Good morning, everyone. Happy Saturday. Jackie, if you don't know, has been on a great adventure
in Vegas. And they got in really late last night after some of their festivities. And
so she might join us still. But as of right now, I'm going to go ahead and kick the call
off this morning. We're so glad that you're joining us. And what we're going to do is
I have just a not like a big word like Jackie, but I have something to kick us off with this
morning that I really believe is going to help us as a community to partner with what
God is already said through Jackie, as she launched us into this new year 2025. But also,
what is he saying today? Like, what is he saying for us today? And I have one word that
led into a couple other things. And I want to kind of launch that out to you this morning.
Again, welcome. My name is Bethany Cooper. I forgot to say that if y'all don't know who
I am. I'm one of the heartwork coaches here in the community and also on the executive
team for last year single. And this morning, what God was saying was to lean into what
Jackie released on the January 4 call about what were the words for our community for
2025. And she said year of intention and the year of the supernatural. And as we really
lean into keeping the vision plain in front of us, we want to be thinking about what do
those words mean? And like, what areas is God trying to lead us into every single day?
Like what does it look like today to lean into intention? What does it look like today
for you to partner with the supernatural of heaven, not just by might nor by power, but
by his spirit that we can do anything. So many of us are like, we dig our heels in and
we're like, yeah, I'm not doing that. Y'all, if you don't know my story, I said I was never
going to move. And I had valid reasons because my girls lived where I lived, but God had
other plans for me. Some of you say, yeah, no, I can't stay with somebody that I don't
know. I can't, you know, do this or do that. What if, what if we need to let go of all
the things we can't do or won't do. And in the year of the supernatural say, God, what
would you have me do? And then go do that. And every day that that would be a declaration,
God, what would you have me do today? Is there something that I can do to stretch, to grow,
to heal so that I can open myself to more things out of my comfort zone? Because guess
what you all, a lot of times we find our spirit mates and we find the blessing of God when
we get out of our comfort zones. Here's the other word God said to release this morning
as I was thinking on this, because, you know, I respond to a lot of people in this community
and I want you to know, I have been afraid to do things in my life too. All the time.
We just moved six months ago from Indiana to Florida. I've never moved that far away.
Was there fear? Was there uncertainty? Was there all these what ifs before we even did
that? Absolutely. Has that also come up after we've been here? Absolutely. What if this
doesn't work? What if that the enemy loves to get us into anxiety and fear, but if we
partner with the supernatural in faith and walk in that, we can literally counteract
every anxious thought that we have. And so here's the word. The word is stretch. The
word is stretch. How do we lean into the year of attention? How do we lean into the year
of the supernatural? You all we stretch. A lot of us don't maybe like to hear that word
because that means guess what? We can't stay the way we are. We can't stay the way we are.
So I want you to think about a couple things with this word. Matthew 12, 13 says this.
Jesus told a man with a withered hand to stretch out his hand and it would be healed. Think
about that. Jesus could have literally just healed the man's hand. But why did he ask
him to stretch it out? Because I do think that we have to partner with what God is already
going to give us and step into faith. When I looked into this word this morning, the
stretch out, it actually says stretch forth, which is a verb to take action, to extend,
to lengthen, to spread, to make demands on one's capacity or resources, or make the maximum
use of something. So where do you need to extend today? Where do you need to stretch
forth in an area where it feels impossible or scary and get out of your comfort zone?
Maybe it's driving several hours to get connected in our community. You always say so
many times that's too far. That's too far. And I love you all. Please know I love you.
But here's the thing. I was thinking about this for my job years ago. I had to drive
three to four hours multiple times a day. It was a part of my job. So guess what? I
did it. But so often we say, no, I can't. No, I can't. But we could.
Is it inconvenient?
Yeah, probably.
But if you get to be in community, how awesome is that?
What if somebody that you met knows your spirit mate?
We want everything to be given to us
and brought right to us like a buffet table, don't we?
But God's like, come on, stretch forth your hand,
stretch forth and extend, grow your capacity,
get out of your comfort zone.
You know, what is it that God is asking you?
Even right now, I'm sure and confident
that some of you are hearing things that God is saying,
you know, do this, go for it.
Don't wait for your spirit mate to come
to do the thing that you've been wanting to do.
Y'all, let's do these things.
Let's do these things.
Okay, I'm gonna keep going.
So when we think about even stretching physically,
when we stretch our bodies, we become more flexible.
Some of us, y'all, I used to have a problem
with being flexible in my spirit.
Because of the trauma and things I went through,
I subconsciously liked to have control.
And so it felt uncomfortable for me when people would,
you know, show up in like last minute, have plans
and I didn't have that planned.
Or maybe we had another plan and then the plans changed.
Can anyone relate to this?
Does anyone else struggle with, hey, no,
this wasn't the plan, I don't wanna do this plan,
I wanna do the other plan, you know,
where we're just in our spirits.
We're like, no, I wanna have control.
I wanna stay in the zone where I'm at.
I don't wanna go do that thing.
I remember when Brian and I started dating,
we came up with this phrase, scheduled spontaneity.
And I thought that was so funny
because that is kind of where I live.
Yeah, I can be spontaneous,
but I want it to be scheduled in advance.
But you know what?
God had other plans.
Do you know how many spontaneous things God has sent my way
in the last few years?
We had, Florida was not even on our radar, you all.
It wasn't even on our radar, but God had it on his radar.
And there's so many reasons that he brought us here
that we don't even fully know yet,
but we had to be willing to stretch.
My girls are the farthest away from me
than they've ever been.
Is that hard?
Yes.
But am I willing to let God stretch me
to get more intentional on how I can still
make it a very personal relationship with them,
get on a plane, travel?
There's so many things you all,
but typically the enemy wants us to shut down and say,
nope, I can't do that because of this, this, and this.
So maybe we need to stretch our bodies today.
Maybe we need to stretch our spirit today
and step into being more flexible, being more open,
opening our hearts and letting the father come straight in
into every area where we would no longer,
one of our sisters declared a word in our community
for the brothers, you probably wouldn't have heard this yet,
but she got a word about God lifting the restrictions
and that there would be advanced green lights.
Y'all, that means the green lights are there
before we even get there.
Get that in your spirit.
Y'all, God is turning lights green
before we even get there,
but don't we have to go in order to receive the green light?
I think we do.
I think we need to get on the road
and get driving and get out.
And whatever that means,
it's not just a literal get on the road,
but like take action, move, stretch.
Okay, a couple more things,
and then we're gonna start to pray into this as a community.
When you think about when people challenge themselves
to stretch mentally,
they grow in knowledge and understanding.
When we try to stretch spiritually,
we become stronger in faith and belief, right?
Hopefully our mindsets change and become more heavenly.
Hopefully we grow in love
and we let go of bitterness and unforgiveness.
There's so many things when we're stretching spiritually
that are presented to us.
And so this morning,
God wants you to lengthen, extend, spread wide
to make demands on your capacity and resources,
to not settle for less than his best,
and to make the maximum use of what he's giving you in 2025.
Isaiah 54, two says, enlarge the place of your tent.
Stretch your tent curtains wide.
Sorry, let me just read it from here.
Do not hold back.
Lengthen your cords and strengthen your stakes,
for you will spread to the right and to the left.
Your descendants will dispossess nations
and settle in desolate cities.
Do not be afraid.
You will not be put to shame.
Do not fear disgrace.
You will not be humiliated.
You will forget the shame of your youth
and remember no more the reproach of your widowhood.
For your maker is your husband.
Gentlemen, you can look, think of that in the opposite.
The Lord Almighty is his name.
The Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer.
He is called the God of all the earth.
And obviously, God is our number one.
But y'all, when we're looking for our spirit mate,
don't we need to stretch forth our tents?
Enlarge our thinking, expand in our hearts.
And so I want us to pray.
So what we're gonna do today
is now that I've kind of released this,
we're gonna open it up and do popcorn prayers.
And we're gonna just follow the Holy Spirit today.
But that includes y'all's participation.
What is God saying to you even as I release this word?
Let's partner with the word of the year of intention,
the year of supernatural,
and stretching to extend and see what God has planned.
I'm gonna go ahead and pray.
And then after that, I'll open it up to you all
to start popcorn praying into this as well.
So Father, we just thank you.
We thank you for everything that you're doing in our lives.
We thank you that you're the God of the impossible,
that nothing is too hard for you.
God, where we have placed you in a box
where we have declared limitations over ourselves,
over you, over other people.
God, we thank you that you're lifting the restrictions,
you're lifting the limitations
that sincerely were never put on us,
but that we in our lack of understanding of who you are
and what you're doing in our life
have partnered with the lies of the enemy
that have held us back,
that have caused us to be stuck in areas of our lives.
We thank you, God, that you would help us to know,
even today, where do you want us to stretch?
Where do you want us to extend forth our hands, so to speak,
and take action on what you're presenting to us,
what you're providing for us,
that the doors of opportunity are opening.
Green lights are happening before we get there, God,
that you're putting us on the hearts and minds of people
that we don't even know yet, including our spirit mates.
God, I know it's so possible
because you came to me in a dream
even before Brian came into my life.
And you said that he was coming soon
and you told me to start praying and interceding for him.
So God, help us to even extend and stretch forth
in the way that we would pray for our spirit mates
before we ever meet them.
God, help us to bless the people
that we come into contact on the way to our spirit mates,
God, that we would not get so rigid in our hearts
and our minds towards people.
But God, help us to stretch forth,
help us to go out and explore, have adventure,
and just see, God, what you have in store.
Holy Spirit, help us to hear
what your spirit is saying today.
In Jesus' name, amen.
Who wants to partner with this word,
and who wants to come forward this morning?
Good morning, Bethany.
Rita here, I will.
As you were talking, I was remembering
about the man with the withered hand
and how God told him to stretch his hand.
And when he put his hand, you know, it was just,
when he put his hand back in his bosom
and he stretched it back out, it was healed.
And so from that, I just want to come this morning.
Father God, thank you.
Thank you, Father God.
Thank you for reminding us, Father God,
how in the stretch, there's healing.
In the stretch, there's comfort.
In the stretch, there's potential, God.
In the stretch, God, there is the unknown, Father God.
But God, Father God, I thank you, God,
that the word says that we see in part
and we prophesy in part, Father God.
We don't know the full picture.
We don't know everything until we make that move,
Father God, and we get there just like Bethany.
She didn't have all the answers, God,
but as she sees in parts and goes in parts,
Father God, she said you stretched her, Father God,
in the same way you are stretching us, Father God.
Moving forward, God, praying for our spirit mates, God,
even in our lives, oh, Father God,
we thank you for the stretch, oh, Father God,
and we thank you for the obedience, Father God.
While we move forward in the stretch, Father God,
because you are there, we are trusting you, Father God,
to move forward, Father God, and stretch, Father God,
and trust you, God, in the stretch, oh, Father God.
In Jesus' name, I pray, God, for this community, God,
as we move forward, God, and as we stretch, God,
to our fullest potential,
as we stretch into the supernatural, Father God,
we thank you for you are God, and you are God alone,
and you change not, and we thank you in Jesus' name, amen.
God, I just thank you for this word this morning.
Lord, I feel in 2025, God,
that you have me like a fish out of water, Father,
and that's okay.
Father, I'll flop around,
and you can throw me back into the good water.
Lord, I pray that I would be easy to correct.
Father, I would welcome feedback, Lord,
and I know that you're gonna stretch me.
In the past, I've said I am not technical, Lord,
but I am going to be technical this year.
Lord, I thank you that you are sending the right people.
Lord, I thank you that I will not be stuck
in analysis paralysis.
Lord, I thank you that I will be quick to listen,
quick to follow.
Father, and I pray that you would stretch me
more than I have ever been stretched in my life, Lord.
And with this word, I receive all that it has to do.
And may it come to fruition.
Lord, may you throw me wherever you want to throw me.
May I step back and not be my defender,
but let you be my defense attorney, Lord,
in Jesus' name, amen.
Laura, I'm just partnering with you about going places
even when it's inconvenient.
I don't like to drive and I keep telling myself that.
So I keep turning down invitations to go places
when my spirit mate might be there
or somebody who could introduce me
to my spirit mate might be there.
So Lord, I just come against that lie
that I don't like to drive.
I'm coming against the fear that wells up in me
to go places alone.
I just thank you, Lord, that you're more than enough,
that you'll be with me wherever I go, Lord.
And I thank you for the gifts that you have for me
that I've not yet opened.
I just thank you and praise you, Lord,
for bringing me into this community, Lord,
and just showing me the truth in Jesus' name.
Amen, I love this so much.
I had this picture that I wanna pray into
that came to mind when Bethany was talking about stretching.
I grew up as a dancer,
and so stretching was a huge part of what we did.
And one of the things that came to mind
when she mentioned stretch was pain,
but it's like a good kind of pain.
And one of the things that we were taught
is if you will actually stay with the stretch,
it takes a minimum of like 30 seconds
for the muscles to actually release.
And so I just felt, Lord, for those of us
that maybe view pain when we think of stretching,
God, we think of it as a loss, we think of it as pain.
God, I thank you that you renew our minds,
that you will give us endurance, God,
that in the middle that you will remind us
that if we stick with it a little bit longer,
if we stick with the stretching a little bit longer,
God, there's actually gonna be breakthrough.
There's actually gonna be release.
There's actually gonna be growth.
So Lord, I just ask your faith to rise
for those that have seen stretching as a negative,
or even, Lord, maybe we used to stretch
and it's been a while,
and so we're feeling the pain all over again.
Lord, would you renew our minds
that we would see stretching
as something that you're gracing us to do,
and it means that we are alive
and that we're partnering with you,
not just in the physical, but in all aspects, God.
And we thank you, Lord, for the patience
to endure in the middle of the stretch.
In Jesus' name.
Amen.
Father, God, we just wanna say thank you, God,
for this morning.
We're so proud making this work, God.
Lord, help us to be unstuck in our traumas,
God, our traumas that's causing us
to be stuck in a situation that we don't wanna be in.
Help us, God, to stretch all of those trauma experiences.
In Jesus' name we pray.
Amen.
As we're praying, I've come to mind,
as you stretch, you may have muscle twinges.
And so I'm praying into this, dear Lord,
that as we stretch and experience those twinges,
some twinges may represent mistakes.
But as those twinges in the muscles subside
and we stretch more and we go farther, Lord,
that there is victory and there is progress in those twinges
and we just continue and that we do not fear the twinges.
We do not fear the mistakes.
We do not fear the errors.
We do not fear the pain that comes in the progress, Lord,
that we press forward, that we're not afraid of the change,
that in the pressing, in the stretching,
there may be some discomfort, Lord,
that we do not fear that,
that with growth there is birthing pains,
but we do not fear that we just press into the activation
and activate and stretch forward in Yeshua's name, amen.
Dear Lord, I thank you for the ability
to stretch and be flexible.
And I thank you that there may have been moments
when I know for myself, I was flexible in an area
and something happened and I lost that
or I got out of practice of it, Lord.
So I just ask for places where there is that muscle memory
or where there is that emotional memory
that you help me to tap into that,
to go back to where my body remembers,
to go back to where my spirit is.
it remembers and to not fear the process along the way and to not think that those gains that I once
had have been lost forever, dear Lord. So I thank you for the restoration of flexibility and areas
and willingness to go through the stretching process to regain that territory in Jesus name,
amen. Lord, thank you for this word that is so timely. As I'm actually on a run and thinking
about all these athletic stretchings and sometimes when we're in the midst of it,
it seems so unbearable. So I thank you for the opportunity that we get to release so that our
capacity can grow. And I love what the first young lady who did the popcorn prayer said about
stretching and how it's painful. But when the joy comes that the Lord gives us in replace of the
pain, it's so worth it. And so God, I thank you for allowing us to trust your timing, your
positioning and your stretching that you will be there with us in the stretching and in the pain.
And may you continue to be with everyone in their hearts and mending the pieces that are broken with
gold so that we can return whole, but also appreciate the process that will get us to
the journey destination that you have for us in Jesus name, amen.
I want to jump in real quick and deposit a couple other things and they all can keep going. As y'all
have been praying, man, I really felt the Holy Spirit so much in throughout everything. One of
the things that really got highlighted was when Laura said, you know, coming out of alignment
with fears that she can't go places alone. And I wanted just to say that I used to feel the same
way. And so for those of you that struggle with that, I just want you to know God understands,
but he also wants you to partner with the excitement and the adventure versus us being
afraid. And so in order for us to let go of the fear, we have to turn towards the faith and like,
what does God want to bring to us? What's the excitement and the joy and like that getting out
of the comfort zone, y'all, we all feel it in one way or another. Right. And so as we go that God
would grow that excitement, but it takes like, just like when Moses parted the sea, they had to
step into the sea before it parted. And sometimes we're not going to feel that adventure and that
excitement until we actually go. And we might not even feel it until after we have gone to something
and then it actually goes well. And even if you go and you're stretching and something feels like,
Oh man, this didn't go the way I wanted. I want to encourage you don't shrink back
and go into isolation. That's what the enemy wants. See, this is the thing.
When, when the Lord wants us in community, the enemy will always fight community and connection
with isolation, withdrawal, pulling back and not stretching forth. Even as Karanda was, was praying
and, and she was saying like, you know, these areas where we used to stretch and then something
happened. So Lord, I just want to pray into that for a second. And then I also want to share one
other thing with y'all. God, help us help us to heal. And the areas where we used to stretch,
where we used to get out of our comfort zone, where we used to go, where we used to explore,
even some of you, you used to paint, you used to do art, you used to cook or whatever it was that
you loved to do, but something happened along the way. And you started shutting down. You started
pulling back from those things. Maybe even was when you had your kids and you just life got so
busy. And again, there's no shame in this stuff, y'all, but we start shutting down our own things.
When you grieve loss of a spouse, many of you have really shut down living and thriving.
God understands, but he wants you to come out of the grief. He wants us to come out of the grave
close and step into the new life. There's a song that came up in my spirit. It's called new wine.
Y'all, it doesn't sound fun, but I want you to know this song reminds me of the olive press and
the olive press is really important in the Bible because it brings forth the juice and the oil and
all the things from the olive. But this is part of what this song says. In the crushing, in the
pressing, you are making new wine. In the soil, I now surrender. You are breaking new ground.
So I yield to you into your careful hand. When I trust you, I don't need to understand.
Make me your vessel. Make me an offering. Make me whatever you want me to be. I came here with
nothing, but you, but all you have given me, Jesus, bring new wine out of me. And it goes,
kind of repeats that. But y'all, even in this, it is the, you know, God, we don't understand
everything that you're leading us into. We don't understand where you're taking us.
But Jackie even said on that January 4th, when she was declaring the year of the intention,
year of the supernatural, part of that.
Sorry, I just got to mute this because it's a little distracting. Part of that, she said,
it all is rooted in surrender. So I don't think it's a coincidence that God is bringing that word
up again. Will we supernaturally, with God's strength and grace, surrender to our ideas,
our thoughts? His ways are above our ways. His thoughts are above our ways. So Father,
this morning, continue to help us to receive everything that you have for us.
Remove mindsets that limit us, that hold us back, orphan mentalities, limiting beliefs,
the things that we grew up in that we sometimes haven't even paused to ask ourselves, where did
this thought come from? Where did this fear come from? Where are these anxious thoughts
being like stemming out of? God, help us to come to you and allow you to bring peace in the midst
of chaos, to bring peace in the midst of anxious thoughts, to shift us out of unbelief and help
us to partner with faith a little bit more this morning. It doesn't mean we have to know how to do
everything, but God, just one step, just one step today, closer to you and to allow you to fill us
up afresh so that we can go forth and stretch. And Jesus name, who else wants to partner with
this word this morning? Oh, I do. Thank you so much. Lord, as we were praying, what came to my
mind is I do physical therapy and we always warm up. We just don't go into a stretch. So I thank
you, Lord, that any coldness, any coldness of heart, I was reading Ezekiel 11, 19. It says,
I will give them a singleness of heart. I will give them one heart and I will put a new spirit
within them. And I will take, God said, he will take the stony heart out of their flesh and give
them a heart of flesh. So Lord, any area that we've grown cold due to fear, sickness, disease,
any area that we've grown cold, warm us up, Lord. Give us a heart of flesh. Take this stony,
cold heart, stubborn heart that refuses because we are scared. Lord said, do it afraid. Just step
out. You've got to step out. So I thank you, Lord. Even I'm speaking to myself, do the warm up,
warm us up. And I'm telling you, Lord, thank you that when we warm up, the stretch is so much
better. It's not as painful. So I thank you, Lord, for the wisdom of taking out our stony heart and
that you give us a heart of flesh in Jesus name. Amen. I too keep thinking about stretching.
So I'm a dancer as well. And when we stretch, there is the active stretch and there's a
passive stretch. And usually when you actively stretch you, you know, there's more of an effort
in it. There is more of a force within that as well. And you don't, you're not able to stretch
as far. Whereas if you do a passive stretch and you work with someone else, for example,
that helps you in that or with a machine or a teraband or whatever it might be,
you can stretch much easier and release into that and relax into that. And it stretches you wider.
And so, Lord, I just pray that you would, that we would be able to totally surrender and allow you
to stretch us so that we can be in a passive stretch and to be stretched farther and wider
as well to where you want to stretch us and how you want to stretch us farther.
Thank you that you do it so gently and you don't pull any muscles by doing that, but you stretch
us in a way that is safe and secure and eventually leads to the right thing. So, Lord, I surrender.
I surrender myself to you and I say thank you for stretching me. Thank you. Amen.
Father, I just thank you so much for the freedom to release preconceived ideas, Lord. It's
just a reminder to me that your ways are greater than ours. And I just, I'm so light this morning.
I feel so much freer knowing that I can let go of everything I thought I knew, everything
I thought the way it was going to be or where I should go,
what my spirit mate would be like. Father, you know so much better than I do
what you have for me. And it's above and beyond what I could even imagine. And I just rejoice in
that. I would just rejoice. And I'm so grateful for the message today and just being filled up
with the hope that you have for us and for all of the sisters and brothers in this community.
Father, I just praise your name and I just thank you in advance for the wonderful things
you're going to be doing in our lives in 2025 as we just let go and stretch and see just a glimpse.
of what You have for us, Lord. It's just amazing and wonderful. I thank You in Jesus' name.
Father, I thank You that You want us to have this abundant life, Lord, that You want us to speak the
affirmations of Your Word over ourselves, Lord God, so that we will be filled up with Your Spirit,
Lord God. I just pray that the Word of God starts coming alive within our spirit, Lord God,
as we speak over ourselves, Lord God, as we're building our spiritual muscle, as we're building
our faith, Lord God, to take those actions that Jackie, Bethany is talking about, Lord God, that
we do it, we speak it, we believe it, we act on it, we take it for ourselves because it's
Your desire. It's Your desire for us to be full, to be happy, to get excited about the new
adventures, Lord God, and to receive from You. So, I pray in the name of Jesus that we have a
heart that we're receiving. We're receiving every day when we wake up, when we speak truths,
when we believe them, and when we act on them. The joy of the Lord will fill us up, Father,
and that's what we want. We want the joy of the Lord to be our strength. We want the joy of the
Lord to move us forward, Lord God. We want to be excited, and I just pray, Father, that we would
do that. It would be a daily thing that we will do to build up our spirit, and when we do that,
we will see the glory of God come down in Jesus' name. Thank you, Father.
And Lord, I pray for those who are retired, coming into retirement, that we would not have
the thoughts that our times are done now, or that we can coast through the rest of our lives,
that we're kind of put on the back burner, and that we're somehow limited in the things
that God wants to do in us and through us, that our best times are over, and the usefulness and
the impact is gone, because that's a lie from the enemy. So, I just pray, Lord, that each of us would
get the vision of new beginnings, that we continue to change the atmosphere wherever we are,
that adventures have no expiration date, and that we would just be obedient to just continue to walk
and work with the Holy Spirit, and to believe for more, no matter what age we are, in Jesus' name.
Lord, thank you, God. Father, I just praise you for this day, a new day, to celebrate you and to
focus on you, God. I just lift up all the relationships represented here on this call,
Father God, and I thank you that you're directing each and every one of us, God. I pray for divine
orchestration for all of our hearts, most importantly, to be in alignment with you.
I pray for perceived traumas to be healed, in Jesus' name, and replace it with your truth,
Father God. If there's anything we're believing that is not of you, Lord, I pray that you would
reveal that to us, and replace it with your truth, Father God. I thank you, Lord, that we
are enough, and you've created us just as we are, and just as we are today, is where we're supposed
to be. I pray for Taylor, the new relationship that I just began. I pray for you to direct him
and I, Lord, and may it be only your direction, in Jesus' name. Amen. I've been thinking on just
the function of stretching. One of the things is it prevents injury. I've coached sports,
and so many times my girls hated stretching because of the discomfort.
But it's for our benefit, so that way we don't have harm to our bodies. I'm just
reminded how oftentimes in the stretching, we can see it as God is not for us, or it's
challenging, or we can just get disconnected from the purpose. And so, Lord, I pray that you would
help us be connected to the purpose. Lord, it's for our good, so that way that we can excel. We
can be free of injury. So I would ask that you would help us to stay connected with that truth,
in Jesus' name. Amen. Father, I just thank you. I just wanted to go back on the word of the green
light. Just earlier today, I looked at my ADT alarm panel, and there's two green lights.
And I felt like the Lord was saying, it's a green light. It's go, go, go. So I just wanted,
when Bethany said about the green light, I was like, okay, so I did hear from you.
So father, I just thank you.
I thank you that, that you, your spirit is so involved in our lives.
I thank you father, that you are, um, given us the courage, Lord, the
courage to partner up with heaven.
Lord, you have told us, you have commanded us to be courageous,
to be strong and courageous Lord.
So we thank you father for a year where we just go, we do it.
Even if we have to do it afraid, Lord, we allow you to stretch us.
We allow you to guide us.
And we just say, yes, father.
So we just thank you for that word, Lord.
Thank you that we get to go, that you have made these lights green so that we can
continue on course and not have to stop Lord.
So we just thank you for your word in Jesus name.
Amen.
I'd love to come in that as well.
Very funny.
My dad was telling us earlier from a teacher at, um, which share the story
of him driving, uh, to, to, um, uh, a traffic light and whilst it is still
green, he would already slow down and stop because he knew it's going to get red soon.
And that was just literally a half an hour ago.
He mentioned that story and now you mentioned the green lights.
So Lord, I just want to pray into that and just pray that we would have an
attitude that even if the lights look red or, or, you know, uh, that we know.
It's going to turn green very soon as well, and that we would have that
anticipation and not be afraid to, um, Yeah, kind of to, to stop whilst it's
still green, because we know it's going to be red, but to, to know exactly the
right time when, when we're supposed to be driving and that, um, you indicate
to us exactly what, what the light is and what the situation is.
And when it's Amber, we know we, we have to slow down.
Um, but Lord, we know when, when it's green, that is your clear
indication that we can go.
So yeah, keep us, um, within that attitude and allow us to keep, to keep going.
Amen.
Lord, I thank you for this day and for this time.
God, I want to pray a second Corinthians nine and 10 for God is the one who
provides seed for the farmer and bread to eat and then bread to eat in the same
way he will provide and increase your resources and then produce a
great harvest of generosity in you.
So father God, I thank you for this word.
God, I pray over single parents, God, who maybe, um, their schedules are backed up.
They don't maybe have the support that they need to be stretched, you know?
And it's just a struggle, Lord God, although that may be the fact, Lord
God, we don't understand your truth.
And the truth is you will provide a way.
The truth is that you will give us, see, you will give it to resources or God.
So God, I pray that you will direct us to the right people, the right
community that will be able to.
You know, babysit for us when we need to, you know, drive to an event, Lord God,
that you will provide increased income so that we can hire babysitters that we
need, the trusted babysitters that we need.
Lord, we thank you that you will make a way you will make a way
for us to live our best life.
Um, and God, we just say, thank you, Lord.
Um, when we come against those scheduling challenges, Lord God, allow
us to take a step back and to look at what it really is, Lord God.
Um, and allow us to, to do something, allow us to do something, even if it's
something in faith in a small way, or God, we cannot stay stuck in our houses.
We cannot stay stuck at, um, you know, with our children's, um, schedules
bounding us to meet new people, Lord God, and to live a life of enjoyment, God.
But just help us, Lord, help us see, um, a way that we can increase our
satisfaction as well as be the parents that you called us to be in Jesus name.
Amen.
Heavenly father, I lift up each and every one of the heartbeats on this
call and in this community, and each of us are stretching towards you.
I can just see the, the, the yearning and the beautiful lifting our faces up
to you, Lord, and stretching towards you.
And I'm reminded of the 20 years I spent as a dancer that we stretched not only
to, to warm up, but also as we were cooling down and resting our muscles
and stretching to, to fully set into that and allow us to rest in a
more flexible and adaptable way.
And I keep hearing that flexibility, Lord, that stretching brings more and
more flexibility and it allows us to be able to move with grace and ease.
And I know this is the year of grace and ease.
And so that's just coming up in my spirit as I'm hearing all of these
beautiful prayers about stretching.
And Lord, I know also I've been doing this for years.
I've been teaching this for years about stretching our comfort zone, that when
you stretch your comfort zone, it gets bigger and it gets bigger and bigger
and bigger every time that it gets easier and easier and easier to do.
And the hardest part is the first step.
And so I just ask for all of us to have that bold courage to trust that the
ease comes with the stretching and it will become easier every time we do it.
And I lift that.
up for each and every one of us, whatever situations we are facing, whatever ways we are
striving to arrive and thrive this year as we celebrate 2025 and all that you have for us.
I love this. I love this. I want to activate you all. I hear the Holy Spirit saying to have you
all put in the chat right now where you hear the word can't. Maybe you hear it more than once,
but right now whatever comes in your spirit, put in the chat for me where do you hear the word
like I can't do this or I'm not able or I don't have the reason. Whatever it is,
what is that area for you where you can't, where you hear that a lot?
Okay, so here I have career, go back to school, online dating, afford energy. Sorry y'all,
I won't be able to get them all, but can't get married, can't move on, can't be a supervisor,
can't be a biological mom, can't start a business, can't get past trauma, can't relocate,
can't meet new people, can't find new friends. Y'all, these are really, really important that
you're sharing these. And the reason I felt led to have you share this is because
like one of the things we have to do is we have to come to like that resonance and that
like that okay, this is where I struggle. This is where I'm currently believing that I'm not
able to do something. This is where I'm currently not stretching forth potentially or even if we're
trying kind of like as Tiffany was saying, sometimes when we're trying there are obstacles
to that stretch, but are we partnering with the can't, won't, not able, and I'm not saying she did
or does, but I'm just putting that out there as like that place. Like even as Jessica was praying
about retirement and people that are in that place, my husband and I talk about this a lot.
There is no retirement in the kingdom. There's retirement from a job in society, but there's no
retirement in kingdom. So I love that she said adventures have no expiration date. Y'all, they
don't. We can always have a new adventure. We are always, if we are here, we're not done. If we're
here, we're not done. And so one of the things as Tiffany was sharing for those that are single
parents, I want to encourage you maybe your stretch is to find a single parent group to connect with
so that you can get around other people and get to know them so that you can build your community
where people might, you know, y'all could help each other. Maybe one day, you know, someone watches
your kid another day, you know, you're watching their kid, you know, where we, instead of saying
we can't, how can we, God, how can we, God, how can I get out of the state that I'm currently in?
If I have a little finances, can I carpool with a friend and we can go on an adventure that's free?
Y'all, there's tons of free stuff out there. There is, but so often we're like, I can't afford it. I
can't, well, maybe we can't afford that one thing that we wanted to do, but maybe God can show us
something else we can go do in the meantime. It doesn't mean we're not going to ever be able to
afford that unless we partner with that lie, right? What if God wants to do something supernatural in
your finances and help you grow in the season of stepping out to bring you something that you
couldn't even ask for, think of, or imagine right now? I don't know that I ever believed that I could,
like, I always wanted to go to Hawaii, but it felt unattainable for so many years of my life.
And you all, Brian and I, we went with his family in 2024 and you know what? We saved for it.
We didn't go into debt for that and God provided, but we were also disciplined the process.
You know, that's that new wine process that what do we need to do on the way so that we can go?
Okay, and the other thing I heard the Lord say was,
ask, which Jackie has been talking about this for a few months,
ask and keep on asking, seek and keep on seeking, knock and keep on knocking, that we would not grow
faint or weary in well-doing for in due season we shall reap if we faint not. What do we need to ask
for? The other day the Lord told me, it's on my vision board, it's literally a thing that says
something about, like, it doesn't happen if we don't ask in prayer. Like, if we're not asking
for it, how will it come forth? Yes, God hears the things, the inner desires of our hearts that
we never speak out and sometimes he just gives those to us, right? But there is something about
us using our voice, declaring positive things and asking, asking. Here's the last thing and
then we're going to keep on praying. Deuteronomy 1.8 says this, see, I have given you this land,
go in and take possession of the land the Lord swore he would give to your fathers. To Abraham,
Isaac and Jacob, and to their descendants after them.
When I looked in another version, it actually said,
see, I have set the land before you.
He set the land before us.
Y'all, this story goes then into the whole spies
going up into the land and only two spies came back
and said that they could take it.
All the other ones saw all the giants.
And I hope this word doesn't feel too hard this morning
because I know the father's love is cloaked in it
if you'll hear it through that tone.
If you're hearing this in a way that it offends you
or you just feel upset,
I really wanna encourage you to lean into like,
what does the Lord wanna heal in you?
Because he's saying it with love.
He's saying it because he's excited for you to venture out
and take the land.
Yes, he sees the giants that will encounter you all.
He sees them, he knows they're there.
But you know what?
He enabled Joshua and Caleb and the people
that went in with them to conquer it and to take it over.
And I believe that if God is leading us to go,
he'll provide as Tiffany was praying,
the resources, the people, the encouragement,
all of the things.
God brought bread and food to Elijah
under the terebinth tree, y'all.
A cake showed up supernaturally.
I don't think this stuff was just for the Old Testament time.
Maybe it won't happen exactly the same way now
in our New Testament, our new way of following after Jesus.
But I do think maybe he wants to stretch
even the way we think that he can provide for us.
What do we have need of?
God, how can you help me go do this thing?
Okay, I'm gonna open it back up.
Let's keep praying.
I don't know if anyone else wants to pray into this
or something else God's putting on your spirit,
but I wanna stay in the vein of kind of moving into new land,
taking possession, stretching in that kind of the good.
Does that make sense?
All right, who else wants to pray?
I do.
Awesome.
Holly.
Hi, Bethany.
Lord, I just thank you for how you are speaking
through Bethany and through all the coaches, Lord.
I just wanna bless them and pray
just for a hedge of protection,
just right now quickly for them.
For just wisdom and discernment,
I thank you for how you're stretching us, Lord.
Help myself and all of us to stay humble
and in submission to you.
Help us to keep our eyes fixed on you
and not look to our left or our right.
Help us, including myself,
not to compare our journey with others,
but to trust that you will complete
what you have started in us.
Thank you for the ways that you are stretching me
and stretching all of us.
I just love all these analogies about dance
and I'm gonna get back into dance this year.
I'm so excited.
I hope to connect with more dancers
and maybe have a worship dance group here.
I just thank you for the joy of the Lord.
I just thank you for the new things you are doing.
I just thank you for just how you're moving
in this community and blessing and guiding us.
In Jesus' name I pray, amen.
Amen, amen, so beautiful.
If God sings over us, I wonder if he dances too.
I imagine God dancing as well, so amen to that.
Father in heaven, I thank you
that you did not bring all of us here this far
to take us back again.
You brought us out this far
to take us into the promised land.
Though there'll be giants in the land,
we will not be afraid.
We're going to push through,
we're going to persevere and we're going to glide through
because on the other side, you said milk and honey.
Father, I imagine that as your word says in Ephesians 3.20,
it's going to be beyond our imagination
and that we know because of how you have shown up
in the past.
Father, I thank you because you are consistent
in all your ways.
It's going to be wonderful.
It's going to be miraculous.
It's going to be powerful.
It's going to be uplifting.
Father, thank you because you're doing indeed a new thing
in this territory.
As you enlarge our territory, you did it before
and Father, you would do it again.
In fact, you are doing it again.
Even though we may not see it or feel it,
Father, I thank you in the name of your son, Jesus Christ,
that you're doing it now
and it's beautiful.
Yes, you make it beautiful in your time.
And so we hold on tight to you
as we stay connected to the vine.
Thank you, Lord, that you keep us strong.
Thank you for that supernatural strength.
And Father, I thank you in the name.
Jesus, that you have deposited the Holy Spirit within us. So we fear not, and we go with courage,
and that is prayer that has set its prayer. We go with God's fidelity, Lord, wherever you want to
take us. Yes, your servants are listening, and we shall obey with your help. In Jesus' name, amen.
I just want to piggyback on that. I had gotten the scripture from Joshua,
be strong and of a good courage. Be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed. For the Lord your God,
he is the one who goes with you wherever you go. So Lord, I ask that you would help us to
change our I to a we. Instead of I'm going to go do this, we're going to go do this. Instead of I
want to try this, we're going to try this. I'm going online dating, we're going online dating.
Because Lord, you are the one who goes with us wherever we go. So the courage and the strength
don't come from something we can muster up, but from the fact that you are the one who goes with
us wherever we go. And as Bethany read in that first scripture, that you are our husband, or
for the men, you are our wife in this season, Father. So I thank you, Lord, that you are
everything that we need, Father, that for whatever we have going on, fear, worry, what if this
happens, what if that happens, Father, you are enough for that. You are the one who goes with
us wherever we go, and you will see it through to completion. Thank you, Jesus. Amen. Amen.
Yeah, I want to jump on here because I saw in the spirit, us dancing. I actually saw it before this
call. I saw myself dancing with him. And so Lord, I thank you for your word in John, this verse,
verse 13. But when he, the spirit of truth, the truth, truth giving spirit comes, he will guide
you into all the truth, the whole full truth, for he will not speak his own message on his own
authority. Thank you, God. But you will tell us whatever you hear from the Father. That's what
it says right here. And Lord, I thank you that you will give the message that you've been given,
Lord, from the Father and Lord. And it says, and he will announce and declare to you the
things that are to come that will happen in the future. He will honor and glorify me because he
will take, receive and draw upon what is mine and will reveal and disclose it to you. Thank you,
God. Everything the Father has is mine. That's what it says. It says everything that the Father
has is mine. Capital M. That is what I meant when I said that he, the spirit will take the things
that are mine and will reveal and disclose and transmit them to you. So, Lord, thank you that
you get it from the Father and then you speak it to us about our future. And our future is bright,
so bright that we have to wear glasses. So thank you, Lord. Help us take your hand and dance with
you and be with you, spend time with you to just be encountered by your love. You love us so,
so, so much. It's in our core. And Lord, thank you that we know the love of the Father,
that you have great things for us. We're dancing and spinning around with you.
And as we're doing that, you will show us the rest of the future things that you have for us.
Wow. I'm just in awe. Amen. Amen. Yeah. I'm thinking of something that Kemi shared and then
feeding off of what Bethany shared about territory. I'm driving, so I can't look it up,
but there's a verse in Isaiah that talks about enlarge the place of your tent, stretch out your
tent pegs and your tent cords. And so just going back to that notion of stretching, it literally
talks about enlarging the place of our tent. So, Father, I pray that you would give us the courage,
just like that verse in Joshua, to give us the courage to enlarge the place of our tent,
that we would be bold enough to do it even before knowing what's going to come under it, Lord. But
that you would just help us to enlarge our territory, help us to stretch out those cords
so that we can occupy the places and the spaces that you've called us to. In Jesus' name.
Amen. Sorry. I just wanted to jump in on the stretching part. I was watching
video 10 of the heart work and it was about stretching. So this is a little timely. So I
just wanted to share really quick. So in the beginning of the video, Jackie was saying that
we're being awakened to identity restoration and bold futures that God has for us and that new
things can feel a little off at first. And we may not feel like ourselves while we're being stretched
and we're going into something new and it can be a little awkward and out of our element.
But she says allow ourselves to be stretched by God and in fact ask God to stretch us even more
So I just wanted to share that was so timely that I was watching that and then I get on today and we're talking about
stretching and then she
Just said her prayer that she normally says encourage us to pray teach like teach me show me heal me grow me
So I just thank you for stretching us God in this new year
I just pray that we you can feel you
Guiding us each and every day to how to take that first step of faith to continue to be stretched in everything you have
For us this year in Jesus name. Amen
God I just pray for all the chance
Lord, I just pray that we would take the tea off the can't and turn it into a bite-sized piece Lord that we could talk
We could transform we could trust we could think we could travel we could teach we could tackle
We could toss we could tune we could triumph we could think we could tear
Lord that we could just do something one bite-sized piece each day Lord that will get us closer to the thing that we
Think we can't do Lord that you would inspire us Lord and that it was little by little Lord
That the Hittites came into the land Lord
So I just pray you would give each one of us
One action step so that we can throw off the tea and our can't bit can become our can
Amen I
Pray for the anointing of the Holy Spirit. I thank you for your power
I just see so many of us are like Gideon
hiding away in the comfort of our world and the familiarity of our day-to-day and
I feel that the Word of the Lord is coming forth in hope
He is the God of hope and we don't have to pull ourselves up into it
But there is an anointing of hope to displace all doubt all unbelief all past
experiences that teach us that this is how I am and
Removes the filter from our eyes into the sonship and daughtership
of being God's chosen one
Empowered by the Holy Spirit. So Lord, I release such a power anointing
for us to move from the car to the Ken just in the same way as Gideon went from Kant to
doing
Supernaturally way and beyond the purpose in which he's called
So I bless our purpose and if our purpose is to be included in in partnering with the right spirit
Mate Lord, you know that journey
You know the path to which we need to take and the empowerment of your glory your presence
the near one that goes with it your nature that
Destroys lack of hope and doubt and unbelief we relinquish it and we
Do this transference now and we say yes Lord
Give us your hope hope sees and I thank you that this year
We're going to see the path in which you are calling us on to and we won't miss it
So give us that brain heart coherence that we will walk in your truth and your truth will lead us into
The abundant life you have designed and written in our book of life
Amen, amen you all I want to do a little activation before we hop off to continue partner
Excuse me. I love what crystal brought in and Maggie there. It ties right into the activation. I felt led to have us do
The thing that you said that you can't I actually want you to envision yourself doing it like right now
Like what does it look like to go somewhere fun and maybe?
You're gonna go
Countryline dancing, maybe that's something you've wanted to do and and you just have been saying maybe it's a new job like
Literally just ask God right now to show you they're already doing it
So Lord, I just pray right now that you would give our our brothers and sisters every one of us a vision today
Of ourselves doing these things that you have already commissioned us to do that
You've already equipped us enabled us God even a Shelley was praying God
You don't lead us somewhere that you're not already there and you walk with us every step of the way
So Lord, I pray that you would just help us
To have a heavenly perspective
God open our eyes to see what you see in
Ourselves as well as in the promises that you have for us. You're not a man that you should lie God
You're not a man that's dangling carrots in front of us and teasing us and and saying no
I'm gonna ask you to do something, but I'm really not gonna be there to help you
So many of us have experienced abandonment and neglected mistreatment in our lives and that's how we translate that on to you were but that's not who you are
So help us to come out of alignment and agreement with the lies
And fears and pain and trauma that lead us to believe that we can't
Yes, Lord. I hear you
The father said just now to to tell you that if you tend to struggle with negativity
Struggle with negativity
and the can'ts that he understands.
And he's not mad at you.
In Zephaniah 3, 17,
someone put that scripture in there earlier.
I'm not gonna quote the whole thing,
but it actually says that he rejoices over us with singing.
Y'all, he dances over us.
He delights in us.
We are sons and daughters of the most high God.
We are adopted as sons and daughters into the kingdom life.
Everything that we have need of today is available to us.
Do you need encouragement today?
Ask the Lord, help me, Lord.
Encourage me.
Help me, Lord.
Give me the faith to step out
and do that one thing that I can do today
to step towards that bigger goal.
Help us to see those things and take quick action on them.
Y'all, I wanna activate you to also come into the groups.
After you've taken some time with us today,
and hopefully in the next several days and beyond that,
please come back.
Tell us, what is God doing in you through this word?
Are you planning a trip?
What are you gonna do
with what God is putting in your heart today?
We love you all.
We hope to see you in the community again, y'all.
Activation tomorrow night.
If you wanna go further into this,
our amazing candy is gonna be on
to help activate this even further.
And so come and do that together,
and I believe God will continue to transform you
in a mighty way.
God bless you, everyone.
Have an amazing day.
Thank you, Bethany.