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Welcome, everyone, to Supernatural Saturday.

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Some of you are new, you've never been here before, and we're so glad you're with us.

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This is the day of the week where we lean in to the current prophetic reality of heaven

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as a community.

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What is God saying?

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What is he doing?

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How can we be encouraged?

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How can we move forward in acceleration?

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And today just happens to be the Saturday before Easter, and a lot of people refer to

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today as Silent Saturday.

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Have you ever heard that before?

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Silent Saturday.

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So here we are together on Silent Saturday, and guess what?

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God is never silent.

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He's always speaking.

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And so we're going to talk about that today.

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And you know, it's like Good Friday gets the cross, right?

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It gets the cross, it gets the crucifixion, and then Easter Sunday gets the resurrection,

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it gets the celebration.

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But we always forget about the process.

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And so in this scenario, Saturday would be the process.

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And we hate process.

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We all hate process, right?

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Silent Saturday is the space where grief and doubt and uncertainty live, amen?

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That's where it lives, and no one likes that day.

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It's the middle day.

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Let's think about what it would be like to be a disciple, like to be a disciple that

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walked with Jesus on earth, one of those folks.

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Let's talk about that for a second.

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Let's lean in to what that would be like if we were one of them, right?

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Jesus told them, you guys, Matthew 16, 21, other places, he told them plainly that he

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was going to be crucified, buried, and resurrected on the third day, right?

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Come on, let's talk about this.

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But they don't remember that in the middle.

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How do I know they didn't remember it?

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Because when the women came from the tomb to announce that Jesus had risen, she found

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them where?

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Hiding out, y'all.

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That's what they were doing.

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They were hiding out.

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Jesus gave them the word before there was any kind of tragedy or trauma.

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He prepared them.

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But in the trauma of the crucifixion, they forgot, they forgot what Jesus said, and that's

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what happens to us.

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I want to talk about that for a couple minutes right now.

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God gives us a word.

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He gives us a prophetic promise, a dream, some kind of confirmation.

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But then when life crucifies those expectations, right, and that's always going to happen,

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you guys.

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There's always going to be pushback on a promise.

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There's always going to be pushback on a promise.

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Life comes at us fast.

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We start walking by sight instead of by faith.

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I'm talking to myself, too.

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I'm not just preaching to you.

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We all do this.

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This is the human condition.

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I mean, these folks, they hung out with Jesus.

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They lived with Jesus.

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He was truly their rabbi.

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Did you guys know back in the olden days, you know, you didn't just go to someone's

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house and say, oh, that's my pastor.

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Go home to that church.

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That's my pastor.

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No.

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You, like, moved in your pastor's house.

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If someone was your rabbi, you followed them around.

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I think we think this is just a Jesus thing.

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I think a lot of times when we see movies about Jesus, we think that, oh, all the other

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rabbis were only in the synagogues.

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Yeah, they did speak in the synagogues.

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But in order to say that someone was your rabbi, you had to see how they walked out

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the Torah in everyday life.

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More was caught than taught.

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And so you followed them around.

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You ate with them.

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And that's why a lot of people, if you read the Bible through that lens, you see that

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people were amazed at who Jesus's followers were.

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Let's just talk about this for a second.

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This is how great Jesus is.

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Don't you just love Jesus?

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He's so amazing.

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And here's why.

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Because all these other rabbis, they had the best of the best.

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You know that movie Top Gun?

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The people that got to go to the Top Gun flight school, they were the best of the best of

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the best.

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All the other rabbis, that's all they had with them.

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If you were Jewish, you're a Jewish boy specifically, you went to kind of like Torah school up until

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a certain age.

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But then you were sent home to do whatever your family did, carpentry, work in the fields,

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fishing, whatever it is that your family did, you were sent home after that.

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After that age, I don't know what that age was, but you were sent home to just go do

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regular life.

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Yeah, you were schooled in the Torah, but then you were sent home.

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Unless you were the best of the best.

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You guys, these people had to memorize whole scrolls of things, okay?

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It wasn't like, oh, you just have to know, you know.

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a couple pieces of doctrine here and there.

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No, but if you were like the best of the best,

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if you showed lots of promise,

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then you got to follow around a rabbi.

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You got to apprentice.

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Do you see this?

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And that's why you guys, in the light of historical,

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you know, the history around what this looked like

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during the time that Jesus was on the earth,

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what did it look like to be a Jew?

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What did it look like to be part of that culture?

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That's why it's so crazy that Jesus is just walking by.

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Who is he picking?

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The people that got sent home.

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You guys, the people that got sent home.

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They were the people that got sent home in third grade.

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Go work in the fields.

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Go be fisher people.

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Go be fishermen.

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Go be whatever your family does.

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Go work for a living.

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You're not qualified to be part

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of this elite group of people.

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You guys, out of all the apprentices

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that would follow a rabbi,

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only a precious few would become rabbis themselves.

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This was the best of the best of the best.

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And that's why even when we look at Paul's life,

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you guys, he said that he was a Pharisee among Pharisees.

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Right?

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He had risen to the top of his thing, his game.

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He was the cream of the crop.

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It's really important that we talk about this

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because now you see why everyone else

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was looking at Jesus all crazy.

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Wait a second.

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Who are your disciples?

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Who are these people following you?

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These are the cast offs that are following you.

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And I know that we talk about,

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oh, they were the unlearned men.

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They were the fishermen.

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They were the, but no, when you look at it this way,

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they were the people that were sent home.

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They weren't good enough to go into apprenticeship,

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except Jesus said they were.

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Jesus doesn't look on the outside, friends.

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He looks on the heart.

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And I want you to get that into your heart right now.

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Jesus has qualified each and every one of you

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for so many things, including marriage,

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but so many other things.

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Doesn't matter what other people have said.

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Doesn't matter what other people do.

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All that matters is what Jesus says.

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And he has qualified you,

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just like he qualified the disciples.

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So you guys, he passed these disciples

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and he said, come follow me.

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And they could or couldn't, but they did.

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Come and follow me.

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Come be my disciple.

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Let me be your rabbi.

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Isn't that amazing?

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And he picked some crazy folk.

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And that's why they were murmuring about him.

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Oh, he hangs out with sinners and fishermen

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and unlearned men.

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He hangs out with tax collectors

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and the list goes on and on.

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And I know that it must have been amazing

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to be chosen by Jesus.

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And now you see, you're like,

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why would someone just drop their nets?

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They're out fishing.

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They're making a living.

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This is their livelihood.

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Why would they just drop their nets

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and follow some man who's walking by?

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Because it was such a privilege.

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It was such a privilege to be an apprentice of a rabbi.

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It was such an honor.

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And they had heard about Jesus.

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They had heard about the things that he was doing,

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the things he was teaching,

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the miracle signs and wonders that were following him.

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It's incredible, you guys.

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And they saw so many things that we can't even imagine.

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And yet, they forgot what Jesus told them.

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They forgot what Jesus told them.

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And on silent Saturday, they forgot what Jesus told them.

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And so my question for you is,

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what did God already tell you that you forgot about

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because you're an apprentice of a rabbi?

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What did Jesus tell you that you forgot about

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because you're in pain?

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What did Jesus tell you?

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What did God tell you?

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And I don't mean physical pain or financial pain

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or emotional pain.

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I just mean the pain of the process.

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In the pain of the process right now,

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when you don't have in your hot little hands

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what you want, what have you forgotten?

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You're like, well, Jack, I didn't really forget it

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because I remember it.

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Yeah, but your life doesn't say you remember it.

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Your actions don't say you remember it.

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When the women were at the tomb,

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I'm not even gonna say it.

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anything about, hey, the men were hiding out and the women were over at the tomb.

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I'm not even going to go there, gentlemen, because I love you, but the women were at the tomb,

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okay? And I just want to let you know that, you know, Jesus' grave clothes were folded.

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His cloth was folded. Do you know that Jews, when they would fold their bedcloth,

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it just meant that they were going to return? That is actually what it meant.

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In that culture, if you folded up those clothes, it meant that you were returning

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to wear them again. You're returning. So much typology, so much beauty that was waiting for

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them. Because remember, they're part of this culture, and so they understand those things.

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We miss a lot of that. I have some Jewish friends that explained so many things to me

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because they're, you know, they're Hebrews that believe that Jesus

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is Messiah. Some of us would call them Messianic Jews, but they actually don't like to be called

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that. They are still of the Hebrew line, the Hebrew birth. They are Jews, but they do believe

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that Jesus is Meshuach. And so they've explained, they've kind of filled in some of my holes for me

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because, you know, I don't know the history, and it just makes the scriptures come alive even more

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when you know it. That's what that meant. That's what that means. So the disciples are aware,

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they're hiding out, they're afraid. The same people that came and arrested and crucified

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and killed their leader, you know, they could be coming for them. Right? And they're in pain,

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they're suffering, they're grieving because they know that Jesus has been killed. They've heard.

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They weren't there, they didn't see it, save one of them, but they know, and that's John,

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the beloved, but they know that it happened. Right?

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So what did God already tell you? What did God tell you? What did God promise you?

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That now your life is looking like you forgot it.

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You're living your life on the outside of your life. It looks like

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you have forgotten that because you're in process and process equals pain.

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What do you think about that? Go ahead and put it in the chat if you want to.

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So for today's purposes, we're going to let Saturday be the processing place.

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This is the place where heaven is working. Even when earth sees nothing, friends,

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heaven is always working. There's always war going on in the heavenlies. There's always spiritual

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transactions that are happening. I will tell you, God told me that there's a brokering happening in

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the heavenlies this week. And I was like, brokering, like real estate brokering? Like,

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what do you mean brokering? And so I looked at the word brokering and it means coming to a

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settlement or an agreement. You guys, we have to settle what Jesus has said and come into agreement.

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There's an agreement. There's an invitation to agreement with heaven this week, right now,

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over your life, over my life. Guys, I have ads running for my new millennial challenge and I

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have to monitor the ads. And so I monitor them and the comments in the ads are crazy town.

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And I have empathy. I have grace because I know that people are hopeless. I know that they've

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lost hope, but you guys, some of these comments are the most bitter things that I've ever read.

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Angry, bitter, hopeless. What's happening in these people's lives? They've forgotten what God said to

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them. What's happening in these people's lives? They're not coming into agreement with heaven.

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They're coming into agreement with their pain.

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That's what's happening. And I've been there. I've been there for a few moments in a couple

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seasons of my life, but thank God I didn't stay there. Thank God I didn't stay there.

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And I don't want you to stay there either.

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The process is real. I get it. I've been on the struggle bus many times.

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You have to remember the process is real, but it's not the end. And there's never a

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more beautiful depiction. There's not a better depiction of that than this Easter season.

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Crucifixion, process, resurrection. There's never a better example.

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So Saturday is that process in place. Everything looks done. It looks over.

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We're not seeing what's happening behind the scenes.

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Work of resurrection is already in motion.

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We know that to be true.

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So instead of thinking of what's going on in your life right now, you might

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be in the middle of that process, whatever it is, not just towards your

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love story, but towards anything in your life that God has promised you

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that has not yet manifested, you know, think of it less as a waiting season.

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Think of it less as a wilderness.

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And think of it more as a time when God is building and preparing you.

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It's a place of preparation.

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I was praying this morning before I got on this call.

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There's some things that I want to see happen and I've started to get kind of

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antsy about them because they haven't happened yet, but I know that God has

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promised them and I was walking and I was praying and I hope you guys are

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building on some of these prophetic words and these supernatural Saturdays

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that we've been having about praying in your prayer language.

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Raise your hand if you've been doing more of that, or maybe you've been

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doing it for the very first time.

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Let's see the folks that are doing that.

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They're practicing that you're feeling more centered, right?

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You're feeling more centered.

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You're feeling more peaceful.

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Joy is rising up.

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Maybe even you're getting some downloads.

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It's good.

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Thank you.

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You can go ahead and put your hand up.

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Thank you.

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You can go ahead and put your hands down.

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So I was praying about that.

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I was like, God, what the heck?

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And he said, well, there's two things that I've been trying to teach you and

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you're not, you're refusing to learn what they are and, and he's not lying

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because he doesn't lie and I know exactly what those things are.

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I mean, he told me what they are, but I know what they are.

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You guys, I'm just going to call myself out.

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And maybe this is your problem too.

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But I don't know how to rest.

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I'm always doing.

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I am very, very rarely just being.

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I'm always doing, I'm always creating.

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I'm always making, I'm always planning.

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I'm always doing something.

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I'm doing, doing, doing, doing.

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For Valentine's day, my husband bought me one of these aura rings and this aura

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ring tells you whether you're rest, you're in a restful state, or if you're

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in an engaged state, or if you're in a stressed state, those are the three

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categories, rest, engaged, stressed.

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And most of my day is spent in stress and engaged.

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Very, very little of my body, my day is my body in that other

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state, that relaxed state.

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I'm always going.

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And if my body's not going, my mind's going.

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And if my, my body and my mind are not going, my mouth is going.

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And that's not good.

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If your mind's not going, your mouth is going.

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That's not, that's not probably a good thing.

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So God said, Hey, I, yeah, called you to do a lot of amazing things.

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I promised you this stuff and it's awesome.

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So, but you can't get broke down on the side of the road because

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you don't know how to rest.

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God loves me.

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What is he doing?

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He's saying, yeah, I want to give you the things that I told you you could

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have, but also here are the, here are the three things that I've been trying

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to prepare you in, in order for you to be a steward of what I've promised you.

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In order for that promise not to hurt you, remember Proverbs tells us that

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God's increase comes without sorrow.

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Meaning that when God promotes us and increases us, he knows it's because

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we can handle it, or at least we're going to be obedient to the things

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that he is going to show us to do in order to handle it without it breaking us.

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That's why when people say, Oh, I got this amazing promotion and I'm making

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30,000 more a year, and I just know it was from God, but then you look at the

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aftermath, broken marriages, broken families, you know, travel, they're never

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home, their kids resent them.

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I don't think that promotion was from God, bro.

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Just because it gave you more money.

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Doesn't mean that it was from the Lord.

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We got to weigh the cost.

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Right?

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And so God told me, Jackie, here are the two things that I really need you to work

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on in this season in order for me to be able to, and I don't want you guys to get

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it twisted, I am seeing some, a little bit of the interest, okay, of the

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inheritance that God has promised me.

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He's allowing me to collect the interest.

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Anybody else?

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Anybody else?

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You don't have the full, you don't have the full promise, but you have

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little trickles of the promise.

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Right?

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Little bits, little tastes of what's happening and what God has promised.

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And so I am experiencing that, but if I want.

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experience more, then there are a couple things that I have to get in order and I know what

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those things are.

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And so maybe that's for you as well.

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God's not inactive.

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He's not inactive on your behalf just because what it is that you want hasn't fully happened

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yet.

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All right.

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So what should we do when we're in process?

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Well, first of all, we need to remind ourselves, we need to remind ourselves of what God told

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us because it's easy to forget during the pain, remember?

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So I want you to go ahead and take a couple minutes to just write it down.

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You just take one of the promises, the one that you most want more than any of the others,

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and a lot of you are probably going to write down marriage because that's why you're here.

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But let Holy Spirit lead you in what to write down.

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So write it down.

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It's time to start coming into agreement with it.

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Remember there's a brokering that's happening in the spirit realm, specifically this week.

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We need to start putting it in front of our eyes, a place of remembrance of this.

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Luke 24, six through eight basically says, and then they remembered his words and they

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remembered and remembered his words.

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Don't let disappointment be the death of destiny, friends.

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You have not been abandoned.

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You haven't.

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All right, so you guys, the promise didn't die.

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We know that it didn't.

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It was just buried in the tomb, right?

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And just because they didn't know what was going on doesn't mean that something wasn't

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going on.

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Something amazing was going on in the heavenlies, behind the scenes, in another realm where

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we couldn't see.

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And that's the same in our lives.

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Sunday, Easter Sunday, resurrection day was already written in the story.

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Jesus already told them he was going to resurrect.

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Before Friday ever happened, Sunday was already part of the story.

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And I want you to apply that to your life.

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Before whatever has happened in your life that you think has derailed you, that you

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thought was the end, that you thought you could never, ever recover from, whatever that

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is, your comeback story was already written a couple paragraphs down, a couple chapters

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over.

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Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but God does what?

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He delivers them out of them all.

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Am I wrong or is that the word?

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So we have to reset our belief again on heaven.

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We have to learn how to rest, rest in God's word, rest in his love, rest in his power.

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We have to remember that it's already been written.

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It's not for us to go out and try to make it happen, but we do have to partner with

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God.

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We do have to partner.

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So why does this process time, why does it hurt so badly?

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Why?

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Why is it?

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Why is it hurt so badly?

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It's because of our senses, you guys.

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It's because of our flesh.

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This is the timeframe.

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And so Saturday in this story, so Friday, the crucifixion, Saturday, kind of the time

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of silence, that's why they call it silent Saturday, before the resurrection, even though

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God had already told, you know, through Jesus, the disciples what was going to happen.

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Remember, Jesus said when he was walking on earth with his disciples, I only do what my

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father is doing.

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I only say what my father is saying.

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The plan was already in place, and it came through Jesus's words.

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He already told them, I'm going to let you know, I'm going to make known the end from

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the beginning.

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I'm going to make known the end from the beginning.

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Guys, that's the scripture in Isaiah, Isaiah 46, 10, my purpose will stand and I will do

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all that I have promised.

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Guys, you need to stand on that.

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You have to stand on it.

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When you got that word, when you got that promise.

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from God when you had that dream, when you had that confirmation?

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What was that?

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That was God making known through Holy Spirit to you the end from the beginning.

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It's the middle that we have a problem with.

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You notice that Jesus says, I'm the author and finisher of the faith.

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He doesn't say that I am the author and the middle and the finisher of your faith because

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you're the middle.

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The middle is where you have to come into agreement with God.

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He says, I'm the end and the beginning.

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He also doesn't say he's the middle because the middle is where you have to partner with

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God.

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God showed me that years ago when I was just stuck in the middle, always stuck in the middle.

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Can I tell you something?

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That you're always going to be in the middle of something, but at the same time, you're

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going to have the fruit of something else.

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There's going to be some things that are not ripe and ready, and you're definitely

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in process, and that's where you just have to continue to agree with heaven and play

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your part, whatever that is, but there'll be other things that you're not just eating

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the fruit of, but you're drinking the juice of, that you're sharing with others.

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There'll be other things that are just beginning to be planted, and there'll be other things

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that are ready for harvest.

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Do you understand?

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And some of you, the reason why you're so discouraged is because you don't understand

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the laws of the harvest.

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You're always waiting for this one thing.

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Let's take cooking, for example.

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Say you're making a big meal and you're really excited about it.

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You're specifically excited about this one part of the meal, and so you have that pot

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on boiling, whatever, you're making prep for that part of the meal, and wouldn't it be

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silly if you were just standing there watching it instead of prepping the other stuff?

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Washing the vegetables and cutting and dicing and doing, no, just standing there waiting

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for this one part to be ready, but that's often what we do in our lives.

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There's other things that are ripe, they're ready for you because the Bible says that

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what you reap, what you sow, you will reap.

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And that's not just a threat for people who are out sinning.

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That's the laws of the universe that God put in order.

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And a lot of you have a lot of good seeds in the ground.

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You've been sowing good things and good deeds for a long time.

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You know what that tells me?

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That tells me that you have a lot of ripened, ready harvest that you're not reaping.

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And it's probably because you're standing at the field that's not ready yet.

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You're just standing in front of that field and you're grieving because it's taking its

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natural due process and you don't like it.

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You want it to be accelerated.

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And I'm not saying it doesn't get accelerated because Amos 9.13 is a real thing.

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The reaper overtaking the sower.

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The problem is, is that you have other opportunities that are rotting on the vine because they've

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been ripe and ready for a while, but all you care about is this one place that's not.

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That was a hard lesson for me to learn.

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That's a sermon that God gave to me years ago for myself.

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And so now I live in perpetual harvest.

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You know that it's up to you whether or not you live in Amos 9.13 where the reaper overtakes

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the sower, the sudden lease, harvest everywhere.

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If you've been walking with Jesus for any length of time, which I have, almost 30 years,

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and I have been pretty much in full-time ministry the whole time, I have a lot of good seeds

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in the ground.

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And so everywhere I turn, guess what?

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Harvest.

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Now, is it the one thing or the two things that I've been kind of wanting more than the

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others?

485
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No.

486
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But that's okay because I'm still going to enjoy my harvest.

487
00:28:55.360 --> 00:28:58.360
You guys are my harvest.

488
00:28:58.360 --> 00:29:00.960
Two hundred and sixty-seven of you are on here listening live.

489
00:29:00.960 --> 00:29:02.480
You know how long I've been doing this?

490
00:29:02.480 --> 00:29:04.420
A long time.

491
00:29:04.420 --> 00:29:06.520
Over 15 years, I've been doing calls like this.

492
00:29:06.520 --> 00:29:07.520
And guess what?

493
00:29:08.120 --> 00:29:12.320
I used to have to have my husband get on because you had to have at least one person to record.

494
00:29:12.320 --> 00:29:15.960
Otherwise freeconferencecall.com would not record the call.

495
00:29:15.960 --> 00:29:19.320
And I knew a lot of people listened to it in replay, but a lot of people did not listen

496
00:29:19.320 --> 00:29:20.320
live.

497
00:29:20.320 --> 00:29:23.480
I'd be lucky if I had one person on live and sometimes zero.

498
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So I had to have my husband log in so that it would record.

499
00:29:28.640 --> 00:29:31.360
And now there's 267 of you.

500
00:29:31.360 --> 00:29:35.920
And that's not all.

501
00:29:35.920 --> 00:29:41.040
And we have thousands of people that listen during the week to our prayer calls and to

502
00:29:41.040 --> 00:29:43.480
Supernatural Saturday and to all the things.

503
00:29:43.480 --> 00:29:44.480
Why?

504
00:29:44.480 --> 00:29:45.760
Because that's the harvest of doing what?

505
00:29:45.760 --> 00:29:53.520
Of not giving up, of not giving up.

506
00:29:53.520 --> 00:29:58.160
Whatever it is that you see, disappointment, delay, doubt, it doesn't match what you believe.

507
00:29:58.160 --> 00:29:59.440
It's not about what God can do.

508
00:29:59.440 --> 00:30:00.440
It's about what you believe.

509
00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:08.240
believe he can do. What do you believe? I believe that God told me that I was to speak.

510
00:30:00.440 --> 00:30:00.440


511
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I believe that God told me that he was going to give me a platform to encourage people.

512
00:30:13.120 --> 00:30:18.800
I have a supernatural gift of hope in order to release that over people and see their

513
00:30:18.800 --> 00:30:25.360
dreams resurrected and come to life. I believe God called me to be a revivalist to marriage

514
00:30:25.360 --> 00:30:30.480
and family. It's not about what I see, it's about what I believe. And so even when there

515
00:30:30.480 --> 00:30:35.280
was zero people listening, I was still doing what God had called me to do.

516
00:30:38.080 --> 00:30:42.560
And now we have a global ministry that's helped over 1,600 people get married in four years and

517
00:30:42.560 --> 00:30:50.480
growing all the time. And that doesn't even include all the other things that have happened.

518
00:30:50.480 --> 00:30:56.400
So whatever you see, whether it's something or nothing, it doesn't match what you believe.

519
00:30:58.320 --> 00:31:05.120
The disciples saw a sealed tomb, but what they couldn't see that was heaven was moving,

520
00:31:05.120 --> 00:31:10.320
hell was trembling, and victory was already written. Come on, y'all.

521
00:31:14.800 --> 00:31:17.600
The truth is, is God does his deepest work in hidden places.

522
00:31:21.440 --> 00:31:25.280
He does. Let's think about it. Let's think about God's process for a second and things

523
00:31:25.280 --> 00:31:29.920
besides ourselves. Let's think about planting. Let's think about seeds. You guys all know this.

524
00:31:31.920 --> 00:31:33.120
Seeds have to be buried.

525
00:31:36.080 --> 00:31:40.160
They have to be covered. They have to be hidden. And where do they break open

526
00:31:41.440 --> 00:31:47.840
and start showing their potential first in the hidden places, huh? Isn't that, remember,

527
00:31:48.560 --> 00:31:54.320
like fifth grade biology, science class?

528
00:32:09.360 --> 00:32:10.240
Can you guys hear me?

529
00:32:10.240 --> 00:32:19.440
Okay. Those seeds, remember when we had those glass canisters and we could see what was

530
00:32:19.440 --> 00:32:27.200
happening under the soil? You guys remember that? That was powerful. The seeds just under there,

531
00:32:27.200 --> 00:32:33.280
just being a seed, just hanging out deep in the dirt. Then we're watering it.

532
00:32:35.040 --> 00:32:38.640
And then it starts to break open. Something happens. Change is happening.

533
00:32:38.640 --> 00:32:47.440
Now, if we didn't have the glass thing hot, we wouldn't see that progress until it reached the

534
00:32:47.440 --> 00:32:55.680
top of the soil, would we? There's a crazy plant. I believe it's the bamboo plant, if I'm not

535
00:32:55.680 --> 00:33:00.080
mistaken, that takes years and years and years to break through the soil. But once it does,

536
00:33:00.080 --> 00:33:06.400
it's like six feet tall overnight. It's like, oh, all right. That's an acceleration.

537
00:33:08.880 --> 00:33:14.480
So these seeds, they break open underneath the soil before they sprout.

538
00:33:15.200 --> 00:33:21.120
What's another hidden process? A baby in a womb. I know that we have all kinds of technology where

539
00:33:21.120 --> 00:33:25.920
we can see what your baby is doing in there. We can see if it's like sucking its thumb or

540
00:33:26.720 --> 00:33:31.360
whatever, giving you the finger. My friend had a baby that was always giving the middle finger

541
00:33:31.360 --> 00:33:36.400
when the camera came on. I don't know what was going on with that. It was awfully funny though.

542
00:33:37.360 --> 00:33:46.960
But even as far back as my child, she's 24, the only child that I've carried in my womb and given

543
00:33:46.960 --> 00:33:53.040
birth to, we couldn't see our babies. You just had to just believe it was there, especially before

544
00:33:53.040 --> 00:33:58.240
you started showing, before it started moving and you started feeling it. You just had to believe

545
00:33:58.240 --> 00:34:03.120
by faith that you were pregnant. Am I wrong? Now, don't get me wrong. There were signs.

546
00:34:03.440 --> 00:34:06.160
There were signs and they weren't necessarily good signs.

547
00:34:08.560 --> 00:34:13.520
You were in some pain. You felt some nausea. Some things were happening. But there are a lot

548
00:34:13.520 --> 00:34:19.120
of people that don't get those pre-pregnancy, those early pregnancy signs. They just have to

549
00:34:19.120 --> 00:34:24.639
believe by faith. The doctor said that your blood test came back positive and that you're pregnant.

550
00:34:24.639 --> 00:34:29.360
So you're going to have a good four months, maybe five before you ever start seeing signs of life.

551
00:34:29.360 --> 00:34:40.000
Is that not true? And what do you do during this process, friends? You prepare. That's what you do.

552
00:34:41.520 --> 00:34:47.679
Now, if Jesus' disciples weren't so traumatized by this moment where they forgot everything that

553
00:34:47.679 --> 00:34:53.520
he had already told them was going to happen, they might have gone and got prepared for him

554
00:34:53.520 --> 00:34:58.160
to show back up on the third day. Right?

555
00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:11.920
That's what they might have done.

556
00:35:11.920 --> 00:35:19.340
Jesus showed back up exactly when he said he would.

557
00:35:19.340 --> 00:35:20.440
And guess what?

558
00:35:20.440 --> 00:35:23.480
They never understood the process.

559
00:35:23.480 --> 00:35:27.360
They didn't understand why Jesus had to die.

560
00:35:27.360 --> 00:35:28.360
They didn't.

561
00:35:29.080 --> 00:35:31.680
They saw him perform all kinds of miracles.

562
00:35:31.680 --> 00:35:36.200
They saw him raise people from the dead, y'all.

563
00:35:36.200 --> 00:35:44.320
They didn't understand that process.

564
00:35:44.320 --> 00:35:46.640
And a lot of times we don't get to understand the process either.

565
00:35:46.640 --> 00:35:51.360
I'm not promising you that when you actually step into manifestation of your promise, like

566
00:35:51.360 --> 00:35:58.040
full manifestation, some of you are in different parts of it, partial parts of it right now.

567
00:35:58.040 --> 00:36:01.880
You're like me, you're seeing some interest off that inheritance, but you're not seeing

568
00:36:01.880 --> 00:36:04.280
the full thing.

569
00:36:04.280 --> 00:36:09.200
And by the way, back in the times of the Bible times, the Jews didn't give their children

570
00:36:09.200 --> 00:36:10.820
inheritances.

571
00:36:10.820 --> 00:36:12.600
They actually had a steward.

572
00:36:12.600 --> 00:36:16.040
They had someone that stewarded, an adult that steward their inheritance until they

573
00:36:16.040 --> 00:36:19.320
were ready for it.

574
00:36:19.320 --> 00:36:23.000
And the Bible goes on to liken that to the law.

575
00:36:23.000 --> 00:36:25.680
The law was put in place to help us to what?

576
00:36:25.680 --> 00:36:28.080
To help us to step into our full inheritance.

577
00:36:28.080 --> 00:36:30.360
Once Jesus came and died for us.

578
00:36:30.360 --> 00:36:35.840
And it says that now that Jesus has come, you don't need the schoolmaster anymore.

579
00:36:35.840 --> 00:36:37.800
You don't need the steward of your inheritance anymore.

580
00:36:37.800 --> 00:36:39.840
You can step fully into your inheritance.

581
00:36:39.840 --> 00:36:49.040
Isn't that powerful, powerful.

582
00:36:49.040 --> 00:36:52.200
But even though some of you are only seeing little trickles, little mercy drops of what

583
00:36:52.200 --> 00:36:58.080
it is that you've been praying for, God continuing to remind you that, you know, it's still going

584
00:36:58.080 --> 00:36:59.480
to happen.

585
00:36:59.480 --> 00:37:01.240
I promise you one thing about it.

586
00:37:01.240 --> 00:37:05.640
It's not going to look the way you've imagined and it's okay.

587
00:37:05.640 --> 00:37:08.240
That's one thing I can definitely promise you.

588
00:37:08.240 --> 00:37:13.280
You guys, people beat me up in the comments of my posts in the public, you know, so mean,

589
00:37:13.280 --> 00:37:14.320
so vicious towards me.

590
00:37:14.320 --> 00:37:18.160
And I know that they're hurting and I know that that's why they're attacking me.

591
00:37:18.160 --> 00:37:19.520
They're bitter.

592
00:37:19.520 --> 00:37:20.800
They're in complete unbelief.

593
00:37:20.800 --> 00:37:23.200
Some of them maybe even be demonized.

594
00:37:23.200 --> 00:37:26.160
And I, I, you know, I have, I have mercy for them.

595
00:37:26.160 --> 00:37:27.160
I have grace for them.

596
00:37:27.160 --> 00:37:28.600
Now don't get me twisted.

597
00:37:28.600 --> 00:37:32.760
I do bless them and block them.

598
00:37:32.760 --> 00:37:33.760
I do.

599
00:37:33.760 --> 00:37:37.640
And you know how I make the decision of whether or not to bless them and block them.

600
00:37:37.640 --> 00:37:42.080
If maybe they're just hurting and they're just kind of venting a little bit.

601
00:37:42.080 --> 00:37:46.560
Is if they use the words, I don't believe that.

602
00:37:46.560 --> 00:37:48.680
If they use the words, that's not true.

603
00:37:48.680 --> 00:37:49.920
I don't believe that.

604
00:37:50.040 --> 00:37:53.760
That's when I bless them and block them because you guys, it's not about what God can do.

605
00:37:53.760 --> 00:37:56.020
It's about what you believe he can do.

606
00:37:56.020 --> 00:37:58.600
And it's not my job to try to talk you into belief.

607
00:37:58.600 --> 00:37:59.600
Come on.

608
00:37:59.600 --> 00:38:01.840
It's not my job to try to talk you into the belief.

609
00:38:01.840 --> 00:38:03.280
You know what my job is?

610
00:38:03.280 --> 00:38:05.680
You know what God has gifted me to do?

611
00:38:05.680 --> 00:38:08.880
He's gifted me to fan the flames of your belief.

612
00:38:08.880 --> 00:38:11.800
He's gifted me to fan the flames of your hope.

613
00:38:11.800 --> 00:38:13.920
That is what he has called me to do.

614
00:38:13.920 --> 00:38:18.000
I can't create something that's not there, right?

615
00:38:18.000 --> 00:38:21.840
That is a situation where someone has to go and they have to go through deliverance.

616
00:38:21.840 --> 00:38:23.600
They have to surrender to God.

617
00:38:23.600 --> 00:38:34.080
He's the one that takes hardened hearts and makes them soft through repentance, y'all.

618
00:38:34.080 --> 00:38:41.600
But repentance comes from seeing the goodness of God in our lives, goodness, goodness of

619
00:38:41.600 --> 00:38:45.200
God.

620
00:38:45.200 --> 00:38:51.040
So don't make permanent decisions on Saturday, friends.

621
00:38:51.040 --> 00:38:55.120
Don't harden your heart on Saturday because we already know Sunday's coming because we,

622
00:38:55.120 --> 00:38:59.480
you know, we get to watch this in replay.

623
00:38:59.480 --> 00:39:00.880
The disciples had to live in it.

624
00:39:00.880 --> 00:39:02.960
So I'm not judging them at all.

625
00:39:02.960 --> 00:39:03.960
Trust me.

626
00:39:03.960 --> 00:39:04.960
I'm not judging them.

627
00:39:04.960 --> 00:39:10.400
I probably would have done the same old thing they did.

628
00:39:10.400 --> 00:39:16.200
But because we get to see it in hindsight, we know.

629
00:39:16.200 --> 00:39:20.580
Don't walk away from what God told you that you could do just because nothing's happening

630
00:39:20.580 --> 00:39:21.580
with it yet.

631
00:39:21.580 --> 00:39:23.760
I just told you my story.

632
00:39:23.760 --> 00:39:27.680
I know you guys think that, oh, you know, people like Jackie, they just, everything

633
00:39:27.680 --> 00:39:32.160
they touch turns to gold and excuse me, excuse me.

634
00:39:32.160 --> 00:39:39.160
I've been in a long process, a very, very, very long process.

635
00:39:39.160 --> 00:39:41.440
And I'm still in process with a lot of things.

636
00:39:41.440 --> 00:39:44.360
And I will be for the rest of my life.

637
00:39:44.360 --> 00:39:49.800
Just because it's not working out yet, doesn't mean it's not going to work out, friends.

638
00:39:49.800 --> 00:39:52.720
Don't settle for a half story just because you got tired of waiting.

639
00:39:52.720 --> 00:39:53.720
You shouldn't be waiting anyway.

640
00:39:53.720 --> 00:39:55.600
You should be preparing.

641
00:39:55.600 --> 00:39:57.840
If you're tired of waiting, good.

642
00:39:57.840 --> 00:40:00.000
It'd be so silly for you to find out you're pregnant and then say,

643
00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:07.680
the doctor's office for nine months. That would be ridiculous. And it's also ridiculous to receive

644
00:40:07.680 --> 00:40:12.160
a word from the Lord and then just dismiss it when you don't see evidence of it immediately

645
00:40:12.160 --> 00:40:18.560
coming to pass. You need to prepare for it. You need to act like it's going to happen.

646
00:40:18.560 --> 00:40:23.840
And that looks like something. It looks different for all of you. But if you really believed

647
00:40:23.840 --> 00:40:28.480
something was going to happen, you would act on it. I remember God said to me once,

648
00:40:28.480 --> 00:40:32.240
he said, what would you do if I handed you a check for a million dollars? And this was back

649
00:40:32.240 --> 00:40:36.960
when a million dollars was a lot, a lot, a lot of money. Okay. So a lot of money,

650
00:40:36.960 --> 00:40:43.680
but it was a lot, a lot, a lot of money back then. And I said, well, I would be so excited

651
00:40:43.680 --> 00:40:47.840
about it. I would jump up and down. I would scream. I would run around the room and then

652
00:40:47.840 --> 00:40:57.680
I would go cash it. Right. He said, yeah, he said, but he said people do the first part.

653
00:40:57.680 --> 00:41:00.960
He said, this is, this is what's wrong with kind of like the church mindset.

654
00:41:01.920 --> 00:41:07.920
People find out that they've won a million dollars, all this amazing stuff that Jesus

655
00:41:07.920 --> 00:41:12.240
died to give us friends on the other side of Sunday, on the other side of the resurrection,

656
00:41:13.280 --> 00:41:19.360
all the things that we get to step into. They find out they jump up and down. They run around,

657
00:41:20.160 --> 00:41:26.240
they scream and yell. They tell their friends, they make bumper stickers and posters and they

658
00:41:26.240 --> 00:41:36.400
embroider bags with stuff saying that won't he do it. He did it. This, that all the things,

659
00:41:36.400 --> 00:41:46.800
but you guys, they never cashed the check. Never take action on it. The proof of belief is action.

660
00:41:48.800 --> 00:41:51.760
Imperfect action. Sometimes you don't know what action looks like

661
00:41:52.640 --> 00:41:58.640
or your specific promise or your specific thing that you want to have happen. And so you just

662
00:41:58.640 --> 00:42:06.320
take imperfect action, but it doesn't matter. Action is action and belief requires action.

663
00:42:07.440 --> 00:42:12.480
Don't lower your expectations because of delay, because of doubt.

664
00:42:14.960 --> 00:42:20.080
Let's remember something very important. The same people who ran in fear are not going to

665
00:42:20.080 --> 00:42:27.120
people who ran in fear on Sunday were the same people preaching with fire on the day of Pentecost.

666
00:42:33.200 --> 00:42:38.800
All right. So because we know in hindsight that the resurrection has already happened,

667
00:42:38.800 --> 00:42:45.680
we know that it's a done deal. We know that the setback was a setup for a comeback. We know all

668
00:42:45.680 --> 00:42:50.240
that stuff. And because we know that let's begin to speak prophetically today. Shall we?

669
00:42:54.080 --> 00:43:02.880
Let's start to begin to come into agreement and alignment with resurrection. We can do that.

670
00:43:05.360 --> 00:43:09.760
We don't live during the time when Jesus was still in the tomb. Jesus is alive.

671
00:43:10.320 --> 00:43:15.360
That's what's so beautiful for us, you guys. What a painful day for his disciples back then,

672
00:43:15.360 --> 00:43:19.360
but we're his disciples now, and we already know that he's alive.

673
00:43:22.400 --> 00:43:23.520
We know he's alive.

674
00:43:28.080 --> 00:43:32.080
So what can we come into agreement with? With heaven?

675
00:43:34.320 --> 00:43:38.960
Yes, we're in a season. We might be in the middle where we're resting, we're processing,

676
00:43:39.920 --> 00:43:47.040
maybe we're pruning, we're preparing. And you guys, that's really important. Please don't

677
00:43:48.320 --> 00:43:54.720
negate that season. Don't sleep on that season of processing, pruning, preparing, resting.

678
00:43:55.280 --> 00:43:58.880
I know so many people that are pregnant right now, and because I've been pregnant,

679
00:43:58.880 --> 00:44:04.400
I know what that's like. At the end of the pregnancy, people get very restless.

680
00:44:04.400 --> 00:44:07.920
And that's why some of you, listen, God wants to talk to you right now. That's why some of

681
00:44:08.000 --> 00:44:14.000
you are in such foul tempers. You're agitated, you're irritated,

682
00:44:16.240 --> 00:44:19.600
you're uncomfortable because you're about to give birth to something.

683
00:44:21.760 --> 00:44:27.200
At the end, at the beginning of pregnancy, guys, you're so excited about it and a little fearful

684
00:44:27.200 --> 00:44:31.040
and sometimes not feeling that great. But by second trimester, you're usually feeling a lot

685
00:44:31.040 --> 00:44:36.080
of energy and you're really enjoying the pregnancy because you're not having a lot of the horrible

686
00:44:36.080 --> 00:44:41.600
effects of third trimester yet, where the baby's taking so much room that you can't breathe,

687
00:44:41.600 --> 00:44:46.000
you're waddling, your hips are becoming displaced so you can give birth and you're just waddling

688
00:44:46.000 --> 00:44:50.800
around like a little duck. And all the different things that happen, you get hemorrhoids, you can't

689
00:44:50.800 --> 00:44:56.000
sleep on any side of your body because you got a big old belly and all the things. But second

690
00:44:56.000 --> 00:44:59.840
trimester, kind of in the middle, you're good. You're good.

691
00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:03.000
You're feeling good, feeling good.

692
00:45:03.120 --> 00:45:05.960
And some of you are in that part, that part of the process of your promise.

693
00:45:06.280 --> 00:45:08.800
You're still have high, high expectation.

694
00:45:08.800 --> 00:45:09.800
You're feeling good.

695
00:45:10.600 --> 00:45:14.400
You haven't been carrying the promise long enough for it to start agitating you.

696
00:45:16.520 --> 00:45:20.160
Some of you are at the end and you're like, Ooh, I cannot go another day.

697
00:45:20.800 --> 00:45:25.560
I remember just crying out to God, Oh Lord Jesus, deliver me of this child.

698
00:45:26.040 --> 00:45:29.760
So I have a lot of friends right now that are pregnant and some of them are at the

699
00:45:29.760 --> 00:45:31.040
end of their gestation.

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And let me tell you, they are miserable.

701
00:45:35.480 --> 00:45:36.600
It's not even summertime.

702
00:45:37.440 --> 00:45:38.680
They're miserable.

703
00:45:39.200 --> 00:45:43.520
Just talked to one of my friends the other day and she could barely talk because she

704
00:45:43.520 --> 00:45:47.120
was so out of breath because the baby is pushing on her diaphragm.

705
00:45:51.720 --> 00:45:52.640
And you're miserable.

706
00:45:54.280 --> 00:45:58.120
You just want it to be over.

707
00:46:00.680 --> 00:46:02.880
And so this is my word for you guys.

708
00:46:03.840 --> 00:46:10.240
Rest, prune, continue to prepare.

709
00:46:10.280 --> 00:46:10.960
You know why?

710
00:46:11.360 --> 00:46:15.040
Because when my friend was saying all that stuff of how miserable she was with what

711
00:46:15.040 --> 00:46:21.200
she was carrying and what was happening, I know because I've already had a child,

712
00:46:21.680 --> 00:46:23.880
the real work is really about to begin.

713
00:46:25.240 --> 00:46:25.760
Amen.

714
00:46:25.760 --> 00:46:29.400
When we're pregnant, we just want to be un-pregnant.

715
00:46:29.400 --> 00:46:34.360
But when you're un-pregnant, you have a little tiny infant that it's a whole

716
00:46:34.360 --> 00:46:36.920
different type of process.

717
00:46:36.960 --> 00:46:37.600
Am I wrong?

718
00:46:42.320 --> 00:46:45.960
Sometimes in those early weeks of having an infant, depending on their sleep

719
00:46:45.960 --> 00:46:48.720
schedule and eating schedule, you kind of want to shove them back in.

720
00:46:48.880 --> 00:46:50.960
You're like, Hey, let me just go back to this other season.

721
00:46:51.960 --> 00:46:56.040
And so what I'm trying to tell you guys is that there's always going to be parts

722
00:46:56.080 --> 00:47:00.200
of a season that you're in that are not that easy.

723
00:47:01.160 --> 00:47:01.640
Okay.

724
00:47:03.720 --> 00:47:06.080
Amazing, but not easy.

725
00:47:06.080 --> 00:47:06.560
And guess what?

726
00:47:06.560 --> 00:47:07.480
There's grace for it.

727
00:47:08.280 --> 00:47:09.240
There's grace for it.

728
00:47:11.000 --> 00:47:13.880
But I get to walk through early relationship with so many people.

729
00:47:13.880 --> 00:47:20.000
So for so many of you, you wrote down the thing that you want to be reminded of,

730
00:47:20.320 --> 00:47:23.840
even in the process is God's promise over your marriage, over your love life.

731
00:47:23.840 --> 00:47:25.000
So many of you wrote that down.

732
00:47:25.000 --> 00:47:29.200
I know you did, but I want to promise you this is that early relationship.

733
00:47:30.120 --> 00:47:30.840
It's not easy.

734
00:47:31.560 --> 00:47:33.000
Not in the year 2025.

735
00:47:33.720 --> 00:47:38.000
There's all kinds of things to navigate inside of yourself and inside of that

736
00:47:38.000 --> 00:47:44.560
relationship as you grow in affection and hopefully love together going towards

737
00:47:44.560 --> 00:47:45.080
marriage.

738
00:47:45.560 --> 00:47:48.840
In early marriage, there's all kinds of refining that happens.

739
00:47:49.160 --> 00:47:51.440
I'm just preparing you for what's coming.

740
00:47:53.600 --> 00:47:53.800
Okay.

741
00:47:53.800 --> 00:47:56.160
Jesus resurrected and what an amazing thing.

742
00:47:56.160 --> 00:47:59.160
And he's like, I told you I was coming back.

743
00:47:59.160 --> 00:47:59.960
Here I am.

744
00:48:00.320 --> 00:48:02.000
But then what happened after that?

745
00:48:03.240 --> 00:48:05.600
They're surrounded by the same people that try to kill Jesus.

746
00:48:05.600 --> 00:48:07.280
There's all kinds of things to learn.

747
00:48:07.280 --> 00:48:09.120
There's all kinds of process to go through.

748
00:48:09.120 --> 00:48:09.640
Right?

749
00:48:10.040 --> 00:48:11.040
Isn't that what happened?

750
00:48:19.400 --> 00:48:22.360
So let's make some prophetic declarations right now.

751
00:48:22.640 --> 00:48:26.520
You know, that marriage that you're believing for Sunday is coming.

752
00:48:29.400 --> 00:48:32.880
Some of you are still believing to have a child from your womb, from your womb.

753
00:48:33.880 --> 00:48:37.000
And we're going to believe that with you.

754
00:48:37.160 --> 00:48:39.240
That child you're praying for Sunday is coming.

755
00:48:39.640 --> 00:48:41.320
Some of you want to foster and adopt children.

756
00:48:41.440 --> 00:48:42.600
That Sunday is coming.

757
00:48:43.080 --> 00:48:46.200
The calling that you thought disqualified you.

758
00:48:49.480 --> 00:48:52.120
Calling that you wanted, whatever you thought you were going to do for the

759
00:48:52.120 --> 00:48:55.240
Lord, whatever he promised you that you think you're disqualified from now.

760
00:48:55.440 --> 00:48:56.480
No, Sunday is coming.

761
00:48:57.400 --> 00:49:00.000
It may not look the way that you thought it was going to look 20 years ago.

762
00:49:04.200 --> 00:49:05.880
20 years ago, I just wanted to be a preacher.

763
00:49:05.880 --> 00:49:07.200
That's what I thought I was going to do.

764
00:49:07.200 --> 00:49:11.840
I had no idea that I was going to, you know, start a media company and

765
00:49:11.840 --> 00:49:13.320
do all the things that I've done.

766
00:49:13.320 --> 00:49:14.680
And, and look, guess what?

767
00:49:14.680 --> 00:49:16.400
On Saturdays, I still get to be a preacher.

768
00:49:19.840 --> 00:49:21.360
But you understand what I'm saying?

769
00:49:21.720 --> 00:49:23.880
It doesn't have to look the way that you thought it would look.

770
00:49:24.280 --> 00:49:29.160
Surrender that to the Lord and then, and then speak resurrection over

771
00:49:29.160 --> 00:49:30.960
it because it's not over yet.

772
00:49:31.840 --> 00:49:37.040
The dream that we bury, that we put on the shelf, Sunday's coming.

773
00:49:38.240 --> 00:49:39.360
It's already written in the story.

774
00:49:40.240 --> 00:49:41.880
Resurrection's already written in the story.

775
00:49:41.880 --> 00:49:42.680
It's not dead.

776
00:49:42.760 --> 00:49:43.880
It's just in process.

777
00:49:45.520 --> 00:49:47.560
The healing, the breakthrough, the restoration.

778
00:49:47.720 --> 00:49:52.920
You guys, I remember an entire decade of my life when I was sick in my body and in

779
00:49:52.920 --> 00:49:56.920
my mind, my entire twenties was lost to physical and mental illness.

780
00:49:59.560 --> 00:50:00.040
I did not.

781
00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:01.920
I think that I was ever gonna be well enough

782
00:50:01.920 --> 00:50:03.960
to even drive to the grocery store.

783
00:50:03.960 --> 00:50:06.280
I couldn't even go to the grocery store.

784
00:50:06.280 --> 00:50:08.160
I could not even drive a car.

785
00:50:11.360 --> 00:50:13.240
My greatest dream back then

786
00:50:13.240 --> 00:50:16.800
was just to go to the grocery store.

787
00:50:19.720 --> 00:50:21.360
That's all I wanted.

788
00:50:21.360 --> 00:50:26.360
I wanted to have a strong enough body

789
00:50:26.360 --> 00:50:29.840
and a strong enough mind to get into a car

790
00:50:29.880 --> 00:50:34.000
and drive less than five miles away to a grocery store.

791
00:50:34.000 --> 00:50:36.600
I wanted to be able to accept the invitation

792
00:50:36.600 --> 00:50:40.960
to go shopping with my friends to the mall

793
00:50:41.880 --> 00:50:46.260
like most 20-year-olds, 24 or five-year-olds would do.

794
00:50:47.480 --> 00:50:48.760
I could not do it.

795
00:50:50.360 --> 00:50:52.560
I tried to do it a couple times

796
00:50:52.560 --> 00:50:56.160
and then I had the embarrassment of whoever I was with

797
00:50:56.160 --> 00:50:59.460
having to rush me back home almost as soon as we got there.

798
00:51:00.840 --> 00:51:03.960
Severe obsessive compulsive disorder.

799
00:51:03.960 --> 00:51:05.200
I had agoraphobia.

800
00:51:05.200 --> 00:51:06.760
I had panic disorder.

801
00:51:08.240 --> 00:51:11.280
And because of those mental health issues,

802
00:51:11.280 --> 00:51:14.840
I had adrenal failure, not fatigue.

803
00:51:14.840 --> 00:51:16.360
I had Epstein-Barr.

804
00:51:16.360 --> 00:51:19.280
I had so many problems, you guys.

805
00:51:23.160 --> 00:51:24.720
But I loved Jesus.

806
00:51:25.840 --> 00:51:28.000
And in the process,

807
00:51:30.280 --> 00:51:35.280
sitting at my home in an unhealthy and unsafe marriage,

808
00:51:40.560 --> 00:51:43.000
feeling all the potential of God's promises

809
00:51:43.000 --> 00:51:44.600
that had been spoken over my life

810
00:51:44.600 --> 00:51:47.460
and yet not being able to live out even one of them,

811
00:51:50.700 --> 00:51:54.360
imprisoned within a five-mile square radius of my house

812
00:51:55.280 --> 00:51:58.700
with a husband who absolutely did not care

813
00:51:58.700 --> 00:52:00.820
about anything that I was going through

814
00:52:00.820 --> 00:52:03.500
and just wanted to have me committed to an asylum.

815
00:52:10.380 --> 00:52:12.220
10 years.

816
00:52:29.340 --> 00:52:30.780
At some point in time,

817
00:52:30.780 --> 00:52:34.620
I think that I just surrendered to the idea

818
00:52:34.620 --> 00:52:38.420
that this might be what life is always gonna look like.

819
00:52:42.180 --> 00:52:43.860
But I wanna tell you guys

820
00:52:43.860 --> 00:52:46.460
that God gave me the supernatural gift of hope.

821
00:52:47.460 --> 00:52:49.340
And that is what I release over y'all.

822
00:52:49.340 --> 00:52:52.500
And that is what is the secret sauce of what happens here.

823
00:52:52.500 --> 00:52:56.260
And that is why so many people's love lives

824
00:52:56.260 --> 00:52:58.780
and relationships have been resurrected here.

825
00:52:58.780 --> 00:53:03.700
Because even in the midst of that decade of my life,

826
00:53:07.900 --> 00:53:09.180
deep down inside,

827
00:53:09.180 --> 00:53:14.180
I just knew that God was not finished yet.

828
00:53:18.220 --> 00:53:19.220
I just knew.

829
00:53:19.220 --> 00:53:20.760
And you guys, I would get down,

830
00:53:20.760 --> 00:53:22.860
but I would not stay down for long.

831
00:53:23.860 --> 00:53:28.860
Like I'm not even a couple days, not even a couple hours.

832
00:53:29.220 --> 00:53:31.340
Doubt would try to come.

833
00:53:31.340 --> 00:53:32.580
Disappointment would try to come.

834
00:53:32.580 --> 00:53:34.700
Despondency would try to come.

835
00:53:34.700 --> 00:53:36.260
I would kneel at the side of my bed

836
00:53:36.260 --> 00:53:38.540
and I would cry out to the Lord and I would intercede

837
00:53:38.540 --> 00:53:41.420
and I would travail and I would cry and I would pray.

838
00:53:41.420 --> 00:53:45.180
And I would get up from that place with renewed hope again.

839
00:53:46.060 --> 00:53:48.900
It was hope that could not be killed.

840
00:53:49.900 --> 00:53:54.900
It couldn't be killed and I'm so thankful for that.

841
00:53:57.940 --> 00:54:02.940
Because there came a day when all of it changed.

842
00:54:05.820 --> 00:54:08.700
One of the scriptures that I carried around in my purse,

843
00:54:08.700 --> 00:54:10.420
you guys, was Isaiah 41 10.

844
00:54:10.420 --> 00:54:13.380
It just says that I am with you.

845
00:54:13.380 --> 00:54:14.820
I am your God.

846
00:54:14.820 --> 00:54:16.460
I have you.

847
00:54:16.460 --> 00:54:17.980
I'm protecting you.

848
00:54:19.020 --> 00:54:21.380
With my strong right arm.

849
00:54:21.380 --> 00:54:23.300
You know, God was always with me.

850
00:54:23.300 --> 00:54:25.940
He was always telling me that he wasn't gonna leave me,

851
00:54:25.940 --> 00:54:28.580
that he wasn't gonna abandon me, that he was with me.

852
00:54:28.580 --> 00:54:30.180
I used to carry that scripture around.

853
00:54:30.180 --> 00:54:31.580
I used to quote it all the time.

854
00:54:31.580 --> 00:54:33.220
I used to read it all the time.

855
00:54:41.780 --> 00:54:46.140
I was hanging on by thread so many times, but I never fell.

856
00:54:47.140 --> 00:54:50.060
And then one day, and the very next scripture after that,

857
00:54:50.060 --> 00:54:52.380
I didn't pay a lot of attention to that scripture,

858
00:54:52.380 --> 00:54:53.980
but that scripture basically says

859
00:54:53.980 --> 00:54:55.940
that there's gonna come a time when you're gonna look

860
00:54:55.940 --> 00:54:57.740
for those that are tormenting you,

861
00:54:57.740 --> 00:54:59.900
the enemies that have surrounded you.

862
00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:02.320
and you're not going to be able to find them because they're going to be gone.

863
00:55:05.280 --> 00:55:10.400
You know, we get into a place in life where every day looks like the day before and that's

864
00:55:10.400 --> 00:55:14.400
definitely what that decade of my life looked like. Every day looked like the day before.

865
00:55:15.360 --> 00:55:21.520
There wasn't much change. There wasn't any sign that Sunday was coming and yet there was hope.

866
00:55:21.520 --> 00:55:32.000
There was no outward sign though. It was the same. It was the same life. It was the same

867
00:55:32.000 --> 00:55:39.280
imprisonment. It was the same stagnation. It was the same physical and mental health issues.

868
00:55:39.280 --> 00:55:42.080
It was the same marriage. It was the same everything.

869
00:55:45.360 --> 00:55:48.880
The same everything. And you guys, I want to let you know that there's a lot of things that

870
00:55:48.880 --> 00:55:55.360
we don't know about our situations. There's a lot I didn't know about the situation. I did not know

871
00:55:55.360 --> 00:55:59.520
that you can't heal in the same environment that's making you sick. I didn't know any of

872
00:55:59.520 --> 00:56:05.440
that stuff. We don't know what we don't know. And there are things right now as you're sitting

873
00:56:05.440 --> 00:56:12.560
in your situation that you don't know about your situation, but God does. God does know those things.

874
00:56:12.880 --> 00:56:16.880
I didn't know that I was in an abusive church. I didn't know that the pastor

875
00:56:16.880 --> 00:56:22.960
was not who he appeared to be. I didn't know in at the end of that 10 year span that he was going

876
00:56:22.960 --> 00:56:32.080
to go to prison. I didn't know that part of the reason why I was not getting better was because

877
00:56:32.080 --> 00:56:38.640
of the stress that I was under from being in this marriage and in this church. I didn't know it.

878
00:56:38.880 --> 00:56:44.880
I didn't know it. I was just trying to love God. I was just trying to serve God.

879
00:56:46.320 --> 00:56:52.720
I was just trying to survive. I was doing every single thing that I knew to do.

880
00:56:53.440 --> 00:56:56.800
Someone needs to hear that today. I was doing every single thing that I

881
00:56:56.800 --> 00:56:59.920
knew to do and you're doing every single thing that you know to do.

882
00:57:02.960 --> 00:57:05.120
And you guys, sometimes Sunday shows up weird.

883
00:57:05.440 --> 00:57:07.440
And my Sunday showed up on a Tuesday.

884
00:57:11.120 --> 00:57:15.360
There were two places that I felt safe outside of my house and one of them I'm safe enough to

885
00:57:15.360 --> 00:57:21.120
go to and one of them was the church. And so I was at the church on a Tuesday because that was

886
00:57:21.120 --> 00:57:25.840
a regular prayer night, not Wednesday, Tuesday, the regular Bible study night and I was in the

887
00:57:26.000 --> 00:57:32.400
nursery with my young child. And I heard a commotion in the sanctuary and I looked at the

888
00:57:32.400 --> 00:57:38.160
monitor and I saw a bunch of people I didn't recognize. And so I went into the sanctuary to

889
00:57:38.160 --> 00:57:42.320
see what was going on. I sat on the back pew with the two little kids that I was watching in the

890
00:57:42.320 --> 00:57:49.200
nursery, my daughter and another woman's little toddler. And I saw as the entire mess unraveled,

891
00:57:49.520 --> 00:57:57.840
all the secrets were exposed, all the lies came out. And within one day, one night, one hour,

892
00:57:58.880 --> 00:58:02.960
God opened the gate and said, go ahead, you're free.

893
00:58:05.520 --> 00:58:09.520
Now, I wish I could tell you that that was an easy transition because it wasn't. Everything

894
00:58:09.520 --> 00:58:15.200
that I knew to be real was not real. All the things that I believed to be real,

895
00:58:15.360 --> 00:58:22.240
to be real was not real. All the things that I believed, all the people that I thought I knew,

896
00:58:22.960 --> 00:58:29.680
it was a very scary time. But you know what? God used it to rebuild me. God used it to set

897
00:58:29.680 --> 00:58:34.800
me free. When I tell you that almost all of my mental health and physical health problems were

898
00:58:34.800 --> 00:58:44.080
gone within a year, I'm not kidding. My Sunday showed up very strangely and yours might show

899
00:58:44.080 --> 00:58:48.640
up strange too. There might be some things that fall apart around you and you might be

900
00:58:48.640 --> 00:58:52.560
scrambling to try to hold them together because you think that's a bad thing. But God said,

901
00:58:52.560 --> 00:58:58.880
that's a good thing. That's not what you think it is. You don't need that anymore.

902
00:58:59.680 --> 00:59:05.440
There were parts of that that you never needed. You've got to allow God to shift you.

903
00:59:05.440 --> 00:59:17.440
There's a huge shift that has to happen. Confidence coming back, clarity coming back.

904
00:59:22.400 --> 00:59:27.200
The resurrection is already written in the story, you guys. It was already there. It was there all

905
00:59:27.200 --> 00:59:32.240
along. Can I tell you something? This is what came in my mind before the call today. I want

906
00:59:32.240 --> 00:59:36.720
to make sure that I release it over you guys because it's very important. There were so many

907
00:59:36.720 --> 00:59:45.680
times in that 10 years that there was an exit door and I didn't take it. There were so many times in

908
00:59:45.680 --> 00:59:52.080
that 10 years that God tried to show me what inevitably I would see at the end, but I would not

909
00:59:52.080 --> 00:59:58.720
listen because my loyalty to people was stronger than

910
01:00:00.000 --> 01:00:04.000
my loyalty to God and I didn't know that.

911
01:00:04.000 --> 01:00:06.080
I didn't understand that you guys because I was young.

912
01:00:06.080 --> 01:00:07.080
I was young in the faith.

913
01:00:07.080 --> 01:00:14.160
I had just met Jesus at 22 but some of you all are old enough in the faith to know better

914
01:00:14.160 --> 01:00:20.120
and your loyalty to things that are hurting you is stronger than your loyalty to the promises

915
01:00:20.120 --> 01:00:25.600
and prophetic utterances of God over your life.

916
01:00:25.600 --> 01:00:28.080
Some of you are suffering needlessly.

917
01:00:28.080 --> 01:00:29.080
Do you hear me?

918
01:00:29.080 --> 01:00:30.080
Please listen.

919
01:00:30.080 --> 01:00:34.600
You're suffering needlessly.

920
01:00:34.600 --> 01:00:38.760
You guys the disciples went and once again I'm not judging them but they went and they

921
01:00:38.760 --> 01:00:44.680
went into hiding and they begin to mourn and grieve and suffer but honestly it was needlessly

922
01:00:44.680 --> 01:00:49.040
right because Jesus already told them on the third day I'm going to resurrect.

923
01:00:49.040 --> 01:00:50.840
You've seen me raise people from the dead.

924
01:00:50.840 --> 01:00:53.880
You've seen what I can do.

925
01:00:53.880 --> 01:01:01.280
It's not like they haven't seen people get out of the tomb before remember Lazarus.

926
01:01:01.280 --> 01:01:02.960
Are we suffering needlessly?

927
01:01:02.960 --> 01:01:04.120
That's how I want to end the call today.

928
01:01:04.120 --> 01:01:05.640
I want you to ask yourself that.

929
01:01:05.640 --> 01:01:10.000
I want you to sit with Holy Spirit in the places of pain that you've been in and I want

930
01:01:10.000 --> 01:01:15.680
you to ask honestly am I suffering needlessly?

931
01:01:15.680 --> 01:01:18.320
Did God already say he would?

932
01:01:18.320 --> 01:01:22.360
Am I missing the exit sign to this pain?

933
01:01:22.360 --> 01:01:28.520
Am I still in process when I don't need to be in process?

934
01:01:28.520 --> 01:01:35.280
Is it time for me to step into a different part of this process where there's victory?

935
01:01:35.280 --> 01:01:37.080
These are the questions you guys.

936
01:01:37.080 --> 01:01:38.760
Father God we thank you for today.

937
01:01:38.760 --> 01:01:43.120
We thank you Lord that you love us so much and you said that you would never allow pain

938
01:01:43.120 --> 01:01:48.800
to come unless something was being born and we know that Jesus endured the shame of the

939
01:01:48.800 --> 01:01:54.840
cross, the suffering of the cross only because of the joy that was set before him of that

940
01:01:54.840 --> 01:01:59.680
resurrection not just his but ours and so Lord we declare that today.

941
01:01:59.680 --> 01:02:01.440
We thank you for that today.

942
01:02:01.440 --> 01:02:04.480
We want to live in the resurrected life.

943
01:02:04.480 --> 01:02:10.120
We want to live in all of the amazing things that Jesus died to give us and so Lord we're

944
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asking that you would show us if we are still sitting in Saturday show us where we are still

945
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sitting in Saturday where we don't need to be sitting in Saturday anymore.

946
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It's time for us to walk out.

947
01:02:23.840 --> 01:02:25.400
The prison door is open.

948
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It's time for us to walk out.

949
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The morning has ended and the new day has come.

950
01:02:29.720 --> 01:02:31.500
It's time for us to walk out.

951
01:02:31.500 --> 01:02:35.200
It's time for us to enjoy what Jesus died to give us.

952
01:02:35.200 --> 01:02:39.480
Lord I just ask right now any place that we're dead in religion any place where we're believing

953
01:02:39.480 --> 01:02:46.440
a lie any place where we're stuck on the inside but you have already set us free on the outside

954
01:02:46.480 --> 01:02:47.480
and we are free to go.

955
01:02:47.480 --> 01:02:51.400
I pray that you would reveal that you would heal that in us Lord.

956
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We're asking for this in Jesus name.

957
01:02:53.720 --> 01:02:54.720
Amen.

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01:02:54.720 --> 01:02:55.720
I love y'all.

959
01:02:55.720 --> 01:02:59.920
We're going to have communion and prayer tomorrow night for those that you can join that can

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01:02:59.920 --> 01:03:04.240
join us because it is Easter and so there will be no activation just communion and prayer.

961
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See you soon.

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