WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:06.640 Good morning, everybody, and welcome to Supernatural Saturday. 2 00:00:06.640 --> 00:00:11.240 I know we have a lot of new people joining us this morning, people who have never experienced 3 00:00:11.240 --> 00:00:13.380 Supernatural Saturday before. 4 00:00:13.380 --> 00:00:18.480 And so I always give this short description that this is the day of the week when our 5 00:00:18.480 --> 00:00:24.400 entire community looks to the Lord together for what is the current prophetic reality. 6 00:00:24.400 --> 00:00:26.700 What is God speaking to us as a community? 7 00:00:26.700 --> 00:00:28.960 What is he saying to us individually? 8 00:00:28.960 --> 00:00:35.860 What is that insider information that we need to know to make our lives great? 9 00:00:35.860 --> 00:00:37.360 What is it? 10 00:00:37.360 --> 00:00:41.380 God wants us to live amazing, overcoming lives. 11 00:00:41.380 --> 00:00:42.620 What is the information? 12 00:00:42.620 --> 00:00:45.180 Where are the tools? 13 00:00:45.180 --> 00:00:55.060 What is that, once again, that insider information for this month, for this week, for this day? 14 00:00:55.060 --> 00:00:56.300 What do we need? 15 00:00:56.300 --> 00:01:00.340 So that is what we do on Saturdays, and it's always an amazing time. 16 00:01:00.340 --> 00:01:01.660 I always learn so much. 17 00:01:01.660 --> 00:01:05.860 I know you guys think, oh, Jackie is, you know, she knows so much. 18 00:01:05.860 --> 00:01:10.660 No, I just lean into Holy Spirit, and Holy Spirit knows everything. 19 00:01:10.660 --> 00:01:14.260 And a lot of times the things that are said here, I'm hearing them for the first time 20 00:01:14.260 --> 00:01:15.300 as well. 21 00:01:15.300 --> 00:01:20.820 That revelatory gift that God has given me, I am being revealed as well. 22 00:01:20.820 --> 00:01:24.180 I am getting those tools at the same time as well. 23 00:01:24.180 --> 00:01:29.700 I get off these calls, I'm like, wow, I got to practice what I preach right now, because 24 00:01:29.700 --> 00:01:32.380 that was a revelation. 25 00:01:32.380 --> 00:01:33.780 That was amazing. 26 00:01:33.780 --> 00:01:40.020 And it was exciting to know that God loves us so much, that he's in the midst of us, 27 00:01:40.020 --> 00:01:45.260 and he is showing up to tell us what we need to know in order to go forward. 28 00:01:45.260 --> 00:01:46.300 And so that is exciting. 29 00:01:46.300 --> 00:01:52.980 So I prayed this morning and I asked the Lord, I said, what do your people need to hear? 30 00:01:52.980 --> 00:01:55.620 Which is what I pray every Saturday morning. 31 00:01:55.620 --> 00:02:00.860 What do your people need to hear? 32 00:02:00.860 --> 00:02:07.060 And one of my children last night called me, or they didn't, they texted me, very rarely. 33 00:02:07.060 --> 00:02:13.580 Very rarely do I get a phone call from a child of mine, because this generation texts, right? 34 00:02:13.580 --> 00:02:14.980 They text message. 35 00:02:14.980 --> 00:02:20.220 And I will tell you a funny story that just came to me a few years ago, probably about 36 00:02:20.580 --> 00:02:27.620 six years ago, one of my kids was like, hey mom, wouldn't it be cool if when someone texted 37 00:02:27.620 --> 00:02:33.580 you that the text message came, like you could hear them talking, like it was delivered like 38 00:02:33.580 --> 00:02:34.580 in their voice. 39 00:02:34.580 --> 00:02:38.300 I said, yeah, it's called the telephone. 40 00:02:38.300 --> 00:02:40.300 It's called the telephone, kid. 41 00:02:40.300 --> 00:02:43.020 But now as you can see, they make voice texts, right? 42 00:02:43.020 --> 00:02:46.380 People do not want to talk on the phone. 43 00:02:46.380 --> 00:02:47.480 They don't. 44 00:02:47.480 --> 00:02:50.400 And so now you can send people voice texts. 45 00:02:50.400 --> 00:02:51.400 And why? 46 00:02:51.400 --> 00:02:55.480 Because when you don't feel like texting anymore or, you know, voice texting anymore, you can 47 00:02:55.480 --> 00:02:57.680 just, you know, wander off and do something else. 48 00:02:57.680 --> 00:03:00.760 But if you're on a phone call, you're stuck, right? 49 00:03:00.760 --> 00:03:04.260 You're being held captive on that phone call. 50 00:03:04.260 --> 00:03:09.920 And that is what God said to me today about his people, including myself. 51 00:03:09.920 --> 00:03:14.520 And I'll get to my daughter's text messages here in a second. 52 00:03:14.560 --> 00:03:20.600 But he said, my people need help with their thought life. 53 00:03:20.600 --> 00:03:24.040 And so I jotted down a few things from Holy Spirit this morning, and we'll see where we're 54 00:03:24.040 --> 00:03:25.040 going to go. 55 00:03:25.040 --> 00:03:26.680 Father God, we thank you for today. 56 00:03:26.680 --> 00:03:29.440 We thank you for this moment in time. 57 00:03:29.440 --> 00:03:32.040 This moment is unlike any other moment. 58 00:03:32.040 --> 00:03:33.560 You have wisdom for us right now. 59 00:03:33.560 --> 00:03:35.960 You have revelation for us right now. 60 00:03:35.960 --> 00:03:38.280 You have breakthrough for us right now. 61 00:03:38.280 --> 00:03:42.960 Your word says that every time we gather, you are in the midst of us in a different 62 00:03:42.960 --> 00:03:43.960 way. 63 00:03:44.400 --> 00:03:47.760 There will never be a moment like this ever again, Lord, help us to take advantage of 64 00:03:47.760 --> 00:03:48.760 it. 65 00:03:48.760 --> 00:03:53.320 Teach us, show us, heal us, grow us, amen. 66 00:03:53.320 --> 00:03:59.040 So about midnight last night, I was rolling into bed, going to bed late, y'all, rolling 67 00:03:59.040 --> 00:04:00.040 into bed. 68 00:04:00.040 --> 00:04:05.400 And I get a text message from one of my kids, and it just says, are you up? 69 00:04:05.400 --> 00:04:06.400 My kids know me. 70 00:04:06.400 --> 00:04:07.400 They're like, are you up? 71 00:04:07.400 --> 00:04:10.000 Yeah, I'm up. 72 00:04:10.000 --> 00:04:13.400 And then they started to ask me questions about different thoughts that they were having 73 00:04:13.400 --> 00:04:18.839 and, you know, things that were bothering them about the things that they were thinking. 74 00:04:18.839 --> 00:04:27.120 And you guys, this is one of the hardest lessons to learn, and that is to discipline your mind. 75 00:04:27.120 --> 00:04:28.120 It's very hard. 76 00:04:28.120 --> 00:04:29.640 It's an ongoing lesson. 77 00:04:29.640 --> 00:04:38.080 We live in a world, in a culture that is constantly warring for your mind. 78 00:04:38.160 --> 00:04:42.040 Because if it gets your mind, it'll get your heart eventually as well. 79 00:04:42.040 --> 00:04:44.240 Those thoughts don't just stay thoughts. 80 00:04:44.240 --> 00:04:45.240 They become what? 81 00:04:45.240 --> 00:04:46.240 They become beliefs. 82 00:04:46.240 --> 00:04:48.200 They become behaviors and actions. 83 00:04:48.200 --> 00:04:49.200 That's what happens. 84 00:04:49.200 --> 00:04:55.800 One of my favorite mentors of all time used to say, you need to think about what you're 85 00:04:55.800 --> 00:04:58.200 thinking about. 86 00:04:58.200 --> 00:05:00.040 And never has that been more true than 87 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:07.200 now. I'm sure that we used to have, you know, tens of thousands of thoughts a day back in the day, 88 00:05:07.200 --> 00:05:13.120 but now because of technology and because of how fast everything is moving all around us, 89 00:05:13.120 --> 00:05:17.760 I think that we're probably having tens of tens of tens of thousands of thoughts. 90 00:05:20.800 --> 00:05:26.960 And some of them we recognize, some of them we acknowledge, and others we don't. They just kind 91 00:05:26.960 --> 00:05:32.720 of are fleeting through our mind. Our mind is like a huge switchboard. You remember those old 92 00:05:32.720 --> 00:05:41.360 switchboards? All those different calls coming in, all those different voices. We're going to decide 93 00:05:41.360 --> 00:05:50.480 which ones we connect and which ones we disconnect. But in order to do that, there's a word 94 00:05:51.440 --> 00:05:59.040 that most of us don't like, including myself, that we will need to employ, and that is the word 95 00:05:59.040 --> 00:06:07.440 discipline. Discipline. A lot of us have a funky history with the word discipline, 96 00:06:08.320 --> 00:06:15.120 because it was not used correctly in our lives. It was not done correctly in our lives. And so 97 00:06:15.120 --> 00:06:22.320 when you hear that word, you're like, ah. Because a lot of us will correlate discipline 98 00:06:22.320 --> 00:06:33.280 with punishment, won't we? Discipline equals punishment. The Bible says that God disciplines 99 00:06:34.240 --> 00:06:40.080 or corrects the children that he loves. And I write about this in my book. For those of you 100 00:06:40.080 --> 00:06:45.680 that are brand new to phase one, you're doing hard work. Congratulations. It will change your 101 00:06:45.680 --> 00:06:53.440 life. But I write about how God's correction looks more like a GPS than it does a belt strap. 102 00:06:57.360 --> 00:07:01.520 Remember, friends, God can never force you because then you wouldn't have free will. 103 00:07:03.920 --> 00:07:07.680 When you were a child and you were doing something that you shouldn't be doing but 104 00:07:07.680 --> 00:07:12.960 you wanted to do, let's make sure we put it in that context. You shouldn't have been doing it, 105 00:07:12.960 --> 00:07:22.080 but you also wanted to do it. Okay? With your own free will, whether it was good or bad, 106 00:07:22.720 --> 00:07:27.440 you wanted to do that thing, and so you were doing it, and your parent came along, 107 00:07:27.440 --> 00:07:34.320 and they corrected you. You were eating with your hands at the dinner table. Felt good. 108 00:07:34.320 --> 00:07:41.040 You felt like a little piggy. You liked it. But your parent's like, no, no, no. In this society, 109 00:07:41.040 --> 00:07:48.640 we eat with utensils. I mean, obviously, if it's chicken or if it's, you know, pizza. I do 110 00:07:48.640 --> 00:07:53.920 know people that eat pizza with a fork and a knife, and I don't necessarily trust those people. But I 111 00:07:53.920 --> 00:08:00.240 will tell you that your parent brought some correction. Maybe you were doing something that 112 00:08:00.240 --> 00:08:05.360 was going to actually harm yourself, and your parent might have brought quick correction. 113 00:08:06.480 --> 00:08:11.040 And because we didn't all get raised in the same families, and even in families that had 114 00:08:11.040 --> 00:08:15.440 our best interests at heart, you possibly could have gotten overcorrected. 115 00:08:17.440 --> 00:08:23.440 Overcorrected. You could have gotten punished. The Bible doesn't say to punish your children. 116 00:08:23.440 --> 00:08:30.240 It says to correct them. Please make note of that. Correct their course. 117 00:08:31.760 --> 00:08:34.960 Correct their behavior so that they don't harm themselves. 118 00:08:36.320 --> 00:08:42.240 You're correcting the behavior. You're correcting the idea behind what the child is doing. What does 119 00:08:42.240 --> 00:08:47.840 that involve? That involves conversation. It doesn't involve corporal punishment. It doesn't 120 00:08:47.840 --> 00:08:53.600 involve just beating someone. Okay, yeah, they know that now what they did was bad. 121 00:08:55.840 --> 00:09:02.480 Right? And now they're going to start to believe that they are bad because they weren't taken 122 00:09:02.480 --> 00:09:09.760 aside and told, hey, this is harmful to you. If you continue to do this, this is going to hurt you. 123 00:09:10.800 --> 00:09:16.480 This is why I'm asking you not to do this. And this is why in order for you to remember this 124 00:09:16.480 --> 00:09:23.920 moment and remember why you should not do this, I'm going to employ some kind of correction. 125 00:09:23.920 --> 00:09:27.840 You're going to have to sit in your room and think about this for a little while. 126 00:09:29.440 --> 00:09:37.120 You're going to have to write out for me a little essay of why it was that you wanted to do this 127 00:09:37.120 --> 00:09:41.520 and what you thought you were going to get out of it. But parents don't take time to correct that. 128 00:09:41.600 --> 00:09:48.400 Parents, a lot of times, because this is the way that they were parented, they grab something and 129 00:09:48.400 --> 00:09:54.240 if they believe in spanking, quote unquote, they start swinging. They're angry. They're 130 00:09:54.240 --> 00:09:59.840 mad at the child for doing what they did. Maybe the child broke something, damaged property. 131 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:06.300 Maybe the child caused some kind of pain for the parent because of public embarrassment 132 00:10:06.300 --> 00:10:08.620 or it doesn't matter what it is. 133 00:10:08.620 --> 00:10:13.780 They start acting out of their own emotions and now all the child takes away from that 134 00:10:13.780 --> 00:10:21.340 moment is, my parent is angry at me and I'm bad. 135 00:10:21.340 --> 00:10:25.220 But the reason why Holy Spirit wants us to dig into that, by the way, that's not any 136 00:10:25.220 --> 00:10:29.340 of the stuff that I wrote down, is because it's important that we understand that God's 137 00:10:29.340 --> 00:10:33.020 correction doesn't look like that. 138 00:10:33.020 --> 00:10:35.300 God's correction looks like, hey, there's a better way. 139 00:10:35.300 --> 00:10:38.860 Hey, you see what you're doing right there? 140 00:10:38.860 --> 00:10:40.780 That's unworthy of you. 141 00:10:40.780 --> 00:10:42.260 That's beneath you. 142 00:10:42.260 --> 00:10:43.940 You're my child. 143 00:10:43.940 --> 00:10:45.620 There's a better way to do this. 144 00:10:45.620 --> 00:10:47.560 Let me show you how. 145 00:10:47.560 --> 00:10:50.220 There's a better way to get that thing that you want. 146 00:10:50.220 --> 00:10:51.740 Let me chart your course. 147 00:10:51.740 --> 00:10:54.180 Yeah, it's going to take some discipline. 148 00:10:54.180 --> 00:10:57.240 It's going to take some work. 149 00:10:57.240 --> 00:11:00.920 You're going to have to do a few things that you're not doing right now, but it's a better 150 00:11:00.920 --> 00:11:01.920 way. 151 00:11:01.920 --> 00:11:03.200 Will you trust me? 152 00:11:03.200 --> 00:11:06.000 Will you go the way that I'm showing you? 153 00:11:06.000 --> 00:11:07.960 That's what God's correction looks like. 154 00:11:07.960 --> 00:11:10.360 It's correction. 155 00:11:10.360 --> 00:11:14.520 Oftentimes when I'm driving, and I say this a lot, but it really hit me that day when 156 00:11:14.520 --> 00:11:20.280 I was driving the car and I had my coordinates set in my GPS and I'm driving along, I'm out 157 00:11:20.680 --> 00:11:24.240 of my own business, doing my own thing. 158 00:11:24.240 --> 00:11:30.360 My Siri said to me, there's a better route available, Jackie. 159 00:11:30.360 --> 00:11:32.360 Do you want to take it? 160 00:11:32.360 --> 00:11:33.760 I had already set in my coordinates. 161 00:11:33.760 --> 00:11:36.880 I already knew where I was going. 162 00:11:36.880 --> 00:11:42.280 But my GPS started talking to me and telling me that there was a better route that was 163 00:11:42.280 --> 00:11:49.840 now available due to roadblock, detour, accident on my route, whatever was ahead that I couldn't 164 00:11:49.840 --> 00:11:52.280 see. 165 00:11:52.280 --> 00:11:57.560 My GPS could see it, and it was telling me that there was a different route, a better 166 00:11:57.560 --> 00:12:02.120 route that I could take now, and that is what God is doing with us all the time through 167 00:12:02.120 --> 00:12:03.120 Holy Spirit. 168 00:12:03.120 --> 00:12:05.440 Hey, there's a better way to do this. 169 00:12:05.440 --> 00:12:07.240 There's a better way to go. 170 00:12:07.240 --> 00:12:13.760 For those of you that are out there dating, hoping to be mating, the voice says, hey, 171 00:12:13.760 --> 00:12:18.440 this person, yeah, they're nice, they're good. 172 00:12:19.360 --> 00:12:20.360 There's a better match. 173 00:12:20.360 --> 00:12:26.800 Did I ever tell you guys that that happened to me? 174 00:12:26.800 --> 00:12:28.400 Going through divorce, no one says. 175 00:12:28.400 --> 00:12:29.400 You know what I say. 176 00:12:29.400 --> 00:12:31.080 No one says, when I grow up, I want to be divorced. 177 00:12:31.080 --> 00:12:34.200 Being divorced, going through divorce, hard. 178 00:12:34.200 --> 00:12:41.120 And I remember that during that season of my life, my daughter was in preschool, and 179 00:12:41.120 --> 00:12:45.760 the preschool was at a church, and it had an afternoon class and a morning class, and 180 00:12:45.760 --> 00:12:47.920 my daughter was in the afternoon class. 181 00:12:47.920 --> 00:12:52.360 And all of us parents that had kids in the afternoon class would line up in the hallway 182 00:12:52.360 --> 00:12:56.920 of this church, waiting for our kids to come out of their classrooms, because they're little. 183 00:12:56.920 --> 00:13:00.600 They're preschoolers, they're three years old, and so when they come out, three, four 184 00:13:00.600 --> 00:13:04.600 years old, when they come out of their classrooms, you have to take them immediately. 185 00:13:04.600 --> 00:13:07.360 It's not like they go out and get on the bus or something. 186 00:13:07.360 --> 00:13:10.520 You have to grab ahold of your kid and take them. 187 00:13:10.520 --> 00:13:16.280 And so we're standing in the hallway waiting for class to dismiss, and it's always the 188 00:13:16.280 --> 00:13:18.600 same parents every week. 189 00:13:18.600 --> 00:13:21.600 So here I am, single mom, and guess what? 190 00:13:21.600 --> 00:13:24.480 There was a cute single dad. 191 00:13:24.480 --> 00:13:27.480 Take notes, single moms. 192 00:13:27.480 --> 00:13:28.480 Take notes. 193 00:13:28.480 --> 00:13:29.480 Okay? 194 00:13:29.480 --> 00:13:31.760 And so I'm not looking... 195 00:13:31.760 --> 00:13:35.560 I also don't know what it's like to not be married, because I got married when I was 196 00:13:35.560 --> 00:13:36.920 20 years old. 197 00:13:36.920 --> 00:13:41.080 And so oftentimes, when you've only known something, you'll try to go right back to 198 00:13:41.080 --> 00:13:42.080 that, won't you? 199 00:13:42.080 --> 00:13:44.560 You'll try to jump right back in relationship. 200 00:13:44.840 --> 00:13:49.000 Oftentimes with no new information and no new healing. 201 00:13:49.000 --> 00:13:54.080 So for those of you that are on here and you're fresh out of something, let's not rebound. 202 00:13:54.080 --> 00:13:55.200 Okay? 203 00:13:55.200 --> 00:13:59.520 And sometimes that's why that GPS will say, hey, yeah, you know, this person, they're 204 00:13:59.520 --> 00:14:03.160 great, but there's something better ahead for you. 205 00:14:03.160 --> 00:14:07.440 Not that this person's not great, but the timing for you is not great. 206 00:14:07.440 --> 00:14:08.960 Does that make sense? 207 00:14:08.960 --> 00:14:12.960 The timing is not great for you because you're going to sabotage this thing. 208 00:14:12.960 --> 00:14:16.120 You're not going to be able to ride this thing all the way out because you have not 209 00:14:16.120 --> 00:14:23.440 done enough hard work in order to sustain it. 210 00:14:23.440 --> 00:14:29.240 There's all kinds of reasons why the all-knowing, omnipotent, omniscient God tells you, hey, 211 00:14:29.240 --> 00:14:31.640 this isn't the best thing for you. 212 00:14:31.640 --> 00:14:34.800 Don't just assume it's because the other person's a serial killer. 213 00:14:34.800 --> 00:14:38.280 Don't just assume that it's because you're so great and grand and you have this huge 214 00:14:38.400 --> 00:14:44.680 call on your life that no one else can go with you except this one perfect person out there. 215 00:14:44.680 --> 00:14:51.160 You know, don't assume that the person's too good for you, for those of you that have the 216 00:14:51.160 --> 00:14:54.240 more victim mindset. 217 00:14:54.240 --> 00:14:56.280 And God's like, no, you can't have them. 218 00:14:56.280 --> 00:14:58.800 You know, you're not good enough for them. 219 00:14:58.800 --> 00:14:59.320 No. 220 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:02.720 God sees, he knows, and he's just telling. 221 00:15:02.720 --> 00:15:04.680 Look, he didn't say, don't. 222 00:15:04.680 --> 00:15:08.080 He said, there is a better route available. 223 00:15:09.800 --> 00:15:12.280 There's a better route available. 224 00:15:12.280 --> 00:15:14.440 So anyway, me and this preschool dad, 225 00:15:15.440 --> 00:15:17.040 you know, we would go out as a group, 226 00:15:17.040 --> 00:15:20.520 a few of us moms and just this one dude. 227 00:15:20.520 --> 00:15:24.900 And I'm sure that he felt probably like a, 228 00:15:26.960 --> 00:15:28.800 like a, what are those? 229 00:15:28.800 --> 00:15:29.840 You know, the seagulls. 230 00:15:29.840 --> 00:15:33.280 Mine, mine, mine, mine, mine. 231 00:15:33.280 --> 00:15:36.000 All these single moms and just this one guy. 232 00:15:36.000 --> 00:15:37.960 And he was a really nice guy. 233 00:15:37.960 --> 00:15:39.380 His name was Greg. 234 00:15:39.380 --> 00:15:40.520 I hope he got married. 235 00:15:40.520 --> 00:15:41.800 He was a really nice guy. 236 00:15:41.800 --> 00:15:45.240 His wife had left him for another man, all kinds of drama, 237 00:15:45.240 --> 00:15:46.640 but he was a great dad. 238 00:15:46.640 --> 00:15:50.360 He was a wonderful, wonderful person. 239 00:15:50.360 --> 00:15:51.480 He was a believer. 240 00:15:51.480 --> 00:15:55.200 He loved God, all the things, right? 241 00:15:55.200 --> 00:15:56.200 Come on. 242 00:15:56.200 --> 00:15:57.560 It's just like, all right, God, let's go. 243 00:15:57.560 --> 00:15:58.720 Let's get this show on the road. 244 00:15:58.720 --> 00:15:59.800 And God's like, no. 245 00:16:00.800 --> 00:16:02.840 And I remember him saying to me, 246 00:16:02.840 --> 00:16:04.960 I mean, the relationship, once again, 247 00:16:04.960 --> 00:16:07.160 it was a group relationship with a bunch of other ladies. 248 00:16:07.160 --> 00:16:09.280 And then I could tell, ladies, you know, 249 00:16:09.280 --> 00:16:11.160 you can tell when a guy likes you. 250 00:16:11.160 --> 00:16:13.360 And I could tell that he liked me. 251 00:16:13.360 --> 00:16:17.480 And, you know, and then we did a few things with our kids, 252 00:16:17.480 --> 00:16:20.440 just the two of us, and it never really got anywhere 253 00:16:20.440 --> 00:16:24.480 because God said to me, it's not, it's not the right time. 254 00:16:24.480 --> 00:16:25.520 It's not the right, 255 00:16:25.520 --> 00:16:28.520 this is not the right person in the right timing. 256 00:16:31.080 --> 00:16:35.360 And I was able to be obedient to that. 257 00:16:35.360 --> 00:16:37.280 There were lots of thoughts that came into my mind. 258 00:16:37.280 --> 00:16:38.120 I can't lie to you. 259 00:16:38.120 --> 00:16:40.400 There were lots of thoughts of scarcity. 260 00:16:40.400 --> 00:16:42.400 There were lots of thoughts of desperation. 261 00:16:42.400 --> 00:16:44.960 There were lots of thoughts of fear. 262 00:16:44.960 --> 00:16:46.480 When you're getting out of something 263 00:16:46.480 --> 00:16:48.440 and you're scared and you're alone 264 00:16:48.440 --> 00:16:49.960 and you don't know what's happening 265 00:16:49.960 --> 00:16:52.080 and you're in that, you know, 266 00:16:52.080 --> 00:16:53.920 hallway that you don't wanna be in, 267 00:16:53.960 --> 00:16:57.040 and you just wanna go through the next door, 268 00:16:57.040 --> 00:17:00.280 sometimes you're gonna try to kick those doors in, 269 00:17:00.280 --> 00:17:03.280 even if they're really not quite your door. 270 00:17:04.800 --> 00:17:05.920 Right? 271 00:17:05.920 --> 00:17:07.880 It's like trying to force that puzzle piece 272 00:17:07.880 --> 00:17:09.960 in that 1500 piece puzzle. 273 00:17:09.960 --> 00:17:12.119 That's almost right. 274 00:17:12.119 --> 00:17:12.960 It's almost right. 275 00:17:12.960 --> 00:17:15.200 But that little peninsula on that puzzle piece 276 00:17:15.200 --> 00:17:20.200 just isn't quite carved out for that space. 277 00:17:20.319 --> 00:17:21.160 You guys know what I mean? 278 00:17:21.160 --> 00:17:23.079 Have you ever done a puzzle? 279 00:17:23.079 --> 00:17:24.839 Just trying to put it in there. 280 00:17:24.839 --> 00:17:26.119 And I don't want you to get the idea 281 00:17:26.119 --> 00:17:28.079 that our matches are perfect 282 00:17:28.079 --> 00:17:30.720 because once again, we have free will. 283 00:17:30.720 --> 00:17:32.480 And I believe in Romans 8, 28. 284 00:17:32.480 --> 00:17:34.600 I believe God can work all things to our good 285 00:17:34.600 --> 00:17:38.120 as we surrender our things to him. 286 00:17:38.120 --> 00:17:39.680 He can't work all things to our good 287 00:17:39.680 --> 00:17:41.560 if you don't surrender your things. 288 00:17:41.560 --> 00:17:42.400 Okay? 289 00:17:42.400 --> 00:17:44.120 But even when you know that you zigged 290 00:17:44.120 --> 00:17:46.040 when you should have zagged 291 00:17:46.040 --> 00:17:48.800 and you went through a door that may have been locked 292 00:17:48.800 --> 00:17:50.960 and you might have jimmied it a little bit, 293 00:17:51.760 --> 00:17:55.520 God can still turn all that around to your good. 294 00:17:55.520 --> 00:17:56.360 He can. 295 00:17:56.360 --> 00:17:58.200 And so it's not about perfection, you guys. 296 00:17:58.200 --> 00:17:59.120 It's about progress. 297 00:17:59.120 --> 00:18:00.000 Write that down. 298 00:18:01.560 --> 00:18:02.920 It's not about perfection. 299 00:18:04.200 --> 00:18:05.600 It's about progress. 300 00:18:06.480 --> 00:18:08.880 But let's get to where we're gonna get to today. 301 00:18:08.880 --> 00:18:09.920 Can we do that? 302 00:18:11.440 --> 00:18:13.440 We're gonna talk about our thought life. 303 00:18:14.840 --> 00:18:16.720 And in order to talk about that, 304 00:18:16.720 --> 00:18:18.760 we have to talk about the origin of thoughts. 305 00:18:18.800 --> 00:18:20.440 And I've done an entire teaching 306 00:18:20.440 --> 00:18:22.160 about the origin of thoughts. 307 00:18:22.160 --> 00:18:23.720 I think it's been a year or more now 308 00:18:23.720 --> 00:18:25.160 on Supernatural Saturday. 309 00:18:25.160 --> 00:18:27.080 Maybe we'll try to dig that one up. 310 00:18:28.160 --> 00:18:31.320 But there's three origins of your thought life. 311 00:18:31.320 --> 00:18:35.280 There's the spirit, okay? 312 00:18:35.280 --> 00:18:36.120 God. 313 00:18:37.680 --> 00:18:40.200 That origin, that redeemed thought life 314 00:18:40.200 --> 00:18:42.760 that's coming from the supernatural. 315 00:18:42.760 --> 00:18:45.280 There's you, okay? 316 00:18:45.280 --> 00:18:47.080 There's just straight up fleshly thoughts. 317 00:18:47.080 --> 00:18:48.160 There's you. 318 00:18:48.160 --> 00:18:50.160 And the thing is, you guys, in this category, 319 00:18:50.160 --> 00:18:51.720 all of us have different thoughts. 320 00:18:51.720 --> 00:18:54.840 It's not like, oh, okay, that's a flesh thought. 321 00:18:54.840 --> 00:18:56.760 You know, that's just a flesh thought. 322 00:18:56.760 --> 00:18:59.280 No, we all have different flesh thoughts. 323 00:18:59.280 --> 00:19:00.720 All of us think differently 324 00:19:00.720 --> 00:19:02.240 depending on where we've come from, 325 00:19:02.240 --> 00:19:04.400 what we've seen, what we've done, 326 00:19:04.400 --> 00:19:07.120 what we're daily consuming 327 00:19:07.120 --> 00:19:09.920 as far as the things that come into our eyes 328 00:19:09.920 --> 00:19:12.760 and our ears and our minds, right? 329 00:19:12.760 --> 00:19:14.600 We all have different flesh thoughts. 330 00:19:14.600 --> 00:19:18.080 And then lastly, there's the opposing forces. 331 00:19:18.880 --> 00:19:22.760 The last origin of our thoughts is demonic, okay? 332 00:19:22.760 --> 00:19:26.480 It is that realm of darkness. 333 00:19:26.480 --> 00:19:29.200 That's where those thoughts, those ideologies, 334 00:19:30.240 --> 00:19:32.120 those are coming from there. 335 00:19:32.120 --> 00:19:33.920 And I know that anything that's negative, 336 00:19:33.920 --> 00:19:35.800 we just wanna blame it on the devil. 337 00:19:37.840 --> 00:19:41.840 It's like, oh, not today, Satan, not today. 338 00:19:41.840 --> 00:19:43.640 But the truth is, is that thought 339 00:19:43.640 --> 00:19:45.240 may actually be coming from you. 340 00:19:46.240 --> 00:19:48.800 Like, are you saying I'm the devil, Jackie? 341 00:19:48.800 --> 00:19:51.400 No, I'm not saying you're the devil, 342 00:19:51.400 --> 00:19:56.200 but I am saying that our flesh can get so twisted 343 00:19:56.200 --> 00:19:58.720 and so aligned with negativity 344 00:19:58.720 --> 00:20:00.240 and so aligned with. 345 00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:07.000 with bad things, things that are not going to bring us goodness that sometimes it's hard 346 00:20:07.000 --> 00:20:09.760 to tell the difference. 347 00:20:09.760 --> 00:20:10.920 Sometimes it is. 348 00:20:10.920 --> 00:20:17.280 Those destructive thoughts, yes, obviously, it all comes from a place of darkness, a place 349 00:20:17.280 --> 00:20:22.040 of the curse, but a lot of times that has just really found its root system in you. 350 00:20:22.040 --> 00:20:23.040 Okay? 351 00:20:23.040 --> 00:20:28.240 And I just want to say something really quick, it's really important, is that we do have 352 00:20:28.240 --> 00:20:31.440 some demonic thoughts sometimes. 353 00:20:31.440 --> 00:20:36.200 Thoughts about harming ourselves, thoughts about harming others, thoughts that are murderous 354 00:20:36.200 --> 00:20:44.760 in nature as far as like rage and anger that, you know, is malicious in its intent and different 355 00:20:44.760 --> 00:20:50.040 things like that, but for the most part, the enemy is disarmed. 356 00:20:50.040 --> 00:20:55.040 Jesus disarmed the enemy at the cross. 357 00:20:55.040 --> 00:21:01.120 At the finished work of the cross, all the ammunition that the enemy had against you 358 00:21:01.120 --> 00:21:03.160 was taken away. 359 00:21:03.160 --> 00:21:04.160 Okay? 360 00:21:04.160 --> 00:21:08.320 Somebody needs to get a hold of this right now. 361 00:21:08.320 --> 00:21:18.720 The enemy doesn't have anything on you because you are, when you are hidden in Christ, when 362 00:21:18.720 --> 00:21:25.640 you have not just suffered with Christ at the cross, but believe that he suffered with 363 00:21:25.640 --> 00:21:35.160 you and as you, and you accept his sufferings as your own, you have been declared innocent. 364 00:21:35.160 --> 00:21:41.680 And so just like a prosecutor, the enemy comes and he tries to prosecute us, tries to fill 365 00:21:41.680 --> 00:21:49.280 our minds full of all kinds of doubt and guilt and shame and hatred and all different 366 00:21:49.280 --> 00:21:54.920 types of things, but we're not on the stand. 367 00:21:54.920 --> 00:21:56.640 We're not on the stand anymore. 368 00:21:56.640 --> 00:21:58.920 Jesus took the stand for us. 369 00:21:58.920 --> 00:22:05.080 Jesus took the guilty verdict for us and Jesus took the punishment for us. 370 00:22:05.080 --> 00:22:06.080 Please get a hold of that. 371 00:22:06.080 --> 00:22:10.320 So anytime that prosecuting voice comes in your mind, remember thinking about what you're 372 00:22:10.320 --> 00:22:11.840 thinking about. 373 00:22:11.840 --> 00:22:14.240 And sometimes we become the assistant prosecutor. 374 00:22:14.240 --> 00:22:15.240 Write that down. 375 00:22:15.240 --> 00:22:19.840 Yeah, those demonic voices are coming and they're trying to cause shame and guilt and 376 00:22:19.840 --> 00:22:21.480 they're accusing us. 377 00:22:21.480 --> 00:22:27.240 The Bible calls the enemy, that voice, an accuser. 378 00:22:27.240 --> 00:22:31.480 But sometimes we're co-counsel for the prosecution, aren't we? 379 00:22:31.480 --> 00:22:38.080 Sometimes we're the assistant prosecutor because in our flesh, we have received all of that 380 00:22:38.080 --> 00:22:39.600 negativity about ourselves. 381 00:22:39.880 --> 00:22:41.880 We've come into alignment with those voices. 382 00:22:41.880 --> 00:22:46.400 We've come into agreement with those voices, those demonic voices. 383 00:22:46.400 --> 00:22:49.800 Over the course of our lives, other people have spoken. 384 00:22:49.800 --> 00:22:54.360 Their flesh has come into alignment with the demonic and accusing voices and they've allowed 385 00:22:54.360 --> 00:23:02.360 their mouth to accuse us and to diminish us and to destroy us with their words from that 386 00:23:02.360 --> 00:23:04.240 demonic origin, right? 387 00:23:04.240 --> 00:23:05.920 And then we hear those words. 388 00:23:05.920 --> 00:23:10.840 We take those words into our ears and we allow them to get into our hearts because 389 00:23:10.840 --> 00:23:13.600 we come into agreement and alignment with them. 390 00:23:13.600 --> 00:23:17.200 We're going to talk about thoughts being held captive here in a second. 391 00:23:17.200 --> 00:23:20.360 But all the thoughts, friends, that you've already come into alignment with, that you've 392 00:23:20.360 --> 00:23:25.360 already come into agreement with, that are now like a broken record that play in your 393 00:23:25.360 --> 00:23:33.080 mind over and over and over again about your worth, about who you are, about what you are. 394 00:23:33.080 --> 00:23:38.000 We have to come out of agreement with those things today because you become the assistant 395 00:23:38.000 --> 00:23:39.480 prosecutor. 396 00:23:39.480 --> 00:23:44.640 Yes, the enemy is the one that started this, but you're the one that's perpetuating it 397 00:23:44.640 --> 00:23:45.800 now. 398 00:23:45.800 --> 00:23:48.920 You're the one that continues to repeat it over and over again. 399 00:23:48.920 --> 00:23:52.760 You are the one that is badgering the witness now. 400 00:23:52.760 --> 00:24:00.040 You are the one that is the hostile counsel now. 401 00:24:00.040 --> 00:24:02.320 You are. 402 00:24:02.320 --> 00:24:07.040 I want you to be honest right now and I want everyone to raise their hand who has ever 403 00:24:07.040 --> 00:24:10.160 said terrible things to themselves. 404 00:24:10.160 --> 00:24:11.160 You're such a loser. 405 00:24:11.160 --> 00:24:12.960 You're so ugly. 406 00:24:12.960 --> 00:24:13.960 Nobody's going to love you. 407 00:24:13.960 --> 00:24:17.120 You're so stupid. 408 00:24:17.120 --> 00:24:19.120 You don't even deserve to be alive. 409 00:24:19.120 --> 00:24:24.640 You're pathetic. 410 00:24:24.640 --> 00:24:25.640 I hate you. 411 00:24:25.640 --> 00:24:34.000 Raise your hand if you've ever told yourself that you hate yourself, you hate you. 412 00:24:34.000 --> 00:24:35.000 Remember it's ever. 413 00:24:35.000 --> 00:24:37.200 I'm not asking you if you're doing it right now. 414 00:24:37.200 --> 00:24:48.400 If you've ever said it, if you've ever looked at yourself in the mirror and thought, I don't 415 00:24:48.400 --> 00:24:51.400 want to be you. 416 00:24:52.400 --> 00:24:58.520 Guys, that came from somewhere. 417 00:24:58.520 --> 00:24:59.720 It came from words. 418 00:24:59.720 --> 00:25:00.000 It came. 419 00:25:00.000 --> 00:25:05.000 and from insinuations, it came from events. 420 00:25:05.000 --> 00:25:07.760 People don't even have to say words over us. 421 00:25:07.760 --> 00:25:11.200 We imply words when people, you know, 422 00:25:11.200 --> 00:25:14.040 avoid us or abandon us in childhood. 423 00:25:14.040 --> 00:25:18.260 When people that we see ourselves like, 424 00:25:18.260 --> 00:25:19.400 your mother, your father, 425 00:25:19.400 --> 00:25:21.560 you see yourself like your mother and your father. 426 00:25:21.560 --> 00:25:23.960 How much of our childhood is spent saying, 427 00:25:23.960 --> 00:25:25.880 who do we look more like, mom or dad? 428 00:25:27.240 --> 00:25:28.080 Why? 429 00:25:28.080 --> 00:25:29.600 Because you're trying to find your identity 430 00:25:29.600 --> 00:25:31.360 in the people that you've come from. 431 00:25:31.360 --> 00:25:33.800 And so if those people are being verbally abused, 432 00:25:33.800 --> 00:25:37.320 if those people are in the midst of violence 433 00:25:38.840 --> 00:25:40.360 towards themselves and others, 434 00:25:40.360 --> 00:25:42.960 you're gonna take that on as your own. 435 00:25:42.960 --> 00:25:46.800 And you guys, all of this gets housed there in the flesh. 436 00:25:48.560 --> 00:25:51.240 Yeah, the devil was the origin, the demonic was the origin, 437 00:25:51.240 --> 00:25:53.380 the curse was the origin of all this stuff, 438 00:25:53.380 --> 00:25:56.600 but now it's in you. 439 00:25:56.600 --> 00:25:58.700 You are your own worst enemy. 440 00:26:00.040 --> 00:26:03.080 You are the thoughts that you think. 441 00:26:03.080 --> 00:26:04.960 And so we have to purify those thoughts. 442 00:26:04.960 --> 00:26:06.800 And what does the Bible say about that? 443 00:26:06.800 --> 00:26:10.360 We'll talk about what the Bible says about some new thoughts 444 00:26:10.360 --> 00:26:11.520 and some existing thoughts, 445 00:26:11.520 --> 00:26:13.320 but let's just put a scripture in here 446 00:26:13.320 --> 00:26:16.360 about the washing of the water of the word, right? 447 00:26:16.360 --> 00:26:17.440 We're going to have to, 448 00:26:17.440 --> 00:26:20.480 and I say this a lot in the heart work in phase one, 449 00:26:20.480 --> 00:26:23.480 you cannot erase, you have to replace. 450 00:26:25.600 --> 00:26:26.840 You can't erase. 451 00:26:27.840 --> 00:26:32.600 Guys, we can't erase this stuff, it's too late. 452 00:26:32.600 --> 00:26:34.800 We've already think it, we already think it. 453 00:26:38.120 --> 00:26:39.200 And I don't know about you, 454 00:26:39.200 --> 00:26:41.920 but anytime I like try desperately not to think a thought, 455 00:26:41.920 --> 00:26:42.760 no, I'm not thinking that, 456 00:26:42.760 --> 00:26:44.960 and you just go, oh, I'm not gonna think that, 457 00:26:44.960 --> 00:26:46.600 then you just think it even more. 458 00:26:49.680 --> 00:26:52.520 You can't erase it, you can't push it out. 459 00:26:53.360 --> 00:26:56.280 But you can decide on whether or not you agree with it. 460 00:26:59.160 --> 00:27:00.000 You can. 461 00:27:01.080 --> 00:27:03.720 So I'm gonna give you guys a little checklist of, 462 00:27:03.720 --> 00:27:05.720 you know, thinking about what we're thinking about 463 00:27:05.720 --> 00:27:08.600 and what to do with these thoughts here in just one second, 464 00:27:08.600 --> 00:27:10.640 we're gonna do that, okay? 465 00:27:10.640 --> 00:27:13.800 All right, so let's go with, 466 00:27:19.400 --> 00:27:20.600 let's go with this scripture. 467 00:27:21.600 --> 00:27:23.520 Let's go with this scripture. 468 00:27:23.520 --> 00:27:25.520 This is so familiar to so many of you, 469 00:27:25.520 --> 00:27:28.920 2 Corinthians chapter 10, 470 00:27:28.920 --> 00:27:30.600 Paul's talking to the Corinthians 471 00:27:30.600 --> 00:27:32.560 and he's talking about the weapons of our warfare 472 00:27:32.560 --> 00:27:34.520 that are not human. 473 00:27:35.640 --> 00:27:37.560 We have weapons of our warfare, 474 00:27:37.560 --> 00:27:40.680 the spiritual war, the spiritual battle that's going on. 475 00:27:41.720 --> 00:27:42.960 And you guys, we have to make sure 476 00:27:42.960 --> 00:27:45.880 that we don't join the enemy's side against ourselves. 477 00:27:45.880 --> 00:27:47.840 There is a spiritual war going on 478 00:27:47.880 --> 00:27:52.640 and we have to align ourselves with the Holy One. 479 00:27:52.640 --> 00:27:54.680 We have to align ourselves with the Anointed One, 480 00:27:54.680 --> 00:27:55.520 with the Righteous One. 481 00:27:55.520 --> 00:27:56.800 We have to align ourselves 482 00:27:56.800 --> 00:27:58.960 with the finished work of the cross in this war. 483 00:27:58.960 --> 00:27:59.800 And where does that start? 484 00:27:59.800 --> 00:28:01.400 That starts in our thought life. 485 00:28:02.800 --> 00:28:06.240 And so I wanna skip down, I think that it's verse five. 486 00:28:06.240 --> 00:28:10.360 Anyway, 1 Corinthians 10, three through six-ish 487 00:28:10.360 --> 00:28:12.800 is where you're gonna find these scriptures. 488 00:28:12.800 --> 00:28:17.520 And this is either verse four, 489 00:28:18.000 --> 00:28:21.240 maybe it's verse four, sorry, I didn't write it down. 490 00:28:21.240 --> 00:28:24.160 We, and then I wanna say this. 491 00:28:24.160 --> 00:28:26.840 And so you guys know that if you hear it quoted, 492 00:28:26.840 --> 00:28:30.680 it probably says something like taking captive every thought 493 00:28:30.680 --> 00:28:35.160 and making it obedient to Christ, right? 494 00:28:36.040 --> 00:28:36.880 To what? 495 00:28:36.880 --> 00:28:37.720 To the finished work of the cross. 496 00:28:37.720 --> 00:28:40.600 Taking captive every thought. 497 00:28:40.600 --> 00:28:41.800 Is it just some thoughts? 498 00:28:41.800 --> 00:28:43.560 Is it just the bad thoughts? 499 00:28:43.560 --> 00:28:44.840 No, it's all thoughts. 500 00:28:44.840 --> 00:28:47.880 Taking captive every thought 501 00:28:47.880 --> 00:28:52.880 and making it obedient to the finished work of the cross. 502 00:28:58.080 --> 00:28:59.720 You guys, I had a real problem with this. 503 00:28:59.720 --> 00:29:00.720 This was a scripture. 504 00:29:00.720 --> 00:29:02.000 This is one of my scriptures 505 00:29:02.000 --> 00:29:04.480 that was written on a note card back in my 20s 506 00:29:04.480 --> 00:29:05.800 in my early discipleship 507 00:29:05.800 --> 00:29:10.200 because my thought life was killing me. 508 00:29:10.200 --> 00:29:13.280 I had terrible panic disorder. 509 00:29:13.280 --> 00:29:15.440 I had obsessive compulsive disorder. 510 00:29:15.440 --> 00:29:19.360 For those of you that have thought that maybe you have OCD, 511 00:29:19.360 --> 00:29:20.840 you might just have trauma 512 00:29:20.840 --> 00:29:25.440 that now has turned into intrusive and obsessive thoughts 513 00:29:26.640 --> 00:29:28.160 that are on the negative. 514 00:29:28.160 --> 00:29:31.960 You might have a fabulous imagination like I do. 515 00:29:31.960 --> 00:29:35.680 And now your imaginations have been tainted 516 00:29:35.680 --> 00:29:37.960 by the abuse and trauma that you've been through. 517 00:29:37.960 --> 00:29:40.960 And all you can do is imagine negative things 518 00:29:40.960 --> 00:29:44.160 you cannot even begin to imagine life 519 00:29:44.160 --> 00:29:46.360 and peace and positivity. 520 00:29:48.800 --> 00:29:51.280 You've been through a lot is basically what I'm saying. 521 00:29:51.280 --> 00:29:54.840 And that was my state of being in my 20s. 522 00:29:54.840 --> 00:29:57.120 And God had to really teach me. 523 00:29:59.320 --> 00:30:00.160 And it was not. 524 00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:03.040 easy and it didn't happen overnight. 525 00:30:03.040 --> 00:30:05.600 And I still sometimes struggle when I allow myself 526 00:30:05.600 --> 00:30:08.000 to get too stressed out and I allow myself 527 00:30:08.000 --> 00:30:09.400 to dwell on negative things. 528 00:30:09.400 --> 00:30:10.240 How? 529 00:30:10.240 --> 00:30:14.280 Through music and media, through the news. 530 00:30:14.280 --> 00:30:17.960 Guys, you have to protect your mind. 531 00:30:19.280 --> 00:30:20.920 And we'll talk about that here in a second 532 00:30:20.920 --> 00:30:24.300 when we talk about setting a guard up at your mind. 533 00:30:26.360 --> 00:30:28.440 But I really had to learn. 534 00:30:30.440 --> 00:30:32.200 How to take these thoughts captive. 535 00:30:32.200 --> 00:30:35.080 And you know, I had a little child, she was just born. 536 00:30:36.440 --> 00:30:38.240 And you guys, just 18 months later, 537 00:30:38.240 --> 00:30:40.400 they were gonna diagnose her with a cyst 538 00:30:40.400 --> 00:30:41.880 and a tumor in her brain. 539 00:30:44.000 --> 00:30:45.880 Hadn't happened yet, y'all. 540 00:30:45.880 --> 00:30:48.040 But remember, I'd already been through a lot 541 00:30:48.040 --> 00:30:50.120 and I was already struggling. 542 00:30:50.120 --> 00:30:51.360 And this was coming. 543 00:30:52.920 --> 00:30:56.600 I had this little child and I'd get up in the night 544 00:30:56.600 --> 00:30:59.120 as an intercessor and I would pray 545 00:30:59.120 --> 00:31:02.280 and I would pray that the thoughts 546 00:31:02.280 --> 00:31:04.000 would still continue to come. 547 00:31:04.000 --> 00:31:08.040 And sometimes, you guys, I was so paralyzed by these thoughts 548 00:31:08.040 --> 00:31:11.000 that I couldn't leave my own home for months at a time. 549 00:31:11.000 --> 00:31:12.680 I couldn't drive a car. 550 00:31:13.660 --> 00:31:16.160 That is how intrusive these thoughts became 551 00:31:16.160 --> 00:31:18.400 and that is how much these thoughts 552 00:31:18.400 --> 00:31:21.680 began to gain territory and overwhelm me. 553 00:31:23.160 --> 00:31:25.920 Fearful thoughts, destructive thoughts. 554 00:31:29.640 --> 00:31:30.800 I wasn't gonna make it. 555 00:31:32.280 --> 00:31:33.640 I was not gonna make it 556 00:31:34.880 --> 00:31:37.240 without there being some kind of breakthrough. 557 00:31:39.680 --> 00:31:44.200 Without God teaching me what I needed to know 558 00:31:44.200 --> 00:31:46.520 in order to win this spiritual battle 559 00:31:46.520 --> 00:31:48.160 that I was on the wrong side of. 560 00:31:49.040 --> 00:31:51.440 Remember, I said there's three origins of thoughts. 561 00:31:51.440 --> 00:31:54.320 There's the spirit, there's you, your flesh, 562 00:31:54.320 --> 00:31:56.600 and then there's the demonic, destructive 563 00:31:56.600 --> 00:31:58.560 kingdom of darkness. 564 00:31:58.920 --> 00:32:00.040 I was on the wrong side. 565 00:32:00.040 --> 00:32:01.240 I wasn't on the side of God. 566 00:32:01.240 --> 00:32:02.400 I was on the other side 567 00:32:03.560 --> 00:32:05.240 because I had come into agreement 568 00:32:05.240 --> 00:32:06.840 with all of these different things 569 00:32:06.840 --> 00:32:08.120 over the course of my life, 570 00:32:08.120 --> 00:32:10.280 of all these thoughts about myself and my worth 571 00:32:10.280 --> 00:32:12.880 and my value and about God 572 00:32:12.880 --> 00:32:14.640 and about all kinds of different things. 573 00:32:14.640 --> 00:32:17.520 And so I was thinking the enemy wasn't putting 574 00:32:17.520 --> 00:32:19.920 those thoughts in my head on a daily basis. 575 00:32:19.920 --> 00:32:22.160 I already believed those things. 576 00:32:25.600 --> 00:32:27.480 And it was on a loop. 577 00:32:27.480 --> 00:32:28.920 It was like a broken record. 578 00:32:30.040 --> 00:32:33.960 It was looping over and over and over and over again. 579 00:32:33.960 --> 00:32:36.080 So what God taught me, 580 00:32:36.080 --> 00:32:39.160 and this was helpful because I was a young mom. 581 00:32:40.000 --> 00:32:42.880 I was married at the time and that was not good 582 00:32:42.880 --> 00:32:44.560 because there was another person in the house 583 00:32:44.560 --> 00:32:47.000 that actually had come into agreement 584 00:32:47.000 --> 00:32:49.720 with what the enemy was saying about me as well. 585 00:32:49.720 --> 00:32:52.200 Not about themselves, but about me. 586 00:32:52.200 --> 00:32:54.880 And so there was a lot of verbal violence happening 587 00:32:54.880 --> 00:32:58.240 that was just reinforcing all of this, 588 00:32:58.240 --> 00:32:59.440 you're no good. 589 00:33:01.440 --> 00:33:03.440 Why don't you just go somewhere and die? 590 00:33:10.200 --> 00:33:11.440 So God said to me one night, 591 00:33:11.440 --> 00:33:12.600 you guys, I was up in the middle of the night 592 00:33:12.600 --> 00:33:14.240 and I was praying. 593 00:33:14.240 --> 00:33:17.400 It was very normal for me to have panic attacks 594 00:33:17.400 --> 00:33:18.440 all through the night. 595 00:33:18.440 --> 00:33:20.880 And I woke up, had a massive panic attack 596 00:33:20.880 --> 00:33:24.440 and went into the living room and I sat on the couch 597 00:33:25.000 --> 00:33:26.840 and I was in the living room being a cry, 598 00:33:26.840 --> 00:33:27.680 began to pray. 599 00:33:27.680 --> 00:33:29.240 And God just spoke to me and he said, 600 00:33:30.720 --> 00:33:33.240 what would you do if someone broke into this house 601 00:33:33.240 --> 00:33:36.360 right now, try to steal your daughter? 602 00:33:38.240 --> 00:33:40.880 Try to harm your daughter sleeping in her crib 603 00:33:40.880 --> 00:33:41.720 in the other room. 604 00:33:41.720 --> 00:33:44.480 What would you do if that happened? 605 00:33:45.560 --> 00:33:48.640 And immediately like something rose up inside of me. 606 00:33:48.640 --> 00:33:51.000 Yeah, that mama bear rose up inside of me. 607 00:33:51.000 --> 00:33:53.480 And I said, well, I wouldn't let that happen. 608 00:33:54.480 --> 00:33:57.400 I would not let somebody come after that person. 609 00:33:59.480 --> 00:34:01.120 Hell hath no fury y'all. 610 00:34:04.720 --> 00:34:07.040 And God said, that's what you need to start doing 611 00:34:07.040 --> 00:34:08.280 about these thoughts. 612 00:34:08.280 --> 00:34:09.600 And I was like, pardon me? 613 00:34:10.560 --> 00:34:11.960 And he said, these thoughts. 614 00:34:12.960 --> 00:34:17.960 He said, you need to treat them like a murderous intruder 615 00:34:20.199 --> 00:34:24.199 that wants to destroy you and your whole lineage. 616 00:34:25.440 --> 00:34:26.639 Your whole family. 617 00:34:26.639 --> 00:34:28.719 He said, every single thought. 618 00:34:28.719 --> 00:34:30.199 And first of all, you guys remember I said 619 00:34:30.199 --> 00:34:32.600 that we're living in a very fast paced society 620 00:34:32.600 --> 00:34:35.679 where we have so many thoughts now. 621 00:34:35.679 --> 00:34:39.600 And you guys, that is a tool of the enemy. 622 00:34:39.600 --> 00:34:41.639 We don't take time to slow down. 623 00:34:41.639 --> 00:34:43.639 We don't take time to meditate. 624 00:34:43.639 --> 00:34:47.520 We don't take time to think about what we're thinking about. 625 00:34:47.520 --> 00:34:50.000 And that is why we don't have a lot of good fruit 626 00:34:50.000 --> 00:34:51.960 happening in our lives. 627 00:34:51.960 --> 00:34:53.239 Because whether we know it or not, 628 00:34:53.280 --> 00:34:55.040 there's a lot of unconscious thoughts 629 00:34:55.040 --> 00:34:56.679 that are driving your behavior right now 630 00:34:56.679 --> 00:34:58.320 that you've come into agreement with. 631 00:34:58.320 --> 00:35:00.280 And you're not even consciously aware. 632 00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:05.880 of them on the daily. When you slow down long enough, you're consciously aware of 633 00:35:05.880 --> 00:35:09.680 those negative thoughts, but because you're moving so fast, and some of you 634 00:35:09.680 --> 00:35:14.120 are moving so fast to run from the thoughts. If I just keep moving, I don't 635 00:35:14.120 --> 00:35:17.360 got to think about stuff I don't want to think about. No, those thoughts are 636 00:35:17.360 --> 00:35:22.760 already thinking for you, and they're in your behaviors, because we've already 637 00:35:22.760 --> 00:35:29.440 agreed with them. So slowing down, and this is what the Lord told me to do. He 638 00:35:29.440 --> 00:35:34.960 said, every single thought that comes into your mind, he's like, grab it by its 639 00:35:34.960 --> 00:35:39.840 collar. Just imagine yourself, just grabbing someone who comes through the 640 00:35:39.840 --> 00:35:44.800 front doors, grabbing the front of their hair, be like, who are you, and why are 641 00:35:44.800 --> 00:35:53.080 you here? And I imagine myself in the spirit realm doing that, with someone who 642 00:35:53.080 --> 00:35:59.920 is just kind of trying to come into my house, an intruder, grabbing them, throwing 643 00:35:59.920 --> 00:36:04.000 them up against the wall, who are you, and why are you here? I might have been 644 00:36:04.000 --> 00:36:12.280 watching a lot of action films back then, but I saw myself. You got to do that with 645 00:36:12.280 --> 00:36:19.080 every thought. Slow down, think about what you're thinking about, what is happening 646 00:36:19.080 --> 00:36:23.360 in your mind on a daily basis? What are the thoughts that are knocking on the 647 00:36:23.360 --> 00:36:29.040 door? You answer the door. Some of us don't even have a door. Thoughts are just 648 00:36:29.040 --> 00:36:35.120 allowed to come in, come out, come in, come out. Put up a door. We're going to talk 649 00:36:35.120 --> 00:36:37.880 about putting up a guard here in just a second. We got to put up a guard, we got to 650 00:36:37.880 --> 00:36:42.000 put up a door. Put up a guard at the door. 651 00:36:43.000 --> 00:36:51.280 Who are you? What do you want? What's your business here? Where have you come from? 652 00:36:51.280 --> 00:36:55.920 That's an important thing to ask a thought. Where's this thought coming from? 653 00:36:55.920 --> 00:37:00.920 Where have you come from, thought? Are you from God? Are you from the spirit? No, no, 654 00:37:00.920 --> 00:37:03.960 you're definitely not, because you're not bringing life and peace, 655 00:37:03.960 --> 00:37:08.960 so that's not. You guys, do you know that it's that easy to discern where a 656 00:37:08.960 --> 00:37:14.880 thought comes from? You're like, but Jackie, sometimes God, you know, He speaks 657 00:37:14.880 --> 00:37:22.160 to us harshly and, you know, He corrects us. No, no, He doesn't. He doesn't. He 658 00:37:22.160 --> 00:37:33.240 speaks to you in life and in peace. He doesn't bully you. God's not a bully. 659 00:37:33.240 --> 00:37:36.400 He doesn't threaten you. 660 00:37:39.600 --> 00:37:44.960 He's not the God, Father. That's not the way it works. 661 00:37:48.800 --> 00:37:55.400 Okay, you're not from the spirit. Are you from me? Are you from me? Is this something 662 00:37:55.400 --> 00:38:04.120 that I've come into agreement with? What is this? This thought. Get to the root of 663 00:38:04.120 --> 00:38:08.480 it. Use your heartwork tools. Where did this thought come from? Why is it coming 664 00:38:08.480 --> 00:38:13.760 into my mind? Is it just some random thing from the movie I watched last 665 00:38:13.760 --> 00:38:20.560 night? Is it some thought of, you know, unpeaceful thought because of something 666 00:38:20.560 --> 00:38:29.880 that I'm consuming, media-wise, scrolling through? Was I mindlessly scrolling 667 00:38:29.880 --> 00:38:34.160 through social media and I saw something super negative that now has gotten stuck 668 00:38:34.200 --> 00:38:39.200 in my heart and is causing me to think scary thoughts? 669 00:38:40.800 --> 00:38:46.320 And then lastly, is it just a straight-up demonic attack? 670 00:38:47.320 --> 00:38:51.240 It's not coming from me. It's not, this is not a habitual thought that I think 671 00:38:51.240 --> 00:38:56.720 over and over again. It's out of left field. I can't just, I can't, I can't, I 672 00:38:56.720 --> 00:39:00.680 can't trace it back to anything that I've watched recently, anything that I've 673 00:39:00.720 --> 00:39:09.560 done. No, this is just, this is just a thought that's just coming out of 674 00:39:09.560 --> 00:39:16.520 nowhere. It's an opposing forces thought. That's a demonic thought. That's a 675 00:39:16.520 --> 00:39:21.400 warfare thought. The Bible tells us what to do about that because every single 676 00:39:21.400 --> 00:39:26.720 day we should be putting on our helmet of salvation. I'm not going to do our 677 00:39:26.760 --> 00:39:31.880 Supernatural Saturday call today right now on the, on the armor of God, but we 678 00:39:31.880 --> 00:39:33.320 will do it sometime. 679 00:39:36.600 --> 00:39:40.800 But if you go and you read about it, you'll see that there's a helmet of 680 00:39:40.800 --> 00:39:44.360 salvation. You guys, that word salvation doesn't mean you're saved going to 681 00:39:44.360 --> 00:39:52.160 heaven. That is a Greek word, is the word sozo. And that word means saved, 682 00:39:52.160 --> 00:39:58.920 rescued, delivered, set free, or freedom. Got to put on that helmet over what? 683 00:39:58.920 --> 00:40:00.080 Over our mind, over our 684 00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:05.000 our thought center that reinforces that you are saved. 685 00:40:05.380 --> 00:40:06.460 You've been rescued. 686 00:40:06.460 --> 00:40:08.340 You guys, we're not waiting to be rescued. 687 00:40:08.340 --> 00:40:09.720 We have been rescued. 688 00:40:10.580 --> 00:40:12.180 We have been delivered. 689 00:40:12.180 --> 00:40:14.260 We have been saved. 690 00:40:14.260 --> 00:40:18.060 You are now invited to live in freedom. 691 00:40:20.300 --> 00:40:22.980 The Bible tells us how to do that. 692 00:40:22.980 --> 00:40:24.580 Jesus, this is Jesus talking. 693 00:40:24.580 --> 00:40:27.820 He says, if you continue in me, what is he? 694 00:40:27.820 --> 00:40:29.580 He's the word, isn't he? 695 00:40:29.580 --> 00:40:31.060 The word that became flesh. 696 00:40:31.060 --> 00:40:34.620 If you continue in me, you will know the truth 697 00:40:34.620 --> 00:40:36.320 and it will make you free. 698 00:40:40.140 --> 00:40:41.580 It shows you where we should be getting 699 00:40:41.580 --> 00:40:44.520 our information from, not News Nation. 700 00:40:44.520 --> 00:40:46.740 You guys, I had a hit on News Nation, 701 00:40:46.740 --> 00:40:48.980 meaning I was an expert. 702 00:40:48.980 --> 00:40:50.820 Let's all laugh at that for a second. 703 00:40:50.820 --> 00:40:53.940 I was the resident expert on love 704 00:40:53.940 --> 00:40:57.060 and I was on there last week. 705 00:41:00.580 --> 00:41:04.020 And as we continue to lean into God, 706 00:41:04.020 --> 00:41:07.380 we can all be experts on love because he is love. 707 00:41:07.380 --> 00:41:09.080 He doesn't just have it, he is it. 708 00:41:10.100 --> 00:41:13.580 And so I was the expert and I'm thankful 709 00:41:13.580 --> 00:41:15.780 to have that kind of influence 710 00:41:15.780 --> 00:41:19.140 and to be invited on a national news channel 711 00:41:19.140 --> 00:41:22.040 to talk about marriage recession. 712 00:41:22.040 --> 00:41:26.460 There was an article, a very pessimistic article, friends. 713 00:41:26.460 --> 00:41:30.040 I mean, it was just so unredeeming. 714 00:41:31.980 --> 00:41:35.140 It was kind of like the equivalent of nobody likes you, 715 00:41:35.140 --> 00:41:38.580 everybody hates you, you should go eat some worms. 716 00:41:38.580 --> 00:41:41.700 Like there wasn't anything in it that was causing any hope. 717 00:41:41.700 --> 00:41:44.980 Like all marriage has been declining since the 80s. 718 00:41:44.980 --> 00:41:47.540 Men and women, men aren't making money anymore. 719 00:41:47.540 --> 00:41:49.860 Women don't want them because they're gold diggers. 720 00:41:49.860 --> 00:41:51.320 I mean, it was bad. 721 00:41:53.080 --> 00:41:55.700 There's no hope for mankind. 722 00:41:55.700 --> 00:42:00.700 We're gonna all phase out by the year 2150. 723 00:42:02.620 --> 00:42:04.220 I didn't say that, but it was bad. 724 00:42:04.220 --> 00:42:06.020 It was bad like that. 725 00:42:06.020 --> 00:42:10.380 The tone of it was no hope. 726 00:42:10.380 --> 00:42:12.820 And so they decided to do a news piece on this article. 727 00:42:12.820 --> 00:42:13.640 Why? 728 00:42:13.640 --> 00:42:14.480 I have no idea. 729 00:42:14.480 --> 00:42:16.380 But I read the article the night before. 730 00:42:16.380 --> 00:42:19.580 I got some hopeful talking points to kind of rebut 731 00:42:19.580 --> 00:42:22.220 gently a few things in the article. 732 00:42:22.220 --> 00:42:24.900 But then when I hopped on with the reporter, 733 00:42:24.900 --> 00:42:26.700 she kind of went a different direction. 734 00:42:26.700 --> 00:42:28.140 And she was like, you know, 735 00:42:28.140 --> 00:42:29.820 basically like, what's wrong with men? 736 00:42:29.820 --> 00:42:30.900 And I was like, oh no, I mean, 737 00:42:30.900 --> 00:42:32.540 like now I don't know what to say 738 00:42:32.540 --> 00:42:34.820 because I wasn't ready for that. 739 00:42:34.820 --> 00:42:36.340 So I was like, I kind of like, 740 00:42:36.340 --> 00:42:37.660 I try to like make a joke 741 00:42:37.660 --> 00:42:39.740 because you guys know I'm always wanting to make a joke. 742 00:42:39.740 --> 00:42:41.200 And I don't think that it really, 743 00:42:41.200 --> 00:42:42.500 I don't think it landed right. 744 00:42:42.500 --> 00:42:44.980 I think people took it wrong and I don't know. 745 00:42:44.980 --> 00:42:46.680 But the end of the clip, 746 00:42:46.680 --> 00:42:50.020 it was like a three minute hit y'all, three minute hit. 747 00:42:50.020 --> 00:42:52.180 We had a three minute conversation, 748 00:42:52.180 --> 00:42:54.740 but they posted it on their YouTube, 749 00:42:55.580 --> 00:42:57.980 which I guess they don't post all the hits on their YouTube, 750 00:42:57.980 --> 00:42:59.780 but this one they thought would be great. 751 00:42:59.780 --> 00:43:01.020 They posted on their YouTube 752 00:43:01.020 --> 00:43:04.460 and the comment section was common for me. 753 00:43:04.460 --> 00:43:05.700 It was bad. 754 00:43:05.700 --> 00:43:07.500 And it was common for her. 755 00:43:07.500 --> 00:43:09.940 And it was mostly men that were super offended 756 00:43:09.940 --> 00:43:12.760 by what we had to say, right? 757 00:43:12.760 --> 00:43:15.180 Just super offended by what we had to say. 758 00:43:15.180 --> 00:43:19.080 And they were just like, one comment was like, 759 00:43:19.080 --> 00:43:20.860 yeah, the only thing wrong with, you know, 760 00:43:20.860 --> 00:43:22.660 blah, blah, blah are these two birds. 761 00:43:22.660 --> 00:43:23.780 They called us birds. 762 00:43:27.500 --> 00:43:29.420 In fact, I have to admit to you, 763 00:43:29.420 --> 00:43:31.500 I did not feel discouraged by the comment section, 764 00:43:31.500 --> 00:43:33.900 except I felt sad that so many people 765 00:43:33.900 --> 00:43:36.000 are hurting so much out there. 766 00:43:36.000 --> 00:43:38.940 But I was reading the comment section 767 00:43:38.940 --> 00:43:41.100 and I was really having a good laugh 768 00:43:41.100 --> 00:43:43.740 because there's some crazy stuff in there. 769 00:43:43.740 --> 00:43:46.700 I could have done a bit. 770 00:43:46.700 --> 00:43:47.640 I could have done a bit. 771 00:43:47.640 --> 00:43:49.160 I could have done a stand up bit 772 00:43:49.160 --> 00:43:51.060 on the comment section of that. 773 00:43:51.060 --> 00:43:52.860 But you guys, people are hurting. 774 00:43:54.620 --> 00:43:58.200 People have aligned themselves with all kinds of stuff. 775 00:43:59.880 --> 00:44:00.720 They have. 776 00:44:02.460 --> 00:44:06.380 And we have to understand that we 777 00:44:06.380 --> 00:44:07.940 have to be different than that. 778 00:44:09.940 --> 00:44:12.020 Just because someone says it doesn't make it true, 779 00:44:12.020 --> 00:44:12.840 write that down. 780 00:44:12.840 --> 00:44:15.220 Just because someone says it doesn't make it true. 781 00:44:16.220 --> 00:44:21.220 Also, just because you say it doesn't make it true, 782 00:44:22.300 --> 00:44:25.060 but if you continue to say it, you will make it true. 783 00:44:26.340 --> 00:44:27.880 For you. 784 00:44:27.880 --> 00:44:28.940 I'm gonna say that again. 785 00:44:28.940 --> 00:44:31.000 Just because you say it doesn't make it true, 786 00:44:31.000 --> 00:44:33.560 but if you continue to say it, 787 00:44:33.560 --> 00:44:35.220 it will make it true for you. 788 00:44:36.080 --> 00:44:37.280 It's not about what God can do. 789 00:44:37.280 --> 00:44:38.700 It's about what you believe he can do. 790 00:44:38.700 --> 00:44:40.660 It's not, you don't get what you, 791 00:44:46.220 --> 00:44:48.700 you get what you say, right? 792 00:44:48.700 --> 00:44:49.540 And why is that? 793 00:44:49.540 --> 00:44:51.060 I know we're all like, oh, we're gonna say it 794 00:44:51.060 --> 00:44:52.980 and then God's gonna curse us with it. 795 00:44:52.980 --> 00:44:54.900 You know, death and life are in the power of the tongue. 796 00:44:54.900 --> 00:44:57.420 And if you continue to say bad things, 797 00:44:57.420 --> 00:44:58.820 you know, they're gonna happen to you. 798 00:44:58.820 --> 00:44:59.660 No. 799 00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:04.440 That's not, yes, words do carry power. 800 00:45:04.440 --> 00:45:06.760 We could do a Supernatural Saturday on that. 801 00:45:06.760 --> 00:45:10.760 What it more is, is that the more that you are shaping 802 00:45:10.760 --> 00:45:15.000 your own life with your words is because it is your belief. 803 00:45:16.320 --> 00:45:17.720 Do you understand that? 804 00:45:18.640 --> 00:45:20.080 It's your belief. 805 00:45:22.440 --> 00:45:23.440 It's your belief. 806 00:45:23.440 --> 00:45:28.440 All right, so let's talk about some of these things. 807 00:45:30.760 --> 00:45:32.800 So that Helmet of Salvation of Sozo, 808 00:45:32.800 --> 00:45:34.240 we gotta have it on, y'all. 809 00:45:35.880 --> 00:45:37.100 We have to have it on. 810 00:45:39.040 --> 00:45:42.600 Every day, purposely, be like, 811 00:45:42.600 --> 00:45:44.280 hey, there's a lot of information out here. 812 00:45:44.280 --> 00:45:45.940 You guys, we live in an information age. 813 00:45:45.940 --> 00:45:47.000 Did you know that? 814 00:45:47.000 --> 00:45:48.900 There's a lot of information out here, 815 00:45:48.900 --> 00:45:53.900 and so I have to make sure that I have this protection on, 816 00:45:55.260 --> 00:45:57.300 protection, this guard on. 817 00:45:57.300 --> 00:45:59.140 Okay, so here's some things. 818 00:46:00.420 --> 00:46:02.540 Here's some steps to surrendering your thoughts to God. 819 00:46:02.540 --> 00:46:05.220 Number one, you gotta recognize. 820 00:46:05.220 --> 00:46:07.260 You gotta recognize those negative thoughts. 821 00:46:07.260 --> 00:46:09.180 You have to recognize those thoughts. 822 00:46:09.180 --> 00:46:11.180 It doesn't matter if they're coming from you 823 00:46:11.180 --> 00:46:14.020 or they are coming from some sort of spiritual attack 824 00:46:14.020 --> 00:46:16.060 on you, you have to recognize them 825 00:46:16.060 --> 00:46:18.340 as not your own and not God's. 826 00:46:19.260 --> 00:46:22.380 And when I say not your own, the redeemed version of you. 827 00:46:23.580 --> 00:46:26.300 You, the real you, like, oh, no, 828 00:46:26.300 --> 00:46:28.940 this thought does not belong to the redeemed version of me. 829 00:46:28.940 --> 00:46:30.540 This thought does not belong 830 00:46:30.540 --> 00:46:32.420 to the child of God version of me. 831 00:46:32.420 --> 00:46:35.820 And you guys remember, that's the version we wanna be. 832 00:46:35.820 --> 00:46:37.980 We're not gonna be victims, we're victors. 833 00:46:39.260 --> 00:46:42.380 Does that thought belong to the victim version of you? 834 00:46:42.380 --> 00:46:43.500 Then it's gotta go. 835 00:46:44.060 --> 00:46:46.780 So start recognizing those victim-based thoughts, 836 00:46:46.780 --> 00:46:48.340 those negative thoughts, 837 00:46:50.540 --> 00:46:51.980 those harmful thoughts. 838 00:46:52.980 --> 00:46:55.260 Identify them, you have to recognize them. 839 00:46:55.260 --> 00:46:56.620 And then what do you have to do? 840 00:46:56.620 --> 00:46:59.260 Come on, heartwork 101, you gotta replace them. 841 00:47:01.020 --> 00:47:02.060 You gotta replace them, you guys. 842 00:47:02.060 --> 00:47:03.580 As soon as you take inventory, 843 00:47:03.580 --> 00:47:05.620 because you're thinking about what you're thinking about. 844 00:47:05.620 --> 00:47:08.540 Do you guys know that that's what meditation is? 845 00:47:08.540 --> 00:47:10.740 Meditation is becoming very mindful. 846 00:47:10.740 --> 00:47:12.100 I know that we talk about meditation, 847 00:47:12.140 --> 00:47:13.140 but it's becoming very mindful. 848 00:47:13.140 --> 00:47:15.060 I know that we think this is a new age practice. 849 00:47:15.060 --> 00:47:17.460 This is a biblical practice. 850 00:47:17.460 --> 00:47:19.860 Are we living mindful lives? 851 00:47:19.860 --> 00:47:22.220 Or are we just going a million miles an hour 852 00:47:22.220 --> 00:47:23.420 down a dead end road? 853 00:47:25.980 --> 00:47:27.220 Slow down and think. 854 00:47:29.100 --> 00:47:30.580 Think purposely. 855 00:47:35.260 --> 00:47:38.740 We don't have to have a 90% unconscious thought life. 856 00:47:38.740 --> 00:47:40.260 We can have a conscious thought life. 857 00:47:40.260 --> 00:47:41.500 We can live consciously. 858 00:47:41.860 --> 00:47:43.300 Do you wanna live consciously? 859 00:47:45.340 --> 00:47:47.260 Yeah, you are gonna have some unconscious thoughts, 860 00:47:47.260 --> 00:47:48.100 but guess what? 861 00:47:48.100 --> 00:47:51.060 The more that you replace your conscious thoughts 862 00:47:51.060 --> 00:47:52.140 with God thoughts, 863 00:47:52.140 --> 00:47:54.980 the more your unconscious thoughts are gonna follow suit. 864 00:47:58.220 --> 00:47:59.220 So we're gonna replace them. 865 00:47:59.220 --> 00:48:00.620 Who are we gonna replace them with? 866 00:48:00.620 --> 00:48:02.820 We're gonna replace them with God's truth 867 00:48:03.980 --> 00:48:06.860 about us, about that situation. 868 00:48:06.860 --> 00:48:08.620 We're gonna replace them with hope. 869 00:48:09.620 --> 00:48:11.860 Here's the only scripture that you really need today 870 00:48:11.860 --> 00:48:14.220 for your replacing, Philippians 4.8. 871 00:48:15.820 --> 00:48:17.380 You guys know this scripture, right? 872 00:48:17.380 --> 00:48:19.940 It tells us exactly what to think about, doesn't it? 873 00:48:21.900 --> 00:48:24.500 Tells us exactly what to think about. 874 00:48:24.500 --> 00:48:26.500 If there's anything pure, if there's anything good, 875 00:48:26.500 --> 00:48:30.060 if there's anything holy, think about these things. 876 00:48:30.060 --> 00:48:31.860 If there's anything of good report, 877 00:48:31.860 --> 00:48:33.340 think about these things. 878 00:48:33.380 --> 00:48:34.980 It's not telling you, oh yeah, 879 00:48:34.980 --> 00:48:37.220 if you happen to think about something like that, 880 00:48:37.220 --> 00:48:38.580 or if something like that happens 881 00:48:38.580 --> 00:48:39.820 and causes you to think about it. 882 00:48:39.820 --> 00:48:44.300 No, it's telling you to actively, purposely think 883 00:48:44.300 --> 00:48:46.460 on these things. 884 00:48:49.100 --> 00:48:50.260 Think on these things. 885 00:48:54.140 --> 00:48:56.380 I told my daughter last night when I was texting her, 886 00:48:56.380 --> 00:48:59.140 I was like, I, you know, I was like, 887 00:48:59.140 --> 00:49:00.780 I'm gonna tell you something. 888 00:49:00.860 --> 00:49:04.140 I was like, I, you know, I was like, 889 00:49:04.140 --> 00:49:05.780 I had to come to a place where I realized 890 00:49:05.780 --> 00:49:07.660 that I wasn't thinking these thoughts. 891 00:49:07.660 --> 00:49:09.700 These thoughts were thinking themselves. 892 00:49:09.700 --> 00:49:11.020 She laughed at that. 893 00:49:14.020 --> 00:49:15.260 Those are not my thoughts. 894 00:49:15.260 --> 00:49:17.620 Those thoughts are thinking their own thoughts. 895 00:49:20.100 --> 00:49:22.140 And you guys, I will tell you, 896 00:49:23.300 --> 00:49:25.060 when I have those types of thoughts now, 897 00:49:25.060 --> 00:49:26.780 I literally tell them to shut up. 898 00:49:28.540 --> 00:49:30.540 When they come, I'm like, shut up. 899 00:49:31.300 --> 00:49:32.140 That's stupid. 900 00:49:32.140 --> 00:49:32.980 You're stupid. 901 00:49:32.980 --> 00:49:35.620 Not me, those thoughts, you're stupid. 902 00:49:35.620 --> 00:49:36.620 That's not true. 903 00:49:36.620 --> 00:49:38.420 I'll just say it right out loud. 904 00:49:38.420 --> 00:49:40.380 I could be in the middle of a crowd 905 00:49:40.380 --> 00:49:42.260 and I have some thought about something 906 00:49:42.260 --> 00:49:43.100 that's gonna happen. 907 00:49:43.100 --> 00:49:44.220 It's not discernment. 908 00:49:44.220 --> 00:49:46.980 It's not a premonition from the Lord, you know, whatever. 909 00:49:46.980 --> 00:49:51.860 And it's just a fearful, fear-based, unproductive thought 910 00:49:51.860 --> 00:49:53.260 that's come in my mind. 911 00:49:53.260 --> 00:49:54.100 We all get them. 912 00:49:54.100 --> 00:49:55.140 They're intrusive thoughts. 913 00:49:55.140 --> 00:49:57.580 They just barge in through the door. 914 00:49:57.580 --> 00:49:58.460 And you know what? 915 00:49:58.460 --> 00:49:59.620 I slammed the door in his face. 916 00:49:59.620 --> 00:50:00.460 I'm like, shh. 917 00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:02.680 Shut up, get out of here, you're stupid. 918 00:50:05.920 --> 00:50:08.000 You gotta do it, you guys. 919 00:50:08.000 --> 00:50:09.440 So what are we replacing our thoughts with? 920 00:50:09.440 --> 00:50:11.660 Philippians 4, 8, anything that's good. 921 00:50:11.660 --> 00:50:12.960 Anything that's lovely. 922 00:50:14.820 --> 00:50:16.360 Some of you need to start thinking about 923 00:50:16.360 --> 00:50:18.360 some amazing things happening to you 924 00:50:18.360 --> 00:50:21.160 instead of all kinds of worst case scenario things. 925 00:50:22.800 --> 00:50:27.240 Start thinking about some great things, purposely. 926 00:50:27.240 --> 00:50:28.600 It's gonna be hard at first 927 00:50:28.600 --> 00:50:31.120 because you're so used to thinking negatively. 928 00:50:31.120 --> 00:50:32.520 It's gonna be a real challenge for you, 929 00:50:32.520 --> 00:50:35.080 but it's gonna be great and it's gonna bear great fruit. 930 00:50:35.080 --> 00:50:37.880 All right, the next one, guard your mind. 931 00:50:39.760 --> 00:50:41.200 Put the guard at the door. 932 00:50:42.800 --> 00:50:46.920 Put the guard at the door, set up a guard. 933 00:50:48.100 --> 00:50:50.180 Right there in that same scripture in Philippians, 934 00:50:50.180 --> 00:50:51.800 right before it tells you what to think on, 935 00:50:51.800 --> 00:50:56.800 it talks about, and the peace of God, the shalom of God. 936 00:50:57.440 --> 00:51:00.680 By the way, that word means to devour chaos and confusion. 937 00:51:00.680 --> 00:51:04.040 The devourer of chaos and confusion. 938 00:51:04.040 --> 00:51:08.600 Let it guard your heart and your mind through Christ Jesus. 939 00:51:08.600 --> 00:51:10.320 It's telling us right there. 940 00:51:10.320 --> 00:51:12.840 Peace comes through Christ Jesus. 941 00:51:12.840 --> 00:51:13.960 You guys, we have to be dwelling 942 00:51:13.960 --> 00:51:16.180 on the finished work of the cross. 943 00:51:16.180 --> 00:51:17.560 It will guard our heart and mind 944 00:51:17.560 --> 00:51:20.440 when we realize that it's not about us, it's about him. 945 00:51:20.440 --> 00:51:21.560 It's not about our performance, 946 00:51:21.560 --> 00:51:23.440 it's about his performance on the cross. 947 00:51:23.440 --> 00:51:27.120 The only thing that you have actively done 948 00:51:27.120 --> 00:51:31.720 to participate in your salvation is sin. 949 00:51:35.400 --> 00:51:37.600 And then believe that there's a savior. 950 00:51:39.600 --> 00:51:41.440 That's it, friends. 951 00:51:41.440 --> 00:51:45.760 The thing that makes you qualified for salvation 952 00:51:45.760 --> 00:51:46.920 is that you're a sinner. 953 00:51:48.080 --> 00:51:50.460 That is the one thing that you actively contributed 954 00:51:50.460 --> 00:51:52.480 to your salvation plan was your sin. 955 00:51:54.280 --> 00:51:59.280 And now you have to believe that there's a savior 956 00:51:59.520 --> 00:52:01.120 that died for you and as you. 957 00:52:04.000 --> 00:52:05.360 That's how we stay in peace. 958 00:52:05.360 --> 00:52:07.000 That is where the shalom comes from. 959 00:52:07.000 --> 00:52:11.520 The shalom comes from him, from being in Christ, 960 00:52:11.520 --> 00:52:13.160 from understanding that it's about him. 961 00:52:13.160 --> 00:52:15.800 And anytime you ever have any thought that it's about you 962 00:52:15.800 --> 00:52:17.680 and that you didn't do what you should have done 963 00:52:17.680 --> 00:52:19.040 and now you're being punished, 964 00:52:19.040 --> 00:52:21.680 or you just don't really deserve anything good 965 00:52:21.680 --> 00:52:23.920 because you've lived a bad life 966 00:52:23.920 --> 00:52:25.280 and you've made mistakes, all that, 967 00:52:25.280 --> 00:52:27.480 you are outside of Christ right now, friend. 968 00:52:28.560 --> 00:52:29.920 You're outside of Christ. 969 00:52:30.820 --> 00:52:34.200 Those thoughts are in your flesh because of trauma 970 00:52:34.200 --> 00:52:36.200 and because of shame and guilt 971 00:52:36.200 --> 00:52:38.360 and they have demonic origin originally, 972 00:52:38.360 --> 00:52:40.200 but now remember, you're the co-counsel. 973 00:52:40.200 --> 00:52:43.040 Now you're the assistant prosecutor there. 974 00:52:43.040 --> 00:52:45.320 You've gotta come to your advocate. 975 00:52:45.320 --> 00:52:48.300 Where there's a prosecutor, there's also a witness. 976 00:52:48.300 --> 00:52:49.840 There's also a defense attorney 977 00:52:49.840 --> 00:52:52.800 and his name is Jesus Christ and he said, you're innocent. 978 00:52:53.920 --> 00:52:57.120 And God, the righteous judge said, so be it. 979 00:53:00.320 --> 00:53:03.000 It's done, y'all, it's over, it's finished. 980 00:53:03.000 --> 00:53:05.280 And all of our thoughts have to come into alignment with it 981 00:53:05.280 --> 00:53:07.300 and we have to force them to 982 00:53:07.300 --> 00:53:10.120 because in your flesh, there is no good thing, 983 00:53:10.120 --> 00:53:11.960 nothing, nothing good in you. 984 00:53:11.960 --> 00:53:14.480 Even the nicest, greatest people, y'all, 985 00:53:15.960 --> 00:53:17.280 even the nicest, greatest people 986 00:53:17.280 --> 00:53:19.920 are not going to be able to have their minds 987 00:53:19.920 --> 00:53:24.680 in perfect peace without them being set on Jesus. 988 00:53:26.000 --> 00:53:28.900 So set up the guard, set up the guard. 989 00:53:28.900 --> 00:53:29.740 How? 990 00:53:29.740 --> 00:53:31.880 The Bible says, don't be anxious. 991 00:53:31.880 --> 00:53:34.920 Don't be anxious, don't have fearful thoughts. 992 00:53:34.920 --> 00:53:36.840 Do not be anxious. 993 00:53:36.840 --> 00:53:37.680 What's it saying? 994 00:53:37.680 --> 00:53:39.840 So you mean I'm not just anxious, I'm being anxious? 995 00:53:39.840 --> 00:53:43.160 Yeah, you're coming to agreement with anxiety. 996 00:53:43.160 --> 00:53:45.400 The Bible says in every situation, you guys, 997 00:53:45.400 --> 00:53:50.160 it says every situation, by prayer and petition, 998 00:53:50.160 --> 00:53:53.640 with thanksgiving, present your request to God. 999 00:53:53.640 --> 00:53:54.840 And then that's it. 1000 00:53:54.840 --> 00:53:56.840 That's your Jesus Cares Board right there, 1001 00:53:56.840 --> 00:53:58.440 phase one students. 1002 00:53:58.440 --> 00:54:01.520 And phase two and three, you should be using them too. 1003 00:54:01.520 --> 00:54:05.360 Do not be anxious, do not be fearful. 1004 00:54:05.360 --> 00:54:06.200 Why? 1005 00:54:06.200 --> 00:54:08.200 Because you're gonna bring every situation. 1006 00:54:08.200 --> 00:54:09.040 How? 1007 00:54:09.040 --> 00:54:09.880 By prayer and petition. 1008 00:54:09.880 --> 00:54:12.080 Let me just give you a little cheat sheet 1009 00:54:12.080 --> 00:54:13.520 for prayer and petition. 1010 00:54:13.560 --> 00:54:15.600 Prayer is God's benevolence. 1011 00:54:15.600 --> 00:54:17.640 You're coming boldly to the throne of grace 1012 00:54:17.640 --> 00:54:19.240 because you know he is a good daddy 1013 00:54:19.240 --> 00:54:21.120 and he's just gonna take care of you. 1014 00:54:21.120 --> 00:54:23.840 And petition is, you know that God 1015 00:54:23.840 --> 00:54:25.640 is the only God in the universe 1016 00:54:25.640 --> 00:54:27.640 and he's the one that carries authority. 1017 00:54:28.840 --> 00:54:30.920 Petition is when you simply need God 1018 00:54:30.920 --> 00:54:33.680 to enact his authority in a situation. 1019 00:54:33.680 --> 00:54:36.280 Remember Matthew 8, the centurion that came? 1020 00:54:36.280 --> 00:54:38.480 He's like, no, Jesus, I don't need you to come to my house 1021 00:54:38.480 --> 00:54:40.800 because I am a man who's under authority 1022 00:54:40.800 --> 00:54:43.040 and I can recognize a man who's under authority. 1023 00:54:43.520 --> 00:54:47.400 Jesus, I can recognize a man who's under authority. 1024 00:54:47.400 --> 00:54:48.640 You feel the Holy Spirit? 1025 00:54:52.640 --> 00:54:56.720 You don't need to do anything except say the word. 1026 00:54:56.720 --> 00:54:58.240 And because of your authority 1027 00:54:58.240 --> 00:55:00.640 and the authority that you're under, it will be. 1028 00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:07.360 done. It will be done. So that's the difference between prayer and petition. Prayer is that 1029 00:55:07.360 --> 00:55:13.520 beautiful relationship that you have with your benevolent father from whom all good and perfect 1030 00:55:13.520 --> 00:55:21.920 gifts come from. That is your time of snuggle up time with daddy and petitions are legally this is 1031 00:55:21.920 --> 00:55:27.360 my right as a child of God because of the finished work of the cross and God said so so let it be 1032 00:55:27.360 --> 00:55:34.960 done. Come on y'all. Do not be anxious but in every situation by prayer and petition with 1033 00:55:34.960 --> 00:55:45.840 thanksgiving percent your request to God. Done. This is the guard y'all. This is the guard. 1034 00:55:48.160 --> 00:55:51.680 So we're going to recognize those thoughts. We're going to replace those thoughts. We're going to 1035 00:55:51.680 --> 00:55:56.720 put the guard at our mind. We're going to pray daily with an open heart. That's that teach me 1036 00:55:56.720 --> 00:56:01.680 show me heal me grow me sometimes you guys and there's a whole war against the prophetic right 1037 00:56:01.680 --> 00:56:06.960 now and that's why I'm so glad that we have the the authentic prophetic and we are part of 1038 00:56:06.960 --> 00:56:11.840 authentic prophetic communities because the enemy is after the prophetic and I want to remind you 1039 00:56:11.840 --> 00:56:16.960 guys and I might do supernatural Saturday on this next week but Paul said out of all the spiritual 1040 00:56:16.960 --> 00:56:21.680 gifts that you should desire and you should covet to have them because they are for the edification 1041 00:56:21.680 --> 00:56:27.920 encouragement exhortation and maturity of the body. We need them. We have to have them but out 1042 00:56:27.920 --> 00:56:37.040 of all of the gifts you should desire most of all to prophesy. You should desire most of all to prophesy 1043 00:56:39.760 --> 00:56:44.000 and so when we're praying with an open heart and allowing God to remove things a lot of times 1044 00:56:44.000 --> 00:56:47.280 it will come in the form of some sort of prophetic word of knowledge or wisdom 1045 00:56:48.240 --> 00:56:54.160 whether it's to us or it's through someone else to us remember when God sent the prophet Nathan 1046 00:56:54.160 --> 00:56:59.280 to David to say you're the man and what did that turn into that turned into a time of beautiful 1047 00:56:59.280 --> 00:57:05.840 repentance for David created me Lord a clean heart renew a right standing spirit in me 1048 00:57:07.680 --> 00:57:13.360 remove this guilt and shame from me guys when he was praying there because it was before the 1049 00:57:13.360 --> 00:57:18.960 finished work of the cross was finished work of the cross kinds of prayers because David was able 1050 00:57:18.960 --> 00:57:23.600 to step into a different dispensation we can't get into that but it was because that's why God 1051 00:57:23.600 --> 00:57:30.640 called him a man after his own heart because David really believed in God's goodness he had faith 1052 00:57:30.640 --> 00:57:35.600 because what the Bible says if you don't have faith surround yourself with faith because the 1053 00:57:35.600 --> 00:57:40.560 Bible says that it comes by what faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God 1054 00:57:41.440 --> 00:57:46.160 your faith is low you can get your tank filled you got to surround yourself with people that are 1055 00:57:46.160 --> 00:57:55.120 speaking the word of God that's why community is so important but back to David he said remove this 1056 00:57:55.120 --> 00:57:59.520 blood guiltness from me you guys all know what he did he killed Uriah all the stuff committed 1057 00:57:59.520 --> 00:58:05.360 adultery all the things but he would have carried that for the rest of his life in a shroud of shame 1058 00:58:05.840 --> 00:58:11.280 on him because remember it's before the finished work of the cross but he's saying creating me a 1059 00:58:11.280 --> 00:58:16.240 clean heart renew a right standing that's that that word a righteous spirit right standing 1060 00:58:16.240 --> 00:58:22.560 spirit you guys that is actually foreshadowing Jesus and his righteousness that incredible 1061 00:58:24.720 --> 00:58:29.040 we got to trust God you guys that's the other thing that we do when we're taking our thoughts 1062 00:58:29.040 --> 00:58:34.320 captive we're trusting in God's kind of timing and I say that loosely because I don't want you 1063 00:58:34.320 --> 00:58:38.640 to think that there's waiting rooms in the kingdom because there's not but God is working 1064 00:58:38.640 --> 00:58:47.360 all things together weaving like a tapestry rust that process please trust that process 1065 00:58:48.720 --> 00:58:53.520 and we can experience freedom joy and peace y'all we have to align our thoughts with God's truth 1066 00:58:54.320 --> 00:58:58.480 and this will transform our minds all right I have a whole bunch more but we're out of time 1067 00:58:58.480 --> 00:59:03.280 father God we thank you for your goodness today if we even get even a little bit of what you're 1068 00:59:03.280 --> 00:59:09.600 telling us today I know that it would cause us to be abundant and so Lord let the seed take root 1069 00:59:10.240 --> 00:59:17.120 let it bear fruit and quickly let that fruit accelerate in Jesus name amen don't forget 1070 00:59:17.120 --> 00:59:22.000 friends we do activate on Sunday nights and so come back I'll give candy some of these notes 1071 00:59:22.000 --> 00:59:25.840 maybe you guys can go into some of this other stuff this is an important thing if you feel 1072 00:59:25.840 --> 00:59:29.680 like you've been struggling in your thought life I want you to take a minute today and say hey 1073 00:59:30.240 --> 00:59:36.640 I want to align my thoughts with the spirit and not with my flesh and obviously not with a demonic 1074 00:59:36.640 --> 00:59:41.360 let me think about what I'm thinking about let me see where these thoughts are coming from 1075 00:59:41.360 --> 00:59:45.360 and let me replace them with truth I'll see you soon friends love you goodbye