Hey, everyone, welcome to Supernatural Saturday.
If you are new, which we do have some new members of our community, welcome.
We're so glad you're here.
And this is the day that we gather as a community and we look to the Lord.
What is God saying?
What is the current prophetic reality?
What are the messages and directives for our lives individually and corporately?
And that is what we do on Saturdays.
You guys, I have a couple thoughts.
They're not all cohesive, but we're going to see where it goes.
Okay.
First of all, I posted on my Instagram, just, you know, you know me, I like to be a cheeky
monkey.
And so I posted something that was purposeful to cause a little, a little conflict, not
a lot, just a little baby conflict.
Okay.
And so I said something like, when people say to you, maybe it's God's desire for you
to stay single forever, you can say back to them, maybe it's God's desire for you to mind
your business.
Okay.
I put that, but I really should have put, maybe it's God's desire for you to read your
Bible because the Bible doesn't say nothing like that.
Okay.
And so I posted that little quote by a little me, Jackie D and, you know, for the most part,
because of the people that follow me on Instagram, it's favorable comments like, yeah, yeah,
right on, right on.
And then someone posted something about, well, you know, the Bible does talk a lot about
singleness.
What?
No, it doesn't.
And you guys, this is the problem.
A lot of people don't actually read their Bible.
Okay.
They just let someone else read their Bible and tell them about the Bible.
And that's a problem.
And so I want all of you to decide today that you're going to read your Bible.
You're not just going to show up every week on Sunday and listen to someone else talk
about what they saw when they read their Bible.
This is how rumors get started.
It's how rumors get started.
And this poor gentleman in my comment feed, no shade at him, because a lot of people do
think that.
I hear people say that all the time.
Well, you know, God talks a lot about being single in the Bible.
You know, there's a big emphasis put on singleness.
No, there's not.
In fact, there's only two scriptures that actually juxtaposition marriage and singleness
that actually talk about singleness versus marriage.
Two.
One, two.
That's it.
And one of them is about Paul and his own life in 1 Corinthians 7, okay, his own gift,
his own assignment, his own calling.
And we'll talk about that in a second.
And the other one is Jesus in Matthew 19 talking to his disciples about the law of
Moses concerning marriage.
And these guys were like, hmm, that sounds hard.
I think we're just going to stay single.
And Jesus went on to say to them, hey, single's not necessarily better.
You think it sounds easier to be single, but if you don't have the grace to be single,
it ain't going to be easy.
And you guys, that same word that Jesus uses there, grace, charisma in that scripture,
it's the same scripture that's used over in 1 Corinthians 7 by Paul.
He's saying, I have the grace to be single.
I have it.
You guys, God did not choose singleness for Paul.
Paul chose singleness and God gave him the grace to live a life of abstinence and celibacy.
Can we just consider Paul's life for a second?
I think it's important to keep everything in context.
Paul was a Pharisee of the Pharisees, meaning he was a religious leader of leaders.
He was persecuting Christians.
Jesus turned him around, called him, appeared to him.
He had the road to Damascus conversion, serious stuff, life-changing transformation.
And he was called to take all of his, you know, persecution towards the Christians
and now turn it around and be what a discipler, right?
A church planter, to be an apostle.
So then he sets off to do that, but he has nothing but persecution.
This dude shipwrecks, snake bites, you know, imprisonment after imprisonment after imprisonment.
Let's think to ourselves what it would be like to be Paul's wife, to be Paul's children.
That would really suck, wouldn't it?
Never know where this dude is.
There's no cell phones back there.
He's on some shipwreck.
He's in some place.
He's in prison for six months and let out and then goes over here and
gets imprisoned again, by the way, that's what the thorn in the flesh
was in case you didn't know.
Everywhere that Paul went immediately, someone stirred up strife against him.
Immediately.
There was someone that came and stirred up strife against Paul.
Everywhere he went, he couldn't go anywhere without people causing
trouble for him immediately.
The messenger of Satan said to Buffett, me, it's really important.
You guys, that we, that we understand what the Bible's talking about.
If God allowed you free will enough to make the choice of whether or not you
would choose him in this life and allow him to be your savior, allow Jesus to
be your savior, you think that he's going to take the choice of whether or
not you're going to be married or have a family away from you?
Does that make any sense?
Because of Paul's calling, it made sense for him to live a life of celibacy.
It made a life, it made sense for him.
He had a different maturity plan called shipwrecks and
snake bites and imprisonments.
But I want you to recognize that Paul says himself to the Corinthians, by the way,
the reason why they would get in a letter from Paul in the first place was because
they were arguing about how now that they've received Christ, you know, they
had to be holy and the married folk were not having sex with their spouses anymore.
Okay.
They basically were sending the signal that it's holier to not be married, even
though I'm married already, it's holier to be celibate.
That was the message that they were sending.
And Paul sent a different message.
He said, Hey, that's me.
I'm celibate.
Okay.
I'm not celibate.
Okay.
I'm abstinent because I have a charisma or grace from heaven to be this.
And I wish all of you had it.
Why?
Because then you wouldn't be arguing about this.
This wouldn't be going on.
I wouldn't have to send you this letter.
If all of you had the same grace that I have, but because you don't
have it, you should get married.
How this turned into the scriptures about the gift of singleness.
I'll never know because it doesn't say that at all.
The word charisma there is an empowerment and endowment from on high.
Okay.
It's not a gift.
It is the grace to do something.
Not like a spiritual gift.
Like we see in Galatians.
That's not what it is.
And so it's important that you understand that because a lot of you, if you got
that gift of singleness and your little swag bag from Jesus, when you got saved,
you might be trying to refund that gift or re-gift that gift.
So it's important that we understand what's really happening in the Bible.
All right.
And then Jesus uses that same word charisma in Matthew 19, when he's
talking to his disciples about, Hey, you think that being single sounds
easier than Moses's rules on marriage, but it's not easier if
you don't have the grace for it.
And then he goes on to say that singleness is thrust upon some people.
He's talking about eunuchs.
He's talking about people that are imprisoned, persecuted.
You know, they didn't want to be single, but it was thrust
upon them by the circumstances.
Right.
And then there are some people that are born single, like they're born celibate.
Like with a call on their life, a specific call.
And you guys, I don't know if you even know any of those people.
Most likely the people that you know that are single are more likely
single because they're afraid of others.
They haven't done their hard work, not able to let others in.
They've decided that it's easier to stay solo than it is to do what would need to
be done in order to trust another human being to that level.
That's more likely what's happening.
All right.
So I just wanted to address that really quickly, if that was okay with you guys.
Right.
It's really important that we understand that.
And there are a couple other places that I want to go today.
Because I really feel like God's drawing us there.
And so the second place that I want to go is to Psalm 16.
So if you want to go ahead and get that, go to Psalm 16.
that and have a little bit of a Bible study today.
Apparently, grab Psalm 16.
I'm just grabbing my psalm.
I'm walking all through my house, you guys, today.
For those of you that are joining us for
the first time for Supernatural Saturday,
it's usually not like this.
It's usually just like me on
a rant of something from Holy Spirit.
But today, we're just going to take it a little
slower if that's okay with everyone
because I feel like there's
some important things that we need to get done today.
So go to Psalm 16 if you can on your phone,
if you have a Bible, go there.
I was just kidding.
All right. I'm going to read it.
I'm going to read it. Guys,
don't get theological on me.
Translations of the Bible,
interpretations of the Bible.
If you don't love the Passion Translation, that's fine.
You can go read it in the NIV,
the King James, you can read it in the Amplified.
But there's some language specifically in
here that I really want you to get a hold of,
and so that's why I'm going to read it from here.
I don't study the Word of God from the Passion Translation.
But because it's poetry, specifically Psalms,
I think that it's beautiful the way that Brian Simmons put it,
or translated it, interpreted it in the Passion Translation.
So here we go. Ready?
Keep me safe, Almighty God.
I run for dear life to you, my safe place.
So I said to the Lord,
you are my maker, my mediator, and my master.
Any good thing you find in me has come from you.
He said to me, my holy lovers are wonderful,
my majestic ones, my glorious ones,
fulfilling all my desires.
Yet there are those who yield to
their weakness and they will have troubles and sorrows unending.
I never gather with such ones,
nor give them honor in any way.
Lord, I have chosen you alone as my inheritance.
You are my prize, my pleasure, and my portion.
I leave my destiny and its timing in your hands.
Your pleasant path leads me to pleasant places.
I'm overwhelmed by the privileges that come with following you,
for you have given me the best.
The way you counsel and correct me makes me praise you more.
For your whispers in the night give me wisdom,
showing me what to do next.
Because you are close to me and always available,
my confidence will never be shaken.
For I experience your wraparound presence every moment.
My heart and soul explode with joy, full of glory.
Even my body will rest confident and secure.
For you will not abandon me to the realm of death,
nor will you allow your holy one to experience corruption.
For you bring me a continual revelation of resurrection life,
and the path to bliss that brings me face-to-face with you.
Guys, I want to speak some of this over you and over myself.
Lord, you're my inheritance.
You are my prize.
You are my pleasure.
You are my portion.
Your pleasant path leads me to pleasant places.
Remember that banner scripture over this movement, Jeremiah 6.16?
The ancient of days has ancient ways.
And if we ask him to take our feet off the path of pain
and place them back on his good path,
ask him where the good path is, that leads back to him.
He will put our feet on that path so that our peace can increase.
Doesn't that remind you of that scripture?
Your pleasant path leads me to pleasant places.
I'm overwhelmed by the privileges that come with following you.
Some of you, some of you don't know the benefits of membership.
You know how you get a credit card in the mail
and then it gives you this big, long explanation of the benefits
of being a member of that credit union, of that credit card?
Who reads that?
It's a bunch of small print.
But I will tell you that.
You gave your life to Jesus.
It came with a lot of small print, good stuff, good stuff that you have access to.
I just recently found out that the credit card of choice that I chose for travel
and different things that allows me discounts on rental cars, it gives me
extra liability and collision insurance.
When I rent rental cars with it, it gives me discounts and special
upgrades at different hotels.
You guys, I had to read the print.
I had to read it here.
I was walking around with this card in my pocket for years, not
knowing what it gave me access to.
Do you know what being a child of God gives you access to?
Do you see that David says you will not allow your holy one to experience corruption?
Is he talking about Jesus?
No, he's talking about himself.
He's saying, I'm your holy one.
And we all know that David was not a perfect person.
I'm your holy one.
You guys don't ever worry about stealing glory from God because you are his glory.
The Bible says the glory of the father are his children.
We are his glory.
When we sign, we make his name great in the earth.
And so there's all kinds of resources that you have access to that you're not using.
Look at that right there.
I'm overwhelmed by the privileges that come with following you for
you have given me the best.
This needs to make it on your affirmation board every morning.
God, give me the grace to fully follow you because life with you is full of
privileges because you have given me your best.
Speak it over yourself, guys.
It does not do this world any good for you to play small because if you do not
have access to the resources that you have access to through following Jesus,
then no one else is going to have any resources either because you are the
lender and not the borrower.
You are the conduit of heaven.
You.
Okay.
The way you counsel and correct me makes me praise you more for your whispers in
the night, give me wisdom, showing me what to do next.
Have a little talk with Jesus in the nighttime and everything's quiet and
your mind's not racing from everything you got to do during the day and see
what kind of clarity people are like, man, God always talks to me in the shower.
You want to know why?
Because in the shower, you're doing something that takes absolutely no
thoughts, you're not using your frontal cortex of your brain at all in the shower.
You're doing something repetitive that you've done thousands and thousands of
times, hopefully, hopefully, hopefully you've taken thousands of showers in your
life.
So that means that the rest of your brain, the learning part of your brain is open
and ready to receive.
That's what's going on right then.
And you guys in the nighttime, you're open and you're ready to receive a lot.
So in the nighttime, especially you give me wisdom on what to do next, showing me
what to do next.
This is one of my favorite scriptures here, because you are close to me and
always available.
You are always available.
My confidence will never be shaken for I experienced your wraparound presence
every moment, always available.
You guys, he's always available.
He's never busy.
I know people who won't even pray for things for themselves.
Just recently I ran into a friend of mine.
She's an older lady and she had a, I call it an Oscar Meyer, Oscar Meyer
wiener bun on her legs.
She had one of those like wraparound castings.
And I said, Hey, what happened?
And she said, Oh, I fell and hurt myself.
And I had surgery and I'm like, Oh, I'm so sorry.
I said, are you healing good?
And she said, no, actually, you know, it's not healing, right.
And I'm going to have to have another surgery.
And this person's a believer.
And I said to her, Oh, okay, well, we'll pray.
I will be praying that that surgery goes, you know, really well and that whatever
is wrong is fixed this time around.
And she goes, Oh no, no, no, no, no.
Don't worry God with that.
I'll be fine.
What?
First of all, y'all, I'm going to tell you something.
First of all, y'all, God ain't worried.
Okay.
God doesn't have any problems, including your leg.
And so it's important that we understand that.
But a lot of people, they were, you know, they were raised in a religious
mindset that you don't trouble God with your little problems.
God's got.
a bigger problems to solve in the world.
He's got bigger problems to solve
than your little old life.
And so they don't know how to come to God
with every care and every worry.
But my Bible says that you should cast all your care
on the Lord who cares for you.
And that's why we have Jesus Care Sports.
And if you're new here,
you're gonna find out about that in phase one.
That's why you have it.
Because God wants you to come to him
with everything that concerns you, everything.
In fact, there's another scripture that commands you
to not be full of care,
to not be full of worry or anxiety,
but with supplication and prayer,
make your needs known to God.
Amen.
You guys, the reason why I feel like the Lord wanted me
to read this scripture,
I heard the scripture read aloud last night,
and I felt led to read it aloud over y'all today
because he wants to remind you that he's always available.
He's always available.
A lot of you had parents that were not always available.
You might've had a single mom that worked a lot
and she wasn't available.
You might've had a dad that wasn't emotionally available,
wasn't physically available.
Maybe they weren't even alive.
Maybe they abandoned the family.
Your parents got divorced.
A lot of you are not used to
and were not raised with caretakers
that were available to you.
And you definitely shouldn't bother them
unless you had a problem that was like an emergency.
And so we project that same type of thought
onto Father God, even though it's not true.
You guys, God is not a person.
He doesn't have limited bandwidth.
I want you to write that down.
God does not have limited bandwidth.
Humans have limited bandwidth.
God does not.
He is always available.
He is always ready.
The Bible says that his hand is not shortened,
that it cannot save.
His ear is not heavy, that it cannot hear.
He's omniscient.
He's omnipotent, meaning he's everywhere.
He's in all things.
He's in you and he's around you.
You are in him.
You cannot be removed from his presence.
Remember the other psalm where David's saying,
I can't go anywhere to escape your presence.
And that's what it says here too.
For I experienced your wraparound presence every moment.
Every moment.
God is with us.
He is in us.
He is around us.
And so in the words of one of my favorite songs,
that means that whatever you think has you surrounded
is surrounded by God.
It may look like I'm surrounded,
but I'm surrounded by you.
Amen.
God's just trying to get a hold of our hearts this morning
to let us know that he's here, that he's available,
but he's also willing.
You guys, he's willing.
You don't have to try to make God willing.
He's willing.
He wants good things for you
more than you want good things for yourself.
Think about the person that loves you the most
on the earth,
the person that claps when you win,
the person that's always cheering you on,
the person who's always praying for you, encouraging you.
Think about how much they want good things for you
because they probably want good things for you
more than you even want them
or more than you even think you deserve them.
Think about who that person is.
If you don't have that person, I'm that person for you.
And then remember that God
trumps that person by a gazillion percent
as far as his good plans and good purposes
and good thoughts and good intentions towards you.
And what's more important is that he's not a human.
So if we allow him his good intentions,
his good thoughts and his good plans
actually can come to pass.
He's not just encouraging us, right?
He created us for good things.
And he wants to connect us to those good things.
He will not abandon us.
He will not allow us to see corruption.
He will bring continual revelation and resurrection life.
Think of something in your life that's dead right now
that you'd love to see resurrected and put it in the chat.
Something in your life,
sick and dying, or it's already seems dead,
meaning that it's bearing no fruit anymore in your life
and you would like to see it resurrected.
Whether it's a relationship,
whether it's a family member or a family situation,
whether it's your.
finances, whether it's your own health,
doesn't matter what it is.
Let's see it.
Come on.
We're headed into a season of resurrection.
Today's the first day of March.
Spring is on its way, you guys.
New life is on its way.
Look at all those things.
I want you to grab someone else's,
and I want you to speak it out.
I want you to say, like, for instance,
I speak resurrection life.
I come into agreement with God for resurrection life
over Gwen's love life, over her spirit mate,
over her love story.
Just go ahead and do that real quick.
Everybody, go ahead.
We're not gonna have you guys on mute.
It doesn't matter.
You're speaking it out loud.
You're declaring it.
God hears you.
Just wanna continue on with some other things,
but I want us to do this, so go ahead and do it.
And I'll just call on a few people to do it out loud.
So Kim Williams, you grab someone's, not your own,
and you go ahead and come into agreement with God
and speak some resurrection.
You have to unmute, though.
While Kim's figuring out how to unmute herself,
you just take the microphone off of the red.
Carrie, let's have you do it.
Carrie in the red sweatshirt.
Carrie, that's all you have to do.
Grab someone's dead thing.
I speak out Angela's promises to God for herself.
All right, we speak resurrection life over here.
Angela's promises.
God, you know what they are.
Angela knows what they are.
And we speak that they come out of dormancy
and they begin to show signs of life and life abundant.
Thank you.
Thank you, Carrie.
All right, let's see.
Let's do Dinah.
Dinah Jane, grab someone's.
All right.
Lord, I speak resurrection life over Anya's health
and her desire to improve that health
and the discipline to get there.
And Lord, I speak resurrection life over her desire
and gift of songwriting, Lord,
that you would give her fresh ideas
and just fill her up in that capacity.
Amen.
The rest of you should just be doing it
in your own house without unmuting.
But for those of you that your lips are moving,
and I know that you're activating and doing this,
I'm gonna call on you to say it out loud with us.
But everyone should be doing it.
Let's let no one's posts get unactivated.
Let's activate all of them.
Scroll through, take people's posts and speak them out loud.
Resurrection life to this thing, to that thing.
Ruth, what do you got?
I speak resurrection life over Dinah's dreams
and her passion for something
and command the area for life to be resurrected
and flourish in the name of Jesus.
Amen.
We agree.
Thank you, Lord.
Amen.
Is it Jaqua, is it Jackie, is it Stuart, Peoria?
How do I say it?
It's Jaquoy.
Jaquoy.
I resurrect my ability to sound things out in Jesus' name.
Okay, go ahead.
What do you got?
I'm looking, I'm trying to look, sorry.
I just speak over, I'm gonna do Joanne,
of her love life and trust
and the process that God has a plan for her love life.
Laura, I just speak life into her
and her love life in Jesus' name, amen.
Amen.
Kim, did you figure out how to unmute?
Yeah, sorry, it wouldn't let me do it
because I wasn't signed in.
Okay, go ahead.
I speak resurrection life.
Over Jane Elizabeth's resurrection over her career her job unemployment in her situation
And blessing over her new dating relationship
Yes, amen
Amen, thank you God
Yes, I just speak resurrection life over the family plans of the men and women on this call
They had plans for children Lord. You gave them a desire for family. It's hardwired intel
Us all you ever wanted was a family and so we know we don't have to convince you
Because it was your plan. And so I speak
Resurrection life over the family plans of your sons and daughters in this movement
They will become mothers and fathers father. We thank you that you will fulfill that desire
from your
riches in glory
From your resources from your ideas and from their wombs in
Jesus name
Guys God gave us a crazy word that we were gonna see geriatric
Pregnancies in this movement like people even over 50 years old people that had even probably already gone through the change of life
Having natural-born children now does that for everyone probably not but we definitely will see that happen to somebody
So if you have faith for that I would grab a hold of it and then also
There's lots of ways for God to fulfill your desire to be a parent. In fact, you know what?
I'm gonna get up on a little soapbox here. I
Highlighted an amazing man. He said yes to coming on my podcast and I his full episode is not released yet
He was a street kid in Uganda when he was young
Living on the streets you guys homeless little child in Uganda and someone brought him in a man
Fostered him essentially brought him into his home and changed his life and now he's an American citizen
He moved to America a long time ago, and he thought he'd be married by the time he was 30
But he wasn't and he decided that he was not gonna wait to fulfill his desire to help children until he found a partner
So he jumped into fostering and so now he's fostered over 40 children and he's adopted. I think he's on its fifth adoption
Guys this is a black man from Uganda. These children are all different colors
I'm sure that when he's out and about with this, you know little white baby girl and you know
These other kids are all different races people are like what in the world going on here
But this man has done what a lot of people can't do. He has broken through race lines
He has broken through traditional idea lines of oh, hey, you can't foster unless you're married
I mean he has gone after what God has put in his heart and he is amazing. He's funny. He's kind. He's cute and
I highlighted him and spotlighted him and asked him what he wanted in a partner and tried to matchmake him
I told everyone over, you know, almost 16,000 people or more that follow me on Instagram. Not one person asked about him
So for all the people out there they're like, oh I want kids I want a family
I want a husband that wants children. I call your bluff
This is a good man a handsome man a financially stable man a kind man a godly man
He's not old. He's only 50 years old and guess what crickets
Because people don't want that
It's like oh, I'm not signing up for that life
All right, then
All right, then, you know
So I'm not saying you don't need a grace for that life
all I'm saying is that people want to build their own life and
Have life the way they want it and then they want God to just put another person in their life
To live the life that they've built in the life that they want
That's what they're doing
That's what they're out there doing guys. I counseled a couple yesterday that have been together for a year
They were thinking about getting engaged and then they decided instead to break up
But they wanted to have a counseling session and we had a counseling session, but they're coaching. I should say coaching
I'm not a counselor. We had a coaching session and before the coaching session. I just simply prayed and said to the Lord
Are these two a match?
Are they a match
And you know what he said back to me
If they want to be if they choose to be if they decide to be
You're like whoa, whoa, wait, wait, that's not how it works. Yes, it is. That's exactly how it works
And you know what? I told them right out the gate when we started the session
I said look I told them that what God had said and then I told them this I said no matter who you partner with
In the year 2025, there's going to be a set of problems that come with that person.
Choose your heart.
You might find someone who's never been married, doesn't have any kids,
but because of that, they got some selfish ways, right?
All they've ever had to do is take care of themselves.
Maybe they have a hard job or a hard calling or something else.
Choose your heart.
You might choose someone who's been divorced and they have a
baby mama or daddy to deal with and they have blended family.
They have children.
Choose your heart.
It's going to be hard no matter what.
Someone who's come from a hard family,
someone who has a medical disability of some sort, doesn't matter, you guys.
There's going to be something to overcome in relationship with no matter who you choose.
And so if you decide to choose this person, you will have the grace
to be able to navigate those problems together.
You'll have the grace.
You will.
God gave me the grace to be a blended mom after I chose to be one.
He didn't give me the grace to be a blended mom before I chose to be one.
I don't need grace to do something that I haven't chosen to do.
And that's what a lot of you are waiting for.
You're like, well, if this was God, it would just be easier.
Where does the Bible say that?
Give me one story, even one story of someone following after the call of God on their life
that was just like, man, this is so dang easy.
Wow.
You know, no problems here.
No problems here.
You guys, they had much worse problems than us.
Just read the stories.
I'm glad to live in the year 2025 when there's not giants in the land and there's not,
you know, surrounding armies of just people that are expendable,
just trying to take you out because, you know, they want the well that's in your courtyard.
You know, crazy, weird stuff.
I'm good.
I'm glad.
Have you ever just for one moment, for those of you that are in America,
and I don't think that we have anyone here in a underdeveloped country in our program.
We're all in, you know, developed countries, industrialized countries.
But have you ever just taken a moment to be so thankful that you live here
and what you have access to?
You guys, we had an Arctic blast, meaning that it got to 20 degrees in Texas.
Oh, so cold.
But our pipes are all above ground because these Texans never thought
that the snow would find them.
You know, they're on the weather.
What's it called?
When you get put on relocation.
Oh, they're on the weather protection plan, you know, like the witness protection plan.
They're on the weather protection plan here in Texas.
They think that the weather can't find them, right?
They're hidden here.
But it's not true because every year that we've lived here, it has snowed.
And it's just like, they're like, we never get snow.
And I'm like, well, it must be us then because we brought it from Ohio.
But the bottom line is, is that my pipes froze because they're above ground.
And I didn't have water for a whole day.
A whole day, you guys.
And I kept forgetting that I didn't have water.
And I went over and I turned on the faucet and there was no water.
And I'm like, what am I going to do?
And I just stopped in that moment.
I'm like, what in the world do people do that don't have water?
You know, and it's funny, but it's not funny.
Because we have all of these conveniences that we do not appreciate.
You know, that we do not appreciate at all.
Guys, I got the opportunity to go to Italy.
First time out of the country.
I got a chance to go to Italy for my first time out of the country.
Wow, amazing.
But let me tell you, these Italians, they do not care about how hard and uncomfortable
their mattresses are.
Jesus, help us all.
All right.
Us Americans are like the princess and the pea.
We need like 50 mattress toppers.
We need like memory foam.
I don't know about you guys, but I sleep with like six pillows.
One night, you guys, one of my pillows fell off my bed.
This is a true story.
One of my pillows fell off my bed and I woke up because I was uncomfortable.
And I went and I looked over and there it was, that little pillow on the floor.
And I brought it back up and I cocooned myself again.
And then I said this to myself, Jackie, you would not survive in the bush.
And then I fell asleep.
But in Italy?
Thin little pillows, thin little mattresses.
Terrible, terrible, terrible.
Beautiful country, terrible bedding.
Okay, they need to, I don't know,
they need to do something over there.
But what I'm saying is, is that we are so blessed.
We are, God has been so good to us, so good to us.
And I just want to remind us of that today.
I want you to really dig into Psalm 16.
I want you to speak it over yourself.
I want you to turn it into some declarations.
Turn in some declarations over you.
Because this is how God feels about you.
This wasn't just to David.
This wasn't a download for David.
It's a download for all of mankind, all of us.
All of us, we are all people called after God's own heart.
All of us are.
Okay, really important.
All right, so I want to end tonight for the last,
today for the last 15 minutes.
And then tomorrow night,
you guys will have a chance to activate this, okay?
If you show up for activation tomorrow night,
you can activate this.
But we'll activate it a little bit right now.
It has come to my attention
that when the enemy cannot trip you up,
and he's always trying, y'all.
And usually he's using stuff inside of yourself
that you haven't let go of and is not healed.
So make sure that you clear those boxes out
so that there's nothing there.
There's no materials to use.
There's no hooks, there's no tools, okay?
Continue to do that.
But oftentimes, the enemy, if he can't defeat you,
all right, the opposing forces,
if they can't defeat you,
they will try again to defeat you
by the defeat of someone else whose defeat will defeat you.
Let me say it again.
If the enemy can't defeat you,
then he will keep trying to defeat you
by defeating someone else whose defeat will defeat you.
And usually that's a family member.
Usually it's someone that you love,
someone that you're close to.
Their problems, their defeats,
their failure, moral failings, their whatever,
it begins to do what?
It begins to erode your faith.
It begins to hurt your heart.
It begins to cause you grief and sorrow, right?
And all of us have people like that in our lives
that do not know the Lord like we do,
or maybe they even do,
but they're just going through a hard place.
But a lot of times we have people in our lives
that they really haven't surrendered to the Lord.
They're more of those pre-Christian family and friends,
even maybe your children
haven't decided to fully follow the Lord.
And they're always, you know,
they're getting into some defeats that are defeating you,
right?
That are causing you stress and anxiety and worry
and hurt and pain and grief.
And I have that situation in my life.
I had it with my mother
until she transitioned and went to heaven.
And then I have it with my oldest brother
who lives on my property.
And you guys, all of a sudden he was doing so well.
And then he started to go through another,
what I call episode or rough patch of mental health
and physical health.
And I want us to take some time tomorrow night,
and we'll start right now,
but tomorrow night on activation
to really intercede for these people.
Okay?
To really speak God's word and his promises
over these people
and believe that we're gonna see a divine turnaround.
Let's speak resurrection life over these people,
that they would come alive,
that their hearts would be softened,
that they would surrender to the Lord.
If they already have done that,
that whatever is coming against them,
that that would be broken off of them,
that they'd be healed, they'd be set free,
they'd be delivered of whatever it is.
So go ahead and start putting your people in the chat.
Everyone has somebody.
My brother, my niece, I have twin niece and nephew.
My niece, she stopped going to school.
It's her senior year.
She just decided she's not going to school anymore.
She stopped going to school.
When my brother, my other brother, who's raising her,
when he told her she had to go to school
or she wouldn't graduate,
she left the house because she's 18 now
and she slept in her car in a parking lot all night long.
Never did anything like that in her life before.
All of a sudden, once again,
if the enemy can't defeat you or distract you,
he will try to distract and defeat someone
whose distraction and defeat will defeat you.
So we have to set up a hedge.
Look at all those people, you guys.
All those people, start praying over them.
Come on, grab somebody, start praying over Michelle's sister,
Jamie's niece, Jane, Lizzie, whoever Lizzie is, Laura.
We just put her out there in the atmosphere, God.
We ask, Laura.
that you would raise her up, that you would deliver her,
that you would help her, that you would show her
your goodness, that you would encounter her.
Stacey's sister, Mary in Wisconsin, Lord,
we thank you, God, that you love her,
that she's gonna see your goodness
in the land of the living God,
that you're gonna heal her mind, body, and spirit.
You're gonna lift her up, God, from the shadows.
Thank you, God.
Thank you for resurrection life in her life
and in her family's life.
We thank you, God, for Christy Lee's siblings, God.
Thank you, Lord, that you love them,
that you're with them,
that you're wooing them and drawing them to your hearts,
that you care for them so deeply,
that you're encountering them, Lord.
Give them dreams, give them visions, Lord.
You say in your word that in the last days
there'll be an increase in dreams and visions,
and I release that over your people.
Psalm 16 says that you give us instruction
in the night hours, that you tell us how to go
and where to go and how to do it,
and I pray that you would give each and every one
of these people instructions on how to help the people
that they're listing right now, how to pray for them,
how to minister to them, what to say to them
when they come into contact with them.
I pray that you would use us, Lord,
to be conduits of heaven in these people's lives
and in other people's lives.
Let me tell you a quick story.
My brother, the same brother here,
if I go through my Facebook memories,
you can see over the years how I've asked for prayer
for him, that he's at my house, he needs help.
He's been homeless for 28 years, you guys.
Had a mental health crisis 28 years ago
and has never been the same,
and so year after year after year after year,
you'll see me contending with what's contending with him
until finally he got ran over by a car
and ended up in a captive audience at my house,
unable to leave, unable to go anywhere,
and for a year he's done well until this recent episode.
Right?
But let me tell you, years ago during a quiet period
where I hadn't heard from him,
because sometimes I go years from hearing from him,
but then he'd show back up in crisis,
and it was years that I had heard from him,
and I knew that he wasn't doing well.
I knew that something bad was happening,
but I didn't know what it was,
and I couldn't help you guys
because I didn't know where he was,
and a lot of times he wouldn't even receive help,
and that's your situation too
with some of these people you have listed.
You would love to help them,
but you don't know how to help them,
and they wouldn't even let you help them if you tried.
Amen?
Raise your hand if that's true.
Okay.
They wouldn't even receive it.
They don't know how to receive the Lord.
They wouldn't receive your prayers.
They wouldn't receive your help.
Okay.
So it's wintertime in Ohio, and it's really cold, you guys.
It's in the negatives.
It's in the teens, but with the windchill factor,
it's like negative four or five degrees,
and I got invited to this prayer meeting out in the country
at this person's house that I had never been to,
and so I put it in my GPS, and I'm driving there.
This is about 10 years ago.
I'm driving there,
and I got lost on these backcountry roads, you guys.
It's all country.
All it is is houses.
There's no stores.
There's no gas stations.
There's nowhere to stop and ask for directions,
and so I'm driving around looking for this address
that doesn't exist,
and I see a guy on the side of the road
walking down the side of the road
in this weather with no coat on.
He's young.
I can tell from the back he's maybe 20, 21, 22 years old,
and you guys, this entire drive
that I'm driving to this prayer meeting,
I'm praying for my brother, Jake.
God help Jake.
God send someone to help Jake.
I don't know where Jake is, but you know where he is.
I'm praying all these things,
and so I pull up beside this kid on the side of the road,
this 20, let's just say he's 22,
this 23-year-old kid on the side of the road,
and I rolled down my window,
and I said, what are you doing?
I mean, we're out in the middle of nowhere country, guys.
We're in the country,
and this kid is walking down the side of the street
with a thin skirt on and pants and shoes
and no coat and no hat,
and it's negative degrees outside.
I said, what are you doing?
And he goes, oh, he's like,
I was just somewhere that I just had to get away from there.
I just had to leave,
so I just, I ran out without my jacket on,
and I was like, get in the car.
Now, I'm not saying, suggesting that you do this,
but I worked for years, over a decade as a social worker,
as an outreach director in the inner city.
I worked at homeless shelters.
I know how to carry myself and discern
and hold myself with strangers, okay?
And so I told him to get in my car.
He got in my car, and I said, where can I take you?
And he goes, well, I want to go to my cousin's house.
I was like, okay, well, where's your cousin live?
And he told me, and I gave him my phone.
He called his cousin, and he's like, okay,
yeah, I'm coming over, blah, blah, blah, all the things.
And so I said to him, I said, look,
I said, I'll drive you to your cousin's house.
I also said, but that's about 30 minutes away and I have to go to this event that I'm out
here to do first.
I said, so if you will go with me, I'm not going to stay long, probably going to stay
like half hour at the most, but I got to find this address because I'm supposed to be at
this place.
And when I find it, I said, I'll stay for 30 minutes, I said, and then I'll, I'll take
you to your cousin's house.
And in my head, I'm like, I'm, you know, I'll minister to him on my way, on his way to his
cousin's house.
Cause obviously this kid's in some kind of trouble.
So right after I pick him up, I magically find the address, right?
I started driving again and then I noticed what I didn't notice and I pull in the driveway
of this place.
You guys, true story.
I pulled into the driveway of this place that I must've just been passing.
And this kid looks at me with wide eyes.
He just turns over and looks at me and he goes, you're going here.
And I said, yeah.
I said, this is where this thing is that I have to go to.
And he goes, I just left here.
You guys, this kid had been brought to this prayer meeting because he just got out of
jail the night before.
He was all messed up on drugs.
And so his dad brought him to this prayer meeting to get prayer for him and he bolted.
And guess what?
God sent me to bring him back.
So he got in my car, I brought him back to the place that he left.
And now he knows he's having a divine appointment because I say to him, you just left here?
And he said, yeah.
And I said, well, obviously God wanted you to come back.
And he's like, yeah, I guess he did.
So we went inside, I brought him with me.
Everyone in there was praying for him when we walked through the door.
They were praying for him.
His name is Luke.
They were praying for Luke when we walked through the door because he had run out like
maybe 15, 20 minutes earlier.
So now the whole prayer meeting had focused on him and we walked through the door and
his dad began to weep because he saw a right now answer to his prayer.
God had sent someone, not him, but someone else to go get his son and bring him back
to where he belongs.
And that kid gave his life to the Lord that day.
And I can tell you, because he keeps in touch with me, Luke lives for the Lord.
He preaches the gospel.
He's married to an amazing girl.
And his dad passed away a few years later and he got to see his son redeemed before
he transitioned.
Come on.
Guys, his dad actually ended up dying of COVID.
His dad wasn't old.
He passed definitely prematurely in my mind, but he got to see his son living for the Lord.
And so now my prayer always isn't, God, help me to help my brother.
Now my prayer is, God, help me to help someone else's brother.
Help me to help someone else's sister, their cousin, their mother, their father.
And then you send someone to help mine.
You send someone that they will listen to.
You send someone that will have favor with them.
You send me to help somebody else's Jake.
And you send someone to help mine.
And so Father, we just pray that right now for everyone who put a loved one, a friend,
a family member in the chat, they can't reach them, they've tried, they don't know what
to do.
They've prayed and prayed till their voice was hoarse.
Lord, they've interceded.
They've cried every tear they have.
We pray now, God, that you would bring the breakthrough.
That you would bring another family member to that person, another member of the family
of God, that you would give them a divine appointment that causes them to have breakthrough.
That you would give whoever that person out there is that has the information that they
need, that has the breakthrough, the anointing that they need, that you give that person
favor with them and let it be done in Jesus' name, amen.
Thank you, Father.
And you know what our part to play in this is?
We need to be the hands and feet of the Lord in someone else's life, in someone else's
family member's life.
And so be on the lookout for someone that you can touch and you can help.
And every time you help that person, this new person that you're helping, think of that
person that you want resurrection life over.
And you just say to the Lord, Lord, I'm helping this person right in front of me.
And I believe that you're sending someone to help my person in Jesus' name, amen.
All right, you guys, we can activate this more tomorrow night.
Love to see you on Supernatural on a Sunday night activation.
This has been a great Supernatural Saturday.
I love you.
I bless you.
Guys, we're going to see resurrection in this season.
Let's begin to press into resurrection over all this dead stuff and over all these people.
And let's believe to see some miracle signs and wonders in this spring season.
season, going into Passover and into Easter.
Amen.
Love y'all.
Talk to you soon.