Okay, everyone, there'll be lots more people rolling on here, but we're going to go ahead
and get started.
Welcome to Supernatural Saturday.
We have so many different groups in our community now, so I just want to say, hey, to all of
you newbies, so everyone who is brand new to the Last Year Single program, and then
we also have a preview program, a taste and see program called Last Year Single Light.
And so hello to all of you.
We're so excited that you're here with us.
If this is your very first Supernatural Saturday, go ahead and raise your hand.
I want to see who is new, who is going to be experiencing this session for the very
first time.
Who do we have that's brand new?
And I know that there's still people rolling on here.
We're at 113.
We're at 114.
Come on.
We usually have about 300 people live on this call.
If you're brand new, raise your little avatar hand.
Let's see it.
We want to greet you.
We want to know you.
That's what this community is all about.
It is about being with people that are in a similar season as you are, that are going
after the Lord and going after revival in marriage and family.
We have Lauren here.
Hey, Lauren, we're so glad you're here with us.
Who else?
Anybody else?
Brand new, brand new, brand spanking new.
It's your very first one.
Okay.
All right.
So we just have all of our ODs on here, and that's all right.
So you guys know what to expect.
But for Lauren, I'm going to go ahead, and everyone who's going to listen and replay,
I'm going to go ahead and explain what Supernatural Saturday is just briefly.
It is a time when our community gathers together and we look to the Lord together.
We believe that there's a current prophetic reality.
There's your reality.
There's my reality.
Those are the facts that we're living out in our lives.
Those are the things that are true factually.
Where you live, who you are, what your age is, what your job is, you know, whatever it
is that your facts are.
But there's a higher and greater truth for each and every one of us.
There's a higher revelation for each and every one of us.
Where, when, here, and now.
And so that's what we do.
We come together so that we can tune in to that frequency together.
The Bible says that when we come together that God is in the midst of us, but we're
already in him, right?
We already live and breathe and have our being inside of him.
So how can he be in the midst of us?
It's about a visitation, friends.
It's about a visitation that's different, okay?
God's always with us.
He never leaves us.
He never forsakes us.
We're always in him.
There's nowhere, as the psalmist says, that you could go to get away from God.
You're in God.
You can't go anywhere to get away from him.
The psalmist says you can't go to the heights of the heavens or the depths of hell.
You can't go anywhere because even the darkness is light to him.
You could hide in the darkness, but it would be light all around you to him.
And so we're always with God.
That's not a threat.
That's a comfort.
You're always with God.
God's always with you.
It reminds me of the airplane story that I had where I just used to hate to fly.
And all of you that know me know that I fly a lot and it's a good thing that God got me
over that fear.
And the way that he got me over that fear is I was on an airplane and I was, you know,
white knuckling it.
And it wasn't necessarily that I was afraid of flying.
I was just didn't like to be out of control.
And a lot of you still live in that place.
You don't like to give control over to someone else.
And I just want you to remember that you're not really giving control over to anyone but
God.
Okay, because you believe that God is covering you, that God is protecting you, that God
is defending you in any circumstance and in any situation.
So as I was sitting there, I put my headphones on, I got the music playing, distracting
myself.
And God just spoke to me.
He said, you're not in this airplane, right, Jackie?
And I said, wait, what?
He said, you're not in this airplane.
And I said, I'm not.
He said, no, you're in me and you're safe.
You're in me and you're safe.
And so it's important for us to understand and realize that we are in God.
But when we gather together, he has promised us that he would, his presence would be more
tangible to us.
He's promised us that we would be able to detect him in a different way.
There'd be a different type of visitation when we all come and lock arms together for
the purpose of looking to him.
And that's what Supernatural Saturday is all about.
And we get some divine downloads, don't we, friends?
We get some amazing times here on Supernatural Saturday.
And I just want to let you know that that's not just about Jackie, that's about you.
When we come together and we partner, we are inviting God to visit us in a different way.
And that's why it works.
And that's why it happens.
And so thank you so much for being faithful to this session.
We have some really great things to dig into today, so I just want to pray over us.
Father God, I thank you for all your sons and daughters.
I thank you for the Last Year Single community and all the guests that are here today.
I thank you for your goodness, Lord, for your love.
I thank you.
that you have a fresh revelation for us,
that you want to help us step into your abundance.
You wanna help us step into the good good
and the more of the kingdom of God.
And so Holy Spirit,
we are just opening our hearts and our minds.
We're asking you to speak to us and speak through us today.
We're asking that you would show us any area
where we're out of step,
any area where our mindsets are in opposition to kingdom.
Opposition to kingdom,
so that we can just release those things.
Just give us that revealing for healing today
so that we can live the abundant life
that Jesus died to give us in Jesus name, amen.
All right, friends.
So you guys know I just got back from Cartagena
and I love it there.
And it's so amazing, the people are so beautiful.
And we had a great time there.
We had a very supernatural time.
This is not a plug for last trip single, but it kind of is.
So if you see anything on your last trip single calendar,
this would be everyone who's in last year single program.
You have that last trip single calendar
in your resource page on your app.
Sign up if you can.
There are a few things that you can save up towards.
There's a singles cruise happening in January of next year.
I just get together.
And then make sure you're joining your single cities
because we have lots of new moderators.
We're so thankful for them.
We bless them and their attempts
to gather people together in person
because we're gonna be doing a lot of things
between now and the end of the year and next year.
And so lots of special partnerships
with a Christian dating app
and lots of in-person and virtual meetups
and speed dating events and single shuffles
and all kinds of fun things in the works.
But you won't be there if you don't know about it.
So make sure that you're in the know.
And the way you're in the know
is to join your single city, okay?
The one closest to you.
You can be like, Jackie, I don't have one.
Just join the one closest to you, okay?
Because there's new ones popping up all the time.
We just started three new ones
and we're gonna be popping up a bunch of others very soon.
Okay, so we were together in Colombia and it was amazing.
And we had some special times of worship together.
We had some special times of just reminding each other
about the goodness of God.
And during one of those times, I felt led.
You guys, we were doing like television karaoke.
So we were putting the songs on the TV,
on the YouTube channel with the words across the screen.
And we were all just singing together
and it was really powerful.
And we're taking song requests.
And one of the songs that came into my heart
was an old song by Brooke Fraser called New Wine.
And it just came in my heart
and it kept coming into my heart
while we were singing another song.
And I'm like, yeah, that's kind of an oldie but goodie.
Let's go ahead and do it.
So we did it and it was powerful.
And if you're not familiar with that song,
go Google it, New Wine.
But it really just talks about how we have to have a,
we have to have a mindset shift
in order to be able to carry what God wants to give us.
And this is where we start
the Supernatural Saturday revelation for today.
This is what Holy Spirit put on my heart this morning
to share and to release over all of you.
You know, the Bible says
that you can't put new wine in old skins.
You can't, because what will happen?
The old skins will burst.
So when there's new revelation, there's new information
because this was the typology that Jesus was using.
And the reason why he was using this
is because he came to bring the kingdom, y'all.
The people he was talking to, they were in a dead religion.
They were in a religion that wasn't meant
to take them all the way.
It was just meant to be a placeholder until Jesus came.
Right?
And this is how humans are.
You know, they wanted rules.
They didn't want relationship.
Remember, let's go all the way back to the children of Israel.
Moses went up as a mediator, as an intermediator.
And he came back down.
His face was so bright, no one could look at him.
And he's like, hey, God wants to talk to you guys.
They're like, oh no, no, no, not us.
Not us, Moses.
You're shining like the sun, bro.
You're just gonna have to go do that yourself
because we're scared of God.
We're scared of him.
And not like in a awe-inspiring kind of way.
We're, the fear of the Lord in the Bible
is an awe of God.
But they were straight up afraid of God.
That's a whole different situation.
And so they wanted him to be the middleman.
And because of that, guess what?
He got a bunch of rules.
So you can thank your ancestors for that.
So we got a bunch of rules and that became the law.
But what did humans do to that?
Those rules weren't good enough.
So what actually ended up happening is they ended up
adding a whole bunch of more rules.
Go read the book of Leviticus.
A whole bunch of more rules got added to the thing.
It's like, okay, well, yeah, do these 10 things.
10 commandments, but then also don't do this
and don't do that.
And also we don't like this,
so we're gonna make this a rule, right?
And now the Jews, you guys, okay,
our Jewish brothers and sisters,
they, if they're practicing, if they're Orthodox,
there's 626 rules, precepts that they have to follow
to be in right standing with God.
Y'all, I don't know.
I just have trouble getting out of bed
in the morning sometimes.
And so I'm like, I don't know about that.
I do not know.
And so it's important that we understand
that that's what Jesus was doing.
He was talking to people that lived under that burden.
And that's why the scripture says,
come to me and I will give you rest.
Take my yoke upon you.
Learn of me, for I am meek and lowly of heart,
and you will find rest for your souls.
Who was he talking to?
He's talking to people that were burdened by religion.
They were burdened by this huge thing
that they could never accomplish
no matter how hard they tried.
And what's the purpose of the law, friends?
The purpose of the law is so that you would know
that you need a savior, that you can't do it.
The purpose of the law is to prove to you
that you cannot do it in your own righteousness,
in your own goodness.
You can't.
It was supposed to point you.
The Bible says that it was a schoolmaster
that was supposed to teach you
that you needed a savior.
And that when the savior comes, when the master comes,
that you no longer need that.
When you've matured past that,
you no longer need that anymore.
That's what the Bible says.
And so we have to understand that, you know,
this wasn't meant for us to measure up to.
It was only meant for Jesus to measure up to.
The lamb for sinners slain, for sinners slain.
For God so loved the world
that he sent his only begotten son,
that he wouldn't condemn us,
but that he would die to save us.
That's what this is all about.
And so when Jesus is talking about new wineskins,
that's what he's talking about.
He's talking about a new wine skin.
When he's talking about new wineskins,
that's what he's talking about.
He's like, hey, you know, you gotta have a new mind skin.
Let's do a play on words.
You gotta be a new vessel
in order to hold this new information
because otherwise it's gonna mess you up.
You're not gonna be able to handle it.
And you see that all through Jesus's life on earth,
there were lots of people that couldn't handle it, right?
Their hearts weren't ready.
They weren't a wineskin
that was ready for that new birth experience
so it could receive that new wine.
And they got angry and they got bitter
and they got violent towards him, right?
That's what happened in the story
because they couldn't receive that new information.
Their minds were blinded and their minds were dulled
and they couldn't receive it.
And so God's asking us as a kingdom people
because we're living on the other side of the cross.
Jesus has already been here
and he has already died for us and as us.
Important for you to note that
if you have never heard that before,
he died for you and also as you
so that you could step into a co-heir inheritance with him.
We are heirs and co-heirs with Christ.
That means that everything in this world
that has to do with the curse is under our feet.
We can overcome it.
We are overcomers.
It doesn't mean that it's not gonna show up at your door.
It just means that you can overcome it
through your strength.
No, he died for you and as you through his strength,
through his strength, we can overcome it.
And so the reason why we're talking about this
is because that song came into my mind out in Columbia.
And I knew that the Lord was inviting us
into a kingdom mindset.
And part of the kingdom mindset is that Jesus
died so that we could live righteously.
Part of the kingdom mindset is understanding
that it's a finished work of the cross.
Because otherwise you're gonna have a religious mindset
where it has to be you, it's all on you.
You gotta fix it, you gotta do it.
That's a religious mindset.
And most of the church age,
which I believe is ending and the kingdom age is beginning,
most of the church age is about that.
And sometimes you can go places
and they sing a song about it.
And sometimes you can go places
and they sing really good songs
and it feels kind of good for a minute.
But then you kind of start hearing within the messages
a lot of you, you, you, you, you.
And you guys, I lived this.
When I was first being discipled.
I was so excited about Jesus.
I had had a radical conversion experience at 22 years old.
Radical, radical conversion with the love of God.
Radical new birth experience,
and I was ready for the new wine.
I was ready for the new wine,
but I kept getting the old wine given to me,
and I didn't know the difference, y'all,
because I hadn't tasted the new wine yet.
I hadn't tasted it yet, so I didn't know.
So I was drinking it,
because I was thirsty, and I was drinking it, okay?
And the problem was,
is it was causing a lot of condemnation.
Where I had freedom when I met Jesus,
now I was having condemnation.
Now I was wondering if I really was what God wanted,
and was worthy of his sacrifice,
and now I was trying to earn it in my own strength.
Didn't Paul see this problem a lot?
He saw this problem a lot.
Out church planting, out spreading the gospel,
spreading the kingdom, and he would go to the plants,
the church plants, one in particular,
O you Galatians, who has bewitched you,
now starting in the spirit,
have you now become perfect by the flesh?
Like, what's going on here?
What was happening?
Other people were coming behind Paul to these church plants,
and they were talking about a different gospel,
a gospel of you having to do it,
you having to prove it.
A lot of Judaism, a lot of those rules
were starting to get mixed in with the true gospel.
That's what was happening.
And so now they were trying to earn it,
what had been given to them freely,
now they were trying to earn.
And he's like, what?
What's happened here?
You can't start in the spirit
and then be made perfect in the flesh.
And that's what happened to me.
I started in the spirit.
How did I start in the spirit?
You guys, it was amazing.
It was incredible.
All condemnation.
What's Romans say?
There is therefore now no condemnation
to those who are in Christ Jesus.
And you guys, there was no condemnation in me
until well-meaning people that were drinking the old wine
started putting it there.
Come on, y'all.
Get with me on this.
A lot of us, a lot of us are experiencing
a lot of condemnation.
You're like, well, Jackie, when we do bad things,
we should be condemned.
No, Jesus actually died for those bad things,
for you and as you.
And so when you do things that are unworthy of you
and unworthy of that sacrifice,
the convincing of the Holy Spirit should be,
yeah, you're better than this.
You need to surrender to Jesus
so that he can help you overcome this
because you're an overcomer.
Not, oh, shame on you.
No, Jesus actually said shame off you.
And you guys, in my early discipleship,
okay, because that's what I knew to call it,
in my early discipleship in my 20s,
I was wracked with fear of God.
I didn't have that at my conversion,
but I had that during my discipleship.
And once again, well-meaning people
only giving me what they had.
They didn't know any different.
This is the way they had been discipled
and this is the way they were discipling me.
They wanted to make sure that they kept me free from sin
and free from danger
and wanted me to be really aware of the devil
because he's out there looking for me.
Y'all, the devil, we know exactly where he is.
He's under Jesus's feet.
Do you need directions there?
So I was much more Satan-conscious
than I was God-conscious and that's a real problem.
I was always afraid of being around the wrong people.
Maybe their demons are gonna jump on me.
You know, I didn't wanna be around unbelievers
because maybe they're all caught up in sin
and maybe somehow by osmosis,
I'm gonna get caught up with them.
It was crazy thinking, y'all.
And it was not thinking from a place of victory.
It was not thinking from a place
of the finished work of the cross.
And maybe you weren't discipled by that.
Maybe you were discipled in the true gospel
and that's amazing.
But I wanna tell you about this
because I believe that there are so many of us
that have residues of this.
You might have the full thing, but you have residues.
Guys, I was so afraid of missing God's voice.
I was so afraid of being disobedient.
I lived my life in fear and it gave me panic disorder.
I had more panic attacks in the church
than I had outside of the church.
And yet I didn't feel safe not going to church.
If the doors were open, I had to be there
because that's what God wanted from me.
And I just didn't want to be out of sync with God.
Now, I did enjoy a relationship with God.
God did talk to me, but the problem is,
is that all of this put a filter on that.
I always felt like God was driving me
and God was challenging me
and God was testing me all the time.
Instead of loving me and comforting me
and bringing me close to his heart
so that I could become a daughter.
And it took me many years, you guys.
I have been.
this road for 28 years now 29 years and it took me a long time to get to be the
person that you know today took me a long time it took me a lot of doing
really uncomfortable things as far as breaking out of old paradigms and
mindsets and you know and and getting that new mind skin so that I could
receive the new wine and I'm still receiving it I haven't arrived you don't
arrive on the surf just so you know there's always more revelation to be had
there's always more revelation of the character and goodness of God of who he
is to be had always more in fact did you guys know that marriage is the
typology of that Paul calls the relationship between man and woman a
mystery of Christ in his church that's why marriage the revival of marriage and
family is so important because you know a man and woman they're gonna refine
each other gentlemen she is going to bring out the emotional spectrum inside
of you for a good reason because you need that you need that sometimes you
might feel like her emotions are too much but it's all that Susie doing is
revealing your own emotional immaturity a place where you've been stunted
emotionally because you've grown up in a culture where men don't feel they're
not supposed to feel and so God's giving you this beautiful counterpart to
show you that yes we do we feel and to bring out that spectrum of feeling ladies
those feelings and emotions can't be coming from broken places that are not
healed those are toxic emotions we want divine emotions it's okay to cry it's
okay to feel sadness it's okay to feel you know obviously joy it's okay to feel
anger anger is a very productive emotion if you do the right thing with it the
Bible says be angry but sin not yeah anger is hurt and fears bodyguard you
want anger to come out so that you know where the pain is you know where the
hurt is you know where the place that needs to be healed still is because that
anger is protecting that place like a bodyguard and so now you can pinpoint oh
hmm and you can release release that to the Lord for healing and then of course
there's righteous anger that's a whole different whole different topic but that
does exist as well where we're feeling the heart of God towards something and
we have to act accordingly can't act sinfully just because someone else is in
the wrong you guys you could be totally right and also be totally wrong it's
important that we understand that so the mystery of Christ in the church being
shown through marriage being revealed through marriage it's just beautiful so
back to Columbia we're singing this song and then Angela who's our travel
consortium we love her she's the reason why last trip single exists because of
her partnership and we're so thankful but she also is a student and she's
single gentlemen so if you ever see anything a pictures of her or me posting
her she's single so DM me of course you know I'm gonna always get that in there
but the bottom line is is that I was feeling that song and then she goes into
the kitchen of this beautiful house that we're staying in in Columbia and she
gets a glass kind of like a wine glass with water in it she comes and sits it
on the coffee table in the midst of all of us and she said I don't you know I
just really felt you know Jesus's first miracle because we're singing this song
about new wine was water to wine so I just felt led to get this and she sat it
there and as soon as she sat it there I heard Holy Spirit say what is your water
and so that's what I've come to say to this community today and I'm gonna go a
little bit deeper into but what is your water what is your water
it was Jesus's first miracle and all of us have something that we it's just not
going to be transformed without the touch of Jesus we need a miracle in this
area we need breakthrough in this area we need transformation in this area and
all of us shared in that moment what our water was we went around the room we
share what our water is I'm gonna give you a chance to do that as well today
but my water you guys was after my mom passed away I really started struggling
in my health she's been passed away for five years now I really started
struggling I was also in what people call perimenopause I was in my mid 40s
and so some of it probably was gonna happen anyway but it was accelerated
because of the grief in the morning and the stress and the cortisol and the
adrenal burnout of helping care for my mom during the last years of her life
because it wasn't pretty it was hard okay and my body was taking the toll for
that so what was happening is I was starting to have you know achy joints
and
and then I was starting to pack on the weight.
And you guys, I've always enjoyed being very athletic
and very tall and very thin.
Because when you're tall, y'all,
it spreads out and you just are thin.
You know, it's just the way it works.
So that's the trade-off.
So I was always that way, and now clothes aren't fitting.
And because I'm tall, I'm sizing out.
Because they don't make even bigger clothes
in the bigger sizes for tall people.
And so now I'm so frustrated.
And I know it might sound vain to you.
Oh, Jackie, you know, okay, so you gained some weight.
No, y'all, I gained 50 pounds.
And it actually has been devastating
because I live in athleisure wear and sports clothes
because the stretchy clothes are the only clothes that fit
because they don't make clothes for big and tall women.
They make clothes for big and tall men,
but not big and tall women, okay?
And so I started to really feel bad about myself.
And I also started to really feel like
there's no fixing this.
Because all the things that I tried to do
and all the advice that other people gave me,
it wasn't working.
And so that day, you guys, I felt prompted in that moment
when God asked me, what's your water?
Then I asked everyone else what their water was.
But I answered him, my water is my health and my body.
Like I, this, because now I'm in the thing called menopause.
And so the hormonal thing and getting that balance,
you guys, it is a puzzle
that I don't know that anyone's figured out.
And they're individual puzzles.
So everyone's puzzle is different.
And I'm like, God, I just need you to help me with this.
And I wanna tell you guys, since I've been home,
I lost, I've been home for a week.
It's been a week today that I've gotten home.
I lost four pounds.
Come on.
That might not seem a lot to you,
but it's a lot to me, you guys,
because it was not budging.
Let me tell you what.
I've lost four pounds because that was my water.
And I gave it to the Lord.
I said, I need you to, I need you to make this wine.
I need you to make this wine.
I need help.
I cannot do this.
I've tried everything.
I cannot do this.
And there's so much shame around that
because you're just like, ugh.
So I'm gonna ask you what your wine is soon.
Not yet.
Don't put your wine up yet.
Because I wanna talk to you a little bit more about this
because it's important that you get a realization of this
in order for you to really believe
that God's gonna help you.
And Jesus is going to turn this water
in your life into wine.
So let's talk about that first miracle really quickly.
You guys, these people, hey, first of all,
weddings were really important in Jewish tradition.
Very, very important.
They had a lot of rules around them.
Does that surprise you?
I told you that the Jews have all kinds of rules.
And so they have all kinds of rules,
guidelines for these weddings
of all these different things that need to happen,
including wine, you guys.
Wine was part of that.
And so it's not like these people
had never been to a wedding before.
They knew how weddings work.
Okay, the father and the mother of the bride.
They knew how weddings work.
And you guys, it was a big deal.
It was a big deal enough for Mary to come to her son
and ask him to intervene.
That's how big of a deal this was.
And because they were at this wedding,
that tells us, that's indicative of
that these people were close to them.
They were in their community.
They were part of their family somehow.
Okay?
So it was a big deal
because it was gonna bring shame on the family, you guys,
because the wine had run out.
You're like, what?
Yes, you guys, it was gonna bring shame on the family.
There's gonna be reproach given to this family
because of this.
And so Mary came to her son and said,
hey, he's gonna help you with this.
Now, I wanna point out, you guys,
that once again, these people knew how weddings work.
They knew the guest list, they knew who they invited,
they knew who was coming,
and they knew how all the things
that they had to have in place,
they knew that because they're not new to this.
Right?
Growing up, we always said to the kids,
let's do this because we're not new to this.
They're not new to this.
So I wanna point out here, and this is really important,
this wine situation, it was their problem.
And so first of all, you guys need to know
that Jesus's first miracle shows that he cares,
even when it's your problem.
His first miracle, you guys,
he could have done anything for a first miracle.
He could have raised someone from the dead,
he could have healed leprosy,
he could have done anything
that would have probably been considered a miracle.
He could have done it.
That would have probably been considered,
oh, you know, this poor person,
they were a victim of this disease,
or this poor person died before their time
of no fault of their own.
But no, he chose a miracle that I think
really is indicative of, hey.
Hey, you know what?
You knew better than this and this is your problem.
Come on, y'all.
It's your problem.
And so, so often this is why we don't expect God to intervene.
This is why we don't expect the miraculous in our lives because it's my problem.
It's my mistake.
It's my bad decision.
It's my error.
It's my sin.
It's my stronghold.
I put myself here.
Are you guys tracking?
It was me.
And so what happens is, is the shame of that knowledge that it's you, it's your problem,
it's your fault, it's your stronghold, it's your bad decision, it's your sin.
What happens because of the shame of that is the enemy drives us into isolation.
The opposing forces, and sometimes it's just the echo of the opposing forces.
What do I mean by that?
It's your own thoughts.
They're not necessarily coming from the devil or demons.
Where they're coming from is other people in the past that you've heard speak things
that are not from heaven and not from God.
Guys, there's only three sources of anything.
Any, any, any thoughts, any words, three sources.
Your flesh, the opposing forces, so the kingdom of darkness, and heaven.
There's only three sources.
There's not like 20 sources.
There's only three.
And so a lot of times our internal dialogue, it definitely is being tainted by the curse,
by our flesh, by our own knowledge that, you know, we're weak and, you know, we're not
good and all the things that come with the curse.
But then also it's being exacerbated by people and things that have been under the
influence of very dark mindsets, darkened mindsets.
And trust me, we don't need any help beating ourselves up, but the Bible calls the enemy
and the kingdom of darkness, the accuser of the brethren.
What is that?
That's a prosecutor.
Think of yourself on the witness stand because you've been accused of something and now
you're up there and you're just being badgered.
You're being badgered.
Have you ever seen one of those movies where the prosecutor is just badgering the
witness?
Yeah, that happens to us all the time.
And the reason why it happens to us all the time is because we do not take the word of
God seriously where it says that we have an advocate.
We have a defense, we have a defense attorney and his name is Jesus Christ.
And he's the best defense attorney.
You know why?
Because he knows you're innocent.
You know why he knows you're innocent?
Because he already paid the price for your guilt.
So he's the best attorney and he actually has clout with the judge, the only judge
has clout with the judge, the only true and righteous judge, which is God.
And so you're going to, you're acquitted already.
But a lot of times, you know, we get all caught up in the emotion of being prosecuted
and being accused that we come into agreement with the accusation instead of the
defense and the deliverance.
Because that's all deliverance is, by the way.
I know there's all different kinds of, you know, deliverance out there and different
books and different things.
And I bless anything that's from heaven.
I do, but you don't have to go to the courts of heaven and fight on your behalf
because Jesus already did that.
You guys don't adopt new theologies that actually make the finished
work of the cross obsolete.
Come on.
All deliverance really is, is that you now have the ability and the freedom to
acknowledge what Jesus has already done for you.
It's a mindset shift.
You're no longer being overwhelmed by the thoughts of condemnation.
You can look around and see a different perspective now because your eyes are not
fixated on the idea that, you know, you have failed and that you've disappointed
God and that you are condemned and that you're no good.
You're able to be free.
The Bible says, if you continue in my word, this is Jesus talking.
If you continue in my words, you will know the truth and it will make you free.
That's deliverance.
It's continuing in his words and who, what is his words?
He is his words.
He is the word.
So knowing Jesus is knowing freedom.
The more that we know Jesus, the more that we understand that grace is not a
license to sin more because Jesus died for it anyway.
Grace is an acknowledgment of the love of God coming through Jesus to us.
And that love actually restrains us.
It actually changes us.
It actually transforms.
But you can't do that, you won't know that, you won't know that freedom unless you spend
time in that truth, and that truth is Jesus Christ.
Spend time in his word, in his words.
Okay, that's a whole different message, but you know, Holy Spirit's taken us all over
the place here.
So you guys, a lot of times, you know, it's my problem, it's my mistake, it's my bad decision,
it's my error, it's my sin, it's my stronghold, all the things.
But I want to take us back to that wedding feast, it was their problem, it was their
error, it was their mistake, it was somebody's bad decision, it was someone's oversight.
That's what it was, but that didn't matter.
Jesus still turned that water into wine, and he didn't just turn that water into wine,
he turned it into the best wine.
He turned it into a miracle, first of all, water into wine, that's a miracle.
But the next thing that happened is that instead of reproach, instead of condemnation, instead
of disgrace, what happened to that family is that now they're renowned.
Because nobody serves the best wine last.
Nobody serves the best wine last.
Everybody serves the best wine at the beginning of the wedding, at the beginning of the feast,
at the beginning of the celebration, because everyone's sober and they're going to know
whether it's good wine or not.
But by the time that the wedding is over, everyone's drunk.
No one's going to know if it's good wine or bad wine.
And this was the end of the celebration, this was the end, this was towards the end
of the wedding, and this wine was the best wine.
You want to know why?
Because it was the new wine.
And you want to know how I know?
Because Jesus' parables always have a lot to do with a lot of things, all the stories
in the Bible, the parables, also the stories of Jesus' miracles, they, you know, they have
a lot of different reasons why they're being told, not just the face value reason.
I believe that this is being told as Jesus' first miracle because he wants us to know
that miraculous is not set aside for victims or people that terrible things have happened
to and now justice needs to come.
Now, the first miracle happened because of someone making a mistake, making a bad decision,
and it was their problem.
But the other typology of this miracle is that he saves the best for last.
And the other typology of this miracle is that he's inviting us into a place of the
new wine, the kingdom.
The first miracle was inviting us into the kingdom, the kingdom where, yeah, I know this
is the way you've done things in the past, but guess what?
This is the new way.
We're going to save the best for last.
This is the new way.
This is my way.
This is the kingdom way.
So friends, we can't allow our faults and our shortcomings to drive us into a place
of isolation, you know, into a place of, well, you got to figure it out.
It's your problem.
You know, you made your bed.
You got to, you got to go lie in it now, got to figure it out.
You got to white knuckle it through it.
You got to, you got to make it happen.
No, there is no place in the gospel of Jesus Christ where it says, good luck kid.
I hope you figure it out.
There's absolutely zero text that even insinuates that you have to go fix your own problems.
He is waiting for you to surrender this to him.
He is even, even, even like, even like the situation, well, we're not going to bother.
We're not going to bother Jesus with this.
You know, this is little, and this is our problem.
No, your flesh, your broken flesh, and also the opposing forces, those voices that have
come through your life, all your life, accusing you, whether they come through humans or they
just come through your own mind, they're going to try to drive you into isolation with this.
You got to figure it out yourself.
But the Bible says in James 5, 16, that confess your faults to one another and what be healed.
And we use that a lot in the heart work.
We talk about James 5, 16, because it's so powerful and you know what the power is?
Because obviously Jesus is the one that's going to turn our water into wine, but he's
probably going to do that through other people at some level.
Okay.
Yes.
I've lost four pounds since I've been home, but I also was led to some wisdom that was
coming through other people that I don't know these people, but just different things that
I looked at that I felt like, Hey, I feel like God's showing me this, right?
Like this call today, you know, the wisdom that's coming through me from God, like God
uses people.
He's the head of the resource that he's a, the source, but he's the head of the resource
department, right?
He's the head of the, he's the HR, he's the HR.
head. He's gonna send a human resource. Nine times out of ten, he's gonna send a
human resource. But one of the reasons why James 5.16 is so powerful, confess
your faults, your weaknesses, your frailties, your sin to one another and be
healed, is because it debunks the lie that what is happening to you and what
you're going through is not a common human experience.
It's not a common human experience. You guys, back when I first started my
discipleship, I was having all kinds of intrusive and obsessive thoughts. I had
what I call religious OCD. I was always worried that I wasn't enough and that
God wasn't happy with me. Here's an example. I had this really, I was
being discipled by the people that think women should only wear dresses. And when
I started being discipled by these people, guess what I didn't have? Any
skirts or dresses. I'm 5'10 y'all. Any skirts that they sell are way too short
for me to wear to church, that's for sure. And the other ones just look ridiculous,
like a dowdy old lady. And so I'm like, no, I'm only 22 years old. So I couldn't
find any clothes. I really didn't have any money to buy new clothes. So I
finally got this really cute, I'll never forget it, salmon, like pink orange suit.
Y'all, suit. I'm bragging about a suit right now. I was wearing a suit to church.
Anyone else? Anyone else go to the churches that wear suits? The women, the
men wear suits? Yeah, you dressed up. And I never really could understand why
people never wanted to come to church when I invited them. Like, oh, I don't have
any church clothes. And you know, but that makes sense. And that's why the
come-as-you-are model is so powerful, you guys. Because when I tell you that I had
so much anxiety about what was appropriate to wear to church and what
kind of clothes I had to try to buy to wear to church, but I didn't have any
money to buy those kind of clothes. And I also didn't have anywhere else to wear
them because I didn't have a corporate job or anything like that. So it is
really hard for people when they feel like they're gonna have to come to some
dressy church, okay? So that's what I was coming from and I need to show you that.
So I'm 22, 23 years old at this point and I have this suit and I finally got two
suits, y'all. I got a baby blue suit and I got a salmon suit. And when I tell you
that I was feeling myself, I was feeling myself. But that's the history of that. I
didn't have any clothes to be able to fit in with these people at this Sunday
night service that happened every week. And I finally got some clothes where I'm
like dressed like them now. And at the end of every message in that kind of
church, they have an altar call. At the end of every message, there's an altar
call. And I went up to the altar and the thought in my mind was, you need to give
this suit away to somebody else. Wait, what? You need to give this suit away to
somebody else. And I'm not telling us that sometimes God doesn't say things
like that. But you guys, that was the only thoughts that I ever had. If I liked it,
if it made me feel good, if it made me happy, then I couldn't have it. I need to
give it away. If it made me comfortable, then I had to let it go, right? And I got
delivered of that one day because, you know, back then I was real cute. I was
cute, y'all. As the comedian says, I was wearing little britches, okay? I was cute.
I was feeling myself. But I went, I was at the gas pump one day and I had been
suffering with this for probably about six or seven years. Just always feeling
condemned, always feeling like I was being vain, if I wanted something nice or
this or that. Just so much condemnation all the time. And I didn't realize it was
coming from the old wine that I was being given to drink. I didn't know that,
you guys, because I didn't taste the new wine yet. Oh, Jesus. I just remember the
day I tasted the new wine. Praise God. Praise God that he gave me a new
mindskin to be able to hold the new wine because the new wine is so good. So good.
And I was at a gas station. I was pumping, I was pumping the gas and I was
standing there and God said, you know, I created Queen, I created Esther. He's
talking about Queen Esther. I created Esther the way that she was, on purpose.
And I was like, what do you mean? And he said, everything about her, her beauty, her
gentleness, you know, her, all the things, all of those attributes actually were
given to her for her assignment. And I was like, okay, yeah, that makes sense.
And he said, and all the things that I've given to you, your taste in clothes, the
way you look.
Your heart, the way your mind works, everything, everything I've given to you for your assignment.
Stop rejecting yourself because you're not fitting into this idea of what you're supposed
to be like in order to please me.
You please me because I created you.
And so friends, I just want to help somebody.
I'm sure it's a lot, a lot of you that beat yourself up for so many things, so, so many
things.
You even call things idols that actually are tools and attributes that God has given you
in order to fulfill your assignment on earth.
The things that you enjoy, the things that you think about, obviously we have to do our
heart work.
So there's a purification that comes to a lot of things.
But God loves you, but he also likes you.
He likes you.
You've been individually and fearfully and wonderfully made.
And a lot of times the way that the enemy attacks us, the things that become strongholds
in our lives are also indicators of where our power lies, of where the gifts and talents
of God lie, of our emotional center or our ability to reach deeper levels of intimacy
or our intellect and understanding and revelation and all different types of things.
We live in a very fallen world, but the gospel of Jesus, the finished work of the cross is
the antidote to that poison.
And if we don't live in it, if we're not drinking the new wine, if we're not holding the new
wine, because remember, we're not just drinking it, we're the wine skins, we're holding it.
If we're not holding it, then we cannot pour it out.
So what is your water?
That's my question today.
What is the thing that you need Jesus to touch and change and transform?
What is the thing that you need to bring to him and say, I can't do anything with this
anymore.
I need you to take it from here.
What is the thing?
So many nuggets today from Holy Spirit, different nuggets because there's different strokes
for different folks.
Everyone needs something different.
If you're struggling with religious OCD, I just declare deliverance over you.
God is for you.
He's not against you.
He is not a puzzle to be worked out.
He doesn't speak to you in riddles.
He doesn't.
There are times when he grows our faith.
There's definite times when things don't make sense in our lives and we're just putting
one foot in front of the other and going forward.
But he's always with us.
He's always strengthening us and encouraging us and comforting us.
And friends, when you have the mindset and the heart posture to follow Jesus, there really
aren't two ways.
Just follow Jesus.
There really aren't any wrong turns.
That's what God had to show me.
He's like, Jackie, don't worry about doing everything perfectly.
He's like, do you know, do what you know to do and let me do the rest.
Because if I take a right turn when I should have taken a left turn, he's still going to
get me to the same destination.
I'm just going to see some different scenery along the way.
I'm going to learn some different things along the way.
I've put myself into some situations because, you know, I try to work something out in my
own flesh.
I have.
A lot of us have been busy trying to turn our own water into wine and solving that problem
always creates 99 new problems.
But guess what?
God still wants to help us.
He still wants us to overcome and, you know, we're going to learn.
That's what Romans 8, 28 says.
I'll work everything to the good.
What is that?
You either win or you learn.
It's going to turn for good.
All right, let's take a look guys
People that are suffering with grief
Someone said that their water just is isolation. They're stuck in isolation
They don't know how to let other people in church her tense family relationships
major home renovations
Inability to have good relationships just doesn't work out
Someone who needs their life with their fiance that
needs needs upgrade and
How to connect and how to have intimacy
Debt and retirement health and body image
Family codependency habits financial situations
Extreme cramping in your legs. And here's the thing guys
When that water turns into wine just like my situation, you know, God kind of led me to do some things differently
So for Vicki, he might lead her to do something differently than she's doing right now
he might lead her to take a different kind of supplement or to get different type of
Electrolytes in her water and hydrate or potassium, you know, he can lead us to a practical thing
But then also things can just supernaturally disappear
Or it can be a combination of both
Strange
Health and estranged relationships with children guys. I had a student who when they came into the program
They had five daughters and I think only one of them was kind of talking to them just kind of talking
They didn't have a good relationship with any of them
because of the stress of
Raising those children on her own just because of all the things all the hardships, you know, we do our best you guys
But sometimes our best misses the mark and with other people, you know
We can think that we raised our children to the best of our ability, but they can still be angry with us
And that's okay
Because God has promised that if we give things to him
He will work everything to our good and so instead of coming here for a spouse
What happened in her situation is?
God reconciled her family and now she has amazing relationships with daughters and with grandchildren
And I just want to release that over whoever needs that that miracle has already happened here you guys
This is why we're supposed to on Faith Friday come together and just really testify of what God has done
Because the Bible says that we defeat the enemy through the blood of Jesus
So that's the finished work of the cross and the word of our testimony of what he's done
In fact, I thought today's Supernatural Saturday was going to be on a whole different thing and I'll save it for later
About how God was talking to me about how when we worship like in song we think that that's for Jesus
But really it's for us. We're singing to each other about his goodness
We're reminding each other that he is good
We're reminding each other about what he's done and that builds our faith
But if we really want to worship Jesus then we need to do as he did and that's serve others
Love others
Do you love me Peter? Yes feed my sheep
and
I'm gonna let that be an entirely different Supernatural Saturday, but I thought that that's where we were gonna go today
But we didn't go there and that's okay
Because when I woke up this morning, this is the message that God had on my heart what is your water
And not just what is your water let me turn it into wine
Let me deliver you. Let me help you
Let me give you breakthrough and transformation. It's already been paid for it's sitting out the will call of the kingdom pick it up
It belongs to you
Not just that but also reminding us that the other
Explanation of that story is that God saves the best for last and I believe that we are
In the end of the age will Jesus come back during our human lifetimes?
I don't know but we are the end of the age
Go look at what Jesus said would be happening at the end of the age and all of it has been happening for at least
50 60 70 years
Okay to the degree that he explains it to be happening wars and rumors of wars
Diseases taking over the earth, you know children being disobedient to their parents rebellion at high levels
people's hearts being cold
Hardened hearts towards him and others the love of many will wax cold there that all of the signs of this being the end of
the age but
It's so easy to focus on that and be so doomed to be so disappointed
It's so easy to focus on that and be so doomed
being gloomy, but that means if it's the end of the age,
then that means he saves the best for last.
And who is that?
That's us.
We're kingdom people.
The light shines so much better in darkness, doesn't it?
Have you ever just,
you guys, I like to sleep in the complete dark.
Have you ever just been laying in bed in the dark?
And I travel a lot,
so I can't control my environment, right?
I'm laying in a hotel room and it's almost completely dark,
but there's one tiny little pinpoint of light.
Where's that light coming from?
It's just a little teeny tiny pinpoint of light.
Maybe it's the little light on the microwave in the room
or the little light on the, you know, some other thing,
the little light on the smoke detector.
And it bothers me because I want it to be completely dark
and my eyes go to the light.
Come on, somebody.
My eyes go to the light.
Even if it's the tiniest little speck of light,
it still overcomes and disconcerts the darkness,
doesn't it?
Even the smallest little pinpoint of light.
In the darkness, your eyes go right to it.
Your eyes don't look at the darkness,
your eyes look at the tiny little pinpoint of light.
Because light overcomes darkness, period.
That's the end of that sentence.
Yes, you guys, we are the light, Matthew 5.
We are the city that's set on a hill that cannot be hid.
We are.
He saves the best for last, that's us.
We are kingdom people.
We're not gonna be serving anybody old wine.
We're gonna be serving them new wine.
We're gonna lead them to a place
where they can become a new wineskin.
That's the gospel, that's the conversion experience,
that's the new birth.
And then they're gonna be able
to hold that beautiful new wine.
You don't put new wine in old skins.
And you know what you don't do?
You don't put old wine in new skins either.
Come on.
So Father God, we're thankful
for today's Supernatural Saturday.
We're thankful for all the revelation
that you've released upon us.
We ask that our hearts would be able to capture it,
to hold it, that it would bear fruit in our hearts,
that the wisdom would sink down deep into our hearts,
into the soil of our hearts, Lord.
And that it would bear fruit.
Holy Spirit, we give you permission to move aside
any debris, any rocks, any old wine, any old mindsets,
anything that would hinder us from really believing
that we are a chosen generation.
And that choosing had nothing to do
with our performance or our goodness.
That choosing had to do with the finished work of the cross.
That choosing had to do with the work of Jesus Christ.
It had to do with Jesus's goodness, not our goodness.
And so Lord, I'm praying that any places
where you've been living in isolation,
any places where we believe that our fame is a reproach
and no one else would understand,
that you help us to come out and practice James 5.16
to confess and be healed and understand
these are common human experiences.
These are common human experiences that we all go through.
And if we shared them more often,
we would get deliverance from them.
If we understood that this is not something
that is unique to us, we would get healed from it.
And so Lord, we just thank you God for community.
We thank you for vulnerability, Lord.
We thank you for transparency, God.
We thank you for understanding.
We thank you, Lord.
We thank you for the anointing that destroys the yoke.
I just released that over everyone who's stuck right now,
the anointing that destroys the yoke.
Father, we thank you.
Whatever the water is that we have said,
that we've identified as our water, this is the thing.
Yeah, it might be my problem,
but now you're making it your problem.
And guess what, God, you don't have any problems.
And so I thank you, Lord, for all the miraculous testimonies
that we will have after today.
In Jesus' name, amen.
All right, friends that are in last year's single program,
we'll see you tomorrow night at Sunday Night Activation.
Everyone else, we'll see you next week.
Love y'all.
Bye-bye.