Welcome to Supernatural Saturday.
I'm so glad that all of you joined us this morning because I really think the Lord wants
to redirect us today.
I just have one little small thought and we're going to see where it goes, but if you're
new to Supernatural Saturday, this is the day of the week where our community gathers
and we just look to the Lord together.
What does God have for us?
What does God want to say to us?
I just want to let you guys know that every time that I get quiet and I seek the Lord,
the Lord has things to say to me.
And it's not about kneeling by my bedside, although sometimes I do that.
It's not about turning on some worship music.
It's not about going out for a walk in nature.
All of those things are places or all those places are times when I could hear the Lord
possibly.
But it's just about an intention of the heart to seek the Lord.
It really doesn't have anything to do with time or place or activity.
It has to do with the intention of the heart.
I want to make sure that I'm really clear about that.
And so anytime that I really just come away from distraction, I put away whatever it is
that I'm looking at and that I'm giving my focus to, I'm giving my attention to, and
I give my attention to the Lord.
That is when I hear the Lord speaking to me.
Okay.
I've been walking with Jesus for 28 years now, and I have enjoyed so many profound,
profound conversations with God where he has told me things about myself, about others,
which has obviously turned into prophetic words for other people.
Let me tell you about one such word because I want you to see how God can shift you in
ways that you never even imagined you can be shifted.
And I was just really blessed to be part of this process.
And it's important that we have the prophetic.
I know the prophetic, there's a war against the prophetic in the earth right now.
And the reason why is it's being misused, right?
A gift is a powerful gift, but it's being misused in the earth.
And a lot of people are ceasing to even believe in it.
I know that Gen Z is really struggling to even go to charismatic churches because they
don't trust the movings of the spirit.
And you guys, all of this is a plot of the enemy to get us back into the dark ages of
religion because the law kills without the spirit.
The spirit is what gives life.
Okay.
What does the law do?
How does it kill?
Well, first of all, religion can be super dangerous, right?
It can be very toxic.
And I'm not even talking about the law, the Logos, the written word of God, I'm talking
about religion.
What is religion?
Religion is what man does with the written word of God, how he manipulates it to manipulate
people, how he takes it to lord over people and to oppress people instead of it making
people free.
Right?
But the Bible says it's the law that kills, meaning the Logos, the written word, meaning
the law of Moses, the old covenant, the old Testament, if you will.
And then it's the spirit that gives life.
The spirit gives life.
So when you read your Bible, you can't just read your Bible.
You have to read your Bible with the help of Holy Spirit.
I know many people that walk out of churches, not feeling uplifted, not feeling full of
joy and peace, not feeling full of hope and anticipation, but feeling full of death, feeling
full of condemnation.
That's what happens when you have just the word and you have no spirit in it.
Okay?
So let's look at what it means by the law kills.
I didn't have any intention of going here, but Holy Spirit's taking us here, so we're
going to go.
So the law kills, what it means is that the only reason that God gave the law to Moses
in the first place is so that people would understand their need of a Savior.
That is the purpose of the law.
I want you to stop and think about that for a second.
The only purpose for all of these rules is so that you would understand that you can't
keep the rules.
And by the way, I know that most Christians have the Ten Rules, the Ten Commandments.
I mean, obviously a Christian lifestyle and all the other added things that your church
puts on of, you can wear this, but you can't wear this, and you can go here, but you can't
go there, all that stuff.
But the Jews had it really bad.
I think the Jews right now are up to 626 things that they have to do every day, that they
have to make sure that they don't not do in order to be righteous.
And so that's a lot of things, y'all.
steps. Isn't that interesting how the flesh is like,
Oh, I know God said only don't do this stuff,
but let's add another 620 things to that just to make it
interesting.
But the purpose of the rules is so that you would understand
that you can't keep them and that you need a savior.
You need a champion.
You need someone to come and rescue you.
The Bible says that the law was our schoolmaster and that
when we're children, meaning immature, we need it.
But that when we become mature, when we become of age,
when we're ready for our inheritance,
we no longer need a schoolmaster.
Now it's time for us to step into what God always had for us,
which is our identity in the new covenant.
Isn't that powerful? Isn't that beautiful?
And a lot of us, including myself,
I'm always finding little pieces of religion inside my heart,
but it's difficult for us to live a grace life.
It's difficult for us to live in the finished work of the
cross. It's difficult for us to live in the idea.
That's not about us or our performance,
but it's about Jesus and his performance on the cross.
It's difficult for us to understand that we don't need those
rules to keep us in line any longer.
When we step into the new covenant,
what keeps us in line is his love for us and our love for
him.
When you don't serve God out of fear,
but you serve him out of love, trust me,
it will keep you more in line than fear ever could.
It's just true.
So you guys, there's a war on the spirit of God.
There's a war on the gifts of the spirit.
Now I'd be the first person to line up and tell you that
fruit is important,
especially in the place that you all are at,
where you are looking for a partner.
You're about to make the most important decision of your
life besides following Jesus.
And that is choosing someone to follow Jesus with in
partnership is kind of a make you or break you relationship.
Trust me, it is.
And I don't say that to,
to make you afraid or to give you relationship OCD,
where you never think that the person's perfect enough.
It's not about them being perfect.
It's about where is their heart?
What do they want?
Are they hungry for more?
Are they growing?
Are they trying?
Are there yellow flags?
Are there yellow flags turning green
because of their heart posture?
Those are the important things.
So I'll be the first person to line up and tell you that
fruit of the spirit's important, very important.
The Bible says that trees should be judged by fruit,
meaning people's lives.
We should know people after the fruit of their lives.
I oftentimes, before I go someplace where I'm going to meet
new people and you guys can do this on a date,
you can do this when you go to a singles event,
or you can go to work,
go someplace where you're going to meet people that don't
know you, maybe even people that are not believers in a work
context or some other kind of context,
you can pray and say what I say.
And I say, God,
let me be known after the spirit and not the flesh.
I don't want people just to know me after the flesh.
You know, this 5'10 sturdy girl walking in,
she's bold, she's confident.
He sometimes says things he didn't.
I don't want to be known just after the flesh.
I want to be known after the spirit.
I want to be known as I'm really known in heaven.
I want to be seen as my true self.
And you pray that.
And I suggest you do,
especially when you're meeting someone of the opposite sex
for a potential relationship,
not only pray that you'll be known after the spirit,
not the flesh,
but that you will know them after the spirit and not the
flesh, you can see what's really there.
And we're going to get to that because that's kind of part
of today's lesson, part of today's message.
But I want to talk more,
a little bit more about the prophetic and about just,
so we're talking about the fruit of the spirit,
love, joy, peace, patience.
Yeah, we want those things.
And those things are important.
And those things show whether or not there's really truly a
relationship with Jesus.
Cause you can't manufacture fruit.
Can't fake it till you make it.
You either have it or you don't.
Now, a lot of people will, you know,
kind of put on a good front.
on, good on, good on, put on a good show, but pretty quickly you'll see whether or
not that's really patience or whether or not they're just, you know, holding
their crazy back a little bit.
If the right type of scenario and situation, the right amount of heat gets
turned up on that person, they're going to boil over, right?
They're not going to exhibit self-control.
You're going to see what's really there because remember those, those fruit of
this, of the spirit, that's supernatural stuff.
That's not based on circumstances.
It's not based on it being a sunny, beautiful day.
Everyone can be in a good mood on a sunny, beautiful day.
But let's talk about the gifts for a second.
You know, Paul, who, you know, is one of the most important figures in the New
Testament, God using him and utilizing him and speaking through him to teach and
disciple and to raise up, to build, to tear down.
And so a lot of the words that are written, and I want you to be really aware
that in the letters that Paul wrote, and there's a funny meme that goes around
where someone's doing something they shouldn't do and everyone, you know,
someone posts in the comments, oh, you're getting a letter from Paul.
This requires a Paul letter.
And so of course he was sending letters of correction and edification and
exhortation to these new churches, to these, you know, these budding and
blossoming Christians, but not everything that he says in those letters is meant for
you.
There's a lot we can learn from, but we live in a modern age.
We don't live in Corinth.
We don't live in Ephesus.
We don't live in these places.
There are some similarities in some ways, but there were also very specific
situations that Paul was addressing in those letters, like the imbalance between
male and female leadership because of the worship of goddesses.
And that's where all this crazy idea that women shouldn't speak in churches came
from.
You notice that Paul only mentions it in that letter to that group of people and
nobody else.
Never again.
In fact, in a whole different letter, he says that the foot of the cross is equal,
that there's no male, there's no female, there's no Jew or Greek or bond or free.
I'm basically saying to you that you need to not just read your Bible, but you have
to read your Bible.
You have to understand the context of what's being said and why it's being said
and who it's being said to.
You have to, otherwise you're going to zig when you should zag, right?
You're going to believe things that are not necessarily pertinent to your current
life.
It's important that we understand that.
But some of the teaching that Paul did in those letters is universal for all of us.
And that is the gifts and the fruit of the spirit.
He's saying, Hey, these gifts are really important.
God's going to use these gifts to mature you.
Because that's what they're for.
And that's why the enemy wants to give them a bad rap so that they can get away
and give them a bad rap so that we'll shy away from them and we won't want to
partake of them or even ask to be given them ourselves.
Paul says you should earnestly covet the gifts of the spirit.
Obviously love trumps all.
Love's the most important thing.
We have to do everything in love.
And he's not talking about the kind of love that you can muster up in your own
flesh.
Okay.
Some of us are more empathetic than others.
Some of us have softer hearts than others towards other people, you know, in
empathy, in compassion.
That's wonderful, but that's not love.
And that's not what Paul's talking about.
He's talking about agape love.
He's talking about the kind of love that can only come from God through you and then
to others.
That's the most important thing.
Love.
We got to keep the main thing, the main thing.
And we have to ask and we have to pray and say, God, don't let my heart be hardened
because I look around.
The Bible says that in the end days, at the end of the age, the love of many would
wax cold.
Okay.
And that word love once again is not brotherly love.
It's not filial love.
It's not Eros love, which is a romantic love.
It's agape love.
It's supernatural love.
It's the type of love that God has for us.
God has a type of love for you that cannot fail.
It's not based on your behavior.
It's not based on circumstances.
It's not based on performance.
It is truly unconditional.
Say that to yourself.
God loves me unconditionally.
There's no conditions.
There's no strings.
There's no small print.
He loves me.
That's the type of love that's gonna wax cold
at the end of the age,
and we see it all around us.
The people that should love, they're not loving.
Parents not loving their children.
Mothers not loving their children.
I mean, a mother's love is the closest
you can get to God's love.
People just walking by their suffering fellow man
without even a second glance.
There's no, the love is waxing cold.
And the Bible says because of the increase in sin,
in evil, that's why.
What's happening?
People are hardening their hearts.
Their hearts are getting hard.
And so it's important for us to pray,
God, keep my heart soft.
Let my heart be soft.
Let my heart be a place where agape love can be.
Because you guys, I have seen,
and I'm gonna tell you right now,
I've seen it, I just saw it a couple days ago.
I've seen people use the gifts of the spirit,
which the Bible says are without repentance.
What does that mean?
That means God gives it and he doesn't take it away.
I have seen the gifts used without love.
And it's not a good sight.
It's not.
And it's part of what is giving
this whole supernatural area of our lives a bad rap.
People using the gifts for their own purposes
and for their own notoriety.
People using the gifts in anger instead of in love.
Condemning people with words of prophecy
instead of exhorting them and edifying them,
encouraging them.
We see it, it's happening.
But you guys, we cannot throw the baby out
with the bathwater.
We cannot.
We cannot walk in this world,
especially in this generation that God has matched us with.
He matched you with this generation.
You could have lived during the times
of Paul's letters in the Bible.
You could have lived.
You could have been part of those people,
but you're not, you're here now.
And God sent, God, not Paul,
but God sent the most important letter to the world.
And it was a love letter.
And it came in the form of Jesus Christ.
It came in the form of John 3, 16 and 17.
Don't forget that 17th verse.
Let's read it real quick.
Let's do it.
Pull it up.
For God so loved the world,
this is the 16th verse,
that he gave his only begotten son,
that whosoever believeth in him should not perish,
but have everlasting life.
That's beautiful.
And if we stopped right there,
that would still be beautiful,
but we have to go to 17.
For God did not send his son into the world
to condemn the world,
but to save the world.
Come on, y'all.
Most important love letter.
That's all you need to know about God right there.
So he gave his only begotten son
so that we would not perish.
Because we couldn't fulfill the law.
We needed a savior.
But he didn't send him to point the finger at us
and condemn us.
He sent him
that by through him, we would be saved.
We would be saved.
By one man's disobedience,
sin has entered the earth.
That's the Adam.
But the second Adam,
by one man's obedience,
we've all become righteous.
By one man's sin, we all became sinners.
And by one man's obedience, we all became righteous.
You guys, Jesus wasn't a robot.
He didn't have to do what he did.
He chose to do it.
He had free will, just like you do.
He had free will.
It had to be an act of obedience.
Sin came in the world because of an act of disobedience.
And you notice that the disobedience part
is put on Adam and not Eve.
so that we think of she's the villain of the story.
But gentlemen, God puts a lot of precedent
on your headship.
It's important that you understand that.
Eve ate the fruit first, but her eyes were not open.
She did not see that they were naked.
Nothing happened, there wasn't a supernatural shift
until Adam ate the fruit.
Please pay attention to that
because you're important.
Gentlemen, you are important.
What you do is important.
How you lead your family is important.
The covering of the masculine is important.
And you can't do it on your own,
you can only do it through Christ.
That's why Jesus is the head
and then man is the head of the family.
You have to have that covering.
You have to lean into him.
You can't do it on your own.
You need him.
We all need him, but gentlemen, you need him.
So we see that the greatest love letter
that was ever written,
it's written by God to us.
And then he sent his servants and his messengers
to tell us how to partake of these things,
how to be saved.
How can they be saved if there's no preacher?
That's what the Bible says.
The Bible says, how can they hear
if there's no one to say, no one to tell them?
So God sends his people individually.
I'm sure all of you have led someone to the Lord.
And if you haven't asked God to allow you that privilege
because it's amazing.
To lead someone to the greatest gift
and the greatest love of their life.
Just so you guys know,
I know that all of you are single.
Some of you are dating right now towards marriage.
That's awesome.
But you've already met the greatest love of your life.
And that's Jesus.
You've already met the greatest love of your life.
You are not looking for the greatest love of your life.
You've already met the greatest love of your life.
Now we just want an extension of that love with skin on it.
We want a little Jesus with skin on it.
That's all right.
Just as long as you don't expect them
to be perfect like Jesus,
cause that ain't gonna happen.
God uses people to show us his love for us.
We need each other.
We need people.
Someone posted and I'm gonna post on my Instagram,
but someone posted a comment
and I've been replying to comments on my Instagram.
If you don't follow me there, follow me there.
Because you know, me and Holy Spirit together
are putting out some, I think important content.
But someone commented and said something like,
oh Jackie, you poor little ignorant thing.
Don't you know that what you're talking about
is the old covenant.
We're in the new covenant.
In the new covenant, we're married to Jesus
and we don't need to be married to each other.
That's not true.
Y'all that's just not what the Bible says.
The old covenant was a covenant that was based on the law.
Had nothing to do with marriage.
People were getting married in the old covenant,
they're getting married in the new covenant.
Because why?
Because marriage is part of divine design.
It came before any covenants.
It was part of God's original design.
It is the thing that was lost in the garden.
One of the things that was lost in the garden
because of sin.
And it is the very thing that Jesus has come to restore
and to reconcile you and your identity to God as his child,
seated with Christ in heavenly places
of a kingdom lineage and inheritance.
Yeah, he came to restore that.
He also came to restore his family
that he created on the sixth day of creation.
Man, woman, eventually children,
marriage is part of your divine design.
The old covenant,
that God made with Abraham, the Old Covenant, the Ten Commandments, all of those things,
you guys, that was because we were waiting for a Savior.
We're waiting for Jesus to come and reconcile us. What? Back to what? Back to divine design.
And what's included in divine design? Marriage and family.
So don't let anyone use the Bible against you.
Study the Bible for yourself.
And understand. And you can't study the Bible for yourself unless you study it with the help
of the Spirit. Because otherwise, you're going to get super confused there. There's a whole
lot of stuff there that seems very contradictory of its own self. You have to read the Bible
through the eyes of the Spirit. Very important that you do that. So let's go on to the gifts.
So Paul said, hey, you should want these. You should ask for these.
He said, and the one, the specific one that you want more than all of them is to prophesy.
What is that? To exhort, to encourage, and to edify yourself and others in the Spirit.
And it has been my great privilege to be a prophetic person. To be a person that,
you know, God speaks through, and edifies others, and encourages others, and exhorts others. You
want to know how Supernatural Saturday happens? I'm just walking around my kitchen, and I'm not
thinking. I'm just letting the Spirit speak through me. It's a form of the prophetic. It's
a form of words of knowledge, and words of revelation. It's a revelation gift.
This is how God uses the gifts of the Spirit to edify you and others. And it looks different on
everyone. But we need to ask God for these gifts. That's what Paul said. He said, ask God.
He said, covet earnestly.
Desire greatly to have these gifts.
And I know they're getting a bad rap of the earth, but you know what?
They're not going to get a good rap until good people use them.
People who lay their hearts open before the Lord, and allow him to remove all the crap.
All the stuff that's junking up the works. All the stuff that's not making it a pure flow
All the stuff that's not making it a pure flow of the Spirit anymore.
All the selfish ambition. All the religion. All the ucky stuff.
Like David said in Psalm 51,
Create in me a clean heart, O Lord, and renew a right spirit in me. A righteous spirit in me.
Purge me with hyssop. Wash me, and I will be clean. When we have the Spirit moving through
our lives, we have to constantly come to the Lord and say, hey, check me before I wreck me.
I want this to be a clear, sweet fountain.
The Bible says that bitter water and sweet water cannot flow from the same place.
It says that you cannot praise God. You cannot love God and hate your brother.
He's not saying, oh, it's hard. It's hard to hate your brother and love God. No, he's saying you can't.
You can't. He also goes on to say, you can't love God. You can't make him your master and also be
under the yoke of mammon. He's not saying it's hard. He's saying it's impossible.
You're going to hate one and love the other. You can't have two masters.
You can't. And we talked about this on a previous Supernatural Saturday. That means every day,
not once a week, not once a month, not on Sundays. Every day, we have to get up and we have to
realign ourselves to heaven. God, I belong to you. I'm your child. Jesus, you are my Savior. You are
my Lord, but you are also my master. And now I pray that Holy Spirit would lead me today. I want
to walk after the Spirit and not the flesh. Guys, these are simple prayers, but they're taken very
seriously by heaven. And then sometimes you're led to do some crazy stuff. It's like, all right,
I'm in. By the way, this entire time I'm walking around my kitchen,
which is usually why I have the camera off.
because like I just have to walk and walk and walk. It's part of my thing, but I can see you.
You can't really see me, but I can see Juanita and she's just bringing me joy.
I'm just looking right at her. Like I'm talking right to Juanita today
because she's bringing me joy with her joy. So I appreciate that. My little amen corner is Nicole
and Pam and Cheryl and Juanita this morning and Lolita. And so praise the Lord.
All right. So you guys, we want to be spiritually empowered. We want to have the gifts. Right now,
I want you to put up in the chat the gift that you're asking God for, the gift that you want.
Maybe you already have it, but you want to be more matured in it. You want to use it.
Eat more easily, I guess, is the word, because you guys, once you have it, you have it. A lot
of times we'll talk ourselves out of it. We'll overthink it and we just won't operate in it.
Okay. Because remember, it's not you, it's God. You just have to like let go and let it happen.
A lot of people get really confused about speaking in tongues because they're trying
to manufacture it. And they just, you know, that's why the gift of tongues is so powerful,
because the book of James says that this is an unruly member. Your tongue is an unruly member.
Says whoever can tame their tongue can rule their life. Right? And so it's you
surrendering that unruly member to the spirit and allowing the spirit to pray through you,
to sing through you, to exhort through you in languages that make no sense to your human mind.
Exhort through you in languages that make no sense to your human mind.
I remember the first time that I was baptized in the spirit with the evidence of tongues,
you know, the tongues of men and angels, the Bible says. So languages that I don't speak,
that I have no conscious understanding of, right? And some languages that are not even
earthly languages. They're not even languages that people speak on earth. They're heavenly
languages. I remember that first time that that happened. I was 22 years old and you guys,
it rocked my world. It rocked my world. It was crazy. And I got a little bit scared when it
first started happening. And then this peace and this love and this joy washed over me.
And it was the most amazing experience. And then in my mind, I could hear myself in English.
I was singing in this beautiful language that I did not consciously know, but in my mind,
I heard the interpretation of it in English. And it was beautiful and it was amazing. And I was
praising the Lord. And it was an incredible experience that no one can ever take away
from me. It's my own little personal miracle. And I just release that over all of you that
have never experienced anything like that before. Things that you can always point back to and say,
I'm like, God is real. He is really, really real. The spirit is real.
I know that that wasn't manufactured. I know that it wasn't fake. It was real.
Guys, my wrist got healed the other day. I believe in healing. I don't see it happen all
the time, but I believe in healing. And I hurt my wrist really badly. And I was at a church that
I sometimes attend for a business meeting. And I saw a woman who is in this program,
but she also leads their school. She usually leads Sunday nights here for us, Sarah.
And I saw her there and she leads their school of ministry. And I said, Hey,
she operates prolifically in healing. And I said, my wrist, I said, I need you to pray for it. She
prayed for it. And my wrist was healed. You guys got heals. And you know what? I went out to the
car. My mind was trying to really just war against the idea of my wrist, just being better. Cause it
was really jacked up. I couldn't even pick anything up with that hand. I had twisted it
the wrong way. And I was worried that I was going to have to actually go to the doctor and get an
x-ray because that's how bad it was hurting. And my mind wanted to war against the idea that it
would just be all better now. Right? Like, Oh yeah, that's great. That sounds good. But you
know, what if the pain comes back kind of idea? And I said, no, God, I believe that you're a
healer. I just had to keep saying it over and over again. Why? Because I had to agree with the
spirit. You guys were in a war. Go listen to old supernatural Saturdays where I talk about the
spiritual war that we're in. I can't talk about it every supernatural Saturday, but I want to
remind you that we are in a war, a war between good and evil, a war between the flesh and the
spirit. And guess what? God is the victor that aside with the right team, you guys with the
winning team. When you go into a dark room and you turn on a light, there's no scuffle.
There's no scuffle.
The darkness flees and the light comes.
There's no contest.
All right, look at all these, you guys.
Look at all these things
that you want to receive from the Lord.
So Father, I first and foremost pray
over your sons and daughters
that they would receive encounters with you
that nothing can ever explain away.
Nothing can ever explain it away.
It's supernatural.
It marks them forever, Lord.
They are marked forever by these moments with you
where they know that they were visited by you,
where they know that whatever happened
in that moment was supernatural.
I thank you, God.
Thank you for these encounters and moments.
And now all of these gifts that your sons and daughters
are asking for, all these gifts,
we ask that you would just pour it out.
Your word says that it is your pleasure
to give good gifts unto your children
and so much more the Holy Spirit to those that ask.
That is what your word says.
And so we thank you for Holy Spirit.
Holy Spirit, we are thankful that you dwell with us
and in us.
And along with you, you bring your gifts and your fruit.
Help us to nurture this connection
and relationship with you.
Look at all these things.
All right, so let's tell a fun story.
Guys, this wasn't anywhere where we were going
with Supernatural Saturday today,
but it's beautiful and amazing and I love it.
Okay, so when I was practicing the prophetic,
because you guys, it's something that,
you know, once you learn how to do it,
that's a bad way to put it.
Once it comes, right, you have to learn
how to operate in it.
Is that better?
Okay, so once it comes, you have to learn
how to operate in it.
Meaning how to just surrender to it, basically.
It's difficult.
You guys, we're a lot more stubborn than we think.
We're a lot more in control than we think we are.
And we wanna be in control.
And operating in these gifts of the spirit,
a lot of times it goes directly against
your human reasoning.
It does.
Makes you feel foolish when, you know,
someone's like, oh, my back hurts.
You're like, can I pray for it to be healed?
Okay, you know, it makes you feel weird.
But you have to remember, it's not you.
You cannot heal people.
I'm sorry to break that news to you,
but you cannot heal people.
You can't.
And so all the pressure is off of you.
God's either gonna do it through you or he's not, right?
And you believe he is, because you believe
that he's given you the power to heal.
He's given you a channel from heaven
in the spirit for healing virtue to flow through.
Remember, on earth as it is in heaven.
There's no sick people in heaven.
There's no pain in heaven.
People aren't walking around gimpy in heaven.
They're not.
They don't have tumors.
They don't have blindness.
They don't have, that's not what heaven looks like.
So allowing what's in heaven to come through you
into the earth by the power of the Holy Spirit,
by the power of the Spirit of God, right?
And same things with the other gifts.
There's some power gifts, right?
Eudaimus is the word there that's used.
That's like dynamite.
There's some dynamite gifts.
Those are the gifts of prophecy, the gifts of revelation,
the gift of wisdom, right?
These are great.
These are great gifts.
It's not just prophesying about something
that someone's gonna do someday.
I'm gonna tell you a story about that just in a sec,
but also giving people words of knowledge
about their current circumstances,
things that you shouldn't know about
because you don't know them.
And also words of wisdom.
What is that?
That's how to navigate that situation, that strategy.
There's all kinds of things.
There's gifts of healings, you guys.
It's plural in the Bible.
So it's not just one type of healing.
Could be emotional healing, could be mental healing,
could be physical healing.
All different types of healings, right?
Amazing, miracles.
The gift of miracles.
What is a miracle?
A miracle is something that's impossible.
You're like, what's the difference
between healings and miracles?
Well, you know, we have medicine now.
There are some people that get cured
and get better from modern medicine.
There's some people that get sick from modern medicine.
The bottom line is the miracle is something
that it's like, oh, it defies gravity.
It defies physics.
It defies logic.
It defies all things.
All things that we've been taught are real and true.
It defies those things.
Isn't that amazing?
The gift of tongues, you guys,
that is like your own personal gym in the spirit.
When you have the gift of tongues
and you pray in your prayer language,
which I suggest you do,
which I suggest you do daily if you're not already doing,
you might feel foolish at first
because you don't understand what you're saying.
But the bottom line is,
is that the spirit is talking to the spirit of God.
And it is bypassing you because you're in the way.
You're in the way, okay?
Your human intellect, your need for control,
all the things, that's in the way.
And so you're interceding for yourself.
You are, and you're interceding for others.
Past the pay grade of your human reasoning.
Write that down.
Now, a lot of people have gotten really weird
about the whole tongues gift corporately,
like in churches and people just speaking in tongues
and people get confused and people get scared.
And Paul says that if you do speak in tongues publicly,
there should be someone to interpret.
And that's a whole different gift of the spirit,
tongues and interpretations.
You guys, I've been using that gift many times
to either give the tongue or give the interpretation.
Those things happen in corporate gatherings
where there a lot of times are foreign speaking people,
atheist people that, it's kind of a miracle.
Like it's like a show of the spirit.
You never know when it's gonna happen.
And most times where I've been involved,
I've been like, oh no, here we go.
I don't know what people are gonna think of this
because a lot of times it's been in a place
where people are really not that open to the spirit of God.
And that's what that gift is for.
It's to oppose people's unbelief.
Do you see what I'm saying?
Now at your church, if you wanna,
if you're praying kind of under your breath
in the spirit and stuff, okay, cool.
But when everyone's just kind of chaotically praying
really loud in tongues, if there's a visitor there,
they're probably gonna be like,
you guys are weird, I'm leaving.
But have you noticed that a lot of churches,
they're more towards like just kind of Christian light
and a lot of people are more towards like,
just kind of Christian light.
Yeah, I call it flashlight shows
instead of like evangelistic models, a lot of churches.
And then we have the evangelistic models
and then the people that are more seriously mature Christians
call those seeker friendly churches and they put them down.
Guys, let's live and let live, can we?
Can we just let people do what it is
that they feel God is leading them to do?
As far as pastoring a church or building a church
or starting some sort of ministry
for a specific people group,
people do need to be discipled.
We do need to have unbelievers come into places
where they can be discipled and they can learn about Jesus.
It can't all be about the deep things of the spirit.
It can't always be about that.
Not everyone's at that level.
And the reason why I call them flashlight shows
is those churches where everyone's just kind of
showing off their gifts, like shining their light
in a room full of light.
Well, the light belongs in the darkness.
If you wanna get together with other flashlights on Sunday
so that you can like get stronger with your light
and then go out in the dark world, then great.
Once again, I'm very much a live and let live person.
Just be where you're being fed, where you're growing.
If you gather with other believers, you should be growing.
You should be being edified and encouraged.
You should leave that place desiring
to shine your light in the darkness.
You should leave that place with strategy
on what that looks like for your life.
That is the type of corporate gathering
that you should be part of.
All right, so let me tell you a story
when I first started practicing the prophetic.
I went to, I went to like a week-long school.
I've always been very intuitive and very prophetic.
I told you how I received the baptism of the Holy Spirit,
you know, speaking in tongues, interpreting my own tongue.
You know, I've always been someone
that had kind of a high spiritual IQ, so to speak, right?
Just really open to God utilizing me in this way.
Me in this way.
And so I started giving words of knowledge and wisdom
really, really young into my discipleship,
even being more gifted in the Spirit
than even the leaders in my life,
to the point where they're like,
hey, you know, we don't know how to disciple you in this
because none of us have those gifts.
None of the, and none of us have these gifts
that you're displaying, only you have them,
like in this church, right?
And I'm just a, you know, I'm just a little girl.
I'm only 22 years old, 23 years old, 24 years old.
And so I didn't have anyone to disciple me
until much later, you guys, much later.
In fact, the pastors and leaders that discipled me,
they said, we don't understand these gifts.
We know they're real.
We can see, we can very much see that they're authentic,
you know, because of the things that were happening,
but we're gonna ask you not to use them
until you can find someone to disciple you in them.
Guys, that was hard.
And a lot of people would say,
oh, well, they're squelching the Spirit in you
and you shouldn't have listened to them.
No, you know what?
The most important thing that I have learned
through my discipleship was not how to operate in the Spirit,
it was how to be obedient.
Just so you know, obedience doesn't happen when you agree.
Obedience can only happen when you disagree.
It's easy to do something that someone tells you to do
if you're on the same page.
It's easy to say yes when that's what you want,
but when it's not what you want,
then you have to submit to authority.
And so submitting to authority was the most important thing
that God taught me in those years,
and I know that he did it on purpose.
He did it on purpose.
I had these gifts.
I knew that I had them.
I could use them prolifically.
I was asked not to until I got teaching
and discipleship on them.
And who knew when that was gonna happen
because I hadn't met that person yet.
And I was obedient to that.
And guess what?
I didn't lose any momentum
because fast forward probably about eight years,
I went to a school that taught me how to steward these gifts
and do you know what?
I exploded in those gifts as if no time had passed.
Right?
But now also with the gift of maturity
that came from submission to authority and obedience.
All right, come on God, let's go.
What was I now?
I was a kite with a string instead of just a kite.
You ever seen a kite without a string?
Not good.
It's all tangled up in the telephone wires.
It's in the tree somewhere.
No, now I was a kite with a string.
So I began to practice this gift
because it had been so long
and I really wanted to get to it.
And so I put out on my social media,
I was really early social media days.
Fake Facebook had just began.
So it was like 2008.
And I put out, hey, does anyone need prayer?
Does anyone want encouraging words?
Anyone want a prophetic word?
I was like, ooh, here we go.
And this evangelist, you guys, an evangelist,
someone that I really looked up to
that used to travel through my church
when I was a young believer,
him and his wife and his kids used to come through.
He's a traveling evangelist.
He used to preach at my church.
He was very anointed.
Really funny guy, just a couple of years older than me
at the time that he was traveling through.
So I was in my mid twenties
and he was in his probably mid to late twenties.
He private messaged me for a prophetic word.
Now I see this person
as definitely spiritually superior to me
in a lot of ways, right?
And he wants a prophetic word.
And what I know of him is that, you know,
he's an evangelist.
He's in full-time ministry,
traveling, like traveling ministry
with him and his family.
They've sacrificed almost like missionaries
or missionaries, right?
And very, very, very spiritual
and almost religious people, okay?
That's what my human mind knows about him.
But you know what the Holy Spirit told me about him?
The Holy Spirit said,
you tell him that in a few years,
he is going to go to New York City
and he is going to be on Broadway.
What?
He is going to move to New York City.
He's going to be on Broadway.
And he is going to be on Broadway.
He is going to be, you know, impactful on Broadway,
and he is going to influence the LBGTQ community.
In fact, he's gonna do a reprisal of the play
La Cagne Folle, which was a famous gay play.
And I couldn't know any of this stuff.
I had to Google it later.
It was coming from the spirit.
And I was like, oh, this is a crazy word
to give to this little country bumpkin evangelist.
I can't believe I'm even gonna say it.
This dude that comes from Nowheresville, Mississippi,
I'm gonna tell him that he's gonna go
and live in New York City and be on Broadway
and make an impact and impact the LBGTQ community
and all this stuff.
No, but I said it.
And then I was like, hey, I know this is a weird word,
but here you go.
And he was just like, oh, thanks.
Because when I'm telling you it's out of left field,
it's out of left field.
It's out of left field.
It's just kind of the risks that you have to take
when you're gonna operate in the spirit.
And then I was friends with him still on Facebook.
And a few years later, maybe like five years later,
I saw that he was posting about his youngest daughter
who had come out as a lesbian
and who was taking a girl to prom.
And I was like, oh, what's happening here?
And I was praying for them and watching the story unfold.
And then pretty soon I saw that that daughter
was moving to New York City to go to NYU.
And I'm like, oh, oh, what's happening here, Lord?
He's going to New York.
And then two years later, I saw that the whole family
was moving to New York City
so that they could live in New York City
where their daughter was going to NYU.
And I was like, okay, God, here we go.
And then this year I saw that my friend,
this man that I prophesied over was in a Broadway play.
He's in a Broadway play, Jesus.
And then what happened?
He is impacting the LGBTQ community
through his daughter and their friends
and the gatherings of all these actors
and people in New York on Broadway, only God.
Only God could take that little country evangelist
who probably had never even been to New York City
and send him there.
And because he's so talented of a speaker and an orator
and really just such a funny person,
put him enrolled in Broadway play.
No, you can't make this up.
It's impossible to make it up.
And let me tell you something,
that is how Holy Spirit wants to move in your life.
With things that happen that are so profound
that you're like, oh, well,
there's no way that this could have happened but God.
There's no way that this could happen but God.
And that's just one example.
And so I'm gonna end with this.
This was what I wanted to tell you all along.
I reached into the bin in my refrigerator
to get out my strawberries for breakfast.
And I pulled out a really weird looking strawberry.
It was a double strawberry that had kind of grown together
and that was ugly.
I just wanna tell you it was ugly y'all.
And I tried to put it back because I'm like,
oh, I don't wanna eat that.
I wanna eat something that I recognize.
My strawberries are organic.
Cause if you don't know this,
they're part of the dirty dozen.
Don't eat non-organic strawberries.
That's just a little side note, but they're organic.
And so God's like, hey, I want you to look that up.
I want you to look into that.
And so I looked it up and organic fruit
oftentimes is smaller than conventional fruit.
It's discolored.
It's different colors than conventional fruit
and weirdly and oddly shaped when it grows naturally.
Right?
Without human intervention,
when it grows naturally organically,
the good stuff is weird looking.
Say that out loud.
The good stuff is weird looking.
Why?
Because we're used to the counterfeit.
We're used to the counterfeit you guys.
We're used to piles of fruit in grocery stores
that don't even look real
because they've been manufactured by humans.
They've been waxed.
All right?
They've been colors been added.
They're very poisonous.
The poison is enticing to us.
But the good stuff is ugly.
And I really just wanna release that over you
because God's blessings often come
in packages that you're not expecting.
Even that little double portion strawberry.
Things you've been praying for in your life,
they're gonna show up in packages
that you're not expecting.
I don't think that I'm saying you're gonna marry
some weird, ugly, deformed person, all right?
Because I know that you're thinking that.
But that's not what I'm saying.
What I'm saying is, is that it's not gonna look
like you expect it to look.
But you know what?
That strawberry was delicious.
And so God is inviting us to taste and see.
You guys, this is not a look model.
This is a taste model.
It's not about what you see.
It's about what you partake of.
And then the eyes of your heart are opened.
Taste, and then you'll see.
Not look and then you'll see.
Taste, and then you'll see.
So Father, I pray over myself
and I pray over your sons and daughters
that we would be open to all of the things
that you have for us,
that we would not disregard,
that we would not close our eyes,
that we would not miss the things
that are right in front of us,
that we would be open-hearted,
that we would be open-minded,
that we would be open-spirited,
that we'd be able to receive
what you have for us in this time.
That we won't disregard things.
We won't turn our nose up at things.
We won't push things away
just because they don't look the way
that we thought they would look.
Regardless of what it is,
what kind of open door,
what kind of opportunity,
we will take a taste
so that we can see
whether or not this is your goodness,
whether or not this is your blessing,
whether or not this is your plan.
We will take a taste so we can see.
So Father, we thank you, God, for good things.
We thank you for supernatural things.
We are coming into an abundant time here in 2025.
I can feel that there's a shift today, Lord.
And so we just declare right now
that we will shift with you,
that we're not gonna stay behind,
that we're gonna go forward in the spirit,
in Jesus' name, amen.
All right, y'all, it's been fun today.
Love you guys.
See you soon.