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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to Supernatural Saturday.

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I'm happy to report that I think next Saturday is when we will be live in person on camera

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from The Wheelhouse.

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So excited to be somewhere that has internet.

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So excited to...

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When did internet come out?

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What year did it come out?

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1995.

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I'm so excited to finally catch up with the times out here in the country.

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So hopefully you'll be able to see my face.

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I'll be able to see your faces better starting next week.

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So for those of you that are new to Supernatural Saturday, I always give this spiel, and that

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is that Supernatural Saturday is a time when we all gather together to lean into what is

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heaven's current reality.

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Current prophetic realities is what Supernatural Saturday is all about.

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We have our reality on earth, but then there's another reality happening all around us, and

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it's really beneficial for us to lean into that.

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And so I hope that you guys have been allowing Supernatural Saturday to build on itself,

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meaning that everything that's being taught here, our little building blocks, think of

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them like Tetris, like fitting them into those spaces so that we can go higher and higher

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and higher.

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Now, I know the whole purpose of Tetris is to go lower and lower, but you understand

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what I'm saying.

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We want to build.

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They're bricks in a wall that we want to build.

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So I hope that you're praying in the Spirit.

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I hope that you're spending a few more minutes in bed, setting that clock a little bit, that

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alarm clock a little ahead so that you have five minutes to look to the Lord in the morning

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before you do anything, before you reach for your phone, before you think about your to-do

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list for the day, that you just spend that time, those few moments in bed in the morning.

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As soon as you realize you're awake, you're conscious, you're conscious, you're awake,

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you have another day, another day of life on earth, and you look to the Lord, hey, God,

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what are we doing today?

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I used to say this all the time when I used to speak at churches.

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I would say that there hasn't been one time that my children have ever jumped up.

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You know, I've raised three children.

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Not one time that any of them ever jumped up in the morning time and just ran off with

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their lives.

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They just jumped up, got out of bed, got dressed, and just ran out the door and ran off with

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their lives.

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They always checked in.

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They always were like, hey, mom, what's going on?

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What are we doing today?

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Hey, I need help with this.

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I need help with that.

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And God wants to hear from us.

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Morning time's the perfect time.

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Let your name be heard.

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Let your voice be heard.

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Let your name be known on high every morning.

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Hey, here I am, but I'm checking in, thanking you for your love, thanking you for waking

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me up to another day.

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Yeah, you know, we already know we don't have to voice this to the Lord.

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We already know that there are things in our life that we wish were different.

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There's reality.

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There's facts in our life, in our world, in this earthly realm that we wish were not what

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they are.

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But like I said last week, we don't deny the facts, but we do defy the facts with our faith.

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So we wake up every day knowing that someone's going to have a good day today.

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Why can't it be me?

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Someone's going to get a breakthrough today.

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Why can't I get a breakthrough?

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Someone's going to get healed today.

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Someone's going to get a promotion today.

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Someone's going to have some sort of happy, serendipitous situation happen in their life

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today.

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It could be me.

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Why can't it be me?

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So you need to face today every single day as if that day is going to hold something

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very special.

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And it does.

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It holds the ability for you to live out another day on this earth and to partner with heaven.

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And so look to the Lord in the morning, and I hope that you are allowing these Supernatural

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Saturdays to build on themselves because that is the whole point.

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So grieving with hope is something that I just want to touch on very quickly because

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of the losses that we've had in this community, in this movement, two of our members have

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gone on to be with the Lord, both of them in our minds prematurely, both of them with

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a lot of life left to live.

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And these are things that, you know, we don't understand, and there's going to be a lot

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of moments in this life that you don't understand.

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We've already had a lot of moments that we don't understand.

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So I just want to just very lightly touch on grieving with hope, especially all of you

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that came together last week on Sunday to pray for Calvert.

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If you haven't heard the news, he did go to be with Jesus.

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Please continue to pray for his wife, Jasmine.

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She's only 32 years old.

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She's six months pregnant with their daughter.

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This is the success story of this community.

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and the two young sons that they both brought to the marriage.

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So friends, we say that term grieving with hope, and I'm not going to do the entire Supernatural

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Saturday on this, but I felt like I needed to address this because some of you have been

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showing up to prayer this week, disappointed, discouraged.

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Remember that the curse is what brought this, DIS, discouragement, disappointment, disease,

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you can go on and on with those words, but Jesus brought the ministry of RE, regeneration,

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resurrection, relationship, we can go on and on with those words as well.

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And so anytime we find ourselves in the DIS, friends, in the DIS, any of us, all of us,

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if you're in the DIS, any word that begins with DIS, that is a derogatory word, I want

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you to remember that you don't have to live in the curse because Jesus died to free you

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from it.

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And even though it's going on around us, it's going on around us in nature, it's going on

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around us in the battle for salvation in other people's souls that they're going through,

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they're working out their salvation with fear and trembling, the battle is going on.

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Who are we going to align with?

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Are we going to align with RE or DIS?

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We have that choice.

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We have free will, but when you find yourself aligning with DIS, I want you to remember

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that you have access to RE.

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Let's just think about that for a second.

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Go ahead and take a minute and ask Holy Spirit to show you, is there anywhere in my life

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right now that I'm aligning with DIS, with DIS?

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And then think of what that word is, and then I want you to take a couple seconds to

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do this.

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Yes, distracted is one that we could probably all put down.

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A coach said to me years ago that whatever distracts you from your goal is your enemy.

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Whatever it is.

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And so we need to get really diligent and militant almost about our intentionality.

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Keep putting them up.

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A lot of repeats.

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Please everyone take a look.

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A lot of repeats.

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A lot of you wrestling with the same DIS.

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All right, now I want you to picture yourself, if you will, once again, if you will, this

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is about you and what you want to do.

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I can't force you.

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Don't go through the motions.

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If you're not going to do it from your heart, don't do it.

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I want you to take that D word, whatever it was, and I want you to close your eyes.

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I want you to picture yourself giving it to Jesus, to the foot of the cross, to the finished

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work of the cross, where he brought the ministry of RE, R-E, where he brought the resurrection,

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where he brought the reconciliation, where he brought the relationship, the regeneration,

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the rehabilitation.

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Now I want you to picture yourself giving it to him and what is he going to give you

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in exchange?

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What's the divine exchange?

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What is the beauty that will come from these ashes?

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I want you to go ahead and post that in the chat, whatever word you hear.

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It doesn't have to be a RE word, but if it is cool, whatever word you hear, let's see it.

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The clock on my stove says it's 9-11 here in Austin, Texas, and that will always and

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forever be Amos 9-11.

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Amos 9-11 through 9-13 is a better scripture for this movement.

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It is the scripture that I call the suddenly scripture, where God has promised that he

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will turn things around suddenly, where he has promised where there were empty bins,

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now there will be overflowing vats full of new wine, where he has promised that whatever

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has happened in the past will serve as a launching pad for the future.

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And everywhere we look, blessings, blessings, blessings, it says it will happen so fast

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our head will spin.

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And so I release the suddenlies over all of us.

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Friends, we're in a spiritual war, and I know that we don't want to think about that.

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And I know that when we have things happen, like the things that have happened just recently,

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we think, oh, well, you know, stuff happens and, you know, that's okay.

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It happens.

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It's not what we wanted to have happen, but you know, stuff happens.

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Bad things happen to good people.

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You know, all the excuses that we use, but no friends, we're in a spiritual war.

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And I'm so proud of each and every one of you that didn't waver in your faith and showed

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up last Sunday to just pray a wall of fire.

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And guess who else is proud of you?

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God is proud of you.

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Then in the light of the circumstances, you didn't back down.

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You stepped up.

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And yes, the outcome was not what we want.

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And we'll talk about that in a second because God sees the big picture and we don't.

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But I've already read the back of the book and guess what?

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We win.

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We win.

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I've already read the ending.

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By the way, I do that with a lot of books.

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I just read the ending just to see if I want to read the book.

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Life is already too hard.

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I don't need to get all the way through a book for some sad ending.

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Quite frankly, if I hear about a movie not ending well, not having some sort of, you

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know, really purposeful ending, I'm not even going to watch it.

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I'm not.

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Because life already has enough tragedy in it, am I right?

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So let's talk just one second about the warfare that we're in.

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I didn't plan on going anywhere, but this is a grab bag today.

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Holy Spirit's taking us here.

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So last night my husband was talking to me in the car and he just said, hey, you know

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that scripture about, and the gates of hell will not prevail?

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And I said, yeah.

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And I quoted the whole scripture because I'm kind of a walking Bible.

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And he said, yeah, babe.

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He's like, you're a little theologian.

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And I was like, okay.

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But for those of you that are not familiar, Matthew 16, 18, and Jesus is talking to Peter.

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This is where Jesus had said to Peter, and who do you say I am?

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Who do you think I am?

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What's your confession?

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What's your declaration?

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And Peter said, you're the Christ, the son of the living God.

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And of course that was a divine declaration.

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Peter was being used by God to declare who Jesus was.

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He was releasing it into the earth realm, is being released, right?

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About his true identity.

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And then of course, Jesus says to Peter, you know, blessed are thou Simon Barjona, because

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flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but our heavenly father.

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And then he goes on to say that he is Peter, right?

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He's no longer Simon.

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He is Peter.

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And I tell you that you are Peter.

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And on this rock, I will build my church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against

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it.

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A lot of people think, okay, on Peter, Peter is the foundation of the church.

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No friends.

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The rock is the foundation of the church.

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Remember the scripture that says, if you build your house on the rock, the winds and the

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rains will come and they'll blow.

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But your house won't fall.

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The rock is the revelation that Peter had, not Peter.

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The rock is the revelation of Emmanuel.

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God is with us.

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The rock is the revelation that Jesus was the son of God, that he is the Messiah, that

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he is Meshuach, that he is the Christ.

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Yes, he is the hero of the story.

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The rock is the revelation of him.

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Every one of us have to build our house, our life on the revelation of Jesus.

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We have to build our house there.

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And so my husband asked the question, you know, gates are defensive.

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They're not offensive.

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So what does that scripture mean?

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And we started to break it down together.

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And I just released that over each and every one of you.

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your future marriages, that you have a spouse,

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that you have a partner where you can dig

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into the word of God, where you can ask each other

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questions about, hey, what does this mean to you?

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Let's think about this.

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Hey, God's talking to me about this.

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What do you think about this?

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And we can go deeper together.

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I have a book club going on right now,

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and I told them, one can put to flight 1,000,

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but two can put to flight 10,000.

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But let's just be honest.

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If you are one and you're not already putting

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to flight 1,000, you don't need two.

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If you're not using what's in your hand,

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if you're not using what you got,

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then you don't need a partner.

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It's not about being ready for one, you don't need one.

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You're not doing anything that's necessary

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for a two, 10,000 increase.

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And all that's meant to do is just to really provoke you

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to start using what you have, that's all.

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So if you hear that through condemnation,

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or you hear that through religion,

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or you hear that through, oh, I'm still not ready yet,

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we're gonna address that too today.

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Because God doesn't want you to hear that.

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He wants to hear an invitation.

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He wants you to hear an invitation.

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Oh, wait a second, I have power.

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I have power that I'm not using right now.

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I'm waiting to get married so someone can come

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and plug me into the outlet.

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No, friend, plug yourself into the outlet.

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You already have power.

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It's gonna be exponential when you partner.

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And that's gonna be awesome.

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So David and I started to talk about this.

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So what we need to know, first of all,

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is in biblical times, gates were not just entry points,

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they were symbols of power, authority, and decision-making.

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Everything happened in the gates.

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That's why you see in the book of Proverbs,

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it says, and her husband will be known in the gates.

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Just so you guys know, David and I,

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his surname that I've taken, Dorman, it means gatekeepers.

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Woo, come on, Jesus.

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And of course, I didn't think about that at all,

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but I will tell you, when my Sunday school teacher

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married us 18 years ago, it was just us and our parents

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and our children at that little wedding.

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And we didn't even have on wedding clothes,

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didn't have on a wedding dress.

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We did that 10 years later at our vow renewal,

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the whole big wedding with the white dress thing.

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So friends, don't feel like you have to do it all up

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at the beginning.

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It's most important that your wedding be about a covenant,

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not a ceremony.

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And so we got there and he married us

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and he made a big deal about the end

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when I was gonna take this name.

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And he felt the young son of the Holy Spirit come upon him.

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And he said, this is gonna be a huge gift for you.

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He said, you're stepping into something very different.

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He said, and you taking on this name is going to mean

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so much more than just you changing your last name.

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And he said things that I've never heard anyone else say

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at a wedding before.

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And now I understand why, because I understand the meaning

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of my last name.

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David and I open doors.

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David and I keep gates.

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David and I sit in the places of influence in the world

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and in the heavenlies so that we can usher in God's presence

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and his purpose and his power into the lives of others.

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We're pioneers, we're spearheads.

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We're gonna go before you

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and we're gonna make the way straight for you.

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There's power friends in gates.

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There's power friends in gates.

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And so what was Jesus saying here?

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He was saying that the organized power structures

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of death and darkness, the gates of hell.

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And just so you guys know in that scripture,

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that's a Greek word and that word hell means Hades,

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which is referring to the realm of the dead.

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It's not the fiery place that we think of

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when we think of hell.

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It's referring to the realm of the dead.

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And so what he's really saying there

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is the domain of death will never overpower my church.

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Come on y'all.

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We think of gates as being defensive, right?

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They don't attack people, they hold ground.

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And so that's why what Jesus was saying here is so powerful.

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He's saying the church is not on the defense.

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My people are on the offense.

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My people are on the offense.

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We take territory, we change things.

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A lot of you put the word distraction

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in the chat this morning.

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Can I just tell you that that distraction

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is keeping you from being a disruptor?

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Another D word that is absolutely kingdom.

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We have taken that word and we've repurposed it.

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You're distracted because the enemy

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doesn't want you to be a disruptor.

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Disruptor, a disruptor to his realm, his domain of death,

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his power structures of darkness.

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He doesn't want you because remember, you are light.

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It's important that you understand this.

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You're not gonna become light, you are light.

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You are born again and you are salt and light

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in the earth already right now and everywhere you go,

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whether you're conscious of it or not,

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you are bringing the kingdom.

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You are bringing the kingdom.

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This is why some people treat you badly

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and you're like, you don't even know me.

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Why do you hate me so much?

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Oh, honey, that's why.

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And let's make sure that people hate us for our light,

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not our attitude problem.

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I've seen people using the name of the Lord

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in some weird situations

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where they were not representing kingdom.

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Like in front of me at the grocery line

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when they're arguing about a price and getting nasty

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and getting loud with a poor little cashier

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that makes minimum wage.

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That person doesn't care about your problems.

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They're making like $8 an hour, friend.

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They don't even have the authority

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to do what you're asking them to do.

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So stop taking out all of your anger and frustration

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of your life on this poor little minimum wage person.

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But then using the name of the Lord.

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Well, I'm a child of God.

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Are you?

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Because I'm not sure about that.

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You might go to church,

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but that does not make you a child of God.

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A child of God is when you understand

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that you are like your father.

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And when you walk on this earth,

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you are the representation of heaven,

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that you are light and you are salt.

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The children are the glory of the father

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and we represent him well.

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And yeah, we all have bad days.

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We all have bad days.

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But this is not about being an elitist.

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Hey, this is about being a servant.

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It's about being a servant.

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Jesus was our example.

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He is the elder brother among many brethren.

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And we are those brethren.

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That's us.

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So Jesus was saying that this person, the living God,

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that we will storm the gates of death.

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We will storm the gates of hell and darkness.

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And those gates will not be able to prevail, friends.

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The word prevail means to win.

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They will not be able to win.

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In fact, I looked it up last night.

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Let me get it on my phone real quick.

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You gotta hear the definition of prevail.

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Once again, David and I were having

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this whole conversation last night.

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It means prove more powerful than the forces opposing it.

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So Jesus was saying, and the gates of hell

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will not be more powerful than my kingdom

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that's opposing them.

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I didn't even plan on saying any of this today,

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but God obviously knew that we needed to hear it.

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And so we're gonna hear it.

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So this flips the narrative.

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A lot of people are hiding from the devil, right?

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People hiding out, seeing the devil behind every bush.

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And we don't wanna be hiding, hunkered down,

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hoping the devil doesn't get in,

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hoping the devil doesn't win.

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Friends, the devil is defeated.

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He's under the feet of Jesus.

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And if you're seated with Jesus in heavenly places,

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guess whose feet he's under?

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Yours.

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Now, this doesn't give you any kind of license,

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and I'm not gonna teach any kind of theology today

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about binding and loosing, about spiritual warfare.

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I did that on a million Supernatural Saturdays ago.

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Okay, we don't wanna be the kind of people

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that go up into other people's territory

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where you're not the authority because someone else is,

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and try to rebuke spirits and do this and do that.

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No, okay?

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It's talking about you taking the authority in your life.

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In your home, in your family,

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in the places that have been given to you for stewardship.

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And that includes your assignments, your place of work.

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That includes your wherever, however.

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It's important to understand.

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You have a jurisdiction,

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and I can't get into teaching deeply into that right now.

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We can do that on another day,

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but God doesn't want us to be on the run.

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Okay?

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Because our job is to be rescuing captives,

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declaring freedom, bringing heaven to earth.

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That is what God wants us to be doing.

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All right, and we will do that when we have the revelation

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that we are strongly secure on the rock.

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We are on the rock.

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All right, so we're grieving with hope, friends,

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for these two, Teresa and Calvert,

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that have gone on to be with Jesus.

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We're not grieving them, just so you know,

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because they are experiencing amazing,

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beyond our understanding, joy and peace and love.

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They have entered into their reward.

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and we are not going to water that down or belittle that for them.

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It's us, the ones that have been left behind,

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we're the ones that have disappointment, not them.

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Neither one of them are disappointed that they were not healed on earth.

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Trust me.

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Neither one of them were.

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So what do we do?

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What does it mean to grieve with hope?

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It just means to acknowledge the loss, friends.

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We can't deny the loss,

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but we can't abandon belief.

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So it's not blind optimism.

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It's honest grief.

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We're upset about this.

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It's not the outcome that we wanted.

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But that grief is also infused and anchored with hope.

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We cry, we question, we feel.

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God's not afraid of your questions.

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He's not even afraid of your anger or disappointment.

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But during that, we cannot let go of the truth that God is still good,

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even when it doesn't feel like He is.

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Because remember, we have to choose to believe that God sees the whole story.

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I will tell you that when it comes to Calvert,

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God told me from the very beginning,

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when I first got the message that this had happened,

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before I even went up to the hospital in Dallas,

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that there was more to the story than what we knew.

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There was more to the story that anyone there knew,

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including his wife,

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that there was more going on with Calvert and in Calvert,

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and there was more to the story.

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No one was around when this thing happened.

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There was more to the story.

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What is the more to the story?

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I don't know.

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It's like Paul writes in 1 Corinthians 13,

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we see through a glass darkly.

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We do.

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What does that mean?

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It means looking through a foggy glass.

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Have you ever looked through a foggy glass?

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That's what that means, by the way, a glass darkly.

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It's a foggy glass.

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The things on the other side of it are not clear.

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We can kind of see what's going on.

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But hope comes from,

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we don't have to understand everything,

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but we have to trust the one who does understand everything.

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Right?

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And that's why it's called faith.

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That's why it's called faith.

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And so how do we,

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I just want to really touch on just really quickly,

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because we've all been here, we've all believed,

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we've fasted, we declared, you know,

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and then whatever it was,

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00:27:18.000 --> 00:27:21.000
for whatever the situation was,

501
00:27:21.000 --> 00:27:25.000
didn't happen the way that we wanted it to.

502
00:27:25.000 --> 00:27:26.000
We've all been there.

503
00:27:26.000 --> 00:27:28.000
Each and every one of us have been there.

504
00:27:28.000 --> 00:27:31.000
So here's just a couple of things that I have written down here about

505
00:27:31.000 --> 00:27:35.000
how to rebuild trust after disappointment.

506
00:27:35.000 --> 00:27:39.000
And then I want to get into the real crux of today.

507
00:27:39.000 --> 00:27:46.000
Wow, we're getting in three different things.

508
00:27:46.000 --> 00:27:48.000
All right, number one, be honest with God.

509
00:27:48.000 --> 00:27:50.000
You got to be honest with God about how you feel.

510
00:27:50.000 --> 00:27:54.000
He doesn't need your filtered feelings, friends.

511
00:27:54.000 --> 00:27:57.000
He doesn't need the things that you would say to someone out in public when

512
00:27:57.000 --> 00:27:58.000
they're like, how are you doing?

513
00:27:58.000 --> 00:27:59.000
Oh, I'm good.

514
00:27:59.000 --> 00:28:00.000
I'm fine.

515
00:28:00.000 --> 00:28:02.000
No, God knows that you're not fine.

516
00:28:02.000 --> 00:28:05.000
And he can handle your heartbreak.

517
00:28:05.000 --> 00:28:09.000
It says that he's close to us when we are crushed in spirit and when we're

518
00:28:09.000 --> 00:28:11.000
heartbroken, right?

519
00:28:11.000 --> 00:28:15.000
And so he can handle your, why didn't you, God?

520
00:28:15.000 --> 00:28:17.000
I don't understand, God.

521
00:28:17.000 --> 00:28:19.000
I feel like you failed me, God.

522
00:28:19.000 --> 00:28:22.000
I thought you told me this, God.

523
00:28:22.000 --> 00:28:24.000
Obviously, I can't hear you well, God.

524
00:28:24.000 --> 00:28:27.000
This is not how this was supposed to work out, God.

525
00:28:27.000 --> 00:28:30.000
Whatever it is that you want to say, he can handle it.

526
00:28:30.000 --> 00:28:32.000
Lament, friends, lament.

527
00:28:32.000 --> 00:28:34.000
When you need to lament, lament.

528
00:28:34.000 --> 00:28:37.000
David lamented.

529
00:28:37.000 --> 00:28:41.000
And God said that David was in a place of intimacy where he was the apple of

530
00:28:41.000 --> 00:28:42.000
his eye.

531
00:28:42.000 --> 00:28:44.000
Do you guys know what that means, the apple of his eye?

532
00:28:44.000 --> 00:28:47.000
It means if you go in front of someone, and if you have someone you can do

533
00:28:47.000 --> 00:28:49.000
this with, go ahead.

534
00:28:49.000 --> 00:28:52.000
Just get really close to their face, almost where your noses are touching,

535
00:28:52.000 --> 00:28:57.000
and look in their eyes, and you will see your reflection in their eyes.

536
00:28:57.000 --> 00:29:01.000
That is what it means to be the apple of someone's eye.

537
00:29:01.000 --> 00:29:08.000
It means that David was so close to God in intimacy that his reflection

538
00:29:08.000 --> 00:29:10.000
showed in his eyes.

539
00:29:14.000 --> 00:29:16.000
So be honest with God.

540
00:29:16.000 --> 00:29:17.000
Lament.

541
00:29:17.000 --> 00:29:18.000
David did it.

542
00:29:18.000 --> 00:29:19.000
Jesus did it.

543
00:29:19.000 --> 00:29:21.000
Jesus did it.

544
00:29:21.000 --> 00:29:23.000
He didn't understand.

545
00:29:23.000 --> 00:29:25.000
God, I don't want this.

546
00:29:25.000 --> 00:29:27.000
But not my way, but your way.

547
00:29:27.000 --> 00:29:29.000
Your way is better.

548
00:29:30.000 --> 00:29:31.000
So you can, too.

549
00:29:31.000 --> 00:29:32.000
All right?

550
00:29:32.000 --> 00:29:35.000
Number two, anchor yourself in what hasn't changed.

551
00:29:35.000 --> 00:29:36.000
This is really important.

552
00:29:36.000 --> 00:29:37.000
Friends, this is not just about people dying.

553
00:29:37.000 --> 00:29:39.000
This is not just about sickness.

554
00:29:39.000 --> 00:29:40.000
This is not about disease.

555
00:29:40.000 --> 00:29:43.000
This is about you getting the job.

556
00:29:43.000 --> 00:29:47.000
This is about that person you were dating didn't turn out to be your

557
00:29:47.000 --> 00:29:50.000
spirit mate, and it was going really great.

558
00:29:50.000 --> 00:29:53.000
This turned out, this is about you got divorced.

559
00:29:53.000 --> 00:29:55.000
That was supposed to be your one and only.

560
00:29:55.000 --> 00:29:58.000
You don't believe in divorce, and yet here we are.

561
00:29:58.000 --> 00:30:00.000
Here we are, friends.

562
00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:02.440
I didn't believe in divorce,

563
00:30:02.440 --> 00:30:04.160
and I literally would have held on to that marriage

564
00:30:04.160 --> 00:30:06.360
until it killed me, and it almost did.

565
00:30:06.360 --> 00:30:08.880
God had to send in a rescue mission to get me out.

566
00:30:11.220 --> 00:30:12.720
I never wanted to be divorced.

567
00:30:15.480 --> 00:30:16.840
So maybe that's what it is.

568
00:30:16.840 --> 00:30:18.320
Maybe a friendship ended,

569
00:30:18.320 --> 00:30:20.600
and you just don't understand why.

570
00:30:20.600 --> 00:30:24.120
Maybe you didn't get that ministry position at church,

571
00:30:24.120 --> 00:30:26.520
the one that you have been serving for for so long,

572
00:30:26.520 --> 00:30:27.720
and it was supposed to be yours,

573
00:30:27.720 --> 00:30:29.360
and then they hired someone from outside,

574
00:30:29.360 --> 00:30:30.720
and it doesn't make any sense.

575
00:30:30.720 --> 00:30:32.160
It doesn't matter what it is.

576
00:30:33.400 --> 00:30:36.980
Disappointment comes in all different shapes and sizes.

577
00:30:37.920 --> 00:30:40.880
So number two is anchor yourself in what hasn't changed.

578
00:30:41.880 --> 00:30:44.280
When something doesn't work out the way that you want it to,

579
00:30:44.280 --> 00:30:46.320
go back to the things that you know.

580
00:30:48.400 --> 00:30:50.000
God is still love.

581
00:30:50.000 --> 00:30:51.040
He is still present.

582
00:30:53.160 --> 00:30:55.680
He's still close to you when your heart is broken.

583
00:30:56.600 --> 00:30:58.840
Romans 8, 28, he still works all things to your good.

584
00:30:59.280 --> 00:31:00.840
You gotta go back to what you know.

585
00:31:02.240 --> 00:31:03.800
This is why it's important that our lives

586
00:31:03.800 --> 00:31:05.940
are built on the rock.

587
00:31:07.760 --> 00:31:09.960
Because when the storms come, and they will,

588
00:31:11.320 --> 00:31:12.800
we can be solid in what we know.

589
00:31:12.800 --> 00:31:13.680
We can stand.

590
00:31:13.680 --> 00:31:16.880
The Bible says when you've done everything, you can stand.

591
00:31:18.600 --> 00:31:19.560
Right?

592
00:31:19.560 --> 00:31:22.320
Right, number three, let go of the illusion of control.

593
00:31:25.520 --> 00:31:28.040
I know we think that we can blab it and grab it,

594
00:31:28.040 --> 00:31:29.160
name it and claim it.

595
00:31:29.160 --> 00:31:30.240
We do.

596
00:31:30.240 --> 00:31:31.720
We think that our faith means that

597
00:31:31.720 --> 00:31:33.760
we're gonna get the outcome that we want.

598
00:31:35.360 --> 00:31:37.240
But real faith is just trusting God.

599
00:31:39.280 --> 00:31:40.100
Right?

600
00:31:40.100 --> 00:31:41.120
Doesn't the Bible says without faith,

601
00:31:41.120 --> 00:31:42.340
it's impossible to please God?

602
00:31:42.340 --> 00:31:43.180
Because why?

603
00:31:43.180 --> 00:31:45.520
Because faith means that you trust him,

604
00:31:45.520 --> 00:31:47.120
and you believe that he is a rewarder

605
00:31:47.120 --> 00:31:48.460
of those that diligently seek him.

606
00:31:48.460 --> 00:31:50.800
You trust him, you come to him.

607
00:31:50.800 --> 00:31:52.200
That's what faith really is.

608
00:31:55.300 --> 00:31:57.800
Even when he doesn't work things out your way,

609
00:31:58.560 --> 00:31:59.760
because once again, God knows more than you.

610
00:31:59.760 --> 00:32:00.720
He sees the big picture.

611
00:32:00.720 --> 00:32:03.320
There's always more to the story than what you know.

612
00:32:04.440 --> 00:32:06.400
Number four, look for the resurrection.

613
00:32:07.840 --> 00:32:09.160
Look for the resurrection, friends.

614
00:32:09.160 --> 00:32:10.640
There's always a resurrection.

615
00:32:12.280 --> 00:32:14.560
It's maybe not in the way that you expected

616
00:32:14.560 --> 00:32:17.640
of that relationship, that marriage, that friendship,

617
00:32:17.640 --> 00:32:18.800
that job.

618
00:32:18.800 --> 00:32:20.700
You know, a lot of times people will hold out

619
00:32:20.700 --> 00:32:22.300
when they hear the first no.

620
00:32:22.300 --> 00:32:24.040
They'll be like, no.

621
00:32:24.040 --> 00:32:25.760
I'm just gonna, I'm gonna have faith,

622
00:32:25.760 --> 00:32:26.880
and I'm gonna believe God.

623
00:32:27.520 --> 00:32:29.160
My outcome is the way it's gonna happen,

624
00:32:29.160 --> 00:32:30.160
and I'm just gonna believe it,

625
00:32:30.160 --> 00:32:31.860
and I'm just gonna hold on to it.

626
00:32:34.000 --> 00:32:36.520
But maybe you're not gonna get that thing given to you,

627
00:32:36.520 --> 00:32:38.120
whatever you were praying for.

628
00:32:38.120 --> 00:32:40.640
But look around.

629
00:32:40.640 --> 00:32:42.520
God always brings beauty from ashes.

630
00:32:42.520 --> 00:32:43.860
There's something else.

631
00:32:45.680 --> 00:32:46.680
Something.

632
00:32:46.680 --> 00:32:48.380
It might be a different something,

633
00:32:50.280 --> 00:32:51.720
but there's always something, friends.

634
00:32:51.720 --> 00:32:54.240
There's always something that God's trying to bring.

635
00:32:55.160 --> 00:32:56.240
You know that scripture that says,

636
00:32:56.520 --> 00:32:58.520
everything that can be shaken will be shaken?

637
00:32:58.520 --> 00:33:00.160
Years ago, God said, hey, you know,

638
00:33:00.160 --> 00:33:02.360
everyone's really focused on this part of the scripture.

639
00:33:02.360 --> 00:33:05.000
He said, but what does it say afterwards?

640
00:33:05.000 --> 00:33:08.040
And I read the afterwards, and it says,

641
00:33:08.040 --> 00:33:11.500
so that what cannot be shaken has room to remain.

642
00:33:13.880 --> 00:33:16.340
So friends, when there's something shaking,

643
00:33:16.340 --> 00:33:17.720
it's important that you look around

644
00:33:17.720 --> 00:33:19.080
for what's trying to come.

645
00:33:21.760 --> 00:33:24.820
The enemy wants us to get our mind on what's shaking.

646
00:33:24.820 --> 00:33:28.820
The opposing forces, the gates of hell, if you want,

647
00:33:28.820 --> 00:33:31.220
want you to focus on what's falling apart

648
00:33:31.220 --> 00:33:32.920
instead of what's coming together.

649
00:33:35.780 --> 00:33:37.780
So when there's a shaking,

650
00:33:37.780 --> 00:33:40.580
we can almost get excited and say, oh, okay, God,

651
00:33:40.580 --> 00:33:42.580
you're trying to bring something better.

652
00:33:43.820 --> 00:33:47.460
The 2.0 is trying to come, and yeah, it might be different.

653
00:33:47.460 --> 00:33:49.180
It might not be what you expected,

654
00:33:50.460 --> 00:33:51.820
but it's making room for something.

655
00:33:51.820 --> 00:33:53.780
The shaking, the pruning, the purging

656
00:33:53.820 --> 00:33:55.260
is making room for something.

657
00:33:55.260 --> 00:33:56.100
What?

658
00:33:57.100 --> 00:33:58.820
Ask God to show you what that is.

659
00:34:01.620 --> 00:34:03.140
So four is look for the resurrection,

660
00:34:03.140 --> 00:34:05.260
and then five, ask God to heal the wound,

661
00:34:05.260 --> 00:34:06.760
not just the circumstance.

662
00:34:10.260 --> 00:34:12.460
I know we want God to heal the circumstance.

663
00:34:13.860 --> 00:34:15.900
Okay, we want him to fix the outer thing,

664
00:34:17.040 --> 00:34:19.260
but God is always focused on the heart, friends,

665
00:34:19.260 --> 00:34:23.380
and so he's always focused on healing something inside.

666
00:34:24.020 --> 00:34:25.139
We want him to fix the outer thing,

667
00:34:25.139 --> 00:34:27.860
but he's interested in the inner thing,

668
00:34:27.860 --> 00:34:32.860
and that's not inferior, okay?

669
00:34:34.820 --> 00:34:35.860
That's deep stuff,

670
00:34:38.280 --> 00:34:39.460
and I just want to let you know

671
00:34:39.460 --> 00:34:41.460
that weeping endures for a night,

672
00:34:41.460 --> 00:34:44.860
but joy does come in the morning, and joy will return.

673
00:34:46.139 --> 00:34:49.699
It will, especially when we get our eyes on Jesus,

674
00:34:49.699 --> 00:34:53.100
especially when we remember who holds our future,

675
00:34:53.820 --> 00:34:55.980
especially when we remember that our suffering is sacred.

676
00:34:55.980 --> 00:34:56.820
That's really important.

677
00:34:56.820 --> 00:34:57.740
God told me that years ago.

678
00:34:57.740 --> 00:34:59.300
Your suffering is sacred.

679
00:34:59.300 --> 00:35:00.340
That's why the Bible.

680
00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:03.420
He talks about Him capturing every tear in a bottle.

681
00:35:03.420 --> 00:35:04.700
The tears of the saints.

682
00:35:04.700 --> 00:35:06.100
Our suffering is sacred.

683
00:35:06.100 --> 00:35:08.620
Our intercession is sacred.

684
00:35:08.620 --> 00:35:12.220
The things that we experience are sacred, friends, to God.

685
00:35:12.220 --> 00:35:13.160
They really are.

686
00:35:14.020 --> 00:35:14.940
All right.

687
00:35:14.940 --> 00:35:16.060
So Father, I just pray for everyone

688
00:35:16.060 --> 00:35:17.300
who's grieving right now.

689
00:35:19.740 --> 00:35:22.620
Everyone who's disappointed right now, discouraged right now.

690
00:35:22.620 --> 00:35:24.300
I pray that they really are able

691
00:35:24.300 --> 00:35:26.340
to make that divine exchange,

692
00:35:26.360 --> 00:35:28.880
to give the ashes to you, Jesus,

693
00:35:28.880 --> 00:35:30.420
and to receive beauty back,

694
00:35:30.420 --> 00:35:33.760
to receive the words that they posted today in the chat

695
00:35:33.760 --> 00:35:38.240
in tangible ways, in tangible ways, Lord.

696
00:35:38.240 --> 00:35:41.640
We just don't want to receive things theoretically.

697
00:35:41.640 --> 00:35:44.180
We wanna receive things really.

698
00:35:44.180 --> 00:35:49.180
And so we ask for that in Jesus' name, amen.

699
00:35:49.320 --> 00:35:50.320
All right, friends.

700
00:35:50.320 --> 00:35:51.680
I know it sounds crazy,

701
00:35:51.680 --> 00:35:55.000
but none of that was actually what I wanted to share today.

702
00:35:55.980 --> 00:35:59.000
And here we are with, let's see, about,

703
00:36:00.220 --> 00:36:02.500
look on my phone, about 20 minutes.

704
00:36:03.900 --> 00:36:05.200
I know it's a lot to kind of cram

705
00:36:05.200 --> 00:36:06.620
into a Supernatural Saturday,

706
00:36:06.620 --> 00:36:11.620
but I believe Holy Spirit is leading us and is teaching us.

707
00:36:12.020 --> 00:36:13.680
And so we're just gonna go ahead and believe

708
00:36:13.680 --> 00:36:16.940
that we can receive everything that He has for us today.

709
00:36:16.940 --> 00:36:21.540
So yesterday, my book club, I did a midweek check-in,

710
00:36:21.560 --> 00:36:25.240
and I talked about why we stopped asking.

711
00:36:26.360 --> 00:36:29.740
Guys, we all love that scripture, ask, seek, knock.

712
00:36:29.740 --> 00:36:31.840
You know, we quote it a lot here.

713
00:36:31.840 --> 00:36:36.840
I believe it's Matthew 7, maybe starting at verse 11,

714
00:36:37.000 --> 00:36:40.720
and talking about, you know, asking and receiving,

715
00:36:40.720 --> 00:36:43.880
seeking and finding, knocking and the door being opened,

716
00:36:43.880 --> 00:36:46.340
and God inviting us to ask.

717
00:36:46.340 --> 00:36:48.440
And I really feel like,

718
00:36:48.440 --> 00:36:50.760
my husband has been talking about this,

719
00:36:50.760 --> 00:36:53.540
and a lot of you have heard him talking

720
00:36:53.540 --> 00:36:55.580
about the question, what do you want?

721
00:36:57.620 --> 00:37:00.140
And God's been saying that to him lately,

722
00:37:00.140 --> 00:37:02.380
and, you know, it's a really great question,

723
00:37:02.380 --> 00:37:03.540
like, what do you want?

724
00:37:04.820 --> 00:37:06.380
Talk to me about what you want.

725
00:37:07.420 --> 00:37:09.480
That's an invitation from the Lord.

726
00:37:09.480 --> 00:37:10.900
But you guys, I wanna let you know

727
00:37:10.900 --> 00:37:12.180
that before I did my book club,

728
00:37:12.180 --> 00:37:14.060
this is on my second published book

729
00:37:14.060 --> 00:37:16.020
that I haven't really done a lot with,

730
00:37:16.020 --> 00:37:19.180
because last year's single's taken up all my time,

731
00:37:19.180 --> 00:37:20.420
but I have a new book coming out,

732
00:37:21.080 --> 00:37:23.240
and so I really wanted to do something

733
00:37:23.240 --> 00:37:24.960
with my Married in 12 Months or Less book,

734
00:37:24.960 --> 00:37:26.720
so I did this book club, just really short,

735
00:37:26.720 --> 00:37:28.340
little 30-day book club.

736
00:37:28.340 --> 00:37:29.360
But you know what I forgot?

737
00:37:29.360 --> 00:37:32.960
Because I published this book in January of 2022,

738
00:37:32.960 --> 00:37:34.560
so over three years ago,

739
00:37:34.560 --> 00:37:36.880
I forgot that the very first chapter of my book

740
00:37:36.880 --> 00:37:38.180
is called What Do You Want?

741
00:37:40.200 --> 00:37:43.440
I forgot that that was a question that God was asking me,

742
00:37:43.440 --> 00:37:45.400
and that was also a question that God was wanting me

743
00:37:45.400 --> 00:37:47.520
to ask his single sons and daughters,

744
00:37:47.520 --> 00:37:49.520
what do you want?

745
00:37:51.420 --> 00:37:52.260
Right?

746
00:37:53.120 --> 00:37:56.720
I mean, for those of you that are Gen X,

747
00:37:56.720 --> 00:37:59.360
tell me what you want, what you really, really want, right?

748
00:37:59.360 --> 00:38:00.660
What do you want?

749
00:38:02.880 --> 00:38:06.360
But last night, God took me a different direction,

750
00:38:06.360 --> 00:38:08.720
and I wanna take us that direction this morning,

751
00:38:08.720 --> 00:38:10.680
because he was talking to me about the reason

752
00:38:10.680 --> 00:38:12.780
why we stop asking for what we want.

753
00:38:13.640 --> 00:38:15.600
So I have a couple things written down here,

754
00:38:15.600 --> 00:38:17.840
and I hope that you see yourself in one of these things

755
00:38:17.840 --> 00:38:19.600
so that you can start asking again.

756
00:38:21.360 --> 00:38:25.920
God is wanting us to ask, right?

757
00:38:25.920 --> 00:38:27.480
So religion is the number one reason

758
00:38:27.480 --> 00:38:28.640
why some of us don't ask.

759
00:38:28.640 --> 00:38:30.360
We think that we don't have a right to ask,

760
00:38:30.360 --> 00:38:32.280
we haven't deserved it, we haven't earned it.

761
00:38:32.280 --> 00:38:33.440
How dare we ask?

762
00:38:34.280 --> 00:38:36.520
Also, we're scared of that passage in James

763
00:38:36.520 --> 00:38:40.360
that talks about how you can ask for what you want

764
00:38:40.360 --> 00:38:43.080
and receive it, but only if you don't ask amiss.

765
00:38:45.200 --> 00:38:46.960
To consume it upon your own lust.

766
00:38:46.960 --> 00:38:50.040
So we have a lot of religion around asking, right?

767
00:38:50.660 --> 00:38:51.500
You better ask for the right thing,

768
00:38:51.500 --> 00:38:53.020
you better ask for the godly thing.

769
00:38:53.020 --> 00:38:55.580
You better ask for what God wants you to ask for.

770
00:38:55.580 --> 00:38:58.580
I remember a long time ago,

771
00:38:58.580 --> 00:39:00.140
God just said to me, what do you want?

772
00:39:00.140 --> 00:39:02.660
And I said, he's like, ask me for what you want.

773
00:39:02.660 --> 00:39:06.500
And then I said to him, tell me what I should ask you for.

774
00:39:06.500 --> 00:39:07.480
Anybody else?

775
00:39:09.420 --> 00:39:11.500
Or I'll say something like, I don't know, God,

776
00:39:11.500 --> 00:39:12.960
whatever you want.

777
00:39:15.780 --> 00:39:16.620
What do you want, Jackie?

778
00:39:16.620 --> 00:39:18.840
Oh, I don't know, God, whatever you want.

779
00:39:18.860 --> 00:39:20.580
Whatever you want for me to have.

780
00:39:20.580 --> 00:39:23.960
And people use scripture to back up this kind of stuff.

781
00:39:23.960 --> 00:39:26.180
Like the book of Esther, for instance.

782
00:39:26.180 --> 00:39:28.040
First of all, Esther was trafficked.

783
00:39:28.040 --> 00:39:30.580
Let's just not get around that fact, okay?

784
00:39:30.580 --> 00:39:32.780
There's a lot of cray cray in this story.

785
00:39:32.780 --> 00:39:34.120
And so a lot of people are like,

786
00:39:34.120 --> 00:39:36.460
oh, I wanna be Esther, do you?

787
00:39:36.460 --> 00:39:38.500
Friends, we gotta stop comparing ourselves

788
00:39:38.500 --> 00:39:42.020
to Bible characters and start living a life

789
00:39:42.020 --> 00:39:45.360
that the generations after us can look to us

790
00:39:45.360 --> 00:39:47.280
and say, wow, that was an example.

791
00:39:48.900 --> 00:39:49.740
Come on.

792
00:39:51.700 --> 00:39:53.420
You're not Esther's or Jacob's or Daniel's.

793
00:39:53.420 --> 00:39:56.340
You're not, no, you're you.

794
00:39:56.340 --> 00:39:57.700
You're Brandon, you're Christine,

795
00:39:57.700 --> 00:39:59.540
you're David, you're Sarah.

796
00:39:59.540 --> 00:40:00.380
And not the.

797
00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:01.160
They're in the Bible.

798
00:40:01.360 --> 00:40:04.160
You're Gwen, you're, you know, I'm just telling us, it's

799
00:40:04.160 --> 00:40:05.840
time for us to live our lives.

800
00:40:06.560 --> 00:40:09.720
These are great stories and we can glean from them some, some

801
00:40:09.720 --> 00:40:13.040
wisdom and knowledge, but God wants us to be us.

802
00:40:15.480 --> 00:40:20.400
And so Esther, you know, she was given the ability to pick whatever she wanted

803
00:40:20.400 --> 00:40:24.320
before she went into the King, by the way, think about that story

804
00:40:24.320 --> 00:40:25.520
and what was about to happen.

805
00:40:25.520 --> 00:40:35.440
Ladies, and she said, whatever you tell me is what I'll take.

806
00:40:35.600 --> 00:40:37.880
And yeah, that is a typology being led by the spirit.

807
00:40:37.880 --> 00:40:42.280
And there's a lot of typology in that story, but a lot of these Bible

808
00:40:42.280 --> 00:40:47.360
stories are weaponized against us to get us to not go with

809
00:40:47.840 --> 00:40:49.560
the instincts God has given us.

810
00:40:50.560 --> 00:40:52.560
The desires in your heart come from the Lord.

811
00:40:53.560 --> 00:40:57.520
When you've surrendered your life to Jesus, the desires from

812
00:40:57.520 --> 00:40:59.560
your heart come from God.

813
00:40:59.560 --> 00:41:02.120
When we delight in him, he gives us the desires of our heart.

814
00:41:02.360 --> 00:41:05.040
We can trust the redeemed heart.

815
00:41:05.320 --> 00:41:06.480
It's the broken heart.

816
00:41:06.960 --> 00:41:10.120
It's the heart that's buried under all that DIS that we can't trust.

817
00:41:11.040 --> 00:41:12.320
It's that survival heart.

818
00:41:12.400 --> 00:41:14.280
It's that orphan heart.

819
00:41:20.360 --> 00:41:21.480
That's not trustworthy.

820
00:41:23.400 --> 00:41:23.680
Okay.

821
00:41:23.680 --> 00:41:26.480
So religion is one of the number one reasons we think we're not allowed

822
00:41:26.480 --> 00:41:30.080
to ask, and if we do ask, we better ask whatever God wants us to ask,

823
00:41:30.080 --> 00:41:31.280
or he's not going to give it to us.

824
00:41:32.000 --> 00:41:33.000
And then here's another one.

825
00:41:33.000 --> 00:41:34.880
Wounds from earthly authority figures.

826
00:41:34.880 --> 00:41:36.360
This was a big one for me.

827
00:41:38.440 --> 00:41:41.880
Anybody else have parents who made you justify everything that you wanted?

828
00:41:44.640 --> 00:41:45.520
Oh, I want this.

829
00:41:45.560 --> 00:41:48.520
And then they would say something like, why do you need that?

830
00:41:49.240 --> 00:41:50.080
It wasn't about wants.

831
00:41:50.080 --> 00:41:50.960
It was about needs.

832
00:41:50.960 --> 00:41:54.320
And if you didn't need it, then you weren't getting it.

833
00:41:59.120 --> 00:42:00.920
Christmas was a very traumatic time for me.

834
00:42:01.320 --> 00:42:04.680
I got Christmas presents, but they were never what I asked for.

835
00:42:04.680 --> 00:42:05.360
Anybody else?

836
00:42:06.560 --> 00:42:10.080
I gave a list of the things that I wanted and the things that I got

837
00:42:10.080 --> 00:42:11.120
were never those things.

838
00:42:11.120 --> 00:42:12.760
They were just random other things.

839
00:42:14.680 --> 00:42:18.520
Sometimes things that I needed, which is no fun, like socks and underwear.

840
00:42:18.640 --> 00:42:21.440
Anyone else have parents that three months before Christmas,

841
00:42:21.440 --> 00:42:23.120
it's September for God's sake.

842
00:42:23.640 --> 00:42:25.200
And you're like, Oh, I want this.

843
00:42:25.680 --> 00:42:26.720
You know, I want this outfit.

844
00:42:26.720 --> 00:42:27.360
I want these jeans.

845
00:42:27.360 --> 00:42:28.360
I want this thing, whatever.

846
00:42:28.360 --> 00:42:30.200
And they're like, well, wait for Christmas.

847
00:42:32.320 --> 00:42:34.880
But then the problem is that I didn't even get that stuff for Christmas.

848
00:42:35.280 --> 00:42:37.720
And so a lot of us have wounds here.

849
00:42:37.720 --> 00:42:38.920
I want you to acknowledge that.

850
00:42:38.920 --> 00:42:41.120
I want you to ask yourself, do I have wounds here?

851
00:42:41.120 --> 00:42:46.040
My asking was met with no, or my asking was met with, why do you need that?

852
00:42:47.240 --> 00:42:50.440
Or your asking was met with people trying to act like you were selfish

853
00:42:53.640 --> 00:42:54.640
for wanting that thing.

854
00:42:58.120 --> 00:43:01.920
Other people, once again, with the, with the religion wound, you ask for what

855
00:43:01.920 --> 00:43:04.600
you want and people say things like, well, if God want you to have this

856
00:43:04.600 --> 00:43:06.040
thing, then you have to have this thing.

857
00:43:06.040 --> 00:43:07.840
And you're like, no, I don't want to have this thing.

858
00:43:07.840 --> 00:43:08.880
I don't want to have this thing.

859
00:43:09.400 --> 00:43:11.680
People say things like, well, if God want you to have that, he

860
00:43:11.680 --> 00:43:12.880
would have given it to you by now.

861
00:43:14.040 --> 00:43:16.960
If God wants you to have that husband or wife, you would have already had him.

862
00:43:17.360 --> 00:43:20.800
You better just go ahead and be okay with being single because obviously

863
00:43:20.800 --> 00:43:22.360
that's what God has chosen for you.

864
00:43:22.400 --> 00:43:23.400
No, what?

865
00:43:24.960 --> 00:43:25.560
No.

866
00:43:27.240 --> 00:43:29.600
There are reasons why people are single in the earth right now.

867
00:43:29.600 --> 00:43:33.920
And it has to do with DIS in the earth, not just in your life.

868
00:43:34.920 --> 00:43:38.160
But remember, God already promised us that the gates of hell, which is

869
00:43:38.160 --> 00:43:40.960
where DIS lives, can't win.

870
00:43:42.200 --> 00:43:48.360
So can I tell you that your marriage, you're defying of the, of the marital

871
00:43:49.080 --> 00:43:53.200
status quo in this earth is actually spiritual warfare.

872
00:43:54.920 --> 00:43:57.840
You guys were revivalists of, of, of marriage and family.

873
00:43:57.840 --> 00:43:58.800
We're revivalists.

874
00:43:59.120 --> 00:44:01.200
We, we are revivalists.

875
00:44:01.200 --> 00:44:05.600
We are pushing back what the enemy is trying to destroy, which is marriage and

876
00:44:05.600 --> 00:44:09.800
family, the gates of hell will not prevail against us.

877
00:44:10.280 --> 00:44:11.360
God is on our side.

878
00:44:11.360 --> 00:44:13.000
Marriage and family is his idea.

879
00:44:14.960 --> 00:44:16.240
And he wants it restored in the earth.

880
00:44:16.240 --> 00:44:19.000
And each and every one of you are part of that restoration process.

881
00:44:19.280 --> 00:44:21.080
So go ahead and grab ahold of that this morning.

882
00:44:22.800 --> 00:44:23.040
All right.

883
00:44:23.040 --> 00:44:28.240
So number two or three, a lot of us have had romantic disappointments

884
00:44:28.480 --> 00:44:30.160
or friendship disappointments.

885
00:44:30.280 --> 00:44:35.840
So not from parents, not from authority figures, but from peers, you asked for

886
00:44:35.840 --> 00:44:38.280
love, you asked for your needs to be met, and they were denied.

887
00:44:41.960 --> 00:44:42.920
You got shamed for it.

888
00:44:42.960 --> 00:44:46.160
You were told things like you're too needy, or I can't give you that.

889
00:44:46.160 --> 00:44:47.680
Or that it's not realistic.

890
00:44:47.680 --> 00:44:49.840
And for some of you anxious detachers, it might've been true.

891
00:44:50.320 --> 00:44:53.200
You might actually have been asking for something that cannot come from another

892
00:44:53.200 --> 00:44:54.600
human, it needs to come from God.

893
00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:03.800
is that instead of love, we got stonewalled, we got rejected.

894
00:45:03.800 --> 00:45:06.440
Instead of being comforted, we got criticism.

895
00:45:06.440 --> 00:45:08.600
And now, even though we're talking to God,

896
00:45:10.000 --> 00:45:11.480
we brace ourselves for rejection.

897
00:45:11.480 --> 00:45:14.000
You guys, we personify God so much.

898
00:45:15.160 --> 00:45:16.800
We take what happens with people

899
00:45:16.800 --> 00:45:20.120
and we put it on God so much.

900
00:45:20.120 --> 00:45:22.240
We brace ourselves for rejection.

901
00:45:24.240 --> 00:45:27.160
For a lot of you, asking equals disappointment.

902
00:45:27.160 --> 00:45:29.000
Come on, someone press into that.

903
00:45:29.120 --> 00:45:31.480
Asking equals disappointment.

904
00:45:31.480 --> 00:45:32.880
You stopped asking.

905
00:45:36.320 --> 00:45:37.840
The first time that I ever told this story

906
00:45:37.840 --> 00:45:42.200
in my entire life was last night on my book club check-in,

907
00:45:42.200 --> 00:45:43.560
but I'm gonna tell it here.

908
00:45:43.560 --> 00:45:45.280
Guys, when I was really small,

909
00:45:45.280 --> 00:45:47.600
remember my mom was married three times before I was 10.

910
00:45:47.600 --> 00:45:49.200
She was very distracted.

911
00:45:49.200 --> 00:45:51.240
She was very trying to figure out her own life.

912
00:45:51.240 --> 00:45:53.520
None of those people were healthy people.

913
00:45:53.520 --> 00:45:56.480
She was involved in three abusive relationships

914
00:45:56.480 --> 00:45:57.880
before I was 10 years old.

915
00:45:59.120 --> 00:46:00.640
So she was never around.

916
00:46:02.080 --> 00:46:02.960
She was always off.

917
00:46:02.960 --> 00:46:03.800
She was working.

918
00:46:03.800 --> 00:46:05.680
I was the kid standing at the end of the driveway,

919
00:46:05.680 --> 00:46:10.680
crying with my softball uniform on when I was eight years old

920
00:46:10.680 --> 00:46:14.120
because no one was showing up after school

921
00:46:14.120 --> 00:46:16.320
to take me to my game.

922
00:46:17.840 --> 00:46:19.480
Just waiting, looking down the road,

923
00:46:19.480 --> 00:46:20.800
waiting for my mom's car,

924
00:46:20.800 --> 00:46:23.640
waiting for anybody to come and take me.

925
00:46:23.640 --> 00:46:25.400
Missing games.

926
00:46:25.400 --> 00:46:26.520
I'm an athlete, friends.

927
00:46:26.520 --> 00:46:27.640
I'm really good at sports.

928
00:46:27.640 --> 00:46:29.600
And I was always the starter on every team

929
00:46:29.600 --> 00:46:30.720
I've ever been on.

930
00:46:30.720 --> 00:46:33.760
Softball, volleyball, basketball.

931
00:46:33.760 --> 00:46:35.080
But I would often sit on the bench

932
00:46:35.080 --> 00:46:38.000
because I was late to practices and missed games.

933
00:46:38.000 --> 00:46:39.720
And then the coach has to bend you

934
00:46:39.720 --> 00:46:42.160
because what does that say to the other players?

935
00:46:42.160 --> 00:46:44.680
And it was because I didn't have a way to get there.

936
00:46:46.680 --> 00:46:48.560
I went to a private Catholic school.

937
00:46:48.560 --> 00:46:50.360
We had money.

938
00:46:50.360 --> 00:46:51.880
We lived in a house on Lake Erie,

939
00:46:51.880 --> 00:46:53.520
a beautiful, big, sprawling house

940
00:46:53.520 --> 00:46:55.320
with a lake right in our backyard.

941
00:46:55.320 --> 00:46:56.920
And I had holes in my fuse.

942
00:46:58.080 --> 00:47:00.000
My uniform for school was dirty.

943
00:47:00.000 --> 00:47:00.840
It stunk.

944
00:47:00.840 --> 00:47:01.960
It was never washed.

945
00:47:01.960 --> 00:47:03.720
I started school there in second grade.

946
00:47:03.720 --> 00:47:05.360
Second graders don't do laundry.

947
00:47:08.280 --> 00:47:10.160
And so what happened to me,

948
00:47:10.160 --> 00:47:12.280
my lunch, I didn't even have hot lunches.

949
00:47:12.280 --> 00:47:16.320
My mom never filled out the forms for the book fair.

950
00:47:16.320 --> 00:47:19.400
She never filled out the forms for the hot lunches.

951
00:47:19.400 --> 00:47:20.960
Things were never done.

952
00:47:22.160 --> 00:47:23.560
We were always late.

953
00:47:24.560 --> 00:47:27.520
And so I would go and get an IOU hot lunch.

954
00:47:27.520 --> 00:47:29.520
And I'll never forget the lunch lady, Mrs. Ross,

955
00:47:29.520 --> 00:47:30.440
who would just give it to me.

956
00:47:30.440 --> 00:47:32.480
She knew I wasn't gonna pay for those lunches.

957
00:47:32.480 --> 00:47:33.720
She just gave me a hot lunch every day

958
00:47:33.720 --> 00:47:36.000
because you know what I had in my little brown sack?

959
00:47:36.000 --> 00:47:38.720
A sweaty, nasty piece of bologna

960
00:47:38.720 --> 00:47:41.320
on two slices of white bread and mayonnaise

961
00:47:41.320 --> 00:47:42.640
and a Little Debbie.

962
00:47:42.640 --> 00:47:43.800
Remember Little Debbies?

963
00:47:43.800 --> 00:47:46.400
Remember the Star Crunch or the brownie?

964
00:47:48.280 --> 00:47:49.880
But we were latchkey kids and we came home

965
00:47:49.880 --> 00:47:51.120
and no one was ever home.

966
00:47:51.200 --> 00:47:52.880
But we were latchkey kids and we came home

967
00:47:52.880 --> 00:47:54.360
and no one was ever around.

968
00:47:56.600 --> 00:47:58.400
There was nothing to eat.

969
00:47:58.400 --> 00:48:00.720
Those memes out there about you go home

970
00:48:00.720 --> 00:48:01.720
and you open your parents' fridge

971
00:48:01.720 --> 00:48:02.800
and there's no food in the fridge.

972
00:48:02.800 --> 00:48:04.080
Well, and the thing is, you guys,

973
00:48:04.080 --> 00:48:06.160
I can understand that if you're being raised in poverty,

974
00:48:06.160 --> 00:48:08.280
but I wasn't being raised in poverty.

975
00:48:08.280 --> 00:48:09.800
I was being raised in neglect.

976
00:48:11.640 --> 00:48:13.080
Holes in my shoes.

977
00:48:14.000 --> 00:48:16.560
Kids making fun of me because my uniform smelled.

978
00:48:17.560 --> 00:48:20.880
And so we had snack break

979
00:48:21.560 --> 00:48:23.640
and then we had a short recess,

980
00:48:23.640 --> 00:48:26.200
15-minute snack and recess in the morning

981
00:48:26.200 --> 00:48:29.560
and then we had lunch and then we had recess after lunch.

982
00:48:29.560 --> 00:48:31.400
And during the snack recess,

983
00:48:31.400 --> 00:48:32.760
because I never had a snack,

984
00:48:34.720 --> 00:48:36.160
I would go into the coat room

985
00:48:36.160 --> 00:48:38.800
and I would steal other kids' lunch stuff

986
00:48:40.120 --> 00:48:41.040
and I would just eat it.

987
00:48:41.040 --> 00:48:43.640
I mean, I didn't steal it and keep it for later.

988
00:48:43.640 --> 00:48:47.400
I was the lunchbox bandit.

989
00:48:50.960 --> 00:48:52.200
And then when I got a little older,

990
00:48:52.200 --> 00:48:53.920
I'd go on sleepovers and different things

991
00:48:53.920 --> 00:48:56.720
and steal little tiny things from other people's houses,

992
00:48:56.720 --> 00:48:59.200
like toys and different things.

993
00:48:59.200 --> 00:49:01.000
I just became a thief

994
00:49:01.000 --> 00:49:03.160
because I was asking for my needs to be met

995
00:49:03.160 --> 00:49:04.280
and no one was meeting them.

996
00:49:04.280 --> 00:49:05.120
And so what did I do?

997
00:49:05.120 --> 00:49:09.120
I took it in my own power and control to meet my own needs.

998
00:49:09.120 --> 00:49:11.440
And that truly is the definition of an orphan.

999
00:49:13.400 --> 00:49:16.920
And thank goodness I met Jesus when I was 22 years old.

1000
00:49:16.920 --> 00:49:18.320
Otherwise I might be in prison

1001
00:49:18.320 --> 00:49:20.120
instead of talking to you right now.

1002
00:49:21.040 --> 00:49:23.600
And then of course, when I met Jesus,

1003
00:49:23.600 --> 00:49:26.840
he said, those that have stolen, steal no more.

1004
00:49:26.840 --> 00:49:27.680
Why?

1005
00:49:27.680 --> 00:49:28.800
Because I'm gonna provide your needs.

1006
00:49:28.800 --> 00:49:31.280
You don't need to do this anymore.

1007
00:49:31.280 --> 00:49:34.080
And so he delivered me from all of that.

1008
00:49:34.080 --> 00:49:35.440
And now I can say I'm actually,

1009
00:49:35.440 --> 00:49:38.320
my pendulum's kind of the opposite direction.

1010
00:49:38.320 --> 00:49:40.520
If I get undercharged from something,

1011
00:49:40.520 --> 00:49:41.360
I go back to the store,

1012
00:49:41.360 --> 00:49:43.160
hey, you didn't charge me the right price for this.

1013
00:49:43.160 --> 00:49:45.800
Or hey, I got an extra can of beans here.

1014
00:49:45.800 --> 00:49:49.120
Or this isn't on the receipt, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

1015
00:49:49.960 --> 00:49:51.360
But I'm just telling you guys

1016
00:49:51.360 --> 00:49:53.480
because someone needs to hear it.

1017
00:49:54.800 --> 00:49:58.000
We asked for what we needed and we were denied.

1018
00:49:58.000 --> 00:50:00.440
And then we started going into a place of control.

1019
00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:02.200
while starting trying to meet our own needs.

1020
00:50:03.920 --> 00:50:04.960
And we do that with God too,

1021
00:50:04.960 --> 00:50:07.160
we become toxically independent.

1022
00:50:07.160 --> 00:50:09.900
Hyper-independence is a trauma response, friends.

1023
00:50:12.160 --> 00:50:13.580
And then just back to the beginning,

1024
00:50:13.580 --> 00:50:15.160
the burden of proving worth.

1025
00:50:15.160 --> 00:50:17.240
I have to earn it, I have to be more mature,

1026
00:50:17.240 --> 00:50:19.520
I need to show that I can handle it.

1027
00:50:19.520 --> 00:50:21.360
The problem is, is that in my family,

1028
00:50:21.360 --> 00:50:22.440
when something was said like,

1029
00:50:22.440 --> 00:50:27.120
oh, you need to prove that you're responsible.

1030
00:50:27.120 --> 00:50:29.080
If something like that was said,

1031
00:50:29.080 --> 00:50:31.600
it was just a justification for saying no.

1032
00:50:31.600 --> 00:50:33.840
It wasn't them actually saying

1033
00:50:33.840 --> 00:50:37.640
that there was some sort of path to success.

1034
00:50:37.640 --> 00:50:40.480
They never ever told us how to prove

1035
00:50:40.480 --> 00:50:41.960
we were more responsible.

1036
00:50:41.960 --> 00:50:43.920
They didn't say, hey, clean your room every day for a week,

1037
00:50:43.920 --> 00:50:47.700
or take out the dog and scoop the poop this whole month,

1038
00:50:47.700 --> 00:50:48.680
and then you can have that.

1039
00:50:48.680 --> 00:50:52.280
No, there was never any path to success.

1040
00:50:52.280 --> 00:50:55.440
It was just, you have to be more mature,

1041
00:50:55.440 --> 00:50:56.360
you have to earn it,

1042
00:50:56.360 --> 00:50:58.180
or you have to show you can handle it.

1043
00:50:58.220 --> 00:51:00.020
And the goalpost kept moving.

1044
00:51:00.020 --> 00:51:01.940
So no matter what you do, it's never quite enough,

1045
00:51:01.940 --> 00:51:02.780
and then what happens?

1046
00:51:02.780 --> 00:51:04.180
You give up.

1047
00:51:04.180 --> 00:51:05.140
Is that not true?

1048
00:51:05.140 --> 00:51:07.540
Come on, raise your hands if this is resonating with you.

1049
00:51:07.540 --> 00:51:09.660
I really felt this on my heart for this morning.

1050
00:51:09.660 --> 00:51:13.340
Raise your hand if any part of this is resonating with you,

1051
00:51:13.340 --> 00:51:17.060
where people just aren't gonna give you what you want,

1052
00:51:17.060 --> 00:51:20.860
and they give you a little thread of hope like,

1053
00:51:20.860 --> 00:51:21.820
oh, you can earn it,

1054
00:51:21.820 --> 00:51:24.420
but they never tell you how to earn it.

1055
00:51:24.420 --> 00:51:25.780
Okay.

1056
00:51:25.780 --> 00:51:28.980
So you guys, we get exhausted from rejection and delay.

1057
00:51:28.980 --> 00:51:30.700
We do, we get exhausted.

1058
00:51:30.700 --> 00:51:31.940
And I know that you're exhausted,

1059
00:51:31.940 --> 00:51:33.140
and God knows you're exhausted,

1060
00:51:33.140 --> 00:51:35.820
and that's why he has sent me his messenger today

1061
00:51:37.420 --> 00:51:38.660
to say, ask again.

1062
00:51:39.740 --> 00:51:41.500
Because those repeated no's,

1063
00:51:41.500 --> 00:51:43.120
and for a lot of us, we stopped asking,

1064
00:51:43.120 --> 00:51:44.780
so we just assumed it was a no.

1065
00:51:44.780 --> 00:51:45.660
You don't even ask,

1066
00:51:45.660 --> 00:51:47.140
you didn't even know if it was gonna be a no,

1067
00:51:47.140 --> 00:51:48.940
you just assumed it was a no,

1068
00:51:48.940 --> 00:51:50.740
and so you never asked anymore.

1069
00:51:50.740 --> 00:51:53.460
Whether it was from parents or bosses,

1070
00:51:54.460 --> 00:51:57.940
for the promotion, or from friends,

1071
00:51:58.900 --> 00:52:01.420
you got no's so often that you just assumed it's a no,

1072
00:52:01.420 --> 00:52:02.580
and you just stopped asking.

1073
00:52:02.580 --> 00:52:05.020
So those repeated no's taught us to stop trying.

1074
00:52:05.980 --> 00:52:09.220
We stopped dreaming big because hope hurts.

1075
00:52:09.220 --> 00:52:11.980
Friends, no one talks about this, but hope hurts.

1076
00:52:11.980 --> 00:52:13.180
It hurts to have hope

1077
00:52:15.580 --> 00:52:18.020
when those hopes are not fulfilled.

1078
00:52:18.020 --> 00:52:21.120
And we don't wanna be disappointed anymore.

1079
00:52:24.220 --> 00:52:26.140
So I'm here just to speak for God this morning

1080
00:52:26.140 --> 00:52:27.780
and tell you he's not your ex,

1081
00:52:27.780 --> 00:52:30.820
he's not your parent, he's not your boss,

1082
00:52:30.820 --> 00:52:33.140
he's not your old pastor,

1083
00:52:33.140 --> 00:52:38.140
he's not your emotionally unavailable spouse, okay?

1084
00:52:40.220 --> 00:52:42.900
He's not the person who couldn't love you back.

1085
00:52:42.900 --> 00:52:44.520
It's important that you know this.

1086
00:52:44.520 --> 00:52:45.860
Those people didn't love you back

1087
00:52:45.860 --> 00:52:47.200
because they couldn't love you back,

1088
00:52:47.200 --> 00:52:49.980
but God is not a person, and he is love.

1089
00:52:50.980 --> 00:52:53.540
So he absolutely loves you.

1090
00:52:53.540 --> 00:52:54.900
He's emotionally involved with you

1091
00:52:54.900 --> 00:52:58.340
in ways that no human person ever could be.

1092
00:52:58.340 --> 00:53:00.020
So he's not the partner or the friend

1093
00:53:00.020 --> 00:53:01.700
that shut you down when you spoke up.

1094
00:53:01.700 --> 00:53:03.900
He's not afraid of your needs,

1095
00:53:03.900 --> 00:53:05.700
and he's not tired of your heart.

1096
00:53:08.660 --> 00:53:09.500
Someone needs to hear this.

1097
00:53:09.500 --> 00:53:11.060
God doesn't see you as too much.

1098
00:53:15.420 --> 00:53:16.740
He doesn't see you as too much.

1099
00:53:16.740 --> 00:53:18.380
Okay, so here's the activation

1100
00:53:18.380 --> 00:53:19.940
because it's time for us to go.

1101
00:53:20.980 --> 00:53:22.220
And friends, this is part of the reason

1102
00:53:22.220 --> 00:53:23.300
why I'm doing the Disney retreat.

1103
00:53:23.300 --> 00:53:24.540
For those of you see that I opened

1104
00:53:24.540 --> 00:53:26.180
the Disney retreat registration,

1105
00:53:26.180 --> 00:53:28.660
if you didn't see it, it's in your groups.

1106
00:53:28.660 --> 00:53:30.780
I opened it because what better place

1107
00:53:30.780 --> 00:53:33.180
to learn how to dream again than Disney World?

1108
00:53:34.140 --> 00:53:36.900
And I expect that that is going to be

1109
00:53:36.900 --> 00:53:39.540
part of the theme of that retreat

1110
00:53:39.540 --> 00:53:41.580
is learning to dream big again,

1111
00:53:41.580 --> 00:53:43.620
and I'm excited about that.

1112
00:53:43.620 --> 00:53:46.340
So here is the activation.

1113
00:53:50.580 --> 00:53:52.500
So whatever it is that you stopped asking for,

1114
00:53:52.500 --> 00:53:53.660
I want you to write it.

1115
00:53:57.780 --> 00:53:58.900
I want you to name it.

1116
00:53:59.820 --> 00:54:00.660
I want you to write it down,

1117
00:54:00.660 --> 00:54:01.940
and I want you to say it out loud.

1118
00:54:01.940 --> 00:54:03.940
Say it out loud, but also write it down.

1119
00:54:05.620 --> 00:54:07.340
And write it in the form of an ask.

1120
00:54:07.340 --> 00:54:11.540
God, I still want blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

1121
00:54:16.340 --> 00:54:17.180
Okay?

1122
00:54:18.140 --> 00:54:19.180
So I want you to do that.

1123
00:54:19.180 --> 00:54:20.180
This is what you're going to activate

1124
00:54:20.180 --> 00:54:21.980
if you come tomorrow to Sunday night activation.

1125
00:54:21.980 --> 00:54:23.140
Otherwise, you're going to have to activate

1126
00:54:23.140 --> 00:54:25.460
this on your own, and that's okay.

1127
00:54:25.460 --> 00:54:27.860
God, I still want fill in the blank.

1128
00:54:35.300 --> 00:54:36.660
And then I really want,

1129
00:54:36.660 --> 00:54:38.380
even if you don't come to Sunday night activation,

1130
00:54:38.380 --> 00:54:40.380
I'd love for you to show up in your groups

1131
00:54:40.380 --> 00:54:41.620
with testimonies.

1132
00:54:42.580 --> 00:54:44.500
I want you to show up in your groups

1133
00:54:44.500 --> 00:54:48.580
with things that have happened after you asked for this.

1134
00:54:48.580 --> 00:54:50.220
Things that God has said to you.

1135
00:54:50.220 --> 00:54:51.820
Things that began to revive in your heart.

1136
00:54:51.820 --> 00:54:53.220
Some of you don't even know what to ask for.

1137
00:54:53.220 --> 00:54:55.260
You don't even know what you still want,

1138
00:54:55.260 --> 00:54:57.260
and that's the work that you need to do.

1139
00:54:58.780 --> 00:55:00.220
So Father, I just pray over.

1140
00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:03.240
all of my brothers and sisters and myself right now.

1141
00:55:03.240 --> 00:55:05.640
You have created us to be abundant

1142
00:55:05.640 --> 00:55:07.860
and a lot of us are living in scarcity.

1143
00:55:07.860 --> 00:55:10.200
A lot of us are living way below

1144
00:55:10.200 --> 00:55:12.400
where you have called us to live

1145
00:55:12.400 --> 00:55:15.940
and we don't have the things that you want for us.

1146
00:55:15.940 --> 00:55:17.400
And so Lord, I'm asking now

1147
00:55:17.400 --> 00:55:19.880
that we would partner with heaven in the asking,

1148
00:55:19.880 --> 00:55:22.000
in the seeking and in the knocking,

1149
00:55:22.000 --> 00:55:23.920
that we wouldn't be afraid of rejection anymore,

1150
00:55:23.920 --> 00:55:26.300
that we would understand that if it is a no,

1151
00:55:26.300 --> 00:55:27.360
if it is a shut door,

1152
00:55:27.360 --> 00:55:29.520
it's only because there's something better.

1153
00:55:29.520 --> 00:55:30.640
If something falls apart,

1154
00:55:30.640 --> 00:55:32.920
it's only because something better is coming together

1155
00:55:32.920 --> 00:55:34.800
and we will look for that thing.

1156
00:55:34.800 --> 00:55:36.560
There's always gonna be a yes.

1157
00:55:36.560 --> 00:55:38.160
There's always a yes.

1158
00:55:38.160 --> 00:55:40.360
It might not be a yes to the thing that you've asked for,

1159
00:55:40.360 --> 00:55:42.080
but it's a yes to something better.

1160
00:55:42.080 --> 00:55:43.720
And so there's always gonna be a yes.

1161
00:55:43.720 --> 00:55:48.340
And so Lord, even when we ask for something

1162
00:55:48.340 --> 00:55:52.080
that you know isn't going to be fulfilling for us,

1163
00:55:52.080 --> 00:55:54.280
help us to see what the yes is for

1164
00:55:54.280 --> 00:55:57.680
and help us to choose that door, door number two.

1165
00:55:57.680 --> 00:55:58.560
That's fine.

1166
00:55:58.560 --> 00:56:00.440
We didn't expect to go through that door,

1167
00:56:00.440 --> 00:56:03.800
but that door is where all the beautiful answers

1168
00:56:03.800 --> 00:56:05.640
to our prayers live,

1169
00:56:05.640 --> 00:56:08.440
even if they don't look like what we originally expected.

1170
00:56:08.440 --> 00:56:11.200
And so Lord, help us not to miss the blessings

1171
00:56:11.200 --> 00:56:12.360
that are right in front of us.

1172
00:56:12.360 --> 00:56:14.960
Help us not to miss the love that's right in front of us.

1173
00:56:14.960 --> 00:56:18.040
Help us not to miss the answered prayers

1174
00:56:18.040 --> 00:56:19.200
that are right in front of us

1175
00:56:19.200 --> 00:56:21.920
just because they're wearing different clothes

1176
00:56:21.920 --> 00:56:24.480
and they don't look the way we thought they would.

1177
00:56:26.200 --> 00:56:27.040
Thank you, Lord,

1178
00:56:27.040 --> 00:56:29.840
that you are the giver of good and perfect gifts.

1179
00:56:29.840 --> 00:56:32.160
And I just wanna end with this one thing, friends.

1180
00:56:32.160 --> 00:56:35.160
Last night, my daughter, my youngest daughter,

1181
00:56:35.160 --> 00:56:37.920
who a lot of you know, she leads Thursday Prayer, Reagan,

1182
00:56:37.920 --> 00:56:39.120
her and her new husband,

1183
00:56:39.120 --> 00:56:40.420
they've been married for a year.

1184
00:56:40.420 --> 00:56:42.280
In a couple of days, it'll be a year.

1185
00:56:42.280 --> 00:56:44.280
They went on their honeymoon finally.

1186
00:56:44.280 --> 00:56:48.040
They were gifted a trip to Mexico for their honeymoon

1187
00:56:48.040 --> 00:56:50.280
by her older sister, my middle daughter.

1188
00:56:51.240 --> 00:56:52.320
And they didn't get to,

1189
00:56:52.320 --> 00:56:55.200
they weren't able to use it until now.

1190
00:56:55.200 --> 00:56:58.720
And so they went on this trip, they left today.

1191
00:56:58.720 --> 00:57:00.640
So pray over them that everything's safe

1192
00:57:00.640 --> 00:57:02.240
and that they have a good time.

1193
00:57:02.240 --> 00:57:06.280
But I saw them last night just briefly before they left,

1194
00:57:06.280 --> 00:57:07.480
you know, hugged them and kissed them

1195
00:57:07.480 --> 00:57:09.360
and told them that I hope they had fun

1196
00:57:09.360 --> 00:57:10.800
and gave them some advice.

1197
00:57:10.800 --> 00:57:12.760
David gave them some advice about, you know,

1198
00:57:12.760 --> 00:57:15.200
currency exchanges and all the things.

1199
00:57:15.200 --> 00:57:17.880
And then as we were leaving to go home,

1200
00:57:17.880 --> 00:57:18.880
you know, they're adult people,

1201
00:57:18.880 --> 00:57:20.760
they have jobs, all the things.

1202
00:57:20.760 --> 00:57:23.320
As we're leaving to go home, I said to my husband,

1203
00:57:23.320 --> 00:57:24.960
you know, I'd like to give them some spending money

1204
00:57:25.720 --> 00:57:26.960
so they can just do it up right.

1205
00:57:26.960 --> 00:57:28.840
And he said, yeah, how much?

1206
00:57:28.840 --> 00:57:31.400
And I said this and he said, yeah, I was thinking this.

1207
00:57:31.400 --> 00:57:32.480
And I was like, okay.

1208
00:57:32.480 --> 00:57:35.640
So I zelled it to my daughter and then I texted her

1209
00:57:35.640 --> 00:57:39.400
and said, hey, you know, you guys do a little extra stuff

1210
00:57:39.400 --> 00:57:41.360
on us, have a good time.

1211
00:57:41.360 --> 00:57:43.240
And she was so appreciative and so thankful.

1212
00:57:43.240 --> 00:57:45.360
And she's like, oh, mom, thank you so much.

1213
00:57:45.360 --> 00:57:47.160
When we get my first massage, you know,

1214
00:57:47.160 --> 00:57:48.920
I'll think of you, you know, kind of thing

1215
00:57:48.920 --> 00:57:50.520
and all this stuff.

1216
00:57:50.520 --> 00:57:52.480
And, you know, so grateful, so thankful,

1217
00:57:52.520 --> 00:57:54.680
but it reminded me of our heavenly father.

1218
00:57:55.920 --> 00:57:59.240
His friends, he delights to bless you.

1219
00:58:02.800 --> 00:58:04.720
He delights to bless you.

1220
00:58:05.760 --> 00:58:10.080
It made me feel so good to give that to my child,

1221
00:58:10.080 --> 00:58:12.360
to give that to my daughter and her husband,

1222
00:58:12.360 --> 00:58:14.000
to be able to give that.

1223
00:58:14.000 --> 00:58:15.200
You know, we have limitations.

1224
00:58:15.200 --> 00:58:17.440
A lot of us are givers, but we just have limitations.

1225
00:58:17.440 --> 00:58:20.400
We give, we give and give and give,

1226
00:58:20.400 --> 00:58:21.920
but we have limitations, you know,

1227
00:58:21.920 --> 00:58:24.200
financially, materialistically, we have limitations.

1228
00:58:24.200 --> 00:58:25.720
God has no limitations.

1229
00:58:26.760 --> 00:58:29.080
And as much as you love to be a cheerful giver

1230
00:58:29.080 --> 00:58:30.120
for those of you that are,

1231
00:58:30.120 --> 00:58:32.480
as much as you love to bless those that you love,

1232
00:58:32.480 --> 00:58:34.960
think about how much more your heavenly father

1233
00:58:34.960 --> 00:58:38.360
loves to bless you, wants to bless you.

1234
00:58:39.280 --> 00:58:40.760
And I know it's hard to receive that

1235
00:58:40.760 --> 00:58:43.600
because you don't have that earthly experience from humans

1236
00:58:43.600 --> 00:58:44.960
and maybe not even from God,

1237
00:58:44.960 --> 00:58:47.680
because friends, I know this is gonna hurt a little bit,

1238
00:58:47.680 --> 00:58:50.240
but sometimes we won't let God bless us.

1239
00:58:51.400 --> 00:58:54.200
You know, we're running off like a little kid

1240
00:58:54.200 --> 00:58:56.760
in the cloak room, stealing the lunches.

1241
00:58:56.760 --> 00:58:58.440
We're trying to take it in our own hands.

1242
00:58:58.440 --> 00:59:00.360
We don't use our Jesus cares board.

1243
00:59:00.360 --> 00:59:01.760
We don't cast our care on him.

1244
00:59:01.760 --> 00:59:03.680
We carry our care with us,

1245
00:59:03.680 --> 00:59:06.200
like a turtle with its shell on its back.

1246
00:59:09.640 --> 00:59:10.480
Come on.

1247
00:59:13.000 --> 00:59:15.000
Give him another chance.

1248
00:59:15.000 --> 00:59:16.560
And remember, he doesn't have to bless you

1249
00:59:16.560 --> 00:59:18.360
according to what you're expecting.

1250
00:59:18.440 --> 00:59:20.760
He can bless you according to what he knows.

1251
00:59:22.000 --> 00:59:23.120
Expect blessings.

1252
00:59:23.120 --> 00:59:23.960
Look up.

1253
00:59:26.400 --> 00:59:27.240
Look up.

1254
00:59:28.600 --> 00:59:30.600
In Jesus' name, amen.

1255
00:59:30.600 --> 00:59:32.080
All right, friends, love you all.

1256
00:59:32.080 --> 00:59:32.920
See you soon.

1257
00:59:32.920 --> 00:59:33.760
Ciao for now.