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So, I don't want you guys to be afraid of showing other people your process, right?

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We're going to talk about storms a little bit today.

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And what is that really?

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That's just a process that we're in.

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When God gives us a promise, he also gives us a process.

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And really what he's giving us is a process.

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That's true.

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And so we don't have to be afraid of the process, of other people seeing the process.

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You don't have to hide the process, okay?

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All of you are in some kind of process right now.

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And a lot of times the process makes us feel inferior to other people who seem like they're

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not in process.

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Anyone else?

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You're in some kind of transition right now and it makes you feel like you're not as good

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maybe as the people around you or that you have something to be ashamed or embarrassed

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about because you don't have all this stuff together yet because you're in process.

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And these people around you don't seem to be in process.

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Well, I promise you they're in some kind of process.

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They might be at the beginning of a process and it's not really hurting them yet and they

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don't know.

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And when I say hurting, I mean stretching.

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You guys, I got a subscription to a stretch lab.

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Anyone ever heard of the stretch labs?

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Because I thought that it was going to help me.

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And you guys, it hurts to be stretched.

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Oh my gosh.

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It's like ancient torture chamber.

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They put you on this table and then these young teenage girls, I promise that's what

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it feels like.

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These young teenage girls, you're like, are you a doctor?

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Are you a nurse?

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Are you even trained to do this?

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I think they just watch some video and then they come out and then they strap you all

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these different ways and then they start lifting your limbs to levels that your limbs have

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never been lifted to.

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Now don't get me wrong, after you kind of get used to it, the good kind of hurt.

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Feels good for a minute, but I was having a lot of problems with sciatica, a lot of

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problems with tailbone pain, coccyx pain, all the different things.

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And so I went to this stretch lab.

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So I say that to say this, being stretched does not feel good.

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It doesn't.

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We don't like being stretched.

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Now we like the effects or results of stretching, but we don't necessarily like to be stretched,

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do we?

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So these storms, quote unquote, that we're going to talk about this morning, this is

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just a time of process, a time of stretching.

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Some of you just go from one storm to another and that is not God's will for your life.

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And I just want to talk about that this morning.

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All right.

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So I'm going to go off camera now.

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You got to see my sweaty little face.

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I'm not on camera because I'm scared to be seen.

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I'm not on camera because I'm trying to focus on what the Holy Spirit is saying to us today.

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So Father God, I thank you, Lord, for this Supernatural Saturday.

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I thank you for our time together.

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I thank you that your sons and daughters are ready, Lord, to be promoted.

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They are ready, Lord.

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They're ready for the next level.

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They are ready for the shift, Lord.

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I thank you, God, that you have them positioned for good things because you're a good father.

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And I just love you, Lord.

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I love you today.

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I just worship you and I praise you and I thank you for your grace on our lives.

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I thank you that we know each other and that you've called us here to be together as a

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community, to be revivalists in the revival of marriage and family.

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You've called us to be revivalists, Lord, and I thank you, God, that we get to lock

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arms with one another, that we get to know those who we labor among, Lord.

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I pray, God, that you would just reveal and heal this morning, that you would upgrade

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our ideas and our thoughts about ourselves and you and even the situations and circumstances

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that we're surrounded by in life right now.

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In Jesus' name, amen.

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Guys, it's not about what's happening.

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It's about what you believe is happening.

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Let's jump off right there.

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It's not about what's happening.

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It's about what you believe is happening.

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I had no intention of coming on Supernatural Saturday today and continuing the topic of

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last week and the week before about these presets, these watermarks, these glass ceilings,

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but we have to continue to talk about them because these are the things that are keeping

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us back from God's goodness.

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God is not withholding from us.

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Friends, I really need you to get a hold of that.

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God is not withholding from us.

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Let's visit John 10 for a second, where we have that famous verse, John 10, 10, where

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Jesus is saying, the thief has come to steal and to kill and to destroy.

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But I, who, me, Jesus, I have come that now you can have life and you can have abundant

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life.

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And the actual language there.

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is you can have overflowing life.

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You can have fully alive life.

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That is what those words mean in the ancient Greek

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that they're written in.

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What's he saying?

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He's saying something has been keeping you,

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the thief, right, from having this thing,

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but I've come and now you can have it.

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Friends, he didn't say you could have it

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after you've suffered enough.

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He didn't say you could have it after,

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you've been through so many years of following him.

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He said you can have it right now.

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I have come that you might have this,

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but you see the word there is might for some reason.

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Not that you will have it, but that you might have it.

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What's it dependent on?

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It's dependent on us.

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It's dependent on us deciding that we can have it.

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It's about us deciding that Jesus is giving it to us,

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not based on performance, not based on deserving,

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not based on meriting.

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I'll never forget the conversation that I had with Jesus

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when he said to me about this very verse.

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He said, Jack, you look at this verse a lot.

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He said, you want abundant life?

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And I said, yes, I do want it.

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And he said, okay, there's only one thing

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that you need to do to get it.

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And I was like, okay, I'm ready.

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And I was ready to do anything, friends.

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And he said, you need to be able to receive

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what you don't deserve.

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Oh, there's just one thing, one thing.

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You need to be able to receive what you don't deserve.

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Cause you guys, I wasn't good at receiving.

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I was really bad at receiving actually.

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I had a very independent attitude as most orphans do.

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Hey, I was out there striving, trying to survive.

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I was a survivor and I was proud of it.

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I was proud of where I had been able to get to

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with no help, no family, abuse, treachery, betrayal.

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I was proud of this little girl's home girl,

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foster care, couch surfer, and where she had come to.

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I was proud to just be alive, honestly,

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after some of the things that I had been through.

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Even after I met Jesus, I was like, well,

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I carried my trauma like a trophy.

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Oftentimes.

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And so God was saying that to me.

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He was saying, hey, Jackie, you can have abundant life.

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You can have what this says,

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but you have to be able to receive what you don't deserve.

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And what is that?

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That's us looking at the finished work of the cross

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instead of at ourselves.

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That's looking at the sacrifice of Jesus

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instead of our sacrifice.

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Yes, we'll follow Christ and we'll do as he did.

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Of course we will.

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But that is not what the blessing is dependent on.

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I really want you to get ahold of that.

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We will follow Christ.

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We will be with him.

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We will be like him.

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We will do as he did,

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but it is not what is earning us the blessing.

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It's not what earns us the blessing.

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It's already ours.

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It belongs to us.

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It's an inheritance.

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You guys, the very nature of inheritance is not earned.

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You understand that, right?

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You know how many trust fund babies there are out there

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that do not deserve that money?

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And that money is actually hurting them.

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That lifestyle is actually keeping them

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from their potential.

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They're not gonna realize their potential because why?

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Because they don't ever have to be stretched.

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They don't ever have to grow.

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They don't ever have to mature.

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It just already belongs to them.

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God wants his children.

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He wants us not to earn it, not to deserve it,

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but he wants us to be mature enough to handle it.

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Do you understand what I'm saying?

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Apostolic power, if that's what you're after,

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you wanna live like the book of Acts?

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You wanna see those things happen in the earth?

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That requires apostolic character

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to carry that.

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People always ask me, Jackie,

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why do you think that the miracles and signs and wonders

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of the Bible and the book of Acts,

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why don't those things happen today

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as frequently as they seem to have happened back then?

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And my answer is this,

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and it may not be correct theologically,

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but this is what I think it is.

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I think it's because people are different now.

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The miracle signs and wonders are still available

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and they're still here.

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They are.

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And we don't have to earn them with holiness.

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But I think that people have so many other things

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that they can turn to instead of a miracle.

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That's why you see so many signs and wonders

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in other countries where there is not an industrialization.

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These developing countries, there is not hospitals

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and there's not doctors and there's not treatments

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and there's not this or that.

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There's not the loan sharks.

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It's on the corner called check into cash

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where you can just take your little driver's license

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over there and have someone give you a loan

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on a paycheck that you don't have yet.

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There isn't that.

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You either have it or you don't have it.

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Right?

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There aren't food banks on every corner.

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There aren't, do you understand what I'm saying?

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What I'm saying is, and then even beyond that,

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even beyond that, we have so much religion

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and I don't want to get on a soapbox this morning.

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I want to stay focused on what the Lord is saying.

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But you know, we haven't really pursued God's power

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in that way because there's so many distractions

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and there's so many other choices.

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So apostolic power, it requires apostolic character.

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That's what it does.

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And sometimes apostolic character is only developed

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in apostolic kind of wilderness storm periods of our lives

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where we're being stretched.

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Guys, we're not being punished.

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We're not being punished.

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It's important for you to understand

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that you're not being punished.

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Whatever you've gone through in your life,

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some of it of your own viewing, of your own making for sure.

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You know, we make our own storms

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and then we complain when it's raining and it's hailing

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and it's lightning in our lives.

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But you know, we created these storms with our decisions

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but the beautiful part about Christ is that

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we don't have to lay in the bed that we made.

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We don't have to lay in the bed that other people

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have made for us with their bad decisions.

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Some of you have really serious financial issues right now

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because of a divorce, because of someone else's

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bad stewardship, because of someone else's addictions

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and problems.

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You owe on a car that's wrecked.

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You can't even drive it but you owe tons of money on it

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because someone else wrecked it.

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You let them borrow it and their bad decisions

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turned into a mess for you.

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Guys, I'm just prophesying, I don't know anyone.

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But if that's you, that's you, God's talking to you.

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But God wants to pay off that car note.

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He wants to get you out of that hole.

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Some of you are upside down on loans, got behind on things.

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Now you're trying to pay, you know, two at a time.

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You're trying to rob Peter to pay Paul.

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There's all kinds of things that are happening in your life.

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You thought you were hearing the Lord

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and you made a decision and you did something

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and it just didn't work out.

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You switched jobs and then that business

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went out of business and you didn't have a job

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or you thought that it was smart to move here

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or do this or do that and it just isn't smooth sailing.

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The water's rough.

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The winds are strong.

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I know, I've done it too.

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Let's go back to John 10.10.

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We can have this abundant life, right?

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But you guys, a lot of people don't pay attention

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to the rest of the chapter of John.

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They just love that scripture, John 10.10.

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I love it too.

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People embroider it on their blankets

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and their book bags and stuff.

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John 10.10, abundant life, yes, it's great, it's wonderful.

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you will see it in context.

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is the devil and it is not.

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It's important that you see that

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because the thing that's robbing us

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of so much abundance is religion.

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Read the whole chapter of John 10

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and you'll see that it's the bad shepherds.

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It's the shepherds that wanna take people's needs

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and people's desires and they wanna use it

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to their own benefit by trying to sell them breakthrough.

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Indulgences, sacrifices.

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That was how it was back in the Jewish times.

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If any of you saw the new episode of The Chosen,

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the new season that's out,

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it shows and depicts Jesus in the temple,

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in the marketplace with the whip, with the money changers.

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What's happening there?

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People are being taken advantage of

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underneath an umbrella of religion,

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underneath an umbrella of God said so.

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Okay, and that happens to us.

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We do that to ourselves.

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We don't even need other people to do that to us.

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We do that to ourselves.

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It's a good thing that we're not our own shepherd

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because we're not good shepherds to ourselves oftentimes.

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We don't lead ourselves to peaceful waters.

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We lead ourselves to worry and torment.

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Come on, y'all.

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We don't lead ourselves besides peaceful waters.

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We lead ourselves to worst case scenarios.

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Don't we?

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We lead ourselves to judgment.

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We lead ourselves to criticism.

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We don't lead ourselves to a protective arm of love

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and grace.

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If we were our own shepherd,

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if we were the one that was lost,

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we wouldn't even go looking.

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for ourselves. We oftentimes don't. You know how we don't go looking for

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ourselves? We don't ever take time to slow down and find out, who am I? What do

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I want? These are those up, these are those presets, you guys. We let other

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people preset the radio stations in our lives, in our minds, in our narratives,

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about ourselves, and then we just sing those songs. Poor little old me. We sing

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those songs. Nobody likes me. Everybody hates me. I think I'll eat some worms.

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Yep, we just sing those songs over and over and over again. Whatever those songs

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are that are preset on the radio, they got preset by our childhood, they got

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preset by our parents, and what they said about us or thought about us by coaches

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or teachers or former spouses, boyfriends, girlfriends, friends, community, pastors.

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Because I had a pastor when I was a kid. Remember, I didn't grow up in the church,

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but my mom, you know, she took us to church every once in a while, and I don't

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really know what was happening in the grown-up world, but I just know she'd

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always get really mad and some scandal would happen and we wouldn't go to

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church anymore. So I didn't really meet Jesus till I was in my 20s, but I

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definitely was exposed to church as a young person through my grandma, through

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my mom every once in a while, because my mom was raised in this very strict

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religion, and every once in a while when life was going really hard for her, she

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would drag us to a church, and we didn't fit in because it was the kind of church

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where you got to look a certain way and women have to be a certain way, and it

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was that kind of denomination of Christianity, so to speak. I don't think

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you can even call it that, but in one of the foster homes that I lived in, it was

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connected to one of these churches that I visited sporadically when I was a

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younger child, and so the pastor knew my mom somehow. Once again, when you're a kid,

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you don't know what's going on in the grown-up world, right? You don't know. You

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don't understand, but I was about probably 15 or 16 years old, and I'm

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going to this church school, and I've only been in that school for two weeks,

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and the pastor is like the administrator of the school because the school is

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connected to the church, and I got kicked out of that school, and you know what

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that school told the adults that were caring for me? They said, you know, focus

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on the other kids in your life. This one right here, she's not worth your

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attention, like she's not she's not going to become anything. A pastor said that,

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and you know what he said that about? About me smoking cigarettes.

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I wasn't going to become anything, y'all. My fate was sealed because somewhere in

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the midst of me being in foster care and girls' homes, I had picked, a pet

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picked up the habit of smoking cigarettes, and I know where it came from.

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I had a friend named Judith from Spain, and it was cool. She was cool. She's the

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coolest friend I ever had, and everyone in Spain smokes, and so I was smoking too,

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but anyway, I am just cast out, rejected, never going to amount to anything. These

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are the presets on the radio. Can I tell you how good God is? Years later, years

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and years and years later, friends, after I became a believer in my 20s, and then

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God promoted me to leadership within the body of Christ, and I was doing all kinds

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of amazing ministry. I was at a banquet. I was at a banquet that had a very small

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guest list, and I was invited to that banquet, and of course, now I'm grown up,

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and I'm tall, and I'm beautiful, and I'm well-dressed, and I'm all the things,

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and I'm sitting at that table, and I look up, and I see this old man down on the

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right hand, down like six seats from me, and I recognize him as that pastor that

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said that I would never amount to anything, and that, you know,

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don't waste your time on this one, and you guys, I'd love to tell you that I

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didn't have a little tinge of, how do you like me now? How do you like me now?

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But instead, I went over, and I put my hand on his shoulder. I don't even know if

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he's still alive, but I put my hand on his shoulder, and he looked up,

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and I said, hey, I said, aren't you Pastor So-and-So? And he's like,

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well, yes, and I said, do you remember me? And he said, no, and I told him who I was,

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and y'all, the look on his face, I wasn't petty, y'all, because I want to go to heaven.

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I wasn't petty. I could have been petty. No, you can be petty and go to heaven,

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but you can't stay petty, and so I didn't say anything to him about like, oh, hey,

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like, how do you like me now? I thought you said I'd never amount to anything.

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Take a look at me now, friend, but I didn't say any of that. I just said,

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oh, it's nice to see you, but the look on his face said it all.

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The look on his face said it all, and so I want to

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over you that have been in a battle with people and with their words and with their presets

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for you.

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They want to say things about you.

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They want to judge your character and say that this is what you are and this is what

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you deserve or this is what's going to happen to you and nothing more or nothing less.

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I want you to come out of agreement with those things, but I also want you to understand

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that when God is pleased with you, and the only way that you please God is by what?

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By having faith.

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It's impossible to please him without having faith.

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Faith in what?

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That he's a good, good father and he's a rewarder of those that diligently seek him.

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Guys, that's it.

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You're like, wait, um, God can't be pleased without faith, Jackie, but I just don't feel

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like I have a lot of faith.

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Well, you know how you show God that you have faith?

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By coming to him and believing that he's a good father and he's a rewarder of those that

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diligently seek him.

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Instead of going to A, B, C, D, E, F, G, you come to him.

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Instead of trying to fix it yourself 5,000 times until you've made an even bigger mess

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in this storm, you come to him.

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Instead of acting like it's the end of the world, you recognize that this is a process

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and God is for me and life is for me and this storm has not come from my destruction.

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It's come from my promotion.

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So when the Bible says, when we please God, it says, even your enemies will shake your

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hand in the places of influence.

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Come on, you guys.

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Let's look at a few little storms here because I believe that we're riding the storm to our

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promotion.

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Guys, there's been a lot of heavy storms in Austin, Texas.

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I've made a little video in all of your groups.

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This is unusual.

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It's very unseasonal.

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Very unseasonal.

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Okay.

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And I'm like, God, what's up with this?

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I got woken up at least twice in a row in the middle of the night by storms, by lightning,

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by thunder.

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I had to park under a gas station awning the other day, had to get off the road and hurry

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up and get under there with 12 other cars.

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We were all smashed under there together trying to avoid the golf ball size hail that was

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falling from the sky.

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Thank God that it wasn't the baseball size hail that was falling on the other side of

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town, wrecking cars, ruining roofs, doing all the things that it was doing.

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And I was like, Lord, when I woke up, I was like, God, I feel like this is tied to the

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natural.

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Guys, not everything that happens, I'm tied to the supernatural.

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Not everything that happens in the natural is tied to the supernatural, not everything.

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But you should at least ask.

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You should at least ask, you guys, because the unseen realm is directly related to the

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seen realm.

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If you see something happening on the news that you don't like, that makes you feel afraid,

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instead of being in fear, you need to ask God how you can partner with him on whatever's

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happening in the unseen realm that's connected to what you're seeing in the seen realm.

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Friends, we're not here to live in this world, we're pilgrims.

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This is not our home.

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We don't live here.

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We are passing through here.

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We are not inhabitants of this place.

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We are citizens of heaven.

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We are citizens of the kingdom of God, sons and daughters, heirs and joint heirs of Christ.

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We have to act like it.

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And this is directly tied to your love story.

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It really is.

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Because if you want to partner, you have to partner with a kingdom alliance.

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You guys know too much now.

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If you didn't know it before, you know it now, be in here, okay?

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And so you want to partner with someone who wants to go forward in the kingdom.

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And so our life needs to look like that.

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And trust me, I know right now, I know right now that so many of us feel discouraged and

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we have storms and I get it.

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But there's also promotion happening.

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There is, there's promotion happening.

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And once again, not because you deserve it, but because the wind is pushing you to that

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place, pushing you to that place.

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Okay, let's look at a couple of storms.

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Let's look at a couple.

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Let's look at some wind.

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Let's look at some storms.

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I got some scriptures here.

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Mark 439, Jesus rebukes the wind and speaks to the waves and says, peace, be still.

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We see that there in Mark 439.

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We see in Exodus 1421, God used the wind to do what?

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To part the Red Sea.

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He used the wind to part the Red Sea.

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Wow.

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So here's my question to you for that one.

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What's chasing you?

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You know,

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What do you feel is pursuing you?

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What do you feel like it's trying to overtake your life?

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Is it depression?

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Is it poverty?

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Like what is trying, it's nipping your heel, right?

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In this story, it's Pharaoh's army, right?

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It's Pharaoh's army that's trying to get at them,

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trying to bring them back into captivity,

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back into bondage, back into slavery.

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So what ideas are constantly nipping at your heels

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trying to enslave your mind again?

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Trying to bring you back into bondage again.

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Come on, put them in the chat.

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What things, you know, you're just barely free.

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You're barely free.

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You just came out of that Egypt.

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You're barely free.

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You're trying to walk into the promises of God,

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but you're in this wilderness of process.

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And those ideas are trying to drag you back into slavery.

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Come on, put it up, put it up, put it up.

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Let's see it.

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Get honest, get vulnerable.

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What ideas?

487
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Come on, come on, come on, come on.

488
00:26:08.480 --> 00:26:09.800
Just like this story, you guys,

489
00:26:09.800 --> 00:26:12.140
the wind, the wind didn't come to destroy.

490
00:26:13.340 --> 00:26:15.560
The wind came to deliver.

491
00:26:15.560 --> 00:26:19.280
The wind came to deliver these folks.

492
00:26:19.280 --> 00:26:21.340
It parted the sea.

493
00:26:21.340 --> 00:26:22.840
It made a way of escape.

494
00:26:24.720 --> 00:26:26.680
So these things that you're putting in the chat right now,

495
00:26:26.680 --> 00:26:28.780
I need you to come into agreement with heaven

496
00:26:28.780 --> 00:26:31.340
that these things are gonna drown,

497
00:26:31.340 --> 00:26:32.740
but you're gonna cross over.

498
00:26:35.620 --> 00:26:38.560
When my mom was sick, you guys, I loved that song.

499
00:26:40.300 --> 00:26:41.760
I forget what it's called,

500
00:26:41.760 --> 00:26:45.900
but I loved the song that has the lyrics that,

501
00:26:45.900 --> 00:26:49.040
it may look like I'm surrounded, but I'm surrounded by you.

502
00:26:50.380 --> 00:26:51.960
Woo, Jesus.

503
00:26:51.960 --> 00:26:53.500
Every time I even say those lyrics,

504
00:26:53.500 --> 00:26:56.880
Holy Spirit, Holy Spirit, yes.

505
00:26:57.880 --> 00:27:00.760
That song was written in a pit by someone.

506
00:27:00.760 --> 00:27:02.960
Rita Springer wrote that song, I think,

507
00:27:02.960 --> 00:27:07.200
but in a pit, it may look like I'm surrounded,

508
00:27:08.640 --> 00:27:10.360
but I'm surrounded by you.

509
00:27:10.360 --> 00:27:12.680
That comes from that Bible story that,

510
00:27:12.680 --> 00:27:14.880
you know, the prophet's servant,

511
00:27:14.880 --> 00:27:17.080
he didn't have the upgrade yet.

512
00:27:17.080 --> 00:27:18.240
The prophet had the upgrade.

513
00:27:18.240 --> 00:27:19.640
The prophet could see that, yes,

514
00:27:19.640 --> 00:27:22.400
they were surrounded on every side by the enemy,

515
00:27:22.400 --> 00:27:25.240
but the enemy was surrounded by God's army.

516
00:27:26.200 --> 00:27:28.920
And the prophet could see that, and he said,

517
00:27:28.920 --> 00:27:30.800
God, please open my servant's eyes,

518
00:27:30.800 --> 00:27:32.960
give him the upgrade, give him the promotion

519
00:27:32.960 --> 00:27:37.160
so he can see what I see, so he won't be afraid anymore.

520
00:27:37.160 --> 00:27:39.160
And Father, I ask that for your sons and daughters.

521
00:27:39.160 --> 00:27:41.360
You said the storm has not come for our destruction,

522
00:27:41.360 --> 00:27:42.680
but for our promotion.

523
00:27:42.680 --> 00:27:46.600
Promote us to a different mindset, to different vision.

524
00:27:46.600 --> 00:27:49.920
Let us see that whatever it is that's trying to surround us,

525
00:27:49.920 --> 00:27:53.200
that we think has surrounded us, it is surrounded by you.

526
00:27:54.200 --> 00:27:56.240
It is surrounded by your power.

527
00:27:58.320 --> 00:28:00.560
It's surrounded by your angel armies.

528
00:28:02.200 --> 00:28:04.960
I love the translation of the Bible that,

529
00:28:04.960 --> 00:28:07.960
every time it says God, it says God of the angel armies.

530
00:28:09.880 --> 00:28:11.520
I think it's the Amplified.

531
00:28:11.520 --> 00:28:13.720
It says God of the angel armies.

532
00:28:13.720 --> 00:28:16.640
He is the God of the angel armies.

533
00:28:19.000 --> 00:28:22.200
We are surrounded by heaven, y'all.

534
00:28:22.800 --> 00:28:26.160
Heaven's not up there, it's all around you.

535
00:28:26.160 --> 00:28:28.520
You are surrounded by a great cloud of witnesses.

536
00:28:28.520 --> 00:28:30.760
You are surrounded by angelic undergirding.

537
00:28:30.760 --> 00:28:33.680
You are surrounded by the presence and power

538
00:28:33.680 --> 00:28:37.160
of our sovereign, omnipotent, omniscient God.

539
00:28:41.960 --> 00:28:44.040
That's why God's always like,

540
00:28:44.040 --> 00:28:45.640
there's no reason to be afraid.

541
00:28:48.680 --> 00:28:50.200
There's no reason to fear.

542
00:28:51.160 --> 00:28:52.920
One of my favorite scriptures in the Bible,

543
00:28:52.920 --> 00:28:54.600
someone who went through a storm, you guys,

544
00:28:54.600 --> 00:28:56.480
someone who went through a process.

545
00:28:56.480 --> 00:28:59.560
In fact, I challenge you to show me one person

546
00:28:59.560 --> 00:29:01.920
who stepped into their promise,

547
00:29:01.920 --> 00:29:05.960
who did not have a process that involved some sort of storm.

548
00:29:07.480 --> 00:29:09.400
Maybe not a physical storm like in the natural,

549
00:29:09.400 --> 00:29:12.240
like lightning and rain and flooding, but a storm.

550
00:29:15.240 --> 00:29:18.400
But Joseph's story, betrayal by family,

551
00:29:18.400 --> 00:29:19.560
I can relate to that.

552
00:29:21.200 --> 00:29:22.120
I can relate to that,

553
00:29:22.120 --> 00:29:24.120
but I want to reframe something for you.

554
00:29:25.120 --> 00:29:26.520
It always broke my heart

555
00:29:27.880 --> 00:29:30.360
that my mom sent me away to live in a girl's home.

556
00:29:35.880 --> 00:29:37.120
And it doesn't break my heart anymore.

557
00:29:37.120 --> 00:29:40.080
These tears are tears of gratitude

558
00:29:41.080 --> 00:29:42.920
because it always broke my heart.

559
00:29:42.920 --> 00:29:44.880
And you guys, I had that framed.

560
00:29:44.880 --> 00:29:47.360
That preset was telling me that I was abandoned

561
00:29:47.360 --> 00:29:49.200
and unwanted and rejected.

562
00:29:51.200 --> 00:29:52.800
And I know that my mom did it

563
00:29:54.400 --> 00:29:56.240
out of her inability to attach.

564
00:29:56.240 --> 00:29:58.320
I know that she did it because she was overwhelmed.

565
00:29:58.320 --> 00:29:59.920
Her own life was falling apart.

566
00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:05.800
heart, I was definitely the child that was not thriving and not doing well, getting in

567
00:30:05.800 --> 00:30:11.360
trouble, getting messed up in bad situations because of the horrible life that we were

568
00:30:11.360 --> 00:30:12.360
living in.

569
00:30:12.360 --> 00:30:15.480
And she just, she couldn't handle it.

570
00:30:15.480 --> 00:30:18.840
She just sent me away to live somewhere else.

571
00:30:18.840 --> 00:30:25.600
But just recently, and this is why I have tears of gratitude, I always really resented

572
00:30:25.600 --> 00:30:28.720
and despised my mom for that.

573
00:30:28.720 --> 00:30:39.480
And just recently, God showed me that I was like baby Moses in the bulrushes.

574
00:30:39.480 --> 00:30:44.120
My mom was in bad place when she sent me away.

575
00:30:44.120 --> 00:30:48.600
And who knows what would have happened to me if I would have stayed with her where she

576
00:30:48.600 --> 00:30:53.600
was and the decisions that she was making.

577
00:30:53.600 --> 00:30:58.800
At least I was in a place where there were rules and there were, you know, there was

578
00:30:58.800 --> 00:30:59.800
procedure.

579
00:30:59.800 --> 00:31:03.560
Yes, it wasn't good, y'all.

580
00:31:03.560 --> 00:31:04.920
It wasn't good.

581
00:31:04.920 --> 00:31:07.200
There was treachery there as well.

582
00:31:07.200 --> 00:31:11.080
But just like Moses, there was treachery in the king's palace as well.

583
00:31:11.080 --> 00:31:16.000
We know that nothing's ever going to be perfect, especially when we are called and marked by

584
00:31:16.000 --> 00:31:17.600
God, which we all are.

585
00:31:17.600 --> 00:31:19.320
There's going to be stretching seasons.

586
00:31:19.320 --> 00:31:24.120
There's going to be opposing forces pushing against us.

587
00:31:24.120 --> 00:31:29.200
But God reset my preset and he saw me.

588
00:31:29.200 --> 00:31:32.320
He saw me in that place.

589
00:31:32.320 --> 00:31:35.080
And he promoted me in that place.

590
00:31:35.080 --> 00:31:42.040
It was a place of protection for me, you guys.

591
00:31:42.040 --> 00:31:43.600
It wasn't a prison.

592
00:31:43.600 --> 00:31:45.240
It was a place of protection for me.

593
00:31:45.240 --> 00:31:46.240
Come on.

594
00:31:46.240 --> 00:31:55.160
You have to reframe.

595
00:31:55.160 --> 00:32:04.040
God delivered me so that I could be a deliverer.

596
00:32:04.040 --> 00:32:08.120
So one of my favorite stories, Joseph, let's go back to that story because I really challenge

597
00:32:08.120 --> 00:32:14.120
you to show me one person in the Bible, which is our example, right?

598
00:32:14.120 --> 00:32:16.120
We're not supposed to be like these people, you guys.

599
00:32:17.000 --> 00:32:18.000
Stop trying to measure up to these people.

600
00:32:18.000 --> 00:32:19.000
You are you.

601
00:32:19.000 --> 00:32:20.000
They are them.

602
00:32:20.000 --> 00:32:21.000
Okay.

603
00:32:21.000 --> 00:32:24.480
We live in a totally different time than these folks.

604
00:32:24.480 --> 00:32:29.360
We have all different types of warfare than they did.

605
00:32:29.360 --> 00:32:32.280
Can't compare ourselves of give us that old time religion.

606
00:32:32.280 --> 00:32:34.640
No, no, no, no.

607
00:32:34.640 --> 00:32:36.840
Give us kingdom.

608
00:32:36.840 --> 00:32:39.360
Give us kingdom.

609
00:32:39.360 --> 00:32:40.920
We're the stars of the show now.

610
00:32:40.920 --> 00:32:42.600
We're the ones on the playing field.

611
00:32:42.600 --> 00:32:45.280
These are our stories.

612
00:32:45.440 --> 00:32:50.720
So the story of Joseph, it really resonates in the way, especially in chapter 50, verse

613
00:32:50.720 --> 00:32:53.880
20, where he finally sees his family again.

614
00:32:53.880 --> 00:32:54.880
He sees his brothers.

615
00:32:54.880 --> 00:33:02.280
He sees the ones that were the cause of him going into Egypt in the first place, selling

616
00:33:02.280 --> 00:33:05.800
him into slavery and all the things that had happened since then.

617
00:33:05.800 --> 00:33:10.120
Potiphar's, the prison, the palace.

618
00:33:10.120 --> 00:33:12.000
He sees them.

619
00:33:12.000 --> 00:33:16.320
And instead of getting his revenge, he has a heart of grace.

620
00:33:16.320 --> 00:33:17.480
Because why?

621
00:33:17.480 --> 00:33:22.160
Because whatever those things that had happened to him could have told him about himself,

622
00:33:22.160 --> 00:33:24.240
he had a greater narrative.

623
00:33:24.240 --> 00:33:26.760
His watermark had been changed.

624
00:33:26.760 --> 00:33:27.760
He didn't have to be petty.

625
00:33:27.760 --> 00:33:29.200
He didn't have to be revengeful.

626
00:33:29.200 --> 00:33:34.160
He didn't have to get back at them, could have, but he didn't.

627
00:33:34.160 --> 00:33:38.360
And the reason why is because he saw the bigger picture and the bigger picture was what he

628
00:33:38.360 --> 00:33:40.440
says in Genesis 50, 20.

629
00:33:40.440 --> 00:33:46.040
He says, you meant this for evil, but God meant it for good.

630
00:33:46.040 --> 00:33:50.440
And I can say that over my mom sending me away.

631
00:33:50.440 --> 00:33:58.880
I don't think that she had a benevolent mindset.

632
00:33:58.880 --> 00:34:05.280
I think that she just didn't want me to be her problem anymore.

633
00:34:05.280 --> 00:34:08.040
So you know, in a way that's evil.

634
00:34:08.040 --> 00:34:10.800
But what she meant for evil, God meant for good.

635
00:34:10.800 --> 00:34:14.480
God turned it to good, you guys.

636
00:34:14.480 --> 00:34:15.480
Romans 8, 28.

637
00:34:15.480 --> 00:34:19.639
He Romans 8, 28 to me, but he only did on the other side of forgiveness.

638
00:34:19.639 --> 00:34:24.520
Some of us get caught in storms and we're in storms because we just refuse to forgive.

639
00:34:24.520 --> 00:34:27.560
We just refuse to release and let go.

640
00:34:27.560 --> 00:34:29.199
These people were doing the best they could.

641
00:34:29.199 --> 00:34:31.719
They don't have good information.

642
00:34:31.719 --> 00:34:32.840
They've been abused.

643
00:34:32.840 --> 00:34:34.120
They've been traumatized.

644
00:34:34.120 --> 00:34:37.219
They're living in counter identity.

645
00:34:37.219 --> 00:34:41.460
They have presets that don't allow them to attach.

646
00:34:41.460 --> 00:34:43.420
There's nothing that we can do about that.

647
00:34:43.420 --> 00:34:47.219
Other people's programming is their problem, not ours.

648
00:34:47.219 --> 00:34:54.219
Okay, we're going all over the place, but that's okay.

649
00:34:54.219 --> 00:34:59.060
So whatever that thing is that's nipping at your heels, it's been nipping at your heels.

650
00:34:59.060 --> 00:35:00.060
You've barely free of it.

651
00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:02.280
You're barely free of it.

652
00:35:02.280 --> 00:35:06.760
Whether it's an addiction, a porn addiction, whether it's some type of pattern that you

653
00:35:06.760 --> 00:35:12.000
keep living in over and over and over and over again, this wind that's whipping up in

654
00:35:12.000 --> 00:35:19.480
your life, it's going to give you safe passage, but those things are going to drown.

655
00:35:19.480 --> 00:35:27.200
Those are things that are going to be consumed by God, by his power, by his spirit.

656
00:35:27.200 --> 00:35:37.040
Let's go to another one, Acts 27, 22 through 26.

657
00:35:37.040 --> 00:35:41.560
Paul in the storm.

658
00:35:41.560 --> 00:35:42.720
Paul in the storm.

659
00:35:42.720 --> 00:35:43.800
What does he say in the storm?

660
00:35:43.800 --> 00:35:46.920
He says to all the people around him, take heart.

661
00:35:46.920 --> 00:35:49.720
Not one of you will be lost.

662
00:35:49.720 --> 00:35:51.120
I felt like that was a word for us.

663
00:35:51.120 --> 00:35:56.660
Hey guys, take heart, regardless of what's happening right now in our lives individually,

664
00:35:56.660 --> 00:36:00.480
in this community collectively, God's just telling us, take heart.

665
00:36:00.480 --> 00:36:03.240
Not one of you is going to be lost.

666
00:36:03.240 --> 00:36:06.160
We're not going to be lost.

667
00:36:06.160 --> 00:36:08.360
We're not going to be lost.

668
00:36:08.360 --> 00:36:12.560
Come on, I want you to say that over yourself right now.

669
00:36:12.560 --> 00:36:13.560
This is not the end.

670
00:36:13.560 --> 00:36:14.960
Let's just take a few minutes here.

671
00:36:14.960 --> 00:36:17.280
I want you to close your eyes, say that over yourself.

672
00:36:17.280 --> 00:36:19.080
Hey, this is not the end.

673
00:36:19.080 --> 00:36:21.200
This is not how my story ends.

674
00:36:21.200 --> 00:36:23.880
Come on, let's do this for a minute.

675
00:36:44.960 --> 00:36:57.600
Come on, guys.

676
00:36:57.600 --> 00:37:02.920
Come on, guys.

677
00:37:02.920 --> 00:37:04.160
I see tears flowing.

678
00:37:04.160 --> 00:37:05.160
Come on.

679
00:37:05.160 --> 00:37:06.680
God has good things for you.

680
00:37:06.680 --> 00:37:10.360
Remember, you have to be able to receive what you don't deserve.

681
00:37:10.360 --> 00:37:12.340
You got some presets on right now.

682
00:37:12.340 --> 00:37:14.880
They're telling you that you don't deserve it.

683
00:37:14.880 --> 00:37:17.520
The good news is that you don't have to.

684
00:37:17.520 --> 00:37:23.560
Guys, ever since God taught me that, I'm not going to say that it became second nature,

685
00:37:23.560 --> 00:37:30.640
but I show up all the time asking for things that I know darn well I do not deserve.

686
00:37:30.640 --> 00:37:32.800
I show up all the time.

687
00:37:32.800 --> 00:37:37.040
Every time I do something really goofy, and then I have to minister somewhere like five

688
00:37:37.040 --> 00:37:41.960
minutes later, but I got in an argument with my husband, I'm being petty, I'm being a jerk,

689
00:37:41.960 --> 00:37:43.520
this is happening, that's happening.

690
00:37:43.560 --> 00:37:46.840
I just get super excited that something very supernatural is going to happen, because I

691
00:37:46.840 --> 00:37:50.080
do not show up at that ministry engagement in shame.

692
00:37:50.080 --> 00:37:54.480
I show up fully expecting to receive what I don't deserve, which is the anointing of

693
00:37:54.480 --> 00:37:58.200
God.

694
00:37:58.200 --> 00:37:59.840
And of course, I'm sorry.

695
00:37:59.840 --> 00:38:02.080
I feel repentant.

696
00:38:02.080 --> 00:38:03.080
I have a soft heart.

697
00:38:03.080 --> 00:38:07.400
I just release that over you, that you would have a soft heart, that you would have a heart

698
00:38:07.400 --> 00:38:14.080
that's very easily teachable by Holy Spirit, showing you the better way.

699
00:38:14.080 --> 00:38:17.680
Correction is always like a course correction, showing you the better way.

700
00:38:17.680 --> 00:38:19.280
Hey, you're making things too hard.

701
00:38:19.280 --> 00:38:21.120
You're doing this the hard way.

702
00:38:21.120 --> 00:38:23.920
Let me show you.

703
00:38:23.920 --> 00:38:26.520
Yeah, it's going to stretch you.

704
00:38:26.520 --> 00:38:30.600
Yeah, it's going to be a little bit painful, but you're just making it way worse than it

705
00:38:30.600 --> 00:38:31.600
needs to be.

706
00:38:31.600 --> 00:38:37.800
I saw someone throwing up a scripture, you know, countering my idea of, when you please

707
00:38:37.800 --> 00:38:40.280
the Lord, your enemies will shake your hand.

708
00:38:40.280 --> 00:38:44.720
I don't know where you got your scripture, but my scripture comes from Proverbs 16, 7.

709
00:38:44.720 --> 00:38:50.000
And it just says, when we please the Lord, he will make even our enemies be at peace

710
00:38:50.000 --> 00:38:51.000
with us.

711
00:38:51.000 --> 00:38:52.000
Okay?

712
00:38:52.000 --> 00:38:54.480
So whatever scripture you're quoting is a different scripture.

713
00:38:54.480 --> 00:38:55.840
All right?

714
00:38:55.840 --> 00:38:57.760
Come on, y'all.

715
00:38:57.760 --> 00:38:59.760
Come on, guys.

716
00:38:59.760 --> 00:39:00.920
Don't worry about other people.

717
00:39:01.240 --> 00:39:03.400
Don't worry about what they're doing.

718
00:39:03.400 --> 00:39:05.520
Don't worry about that.

719
00:39:05.520 --> 00:39:07.960
Focus on pleasing the Lord.

720
00:39:07.960 --> 00:39:13.880
And the only thing we need to do, once again, to please him is to believe he's good and

721
00:39:13.880 --> 00:39:16.160
that he wants to bless us.

722
00:39:16.160 --> 00:39:20.120
Wow, come on.

723
00:39:20.120 --> 00:39:22.160
How does, what does that look like practically?

724
00:39:22.160 --> 00:39:27.040
That looks like you showing up with every little need.

725
00:39:27.040 --> 00:39:28.400
I have a little granddaughter.

726
00:39:28.400 --> 00:39:34.600
I have twin grandchildren and the girl, my granddaughter, Edie Jane, she's a pistol.

727
00:39:34.600 --> 00:39:38.840
First of all, y'all, she's the funniest baby I've ever met in my life.

728
00:39:38.840 --> 00:39:45.160
She's two and a half years old and she wants me and her mommy and her daddy and really

729
00:39:45.160 --> 00:39:52.440
any adult, her papa, all of us, she wants us to take a look at every single boo-boo

730
00:39:52.440 --> 00:39:53.840
that she has.

731
00:39:53.840 --> 00:39:56.360
Y'all, these are not real boo-boos.

732
00:39:56.360 --> 00:39:58.280
These are not boo-boos at all.

733
00:39:58.280 --> 00:39:59.280
Okay.

734
00:39:59.280 --> 00:40:00.280
She's coming to us.

735
00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:03.120
It's like, kiss it, kiss it, kiss it.

736
00:40:03.760 --> 00:40:08.120
Somewhere, sometime, someone, probably my daughter, kissed a boo-boo and

737
00:40:08.120 --> 00:40:09.760
now we're all on boo-boo patrol.

738
00:40:10.800 --> 00:40:13.120
She brings everything to us.

739
00:40:13.160 --> 00:40:17.800
Everything, everything wants us to kiss it, wants a Band-Aid for it.

740
00:40:18.000 --> 00:40:20.040
You know, these are not boo-boos, they're not.

741
00:40:22.120 --> 00:40:26.880
They're not, but isn't that how Papa God wants us to be with him?

742
00:40:27.320 --> 00:40:30.560
He wants us to bring everything to him, even if it's not a problem.

743
00:40:32.920 --> 00:40:36.800
It's not a problem, but he wants us to bring it to him.

744
00:40:36.920 --> 00:40:39.360
It's not a boo-boo, okay?

745
00:40:40.400 --> 00:40:42.600
Sometimes it is a bullet hole, okay?

746
00:40:42.760 --> 00:40:45.920
It's not a boo-boo, it's a bullet hole and we need to bring that to him.

747
00:40:45.920 --> 00:40:48.240
And we're more likely to bring the bullet holes to him

748
00:40:48.520 --> 00:40:49.920
rather than the splinters.

749
00:40:51.960 --> 00:40:52.560
Okay?

750
00:40:53.480 --> 00:40:55.040
Rather than the little paper cut.

751
00:40:55.600 --> 00:40:57.640
It's important that you use your Jesus Cares Board.

752
00:40:57.640 --> 00:41:00.240
All of you should know what that is, unless you're here with

753
00:41:00.240 --> 00:41:01.560
last year's single light.

754
00:41:01.560 --> 00:41:04.240
If you're here with single light, we want you to upgrade to the program.

755
00:41:04.240 --> 00:41:05.560
You need to get into the heart work.

756
00:41:06.400 --> 00:41:10.240
Let the month of June be the time that you contact us to upgrade.

757
00:41:11.560 --> 00:41:13.880
But all the rest of you be using those Jesus Cares Board.

758
00:41:13.920 --> 00:41:16.600
You have to come to him.

759
00:41:16.640 --> 00:41:21.120
That's how you please him, by coming to him and expecting him to what?

760
00:41:21.440 --> 00:41:26.840
To reward those that come to him, that believe he's good and that are

761
00:41:26.840 --> 00:41:31.360
diligently seeking his help, his knowledge, his wisdom, his deliverance.

762
00:41:34.480 --> 00:41:36.560
Guys, these storms have not come for our destruction.

763
00:41:36.560 --> 00:41:37.880
They've come for our promotion.

764
00:41:39.080 --> 00:41:42.040
Let's look, you know, Paul said to them, Hey, no one's going to be lost here.

765
00:41:42.880 --> 00:41:43.680
It's going to be okay.

766
00:41:44.080 --> 00:41:46.280
Not one of you is going to be lost because what happened in

767
00:41:46.280 --> 00:41:47.760
that storm that Paul was in?

768
00:41:48.120 --> 00:41:50.400
It actually led him to Malta, didn't it?

769
00:41:51.840 --> 00:41:53.160
It actually changed course.

770
00:41:53.160 --> 00:41:55.600
It course corrected that storm course corrected.

771
00:41:55.880 --> 00:41:56.960
And what happened then?

772
00:41:56.960 --> 00:41:58.280
Revival broke out.

773
00:41:58.320 --> 00:41:59.360
That's what happened.

774
00:42:01.160 --> 00:42:02.240
Revival broke out.

775
00:42:07.400 --> 00:42:10.680
Sometimes you're just on your way somewhere and something goes wrong and

776
00:42:10.680 --> 00:42:13.480
you're not able to go for whatever reason you run out of money.

777
00:42:13.840 --> 00:42:15.640
The job is no longer available.

778
00:42:15.880 --> 00:42:17.080
It gets really confusing.

779
00:42:17.080 --> 00:42:19.760
You have to either go back where you came from or you end up somewhere else.

780
00:42:19.760 --> 00:42:21.320
And you really don't know what's going on.

781
00:42:21.640 --> 00:42:26.400
That storm, that wind, that crosswind just came and it blew you someplace else.

782
00:42:26.400 --> 00:42:28.680
It doesn't have to be the enemy.

783
00:42:28.680 --> 00:42:32.680
And even if it was warfare, Genesis 50, 20 comes into effect.

784
00:42:32.920 --> 00:42:35.360
What was meant for evil will now be used for good.

785
00:42:40.760 --> 00:42:43.040
Your storm may be rerouting you on purpose.

786
00:42:43.040 --> 00:42:46.120
So I want you to kind of take that into consideration right now.

787
00:42:50.760 --> 00:42:52.760
I mean, let's look at, let's look at it in scripture.

788
00:42:52.760 --> 00:42:55.360
Storms are often divine transportation, aren't they?

789
00:42:58.520 --> 00:43:00.120
They're divine transportation.

790
00:43:01.480 --> 00:43:02.280
That's okay.

791
00:43:08.600 --> 00:43:11.840
Friends, storms reveal oftentimes, and you know, and you guys, it doesn't

792
00:43:11.840 --> 00:43:15.120
have to be a big squall, it could be a little storm, the storms that

793
00:43:15.120 --> 00:43:18.680
happened here in Austin, um, they were kind of big, but they were fast

794
00:43:18.680 --> 00:43:19.800
and they were over quickly.

795
00:43:20.040 --> 00:43:20.840
And you know what they did?

796
00:43:20.840 --> 00:43:22.920
They pruned, they pruned everything.

797
00:43:22.960 --> 00:43:25.600
All the dead stuff got broken off.

798
00:43:26.360 --> 00:43:30.400
They were gully washers, as my grandparents would say, they really

799
00:43:30.400 --> 00:43:32.520
just pushed out all the dead debris.

800
00:43:33.200 --> 00:43:35.840
And oftentimes storms are a very pruning time.

801
00:43:35.840 --> 00:43:39.680
It could be a very short storm, a very short little thing that you went through.

802
00:43:41.520 --> 00:43:43.320
But it's revealing what's in us, right?

803
00:43:44.640 --> 00:43:47.000
Remember Jesus in the storm, he was asleep in the boat.

804
00:43:47.880 --> 00:43:51.440
And that's because he already had authority over the storm, but the

805
00:43:51.440 --> 00:43:53.920
disciples, they didn't have authority yet.

806
00:43:54.120 --> 00:43:54.960
They were learning.

807
00:43:55.320 --> 00:43:56.480
It was a teaching moment.

808
00:43:56.760 --> 00:44:00.280
There was never a point in time where they were going to be lost or destroyed,

809
00:44:01.200 --> 00:44:02.280
but they were being promoted.

810
00:44:02.280 --> 00:44:02.960
Do you see that?

811
00:44:04.720 --> 00:44:05.800
They were being upgraded.

812
00:44:06.480 --> 00:44:07.920
Their thinking was being upgraded.

813
00:44:07.920 --> 00:44:11.320
Their ideas were being upgraded.

814
00:44:12.320 --> 00:44:16.120
Oftentimes storms wake up what's been dormant inside of us.

815
00:44:16.400 --> 00:44:18.880
I used to call me and David, the dormant doormans.

816
00:44:23.280 --> 00:44:24.560
I was like, babe, we're dormant.

817
00:44:24.600 --> 00:44:25.560
We're the dormant doormans.

818
00:44:28.680 --> 00:44:30.160
But we wanted more you guys.

819
00:44:30.160 --> 00:44:33.800
So we had to press in and that stretching is uncomfortable, pressing

820
00:44:33.800 --> 00:44:37.640
into authority, pressing into faith, pressing into discernment, pressing

821
00:44:37.920 --> 00:44:41.960
into faith, pressing into discernment, pressing into courage, pressing in.

822
00:44:43.480 --> 00:44:46.640
That long four-year storm that I went through my mom at the end of her life.

823
00:44:46.640 --> 00:44:51.080
It was hard, you guys, it was hard, but I was looking at God and I felt him

824
00:44:51.080 --> 00:44:56.000
looking at me and I was being stretched and I was being changed and during the

825
00:44:56.000 --> 00:44:59.600
last four years of her life, I was getting a better perspective of who she was and

826
00:44:59.600 --> 00:44:59.960
what she.

827
00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:02.520
went through so that I could fully forgive her,

828
00:45:02.520 --> 00:45:04.600
so that when she went to heaven

829
00:45:04.600 --> 00:45:06.900
and she stepped into that other dimension

830
00:45:06.900 --> 00:45:08.880
where she was going to be perfected,

831
00:45:08.880 --> 00:45:10.980
not just in her body from sickness,

832
00:45:10.980 --> 00:45:13.820
but also in her mind from her presets

833
00:45:13.820 --> 00:45:15.960
that had been destroying her and her children

834
00:45:15.960 --> 00:45:16.920
all of her life.

835
00:45:17.960 --> 00:45:19.760
But when she stepped out,

836
00:45:19.760 --> 00:45:21.460
I was gonna be able to step up.

837
00:45:22.280 --> 00:45:23.980
Can I tell you that when my mom stepped

838
00:45:23.980 --> 00:45:26.540
into that other dimension that we call heaven,

839
00:45:26.540 --> 00:45:31.540
to be part of the intercession team around our family,

840
00:45:31.660 --> 00:45:33.060
that gray cloud of witnesses,

841
00:45:33.060 --> 00:45:34.820
I immediately got promoted.

842
00:45:37.100 --> 00:45:39.180
Friends, I immediately got promoted.

843
00:45:39.180 --> 00:45:40.700
In fact, you know what was birthed

844
00:45:40.700 --> 00:45:45.260
as soon as Diana Lynn stepped into that other dimension?

845
00:45:46.300 --> 00:45:50.020
Last year single, married in 12 months or less.

846
00:45:50.020 --> 00:45:53.000
Immediately, you guys, immediately, you guys,

847
00:45:53.000 --> 00:45:55.460
not even a month after my mom stepped into heaven,

848
00:45:55.460 --> 00:45:56.300
this happened.

849
00:45:57.540 --> 00:45:58.360
I mean,

850
00:46:01.260 --> 00:46:03.740
but it was what I did during that storm.

851
00:46:05.580 --> 00:46:08.060
It didn't let me earn the promotion,

852
00:46:08.060 --> 00:46:09.540
it prepared me for it.

853
00:46:11.700 --> 00:46:16.020
I'd already been in ministry for like 24 years,

854
00:46:16.020 --> 00:46:18.560
women's ministry, family ministry.

855
00:46:23.260 --> 00:46:25.860
I'd already been in full-time ministry for 24 years.

856
00:46:27.540 --> 00:46:32.540
I'd already been in full-time ministry for 24 years.

857
00:46:32.820 --> 00:46:37.820
Immediately, my mom passed away into heaven, February 3rd.

858
00:46:38.060 --> 00:46:40.500
She stepped over, transitioned,

859
00:46:41.820 --> 00:46:43.700
took a new assignment.

860
00:46:43.700 --> 00:46:45.100
For those of you that have lost loved ones

861
00:46:45.100 --> 00:46:47.140
that you love so much and you miss so much,

862
00:46:47.140 --> 00:46:49.100
guys, they're just ahead of you on the road

863
00:46:49.100 --> 00:46:50.140
on a new assignment.

864
00:46:51.340 --> 00:46:53.100
I need you to understand that.

865
00:46:53.100 --> 00:46:54.640
I need you to get a revelation

866
00:46:54.640 --> 00:46:57.000
of the other dimension that we call heaven.

867
00:46:57.000 --> 00:46:59.000
That's what will end the grieving process for you.

868
00:46:59.000 --> 00:47:00.880
I asked God, I said, when am I gonna hurt less?

869
00:47:00.880 --> 00:47:03.480
And he said, when you start getting a revelation of heaven.

870
00:47:06.360 --> 00:47:08.800
They're just ahead of us on the road.

871
00:47:08.800 --> 00:47:10.760
They have an upgrade.

872
00:47:10.760 --> 00:47:13.040
They have a higher clearance than we do

873
00:47:16.680 --> 00:47:20.140
of understanding, of transformation.

874
00:47:25.480 --> 00:47:30.480
February 3rd, God invited me.

875
00:47:31.560 --> 00:47:33.660
I was sitting in my office looking around.

876
00:47:35.040 --> 00:47:37.320
I've been teaching heart workshops for years,

877
00:47:37.320 --> 00:47:38.520
been doing all kinds of ministry,

878
00:47:38.520 --> 00:47:40.760
like I said, for a long time.

879
00:47:40.760 --> 00:47:41.920
And I was just sitting there

880
00:47:41.920 --> 00:47:43.920
and I felt an invitation to something new.

881
00:47:43.920 --> 00:47:46.560
And I said, God, I really don't feel like

882
00:47:46.560 --> 00:47:48.820
this is what I need to be doing anymore.

883
00:47:48.820 --> 00:47:53.760
And he said, what if you took your love for matchmaking,

884
00:47:53.760 --> 00:47:54.600
because you guys, you know,

885
00:47:54.600 --> 00:47:55.840
I've always been the matchmaker,

886
00:47:55.840 --> 00:47:58.720
helped so many of my friends get married.

887
00:47:58.720 --> 00:47:59.800
What if you took that gift?

888
00:47:59.800 --> 00:48:01.640
And what if you took the heart work protocol?

889
00:48:01.640 --> 00:48:04.000
And what if you took all this ministry

890
00:48:04.000 --> 00:48:05.720
and all this authority that I've given you?

891
00:48:05.720 --> 00:48:07.960
And what if you put it into something

892
00:48:07.960 --> 00:48:09.600
for my single sons and daughters?

893
00:48:11.100 --> 00:48:12.320
And you, at the time,

894
00:48:12.320 --> 00:48:14.000
we called it Married in 12 Months or Less.

895
00:48:14.000 --> 00:48:17.040
And that idea, that title came from God.

896
00:48:17.040 --> 00:48:19.540
And it's the title of one of my bestselling books.

897
00:48:21.320 --> 00:48:22.800
He titled that.

898
00:48:22.800 --> 00:48:24.720
And when he said the title, I just kind of laughed

899
00:48:24.720 --> 00:48:28.000
because I was like, oh, we're gonna get in so much trouble.

900
00:48:28.000 --> 00:48:29.920
So many people are gonna push back on that.

901
00:48:29.920 --> 00:48:31.160
We're gonna have so much haters.

902
00:48:31.160 --> 00:48:32.940
And like, I'm here for it, Lord.

903
00:48:32.940 --> 00:48:34.340
I'm here for all of it.

904
00:48:35.760 --> 00:48:37.080
What if you did that?

905
00:48:37.080 --> 00:48:39.700
And I said, okay, yeah, let's do it.

906
00:48:39.700 --> 00:48:41.440
And then he promised me

907
00:48:41.440 --> 00:48:44.200
a tsunami wave of kingdom marriages.

908
00:48:44.200 --> 00:48:46.120
But remember, friends, with every promise,

909
00:48:46.120 --> 00:48:47.360
there's a process.

910
00:48:49.320 --> 00:48:52.140
And I have been doing this day in and day out

911
00:48:52.480 --> 00:48:54.180
as my team can attest to you

912
00:48:54.180 --> 00:48:56.700
for probably 15 or 16 hours a day

913
00:48:58.900 --> 00:49:00.160
for almost five years.

914
00:49:03.660 --> 00:49:05.700
And I have a beautiful team,

915
00:49:05.700 --> 00:49:07.200
wonderful, anointed, amazing.

916
00:49:07.200 --> 00:49:08.900
And almost all of our team has come

917
00:49:08.900 --> 00:49:09.980
from inside the community.

918
00:49:09.980 --> 00:49:11.680
In fact, I think all of them have.

919
00:49:15.140 --> 00:49:18.900
They've joined in the process to accelerate it.

920
00:49:19.420 --> 00:49:21.700
So friends, storms reveal what's already in us.

921
00:49:21.700 --> 00:49:23.220
That's what God was doing through that storm

922
00:49:23.220 --> 00:49:25.020
that I walked through with my mother.

923
00:49:26.140 --> 00:49:29.700
I want you to rest assured that God never wastes a storm.

924
00:49:29.700 --> 00:49:30.780
It's always an upgrade.

925
00:49:30.780 --> 00:49:33.060
It's always divine transportation.

926
00:49:33.060 --> 00:49:35.220
It's always a rerouting.

927
00:49:35.220 --> 00:49:36.380
It's always revival.

928
00:49:37.500 --> 00:49:40.740
Storms also promote us, but after pressure.

929
00:49:40.740 --> 00:49:42.460
So the promotion comes a lot of times

930
00:49:42.460 --> 00:49:43.820
after we've been through a lot of pressure,

931
00:49:43.820 --> 00:49:45.260
like I just explained to you

932
00:49:45.260 --> 00:49:46.980
in that four-year process.

933
00:49:47.980 --> 00:49:49.340
Oftentimes in the storm,

934
00:49:49.340 --> 00:49:51.380
the enemy tries to attack us with fear.

935
00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:01.000
Right?

936
00:50:01.000 --> 00:50:05.320
And then we start rebuking the very thing that's promoting us.

937
00:50:05.320 --> 00:50:10.520
Friends, don't rebuke the wind if it's blowing you forward, okay?

938
00:50:10.520 --> 00:50:13.720
Instead, spread your wings.

939
00:50:13.720 --> 00:50:14.720
Catch the wind.

940
00:50:14.720 --> 00:50:17.640
Go listen to that song, Catch the Wind.

941
00:50:17.640 --> 00:50:19.320
Play it on repeat.

942
00:50:19.320 --> 00:50:20.320
Spread your wings.

943
00:50:20.320 --> 00:50:23.840
Catch the wind.

944
00:50:23.840 --> 00:50:24.840
Don't lower your sails.

945
00:50:24.840 --> 00:50:25.840
Raise the sails.

946
00:50:25.840 --> 00:50:26.840
Catch the wind.

947
00:50:26.840 --> 00:50:28.840
Don't rebuke the wind.

948
00:50:28.840 --> 00:50:35.080
Catch the wind, because this storm is not your ending, it's your launching pad.

949
00:50:35.080 --> 00:50:40.800
You know, we can say all the fun phrases, the setback is a setup for your comeback.

950
00:50:40.800 --> 00:50:46.320
We can say all that stuff, and it doesn't make it less true.

951
00:50:46.320 --> 00:50:48.200
This wind is not against you.

952
00:50:48.200 --> 00:50:52.180
Some of you are walking against the wind, and it's really hard going because you need

953
00:50:52.180 --> 00:50:53.480
to repent.

954
00:50:53.480 --> 00:50:55.480
And the word repent just means turn around.

955
00:50:55.480 --> 00:50:56.480
Stop doing it your way.

956
00:50:56.480 --> 00:50:57.480
Do it God's way.

957
00:50:57.480 --> 00:51:03.240
If you want the wind at your back pushing you forward, turn around.

958
00:51:03.240 --> 00:51:05.440
Turn around, friend.

959
00:51:05.440 --> 00:51:08.040
You're doing it the hard way.

960
00:51:08.040 --> 00:51:09.360
You're doing it in your own strength.

961
00:51:09.360 --> 00:51:10.360
You're striving.

962
00:51:10.360 --> 00:51:11.520
You're not doing it in grace.

963
00:51:11.520 --> 00:51:13.600
You're trying to make it happen for yourself.

964
00:51:13.600 --> 00:51:16.680
Turn around and let the wind be at your back.

965
00:51:16.680 --> 00:51:18.880
Come to the Lord and say, I'm tired of doing it my way.

966
00:51:18.880 --> 00:51:20.240
I want to do it your way.

967
00:51:20.240 --> 00:51:21.240
That's what repentance is.

968
00:51:21.240 --> 00:51:23.760
That's all that it is.

969
00:51:23.760 --> 00:51:27.200
I'm sorry that I'm so stubborn and hardheaded, Lord.

970
00:51:27.200 --> 00:51:30.640
I'm sorry that I'm trying to make it hard for myself and that I'm blaming the hardness

971
00:51:30.640 --> 00:51:31.640
on you.

972
00:51:31.640 --> 00:51:32.640
God's timing.

973
00:51:32.640 --> 00:51:33.640
God's so slow.

974
00:51:33.640 --> 00:51:34.640
God never comes through.

975
00:51:34.640 --> 00:51:35.640
No, y'all, turn around.

976
00:51:35.640 --> 00:51:36.640
The ancient of days has ancient ways.

977
00:51:36.640 --> 00:51:37.640
Let's ask for the good path.

978
00:51:37.640 --> 00:51:38.640
Turn around so the wind can be at your back.

979
00:51:38.640 --> 00:51:39.640
It's not against you.

980
00:51:39.640 --> 00:51:40.640
You're walking against it.

981
00:51:40.640 --> 00:51:53.840
It wants to carry you to the next level, but you got to turn around and let it be at your

982
00:51:53.840 --> 00:51:54.840
back.

983
00:51:55.840 --> 00:52:02.960
God is using the very thing the enemy is trying to break you with to build you.

984
00:52:02.960 --> 00:52:04.320
And I'm going to close with this.

985
00:52:04.320 --> 00:52:08.640
Years ago, you guys, you already know a lot of my story if you've been around, but when

986
00:52:08.640 --> 00:52:13.680
I was in that family, the first family that I had ever really been part of, you guys,

987
00:52:13.680 --> 00:52:17.800
the people that discipled me at that small church, and you guys, I would have died for

988
00:52:17.800 --> 00:52:18.800
those people.

989
00:52:18.800 --> 00:52:20.560
I would have took a bullet for that pastor.

990
00:52:20.560 --> 00:52:22.360
It's like a father to me.

991
00:52:22.360 --> 00:52:25.800
And there were so many positive things that happened during that discipleship, so I'm

992
00:52:25.800 --> 00:52:28.600
not going to throw any babies out with bathwater.

993
00:52:28.600 --> 00:52:31.760
But there was a lot of spiritual intrigue that was happening there, a lot of control.

994
00:52:31.760 --> 00:52:35.400
And I didn't know how to recognize it because I had never been part of a spiritual community

995
00:52:35.400 --> 00:52:38.080
before I just met Jesus in my twenties.

996
00:52:38.080 --> 00:52:42.160
And these were the people that took me under their wing to be my family and disciple me.

997
00:52:42.160 --> 00:52:44.240
Those were hard, hard years.

998
00:52:44.240 --> 00:52:48.220
You guys almost lost my life several times because of mental health.

999
00:52:48.220 --> 00:52:51.040
I was skin and bones, was physically unwell.

1000
00:52:51.040 --> 00:52:52.080
I was mentally unwell.

1001
00:52:52.800 --> 00:52:56.520
I was in an unhealthy and unsafe marriage because I was being told that I wasn't allowed

1002
00:52:56.520 --> 00:52:57.520
to leave it.

1003
00:52:57.520 --> 00:53:02.840
I was being controlled in every way, how I dressed, how I thought, where I was allowed

1004
00:53:02.840 --> 00:53:04.240
to go and what I was allowed to do.

1005
00:53:04.240 --> 00:53:07.560
And I know you're like, Jackie, how did anything good come of that?

1006
00:53:07.560 --> 00:53:13.120
Trust me, there were good things in those seasons of silence, in those seasons of stretching

1007
00:53:13.120 --> 00:53:17.520
and trying to learn who God was, even in the midst of all the bad theology.

1008
00:53:17.520 --> 00:53:18.960
I was reading the Bible.

1009
00:53:18.960 --> 00:53:19.960
I was devouring it.

1010
00:53:19.960 --> 00:53:21.760
I was spending time with the Lord.

1011
00:53:22.440 --> 00:53:25.080
My prophetic gift was being activated, even though I wasn't allowed to use it because

1012
00:53:25.080 --> 00:53:26.080
I was a woman.

1013
00:53:26.080 --> 00:53:30.000
There was all kinds of things that were happening in those times, you guys.

1014
00:53:30.000 --> 00:53:37.120
But once again, several times, and God did not allow it to happen, but several times

1015
00:53:37.120 --> 00:53:41.000
I was on the brink of just total annihilation.

1016
00:53:41.000 --> 00:53:49.480
And I can remember those times well right now, thinking about those times.

1017
00:53:49.480 --> 00:53:53.040
There are people that run into me every once in a while.

1018
00:53:53.040 --> 00:53:57.240
And I had someone say to me, there were people that knew me back in those years, 20 years

1019
00:53:57.240 --> 00:54:00.120
ago, and they say, I really didn't think you were going to make it.

1020
00:54:00.120 --> 00:54:09.440
I'm actually kind of surprised you're alive because that's how sick I was.

1021
00:54:09.440 --> 00:54:12.920
But I'm saying that to say this about the storm, the very last thing that I want to

1022
00:54:12.920 --> 00:54:15.360
release over you.

1023
00:54:15.360 --> 00:54:18.440
We have three little minutes left here.

1024
00:54:18.440 --> 00:54:23.200
Stay quiet, put your receivers out.

1025
00:54:23.200 --> 00:54:28.040
Very important little teaching nugget.

1026
00:54:28.040 --> 00:54:33.080
On the heels of that, I was promoted.

1027
00:54:33.080 --> 00:54:36.200
I know a lot of religious people wouldn't understand this, and they would think I needed

1028
00:54:36.200 --> 00:54:47.960
to take more time, and it just isn't right, and it's not fitting, it's not godly.

1029
00:54:48.480 --> 00:54:53.360
But before the ink was even dry on my divorce papers, because during that season of my life,

1030
00:54:53.360 --> 00:54:59.320
that pastor was exposed, and he went to prison.

1031
00:54:59.320 --> 00:55:00.000
And the whole church.

1032
00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:05.400
fell apart, the doors shut, because the pastor and his family owned that church.

1033
00:55:05.400 --> 00:55:07.340
And all kinds of crazy things happened.

1034
00:55:07.340 --> 00:55:11.520
In an instant, you guys, I went from having a community and having a family that I had

1035
00:55:11.520 --> 00:55:17.320
been, you know, laboring with, and just holding on by a thread to stay a part of for 12 years.

1036
00:55:17.320 --> 00:55:19.040
And in an instant, it was gone.

1037
00:55:19.040 --> 00:55:23.220
No one was allowed to talk to each other because of court gag orders and all kinds of different

1038
00:55:23.220 --> 00:55:24.220
crazy stuff.

1039
00:55:24.480 --> 00:55:31.600
And I was literally left with nothing because I was already in an unsafe and unhealthy situation

1040
00:55:31.600 --> 00:55:34.500
that was very, very destructive.

1041
00:55:34.500 --> 00:55:36.260
And I knew that I needed to get out.

1042
00:55:36.260 --> 00:55:41.340
And I felt God giving me permission to finally, now that no one was forcing me to stay, to

1043
00:55:41.340 --> 00:55:42.340
get out.

1044
00:55:42.340 --> 00:55:44.320
I felt a release in the spirit.

1045
00:55:44.320 --> 00:55:51.340
And so I had the strength and the courage, with the help of my next door neighbor, to

1046
00:55:51.340 --> 00:55:55.360
get a divorce attorney and to get divorced.

1047
00:55:55.360 --> 00:55:59.700
And that next door neighbor became my husband.

1048
00:55:59.700 --> 00:56:03.780
That wasn't the plot or the plan.

1049
00:56:03.780 --> 00:56:10.220
God will send you unlikely people to help you to get to the next level.

1050
00:56:10.220 --> 00:56:15.640
And if you have religious ideas about why that's not okay, then your religion is what's

1051
00:56:15.640 --> 00:56:17.320
going to put you in the prison.

1052
00:56:17.320 --> 00:56:19.220
Remember John 10?

1053
00:56:19.220 --> 00:56:22.060
That whole chapter is about the thief that comes to steal and kill and destroy and it

1054
00:56:22.060 --> 00:56:24.740
ain't the devil.

1055
00:56:24.740 --> 00:56:28.980
It's religious mindsets.

1056
00:56:28.980 --> 00:56:31.060
So I was able to finally get free.

1057
00:56:31.060 --> 00:56:34.220
I was able to finally get out of that place.

1058
00:56:34.220 --> 00:56:36.900
And right after I got out of that place, you guys, my body started healing.

1059
00:56:36.900 --> 00:56:37.940
My mind started healing.

1060
00:56:37.940 --> 00:56:42.120
All the things that I was suffering with for over a decade that were happening because

1061
00:56:42.120 --> 00:56:47.740
of the abuse of church and the abusive relationship that I was in, they began to go away.

1062
00:56:47.740 --> 00:56:51.660
I began to heal rapidly because you can't heal in the same environment that's making

1063
00:56:51.660 --> 00:56:53.020
you sick.

1064
00:56:53.020 --> 00:56:58.580
You can't.

1065
00:56:58.580 --> 00:57:06.260
That storm of that pastor, it blew me onto another course.

1066
00:57:06.260 --> 00:57:08.660
And eight months later, I married that next door neighbor.

1067
00:57:08.660 --> 00:57:12.060
He became my husband and we've been married for 18 years and I can tell you without a

1068
00:57:12.060 --> 00:57:14.860
shadow of a doubt, this is definitely a God thing.

1069
00:57:17.860 --> 00:57:21.260
But right after we got married, you guys, I was still healing.

1070
00:57:21.260 --> 00:57:22.620
I was still weak.

1071
00:57:22.620 --> 00:57:23.620
I was still emaciated.

1072
00:57:23.620 --> 00:57:30.300
I only weighed 127 pounds and I'm 5'10".

1073
00:57:30.300 --> 00:57:33.660
And a whole bunch of crazy stuff started happening because this blended family that I married

1074
00:57:33.660 --> 00:57:37.980
into and I remember being out in my front yard underneath a tree and I just cried out

1075
00:57:37.980 --> 00:57:45.420
to God and I said, God, I need some rest from these storms.

1076
00:57:45.420 --> 00:57:49.500
I cannot go into another storm.

1077
00:57:49.500 --> 00:57:55.460
My husband's former wife was just, lots of things were happening.

1078
00:57:55.460 --> 00:58:00.460
The winds were howling.

1079
00:58:00.460 --> 00:58:02.980
And God spoke to me in that moment and this is what I'm going to leave you with.

1080
00:58:02.980 --> 00:58:08.820
He said, Jackie, he said, you're asking for peace, but peace is not a place, it's a person

1081
00:58:08.820 --> 00:58:11.620
and it's me.

1082
00:58:11.620 --> 00:58:15.500
Remember that word peace means shalom, devourer of chaos and confusion.

1083
00:58:15.500 --> 00:58:19.860
He said, come into me, come in here with me in the eye of the storm.

1084
00:58:19.860 --> 00:58:24.740
Psalm 91, y'all go read it, come underneath his wings, come into the eye of the storm,

1085
00:58:24.740 --> 00:58:29.540
come into the place of peace where the chaos and the confusion is all around you, but it's

1086
00:58:29.540 --> 00:58:30.540
not in you.

1087
00:58:30.540 --> 00:58:32.920
It's all around you, but it's not in you.

1088
00:58:32.920 --> 00:58:35.780
Peace is not a place, it's a person.

1089
00:58:35.780 --> 00:58:39.500
And so I just want to speak that of you, Father, help us all to come into the place of peace,

1090
00:58:39.500 --> 00:58:40.500
which is you.

1091
00:58:40.700 --> 00:58:49.060
It's a person, it's you coming into you and having rest for our souls.

1092
00:58:49.060 --> 00:58:50.940
We can be in the eye of the storm with you.

1093
00:58:50.940 --> 00:58:54.580
Things can be swirling all around us, but we're not swirling.

1094
00:58:54.580 --> 00:58:56.480
We're not swirling, Lord.

1095
00:58:56.480 --> 00:58:58.340
We are calm.

1096
00:58:58.340 --> 00:59:05.980
Our feet are planted firmly on the rock, on a firm foundation, which is you.

1097
00:59:05.980 --> 00:59:09.840
And this will pass, this will pass.

1098
00:59:09.840 --> 00:59:13.960
And when it does pass, we will still be here on the rock with you.

1099
00:59:13.960 --> 00:59:16.200
We will be ready for promotion.

1100
00:59:16.200 --> 00:59:17.200
We will be steady.

1101
00:59:17.200 --> 00:59:18.200
We will be tried.

1102
00:59:18.200 --> 00:59:19.200
We will be true.

1103
00:59:19.200 --> 00:59:20.600
We will be prepared.

1104
00:59:20.600 --> 00:59:21.720
We will be matured.

1105
00:59:21.720 --> 00:59:25.320
And we will have all that you said we could have.

1106
00:59:25.320 --> 00:59:26.320
In Jesus' name, amen.

1107
00:59:26.320 --> 00:59:27.320
All right, friends.

1108
00:59:27.320 --> 00:59:28.320
Love you so much.

1109
00:59:28.320 --> 00:59:30.320
See you tomorrow night on Sunday Night Activation.

1110
00:59:30.320 --> 00:59:30.820
Bye.