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Welcome to Supernatural Saturday.

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If you are new to us and you're new to Supernatural Saturday, this is the session that we do every

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week.

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I'm usually the leader, little old me, Jackie D, and we are looking to heaven for current

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prophetic reality.

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My heart is a little heavy this morning, friends, and I'm going to dedicate today's Supernatural

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Saturday to our beautiful, wonderful prayer leader, Teresa Sullivan.

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She was my student, she was my mentee, she was our prayer leader, she was our team member,

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she was one of your sister squad, one of the hopeful brides-to-be, and she went on to be

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with Jesus this morning.

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And so, Lord, we thank you for Teresa's life, we thank you for the impact that she had in

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the years that she had on earth, Lord, we thank you, Lord, that she is enjoying a revelation

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of you that none of us currently have, a revelation of your presence and your goodness,

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Lord, that none of us have ever seen.

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And so, Lord, we thank you, God, we thank you for those that she leaves on earth that

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are mourning her.

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Grief is not a spiritual failure, it is the proof of love.

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It is the proof of love, and we don't grieve without hope.

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And so we pray for all of those that she's left behind, including us, that are here,

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and they don't see her yet, but a little while, they will see her again, but she is

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still with us, she is still with them, Lord.

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And so I pray that they would feel your comfort today, your peace today, your joy today, understanding

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that her suffering has ended and she has been released into full glory.

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Lord, we thank you, God, we thank you, Lord, for her life, we thank you for her legacy,

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and we thank you for all the good that is yet to come because she lived on this earth

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in Jesus' name, amen.

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So friends, I want to talk about grief today.

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I'm dedicating this entire Supernatural Saturday to Teresa, she just went to be with Jesus

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this morning.

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She is the new kid on the block in heaven.

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A lot of you have not been allowed to grieve properly, a lot of different things in your

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life.

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We don't just grieve people that have passed on, that have gone through that curtain, that

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have stepped from this current reality into that reality.

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You know that reality is all around us right now.

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And every once in a while, when we're in a real spiritual moment, right, when we're very

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spiritually minded, we sense that other realm.

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Heaven's not up, friends, it's all around.

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It's all around and we sense it.

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If you've ever been to a really good worship service, or you are talking about something,

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some revelation that God's giving you, or you had a dream and you wake up and you feel

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all those angel wings, anyone else, raise your hand.

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Those heavenly goosebumps, that's what we call them, right?

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Some people call it the brush of angel wings, you just feel like something supernatural

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is happening.

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Something that you just said was in such agreement with heaven, that all of heaven is clapping

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along with you and you feel the resonance of that.

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Anybody else?

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You are in a moment of worship and you just feel God's presence like you have never felt

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it before.

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Some of you, when you met Jesus for the first time, me as well, that happened when I met

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Jesus for the first time, I really acknowledged his presence in my life, his lordship in my

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life, really surrendered my life and heart to him.

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In that moment, I had a very supernatural experience, very, very supernatural experience.

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A lot of you have experienced that kind of thing, either when it's the moment of conversion,

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maybe it's at your baptism, possibly you have dreams and visions that take you into that

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other realm regularly.

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There's others of us that when we're in worship, we feel God's presence like never before.

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Some of you just walking through nature, that's when you feel like you've stepped into another

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otherworldly realm.

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You just sense God's power more than you have at just regular days, on regular days.

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Well, that is all around us.

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And all our friend Teresa did was simply step over fully into it.

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I guarantee that as she has been laying in that hospital for the last three or four months,

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she has had lots, lots of encounters with that other realm that made that reality so

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much more real than this one.

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To the point where she's like, yes, even though there were some things that I wish that I

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could have accomplished here on earth, she did want to be married.

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She did want a partner.

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She did want to help raise children.

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She did want to do things, but it becomes kind of dim in comparison to that, right?

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All the...

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I remember when I was a really small child, I went to visit my grandmother in Tennessee

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and she was a Pentecostal, if you know what that is.

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And I just remember the other kids around that were all little Pentecostal children

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that went to my grandmother's church, I remember them saying that they wanted to grow up and

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get married.

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And let's just face it, they wanted to have sex is what they were saying before the rapture

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They were this, this rapture thing that was coming, that was going to force all of them

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to go to this place that they didn't want to go yet called heaven.

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Let's just laugh at that.

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Can we just laugh at the idea of this place that we don't want to go yet because earth

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is so much fun and so much better than that.

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That just shows you that we're young and immature when we say those things because when we grow

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up we realize that our heart longs for heaven and home.

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It longs to step over into that other reality.

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This world is not our home, we're pilgrims here.

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We're just passing through this life.

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And where our sister Teresa has gone today, we will all go.

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We will all go.

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Gladly, happily, we will all go.

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I remember when my mom passed away five years ago, we were driving in the car, it was only

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a week after her celebration of life and we're driving in the car and we're on a long stretch

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of highway and on both sides of the highway there's just trees.

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There's thousands and thousands of trees and I'm just have my head up against the passenger

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window and I'm just watching all of these trees go by and I'm grieving.

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I'm deeply grieving.

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But I'm kind of grieving without hope.

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You know, we have a choice.

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We have a choice to be those that grieve with hope or without hope.

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And I was just looking at the trees going by and God spoke to me and he said, Jackie,

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he said, you can't see the forest for the trees.

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And I said, what does that mean, Lord?

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I mean, I know what it means, but what does it mean?

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Why are you saying that to me right now?

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And he said, because he said, you're grieving your mother as if she's dead, but she's alive.

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She's alive.

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He said, you're the one who's dead.

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She's alive.

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And it is true, friends.

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We're still living in these bodies that are dead in sin, but they're only alive in Christ.

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She's experiencing a type of aliveness that I've never experienced and yet we grieve them

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as if something terrible has happened to them, right?

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When Jesus came to reconnect us to our royal heritage and inheritance, when he came to

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be that sacrifice that did away with sin, it also did away with death, friends.

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There is no such thing as death.

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Death, where is thy sting?

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Grave, where is their victory?

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It's been swallowed up in Christ.

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There's no such thing as death.

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You understand that, right?

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Nothing dies.

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No one's dying.

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They're transitioning to another realm, but they're no longer dying because death has

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been overcome by Christ.

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Now we do grieve the loss of their presence on earth.

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We do grieve the relationship that we had with them.

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And in my case, the relationship that I wasn't going to be able to have, I was just getting

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to know my mother when she left this earth.

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I was just finally able to have connection and communication with her.

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I grieved all of the things that we wouldn't do together on this earth, all the mother-daughter

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things and the times of intimate conversations and the graduations of my children and their

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marriages and their babies and just all the milestones in my life.

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I just celebrated my 50th birthday and my mother is not here.

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I've never had a relationship with a father.

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I know I do have a father.

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I biologically understand how that works, but I've never had a father in my life or

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a relationship with a father.

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So we grieve, friends, and it's okay to grieve.

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It's okay to feel sad about what we will not get to experience.

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Also knowing that the Lord will take us up.

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Also knowing that God will fill those empty spaces, if we give them to him, with people

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who will do things with us, that will help us, that will give us advice, that will give

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us support, that will give us love.

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God places the solitary in family.

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So we don't grieve without hope because grief is not a lack of faith.

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Even Jesus grieved.

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He grieved the death of his friend, Lazarus.

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fully knowing that Lazarus was going to be resurrected.

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We see Jesus weeping.

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We know in the book of Psalms,

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God says that he is close to the broken hearted.

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He expects us to be broken hearted.

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In fact, hope defers, makes the heart sick.

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That scripture actually is talking about a broken heart,

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talking about being broken hearted.

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So grief is not something that we should try to repress.

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We should feel it fully.

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In fact, oftentimes, just like the scripture says

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in Psalm 34, 18, we feel God closer to us in grief,

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close to us when we're broken hearted

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than we do at other times.

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And not because he's further away at other times,

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but because we are just not letting down our guard

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and our walls.

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But when you're grieving, you do,

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you're very vulnerable when you're grieving, aren't you?

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And so that's why we feel him closer.

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So grief is the proof of love.

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We don't grieve things that we didn't love

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and we wanna heal.

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So in order to heal, we have to feel.

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Remember all of you when you went through the heart work,

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we have to feel the feels in order to heal the feels,

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feel them to heal them.

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So I'm giving you a holy permission today to feel the ache.

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For Teresa, for those of you that knew her,

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went to her Wednesday prayer sessions

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here in this community.

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For those of you that got together with her,

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a couple of you even spoke to her as potential suitors,

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dated her, quote unquote.

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There were people that were impacted by her life,

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by her journey, by her relentless faith.

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She never gave up even till the very end.

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I will tell you about a week ago, I was praying for her

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because we've been praying for her

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every single day on prayer.

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And I just felt the Lord say

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that she was gonna go home to be with him.

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She was gonna step over into that other dimension with him

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because he has assignments for her

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that are not assignments that she can do in this body.

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Friends, when we step into the other realm,

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you're not going there to rest for eternity.

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That's not your eternal vacation, just so you know.

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Scripture is very clear that there are jobs for us to do,

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and there are even levels of jobs for us to do.

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And what you do on earth will very much indicate

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what you will be mature enough to do

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right when you get to the other level, to the other realm.

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And so what you do after you receive Christ

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as your savior on earth matters.

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Did you know that?

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It matters.

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There are far more people getting to come into heaven,

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at least the basic level, the introductory level of heaven,

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because we will be matured throughout eternity,

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just so you know that.

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You're not going to arrive in heaven,

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yes, you're gonna have understandings

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way past what you have now.

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You're going to not see through a glass darkly anymore,

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but you are gonna see him as he truly is

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and as you truly are.

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That is gonna happen.

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That is gonna happen.

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But there are jobs to do throughout eternity.

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There's ruling and reigning to do.

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And right now we're apprentices on earth.

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A lot of people, they just receive Christ,

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it's kind of one and done, and they just go off

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and they just live their lives after the flesh,

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maybe not entirely in debauchery.

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I believe that what has been committed to Christ,

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he can keep until the end.

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And no, I'm not speaking of Calvinism,

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I'm not speaking of predestination,

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I'm not speaking of once saved, always saved,

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but I do know this.

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I do know that he says that in the end of the age,

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whoever cries out on the name of Jesus will be saved.

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If you confess with your mouth and believe in your heart

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that he is Lord, you will be saved.

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There's a lot of denominations of Christianity

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that make it real hard to be saved.

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We are being resurrected from a sinful nature

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and given opportunity to grow in a heavenly nature.

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Not everyone's gonna grow.

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Not everyone's going to be discipled.

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There are some people in other countries

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that are not gonna ever know anything.

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You guys know that there are people that live on this earth

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that are never gonna own a Bible, but you own 20.

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Anyone else ever have the problem of a Bible's old

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and you just really don't know what to do with it?

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You don't really want it anymore

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because you have new ones

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and you don't know how to get rid of it

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because you can't put it in the garbage

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because it's a Bible.

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You know what I'm saying?

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We're blessed to live in a place.

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Everyone here, everyone.

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I know we're not all Americans here.

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is here, but still, we live in free places where we can worship freely for now, where

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we can have access to the word.

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But there are people on this earth that will never hear a sermon except for the salvation

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one.

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They will never have access to a Bible and it wouldn't matter because they can't read

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anyway.

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Do you guys hear what I'm saying?

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And yet, they're going to go to heaven just like you.

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They're going to go to heaven just like you, to whom much is given, much is required.

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We have an opportunity, we are so blessed to get to grow in our understanding of him.

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Those people will be taught by Holy Spirit and that's wonderful and amazing.

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Some of the greats were taught by Holy Spirit, including Paul.

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But we have an opportunity to gather together, to have community, to grow together, to iron

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sharpen iron.

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And we did that with our sister Teresa and she did that for us.

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She led us in prayer.

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She led us in the one day a month that we get together as prophetic community at the

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end of the month and we speak over each other life.

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She spoke so many words over so many of you.

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Those are seeds that God used her to sow with her words in you that are going to bear

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fruit that are going to be part of her legacy because that came through her.

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Those are her works that come from faith.

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Those are the jewels in her crown.

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Do you understand what I'm saying?

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Now after my mom passed away, a couple of different people, strangers, friends, strangers

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came up to me and were just like, Hey, have you ever heard of the book, Imagine Heaven?

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It happened several times.

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And so I looked up the book and I finally bought it and it's written by a guy named

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John Burke.

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And I actually know John and I didn't realize that he wrote this book.

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But his son, Justin, when I first moved to Texas was someone that I hired to be part

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of a film festival that I was in charge of being the executive producer of.

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And one day, John, his dad, John, and his wife, so Justin's parents that pastor a church

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here in Texas, they came to watch their son speak at this film festival.

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And I met John.

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And so I was like, Hey, I know this guy.

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Let me read this book.

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He had compiled hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of NDEs, near death experiences,

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the accounts that people had of what happened after the doctors had declared them clinically

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dead.

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And he wrote about their experiences in this book.

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And all of them had very similar experiences, very similar experiences.

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Now these are all people that were pronounced dead for a couple minutes, for half hour,

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for a couple hours.

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All of them have different testimonies or different stories, but all of them saw a lot

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of the same things.

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And I have it written down here because I really want you to grieve with hope.

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I want to grieve with hope.

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I want you to grieve with hope.

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So I want to, I want to just read a couple things that I have here about these people's

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experiences.

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Nearly all the NDEs describe an overwhelming personal love and light of Jesus himself.

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It wasn't judgmental or condemning, but deeply personal and full of understanding.

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And we see that in the chapter, in John chapter eight, verse 12.

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Many people recount a panoramic life review that focuses not on achievements, but on how

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well they loved.

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Heaven felt like a familiar place to all of these folks.

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All of them said heaven really feels like home.

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In fact, a lot of people said that it felt more real than this world.

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It felt like this life was a dream.

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And then that was reality.

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They said that the trees, the rivers, the music, the colors, the cities, everything

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that they experienced on earth was more vibrant and more alive.

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In fact, they didn't even have words to describe the imagery that they saw.

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Kind of sounds like the book of Revelation, right?

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Many if not all of them spoke of seeing loved ones.

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They were greeted immediately by loved ones who had gone on before them.

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And those loved ones looked young and vibrant, youthful, whole.

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That's talking about these new bodies, right?

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First Thessalonians 4, if you want to go and read that chapter.

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So it's never goodbye, friends.

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It's always, I'm going to see you soon and I'm going to see you without all the trappings

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of this body and this earth.

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The things that have kept us from really true into me, you see, will be gone.

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We will be able to really connect with each other as we truly are.

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And friends, if we can see all that, we can see what Teresa sees now, we would never want

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to pull her back.

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In fact, we'd want to go and be with her.

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Am I right?

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We would.

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Death is not the end of the story.

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It's not.

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In fact, it's the end of the beginning of the story.

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It's that next beautiful, glorious chapter because it's our true home.

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And if you ever wondered if heaven was real, it is.

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I've had so many supernatural experiences with my mother since she has gone on.

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I'm not talking to her.

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I'm not praying to her.

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I'm not asking her for help.

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But I do sense her being part of that great cloud of intercessory witnesses in my life.

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And I have had supernatural moments where I know that I'm being helped not only by God,

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but by my family that is with God.

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It's real.

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It's true, friends.

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And I think that we don't talk about this a lot because churches are worried that people

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are going to get into necromancy.

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They're going to get into trying to talk to the dead and, you know, not really releasing

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that person into that next season of their life and trying to hold on.

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And then oftentimes we grieve for too long because we're still staying connected to someone

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who's in a different reality than us.

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And I get it.

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I get it.

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I mean, there's whole denominations of Christianity that sort of idolize, really, literally idolize

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talking to people who are no longer here, like the saints, right?

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I mean, thankfully, we get to go straight to Jesus.

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But if you were raised Catholic, you didn't get to go to Jesus.

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You had to like go through all kinds of people.

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You weren't allowed to bother Jesus.

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I went to Catholic school growing up.

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You had to.

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You got a problem?

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Go find the saint that's in charge of your problem.

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Pray to them.

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There was a saint assigned to every problem you could possibly have.

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So you got to pray to this person, this human that has passed on, that has gotten to this

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saint status.

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And then if that fails, you can always go to Jesus's mom.

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You can talk to her, but you cannot bother Jesus, right?

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Thankfully, that's not true, right?

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We know that we can, we're not a bother to Jesus, that he is our high priest.

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He is our chief intercessor, that he is the one that is sitting at the right hand of God.

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He's making intercession for us because he knows what it's like to be human.

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He knows our frailties.

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He knows our weaknesses.

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He knows our pain.

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He has been tempted in every way.

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And he is the one that will help us make a way of escape, right?

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So we've matured from some of the things that we've been taught.

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And friends, I really want to encourage you.

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Let this be our sister, Teresa's legacy.

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She lived her life well.

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Even with this health issue that she had for many years, she lived her life well.

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She did what she could do.

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She put her hands to the plow and she did not look back.

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Even in the weakness in her body, she could have felt sorry for herself.

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She continued to show up.

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We told her when she got very, very weak, very sick, we said, you know, we'll get someone

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to replace Wednesday prayer for you.

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We don't want this to be too much for you.

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She said, oh, no, no, I don't want to be replaced.

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I want to lead.

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I want to pray.

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I want to lead these ladies in prayer.

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I want to show up.

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And she did right until the end when she went into the hospital to have surgery.

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And she never, she never, unfortunately, was able to, to speak from that time because

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after surgery, she went into an ICU type environment and she did not, she did not come out of that.

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But she sent us her love.

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She listened to prayer calls, even in that environment, when she got stronger, even though

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she was intubated, she listened.

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She heard.

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He agreed.

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She affirmed.

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She never lost faith, even until the end.

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And when she felt like it really was her time

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to let go of this life and to grab a hold

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of what God had for her in eternity,

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she still believed in a full miraculous healing.

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She still believed in God's word all the way up

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till when she felt like God was going to heal her

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by bringing her to him.

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Because she has an assignment.

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She has work to do.

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I had good friends, I went to a small group with them.

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They were really awesome, really awesome people.

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And the woman of the couple, they're older,

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they're retired, they're in their 60s,

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and they were looking forward

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to really doing full-time ministry.

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And the woman, she wept.

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And she went to Bible school.

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As soon as she retired from her job,

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the very first thing that she did

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is she went to ministry school.

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She wanted to learn everything that she could.

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in fact, right after she graduated,

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and we're celebrating with her,

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she was in a terrible car accident and she went to heaven.

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Like a couple days later.

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And I remember praying and talking to the Lord about that

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and so confused and didn't understand

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and what in the world is going on here, God?

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And that's the first time that God ever spoke to me

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and said that there were other assignments.

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You know, there are people that witnessed that car accident,

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and I'm not trying to over-spiritualize anything,

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I'm just telling you the facts.

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There are people that witnessed it

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that actually were pedestrians when it happened.

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And when they saw her not braking

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as she was coming behind this truck in a commercial area,

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but not on a freeway, obviously, there's pedestrians.

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A couple different bystanders said the same,

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they had the same account and the same account was this.

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They said that it was as if she had her hands raised up

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and was looking up, like up.

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Like she was looking at something up

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with her hands raised up.

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And such an interesting account, like what was she doing?

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Why were her hands on the wheel?

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Why would she have her hands in the air?

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Why was she looking up?

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You know, and not straightforward.

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And so I was praying about this,

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I was praying to the Lord,

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and he was talking to me about those saints

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that ride in with Jesus at the coming of the new age.

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When Jesus comes triumphantly on his white horse,

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true and faithful, there will be those with him.

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And this woman, she was a horse woman,

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and he said, you know, she will be among them,

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you know, coming with him at the return.

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And I was like, that's just such a weird thought

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to have, Jackie.

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Like, Jackie, you're so weird.

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You're so weird to have these thoughts.

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You know, a lot of times God will say things to us

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and we'll be like, well, man, I'm weird.

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Woo, it's a good thing other people can't think the things

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that I'm, know the things I'm thinking,

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because they'd think I'm cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs.

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So I had that thought,

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and then the day of her celebration of life,

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I'm headed there, and I got a text message from a friend.

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And I, of course, didn't tell anyone about this

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because I don't want people to think I'm crazy.

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So I didn't tell anyone,

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but I got a text message from a friend,

488
00:29:14.600 --> 00:29:17.080
and this friend did not know her,

489
00:29:17.080 --> 00:29:19.960
was not headed to her celebration of life,

490
00:29:19.960 --> 00:29:22.720
but simply the text message had a photo in it.

491
00:29:24.240 --> 00:29:27.120
And she said, hey, she said, I just really felt

492
00:29:27.120 --> 00:29:28.560
like I was supposed to send this to you.

493
00:29:28.560 --> 00:29:31.280
She's like, I was out this morning when the sun rose.

494
00:29:31.280 --> 00:29:33.840
She said, and I took this picture of the sky.

495
00:29:33.840 --> 00:29:38.600
She said, doesn't it look like Jesus on his white horse

496
00:29:38.600 --> 00:29:41.560
and all the horses with him coming back to the earth?

497
00:29:41.560 --> 00:29:43.320
And friends, I still have this photo.

498
00:29:43.320 --> 00:29:45.720
It's exactly what it looks like.

499
00:29:45.720 --> 00:29:49.240
On my way to her celebration of life,

500
00:29:49.240 --> 00:29:52.080
another friend sent me a picture

501
00:29:52.080 --> 00:29:57.080
of the clouds looking like horses riding to the earth.

502
00:29:58.720 --> 00:30:00.320
And so that was my own personal.

503
00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:03.560
little confirmation that, oh, hey, by the way, daughter, you're not crazy.

504
00:30:03.600 --> 00:30:07.520
I'm really talking to you about things that are above your pay grade.

505
00:30:08.200 --> 00:30:12.040
You guys, God, if we'll allow him, he will tell us things that we

506
00:30:12.040 --> 00:30:13.580
really don't have much proof of.

507
00:30:13.580 --> 00:30:15.560
And I'm not saying you should move on that stuff.

508
00:30:15.920 --> 00:30:17.800
You should always be able to ground it in the word.

509
00:30:17.800 --> 00:30:20.100
And of course I can in the book of Revelation.

510
00:30:20.100 --> 00:30:25.480
We know that Jesus faithful and true will come again in that exact way.

511
00:30:27.040 --> 00:30:27.960
I'm not off scripture.

512
00:30:27.960 --> 00:30:29.320
I'm not off on some other.

513
00:30:30.000 --> 00:30:33.680
But getting little personal details of that, of that, oh, Hey, yeah.

514
00:30:33.680 --> 00:30:35.720
By the way, there'll be saints with him.

515
00:30:35.720 --> 00:30:39.400
The Bible says that, but we don't think about those details.

516
00:30:39.400 --> 00:30:42.000
And God was highlighting those details to me.

517
00:30:42.520 --> 00:30:44.940
It's important that you let God speak to you that way.

518
00:30:44.940 --> 00:30:45.760
I mean, look at Paul.

519
00:30:45.760 --> 00:30:48.040
Paul was like, Hey, I know a guy.

520
00:30:49.120 --> 00:30:52.240
Whether he was in his body or not in his body, these are

521
00:30:52.240 --> 00:30:53.520
the things he experienced.

522
00:30:53.840 --> 00:30:58.600
Paul was talking about himself, y'all, but because it was so

523
00:30:58.640 --> 00:31:02.320
supernatural and so surreal, he's like, I'm not sure if it was me or not me.

524
00:31:02.320 --> 00:31:04.520
I don't know if I was in my body or out of my body.

525
00:31:04.520 --> 00:31:06.360
All I know is that this happened.

526
00:31:09.520 --> 00:31:10.520
Yeah, I know a guy.

527
00:31:14.920 --> 00:31:20.560
The whole purpose of today is for us to understand that there is so much more

528
00:31:20.560 --> 00:31:26.960
for us ahead in this life and after this life.

529
00:31:28.600 --> 00:31:30.480
But what we do in this life matters.

530
00:31:31.760 --> 00:31:33.960
What we do in this life matters so much.

531
00:31:34.360 --> 00:31:36.320
I used to work for a prominent Jewish man.

532
00:31:36.320 --> 00:31:38.800
He was one of the richest men in Columbus, Ohio.

533
00:31:39.120 --> 00:31:46.280
He owned the biggest house in the richest neighborhood, and he was very kind to me.

534
00:31:48.200 --> 00:31:50.120
When I met him, he was old.

535
00:31:50.560 --> 00:31:56.200
He was already, you know, past, way past retirement, 20 years past retirement.

536
00:31:59.600 --> 00:32:05.560
And he taught me a lot about business, but he also had five children and none of them

537
00:32:05.560 --> 00:32:07.160
came into the business that he built.

538
00:32:07.440 --> 00:32:08.720
None of them worked with him.

539
00:32:11.760 --> 00:32:17.600
And the Jews have a holiday and it comes after Rosh Hashanah.

540
00:32:18.080 --> 00:32:19.440
It is called Yom Kippur.

541
00:32:20.720 --> 00:32:25.160
And right before Yom Kippur, which is the Day of Atonement, there are, I think it's

542
00:32:25.160 --> 00:32:27.120
10 days called the Days of Awe.

543
00:32:29.400 --> 00:32:31.240
And during that time, it's a time to repent.

544
00:32:31.240 --> 00:32:33.400
It's a time to bury the acts.

545
00:32:34.680 --> 00:32:39.560
It's a time to ask for forgiveness or to confess to others what you've done wrong to

546
00:32:39.560 --> 00:32:43.080
them. And during that time, my boss, Mr.

547
00:32:43.080 --> 00:32:44.920
Elman, he was very old school.

548
00:32:46.040 --> 00:32:49.880
He sent letters, he didn't send emails, sent letters.

549
00:32:50.160 --> 00:32:52.200
And so he had me come and take a letter.

550
00:32:53.320 --> 00:32:56.760
And this letter was to his son and it had a lot of private information in it.

551
00:32:58.720 --> 00:33:00.240
The son was estranged from him.

552
00:33:00.240 --> 00:33:04.320
This was a son that was not speaking to him and he was not speaking to.

553
00:33:04.320 --> 00:33:10.360
And during this particular time, during the new year and the Day of Atonement, he

554
00:33:10.360 --> 00:33:12.840
wanted to make amends.

555
00:33:13.000 --> 00:33:15.240
He wanted to extend the olive branch.

556
00:33:15.440 --> 00:33:21.640
And so I took the letter as he spoke it to me and then I typed it up and then it was

557
00:33:21.640 --> 00:33:24.040
sent out. Mr.

558
00:33:24.040 --> 00:33:25.560
Elman passed away a week later.

559
00:33:25.800 --> 00:33:35.640
It was sudden. He had a cardiac situation, suddenly, I was at work one morning and

560
00:33:35.640 --> 00:33:39.000
Mrs. Elman called and said, I'm sorry to tell you that Mr.

561
00:33:39.000 --> 00:33:41.160
Elman had a heart attack and died this morning.

562
00:33:41.960 --> 00:33:46.120
Now, I'm the only person that knows that he sent that letter, nobody else, unless he

563
00:33:46.120 --> 00:33:47.720
shared it with his wife. I don't know.

564
00:33:47.720 --> 00:33:48.760
I never asked her.

565
00:33:48.760 --> 00:33:56.120
But guess who I saw when we went to sit Sheva, I was invited, even though I'm not part

566
00:33:56.120 --> 00:33:58.040
of that Jewish community.

567
00:33:58.040 --> 00:34:05.720
I am Jewish, but not practicing, not trained, didn't even know that I was until I was an

568
00:34:05.720 --> 00:34:07.800
adult and 23andMe came out.

569
00:34:11.800 --> 00:34:14.360
But I came to sit with them in their morning.

570
00:34:14.920 --> 00:34:15.719
And guess who was there?

571
00:34:17.880 --> 00:34:18.520
That son.

572
00:34:21.960 --> 00:34:23.000
That son was there.

573
00:34:26.120 --> 00:34:27.480
And he came and he greeted me.

574
00:34:28.920 --> 00:34:31.159
I said, I'm so glad to meet you.

575
00:34:32.360 --> 00:34:35.639
I said, you were on your father's heart before he passed away.

576
00:34:37.560 --> 00:34:39.000
He spoke really well of you.

577
00:34:39.000 --> 00:34:39.960
And that meant a lot.

578
00:34:41.560 --> 00:34:43.159
So I want to encourage you, friends.

579
00:34:45.320 --> 00:34:46.360
Keep short accounts.

580
00:34:48.600 --> 00:34:49.880
Keep short accounts.

581
00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:09.840
A lot of people have gone on to glory, gone on into their reward, gone on into their next assignment

582
00:35:09.840 --> 00:35:15.440
in the last six weeks, especially here in Texas. You know we had the floods. Those little girls

583
00:35:15.440 --> 00:35:24.640
had nine years on the earth. Nine years. Their families had nine years with them on the earth.

584
00:35:24.640 --> 00:35:31.680
Someone did a drawing of these little girls with their little camp mystic t-shirts on,

585
00:35:31.680 --> 00:35:39.920
their little wet feet from the water, hanging all over Jesus. Jumping on his back, being held in his

586
00:35:39.920 --> 00:35:50.640
arms, running to him with joy. And I believe that. I believe that. Believe every one of them was

587
00:35:50.640 --> 00:35:59.280
taken by angels immediately when those flood waters came into heaven. But they only had nine

588
00:35:59.280 --> 00:36:05.840
years. You don't know how many years you have on the earth. You're all here preparing for the future

589
00:36:06.560 --> 00:36:16.880
as we should. We need to make plans. But I don't think any of us would be sad if a moment from now

590
00:36:16.880 --> 00:36:24.240
we were in eternity with Jesus. And if we were, if that makes us sad to think that,

591
00:36:25.040 --> 00:36:30.080
then we don't have a full revelation. God said to me, because I felt like the grieving of my

592
00:36:30.080 --> 00:36:38.560
mom was going on way too long. I was five years in, I am five years in, and I still felt a lot

593
00:36:38.560 --> 00:36:48.000
of weight from it. And I'm like, Lord, am I ever going to feel, you know, differently about this?

594
00:36:48.000 --> 00:36:53.840
Am I ever going to feel, you know, not so heavy about this, not so sad about this? And he said,

595
00:36:53.840 --> 00:36:57.520
yes. He said, you will. He said, when you get a revelation of heaven,

596
00:37:00.960 --> 00:37:06.000
when you get a revelation of heaven, you will. And friends, we all need a revelation of heaven.

597
00:37:06.960 --> 00:37:11.680
Because once again, that's where we all want to go. And there isn't one person here who's not

598
00:37:11.680 --> 00:37:17.520
going to experience that transition, the transition to the next life, to the next assignment, to the

599
00:37:17.520 --> 00:37:22.640
next reality, to the only reality. That's the real reality. Do you know, that's why the Bible says we

600
00:37:22.640 --> 00:37:27.920
can have heaven on earth and that we're here to bring heaven to earth, because we are meant to

601
00:37:27.920 --> 00:37:34.480
be living in that reality. We are meant to be living in that reality every day. It's not a

602
00:37:34.480 --> 00:37:39.280
situation where it's like, okay, I'm living in this reality and this is reality, but someday

603
00:37:39.280 --> 00:37:46.320
I'm going to switch to that reality. No, you can have that reality now. Our Father who art in heaven,

604
00:37:46.320 --> 00:37:50.960
hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

605
00:37:55.680 --> 00:38:03.440
Friends, it's a little heavy this morning. We grieve. We're going to miss Teresa's presence.

606
00:38:03.440 --> 00:38:08.720
We're going to miss her gifts. We're going to miss her teamwork. We're going to miss her smile

607
00:38:08.720 --> 00:38:14.320
and her laugh. We're going to miss the times ahead that we hope to celebrate with her.

608
00:38:17.440 --> 00:38:26.720
But also in her passing, I think she would want all of us to remember that this life is just a vapor.

609
00:38:27.120 --> 00:38:32.480
And even during this earth experience that you're having, you're an eternal being having

610
00:38:32.480 --> 00:38:39.040
an earthly temporary experience. You know that, right? This is not your real life. You are having

611
00:38:39.040 --> 00:38:45.280
an earthly experience. Your real life is in eternity. Your real life is in this other dimension

612
00:38:45.280 --> 00:38:49.680
that we're talking about. Even now, the Bible says that you're here, but you're also seated

613
00:38:49.680 --> 00:38:55.040
with Christ in heavenly places. You're in heaven. You're in heaven. You're in heaven.

614
00:38:55.520 --> 00:39:01.280
You're in both places. You're both places.

615
00:39:05.840 --> 00:39:08.320
Wow! You're both places.

616
00:39:11.600 --> 00:39:17.360
And instead of living from earth to heaven, let's live from heaven to earth. Shall we? Today,

617
00:39:17.360 --> 00:39:26.000
let's honor our sister by allowing her stepping into her reward and her new assignment to sober us

618
00:39:28.560 --> 00:39:35.600
to make the most of our earthly experience, because it does matter in eternity. What God

619
00:39:35.600 --> 00:39:43.680
will trust you with, what you will be doing in eternity, has so much to do with now.

620
00:39:44.640 --> 00:39:49.520
And remember, it is eternity, friends, so we're going to be progressing. We're going to be evolving.

621
00:39:50.160 --> 00:39:54.640
We're going to be growing. Think about it. If there wasn't anything to learn in eternity,

622
00:39:55.200 --> 00:39:57.120
what would you be doing for eternity?

623
00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:02.900
You're learning, you're growing.

624
00:40:02.900 --> 00:40:05.700
This is your childhood if you want to think of it that way.

625
00:40:05.700 --> 00:40:07.020
We are supposed to make mistakes.

626
00:40:07.020 --> 00:40:07.860
We're all gonna fall down.

627
00:40:07.860 --> 00:40:09.180
We're gonna skin our knees.

628
00:40:10.620 --> 00:40:12.020
We're gonna be disobedient.

629
00:40:13.820 --> 00:40:15.320
And then we're gonna come back to understanding,

630
00:40:15.320 --> 00:40:19.380
oh yeah, daddy's way is the best way.

631
00:40:19.380 --> 00:40:21.880
Jeez, I'm so hard-headed.

632
00:40:21.880 --> 00:40:23.420
Yeah, you are.

633
00:40:23.420 --> 00:40:25.580
That flesh you're living in is hard-headed.

634
00:40:26.360 --> 00:40:28.760
But God is full of grace and he's full of mercy,

635
00:40:28.760 --> 00:40:29.960
just like a good father.

636
00:40:29.960 --> 00:40:31.800
And he picks us up off the ground

637
00:40:31.800 --> 00:40:34.360
when we fall off of our bike and he puts us back up

638
00:40:34.360 --> 00:40:36.880
and he says, okay, let's try again.

639
00:40:39.280 --> 00:40:40.680
Let me give you a few tips.

640
00:40:41.680 --> 00:40:43.920
Let me give you some new information.

641
00:40:43.920 --> 00:40:45.880
That's what happens after repentance.

642
00:40:45.880 --> 00:40:47.960
God, of course, corrects us.

643
00:40:47.960 --> 00:40:50.240
The Bible says God corrects those that he loves.

644
00:40:50.240 --> 00:40:51.080
That's what he does.

645
00:40:51.080 --> 00:40:52.400
That's what correction is.

646
00:40:52.400 --> 00:40:53.320
It's not punishment.

647
00:40:53.320 --> 00:40:54.160
It's not punishment.

648
00:40:54.540 --> 00:40:55.500
It's not punishment.

649
00:40:55.500 --> 00:40:58.220
It's not him taking out his weapon and beating you with it.

650
00:40:58.220 --> 00:41:03.220
It's him correcting your mindsets, correcting your course,

651
00:41:05.100 --> 00:41:09.020
adding in identity because you're operating

652
00:41:09.020 --> 00:41:12.640
out of broken identity, showing you who you really are,

653
00:41:12.640 --> 00:41:16.140
telling you, hey, that's not the right way to do this.

654
00:41:16.140 --> 00:41:17.900
Move over and let me drive for a while.

655
00:41:17.900 --> 00:41:18.880
Let me show you.

656
00:41:20.860 --> 00:41:21.900
There's a better way.

657
00:41:22.880 --> 00:41:23.720
Amen?

658
00:41:27.520 --> 00:41:30.880
So some of you didn't even know Teresa, that's okay.

659
00:41:32.360 --> 00:41:34.240
I want you to put up in the chat right now

660
00:41:34.240 --> 00:41:36.440
someone that you've been grieving,

661
00:41:37.600 --> 00:41:42.160
someone that you miss, someone that has gone ahead

662
00:41:42.160 --> 00:41:45.720
and they've crossed over into that other dimension fully

663
00:41:45.720 --> 00:41:47.960
and you can no longer see them with your eye.

664
00:42:22.240 --> 00:42:23.080
Okay.

665
00:42:34.360 --> 00:42:36.740
Okay, for those of you that's family,

666
00:42:38.720 --> 00:42:43.120
lots of you friends, family, children, unfortunately,

667
00:42:43.120 --> 00:42:45.240
children, we never want to see our children

668
00:42:45.240 --> 00:42:47.520
go to heaven before us.

669
00:42:48.720 --> 00:42:49.840
We don't want that.

670
00:42:52.560 --> 00:42:55.360
God wants to take the sting out of death

671
00:42:55.360 --> 00:42:56.460
for all of us today.

672
00:42:57.320 --> 00:42:59.720
Jesus already did that, but he wants to do it again

673
00:42:59.720 --> 00:43:03.300
right now, wants to take the stinger out.

674
00:43:03.300 --> 00:43:06.920
Anyone ever been stung by a bee, stung by a wasp?

675
00:43:06.920 --> 00:43:09.740
You got to get that stinger out, don't you?

676
00:43:09.740 --> 00:43:13.340
You got to get it out because if you don't, it hurts.

677
00:43:15.360 --> 00:43:19.640
So he wants to take the sting out, wants to take it out,

678
00:43:20.620 --> 00:43:24.420
wants to replace it with hope, with joy, with peace.

679
00:43:24.420 --> 00:43:27.900
In fact, I want to encourage all of you to ask God

680
00:43:27.900 --> 00:43:30.100
to tell you, to show you what your loved one

681
00:43:30.100 --> 00:43:31.060
is doing right now.

682
00:43:32.480 --> 00:43:33.580
What are they up to?

683
00:43:34.700 --> 00:43:36.580
What assignment are they all about?

684
00:43:36.580 --> 00:43:40.960
What's happening in their reality?

685
00:43:42.980 --> 00:43:45.280
I've had dreams of my mom just recently.

686
00:43:45.280 --> 00:43:47.340
It took a long time, it took years.

687
00:43:47.340 --> 00:43:50.080
My little brother and her husband both started

688
00:43:50.080 --> 00:43:52.560
having dreams of her immediately when she passed.

689
00:43:52.560 --> 00:43:53.400
I didn't.

690
00:43:54.580 --> 00:43:58.240
I don't know why, but I do know that I've had

691
00:43:58.240 --> 00:44:01.480
several dreams here in the last year

692
00:44:03.240 --> 00:44:08.240
of my mom, healthy, whole, talking to me about things,

693
00:44:09.760 --> 00:44:10.920
doing things.

694
00:44:15.120 --> 00:44:16.560
So ask God to show you.

695
00:44:17.680 --> 00:44:18.960
Ask God to tell you.

696
00:44:22.880 --> 00:44:24.440
Ask God to take the sting out.

697
00:44:26.000 --> 00:44:28.160
For those of you that have been caught in perpetual grief,

698
00:44:28.160 --> 00:44:31.560
you can't, can't stay in perpetual grief.

699
00:44:31.560 --> 00:44:33.440
Some of you are not grieving someone who passed away,

700
00:44:33.440 --> 00:44:34.880
you're grieving something else,

701
00:44:34.880 --> 00:44:36.640
but you're still stuck in grief.

702
00:44:36.640 --> 00:44:38.240
You're grieving a job that ended,

703
00:44:38.240 --> 00:44:41.280
you're grieving some sort of loss,

704
00:44:41.280 --> 00:44:42.740
you're grieving the loss of a marriage,

705
00:44:42.740 --> 00:44:44.440
you're grieving the loss of a relationship.

706
00:44:44.440 --> 00:44:46.400
The person is still alive.

707
00:44:48.240 --> 00:44:52.800
But you're estranged, they might as well be dead.

708
00:44:52.800 --> 00:44:53.920
Divorce feels like a death.

709
00:44:53.920 --> 00:44:54.760
Anybody else?

710
00:44:54.760 --> 00:44:57.400
I got divorced, I literally felt like

711
00:44:57.400 --> 00:44:59.200
the day at court was like a funeral.

712
00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:05.000
They gave us a case number and executed us.

713
00:45:05.920 --> 00:45:10.280
I mean, it was just very rough.

714
00:45:10.280 --> 00:45:13.120
That was almost 19 years ago now,

715
00:45:14.720 --> 00:45:15.960
but it felt like a death.

716
00:45:18.240 --> 00:45:19.480
So let's release peace over you,

717
00:45:19.480 --> 00:45:22.340
release joy over you, release hope over you.

718
00:45:22.340 --> 00:45:24.420
For those of you that have someone

719
00:45:24.420 --> 00:45:26.200
that you really need to forgive,

720
00:45:26.200 --> 00:45:28.120
even if you're not going to be able to speak to them,

721
00:45:28.120 --> 00:45:29.840
even if they've passed on into eternity,

722
00:45:29.840 --> 00:45:31.440
I wanna encourage you to do that.

723
00:45:31.440 --> 00:45:34.120
Take a page out of Mr. Ellman's playbook.

724
00:45:34.120 --> 00:45:35.920
Even though we're not to that time of year yet,

725
00:45:35.920 --> 00:45:37.480
not till the fall, the days of awe,

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we can have our own days of awe right now.

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Days of repentance, days of confession,

728
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days of forgiveness.

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If they are alive and you feel led to,

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reach out to them, tell them you forgive them

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or ask for their forgiveness, whatever needs to happen.

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Friends, we have to keep short lists.

733
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Remember the people that have gone on before us

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that came back, the NDE people,

735
00:45:59.880 --> 00:46:02.200
the near-death experience people,

736
00:46:02.200 --> 00:46:03.960
that got a glimpse, they got a preview,

737
00:46:03.960 --> 00:46:06.160
they got a taste, a bigger taste

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than we even have with Holy Spirit.

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You guys know that God gave us Holy Spirit

740
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to give us a taste of heaven?

741
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It's a foretaste of heaven.

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Living life in the Spirit is getting a preview of heaven.

743
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But those people got a real preview.

744
00:46:23.680 --> 00:46:24.880
They got the deluxe preview.

745
00:46:24.880 --> 00:46:29.680
They got the long-form trailer of the movie, right?

746
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They did.

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And most of them saw a panoramic view of their life,

748
00:46:38.920 --> 00:46:41.200
but it wasn't about achievements and accomplishments.

749
00:46:41.200 --> 00:46:42.360
It wasn't about trophies.

750
00:46:42.360 --> 00:46:43.640
It wasn't about bank accounts.

751
00:46:43.640 --> 00:46:45.480
It wasn't about beauty.

752
00:46:45.480 --> 00:46:47.480
It was about how well did you love.

753
00:46:47.480 --> 00:46:49.800
There's a famous prophet, Bob Jones,

754
00:46:51.160 --> 00:46:53.400
and he had an NDE and he went to heaven

755
00:46:53.400 --> 00:46:56.120
and he came back from heaven with this message.

756
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How well do you love?

757
00:47:02.040 --> 00:47:05.060
He said the eternity was gonna be all about

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00:47:05.060 --> 00:47:06.660
how well did you love.

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00:47:09.880 --> 00:47:11.960
Remember, friends, the curse looks different on everyone.

760
00:47:11.960 --> 00:47:14.360
The curse looks different on every family.

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We are not all tempted in the same ways.

762
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We're not all broken in the same ways.

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And so when you are tempted to point your finger

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at someone else's brokenness,

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especially like people that we don't know,

766
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a group of people, so to speak,

767
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maybe a group of people that are struggling

768
00:47:28.880 --> 00:47:30.480
with their gender identity,

769
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group of people that are struggling

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with their sexual orientation, okay?

771
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A group of people that believe something

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politically different than you do.

773
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Friends, come on.

774
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You don't know those people.

775
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You don't know what they've been through.

776
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You don't know what their life has,

777
00:47:50.320 --> 00:47:51.600
what has happened in their life

778
00:47:51.600 --> 00:47:54.100
to lead them to these beliefs and to this point.

779
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You don't know what kind of deception

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00:47:56.620 --> 00:47:59.760
has been handed down with them through the ranks.

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Love.

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Love conquers all.

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Love.

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Love people.

785
00:48:12.200 --> 00:48:13.920
Bless people.

786
00:48:13.920 --> 00:48:15.640
Pray for people.

787
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Help people when you can,

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regardless of whether or not you believe

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the same things that they believe.

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Let's not forget the story of the Good Samaritan,

791
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one of the most powerful parables in the Bible.

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You guys, it's one of the most powerful stories.

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He had no reason to help this person.

794
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This person represented everything opposite of beliefs.

795
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It's kind of a natural born hatred.

796
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A lot of people are just, you know,

797
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they're raised to hate certain people.

798
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Because of fear.

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By the way, hate is a byproduct of fear.

800
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Hate is not the opposite of love.

801
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Fear is the opposite of love,

802
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and all hatred is born of fear.

803
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All of it.

804
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Oh, we're afraid of these people

805
00:49:11.960 --> 00:49:14.460
because we don't understand them, so we hate them.

806
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But he stopped anyway, didn't he?

807
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He helped anyway, didn't he?

808
00:49:19.680 --> 00:49:21.300
He loved anyway, didn't he?

809
00:49:22.160 --> 00:49:24.660
He had compassion anyway, didn't he?

810
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This is what I know, friends,

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and this is what I decided a long time ago

812
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when people were like, black, white, wrong, right,

813
00:49:34.840 --> 00:49:35.920
this, that.

814
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I said, you know what?

815
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I'm just gonna choose love.

816
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And the reason why I'm gonna choose love

817
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is because if I'm gonna make a mistake,

818
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I'd rather err on the side of love.

819
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Can't go wrong erring on the side of love.

820
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I'm not talking about enabling, okay?

821
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I'm not.

822
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The people that I'm speaking of that I'm loving,

823
00:49:55.560 --> 00:49:57.680
I don't even know, and I'm not even gonna have a chance

824
00:49:57.680 --> 00:49:59.840
to have any kind of real hands-on,

825
00:50:00.960 --> 00:50:04.800
experiences with them. I'm just going to love them from afar.

826
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I'm just going to bless them. I'm going to pray for them. I'm going to hope the best for them.

827
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When I see people that, for whatever reason, life has put them in the limelight, has put them

828
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famous, they're living in glass houses. Maybe they didn't even ask to be in those glass houses,

829
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but somehow their gifts, their talents, being in the right place at the right time, whatever,

830
00:50:26.560 --> 00:50:30.240
put them in these places. And they have real problems like real people do.

831
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And some of them have problems that only rich people do.

832
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But instead of judging them and making fun of them and rolling my eyes at them, pray for them.

833
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I bless them. Say, God, hey, help them. Help them and help everyone like them that's not famous,

834
00:50:50.880 --> 00:50:53.440
but is actually going through the same thing. We don't know about those other people,

835
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because they're not famous. But these folks here, we know about them,

836
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and we're going to bless them. We're going to ask you to help them, Lord.

837
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We're going to ask you to have a divine appointment in their lives where they come and know you.

838
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Friends, we have to live this life to the best of our ability. We do. We have to. We have to put

839
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our hands to the plow. We cannot look back. And the way that we do that is by love, by forgiveness,

840
00:51:24.240 --> 00:51:29.280
by confession, by repentance, by making the most of our lives. All of us have things in

841
00:51:29.280 --> 00:51:33.760
our life right now that we don't want to be part of. We don't want to be part of. We don't want to

842
00:51:33.920 --> 00:51:36.880
be part of. We don't want to be part of. We don't want to be part of. We don't want to be part of.

843
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By making the most of our lives, all of us have things in our life right now that we do not like,

844
00:51:42.000 --> 00:51:48.480
things that we do not want to be true in our reality. Things that we wish would just end,

845
00:51:48.480 --> 00:51:54.400
stop, that we could get over, get beyond. Things that we don't have that we want,

846
00:51:54.400 --> 00:51:58.480
and every day we wake up and we don't have them, and we feel depressed about it,

847
00:51:58.480 --> 00:52:01.440
including spirit mates. I want to encourage you,

848
00:52:03.840 --> 00:52:12.240
in celebration of our sister Teresa, make each moment count. Every day when you wake up, be

849
00:52:12.240 --> 00:52:18.400
thankful that you still have an assignment on earth and that your earthly experience is not

850
00:52:18.400 --> 00:52:24.320
expired. Thank God for life. Thank him for strength in your body. Thank him for breath in your lungs.

851
00:52:24.320 --> 00:52:28.000
Some of you are weak. Some of you are dealing with sicknesses. And so you're going to have

852
00:52:28.000 --> 00:52:34.720
to call those things that are not as though they are. Romans 417. Thank you God for strength.

853
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Thank you God for vitality. Thank you God for breath. Thank you God for pain-free body.

854
00:52:45.120 --> 00:52:48.560
Remember friends, we're doing affirmations for those of you that are doing the halftime shift.

855
00:52:50.640 --> 00:52:54.560
Affirmations, make them part of your affirmations. I'm here on earth for a purpose.

856
00:52:55.440 --> 00:52:59.520
God has a plan for me. He wrote a story about me from the foundation of the earth.

857
00:53:00.480 --> 00:53:03.840
I wasn't an accident. My parents weren't expecting me, but God was expecting me,

858
00:53:03.840 --> 00:53:10.320
and he put me here. He put me here to accomplish his work and to expand his kingdom in a way that

859
00:53:10.320 --> 00:53:17.680
only I can. I have a partner. This is a two-person job, not a one-person job, and I haven't met them

860
00:53:17.680 --> 00:53:22.000
yet, but I'm going to meet them. Our paths are going to cross, and we're going to come together.

861
00:53:22.720 --> 00:53:26.880
We're going to come together in the strength of God. We're going to come together with Jesus

862
00:53:26.880 --> 00:53:32.400
as the cord that binds us together. We're going to come together with a divine assignment

863
00:53:32.400 --> 00:53:37.600
that is going to be unsealed and unlocked when we meet each other. We might not know what it is now,

864
00:53:37.600 --> 00:53:43.680
but we're going to know because marriage is for ministry, the ministry of reconciliation in the

865
00:53:43.680 --> 00:53:59.520
earth, building lineages and legacies of compassion, affirmations, declarations.

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00:54:01.440 --> 00:54:06.320
I will not leave this life one moment before my appointed time.

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00:54:08.800 --> 00:54:10.640
God, you will protect me. You will keep me.

868
00:54:13.680 --> 00:54:17.920
You will strengthen me. You will help me. You will give me the information and the wisdom

869
00:54:17.920 --> 00:54:25.520
that I need in order to live out all of my days, and I will be obedient.

870
00:54:25.520 --> 00:54:37.520
I will take care of my body. You will show me what I need to do, and I will do it.

871
00:54:38.480 --> 00:54:42.720
So, Father God, I thank you for this time together. I thank you for your sons and daughters,

872
00:54:42.720 --> 00:54:48.800
and I thank you for Teresa. I thank you for the lessons that we are learning, even in her going

873
00:54:48.800 --> 00:54:55.120
on to be with you, Lord. This will be her legacy, the shift that takes place in our hearts today,

874
00:54:56.560 --> 00:55:00.160
that we want to live our lives well, that we want to be a part of her legacy.

875
00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:06.320
here well done thou good and faithful that we want to leave a legacy of love that when we see our

876
00:55:06.320 --> 00:55:15.920
life played on the jumbotron of heaven lord that we see that we have loved well that we have chosen

877
00:55:15.920 --> 00:55:23.520
the better part the better part that this life is not about accolades it's not about applause it's

878
00:55:23.520 --> 00:55:28.400
not about trophies not about treasure the only treasure that we can keep eternally is the

879
00:55:28.400 --> 00:55:35.280
treasure that we lay up in heaven and that is people so every one of us with a soberness of

880
00:55:35.280 --> 00:55:40.640
mind from this moment will go forward knowing that the greatest thing that we can do with our

881
00:55:40.640 --> 00:55:48.080
one and only life is give it to you surrender it to you and to allow you to use us to love others

882
00:55:48.080 --> 00:55:54.560
to help others to show people the way to be a light in the darkness to be a city set on a hill

883
00:55:54.560 --> 00:56:01.760
that cannot be hid to take this thing public to make your name famous in the earth lord to love

884
00:56:01.760 --> 00:56:08.000
one another so that people will see us and know that you truly jesus were the son of god

885
00:56:09.920 --> 00:56:18.640
to fulfill all of the things that you've put us here to do in your name we pray in jesus name

886
00:56:18.640 --> 00:56:24.480
amen friends i'm so thankful for you i love each and every one of you and i pray that we will all

887
00:56:24.640 --> 00:56:31.440
be here on earth to meet again but live each moment as if it's your last and you can't go wrong

888
00:56:31.440 --> 00:56:38.640
each and every one of us do that live with intention and live with passion

889
00:56:40.160 --> 00:56:43.680
because that is how god made you i love you all see you soon