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All right, welcome everyone to Supernatural Saturday.

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First and foremost, I want to thank everyone who prayed for me on Faith Friday.

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You might not have known it, but I was there, I was listening and I'm so thankful that there's

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a community of faith that we can come to and that we can lean into.

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Even the strongest of us, those that seem like they are the strongest of us, a lot of

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times on the outside, we're like, hey, that person doesn't need anything.

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That person doesn't need prayer.

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They got it together.

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Well, even the people that seem like they have it together, maybe they do have it together

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in some areas, but suffering comes to us all, trials and tribulation comes to us all.

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Jesus promised us all that.

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That was one of his promises.

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In this world, you will be tribulated.

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In this world, you will have suffering.

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Why?

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Because you've been bad?

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No.

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Now, there are natural consequences to bad decisions, but we can even reap those in grace

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when we come to Christ, when we ask him to help us, when we cast our cares on him.

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That's what your Jesus Cares boards are for.

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For those of you that are in our preview group, you're in the light group, the Last Year's

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Single Light, you might not know all about that because you're not in the program yet.

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I want to really convince you to go ahead and jump in because you need what we have

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here and it's going to change your life.

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You're getting a little taste, but it's going to transform you if you will allow it to.

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We can even cast that on, but that's not why we have suffering because we've made bad decisions.

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I mean, sometimes, but it's just because the earth is still under a curse that's been broken.

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It hasn't gotten the full memo yet.

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There's all kinds of bad people out here because they're not bad intrinsically necessarily,

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but they're under a curse and they're still operating out of that curse.

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They're still hurting people.

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They're still running around like orphans with their hair on fire, trying to get what

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they think is theirs.

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And that looks like a lot of different things.

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And obviously evil, you know, the fallen one third of heaven in the form of angels that

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became what we call demons and all of the powers of darkness, which by the way, are

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not any match for one drop of light.

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Just want to remind someone of that this morning.

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That's why there's all kinds of craziness going on out here.

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So yes, pray for those that come upon your heart, even if you think they don't need it.

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And so I want to thank you guys for praying for me yesterday.

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I did notice that while that was happening, while you guys were praying for me on Faith

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Friday, that there were 91 of you on the call.

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And that really spoke a message.

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All of your messages, all of your prayers really were very encouraging to me.

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I want to tell you that I'm doing better today and I'm going to continue to do better.

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And but when I saw that 91, it reminded me of my most favorite verse, my most favorite

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passage of scripture, Psalm 91.

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And we're going to get into that in a minute because I'm going to talk about my favorite

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scriptures.

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I'm going to talk about why I love numbers.

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A lot of you are like, Jackie, Jackie's into those numbers.

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Yes, she is.

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But she's only into those numbers, not because I like numerology.

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I'm into the numbers because when I see numbers, it leads me back to scriptures.

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When I see numbers, I've hidden God's word in my heart to such an extent that when I

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see numbers, I see scriptures.

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Did you know that?

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And you're like, well, Jackie, how did this happen?

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Well, I'll tell you how it happened.

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In my 20s, I was very sick the whole decade into my 30s, actually, until I was about 33,

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34 years old.

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So about 10, 12 years of my life, because I met Jesus at 22, I was in the word and I

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was in the word because I had nothing else to do.

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Friends, I'd love to tell you that I just always had a love for God's word.

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I was just in the word because I wanted to be in the word.

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But I was in the word because I really physically, mentally could not live outside of it.

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I couldn't live outside of it.

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Things that you enjoy, like getting dressed and going outside of your house and getting

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in your car and going wherever you want.

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I wasn't able to do that.

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I wasn't able to get dressed and go outside of my house and get in the car and go wherever

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I wanted because I had severe mental illness.

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I couldn't function.

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I couldn't go to the grocery store.

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I couldn't go to the Walmart, especially not the Walmart.

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I couldn't go to any place that regular people go.

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In fact, I remember sitting, this thought came back to my mind the other day.

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I remember sitting on a park bench, just being out in public, away from

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in the house, you know, they call that agoraphobia when you're not able to leave a safe space,

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whether it's your house or wherever it is.

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I remember that I was out and I was on a bench and I was watching people go by.

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Don't remember the full context of why I was out and what was happening, but that was just

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stretching it already for me to be in that place.

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And so I was watching people go by and I didn't know who the people were.

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You know, you're sitting on a bench watching humanity go by.

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But I will tell you that I was in such a low place in my life that I wished that I could

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be any one of those people that were passing me.

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Any one of those people.

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Because they seemed, wait for it, normal.

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They seemed normal.

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I don't know what was going on in those people's lives, but on this particular day, they were

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walking past wherever I was sitting, living a normal life.

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Walking with other people, chatting with them, talking.

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They were, you know, dressed.

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They look like they had their lives together.

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They didn't look like they were living in any type of fear or anxiety.

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They didn't look like they were having any kind of intrusive or obsessive thoughts that

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were causing them to not be able to live normally.

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I just wanted to be normal.

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Friends, my greatest prayer is, please, God, can I just be normal?

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I just want to be normal.

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I just want to be a normal person.

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I just want to live a normal life.

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And I'd love to tell you that, you know, that prayer was answered in a quick minute, but

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it wasn't.

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It took over a decade of my life in order for me to become, and of course, that continues

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to progress.

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Because when we continue in his word, we know the truth and it makes us free.

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But I came to Christ at 22 years old with a lot of issues, with a lot of heart wounds.

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For those of you that have done the heart work with me, I had a lot of wounds and a

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lot of lies.

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And so it wasn't an easy transition.

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The things that had made me who I was by the time I was 22, all the abuse and all the hurt

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and all the pain, all of the things that had happened, all the betrayal and everything,

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I wasn't going to get rid of that overnight.

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And that's where a lot of people give up.

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And quite frankly, friends, I'm not saying that I'm some special person that didn't give

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up.

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There were plenty of times when I wanted to give up, but the word inside of me would not

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give up.

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It was the word inside of me.

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You know how we always say, hey, you know, invite Jesus to come live in your heart, right?

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Jesus lives in my heart.

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I want to read a scripture to you really quickly before we get started that I think is going

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to be super important to this entire conversation, Ephesians 3.16 and 3.17.

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I pray that out of his glorious riches, he may strengthen you with power through his

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spirit in your inner being so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith.

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And that I pray that you would be rooted and established in love.

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Friends, how does Christ abide or live in our hearts through faith?

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It's because he is the word.

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It's because he is the word that was robed in flesh and dwelt among us.

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It is the word that abides in your heart that causes you to live in faith.

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And friends, because I had a unique experience where I was basically bent for an entire decade,

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now I'm not saying that there weren't good months where I got out and I did some stuff.

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You guys have heard about my adventures when I worked at the homeless shelter or this or

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that, but they were all pretty short lived.

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I'd be kind of running and doing things for about three months and I'd be flat on my back,

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back at the house with all the same issues that I had before, unable to do anything.

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And it was during those times, though, that God built the foundation of my heart in his

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word, in his word.

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Remember the scripture that says, if you build your house on the rock, then when the storms

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come, your house isn't going to fall.

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It doesn't promise that your house is not going to get beat up on by the wind and the

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rain. It just promises that there's not going to be a destruction.

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It's not going to, the storm is going to be for your promotion, not your destruction.

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Amen. But if you build your house on the sand, which is everything else besides the word

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of God, it's man's ideologies, it's humanism, it's transcendentalism, it's everything that

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you think because it's been passed down to you from your family, that's not the rock.

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It's not Christ.

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It's not the living word.

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Then, yeah, stuff's going to fall apart.

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And that's happened to all of us.

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All of us have built our lives on things that are on sinking sand.

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We have. On our own ability, on our own strength to be able to do something that's sinking

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sand, friend.

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Well, strength is sinking sand.

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Just want to let you know that in case you didn't know.

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Our strength has to be in Christ.

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So how does he live in our hearts?

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He lives in our hearts by the word.

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And so friends, when I go out in public now,

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and by the way, I go out in public now.

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I live my life fully alive now.

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I go everywhere now.

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Now, my prayer to be normal was not answered

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because I'm still not normal.

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I'm not a normal person, okay?

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For sure.

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But I'm abnormal in a whole different way,

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which I'll take, I'll take it.

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But I see numbers and I see numbers

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and they mean something to me.

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They mean scriptures.

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They mean the biblical numerology meaning of them.

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And why is that?

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Because I have hid his word in my heart.

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And that's what today is about.

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I want you to live your life in the word of God.

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I want you to live your life.

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And it was a reminder for me

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when I heard you praying for me yesterday,

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the Lord began to speak to me

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about areas where I had gotten off

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living my life in his word.

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Areas where I was starting to believe my feelings

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instead of faith that comes by hearing

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and hearing by the word of God.

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And I want to take us all back there today.

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Can we go back there?

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Father God, I just love you so much.

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And I'm so thankful for your word that you sent it.

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You closed it in flesh and you sent it to live among us.

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You sent it to come and to do all that you set it out to do

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to die for us.

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We're so thankful for Jesus today.

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We're so thankful for the finished work of the cross.

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We're so thankful for the blood.

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We're so thankful that we can abide in him.

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We can abide in him.

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And it's time for us to make our home in him today.

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And so I'm asking that you would supernaturally

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give us the ability to do that.

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In Jesus name, amen.

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All right, so good morning family.

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If you're new to Supernatural Saturday, welcome.

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We're gonna go on a fun ride today.

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This is the session that we do every week.

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That's about what is the current

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prophetic reality of heaven?

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What is the current prophetic reality?

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What is God saying?

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How can we live abundantly?

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How can we have the John 10, 10 life?

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And I believe that God brought us all here today

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because he wants to take us from simply

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knowing about his word.

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Some of you don't even know the word.

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You just know about it.

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People will say stuff.

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You'll be like, yeah, I think that's scripture.

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You just know about the word.

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Some of you know the word, okay,

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but you're not living in it.

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So for everyone's going to take a step forward.

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If you know the word, but you're not living in it,

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we're gonna live in it today.

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And if you don't know the word,

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you're gonna have a desire and a hunger

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because we're gonna pray that over you

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at the end of this session to know the word,

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to know it for yourself.

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You guys know that there are believers in this world

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that will never have a Bible?

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They won't have a Bible.

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What does that mean?

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That means that when missionaries or other Christians

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come through their tribes, their villages,

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wherever they are,

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they hang on to the little bit of truth

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that is spoken over them.

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I know that we think that it's about abundance

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and this is not, okay, this is not a session

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where I'm gonna put down reading through the Bible

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in a year.

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That's awesome.

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If you wanna do that, go for it.

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But that's not living in the word.

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That's just reading it.

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And yeah, read it.

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Some of it's gonna get in there.

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Some of it you're gonna remember.

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But the Bible doesn't tell us to read it.

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It tells us to meditate on it.

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The word meditation means to chew

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like a cow chews its cud, to chew on it.

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And so sometimes the people that have less

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are better off than us that have more.

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Some of you have four or five, maybe six,

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maybe 10 Bibles in your house,

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but you've never fully gotten all the juice

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out of any one scripture.

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Cause you just kind of read through it, right?

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Let's face it, not all of our reading comprehension

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is all that great.

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But then these other folks,

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they have maybe four or five scriptures

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that they're living on for their entire life.

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Chewing on it, getting all the juice out of it.

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Do you guys understand what I'm saying?

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So Holy Spirit, we just invite you

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to make the word alive to us today.

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Let it not be black ink on white pages,

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but a living voice that shapes our lives

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and releases heaven on earth through us.

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Friends, I remember before I met Jesus,

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his word was already in my heart to a certain degree.

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And the reason why was because I had gone to Bible camp

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when I was a kid.

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You know, the only people that really throw camps

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and throw them well are like Christian organizations.

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So like St. Isaac Joe's camp,

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I remember I went to a Catholic camp one year.

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My mom was always trying to send us off for the summer,

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like, hey, go off for the summer.

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And there was this other camp that was fully Pentecostal.

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You guys know who those folks are, right?

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And at this particular camp

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that I went to every single year,

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in fact, it's where I met Reagan's dad.

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That's how Reagan's dad and I met.

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I wasn't being raised in a Christian home, but I was sent off to this super legalistic

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holiness camp.

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I don't even know how they let me in, but there I was.

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And I didn't have the clothes that these girls had, and these girls all had like hair down

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to their booties, and my hair was like in a bob.

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Talk about sticking out like a sore thumb.

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And there was free time.

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Three hours a day, there was free time.

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You could go play volleyball, you know, you could go do anything except talk to the boys.

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You're allowed to do anything except talk to the boys.

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You're not allowed to talk to the boys.

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All right?

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But you could do anything else you wanted, and guess who didn't play sports?

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The girls.

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The girls sat around and watched the boys play sports, but guess who played sports?

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Me.

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All right?

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So not only did I have short hair and I was tall and lanky like a giraffe, okay, and I

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didn't have the right clothes because all these kids, all they had was dresses.

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They had a whole wardrobe of dresses.

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Guess who owned one skirt?

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Little old me, Jackie D. And so I wore that skirt every single day at

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camp, and I'm sure that I looked like the wreck of the Hespera, but that's okay.

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That's all right.

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Okay?

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Because I was good at sports, and I just remember that all the guys liked me because, like,

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I helped them win the volleyball game because here I am doing something that these girls

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didn't do, and that was play, not watch.

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So but three hours a day of recreation is not a lot, so you might ask, what were you

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guys doing for the other 18,000 hours of the day?

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Oh, we were listening to people talk about the Bible.

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That's what we were doing.

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And it was boring as heck.

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Just want to make sure that I make that super clear.

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It was really, really boring, and if I hadn't started having a crush on a specific boy at

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that camp, I definitely would not have kept going there every year, but that is the reason

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why.

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Just there you go.

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It's all the truth is out there.

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But here's the good news.

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The good news is that that word, whoo, it's alive.

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And even when you don't know it, it's getting in you.

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It's getting inside of you, even when you don't know it's getting inside of you.

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And so fast forward to 20 years old, I'm going through it, friends.

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I've already been on my own since I was, you know, not even 17 years old.

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I've gotten myself into tons of trouble.

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All kinds of bad things are happening, and now my body is a wreck.

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My mind is a wreck.

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I'm dealing with all kinds of mental health issues, physical health issues, and I'm in

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the emergency room, and they're about to put me in the MRI tube.

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Anyone else been in the MRI tube?

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Oh, it's scary, y'all.

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It's really loud, and it's scary, and I didn't have anyone with me because I didn't have

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anyone.

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Imagine being 20 years old and all alone in the world.

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I was already separated from my husband, by the way, the boy from the camp that I married

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that immediately rejected me when he realized that I wasn't going to be sister Christian

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because I didn't know how.

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I wasn't raised that way.

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Here I was coming from the streets, and he was partnering with my flesh.

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He was partnering with the beautiful girl because I had transformed like a butterfly

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from that.

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Isn't that so true?

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All of us lanky, weird-looking kids, we always turn out to be pretty hot, and that's just

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what happens.

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Let's just face it.

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So he partnered with that, but he wasn't partnering with who I was.

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I didn't even know who I was.

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I didn't have identity, and so he had already kicked me to the curb.

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He had already cast me aside.

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He had already rejected me because I couldn't be what he wanted, and that was some kind

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of religious trophy wife, I guess.

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I was at the ER by myself, and then I was in the tube by myself, and they were checking

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me for some really serious stuff because my symptoms pointed to that.

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I'm in the tube, and it's super loud, and I'm all alone, and there's tears streaming

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down my face, and all of a sudden, I feel a peace, a peace that passes any kind of current

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understanding.

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I remember feeling that peace before.

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Do you guys want to know where I felt it before?

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I felt it when I was locked up in the juvenile detention center, and everyone's screaming

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in the night, all kinds of demonic things happening.

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Of course, I didn't understand that because I didn't know God at that level at all.

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I just knew that people were really angry, and they're beating on walls, and people are

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screaming, and everyone's locked in their own cell with a tiny little window in the

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door and nothing else, and it's a scary place, friends.

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I just remember as I was laying on that cot in the detention center, which by the way,

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I wasn't there because of crime or bad behavior.

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I was there because I was a runaway.

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I had ran away from a foster home where a man in that home that didn't belong in that

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home was trying to sexually assault me.

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And so I'm laying on that cot in that room and I just feel the peace of God come over

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me.

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I don't know that that's what it is.

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I just feel completely at peace.

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And this song, and it's not obviously a church song friends, but listen to the words of it.

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Just remember I love you and it'll be all right.

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Remember that song from the radio?

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Just remember I love you more than I can say.

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Just remember I love you and it'll be all right.

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That song kept playing over and over in my head.

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Something that I'm sure my mother had played.

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That music's from her generation, not mine.

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And I fell asleep.

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And so I recognized in the MRI tube that same feeling of peace, peace that shouldn't be

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here according to the circumstances.

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But this time, guess what popped in my head?

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What popped in my head was a song that they sang at that church camp.

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And I didn't know that it was scripture friends, I just want to let you know that full disclosure.

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But obviously when I say it right now, you're going to recognize it as Proverbs 3, 5, trust

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in the Lord with all your heart and lean not to your own understanding, but in all your

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ways acknowledge him and he will direct your path.

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And then they go on to say, magnify the Lord with me.

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You know, that's a song.

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And it popped into my head.

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One of the greatest ways to get scripture into you is to listen to the old hymns, just

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so you know.

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If you listen to the old hymns, most of them are based on full scripture.

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It's a great way to get the word inside of you, especially if you love music.

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Guys, what is God trying to do today?

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He's trying to help us to understand that when the word gets inside of us, it creates

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things like peace.

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It creates things like hope.

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It creates things like joy.

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So what does it mean to live in the word?

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Let's talk about this for just a second.

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I want to give you a practical application.

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What's it mean to live in the word?

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Just so you know, friends, in times of stress and times of trouble, where do you go first?

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I just want to ask you that.

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Where do you go first?

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Because wherever you go first is what your trust is in.

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So if you go to mind numbing, you go to medicating, whether it's scrolling through social media

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so you don't have to think about whatever it is that you were thinking about, whether

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it's going to watching a movie, whether it's calling up a friend and commiserating, wherever

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we go first to is where we are putting our trust in helping us at that moment and bringing

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peace to us at that moment.

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So we need to go to the word, right?

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We need to go to God.

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We need to go.

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We need to go in prayer.

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We need to go in meditation.

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That's what it means to abide in Jesus.

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That's what it means to live your life with him.

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So abiding in the truth, John 15, seven, you guys know these scriptures.

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If you abide in me and my words abide in you, you will ask what you desire and it will be

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done for you.

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What comes before this scripture talking about how he is the vine and you are the branch.

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And as long as you stay connected to him, how, how do you stay connected to Jesus by

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just saying, Oh, I love you, Jesus.

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Yeah, that's wonderful.

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No, you stay connected to him by his words.

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If you abide in me and my words abide in you, you will ask what you desire and it will be

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done.

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So it's about abiding, it's about living our life inside of it, inside of him, inside of

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his word.

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What does abide mean?

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I have it here.

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What does abide mean?

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What does it mean to abide?

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I'm going to tell you, I'm glad you asked.

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It means to live, remain, not visit equationally.

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It means to live and to remain, and it's not someplace that you just come in and out of,

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it's a place that you live in continually.

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How can we live continually in Jesus?

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I mean, the man Jesus is not on the earth anymore.

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We can't just go over his house every day and just hang out with him.

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And just by the way, if I was alive, when Jesus was alive, I would totally have been

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hanging out with him every day.

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It didn't matter.

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He could have called me a dog.

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He could have said, you a Gentile.

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I'd be like, okay, bro, but I'm still coming.

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I'm still coming.

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But we can't do that, but we can, we can't do that, but we can abide in his word.

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He is his word.

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He is his word and we can abide in his word.

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So number one, practical application.

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What are we going to do?

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We are going to be the branch.

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Come on, just say it.

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I'm a branch.

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I'm a branch.

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I'm a branch.

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You guys almost got that.

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tattooed on my arm. Every time I started to take my life into my own hands and I

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started to feel stressed and overwhelmed with all of my problems, I would remember

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I'm just a branch. Just so you know, that is where the Jesus Cares board comes

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from. It comes from me realizing that I'm just a branch. Now that doesn't mean that

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you're not gonna have to do anything. Remember, when the branch abides in the

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mind, it bears fruit. You're gonna bear fruit. Go and read the whole list of

484
00:25:30.900 --> 00:25:35.800
spiritual fruit that you're going to bear of joy and peace and patience. Some

485
00:25:35.800 --> 00:25:40.020
of us are like, patience? Yeah, friend. You're never gonna have any patience unless you

486
00:25:40.020 --> 00:25:45.620
are connected to Jesus. Some of us have more patient natural personalities, okay?

487
00:25:45.720 --> 00:25:50.440
Like me. I have a lot of tolerance, believe it or not, but my husband? No, no,

488
00:25:50.440 --> 00:25:55.740
no. You put him behind the wheel of a car and that man? He doesn't have any

489
00:25:55.620 --> 00:26:02.000
patience. There is no patience, okay? He's losing his Holy Spirit every day behind

490
00:26:02.000 --> 00:26:11.780
the wheel of the car. And now, bro has an F-150. So now, my little, my short king, my

491
00:26:11.780 --> 00:26:18.380
5.8 is now behind the wheel of a big truck, okay? And that man has less

492
00:26:18.380 --> 00:26:25.680
patience in his big old truck. And I'm like, oh, no. No. That person is just

493
00:26:25.680 --> 00:26:30.780
driving. They're just driving. Leave them alone. Yes, they don't know how to drive.

494
00:26:31.040 --> 00:26:36.780
That's not really our problem. But at the same time, patience is going to come if

495
00:26:36.780 --> 00:26:41.300
you don't have it naturally. And remember, there's a level of patience that's always

496
00:26:41.300 --> 00:26:45.420
supernatural. I'm just making fun right now. There's a level of tolerance that's

497
00:26:45.420 --> 00:26:49.720
always supernatural. It's a level of compassion that's always supernatural. So

498
00:26:49.720 --> 00:26:56.880
even if you are a personality that has more empathy, more compassion, more patience,

499
00:26:57.660 --> 00:27:01.620
you're going to need higher levels of it because this world is going to try you.

500
00:27:01.960 --> 00:27:06.680
These people out here on the streets, they're going to try you. They are. And

501
00:27:06.680 --> 00:27:12.180
your human compassion is going to run out. And that is why we have to be a branch.

502
00:27:12.180 --> 00:27:17.240
So I want you to say that. I'm a branch. I'm a branch. You guys, when I was reminding

503
00:27:17.260 --> 00:27:23.120
myself of that in overwhelming circumstances, what was I doing? I was living life in the

504
00:27:22.740 --> 00:27:27.700
Word. You're like, but Jackie, you were just saying you're a branch. You guys, stop

505
00:27:27.700 --> 00:27:35.260
being religious. I knew what I meant, and God knows what I mean. He knows that I'm

506
00:27:35.410 --> 00:27:45.610
quoting His Word. He knows that I'm quoting His Word. I was in the back of an emergency

507
00:27:45.610 --> 00:27:50.570
vehicle with my mother. She had gotten out of the ICU. She had been in there for a month.

508
00:27:50.810 --> 00:27:55.470
She had a surgery that went bad. This was during her sickness, her illness, and she

509
00:27:55.470 --> 00:28:00.590
was in rough shape. And the rehab center did not like the swelling. She had a lot of retained

510
00:28:00.590 --> 00:28:05.870
water, a lot of edema, and they wanted to send her back to the hospital. And my mom

511
00:28:05.870 --> 00:28:10.350
did not want to go. Okay. She'd been in the hospital for a month, and now she'd only been

512
00:28:10.350 --> 00:28:15.050
in the rehab for a week, and they were already sending her back. And I think internally she

513
00:28:15.050 --> 00:28:19.130
had a fear that she was going to die in the hospital, and she didn't want to, like no

514
00:28:19.130 --> 00:28:22.710
one would want to, right? And just so you know, she didn't die. She didn't die then.

515
00:28:23.390 --> 00:28:28.090
She didn't pass on. None of us die. She didn't go. She didn't transition then. But we're

516
00:28:28.090 --> 00:28:33.730
in the back of the emergency vehicle, and my mom is so scared. I'm with her. They're

517
00:28:33.730 --> 00:28:39.470
letting me ride with her from the rehab to the hospital, and we're back there. And there's

518
00:28:39.530 --> 00:28:44.090
an EMT, and he's doing whatever he's doing. She's not in any kind of life-threatening

519
00:28:44.290 --> 00:28:48.930
situation at the moment. So he's just getting her strapped in and stuff. And I'm talking

520
00:28:48.930 --> 00:28:55.510
to my mom. I'm looking her in the eyes, and I'm speaking the word of God over her to bring

521
00:28:55.510 --> 00:29:00.570
peace to her, because the fruit, the fruit of the word is peace. It's one of the fruits.

522
00:29:01.390 --> 00:29:06.130
And I'm not using, guys, I'm not quoting scripture as far as like giving, you know, the book

523
00:29:06.130 --> 00:29:10.890
and the chapter and the verse. I'm just saying to my mom, mom, you know, we just need to

524
00:29:10.890 --> 00:29:16.750
stay focused. Because, you know, she's like, but, but, but, and she's saying all these

525
00:29:16.750 --> 00:29:20.330
things that she's worried that are going to happen when she gets to the hospital. And

526
00:29:20.330 --> 00:29:25.890
I say to my mom, mom, we're not going to borrow any kind of trouble from tomorrow,

527
00:29:26.470 --> 00:29:32.310
because tomorrow is going to take care of itself. That's what I said to her. And now

528
00:29:32.570 --> 00:29:36.470
homeboy is listening to everything we're saying. He's in the back of the ambulance with us.

529
00:29:36.770 --> 00:29:43.990
And he's like, wow, that's so good. Like he doesn't know his scripture, friends. He's

530
00:29:43.990 --> 00:29:48.230
just like, wow, that's so wise. That's so good. He's like, man, I'm going to tell my

531
00:29:48.230 --> 00:29:54.970
kids that. This is how the word is alive. It doesn't matter if someone doesn't know

532
00:29:54.970 --> 00:29:59.890
that it came from the Bible. It doesn't matter. God said that his word would not return void

533
00:29:59.890 --> 00:29:59.970
this way.

534
00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:02.580
they would accomplish everything that he set it out to do.

535
00:30:03.300 --> 00:30:04.980
This is called living life in the word.

536
00:30:05.820 --> 00:30:10.240
I wasn't out there like a little quiz team kid

537
00:30:10.240 --> 00:30:12.380
trying to talk about the scripture and the verse

538
00:30:13.320 --> 00:30:16.440
and all the different things that have to do with it

539
00:30:16.440 --> 00:30:17.760
and the Hebrew and the Greek meaning.

540
00:30:18.040 --> 00:30:21.900
I was just saying a concept from scripture

541
00:30:23.300 --> 00:30:25.760
that held all of the same amount of truth.

542
00:30:27.220 --> 00:30:28.580
I just wanna help you guys

543
00:30:28.580 --> 00:30:29.620
because some of you are gonna get a hold

544
00:30:29.620 --> 00:30:32.100
of this message today and you're gonna be walking around

545
00:30:32.100 --> 00:30:33.140
like little Bible quizzers.

546
00:30:34.040 --> 00:30:35.500
If you know what Bible quizzing is,

547
00:30:35.540 --> 00:30:36.740
it's where they memorize the Bible

548
00:30:36.740 --> 00:30:39.140
and then they quote it and they play games

549
00:30:39.140 --> 00:30:40.280
to see who knows it better.

550
00:30:42.060 --> 00:30:44.280
And that's not what we're trying for here.

551
00:30:44.300 --> 00:30:47.660
We're trying to help you to become naturally supernatural.

552
00:30:49.800 --> 00:30:51.660
Naturally supernatural is what's important.

553
00:30:52.040 --> 00:30:52.860
All right, let's get through this

554
00:30:52.860 --> 00:30:54.680
because I wanna get to my favorite scripture

555
00:30:55.000 --> 00:30:56.960
and show you how we're gonna break it down.

556
00:30:56.960 --> 00:30:59.620
All right, we're gonna abide in God's truth, John 15, 7.

557
00:30:59.720 --> 00:31:01.820
We're gonna abide, we're gonna be a branch.

558
00:31:01.900 --> 00:31:02.660
I'm just a branch.

559
00:31:03.060 --> 00:31:05.380
Gotta let scripture be our default, friends.

560
00:31:05.760 --> 00:31:08.540
Let the word, let the truth of God be our default,

561
00:31:08.680 --> 00:31:12.000
our first response, our filter for all decisions.

562
00:31:13.580 --> 00:31:16.880
Ask God, say, God, I want your word to be my internal GPS.

563
00:31:17.320 --> 00:31:19.480
So let's see some biblical examples of this.

564
00:31:19.480 --> 00:31:20.640
I have this written down here.

565
00:31:20.860 --> 00:31:21.920
Jesus in the wilderness.

566
00:31:23.060 --> 00:31:24.880
It says, when the tempter came to him,

567
00:31:24.880 --> 00:31:26.960
this is Matthew 4, verses three and four.

568
00:31:27.300 --> 00:31:28.700
Now, when the tempter came to him, he said,

569
00:31:28.840 --> 00:31:31.400
if you are the son of God, command, what's he doing?

570
00:31:31.700 --> 00:31:32.460
He's tempting him.

571
00:31:32.640 --> 00:31:33.120
What's he doing?

572
00:31:33.220 --> 00:31:34.200
He's challenging him.

573
00:31:34.560 --> 00:31:37.640
If you are who you say you are,

574
00:31:38.260 --> 00:31:39.820
command that these stones become bread.

575
00:31:40.320 --> 00:31:43.060
And he answered and said, it is written,

576
00:31:43.640 --> 00:31:44.600
where was it written?

577
00:31:45.260 --> 00:31:48.020
In the scrolls, friends, in the scrolls.

578
00:31:49.060 --> 00:31:50.700
We don't have the Bible yet, right?

579
00:31:50.700 --> 00:31:51.560
This is Jesus.

580
00:31:52.200 --> 00:31:54.380
It is written, man shall not live by bread alone,

581
00:31:54.380 --> 00:31:56.980
but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.

582
00:31:57.320 --> 00:32:01.660
And you see during that entire temptation scene in the Bible

583
00:32:01.880 --> 00:32:05.020
that Jesus uses the word to combat temptation.

584
00:32:06.180 --> 00:32:06.840
It's the word.

585
00:32:08.240 --> 00:32:10.360
Obviously the word, him, he's the word,

586
00:32:10.420 --> 00:32:11.940
using the word, powerful stuff.

587
00:32:12.480 --> 00:32:14.840
Joshua 1.8, this book of the law.

588
00:32:15.340 --> 00:32:17.340
Remember, these folks did not have the New Testament.

589
00:32:17.640 --> 00:32:19.820
They didn't have the Bible the way we have it.

590
00:32:19.860 --> 00:32:22.600
This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth,

591
00:32:22.600 --> 00:32:25.460
but you shall meditate in it day and night

592
00:32:25.540 --> 00:32:27.540
that you may observe to do

593
00:32:27.540 --> 00:32:29.180
according to all that is written in it.

594
00:32:29.500 --> 00:32:31.420
For then you will make your way prosperous

595
00:32:31.420 --> 00:32:33.240
and then you will have good success.

596
00:32:33.540 --> 00:32:35.740
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

597
00:32:35.740 --> 00:32:36.700
Whoa, whoa, whoa.

598
00:32:36.840 --> 00:32:37.320
What?

599
00:32:38.880 --> 00:32:41.340
If I meditate, remember what I said?

600
00:32:41.460 --> 00:32:42.740
Meditate is like chewing on something.

601
00:32:42.840 --> 00:32:45.720
Some of you have an earworm in your head every day,

602
00:32:45.720 --> 00:32:48.000
some little jingle that you heard in the grocery store

603
00:32:48.000 --> 00:32:49.140
and now you can't get it out.

604
00:32:49.820 --> 00:32:52.700
And for God's sake, please do not listen to Baby Shark.

605
00:32:53.020 --> 00:32:55.480
You will not, you will be singing Baby Shark from now

606
00:32:55.480 --> 00:32:57.380
until Jesus comes back, okay?

607
00:32:57.840 --> 00:33:02.020
I accidentally heard it and it's even worse than Lamb Chops,

608
00:33:02.260 --> 00:33:03.480
this is the song that never ends.

609
00:33:03.760 --> 00:33:06.400
It's even worse, okay?

610
00:33:06.840 --> 00:33:08.480
So some of us have that.

611
00:33:08.520 --> 00:33:09.200
Well, what is that?

612
00:33:09.280 --> 00:33:11.280
That is a song that's stuck in your head

613
00:33:11.280 --> 00:33:13.320
that you're basically meditating on now.

614
00:33:16.140 --> 00:33:21.640
You guys, play stuff, play in your car,

615
00:33:21.980 --> 00:33:23.820
play music that contains the word.

616
00:33:24.000 --> 00:33:26.220
Some of this new music doesn't really contain the word,

617
00:33:26.300 --> 00:33:27.400
it's a bunch of whiny stuff.

618
00:33:28.160 --> 00:33:30.620
Oh Jesus, we love you.

619
00:33:31.260 --> 00:33:32.180
Okay, great.

620
00:33:33.580 --> 00:33:36.320
Play music that contains power,

621
00:33:37.180 --> 00:33:39.160
that contains the word,

622
00:33:39.600 --> 00:33:43.300
that reminds you of who God is and his character.

623
00:33:43.820 --> 00:33:44.720
And then guess what?

624
00:33:45.260 --> 00:33:47.200
You're all of a sudden meditating on the word.

625
00:33:48.960 --> 00:33:51.300
Technology has made it even easier to meditate on the word.

626
00:33:54.640 --> 00:33:57.860
When you're on the treadmill at the gym,

627
00:33:58.540 --> 00:34:01.640
you can listen to people speaking the word,

628
00:34:01.760 --> 00:34:02.620
you can listen to preaching,

629
00:34:02.780 --> 00:34:05.640
you can listen to the Bible,

630
00:34:05.900 --> 00:34:07.920
can listen to someone with a really nice voice

631
00:34:07.920 --> 00:34:09.040
reading the Bible to you.

632
00:34:09.560 --> 00:34:11.760
You know, you can, you can do all these things.

633
00:34:11.760 --> 00:34:12.940
You can listen to music.

634
00:34:13.280 --> 00:34:15.699
My husband always says, because he is a worshiper

635
00:34:15.699 --> 00:34:17.659
and he led worship for 15 years

636
00:34:17.659 --> 00:34:22.659
and he's a powerful music gift, a musical prophet, okay?

637
00:34:23.600 --> 00:34:27.580
But he always likes to say that music is the quickest way

638
00:34:27.580 --> 00:34:29.540
to get information inside of you

639
00:34:29.540 --> 00:34:31.380
without even feeling like you're doing it.

640
00:34:31.540 --> 00:34:34.540
And that's why the enemy uses music

641
00:34:34.900 --> 00:34:37.159
to really mess up people's minds.

642
00:34:39.040 --> 00:34:40.500
Music is powerful, friends.

643
00:34:40.500 --> 00:34:44.239
So use the power of music to your benefit in this area.

644
00:34:45.500 --> 00:34:48.980
Get in there, saturate in it, saturate.

645
00:34:49.520 --> 00:34:50.659
So here's some practical ways.

646
00:34:50.940 --> 00:34:52.920
Daily saturation, daily saturation.

647
00:34:54.560 --> 00:34:57.420
One verse, one verse a day, you guys,

648
00:34:57.900 --> 00:34:59.980
carries more power than 10 verses that you can do.

649
00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:01.340
you forget by the time you get to lunch.

650
00:35:02.360 --> 00:35:04.520
So pick one verse to just think about

651
00:35:04.800 --> 00:35:07.120
and ask God to squeeze all the juice out of it.

652
00:35:07.260 --> 00:35:09.080
Here's an example, Psalm 119, 11.

653
00:35:09.400 --> 00:35:11.520
Your word I have hidden in my heart

654
00:35:11.560 --> 00:35:13.980
that I might not sin against you.

655
00:35:16.140 --> 00:35:17.020
Just chew on it.

656
00:35:17.420 --> 00:35:18.620
Just meditate on it.

657
00:35:20.100 --> 00:35:21.160
What's it mean, Lord?

658
00:35:21.260 --> 00:35:22.120
Break it down to me.

659
00:35:22.340 --> 00:35:24.260
Show me what it means to me and my life.

660
00:35:24.300 --> 00:35:24.860
We're all different.

661
00:35:25.040 --> 00:35:25.900
We're all in different places.

662
00:35:26.060 --> 00:35:27.020
And then what do you do?

663
00:35:27.040 --> 00:35:28.060
Speak it out loud.

664
00:35:28.280 --> 00:35:28.960
Here are the steps.

665
00:35:29.560 --> 00:35:31.760
Daily saturation, pick one verse,

666
00:35:32.460 --> 00:35:33.420
meditate on it every day.

667
00:35:35.900 --> 00:35:37.680
And some of you will like a verse so much,

668
00:35:37.760 --> 00:35:38.780
you'll be like, hey, I'm gonna meditate

669
00:35:38.780 --> 00:35:39.840
on this verse all month.

670
00:35:40.260 --> 00:35:41.640
And that's fine, whatever.

671
00:35:41.780 --> 00:35:43.120
Whatever Holy Spirit leads you to do.

672
00:35:43.580 --> 00:35:44.200
Speak it out loud.

673
00:35:44.900 --> 00:35:45.140
Why?

674
00:35:45.240 --> 00:35:46.700
Because Proverbs 18, 21 says,

675
00:35:46.880 --> 00:35:48.340
death and life are in the power of the tongue

676
00:35:48.400 --> 00:35:50.320
and those who love it will eat its fruit.

677
00:35:50.480 --> 00:35:51.260
Those that love what?

678
00:35:51.780 --> 00:35:53.040
Those that love to talk.

679
00:35:55.520 --> 00:35:57.400
If you're someone who loves to talk,

680
00:35:57.400 --> 00:35:59.400
you will have a lot of fruit from your words.

681
00:35:59.580 --> 00:36:00.940
And so if you are a talker,

682
00:36:01.020 --> 00:36:04.700
please make sure that your mouth is filled with truth

683
00:36:04.700 --> 00:36:07.340
so that you can benefit by the fruit of truth.

684
00:36:10.340 --> 00:36:13.180
Number three, make decisions by the word.

685
00:36:14.780 --> 00:36:19.440
Psalm 119, 105 says, your word is a lamp to my feet

686
00:36:19.440 --> 00:36:21.260
and a light to my path.

687
00:36:22.480 --> 00:36:25.540
Don't just go to everybody else before you go to the word.

688
00:36:25.540 --> 00:36:27.920
Don't just go to everybody else before you go to God,

689
00:36:28.900 --> 00:36:30.460
before you pray in the spirit,

690
00:36:30.840 --> 00:36:34.340
before you find out what the heavenly community

691
00:36:35.360 --> 00:36:38.160
thinks about your issue, your problem,

692
00:36:38.460 --> 00:36:40.100
the decision that you need to make.

693
00:36:40.480 --> 00:36:43.520
And then from that place, get confirmations from people.

694
00:36:43.820 --> 00:36:45.860
People should be confirmations, not revelations.

695
00:36:46.640 --> 00:36:47.180
Write that down.

696
00:36:47.600 --> 00:36:48.900
Humans, we need them.

697
00:36:49.300 --> 00:36:51.460
In a multitude of counselors, there are safety friends.

698
00:36:52.180 --> 00:36:54.220
You want, you want that.

699
00:36:54.220 --> 00:36:56.920
Let a word be confirmed to be established

700
00:36:57.180 --> 00:36:59.160
through the mouth of two or three witnesses.

701
00:36:59.660 --> 00:37:01.260
Those are humans, okay?

702
00:37:01.260 --> 00:37:02.220
But here's the thing.

703
00:37:02.780 --> 00:37:04.160
Don't let that be your first step.

704
00:37:05.460 --> 00:37:07.100
This is where confusion comes in.

705
00:37:07.560 --> 00:37:10.000
You have to have your own personal relationship with God.

706
00:37:11.080 --> 00:37:12.980
You have to know how to go to the word.

707
00:37:13.160 --> 00:37:16.760
You have to know how to go in the spirit to the throne room.

708
00:37:17.140 --> 00:37:19.800
Boldly, the Bible says, boldly come before my throne.

709
00:37:19.920 --> 00:37:21.180
You don't need a mediator.

710
00:37:21.740 --> 00:37:22.740
Jesus was your mediator.

711
00:37:23.340 --> 00:37:24.660
He is your high priest.

712
00:37:25.220 --> 00:37:27.520
He is standing at the right hand of God right now,

713
00:37:27.720 --> 00:37:29.400
right now, interceding for you.

714
00:37:29.520 --> 00:37:31.460
And so it's important that you understand

715
00:37:31.460 --> 00:37:34.560
all of those things and you come to him.

716
00:37:34.720 --> 00:37:35.320
Because why?

717
00:37:35.400 --> 00:37:36.620
Because that's how you prove your faith.

718
00:37:37.200 --> 00:37:38.100
The Bible says faith.

719
00:37:39.560 --> 00:37:39.880
What?

720
00:37:40.640 --> 00:37:42.160
Without faith, it's impossible to please God.

721
00:37:42.420 --> 00:37:43.140
Because why?

722
00:37:43.400 --> 00:37:45.520
Because people who have faith come to him

723
00:37:45.520 --> 00:37:47.180
and believe that he's a rewarder

724
00:37:47.180 --> 00:37:48.620
of those that diligently seek him.

725
00:37:48.920 --> 00:37:51.220
Guys, I woke up this morning at 7-11.

726
00:37:51.940 --> 00:37:56.300
That will forever and always be Matthew 7-11 for me.

727
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What is that?

728
00:37:57.180 --> 00:37:59.280
That's the ask, seek, and knock scripture.

729
00:37:59.580 --> 00:38:00.560
And so what did I do?

730
00:38:00.740 --> 00:38:03.160
I laid in bed at 7-11 and I asked.

731
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And I seeked and I knocked.

732
00:38:05.040 --> 00:38:06.820
I felt like there was an invitation from the Lord.

733
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Why?

734
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Because I know what those numbers mean.

735
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Here's the fun thing.

736
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This will help you understand the word.

737
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And sometimes, you know, you're gonna get a weird scripture

738
00:38:18.140 --> 00:38:19.240
that means nothing at all.

739
00:38:19.760 --> 00:38:21.840
All right, friends, this is not a magic eight ball.

740
00:38:21.980 --> 00:38:23.220
You can't shake it, all right?

741
00:38:23.280 --> 00:38:25.080
And just, this is not sorcery.

742
00:38:25.200 --> 00:38:28.140
But in order to get yourself in the word even more,

743
00:38:28.140 --> 00:38:29.340
if you're sitting at a stoplight

744
00:38:30.140 --> 00:38:31.980
and you see a license plate in front of you

745
00:38:31.980 --> 00:38:33.840
that has some numbers on it,

746
00:38:34.300 --> 00:38:36.780
just Google those numbers in scripture.

747
00:38:37.040 --> 00:38:38.820
So like, say I'm sitting behind a car

748
00:38:39.500 --> 00:38:41.640
and the license plate number is 422.

749
00:38:42.560 --> 00:38:46.700
Just say, all you have to say is Bible 4 colon 22

750
00:38:46.700 --> 00:38:49.000
into Google and it will pull up all the scriptures

751
00:38:49.000 --> 00:38:51.760
in the Bible that have that reference, 422.

752
00:38:52.980 --> 00:38:56.480
And then just read, just eat, friends, eat from the word.

753
00:38:56.880 --> 00:38:58.960
Some of it will be good, some of it will be tossed out.

754
00:38:59.120 --> 00:39:00.980
Some of it will be shem begat shay

755
00:39:00.980 --> 00:39:04.420
and shay begat shadrach and blah, blah, blah, blah.

756
00:39:04.440 --> 00:39:06.780
And it doesn't even matter, okay?

757
00:39:07.040 --> 00:39:08.680
And some of it will be good.

758
00:39:08.720 --> 00:39:10.500
And you'll be like, yeah, that's good.

759
00:39:11.100 --> 00:39:12.700
So making decisions by the word.

760
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Four, we're gonna replace our internal dialogue.

761
00:39:15.160 --> 00:39:17.620
Remember I told you that I had a mental issue

762
00:39:17.620 --> 00:39:20.040
that caused intrusive, obsessive,

763
00:39:21.280 --> 00:39:22.940
bad, negative, evil thoughts.

764
00:39:23.780 --> 00:39:25.400
But the word has replaced those.

765
00:39:25.480 --> 00:39:28.380
You guys, I used to walk around within my purse

766
00:39:28.380 --> 00:39:30.720
a whole bunch of note cards with scriptures on them.

767
00:39:30.880 --> 00:39:33.180
And I would pull them out at my weakest moments

768
00:39:33.180 --> 00:39:34.120
which were all day long

769
00:39:34.120 --> 00:39:36.660
because I had this mental thing going on.

770
00:39:36.800 --> 00:39:40.500
And I would just remember this became my living reality.

771
00:39:40.760 --> 00:39:42.140
The word became my living reality.

772
00:39:42.400 --> 00:39:44.860
My living reality was not my living reality anymore.

773
00:39:44.880 --> 00:39:46.920
The word became my living reality.

774
00:39:46.920 --> 00:39:49.080
And that is how I functioned.

775
00:39:50.120 --> 00:39:51.020
I functioned that way.

776
00:39:51.560 --> 00:39:52.520
Replace your internal dialogue,

777
00:39:52.700 --> 00:39:56.160
especially if it's bad, with the word.

778
00:39:56.600 --> 00:39:57.460
Isaiah 55, 11.

779
00:39:57.880 --> 00:39:59.840
So shall my word be that goes.

780
00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:04.820
from my mouth, it shall not return to me void, but it shall accomplish what I please, and it shall

781
00:40:04.900 --> 00:40:10.740
prosper in the thing for which I sent it." Get that word inside of you. Replace your internal

782
00:40:10.820 --> 00:40:15.740
dialogue with it. Five, act on the word immediately. Don't just be a hearer of the word,

783
00:40:15.840 --> 00:40:19.180
be a doer of the word. Act on it immediately. You're like, well, but I got to think about it

784
00:40:19.220 --> 00:40:22.860
for a while. I got to think about it. I got to make sure that it's right. I got to get, you know,

785
00:40:22.860 --> 00:40:26.280
like you said, Jackie, just now, I got to get it confirmed and reconfirmed. No,

786
00:40:26.840 --> 00:40:31.960
you don't always have to do that. If it's a huge, big decision, then yes, get some,

787
00:40:31.960 --> 00:40:36.700
get some counsel, get some confirmation, let it be established. But if it's a small decision,

788
00:40:38.080 --> 00:40:45.000
do it. Take imperfect action. If it's a tiny decision, if it's not a big decision,

789
00:40:46.040 --> 00:40:51.600
act immediately on it, right? So I want you to pick a scripture. Here's your homework. I want

790
00:40:51.600 --> 00:40:55.920
you to pick a scripture. Right now, all of you should be able to pull a scripture into your mind

791
00:40:55.920 --> 00:40:59.860
without looking at the Bible. Raise your hand when you have a scripture in your mind.

792
00:41:01.940 --> 00:41:05.680
Whatever scripture first pops up in your head, come on, get them up, hands up, hands up,

793
00:41:06.900 --> 00:41:10.160
hands in the air, wave them like you just don't care. Come on.

794
00:41:12.640 --> 00:41:15.320
A lot of people struggling here. Get them up.

795
00:41:22.320 --> 00:41:28.180
Okay. Whatever scripture came to your head, I want you to just, I want you to declare it

796
00:41:28.180 --> 00:41:32.880
twice out loud right now. Don't, don't unmute yourself. We'll have a, we'll have some chaos

797
00:41:32.880 --> 00:41:37.560
in here right now. Just declare it out loud twice. Not just once, twice. Go ahead.

798
00:41:44.050 --> 00:41:45.510
Matthew 7, 11.

799
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Isaiah 54, 17.

800
00:41:52.970 --> 00:41:54.710
Ephesians 3, 20.

801
00:41:55.110 --> 00:41:59.650
You guys, you guys are, you're misunderstanding. Just not with, don't unmute yourself. Just declare

802
00:41:59.650 --> 00:42:06.150
it out loud in your house right now. Just declare it out loud. The whole thing. Don't just quote the

803
00:42:06.190 --> 00:42:14.950
scripture reference. Jeremiah 29, 11. Say what it says. Twice. You guys, there's so many

804
00:42:14.950 --> 00:42:20.950
supernatural benefits to this. There's so many supernatural benefits. Okay. God promises us

805
00:42:20.950 --> 00:42:26.430
that we will have clarity and chaos. Hebrews 4, 12 says, for the word of God is living and powerful

806
00:42:26.430 --> 00:42:31.230
and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit and of

807
00:42:31.460 --> 00:42:36.960
and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. It's going to activate our faith.

808
00:42:37.780 --> 00:42:41.520
Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. That's Romans 10, 17. It's going to offer

809
00:42:41.880 --> 00:42:45.380
us protection. I'm going to get into Psalm 91 here in a second, but it says he who dwells in

810
00:42:45.380 --> 00:42:51.280
the secret place of the most high will abide in the shadow of the almighty. Accelerate your promises,

811
00:42:51.620 --> 00:42:56.140
friends, when you speak the word. Jeremiah 1, 12 says, and the Lord said to me, you have seen well,

812
00:42:56.180 --> 00:43:00.620
for I'm ready to perform my word. What is that about? Jeremiah, what do you see? Tell me what

813
00:43:00.620 --> 00:43:06.480
you see, Jeremiah. And Jeremiah told God what he saw, and he said, you have seen well. This is what

814
00:43:06.480 --> 00:43:11.260
I'm about to do. Friends, we got to partner. We got to come into alignment. The very first prophetic

815
00:43:11.260 --> 00:43:17.540
word that anyone ever spoke over me was all the way back that I knew, that I knew what was going

816
00:43:17.540 --> 00:43:23.240
on. I mean, I've had lots of words over the course of my discipleship, but I'm talking about a

817
00:43:23.240 --> 00:43:27.960
preacher with a microphone that calls you out of the crowd and speaks a word over you. That happened

818
00:43:27.960 --> 00:43:35.300
for me in 2009. That preacher has gone on to be with the Lord. He is no longer living on the earth,

819
00:43:35.320 --> 00:43:40.500
and he actually, he went on to be with the Lord very young, very bizarre, in a very bizarre way.

820
00:43:40.800 --> 00:43:45.280
And it really broke my heart because he doesn't know how he shifted me that day. But you know

821
00:43:45.280 --> 00:43:49.120
what he said? He said he was talking about some of the things that God was going to do in my life,

822
00:43:49.220 --> 00:43:54.220
and he said, this will all happen as a result of a divine alignment.

823
00:43:55.520 --> 00:43:59.380
And friends, of course, when you hear a word like that, you're immediately looking for people,

824
00:43:59.600 --> 00:44:02.320
right? Okay, God's going to bring someone in my life. It's going to be divine alignment,

825
00:44:02.320 --> 00:44:06.240
and then all these things are going to come true. All these things the preacher said that I was

826
00:44:06.240 --> 00:44:09.220
going to have, and they were correct. They were things, they were dreams of my heart. He didn't

827
00:44:09.220 --> 00:44:14.260
know me. He was calling out the dreams of my heart, but then he was saying that those dreams

828
00:44:14.260 --> 00:44:19.460
were going to come to pass because of a divine alignment. And of course, I thought that divine

829
00:44:19.380 --> 00:44:23.740
alignment, obviously, it was going to be people helping me to fulfill those dreams.

830
00:44:24.600 --> 00:44:28.300
But friends, the divine alignment that he was talking about is living life in the Word.

831
00:44:28.740 --> 00:44:33.220
The divine alignment that he was talking about was me getting into alignment with God's Word,

832
00:44:34.500 --> 00:44:39.400
living in and out of God's Word. It will accelerate your promises if you will get

833
00:44:39.400 --> 00:44:43.320
into alignment. I know you have a lot of feelings. I have a lot of feelings. Stop speaking your

834
00:44:43.260 --> 00:44:51.040
feelings. You're like, but Jackie, that's denying the truth. No, it's not. It's defying the facts.

835
00:44:51.580 --> 00:44:55.820
What you're speaking is not truth. It's facts. God's truth is the only truth.

836
00:44:56.440 --> 00:44:59.100
There is a greater truth. There's always been a greater truth.

837
00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:04.640
are trumped by God's truth. It doesn't matter what your facts say. All that matters is what God said.

838
00:45:07.900 --> 00:45:13.400
All that matters is what God is saying. And friends, that's not just blab it and grab it.

839
00:45:13.460 --> 00:45:19.260
It's not just name it and claim it. Forget about all that. It's about coming into alignment with

840
00:45:19.280 --> 00:45:25.360
the Word, not just once in a while, every single day. And then letting God order your steps.

841
00:45:25.960 --> 00:45:31.140
Letting God, like letting him, Proverbs 3, 5, in all your ways, acknowledge him and he will direct

842
00:45:31.160 --> 00:45:35.820
your path. How do you acknowledge him in all your ways? By turning to his Word and to his truth.

843
00:45:36.040 --> 00:45:40.680
And then he'll direct your path. You're going to do human stuff, friends. You're going to take,

844
00:45:40.780 --> 00:45:44.860
you know, there's times when you're going to do things that don't seem that supernatural.

845
00:45:45.020 --> 00:45:47.840
You'd be like me, man, God, you could have solved this problem in a supernatural way.

846
00:45:47.900 --> 00:45:50.340
Why do you want me to do it like this? Because he said so.

847
00:45:52.780 --> 00:45:57.600
Do you guys hear what I'm saying? All your problems are not going to just evaporate

848
00:45:57.720 --> 00:46:02.100
because you're doing what I'm saying. God's going to lead you to do some really human things.

849
00:46:02.620 --> 00:46:06.040
But you're going to know that God's leading you to do it and that he's in it with you.

850
00:46:07.480 --> 00:46:10.480
That he's in it with you. It's really important that you understand that.

851
00:46:10.580 --> 00:46:12.740
All right, so we're going to accelerate the promises.

852
00:46:14.620 --> 00:46:18.080
One thing that comes to mind is that there was a girl that was underneath

853
00:46:18.080 --> 00:46:26.240
the umbrella of this community. She was in our program and she felt led to go and spend New

854
00:46:26.240 --> 00:46:31.820
Year's down in L.A. She lives up in Northern California and she used to live in L.A.

855
00:46:32.080 --> 00:46:35.000
And she thought a lot of great things were going to happen for her when she was living

856
00:46:35.000 --> 00:46:38.800
there and they just didn't. And then she moved away and she was living up in Northern California

857
00:46:39.080 --> 00:46:42.680
and she felt this. It was a kind of short notice. It was for the moment.

858
00:46:42.680 --> 00:46:47.040
Hey, I'm going to go down and spend New Year's, New Year's Eve, New Year's Day

859
00:46:47.100 --> 00:46:53.200
in L.A. And it was a sacrifice to do it, travel, all the things. But she went down

860
00:46:53.200 --> 00:46:57.220
and she went to a New Year's party of one of her friends and she met the man who is now her husband.

861
00:46:59.620 --> 00:47:03.400
Doing things that don't make sense. All right, as we're living our life,

862
00:47:03.500 --> 00:47:08.100
what? In alignment with God and his word. In alignment.

863
00:47:10.240 --> 00:47:16.960
Really important stuff here. Okay, so peace and stability come. Peace and stability come.

864
00:47:17.440 --> 00:47:22.900
Psalm 1, 2, and 3, but his delight is in the law of the Lord and in his law, he meditates day and

865
00:47:22.900 --> 00:47:27.320
night and he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water that bring forth its fruit in its

866
00:47:27.140 --> 00:47:33.140
season. Whose leaf also shall not wither and whatever he does shall prosper. Whatever he

867
00:47:33.140 --> 00:47:38.080
puts his hands to, friends, are going to prosper. Why? Because he is meditating in and to wait for

868
00:47:38.080 --> 00:47:45.880
on the word. Revelation is going to come, right? Transformation into Christ's image is number six,

869
00:47:46.340 --> 00:47:52.840
2 Corinthians 3, 18. But we all with unveiled faces, beholding as in a mirror, the glory of

870
00:47:52.840 --> 00:47:59.260
the Lord are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the spirit of the

871
00:47:59.260 --> 00:48:05.000
Lord. What's that unveiled face, friends? Remember the veil tore when Christ died on the cross.

872
00:48:05.000 --> 00:48:13.260
We can come into the holy of holies now. There's no veil in front of our face. We're not seeing,

873
00:48:14.040 --> 00:48:23.040
you know, we're not kept out. We can go in. We can go in through his presence.

874
00:48:24.280 --> 00:48:31.660
Right, so I want you guys to do this this week. Think of one challenge you have in your life.

875
00:48:34.180 --> 00:48:38.520
I'm going to get to my favorite scripture for the last 10 minutes. Hold on. I want you to think of

876
00:48:38.520 --> 00:48:43.040
one challenge that you have in your life right now. All of us have a challenge. What's your

877
00:48:43.040 --> 00:48:46.360
challenge? Think of it right now. I want you to decide what it is, and I want you going back and

878
00:48:46.360 --> 00:48:50.600
changing it later. Think of one challenge that you would like to not be a challenge,

879
00:48:52.240 --> 00:48:58.460
and then I want you to ask Holy Spirit to show you a verse in the scripture that applies to that.

880
00:48:59.080 --> 00:49:04.360
It doesn't even have to talk directly about it, friends. It just applies to it. In some way,

881
00:49:04.360 --> 00:49:08.760
shape, or form, it applies, and then I want you to write that scripture down.

882
00:49:11.460 --> 00:49:15.440
Okay, I want you to write it down. I don't want you to type it in your phone. I want you to get

883
00:49:15.440 --> 00:49:23.060
a piece of paper and a pen, and I want you to write that scripture down on a note card, however,

884
00:49:23.060 --> 00:49:29.760
because you're going to take it with you. Then I want you to immediately declare it out loud

885
00:49:29.760 --> 00:49:37.220
three times. Why three, Jackie? It's not a magic number, friends, although it is. I mean,

886
00:49:37.220 --> 00:49:43.020
the number three is very important in scripture, but I'm not doing it as some kind of ritual.

887
00:49:43.080 --> 00:49:49.580
I'm just doing it because of repetition. Friends, repetition. What did Jesus say?

888
00:49:49.580 --> 00:49:54.720
If you continue in my word, you will know the truth, and it will make you free. This is about

889
00:49:54.820 --> 00:49:59.980
repetition. So declare it out loud three times, and then I want you to commit

890
00:50:01.360 --> 00:50:04.600
to living that verse that week.

891
00:50:05.060 --> 00:50:07.080
And maybe you'll keep that verse for the next week.

892
00:50:07.980 --> 00:50:10.500
But I want you to commit to aligning your thoughts,

893
00:50:10.780 --> 00:50:12.880
your words, your actions to that verse.

894
00:50:13.760 --> 00:50:14.920
Remember that verse is being birthed

895
00:50:14.920 --> 00:50:16.220
out of a challenge that you have.

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Remember what God said to me?

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00:50:19.660 --> 00:50:20.980
He said, Jackie, who do you belong to?

898
00:50:21.120 --> 00:50:21.820
I belong to you, God.

899
00:50:21.900 --> 00:50:23.240
Okay, who do your problems belong to?

900
00:50:23.340 --> 00:50:24.620
They belong to me, God.

901
00:50:25.140 --> 00:50:26.420
I was telling the truth.

902
00:50:26.440 --> 00:50:27.100
They belong to me.

903
00:50:27.100 --> 00:50:28.220
I created them, they're mine.

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00:50:28.920 --> 00:50:31.060
I take ownership of these problems, God.

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00:50:31.380 --> 00:50:33.500
And he said, okay, Jackie, well, if you belong to me,

906
00:50:33.560 --> 00:50:35.760
then everything that pertains to you belongs to me,

907
00:50:35.780 --> 00:50:36.720
including your problems.

908
00:50:36.840 --> 00:50:37.380
And guess what?

909
00:50:37.540 --> 00:50:38.580
I don't have any problems.

910
00:50:39.200 --> 00:50:40.200
Boop, mic drop.

911
00:50:42.900 --> 00:50:44.460
I don't have any problems.

912
00:50:49.600 --> 00:50:51.460
Come on, y'all, we gotta get into alignment.

913
00:50:53.040 --> 00:50:55.560
All right, so if we want to live in the supernatural,

914
00:50:55.840 --> 00:50:57.140
we have to live in scripture.

915
00:51:00.720 --> 00:51:02.960
I know that all of you guys know the parable of the sower,

916
00:51:03.300 --> 00:51:05.180
especially those of you that have gone through heart work.

917
00:51:05.360 --> 00:51:07.560
We talk about it extensively in there.

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00:51:08.500 --> 00:51:11.580
But that word, when we get it in our heart, it's a seed.

919
00:51:12.200 --> 00:51:14.340
Depending on what kind of ground your heart is,

920
00:51:14.700 --> 00:51:19.240
that's going to be whether or not it sticks, right?

921
00:51:19.240 --> 00:51:21.120
So we have to continue to do the heart work

922
00:51:21.120 --> 00:51:24.480
so that this truth can overtake the lies.

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00:51:25.080 --> 00:51:29.740
We want fruit in our hearts born of the seed of God's word.

924
00:51:30.000 --> 00:51:30.960
We do want that.

925
00:51:31.300 --> 00:51:32.740
But the seed in your heart,

926
00:51:33.360 --> 00:51:35.900
the word in your heart is a seed, I should say,

927
00:51:36.240 --> 00:51:39.500
but the word in your mouth is a sword, friends.

928
00:51:40.160 --> 00:51:42.380
So you can't just meditate on it in your heart.

929
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You have to speak it out loud.

930
00:51:45.320 --> 00:51:47.280
And I believe that so many of you

931
00:51:47.760 --> 00:51:49.680
are going to begin to get supernatural clarity.

932
00:51:49.820 --> 00:51:51.120
You're like, what about all of us, Jackie?

933
00:51:51.180 --> 00:51:52.620
Well, not all of you are gonna do this.

934
00:51:52.620 --> 00:51:54.740
I'm just being honest.

935
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Supernatural clarity, protection, peace, breakthrough,

936
00:52:01.220 --> 00:52:05.480
as we all begin to live in, not just visit the word of God.

937
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So Father, we pray right now

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that you would impart to us a hunger for the word,

939
00:52:10.980 --> 00:52:13.600
that you would impart to us a hunger

940
00:52:13.600 --> 00:52:14.920
for quickened revelation,

941
00:52:15.400 --> 00:52:19.000
that you would impart to us the grace to be bold

942
00:52:19.000 --> 00:52:22.160
and to be obedient when we see your word, Father,

943
00:52:22.160 --> 00:52:24.400
that we would take quick action on your word, Lord,

944
00:52:24.520 --> 00:52:26.900
so that we can live as supernatural people in the earth.

945
00:52:27.900 --> 00:52:29.280
Father, we thank you for your word.

946
00:52:29.740 --> 00:52:31.860
We thank you, Lord, that we have access to it.

947
00:52:31.860 --> 00:52:33.500
Because of the countries that we live in,

948
00:52:33.540 --> 00:52:36.080
we have access, full access to your word, Lord,

949
00:52:36.240 --> 00:52:38.420
and to whom much is given, much is required.

950
00:52:38.560 --> 00:52:40.260
And so, Father, we're asking now

951
00:52:40.320 --> 00:52:44.140
that you would give us a holy reverence, Father,

952
00:52:44.140 --> 00:52:46.920
that you would give us a joy to get in your word,

953
00:52:46.920 --> 00:52:47.880
because we can.

954
00:52:48.220 --> 00:52:50.700
And so, Lord, we just declare that in Jesus' name, amen.

955
00:52:51.220 --> 00:52:53.180
All right, I have six minutes to talk to you

956
00:52:53.180 --> 00:52:55.400
about my favorite scripture, Psalm 91.

957
00:52:56.080 --> 00:52:57.320
If you wanna go there, go there.

958
00:52:58.780 --> 00:53:00.720
You guys, there's been so many times in my life

959
00:53:00.720 --> 00:53:03.060
where I had to live in these scriptures,

960
00:53:03.840 --> 00:53:04.840
live in these scriptures,

961
00:53:05.760 --> 00:53:11.060
that I couldn't go according to my reality,

962
00:53:11.460 --> 00:53:15.460
but according to the reality of these scriptures, okay?

963
00:53:16.400 --> 00:53:18.640
And yesterday, when you guys prayed for me on Faith Friday,

964
00:53:18.640 --> 00:53:20.280
there were 91 of you on that call

965
00:53:20.280 --> 00:53:23.260
for a great length of time,

966
00:53:23.660 --> 00:53:25.240
enough that it stood out to me,

967
00:53:25.260 --> 00:53:26.800
and God reminded me, hey,

968
00:53:27.500 --> 00:53:31.280
you don't have to be out here on your own

969
00:53:31.280 --> 00:53:32.300
in this situation.

970
00:53:32.620 --> 00:53:34.480
You can come up under my protection.

971
00:53:34.620 --> 00:53:37.880
He reminded me of the previous times

972
00:53:37.880 --> 00:53:40.920
when I lived in this body of scripture.

973
00:53:41.800 --> 00:53:43.260
Because what happens, friends?

974
00:53:43.280 --> 00:53:45.340
Well, we're out of trial, we're out of chaos.

975
00:53:45.340 --> 00:53:46.400
It happens to all of us.

976
00:53:46.400 --> 00:53:48.260
We get busy, we get distracted,

977
00:53:48.760 --> 00:53:51.220
and because we're not in pain,

978
00:53:51.420 --> 00:53:53.740
we don't do these habits anymore.

979
00:53:54.240 --> 00:53:54.540
Amen?

980
00:53:55.700 --> 00:53:57.060
Come on, just be honest.

981
00:53:57.240 --> 00:53:57.820
It's true.

982
00:53:59.040 --> 00:54:02.800
And friends, the biggest enemy of your ability

983
00:54:02.800 --> 00:54:05.280
to live a supernatural life is just distraction,

984
00:54:05.860 --> 00:54:07.880
and mine as well, all of us.

985
00:54:08.500 --> 00:54:09.760
All of us, all of us, all of us.

986
00:54:09.820 --> 00:54:11.940
Okay, so we know that we live in uncertain times.

987
00:54:13.100 --> 00:54:14.300
Friends, I've stopped watching the news

988
00:54:14.300 --> 00:54:15.800
because it's full of sickness and violence

989
00:54:15.800 --> 00:54:17.340
and instability and all the things,

990
00:54:17.720 --> 00:54:20.060
and I'm an intercessor, I'm an empath,

991
00:54:20.080 --> 00:54:21.700
and that really turns me out.

992
00:54:21.940 --> 00:54:23.580
It really turns me upside down.

993
00:54:23.980 --> 00:54:26.460
I can't shake it off like a lot of people can,

994
00:54:26.960 --> 00:54:29.440
and it's not that I wanna be ignorant

995
00:54:29.880 --> 00:54:31.720
of what a mess the world is in

996
00:54:31.720 --> 00:54:33.200
and live in my own little peace bubble,

997
00:54:33.720 --> 00:54:36.500
but hey, if God wants me to know about it,

998
00:54:36.500 --> 00:54:37.120
he'll let me know.

999
00:54:38.100 --> 00:54:39.900
I don't need to put that in front of my face.

1000
00:54:39.920 --> 00:54:41.360
What I do need to put in front of my face

1001
00:54:41.360 --> 00:54:42.080
is the word of God.

1002
00:54:42.880 --> 00:54:45.140
And Psalm 91 is God's blueprint

1003
00:54:45.140 --> 00:54:47.160
for supernatural security, friends.

1004
00:54:47.500 --> 00:54:49.880
In these uncertain times, if you feel scared,

1005
00:54:50.140 --> 00:54:52.580
if you feel afraid, if you feel uncertain,

1006
00:54:53.180 --> 00:54:55.520
you know, this is not just poetry, the book of Psalms.

1007
00:54:55.900 --> 00:54:59.700
This is a covenant invitation in 91, Psalm 91.

1008
00:55:00.580 --> 00:55:00.980
Right?

1009
00:55:00.980 --> 00:55:02.000
So let's talk about it.

1010
00:55:03.280 --> 00:55:04.760
I'm going to break it down real quick.

1011
00:55:04.920 --> 00:55:06.900
He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High.

1012
00:55:08.040 --> 00:55:11.540
Friends, that key word there is just like the word abide in John 15.

1013
00:55:12.300 --> 00:55:12.320
Dwell.

1014
00:55:12.540 --> 00:55:13.060
It means to live.

1015
00:55:13.160 --> 00:55:13.820
It means to remain.

1016
00:55:14.060 --> 00:55:15.100
It means to abide.

1017
00:55:15.720 --> 00:55:17.240
You know, you can switch those words out.

1018
00:55:17.300 --> 00:55:17.840
They're synonyms.

1019
00:55:17.940 --> 00:55:19.360
It doesn't mean to visit occasionally.

1020
00:55:19.440 --> 00:55:20.240
It means to abide.

1021
00:55:20.660 --> 00:55:24.840
How do we abide in the secret place of the Most High in Scripture?

1022
00:55:26.680 --> 00:55:31.320
Coming into a secret place, coming into the Holy of Holies, coming into a place of intimacy

1023
00:55:31.320 --> 00:55:31.740
with Him.

1024
00:55:32.880 --> 00:55:33.800
Got to do that.

1025
00:55:34.460 --> 00:55:36.060
Friends, you're not too busy to do that.

1026
00:55:36.120 --> 00:55:37.180
That's the main thing.

1027
00:55:37.440 --> 00:55:39.060
Let's keep the main thing the main thing.

1028
00:55:39.560 --> 00:55:39.960
All right?

1029
00:55:39.980 --> 00:55:41.020
So don't visit God.

1030
00:55:41.280 --> 00:55:43.140
We're not paying Him a visit like the neighbor.

1031
00:55:43.780 --> 00:55:46.040
We're dwelling with Him through His Word.

1032
00:55:46.300 --> 00:55:47.400
That's how we're going to do it.

1033
00:55:47.840 --> 00:55:48.420
All right?

1034
00:55:48.500 --> 00:55:51.400
And then verses three through six are the coverage.

1035
00:55:51.860 --> 00:55:52.260
Okay.

1036
00:55:52.260 --> 00:55:53.060
What is He promising?

1037
00:55:53.060 --> 00:55:57.020
If we dwell in the secret place of the Most High, He'll protect us from traps.

1038
00:55:57.480 --> 00:55:57.900
What are those?

1039
00:55:57.960 --> 00:56:00.240
Those are the attacks of the enemy, the fowler's snare.

1040
00:56:00.940 --> 00:56:03.420
He'll deliver us from deadly pestilence.

1041
00:56:03.460 --> 00:56:06.080
The only kind of immunization you need is the Word of God.

1042
00:56:06.140 --> 00:56:07.460
Now, I'm not saying don't get immunizations.

1043
00:56:07.720 --> 00:56:10.260
Don't write in and say, oh, Jackie doesn't believe in faxes.

1044
00:56:10.540 --> 00:56:11.340
No, no.

1045
00:56:11.620 --> 00:56:11.960
All right?

1046
00:56:12.200 --> 00:56:13.860
I'm just to play on words, friends.

1047
00:56:14.200 --> 00:56:15.820
You do whatever you have peace to do.

1048
00:56:15.840 --> 00:56:18.320
See, this is where God will lead you about what you need.

1049
00:56:19.020 --> 00:56:20.280
Not everyone needs the same thing.

1050
00:56:20.280 --> 00:56:22.380
And that's why we should stay out of each other's business.

1051
00:56:23.600 --> 00:56:25.540
What's right for you might not be right for me.

1052
00:56:25.860 --> 00:56:30.000
If Holy Spirit's leading you to do something, then I honor you in your Holy Spirit-led decision,

1053
00:56:30.020 --> 00:56:32.160
and I don't have any right to judge that.

1054
00:56:32.880 --> 00:56:33.320
Right?

1055
00:56:33.320 --> 00:56:33.940
That's important.

1056
00:56:34.500 --> 00:56:34.680
All right.

1057
00:56:35.560 --> 00:56:40.760
Activation for you guys here is ask if you're dwelling or you're visiting God.

1058
00:56:41.140 --> 00:56:41.840
Ask yourself that.

1059
00:56:41.920 --> 00:56:44.940
Am I dwelling in the Word or am I just visiting it?

1060
00:56:45.660 --> 00:56:46.100
All right?

1061
00:56:46.100 --> 00:56:46.700
That's important.

1062
00:56:47.400 --> 00:56:47.840
All right.

1063
00:56:47.840 --> 00:56:52.040
So those of you that have night terrors, you got all kinds of intrusive thoughts during

1064
00:56:52.040 --> 00:56:54.380
the day, Psalm 91 is going to be your refuge.

1065
00:56:55.400 --> 00:56:55.580
Okay?

1066
00:56:55.600 --> 00:56:59.460
It's promising to protect us, protect us from these things.

1067
00:57:00.980 --> 00:57:02.880
Faith is not the antidote to fear, friends.

1068
00:57:04.620 --> 00:57:06.060
I mean, it is.

1069
00:57:06.480 --> 00:57:11.740
Faith is the opposite of fear because faith is a byproduct of love, right?

1070
00:57:11.740 --> 00:57:15.140
And fear is the opposite of love.

1071
00:57:15.140 --> 00:57:19.160
We already know that fear is the only byproduct of the kingdom of darkness, just so you know.

1072
00:57:19.440 --> 00:57:24.300
Everything else comes from fear, hatred, all the things that we're like, oh, that's the

1073
00:57:24.300 --> 00:57:24.840
opposite of love.

1074
00:57:25.180 --> 00:57:25.620
No.

1075
00:57:25.620 --> 00:57:26.780
Fear is the opposite of love.

1076
00:57:27.020 --> 00:57:32.220
And all of its byproducts, all of its sawdust is all those other bad things.

1077
00:57:32.920 --> 00:57:33.360
Okay?

1078
00:57:33.580 --> 00:57:36.660
And then let's just go down because we only have one minute left.

1079
00:57:37.100 --> 00:57:43.280
This verse, God's personal list of what He will do is He will rescue us, He will protect

1080
00:57:43.280 --> 00:57:46.500
us, He will answer our prayers, He will be with us in trouble, He will deliver us, He

1081
00:57:46.500 --> 00:57:51.440
will honor us, He will satisfy us with a long and abundant life, He will show us His salvation

1082
00:57:51.440 --> 00:57:52.380
in the land of the living.

1083
00:57:53.240 --> 00:57:58.620
And friends, it says it only hinges on one thing from us because we love Him, right?

1084
00:57:58.640 --> 00:57:59.440
What's the Bible say?

1085
00:57:59.480 --> 00:58:00.600
If you love me, you'll do what?

1086
00:58:01.180 --> 00:58:01.860
Keep my commandments.

1087
00:58:02.200 --> 00:58:02.940
Where's that?

1088
00:58:03.280 --> 00:58:03.980
That's being in the word.

1089
00:58:05.100 --> 00:58:06.820
That's understanding God's way of doing things.

1090
00:58:06.820 --> 00:58:08.000
It's not legalistic, friends.

1091
00:58:08.000 --> 00:58:09.340
It's not a list of rules.

1092
00:58:10.780 --> 00:58:15.920
It's being in the word and understanding God's character and understanding what comes into

1093
00:58:15.980 --> 00:58:16.500
alignment.

1094
00:58:16.680 --> 00:58:17.940
It's that divine alignment.

1095
00:58:18.720 --> 00:58:22.020
So remember, the protection in the scripture is not automatic, it's covenantal.

1096
00:58:24.560 --> 00:58:26.280
Fear is definitely the enemy of faith, though.

1097
00:58:26.280 --> 00:58:29.220
So while faith is the antidote to fear, fear is the enemy of faith.

1098
00:58:29.240 --> 00:58:33.120
And you can't claim promises that you don't believe, friends, and so that's why you got

1099
00:58:33.120 --> 00:58:37.740
to get into the word and you've got to meditate on it until you believe it.

1100
00:58:40.060 --> 00:58:42.960
God's promises are not going to come without process and they're also not going to come

1101
00:58:42.960 --> 00:58:43.660
without presence.

1102
00:58:43.740 --> 00:58:45.080
You got to be in the presence of God.

1103
00:58:45.560 --> 00:58:48.900
So I made a quick cheat sheet here and I'm just going to read it to you really quickly

1104
00:58:48.900 --> 00:58:49.880
because we're at time.

1105
00:58:50.540 --> 00:58:51.740
Here's the, here's the, here's our part.

1106
00:58:51.840 --> 00:58:54.300
Remember how we say we got to do our part and then God will do His part?

1107
00:58:54.740 --> 00:58:56.520
Okay, I'm ending with this right now.

1108
00:58:56.840 --> 00:58:57.800
Here's our part.

1109
00:58:58.400 --> 00:59:03.900
If we dwell, remember that word means to abide, it means to be in there, not just visiting,

1110
00:59:04.420 --> 00:59:06.080
in the secret place of the Most High.

1111
00:59:06.660 --> 00:59:12.720
If we're living in ongoing intimacy with Him, He promises that we will be under His shadow.

1112
00:59:13.280 --> 00:59:13.840
What is that?

1113
00:59:13.960 --> 00:59:16.240
That means a constant covering and safety.

1114
00:59:16.860 --> 00:59:21.760
If we, here's our part again, if we say of the Lord, He is my refuge and fortress, my

1115
00:59:21.980 --> 00:59:27.320
God and Him I trust, then He promises to deliver us from traps and hidden dangers.

1116
00:59:30.040 --> 00:59:35.000
If we make the Lord our dwelling place, then He protects us from the daily pestilence.

1117
00:59:35.180 --> 00:59:39.560
If we set our love on God, then He covers us with His feathers and the safety that's

1118
00:59:39.560 --> 00:59:40.160
under His wings.

1119
00:59:40.820 --> 00:59:43.560
If we know His name, which what does that mean?

1120
00:59:43.580 --> 00:59:45.940
That means know Him, spend time with Him.

1121
00:59:45.940 --> 00:59:50.780
If we truly understand His nature and character, then His faithfulness will be a shield and

1122
00:59:50.820 --> 00:59:52.240
protection from every attack.

1123
00:59:52.800 --> 00:59:58.580
And if we call upon Him in prayer and we depend upon Him, we will have no fear in the night

1124
00:59:58.580 --> 00:59:59.340
or in the day.

1125
01:00:00.000 --> 01:00:02.740
will surround us even when others are falling all around us.

1126
01:00:03.020 --> 01:00:05.440
We'll have angelic protection assigned to us,

1127
01:00:05.620 --> 01:00:07.100
victory over all the enemy,

1128
01:00:07.500 --> 01:00:08.620
trampling the lions and serpents.

1129
01:00:09.200 --> 01:00:10.920
We will have that rescued in trouble,

1130
01:00:11.380 --> 01:00:12.480
answered when we call.

1131
01:00:13.440 --> 01:00:16.360
Presence always, we'll always feel his presence.

1132
01:00:16.780 --> 01:00:18.000
He'll deliver us and honor us

1133
01:00:18.000 --> 01:00:19.280
and give us long life and salvation.

1134
01:00:19.580 --> 01:00:22.240
Friends, this is not a situation where,

1135
01:00:22.920 --> 01:00:24.840
okay, you know, we have to do all this,

1136
01:00:24.880 --> 01:00:26.600
it's about works, and then God will give us this.

1137
01:00:26.780 --> 01:00:28.740
No, these are all things that happen

1138
01:00:28.740 --> 01:00:30.460
when you're in relationship with God.

1139
01:00:30.880 --> 01:00:32.280
All the things that are our part,

1140
01:00:32.560 --> 01:00:33.840
those conditions, so to speak,

1141
01:00:34.280 --> 01:00:37.940
all those things happen when we just dwell in his presence.

1142
01:00:39.640 --> 01:00:41.560
Okay, this is not legalism.

1143
01:00:41.720 --> 01:00:43.140
We dwell in his presence.

1144
01:00:43.320 --> 01:00:45.020
We've been invited in, the veil is torn.

1145
01:00:45.440 --> 01:00:47.780
We have an open invitation, not just to visit,

1146
01:00:47.900 --> 01:00:49.200
but to dwell, how?

1147
01:00:49.300 --> 01:00:50.340
Through the word in our heart,

1148
01:00:50.620 --> 01:00:51.760
through the word in our heart,

1149
01:00:52.560 --> 01:00:54.060
through practicing his presence

1150
01:00:54.060 --> 01:00:55.140
and spending time with him

1151
01:00:55.140 --> 01:00:56.860
and going to him first when there's trouble.

1152
01:00:56.860 --> 01:00:58.820
And then we'll have all of these things

1153
01:00:58.820 --> 01:01:00.040
that he has said we can have.

1154
01:01:00.900 --> 01:01:01.840
We'll have all of them.

1155
01:01:02.580 --> 01:01:03.860
They will be with us.

1156
01:01:06.520 --> 01:01:07.860
Friends, they're already with us.

1157
01:01:07.960 --> 01:01:08.980
You understand that, right?

1158
01:01:08.980 --> 01:01:10.320
But we're not activating them.

1159
01:01:10.400 --> 01:01:12.520
You have access to all this stuff already,

1160
01:01:12.580 --> 01:01:13.880
but you're not activating it.

1161
01:01:14.280 --> 01:01:16.540
It's all around you, but you're not activating it.

1162
01:01:16.620 --> 01:01:18.120
It's like living in a dark house

1163
01:01:18.120 --> 01:01:20.060
when all you need to do is just turn on a light switch.

1164
01:01:20.380 --> 01:01:21.520
It's been given to you

1165
01:01:21.520 --> 01:01:23.340
at the free and finished work of the cross.

1166
01:01:23.780 --> 01:01:25.940
Jesus paid the price for you and as you.

1167
01:01:25.940 --> 01:01:28.240
And now it's time for us to start living

1168
01:01:28.540 --> 01:01:30.440
in the authority that we can live in

1169
01:01:31.140 --> 01:01:32.980
by activating God's word in our hearts.

1170
01:01:33.120 --> 01:01:33.860
That's all we gotta do.

1171
01:01:34.100 --> 01:01:35.220
So Father, I thank you so much.

1172
01:01:35.720 --> 01:01:36.580
Help us all to activate,

1173
01:01:37.240 --> 01:01:39.340
activate, activate, activate, activate, Lord.

1174
01:01:40.200 --> 01:01:40.860
Help us to activate.

1175
01:01:41.000 --> 01:01:43.780
Instead of going by our feelings, help us to activate.

1176
01:01:44.480 --> 01:01:46.000
Help us to begin to believe your word,

1177
01:01:46.100 --> 01:01:46.940
not just to speak it.

1178
01:01:46.980 --> 01:01:48.700
The more that we speak it, Lord,

1179
01:01:48.700 --> 01:01:50.040
let us start believing it.

1180
01:01:50.180 --> 01:01:52.220
Let it make its home in our hearts

1181
01:01:52.480 --> 01:01:54.960
in a way that we've never experienced before,

1182
01:01:54.960 --> 01:01:57.200
so we can start living in the supernatural

1183
01:01:57.200 --> 01:01:58.700
and not just talking about it.

1184
01:01:59.100 --> 01:01:59.940
In Jesus' name, amen.

1185
01:02:00.180 --> 01:02:00.680
I love y'all.

1186
01:02:00.880 --> 01:02:01.220
See you soon.