Alright, so for those of you that are joining us for the very first time for Supernatural
Saturday, welcome.
We're so glad to have you with us in this community.
Last year single, guys, God is on the move.
All kinds of supernatural things are happening.
You guys, we're gaining influence.
Last year, singles gaining influence.
Fox News had me on as an expert the other day.
They wanted me to weigh in on Bill Belichick and his 24-year-old girlfriend, you guys.
And guess what?
I had a kingdom response.
I had a kingdom response to that 49-year age difference, right?
I could have been critical, like all the press cycles were being critical of him, but I didn't.
I had a kingdom response.
I had a gracious response that was full of wisdom.
People are actually saying that.
They're like, wow, what a balanced and fair opinion.
Just pile on, pile on to all the criticism of him.
You actually just imparted some wisdom about this is going to be the difficulties of this,
and this is what people are going to say and think and have opinions about when they see
this type of thing, right?
And that was awesome.
The kingdom is gaining territory in the area of dating and love and relationships.
And what does that mean for us?
That means that Fox actually hyperlinked last year's single, Fox News hyperlinked last year's
single in their articles on their website, and people are coming here.
People are clicking.
People are liking what we're having to say and wanting to hear more of it.
So things are on the move, guys, all kinds of different things in the works for May.
I have done a partnership with a Christian dating app that I'm going to be talking about
really soon.
I just want to make sure that everything's in order before I tell you.
I don't want you to go download the app or do any of that until we have everything that
they've promised us and our community in order, okay?
And so we have some ladies here that are part of last year's single.
Hey, everyone, say hi.
Okay, so that's just a couple of our ladies.
We had, there were 16 of us on this trip, but I just want to give you a little tour.
For those of you that are new, you're seeing scripts together, right?
It's so beautiful.
Each of these doors lead to a room with a beautiful bed, and it's all on the bathroom.
Each of these doors, look at this hallway, look at how gorgeous this is, these rooms
are.
I hope we don't see any nakey people.
No nakey people today.
Our security guards, Sebastian, hola, our wonderful staff, beautiful, amazing breakfast
happening here.
There's another pool all the way up on the rooftop as well.
These are all rooms.
All right.
These are all rooms as well.
Just amazing, you guys, amazing time together.
In this front living room, we had worship.
We did all kinds of amazing activities.
We went to the Rosario Islands.
We had our own private house there, everything that you can think of, you guys, we've done
here.
We've just had lots and lots of supernatural times together.
So much breakthrough happening.
So much breakthrough.
Colette, tell them about your breakthrough.
My darkness, I had darkness.
I've been struggling and fighting, but I'm not claiming the darkness anymore, I'm not.
That's not it.
The light is shining through me more and focus on the healing and not what's hindering
me.
So it was amazing.
I had David and Jackie and all these wonderful beautiful ladies pray for me.
And another thing is when I would close my eyes and want to see God and hear from God
and all these things that other people have, it would just be dark.
And yesterday we were on the island and I closed my eyes, I'm feeling well.
And I saw colors of gold and then I saw some reds and some oranges and it's just amazing.
And I am so blessed to be a part of this community.
And you're so light.
Your face even looks different.
I know, I love it.
I love it.
Anyone else want to anyone else want to talk to the people?
Anyone else want to say anything?
We have a couple of people that are not feeling the greatest, got a little cold.
on. Um, so you guys, the whole point of last trip single is we're not gonna put
our lives on hold waiting for something to happen. We're gonna live, we're gonna
live and we're going to continue to build community together and have
supernatural times and beautiful places together. And so our next last trip
single is 38, which is in florida. That's beautiful rosemary beach. Um,
that is a lady's only retreat. We do have some co ed stuff coming up really
soon. We have a cruise and we have an austin conference and a few other
things that are going to be both male and female. But rosemary beach is the
Esther experience. I'm partnering with my friend Heather front. So if you
want great food, if you want beach time, if you want sister time and you
want makeovers, okay, that retreat is going to be very focused on, you know,
not just inner beauty but outer beauty as well because that is my friend
Heather's, that's her forte. Then that is going to be the retreat for you.
Okay, that's gonna be the last year, the last trip single retreat for you. Um,
email us at admin at Jackie dorman dot com and do not delay because there's
only 15 spots for the rosemary beach retreat. Okay. And I think like five of
them are already filled. So make sure that you do that right away and we will
get with you. All right, let's look to the lord father god, we're so thankful
for your goodness and your love. We're so thankful for everything that you
have done for us and all the things that you haven't yet to do. You've
already done them, but we just haven't seen them manifest yet. All the things
that were done for us on the finished work of the cross. We just thank you.
Thank you.
Advanced father for the manifestation of those things. We thank you that you
have great love for us. We thank you mind to us. It will not be denied
blessings. All of your goodness, lord, all all of the inheritance god that is
rightfully ours. So we thank you for that in jesus name. So I want to
continue on with the pruning thought today. If you didn't see last
supernatural saturday, you're gonna want to go see that you're gonna want
listen to that because we started something and we're gonna actually
finish it. And we um really focus on where do I need to prune? Where do I
need to make room? What do I need to do? Right? What do I need to do
personally? It's great to hear Jackie talk about it and yeah, it makes sense.
It sounds like wisdom. But what do I need to do in order to make room in my
life for what god wants to give me? Okay. All right. Hold on a second.
Someone's saying there's a bad connection. So this is what happens
when
let me see if I can get on the wifi here.
Yeah.
Okay.
Okay. You guys, I think that we are back on the wifi.
Am I freezing? Am I here?
Can you hear me? Is it good?
All right. I'm gonna go ahead and turn off my video connection, help see if
that helps as well. So hi. Hola. Buenos dias. And then I'm going to go off
guys. The people of this country are such beautiful people. And I need to
tell you guys also before I forget that we had an amazing time, a gathering of
Colombian sisters that came to a hotel gathering an event at a hotel where I
talked about la labor, which is the heart work in Spanish. And they were so
moved. There were tears on every face. They were drawing closer to God. It was
very, it was a very beautiful time. So that that is happening because of all
of our prayers about expansion and taking territory. And so I just want you
to know that your prayers, all of you ladies that show up to prayer and you
pray over the revival of marriage and family, we are taking territory. We are
taking territory. Hearts are being shifted. They're being changed. Things
are happening. All right. So father, we just thank you Lord
that you're showing us right now. Everyone look to the Lord. Close your
eyes where we need to make room.
where we are cluttered, we need to make space.
You want to give us things,
but we don't have room to receive those things.
We don't have room to receive those things
in our hearts and our minds.
We're cluttered up with ideas and beliefs
and lies that we're believing
that are keeping us from being able to really grab a hold
of what it is that you're showing us and telling us,
the places that you're leading us,
not just physically, but also mentally and emotionally.
Yes, Lord, show us, begin to highlight things to us.
What are the belief systems?
What are the schemas?
What are the ideas that are keeping us stuck?
They're keeping us from living big,
abundant, wide open space life.
Yes, Lord.
Thank you, Lord.
So one of the things that happened here at the retreat
is we were challenged,
God challenged us about what is it
that you really do believe about men, ladies, and men?
What is it that you really do believe about women?
Because when we're talking about pruning,
it's not just about cleaning out your closet.
It's not just about getting rid of some old junk.
It's not just about clearing out your calendar.
It's also about clearing out your heart.
It's a heart work.
Pruning is heart work.
In John 15, when he's talking about the vine
and the branches, when he's talking about being pruned,
he's not talking about your calendar being pruned
or your closet being pruned, your schedule being pruned.
He's talking about your heart being pruned.
That's what he's talking about.
In order for us to bear abundant,
in order for us to bear more fruit, it is our thought life.
It is our heart space,
our heart postures that have to be pruned.
And so we were really challenged.
What is it that you believe?
What do you believe?
And because of my unique experience,
and all of you have a unique experience in life,
there are things we all have a very unique experience.
And because of my unique experience,
what came up in my heart while we were praying
and God was directing us to allow Holy Spirit to show us
what do you really believe about the opposite sex?
I realized men are looking for
and wanting only young women.
That really bothered me.
And it bothered me because, once again,
because of my unique experience and some trauma
that I experienced in childhood
at the hands of a much, much older relative.
I was a child.
And so I realized that I had a heart wound there.
And what it was causing
is it was causing a bias and a prejudice
because there can be May-December romances that are divine,
but it really bothered me
when men were only seeking young women.
It felt predatory to me.
And so, you guys, I dealt with that as it came up.
I allowed God to purify my heart in that way
so that I wouldn't look through the lens of trauma.
I would look at things objectively,
and I would look through the eyes of the Lord
when I'm looking at individual situations
instead of lumping it all together.
And then what happens, you guys?
I want you to see this.
What happened on the heels of me repenting of that
and just allowing God to purify my heart in that area?
I was called literally the very next day
and asked to be on Fox News to weigh in on what?
That very thing.
49-year age difference between a man
and a young, young woman.
You guys, the very next day.
Do you see this?
Do you see how quickly the Lord can upgrade us
if we will allow Him?
You guys, if even just one day difference
I was asked to do that,
I would have had a much different heart posture.
I would not have been able to be objective.
I would have not been able to be kind.
I would have been critical.
And you guys, I'm pretty sassy.
So I would have been critical
and I would have had a lot of sass
and it would have been very sarcastic and underhanded
and it wouldn't have been pretty, okay?
But instead I was able to show up
and I was able to just release wisdom without criticism.
Wisdom without judgment.
I was able to release truth but in love.
That's what happened.
And why did it happen?
Because I allowed Holy Spirit to show me
what my real belief systems were
and then I was able to surrender those belief systems
to the Lord and allow Him to purify them.
Now, does that mean that in these cases of this
that there isn't something predatory going on?
Does it mean that there isn't brokenness
that's happening and being played out?
Does it mean that people?
for not dating out of their deficits?
No, it doesn't mean that at all.
All that it means is that I was showing up in love
instead of judgment.
I was showing up in love instead of judgment.
Now, does that mean that if a man comes to me and says,
hey, I'm looking for a woman who's 40 years younger than me
that I'm gonna work with him?
No, it doesn't mean that,
because I'm not, you know?
Does it mean that if I have men that come to me
and they're specifically only asking for women
that are a different generation than them
and that's what they want
and that's what they have to have,
they've waited until their 50s or 60s
and they have no children
and they want women in their 30s
that I'm going to be the matchmaker of that?
No, it doesn't mean that.
But it does mean that I have allowed God
to give me a different heart posture when speaking.
Doesn't mean I'm gonna participate in that.
It just means that I've allowed God
to give me a different heart posture for that.
And all of you here right now
believe something about the opposite sex
that is hindering you from being able to see people clearly
and being able to see yourself clearly through their eyes.
Because oftentimes what we believe about the opposite sex
is something that we think they're thinking about us.
It's not something that we're necessarily
thinking about them,
it's something that we believe that they think about us.
And so that can be just as limiting.
So as we're pruning,
I don't want you to think that it's just physical stuff,
that it's just calendar items,
it's also heart stuff.
Because God wants to make room.
He wants to make room for something
so much bigger and better than whatever it was
that you were even asking for.
But oftentimes that comes as a result of us
really allowing God to clear stuff out.
And I know that that is scary because you think,
well, then I'm just gonna be empty.
My schedule's gonna be empty,
I'm not gonna have anything to do.
Because some of you have stayed so busy
so that you don't have to feel the pain of being lonely
or being solitary, being single.
So you've way over-scheduled yourself
just so you don't have a moment
where you don't feel like you're significant or important
that you have friends, that you have community,
that you have something to put your hands to.
So empty is a place where God works.
I wanna let you guys know that.
I remember in a past season of my life
where I was just staying at home with my kids.
But then my kids were going to school
and then they got older and they were teenagers
and they had their own lives
and they were at school most of the day
and then they had practice after school
and then they had all kinds of activities that they were at.
And I was just at my house and I was like,
Lord, thank you for the season of being a stay-at-home mom,
but my kids don't need me to be at home anymore.
They're not little anymore.
They don't need me to be here.
But I didn't feel released to go do something else
besides be at home, even though I was like,
I'm a stay-at-home mom to no kids
because these kids are gone.
They're gone, they're off doing their own lives.
But still, God had me in that space
and I can see very clearly now that he had me in a space
that maybe to my heart felt like isolation,
maybe to my heart felt like emptiness,
but really what it was is it was a time
when God was teaching me things and showing me things
because in that empty space,
what I ended up doing was interceding
and praying and studying.
And guess what?
You see the fruition of that season of my life now,
don't you?
And during that season,
it wasn't fun to allow that space to stay empty.
I wanted to run off.
I wanted to go to college for broadcasting.
I wanna do this, I wanna do that.
And sometimes it is the time,
this is why you have to discern your seasons
because sometimes it is the time for you to go, go, go,
to take new territory, to do new things,
to prune off the old things.
And we'll talk about this tomorrow night
on Sunday Night Activation.
For those of you that are in Last Year Single community,
there's a lot of different people joining us.
We have Last Year Single Light folks joining us.
We have people that are in the program
Last Year Single joining us.
And then we have people
that are in Last Year Single community,
formerly known as Phase 3.
We have those folks joining us.
And so Sunday Night Activations
are just for Last Year Single community
or Phase 3 students.
But we will dig deeper into this topic
because you need to discern what season you're in.
The Bible says that there were these sons,
the sons of Issachar,
and they could discern the times and seasons.
They knew exactly what needed to be happening
and when it needed to be happening.
They understood that.
And so I believe that like them,
we can discern our times and seasons.
We know when we should go left or right.
right? We know when we should go forward. We know when we should pause.
We know when we should hit the gas, put the pedal to the metal and go,
go, go, because we're not all in the same season.
And that's why I can't talk to all of you as a group corporately,
because then I would be misspeaking.
All of you are in different seasons,
but one season that I know all of you have in common is that God wants
to place you into family to a greater level.
He wants to place you in your love story.
He does.
And that's why we have to stay in community with each other.
We have to continue to stay in alignment with each other.
We have to continually focus on what God's brought us here to
focus on.
Some of you need to do other things before you're going to actually meet your
mate. There are other things that need to be pruned.
You don't have space in your life for relationship.
You think that when the person gets here, you're just going to make space.
And that's not how it works because you don't just need physical space.
You need mental space. You need emotional space.
You want them to actually join a love story that's already in progress.
This is not going to be the beginning of a love story.
They're going to join a story that's already in progress.
It's going to be your story, the story of your life,
story of your life and their life coming together and creating new
life. And so you want to have a life worth joining,
but you also want to hold the tension of making space to where someone
can join it and bring what they have to offer as well.
So there's two things there. You want to have a life worth joining.
But you also want to make space for what they're bringing.
They're not just joining your life and becoming a character in your story.
They're the main character of their story as well.
And these stories need to be able to come together.
I know of at least one marriage and then divorce of a couple in this
community that refuse to make space in their lives and stories for each
other. They both wanted individual stories,
and then they wanted to cohabitate. It doesn't work like that.
Keep all the same friends, do all the same activities,
live like a single person,
but then come home at night and have someone there that you're married to.
No, it doesn't work like that.
So we need to lean in and allow God to show us and highlight to
us where we need to prune.
Remember the three topics of pruning,
the three categories go back to last Supernatural Saturday. If you don't,
there's, and I think this one's the hardest. There's good for great.
You got to let go of things that are good in order to get things that are great.
And that's the hardest one because it's kind of like, if it's not fixed,
it's not broken, don't fix it. Right. But in the plant world,
this is called overcrowding.
So for those of you that heard my story about my rosebush,
it was gorgeous. It was big and bountiful.
But the problem is is that it was too big.
All the buds weren't going to be able to be sustained by that one root system.
Got to get ahold of that.
All these little things in your life that are good and you like all of them.
They can't all become blossoms. They can't all fruit.
There's overcrowding in your life. You have to prune some of them up, but,
but, but I like, I like all this stuff. Well,
you're going to have to pick the stuff that you feel like the juice is on.
God's juice is on this thing more than it's on these other things that you like,
because you can't do it all. I know you think you can, but you can't,
you can't do it all. Now,
I do believe that we can have it all and God has created us to be really
abundant people, but we can't have it all at the same time.
You can't have it all at the same time.
God always knew that he was going to fulfill his promises to me of the
things that I'm doing now,
but I couldn't do it in the same season that I was raising my kids.
And I, like someone asked me the other day, like Jackie,
like give me the framework for writing a book.
Give me the framework. Let me know. How, how does it work?
How'd you write your book? How many weeks? Like they want the formula. Friends,
there isn't a formula.
What happened was is I was pressed into the Lord in my season and I was focused
on what God wanted me to focus on. And then one day he's like, okay,
I want you to prune this off.
And by the way, that was the thing that made money.
I want you to prune this thing that makes money off. I was a substitute teacher.
I just moved to Austin. I had a needed income.
I did not know anyone yet. David and I didn't have any community,
wouldn't have any friends and he was just working and I.
was just working. He had a remote job. I had no job. But now I'm out of the season of being
with my kids because they're not even with me. They're married or they're off to college
or wherever they are. And so I'm out of the season of, you know, being in that space.
And so I'm like, well, what can I do? What can I do here in Austin? Because we want to
fill our space and time. You guys, we want to fill our space and time with something.
We just want something. And so I heard that you could be a substitute teacher, even if
you weren't a teacher, even if you didn't have a teaching degree. And I insanely thought
that sounded like a good idea. You guys, these babies are bad. All right. When I tell you
that we need to, like, make our teachers American heroes, I am not kidding. It's a war zone
at these schools. So there's this app. I had to do a background check and all the stuff.
But then there was this app where you could book sub jobs for all these different school
districts. And y'all, I had myself stacked. I was stacked with sub jobs. OK, I had this
school and then the next day I'm going to be over at this school. And then I have a
week long because some teacher's out for some reason, probably because she was going crazy.
And then I was at for a week. And you guys, I'm talking about school agers, like elementary
school age, middle school, high school, them high schoolers. Jesus, help us all. All right.
So I was stacked. And when I tell you that I wasn't enjoying this, I wasn't enjoying it,
but it was making money. I think I got paid like 100 bucks a day to put my life in jeopardy.
All right. For real. It was cray cray. And so I had like three months worth of sub jobs.
And it was the beginning of the year. My birthday's at the beginning of the year in January. And so I
just turned a year older and I'm not fulfilled in my life. And God has sent us on this adventure
to Texas. And I'm just trusting the Lord like so many of you are trusting the Lord.
And I go to this worship night that my daughter invited me to. And I'm at the worship night and
I hear the Lord say, cancel that sub job. And I was like, what? He's like, delete all of your
substitute teaching jobs. All the days that you have on hold on this app, cancel every one of them
and write your book. You guys, this would be the hard work, the first book. And I was like,
oh, I don't know how to write a book. I've tried to write a book. Yes, I've always been a writer
all my life. Ever since I was a kid, I've always liked to write. I would write little short stories
and I would always keep journals. Anyone else? Always keep journals. I would always have,
we called them diaries back then. I would always have a diary. I had a vivid imagination. People
would always say I was a good writer. All my English teachers would always say, hey,
you're a really great writer. You know, I bet you're going to be a writer when you grow up
kind of thing. And I was like, well, considering I have phonetic dyslexia, maybe not because
sometimes, yeah. You have to remember this is before spell check. This is before
any of that stuff. And I was like, well, you know, maybe not because sometimes I get a little off
when it comes to the English language. People are like, Jackie, you speak Spanish? I'm like,
I don't even speak English half the time. So God tells me to do this and to answer the woman's
question that said, what's the formula? The formula is following the spirit. Now, I'm sure for all of
you organized type A people, and I know I probably seem type A, but I'm really not. I'm definitely
type B, ADHD, visionary, pioneer, sometimes rebel without a cause or clue. And I just sat down and I
started to write. And every day I came to what we call writer's block. Every single day, you guys,
I came to writer's block. And I was like, okay, I don't know how the story continues. I don't know
what happens next in this. Even though I had been teaching the heart work, which I created with Holy
Spirit for probably a decade by that time, I just didn't know where to go next in explaining to other
people how they could do their heart work with God. And I would just pray and say, you know,
God, you asked me to do this and I need you to empower me to do it. And then I would go to sleep
for the night. And the next day I would wake up and I would know what to do. I would know where
the story goes next. Because it's supernatural. I didn't want to just write book, write a book.
Anybody can write a book. Have you been to the bookstore? A bazillion people wrote a book. But
is there anything in that book that's worth reading? I don't know, because I haven't read all
those books. But I do know that it's not about just writing a book. It wasn't just about writing a book.
It was about creating something that people
could get in their hands that could bring them breakthrough.
And I wrote that book in 12 weeks because I wouldn't have written that book at
all. Had I not been obedient to the Lord and gotten empty,
I had to get empty.
I had to create this big empty space and actually had a financial deficit because
I needed that money. I needed that a hundred dollars a day.
So not only did I create the space, but I,
but I trusted the Lord and created the space.
And so someone you need to hear that because you're like, okay, well,
I can create space here. No,
you got to stretch and sometimes you're going to get really uncomfortable in
order to create the space. And can I tell you guys,
two days after the manuscript of that book was finished, my mom called me.
She was still alive. She was very sick. That was the last year of her life.
We didn't know that it was going to be the last year,
but she was very sick and we knew that she needed a miracle.
She called me and remember,
this is a person that I've been estranged from a lot in seasons of my life.
This is someone that, you know,
had a lot of very serious relationship issues with.
He called me and said, your, your grandfather, um,
she called me at 10 o'clock at night,
two days after I finished that first book and said,
I just want to let you know that your grandfather left you inheritance when he
died. And I feel led to give it to you a year early.
I wasn't supposed to give it to you until you're 45. But remember,
I just had my birthday, my 44th birthday, when God told me to write the book.
And he, and she said, but I'm going to give it to you now.
And you guys, it was $150,000.
It was more money than I'd ever seen in my entire life.
And I still have a lot of it
because I'm frugal and I probably have a little bit of a poverty spirit.
So I'm like, I'm never,
I gotta hang on to that money for the rest of my life.
Um, but it did solve the short-term financial situation that I was in.
Um, and guess what?
I was able to be completely debt-free. We didn't have a lot of debt.
David and I have never been people that lived above our means. And so,
but I was able to pay off all the debt that we had,
all the debt that we had, you guys, it was honey in the rock.
I'm remembering now that there was this one thing,
and I feel led to say this because if you prune and you make room,
if you prune and you make room,
there's going to be some things that actually get taken care of that have
been loose ends for a long time.
But you know what happened as a result of my obedience to the Lord and that
besides the fact that all of you have come here and done your hard work and we
have 1600 plus people that have gotten married.
And I believe the hard work is the supernatural sauce of that.
Besides all that, there was this one landlord, you guys,
the very first place that David and I lived,
not the place that we met because we were neighbors,
but the very first house that we rented,
both of us lost our jobs when we rented this house for our family.
We couldn't live in a small condo with our kids. We had to rent a house.
And so we rented a house and it was beautiful. We were so excited about it.
But about two months into living there,
my husband lost his ministry job of 15 years.
And then a couple months later, I lost my job at the same mega church.
We both lost our jobs. We didn't have jobs.
All my husband had ever done was ministry work.
So he was really struggling to find a job.
And so I went and just worked as an executive assistant.
It was not enough money to pay for the rent on that
house with just one of us. And so we got into arrears with this landlord.
It wasn't good. And then we eventually just had to tell the landlord, look,
we just have to move out. We can't afford to live here.
Like we just can't make it happen. It was a really sad time for us. You guys,
it was a really hard, hard stretching time, very early in marriage.
And I want you to take a look at that. I want you to take a look at that.
It's really important that you see that because you're going to go through hard
times. You're going to go through hard times.
Single you're going to go through hard times. Married, God is always faithful.
He's always good. But you guys, this obedience to the Lord,
this pruning of the Lord,
this supernatural season where I did the hard work and then this inheritance
came to me a year early that I didn't even know about. Y'all,
that grandfather had been dead for 16 years.
And I guess I should add this.
He's also the grandfather that molested me as a child.
Do you see all this honey in the rock coming?
Not that any money could ever make up for any kind of trauma or abuse,
but do you see craziness, how this is working out? How, how,
what in the world, right? What in the world? But this landlord, you guys,
I got to tell you about this landlord. So we told him,
we owed him about $10,000 and you guys,
we might as well have owed him a million dollars with what our finances look
like. I mean, if, if we had to come up with $10,000,
we could have never done it. If we had to come up with a thousand dollars,
we could have never done it.
And so every, every week this guy would call.
my cell phone and be like, when are you going to pay me?
You guys, I'm telling you, when are you going to pay me?
When are you going to pay me?
Calling me all kinds of names.
Oh, you guys are supposed to be Christians.
You guys are thieves.
And just, I mean, you guys, horrible harassment, horrible, horrible
harassment from this landlord year after year, after year, after year.
By the time this is happening and I'm receiving this inheritance, we haven't
lived in that house for probably 13 years and still at least a couple of times a
month, even 13 years later, I'm getting long voice messages from this man, just,
you know, accusing me and harassing me and threatening me to take me to court.
And I was so scared of that.
I was so scared to be taken to court and have a judgment and just the shame of the
whole thing, because we did owe the money.
But at the same time, you know, there was no grace that was going to be given here.
There was no forgiveness.
And you guys, I was paying on it.
I was paying what I could.
I was, I was always excited when there was a little bit of extra so that I could pay
this man.
And you have no idea friends, how good it felt when I got that phone call from my mom
and I immediately, his name is Buddy.
That's what this dude's name was.
I immediately called up Buddy, who was not my buddy.
And I said, guess what, bro?
I'm going to give you all your money.
And by that time, I think I owed him only like $6,000.
But you guys, never, never was there a better day in my life than to get that
monkey off my back.
So someone needs to hear that, that on the other side of pruning, there's tying up of
loose ends, things that have been tormenting you for years and years.
Things that have been trying to hold you back and keep you down for years, whether
they be thoughts, whether they be situations, people, relationships, scenarios.
It doesn't matter what they are.
Maybe it's old debts.
Maybe they're emotional debts, physical debts, mental debts.
It doesn't matter.
Spiritual debts.
It doesn't matter.
Jesus paid it all at the finished work of the cross.
And it's time to come to will call and pick up what he already bought for you.
It's time to do that.
And some of you are really excited.
Go ahead and put in the chat, if you can think of anything's coming up into your
mind, you're thinking of something right now that you're like, wow, I would love
for this to finally be over.
Maybe it's a court case.
Maybe it's a custody arrangement for your kids from a person you haven't been with
or been married to for years, but they continue to take you back for custody.
They continue to take you back for new definitions of the arrangement.
It could be anything.
Go ahead and put those in the chat.
Let's see what those are.
Child support, outstanding student loans, living situation.
Look at that tax debt, a house that you were supposed to close on, finances,
weight control, come on, commissions that are owed to you, but they've never been
paid, ladies in the room.
Can you think of anything?
Is anything coming to mind?
Emotional, physical, deliverance, home weight, physical health, complete health,
living situation, family pain, tax debt.
Wow.
So much tax debt.
X people that owe you money, people that owe you money, money that's been stolen.
Come on.
Stolen inheritance.
You guys, when someone passes away, a matriarch or patriarch of a family,
there's nothing uglier when people start fighting over the money.
And it happens.
My sweet, naive husband, he's an only child, but his father's sister is the
next person named down on the trust.
And she's elderly as well.
She's probably 80 years old now.
And he's like, yeah, I'm not worried about that kind of thing.
I was like, babe, don't be naive.
He's like, oh, she's so sweet.
I'm like, everybody's sweet until there's money involved.
And then people start acting crazy.
You know?
So got a lot of people in here saying that kind of stuff, stolen, lost
inheritances, being scammed.
Can I tell you guys something?
Whatever was coming to you that didn't make it to you.
God has so much more for you.
When my mom passed away, there was a lot of money that was left to me and my
older brother, the one that's homeless, the one that's mentally ill, the one
that has had to live with me off and on throughout the years until he just
takes off and disappears and that money was left to us from.
uh, another relative that is only related to me and my brother.
But when my mom passed away, she didn't have a will.
And so it was left in the hands of her current husband, which it doesn't
have any affiliation with it at all.
And I just trusted the Lord, you know, people were like, Oh, you should go to
court, you should make sure that you get that, you know, in Florida, the law is
that if there are children from a previous marriage, everything has to be
split and all this stuff.
And I was just like, no, I'm not going to do it.
Well, what about your brother?
You know, he needs it.
If you don't need it, he needs it.
Well, yeah, he does need it, but you know what?
God knows I'm not going to take family to court.
I'm not going to sue people.
I'm not going to try to do anything like that for money.
What I'm going to do is I'm going to put it in the Lord's hands and know that he's
going to vindicate that he's going to repay that he's going to take care of me.
And you know what?
I've always been able to financially take care of my brother.
I've always been able to do for him and God's going to continue
to empower me to do for him.
Regardless of whether that money belonged to him or not, it doesn't matter because
God is going to continue to give to me to be able to take care of him for as long
as he's alive, as long as he can't take care of himself, because I'm still
believing for him to be fully delivered and in his right mind, he's only a year
older than me, so he would have a long, beautiful life ahead of him.
If that would happen.
And so I want you to release, maybe that's the pruning that you need to do.
You need to release the animosity and the anger and just the sorrow and the grief
that you have over what was stolen from you.
You know that it belongs to you, but you also need to know that God
has more where that came from.
Even if you never get that money back, God can give you money.
You have an inheritance that is endless source.
It's an endless source.
That's the inheritance you have.
You are seated with Christ in heavenly places.
We're heirs and joint heirs with Christ.
And so we have access to all the father has, which by the way, is everything.
And so we have to begin to be in that mind space and in that heart posture.
We have to release what humans have stolen from us.
What we think they owe us, what we think they've done to us.
We have to prune that.
We have to forgive that.
We have to release that because God wants to Roman eight 28, you, he wants
to turn everything to good for you.
He does.
He absolutely does.
You have no idea that someone might just not call you and say, oh, hey, by the way,
here's some money for you.
Got your name on it.
You left this money in a bank account 20 years ago, and now it's accumulated.
Crazy things happen to people all the time.
In fact, I'm really feeling that.
So we're just going to go ahead and release that right now.
We're just going to release that, you know, that resources come that we're not
expecting from places that we didn't even know about.
So right now we're asking for that.
So right now we're asking for that Lord as we're pruning, as we're making space.
We're just releasing that you have hidden blessings for us that are
going to show up in our lives.
Yes, Lord.
Yes, Jesus.
Thank you, Lord.
Yes.
Unexpected resources.
Yes, God.
Amen, amen, amen, amen, amen.
I mean, you don't know your spirit mate could be filthy rich.
We got non-men from here.
And that goes for you guys too.
Women make money too nowadays.
Now we don't want to be go looking for that specifically on purpose.
Specifically on purpose, right?
We ain't gold digging except in the hearts.
We want gold in the hearts, right?
That's where we want it.
But some gold in the pocket.
Don't do no harm either.
And you guys are just kind of uptight this morning.
Kind of wiggle, just shake yourself, do a little jazz hands.
All right.
So you guys, we're going to be pruning tomorrow night on Sunday night activation
because we need to dig deeper into this.
We need to really make a list of what goes in those categories.
What do we need to let go of for good to great?
I didn't even finish that.
So good to great.
The next is sick and tired.
Sick and tired.
Dying.
I'm sick and tired.
These are things that haven't really,
I'm sick and tired.
they used to bear fruit,
And then we're going to be pruning.
but they don't really bear that much fruit anymore.
I'm sick and tired.
You know?
And then you have to make the call.
I'm sick and tired.
Can I get this thing back to its former glory
or do I need to just let it go?
Do I need to sign the DNR,
the do not resuscitate on it and let it go?
And there and there's the category of pruning
where this thing is dead,
it's been dead for a long time,
you know it's dead,
everybody else knows it's dead, okay?
It's the equivalent of a dead body in your trunk,
it stinks, everyone knows it stinks.
In fact, your friends roll your eyes
when you're like,
oh, I'm going to dinner with so-and-so.
They're like, what?
Come on.
Why are you talking to them still?
What are you doing?
I smell a stink bomb.
Where are you going?
Why?
These are the things that need to go.
So whether they're friendships, relationships,
whether they're situationships,
let's not even call them relationships,
whether they're jobs.
Some of you guys have been so miserable
at your job for so long.
Like any even shred of happiness
or delight or joy that you had in that job
has been gone for years.
Now it's like a prison.
You're like on the prison release program.
You get released to go home at night and sleep
and then you got to go back to prison the next day.
That's how you feel about that job.
Why?
Why do you work there?
Why are you wasting your one and only?
Well, Jackie, I need the money.
Well, you know, there's a lot of other jobs out there.
Maybe ask God for a vocation.
Maybe ask God to put you in a place
where you're excited to serve.
You're excited to use your gift to help others.
Put out some resumes.
How long has it been since you put out your feelers
for something different, something more?
I don't even have time to do that
because this job just takes up all of my time.
I hate it, but it also is long and hard hours
and then I just fall in the bed at night.
Okay, well, the thing that has to shift
is you have to trust the Lord to open up a different space
and maybe it's not gonna be what you expect
and maybe there'll even be a transitional job
in between this job and the next job,
something that you just have to take temporarily
in order to get out of this place, but you have to do it.
That's a word for someone.
You have to do it.
You're not proving anything spiritual by being miserable.
Someone needs to hear that.
Oh, I'm just suffering for Jesus.
No, you're not.
Jesus suffered for you.
Come on.
You're not suffering for Jesus.
Jesus suffered for you.
You got it backwards.
You're doing it wrong.
He suffered so that when suffering comes your way,
you can be delivered from suffering.
I'm not saying you're never gonna feel
any kind of tension, any kind of stretching,
but that scripture that says
that if we're willing to suffer with him,
we can be glorified with him,
it means if you're willing to accept his suffering
as your own, he died for you and as you,
then you can live glorified in this world.
Now, heaven on earth.
Now, yes, there'll be trials and tribulations,
but he says that be of good cheer.
I've overcome the world.
He will deliver us from adversity, all adversity.
Yes, we will feel some of the heat of those flames
of the fire.
Some of us have been walking through too many fires
with gasoline underwear on,
and God did not tell you to do that,
but you're doing it because there's a religious mindset
there that needs to be pruned.
Some of us need to prune religious mindsets.
They've been keeping you stuck for too long
because you believe that this is what God wants
and this is what God said.
Well, guess what?
You can't just read your Bible.
You have to read your Bible.
It's not what it says.
It doesn't say that.
Well, Jackie, this sounds like prosperity gospel.
Yeah, the gospel is a prosperity gospel.
It's full of goodness and grace and blessing and freedom.
It is.
It's definitely not a bondage gospel.
It's definitely not.
Ladies, is it?
It's not.
You guys, I'm benefiting from a live audience today.
Oh, does anyone have anything they wanna say?
So maybe your mindset,
your religious mindset is what needs to be pruned.
That's what needs to be pruned.
It's what's holding you back.
It's time to stop suffering for Jesus.
He suffered for you.
It's time to step into the abundant life
that Jesus died to give us.
Amen?
Amen.
All right, so we're gonna be pruning.
You guys are gonna be, listen, if you pray,
there's not one person.
here that God's not gonna highlight something to you
that needs to be addressed
that is keeping you from being abundant.
That's why we prune, so that we can have abundance.
We can have more.
That's why pruning has to happen.
So I think all of us probably have something
in every one of these categories.
Overcrowding, good to great, sick and dying.
And remember, sick and dying
doesn't always have to be cut off.
Sometimes it needs TLC, sometimes it needs attention
so that it can be bountiful again.
You're not giving it enough attention
and that's why it's sick and dying.
You don't have to cut that friendship off.
You just need to give some time to that friendship.
Okay, that's the second category.
And then just, it's dead.
It's dead, y'all.
Come on, it's dead.
You gotta bury it, you gotta let it go.
It's done, it's over.
And I know it hurts to let it go,
but you gotta let it go
so that God can fill that space with something good and new.
And it might not happen right away.
So don't go digging back that dead thing back up.
Oh, I cannot tell you how many times David and I did that.
God's like, leave the church, not leave the church,
but leave working at the church.
Because when we lost those ministry jobs,
we're like, okay, we'll just work at another church.
And my poor husband put so many resumes
into working at churches and he's amazing.
I mean, I wish you could see how amazing he is in ministry
and especially in being a worship pastor
and this boy can sing and this boy can do music
and he's phenomenal, okay?
But God would not open the door
for him to go back into that
because that's not where God wanted him to go back.
Now, we could have kicked the door down
and a couple of times we did.
A couple of times we're like,
oh, well, just gonna make it happen.
You know, yes, there's no grace on this,
but we don't know what else to do.
So oftentimes when you don't know what to do,
you'll go back to what you used to do.
That's what will happen.
And friends, we have to not do that.
I know it's so uncomfortable.
It's so uncomfortable to kind of like be out on that boat
and you can't see the land behind you
and you also can't see the land in front of you
and you're just kind of in no man's land,
no woman's land right there in the middle.
I know it's uncomfortable,
but in the middle is where all the good stuff happens.
It is where your course gets charted.
It is where the wind finds your sails.
It is where it happens.
You can't just go back because you can't see land anymore
and you can't see where you're going.
You can't go back to where you've been.
You cannot do it.
And that goes for all of you that are thinking about
going back to a relationship,
specifically a romantic relationship,
going back to a job.
There has to be something that has changed so dramatically
that would, you know, make that a good idea.
Something has to have changed so dramatically
that makes that a good,
that makes that a full circle moment.
Because remember, 2025 is a full circle year.
So do you see how we have to be careful
with these words that God releases?
Because sometimes we'll call something full circle
when it's actually a dead end.
What?
Yes, it's not a full circle.
Our sister said it's a cycle, okay?
Come on, you can quote that, all right?
It's not a full circle, it's a cycle.
And so you got to make sure that it's not a pattern
that you need to break, cool?
And you're like, well, how would I know that, Jackie?
Is it the same old thing
that you tried to escape from in the first place?
You finally got free, now you're going to go back, why?
It has to be, there has to be a market difference.
There has to be something that is so different about it.
Different circumstances, different situation,
new level of healing.
It's always a rebound if there's no new healing
and no new information.
It's always a rebound and rebounds are never a good idea.
That's not just to a person, that could be to a job.
That could be to a community.
Just because you don't know where you're going
doesn't mean you have to go back to where you've been.
All right?
So Father God, we thank you for your goodness and your love.
We thank you, Lord, that you're leading and guiding us
to bigger places, to wider pastor, Lord,
that you have good things in store
for each and every one of us.
In fact, I hear the Lord saying right now
that at the finished work of the cross,
there's also a will call.
Do you know what a will call is?
A will call is a place that you would go
to pick up something that's already been purchased for you.
So oftentimes you'll go to a will call
if you're going to a concert or a sporting event
or someplace where there's been tickets
or passes purchased, access that's been purchased,
and you go to the will call to pick that up
so that you can get the tangible in your hand, right?
You know that it's been purchased,
but you go and you pick up the physical proof,
the physical proof that it's been purchased, those tickets.
And so I hear the Lord saying that there's a will call
connected to the finished work of the cross,
and it has specific...
Things that have been waiting for each and every one of us that have our names on them
No one else can pick them up when you go to will call no one else can pick that up for you
You have to show identification
You have to prove that you're the person that that has that has purchased that or that has been purchased for and so we just declare
Right now Lord that you have things for us. You're telling us and we're coming to agreement
We're declaring that you have things for us at the will call in heaven
Heaven in earth God heaven coming to earth Lord through us and there are things that we need. There's resources that we need
There's breakthrough that we need there's permission that we need there's access that we need
Will calls always about access. It's always about receiving access to something
Getting the physical proof that we're allowed to be somewhere that we're allowed to be in this place that we're allowed to have this upgrade
That we're allowed to have this VIP treatment this backstage access that we're allowed
And so I just hear the Lord saying that there are so many things with your name on them just waiting for you to come
And pick them up
Like how do I do that Jackie you do that by trusting the Lord you do that by making space?
You do that by living your life in the finished work of the cross
You do that by coming into agreement with it God you said that I have things that are just waiting for me
They've been purchased for me not just for all of mankind. Yeah, there's been some amazing things that's been purchased for all of mankind
It's a shared experience that we're all having of grace
through the blood of Jesus of
Mercy through the blood of Jesus, but there are very specific things to your assignment to your life to your gifts to your callings
That are waiting for you
But it's not about what God has done or about what he can do
It's about what we believe he has done and what we believe he can do
And so we have to come into agreement that there is more for us than what we have
There's more for us than what we have more
And so father we're coming into agreement that there's more we're praying that you would just show us God give us dreams God
Give us visions give us understanding of what is waiting for us at will call as we prune and make space
What can we go pick up? What is being delivered to us in the Spirit Lord?
What is taking the place of these things that we're letting go of
What new access do we have because of our obedience where we just thank you God
We thank you that if your children don't shine the world is gonna stay dark. We are the light of the world
We are the light of the world
We are the light of the world. Oh
We are the light of the world
Jesus I want you guys to study Matthew 5
Before you come to see Sunday Night Activation
Specifically in the message translation. I don't care if you don't like the message
I'm asking you to look at Matthew 5 in the message
it's part of the Sermon on the Mount and Jesus just simply says that God is not a secret to be hid and
That us as God's children that we need to keep open house
We need to be generous with our understanding with our revelation. We need to be generous with these things
It literally says that
Remember in the in the King James. It's about the the city. That's that on that's on a hill cannot be hid
And he said do you think that I made you a light to put you under a basket?
No, I put I made you a light to put you on a lampstand
But in the message translation it literally says that
we're going public with this thing and
That God wants us to shine
It says shine baby shine
And that's what Papa's saying to us and God has the things that you need to shine
He has them waiting for you at will call. He has the resources. He has the connections the collaborations. He has the access
The permission is waiting for you
It's waiting for you. I just want to tell you this and I'm gonna say it and then I'm gonna end this call
But if you are living a small life, then you are living a life that you have chosen
If you are living a sad and boring life
Then you are living a life that you have chosen that is not the life that God has chosen for you
But the life that God has chosen for you comes on the other side of risk
It comes on the other side of stretching. It comes on the other side of creating empty space that can only be filled by
Superior things and supernatural things so many of us we're living way beyond below
way below
Because we're settling for crumbs from a table that you should be seated at
Because you are a son and a daughter of the king no more Mephibosheth
you are
Not a beggar.
This last thing, there's a saying that says only, it just says beggars
can't be choosers, that's what the saying says, well, you know, beggars
can't be choosers, well, I don't really get a choice because beggars can't be
choosers, you know, I got to settle for whatever comes to me because beggars,
you know, beggars, we can't be choosers, just got to, you know, settle
for what we can get in life.
Well, guess what?
You're not a beggar.
You're a son, you're a daughter of the king, the king of kings, not the
king, the king of kings and the Lord of lords, that is who you are son and
daughter of, that is your inheritance.
You are not a beggar.
And so guess what?
You get to choose, you get to choose.
And so choose the best, choose rest, choose obedience, choose
surrender, choose trust and let God and see what God will do in the year 2025.
See how you will end this year from where you started, see the upgrades,
see the access, see the opportunities because they will come in Jesus name.
Amen.
All right.
Love y'all.
See you tomorrow night.