 524 00:32:31.740 --> 00:32:33.900 that we should carry the burdens of others. 525 00:32:35.340 --> 00:32:39.160 So if you have your own burdens on your back, 526 00:32:40.500 --> 00:32:42.700 then you're not being obedient to the word of God 527 00:32:42.700 --> 00:32:46.180 that says to cast those cares and burdens on the Lord. 528 00:32:46.180 --> 00:32:49.260 But if you have someone else's burdens on you, 529 00:32:50.380 --> 00:32:51.400 that's biblical. 530 00:32:53.380 --> 00:32:55.260 Now, of course, we're not carrying them alone. 531 00:32:55.260 --> 00:32:59.860 We're carrying them with that person in Christ, right? 532 00:32:59.860 --> 00:33:01.700 And so I want you to think of it this way. 533 00:33:01.700 --> 00:33:05.540 When you cast your burdens, your cares on the Lord, 534 00:33:05.540 --> 00:33:07.040 he is the source. 535 00:33:07.940 --> 00:33:10.020 He's where all our help comes from. 536 00:33:10.020 --> 00:33:10.860 But he's the head. 537 00:33:10.860 --> 00:33:11.940 And you hear me say this a lot 538 00:33:11.940 --> 00:33:15.660 because God gave me this word years ago and I use it a lot. 539 00:33:15.660 --> 00:33:19.220 He's the head of the human resource department. 540 00:33:19.220 --> 00:33:20.040 He's the source, 541 00:33:20.040 --> 00:33:22.340 but he's the head of the human resource department. 542 00:33:22.380 --> 00:33:25.800 And as he solves your issues, your problems, 543 00:33:25.800 --> 00:33:28.400 as he covers your frailties and weaknesses, 544 00:33:29.380 --> 00:33:32.980 it's probably going to include other humans. 545 00:33:35.060 --> 00:33:36.340 When you have a problem, 546 00:33:36.340 --> 00:33:38.700 God is going to assign other humans 547 00:33:38.700 --> 00:33:40.560 to be part of the solution. 548 00:33:40.560 --> 00:33:43.020 And that's when they come alongside you. 549 00:33:43.020 --> 00:33:46.500 Guys, when I was at my lowest point in my life, 550 00:33:46.500 --> 00:33:49.600 those decades, people would just randomly show up. 551 00:33:50.600 --> 00:33:53.400 And they weren't people that I knew. 552 00:33:53.400 --> 00:33:55.200 They were just strangers to me. 553 00:33:56.200 --> 00:33:58.400 They were just resources 554 00:33:58.400 --> 00:34:01.800 from the heavenly resource department. 555 00:34:03.680 --> 00:34:07.080 Reaching out to me, helping me, encouraging me, 556 00:34:07.080 --> 00:34:11.199 being with me, you know? 557 00:34:13.199 --> 00:34:15.719 I remember I had to have a procedure done 558 00:34:16.719 --> 00:34:21.719 and my mom had passed away and I just was in a bad place. 559 00:34:24.159 --> 00:34:27.000 And I was laying there 560 00:34:27.000 --> 00:34:29.440 and they were having trouble getting the IV in. 561 00:34:29.440 --> 00:34:32.560 And I was like, ah. 562 00:34:33.920 --> 00:34:35.880 And then there was going to be a nurse with me 563 00:34:35.880 --> 00:34:36.940 throughout this procedure 564 00:34:36.940 --> 00:34:40.040 because I was going to be unmedicated by choice. 565 00:34:40.040 --> 00:34:42.000 I was going to be unmedicated during this procedure 566 00:34:42.000 --> 00:34:44.880 that people are usually under sedation for. 567 00:34:44.920 --> 00:34:47.699 And so the nurse that was assigned to be with me 568 00:34:47.699 --> 00:34:50.239 and stay with me during the procedure, 569 00:34:50.239 --> 00:34:52.080 she came in and guess what? 570 00:34:52.080 --> 00:34:53.699 She had the same name as my mom. 571 00:34:55.960 --> 00:34:58.160 And she was very motherly. 572 00:34:58.160 --> 00:35:00.160 And she was probably old enough to be. 573 00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:05.600 My mom and she sat down next to me and she took my hand and she was very un-nurse-like 574 00:35:05.600 --> 00:35:11.440 and more caretaker-ish and I was able to breeze through that whole process. 575 00:35:12.640 --> 00:35:13.440 That was God. 576 00:35:15.440 --> 00:35:16.400 He's like, I got you. 577 00:35:17.760 --> 00:35:18.880 Yes, your mother's with me. 578 00:35:19.440 --> 00:35:20.640 She's in another dimension. 579 00:35:20.640 --> 00:35:23.120 You can't see her right now, but we got you. 580 00:35:23.120 --> 00:35:24.560 We got you, all right? 581 00:35:25.200 --> 00:35:28.800 We have other motherly figures that we will send when you need a mother. 582 00:35:30.880 --> 00:35:32.080 They will be there for you. 583 00:35:34.400 --> 00:35:37.280 And you guys, I just want to let you know this morning, and this is the word that God 584 00:35:37.280 --> 00:35:38.560 wanted to release here. 585 00:35:38.560 --> 00:35:40.560 You are that person for someone. 586 00:35:41.360 --> 00:35:50.880 You are someone that God wants to send from heaven's human resource department to a situation. 587 00:35:52.240 --> 00:35:58.960 And if you live your life like this, you're not going to have time to be sad or pout about 588 00:35:58.960 --> 00:35:59.920 what you don't have. 589 00:36:02.800 --> 00:36:08.560 You are going to be way too busy being full of joy because you got to partner with heaven 590 00:36:09.520 --> 00:36:11.040 to do something for someone else. 591 00:36:12.240 --> 00:36:13.360 There's nothing like it. 592 00:36:15.280 --> 00:36:16.080 Nothing like it. 593 00:36:18.480 --> 00:36:22.800 And so Project Good Cheer, I want to release that in the community right now. 594 00:36:23.360 --> 00:36:24.800 So we're all going to do that. 595 00:36:24.800 --> 00:36:25.920 Advent has started. 596 00:36:26.880 --> 00:36:30.640 We're all hounding down until the Christmas holidays. 597 00:36:31.440 --> 00:36:33.120 For some of us, that's not great. 598 00:36:33.120 --> 00:36:34.080 You have shared parenting. 599 00:36:34.080 --> 00:36:35.600 You're not even going to have your kids this year. 600 00:36:35.600 --> 00:36:37.120 You don't even know where you're going to be. 601 00:36:37.120 --> 00:36:37.840 Well, you know what? 602 00:36:39.120 --> 00:36:41.360 Don't worry about where you're going to be. 603 00:36:41.360 --> 00:36:45.760 Start worrying about, not worrying about, but start putting your concern and your attention 604 00:36:45.760 --> 00:36:48.160 on other people that don't have any family. 605 00:36:49.040 --> 00:36:54.320 God will partner you with people that are lonely, more lonely than you. 606 00:36:56.720 --> 00:37:00.720 You don't have to have a lot of money to be helpful to other people. 607 00:37:01.440 --> 00:37:02.640 People need a kind word. 608 00:37:04.720 --> 00:37:05.920 They need to be seen. 609 00:37:05.920 --> 00:37:08.240 They need to know that they are seen, known, and loved. 610 00:37:08.240 --> 00:37:09.520 These are the things. 611 00:37:09.520 --> 00:37:10.800 So here's a story. 612 00:37:10.800 --> 00:37:14.080 This is a story that came up in my spirit this morning, and so I'm going to tell it 613 00:37:14.080 --> 00:37:14.640 very quickly. 614 00:37:15.600 --> 00:37:18.960 David and I, we were helping to build a church. 615 00:37:18.960 --> 00:37:20.480 We were helping to build a church. 616 00:37:20.480 --> 00:37:22.000 We were helping to build a church. 617 00:37:22.960 --> 00:37:28.720 David and I, we were helping to build a school of ministry two hours from where we lived 618 00:37:28.720 --> 00:37:29.920 in Columbus, Ohio. 619 00:37:29.920 --> 00:37:31.520 And so we would go there on the weekend. 620 00:37:32.160 --> 00:37:34.720 When it wasn't our weekend, our kids were with their other parents. 621 00:37:34.720 --> 00:37:39.920 We would drive to this other city two hours away because we were helping this church build 622 00:37:39.920 --> 00:37:40.720 a school of ministry. 623 00:37:41.360 --> 00:37:43.200 And it was always a mad dash. 624 00:37:43.200 --> 00:37:47.760 It was like Mr. Toad's wild ride on Friday to get out of town, to get everything done, 625 00:37:47.760 --> 00:37:55.600 get out of town, and get to this place so that we could be there to lead this school 626 00:37:55.600 --> 00:37:56.240 of ministry. 627 00:37:57.360 --> 00:38:03.280 And so one weekend Friday morning, I'm racing around trying to get all my errands done. 628 00:38:03.280 --> 00:38:06.960 The kids are at school trying to do everything that I need to do so I can get out of town. 629 00:38:08.720 --> 00:38:10.480 And I used to be a social worker. 630 00:38:10.480 --> 00:38:15.040 For those of you that don't know that, for over 10 years, I was a social worker. 631 00:38:15.040 --> 00:38:15.920 Hey, that's what I did. 632 00:38:16.560 --> 00:38:20.000 I went to school to be a psychologist and a social worker. 633 00:38:20.000 --> 00:38:22.080 And I worked at the homeless shelter. 634 00:38:22.080 --> 00:38:27.200 And I drove an outreach van to the homeless and to the less fortunate for 10 years. 635 00:38:27.200 --> 00:38:31.840 You guys, I did a lot of crazy stuff, lots of fun adventures with the Lord. 636 00:38:32.400 --> 00:38:36.160 But during this season that I'm telling you about, I hadn't done that in years. 637 00:38:36.720 --> 00:38:39.680 In years and years, I had not been in that line of work. 638 00:38:39.680 --> 00:38:43.280 But because I was in that line of work, I was very street smart. 639 00:38:43.280 --> 00:38:44.080 And I still am. 640 00:38:44.800 --> 00:38:45.300 Okay. 641 00:38:45.760 --> 00:38:47.920 I mean, I was already kind of street smart from my childhood. 642 00:38:47.920 --> 00:38:52.400 But I am very street smart about what's going on in the underbelly of society. 643 00:38:52.960 --> 00:38:55.920 And so I'm racing down the road. 644 00:38:55.920 --> 00:38:57.520 It's about October-ish. 645 00:38:58.080 --> 00:38:59.760 It's cold in Ohio. 646 00:38:59.760 --> 00:39:03.600 There's a cold rain that's falling, just a little drizzle of rain. 647 00:39:03.600 --> 00:39:07.120 And I see this woman standing out in the rain. 648 00:39:08.080 --> 00:39:09.440 And she has a sign. 649 00:39:09.440 --> 00:39:11.680 And it has some version of, you know, help. 650 00:39:12.480 --> 00:39:14.160 Need money, need food, whatever. 651 00:39:15.520 --> 00:39:19.920 Definitely not a, you know, unusual sight. 652 00:39:20.960 --> 00:39:22.880 And I saw it out of the corner of my eye. 653 00:39:23.520 --> 00:39:27.440 And I thought to myself, oh, I don't have time for that today. 654 00:39:29.760 --> 00:39:34.160 Because of my background, I rarely see a homeless person 655 00:39:34.160 --> 00:39:37.360 if I'm in proximity to them that I don't try to give something to. 656 00:39:39.280 --> 00:39:40.640 I don't care what they do with it. 657 00:39:40.640 --> 00:39:43.200 I'm going to give it to them because they've asked for it. 658 00:39:43.200 --> 00:39:46.240 And the Bible says, if someone asks you, you give it. 659 00:39:47.040 --> 00:39:49.120 And so I'll give them the change in my pocket. 660 00:39:49.120 --> 00:39:52.080 I'll give them the dollar bills in my pocket if I have it. 661 00:39:52.080 --> 00:39:55.840 I'll give them an unopened bottle of water if I have that in my car. 662 00:39:55.840 --> 00:39:57.840 Whatever I have, I will give them. 663 00:39:57.840 --> 00:39:59.440 And they're always very thankful for it. 664 00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:06.560 But this particular day, I was like, oh, I remember thinking in my heart, I don't have 665 00:40:06.560 --> 00:40:07.720 time for that. 666 00:40:07.720 --> 00:40:11.320 I'm about my business. 667 00:40:11.320 --> 00:40:13.480 I got stuff to do. 668 00:40:13.480 --> 00:40:17.040 And Holy Spirit said, you do have time for that. 669 00:40:17.040 --> 00:40:19.280 I want you to stop. 670 00:40:19.280 --> 00:40:23.080 And so I circled back around and I stopped and you guys, I was in such a hurry that I 671 00:40:23.080 --> 00:40:24.080 was probably pretty rude. 672 00:40:24.080 --> 00:40:25.840 Her name is Crystal. 673 00:40:25.840 --> 00:40:28.600 And I was like, okay, hey, what's your name? 674 00:40:28.600 --> 00:40:29.600 You know what's going on? 675 00:40:29.600 --> 00:40:33.680 I was taking this woman in as she was talking to me about, you know, the same story, the 676 00:40:33.680 --> 00:40:39.320 same song, homeless, living in one of those little motels, you know, the pay by the hour 677 00:40:39.320 --> 00:40:40.320 kind of places. 678 00:40:40.320 --> 00:40:43.080 We had lots of those in Columbus, Ohio. 679 00:40:43.080 --> 00:40:47.920 Living in a motel, need money for the night, you know, otherwise you're going to be kicked 680 00:40:47.920 --> 00:40:48.920 out on the street. 681 00:40:48.920 --> 00:40:50.880 I'm like, okay, first of all, who's we? 682 00:40:50.880 --> 00:40:56.840 And she pointed to this guy that was sitting under the bus stop, out of the rain, letting 683 00:40:56.840 --> 00:41:00.480 her be out there in the rain, panhandling. 684 00:41:00.480 --> 00:41:06.600 And I'm like, so I already don't like this guy, okay? 685 00:41:06.600 --> 00:41:08.720 And he looks to be twice her age. 686 00:41:08.720 --> 00:41:13.400 I can tell even though she was hardened by being outside and poverty and all of the things 687 00:41:13.400 --> 00:41:15.840 that she's been through, she didn't have any teeth, y'all. 688 00:41:15.840 --> 00:41:18.200 I could tell that she was young. 689 00:41:18.200 --> 00:41:24.960 And she ended up only being 23 years old when I dug into the story. 690 00:41:24.960 --> 00:41:26.320 And so his name is Matthew. 691 00:41:26.800 --> 00:41:28.040 So it's Crystal and Matthew's story. 692 00:41:28.040 --> 00:41:30.680 So she calls him over, he comes over. 693 00:41:30.680 --> 00:41:35.240 I can tell immediately that he's kind of hard of hearing and he's not that much older. 694 00:41:35.240 --> 00:41:37.480 He's probably in his forties. 695 00:41:37.480 --> 00:41:42.760 And first of all, I don't know what to do with these folks and I don't have enough time 696 00:41:42.760 --> 00:41:45.240 to listen to the full story. 697 00:41:45.240 --> 00:41:48.000 And so I just say, hey, have you eaten anything? 698 00:41:48.000 --> 00:41:49.320 When's the last time you ate something? 699 00:41:49.320 --> 00:41:50.840 Oh, we ate lunch yesterday. 700 00:41:50.840 --> 00:41:51.840 Okay. 701 00:41:51.840 --> 00:41:52.840 All right. 702 00:41:52.840 --> 00:41:54.680 Well, the very first thing we're going to do is we're going to go over here to this 703 00:41:54.680 --> 00:41:55.680 buffet. 704 00:41:56.240 --> 00:41:57.240 Okay. 705 00:41:57.240 --> 00:41:58.240 Good old Golden Corral. 706 00:41:58.240 --> 00:41:59.240 And I'm going to pay for you guys. 707 00:41:59.240 --> 00:42:01.680 You're guys going to get out of the cold and you're going to go in there and you're going 708 00:42:01.680 --> 00:42:03.600 to eat until your little heart's content. 709 00:42:03.600 --> 00:42:06.920 And I'm going to run my errands and then I'm going to come back. 710 00:42:06.920 --> 00:42:07.920 And so that's what I did. 711 00:42:07.920 --> 00:42:11.760 I took them over there to the hometown buffet or the Golden Corral or whatever it was called. 712 00:42:11.760 --> 00:42:16.240 And I paid for them and they went and they sat down and they were eating and I went and 713 00:42:16.240 --> 00:42:17.240 ran my errands. 714 00:42:17.240 --> 00:42:20.720 And the entire time that I'm running my errands, I'm like, okay, God, what do you want? 715 00:42:20.720 --> 00:42:22.120 What do you want me to do with these folks? 716 00:42:22.120 --> 00:42:24.080 You know that I have to get out of town. 717 00:42:24.080 --> 00:42:25.440 I'm headed out of town to Canton. 718 00:42:26.200 --> 00:42:27.200 I got to leave. 719 00:42:27.200 --> 00:42:28.200 You know what? 720 00:42:28.200 --> 00:42:29.200 What do you want me to do? 721 00:42:29.200 --> 00:42:35.000 Because this is not anything that I can get involved with in just an hour, right? 722 00:42:35.000 --> 00:42:39.640 I started calling the homeless shelters, seeing if they had any vacancies in them. 723 00:42:39.640 --> 00:42:43.720 And you know, I started doing the footwork as I'm running errands and doing the things 724 00:42:43.720 --> 00:42:45.640 I need to do. 725 00:42:45.640 --> 00:42:47.760 So I come back and I'm like, okay, hey, great news. 726 00:42:47.760 --> 00:42:49.040 There's some vacancies in the homeless shelters. 727 00:42:49.040 --> 00:42:51.680 Oh, well, we can't go there because he's been kicked out. 728 00:42:51.680 --> 00:42:53.240 Matthew has been kicked out. 729 00:42:53.240 --> 00:42:54.640 Can't be there. 730 00:42:54.640 --> 00:43:00.160 Every solution that I had for them, they had a reason why it wouldn't work. 731 00:43:00.160 --> 00:43:01.160 In a legitimate reason. 732 00:43:01.160 --> 00:43:04.440 I mean, if they've kicked you out and they kicked him out for fighting. 733 00:43:04.440 --> 00:43:08.840 So what I basically find out is that this guy, every time he gets a job, every time 734 00:43:08.840 --> 00:43:13.040 he gets into the shelter, whatever, he ends up getting into a fight with someone at his 735 00:43:13.040 --> 00:43:19.360 job, his boss, whoever, not necessarily just physical, but verbal altercations. 736 00:43:19.360 --> 00:43:23.760 And I discern that the reason why this guy is getting into fights with people is because 737 00:43:23.760 --> 00:43:28.920 he can't hear. 738 00:43:28.920 --> 00:43:34.960 And that, you know, he's, he's being told to do things that he's not hearing because 739 00:43:34.960 --> 00:43:37.280 I'm listening to the stories about how the fights began. 740 00:43:37.280 --> 00:43:42.400 Oh, well, this happened and they said that they told me not to do this or to do that. 741 00:43:42.400 --> 00:43:44.880 And he has a hearing issue. 742 00:43:44.880 --> 00:43:49.000 And I can tell that he's not hearing what people are instructing him to do. 743 00:43:49.000 --> 00:43:56.560 And then when they call him out on it, he gets angry, right? 744 00:43:56.560 --> 00:43:59.920 And so I'm like, okay, guys, listen, I don't know what else to do. 745 00:43:59.920 --> 00:44:04.120 So get in the car and I'm just going to take you to the motel and I'm just going to pay 746 00:44:04.120 --> 00:44:05.120 for another night. 747 00:44:05.120 --> 00:44:08.120 You know, these motels are like 50 bucks a night, something like that. 748 00:44:08.120 --> 00:44:09.560 I'm just going to do that. 749 00:44:09.560 --> 00:44:12.440 Back then y'all, $50 was a lot of money for me. 750 00:44:12.440 --> 00:44:13.440 Okay. 751 00:44:13.440 --> 00:44:17.440 But I'm just going to do it because I don't know what else to do. 752 00:44:17.440 --> 00:44:21.360 And so I'm driving and I'm driving them and I'm not telling y'all to do this kind of stuff. 753 00:44:21.360 --> 00:44:23.840 Remember, I was trained in this kind of stuff. 754 00:44:23.840 --> 00:44:27.120 I drove an outreach van full of homeless people. 755 00:44:27.120 --> 00:44:31.080 One time a lady got on my van without any clothes on. 756 00:44:31.080 --> 00:44:32.080 That's right. 757 00:44:32.080 --> 00:44:33.640 She was completely naked. 758 00:44:33.640 --> 00:44:38.920 So I just want to let you know, I have been trained in what I'm talking about. 759 00:44:38.920 --> 00:44:43.800 God, well, listen, here's a word for someone, all the random things that you've done in 760 00:44:43.800 --> 00:44:46.840 your life that you're like, man, you know, I don't even know why I did that. 761 00:44:47.240 --> 00:44:50.280 I don't even know why I worked there for six months and then they fired me or this happened 762 00:44:50.280 --> 00:44:51.280 or that happened. 763 00:44:51.280 --> 00:44:54.440 God will use every bit of your experience. 764 00:44:54.440 --> 00:44:57.480 He will use every bit of your experience if you will let him. 765 00:44:57.480 --> 00:45:00.040 He won't use you, but he will use your experience. 766 00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:04.320 experience, okay, to help serve others. 767 00:45:04.320 --> 00:45:06.840 Nothing is wasted, friends, nothing. 768 00:45:06.840 --> 00:45:10.880 Okay, so I've taken them over to this motel. 769 00:45:10.880 --> 00:45:13.000 I'm driving, I don't know what else to do. 770 00:45:13.000 --> 00:45:15.320 And then Holy Spirit gives me a thought. 771 00:45:16.620 --> 00:45:17.840 And you know what the thought was? 772 00:45:17.840 --> 00:45:19.560 I was putting together some women's meetings. 773 00:45:19.560 --> 00:45:21.120 I had a women's ministry at the time 774 00:45:21.120 --> 00:45:22.600 and I was putting together some meetings 775 00:45:22.600 --> 00:45:25.100 and I had visited a couple different hotels 776 00:45:25.100 --> 00:45:27.460 to find out pricing for their conference rooms. 777 00:45:28.460 --> 00:45:30.660 And there's this one hotel that I went to 778 00:45:30.660 --> 00:45:33.780 that the lady, the general manager of the hotel, 779 00:45:33.780 --> 00:45:36.020 her and I just really hit it off. 780 00:45:36.020 --> 00:45:39.980 And we just talked, Lisa, we just talked 781 00:45:39.980 --> 00:45:42.620 and just really had a good old time with each other. 782 00:45:42.620 --> 00:45:45.900 And Steve dropped into my head and God said, 783 00:45:45.900 --> 00:45:49.860 I want you to call her and ask her 784 00:45:49.860 --> 00:45:52.500 if she will allow these people to live 785 00:45:52.500 --> 00:45:54.540 in her hotel for free. 786 00:45:54.540 --> 00:45:56.620 Guys, I only met this lady one time. 787 00:45:56.700 --> 00:45:58.860 And this is not a little motel, motel. 788 00:45:58.860 --> 00:46:02.580 This is like a hotel, like a hotel, 789 00:46:02.580 --> 00:46:05.580 like a Hyatt, like a hotel, all right? 790 00:46:05.580 --> 00:46:07.620 And I'm just like, what? 791 00:46:07.620 --> 00:46:11.620 Okay, they probably cost $200 a night or more at this place. 792 00:46:11.620 --> 00:46:16.220 And I'm like, so it makes no human sense, friends. 793 00:46:16.220 --> 00:46:19.420 And so often God makes no human sense. 794 00:46:19.420 --> 00:46:22.060 And so that's why we have to bypass our human reasoning 795 00:46:22.060 --> 00:46:23.860 and just be obedient anyway. 796 00:46:23.860 --> 00:46:25.380 And so I called and I said, 797 00:46:25.380 --> 00:46:27.260 hey, is the general manager there? 798 00:46:27.260 --> 00:46:28.140 Can I talk to her? 799 00:46:28.140 --> 00:46:29.340 They're like, yeah, she's in. 800 00:46:29.340 --> 00:46:30.180 They put her on the phone. 801 00:46:30.180 --> 00:46:31.460 I said, hey, do you remember me, Jackie? 802 00:46:31.460 --> 00:46:32.580 I came in about the conference room. 803 00:46:32.580 --> 00:46:33.660 Oh, yeah. 804 00:46:33.660 --> 00:46:34.620 Hey, how are you doing? 805 00:46:34.620 --> 00:46:35.540 I'm doing good. 806 00:46:35.540 --> 00:46:38.140 I said, well, I just wanna let you know, 807 00:46:38.140 --> 00:46:41.340 I met some folks today that they're homeless, 808 00:46:41.340 --> 00:46:44.900 unfortunately, right now and they need a place to stay 809 00:46:44.900 --> 00:46:47.380 and they can't afford the motel that they're staying in. 810 00:46:47.380 --> 00:46:50.260 And I thought maybe you just let them stay at your hotel. 811 00:46:50.260 --> 00:46:51.660 And then y'all, I shut my mouth 812 00:46:51.660 --> 00:46:52.620 and didn't say anything else. 813 00:46:52.620 --> 00:46:53.460 You know why? 814 00:46:53.460 --> 00:46:55.140 Because that's what God told me to do. 815 00:46:55.820 --> 00:46:56.660 He told me to ask. 816 00:46:57.820 --> 00:47:00.060 And I know it doesn't make any sense. 817 00:47:00.060 --> 00:47:01.180 I already know that. 818 00:47:01.180 --> 00:47:04.060 So I'm just gonna say what God said to say 819 00:47:04.060 --> 00:47:05.140 and then I'm done. 820 00:47:06.020 --> 00:47:06.940 And so I said it. 821 00:47:06.940 --> 00:47:09.100 And y'all, you guys, when I tell you 822 00:47:09.100 --> 00:47:11.940 that there was the most painful silence after that, 823 00:47:13.060 --> 00:47:14.420 and I could have started talking, 824 00:47:14.420 --> 00:47:16.340 I could have started trying to explain myself 825 00:47:16.340 --> 00:47:17.740 or said, hey, God told me to do it. 826 00:47:17.740 --> 00:47:19.060 I could have done all that, but I didn't. 827 00:47:19.060 --> 00:47:23.060 I just shut my mouth and just sat there in the silence. 828 00:47:24.060 --> 00:47:25.940 And then she started kind of hemming and hawing. 829 00:47:25.940 --> 00:47:29.740 She was like, well, I mean, 830 00:47:29.740 --> 00:47:32.140 homeless people don't stay at this hotel, Jackie. 831 00:47:32.140 --> 00:47:34.140 You know, I mean, it's almost $200 a night here, 832 00:47:34.140 --> 00:47:35.620 you know, whatever the price was. 833 00:47:35.620 --> 00:47:37.820 She just was, all these objections, 834 00:47:37.820 --> 00:47:39.620 once again, I'm not saying anything. 835 00:47:39.620 --> 00:47:41.780 She is going through all the objections 836 00:47:41.780 --> 00:47:44.220 in her own mind out loud herself. 837 00:47:45.740 --> 00:47:47.500 And then she's like, can you just hold on a second? 838 00:47:47.500 --> 00:47:48.620 And then she gets off the phone 839 00:47:48.620 --> 00:47:51.060 and I'm like, okay, God, here we go. 840 00:47:51.060 --> 00:47:52.420 I don't know what's going on. 841 00:47:52.540 --> 00:47:53.860 So she comes back on. 842 00:47:53.860 --> 00:47:55.260 And this hotel that they're staying at 843 00:47:55.260 --> 00:47:58.260 is like $50 a night, this little no-tell motel. 844 00:47:58.260 --> 00:48:01.060 She comes back on and she says, listen. 845 00:48:01.060 --> 00:48:02.940 She's like, I shouldn't do this. 846 00:48:02.940 --> 00:48:05.460 She said, but we have a room right now 847 00:48:05.460 --> 00:48:08.900 that we're not renting because the mirror 848 00:48:08.900 --> 00:48:11.340 over the dresser was broken, so it was removed. 849 00:48:11.340 --> 00:48:13.260 So it doesn't have a mirror over the dresser, 850 00:48:13.260 --> 00:48:15.900 so we can't rent it right now to customers. 851 00:48:15.900 --> 00:48:18.100 She said, and the mirror's on back order 852 00:48:18.100 --> 00:48:20.380 and we don't know when it's ever gonna come, 853 00:48:20.380 --> 00:48:21.220 when it's gonna be in. 854 00:48:21.220 --> 00:48:24.540 She said, so I will allow these folks 855 00:48:24.540 --> 00:48:27.260 to rent this room for $25 a night. 856 00:48:27.260 --> 00:48:30.900 It has a mini fridge so they can store food there 857 00:48:30.900 --> 00:48:32.500 until further notice. 858 00:48:34.500 --> 00:48:35.540 25 bucks, y'all. 859 00:48:37.220 --> 00:48:40.340 Right, but that would be awesome if the story ended there. 860 00:48:40.340 --> 00:48:42.220 And I just wanted to show you what will happen 861 00:48:42.220 --> 00:48:44.140 with just a little yes of yours, 862 00:48:44.140 --> 00:48:47.300 just a little baby yes of yours. 863 00:48:47.300 --> 00:48:49.820 So I drove them over to the next room 864 00:48:49.820 --> 00:48:52.540 I drove them over to the No-Tell Motel 865 00:48:52.540 --> 00:48:55.100 because we need to get their things out of the room 866 00:48:55.100 --> 00:48:56.620 because they need to be out by noon. 867 00:48:56.620 --> 00:48:58.300 So we got their things out of the room 868 00:48:58.300 --> 00:49:02.420 and the man who was running this little No-Tell Motel 869 00:49:02.420 --> 00:49:04.420 was Islamic. 870 00:49:05.620 --> 00:49:09.020 And he could not understand why I was helping these people. 871 00:49:09.860 --> 00:49:12.620 Like these were the, you know, all he sees all day long 872 00:49:12.620 --> 00:49:14.940 because of the type of establishment that he runs 873 00:49:14.940 --> 00:49:17.180 is just the dregs of society, right? 874 00:49:17.180 --> 00:49:20.500 Prostitutes and crackheads and homeless people. 875 00:49:20.500 --> 00:49:22.820 And he cannot understand like, where are they going? 876 00:49:22.820 --> 00:49:24.380 Well, I'm taking them to a better hotel. 877 00:49:24.380 --> 00:49:25.660 Well, why would you do this? 878 00:49:25.660 --> 00:49:28.580 And I was able to witness Jesus to him. 879 00:49:29.620 --> 00:49:32.060 So I'm talking to him about Jesus, 880 00:49:32.060 --> 00:49:34.500 about how God spoke to me and how all these things 881 00:49:34.500 --> 00:49:36.060 and he's listening. 882 00:49:36.060 --> 00:49:37.420 So we're having this conversation 883 00:49:37.420 --> 00:49:39.820 while Matthew and Crystal are getting their stuff. 884 00:49:39.820 --> 00:49:42.380 And I don't know, God's seed was sown. 885 00:49:42.380 --> 00:49:43.660 That's all that I know. 886 00:49:43.660 --> 00:49:44.820 He was listening. 887 00:49:44.820 --> 00:49:45.700 He wasn't refuting. 888 00:49:45.700 --> 00:49:46.660 He wasn't pushing back. 889 00:49:47.140 --> 00:49:49.220 He was listening because he was like, why? 890 00:49:49.220 --> 00:49:53.180 Tell me why you have hope for these people, all right? 891 00:49:53.180 --> 00:49:55.140 And so then we get all their stuff in the car 892 00:49:55.140 --> 00:49:56.980 and we go over to the other hotel 893 00:49:56.980 --> 00:49:59.300 and we get them all checked into this nice room 894 00:49:59.300 --> 00:50:00.140 and all the stuff. 895 00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:03.920 And then the general manager of that hotel confides in me 896 00:50:03.920 --> 00:50:06.840 that she's always wanted to start a homeless shelter, 897 00:50:06.840 --> 00:50:08.600 that that's the dream of her heart. 898 00:50:09.520 --> 00:50:12.960 The dream of her heart is to do this exact kind of work. 899 00:50:12.960 --> 00:50:15.680 And she felt like this was a God wink 900 00:50:15.680 --> 00:50:17.820 with me calling her that it's time. 901 00:50:19.160 --> 00:50:23.120 It's time to use her hospitality, 902 00:50:23.120 --> 00:50:27.160 hotel management background, real estate background 903 00:50:27.160 --> 00:50:28.840 to get this party started. 904 00:50:29.800 --> 00:50:31.880 So she lets them stay. 905 00:50:31.880 --> 00:50:34.600 And you guys, I checked in on them several times 906 00:50:34.600 --> 00:50:36.040 in the next couple of months. 907 00:50:36.040 --> 00:50:37.160 And guess what? 908 00:50:37.160 --> 00:50:39.840 Crystal only had a third grade education. 909 00:50:40.800 --> 00:50:45.560 She had dropped out of school in the third grade, okay? 910 00:50:45.560 --> 00:50:48.440 Her and Matthew actually had several children in the system 911 00:50:48.440 --> 00:50:50.080 because of their chronic homelessness. 912 00:50:50.080 --> 00:50:52.320 They had children together that were in the system 913 00:50:52.320 --> 00:50:54.160 that they weren't with them. 914 00:50:54.160 --> 00:50:58.440 And Crystal was so smart and so good at math 915 00:50:58.440 --> 00:51:01.360 that she became the night auditor of this hotel. 916 00:51:04.600 --> 00:51:05.440 What? 917 00:51:09.600 --> 00:51:11.440 You guys, all that started with is, 918 00:51:11.440 --> 00:51:12.660 I don't have time for that. 919 00:51:12.660 --> 00:51:13.960 God's like, yeah, you do. 920 00:51:16.280 --> 00:51:17.200 Yeah, you do. 921 00:51:18.200 --> 00:51:19.400 You have time for that. 922 00:51:20.440 --> 00:51:24.760 Because the only thing that we are here for is people. 923 00:51:25.680 --> 00:51:27.780 That's the only reason we're on earth. 924 00:51:27.780 --> 00:51:29.180 The only reason that we're on earth 925 00:51:29.180 --> 00:51:30.700 is to finish what Jesus started. 926 00:51:30.700 --> 00:51:33.660 Otherwise, we could go to the heaven dimension, y'all, 927 00:51:33.660 --> 00:51:35.140 because it's much better there. 928 00:51:35.140 --> 00:51:36.420 I just wanna let you know that. 929 00:51:36.420 --> 00:51:37.500 It is an upgrade. 930 00:51:37.500 --> 00:51:38.720 It is much better. 931 00:51:40.660 --> 00:51:41.500 Hey? 932 00:51:44.380 --> 00:51:45.620 So the only reason that we're here 933 00:51:45.620 --> 00:51:47.180 is because we're on assignment. 934 00:51:48.740 --> 00:51:50.820 And the only reason that you need to be married, 935 00:51:50.820 --> 00:51:51.940 please write this down, 936 00:51:51.940 --> 00:51:55.220 is because your assignment is a two-person assignment. 937 00:51:56.060 --> 00:51:56.980 That's all. 938 00:51:58.780 --> 00:51:59.820 You need a friend. 939 00:52:03.100 --> 00:52:04.300 So that when one of you falls, 940 00:52:04.300 --> 00:52:06.300 the other one picks the other one up. 941 00:52:06.300 --> 00:52:08.700 I'll tell you one thing about David and I. 942 00:52:08.700 --> 00:52:12.180 Both of us have been down in the last 17 years of marriage, 943 00:52:12.180 --> 00:52:14.020 but we're never down at the same time. 944 00:52:17.420 --> 00:52:19.060 We're never down at the same time. 945 00:52:19.100 --> 00:52:20.900 I hope you're getting ahold of this. 946 00:52:23.300 --> 00:52:25.620 Hashtag project good cheer. 947 00:52:26.980 --> 00:52:28.580 Why did I call it that? 948 00:52:28.580 --> 00:52:31.940 Because Jesus said that in this life that you will, 949 00:52:31.940 --> 00:52:33.420 in this world, you will have trouble, 950 00:52:33.420 --> 00:52:36.300 but be of good cheer because I've overcome the world. 951 00:52:39.860 --> 00:52:41.020 Be of good cheer. 952 00:52:41.020 --> 00:52:46.020 And if there's any time that you're not in good cheer, 953 00:52:46.220 --> 00:52:49.860 and if there's any time of year 954 00:52:49.860 --> 00:52:53.540 that we should be showing people what it looks like 955 00:52:53.540 --> 00:52:57.940 to overcome because Jesus overcame, 956 00:52:57.940 --> 00:52:59.700 it's at this time of year. 957 00:52:59.700 --> 00:53:03.620 As we're announcing, Advent is an announcement 958 00:53:03.620 --> 00:53:08.220 that something and someone notable and important is coming. 959 00:53:09.740 --> 00:53:11.180 But we know he already came. 960 00:53:12.180 --> 00:53:17.180 So what if now, what if now at this time of year, 961 00:53:17.940 --> 00:53:21.220 it's not him coming that people are waiting for, 962 00:53:21.220 --> 00:53:25.060 it's not Santa coming that people are waiting for, it's us. 963 00:53:26.940 --> 00:53:29.140 We are what people have been waiting for. 964 00:53:30.220 --> 00:53:32.060 We are Jesus with skin on it. 965 00:53:34.020 --> 00:53:37.420 We are, we are his disciples. 966 00:53:37.420 --> 00:53:39.100 We are the ones on assignment in the earth. 967 00:53:39.100 --> 00:53:42.300 We are the only Jesus that anyone is going to see, 968 00:53:42.300 --> 00:53:44.060 except for the people that have visions 969 00:53:44.060 --> 00:53:45.580 and dreams and encounters. 970 00:53:45.580 --> 00:53:46.780 But you know what I mean. 971 00:53:49.700 --> 00:53:51.660 So I want you to really be praying into this, 972 00:53:51.660 --> 00:53:54.420 especially if you've been feeling sorry for yourself 973 00:53:54.420 --> 00:53:56.180 because it's cuffing season. 974 00:53:56.180 --> 00:53:57.780 Guys, that's not what it's about. 975 00:53:59.420 --> 00:54:02.500 It's about having a partner for your assignment. 976 00:54:03.340 --> 00:54:06.460 It's about having a partner for your assignment. 977 00:54:09.100 --> 00:54:10.980 And I promise you this, 978 00:54:10.980 --> 00:54:14.660 to whom much is given, much is required, okay? 979 00:54:15.860 --> 00:54:18.500 I know that you're thinking about all the things 980 00:54:18.500 --> 00:54:20.620 that marriage could solve in your life, 981 00:54:20.620 --> 00:54:23.460 but there's a whole other list of issues 982 00:54:23.460 --> 00:54:25.660 that will come with marriage. 983 00:54:25.660 --> 00:54:28.460 And so it's never gonna be an issue-less life. 984 00:54:30.140 --> 00:54:32.100 In fact, when you're asking for marriage, 985 00:54:32.740 --> 00:54:35.780 you're asking for an upgrade of assignment, 986 00:54:35.780 --> 00:54:39.780 an upgrade of responsibility, right? 987 00:54:42.660 --> 00:54:44.940 You're asking for an upgrade of visibility. 988 00:54:46.500 --> 00:54:48.180 I don't really focus a lot on warfare, 989 00:54:48.180 --> 00:54:52.500 but there will be obviously an increase in that, 990 00:54:52.500 --> 00:54:54.940 but the enemy is under our feet and we know that. 991 00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:07.280 So I want you to be praying and if you do something, listen, God will open the door 992 00:55:07.280 --> 00:55:10.400 for you to have opportunities. 993 00:55:10.400 --> 00:55:13.880 If you wake up every day and people are like, Jackie, how do you have so many like crazy 994 00:55:13.880 --> 00:55:15.240 stories to tell? 995 00:55:15.240 --> 00:55:19.080 Because I would get up in the morning and I'd be like, okay, God, you know, I got stuff 996 00:55:19.080 --> 00:55:22.000 to do today, but I'm available. 997 00:55:22.000 --> 00:55:23.000 Here I am. 998 00:55:23.000 --> 00:55:24.000 Send me. 999 00:55:24.000 --> 00:55:25.000 I'm available. 1000 00:55:25.000 --> 00:55:29.480 Let my path cross with someone who needs to see you today in the smallest way even. 1001 00:55:29.480 --> 00:55:30.480 It doesn't matter. 1002 00:55:30.480 --> 00:55:32.480 It doesn't have to be the big things. 1003 00:55:32.480 --> 00:55:36.420 I just told you a crazy supernatural story, but they're not all like that. 1004 00:55:36.420 --> 00:55:40.760 They're all supernatural, but they're not all like, wow, what? 1005 00:55:40.760 --> 00:55:47.000 Some of them are just showing the kindness of God to someone, complimenting someone. 1006 00:55:47.000 --> 00:55:52.040 Guys, the other day I walked out of my house, I live kind of in the country, there's only 1007 00:55:52.040 --> 00:55:53.640 a few neighbors. 1008 00:55:53.640 --> 00:55:56.920 The lady across the street, I met her and her husband when we first moved in a couple 1009 00:55:56.920 --> 00:56:03.360 years ago and we invited them to Thanksgiving and they came over for Thanksgiving one year. 1010 00:56:03.360 --> 00:56:06.440 And since then he's passed away. 1011 00:56:06.440 --> 00:56:10.440 So I texted her a week or so ago and said, hey, do you want to spend Thanksgiving with 1012 00:56:10.440 --> 00:56:11.920 us now that Ronnie's passed away? 1013 00:56:11.920 --> 00:56:13.360 I don't know if you have plans. 1014 00:56:13.360 --> 00:56:18.920 And she said, no, she goes, I'm going to go to my son, said, but thank you. 1015 00:56:18.920 --> 00:56:23.000 And then I was going out to the mailbox and I ran into her and she began to talk to me 1016 00:56:23.000 --> 00:56:27.520 about the last couple of days of Ronnie's life and hospice and the things that came 1017 00:56:27.520 --> 00:56:28.520 in and all the things. 1018 00:56:28.520 --> 00:56:29.520 Cause he was young. 1019 00:56:29.520 --> 00:56:30.520 He had dementia. 1020 00:56:30.520 --> 00:56:32.080 He was only in his sixties though. 1021 00:56:32.080 --> 00:56:35.600 And she, and I started to cry a little bit and you know, I don't know her that well, 1022 00:56:35.600 --> 00:56:38.720 but I gave her a hug and she held onto me and we were hugging. 1023 00:56:38.720 --> 00:56:41.960 And she said something to me that really made me so sad. 1024 00:56:41.960 --> 00:56:47.480 She said that after he passed away, they hadn't been to church in years because of his condition. 1025 00:56:47.480 --> 00:56:48.840 Couldn't take him anywhere. 1026 00:56:48.840 --> 00:56:50.360 He was really a live wire. 1027 00:56:50.360 --> 00:56:52.520 He was very volatile. 1028 00:56:52.520 --> 00:56:55.840 And they didn't have anyone to officiate his funeral. 1029 00:56:55.840 --> 00:56:56.840 They didn't have a pastor. 1030 00:56:56.840 --> 00:56:58.280 They didn't have a minister. 1031 00:56:58.280 --> 00:57:02.680 And I wish that she would have reached out to me and told me that because people are 1032 00:57:02.680 --> 00:57:05.640 hurting all around us. 1033 00:57:05.640 --> 00:57:08.920 They are, there's pain all around you. 1034 00:57:08.920 --> 00:57:10.520 That's even greater than your pain. 1035 00:57:10.520 --> 00:57:14.000 Even if people don't look like it on the outside. 1036 00:57:14.000 --> 00:57:17.840 And as you serve others, God will send people to serve you. 1037 00:57:17.840 --> 00:57:23.720 If you stop focusing on your own problems and you cast them on Jesus, he will send human 1038 00:57:23.720 --> 00:57:29.400 resources to your problems as he is sending you as a human resource to other people. 1039 00:57:29.400 --> 00:57:33.000 Isn't that beautiful? 1040 00:57:33.000 --> 00:57:37.160 And when you're feeling sad about your singleness in this season, remember it's about assignment. 1041 00:57:37.160 --> 00:57:39.000 It's about partnership for assignment. 1042 00:57:39.000 --> 00:57:40.000 It's about lineage. 1043 00:57:40.000 --> 00:57:41.960 It's about legacy. 1044 00:57:41.960 --> 00:57:45.120 It's about toucan. 1045 00:57:45.120 --> 00:57:47.840 It's about better together. 1046 00:57:47.840 --> 00:57:54.320 And so give God an even bigger reason to send you reinforcements. 1047 00:57:54.320 --> 00:58:01.960 Seriously, if we live a tiny, small little life where all we care about is ourselves 1048 00:58:01.960 --> 00:58:10.480 and we're not really doing anything, you don't really need a partner, do you? 1049 00:58:10.480 --> 00:58:16.280 I mean, no offense, but do you? 1050 00:58:16.280 --> 00:58:18.600 And don't take this in a legalistic and religious way. 1051 00:58:18.600 --> 00:58:22.360 I'm not saying go earn a partner because it's not about earning. 1052 00:58:22.360 --> 00:58:32.440 Remember, we have to receive what we don't deserve, but it is about necessity. 1053 00:58:32.440 --> 00:58:36.320 It is about necessity. 1054 00:58:36.320 --> 00:58:39.840 It is about one can put to flight a thousand, but two, 10,000. 1055 00:58:39.840 --> 00:58:42.920 It is about this. 1056 00:58:42.920 --> 00:58:44.800 So Father God, we thank you, Lord. 1057 00:58:44.800 --> 00:58:46.960 We're so thankful at this time of year right now. 1058 00:58:46.960 --> 00:58:51.800 We know that there are so many people that do not have what we have, a roof over our 1059 00:58:51.800 --> 00:58:59.240 head, food in our fridge, extra pair of shoes, an extra set of clothes to put on. 1060 00:58:59.240 --> 00:59:01.040 Lord, there are so many people. 1061 00:59:01.040 --> 00:59:07.060 We are among the 1% of the wealthiest people in the world. 1062 00:59:07.060 --> 00:59:09.240 And so Lord, we thank you. 1063 00:59:09.240 --> 00:59:13.280 We thank you that you've matched us with this era in this time and that you have confidence 1064 00:59:13.280 --> 00:59:18.880 in us that we are going to display your glory, that we are a display of your glory, that 1065 00:59:18.880 --> 00:59:21.360 your children are your glory. 1066 00:59:21.360 --> 00:59:23.920 The children are the glory of the Father. 1067 00:59:23.920 --> 00:59:28.960 And just like the firstborn, just like our elder brother Jesus, just like our best friend 1068 00:59:28.960 --> 00:59:36.640 Jesus, our Savior, our Master, our Lord, we are following in his footsteps. 1069 00:59:36.640 --> 00:59:43.040 So we lay down our lives so that we might find them. 1070 00:59:43.040 --> 00:59:49.580 We release the things that have bogged us down, the cares of life for you in this moment. 1071 00:59:49.580 --> 00:59:56.840 We release them to you, knowing that you care for us, knowing that you love us. 1072 00:59:56.840 --> 00:59:58.640 And as you freely give to us. 1073 01:00:00.000 --> 01:00:02.520 We freely receive and we freely give to others 1074 01:00:02.520 --> 01:00:04.000 what we have freely received. 1075 01:00:04.000 --> 01:00:05.700 We just declare that right now. 1076 01:00:07.860 --> 01:00:10.980 And Father, we are asking for partnership. 1077 01:00:10.980 --> 01:00:12.980 We're asking for friendship, Lord. 1078 01:00:14.220 --> 01:00:15.620 We know that we're better together. 1079 01:00:15.620 --> 01:00:18.100 We know that you've created us for these purposes 1080 01:00:18.100 --> 01:00:21.140 and we're asking for bigger assignments. 1081 01:00:21.140 --> 01:00:23.060 We're asking for more opportunities. 1082 01:00:23.060 --> 01:00:25.100 We're asking for the help that we need 1083 01:00:25.100 --> 01:00:28.360 to fulfill those opportunities. 1084 01:00:28.380 --> 01:00:31.300 We're thanking you, Lord, that you trust us 1085 01:00:31.300 --> 01:00:33.860 and that you have continued 1086 01:00:33.860 --> 01:00:36.520 to prove yourself trustworthy to us. 1087 01:00:38.180 --> 01:00:40.100 Go with us all. 1088 01:00:40.100 --> 01:00:41.940 In Jesus' name, amen. 1089 01:00:42.840 --> 01:00:43.860 All right, love y'all. 1090 01:00:43.860 --> 01:00:46.580 Sunday night, just as normal, and we'll see you soon. 1091 01:00:46.580 --> 01:00:47.420 Bye.