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Welcome to Supernatural Saturday.

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And if you hear some craziness in the background, it's because David and I are on Nona and

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Papa duty today.

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My daughter and my son-in-law are visiting from Ohio and we have twin, almost three-year-old

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grandbabies and they are wily, let me tell you what.

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So they spent the night at a hotel last night, my daughter and her husband, they went out

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with friends and they're downtown Austin and so we had to wrangle the babies today.

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So if you hear David crying for help in the other room, that's what's happening there.

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So welcome to Supernatural Saturday.

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If you're new here, you're in for a treat.

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We love Saturdays, don't we, friends?

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And so Saturday is the time when we all look together to the Lord and we ask God, what

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is the current prophetic reality of heaven?

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You know, we know what our realities are and a lot of times we don't like them.

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We don't like our realities.

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But what is the current prophetic reality of heaven?

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If my job is to bring heaven to earth, if you want to invade earth through my life,

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then that means that there's something that's going on in heaven right now that's not going

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on on earth.

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It's something that needs to come to earth through me.

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And so that is why we look to heaven together and we ask, hey God, what can we do to partner

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with that?

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How can we align ourselves?

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How can we align our minds and our hearts and our lives to that?

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And that is what this day in our community is all about.

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People have gotten so much breakthrough through Supernatural Saturday, upgrade spiritually

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in their relationship with God, themselves, others, also just divine alignment and direction,

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all different types of healing, emotional, mental, physical, spiritual happens on these

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calls.

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And so if you're new, you definitely want to make sure that you either are here live

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or you listen to the replay.

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This is available in replay every week.

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All right.

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And then we go on to activate even more on Sundays.

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So Sunday activation, we will activate what is going on on Supernatural Saturday for that

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week.

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But also on the last Sunday of the month, we will have a just a joint prophetic time and

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all prayer prophetic time when all of our prayer leaders come together to edify and

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encourage you guys.

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So today the thought that I had was this, weeping endures for the night, but joy comes

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in the morning.

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Just think about that for a second.

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That is Psalm 30 verse five.

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Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning.

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It reminds me of several other scriptures, turning your morning into dancing, right?

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There's lots of exchanges, divine exchanges that we can see in scripture, beauty for ashes,

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the oil of joy for morning, garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness.

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We see all that.

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We see the morning into dancing.

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We see the nighttime into day, right?

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Bringing light to the darkness.

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And so I want to talk about this one this morning, because this is what God has highlighted

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to me, that he wants us to understand that there's a time for joy.

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So time when joy comes.

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And so I posted this on my Instagram this morning, and I want to dig into it with you

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guys right now.

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And what I posted was give yourself permission to release anything that doesn't bring you

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joy.

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Let's look back at Psalm 30 verse five.

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Weeping endures for the night, but joy comes in the morning.

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It comes in the morning.

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And so really what I was thinking about this morning, what Holy Spirit was highlighting

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to me is that, hey, you know, joy is coming.

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Joy is showing up, but you have to let it in.

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It's knocking on the door, but you have to let it in.

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And in order to let it in, you have to release or let go of whatever is in here now, right?

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We have to make room for it.

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And we'll talk a little bit about joy versus happiness and all those different things here

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in a second.

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But let's really focus on this right now.

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We have to let joy in.

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I used to have a pastor that was, you know, really revelatory in business stuff and in

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finance stuff.

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And, you know, his wife, I didn't really like her that much.

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I know that that's so shocking to say, but I didn't, you know, her personality just wasn't

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my favorite.

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And so they were both pastors, obviously.

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I don't believe that, you know, the man's the one that's the pastor.

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Everyone's a pastor.

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If they're in a pastoring family, pastoring group, pastoring couple, they're pastors, right?

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And so I just, you know, I couldn't get on the same page with her.

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or her personality was kind of prickly

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and I'm a pretty friendly person

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and I just, I wasn't feeling her.

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So over the years, I really tried.

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Sometimes you guys are in relationship with people

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that their personality is not your favorite.

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If you were gonna pick someone

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to go on a 12-hour road trip with you,

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it wouldn't be them, right?

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There are just people and personalities

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that we like better.

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Can we acknowledge that?

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We vibe with them better.

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Can we acknowledge that?

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I think sometimes we think we're not good Christians

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because we just don't love everybody.

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No, you're not gonna love everybody.

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Some people get on your nerves.

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They're annoying.

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They're irritating.

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Their personalities rub you the wrong way.

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But still, we have to take a deeper look at why that is.

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Abraham Lincoln has a famous quote

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that's attributed to him that says,

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"'I don't like that man.

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"'I must get to know him better.'"

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That is really what happened in the case

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with me and this woman.

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I didn't like her until I got to know her a lot better.

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And then I began to see that the things

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that I didn't like about her

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were just actually her counterfeits.

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They were the walls that she had put up

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to keep herself from being hurt or betrayed

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or disappointed by other people.

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And oftentimes, friends, when people don't like us,

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it's not us that they're not liking.

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It's our counterfeits.

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It's our self-preservation techniques.

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It's the things that we have become

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to protect ourselves.

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And those are the things that rub people the wrong way.

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Those are the things that people can't get past

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to get to the real us.

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And so that was the case here, okay?

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So don't beat yourself up

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when you don't really like someone that much,

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but do do a little bit of inner work there

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and say, hey, you know, why don't I like this person?

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Kind of list it out,

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especially if they are someone

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that you have to be around a lot.

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If they're a coworker,

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if they're a family member of someone that you're dating

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and that you might marry,

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oh, please list it out.

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If they're your mother-in-law-to-be

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or your father-in-law-to-be, okay?

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Let's list that out.

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If they're just someone

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that you're gonna have to be around,

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that you're gonna have to do some life with,

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list it out.

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Okay, well, I don't like it that they do this or that

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or this bothers me or this gets on my nerves.

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And what you'll see in that list

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is some of your own brokenness,

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some of your own insecurities.

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You don't like them

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because they don't make you feel comfortable.

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You feel kind of rejected.

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You feel like maybe they don't like you

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and that makes you not like them, right?

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No one wants to be rejected.

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And so when someone kind of has an air of rejection

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towards us, that makes us not like them, okay?

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Or you could go the other direction

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where you start trying to kiss their little booty.

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You try to people please and try to get them to like you.

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Raise your hand if you're the kind of person

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who can't stand it.

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If someone doesn't like you

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and you will do everything in your power

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to try to get them to like you.

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Stop it, don't do that anymore.

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Don't do it.

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Okay, so make a list

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and do a little bit of hard work around that, okay?

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Because I bet you you're gonna find out

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that there's some things about them

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that kind of reminds you of some broken things about you

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and that's why you don't like them.

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Okay, there's a little teaching moment there,

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but that's really not what the story's about.

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The story's about that I got put in closer

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and closer proximity to her.

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I started realizing that this was all just the facade.

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The things I didn't like about her were a front or a wall

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and I started to get past those things

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and started to get to the real her

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and I actually started vibing with her.

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I'm like, okay, you're cool.

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But then one day I was at this prayer meeting thing,

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downtown Columbus at the Capitol

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and who walks in but her?

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I wasn't expecting her.

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I didn't know she knew about this.

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I didn't know that she was part of this group

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that was holding this gathering.

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And she walked in and so after it was over with,

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her and I were leaving at the same time

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and she is like a music gift.

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She leads worship, writes songs,

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has some albums that are out

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and I was holding a women's gathering

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and I said to her as we're walking out together,

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I said, hey, I've been meaning to talk to you.

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I was wondering if you would come and do the worship

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for this women's gathering that I'm gonna be hosting.

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And you guys, this was years ago.

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Now, the one thing that I knew about her

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is that she doesn't like women's gatherings

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for obvious reasons.

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She feels a little bit closed off when it comes to women.

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She puts up some armor when it comes to women.

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Doesn't really trust women that well.

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Raise your hand if you're a woman on here

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and you feel like that.

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You know, you're not really that crazy about other women.

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In fact, being in this group

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has been a huge stretch for you

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because you've had to be trusting

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and in proximity to other women,

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kind of opening up your heart,

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processing through your stuff, your heart work,

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even your dates with other women.

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That's kind of new because you have a lot of woman wounds.

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Get your hands up.

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I know there's more of you.

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not your favorite thing.

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Even when you were in school, you didn't have a lot of girlfriends, you might have had more

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guy friends, you know, okay, so she's one of these girls that doesn't really love being

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around other women, especially at like women's gatherings, which a lot of people are like

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gross, hate those things.

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They're so fake.

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They're so this or so that.

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So I didn't know that about her fully about the whole women's thing, and I'm inviting

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her to come and lead worship.

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But get this, get this next thing.

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This is what she said to me.

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She said, nah, I think I'm going to pass.

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Like she didn't even ask more information.

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She didn't seem sorry that she wasn't going to be able to do the thing that I was asking

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her to do.

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Hey, can you come do this?

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Nah, I think I'm going to pass.

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What?

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She's not even saying I'm busy that day.

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It's not.

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She's not saying she's not making any excuses.

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She's just saying no, you guys.

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This is kind of my first experience with someone just unapologetically saying no, I don't want

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to.

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She's saying, no, I think I'm going to pass.

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And then I said to her, I said, oh, I said, are you busy that day?

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She goes, no, no, I'm not busy.

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She said, and this is what she said next.

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She said, in this season, I'm giving myself permission not to do anything that doesn't

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bring me joy.

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You guys, that offended the crap out of me.

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I was so offended by that.

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I was so offended by that.

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And I just nodded and said, oh, okay, all right.

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And we went our separate ways.

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And I got in my car and I started, I was just like, oh, I knew I didn't like her.

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And I just started saying all kinds of things, you know, just like not about her, but just

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about the situation.

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Like, oh, who does she think she is?

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I mean, okay.

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Yeah.

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All right.

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You're not going to do anything that doesn't bring you joy.

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Must be nice, you know?

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And I'm just saying all this stuff.

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And you guys, back in these days, I had such a employee of God mindset.

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This is many years ago.

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And I still had a lot of hard work to do.

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I still had a lot of orphan tendencies.

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And the reason why this is important, because God stopped me in the midst of my offendedness.

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And remember, offense, when you feel it, it has the ability to upgrade you more than

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any other emotion.

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Offense, which is a byproduct of anger, okay, anger has the ability to upgrade you immediately.

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If you will, instead of just feeling the feels, you have to heal the feels.

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You have to ask yourself, why does this make me so mad?

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Why does this offend me?

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And what will happen is Holy Spirit will point you to an unhealed place in your heart, okay?

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To a heart posture, to a lie that you're believing, to a hurt that's still bleeding out.

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That is what will happen.

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And in this moment, when I'm just venting and ranting about, you know, about almost

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like the entitledness, the entitledness of her comment, God said to me, He said,

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why are you so offended by that?

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And I said, well, there's lots of things that don't bring me joy that I have to do, but

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I do them because it's the right thing to do.

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And I start talking in the terms of right and wrong and black and white and wrong and

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right.

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And I start talking in those terms and God said, who asked you to do it?

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And then I had to think about that for a while.

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And then I realized that I was the one that was putting pressure on myself, not God.

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That I was the one telling myself that these were the right things to do and these were

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the things that I had to do.

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And that's just the way that life is.

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You have to do all kinds of stuff that you just don't want to do.

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And friends, I'm not telling you that you're not going to have to eat any more frogs.

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I'm not telling you that you're not going to have to get up and do things that you don't

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like to do.

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Okay.

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Like clean your room or clean the toilet or, you know, go grocery shopping, which I hate.

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You know, if you're, you're not going to have to, you know, pick up some weights and move

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your body.

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I'm not telling you that you're never going to have to do anything that you don't fully

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enjoy.

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But hopefully we can shift our mindset to a place where the things that are necessary

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and needful that we can do the things that bring us joy.

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Remember a story where there was someone running around doing a whole lot of stuff that wasn't

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necessary when Jesus arrived.

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And there was one person that was doing what brought them joy.

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And that was Mary.

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She was sitting at the feet of Jesus, who's sitting in his presence.

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By the way, the Bible says in his presence, there's fullness of joy.

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So remember, it's not happiness.

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We have circumstances that don't bring us happiness and happiness is very circumstantial.

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But joy is the fruit of the spirit and it comes from intimacy and it comes from relationship.

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And so she was sitting there doing what brought her joy.

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But Martha, her sister, was running around like a chicken

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with her head cut off, like so many of us,

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doing all kinds of things that she obviously

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didn't want to do.

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And you want to know how I know?

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Because she said, why isn't anyone else helping?

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Why do I have to do this?

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And Jesus basically said to her, you don't.

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Love that story.

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You don't.

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Who told you to do it?

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You don't have to do it.

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What she wanted is she wanted someone else

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to be forced into doing what she didn't even have to do.

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And that's what I was really doing.

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And it's just really interesting because this pastor's name

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was Mary.

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Her name was Mary, OK?

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And I learned a huge lesson from Mary that day.

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Because I didn't really want to do some of the things

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that I was doing either.

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And here I was trying to enlist her,

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draft her into my war over here to do these things with me.

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And she was just like, nah, that doesn't sound fun.

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No, that doesn't bring me joy.

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I'm not going to do that.

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And I was like, wait, what?

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What?

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What do you mean?

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What do you mean you don't have to do what

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doesn't bring you joy?

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What do you mean you're giving yourself permission

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to not do anything that doesn't bring you joy?

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And that was just a huge shift for me.

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And I hope it's going to be a huge shift for you.

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Because now when I go to do something,

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I have to question my motives.

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I have to question my own intentions.

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Why am I doing this?

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Why am I saying yes to this?

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Why?

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Do I really want to do it?

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And you guys, I'm not saying that there won't be some times

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when God really puts it on our heart

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to do something that maybe we didn't

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want to do in the first place.

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Or maybe we weren't intending to do.

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But we really know that we need to do it.

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And guess what?

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With that comes grace.

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The grace to do it.

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The grace to do it cheerfully.

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Because God loves a cheerful giver.

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When we give of our time, of our talents, of our finances,

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when we give of ourselves, we need

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to be able to do it cheerfully.

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And if you can't do it fearfully,

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you need to take a step back and find out why.

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Because maybe you shouldn't be doing it at all.

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Right?

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It's important.

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OK.

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So let's take inventory.

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Why am I saying yes to this?

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Especially for you people pleasers,

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why am I saying yes to this?

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Because what often happens for people

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that just say yes, yes, yes all the time

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because they want to be thought well of by others.

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They don't want conflict.

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They don't want confrontation.

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They don't want to make anyone upset by saying no.

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They also have guilted themselves,

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like I was, into doing what they thought was the right thing.

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Well, it's just the right thing.

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We've got to serve the Lord.

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We've got to do the things that people ask us to do.

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Right?

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Wrong.

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You have to give your best yes.

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Because when you say yes to something,

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you're saying no to everything else.

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We've got to give our best yes.

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And that's really what she was telling me that day.

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I'm giving myself permission to give my best yes.

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This is not something that's in my wheelhouse.

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This is not something I feel called to.

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This is not something that I enjoy.

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It doesn't bring me joy.

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I don't feel the Lord on it for me.

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And so instead of pleasing you, Jackie, by saying yes,

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I'm going to say no.

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Because God's trying to teach me something.

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He's trying to teach me to reserve my talents

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and my energy and what I have to offer for what?

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For my best yes.

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And it's really important, you guys.

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It's really important.

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And so when you say yes to something,

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we need to take some inventory of why we're saying yes to it.

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Do we really want to do it?

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Do we really feel led to do it?

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Do we feel equipped to do it?

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Is it going to be something that challenges us and stretches us

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and we're looking forward to that?

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Or not forward to it, but also we know that it's important?

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What, why?

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You guys can do some work around that tomorrow night

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about boundaries and about setting boundaries

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and about giving your best yes.

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But let's keep talking about giving ourselves permission

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to let go of everything that doesn't bring us joy.

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This is not just about saying yes

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to activities or invitations.

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This is about opening the door because Psalm 35 says,

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joy comes in the morning.

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And so when we're opening the door for this new season,

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this new day that's dawning with the God in our lives,

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we have to let some things go out.

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You ever been at the airport?

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You're going to get on the people.

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mover, the door's open, you can't go in until that,

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whatever's in the people mover comes out.

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There's no room.

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You can't bum rush in there.

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You have to wait for that stuff to go out

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so there's room to go in.

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It's kind of like that in my mind.

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You gotta let what's in out in order to let what's out in.

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You do.

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Stay focused, friends.

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Don't get into the minutiae.

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Let's stay focused on what God is releasing right now.

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I see the comments blowing up.

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It's good, but at the same time, we wanna focus

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because this is a really important moment right now.

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What do you have to let go of

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in order to take a hold of joy?

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I can think of a few things right off for myself.

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I want you to think about that for a second.

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Close your eyes and just ask the question,

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what do I need to let go of to take a hold of joy?

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Come on, let's take a moment.

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Ask the question.

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What do I need to let go of to take a hold of joy?

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All right, I wanna see some of these answers in the chat.

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The rest of you can keep praying about it,

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keep thinking about it.

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Once again, we will be activating this tomorrow night

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on activation, so if you're ready

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and you wanna come to that, go ahead, put it up.

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What do you have to let go of

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in order to grab a hold of joy?

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The struggle, the pain, the frustration,

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the anxiety, the fear, the anxiety,

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the struggle, the weeping, pain, yeah, there's a season.

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But God is telling us that our era of joy is here.

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Our era of joy is here.

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And I know probably like me,

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you're waiting for everything, all your circumstances

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just to iron out in order to let joy in

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and God's saying, no, let go of the things

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that are holding joy back and grab a hold of joy.

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Grab a hold of joy.

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You guys, I understand that.

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My life's not perfect.

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You guys heard last Sunday, if you guys were there live

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about the situation with my brother, by the way, he is safe.

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But you know where he is,

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even though he was homeless on the street,

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on foot, crippled, with no car, no transportation.

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We know that he is safe, it's good.

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We were able to have some communication with him

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where all of that is at right now, it's stabilized.

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Continuing to release him to the Lord.

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See, that's a perfect example.

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What do I have to let go of to grab a hold of joy?

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My brother, I have to release him to grab a hold of joy.

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Some of you need to release people

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that you've been trying to fix and save.

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Situations where you are suffering needlessly,

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you are pressurizing yourself and God's not pressuring you.

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You're not the hero of the story he is

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and you need to let it go.

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You need to release it.

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It's not up to you to hold it together anymore.

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In fact, it needs to fall apart.

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You need to allow it to fall apart in order for joy to come.

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Because joy is here, joy is knocking on the door, it's time.

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You know, David and I have been through so much

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in our 18 years of marriage, you guys, so much.

508
00:24:16.920 --> 00:24:19.040
So many moves, so many lost jobs.

509
00:24:19.040 --> 00:24:20.360
In the first two years of marriage,

510
00:24:20.360 --> 00:24:23.000
David and I both lost two jobs a piece.

511
00:24:24.680 --> 00:24:25.880
And those were long jobs.

512
00:24:25.880 --> 00:24:28.160
The very first job that we lost when we first got married,

513
00:24:28.160 --> 00:24:30.320
I got fired from my brokerage position.

514
00:24:30.320 --> 00:24:33.440
Get this, I got fired because I was getting remarried.

515
00:24:35.480 --> 00:24:36.960
The man that owned the brokerage,

516
00:24:36.960 --> 00:24:38.520
and I'm sure this is against the law,

517
00:24:38.520 --> 00:24:42.440
but I didn't have any strength in me to fight this man.

518
00:24:43.520 --> 00:24:46.960
He did not believe that I should be getting remarried.

519
00:24:46.960 --> 00:24:49.280
He was making a moral

520
00:24:52.200 --> 00:24:53.720
call for me.

521
00:24:53.720 --> 00:24:57.200
He was making a moral judgment on me and my character

522
00:24:57.200 --> 00:24:59.840
because I was getting married to...

523
00:25:00.000 --> 00:25:02.800
too quickly after my divorce.

524
00:25:02.800 --> 00:25:06.240
And so he fired me.

525
00:25:06.240 --> 00:25:11.080
Because in insurance, which I was a broker in insurance, you know, you have to be a trustworthy

526
00:25:11.080 --> 00:25:12.360
and honest person.

527
00:25:12.360 --> 00:25:15.400
You can't be dishonest in insurance.

528
00:25:15.400 --> 00:25:23.960
And you know, he said that, that that gave me questionable morals and character.

529
00:25:23.960 --> 00:25:25.480
He was an older gentleman.

530
00:25:25.480 --> 00:25:29.680
He has obviously a right to his opinion, which I'm pretty sure is illegal.

531
00:25:29.680 --> 00:25:32.160
But at the same time, that's why I lost my job.

532
00:25:32.160 --> 00:25:40.720
So two months before we got married, I got fired, fired, you guys, fired.

533
00:25:40.720 --> 00:25:41.720
And then guess what?

534
00:25:41.720 --> 00:25:49.000
Two months after we were married, my husband lost his ministry job of 14 years that he

535
00:25:49.000 --> 00:25:58.120
had in a ruthless downsizing because of the church's own bad habits and problems.

536
00:25:58.120 --> 00:25:59.800
He gave his life to that job.

537
00:25:59.800 --> 00:26:00.800
That wasn't just a job.

538
00:26:00.800 --> 00:26:01.800
That was a ministry.

539
00:26:01.800 --> 00:26:03.640
How do you get fired from your own ministry?

540
00:26:03.640 --> 00:26:04.640
Right.

541
00:26:04.640 --> 00:26:09.600
And there was just so much turmoil that happened as a result of those things.

542
00:26:09.600 --> 00:26:13.880
So much you guys, in fact, to the point and the reason for the story is, is I just said

543
00:26:13.880 --> 00:26:18.720
to the Lord, I just, I just need a rest, Lord.

544
00:26:18.720 --> 00:26:20.640
I can't handle any more of this.

545
00:26:21.640 --> 00:26:29.480
into this marriage fresh out of an abusive, you know, unhealthy, unsafe place.

546
00:26:29.480 --> 00:26:30.800
My pastor had gone to prison.

547
00:26:30.800 --> 00:26:38.680
I'd already been through so much from my childhood to my marriage, to my discipleship in a, in

548
00:26:38.680 --> 00:26:40.600
a cult basically.

549
00:26:40.600 --> 00:26:47.080
And then finally out of all of those prison bars only to come into a situation where I

550
00:26:47.120 --> 00:26:53.960
I would have hoped it would have been smooth sailing and yet the seas are still rough.

551
00:26:53.960 --> 00:26:55.240
Let me tell you something.

552
00:26:55.240 --> 00:27:00.960
You have been matched with a generation where the seas are rough.

553
00:27:00.960 --> 00:27:04.760
You don't live in the good old days.

554
00:27:04.760 --> 00:27:06.840
You don't live when life was simpler.

555
00:27:06.840 --> 00:27:08.040
You live now.

556
00:27:08.040 --> 00:27:09.640
You were matched with now.

557
00:27:09.640 --> 00:27:13.080
Some of you remember when life was simpler, including me, I'm 50 years old.

558
00:27:13.080 --> 00:27:16.240
I do remember the late seventies and eighties.

559
00:27:16.280 --> 00:27:19.240
I remember when life was simpler.

560
00:27:21.240 --> 00:27:23.960
Yeah, there was trouble on the earth, but we didn't know about it because we didn't

561
00:27:23.960 --> 00:27:24.840
have the internet.

562
00:27:26.120 --> 00:27:30.720
Hey, we didn't know that we were surrounded all sides by evil that was closing in.

563
00:27:30.920 --> 00:27:32.880
That's one of the reasons why you shouldn't watch the news.

564
00:27:33.160 --> 00:27:37.840
You don't need to know what's happening in someone else's community across the world.

565
00:27:38.600 --> 00:27:41.960
The people in that community need to know what's going on there because that's their

566
00:27:41.960 --> 00:27:46.640
business and that is something that they need to, they need to, they need help for.

567
00:27:46.640 --> 00:27:47.640
They need to work on.

568
00:27:49.040 --> 00:27:52.600
They need to gather together and unite and lock arms to stop.

569
00:27:52.600 --> 00:27:53.760
We don't need to know about it.

570
00:27:53.760 --> 00:27:56.880
Do you understand how that causes undue stress for you?

571
00:27:57.000 --> 00:27:58.120
There's nothing you can do about it.

572
00:27:58.120 --> 00:27:59.040
You don't need to know about it.

573
00:28:00.280 --> 00:28:01.440
Oh, but Jackie for prayer.

574
00:28:01.480 --> 00:28:02.400
No, no friends.

575
00:28:02.400 --> 00:28:10.240
Our, our nervous systems are totally messed up because of these things.

576
00:28:12.080 --> 00:28:13.600
You need to mind your own business.

577
00:28:15.520 --> 00:28:18.880
You do need to mind the business that's right in front of us.

578
00:28:21.160 --> 00:28:23.080
People are like, oh, everyone has ADHD now.

579
00:28:23.080 --> 00:28:23.800
No, they don't.

580
00:28:25.240 --> 00:28:30.400
Everyone's trying to tune out and self-medicate because everyone nervous systems are a wreck.

581
00:28:33.320 --> 00:28:34.760
We're not addicted to dopamine.

582
00:28:35.760 --> 00:28:40.120
We're trying to escape all the chaos all around us.

583
00:28:41.120 --> 00:28:43.960
But once again, God matched you with these times, right?

584
00:28:43.960 --> 00:28:45.680
He knew that this was going to be this way.

585
00:28:45.680 --> 00:28:49.200
He told his disciples on earth, they said, Hey, what are going to be the signs of the

586
00:28:49.200 --> 00:28:49.800
end of the age?

587
00:28:49.800 --> 00:28:51.880
And he said, this is what it's going to look like friends.

588
00:28:53.360 --> 00:28:54.800
This is what it's going to look like.

589
00:28:55.160 --> 00:28:56.000
And guess what?

590
00:28:56.480 --> 00:28:57.360
It looks like that.

591
00:28:57.360 --> 00:28:58.480
Look out your window.

592
00:28:59.440 --> 00:29:01.200
We live during the end of the age.

593
00:29:01.240 --> 00:29:03.040
We live in that timeframe.

594
00:29:04.320 --> 00:29:06.400
And so the seas are going to be rough.

595
00:29:07.640 --> 00:29:09.320
The seas are going to be rough for everyone.

596
00:29:10.880 --> 00:29:12.600
But not everyone has Jesus on their boat.

597
00:29:13.560 --> 00:29:14.640
And that's what God told me.

598
00:29:14.760 --> 00:29:16.920
He said, you know, Jackie, he said, the seas are rough.

599
00:29:16.920 --> 00:29:18.400
He's like, you want smooth sailing.

600
00:29:18.400 --> 00:29:20.080
He said, but you have me on your boat.

601
00:29:21.360 --> 00:29:22.360
You have me on your boat.

602
00:29:24.040 --> 00:29:28.760
Basically, what he was saying is, is that, you know, peace is not a thing that comes

603
00:29:28.760 --> 00:29:30.400
the place you can go in me.

604
00:29:31.920 --> 00:29:33.520
It's a place you can go in me.

605
00:29:33.520 --> 00:29:35.640
I don't, I didn't like that answer.

606
00:29:36.520 --> 00:29:40.560
I just wanted everything to be easy and better.

607
00:29:43.480 --> 00:29:49.080
I was tired of blending a family and building a marriage in, in all of these

608
00:29:49.080 --> 00:29:53.960
chaotic times all around us, where we just felt like we couldn't catch a break.

609
00:29:57.960 --> 00:29:59.280
And that's what I had to learn.

610
00:29:59.280 --> 00:29:59.920
You guys that.

611
00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:02.560
Best is a place that you go in him.

612
00:30:02.580 --> 00:30:05.120
Peace that passes all understanding.

613
00:30:05.120 --> 00:30:09.200
It's something that he gives you when you come into his presence.

614
00:30:09.200 --> 00:30:10.280
There's fullness of joy.

615
00:30:10.280 --> 00:30:11.560
Do you guys see the trend here?

616
00:30:12.000 --> 00:30:13.520
Do you see what I'm trying to tell you?

617
00:30:18.240 --> 00:30:19.240
It's about relationship.

618
00:30:19.240 --> 00:30:20.240
It's about intimacy.

619
00:30:26.040 --> 00:30:29.920
David and I have weathered many, many, many, many storms together.

620
00:30:30.840 --> 00:30:34.560
And the reason why I'm preparing you for that is because probably because of the

621
00:30:34.560 --> 00:30:37.960
era that you live in, because of the generation that you've been matched with,

622
00:30:38.320 --> 00:30:41.240
you are probably going to experience the same thing.

623
00:30:42.920 --> 00:30:45.800
I know that a lot of you are thinking, Oh, you know, when I find my spirit

624
00:30:45.800 --> 00:30:48.720
made, everything's just going to be so much better.

625
00:30:48.720 --> 00:30:52.000
And it's just going to be, you know, eternal.

626
00:30:53.640 --> 00:30:54.360
The, what is it?

627
00:30:54.360 --> 00:30:59.440
The, uh, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind.

628
00:31:01.000 --> 00:31:01.920
And it's not true.

629
00:31:03.120 --> 00:31:07.040
It isn't, we don't live in a time that's easy anymore.

630
00:31:07.440 --> 00:31:08.960
Are you going to have really good times?

631
00:31:08.960 --> 00:31:10.400
You're going to have a lot of fun together.

632
00:31:10.400 --> 00:31:10.920
Sure.

633
00:31:11.720 --> 00:31:12.520
Of course you are.

634
00:31:12.920 --> 00:31:17.960
I'm not being a doom, a doom speaker right now, but I'm also telling you that,

635
00:31:18.080 --> 00:31:23.960
you know, these marriages are being matched together in a very tumultuous time.

636
00:31:23.960 --> 00:31:30.280
In a time where you need to know where your peace comes from, where your help

637
00:31:30.280 --> 00:31:36.040
comes from, you need to understand and know how to enter into his joy.

638
00:31:39.000 --> 00:31:39.520
Right.

639
00:31:41.920 --> 00:31:43.720
You have to know how to do those things.

640
00:31:43.960 --> 00:31:45.200
It's going to be really, really important.

641
00:31:45.200 --> 00:31:49.440
So one day God said to me, I said, um, you know, people are always like, Oh,

642
00:31:49.440 --> 00:31:50.560
you and David are so good.

643
00:31:51.000 --> 00:31:54.640
I said, um, you know, people are always like, Oh, you and David are so awesome.

644
00:31:54.640 --> 00:31:56.800
You're such an awesome couple, this and that we're always

645
00:31:56.800 --> 00:31:58.120
getting compliments like that.

646
00:31:58.120 --> 00:32:02.000
And, you know, in my mind, I'm, I'm thinking of what it takes to get here.

647
00:32:02.400 --> 00:32:06.280
And, you know, just to just all of the things that we've been through.

648
00:32:06.280 --> 00:32:10.160
And, and I'm so thankful that on the outside, people see the fruit of that,

649
00:32:10.160 --> 00:32:15.120
right, they see the fruit of our blended family and all the things that we've

650
00:32:15.120 --> 00:32:18.520
weathered through and the battles that we've won and all the stuff.

651
00:32:19.240 --> 00:32:21.080
You know, and this is the thought that came.

652
00:32:21.440 --> 00:32:23.440
They were like, Oh, you guys are so amazing.

653
00:32:23.440 --> 00:32:24.480
You're so awesome.

654
00:32:24.760 --> 00:32:25.320
You know?

655
00:32:25.760 --> 00:32:29.240
And then God whispered to me, he said, wait till they see you in joy.

656
00:32:31.440 --> 00:32:32.280
And I was like, what?

657
00:32:32.800 --> 00:32:37.880
He's like, yeah, he's like, they see, they see you in the battles.

658
00:32:37.920 --> 00:32:42.920
They see you, they compliment you on, you know, sticking in there and fighting

659
00:32:42.920 --> 00:32:47.680
for your family and building your blended family and, you know, rebuilding

660
00:32:47.880 --> 00:32:52.400
a marriage after divorce and all these things he said, but wait till they see

661
00:32:52.400 --> 00:32:57.120
you in joy, wait till they see you guys.

662
00:32:57.120 --> 00:33:02.320
Psalm 126, six, the second half of the verse, they that go weeping bearing

663
00:33:02.320 --> 00:33:07.000
precious seed will no doubt come again, rejoicing, carrying their harvest with

664
00:33:07.000 --> 00:33:11.680
them, wait till they see you in the second half of that verse, rejoicing.

665
00:33:12.840 --> 00:33:16.360
What enjoy bringing what your harvest with you.

666
00:33:18.680 --> 00:33:20.600
And so I want to tell you this.

667
00:33:21.160 --> 00:33:23.760
You haven't seen me until you've seen me in joy.

668
00:33:27.280 --> 00:33:29.080
I want you to declare that over yourself.

669
00:33:29.960 --> 00:33:31.920
Ooh, I know people think they know me.

670
00:33:32.600 --> 00:33:34.600
They think they know that what I have to offer.

671
00:33:34.600 --> 00:33:38.800
They think that they know what I'm all about, but you haven't seen

672
00:33:38.800 --> 00:33:41.200
me until you've seen me in joy.

673
00:33:43.120 --> 00:33:44.680
Come on, say that over yourself.

674
00:33:44.960 --> 00:33:49.120
You haven't seen me until you've seen me in joy.

675
00:33:56.160 --> 00:33:58.880
You know, my trouble, you know what I've been through, you know what I've

676
00:33:58.880 --> 00:34:07.960
overcome because I'm an overcomer, but you haven't seen me in the victory of joy.

677
00:34:08.000 --> 00:34:10.239
You haven't seen me enjoy.

678
00:34:13.480 --> 00:34:15.000
You haven't seen me enjoy.

679
00:34:18.320 --> 00:34:19.000
Come on, you guys.

680
00:34:19.000 --> 00:34:20.159
It's our era of joy.

681
00:34:21.239 --> 00:34:22.040
It's our time.

682
00:34:23.199 --> 00:34:25.199
It's our time to be enjoy.

683
00:34:29.600 --> 00:34:33.880
It's our time to open that door and say, yes, I'm going to open that door for you.

684
00:34:33.880 --> 00:34:35.400
I'm going to open that door for you.

685
00:34:36.199 --> 00:34:39.639
It's our time to open that door because joy is knocking.

686
00:34:41.000 --> 00:34:44.600
The weeping that's endured for this night season.

687
00:34:46.840 --> 00:34:47.800
Joy is knocking.

688
00:34:49.560 --> 00:34:50.320
Let me in.

689
00:34:51.360 --> 00:34:52.000
Let me in.

690
00:34:52.080 --> 00:34:52.800
I've come.

691
00:34:53.199 --> 00:34:54.560
Joy comes in the morning.

692
00:34:54.800 --> 00:34:57.520
Joy has shown up and now joy needs to be let in.

693
00:34:57.720 --> 00:34:59.960
And in order to let her in, we need to let out.

694
00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:03.280
Anything that's in the way of that.

695
00:35:04.440 --> 00:35:06.200
Anything that's in the way of that.

696
00:35:07.640 --> 00:35:09.520
All your doubt, all your fear,

697
00:35:11.160 --> 00:35:12.960
all the things that you're trying to fix

698
00:35:12.960 --> 00:35:14.520
that you don't have any business

699
00:35:14.520 --> 00:35:17.360
or any jurisdiction trying to fix, it's not on you.

700
00:35:17.360 --> 00:35:19.280
It needs to be on your Jesus Cares Board.

701
00:35:19.280 --> 00:35:22.240
You guys, your Jesus Cares Board will bring you so much joy.

702
00:35:24.600 --> 00:35:27.260
Your heaviness will fall off of you.

703
00:35:27.260 --> 00:35:29.680
A lot of us, heaviness is in the way of joy.

704
00:35:31.000 --> 00:35:36.000
The oil of joy for mourning is what Isaiah 61 says.

705
00:35:39.160 --> 00:35:43.520
The oil of joy for mourning.

706
00:35:46.420 --> 00:35:49.820
Instead of mourning, the oil of joy.

707
00:35:49.820 --> 00:35:52.180
God wants to anoint us with joy.

708
00:35:53.380 --> 00:35:56.180
Wow, God wants to anoint us with joy.

709
00:35:57.060 --> 00:35:58.800
I don't know if you've ever gotten oil in your hair,

710
00:35:58.820 --> 00:36:00.120
but it's hard to get out.

711
00:36:01.340 --> 00:36:02.700
It's hard to get it off.

712
00:36:04.340 --> 00:36:06.200
It's hard, hard, hard.

713
00:36:09.380 --> 00:36:10.700
Yes.

714
00:36:10.700 --> 00:36:12.380
Come on, you guys, what's coming up right now?

715
00:36:12.380 --> 00:36:14.700
What is Holy Spirit pointing to?

716
00:36:14.700 --> 00:36:17.600
Hey, this is blocking joy.

717
00:36:17.600 --> 00:36:18.980
This is keeping you.

718
00:36:20.060 --> 00:36:21.840
This is keeping you from joy.

719
00:36:21.840 --> 00:36:22.680
What is it?

720
00:36:24.400 --> 00:36:26.260
What have you been trying to control?

721
00:36:29.800 --> 00:36:34.800
What are you trying to make happen?

722
00:36:39.980 --> 00:36:42.620
We need to adopt, we need to adopt

723
00:36:42.620 --> 00:36:45.980
that line that offended me so many years ago.

724
00:36:45.980 --> 00:36:50.980
I'm giving myself permission to let go of anything

725
00:36:51.660 --> 00:36:52.960
that doesn't bring me joy.

726
00:36:54.220 --> 00:36:56.620
To not do anything that doesn't bring me joy.

727
00:36:57.600 --> 00:36:59.440
We're gonna do that, you guys.

728
00:36:59.440 --> 00:37:00.800
It's gonna be a challenge.

729
00:37:00.800 --> 00:37:01.960
It's gonna be the joy challenge.

730
00:37:01.960 --> 00:37:04.240
It's time for us to step into our joy era.

731
00:37:04.240 --> 00:37:06.080
And what we're gonna do is we're going

732
00:37:06.080 --> 00:37:11.080
to give ourselves permission to not do anything,

733
00:37:11.080 --> 00:37:16.080
think anything, believe anything, invite anything,

734
00:37:17.040 --> 00:37:22.040
participate in anything that doesn't bring us joy.

735
00:37:22.820 --> 00:37:27.820
Remember, not happiness, happiness is temporary.

736
00:37:28.900 --> 00:37:29.740
It's very fleeting.

737
00:37:29.740 --> 00:37:30.900
You could be happy one minute

738
00:37:30.900 --> 00:37:33.480
and be sad or mad the next moment.

739
00:37:34.420 --> 00:37:36.140
Happiness is circumstantial.

740
00:37:36.140 --> 00:37:39.080
Joy, that doesn't bring us joy.

741
00:37:49.140 --> 00:37:50.260
Joy, you guys.

742
00:37:51.200 --> 00:37:53.000
Come on, think about what those things are

743
00:37:53.000 --> 00:37:53.820
that you're letting go of.

744
00:37:53.820 --> 00:37:55.420
What is Holy Spirit pointing to?

745
00:38:02.200 --> 00:38:04.440
What is Holy Spirit pointing to?

746
00:38:07.080 --> 00:38:08.680
Go ahead and put it in the chat.

747
00:38:08.740 --> 00:38:11.400
Go ahead and put it in the chat.

748
00:38:18.740 --> 00:38:20.460
Just so you know that the difference

749
00:38:20.460 --> 00:38:22.860
between happiness and joy is happiness has to do

750
00:38:22.860 --> 00:38:23.900
with external things.

751
00:38:23.900 --> 00:38:26.640
It has to do with circumstances.

752
00:38:27.860 --> 00:38:30.200
You know, you got a bonus check at work.

753
00:38:31.420 --> 00:38:32.760
Wow, that makes me happy.

754
00:38:33.820 --> 00:38:35.380
You hear some good news about something.

755
00:38:35.380 --> 00:38:37.220
Oh, that makes me happy.

756
00:38:37.240 --> 00:38:38.200
Joy is internal.

757
00:38:38.200 --> 00:38:39.400
It has to do with identity.

758
00:38:39.400 --> 00:38:41.040
It has to do with your wellbeing.

759
00:38:43.480 --> 00:38:48.480
It has to do with you internally being well, being held.

760
00:39:03.760 --> 00:39:04.640
It's different than peace

761
00:39:04.640 --> 00:39:06.760
because it's more about exuberance.

762
00:39:07.100 --> 00:39:09.260
It's more about excitement and anticipation.

763
00:39:10.700 --> 00:39:14.540
Joy is that just that inner sense of wellbeing.

764
00:39:14.540 --> 00:39:16.740
You know, you know what I'm talking about?

765
00:39:26.020 --> 00:39:27.500
All right, is anyone putting stuff up?

766
00:39:27.500 --> 00:39:28.600
I don't see anything.

767
00:39:36.760 --> 00:39:37.600
All right.

768
00:39:55.600 --> 00:39:56.760
All right, I see some stuff.

769
00:39:56.760 --> 00:39:58.220
I'm reading through your comments.

770
00:39:58.220 --> 00:39:59.820
So it says in the Bible.

771
00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:05.900
That in His presence, there's fullness of joy.

772
00:40:05.900 --> 00:40:08.500
And as right hand, there's pleasures forevermore.

773
00:40:08.500 --> 00:40:12.580
You guys, I know that we think that God, you know, this is why, you know, a lot of people

774
00:40:12.580 --> 00:40:13.580
get stuck.

775
00:40:13.580 --> 00:40:16.800
They get stuck in religious thinking that, oh, you know, to follow Jesus, it's not going

776
00:40:16.800 --> 00:40:17.800
to be fun.

777
00:40:17.800 --> 00:40:19.020
I'm not going to like it.

778
00:40:19.020 --> 00:40:21.780
I'm going to have to just suffer, suffer with Christ.

779
00:40:21.780 --> 00:40:24.660
And I'm going to do a whole bunch of things that are not enjoyable.

780
00:40:24.660 --> 00:40:29.620
And you know, the, you know, the enjoyment is for heaven, not for this life.

781
00:40:29.620 --> 00:40:37.220
So many people believe that, like we're here to suffer and then someday we'll be fully

782
00:40:37.220 --> 00:40:40.820
in His presence and then there'll be joy and pleasures and all the things.

783
00:40:40.820 --> 00:40:45.800
No, you guys, the veil has been torn.

784
00:40:45.800 --> 00:40:50.060
We can go into His presence now and go into the holiest of holies now.

785
00:40:50.060 --> 00:40:52.680
We can go boldly to the throne of grace now.

786
00:40:52.680 --> 00:40:56.340
And in His presence, there is fullness of joy.

787
00:40:56.340 --> 00:41:00.660
And at His right hand, which is the right hand of favor, Jesus is seated at the right

788
00:41:00.660 --> 00:41:06.020
hand of Christ, where you're seated as well with Him in heavenly places.

789
00:41:06.020 --> 00:41:10.580
There's pleasures, not just temporary pleasures of this life, but forevermore.

790
00:41:10.580 --> 00:41:13.580
That's what He's trying to get into our heads.

791
00:41:13.580 --> 00:41:18.260
Hey, pleasure is not just for heaven, but there are certain pleasures that are eternal

792
00:41:18.260 --> 00:41:20.620
and some that are not.

793
00:41:20.620 --> 00:41:23.540
Some that are just pleasures for now.

794
00:41:23.540 --> 00:41:26.900
I know a lot of times we get in this religious mode where like, hey, we're not supposed to

795
00:41:26.900 --> 00:41:29.500
ever do anything that our flesh likes to do.

796
00:41:29.500 --> 00:41:31.340
Well, you know what?

797
00:41:31.340 --> 00:41:34.740
If your flesh is following after your spirit, then your flesh is going to want to do things

798
00:41:34.740 --> 00:41:38.220
that are also good for you.

799
00:41:38.220 --> 00:41:40.580
That's your problem.

800
00:41:40.580 --> 00:41:43.740
If you're following after the flesh, then yes, you're going to want some pleasures that

801
00:41:43.740 --> 00:41:45.620
are not good for you.

802
00:41:45.620 --> 00:41:50.260
You're going to have some appetites that are not healthy for you.

803
00:41:50.260 --> 00:41:56.420
And I don't just mean food.

804
00:41:56.420 --> 00:42:04.860
But if we follow after the spirit, we don't fulfill the lusts of the flesh, right?

805
00:42:04.860 --> 00:42:07.420
But it doesn't mean there isn't any pleasure in it.

806
00:42:07.420 --> 00:42:12.460
What the spirit does is it leads us to pleasures that are not going to destroy us.

807
00:42:12.460 --> 00:42:19.140
It changes our appetites to where we find joy in things that we wouldn't have found

808
00:42:19.140 --> 00:42:22.180
joy in before our new birth experience.

809
00:42:22.180 --> 00:42:23.460
Do you see what I'm saying?

810
00:42:23.460 --> 00:42:24.900
Do you see where I'm going?

811
00:42:24.900 --> 00:42:30.260
It can even change your palate to where you're eating food and finding pleasure in food and

812
00:42:30.260 --> 00:42:37.500
joy in food that contributes to your well-being and not against it.

813
00:42:37.500 --> 00:42:38.900
I love some matcha.

814
00:42:38.900 --> 00:42:42.020
A lot of people say matcha is an acquired taste, and it is.

815
00:42:42.020 --> 00:42:45.180
Unless you make it into a big sugar bomb, then you can drink anything.

816
00:42:45.180 --> 00:42:48.980
Y'all, if you can put a pound of sugar, you can drink anything.

817
00:42:49.820 --> 00:42:50.820
I'm a purist.

818
00:42:50.820 --> 00:42:53.460
I drink matcha with no sugar in it.

819
00:42:53.460 --> 00:42:54.460
It's a green tea.

820
00:42:54.460 --> 00:42:58.260
It's a very potent green tea powder.

821
00:42:58.260 --> 00:43:01.180
You only drink the one that comes from Japan, you guys.

822
00:43:01.180 --> 00:43:02.860
This is a little PSA now.

823
00:43:02.860 --> 00:43:06.420
All the rest of them have things like arsenic in them.

824
00:43:06.420 --> 00:43:08.100
Don't drink that, okay?

825
00:43:08.100 --> 00:43:13.260
Make sure that it's 100% organic from Japan products, ceremonial grade if you can get

826
00:43:13.260 --> 00:43:14.940
it, okay?

827
00:43:14.940 --> 00:43:16.760
And it is really, really good for you.

828
00:43:16.760 --> 00:43:21.120
It's full of enzymes that help you focus, okay?

829
00:43:21.120 --> 00:43:25.440
It's full of all kinds of really great antioxidants.

830
00:43:25.440 --> 00:43:28.520
But a lot of people hate it because they say, oh, it tastes like grass.

831
00:43:28.520 --> 00:43:30.520
That's how you know you got a good one.

832
00:43:30.520 --> 00:43:33.520
The greener that it tastes, the better it probably is.

833
00:43:33.520 --> 00:43:37.280
But people are like, oh, bleh, bleh.

834
00:43:37.280 --> 00:43:39.760
But you know what?

835
00:43:39.760 --> 00:43:44.240
Sometimes the things that are good for us are an acquired taste.

836
00:43:44.240 --> 00:43:47.000
We have to acquire the taste.

837
00:43:47.000 --> 00:43:51.960
So Holy Spirit, we're asking you to help us to acquire a taste for things that are going

838
00:43:51.960 --> 00:43:54.360
to bring us joy.

839
00:43:54.360 --> 00:43:58.880
We're asking you to help us to acquire a taste that are going to bring us pleasures, not

840
00:43:58.880 --> 00:44:01.760
just for this life, but forevermore.

841
00:44:01.760 --> 00:44:06.600
Eternal pleasures with you, things that please the Father, but also will please us, that

842
00:44:06.600 --> 00:44:12.480
will cause us to jump out of our bed in the morning and open the door to joy because we're

843
00:44:12.480 --> 00:44:21.160
so excited to be able to participate and partner with what heaven is doing today.

844
00:44:21.160 --> 00:44:24.840
Change our palate for pleasure.

845
00:44:24.840 --> 00:44:30.740
So you guys, the first time I ever drank it, no, no, no, no, no.

846
00:44:30.740 --> 00:44:35.240
And then for whatever reason, I tried it again later, maybe a couple years later, and I don't

847
00:44:35.240 --> 00:44:39.720
know if I got a smoother one or what happened, but I loved it.

848
00:44:39.800 --> 00:44:43.680
You guys know, if you follow me on Instagram, I love matcha and I'm always posting about

849
00:44:43.680 --> 00:44:44.680
it.

850
00:44:44.680 --> 00:44:47.880
New matchas everywhere I go.

851
00:44:47.880 --> 00:44:54.080
God wants to give you a desire for things that are going to bring you not happiness

852
00:44:54.080 --> 00:44:56.680
but joy.

853
00:44:56.680 --> 00:45:00.080
He wants to give you a desire.

854
00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:09.000
hire to do things that are going to be good for you, not just temporarily, but long term.

855
00:45:09.000 --> 00:45:12.460
You guys, this is about to take a crazy turn because Holy Spirit always takes us on twists

856
00:45:12.460 --> 00:45:19.300
and turns, supernatural Saturday calls, but who would be willing to allow God to remove

857
00:45:19.300 --> 00:45:28.820
anything that is not bringing you joy in your love life?

858
00:45:28.820 --> 00:45:36.020
All of the things that are causing you to continue to choose to open the door to things

859
00:45:36.020 --> 00:45:43.220
that don't bring joy, but bring hurt and disappointment and pain and regret and remorse and shame.

860
00:45:43.220 --> 00:45:44.220
Come on.

861
00:45:44.220 --> 00:45:46.760
Listen, you got to hear what I'm saying.

862
00:45:46.760 --> 00:45:54.940
That means that you are asking God to change your palate.

863
00:45:54.940 --> 00:45:55.940
What does that mean?

864
00:45:55.940 --> 00:46:03.700
You're asking him to change your taste in the opposite sex.

865
00:46:03.700 --> 00:46:13.200
Change your taste.

866
00:46:13.200 --> 00:46:19.580
Change what you're attracted to, what you're gravitating towards, what you've been ingesting

867
00:46:19.580 --> 00:46:24.580
up until this point.

868
00:46:24.580 --> 00:46:31.820
Learn the word lust, what you've been lusting after to this point.

869
00:46:31.820 --> 00:46:33.740
You guys, this movement is different.

870
00:46:33.740 --> 00:46:38.340
It's different than all the ones out there because we truly, truly want the marriages

871
00:46:38.340 --> 00:46:39.340
that are from heaven.

872
00:46:39.340 --> 00:46:40.660
That's what we want.

873
00:46:40.660 --> 00:46:44.740
We're not just looking for someone to take up an empty space in our lives.

874
00:46:44.740 --> 00:46:47.820
When you're following after Christ, there shouldn't be an empty space.

875
00:46:47.820 --> 00:46:50.680
It's not about an empty space.

876
00:46:50.680 --> 00:46:53.060
It's about a calling.

877
00:46:53.060 --> 00:46:58.420
It's about alignment.

878
00:46:58.420 --> 00:47:06.060
That's what it's about.

879
00:47:06.060 --> 00:47:10.820
We want God to align us.

880
00:47:10.820 --> 00:47:18.980
We want to partner for the purpose of, I'm going to use the word ministry, but I don't

881
00:47:18.980 --> 00:47:23.040
want you to think I'm talking about traditional in the walls of a church ministry.

882
00:47:23.040 --> 00:47:25.600
Anything that you do as a believer is ministry.

883
00:47:25.600 --> 00:47:31.000
Anything that you do, anything, whatever job you have, that is your ministry.

884
00:47:31.000 --> 00:47:32.000
That is what you are.

885
00:47:32.000 --> 00:47:34.600
The Bible says, do your work unto the Lord.

886
00:47:34.600 --> 00:47:41.600
That is what you're doing unto the Lord.

887
00:47:41.600 --> 00:47:45.520
He's the one that has to make it supernatural, not you.

888
00:47:45.520 --> 00:47:52.920
He's the one that has to take what it is that you have to offer and make it impact the kingdom

889
00:47:53.000 --> 00:47:54.000
of God.

890
00:47:54.000 --> 00:47:55.880
You're a business person.

891
00:47:55.880 --> 00:48:01.040
You're a kingdom business person.

892
00:48:01.040 --> 00:48:09.740
He's the one that's going to take it and make it kingdom because you're in the kingdom now.

893
00:48:09.740 --> 00:48:13.000
He's the one that's going to bring people into your store, into your office for you

894
00:48:13.000 --> 00:48:14.720
to have divine appointments with.

895
00:48:14.720 --> 00:48:17.400
He's the one that's going to do that, not you.

896
00:48:17.400 --> 00:48:21.100
All you're going to do is be ready and available.

897
00:48:21.100 --> 00:48:24.740
He's the one that's going to open the door so that you can have influence with influencers

898
00:48:24.740 --> 00:48:31.700
when you're in business and they can see your good works and glorify your father in heaven.

899
00:48:31.700 --> 00:48:32.980
That's him.

900
00:48:32.980 --> 00:48:38.000
He does that.

901
00:48:38.000 --> 00:48:42.500
When you're teaching, when you're nursing, you guys are not going to get off on this

902
00:48:42.500 --> 00:48:43.620
because you know I love it.

903
00:48:43.620 --> 00:48:44.620
You know I love it.

904
00:48:44.620 --> 00:48:49.820
And you guys know that we are opening a church for people in the marketplace called Wheelhouse.

905
00:48:50.020 --> 00:48:54.740
I don't even want to call it a church, spiritual community for people in the marketplace called

906
00:48:54.740 --> 00:48:59.420
Wheelhouse here in Austin, Texas, because I believe that people that are in the marketplace,

907
00:48:59.420 --> 00:49:02.180
people that are in the marketplace, they're called to business, they're entrepreneurs

908
00:49:02.180 --> 00:49:09.560
or they're in any of the creative fields, any of the helping fields, they need something

909
00:49:09.560 --> 00:49:15.980
weekly that continues to encourage them to get back out there, get back out on the field

910
00:49:15.980 --> 00:49:18.220
and get some wins.

911
00:49:18.220 --> 00:49:22.460
And so we need something tailor-made to those folks.

912
00:49:22.460 --> 00:49:25.260
We have to have it.

913
00:49:25.260 --> 00:49:26.540
So a lot of you raised your hand.

914
00:49:26.540 --> 00:49:32.620
I noticed that not all of you raised your hand saying that you're willing to allow God

915
00:49:32.620 --> 00:49:41.020
to change what brings you joy in your love life or in relationship.

916
00:49:41.020 --> 00:49:42.420
I got hands going up again.

917
00:49:42.420 --> 00:49:43.420
All right.

918
00:49:43.420 --> 00:49:45.420
You can raise your hands again if you want.

919
00:49:56.420 --> 00:49:57.420
All right.

920
00:49:57.420 --> 00:49:59.420
For those of you that did, raise your hands.

921
00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:15.280
I just want to let you know that that looks like something, okay?

922
00:50:15.280 --> 00:50:16.840
You guys don't have to raise your hands anymore.

923
00:50:16.840 --> 00:50:21.800
I just want to let you know that that looks like something.

924
00:50:21.800 --> 00:50:23.440
It's going to look like something.

925
00:50:23.440 --> 00:50:29.960
And at first it's going to be unusual and uncomfortable, okay?

926
00:50:29.960 --> 00:50:33.720
It's not going to be something that, you know, you're used to because you're not used to

927
00:50:33.720 --> 00:50:34.720
it.

928
00:50:34.720 --> 00:50:35.720
All of us have patterns.

929
00:50:35.720 --> 00:50:39.120
All of us have habits.

930
00:50:39.120 --> 00:50:42.320
Even though she seemed really confident that day when she said to me, I'm not going to

931
00:50:42.320 --> 00:50:46.560
do that because it doesn't bring me joy, I'm sure there was a little fear inside of her

932
00:50:46.560 --> 00:50:48.520
to say that out loud to another person.

933
00:50:48.520 --> 00:50:49.520
What if they get mad?

934
00:50:49.520 --> 00:50:50.520
What if they confront her?

935
00:50:50.520 --> 00:50:51.520
What if they don't understand?

936
00:50:51.520 --> 00:50:54.520
What if they think negatively of her?

937
00:50:54.520 --> 00:50:59.920
That took some confidence, didn't it, to say that?

938
00:50:59.920 --> 00:51:04.880
And so God's going to build your confidence in this new path that you're taking right

939
00:51:04.880 --> 00:51:12.320
now of allowing him to lead you into this era of joy.

940
00:51:12.320 --> 00:51:17.280
And it's going to be a path that you're going to have to release more and more and more

941
00:51:17.280 --> 00:51:25.000
of what you have been using as a counterfeit to try to medicate your sadness, your depression,

942
00:51:25.000 --> 00:51:29.400
your apathy, your impatience, whatever those things are.

943
00:51:29.400 --> 00:51:35.480
We're going to have to release those things in order to make room for joy.

944
00:51:35.480 --> 00:51:39.920
You're going to find yourself more and more in his presence, not, you know, crying and

945
00:51:39.920 --> 00:51:44.800
not, you know, upset and angry at him, but you're going to find yourself more and more

946
00:51:44.800 --> 00:51:54.320
in his presence, just trusting him and believing that he has good things for you and believing

947
00:51:54.320 --> 00:52:01.000
that he has partnership for you.

948
00:52:01.000 --> 00:52:05.120
And while you're in his presence, you are going to begin to be filled up with that fullness

949
00:52:05.120 --> 00:52:11.040
of joy that value will go out and you will pour out upon others.

950
00:52:11.040 --> 00:52:13.920
And it will be very attractive, friends.

951
00:52:14.040 --> 00:52:15.040
Joy is attractive.

952
00:52:15.040 --> 00:52:16.720
Remember, it's not happiness.

953
00:52:16.720 --> 00:52:18.440
It's not just a happy person.

954
00:52:18.440 --> 00:52:24.440
A joyful person is someone who deeply trusts in the Lord because they are deeply rooted

955
00:52:24.440 --> 00:52:27.800
in love and in their identity in Christ.

956
00:52:27.800 --> 00:52:33.040
And when you come from that place, you will also find the pleasures that are at his right

957
00:52:33.040 --> 00:52:34.040
hand.

958
00:52:34.040 --> 00:52:35.040
What does that mean?

959
00:52:35.040 --> 00:52:38.320
At the finished work of the cross, at the right hand is where Jesus sits.

960
00:52:38.320 --> 00:52:40.140
That is where you're seated with him.

961
00:52:40.140 --> 00:52:43.600
That's where all the troubles and all the warfare is under your feet.

962
00:52:44.280 --> 00:52:48.480
You're going to find that place where that that Jesus cares for really comes into action

963
00:52:48.480 --> 00:52:55.400
where, yeah, there's trouble around, but you're not you're not focused on that.

964
00:52:55.400 --> 00:53:01.080
You're not influenced by that because you know who you are and whose you are.

965
00:53:01.080 --> 00:53:05.440
And so you're able to find pleasure.

966
00:53:05.440 --> 00:53:09.280
Because Jesus died to pay for that for you.

967
00:53:09.280 --> 00:53:18.720
God didn't want you to go through this life burdened by the sin curse and all the debauchery

968
00:53:18.720 --> 00:53:20.380
that comes with it.

969
00:53:20.380 --> 00:53:24.600
He wanted you to be able to be his son, his daughter.

970
00:53:24.600 --> 00:53:28.320
He wanted you to be able to be free.

971
00:53:28.320 --> 00:53:31.000
And who the son has set free is free indeed.

972
00:53:31.000 --> 00:53:34.800
And so, friends, I believe we're going to have a shift as of today because you're going

973
00:53:34.800 --> 00:53:40.040
to begin to notice all the things that do not bring you joy.

974
00:53:40.040 --> 00:53:45.080
All the things that you have been doing for the wrong reasons and the wrong intentions

975
00:53:45.080 --> 00:53:48.320
with the wrong heart.

976
00:53:48.320 --> 00:53:52.360
All the ideas you've been thinking, you guys, if an idea comes in your mind and it doesn't

977
00:53:52.360 --> 00:54:00.040
bring you joy, doesn't bring you expectation of reward, expectation of blessing and God's

978
00:54:00.040 --> 00:54:01.040
goodness.

979
00:54:01.040 --> 00:54:04.720
If a thought comes in your mind that doesn't bring to you the expectation of the goodness

980
00:54:04.720 --> 00:54:09.440
of God, then that thought needs to be released.

981
00:54:09.440 --> 00:54:14.360
It's a thought that is coming against joy.

982
00:54:14.360 --> 00:54:20.320
Those thoughts are not from God.

983
00:54:20.320 --> 00:54:22.440
Those thoughts are from past experiences.

984
00:54:22.440 --> 00:54:25.600
They're from unhealed heart wounds.

985
00:54:25.600 --> 00:54:28.320
Those are the flesh origins of those thoughts.

986
00:54:28.320 --> 00:54:33.520
And then some of those thoughts are just purely demonic to try to get you into a place

987
00:54:33.520 --> 00:54:40.760
of depression, into a place of fear, which is the opposite of love.

988
00:54:58.320 --> 00:55:00.040
Everything is easier said than done.

989
00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:04.440
It's not about being easy, it's about being worth it.

990
00:55:04.440 --> 00:55:13.840
And all of you have a divine assignment to take your thoughts captive.

991
00:55:13.840 --> 00:55:17.420
All of you have a divine assignment to take your thoughts captive.

992
00:55:17.420 --> 00:55:20.760
Every single one of you.

993
00:55:20.760 --> 00:55:25.040
Every single one of you.

994
00:55:25.040 --> 00:55:29.040
Every single one of you, including myself.

995
00:55:29.040 --> 00:55:34.440
All right, you guys, it's time.

996
00:55:34.440 --> 00:55:38.160
I believe that we're entering into the second half of Psalm 126.

997
00:55:38.160 --> 00:55:40.000
I believe it's time for rejoicing.

998
00:55:40.000 --> 00:55:43.440
I think it's time for people who have known you all your life, but they don't really know

999
00:55:43.440 --> 00:55:46.000
you because they've never seen you enjoy.

1000
00:55:46.000 --> 00:55:51.080
I believe it's time for you to just show up as a new person, a person that you don't even

1001
00:55:51.080 --> 00:55:54.540
recognize, a person that people want to know what in the world have you done differently?

1002
00:55:54.540 --> 00:55:58.500
What is going on?

1003
00:55:58.500 --> 00:56:00.820
I believe it's time for joy.

1004
00:56:00.820 --> 00:56:06.420
We have to open the door and let joy in and release anything and everything that is hindering

1005
00:56:06.420 --> 00:56:07.420
that.

1006
00:56:07.420 --> 00:56:08.420
So Father God, we thank you for joy.

1007
00:56:08.420 --> 00:56:10.780
We thank you that is a fruit of the Spirit.

1008
00:56:10.780 --> 00:56:12.620
It's not something that we can manufacture.

1009
00:56:12.620 --> 00:56:18.200
It's not something that we can, you know, make up or manifest in our own power.

1010
00:56:18.200 --> 00:56:22.780
It is something that has to come from your Spirit.

1011
00:56:22.780 --> 00:56:27.140
So Holy Spirit, we're asking that you would cultivate our gardens, that you would weed

1012
00:56:27.140 --> 00:56:31.820
our gardens with us, that you would chase all the foxes out of our vineyard.

1013
00:56:31.820 --> 00:56:36.660
Anything that is destroying this beautiful garden that God has planted within us, that

1014
00:56:36.660 --> 00:56:39.380
includes the fruit of joy.

1015
00:56:39.380 --> 00:56:40.380
We want to live in joy.

1016
00:56:40.380 --> 00:56:42.020
We want to walk in joy.

1017
00:56:42.020 --> 00:56:43.780
We want to be weightless.

1018
00:56:43.780 --> 00:56:45.220
We want to be burdenless.

1019
00:56:45.220 --> 00:56:50.500
We don't have to suffer needlessly under the curse of sin because it was broken at the

1020
00:56:50.500 --> 00:56:51.980
cross.

1021
00:56:51.980 --> 00:56:53.700
We can live in the finished work of the cross.

1022
00:56:53.700 --> 00:56:58.020
We can be in his presence now, in the fullness of his presence.

1023
00:56:58.020 --> 00:57:01.740
We used to only be able to be partly in his presence because it was only the professional

1024
00:57:01.740 --> 00:57:05.700
priest that got to be fully in his presence.

1025
00:57:05.700 --> 00:57:07.000
That's what that verse means.

1026
00:57:07.000 --> 00:57:09.000
That's what David was talking about.

1027
00:57:09.000 --> 00:57:13.380
We can come fully into the presence of God, fully in now.

1028
00:57:13.380 --> 00:57:15.420
We're allowed in now.

1029
00:57:15.420 --> 00:57:24.260
So we can come fully in your presence because Jesus died to give us that path back, to give

1030
00:57:24.260 --> 00:57:30.060
us that freedom back, to give us that identity back, to give us that permission and that

1031
00:57:30.060 --> 00:57:32.400
access and that authority back.

1032
00:57:32.400 --> 00:57:37.780
We can come fully, fully into your presence where we will find fullness of joy and your

1033
00:57:37.780 --> 00:57:42.660
pleasures that are eternal, pleasures forevermore.

1034
00:57:42.660 --> 00:57:47.580
And so we thank you that you are changing us, that we are becoming less orphans and

1035
00:57:47.580 --> 00:57:52.700
more sons and daughters, that as we step out of these grave clothes and into our royal

1036
00:57:52.700 --> 00:57:58.500
robes, that we will feel more and more joy, more joy.

1037
00:57:58.500 --> 00:58:00.340
And our appetites are changing.

1038
00:58:00.340 --> 00:58:01.700
Our desires are changing.

1039
00:58:01.700 --> 00:58:04.180
The things that we used to want, we don't want anymore.

1040
00:58:04.180 --> 00:58:09.140
Now we're starting to want things that we never wanted before.

1041
00:58:09.140 --> 00:58:11.140
We never wanted them.

1042
00:58:11.140 --> 00:58:15.380
We're starting to realize that you're giving us the best things that we never knew we even

1043
00:58:15.380 --> 00:58:18.460
wanted and we're accepting those things.

1044
00:58:18.460 --> 00:58:22.100
We're receiving those things fully because we've made room for them.

1045
00:58:22.100 --> 00:58:23.860
And now is our time.

1046
00:58:23.860 --> 00:58:25.540
Now is our time.

1047
00:58:25.540 --> 00:58:28.100
And so, Lord, we thank you for this era of joy.

1048
00:58:28.100 --> 00:58:34.420
We step into it willingly and fully, and we ask God that you would help us in every way,

1049
00:58:34.420 --> 00:58:36.740
enable us, give us grace.

1050
00:58:36.740 --> 00:58:38.220
In Jesus name, amen.

1051
00:58:38.220 --> 00:58:40.020
All right, friends.

1052
00:58:40.020 --> 00:58:43.580
Tomorrow night, you can activate some more things over there.

1053
00:58:43.580 --> 00:58:44.580
We'll see you soon.

1054
00:58:44.580 --> 00:58:44.580