Good morning, everybody, and welcome to Supernatural Saturday.
I know we have a lot of new people joining us this morning, people who have never experienced
Supernatural Saturday before.
And so I always give this short description that this is the day of the week when our
entire community looks to the Lord together for what is the current prophetic reality.
What is God speaking to us as a community?
What is he saying to us individually?
What is that insider information that we need to know to make our lives great?
What is it?
God wants us to live amazing, overcoming lives.
What is the information?
Where are the tools?
What is that, once again, that insider information for this month, for this week, for this day?
What do we need?
So that is what we do on Saturdays, and it's always an amazing time.
I always learn so much.
I know you guys think, oh, Jackie is, you know, she knows so much.
No, I just lean into Holy Spirit, and Holy Spirit knows everything.
And a lot of times the things that are said here, I'm hearing them for the first time
as well.
That revelatory gift that God has given me, I am being revealed as well.
I am getting those tools at the same time as well.
I get off these calls, I'm like, wow, I got to practice what I preach right now, because
that was a revelation.
That was amazing.
And it was exciting to know that God loves us so much, that he's in the midst of us,
and he is showing up to tell us what we need to know in order to go forward.
And so that is exciting.
So I prayed this morning and I asked the Lord, I said, what do your people need to hear?
Which is what I pray every Saturday morning.
What do your people need to hear?
And one of my children last night called me, or they didn't, they texted me, very rarely.
Very rarely do I get a phone call from a child of mine, because this generation texts, right?
They text message.
And I will tell you a funny story that just came to me a few years ago, probably about
six years ago, one of my kids was like, hey mom, wouldn't it be cool if when someone texted
you that the text message came, like you could hear them talking, like it was delivered like
in their voice.
I said, yeah, it's called the telephone.
It's called the telephone, kid.
But now as you can see, they make voice texts, right?
People do not want to talk on the phone.
They don't.
And so now you can send people voice texts.
And why?
Because when you don't feel like texting anymore or, you know, voice texting anymore, you can
just, you know, wander off and do something else.
But if you're on a phone call, you're stuck, right?
You're being held captive on that phone call.
And that is what God said to me today about his people, including myself.
And I'll get to my daughter's text messages here in a second.
But he said, my people need help with their thought life.
And so I jotted down a few things from Holy Spirit this morning, and we'll see where we're
going to go.
Father God, we thank you for today.
We thank you for this moment in time.
This moment is unlike any other moment.
You have wisdom for us right now.
You have revelation for us right now.
You have breakthrough for us right now.
Your word says that every time we gather, you are in the midst of us in a different
way.
There will never be a moment like this ever again, Lord, help us to take advantage of
it.
Teach us, show us, heal us, grow us, amen.
So about midnight last night, I was rolling into bed, going to bed late, y'all, rolling
into bed.
And I get a text message from one of my kids, and it just says, are you up?
My kids know me.
They're like, are you up?
Yeah, I'm up.
And then they started to ask me questions about different thoughts that they were having
and, you know, things that were bothering them about the things that they were thinking.
And you guys, this is one of the hardest lessons to learn, and that is to discipline your mind.
It's very hard.
It's an ongoing lesson.
We live in a world, in a culture that is constantly warring for your mind.
Because if it gets your mind, it'll get your heart eventually as well.
Those thoughts don't just stay thoughts.
They become what?
They become beliefs.
They become behaviors and actions.
That's what happens.
One of my favorite mentors of all time used to say, you need to think about what you're
thinking about.
And never has that been more true than
now. I'm sure that we used to have, you know, tens of thousands of thoughts a day back in the day,
but now because of technology and because of how fast everything is moving all around us,
I think that we're probably having tens of tens of tens of thousands of thoughts.
And some of them we recognize, some of them we acknowledge, and others we don't. They just kind
of are fleeting through our mind. Our mind is like a huge switchboard. You remember those old
switchboards? All those different calls coming in, all those different voices. We're going to decide
which ones we connect and which ones we disconnect. But in order to do that, there's a word
that most of us don't like, including myself, that we will need to employ, and that is the word
discipline. Discipline. A lot of us have a funky history with the word discipline,
because it was not used correctly in our lives. It was not done correctly in our lives. And so
when you hear that word, you're like, ah. Because a lot of us will correlate discipline
with punishment, won't we? Discipline equals punishment. The Bible says that God disciplines
or corrects the children that he loves. And I write about this in my book. For those of you
that are brand new to phase one, you're doing hard work. Congratulations. It will change your
life. But I write about how God's correction looks more like a GPS than it does a belt strap.
Remember, friends, God can never force you because then you wouldn't have free will.
When you were a child and you were doing something that you shouldn't be doing but
you wanted to do, let's make sure we put it in that context. You shouldn't have been doing it,
but you also wanted to do it. Okay? With your own free will, whether it was good or bad,
you wanted to do that thing, and so you were doing it, and your parent came along,
and they corrected you. You were eating with your hands at the dinner table. Felt good.
You felt like a little piggy. You liked it. But your parent's like, no, no, no. In this society,
we eat with utensils. I mean, obviously, if it's chicken or if it's, you know, pizza. I do
know people that eat pizza with a fork and a knife, and I don't necessarily trust those people. But I
will tell you that your parent brought some correction. Maybe you were doing something that
was going to actually harm yourself, and your parent might have brought quick correction.
And because we didn't all get raised in the same families, and even in families that had
our best interests at heart, you possibly could have gotten overcorrected.
Overcorrected. You could have gotten punished. The Bible doesn't say to punish your children.
It says to correct them. Please make note of that. Correct their course.
Correct their behavior so that they don't harm themselves.
You're correcting the behavior. You're correcting the idea behind what the child is doing. What does
that involve? That involves conversation. It doesn't involve corporal punishment. It doesn't
involve just beating someone. Okay, yeah, they know that now what they did was bad.
Right? And now they're going to start to believe that they are bad because they weren't taken
aside and told, hey, this is harmful to you. If you continue to do this, this is going to hurt you.
This is why I'm asking you not to do this. And this is why in order for you to remember this
moment and remember why you should not do this, I'm going to employ some kind of correction.
You're going to have to sit in your room and think about this for a little while.
You're going to have to write out for me a little essay of why it was that you wanted to do this
and what you thought you were going to get out of it. But parents don't take time to correct that.
Parents, a lot of times, because this is the way that they were parented, they grab something and
if they believe in spanking, quote unquote, they start swinging. They're angry. They're
mad at the child for doing what they did. Maybe the child broke something, damaged property.
Maybe the child caused some kind of pain for the parent because of public embarrassment
or it doesn't matter what it is.
They start acting out of their own emotions and now all the child takes away from that
moment is, my parent is angry at me and I'm bad.
But the reason why Holy Spirit wants us to dig into that, by the way, that's not any
of the stuff that I wrote down, is because it's important that we understand that God's
correction doesn't look like that.
God's correction looks like, hey, there's a better way.
Hey, you see what you're doing right there?
That's unworthy of you.
That's beneath you.
You're my child.
There's a better way to do this.
Let me show you how.
There's a better way to get that thing that you want.
Let me chart your course.
Yeah, it's going to take some discipline.
It's going to take some work.
You're going to have to do a few things that you're not doing right now, but it's a better
way.
Will you trust me?
Will you go the way that I'm showing you?
That's what God's correction looks like.
It's correction.
Oftentimes when I'm driving, and I say this a lot, but it really hit me that day when
I was driving the car and I had my coordinates set in my GPS and I'm driving along, I'm out
of my own business, doing my own thing.
My Siri said to me, there's a better route available, Jackie.
Do you want to take it?
I had already set in my coordinates.
I already knew where I was going.
But my GPS started talking to me and telling me that there was a better route that was
now available due to roadblock, detour, accident on my route, whatever was ahead that I couldn't
see.
My GPS could see it, and it was telling me that there was a different route, a better
route that I could take now, and that is what God is doing with us all the time through
Holy Spirit.
Hey, there's a better way to do this.
There's a better way to go.
For those of you that are out there dating, hoping to be mating, the voice says, hey,
this person, yeah, they're nice, they're good.
There's a better match.
Did I ever tell you guys that that happened to me?
Going through divorce, no one says.
You know what I say.
No one says, when I grow up, I want to be divorced.
Being divorced, going through divorce, hard.
And I remember that during that season of my life, my daughter was in preschool, and
the preschool was at a church, and it had an afternoon class and a morning class, and
my daughter was in the afternoon class.
And all of us parents that had kids in the afternoon class would line up in the hallway
of this church, waiting for our kids to come out of their classrooms, because they're little.
They're preschoolers, they're three years old, and so when they come out, three, four
years old, when they come out of their classrooms, you have to take them immediately.
It's not like they go out and get on the bus or something.
You have to grab ahold of your kid and take them.
And so we're standing in the hallway waiting for class to dismiss, and it's always the
same parents every week.
So here I am, single mom, and guess what?
There was a cute single dad.
Take notes, single moms.
Take notes.
Okay?
And so I'm not looking...
I also don't know what it's like to not be married, because I got married when I was
20 years old.
And so oftentimes, when you've only known something, you'll try to go right back to
that, won't you?
You'll try to jump right back in relationship.
Oftentimes with no new information and no new healing.
So for those of you that are on here and you're fresh out of something, let's not rebound.
Okay?
And sometimes that's why that GPS will say, hey, yeah, you know, this person, they're
great, but there's something better ahead for you.
Not that this person's not great, but the timing for you is not great.
Does that make sense?
The timing is not great for you because you're going to sabotage this thing.
You're not going to be able to ride this thing all the way out because you have not
done enough hard work in order to sustain it.
There's all kinds of reasons why the all-knowing, omnipotent, omniscient God tells you, hey,
this isn't the best thing for you.
Don't just assume it's because the other person's a serial killer.
Don't just assume that it's because you're so great and grand and you have this huge
call on your life that no one else can go with you except this one perfect person out there.
You know, don't assume that the person's too good for you, for those of you that have the
more victim mindset.
And God's like, no, you can't have them.
You know, you're not good enough for them.
No.
God sees, he knows, and he's just telling.
Look, he didn't say, don't.
He said, there is a better route available.
There's a better route available.
So anyway, me and this preschool dad,
you know, we would go out as a group,
a few of us moms and just this one dude.
And I'm sure that he felt probably like a,
like a, what are those?
You know, the seagulls.
Mine, mine, mine, mine, mine.
With all these single moms and just this one guy.
And he was a really nice guy.
His name was Greg.
I hope he got married.
He was a really nice guy.
His wife had left him for another man, all kinds of drama,
but he was a great dad.
He was a wonderful, wonderful person.
He was a believer.
He loved God, all the things, right?
Come on.
It's just like, all right, God, let's go.
Let's get this show on the road.
And God's like, no.
And I remember him saying to me,
I mean, the relationship, once again,
it was a group relationship with a bunch of other ladies.
And then I could tell, ladies, you know,
you can tell when a guy likes you.
And I could tell that he liked me.
And, you know, and then we did a few things with our kids,
just the two of us, and it never really got anywhere
because God said to me, it's not, it's not the right time.
It's not the right,
this is not the right person in the right timing.
And I was able to be obedient to that.
There were lots of thoughts that came into my mind.
I can't lie to you.
There were lots of thoughts of scarcity.
There were lots of thoughts of desperation.
There were lots of thoughts of fear.
When you're getting out of something
and you're scared and you're alone
and you don't know what's happening
and you're in that, you know,
hallway that you don't wanna be in,
and you just wanna go through the next door,
sometimes you're gonna try to kick those doors in,
even if they're really not quite your door.
Right?
It's like trying to force that puzzle piece
in that 1500 piece puzzle.
That's almost right.
It's almost right.
But that little peninsula on that puzzle piece
just isn't quite carved out for that space.
You guys know what I mean?
Have you ever done a puzzle?
Just trying to put it in there.
And I don't want you to get the idea
that our matches are perfect
because once again, we have free will.
And I believe in Romans 8, 28.
I believe God can work all things to our good
as we surrender our things to him.
He can't work all things to our good
if you don't surrender your things.
Okay?
But even when you know that you zigged
when you should have zagged
and you went through a door that may have been locked
and you might have jimmied it a little bit,
God can still turn all that around to your good.
He can.
And so it's not about perfection, you guys.
It's about progress.
Write that down.
It's not about perfection.
It's about progress.
But let's get to where we're gonna get to today.
Can we do that?
We're gonna talk about our thought life.
And in order to talk about that,
we have to talk about the origin of thoughts.
And I've done an entire teaching
about the origin of thoughts.
I think it's been a year or more now
on Supernatural Saturday.
Maybe we'll try to dig that one up.
But there's three origins of your thought life.
There's the spirit, okay?
God.
That origin, that redeemed thought life
that's coming from the supernatural.
There's you, okay?
There's just straight up fleshly thoughts.
There's you.
And the thing is, you guys, in this category,
all of us have different thoughts.
It's not like, oh, okay, that's a flesh thought.
You know, that's just a flesh thought.
No, we all have different flesh thoughts.
All of us think differently
depending on where we've come from,
what we've seen, what we've done,
what we're daily consuming
as far as the things that come into our eyes
and our ears and our minds, right?
We all have different flesh thoughts.
And then lastly, there's the opposing forces.
The last origin of our thoughts is demonic, okay?
It is that realm of darkness.
That's where those thoughts, those ideologies,
those are coming from there.
And I know that anything that's negative,
we just wanna blame it on the devil.
It's like, oh, not today, Satan, not today.
But the truth is, is that thought
may actually be coming from you.
Like, are you saying I'm the devil, Jackie?
No, I'm not saying you're the devil,
but I am saying that our flesh can get so twisted
and so aligned with negativity
and so aligned with.
with bad things, things that are not going to bring us goodness that sometimes it's hard
to tell the difference.
Sometimes it is.
Those destructive thoughts, yes, obviously, it all comes from a place of darkness, a place
of the curse, but a lot of times that has just really found its root system in you.
Okay?
And I just want to say something really quick, it's really important, is that we do have
some demonic thoughts sometimes.
Thoughts about harming ourselves, thoughts about harming others, thoughts that are murderous
in nature as far as like rage and anger that, you know, is malicious in its intent and different
things like that, but for the most part, the enemy is disarmed.
Jesus disarmed the enemy at the cross.
At the finished work of the cross, all the ammunition that the enemy had against you
was taken away.
Okay?
Somebody needs to get a hold of this right now.
The enemy doesn't have anything on you because you are, when you are hidden in Christ, when
you have not just suffered with Christ at the cross, but believe that he suffered with
you and as you, and you accept his sufferings as your own, you have been declared innocent.
And so just like a prosecutor, the enemy comes and he tries to prosecute us, tries to fill
our minds full of all kinds of doubt and guilt and shame and hatred and all different
types of things, but we're not on the stand.
We're not on the stand anymore.
Jesus took the stand for us.
Jesus took the guilty verdict for us and Jesus took the punishment for us.
Please get a hold of that.
So anytime that prosecuting voice comes in your mind, remember thinking about what you're
thinking about.
And sometimes we become the assistant prosecutor.
Write that down.
Yeah, those demonic voices are coming and they're trying to cause shame and guilt and
they're accusing us.
The Bible calls the enemy, that voice, an accuser.
But sometimes we're co-counsel for the prosecution, aren't we?
Sometimes we're the assistant prosecutor because in our flesh, we have received all of that
negativity about ourselves.
We've come into alignment with those voices.
We've come into agreement with those voices, those demonic voices.
Over the course of our lives, other people have spoken.
Their flesh has come into alignment with the demonic and accusing voices and they've allowed
their mouth to accuse us and to diminish us and to destroy us with their words from that
demonic origin, right?
And then we hear those words.
We take those words into our ears and we allow them to get into our hearts because
we come into agreement and alignment with them.
We're going to talk about thoughts being held captive here in a second.
But all the thoughts, friends, that you've already come into alignment with, that you've
already come into agreement with, that are now like a broken record that play in your
mind over and over and over again about your worth, about who you are, about what you are.
We have to come out of agreement with those things today because you become the assistant
prosecutor.
Yes, the enemy is the one that started this, but you're the one that's perpetuating it
now.
You're the one that continues to repeat it over and over again.
You are the one that is badgering the witness now.
You are the one that is the hostile counsel now.
You are.
I want you to be honest right now and I want everyone to raise their hand who has ever
said terrible things to themselves.
You're such a loser.
You're so ugly.
Nobody's going to love you.
You're so stupid.
You don't even deserve to be alive.
You're pathetic.
I hate you.
Raise your hand if you've ever told yourself that you hate yourself, you hate you.
Remember it's ever.
I'm not asking you if you're doing it right now.
If you've ever said it, if you've ever looked at yourself in the mirror and thought, I don't
want to be you.
Guys, that came from somewhere.
It came from words.
It came.
and from insinuations, it came from events.
People don't even have to say words over us.
We imply words when people, you know,
avoid us or abandon us in childhood.
When people that we see ourselves like,
your mother, your father,
you see yourself like your mother and your father.
How much of our childhood is spent saying,
who do we look more like, mom or dad?
Why?
Because you're trying to find your identity
in the people that you've come from.
And so if those people are being verbally abused,
if those people are in the midst of violence
towards themselves and others,
you're gonna take that on as your own.
And you guys, all of this gets housed there in the flesh.
Yeah, the devil was the origin, the demonic was the origin,
the curse was the origin of all this stuff,
but now it's in you.
You are your own worst enemy.
You are the thoughts that you think.
And so we have to purify those thoughts.
And what does the Bible say about that?
We'll talk about what the Bible says about some new thoughts
and some existing thoughts,
but let's just put a scripture in here
about the washing of the water of the word, right?
We're going to have to,
and I say this a lot in the heart work in phase one,
you cannot erase, you have to replace.
You can't erase.
Guys, we can't erase this stuff, it's too late.
We've already think it, we already think it.
And I don't know about you,
but anytime I like try desperately not to think a thought,
no, I'm not thinking that,
and you just go, oh, I'm not gonna think that,
then you just think it even more.
You can't erase it, you can't push it out.
But you can decide on whether or not you agree with it.
You can.
So I'm gonna give you guys a little checklist of,
you know, thinking about what we're thinking about
and what to do with these thoughts here in just one second,
we're gonna do that, okay?
All right, so let's go with,
let's go with this scripture.
Let's go with this scripture.
This is so familiar to so many of you,
2 Corinthians chapter 10,
Paul's talking to the Corinthians
and he's talking about the weapons of our warfare
that are not human.
We have weapons of our warfare,
the spiritual war, the spiritual battle that's going on.
And you guys, we have to make sure
that we don't join the enemy's side against ourselves.
There is a spiritual war going on
and we have to align ourselves with the Holy One.
We have to align ourselves with the Anointed One,
with the Righteous One.
We have to align ourselves
with the finished work of the cross in this war.
And where does that start?
That starts in our thought life.
And so I wanna skip down, I think that it's verse five.
Anyway, 1 Corinthians 10, three through six-ish
is where you're gonna find these scriptures.
And this is either verse four,
maybe it's verse four, sorry, I didn't write it down.
We, and then I wanna say this.
And so you guys know that if you hear it quoted,
it probably says something like taking captive every thought
and making it obedient to Christ, right?
To what?
To the finished work of the cross.
Taking captive every thought.
Is it just some thoughts?
Is it just the bad thoughts?
No, it's all thoughts.
Taking captive every thought
and making it obedient to the finished work of the cross.
You guys, I had a real problem with this.
This was a scripture.
This is one of my scriptures
that was written on a note card back in my 20s
in my early discipleship
because my thought life was killing me.
I had terrible panic disorder.
I had obsessive compulsive disorder.
For those of you that have thought that maybe you have OCD,
you might just have trauma
that now has turned into intrusive and obsessive thoughts
that are on the negative.
You might have a fabulous imagination like I do.
And now your imaginations have been tainted
by the abuse and trauma that you've been through.
And all you can do is imagine negative things
you cannot even begin to imagine life
and peace and positivity.
You've been through a lot is basically what I'm saying.
And that was my state of being in my 20s.
And God had to really teach me.
And it was not.
easy and it didn't happen overnight.
And I still sometimes struggle when I allow myself
to get too stressed out and I allow myself
to dwell on negative things.
How?
Through music and media, through the news.
Guys, you have to protect your mind.
And we'll talk about that here in a second
when we talk about setting a guard up at your mind.
But I really had to learn.
How to take these thoughts captive.
And you know, I had a little child, she was just born.
And you guys, just 18 months later,
they were gonna diagnose her with a cyst
and a tumor in her brain.
Hadn't happened yet, y'all.
But remember, I'd already been through a lot
and I was already struggling.
And this was coming.
I had this little child and I'd get up in the night
as an intercessor and I would pray
and I would pray that the thoughts
would still continue to come.
And sometimes, you guys, I was so paralyzed by these thoughts
that I couldn't leave my own home for months at a time.
I couldn't drive a car.
That is how intrusive these thoughts became
and that is how much these thoughts
began to gain territory and overwhelm me.
Fearful thoughts, destructive thoughts.
I wasn't gonna make it.
I was not gonna make it
without there being some kind of breakthrough.
Without God teaching me what I needed to know
in order to win this spiritual battle
that I was on the wrong side of.
Remember, I said there's three origins of thoughts.
There's the spirit, there's you, your flesh,
and then there's the demonic, destructive
kingdom of darkness.
I was on the wrong side.
I wasn't on the side of God.
I was on the other side
because I had come into agreement
with all of these different things
over the course of my life,
of all these thoughts about myself and my worth and my value
and about God and about all kinds of different things.
And so I was thinking the enemy wasn't putting
those thoughts in my head on a daily basis.
I already believed those things.
And it was on a loop.
It was like a broken record.
It was looping over and over and over and over again.
So what God taught me,
and this was helpful because I was a young mom.
I was married at the time and that was not good
because there was another person in the house
that actually had come into agreement
with what the enemy was saying about me as well.
Not about themselves, but about me.
And so there was a lot of verbal violence happening
that was just reinforcing all of this,
you're no good.
Why don't you just go somewhere and die?
So God said to me one night,
you guys, I was up in the middle of the night
and I was praying.
It was very normal for me to have panic attacks
all through the night.
And I woke up, had a massive panic attack
and went into the living room and I sat on the couch
and I was in the living room being a cry,
began to pray.
And God just spoke to me and he said,
what would you do if someone broke into this house
right now, try to steal your daughter?
Try to harm your daughter sleeping in her crib
in the other room.
What would you do if that happened?
And immediately like something rose up inside of me.
Yeah, that mama bear rose up inside of me.
And I said, well, I wouldn't let that happen.
I would not let somebody come after that person.
Hell hath no fury y'all.
And God said, that's what you need to start doing
about these thoughts.
And I was like, pardon me?
And he said, these thoughts.
He said, you need to treat them like a murderous intruder
that wants to destroy you and your whole lineage.
Your whole family.
He said, every single thought.
And first of all, you guys remember I said
that we're living in a very fast paced society
where we have so many thoughts now.
And you guys, that is a tool of the enemy.
We don't take time to slow down.
We don't take time to meditate.
We don't take time to think about what we're thinking about.
And that is why we don't have a lot of good fruit
happening in our lives.
Because whether we know it or not,
there's a lot of unconscious thoughts
that are driving your behavior right now
that you've come into agreement with.
And you're not even consciously aware.
of them on the daily. When you slow down long enough, you're consciously aware of
those negative thoughts, but because you're moving so fast, and some of you
are moving so fast to run from the thoughts. If I just keep moving, I don't
got to think about stuff I don't want to think about. No, those thoughts are
already thinking for you, and they're in your behaviors, because we've already
agreed with them. So slowing down, and this is what the Lord told me to do. He
said, every single thought that comes into your mind, he's like, grab it by its
collar. Just imagine yourself, just grabbing someone who comes through the
front doors, grabbing the front of their hair, be like, who are you, and why are
you here? And I imagine myself in the spirit realm doing that, with someone who
is just kind of trying to come into my house, an intruder, grabbing them, throwing
them up against the wall, who are you, and why are you here? I might have been
watching a lot of action films back then, but I saw myself. You got to do that with
every thought. Slow down, think about what you're thinking about, what is happening
in your mind on a daily basis? What are the thoughts that are knocking on the
door? You answer the door. Some of us don't even have a door. Thoughts are just
allowed to come in, come out, come in, come out. Put up a door. We're going to talk
about putting up a guard here in just a second. We got to put up a guard, we got to
put up a door, put up a guard at the door.
Who are you? What do you want? What's your business here? Where have you come from?
That's an important thing to ask a thought. Where's this thought coming from?
Where have you come from, thought? Are you from God? Are you from the spirit? No, no,
you're definitely not, because you're not bringing life and peace,
so that's not. You guys, do you know that it's that easy to discern where a
thought comes from? You're like, but Jackie, sometimes God, you know, He speaks
to us harshly and, you know, He corrects us. No, no, He doesn't. He doesn't. He speaks
to you in life and in peace. He doesn't bully you. God's not a bully. He doesn't
threaten you.
He's not the God, Father. That's not the way it works.
Okay, you're not from the spirit. Are you from me? Are you from me? Is this something
that I've come into agreement with? What is this? This thought. Get to the root of
it. Use your heartwork tools. Where did this thought come from? Why is it coming
into my mind? Is it just some random thing from the movie I watched last
night? Is it some thought of, you know, unpeaceful thought because of something
that I'm consuming, media-wise, scrolling through? Was I mindlessly scrolling
through social media and I saw something super negative that now has gotten stuck
in my heart and is causing me to think scary thoughts?
And then lastly, is it just a straight-up demonic attack?
It's not coming from me. It's not, this is not a habitual thought that I think
over and over again. It's out of left field. I can't just, I can't, I can't, I
can't trace it back to anything that I've watched recently, anything that I've
done. No, this is just, this is just a thought that's just coming out of
nowhere. It's an opposing forces thought. That's a demonic thought. That's a
warfare thought. The Bible tells us what to do about that because every single
day we should be putting on our helmet of salvation. I'm not going to do our
Supernatural Saturday call today right now on the, on the armor of God, but we
will do it sometime.
But if you go and you read about it, you'll see that there's a helmet of
salvation. You guys, that word salvation doesn't mean you're saved going to
heaven. That is a Greek word, is the word sozo. And that word means saved,
rescued, delivered, set free, or freedom. Got to put on that helmet over what?
Over our mind, over our
our thought center that reinforces that you are saved.
You've been rescued.
You guys, we're not waiting to be rescued.
We have been rescued.
We have been delivered.
We have been saved.
You are now invited to live in freedom.
The Bible tells us how to do that.
Jesus, this is Jesus talking.
He says, if you continue in me, what is he?
He's the word, isn't he?
The word that became flesh.
If you continue in me, you will know the truth
and it will make you free.
It shows you where we should be getting
our information from, not News Nation.
You guys, I had a hit on News Nation,
meaning I was an expert.
Let's all laugh at that for a second.
I was the resident expert on love
and I was on there last week.
And as we continue to lean into God,
we can all be experts on love because he is love.
He doesn't just have it, he is it.
And so I was the expert and I'm thankful
to have that kind of influence
and to be invited on a national news channel
to talk about marriage recession.
There was an article, a very pessimistic article, friends.
I mean, it was just so unredeeming.
It was kind of like the equivalent of nobody likes you,
everybody hates you, you should go eat some worms.
Like there wasn't anything in it that was causing any hope.
Like all marriage has been declining since the 80s.
Men and women, men aren't making money anymore.
Women don't want them because they're gold diggers.
I mean, it was bad.
There's no hope for mankind.
We're gonna all phase out by the year 2150.
I didn't say that, but it was bad.
It was bad like that.
The tone of it was no hope.
And so they decided to do a news piece on this article.
Why?
I have no idea.
But I read the article the night before.
I got some hopeful talking points to kind of rebut
gently a few things in the article.
But then when I hopped on with the reporter,
she kind of went a different direction.
And she was like, you know,
basically like, what's wrong with men?
And I was like, oh no, I mean,
like now I don't know what to say
because I wasn't ready for that.
So I was like, I kind of like,
I try to like make a joke
because you guys know I'm always wanting to make a joke.
And I don't think that it really,
I don't think it landed right.
I think people took it wrong and I don't know.
But the end of the clip,
it was like a three minute hit y'all, three minute hit.
We had a three minute conversation,
but they posted it on their YouTube,
which I guess they don't post all the hits on their YouTube,
but this one they thought would be great.
They posted on their YouTube
and the comment section was common for me.
It was bad and it was common for her.
And it was mostly men that were super offended
by what we had to say, right?
Just super offended by what we had to say.
And they were just like, one comment was like,
yeah, the only thing wrong with, you know,
blah, blah, blah are these two birds.
They called us birds.
In fact, I have to admit to you,
I did not feel discouraged by the comment section,
except I felt sad that so many people
are hurting so much out there.
But I was reading the comment section
and I was really having a good laugh
because there's some crazy stuff in there.
I could have done a bit.
I could have done a stand up bit
on the comment section of that.
But you guys, people are hurting.
People have aligned themselves with all kinds of stuff.
They have.
And we have to understand that we
have to be different than that.
Just because someone says it doesn't make it true,
write that down.
Just because someone says it doesn't make it true.
Also, just because you say it doesn't make it true,
but if you continue to say it, you will make it true.
For you.
I'm gonna say that again.
Just because you say it doesn't make it true,
but if you continue to say it,
it will make it true for you.
It's not about what God can do.
It's about what you believe he can do.
It's not, you don't get what you,
you get what you say, right?
And why is that?
I know we're all like, oh, we're gonna say it
and then God's gonna curse us with it.
You know, death and life are in the power of the tongue.
And if you continue to say bad things,
you know, they're gonna happen to you.
No.
That's not, yes, words do carry power.
We could do a Supernatural Saturday on that.
What it more is, is that the more that you are shaping
your own life with your words is because it is your belief.
Do you understand that?
It's your belief.
All right, so let's talk about some of these things.
So that Helmet of Salvation of Sozo,
we gotta have it on, y'all.
We have to have it on.
Every day, purposely, be like,
hey, there's a lot of information out here.
You guys, we live in an information age.
Did you know that?
There's a lot of information out here,
and so I have to make sure that I have this protection on,
protection, this guard on.
Okay, so here's some things.
Here's some steps to surrendering your thoughts to God.
Number one, you gotta recognize.
You gotta recognize those negative thoughts.
You have to recognize those thoughts.
It doesn't matter if they're coming from you
or they are coming from some sort of spiritual attack
on you, you have to recognize them
as not your own and not God's.
And when I say not your own, the redeemed version of you.
You, the real you, like, oh, no,
this thought does not belong to the redeemed version of me.
This thought does not belong
to the child of God version of me.
And you guys remember, that's the version we wanna be.
We're not gonna be victims, we're victors.
Does that thought belong to the victim version of you?
Then it's gotta go.
So start recognizing those victim-based thoughts,
those negative thoughts,
those harmful thoughts.
Identify them, you have to recognize them.
And then what do you have to do?
Come on, heartwork 101, you gotta replace them.
You gotta replace them, you guys.
As soon as you take inventory,
because you're thinking about what you're thinking about.
Do you guys know that that's what meditation is?
Meditation is becoming very mindful.
I know that we talk about meditation,
but it's becoming very mindful.
I know that we think this is a new age practice.
This is a biblical practice.
Are we living mindful lives?
Or are we just going a million miles an hour
down a dead end road?
Slow down and think.
Think purposely.
We don't have to have a 90% unconscious thought life.
We can have a conscious thought life.
We can live consciously.
Do you wanna live consciously?
Yeah, you are gonna have some unconscious thoughts,
but guess what?
The more that you replace your conscious thoughts
with God thoughts,
the more your unconscious thoughts are gonna follow suit.
So we're gonna replace them.
Who are we gonna replace them with?
We're gonna replace them with God's truth
about us, about that situation.
We're gonna replace them with hope.
Here's the only scripture that you really need today
for your replacing, Philippians 4.8.
You guys know this scripture, right?
It tells us exactly what to think about, doesn't it?
Tells us exactly what to think about.
If there's anything pure, if there's anything good,
if there's anything holy, think about these things.
If there's anything of good report,
think about these things.
It's not telling you, oh yeah,
if you happen to think about something like that,
or if something like that happens
and causes you to think about it.
No, it's telling you to actively, purposely think
on these things.
Think on these things.
I told my daughter last night when I was texting her,
I was like, I, you know, I was like,
I'm gonna tell you something.
I was like, I, you know, I was like,
I had to come to a place where I realized
that I wasn't thinking these thoughts.
These thoughts were thinking themselves.
She laughed at that.
Those are not my thoughts.
Those thoughts are thinking their own thoughts.
And you guys, I will tell you,
when I have those types of thoughts now,
I literally tell them to shut up.
When they come, I'm like, shut up.
You're stupid.
Not me, those thoughts.
You're stupid.
That's not true.
I'll just say it right out loud.
I could be in the middle of a crowd
and I have some thought about something
that's gonna happen.
It's not discernment,
it's not a premonition from the Lord,
you know, whatever.
And it's just a fearful, fear-based, unproductive thought
that's come in my mind.
We all get them.
They're intrusive thoughts.
They just barge in through the door.
And you know what?
I slam the door in his face.
I'm like, shh.
Shut up, get out of here, you're stupid.
You gotta do it, you guys.
So what are we replacing our thoughts with?
Philippians 4, 8, anything that's good.
Anything that's lovely.
Some of you need to start thinking about
some amazing things happening to you
instead of all kinds of worst case scenario things.
Start thinking about some great things, purposely.
It's gonna be hard at first
because you're so used to thinking negatively.
It's gonna be a real challenge for you,
but it's gonna be great and it's gonna bear great fruit.
All right, the next one, guard your mind.
Put the guard at the door.
Set up a guard.
Right there in that same scripture in Philippians,
right before it tells you what to think on,
it talks about, and the peace of God, the shalom of God.
By the way, that word means to devour chaos and confusion.
The devourer of chaos and confusion.
Let it guard your heart and your mind through Christ Jesus.
It's telling us right there.
Peace comes through Christ Jesus.
You guys, we have to be dwelling
on the finished work of the cross.
It will guard our heart and mind
when we realize that it's not about us, it's about him.
It's not about our performance,
it's about his performance on the cross.
The only thing that you have actively done
to participate in your salvation is sin.
And then believe that there's a savior.
That's it, friends.
The thing that makes you qualified for salvation
is that you're a sinner.
That is the one thing that you actively contributed
to your salvation plan was your sin.
And now you have to believe that there's a savior
that died for you and as you.
That's how we stay in peace.
That is where the shalom comes from.
The shalom comes from him, from being in Christ,
from understanding that it's about him.
And anytime you ever have any thought that it's about you
and that you didn't do what you should have done
and now you're being punished,
or you just don't really deserve anything good
because you've lived a bad life
and you've made mistakes, all that,
you are outside of Christ right now, friend.
You're outside of Christ.
Those thoughts are in your flesh because of trauma
and because of shame and guilt
and they have demonic origin originally,
but now remember, you're the co-counsel.
Now you're the assistant prosecutor there.
You've gotta come to your advocate.
Where there's a prosecutor, there's also a witness.
There's also a defense attorney
and his name is Jesus Christ and he said, you're innocent.
And God, the righteous judge said, so be it.
It's done, y'all, it's over, it's finished.
And all of our thoughts have to come into alignment with it
and we have to force them to
because in your flesh, there is no good thing,
nothing, nothing good in you.
Even the nicest, greatest people, y'all,
even the nicest, greatest people
are not going to be able to have their minds
in perfect peace without them being set on Jesus.
So set up the guard, set up the guard.
How?
The Bible says, don't be anxious.
Don't be anxious, don't have fearful thoughts.
Do not be anxious.
What's it saying?
So you mean I'm not just anxious, I'm being anxious?
Yeah, you're coming to agreement with anxiety.
The Bible says in every situation, you guys,
it says every situation by prayer and petition
with thanksgiving, present your request to God.
And then that's it.
That's your Jesus Cares Board right there,
phase one students.
And phase two and three, you should be using them too.
Do not be anxious, do not be fearful.
Why?
Because you're gonna bring every situation.
How?
By prayer and petition.
Let me just give you a little cheat sheet
for prayer and petition.
Prayer is God's benevolence.
You're coming boldly to the throne of grace
because you know he is a good daddy
and he's just gonna take care of you.
And petition is you know that God
is the only God in the universe
and he's the one that carries authority.
Petition is when you simply need God
to enact his authority in a situation.
Remember Matthew 8, the centurion that came?
He's like, no, Jesus, I don't need you to come to my house
because I am a man who's under authority
and I can recognize a man who's under authority.
Jesus, I can recognize a man who's under authority.
You feel the Holy Spirit?
You don't need to do anything except say the word.
And because of your authority
and the authority that you're under, it will be.
done. It will be done. So that's the difference between prayer and petition. Prayer is that
beautiful relationship that you have with your benevolent father from whom all good and perfect
gifts come from. That is your time of snuggle up time with daddy and petitions are legally this is
my right as a child of God because of the finished work of the cross and God said so so let it be
done. Come on y'all. Do not be anxious but in every situation by prayer and petition with
thanksgiving percent your request to God. Done. This is the guard y'all. This is the guard.
So we're going to recognize those thoughts. We're going to replace those thoughts. We're going to
put the guard at our mind. We're going to pray daily with an open heart. That's that teach me
show me heal me grow me sometimes you guys and there's a whole war against the prophetic right
now and that's why I'm so glad that we have the the authentic prophetic and we are part of
authentic prophetic communities because the enemy is after the prophetic and I want to remind you
guys and I might do supernatural Saturday on this next week but Paul said out of all the spiritual
gifts that you should desire and you should covet to have them because they are for the edification
encouragement exhortation and maturity of the body. We need them. We have to have them but out
of all of the gifts you should desire most of all to prophesy. You should desire most of all to prophesy
and so when we're praying with an open heart and allowing God to remove things a lot of times
it will come in the form of some sort of prophetic word of knowledge or wisdom
whether it's to us or it's through someone else to us remember when God sent the prophet Nathan
to David to say you're the man and what did that turn into that turned into a time of beautiful
repentance for David created me Lord a clean heart renew a right standing spirit in me
remove this guilt and shame from me guys when he was praying there because it was before the
finished work of the cross was finished work of the cross kinds of prayers because David was able
to step into a different dispensation we can't get into that but it was because that's why God
called him a man after his own heart because David really believed in God's goodness he had faith
because what the Bible says if you don't have faith surround yourself with faith because the
Bible says that it comes by what faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God
your faith is low you can get your tank filled you got to surround yourself with people that are
speaking the word of God that's why community is so important but back to David he said remove this
blood guiltness from me you guys all know what he did he killed Uriah all the stuff committed
adultery all the things but he would have carried that for the rest of his life in a shroud of shame
on him because remember it's before the finished work of the cross but he's saying creating me a
clean heart renew a right standing that's that that word a righteous spirit right standing
spirit you guys that is actually foreshadowing Jesus and his righteousness that incredible
we got to trust God you guys that's the other thing that we do when we're taking our thoughts
captive we're trusting in God's kind of timing and I say that loosely because I don't want you
to think that there's waiting rooms in the kingdom because there's not but God is working
all things together weaving like a tapestry rust that process please trust that process
and we can experience freedom joy and peace y'all we have to align our thoughts with God's truth
and this will transform our minds all right I have a whole bunch more but we're out of time
father God we thank you for your goodness today if we even get even a little bit of what you're
telling us today I know that it would cause us to be abundant and so Lord let the seed take root
let it bear fruit and quickly let that fruit accelerate in Jesus name amen don't forget
friends we do activate on Sunday nights and so come back I'll give candy some of these notes
maybe you guys can go into some of this other stuff this is an important thing if you feel
like you've been struggling in your thought life I want you to take a minute today and say hey
I want to align my thoughts with the spirit and not with my flesh and obviously not with a demonic
let me think about what I'm thinking about let me see where these thoughts are coming from
and let me replace them with truth I'll see you soon friends love you goodbye