So welcome to Sunday night activation, and we are here ready to get some things going.
And so we're going to talk about something very important tonight coming off of the Supernatural
Saturday that we just had with regard to intentionality and taking action, making a plan, that kind
of thing.
And there's one variable in there that I want to talk about for a little bit so that we
could have some greater understanding.
And so let me just do this.
I start with prayer here just for a moment and let a few more people get on and we'll
get going.
Father God, we just thank you, Lord, for tonight.
We thank you for this time together.
We thank you, Lord, that you've given us this ability to be able to connect, gather,
and to be able to hear your heart.
We thank you, Lord, for all the truth that you're sharing to us.
We thank you right now, Lord, for all the downloads, all the inspiration, all the movement,
Lord, that's going to be able to take action from tonight and all the things that are going
to get accomplished, the goals that are going to get set and ready to go.
And we just thank you right now, Lord, that you've not forsaken us, that you love us,
that you are still in our corner, that you are still have our back, that you still want
us to succeed, that you still want us to move forward, that you have plans and purposes
for us.
And we're glad that you have plans because when we screw up, it gets off a plan.
So you didn't just make one plan, you made many plans so that you could get us back on
course and you're really good at that.
And so we humble ourselves, we submit ourselves to your work and to your way, and we just
thank you for this in Jesus name, amen and amen.
Hallelujah.
How many of you are ready?
Good?
Ready to go.
I want to tell you that this message is for you, but it's not just for you, it's for me
as well.
I'm working through this message myself, and I want to be transparent in that.
I'll share some things a little bit later, Bob, but I just want to say that, you know,
some of the best teachings and the best gifting is when you're going through something and
you're able to put that together and share it with somebody else.
So just like in your life, you know, your testimony, your story, your, you know, what
you've gone through, where you're going, where you've come from and then, and then what is,
what is ahead of you, all those things are very, very helpful and relevant to other people
that are around you.
And so you should do that.
You should share your life.
You should talk, you should teach.
You should, if you're given an opportunity to share in like a public setting or some
sort of like small group or whatever, you should take that opportunity.
Tell your story.
Even if you're afraid to speak, all you have to do is take some time to get your thoughts
together, write them down on paper and get some notes if you have to, and then share.
And even if you shared five minutes of an incredible story, you could, you could take
the opportunity to shift someone's life.
And it doesn't even have to be a story about one of your best moments.
It could be a story about one of your worst moments.
And I'm telling you, God can just take what you give him and he can use it.
And so I'm just telling you what, you know.
So I'm going through this process myself.
And this question came to me many, many years ago when I was teaching.
And this is the question I want to highlight tonight.
And I want you to pay attention very closely what I'm about to say.
Because this question is the most important question in life.
It is the, it is that important.
It is the number one, the most important question that you can pursue to answer in
your life, on your journey, whatever it is.
So I'm going to talk about tonight, the most important question that you can answer.
This question is very simple.
This question is both broad and narrow, so I'm doing my hands like this, broad and narrow.
You can ask this question for your life.
You can ask this question for a moment, like in this moment, in this next five minutes,
in this next day or a season.
Or you can ask it over all your life.
And you need to do that.
You need to do that.
get good at asking this question and then answering this question.
How many of you don't want to know what the question is? And you're like, what is this
question? Like, tell me this question. I'm not even going to ask you to put it in the chat
and to see if anybody knows the question because that just goes awry very quickly.
And so I'm not even going to go for feedback. But I'm going to talk about the question
and I want you to just take, before I reveal the question, I want you to take a moment. I actually
just take a second moment of silence, about 15 seconds here. I want you to close your eyes
and I want you to listen to me say the question and I want you to sort of like capture your
reaction. Okay. I want you to pay attention to what you feel and what you think about,
what first comes to your mind when you hear this question. And then we'll do some explaining on it.
So I just want you to take a moment, pause, get in a good space, a good feeling space.
Think pleasantly about your life. Think about the good things.
And the question tonight, the most important question you can ask yourself an answer.
Is what do you want?
I feel the anointing right there. What do you want?
And let me explain to you why this question is so important, because it's not a flippant question.
You are not at Burger King and somebody's asking you, what do you want? Well, I want a hamburger.
But no, that's not the question that I'm proposing to you tonight. I am asking you the question,
what do you truly want? And you can understand now that you know the question, how this question is very broad.
Like, what do you want in your life? What do you want in this season? What do you want today?
What do you want in this season? What do you want today?
And if you get good at giving yourself this opportunity, this permission, this blessing
to answer the question, what do you want? You will begin to reveal so much
about your life and your purpose. Talk about intentionality. Proverbs 16.9 says a man's,
actually it says a man plans his way, man plans his course. But in some translation actually says a man's heart plans his course.
I think it's interesting because in a very religious sense, you hear this like,
man can make up all his plans, but God really has the answer. And that's really not the essence of the scripture.
The essence of the scripture is that a man's heart plans his course, but the Lord determines his steps.
And I'm pretty sure that Jackie shared this scripture on Supernatural Saturday regarding intentionality.
But you can't get steps. You can't get intentional. You can't take action until you know where you're going, what you want.
What do you want? If you could define that broadly, seasonally, and then daily,
you can really begin to get some clarity on where you're going, what you're doing, what is going to be next.
What are things going to happen? And you say, yeah, but I don't know the future. And yeah, but I can't control this. And I can't do this. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, none of that.
It has nothing to do with any of that.
Remember Proverbs, it says a man's or a woman, anybody, his heart, her heart plans her course, her way.
You declare, you have this moment. What do I want? I want this. And you begin to declare it. You plan that.
Okay. You say, this is my course. This is where I'm going. Because this is what I want. I'm going after.
And then God's like, thank you. Let me start giving you the steps. Let me start giving you
the cobblestones. Not what, like it is tasks, but think of it the
steps. It's like when you're planning a path. You know, when you're, instead of, I want
to go down the yellow brick road. This is a weird analogy, but anyway, the actual stones,
the actual things that you step on to go on the path, those are laid. You don't have any
involvement when you go down a path and laying those stones, they're laid before you. Am
I correct? You're the one that's chosen to go down the path, but the path has already
been laid. And I'm telling you this tonight, that God, you plan your course. You've answered
the question, what do you want? And God starts laying the stones, laying the path, laying
the foundation of how to go. That's powerful, guys. Super powerful. So I want to say that
when you start dealing with this question, and again, this is not something you ask just
once and then answer it. And then you're like, okay, that's what I want to do. That's it.
No, no, no. This is a lifelong pursuit. This is a, this is about asking this question all
along the journey. What do I want? What do I want now? What's going to happen next? What
do I want? Okay. And this, I'm going to reveal to you why this question matters so much.
That's, that's the big thing. It's like, okay, now we know this question. We see the beauty
in doing this. Like if we get clarity and then we start mapping up our, God's mapping
out our steps, but we have to know why this question is so important. And let me tell
you that. Number one, if you're taking notes, write this down, it reveals identity. The
question of what do you want is inextricably, that's a big word right there, tied to who
you are. You want to find out who you are, you got to ask, answer the question, what
do you want? It's directly tied to the question of the concept of who you are. Without knowing
what you want, you will live life reactively instead of intentionally. Okay. So connecting
to supernatural Saturday, you cannot live life reactively. If you live life reactively,
you will always be carried away by every wind, every, every storm, every situation, every
person, everything that's, that's puts a demand upon your life. You will be controlled by
all of those things. You do not want to be controlled by those things. Some of you are
comfortable being controlled by those things because you have fear of taking ownership
for your own life. But I'm telling you one, if you could even answer the simplest version
of what do you want, you could get started to get excited about where you're going, because
now you're tapping into the freedom of your life. And that will help you to overcome the
fear of having ownership in your life. Does that make sense? Okay. So number one, this
question, why it's so important is because it reveals identity. Proverbs 23, seven as
a man, as a man thinks of his heart. So is he, so our desires shape our self image. And
we can talk more about, um, the desires of our heart. It's a moment. Number two, it exposes
the truth. It exposes the truth. So many of us live our lives in secret or in unrequited
passions. Uh, we live our lives in such a way we live our life vicariously through others
because we're afraid or we're not sure of what it is that we want because we never asked
that question to ourselves. So the, what do you want question gives you a sense of what
is the truth. It peels back layers of social conditioning. It peels back the layers of
people pleasing gets, gets rid of people pleasing. It gets rid of fear. It gets rid of false
humility. I used to ask this question all the time to my students in high school. And
these were Christian kids, you know, in a Christian high school and all this kind of
all walks of life and different things. And I would ask them this question, guys, what do
you want? I'm like, Oh, I just want what God wants. I just want the will of the Lord. I
just want to be good. And I just want to like giving all the right answers. And I was like,
that's a bunch of BS guys. That's not what you want. You want a new pair of tennis shoes.
You want to play, you know, professional basketball. You want to like
I need you to identify with what you want, not give me the good answer.
And so that false
you mean that we do that as believers all the time, like, oh,
I just want the will of the Lord.
Like, well, of course you want the will of the Lord.
We're not talking about whether you want to go out and do,
you know, dirty deeds, done dirt cheap.
You know, I'm talking about that.
I'm talking about truly like, what do you want?
OK, and so
many people that are living their lives,
they don't want because they've never been honest about that.
So this gives you an opportunity to pose the truth
and be honest about what you really want.
There's a quote by Earl Nightingale.
You don't know who he is. I didn't know he was.
But I looked up his name.
He is like this motivational speaker guy way back in the day.
I don't know if anybody knows that name, but he said a good quote.
And he said, most people tiptoe through life
hoping to make it safely to death.
Think about that for a second.
How many of you just want to just make it safely to death?
Like everybody's going to die.
We all know we're going to die.
I just want to make it. I just want to get there safely.
I'm like, no, I'm going to get there safely.
No, you don't want to tiptoe through life.
We'll take life by the horns.
Do you want to have something to be have said of your life?
Even if it's not super, super grand and for the history books,
it's OK, you can live a big life and not be in the history books.
It's OK. But you've lived your full purpose.
That's what you want, right?
Number three, answering the question of what do you want?
Creates direction.
It creates direction.
Desire is the starting point of purpose.
What do you want precedes?
What should I do?
What you know when you when you when you get there in a moment
where you're just having this like mental breakdown
and you're having a meltdown and you're just like, oh, my God,
I don't know what to do.
That will because you don't know what you want.
You're not in tune with the truth of what's in your heart like I.
Oh, I don't really understand what I want.
And so therefore, I don't know what to do.
That makes sense.
So it's helpful to like, oh, what do I really want?
I don't want out of this situation.
Not what I want, like what I want out of life is too broad.
And that's a good question to ask when you're really thinking
like really big 30,000 foot, you know, like I said, but I'm talking about
like, what do you want? Today.
And more than just a cheeseburger, right?
What do I want today? I want to accomplish today.
I want to do day to day well, you know, they say in time management
you can't really manage your time until you do one day.
Well, whatever. It's like, what do you want today?
I have a list of 10 things I want to get accomplished today.
That's what I want to do.
You've written your plan and now God's giving you the steps to do that.
And when you feel and you cross out that list, those of you that are list people,
you're like, man, I really did something today. It's incredible.
I did all the 10 things on my list. That's awesome.
I did that today. Well, so now what do I want tomorrow? Right.
Maybe you're facing a situation with a family member, maybe a situation
facing a situation at work.
Maybe you're facing, you know, a problem that's relational in your life.
Like, what do I want out of the situation?
It's important for you to declare, you know, I want to face this problem
that I'm having.
And I want to like, I want to call out this person
because I'm having trouble with them and I want to call this attention,
but I'm afraid, but I don't want to lose the relationship,
but I need to confront what's happening here because it's hurting me.
And so you call it out, but you can articulate part of that.
You can articulate, you know, I want to call this out.
I want to confront this person lovingly, but I also don't want to lose this friendship.
Then I want this to actually be an opportunity for us to go deeper into relationship.
You see how you declared what you want out of the whole,
what I want out of the situation is not just to get what I, my hurts,
my hurts healed, but I want to go deeper in relationship.
So I'm declaring that to you.
Hey, I want to have a conversation with you.
And what I want to get out of this conversation and what I have to say to you
might be a little difficult, but in the end, I really want us to go forward in relation.
I want to be your friend.
I like you. You like me.
I'm having this issue.
You see how much that helps in getting that clarity to define that conversation?
Super powerful.
Okay.
It creates direction.
You don't, you can't pursue something.
You can't go down a path if you don't know where you're going.
And Jesus actually, after continuing to, you know,
often asks people this question.
with Jesus' death, raise the body of
Christ, which the prophet Joseph also believed was the body after death.
And I'll get to that in just a moment. Number, my own four or three or what, what am I?
This is a matter of course,
Oh, that was a three. Three things that really, why this question matters is three things.
Reveals identity, exposes the truth, and creates direction. Okay.
Um, it's very interesting. There's, here's another section. Okay. A new section.
Why people avoid this question. Can any of you imagine why people avoid this question?
There's usually a couple of different things here. Number one, fear of disappointment.
You got it right. Jennifer Kavins is like fear, fear. Everybody knows fear,
fear of disappointment. If I want something, and what if I don't get what I want?
Right. Fear of disappointment, fear of selfishness. Is it wrong for me to want
more? Is it wrong for me to want what I want? You know, so many mothers, good, wonderful,
loving mothers, live their lives for their children and for their family, but they didn't
live any of their life for themselves. And they come to a point, point, a breakdown later on in
their life. And they're just disappointed and distraught and wondering what happened. It's
because you live your life for somebody else. And you never gave your permission to ask yourself,
what do you want? Okay. So it's not selfish to ask this question. It's very important
that if you're going to be your best, and you're going to do everything that you can do
with your life, you must ask this question to yourself. You have to, if you're going to shift
from one place to the next, from one level to the next level. And again, remind me guys,
remember guys, I'm asking myself these questions today. I'm going through this process.
And if you don't get that level of clarity and get beyond the selfishness, then you're not going
to be of any good to anybody else. You're not going to be able to serve at your best. You're
not going to be able to live and love at your best, right? You have to answer this question.
You have to answer this question. The other reason that people avoid the question is lack
of clarity. I've never been taught to ask this question. I've never thought to ask this question.
I've never been given permission to ask this question. We're giving you permission today
to ask this question. What do you want? Just what do you want? Just spit it out. Like, what do you
want? And I had some people were like, I want to do this. I want, you know, and I love that.
And then people are like, well, I, you know, no, no, no. What do you want? I just, I want a new
car. Okay. That's awesome. That's like a today thing, right? A seasonal thing, whatever. It's
not a lifelong thing, but it is getting clarity on what it is you want. Cultural and religious
programming. This is the worst. We have all been taught that denying our desires, denying ourselves
is holy and godly, and that we should be desiring something deeper and that there's more, but it's
not about us. It's about him and all that. I'm like, yes, of course. Hello. Of course it's about
him, but you're in him. You're part of him. And if you don't know what you want, then you can't
align into his plan because you're just going to be aimless. So you're going to be in this cell,
like an amoeba in a cell of God. And you're just really floating around with no direction
because you're in him, but you have no direction. You have no purpose. You have no clarity. You have
no identity. So it's powerful. It's most important that it's not denying. I mean, yes, denying your
flesh. I want candy. Candy is not healthy. Yeah, you should probably deny that. That's denying your
flesh. That's not denying what you want. I want to go do things that feed my flesh and that make
me feel good because I'm depressed and down and so forth and I'm just bored. Yeah, no, that you
may say that that's what you want, but that's not what you want. Again, we're not talking about
things that are wicked. We're talking about what do you truly as a son or a daughter of God
as a person living in this world, you want to do something? What do you want?
Okay, there's a lot of significance to this,
to some biblical things.
When I was talking about earlier in Mark 10, 51,
Jesus was dealing with blind Bartimaeus,
and he walks up to the blind guy, and what does he say?
Does anybody know?
Walks up to a blind guy.
This is Jesus now, Jesus heals people.
He heals all the people.
He has this miraculous power.
He is God.
And God, in Jesus' form, walks up to this blind guy
and says what, right, in the chat.
What do you want?
He says, what do you want me to do for you?
I mean, hello, it's a blind guy.
Well, of course he wants to be healed.
I mean, why would you ask this question?
Jesus asked this question because he needs the individual
to begin to declare and to identify the moment
and the situation so that Jesus can take action.
If the blind man said, hey, I've got this problem
with this person in my life, with my brother,
and I really need that relation to be healed,
and I really just want to get along with my family,
and I want to go back home to my family
because I do have this blind thing and everything,
but I just really want that, Jesus would have been like,
okay, let me help you with that.
I think it'd be kind of cool if Jesus would be like,
oh, and by the way, I'm gonna heal your blindness.
That's kind of cool.
But at least he got the guy to align with what he wanted.
It just happens to be that he wanted to be healed
from blindness, and that's what Jesus did,
and that's the miracle, and that's what happened.
How much of his life, though, was changed
by just that one thing?
I want to be healed of blindness, and he got free.
How much of his whole life was changed
just by now his ability to see?
The man at the pool of Bethesda, John 5,
walks up to this guy.
The main reason he's been there the longest
because he has no one to help him get into the pool.
You got in the pool, the angel comes down,
moves the waters, he gets healed.
Everybody knows this.
So all these people are laying around this pool,
and when the water goes, only one person gets healed.
Not everybody, just one, but you gotta wait
till the next time the water gets moved.
That's the story, right?
This guy's laying there.
He's been there the longest of anybody,
and he's like, I have no one to put me into the water.
Jesus, the healer, more important than the water,
way more power than the water,
way more than this phenomena,
is standing right in front of him,
and he's seeing this guy, knows his condition,
knows his situation.
He goes, do you want to be made well?
And the guy's like, of course I do.
But Jesus is like, well, I just had to ask
because it's important why.
This question is, what do you want?
Can you, are you seeing tonight how I'm teaching this,
like how important this is?
And why I started with like,
this literally is the most important question in the world.
It's the most important question of your life.
And if you can get good at it,
and if you can get clarity and continue
to ask this question at every moment, every season,
and even broader for your life,
you'll be able to get momentum on some things
that you've not seen momentum on before.
You'll begin to go from one level to another level.
You'll begin to see some answers
to the questions you've been having,
other questions in your life, amen?
And it activates your faith, okay?
So Jesus asked this question repeatedly,
asking a question,
any question really,
but obviously some questions are better than others.
Asking a question activates your faith.
James 4.2 says, you do not have because you do not ask.
And lots of times we think of,
well, we're asking God for something.
Well, that's just like one way of asking.
Sometimes you have to ask yourself.
Sometimes you have to ask others.
Sometimes you have to ask God.
It's not just about asking God for something.
It's about asking questions that then make you think,
make you search, make you get clarity,
make you have identity, make you come into this next thing.
So asking can activate your faith
in a certain situation or on a thing.
God honors authentic desire.
Delight yourself in the Lord,
and he will give you the desires of your heart.
Your desires are often the clues to your calling.
So in order for you to,
and I looked up that word delight.
It means to have just great pleasure in.
It doesn't mean to like,
oh, give yourself over to the Lord.
All of you.
and like be a servant to God and give up everything you want first.
And then the Lord will give you desires of your heart.
Because I think most people think delight yourself in the Lord
or when it's to give some sort of command, I think religiously.
I don't know about everybody, but I just you know, I get the sense of like when
when the religious version of scripture is always
you got to do something to get yourself right before and do this
before God will do something right.
We all understand that as human beings.
And this scripture sounds a little bit lighter,
but it kind of gives that same feeling if it's preached in religious context.
But it's not pleasure yourself, like delight yourself in the Lord,
like go and go like, my gosh, like, why would I do anything else?
Why would I follow anybody else?
Because God is so amazingly incredible.
Like he has all the answers.
That's the kind of delighting that you come to the Lord.
So do you like yourself in the Lord?
And he will give you the desires of your heart.
The desires where in your heart, the desires that what he already placed there.
So if you're talking about like, oh, I just want what God wants,
just find the desires of your heart, ask yourself the question, answer
the question, what do you want?
You identify the desires of your heart because you get honest,
you get truthful, you clarity, you get direction.
And God's like, oh, I see this person's activating their faith.
They're asking this question.
They're really they're they're they're want to get momentum.
I need to help them.
And things start to pop off, things start to happen.
All right.
But it is.
OK.
How to answer the question, honestly,
and this is part of getting into some of its activation.
Now, what I'm going to do is.
I just want to make sure that I've got everything I wanted to go over.
There's one other thing I want to talk about in just a second.
I'll just kind of briefly do this, but I'll do that in a second.
But I want to share this link because I have a little activation guide
that goes with this teaching that helps you start activating
this question in your life.
So let me get it.
And.
Hopefully this works, because I think this is just a little bit
hopefully this works, because I think this is just like a share link
to Google Doc that.
I put together and I'm going to share it in the comments.
I hope that works.
I hope you can grab that link.
We'll try to make it available somewhere else, but it's just a really rough link.
I put it there's a Google Docs and bring it up on your computer
if you can, if you want to, or you can do it later or you can.
Hey, if you're old school like me,
you can print it out and do things and like write on it and do stuff.
So that's a little activation guide
that we won't necessarily take the time to go through that.
But we'll get a sort of a mini version of it tonight in our activation.
Is that OK?
So the window here.
How many are getting something out of this?
If you're getting something out of this, put yes in the chat.
How many are beginning breakthrough?
I mean, how many are you like?
I don't want you to just placate.
Seriously, I do not need the placating.
I, I really want you to get breakthrough.
I want you to get some.
I want you to get freedom.
I want you to get clarity.
I was like, oh, my gosh, I never knew this.
I understand that.
Like, this is so important.
Like, yes, I'm going to start doing this.
That's the kind of good.
So good.
Love it, love it, love it.
All right.
How to answer these questions, honestly, keep on with the chat.
That's good.
You have to, number one, I'm starting all these three points and everything.
So if you're taking notes, it's all good.
How to answer the question, honestly, what is the question is, what do you want?
You don't get to edit the question, the answer to the question.
By sounding what's acceptable.
Like, you know, you have to say out the thing that you're afraid of.
You have to just speak it out.
Jackie and I, we both do this.
We do it in different ways.
And if you don't do it, I think you're crazy.
And that is talk to yourself.
You have to talk to yourself.
Most people think that if you talk to yourself, you are crazy.
I say that if you don't talk to yourself, you are crazy.
And I'm just saying that you've got to talk this stuff out.
So if you're not wanting to write it down, if you're not a writer, if you talk or
whatever, just be in the car or walking around your house or walking in a private
place for lots of times, my prayers are literally just me talking to myself.
You know, Jackie will walk out of the bedroom.
Sometimes she won't even know that I'm there
and she'll be talking.
I'm like, who are you talking to?
She goes, oh, I'm just talking to myself.
And she's just talking about, she's
like a whole blue streak of just whatever.
And sometimes she's actually on the phone
and I don't even know that she has the phone there.
So she's always going.
But you don't want to say and answer
the question of what do you want with just acceptable.
What's acceptable?
What's OK?
What's right?
What's the right word?
No, no, no, there's no right answer.
This is one of those questions where
there is no right answer.
This is one of those questions where you're like,
just spit it out.
Just get it out.
And if you're a writer, that's one of those people
that just writes constantly and gets that stuff out.
That's awesome.
But those of you that are not writers,
I want to encourage you to actually be a writer.
Literally just like, don't worry about grammar.
Don't worry about like, nobody's going to see this.
Just write.
And if you don't like writing, just talk.
And then when you talk, make sure you record it.
So talk it into your phone and record it so you have it.
Because it'll be important for you
to go back to your answer of what do you want
and hear your voice saying and declaring, I want this.
I want that.
I want peace and freedom.
And then like, well, what do you want peace in?
What do you want freedom from?
I want freedom from whatever.
I don't want to put words in your mouth
because I want you to really just say it all.
And if you want to start categorically, you can.
That's a really good way to do this.
You can start with categories.
Just talk about what I want in my relationship.
What do I want in my spiritual life?
What do I want in my career?
What do I want health-wise?
What do I want for my legacy?
Like, when I'm older and I'm at the end of my life
or even past beyond my life, how do I want to be remembered?
And not only that, but what do you
want to leave as a legacy to your children,
your children's children?
What do you want to leave as an inheritance?
Maybe it's not money.
Money would be great, but a legacy inheritance
is not always money.
You can have a faith inheritance, a faith legacy
that you have left to your children
because you prayed for them and you broke through for them.
And my children, I believe, are a legacy of my prayers.
I am certainly a legacy of my mom's prayers.
And I think that because my mom's generation,
my aunt was the one who brought Jesus to our family.
Those generations before, we don't really
know if they were believers or not.
But we believe that somewhere in our past generations,
there was somebody praying for generations of people
they would never meet.
And they left an inheritance, a legacy.
So how do you want to be remembered?
And some of the next level questions that go along
with what do you want, there's a bug flying around here,
might be, well, why do I want that?
What do I want?
Oh, I want this.
Oh, well, that's kind of weird.
Never heard that before.
Or I was afraid to admit that, but I said that.
Now I'm going to explore, why do I want that?
Maybe there's something in your life
that you've always internally felt like, this is what I want.
And then you say it.
You answer the question.
And then like, why do I want that?
Oh, I want that because that's what my mom wanted for me.
Or that's what so-and-so wanted.
And I've identified that with them.
That's not really what I want.
And then you go back to, what do I want?
See how beautiful that is?
See how wonderful that is to be able to get clarity?
Because it causes you to just be honest and introspective.
And another question, next level question,
goes with what do I want is, who told me I couldn't have that?
Lots of times you're answering the question,
what do I want, honestly.
And then you feel like, eh, and then the voice comes in,
like, ah, you can't really have that.
Why did you say that?
Don't answer that question.
You can't have that.
And then you're like, OK, who is that?
Who's telling me that I couldn't have it?
What's that voice in my head that's telling me
I couldn't have what I want?
Again, I just want to make this clear.
We are not talking about wicked things.
We are talking about the true intentions of your heart.
We're talking about the true passions and the desires
that God has given you in your heart that are aching and
desiring.
hiring to come out.
And quite honestly, everybody around you
is aching and waiting for those desires to come out of you.
Did you know that?
Did you know that there are people
around you that are waiting for you to be your best self?
Talk about being directly connected
to your spirit mate.
Hello.
What if you start answering the question, what do you want?
And this just starts coming out of you.
You start actually being this person that you want to be.
And then all of a sudden, the person
that you've been waiting for, your spirit mate,
comes out of thin air.
What a novel concept.
What an incredible, mind-blowing truth and reality.
Talk about doing the hard work.
Here's another question.
What am I afraid of will happen if I pursue this?
If I get clarity on what I want, and then I get it written down,
and I start making plans, and then God
starts showing me the steps, and I start going that direction,
what am I afraid of will happen if I do this?
My world will get turned upside down.
You'll turn other people's worlds upside down.
And I know that can be scary.
Some people are like, yeah, burn it all down.
Let's go.
Let's do it.
That's cool.
Some of you are bold like that.
Other people are like, oh my God, I don't know.
I can't upset the apple cart.
What will people think?
Another old song.
What will people think if they find out I'm a Jesus?
OK.
What are people going to think?
What's so-and-so going to say?
Who cares what so-and-so says?
I love them.
God bless them.
But they're not you.
And they may not be answering the question,
what do you want?
But you are.
You're asking the question, what do I want?
What do I do?
Where do I go?
Where do I want to be?
Yes.
And get excited about it.
OK, living into the answer.
So wanting something is not enough.
You must align your life with it.
And so when you're answering this question
and doing the work to work through this question,
it creates action.
And it creates alignment, not wanting.
It creates action in your life.
And it brings you out of wanting into action taking, OK?
It helps you to desire.
Excuse me, it helps you to shape your goals and your habits.
So out of the what do I want question
comes a lot of things.
Well, if I want that, then I'm going to have to do this.
And so I've declared I want this.
There's a certain level of excitement.
And God's creating these steps for me.
And so now I've got to take these steps.
And so those steps create habits.
They create goals that I want to take so many steps.
I want to take 100 of these cobblestones
that God's put in front of me.
I want to do 100 of them.
Because when I get to 100, then it
means that I've done something.
It means I've lost the weight.
It means that I have found the person.
It means that I have accomplished the financial goal.
It means that I have done X, Y, Z, right?
So it creates this habit.
It creates goals.
It creates boundaries.
It creates focus for you.
And it creates prayers.
Because now you have something to pray into.
I've declared what I wanted.
I've written it down.
I'm getting clarity on this.
Now I can pray into it.
Like, Lord, I just said that I wanted this.
And then what's beautiful about this process
is that sometimes we don't answer the question just
exactly perfectly.
We get out like, I want this.
I want a red sports car.
I'm like, OK, that's cool.
We can go after a red sports car.
But Holy Spirit's like, but what about, you know?
And then He lovingly telling you, like, that's cool.
And then one day, you all of a sudden desire,
you're like, I really don't want a red sports car.
Maybe I want a blue one.
No, I'm just kidding.
I'm just saying, Holy Spirit has a way
of helping you then get that focus and get that direction.
But you got to be moving.
What did they say?
You can't steer a parked car.
You can't steer a jet ski.
It's not moving in the water, right?
And I want you to have courage.
I want you to be encouraged.
I want you to get wind in your sails by taking on this message
and realizing the truth of this message.
because I want you to feel like,
wow, this could be a game changer.
This could be something like I could be a different person.
I'm excited about accomplishing something now.
I've tried it a million times and everybody was telling me,
and I watched all YouTube videos,
and TikTok, and Instagram,
and everybody's got a plan for this and a plan for that,
and how you do this, and how you do that.
I've tried to do it and I failed every time,
blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Maybe it's just because you've never answered the question,
what do I want? You internalized it,
like you internalized,
oh, I want to get fit,
and then you watch a video on it,
and then you try to do it and you failed.
But maybe you never articulated the desire.
Maybe you never spoke it out.
Maybe you never prayed into it.
Maybe you never really got clarity on it
because you just thought it was, oh, that was just me.
I was feeling terrible about myself,
and so I just thought I would get fit,
but no, it doesn't work.
I actually said one time way back a long time ago,
someone invited me to the gym,
and I was going and everything.
I was young, and I just didn't like it.
I didn't get into it, and I wasn't declaring what I wanted.
You know, I really wasn't into it.
I was just going just because they told me to,
and I said, bro, that's why, you know,
working out, it just doesn't work out for me.
And, well, pun there, a little joke.
I don't know if you got that.
Anybody who's listening,
working out is not working out for me.
All right, so I'm just saying,
if you tried it before and failed a million times,
maybe this time's different
because you're really, truly asking yourself,
what do I want?
Like, what do I really, really want?
Tell me what you want, what you really, really want.
Tell me what you want right there.
There's that song.
So I guess in the chat, here's our activation,
our mini activation for,
yes, everything is a song with me, that's for sure.
In our small activation, we've got eight minutes left.
I want you to take some time to just articulate,
like, hopefully you have the guide.
We'll try to make that available somewhere else
if you don't have it or whatever,
you can email in and we'll try to,
but hopefully you can grab it from the chat there.
And, but I want you to give one small thing.
What's one small step?
What's one, what's the first step, you know, for you?
What do you want?
What's one thing that you can do today or tomorrow that,
and I'm not talking about the big plan.
I'm not talking about like, oh, I'm gonna do this,
and I'm gonna get like the big idea.
I'm not talking about the big idea.
I'm just like, what's one action that you can take?
Today or tomorrow and put it in the chat.
Yeah, baby steps, I like that.
My parents.
Yeah, talk about intentionality.
What's one small step?
You know, Jesus Cares Board is really cool.
That's why it's an activation.
It kind of goes along with this, you know,
the Jesus Cares Board, a lot of you have done those
because it's a way of visually representing
what it is you want.
So maybe you get your Jesus Cares Board back out again.
Maybe you start putting sticky notes
on your bathroom mirror all over the place,
but I don't want you to do a million things.
Like, ladies, you're famous.
Like, oh, I'm gonna do this, I'm gonna do that.
I'm gonna think of like a hundred things.
Like, no, no, no, no, just do, just think of one thing.
People are gonna pray about what I want,
take the time, spend more time with God.
I love, Lauren, I love that, spend more time with God,
but I feel like that's too broad
because I feel like it's like, I'm going to like,
I'm gonna spend some more time with God.
No, I'm gonna get up at 7 a.m.
and I'm going to do 15 minutes of really thinking about,
like, be very specific in this step, guys, okay?
Be very specific in this step.
What's one step of an action that you can take today
towards dealing with this question, what do I want?
I mean, truly, the first step really is asking the question.
You know, that's really the first step.
First step is literally, okay, what do I want?
That's really the first step.
So first step for everyone should be, what do I want?
Okay, and then taking the time to really process that,
Hopefully, the asking, the journal guide or the work guide that I shared with you will
help you to process through that question.
Spending 10 minutes a day, spend the course, good.
Commit to posting something on social, good.
Going to drive, lift three nights a week.
Pay down your debt, good.
Baby steps, I was at the airport, a place to try to intentionally smile at people, that's
cool.
Intentionally smile at people, looking them in the eye and become more approachable, available.
I love that.
I'm going to redo my Jesus Care Board.
After I get up, declare praise verses and what I want.
Pray with revelation, remember, memorize, meditate, relate, because I know my problem.
I want to be debt-free.
I love that.
You just declared it out.
Anybody going to declare what you want in here?
I like the action steps, but I see now some of this thing, I want to be debt-free.
So today I paid a big portion of that off.
Wow, that's awesome.
Look at Robin.
Record talking to myself.
That's good.
Love that.
Getting myself more structure in my day.
Eliminate one strike.
These are growing by so fast.
You guys are...
Be in bed by 10.
I love that.
The goal.
How do you get the work guide?
Somebody posted it right under there for you.
It's a Google Docs.
I shared it with you.
I need to do a Jesus Care Board.
Yes.
Make one t-shirt design.
Love it.
I want to fall in love.
Make one t-shirt design.
Love it.
I want to fall in love.
Absolutely.
I declare I will be married.
Pray for what I...
Pray for what I want daily.
I think that's what that says.
You invited a guy at church to your birthday party next month.
Does that count?
Of course it does.
Any action towards what it is you want counts.
How many people we have on here right now?
100?
Is that 106?
Awesome.
160.
Oh, 160?
166.
Praise God.
This is so good.
It's all...
This is good stuff, guys.
I really appreciate you getting into this.
Start conversations with people you don't know.
Wow, that's powerful.
Most people are afraid to do that.
In the world we live in today, it's crazy out there.
You don't know...
Never know what you're going to get.
Start conversations with people you don't know.
Make a plan to kick that in the butt.
New job.
Schedule a meeting with the estate lawyers to finalize documents.
Yeah, you got to get on that.
It's good.
Any action toward what we want?
Yes.
Counts.
Keep on praying, declaring, dropping, hanky.
Yeah.
Physically fit.
Believe motherhood.
A great marriage for me.
I want to take business mentoring to expand my business.
Love that.
Yeah.
Love that, Kim.
It's like actually working through the question.
Yeah.
That's huge.
That's not minimal.
Like actually working through the question.
Because I feel like I truly don't know what I want in any area of my life.
That's so powerful.
Like just taking it seriously.
Yeah.
How does that feel?
You know I think you get it.
I feel like I truly don't know what I want in any area of my life.
That's so powerful.
Like just taking it seriously.
Some of you like here's my first step.
I'm just going to take this seriously.
That's a huge step.
Love that.
Clean out my closet.
Love it.
Organize my room.
Yeah.
Sometimes you just get your space cleared out.
Then you can say I find it difficult to really have clarity and very clear thought and in
a cluttered messy environment in space.
You know.
Cut my hours back at work.
Not get discouraged.
Keep going.
Meet new people.
Go through your workbook.
Want to be retired.
Love that.
That's perfect.
Like want to be retired.
So what's it going to mean?
What's it going to take for me to be retired?
Start writing my five top dreams.
Printing the document.
Do you want to work tonight?
Schedule the trip.
Schedule the vacation.
Schedule the trip.
I want to go someplace I've never been before.
Okay.
Got to get a ticket.
Schedule the ticket.
Make the plan.
Decide where the place is going to be.
Maybe you already have it on your wall.
Like I want to go to Hawaii.
I've never been there.
I want to go to Greece.
I've never been there.
How am I going to do it?
I don't have the money to do it.
Well, this is when you start articulating.
I was like, all right.
Let's get the plans going.
I want to create these steps.
That's what his word says.
Hallelujah.
Apply for a passport.
Yeah.
If you're going to go international, you can't go without a passport.
So you got to get a passport first.
Love that.
Ah, so good.
All right.
We are right at one hour, guys.
And I'm going to be honorable to that.
Thank you.
I really enjoy teaching it, talking about it.
We're talking about this for some time.
I've been bothering Jackie with it.
And you're like, just write down the notes.
But just while you're going to teach this,
teach this to the people, all right?
I have another one called Unworthy but Chosen.
It's so good.
You can think, I'll just give you a little teaser.
Um, this was the thought.
You can maybe do this a little research on your own,
this thought.
My thought was is, it's really weird.
I felt unworthy.
I still feel unworthy times.
I know everybody's felt unworthy.
Like, you just don't feel like you deserve it.
You don't feel worthy of it.
You don't feel like you can do it.
You just don't feel worthy.
You feel unworthy.
I was curious.
And I asked myself this question.
I said, every person, every character that's in the Bible
that found themselves in front of the angel of the Lord
or found themselves literally in front of God, like Moses,
or found them before Jesus, or even found themselves
before a disciple or a prophet or an apostle,
one of those, they found themselves.
There's many stories and instances in the Bible
where a regular human being like you and me
found themselves in front of this person
and literally fell on their face and said, I'm unworthy.
John the Baptist said, I'm unworthy to even untie his laces
when he was in front of Jesus.
Here's the dude that was the most radical believer
you could ever be.
If you want to be the most radical believer
you ever could be, John the Baptist is your guy.
And he's like, I'm unworthy to untie sandals.
But in every instance, in every instance
where the character is finding himself unworthy
before in the presence of Jesus, God, an angel, all this,
none of those superior beings, God himself, Jesus, an angel,
a prophet, an apostle, none of them,
none of them agreed with the person.
Think about that for a second, that for a second.
Jesus, somebody came before Jesus and said, I'm unworthy.
Jesus didn't go, that's right, you're unworthy.
I'm Jesus.
He didn't say that.
Matter of fact, when they called, oh, you are good,
Jesus, he goes, why do you call me good?
Father's the only one that's good.
And this is a whole teaching, but you
can explore some of your own.
I want you to answer the question yourself, why?
They affirmed, they didn't say, oh, yeah, that's right,
you are unworthy.
They said, get up from here, stand up.
Well, not in a hateful way, like, hey, what are you doing?
Just stand up, talk to me.
I'm here to give you a message.
I'm here to reveal something to you.
Not one of them were rebuked for saying
I'm unworthy or agreed with.
They were actually encouraged to stand up,
to rise up, to be something, to be elevated,
to be exalted, to be honored.
Matter of fact, when Jesus' disciples
were arguing themselves, talking about who's
going to be the greatest in the kingdom of heaven,
Jesus didn't rebuke them about wanting to be great.
He showed them how to be great.
And he said, being the servant of all or being the servant
is the greatest thing, right?
Notice how God never agrees with you in your unworthiness.
He always calls you up higher.
So that's something you want to think about, Sean,
and ask about that.
The whole teaching about that's really good.
God bless you guys.
I love you all.
Hope you got a lot out of this tonight.
If you missed the download in the comments,
just email into us, and we can maybe share that link with you
or somewhere, I don't know.
Maybe you can put it in the app or something.
Go back and listen to Supernatural Saturday
if you didn't get it, and connect
that with the teaching tonight, the full scope of that.
We'll see you on the next live and whatever it is.
God bless you.
Love you.
Have a great, great night.
Thank you, Dee.