Welcome to Supernatural Saturday.
And if you hear some craziness in the background, it's because David and I are on Nona and
Papa duty today.
My daughter and my son-in-law are visiting from Ohio and we have twin, almost three-year-old
grandbabies and they are wily, let me tell you what.
So they spent the night at a hotel last night, my daughter and her husband, they went out
with friends and they're downtown Austin and so we had to wrangle the babies today.
So if you hear David crying for help in the other room, that's what's happening there.
So welcome to Supernatural Saturday.
If you're new here, you're in for a treat.
We love Saturdays, don't we, friends?
And so Saturday is the time when we all look together to the Lord and we ask God, what
is the current prophetic reality of heaven?
You know, we know what our realities are and a lot of times we don't like them.
We don't like our realities.
But what is the current prophetic reality of heaven?
If my job is to bring heaven to earth, if you want to invade earth through my life,
then that means that there's something that's going on in heaven right now that's not going
on on earth.
It's something that needs to come to earth through me.
And so that is why we look to heaven together and we ask, hey God, what can we do to partner
with that?
How can we align ourselves?
How can we align our minds and our hearts and our lives to that?
And that is what this day in our community is all about.
People have gotten so much breakthrough through Supernatural Saturday, upgrade spiritually
in their relationship with God, themselves, others, also just divine alignment and direction,
all different types of healing, emotional, mental, physical, spiritual happens on these
calls.
And so if you're new, you definitely want to make sure that you either are here live
or you listen to the replay.
This is available in replay every week.
All right.
And then we go on to activate even more on Sundays.
So Sunday activation, we will activate what is going on on Supernatural Saturday for that
week.
But also on the last Sunday of the month, we will have a just a joint prophetic time and
all prayer prophetic time when all of our prayer leaders come together to edify and
encourage you guys.
So today the thought that I had was this, weeping endures for the night, but joy comes
in the morning.
Just think about that for a second.
That is Psalm 30 verse five.
Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning.
It reminds me of several other scriptures, turning your morning into dancing, right?
There's lots of exchanges, divine exchanges that we can see in scripture, beauty for ashes,
the oil of joy for morning, garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness.
We see all that.
We see the morning into dancing.
We see the nighttime into day, right?
Bringing light to the darkness.
And so I want to talk about this one this morning, because this is what God has highlighted
to me, that he wants us to understand that there's a time for joy.
So time when joy comes.
And so I posted this on my Instagram this morning, and I want to dig into it with you
guys right now.
And what I posted was give yourself permission to release anything that doesn't bring you
joy.
Let's look back at Psalm 30 verse five.
Weeping endures for the night, but joy comes in the morning.
It comes in the morning.
And so really what I was thinking about this morning, what Holy Spirit was highlighting
to me is that, hey, you know, joy is coming.
Joy is showing up, but you have to let it in.
It's knocking on the door, but you have to let it in.
And in order to let it in, you have to release or let go of whatever is in here now, right?
We have to make room for it.
And we'll talk a little bit about joy versus happiness and all those different things here
in a second.
But let's really focus on this right now.
We have to let joy in.
I used to have a pastor that was, you know, really revelatory in business stuff and in
finance stuff.
And, you know, his wife, I didn't really like her that much.
I know that that's so shocking to say, but I didn't, you know, her personality just wasn't
my favorite.
And so they were both pastors, obviously.
I don't believe that, you know, the man's the one that's the pastor.
Everyone's a pastor.
If they're in a pastoring family, pastoring group, pastoring couple, they're pastors, right?
And so I just, you know, I couldn't get on the same page with her.
or her personality was kind of prickly
and I'm a pretty friendly person
and I just, I wasn't feeling her.
So over the years, I really tried.
Sometimes you guys are in relationship with people
that their personality is not your favorite.
If you were gonna pick someone
to go on a 12-hour road trip with you,
it wouldn't be them, right?
There are just people and personalities
that we like better.
Can we acknowledge that?
We vibe with them better.
Can we acknowledge that?
I think sometimes we think we're not good Christians
because we just don't love everybody.
No, you're not gonna love everybody.
Some people get on your nerves.
They're annoying.
They're irritating.
Their personalities rub you the wrong way.
But still, we have to take a deeper look at why that is.
Abraham Lincoln has a famous quote
that's attributed to him that says,
"'I don't like that man.
"'I must get to know him better.'"
That is really what happened in the case
with me and this woman.
I didn't like her until I got to know her a lot better.
And then I began to see that the things
that I didn't like about her
were just actually her counterfeits.
They were the walls that she had put up
to keep herself from being hurt or betrayed
or disappointed by other people.
And oftentimes, friends, when people don't like us,
it's not us that they're not liking.
It's our counterfeits.
It's our self-preservation techniques.
It's the things that we have become
to protect ourselves.
And those are the things that rub people the wrong way.
Those are the things that people can't get past
to get to the real us.
And so that was the case here, okay?
So don't beat yourself up
when you don't really like someone that much,
but do do a little bit of inner work there
and say, hey, you know, why don't I like this person?
Kind of list it out,
especially if they are someone
that you have to be around a lot.
If they're a coworker,
if they're a family member of someone that you're dating
and that you might marry,
oh, please list it out.
If they're your mother-in-law-to-be
or your father-in-law-to-be, okay?
Let's list that out.
If they're just someone
that you're gonna have to be around,
that you're gonna have to do some life with,
list it out.
Okay, well, I don't like it that they do this or that
or this bothers me or this gets on my nerves.
And what you'll see in that list
is some of your own brokenness,
some of your own insecurities.
You don't like them
because they don't make you feel comfortable.
You feel kind of rejected.
You feel like maybe they don't like you
and that makes you not like them, right?
No one wants to be rejected.
And so when someone kind of has an air of rejection
towards us, that makes us not like them, okay?
Or you could go the other direction
where you start trying to kiss their little booty.
You try to people please and try to get them to like you.
Raise your hand if you're the kind of person
who can't stand it.
If someone doesn't like you
and you will do everything in your power
to try to get them to like you.
Stop it, don't do that anymore.
Don't do it.
Okay, so make a list
and do a little bit of hard work around that, okay?
Because I bet you you're gonna find out
that there's some things about them
that kind of reminds you of some broken things about you
and that's why you don't like them.
Okay, there's a little teaching moment there,
but that's really not what the story's about.
The story's about that I got put in closer
and closer proximity to her.
I started realizing that this was all just the facade.
The things I didn't like about her were a front or a wall
and I started to get past those things
and started to get to the real her
and I actually started vibing with her.
I'm like, okay, you're cool.
But then one day I was at this prayer meeting thing,
downtown Columbus at the Capitol
and who walks in but her?
I wasn't expecting her.
I didn't know she knew about this.
I didn't know that she was part of this group
that was holding this gathering.
And she walked in and so after it was over with,
her and I were leaving at the same time
and she is like a music gift.
She leads worship, writes songs,
has some albums that are out
and I was holding a women's gathering
and I said to her as we're walking out together,
I said, hey, I've been meaning to talk to you.
I was wondering if you would come and do the worship
for this women's gathering that I'm gonna be hosting.
And you guys, this was years ago.
Now, the one thing that I knew about her
is that she doesn't like women's gatherings
for obvious reasons.
She feels a little bit closed off when it comes to women.
She puts up some armor when it comes to women.
Doesn't really trust women that well.
Raise your hand if you're a woman on here
and you feel like that.
You know, you're not really that crazy about other women.
In fact, being in this group
has been a huge stretch for you
because you've had to be trusting
and in proximity to other women,
kind of opening up your heart,
processing through your stuff, your heart work,
even your dates with other women.
That's kind of new because you have a lot of woman wounds.
Get your hands up.
I know there's more of you.
not your favorite thing.
Even when you were in school, you didn't have a lot of girlfriends, you might have had more
guy friends, you know, okay, so she's one of these girls that doesn't really love being
around other women, especially at like women's gatherings, which a lot of people are like
gross, hate those things.
They're so fake.
They're so this or so that.
All right.
So I didn't know that about her fully about the whole women's thing, and I'm inviting
her to come and lead worship.
But get this, get this next thing.
This is what she said to me.
She said, nah, I think I'm going to pass.
Like she didn't even ask more information.
She didn't seem sorry that she wasn't going to be able to do the thing that I was asking
her to do.
Hey, can you come do this?
Nah, I think I'm going to pass.
What?
She's not even saying I'm busy that day.
It's not.
She's not saying she's not making any excuses.
She's just saying no, you guys.
This is kind of my first experience with someone just unapologetically saying no, I don't want
to.
Right?
She's saying, no, I think I'm going to pass.
And then I said to her, I said, oh, I said, are you busy that day?
She goes, no, no, I'm not busy.
She said, and this is what she said next.
She said, in this season, I'm giving myself permission not to do anything that doesn't
bring me joy.
You guys, that offended the crap out of me.
I was so offended by that.
And I just nodded and said, oh, okay, all right.
And we went our separate ways.
And I got in my car and I started, I was just like, oh, I knew I didn't like her.
And I just started saying all kinds of things, you know, just like not about her, but just
about the situation.
Like, oh, who does she think she is?
I mean, okay.
Yeah.
All right.
You're not going to do anything that doesn't bring you joy.
Must be nice, you know?
And I'm just saying all this stuff.
And you guys, back in these days, I had such a employee of God mindset.
This is many years ago.
And I still had a lot of hard work to do.
I still had a lot of orphan tendencies.
And the reason why this is important, because God stopped me in the midst of my offendedness.
And remember, offense, when you feel it, it has the ability to upgrade you more than
any other emotion.
Offense, which is a byproduct of anger, okay, anger has the ability to upgrade you immediately.
If you will, instead of just feeling the feels, you have to heal the feels.
You have to ask yourself, why does this make me so mad?
Why does this offend me?
And what will happen is Holy Spirit will point you to an unhealed place in your heart, okay?
To a heart posture, to a lie that you're believing, to a hurt that's still bleeding out.
That is what will happen.
And in this moment, when I'm just venting and ranting about, you know, about almost
like the entitledness, the entitledness of her comment, God said to me, He said,
why are you so offended by that?
And I said, well, there's lots of things that don't bring me joy that I have to do, but
I do them because it's the right thing to do.
And I start talking in the terms of right and wrong and black and white and wrong and
right.
And I start talking in those terms and God said, who asked you to do it?
And then I had to think about that for a while.
And then I realized that I was the one that was putting pressure on myself, not God.
That I was the one telling myself that these were the right things to do and these were
the things that I had to do.
And that's just the way that life is.
You have to do all kinds of stuff that you just don't want to do.
And friends, I'm not telling you that you're not going to have to eat any more frogs.
I'm not telling you that you're not going to have to get up and do things that you don't
like to do.
Okay.
Like clean your room or clean the toilet or, you know, go grocery shopping, which I hate.
You know, if you're, you're not going to have to, you know, pick up some weights and move
your body.
I'm not telling you that you're never going to have to do anything that you don't fully
enjoy.
But hopefully we can shift our mindset to a place where the things that are necessary
and needful that we can do the things that bring us joy.
Remember a story where there was someone running around doing a whole lot of stuff that wasn't
necessary when Jesus arrived.
And there was one person that was doing what brought them joy.
And that was Mary.
She was sitting at the feet of Jesus, who's sitting in his presence.
By the way, the Bible says in his presence, there's fullness of joy.
So remember, it's not happiness.
We have circumstances that don't bring us happiness and happiness is very circumstantial.
But joy is the fruit of the spirit and it comes from intimacy and it comes from relationship.
And so she was sitting there doing what brought her joy.
But Martha, her sister, was running around like a chicken
with her head cut off, like so many of us,
doing all kinds of things that she obviously
didn't want to do.
And you want to know how I know?
Because she said, why isn't anyone else helping?
Why do I have to do this?
And Jesus basically said to her, you don't.
Love that story.
You don't.
Who told you to do it?
You don't have to do it.
What she wanted is she wanted someone else
to be forced into doing what she didn't even have to do.
And that's what I was really doing.
And it's just really interesting because this pastor's name
was Mary.
Her name was Mary, OK?
And I learned a huge lesson from Mary that day.
Because I didn't really want to do some of the things
that I was doing either.
And here I was trying to enlist her,
draft her into my war over here to do these things with me.
And she was just like, nah, that doesn't sound fun.
No, that doesn't bring me joy.
I'm not going to do that.
And I was like, wait, what?
What?
What do you mean?
What do you mean you don't have to do what
doesn't bring you joy?
What do you mean you're giving yourself permission
to not do anything that doesn't bring you joy?
And that was just a huge shift for me.
And I hope it's going to be a huge shift for you.
Because now when I go to do something,
I have to question my motives.
I have to question my own intentions.
Why am I doing this?
Why am I saying yes to this?
Why?
Do I really want to do it?
And you guys, I'm not saying that there won't be some times
when God really puts it on our heart
to do something that maybe we didn't
want to do in the first place.
Or maybe we weren't intending to do.
But we really know that we need to do it.
And guess what?
With that comes grace.
The grace to do it.
The grace to do it cheerfully.
Because God loves a cheerful giver.
When we give of our time, of our talents, of our finances,
when we give of ourselves, we need
to be able to do it cheerfully.
And if you can't do it fearfully,
you need to take a step back and find out why.
Because maybe you shouldn't be doing it at all.
Right?
It's important.
OK.
So let's take inventory.
Why am I saying yes to this?
Especially for you people pleasers,
why am I saying yes to this?
Because what often happens for people
that just say yes, yes, yes all the time
because they want to be thought well of by others.
They don't want conflict.
They don't want confrontation.
They don't want to make anyone upset by saying no.
They also have guilted themselves,
like I was, into doing what they thought was the right thing.
Well, it's just the right thing.
We've got to serve the Lord.
We've got to do the things that people ask us to do.
Right?
Wrong.
You have to give your best yes.
Because when you say yes to something,
you're saying no to everything else.
We've got to give our best yes.
And that's really what she was telling me that day.
I'm giving myself permission to give my best yes.
This is not something that's in my wheelhouse.
This is not something I feel called to.
This is not something that I enjoy.
It doesn't bring me joy.
I don't feel the Lord on it for me.
And so instead of pleasing you, Jackie, by saying yes,
I'm going to say no.
Because God's trying to teach me something.
He's trying to teach me to reserve my talents
and my energy and what I have to offer for what?
For my best yes.
And it's really important, you guys.
It's really important.
And so when you say yes to something,
we need to take some inventory of why we're saying yes to it.
Do we really want to do it?
Do we really feel led to do it?
Do we feel equipped to do it?
Is it going to be something that challenges us and stretches us
and we're looking forward to that?
Or not forward to it, but also we know that it's important?
What, why?
You guys can do some work around that tomorrow night
about boundaries and about setting boundaries
and about giving your best yes.
But let's keep talking about giving ourselves permission
to let go of everything that doesn't bring us joy.
This is not just about saying yes
to activities or invitations.
This is about opening the door because Psalm 35 says,
joy comes in the morning.
And so when we're opening the door for this new season,
this new day that's dawning with the God in our lives,
we have to let some things go out.
You ever been at the airport?
You're going to get on the people.
mover, the door's open, you can't go in until that,
whatever's in the people mover comes out.
There's no room.
You can't bum rush in there.
You have to wait for that stuff to go out
so there's room to go in.
It's kind of like that in my mind.
You gotta let what's in out in order to let what's out in.
You do.
Stay focused, friends.
Don't get into the minutiae.
Let's stay focused on what God is releasing right now.
I see the comments blowing up.
It's good, but at the same time, we wanna focus
because this is a really important moment right now.
What do you have to let go of
in order to take a hold of joy?
I can think of a few things right off for myself.
I want you to think about that for a second.
Close your eyes and just ask the question,
what do I need to let go of to take a hold of joy?
Come on, let's take a moment.
Ask the question.
What do I need to let go of to take a hold of joy?
All right, I wanna see some of these answers in the chat.
The rest of you can keep praying about it,
keep thinking about it.
Once again, we will be activating this tomorrow night
on activation, so if you're ready
and you wanna come to that, go ahead, put it up.
What do you have to let go of
in order to grab a hold of joy?
The struggle, the pain, the frustration,
the anxiety, the fear, the anxiety,
the struggle, the weeping, pain, yeah, there's a season.
But God is telling us that our era of joy is here.
Our era of joy is here.
And I know probably like me,
you're waiting for everything, all your circumstances
just to iron out in order to let joy in
and God's saying, no, let go of the things
that are holding joy back and grab a hold of joy.
Grab a hold of joy.
You guys, I understand that.
My life's not perfect.
You guys heard last Sunday, if you guys were there live
about the situation with my brother, by the way, he is safe.
But you know where he is,
even though he was homeless on the street,
on foot, crippled, with no car, no transportation.
We know that he is safe, it's good.
We were able to have some communication with him
where all of that is at right now, it's stabilized.
Continuing to release him to the Lord.
See, that's a perfect example.
What do I have to let go of to grab a hold of joy?
My brother, I have to release him to grab a hold of joy.
Some of you need to release people
that you've been trying to fix and save.
Situations where you are suffering needlessly,
you are pressurizing yourself and God's not pressuring you.
You're not the hero of the story he is
and you need to let it go.
You need to release it.
It's not up to you to hold it together anymore.
In fact, it needs to fall apart.
You need to allow it to fall apart in order for joy to come.
Because joy is here, joy is knocking on the door, it's time.
You know, David and I have been through so much
in our 18 years of marriage, you guys, so much.
So many moves, so many lost jobs.
In the first two years of marriage,
David and I both lost two jobs a piece.
And those were long jobs.
The very first job that we lost when we first got married,
I got fired from my brokerage position.
Get this, I got fired because I was getting remarried.
The man that owned the brokerage,
and I'm sure this is against the law,
but I didn't have any strength in me to fight this man.
He did not believe that I should be getting remarried.
He was making a moral
call for me.
He was making a moral judgment on me and my character
because I was getting married to...
too quickly after my divorce.
And so he fired me.
Because in insurance, which I was a broker in insurance, you know, you have to be a trustworthy
and honest person.
You can't be dishonest in insurance.
And you know, he said that, that that gave me questionable morals and character.
He was an older gentleman.
He has obviously a right to his opinion, which I'm pretty sure is illegal.
But at the same time, that's why I lost my job.
So two months before we got married, I got fired, fired, you guys, fired.
And then guess what?
Two months after we were married, my husband lost his ministry job of 14 years that he
had in a ruthless downsizing because of the church's own bad habits and problems.
He gave his life to that job.
That wasn't just a job.
That was a ministry.
How do you get fired from your own ministry?
Right.
And there was just so much turmoil that happened as a result of those things.
So much you guys, in fact, to the point and the reason for the story is, is I just said
to the Lord, I just, I just need a rest, Lord.
I can't handle any more of this.
into this marriage fresh out of an abusive, you know, unhealthy, unsafe place.
My pastor had gone to prison.
I'd already been through so much from my childhood to my marriage, to my discipleship in a, in
a cult basically.
And then finally out of all of those prison bars only to come into a situation where I
I would have hoped it would have been smooth sailing and yet the seas are still rough.
Let me tell you something.
You have been matched with a generation where the seas are rough.
You don't live in the good old days.
You don't live when life was simpler.
You live now.
You were matched with now.
Some of you remember when life was simpler, including me, I'm 50 years old.
I do remember the late seventies and eighties.
I remember when life was simpler.
Yeah, there was trouble on the earth, but we didn't know about it because we didn't
have the internet.
Hey, we didn't know that we were surrounded all sides by evil that was closing in.
That's one of the reasons why you shouldn't watch the news.
You don't need to know what's happening in someone else's community across the world.
The people in that community need to know what's going on there because that's their
business and that is something that they need to, they need to, they need help for.
They need to work on.
They need to gather together and unite and lock arms to stop.
We don't need to know about it.
Do you understand how that causes undue stress for you?
There's nothing you can do about it.
You don't need to know about it.
Oh, but Jackie for prayer.
No, no friends.
Our, our nervous systems are totally messed up because of these things.
You need to mind your own business.
You do need to mind the business that's right in front of us.
People are like, oh, everyone has ADHD now.
No, they don't.
Everyone's trying to tune out and self-medicate because everyone nervous systems are a wreck.
We're not addicted to dopamine.
We're trying to escape all the chaos all around us.
But once again, God matched you with these times, right?
He knew that this was going to be this way.
He told his disciples on earth, they said, Hey, what are going to be the signs of the
end of the age?
And he said, this is what it's going to look like friends.
This is what it's going to look like.
And guess what?
It looks like that.
Look out your window.
We live during the end of the age.
We live in that timeframe.
And so the seas are going to be rough.
The seas are going to be rough for everyone.
But not everyone has Jesus on their boat.
And that's what God told me.
He said, you know, Jackie, he said, the seas are rough.
He's like, you want smooth sailing.
He said, but you have me on your boat.
You have me on your boat.
Basically, what he was saying is, is that, you know, peace is not a thing that comes
the place you can go in me.
It's a place you can go in me.
I don't, I didn't like that answer.
I just wanted everything to be easy and better.
I was tired of blending a family and building a marriage in, in all of these
chaotic times all around us, where we just felt like we couldn't catch a break.
And that's what I had to learn.
You guys that.
Best is a place that you go in him.
Peace that passes all understanding.
It's something that he gives you when you come into his presence.
There's fullness of joy.
Do you guys see the trend here?
Do you see what I'm trying to tell you?
It's about relationship.
It's about intimacy.
David and I have weathered many, many, many, many storms together.
And the reason why I'm preparing you for that is because probably because of the
era that you live in, because of the generation that you've been matched with,
you are probably going to experience the same thing.
I know that a lot of you are thinking, Oh, you know, when I find my spirit
made, everything's just going to be so much better.
And it's just going to be, you know, eternal.
The, what is it?
The, uh, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind.
And it's not true.
It isn't, we don't live in a time that's easy anymore.
Are you going to have really good times?
You're going to have a lot of fun together.
Sure.
Of course you are.
I'm not being a doom, a doom speaker right now, but I'm also telling you that,
you know, these marriages are being matched together in a very tumultuous time.
In a time where you need to know where your peace comes from, where your help
comes from, you need to understand and know how to enter into his joy.
Right.
You have to know how to do those things.
It's going to be really, really important.
So one day God said to me, I said, um, you know, people are always like, Oh,
you and David are so good.
I said, um, you know, people are always like, Oh, you and David are so awesome.
You're such an awesome couple, this and that we're always
getting compliments like that.
And, you know, in my mind, I'm, I'm thinking of what it takes to get here.
And, you know, just to just all of the things that we've been through.
And, and I'm so thankful that on the outside, people see the fruit of that,
right, they see the fruit of our blended family and all the things that we've
weathered through and the battles that we've won and all the stuff.
You know, and this is the thought that came.
They were like, Oh, you guys are so amazing.
You're so awesome.
You know?
And then God whispered to me, he said, wait till they see you in joy.
And I was like, what?
He's like, yeah, he's like, they see, they see you in the battles.
They see you, they compliment you on, you know, sticking in there and fighting
for your family and building your blended family and, you know, rebuilding
a marriage after divorce and all these things he said, but wait till they see
you in joy, wait till they see you guys.
Psalm 126, six, the second half of the verse, they that go weeping bearing
precious seed will no doubt come again, rejoicing, carrying their harvest with
them, wait till they see you in the second half of that verse, rejoicing.
What enjoy bringing what your harvest with you.
And so I want to tell you this.
You haven't seen me until you've seen me in joy.
I want you to declare that over yourself.
Ooh, I know people think they know me.
They think they know that what I have to offer.
They think that they know what I'm all about, but you haven't seen
me until you've seen me in joy.
Come on, say that over yourself.
You haven't seen me until you've seen me in joy.
You know, my trouble, you know what I've been through, you know what I've
overcome because I'm an overcomer, but you haven't seen me in the victory of joy.
You haven't seen me enjoy.
Come on, you guys.
It's our era of joy.
It's our time.
It's our time to be enjoy.
It's our time to open that door and say, yes, I'm going to open that door for you.
I'm going to open that door for you.
It's our time to open that door because joy is knocking.
The weeping that's endured for this night season.
Joy is knocking.
Let me in.
I've come.
Joy comes in the morning.
Joy has shown up and now joy needs to be let in.
And in order to let her in, we need to let out.
Anything that's in the way of that.
All your doubt, all your fear,
all the things that you're trying to fix
that you don't have any business
or any jurisdiction trying to fix, it's not on you.
It needs to be on your Jesus Cares Board.
You guys, your Jesus Cares Board will bring you so much joy.
Your heaviness will fall off of you.
A lot of us, heaviness is in the way of joy.
The oil of joy for mourning is what Isaiah 61 says.
The oil of joy for mourning.
Instead of mourning, the oil of joy.
God wants to anoint us with joy.
Wow, God wants to anoint us with joy.
I don't know if you've ever gotten oil in your hair,
but it's hard to get out.
It's hard to get it off.
It's hard, hard, hard.
Yes.
Come on, you guys, what's coming up right now?
What is Holy Spirit pointing to?
Hey, this is blocking joy.
This is keeping you.
This is keeping you from joy.
What is it?
What have you been trying to control?
What are you trying to make happen?
We need to adopt, we need to adopt
that line that offended me so many years ago.
I'm giving myself permission to let go of anything
that doesn't bring me joy.
To not do anything that doesn't bring me joy.
We're gonna do that, you guys.
It's gonna be a challenge.
It's gonna be the joy challenge.
It's time for us to step into our joy era.
And what we're gonna do is we're going
to give ourselves permission to not do anything,
think anything, believe anything, invite anything,
participate in anything that doesn't bring us joy.
Remember, not happiness, happiness is temporary.
It's very fleeting.
You could be happy one minute
and be sad or mad the next moment.
Happiness is circumstantial.
Joy, that doesn't bring us joy.
Joy, you guys.
Come on, think about what those things are
that you're letting go of.
What is Holy Spirit pointing to?
Go ahead and put it in the chat.
Just so you know that the difference
between happiness and joy is happiness has to do
with external things.
It has to do with circumstances.
You know, you got a bonus check at work.
Wow, that makes me happy.
You hear some good news about something.
Oh, that makes me happy.
Joy is internal.
It has to do with identity.
It has to do with your wellbeing.
It has to do with you internally being well, being held.
It's different than peace
because it's more about exuberance.
It's more about excitement and anticipation.
Joy is that just that inner sense of wellbeing.
You know, you know what I'm talking about?
All right, is anyone putting stuff up?
I don't see anything.
All right.
All right, I see some stuff.
I'm reading through your comments.
So it says in the Bible.
That in His presence, there's fullness of joy.
And as right hand, there's pleasures forevermore.
You guys, I know that we think that God, you know, this is why, you know, a lot of people
get stuck.
They get stuck in religious thinking that, oh, you know, to follow Jesus, it's not going
to be fun.
I'm not going to like it.
I'm going to have to just suffer, suffer with Christ.
And I'm going to do a whole bunch of things that are not enjoyable.
And you know, the, you know, the enjoyment is for heaven, not for this life.
So many people believe that, like we're here to suffer and then someday we'll be fully
in His presence and then there'll be joy and pleasures and all the things.
No, you guys, the veil has been torn.
We can go into His presence now and go into the holiest of holies now.
We can go boldly to the throne of grace now.
And in His presence, there is fullness of joy.
And at His right hand, which is the right hand of favor, Jesus is seated at the right
hand of Christ, where you're seated as well with Him in heavenly places.
There's pleasures, not just temporary pleasures of this life, but forevermore.
That's what He's trying to get into our heads.
Hey, pleasure is not just for heaven, but there are certain pleasures that are eternal
and some that are not.
Some that are just pleasures for now.
I know a lot of times we get in this religious mode where like, hey, we're not supposed to
ever do anything that our flesh likes to do.
Well, you know what?
If your flesh is following after your spirit, then your flesh is going to want to do things
that are also good for you.
That's your problem.
If you're following after the flesh, then yes, you're going to want some pleasures that
are not good for you.
You're going to have some appetites that are not healthy for you.
And I don't just mean food.
But if we follow after the spirit, we don't fulfill the lusts of the flesh, right?
But it doesn't mean there isn't any pleasure in it.
What the spirit does is it leads us to pleasures that are not going to destroy us.
It changes our appetites to where we find joy in things that we wouldn't have found
joy in before our new birth experience.
Do you see what I'm saying?
Do you see where I'm going?
It can even change your palate to where you're eating food and finding pleasure in food and
joy in food that contributes to your well-being and not against it.
I love some matcha.
A lot of people say matcha is an acquired taste, and it is.
Unless you make it into a big sugar bomb, then you can drink anything.
Y'all, if you can put a pound of sugar, you can drink anything.
I'm a purist.
I drink matcha with no sugar in it.
It's a green tea.
It's a very potent green tea powder.
You only drink the one that comes from Japan, you guys.
This is a little PSA now.
All the rest of them have things like arsenic in them.
Don't drink that, okay?
Make sure that it's 100% organic from Japan products, ceremonial grade if you can get
it, okay?
And it is really, really good for you.
It's full of enzymes that help you focus, okay?
It's full of all kinds of really great antioxidants.
But a lot of people hate it because they say, oh, it tastes like grass.
That's how you know you got a good one.
The greener that it tastes, the better it probably is.
But people are like, oh, bleh, bleh.
But you know what?
Sometimes the things that are good for us are an acquired taste.
We have to acquire the taste.
So Holy Spirit, we're asking you to help us to acquire a taste for things that are going
to bring us joy.
We're asking you to help us to acquire a taste that are going to bring us pleasures, not
just for this life, but forevermore.
Eternal pleasures with you, things that please the Father, but also will please us, that
will cause us to jump out of our bed in the morning and open the door to joy because we're
so excited to be able to participate and partner with what heaven is doing today.
Change our palate for pleasure.
So you guys, the first time I ever drank it, no, no, no, no, no.
And then for whatever reason, I tried it again later, maybe a couple years later, and I don't
know if I got a smoother one or what happened, but I loved it.
You guys know, if you follow me on Instagram, I love matcha and I'm always posting about
it.
New matchas everywhere I go.
God wants to give you a desire for things that are going to bring you not happiness
but joy.
He wants to give you a desire.
hire to do things that are going to be good for you, not just temporarily, but long term.
You guys, this is about to take a crazy turn because Holy Spirit always takes us on twists
and turns, supernatural Saturday calls, but who would be willing to allow God to remove
anything that is not bringing you joy in your love life?
All of the things that are causing you to continue to choose to open the door to things
that don't bring joy, but bring hurt and disappointment and pain and regret and remorse and shame.
Come on.
Listen, you got to hear what I'm saying.
That means that you are asking God to change your palate.
What does that mean?
You're asking him to change your taste in the opposite sex.
Change your taste.
Change what you're attracted to, what you're gravitating towards, what you've been ingesting
up until this point.
Learn the word lust, what you've been lusting after to this point.
You guys, this movement is different.
It's different than all the ones out there because we truly, truly want the marriages
that are from heaven.
That's what we want.
We're not just looking for someone to take up an empty space in our lives.
When you're following after Christ, there shouldn't be an empty space.
It's not about an empty space.
It's about a calling.
It's about alignment.
That's what it's about.
We want God to align us.
We want to partner for the purpose of, I'm going to use the word ministry, but I don't
want you to think I'm talking about traditional in the walls of a church ministry.
Anything that you do as a believer is ministry.
Anything that you do, anything, whatever job you have, that is your ministry.
That is what you are.
The Bible says, do your work unto the Lord.
That is what you're doing unto the Lord.
He's the one that has to make it supernatural, not you.
He's the one that has to take what it is that you have to offer and make it impact the kingdom
of God.
You're a business person.
You're a kingdom business person.
He's the one that's going to take it and make it kingdom because you're in the kingdom now.
He's the one that's going to bring people into your store, into your office for you
to have divine appointments with.
He's the one that's going to do that, not you.
All you're going to do is be ready and available.
He's the one that's going to open the door so that you can have influence with influencers
when you're in business and they can see your good works and glorify your father in heaven.
That's him.
He does that.
When you're teaching, when you're nursing, you guys are not going to get off on this
because you know I love it.
You know I love it.
And you guys know that we are opening a church for people in the marketplace called Wheelhouse.
I don't even want to call it a church, spiritual community for people in the marketplace called
Wheelhouse here in Austin, Texas, because I believe that people that are in the marketplace,
people that are in the marketplace, they're called to business, they're entrepreneurs
or they're in any of the creative fields, any of the helping fields, they need something
weekly that continues to encourage them to get back out there, get back out on the field
and get some wins.
And so we need something tailor-made to those folks.
We have to have it.
So a lot of you raised your hand.
I noticed that not all of you raised your hand saying that you're willing to allow God
to change what brings you joy in your love life or in relationship.
I got hands going up again.
All right.
You can raise your hands again if you want.
All right.
For those of you that did, raise your hands.
I just want to let you know that that looks like something, okay?
You guys don't have to raise your hands anymore.
I just want to let you know that that looks like something.
It's going to look like something.
And at first it's going to be unusual and uncomfortable, okay?
It's not going to be something that, you know, you're used to because you're not used to
it.
All of us have patterns.
All of us have habits.
Even though she seemed really confident that day when she said to me, I'm not going to
do that because it doesn't bring me joy, I'm sure there was a little fear inside of her
to say that out loud to another person.
What if they get mad?
What if they confront her?
What if they don't understand?
What if they think negatively of her?
That took some confidence, didn't it, to say that?
And so God's going to build your confidence in this new path that you're taking right
now of allowing him to lead you into this era of joy.
And it's going to be a path that you're going to have to release more and more and more
of what you have been using as a counterfeit to try to medicate your sadness, your depression,
your apathy, your impatience, whatever those things are.
We're going to have to release those things in order to make room for joy.
You're going to find yourself more and more in his presence, not, you know, crying and
not, you know, upset and angry at him, but you're going to find yourself more and more
in his presence, just trusting him and believing that he has good things for you and believing
that he has partnership for you.
And while you're in his presence, you are going to begin to be filled up with that fullness
of joy that value will go out and you will pour out upon others.
And it will be very attractive, friends.
Joy is attractive.
Remember, it's not happiness.
It's not just a happy person.
A joyful person is someone who deeply trusts in the Lord because they are deeply rooted
in love and in their identity in Christ.
And when you come from that place, you will also find the pleasures that are at his right
hand.
What does that mean?
At the finished work of the cross, at the right hand is where Jesus sits.
That is where you're seated with him.
That's where all the troubles and all the warfare is under your feet.
You're going to find that place where that that Jesus cares for really comes into action
where, yeah, there's trouble around, but you're not you're not focused on that.
You're not influenced by that because you know who you are and whose you are.
And so you're able to find pleasure.
Because Jesus died to pay for that for you.
God didn't want you to go through this life burdened by the sin curse and all the debauchery
that comes with it.
He wanted you to be able to be his son, his daughter.
He wanted you to be able to be free.
And who the son has set free is free indeed.
And so, friends, I believe we're going to have a shift as of today because you're going
to begin to notice all the things that do not bring you joy.
All the things that you have been doing for the wrong reasons and the wrong intentions
with the wrong heart.
All the ideas you've been thinking, you guys, if an idea comes in your mind and it doesn't
bring you joy, doesn't bring you expectation of reward, expectation of blessing and God's
goodness.
If a thought comes in your mind that doesn't bring to you the expectation of the goodness
of God, then that thought needs to be released.
It's a thought that is coming against joy.
Those thoughts are not from God.
Those thoughts are from past experiences.
They're from unhealed heart wounds.
Those are the flesh origins of those thoughts.
And then some of those thoughts are just purely demonic to try to get you into a place
of depression, into a place of fear, which is the opposite of love.
Everything is easier said than done.
It's not about being easy, it's about being worth it.
And all of you have a divine assignment to take your thoughts captive.
All of you have a divine assignment to take your thoughts captive.
Every single one of you.
Every single one of you, including myself.
All right, you guys, it's time.
I believe that we're entering into the second half of Psalm 126.
I believe it's time for rejoicing.
I think it's time for people who have known you all your life, but they don't really know
you because they've never seen you enjoy.
I believe it's time for you to just show up as a new person, a person that you don't even
recognize, a person that people want to know what in the world have you done differently?
What is going on?
I believe it's time for joy.
We have to open the door and let joy in and release anything and everything that is hindering
that.
So Father God, we thank you for joy.
We thank you that is a fruit of the Spirit.
It's not something that we can manufacture.
It's not something that we can, you know, make up or manifest in our own power.
It is something that has to come from your Spirit.
So Holy Spirit, we're asking that you would cultivate our gardens, that you would weed
our gardens with us, that you would chase all the foxes out of our vineyard.
Anything that is destroying this beautiful garden that God has planted within us, that
includes the fruit of joy.
We want to live in joy.
We want to walk in joy.
We want to be weightless.
We want to be burdenless.
We don't have to suffer needlessly under the curse of sin because it was broken at the
cross.
We can live in the finished work of the cross.
We can be in his presence now, in the fullness of his presence.
We used to only be able to be partly in his presence because it was only the professional
priest that got to be fully in his presence.
That's what that verse means.
That's what David was talking about.
We can come fully into the presence of God, fully in now.
We're allowed in now.
So we can come fully in your presence because Jesus died to give us that path back, to give
us that freedom back, to give us that identity back, to give us that permission and that
access and that authority back.
We can come fully, fully into your presence where we will find fullness of joy and your
pleasures that are eternal, pleasures forevermore.
And so we thank you that you are changing us, that we are becoming less orphans and
more sons and daughters, that as we step out of these grave clothes and into our royal
robes, that we will feel more and more joy, more joy.
And our appetites are changing.
Our desires are changing.
The things that we used to want, we don't want anymore.
Now we're starting to want things that we never wanted before.
We never wanted them.
We're starting to realize that you're giving us the best things that we never knew we even
wanted and we're accepting those things.
We're receiving those things fully because we've made room for them.
And now is our time.
Now is our time.
And so, Lord, we thank you for this era of joy.
We step into it willingly and fully, and we ask God that you would help us in every way,
enable us, give us grace.
In Jesus name, amen.
All right, friends.
Tomorrow night, you can activate some more things over there.
We'll see you soon.