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Welcome to Supernatural Saturday.

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If you're new to Supernatural Saturday, if you're new to last year's single, we just

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want to welcome you.

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This is our corporate time every week here on the weekend, Saturday and Sunday, when

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we gather as a community and we look to the Lord.

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There is current prophetic reality available for us today.

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You know, beyond whatever it is that God is teaching us individually, He has a word for

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us corporately, and we receive that word on Supernatural Saturday and we activate it

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on Activation Sunday.

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And so if you can't come to Activation Sunday, don't worry, there'll be another one the next

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Sunday, but Supernatural Saturday is recorded.

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So if you ever have to miss, you can just hear it in replay.

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And I'm always amazed at what God gives us on these Saturday mornings when we come together.

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He tells us and promises us really that when we gather together, He will be in the midst

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of us.

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And that means in a new way.

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I want you to take that in.

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God is always with you.

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You are in Him.

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You are never separate from Him.

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The Bible says that in Him we move and we breathe and we have our being.

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We're in Him.

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And He's in us.

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My friend yesterday, we were shooting a podcast and she said, yeah, you know, God's ahead

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of us.

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He's behind us.

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He's beside us.

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He's in us.

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Obviously, you're all encompassed by God, but He promises us in His Word that when we

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gather together, when we partner together in His name to seek Him, that He's in the

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midst of us, meaning in a new way.

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His presence is visiting us in a new way.

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Isn't that amazing how God can be with us all the time, which sounds pretty ordinary,

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right?

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It's like an everyday common thing.

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But then we can have an uncommon visitation of Him where He's visiting us in a new way.

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I think that's pretty cool.

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And so let's remember that when we're gathering together today, that we're never going to

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be exactly like this again.

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The exact people that are here are never going to be the exact people that are here.

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There'll always be one less or one more.

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And so what God's going to do here is very special.

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It's very unique.

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And it's very unlike anything that's ever going to happen again in our lives.

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Isn't that incredible?

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So let's reverence the moment for a moment.

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Let's just bask in the glory of the moment that the God of all creation, the God of the

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universe, of the cosmos, of every beautiful thing that takes our breath away has decided

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to meet with us this morning in a new way.

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Thank you, Lord.

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Just breathe that in.

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Just take in a nice big breath and then exhale that breath.

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Breathe in His goodness and His presence and His supernatural glory right now.

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And then exhale anything that isn't that.

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Go ahead and take a second to do that.

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I want to take just a couple of minutes to remember that God is good here at the beginning

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because I'm going to release a message over us that I believe God has put on my heart

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that if you have any kind of religious background or you're still really struggling with the

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effects of religion, meaning condemnation and legalism, you might try to take this the

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wrong way.

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And I want you to know that it's being delivered to me and then delivered to you through grace

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and love.

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So if you're not hearing it that way, if it's not hitting that way, if it's hitting differently

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than that, then that is pointing directly to what needs to be released because God is

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a good God.

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And I want you to hang on, even if you feel some kind of way, even if it starts poking

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at some of your wounds, some of the things that you don't understand about your relationship

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with God and the things that have happened in your life.

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I want you to hang on until the end because I promise you we'll have some breakthrough

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at the end.

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Okay?

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So today I'm going to talk to you a little bit about tests, T-E-S-T, tests, kind of hard

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to say with my little congestion, the little S at the end.

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I want to talk to you about being tested.

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Does God test us?

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Yeah, he does.

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A lot of people get offended.

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there. We get offended right there. Wait, what do you mean God will test us? See what happens when

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we come out of religion and I can attest to this because, get it, attest, huh? I can attest to this

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because I came out of religion and when I came, when you come out of religion, man, your pendulum

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swings the other direction and you just don't want to believe anything that you don't want to believe

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about God. You don't. And for a minute that's okay because you've been so deep in the thick

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of it on the other side where, you know, God is mad and we're sinners in the hands of an angry God

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and we're God's, you know, the kid with the magnifying glass on the anthill. You know,

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we spend so much time believing that God's character is, you know, not kind and not

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benevolent and not love. God doesn't just have love, friends. He is love. But depending on your

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origin, family, and your relationship with mother and father and authority, you know, you can get

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that real twisted real fast. And so a lot of times we'll swing all the way to the other side.

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We're like, uh, you know, God's just one big warm bear hug. It's just one big sloppy kiss

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all through life. And yeah, I think that maybe you need to stay there for a second because things

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need to balance out. But eventually your pendulum comes back to the middle where you understand that

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as God's children, he wants to give us opportunity. He wants to bless you.

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Write that down on your paper. God wants to bless me more than I want to be blessed.

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He wants to promote you. He wants to accelerate you.

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We are Jesus in the earth right now, y'all. Okay. With the help of Holy Spirit, we are walking out

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the rest of the story. And so that takes a maturity process. That takes stretching. It takes

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refining and defining. Take some identity tests where we come more and more and more ourselves

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and less and less and less the orphans that the curse tried to make us. Religion will keep you

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an orphan, just so you know. You'll never be a son or a daughter. You'll never be in charge.

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You'll never have authority. A precious few people that stand on platforms and are called preachers

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with pulpits, they'll have the authority, but you won't. And God doesn't want to keep you like that.

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But you don't give your keys to the car to your six-year-old. You don't even give them to your

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10-year-old. I know a couple 12-year-olds that you would probably give them to safely.

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But you know, there's a process. And a lot of us try to skip the process because we hate process,

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and I get it. But then we stay immature. Then we stay people who, yeah, we can inherit the

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promise, but we can't sustain it. Write that down. And then we stay people who, yeah,

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we can inherit the promise, but we can't sustain it. Write that down.

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We can inherit it, but we can't sustain it, which means that we're not going to be able

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to pass it on to our children's children because we're going to squander it right here, right now with us.

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So God loves us. And as a good father who wants to give good gifts to his children,

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there are some stretching moments. And that's what these tests are.

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These are stretching moments. These are maturing moments.

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And God loves us. And as a good father who wants to give good gifts to his children,

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these are maturing moments.

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Everyone in this community is here because they desire marriage. Marriage is hard.

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I will tell you, I've been married twice. And in total, the totality of the two times,

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I've been married for 30 years of my 50-year life. I'm going to turn 50 next week, y'all.

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That's what's going to happen. All right.

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I've learned a lot of what not to do.

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But marriage, it's a make you or break you situation. It can be the best thing in your life.

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God's maturity plan for mankind, for you, stretching you, refining you,

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helping you to become a better and better and better version of yourself.

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You know, more and more of that authentic garden, you. And yeah, I mean garden of

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I mean the original design you, or it can just be chaos and confusion to the place where

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some people walk away from their faith, to the place where some people are flat on their

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back in traction healing for years, maybe even decades.

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So what a steward, what I believe is original design, what I believe is the promise of God

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in our design.

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God didn't need to promise you marriage, it's promised in your DNA.

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Do you understand that?

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We are better together.

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And the curse is the only thing that separated us.

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So even in the New Testament where you see that there's some benefit to being single,

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it's only the curse that has separated us.

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And those benefits only are there because we're not fully originally in our design.

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So let's talk about a few different types of tests.

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Can we do that?

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I just, I jotted some down here.

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Test number one, let's call this the new difficult task or opportunity test.

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And this comes when God, it seems like God's telling you to do something that is impossible.

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A lot of times we'll talk ourselves out of this particular test because it's so hard

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at times that we think maybe God is not with us in it.

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Maybe we think we're doing it in our own power and you know what, you might be.

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It might be a situation where you've been invited into this opportunity for stretching.

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Yes, it is a task that is bigger than you, but you are still trying to do it yourself

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and you have not invited God in it to help you.

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You're trying to white knuckle it.

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You're trying to do it yourself.

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This test, you will have many opportunities to quit whatever it is you're doing.

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So maybe it's losing weight.

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Maybe this is year and I have several clients like this.

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God has invited them into taking care of their bodies.

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They have been neglecting their bodies for a long time, not just for a couple of weeks,

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not just for a couple of months, but for years.

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They've been neglecting their bodies and now they're living in the aftermath of that.

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They're tired.

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They're old before their time.

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They have health conditions that are definitely linked to obesity and inactivity.

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Did you guys know that people are like, don't smoke.

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Make sure you don't smoke.

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God forbid.

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Do not smoke.

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I mean, I wish they would have told previous generations that, but now there's all kinds

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of warnings.

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Make sure you don't do this because it's really bad for you.

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It's going to almost certainly cause detrimental effects in your body, but you know what the

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new smoking is?

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The new smoking is sitting, being sedentary, the S's, not smoking with an S, but it's different

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S's.

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So the new smoking is sedentariness or sitting.

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Sugar is another new smoking.

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Guys, sugar will kill you.

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I don't want to turn this into a health and wellness call, but sugar will kill you.

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Sugar is not good for you in any of its forms.

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Fruit, fructose, okay.

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As long as you get it organic and it's not sprayed with all those pesticides and herbicides.

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But sugar, refined sugar in those snacks, in those sweets, in that candy, in the bread,

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in the flour, in the pasta, it's not good for you.

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It isn't.

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It's wreaking havoc on your body.

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So sitting and sugar and stress is the other S.

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This is the new smoking, y'all.

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The three horses of the new apocalypse are sitting, sugar, and stress.

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So maybe God is challenging you in this new year, hey, I've got things for you to do in

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your life.

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This timeline that you're living on earth, this very limited timeline that you have here,

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I have really amazing things that I want to bless you with, that I want to give you access

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to, but your body can't take you there.

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Do you know that some of you, because this test is not being passed in this area of your

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health, you're actually not getting access to some of the things that God wants for you

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because he knows that it would be the tipping point for your body and it would do you in.

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Jesus, do you feel Holy Spirit on that?

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I do.

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Please listen.

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We are killing ourselves with our forks.

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Please listen.

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I mean, let's go like screw tape letters, you know,

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C.S. Lewis, let's go.

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I mean, if you were the enemy in a modern culture

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like 2025 where everyone knows who you are, Lucifer,

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wouldn't you do something sneaky like that

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to destroy people?

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I mean, you're not gonna show up at the front door

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in a little red costume with horns and a tail.

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No one's gonna let you in.

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But possibly you're gonna show up in people's grocery cart.

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Through processed food, through sugar addictions.

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And even those of you that don't eat sweets

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and you're like, oh, I'm safe,

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I don't have a sugar addiction.

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You probably do.

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My husband and I are just finding this out about ourselves.

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I thought I was a clean eater,

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but there's so much hidden sugar.

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And you don't have to take one big giant leap

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into making all your food from home

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and, you know, making your own sourdough

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and planting a garden.

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If you wanna do that, great, go for it.

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But you can take baby steps

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into less and less processed food.

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Guys, these are tests.

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God wants to see, do you love your body?

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Do you love this vehicle

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that he's given you to ride around in?

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Are you going to take care of it?

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Some of you, it's not even the food.

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It's the people pleasing.

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You can't say no to save your life.

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And because you can't say no,

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God can't let you have access to what he has for you

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because he knows that you are going to literally say yes

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yourself into the ground.

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Because you don't have any boundaries.

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God loves you.

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He loves you.

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Did you know that those little white lab rats,

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I hate to call them lab rats

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because they're not meant to be lab rats,

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but they use them a lot, those little white ones, right?

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If they have an unlimited food source,

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do you know that they will eat until they die?

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That's crazy.

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But some of us, if we have access to something,

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God knows us better than we know ourselves.

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If we have access to something,

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and listen, I just want to let you know,

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God's not controlling you, okay?

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Just because he's not giving it to you

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doesn't mean you can't go get it.

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And he knows that.

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And a lot of you have been jumping over baby gates.

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You have been jumping over baby gates.

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God puts up gates of protection

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to try to keep you from the thing

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that you just will not stop partaking of

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until it kills you, whatever that thing is.

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He tries to put up boundaries for you

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and baby gates for you.

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You guys remember baby gates?

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We put them up to keep our children out of places

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that they're not mature enough to handle.

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Out of the kitchen because of the hot stove,

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because we know that they don't understand that concept yet.

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Off the stairs because they can't navigate the stairs yet.

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But when those children show us

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that they are mature enough to handle those areas,

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we take down those gates.

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But instead of letting God take down those gates,

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you're jumping over them like little baby Houdini.

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And that's why you keep getting yourself hurt and in trouble.

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Not in trouble with God, in trouble with consequences,

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the natural consequences of life.

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God has so much grace for you and so much love for you.

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And you gotta trust him on the timing of those things.

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But God is inviting you into a new and difficult task.

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I remember God invited me to produce a film festival

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for the creators of Lollapalooza.

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It's a huge film festival out west.

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I mean, sorry, it's a huge musical festival

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out west and it's debauchery, y'all.

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It's not Christian at all.

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But long story short,

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because I can't tell you the backstory,

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I was chosen to be the executive producer

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as soon as I moved to Texas,

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the executive producer for the film version of Lollapalooza,

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which is called Life Art Festival.

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So I'm surrounded by debauchery.

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I'm surrounded by people who are not believers.

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I'm surrounded by people who are not even American.

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Very thick, heavy, heavy, heavy, heavy,

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okay, very thick, heavy, you know, Israeli accents

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and, you know, just a lot.

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And I wanted to quit.

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Remember I said, this is the test

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where you're gonna wanna quit a lot.

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And after like the fifth time of being cussed out,

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just F, F, F, F, I was like, okay, I quit.

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I call uncle, I quit.

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So we're at the film festival.

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Everything has been set up.

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I've been working for months on this.

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And you guys know that there were forums at this festival,

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like talking forums, like lecture forums.

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And the experts that I chose for each of those forums

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were believers.

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I chose a believer for each of those forums.

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Of course, they're at the top of their game.

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Guys, please don't believe that you're gonna get access

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to your field if you're not the top of your game.

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God can give you favor,

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but you have to study to show yourself approved.

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Come on, don't just think you're just gonna walk in there and fall on the ground and flop

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around like a fish, but because you have the Holy Spirit, you're gonna get the job.

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Let's apply some wisdom here.

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So these people are at the top of their game.

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I got them to come the day before the festival.

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We're doing a walkthrough of a $30,000 venue.

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It's a $30,000 a day venue.

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Okay, I have secured it.

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The festival's set to go.

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The founder of the festival, I'm meeting him for the first time.

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He flies in.

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Y'all, he's a piece of work, okay?

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He cussed out everybody at the venue, the executive director of the venue, because it

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was kind of like a museum, all the things.

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And by the end of the day, I was like, look, you can't talk to people like this.

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And he was like, you're fired.

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I was like, gladly.

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I left.

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I went back to my hotel room.

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All night long, I tossed and turned like, God, what do you want me to do?

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What the heck is going on here?

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I put together this festival.

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I don't even know how they could pull it off without me, because this guy just arrived

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in town.

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He doesn't know anything that's going on.

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I have to be there for day of flow.

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And so the next day, I'm standing outside of his hotel.

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And I'm supposed to be at the final walkthrough of the venue, which is right across the street

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from his hotel.

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I can see the venue from where I'm standing.

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And I'm staring at the venue, and I'm praying, and I'm like, God, because you guys, I could

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have just went home.

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All right?

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Ain't nobody got time for that.

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I could have just went home.

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I don't even want the job.

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I can't tell you the back story, but I didn't apply for the job.

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Y'all, I didn't ask for the job.

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The job came to me, and I actually tried to turn it down.

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And every time I tried to turn it down, it just kept coming back.

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And God's like, you take it.

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And I'm like, oh.

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So I did.

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So I'm standing there.

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I'm looking at the venue.

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And I'm like, God, what do you want me to do?

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And I promise you, a box truck pulled up in front of me at the light.

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It's blocking my view of the venue.

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And on the side of the box truck, all it says, remember, I'm the executive producer.

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All it says is produce.

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And you know what?

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Yes, it was the word produce.

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And yes, it was the fruit truck.

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But you know what?

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I'll take it.

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It's still spelled the same.

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So I walked across the street, and I saw the founder of the festival.

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And I yelled out to him.

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I said, hey, do you need me?

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Because remember, he fired me the day before.

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And he motioned, yes, come.

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And so I went, and I came.

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And I want to tell you, that festival was amazing.

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And it was powerful.

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And the people, even though they weren't talking about Christian things, those believers,

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in their wheelhouses, speaking on those subjects, people were trying to help.

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People were transformed, to the point that this non-Christian, non-practicing Jewish

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man, who owns the festival, came to me afterwards.

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And he said this to me.

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He said, you know, he said, I don't like you.

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He said, but I like you.

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Something about you, I like.

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I like you.

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And these speakers, he's like, I don't like them.

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But I like them.

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He was sensing it.

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And can I tell you, to this day, I can call him any time for anything.

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He's a very, very influential man.

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He's like, from this day forward, you are family.

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And you know why he said?

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I will tell you what he said.

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He said, you could have given up on me, but you didn't.

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What was he doing?

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He was testing me.

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You're fired.

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Get out of here.

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But I didn't.

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And I wanted to.

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But God's like, no, go.

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These are the tests, guys.

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These are the tests.

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People will test you.

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And God will test you through people.

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Are you going to believe what God said?

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Are you going to follow through with what God told you to do?

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Or are you going to let people pull you off track?

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All right.

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So that's the first test.

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So I don't know what it is.

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Go back to school.

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Lose weight.

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Whatever it is that you think is really hard, that you feel like you're being invited into.

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Yeah, it's going to be hard.

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It doesn't have to be easy.

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Remember, it has to be worth it.

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And you'll have opportunities to quit and talk yourself out of it.

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Don't.

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Keep going.

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Follow through.

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Finish.

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All right, test two.

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You're like, whoa, there's more, Jackie?

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Yeah, there's more.

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If we can get through them, there's six.

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Just, yeah, I mean, I'm sure there's more, but.

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Okay, so test one was a difficult task.

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A new thing that God's inviting you into that feels impossible and hard.

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Test two is a major change.

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Let's call this the where test.

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Some major change happens.

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A lot of times we weren't looking for it.

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It just showed up.

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and now you don't have any idea where God is taking you.

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Everything that you were basing your future on,

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your plan on, that's like a rug being pulled out

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from under your feet, and you do not know

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what's going on or what to do next.

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It's the wear test, right?

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And you guys might see yourself in a hybrid of these tests,

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and if you're not in any of them,

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I'm just gonna tell you, when you're up for promotion,

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there's always a test, isn't there?

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There's always a test.

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So, major change shows up, we don't know.

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Maybe God tells you to do something crazy

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like sell the house.

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Well, where am I gonna live?

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I don't know, sell the house.

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Maybe you feel like it's time to move away from the job.

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Guys, one of my students, when she first started

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working with me, she works in politics here in Texas,

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and she actually had breakdowns, meltdowns,

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when anyone suggested to her

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that she may not be doing this job for always.

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She wanted to do this job for always,

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and she wanted to move up in the ranks,

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and she wanted to actually be in Texas government.

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She'd been doing this all her life.

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She's a military kid, this is what she wanted.

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I actually match made her.

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She's someone that I physically match made,

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introduced her to her husband, officiated their wedding.

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They become kind of spiritual children of mine now.

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And I wanna tell you, not only is she not doing

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the job that she was doing in politics,

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in PR and politics anymore,

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when I met her, she had written 23 books,

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fantasy romance books, okay?

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And didn't have any kind of following for that.

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No one was buying these books.

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It's just, she's just a talented writer,

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and she was writing and writing and writing and writing them.

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Instead of working in politics now,

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because she was obedient to where the Lord

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was asking her to do, he said, hey, I want you to,

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I want you to start weaning off this job in politics,

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and I want you to focus on your writing.

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But Lord, where's the money gonna come from?

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Remember, it's that where question,

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where, where, where, where?

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And I've had this question lots of times

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in my walk with God.

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But she was obedient and she did it.

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And can I tell you now,

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she has hundreds of thousands of followers on Instagram,

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00:27:33.080 --> 00:27:36.200
and she makes over six figures on her books.

490
00:27:36.200 --> 00:27:38.760
She makes way more money doing what she loves,

491
00:27:40.720 --> 00:27:42.980
because she said yes.

492
00:27:45.040 --> 00:27:46.080
And it wasn't easy.

493
00:27:46.080 --> 00:27:48.360
I watched that transition.

494
00:27:50.120 --> 00:27:51.120
I was there for it.

495
00:27:53.760 --> 00:27:55.080
Remember, it's not about easy.

496
00:27:55.080 --> 00:27:57.220
When God told David and I to move to Austin,

497
00:27:57.220 --> 00:27:59.400
he didn't tell us where,

498
00:27:59.400 --> 00:28:01.360
and he obviously didn't tell us why.

499
00:28:02.320 --> 00:28:04.320
Actually, I still don't know why, just so you know.

500
00:28:04.320 --> 00:28:06.000
Both, two of my three children

501
00:28:06.000 --> 00:28:08.080
met their significant others here,

502
00:28:08.080 --> 00:28:09.880
so maybe that's part of the reason why.

503
00:28:09.880 --> 00:28:10.880
I'm sure it is.

504
00:28:11.760 --> 00:28:13.280
But he didn't tell us where.

505
00:28:13.280 --> 00:28:18.280
You guys, we, he told us when, over past, over 2018.

506
00:28:19.200 --> 00:28:20.120
He said, go now.

507
00:28:20.120 --> 00:28:22.400
It's like, you need to go, right now, over Passover.

508
00:28:22.400 --> 00:28:24.320
We packed up the U-Haul.

509
00:28:24.320 --> 00:28:26.440
We drove to Austin with no place to live.

510
00:28:27.320 --> 00:28:30.200
Within 24 hours, we had secured an apartment

511
00:28:30.200 --> 00:28:32.100
and we started our life here.

512
00:28:32.100 --> 00:28:33.920
And part of the reason why we had to go right then

513
00:28:33.920 --> 00:28:35.120
is because I was about to get hired

514
00:28:35.120 --> 00:28:36.780
to do that film festival,

515
00:28:36.780 --> 00:28:38.480
and I didn't know any of that yet.

516
00:28:39.880 --> 00:28:41.520
But I had to be here, because it was in Texas.

517
00:28:41.520 --> 00:28:42.880
I had to be here for that.

518
00:28:44.960 --> 00:28:47.240
So it's that where question.

519
00:28:47.240 --> 00:28:48.960
You don't know where God is taking you,

520
00:28:48.960 --> 00:28:51.600
but I promise you this, he's taking you somewhere great.

521
00:28:51.600 --> 00:28:54.160
And it might not be a smooth road to get there,

522
00:28:54.160 --> 00:28:56.040
but you gotta start walking.

523
00:28:56.040 --> 00:28:57.600
Test three.

524
00:28:57.600 --> 00:28:59.860
This is one we hate, okay?

525
00:29:01.360 --> 00:29:04.360
What seems like, and I'm gonna say what seems like,

526
00:29:04.360 --> 00:29:06.140
because God lives outside of time.

527
00:29:08.480 --> 00:29:10.600
What seems like a delayed promise.

528
00:29:10.600 --> 00:29:15.600
Let's call this, I'm sorry.

529
00:29:19.320 --> 00:29:20.840
Let's call this the when test.

530
00:29:23.080 --> 00:29:25.860
When God, when.

531
00:29:28.920 --> 00:29:31.520
You guys, this might not be very encouraging,

532
00:29:31.520 --> 00:29:32.800
but there are promises,

533
00:29:32.800 --> 00:29:35.200
and these are not all the promises in your life.

534
00:29:35.200 --> 00:29:38.360
There are promises that you are going to experience

535
00:29:38.400 --> 00:29:40.960
the goodness of God here in the land of the living.

536
00:29:42.520 --> 00:29:44.680
You are going to live in that fulfilled promise.

537
00:29:44.680 --> 00:29:46.920
You're gonna walk out that fulfilled promise.

538
00:29:48.320 --> 00:29:50.280
Some people go sit in waiting rooms,

539
00:29:50.280 --> 00:29:52.520
and that is why their promise is delayed.

540
00:29:52.520 --> 00:29:54.820
God's not delaying it, you are.

541
00:29:57.320 --> 00:29:59.080
Because we want the finished product.

542
00:29:59.080 --> 00:30:00.280
We want to show up.

543
00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:04.560
up at what God promised, we don't remember there's a process.

544
00:30:04.560 --> 00:30:07.240
God never gives a promise without a process.

545
00:30:07.240 --> 00:30:10.160
Every promise has a process.

546
00:30:10.160 --> 00:30:15.240
And for the ones that you are going to fulfill, you're going to walk it all the way out in

547
00:30:15.240 --> 00:30:16.240
your lifetime.

548
00:30:16.240 --> 00:30:17.960
You got to get moving.

549
00:30:17.960 --> 00:30:22.880
You can't just go sit in a corner somewhere and wait for God to deliver it to you fully

550
00:30:22.880 --> 00:30:25.160
formed.

551
00:30:25.160 --> 00:30:30.560
If he promised you something that, oh, please don't do this, but I've seen people do it.

552
00:30:30.560 --> 00:30:34.800
If he promised you something that requires education, you better go get enrolled.

553
00:30:34.800 --> 00:30:39.920
Because if you think that God's going to let you circumvent the process of that, just because

554
00:30:39.920 --> 00:30:43.220
he promised it to you and you're not going to have to go through all of the hoops that

555
00:30:43.220 --> 00:30:46.560
everyone else went through, yeah, you'll go through them with grace, but you'll still

556
00:30:46.560 --> 00:30:48.920
go through them.

557
00:30:49.920 --> 00:30:56.200
Please do not think that you are going to just miraculously, and I know that people

558
00:30:56.200 --> 00:30:57.720
testify about things like this.

559
00:30:57.720 --> 00:31:01.680
I heard a testimony once of this pastor, he said, you know, he showed up for this.

560
00:31:01.680 --> 00:31:03.560
God told him to apply for this engineering job.

561
00:31:03.560 --> 00:31:05.840
He was not qualified for it in any way, shape or form.

562
00:31:05.840 --> 00:31:09.320
It had this lengthy test that you had to take to even get the interview.

563
00:31:09.320 --> 00:31:12.360
And he just went in and started filling in circles on the test.

564
00:31:12.360 --> 00:31:15.660
It was like one of those tests where you fill in the circles kind of thing that the computer

565
00:31:15.660 --> 00:31:18.000
reads the results.

566
00:31:18.080 --> 00:31:21.600
And he passed the test with flying colors and ended up getting hired at the job.

567
00:31:21.600 --> 00:31:22.840
That seems foolish to me.

568
00:31:22.840 --> 00:31:25.680
I'm not saying that God didn't do that.

569
00:31:25.680 --> 00:31:29.440
I'm not saying that God can't continue to give you information about a job that you're

570
00:31:29.440 --> 00:31:33.480
working on every day that you're unqualified and not educated in.

571
00:31:33.480 --> 00:31:38.680
I'm just saying that is a very rare and interesting and unusual circumstance.

572
00:31:38.680 --> 00:31:44.560
Please do not believe that that is what's going to happen to you.

573
00:31:44.560 --> 00:31:45.880
Get trained.

574
00:31:45.880 --> 00:31:47.880
Get prepared.

575
00:31:47.880 --> 00:31:49.320
Get educated.

576
00:31:49.320 --> 00:31:51.940
If God promised you something, go after it.

577
00:31:51.940 --> 00:31:54.680
This group that you're in right now, God promised you marriage.

578
00:31:54.680 --> 00:31:56.200
That's why you're here.

579
00:31:56.200 --> 00:31:57.200
Don't just sign up.

580
00:31:57.200 --> 00:31:59.120
Show up.

581
00:31:59.120 --> 00:32:00.120
Take the courses.

582
00:32:00.120 --> 00:32:02.380
Listen to the classes.

583
00:32:02.380 --> 00:32:03.380
Come to prayer.

584
00:32:03.380 --> 00:32:08.320
Do the things that God is doing to prepare you for what it is that he said he would give

585
00:32:08.320 --> 00:32:09.320
you.

586
00:32:09.320 --> 00:32:11.480
I know a lot of people are like, well, Jackie, I don't even understand how this is preparing

587
00:32:11.480 --> 00:32:12.480
me for marriage.

588
00:32:12.480 --> 00:32:14.520
Yeah, you know, I understand that.

589
00:32:14.520 --> 00:32:20.560
And I can't tell you how many times in my life I felt like Daniel's son in Karate Kid

590
00:32:20.560 --> 00:32:25.640
with Mr. Miyagi being God and God waxing on and waxing off in my life.

591
00:32:25.640 --> 00:32:30.720
And if you don't know that movie, Google it.

592
00:32:30.720 --> 00:32:38.160
Mr. Miyagi, who is this, you know, ancient teacher of the martial arts, old guru dude,

593
00:32:38.160 --> 00:32:43.840
is teaching this kid skills that this kid doesn't even know he's learning.

594
00:32:43.840 --> 00:32:49.520
Through everyday situations like cleaning his deck and painting his fence and washing

595
00:32:49.520 --> 00:32:50.520
his car.

596
00:32:50.520 --> 00:32:51.520
He's learning skills.

597
00:32:51.520 --> 00:32:52.520
He's learning discipline.

598
00:32:52.520 --> 00:32:54.560
He's learning moves without knowing it.

599
00:32:54.560 --> 00:32:59.560
And I can't tell you how many times I've looked back in my life and I'm like, God, Mr. Miyagi

600
00:32:59.560 --> 00:33:04.320
me.

601
00:33:04.320 --> 00:33:09.640
I had no idea how that random thing that you told me to do fit into my life.

602
00:33:09.640 --> 00:33:14.000
Everyone else, you just did something because God told you to and it was so random.

603
00:33:14.000 --> 00:33:17.360
You went and worked someplace or you took a class or you did something and it just seemed

604
00:33:17.360 --> 00:33:19.360
so random.

605
00:33:19.360 --> 00:33:20.960
Like where's this going to fit?

606
00:33:20.960 --> 00:33:23.240
And then nothing happened afterwards.

607
00:33:23.240 --> 00:33:27.860
So it wasn't like you did it and then it opened up this huge opportunity and then you understood

608
00:33:27.860 --> 00:33:31.480
like you'd still don't maybe even understand.

609
00:33:31.480 --> 00:33:38.240
I promise you one day that skill, that class, that obedience, it will come into play and

610
00:33:38.240 --> 00:33:42.220
you'll be like, Oh, I see.

611
00:33:42.220 --> 00:33:45.760
You might've met a key person there, right?

612
00:33:45.760 --> 00:33:50.520
You might've experienced something or been in proximity to something that you learned

613
00:33:50.520 --> 00:33:54.040
that you're going to need where you're going.

614
00:33:54.040 --> 00:33:58.800
We get Mr. Miyagi so often you guys, by God.

615
00:33:58.800 --> 00:34:06.280
And I think it's because if he just told us, Hey, you're going to do this.

616
00:34:06.280 --> 00:34:11.280
We'd be like, no, we're not.

617
00:34:11.280 --> 00:34:15.159
No, we're not.

618
00:34:15.159 --> 00:34:20.560
Sometimes he has to sell us what we want to give us what we need.

619
00:34:20.560 --> 00:34:21.560
Amen.

620
00:34:21.560 --> 00:34:26.239
So I know that some of you feel like God tricked you into coming in here.

621
00:34:26.239 --> 00:34:28.280
God tricked me into starting this movement.

622
00:34:28.280 --> 00:34:29.280
Okay.

623
00:34:29.280 --> 00:34:30.280
In a lot of ways.

624
00:34:30.280 --> 00:34:31.880
And I'm telling you, we all got Mr. Miyagi.

625
00:34:31.880 --> 00:34:37.000
So 1600 plus people getting married in four years is proof that it's supernatural.

626
00:34:37.000 --> 00:34:45.139
So keep going because I promise you, you're learning more here than just how to be married

627
00:34:45.139 --> 00:34:47.320
and sustain marriage.

628
00:34:47.320 --> 00:34:50.840
And that's another question you can ask when you're in this delayed promise category.

629
00:34:50.840 --> 00:34:53.679
First of all, ask yourself, am I delaying the promise?

630
00:34:53.679 --> 00:34:56.159
Am I sitting in a waiting room?

631
00:34:56.159 --> 00:34:59.520
And the question that you should ask along with that is, Hey, if this thing is not ready

632
00:34:59.520 --> 00:35:00.520
or ripe.

633
00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:01.380
yet for the picking?

634
00:35:00.520 --> 00:35:00.520


635
00:35:01.380 --> 00:35:02.380
How can I nurture it?

636
00:35:02.380 --> 00:35:03.380
How can I grow it?

637
00:35:03.380 --> 00:35:04.540
That's what you're doing in this community.

638
00:35:04.540 --> 00:35:09.140
You're nurturing and growing this promise in your life so that when it is ripe for the

639
00:35:09.140 --> 00:35:13.260
picking, you can pick it and you can eat that fruit.

640
00:35:13.260 --> 00:35:14.380
But what can you be doing in the meantime?

641
00:35:14.380 --> 00:35:18.820
That's what you should ask yourself about any other promise anywhere else that you have

642
00:35:18.820 --> 00:35:22.120
in your life that hasn't fully matured or manifested.

643
00:35:22.120 --> 00:35:25.660
What can I be doing in the meantime?

644
00:35:25.660 --> 00:35:29.780
You know, if you, that promise, whatever it is, if you put the pot on the stove and

645
00:35:29.780 --> 00:35:32.620
you turn on the heat and you put water in the pot, don't stand there and wait for it

646
00:35:32.620 --> 00:35:33.620
to boil.

647
00:35:33.620 --> 00:35:34.620
Don't stare at it.

648
00:35:34.620 --> 00:35:36.620
Start making the other things that go along with it.

649
00:35:36.620 --> 00:35:41.420
It's going to boil.

650
00:35:41.420 --> 00:35:45.620
God's not a man that he should lie, but there's other things.

651
00:35:45.620 --> 00:35:49.740
So pray and say, Hey God, what are the other things that I can be doing?

652
00:35:49.740 --> 00:35:53.120
I really want this thing that you told me I could have, what should I be doing to prepare

653
00:35:53.120 --> 00:35:54.120
for it?

654
00:35:54.580 --> 00:35:56.360
Now, obviously for marriage, you're already doing that.

655
00:35:56.360 --> 00:35:57.360
You're here.

656
00:35:57.360 --> 00:35:59.080
So make sure you're showing up in this new year.

657
00:35:59.080 --> 00:36:00.640
Some of you haven't shown up in a long time.

658
00:36:00.640 --> 00:36:02.760
And so welcome back.

659
00:36:02.760 --> 00:36:05.360
Remember Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

660
00:36:05.360 --> 00:36:07.800
God gave Abraham a promise.

661
00:36:07.800 --> 00:36:10.660
Abraham made great sacrifices for that promise.

662
00:36:10.660 --> 00:36:11.920
He left everything he knew.

663
00:36:11.920 --> 00:36:15.920
And I know a lot of times in our modern culture, people leave everything they know and they

664
00:36:15.920 --> 00:36:19.040
go and they live on the other side of the country from their family and all the things.

665
00:36:19.040 --> 00:36:21.240
But you guys, back in the ancient days, people didn't do that.

666
00:36:24.280 --> 00:36:28.760
That tribe that you were born into, that family you were born into, it was a lot bigger than

667
00:36:28.760 --> 00:36:30.680
just an origin nuclear family.

668
00:36:30.680 --> 00:36:32.800
It was a whole huge tribe of people.

669
00:36:32.800 --> 00:36:35.720
And you didn't leave that tribe.

670
00:36:35.720 --> 00:36:40.040
You didn't leave your, your father's people, your grandfather's people.

671
00:36:40.040 --> 00:36:42.700
You did not leave that lineage.

672
00:36:42.700 --> 00:36:46.120
You did not forge out on your own.

673
00:36:46.120 --> 00:36:52.440
It's a big, huge thing that he did.

674
00:36:52.440 --> 00:36:54.880
And you know what?

675
00:36:54.880 --> 00:37:00.040
The city that God said he would show him whose foundations were of God, you know, whose maker

676
00:37:00.040 --> 00:37:02.480
was God, he didn't, he died in that promise.

677
00:37:02.480 --> 00:37:07.040
And that's why in Hebrews 11, you'll see him as the great father of faith.

678
00:37:07.040 --> 00:37:08.320
He didn't make all the right decisions.

679
00:37:08.320 --> 00:37:12.040
We see him making wrong decisions throughout his lifetime because you guys, it's not about

680
00:37:12.040 --> 00:37:13.040
that.

681
00:37:13.040 --> 00:37:14.040
You are going to fall.

682
00:37:14.040 --> 00:37:15.040
This is your childhood.

683
00:37:15.040 --> 00:37:16.560
This life on earth is your childhood.

684
00:37:16.560 --> 00:37:18.440
You're supposed to mess up.

685
00:37:18.440 --> 00:37:19.440
That's how you learn.

686
00:37:19.440 --> 00:37:20.440
You're going to fall.

687
00:37:20.440 --> 00:37:24.040
You're going to scrape your knees and a loving father is going to pick you up and he's not

688
00:37:24.040 --> 00:37:25.120
going to punish you.

689
00:37:25.120 --> 00:37:29.760
He's going to correct you in the way of showing you, Hey, there's a better way to do this

690
00:37:29.760 --> 00:37:30.960
than the way you were doing it.

691
00:37:30.960 --> 00:37:35.760
Let me show you how.

692
00:37:35.760 --> 00:37:41.880
And he's going to lovingly give you another chance to get on that bike and ride again.

693
00:37:41.880 --> 00:37:47.920
Now with new information, better information so that you can be successful.

694
00:37:47.920 --> 00:37:49.160
And that's what repentance looks like.

695
00:37:49.160 --> 00:37:53.280
You guys recognizing that we don't have the information that we need and that our way

696
00:37:53.280 --> 00:37:58.000
is not good and that God's way is better and turning to him and asking him to forgive us

697
00:37:58.000 --> 00:38:03.120
for doing things our own way, like orphans and asking him to show us his way.

698
00:38:03.120 --> 00:38:05.360
That's all.

699
00:38:05.360 --> 00:38:06.360
That's it.

700
00:38:06.360 --> 00:38:10.060
But Abraham didn't get to see that city whose builder and maker was God and neither did

701
00:38:10.060 --> 00:38:13.880
his kids, Isaac or Jacob.

702
00:38:13.880 --> 00:38:16.920
You guys, some of the promises that you're carrying, not all of them, but some of them

703
00:38:16.920 --> 00:38:21.680
are for you to steward well and hand down to the next generation.

704
00:38:21.680 --> 00:38:25.520
See, that's part of our orphanhood.

705
00:38:25.520 --> 00:38:29.880
We only live for ourselves, what we can have, what we can experience.

706
00:38:29.880 --> 00:38:33.640
So many people are not living for their children and their children's children.

707
00:38:33.640 --> 00:38:36.760
And some of you are like, well, Jackie, I don't have any children while there are children

708
00:38:36.760 --> 00:38:44.760
that God wants you to mother and father, spiritual children, possibly natural children.

709
00:38:44.760 --> 00:38:50.720
Some of you, God has given you this desire to be mothers or fathers and it's back to

710
00:38:50.720 --> 00:38:51.720
that test one.

711
00:38:51.720 --> 00:38:52.720
It's a difficult task.

712
00:38:52.720 --> 00:38:56.760
It seems impossible because you don't have a mate or partner yet and you're past the

713
00:38:56.760 --> 00:38:58.080
age of natural childbearing.

714
00:38:58.080 --> 00:39:02.440
Well, I'm going to tell you, I think the last time I looked, there were like 20 million

715
00:39:02.440 --> 00:39:06.880
kids in the system in America alone that need adopted.

716
00:39:06.880 --> 00:39:07.880
Go get you one.

717
00:39:07.880 --> 00:39:10.640
You're like, Jackie, that's going to be hard.

718
00:39:10.640 --> 00:39:11.640
That's going to be expensive.

719
00:39:11.640 --> 00:39:12.640
That's where God comes in.

720
00:39:12.640 --> 00:39:17.600
You're like, well, that child deserves a two parent family.

721
00:39:17.600 --> 00:39:19.960
Yeah, they have no parents now.

722
00:39:19.960 --> 00:39:22.120
So I think one parent's better than none.

723
00:39:22.120 --> 00:39:24.080
Let's do the math on that.

724
00:39:24.080 --> 00:39:29.940
As a former foster care kid, abandoned into, you know, bad places, I'm going to tell you

725
00:39:29.940 --> 00:39:36.440
right now, I would have loved to have a caring parental figure in my life that loved me.

726
00:39:37.440 --> 00:39:41.600
Would have changed a lot of things in my early life.

727
00:39:41.600 --> 00:39:43.880
All right.

728
00:39:43.880 --> 00:39:50.920
Delayed promises, you guys, seemingly delayed because remember, God lives outside of time.

729
00:39:50.920 --> 00:39:54.680
A lot of times the promises hasn't shown up because we haven't shown the maturity to steward

730
00:39:54.680 --> 00:39:55.680
it.

731
00:39:55.680 --> 00:40:00.040
The Bible says in Proverbs that God's increase comes without sorrow.

732
00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:02.400
Oh, meaning he's not going to give us what we're not ready for.

733
00:40:02.400 --> 00:40:02.640
Yeah.

734
00:40:02.640 --> 00:40:04.560
We can jump the baby gate and go get it.

735
00:40:07.120 --> 00:40:12.800
I'm going to tell you, I just, I just got off the line with one of my early

736
00:40:12.800 --> 00:40:16.280
students from early in this movement that has never submitted to this process.

737
00:40:16.280 --> 00:40:19.560
Really, really wants to be married, but never has submitted

738
00:40:19.560 --> 00:40:21.120
to the process of inner healing.

739
00:40:21.320 --> 00:40:26.920
And this movement has been around for four years and this individual has now

740
00:40:26.920 --> 00:40:30.680
been part of two failed marriages and two failed engagements in four years.

741
00:40:32.520 --> 00:40:36.800
Y'all two broken engagements and two divorces in four years.

742
00:40:38.120 --> 00:40:41.840
You can jump the baby gate if you want to, or you can do the work.

743
00:40:45.000 --> 00:40:46.360
God's going to hand you the keys.

744
00:40:46.840 --> 00:40:49.240
You don't have to go and take them off the hook in the middle of the night.

745
00:40:50.320 --> 00:40:51.200
I promise you that.

746
00:40:52.240 --> 00:40:52.800
All right.

747
00:40:55.120 --> 00:40:55.840
And here's the thing.

748
00:40:55.840 --> 00:40:56.320
Here's the thing.

749
00:40:56.320 --> 00:40:56.920
I want to say this.

750
00:40:56.920 --> 00:41:00.960
I feel Holy spirit on this, that individual that I just said, guess what?

751
00:41:03.080 --> 00:41:04.760
They don't, they don't, they get a do over.

752
00:41:06.240 --> 00:41:11.760
If they, if they do the work and, and they surrender to God, they actually

753
00:41:11.760 --> 00:41:15.040
might end up getting married to someone amazing, even before you.

754
00:41:15.280 --> 00:41:16.120
Does that offend you?

755
00:41:16.800 --> 00:41:20.960
You know, we've been doing all the right things and be inhave ourselves

756
00:41:20.960 --> 00:41:25.120
and not jumping the baby gates and someone who's been doing all that.

757
00:41:25.120 --> 00:41:27.680
It's kind of a story of the elder brother and the prodigal, right?

758
00:41:30.400 --> 00:41:34.400
I say that to say this, not that they would have a do over before you, but

759
00:41:34.400 --> 00:41:36.400
that God is a giving and loving God.

760
00:41:39.400 --> 00:41:40.800
And I'm not saying that you can't do it.

761
00:41:40.800 --> 00:41:41.800
I'm saying that you can't do it.

762
00:41:41.800 --> 00:41:43.440
God is a giving and loving God.

763
00:41:48.240 --> 00:41:54.800
If you screwed up, you can have another chance, but you're going to screw up

764
00:41:54.800 --> 00:41:58.480
again in life in general, you will, but you don't have to screw up in the same

765
00:41:58.480 --> 00:42:03.560
ways because you can try again with new information and new healing in your heart.

766
00:42:05.600 --> 00:42:06.880
All right, let's go on here.

767
00:42:06.880 --> 00:42:09.880
So test four is an unsolvable problem.

768
00:42:10.480 --> 00:42:12.480
This is what I call the how test.

769
00:42:12.480 --> 00:42:14.440
Like how, how, how am I going to do this?

770
00:42:14.920 --> 00:42:16.200
How is this going to be fixed?

771
00:42:17.280 --> 00:42:19.480
And this is where you put that on your Jesus cares board.

772
00:42:20.480 --> 00:42:21.960
You show God that you trust him.

773
00:42:24.760 --> 00:42:29.040
Instead of going out and trying A, B, C, D, L, M, N, O, P.

774
00:42:29.800 --> 00:42:33.720
You don't just have plan A, you have B, C, D, E, F, G, L, M, N, O, P.

775
00:42:34.000 --> 00:42:37.360
Instead of that, did you guys know that they took L, M, N, O, P out of the

776
00:42:37.360 --> 00:42:38.200
alphabet song?

777
00:42:38.920 --> 00:42:42.760
No longer do we get to sing L, M, N, O, P.

778
00:42:42.920 --> 00:42:43.240
Nope.

779
00:42:44.800 --> 00:42:45.680
They changed it.

780
00:42:46.280 --> 00:42:47.120
Why do I know this?

781
00:42:47.120 --> 00:42:50.000
Because I have two-year-old grandbabies and I'm like horrified.

782
00:42:50.480 --> 00:42:54.200
You have changed the song and it's terrible.

783
00:42:56.080 --> 00:42:56.840
It is terrible.

784
00:42:56.920 --> 00:43:01.840
But anyway, you have all of those plans instead of just going to God and listen,

785
00:43:01.840 --> 00:43:03.600
God will let you have all those plans.

786
00:43:03.720 --> 00:43:04.240
Okay.

787
00:43:05.680 --> 00:43:07.160
He will let you have those plans.

788
00:43:07.800 --> 00:43:09.240
And it's okay to have plans.

789
00:43:09.880 --> 00:43:12.320
See, people will hear this message and they'll sit down in the corner in the

790
00:43:12.320 --> 00:43:13.920
waiting room and they won't have a plan at all.

791
00:43:14.120 --> 00:43:16.920
Have a plan, submit it to God.

792
00:43:17.360 --> 00:43:20.640
The Bible says that we have plans and God orders steps.

793
00:43:22.880 --> 00:43:25.800
But some of us have plans that don't include God ordering steps.

794
00:43:27.120 --> 00:43:30.360
Some of us have plans in our own strength because we don't want to bother God.

795
00:43:30.360 --> 00:43:31.240
He's busy.

796
00:43:31.880 --> 00:43:36.640
Just like your earthly father who never had any time for you or who died when you

797
00:43:36.640 --> 00:43:39.920
were young or was emotionally or physically absent.

798
00:43:42.080 --> 00:43:44.520
God is available to you 24-7.

799
00:43:46.600 --> 00:43:49.360
He delights in you.

800
00:43:49.600 --> 00:43:51.280
He wants to hear your voice.

801
00:43:51.520 --> 00:43:54.040
He wants you to come boldly to his throne of grace.

802
00:43:56.200 --> 00:44:01.840
He wants you to crawl up on his lap and tell him all of your cares and concerns.

803
00:44:01.840 --> 00:44:04.880
I don't know if you've been living in a family where there's old, older, older

804
00:44:04.880 --> 00:44:09.760
people, my family wasn't like this, but I know of families where a 70-year-old

805
00:44:09.760 --> 00:44:13.480
daughter still crawls up in the lap of her 90-year-old mother.

806
00:44:16.200 --> 00:44:17.120
That chokes me up.

807
00:44:18.400 --> 00:44:18.920
Why?

808
00:44:18.960 --> 00:44:23.920
Because that 70-year-old woman will always be that other woman's child.

809
00:44:25.760 --> 00:44:29.520
And so no matter how old you get on this earth, you're not going to be able to

810
00:44:29.720 --> 00:44:33.600
And so no matter how old you get on this earth, y'all a lot younger than God.

811
00:44:36.240 --> 00:44:39.120
And we're always going to be his children throughout eternity.

812
00:44:40.440 --> 00:44:41.040
Right?

813
00:44:42.560 --> 00:44:48.000
I remember when I had a how test, guys, I was facing some serious warfare in the

814
00:44:48.000 --> 00:44:51.360
form of a lawsuit, and this may help those of you that are dealing with a lawsuit.

815
00:44:51.360 --> 00:44:52.720
You guys, it was keeping me up at night.

816
00:44:53.240 --> 00:44:57.160
I was being wrongfully litigated.

817
00:44:57.160 --> 00:45:00.400
I did not do what I was being accused of.

818
00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:05.460
was with a former employer, and this person was a powerful person, and their lawyers were

819
00:45:05.460 --> 00:45:12.240
harassing me because of information that I had that I was unwilling to divulge because

820
00:45:12.240 --> 00:45:16.120
it was none of their business.

821
00:45:16.120 --> 00:45:24.020
I didn't have to say, harass, harass, threatened, harassed.

822
00:45:24.020 --> 00:45:27.360
This is where the Jesus Cares board came from, by the way, you guys, because it was in the

823
00:45:27.360 --> 00:45:33.980
middle of this year-long harassment that was stealing my mental health.

824
00:45:33.980 --> 00:45:35.460
I was not sleeping.

825
00:45:35.460 --> 00:45:36.900
I was skin and bones.

826
00:45:36.900 --> 00:45:43.520
I was just a mess, you guys, because of the constant accusation and harassment and threats

827
00:45:43.520 --> 00:45:48.300
of litigation and financial loss and all of the things that were happening, and I didn't

828
00:45:48.300 --> 00:45:52.580
have money, money for my own lawyer.

829
00:45:52.580 --> 00:45:55.440
And in the middle of the night, God just said, hey, Jackie, who do you belong to?

830
00:45:55.440 --> 00:45:57.620
And I said, you, and he said, who does this problem belong to?

831
00:45:57.620 --> 00:46:01.460
And I said, me, because you guys, I knew not to take this job.

832
00:46:01.460 --> 00:46:05.360
I felt it in my gut, but I wanted it.

833
00:46:05.360 --> 00:46:07.540
I wanted to work for this person.

834
00:46:07.540 --> 00:46:11.220
I wanted the prestige of that.

835
00:46:11.220 --> 00:46:20.040
I wanted the proximity of it, and I didn't listen, and now I'm in what God was trying

836
00:46:20.040 --> 00:46:21.940
to actually save me from.

837
00:46:21.940 --> 00:46:22.940
God saw this coming.

838
00:46:22.940 --> 00:46:24.200
He knew what this person was like.

839
00:46:24.200 --> 00:46:25.200
He knew their character.

840
00:46:25.200 --> 00:46:28.500
He knew.

841
00:46:28.500 --> 00:46:32.380
He tried to show me at the very beginning before I said yes to the job, but I ignored

842
00:46:32.380 --> 00:46:33.380
it, y'all.

843
00:46:33.380 --> 00:46:43.860
I drove through all of those stop signs, all of those red lights, okay, and so did my husband.

844
00:46:43.860 --> 00:46:45.380
He also didn't give me wise counsel.

845
00:46:45.380 --> 00:46:46.380
He regrets this too.

846
00:46:46.380 --> 00:46:49.500
Both of us are like, man, we were orphans.

847
00:46:49.500 --> 00:46:50.500
We wanted significance.

848
00:46:50.500 --> 00:46:55.560
We wanted to work for this spiritual father, and we were willing to just basically give

849
00:46:55.560 --> 00:46:59.120
up our mental health for it, and we did.

850
00:46:59.120 --> 00:47:02.360
It was during this time that God said, if you belong to me, this problem belongs to

851
00:47:02.360 --> 00:47:03.360
me, and guess what, Jackie?

852
00:47:03.360 --> 00:47:10.400
I don't have any problems, and that is where the Jesus Cares Board was born.

853
00:47:10.400 --> 00:47:16.960
I was so ... I had so much anxiety, you guys, that the only way that I could get it off

854
00:47:16.960 --> 00:47:21.380
of my body was to physically get it off of my body by writing it down and putting it

855
00:47:21.380 --> 00:47:29.020
on a place, a prophetic place where God has promised to care for me and my cares when

856
00:47:29.020 --> 00:47:30.740
I cast them upon him.

857
00:47:30.740 --> 00:47:31.740
I cast them upon him.

858
00:47:31.740 --> 00:47:41.180
I took them off myself and put them on him physically, and it changed my life.

859
00:47:41.180 --> 00:47:46.220
I pray and hope that it's changing your life too as you are obedient to making it, right?

860
00:47:46.480 --> 00:47:52.320
It's part of that beginning of this whole process, so don't sleep on that, okay?

861
00:47:52.320 --> 00:47:56.880
So those unsolvable problems, you know where to put them, and it's either going to become

862
00:47:56.880 --> 00:47:57.880
a non-problem.

863
00:47:57.880 --> 00:47:59.800
That's what happens to my Jesus Cares Board.

864
00:47:59.800 --> 00:48:03.600
It becomes a non-problem because I was making it into a problem apparently, and it really

865
00:48:03.600 --> 00:48:06.480
wasn't a problem, right?

866
00:48:06.480 --> 00:48:10.360
Not that, but I'm just saying the things on my Jesus Cares Board, and then some of them

867
00:48:10.360 --> 00:48:12.040
just get solved like this one.

868
00:48:12.040 --> 00:48:13.520
For those of you who are like, hey, what happened?

869
00:48:13.520 --> 00:48:14.520
What happened?

870
00:48:14.520 --> 00:48:15.520
What happened?

871
00:48:15.820 --> 00:48:16.820
I prayed to God.

872
00:48:16.820 --> 00:48:17.820
He told me, gave me instruction.

873
00:48:17.820 --> 00:48:21.340
Sometimes you put something on the Jesus Cares Board, you'll get instruction, and I did.

874
00:48:21.340 --> 00:48:23.940
He said, do not answer any more emails from these lawyers.

875
00:48:23.940 --> 00:48:25.900
You guys, that sounded like bad advice.

876
00:48:25.900 --> 00:48:30.660
I mean, these people are threatening me and accusing me, and if I stop responding to them,

877
00:48:30.660 --> 00:48:36.860
oh, you guys, I can't tell you how much anxiety that gave me in my mind, but in my heart,

878
00:48:36.860 --> 00:48:37.860
I had peace.

879
00:48:37.860 --> 00:48:40.900
I was going to trust the Lord, and I knew that I had heard from him, because trust me,

880
00:48:40.900 --> 00:48:44.620
I would never come up with a crazy scheme like that.

881
00:48:44.720 --> 00:48:45.720
And so I did.

882
00:48:45.720 --> 00:48:49.200
I stopped responding, and I stopped responding, and I stopped responding, and I stopped responding,

883
00:48:49.200 --> 00:48:54.720
and little by little, the emails stopped coming, and of course, in my mind, I'm like, oh, no.

884
00:48:54.720 --> 00:48:56.000
They're plotting.

885
00:48:56.000 --> 00:48:57.000
The lawsuit's gone forward.

886
00:48:57.000 --> 00:48:59.440
I'm going to get served papers any day.

887
00:48:59.440 --> 00:49:00.620
They're not threatening anymore.

888
00:49:00.620 --> 00:49:07.080
Now they've taken action, and then I got one last email, and it wasn't from the lawyers.

889
00:49:07.080 --> 00:49:13.040
It was from someone else in this situation that had proximity and power, and they said,

890
00:49:13.380 --> 00:49:18.180
hey, listen, tell me the whole story, and I told them the whole story, because I felt

891
00:49:18.180 --> 00:49:23.380
led to because they had proximity and power to the situation, and I never heard from anybody

892
00:49:23.380 --> 00:49:26.180
ever again.

893
00:49:26.180 --> 00:49:27.460
That ended it.

894
00:49:27.460 --> 00:49:28.960
That was the end.

895
00:49:28.960 --> 00:49:29.960
I told the truth.

896
00:49:29.960 --> 00:49:34.620
I told the whole truth and nothing but the truth, and finally was able to share the truth

897
00:49:34.620 --> 00:49:35.620
with the right person.

898
00:49:35.620 --> 00:49:38.680
I didn't want to tell just anybody that, and guess what?

899
00:49:38.680 --> 00:49:39.680
It ended.

900
00:49:39.680 --> 00:49:40.680
It ended, y'all.

901
00:49:40.680 --> 00:49:41.180
It ended.

902
00:49:44.040 --> 00:49:45.820
Praise God.

903
00:49:45.820 --> 00:49:46.820
It ended.

904
00:49:46.820 --> 00:49:53.460
All right, test five, a senseless loss, or I'm going to call this test Y.

905
00:49:53.460 --> 00:49:56.700
How many of you have gone through the Y test?

906
00:49:56.700 --> 00:49:59.980
Y, Y, Y, Y, Y, God, Y, Y, Y, Y, Y.

907
00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:06.280
And this could be someone that you love who passed away, you don't understand.

908
00:50:06.280 --> 00:50:07.880
And remember, God didn't take them.

909
00:50:07.880 --> 00:50:12.160
You know, God doesn't ever visit evil upon people, just so you know.

910
00:50:12.160 --> 00:50:15.760
If religion taught you that, it lied to you.

911
00:50:15.760 --> 00:50:18.520
Okay, God doesn't tempt us.

912
00:50:18.520 --> 00:50:20.560
He tests us.

913
00:50:20.560 --> 00:50:21.640
It's very different.

914
00:50:21.640 --> 00:50:25.760
And God never tests people with sickness or disease, sin.

915
00:50:25.760 --> 00:50:27.080
He doesn't do that, you guys.

916
00:50:27.080 --> 00:50:29.640
That is not biblical.

917
00:50:29.640 --> 00:50:31.840
God did not give you cancer to test you.

918
00:50:31.840 --> 00:50:35.760
He didn't give it to your mother or father or your kid to test you.

919
00:50:35.760 --> 00:50:38.840
He didn't take your child from you to test you.

920
00:50:38.840 --> 00:50:40.760
He did not.

921
00:50:40.760 --> 00:50:43.240
There's evil in the world.

922
00:50:43.240 --> 00:50:52.160
There's evil in the world, okay?

923
00:50:52.160 --> 00:50:56.720
I remember there was this really popular Christian song back when I was just coming out of religion,

924
00:50:56.720 --> 00:50:58.480
y'all, just coming out of religion.

925
00:50:58.480 --> 00:51:01.560
This is like 20 years ago.

926
00:51:01.560 --> 00:51:03.560
And this song, you guys might have heard it.

927
00:51:03.560 --> 00:51:08.560
The chorus or the hook, the refrain of it is, God gives and takes away.

928
00:51:08.560 --> 00:51:09.880
He gives and takes away.

929
00:51:09.880 --> 00:51:12.320
But I will always say, blessed be the Lord.

930
00:51:12.320 --> 00:51:14.920
Blessed be the name of the Lord.

931
00:51:14.920 --> 00:51:16.480
Remember that song?

932
00:51:16.480 --> 00:51:17.480
Okay.

933
00:51:17.480 --> 00:51:20.640
So I would get to, I was going through a hard time, y'all, hard time.

934
00:51:20.640 --> 00:51:22.280
My pastor went to prison.

935
00:51:22.280 --> 00:51:24.340
I was in the middle of a divorce.

936
00:51:24.340 --> 00:51:27.380
And I would get to, like, I remember one day I was scrubbing the bottom of the shower and

937
00:51:27.380 --> 00:51:28.380
that song was on.

938
00:51:28.380 --> 00:51:29.380
And I'm just scrubbing.

939
00:51:29.380 --> 00:51:30.380
I'm like, I'm crying.

940
00:51:30.380 --> 00:51:35.380
I'm like, you know, yes, God gives and he takes away, but I'm going to still praise

941
00:51:35.380 --> 00:51:36.380
you, God.

942
00:51:36.380 --> 00:51:38.020
I'm still going to be faithful.

943
00:51:38.020 --> 00:51:41.740
And you know, and the message in that is, I'm going to be faithful, God, even when you're

944
00:51:41.740 --> 00:51:44.740
not faithful, right?

945
00:51:44.740 --> 00:51:48.060
Even when you slay me like dope, I'm going to praise you.

946
00:51:48.060 --> 00:51:53.340
No, y'all, that story is mistaught everywhere.

947
00:51:53.340 --> 00:51:54.540
And that's when God stopped me.

948
00:51:54.540 --> 00:51:56.180
He's like, oh, little girl.

949
00:51:56.180 --> 00:52:00.700
I got to stop you right there because I never took anything good away from you.

950
00:52:00.700 --> 00:52:05.180
He's like, I'm the giver of good gifts, not the taker of good gifts.

951
00:52:05.180 --> 00:52:06.180
Okay.

952
00:52:06.180 --> 00:52:10.660
He's like, I have given you peace and joy.

953
00:52:10.660 --> 00:52:14.500
Maybe you haven't picked it up at will call, but I have given you, you know, the Bible

954
00:52:14.500 --> 00:52:19.060
says that every good and precious gift comes down from the father of light.

955
00:52:19.060 --> 00:52:20.060
All of it.

956
00:52:20.060 --> 00:52:22.060
If it's good, it's from God.

957
00:52:22.060 --> 00:52:23.780
If it's not good, guess who it's not from.

958
00:52:23.780 --> 00:52:24.780
It's not from God.

959
00:52:25.780 --> 00:52:28.940
Now you found yourself in it somehow.

960
00:52:28.940 --> 00:52:31.620
God didn't take it away from you, but you might've lost it somehow.

961
00:52:31.620 --> 00:52:36.340
It might've been stolen by the enemy somehow, but he didn't take it.

962
00:52:36.340 --> 00:52:37.420
You know what he does take away?

963
00:52:37.420 --> 00:52:41.260
Your sin and your guilt and your shame.

964
00:52:41.260 --> 00:52:50.180
Come on, put a list right now in the comments, the things that God takes away, takes away

965
00:52:50.180 --> 00:52:55.820
your fear, takes away chaos.

966
00:52:55.820 --> 00:52:59.620
When he gives his peace, he says, I don't give my peace the way the world gives it.

967
00:52:59.620 --> 00:53:02.420
Cause that's conditional peace, temporary peace.

968
00:53:02.420 --> 00:53:05.660
He said, I give it so that it devours chaos.

969
00:53:05.660 --> 00:53:08.940
That's what the word peace in the original text of that scripture means.

970
00:53:08.940 --> 00:53:10.660
It means the devourer of chaos.

971
00:53:10.660 --> 00:53:11.660
He is.

972
00:53:11.660 --> 00:53:14.300
My peace doesn't just come.

973
00:53:14.300 --> 00:53:25.060
It devours all the things religion doesn't want us to know right now, today, this morning.

974
00:53:25.060 --> 00:53:28.340
So yes, we have these senseless loss, meaning that we can't make sense of it.

975
00:53:28.340 --> 00:53:29.740
We don't know why it happened to you guys.

976
00:53:29.740 --> 00:53:36.680
Some of those answers may not come until we are fully actualized in this other dimension

977
00:53:36.680 --> 00:53:37.680
that we call heaven.

978
00:53:37.680 --> 00:53:43.140
We might not know fully.

979
00:53:43.140 --> 00:53:46.700
I asked God the other day, why can I not stop grieving my mom after five years?

980
00:53:46.700 --> 00:53:49.260
And he said, because you still feel sorry for her.

981
00:53:49.260 --> 00:53:50.260
I was like, what?

982
00:53:50.260 --> 00:53:53.900
And he's like, you're grieving her because you feel like something horrible has happened

983
00:53:53.900 --> 00:53:54.900
to her.

984
00:53:54.900 --> 00:53:57.940
And you feel sorry for her because she died and something horrible, you know, like she

985
00:53:57.940 --> 00:53:58.940
died.

986
00:53:58.940 --> 00:53:59.940
That's horrible.

987
00:53:59.940 --> 00:54:05.740
He said, and you will not stop grieving her until you get a revelation of heaven.

988
00:54:05.740 --> 00:54:07.420
He goes, she's in a much better place.

989
00:54:07.420 --> 00:54:10.340
He's like, you should stop pitying her and you should pity yourself.

990
00:54:10.340 --> 00:54:22.460
He just means it's a lot better what she's doing than what you're doing.

991
00:54:22.460 --> 00:54:26.100
And until I get that out of that revelation, you guys, I'm still going to feel so sad and

992
00:54:26.100 --> 00:54:30.260
I'm still going to like replay the last moments of her life when he didn't win.

993
00:54:30.260 --> 00:54:34.580
She didn't get to stay on earth and she suffered and she passed.

994
00:54:34.580 --> 00:54:43.220
And I know y'all, her suffering has ended forever more, forever more.

995
00:54:43.220 --> 00:54:44.980
And she did win.

996
00:54:44.980 --> 00:54:48.220
She won the best prize.

997
00:54:48.220 --> 00:54:58.060
But when we don't have a revelation, when our only revelation is temporary, and that

998
00:54:58.060 --> 00:54:59.900
is this world, then we will.

999
00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:02.400
Look at things through the wrong lens, you guys.

1000
00:55:03.360 --> 00:55:06.240
We will, and I do, and I'm here to admit that.

1001
00:55:06.240 --> 00:55:07.880
I'm here to confess that.

1002
00:55:07.880 --> 00:55:09.640
So last test, prolonged pain.

1003
00:55:09.640 --> 00:55:11.280
Some of you have been in pain in your flesh

1004
00:55:11.280 --> 00:55:12.880
for a prolonged period of time,

1005
00:55:12.880 --> 00:55:15.160
whether it's some kind of disability,

1006
00:55:15.160 --> 00:55:17.220
whether it's some kind of family problem,

1007
00:55:17.220 --> 00:55:19.400
some kind of thorn in the flesh problem,

1008
00:55:19.400 --> 00:55:21.200
something that continues.

1009
00:55:21.200 --> 00:55:23.120
You know, some of you are going through long, long,

1010
00:55:23.120 --> 00:55:25.760
drawn-out legal battles with your former spouses

1011
00:55:25.760 --> 00:55:28.120
in custody situations.

1012
00:55:28.160 --> 00:55:30.800
I understand, I have been there.

1013
00:55:30.800 --> 00:55:33.440
I went through a battle with my mental health

1014
00:55:33.440 --> 00:55:36.240
to the point of people wanted to institutionalize me,

1015
00:55:36.240 --> 00:55:38.760
and this is after I knew Jesus, you guys.

1016
00:55:38.760 --> 00:55:41.900
This is not pre-Jesus, this is after Jesus.

1017
00:55:43.040 --> 00:55:44.240
And I remember just thinking,

1018
00:55:44.240 --> 00:55:45.960
hey, you know, this is probably the way

1019
00:55:45.960 --> 00:55:46.860
I'm gonna have to live,

1020
00:55:46.860 --> 00:55:48.800
and I'm just gonna have to trust the Lord,

1021
00:55:48.800 --> 00:55:51.100
and if this is my life, then this is my life.

1022
00:55:53.520 --> 00:55:56.360
If I have to live with a broken mind that cannot be fixed,

1023
00:55:56.360 --> 00:55:57.920
then this is my life,

1024
00:55:57.920 --> 00:56:00.040
and I'm just gonna have to make peace with it

1025
00:56:00.040 --> 00:56:04.640
after struggling with this acutely, you guys,

1026
00:56:04.640 --> 00:56:05.680
for more than a decade,

1027
00:56:05.680 --> 00:56:07.660
meaning that I could not function.

1028
00:56:09.840 --> 00:56:10.680
Couldn't function.

1029
00:56:10.680 --> 00:56:14.200
It's part of the reason why my first marriage ended,

1030
00:56:14.200 --> 00:56:15.760
because when people cannot handle

1031
00:56:15.760 --> 00:56:17.960
being in relationship with people

1032
00:56:17.960 --> 00:56:22.960
that are clinically unstable, like in pain,

1033
00:56:23.960 --> 00:56:26.480
like when you're with someone who's in pain,

1034
00:56:26.480 --> 00:56:28.480
whether it's physical or mental,

1035
00:56:28.480 --> 00:56:29.820
for long periods of time,

1036
00:56:29.820 --> 00:56:32.360
it's very, very, very debilitating

1037
00:56:32.360 --> 00:56:33.680
for that other person, too,

1038
00:56:33.680 --> 00:56:38.680
and some people become abusive in that situation,

1039
00:56:39.240 --> 00:56:40.400
because there's so much fear,

1040
00:56:40.400 --> 00:56:41.440
and there's so much anger,

1041
00:56:41.440 --> 00:56:43.060
and there's so much confusion.

1042
00:56:43.920 --> 00:56:44.760
They don't mean to.

1043
00:56:44.760 --> 00:56:48.720
My former spouse is not a horrible monster of a person,

1044
00:56:48.720 --> 00:56:50.580
and he's happily remarried to someone

1045
00:56:50.580 --> 00:56:53.000
who doesn't have those issues,

1046
00:56:53.980 --> 00:56:55.760
but when we're in relationship with someone

1047
00:56:55.760 --> 00:56:59.500
who has chronic health issues or mental health issues,

1048
00:56:59.500 --> 00:57:01.500
and they're always in pain,

1049
00:57:01.500 --> 00:57:03.400
it's very difficult to be that spouse,

1050
00:57:04.700 --> 00:57:06.900
especially when you're young.

1051
00:57:06.900 --> 00:57:07.740
We were in our 20s.

1052
00:57:07.740 --> 00:57:10.720
We were young, okay?

1053
00:57:12.980 --> 00:57:14.180
But I'm here to tell you guys

1054
00:57:14.180 --> 00:57:16.900
that I don't have those issues anymore,

1055
00:57:16.900 --> 00:57:19.540
but maybe you're in the test of how long,

1056
00:57:19.540 --> 00:57:20.580
how long, God?

1057
00:57:20.580 --> 00:57:21.420
How long?

1058
00:57:21.420 --> 00:57:22.240
I was in that test.

1059
00:57:22.240 --> 00:57:23.420
How long?

1060
00:57:23.420 --> 00:57:24.260
How long?

1061
00:57:24.260 --> 00:57:25.100
And I will tell you,

1062
00:57:25.100 --> 00:57:26.900
and maybe this is helpful for some of you,

1063
00:57:26.900 --> 00:57:30.180
I had to let go of some other things

1064
00:57:30.180 --> 00:57:33.080
in order to get the healing that was already there for me.

1065
00:57:35.100 --> 00:57:37.340
I needed to change locations

1066
00:57:37.340 --> 00:57:40.080
in order to get the healing that was there for me,

1067
00:57:40.080 --> 00:57:42.380
and there's some changes that needed to happen

1068
00:57:43.340 --> 00:57:46.260
that I was resisting

1069
00:57:47.100 --> 00:57:49.060
because of bad information

1070
00:57:49.060 --> 00:57:53.340
in order to get the healing that was there for me, okay?

1071
00:57:53.340 --> 00:57:55.140
Yeah, I would love it if I would've went to an altar

1072
00:57:55.140 --> 00:57:57.020
and someone laid hands on me and one and done,

1073
00:57:57.020 --> 00:57:58.620
and I would've just been healed,

1074
00:57:58.620 --> 00:58:01.420
and sometimes that's how things happen,

1075
00:58:01.420 --> 00:58:02.900
but oftentimes it's not.

1076
00:58:02.900 --> 00:58:05.020
Oftentimes, the problem that you're having

1077
00:58:05.020 --> 00:58:07.740
that has you in prolonged pain is connected.

1078
00:58:07.740 --> 00:58:09.700
It has tentacles, and it's tethered

1079
00:58:09.700 --> 00:58:10.980
to all kinds of other things

1080
00:58:10.980 --> 00:58:12.620
that need to change in your life.

1081
00:58:16.420 --> 00:58:17.820
So instead of asking God for healing,

1082
00:58:17.820 --> 00:58:19.000
ask him for wisdom.

1083
00:58:20.140 --> 00:58:21.580
Instead of asking God for deliverance

1084
00:58:21.580 --> 00:58:23.660
from the situation with a person

1085
00:58:23.660 --> 00:58:25.980
that is tormenting you in a lawsuit

1086
00:58:25.980 --> 00:58:27.340
or whatever the prolonged pain is,

1087
00:58:27.340 --> 00:58:29.220
ask God for wisdom.

1088
00:58:29.220 --> 00:58:32.320
Ask God to show you what you can do

1089
00:58:32.320 --> 00:58:36.980
every single day towards what he has for you

1090
00:58:36.980 --> 00:58:39.060
because some of us are suffering needlessly.

1091
00:58:39.060 --> 00:58:40.100
We're in prolonged pain,

1092
00:58:40.100 --> 00:58:42.600
but we don't need to be there anymore.

1093
00:58:42.600 --> 00:58:43.940
All right, and just sum it up tonight.

1094
00:58:43.940 --> 00:58:44.980
You got today, you guys,

1095
00:58:44.980 --> 00:58:47.420
and you can go tomorrow night to activate this.

1096
00:58:47.420 --> 00:58:50.640
God doesn't tempt us, but he does test us.

1097
00:58:50.640 --> 00:58:52.340
Remember, he never tests us with sin,

1098
00:58:52.340 --> 00:58:54.940
sickness, or disease, any of those things.

1099
00:58:54.940 --> 00:58:56.180
He does give and take away,

1100
00:58:56.180 --> 00:58:58.940
but he never takes anything good from you.

1101
00:58:58.940 --> 00:59:00.300
It may have been lost or stolen,

1102
00:59:00.300 --> 00:59:02.180
but then you can ask for it to be returned

1103
00:59:02.180 --> 00:59:03.900
because I don't think that it's an accident

1104
00:59:03.900 --> 00:59:08.340
that Joel 225 or 2025,

1105
00:59:08.340 --> 00:59:12.020
Joel 225 is I will restore the years

1106
00:59:12.020 --> 00:59:14.740
that the locusts have eaten.

1107
00:59:14.780 --> 00:59:15.940
Come on, y'all.

1108
00:59:15.940 --> 00:59:17.940
That means restoring time and fruit,

1109
00:59:17.940 --> 00:59:20.740
not just fruit, but time,

1110
00:59:20.740 --> 00:59:22.220
not just the things that were lost,

1111
00:59:22.220 --> 00:59:24.540
but the time that was lost,

1112
00:59:24.540 --> 00:59:27.300
the potential that was lost.

1113
00:59:27.300 --> 00:59:29.660
I feel like we're in a Joel 225 year.

1114
00:59:31.700 --> 00:59:33.020
And remember, the Bible says,

1115
00:59:33.020 --> 00:59:36.200
when troubles of any kind come your way,

1116
00:59:36.200 --> 00:59:37.600
this is James 1.

1117
00:59:39.220 --> 00:59:40.360
It says that they're gonna come.

1118
00:59:40.360 --> 00:59:41.700
Jesus promised us they would come.

1119
00:59:41.700 --> 00:59:43.780
He said, in this wife, you're gonna have trouble.

1120
00:59:43.780 --> 00:59:44.860
He told us.

1121
00:59:44.860 --> 00:59:46.860
And then James is saying, when they come,

1122
00:59:46.860 --> 00:59:49.100
not if they come, but when they come,

1123
00:59:49.100 --> 00:59:51.020
any kind, doesn't matter what kind they are,

1124
00:59:51.020 --> 00:59:52.540
kinds that you created for yourself,

1125
00:59:52.540 --> 00:59:54.700
kinds that other people created for you,

1126
00:59:54.700 --> 00:59:57.420
kinds that just come because of the curse on the earth,

1127
00:59:57.420 --> 00:59:59.940
when troubles of any kind come your way.

1128
01:00:00.000 --> 01:00:01.840
Now when God sends them your way,

1129
01:00:01.840 --> 01:00:04.280
God doesn't send you into trouble, you guys.

1130
01:00:04.280 --> 01:00:06.640
Jesus already told you, if you live in this world,

1131
01:00:06.640 --> 01:00:07.780
you're gonna have it.

1132
01:00:10.160 --> 01:00:11.300
It's everywhere.

1133
01:00:13.960 --> 01:00:16.680
James says, consider an opportunity for great joy,

1134
01:00:16.680 --> 01:00:18.960
for you know that when your faith is tested,

1135
01:00:18.960 --> 01:00:21.000
your endurance, it will be fully developed

1136
01:00:21.000 --> 01:00:24.160
and you will be perfect, lacking and needing nothing.

1137
01:00:25.920 --> 01:00:27.580
We know that our faith is tried in the fire,

1138
01:00:27.580 --> 01:00:29.260
none of us like that.

1139
01:00:29.260 --> 01:00:32.200
But we also know that God doesn't bring us to those fires,

1140
01:00:32.200 --> 01:00:34.140
but he brings us through those fires.

1141
01:00:36.040 --> 01:00:37.600
Which reminds me, please continue to pray

1142
01:00:37.600 --> 01:00:39.880
for our friends in California.

1143
01:00:41.840 --> 01:00:45.360
God did not do this, God is not judging people, you guys.

1144
01:00:45.360 --> 01:00:48.100
He's not, don't believe stuff like that.

1145
01:00:50.680 --> 01:00:52.380
In fact, they think this is arson.

1146
01:00:52.480 --> 01:00:55.480
So today for the divine exchange, for the activation,

1147
01:00:55.480 --> 01:00:58.440
because he does give and he does take away,

1148
01:00:58.440 --> 01:01:01.040
I want you to decide what you're going to give to him

1149
01:01:01.040 --> 01:01:02.720
that you want him to take away.

1150
01:01:05.440 --> 01:01:08.240
Remember, he promises this beauty for ashes.

1151
01:01:08.240 --> 01:01:11.080
And yes, we're all being tested, we're all being tried,

1152
01:01:11.080 --> 01:01:13.280
but we're all passing those tests.

1153
01:01:13.280 --> 01:01:15.280
And I wanna end with this, I know we're one minute over,

1154
01:01:15.280 --> 01:01:17.320
but just stick with me for one second.

1155
01:01:17.320 --> 01:01:20.120
God gave us the ability to live in this world

1156
01:01:20.140 --> 01:01:21.980
and I want you to stick with me for one second.

1157
01:01:21.980 --> 01:01:25.460
God gave me a vision in my mind's eye of myself

1158
01:01:25.460 --> 01:01:26.380
when I was a little girl.

1159
01:01:26.380 --> 01:01:28.100
This is a true story that really happened,

1160
01:01:28.100 --> 01:01:29.540
but I forgot about it.

1161
01:01:29.540 --> 01:01:32.860
And God dug it out of my memory, my core memories,

1162
01:01:32.860 --> 01:01:35.780
and he brought it up to the surface for this call.

1163
01:01:35.780 --> 01:01:38.960
And I'm very careful not to release words

1164
01:01:38.960 --> 01:01:41.380
over other people that are just for me.

1165
01:01:41.380 --> 01:01:43.460
And I know that this word is for me,

1166
01:01:43.460 --> 01:01:45.220
but I never wanna release words

1167
01:01:45.220 --> 01:01:47.980
that are not for everybody else.

1168
01:01:48.000 --> 01:01:49.120
Because sometimes God will give you stuff

1169
01:01:49.120 --> 01:01:50.720
that's just for yourself.

1170
01:01:50.720 --> 01:01:53.160
And so I don't wanna release stuff over y'all

1171
01:01:53.160 --> 01:01:57.480
and give you inappropriate understanding

1172
01:01:57.480 --> 01:01:59.720
of what God might be doing or telling you

1173
01:01:59.720 --> 01:02:01.200
when it's not for you.

1174
01:02:01.200 --> 01:02:02.960
But I do feel like I can release this.

1175
01:02:02.960 --> 01:02:04.480
And so when I was little,

1176
01:02:04.480 --> 01:02:06.440
and you guys, for those of you that are older,

1177
01:02:06.440 --> 01:02:10.640
you know that Gen X and the baby boomer generation,

1178
01:02:10.640 --> 01:02:12.840
we just were different, okay?

1179
01:02:12.840 --> 01:02:15.920
We didn't have parental supervision all the time.

1180
01:02:15.920 --> 01:02:17.880
And so when I was about seven years old,

1181
01:02:18.660 --> 01:02:19.500
between first and second grade,

1182
01:02:19.500 --> 01:02:23.020
our neighborhood had a pool and I rode my bike to the pool

1183
01:02:23.020 --> 01:02:25.460
and went swimming there every day.

1184
01:02:25.460 --> 01:02:27.700
There were lifeguards, don't worry, there were adults,

1185
01:02:27.700 --> 01:02:29.980
just not any adults that were related to me.

1186
01:02:29.980 --> 01:02:32.760
Because when you were a kid, you were allowed to do that.

1187
01:02:32.760 --> 01:02:34.140
I think if you were over five,

1188
01:02:34.140 --> 01:02:36.740
you were allowed to go to the pool by yourself.

1189
01:02:36.740 --> 01:02:40.280
Okay, so I wanted to go into the deep end of the pool.

1190
01:02:41.460 --> 01:02:44.140
And at this pool, they gave you an ankle bracelet

1191
01:02:44.140 --> 01:02:46.260
that was red, it had a red stop sign on it,

1192
01:02:46.260 --> 01:02:47.580
it was a little red bungee cord,

1193
01:02:48.240 --> 01:02:49.400
you put it on your ankle, it had a red stop sign,

1194
01:02:49.400 --> 01:02:50.760
and that told the lifeguards

1195
01:02:50.760 --> 01:02:52.160
that you were not supposed to be anywhere

1196
01:02:52.160 --> 01:02:55.520
but the shallow end of the pool, okay?

1197
01:02:55.520 --> 01:02:57.480
But during break time, when all the lifeguards

1198
01:02:57.480 --> 01:02:59.440
would take a break, everyone had to get out of the pool,

1199
01:02:59.440 --> 01:03:01.040
they would do swim tests,

1200
01:03:01.040 --> 01:03:03.280
where if you swam the entire length

1201
01:03:03.280 --> 01:03:05.760
of the Olympic-sized pool without stopping,

1202
01:03:05.760 --> 01:03:08.160
you would be able to get your white ankle bracelet,

1203
01:03:08.160 --> 01:03:11.040
which said that you had access to the whole pool.

1204
01:03:11.040 --> 01:03:13.620
And this particular day, I'm riding my pink,

1205
01:03:13.620 --> 01:03:16.320
white banana seat bike fast to the pool

1206
01:03:16.340 --> 01:03:18.700
because I'm gonna get there right in time for break time

1207
01:03:18.700 --> 01:03:21.100
because I'm gonna take the test,

1208
01:03:21.100 --> 01:03:22.740
and I'm gonna get my white bracelet

1209
01:03:22.740 --> 01:03:25.540
so that I can go in the deep end with my friends.

1210
01:03:25.540 --> 01:03:27.020
And you know what, I did.

1211
01:03:27.020 --> 01:03:29.140
I swam like a little guppy across the entire pool,

1212
01:03:29.140 --> 01:03:31.820
I got my white bracelet and I got all access to the pool,

1213
01:03:31.820 --> 01:03:33.380
and God reminded me of that.

1214
01:03:33.380 --> 01:03:34.780
And then he said to me, he said,

1215
01:03:34.780 --> 01:03:37.260
Jackie, he said, you passed the test.

1216
01:03:37.260 --> 01:03:39.900
He said, I'm promoting you to all access.

1217
01:03:39.900 --> 01:03:42.020
And I won't tell you what tests I passed

1218
01:03:42.020 --> 01:03:44.260
because I asked him, and you can ask him too.

1219
01:03:44.260 --> 01:03:45.860
I said, God, what test was I taking

1220
01:03:46.360 --> 01:03:49.400
and what did I pass and what do I have access to now?

1221
01:03:49.400 --> 01:03:51.800
I encourage you to dig in with God on that.

1222
01:03:51.800 --> 01:03:54.160
You can come tomorrow night and activate that with the group.

1223
01:03:54.160 --> 01:03:56.680
You can share if you get information on that

1224
01:03:56.680 --> 01:03:59.960
based on what it is that God's saying to you.

1225
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But I just wanna encourage you that God is saying

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that we are passing tests, that we are.

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We are passing them.

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So for those of you that this whole phone call

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made you feel like a total failure

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that's never passed a test in your life,

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you're wrong, it's not true.

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And I wanna encourage you to pray into that little vision

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I had of little Jackie passing her swim test

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and ask God, hey, what tests have I been passing

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and what do I have access to?

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01:04:25.380 --> 01:04:27.500
You guys, I have a lot of different memberships

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and different things for different things

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and I don't know all the benefits to all the memberships.

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And that's dumb of me.

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You know why?

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Because I have access to those things

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but I don't know what they are.

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And so you gotta be praying and asking God

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01:04:40.760 --> 01:04:44.780
what you have access to as a member of the family of God,

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01:04:44.780 --> 01:04:48.260
as his child and also as the person

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01:04:48.260 --> 01:04:51.820
who has passed whatever test it is in your life

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and now there could be all this stuff

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just waiting for you to enjoy that you're not enjoying

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because you simply don't know it's there.

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And so Father God, I thank you.

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Thank you for this word.

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I pray that you would seal it in,

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that you would cause all of us

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to take a deeper, introspective look

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01:05:06.440 --> 01:05:08.040
at the things that you've blessed us with,

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the things you've given us access to.

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Tell us about the test that we're taking now

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or the test that we've already passed

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and help us to enjoy the benefits

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that you have given us through your son, Jesus Christ.

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Amen.

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Love y'all.

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Happy Saturday.