Okay, friends, welcome to Supernatural Saturday.
I've promised you that today's going to be a little bit different, a little bit different.
I know you guys are used to me talking a blue streak for an entire hour, but that's not
going to happen today because I have to make a trip and it's not going to be a fun trip.
It's a, well, you know, I'm going to try to make it fun because I'm fun.
But at the same time, it's, you know, the errand itself is bittersweet.
The errand is bitter and a little bit of a silver lining, sweet.
I'm going to tell you about that in a second.
But this morning, I really want us to pray into, so I'm going to talk for just a few
minutes and then I'm going to hand it over to Renee and she's going to help you guys.
Just pray, pray for yourselves, pray over each other, pray over the subject that I'm
about to introduce.
And then tomorrow night when it's time to activate this, I'm going to show up with some
more instructions on activation.
Remember tomorrow night, Sunday is not our all community prophetic night.
That is, we have another extra Sunday in August because we have 31 days and so that'll be
on the 31st of August.
So next Sunday is a regular Sunday night activation and I'm going to show up to give some parameters
and some instructions on how we're going to activate this.
So today you're going to pray into it and tomorrow you're going to activate it more.
Okay.
And so what is the subject that I'm talking about?
It's the subject of margin.
It is the subject of capacity and I really believe that God is speaking to us very clearly
and loudly about this in this season.
And it's very important that all of us listen, all of us, not just some of us.
Some of you may think that you have time management down really well, but this is not a message
for a few.
This is a message for the many.
Okay.
So let me tell you a little personal story.
I'm going to get really personal here for a second.
So a few years ago I had the opportunity to babysit or to puppy sit, because it's not
a baby, puppy sit for an entire month, a little miniature wiener dog named Stuart.
Okay.
Stuart has famous grandparents that are my friends, literally famous people.
And they're like, Hey, you know, our daughter-in-law needs a sitter.
They're going to be in Europe for a month.
You know, would you, could you puppy sit?
Not puppy, dog sit, because it wasn't a puppy, it was a dog.
And I said, Oh, you know, maybe I'll do it for a week.
So a week turned into two weeks, turned into three weeks, turned into a month.
And I was really enjoying myself.
Now this is a full grown dog, you know, pretty much trained, you know, this breed is very
difficult to train.
You know, they're kind of stubborn, but they are so cute.
So it's like some of you, you're really stubborn, but you're really cute.
And that kind of has been making up for the stubbornness for a while here.
But you know what?
You're going to have to deal with that stubbornness at one point or another.
So very, very cute, little mini wiener dog, little mini weenie named Stuart, Stu for short.
And I had a great time with him.
And it was kind of in a difficult, difficult season of my life.
So he was very, you know, just, it was good for me.
It was good for me.
He was like therapy, right?
During that season.
So I always think back.
So this is a couple years ago, I think back on that season with fondness.
But friends, remember, it was a temporary situation from the very beginning.
And I knew that it was going to be a temporary situation.
I knew that it was going to be temporary.
And can I tell you, friends, when you know something's temporary, you can make it through
anything.
You can enjoy anything when you know that there's an end date, right?
When you know that I'm only going to have, you can work, you can work any job when in
your attempt, and you know, this is not your permanent situation.
It's not your new normal.
So I really romanticized this time in my life with this, with this wiener dog.
Okay.
So of course, after I gave him back to his family, I was like, I want a wiener dog.
I want a miniature wiener dog.
Wouldn't that be fun?
That would be great to have a miniature wiener dog.
And I began to, I downloaded this app called Good Dog.
I don't know if any of you know what it is.
And I began to romanticize wiener dogs, not wieners, friends, wiener dogs, get it straight,
get it right.
And they're so cute, you guys.
And you know what happened on my For You page on Instagram?
I got targeted by all these cute wiener dog profiles where these dogs are doing the cutest
little fluffy things.
And they have really fun names like Cashew.
And it's like, oh, I want a miniature wiener dog.
And so I started seriously looking about a year ago for my own miniature dachshund.
I'm going to get one.
I started.
reading all the blogs and reading all the articles.
And you know, they tell you this breed
is very difficult to train.
They're very stubborn.
They're very sweet.
They're very, you know, attached to their owners,
but they're also have these pros and cons.
And friends, everything has pros and cons.
Everything has pros and cons.
Remember, all of you are here
because you want a spirit mate.
And I tell you all the time,
hey, there's going to be pros and cons to that.
It's not going to be easy, but it's going to be worth it.
But oftentimes we get into this romanticized place
in our hearts and minds where we tell ourselves that,
you know, well, if it's the right person,
if it's the right timing, then it's going to be easy.
And that's just not true.
There's going to be stretching.
You are going to stretch.
You are going to have to have margin.
You're going to have to have capacity
in order to have this come into your life.
You can have anything into your life,
whether it's a wiener dog or a new job or a relationship,
but specifically things that require relationship,
which, you know, owning a dog also requires relationship.
So I'm just scrolling, scrolling, scrolling,
always looking, you know, kind of things.
And there was this one wiener dog that I was like,
maybe this is the one.
And then I was like, nah, it's not the one.
And then there was this dog that I kept seeing.
And I was like, wow, you know, I really liked this dog.
I really liked the way this dog looks.
I wanted a cream one, by the way.
They look like baby golden retrievers that never grow up.
Some of you have seen my dog, Hank,
that I got on Instagram this week,
because I was posting him.
And so, long story short,
this breeder and I were talking back and forth,
and she lived very far away, lived in Oklahoma,
still lives in Oklahoma.
It was just a week ago, friends.
This dog has only been with us for a week.
Lives in Oklahoma.
And I did something very silly, all right?
I'm gonna be transparent with you.
I said to the Lord, because you guys are so many dogs,
and how do you know if you're gonna pick the right one,
and if it's gonna have the right temperament,
if it's going to be the right dog for long-term?
Does any of this sound familiar to you guys?
Can you liken this to your love life
in any way, shape, or form?
So I put out a fleece before the Lord,
like many of you have done before a date.
And I said, Lord, if this is the dog for me,
then let this breeder offer to drive this dog
all the way to Austin after I ask her
what would happen if I was interested in the dog.
Because I've talked to many, many breeders on this app,
and trust me, none of them offer to do that.
There's flight nannies involved, and flights, and airports,
and you driving for a day to come meet the dog,
and different things.
Never has there ever been an offer to bring the dog to me.
And so I said to her, hey, if I was interested
in this puppy and buying this puppy from you,
how would I get him?
And her very next response was,
I can bring him to you tomorrow in Austin.
Guys, that's over a five-hour drive for her.
And she said, tomorrow in Austin.
And so of course, you guys,
being the impetuous, impulsive person that I am,
I was like, yes, this must be the Lord.
This must be my dog.
Because remember, I've been looking for a while.
And for a while, like for over a year.
And so I was like, okay, okay.
Never once did I ask myself,
what would day-to-day life with a dog look like, Jackie?
Jackie, you live in hill country.
We're just right outside your front door.
Guess what there isn't?
There's no green space.
There's no place for a puppy to go to the bathroom.
There's just a huge deck
because your house is on piers and beams.
And so far, far, far down,
what are wiener dogs not supposed to have?
Steps.
Yes, yes, that's true.
But what else?
What else?
Let's talk about the facts.
What else are outside your front door?
Oh, let's see, coyotes, aggressive raccoons, foxes, hawks.
Pretty much every natural predator
is a little wiener dog ever, ever, ever, right?
Yes.
Oh, but was I operating in any kind of practicality?
No, no, no.
I was just thinking about that sweet, golden,
fluffy goodness that I was gonna be able to get,
that dog that hit of dopamine.
And I said, yes.
And not only did I say yes, I put my money on it, right?
I made the deposit.
And then I went off that dumb and happy
to meet her in Waco.
Because I was like, oh,
you don't have to drive all the way to Austin.
I'll just meet you in Waco,
which is not that far from me.
And I'll meet you at Buc-ee's,
the happiest place on earth.
You guys, it's not Disney, it's Buc-ee's.
Buc-ee's is the happiest place on earth.
There are people crying and screaming at Disney.
There are children having meltdowns at Disney.
I love Disney.
It's my favorite place.
But if you've ever been to Buc-ee's,
Everybody's happy.
Everybody is buying cute little Bucky themed food
and there's no one crying.
There's no one having meltdowns.
So I met her at the happiest place on earth, Bucky's,
biggest gas station you've ever seen.
And he is adorable.
He was everything I imagined he would be.
He was golden.
He was long.
He was also small at the same time.
He had the cutest little face.
You guys saw him.
I posted him on Instagram.
He was sweet from the very first moment.
He snuggled me all the way home, hour and 15 minute drive.
He just loved me already.
Someone named Amanda's phone keeps on muting.
Please make sure that it doesn't.
I've already muted you twice, praise the Lord.
All right, so snuggled, loved me, wonderful.
Get him home, bought him all the things,
all the things, friends.
This dog is the most equipped dog.
It reminds me of the first time I ever went skiing.
Couldn't just go skiing and rent skis.
No, no, my family had to have the skis and the boots
and the parkas and the things and all the gear.
And we had to be all geared up.
Did we know how to ski?
No, nobody knew how to ski, but we had to have the things.
And so he has all the things.
And from the very first night,
because I have a sister-in-law who has this type of dog,
she told me, hey, this is what you wanna do.
You wanna crate train him from the very first night.
He's only 12 weeks old,
but I laid next to that crate on the floor
and I shut the door, he whined a little.
I pet him through the bars and guess what?
He was fine.
He slept, he slept.
He only woke up like twice.
I took him out once at like three o'clock in the morning
and he was a good boy.
And I'm like, hey, I can do this.
But then the next day in my house,
I started realizing, hey,
this isn't really the right house for him.
He's really struggling and he's gonna probably get hurt
because of the kind of stuff I have in my house,
of the stairs.
Like I have stairs in my house.
I have like a mid-century sunken living room
with these big stairs.
And to get outside, there's lots of stairs
and there's all these things.
And then there's all these things outside
that make him never, ever able to go outside by himself.
Ever.
Do you understand what I'm saying?
Ever.
Okay.
And I remembered that.
I'm like, oh, hey, that's something that I forgot
from when I babysat this other wiener dog.
He was never able to go outside by himself
because if they're true minis, you guys,
they don't get to be more than like 10 pounds.
They're small dogs.
Very, very tiny.
And really the perfect prey for the hawks
that fly over my house daily.
Like they fly so low that their shadows just cover you.
It's the creepiest thing.
And it's just not good.
Not good for him out here.
So I was like, oh, what am I gonna do?
And then my daughter, my sweet daughter,
who's probably more like me than she should be,
she says, mom, you know, me and my husband will take him.
They've been married for a year.
Just celebrate their year anniversary.
We'll take him.
And then I can have the best of both worlds, right?
I can be his Nona.
I can see him all the time.
And he can be in a safe suburban house
with a little fenced in green backyard.
Oh, perfect.
So I brought him over there the second day
and he began to live there in their ranch house
with no stairs and easy access to green space.
And they loved him for about 48 hours.
And then they realized, oh, he's a puppy
and he needs lots and lots of attention.
Otherwise he's gonna chew everything up
and he needs lots and lots of attention.
Otherwise he's gonna poop and pee all over the house.
And you know what?
We don't have margin for this.
We want it, but we don't have space or capacity for it.
Friends, can I tell you what's happening to you
when you're nine months,
when you're pregnant for nine months or 40 weeks,
which really if you do the math is more like 10 months.
For those of you that had a baby, you know,
but for those of you that have never had a baby
or you're a man, let me tell you what happens.
It increases your capacity.
Now there's still gonna be a moment
when what is inside of you
that isn't really hindering you from leaving the house
and doing whatever you want at any given moment
that you want to,
besides maybe heartburn and waddling around like a duck.
There's gonna become a moment
when they're going to take that thing out of you
and hand it to you.
And now guess what?
You can't just leave it by itself.
Every time you leave the house,
you're going to have to take that with you.
Your entire life is going to be modeled around that thing.
Right?
But at least during that nine months,
you know what's coming.
That nine months, you know what's coming.
You're preparing for it.
You're preparing space for it in your house,
usually a nursery or something,
in your resources, in finances,
and in your time management.
Hopefully you are making space for it.
You're gonna take a maternity leave from work
or you're gonna do this or that,
or you're setting up daycare.
You are getting ready.
You're like, Jackie, what the heck are you talking about?
I'm talking about what happens
when your prayers suddenly get answered.
Suddenly, friends, we experienced this suddenly, and guess what?
We weren't able to sustain it.
Remember how we talk about Amos 9.13, and that's a banner scripture over this movement?
And suddenly, that's a suddenly scripture.
The reaper overtaking the sower, perpetual harvest.
The problem is, is that that's not a good thing if you're not ready for it.
Have you ever seen that weird documentary where you talk to all the women who did not
know they were having a baby until they showed up at the emergency room thinking that they
were dying because they were in such bad pain and it ended up that they were giving birth?
Anyone see this?
Crazy, right?
It's a real thing.
It happens to people.
Usually, like really, really overweight people, but they just didn't know.
They didn't know that they were pregnant.
And so this was a suddenly for them.
And so like this dog that once again, I've romanticized this era of my life, the dog
era.
I romanticized it in my mind of what it was going to be like and all the cute little sweaters
I was going to buy him and how we were just going to have so much fun and all the things.
And then when it happened suddenly, I wasn't able to sustain it because there were a lot
of things that I hadn't thought through.
There were a lot of things that I wasn't expecting.
And my daughter did the same thing right after me.
She's like, oh, well, I want that.
I've always wanted that.
I've wanted a dog ever since I was little.
I've never had a dog.
Give him to me.
I want him.
And then she went through the exact same thing.
So I want to talk to you guys this morning about margin, about capacity.
It's not a situation where you're going to make room for it when it gets here because
that's not going to happen.
What's really going to happen is it's going to stress you out really bad and you might
even like have a meltdown, right?
You might like start making mountains out of molehills because you feel so stretched
because your plate was already full.
You already had a bunch of balls in the air.
You were already juggling and spinning dishes and now they're all crashing to the floor.
And because we live in a time where we're B-U-S-Y more than we've ever been in the history
of mankind, we think it's normal.
We think it's normal to not have margin.
We think it's normal to not to be way over capacity.
I want you to raise your hand if you'd be honest and say that I live my life over capacity.
That I've even had stress-related illnesses like autoimmune diseases, Epstein-Barr, chronic
fatigue, adrenal burnout in my life, okay, where I've run myself on empty with relationships.
Also raise your hand if you're a people pleaser because that means you're automatically over
capacity.
People pleasers don't say no enough.
They don't say no enough.
If you've had thyroid issues, you're like, Jackie, that's not my fault.
It's my thyroid.
Yeah, but what happens is you burn out your adrenals and then it takes from your thyroid.
And so a lot of times that's what it is.
And you know, way too many of you have your hands down.
I'm just going to tell you, I don't believe you, okay, because we live in a world where
every single moment of our lives is taken up with something.
So you're scrolling on social media.
You're like, that's, I'm just relaxing.
No, that's you burning out your margins.
How many of you are contemplative?
How many of you just sit still and just be?
You don't do anything.
You don't look at anything.
You don't read anything, right?
You're not scrolling anywhere.
You're not looking at media or social media.
You're not trying to please some difficult personality by saying yes to things that you
have no business saying yes to.
How many of you that have children at home are indulging them and doing things for them
that they should be doing for themselves, but you know, you just feel so bad because
you're a single parent and you just want them to have, you know, what they should have.
How many of you are working too hard at jobs that you do not like because you're trying
to pay off debt that you shouldn't be in or get things that, you know, are, you think
are going to make you feel better about this cycle?
Why are we talking about this today?
Because a lot of you are praying for things that you simply can't handle.
And God would like to take this moment to help you to create.
a margin so that when that thing comes,
you won't actually have to just let it go
because you're not ready for it.
Because you haven't done the work
that's going to allow you to do a very important word,
sustain it.
Sustain it, friends.
It doesn't matter what we can do for a little while.
We're talking about a long while here.
We're talking about long-term here.
Amen?
I know you guys are all listening intently
and I want you to know I'm talking to myself.
I'm talking to myself.
There's a lot of things.
And the other thing is, friends,
is that you'll never be able to sustain something
that your health can't sustain.
There's a whole lot of you that put your hands up and said,
for whatever reason, I don't know if I,
I'm not saying you're lying,
so don't, please don't write it and say,
Jackie said I was lying, I'll pray for something.
No, I'm not saying you're lying.
You might be delusional.
And if you're not delusional,
then you might just not really understand the question.
But you put your hand up and you said,
you know, I'm not overwhelmed or, you know, I've,
and here's the thing that we have to remember.
A lot of us have lived overwhelmed for so long
that we no longer even know we're overwhelmed.
We have been doing so much for so long,
it's become normal to us.
The amount of stress that you're carrying
has become normal to you.
And it will continue to be normal to you
until your body starts falling apart.
But I'm just being nice right now, friends,
because I love you and I'm just gonna tell you
that half the people on this call are physically unhealthy.
You're overweight, I love you.
You're overweight, I'm overweight,
but I'm doing something about it.
I'm working with a functional doctor.
I'm optimizing my hormones.
I'm moving my body every day.
You're like, well, Jackie, wait a second.
You went from capacity to weight.
Yeah, because that has a lot to do with capacity.
You think you're feeling good today,
but what about a year from now?
What about two years after you get married
and you have a heart attack or you get diabetes
or whatever, almost every single health concern
can be traced back to obesity and sedentariness.
So some of you that raised your hands and say,
yeah, I'm able just to sit and just be.
Well, maybe you're sitting too much.
Maybe you ought to walk and be.
I'm being friendly, I'm being friendly.
I love you.
Maybe you need to stop sitting.
Maybe you need to stop moving.
Because God cannot give you the desires of your heart
beyond what your body can sustain.
Okay?
And please do not use the excuse, well, I'm just old.
This is what old people look like.
No, they don't.
I follow a lady on Instagram right now.
She's in her 80s and she is buff.
Well, that's just her.
No, that's what's possible.
That's not just her, that's what's possible.
Do you want what's possible
or do you just want what you've settled for?
We gotta stop using a bunch of excuses.
We gotta stop it, starting with me.
So I wanted this thing and I looked at it from afar off
and I romanticized it, friends,
and I kept romanticizing it.
But you know what I didn't do?
I didn't do anything practical.
I didn't look at my life practically.
I didn't make space in my life.
I didn't get some training
or just do the things that's necessary
in order to be able to be successful at this.
And so because of that, I have to drive to Oklahoma today
to return a very cute puppy to its breeder.
And it's very sad.
Everyone's like, because I waited this long into the call,
we're 28 minutes in
and I haven't said what happened to the puppy yet,
people are like, where's the dog?
Jackie?
People are like, tell us what happened to the dog.
That's why I thought it was gonna already be gone,
but he got one of his vaccinations yesterday
and so he was up all night, poor thing.
I just wanna let you know that he's not been neglected
for one moment when he was with us.
In fact, he's the most spoiled dog
that's probably going to be,
he's probably going to go back into his litter
and be like, what?
What?
I know what it's like out there.
You guys wanna know?
I'll tell you.
But he is going back and I pray, my prayer for him is that he gets given to someone who
has counted the cost and has capacity and margin for him.
Someone who is either work from home or stay at home, maybe retire, that can take him out
every half hour after he eats, every two hours, that has a yard, that's safe from natural
predators in the circle of life.
We don't want the circle of life out here, y'all.
I don't want to see the circle of life.
Dogs are not on that food chain.
I don't want to see any of that, okay?
Seriously, if that happened to this dog on my watch, you know what?
You would just have to just go ahead and just take me to heaven, Jesus.
I'm coming home because I would not be able to handle that.
So friends, please learn from me.
The thing that you've always wished for and dreamed for, the thing that you could be pining
away after, it could actually happen tomorrow.
Are you ready?
It literally happened that fast for me.
One day I'm just scrolling like, I've done for over a year, you guys, I want to make
this clear.
And then all of a sudden there's this puppy and there's this fleece before the Lord and
it gets answered within five minutes and within 24 hours, I have a dog.
That's how fast it could happen.
Are you ready for it or are you going to have to throw that fish back?
And I'm just going to tell you, if you end up having to throw that fish back, now I'm
specifically talking about, you know, fish in the sea and your love life.
If you do happen to throw them back, you're going to probably not be objective about it.
You're probably going to blame a whole lot of things besides your capacity.
Oh, we just weren't right for each other.
It just wasn't the right time for them.
You know, they were too busy or I was too busy or, you know, whatever.
You're going to escalate yellow flags into red flags and you're going to say all kinds
of stuff because you don't want to admit that you just weren't ready for the stretching
and for the bandwidth that it was going to require.
The change, the refining, friends, I'm just going to tell you, relationships over the
age of 35, not going to be easy.
Not going to be easy.
Both of you are going to have so many moving parts, especially if you already have a family
or children.
And even if you don't, you're so used to being single, you're so used to being the person
that just goes and does whatever they want.
Look, this little fur baby wasn't going to allow me to do whatever I wanted anymore.
I was going to have to do what was right for him, for us, for the relationship.
I wasn't going to be able just to do whatever I wanted whenever I felt like it.
You're going to have to actually ask somebody else what they think about decisions that
you're making in your life.
The deeper you get into this relationship, you're going to have to actually put it up
for discussion.
You can't just do what you want if you want the relationship to go forward and to go deeper.
I hope this is helping someone today.
I feel super sad about what I'm about to do because he's the sweetest thing.
But I also know that I did not make margin for him in this season of my life and I wanted
him, but I also wasn't ready for him.
And I don't mind telling you guys that and that I'm not perfect and that I made this
mistake, but I'll tell you it won't happen again because that's one thing about me and
I think that's one thing that the Lord loves about me.
It's not that I don't mess up, but I very rarely mess up the same way twice.
Unless it's some kind of stronghold in my mind.
Why am I crying?
I'm not I mean, I'm not crying about giving the dog back.
He is super sweet.
But I just feel the heart of the Lord just telling us, hey, there's so much that I want
to give you, but also I know that it will break you.
And they're not in a good way.
I mean, yes, it's good to be broken in a good way.
It's good to be stretched.
It's good to be refined.
And so I want you to have the desires of your heart.
And, you know, God wants you to have the desires of your heart.
But you got to stop doing the same things over and over again and expecting to get
different results.
It's time for change, friends.
It's time for capacity.
It's time for pruning.
OK, it's time to make room for what's really important.
It's time for prioritizing.
And we're doing some of that with the halftime shift.
Like, hey, what are the most important things for me
for the rest of the year?
You are not gonna ever be able, please listen to me,
you are never going to be able to have it all
at the same time.
I believe over the course of your life,
you can have many blessings
and you can have what we call it all,
but you're never going to have it all
in the very same season.
There are some things that are going to have to be sacrificed
so that other things can live.
All right, and so I'm gonna give this over to Renee
for the next half hour for you guys to confess.
I think it's a great time of confession,
a great time of just praying for one another,
praying over your future spirit mates
that they're also creating margin and capacity.
This is not just a prayer for you guys.
Part of the reason why you haven't met them yet
is because they also are over capacity.
They also, if they met you tomorrow,
would end up by three days in,
even though they really like you saying,
you know what, I'm in a really busy season.
So I just think, you know,
you're not gonna see too much of me.
So don't get mad if, you know,
we don't go out again for a month.
No.
They've got to make room.
If this is a priority, if this is important in their life,
remember we're mature and we're marriage minded.
That goes for both sexes, not just men.
We added masculine to men because we like Ms.
Masculine, mature, and marriage minded.
All right.
All right, Renee.
Let's go ahead.
Let's have some good confession time
and then just prayer time over ourselves,
over those people that we're destined to meet out there,
over those, you know what?
You could even pray, you know, possibly you've made,
I feel it's in the spirit, so I wanna release this.
Possibly you have made space for a new job.
You've made space for it.
God told you, hey, it's time for something new.
And so you actually let go of your current job
and you've just been kind of in a holding pattern,
working maybe some temporary jobs,
getting ready for this new promotion.
I want you guys to also pray, Renee,
over people that are holding on to our blessings
because it's not their season anymore,
but they're holding on to things
because they are not respecting their capacity.
They're not respecting their seasons
and we're praying for them to release it and let it go.
We're praying for them to release
and let go of the things that belong to us.
Does that make sense to everybody else?
Release and let go of the things
that are supposed to come to us,
but other people are trying to juggle all the balls
and that's one of their balls
that they're still trying to hold on to.
So I really felt that in the spirit
for someone who has really been waiting
for, you know, what God told you is coming,
but it hasn't come yet.
So we want that to happen.
We want people to have wake up calls
that they also are living beyond capacity
and they need to prune some things.
And the things that they prune off
are gonna be the things that come to us
because those are the things we've been waiting for.
Listen, just because someone else lets it go
doesn't make it trash.
Doesn't make it not good.
Just because someone else lets it go
just means it's not for them anymore.
I mean, I found treasure at estate sales and yard sales.
I've been amazed at what people don't want anymore.
Right?
And so let's remember that.
All right, that's all I have to say this morning.
I hope this has blessed you.
I hope it has challenged you more than anything
because I'm being challenged in this area as well.
And it's time.
So Renee, take it from here.
So good, so good.
You guys, there are so many nuggets.
As we go into prayer, we've got about 24 minutes to go.
Remember, short, brief, and powerful.
It's not time to teach or exhort.
You just wanna pray right to God.
You don't need to explain it to us.
Any of those nuggets that Jackie hit for each one of you
might be something different.
So I don't wanna segment it out.
Like, okay, we're just gonna talk about capacity
or just about pruning.
Whichever is the one thing that really laid on your heart,
that's what you're gonna go to the Lord
and pray right to him.
And we're just gonna stand in agreement.
So we don't need an explanation.
Just go ahead, because I want as many people to come off.
If you bump into somebody else,
just mute and come back in in just a second.
And so, Father God, I just am already gonna be laying
this groundwork that everybody who speaks out loud
or puts their prayer in the chat
or who just says their prayer privately,
that, Father God, you hear all of them.
It's not gonna be cluttered.
It's not gonna be clunky.
It's not gonna be overlapping.
But that today is the day that we release
everything that has been shared today.
In Jesus' name, amen.
Okay, let's go.
Amen.
God, I want you to pray everything in my life
that's not of you.
God, I pray that you release whatever might be blocked,
anything that I or anyone else is blocking.
that you help us get out of our own way and anyone that is in the way of the blessings
and what you have for us that you remove that blockage in Jesus name lord i just thank you for
my spirit mate and i ask you for him to make space in his family for me and for me to make space
physically mentally spiritually to just relax let go of the things that i'm releasing right now
in Jesus name lord i thank you for the flock of birds that just took off in the field next to me
the moment that the first woman spoke the words asking for you to remove everything in her life
that is not of you father i thank you for the vision that you've given me of all of the things
that you are causing to flee in our lives that don't need to be there thank you lord lord i just
want to release my um difficulty or the block to losing weight i release it in Jesus name
and i release whatever block there is for me being single um but i just release those two
things to you lord and ask that you would come in and um work on my behalf in both of those areas
in Jesus name amen lord i just
oh heavenly father i just release anything that is blocking me from having a spirit mate and
anything that's blocking my spirit mate in Jesus name amen father god thank you for making so clear
what i need to release out of my life and it's continual stop and give me grace to stop and
and make room for my future mate and i hope him also make room for me spiritually financially
financially uh psychologically mentally rationally um for me and for my future for everyone online
father god thank you Jesus help me connect the right people and help my heart my mind so be
ready to meet with him and get us all in marriage in Jesus name amen lord god i pray that you would
give margin in my life lord would you make room where there isn't room father and uh lord i pray
for my future spirit mate i pray that they would have room as well lord and father we pray that you
would um we would just give this time to you god and that as we're making this space god that you
would make a way that you would part the red sea in our life lord lord i just thank you right now
and i just pray that you will prepare me for my spirit mate thank you preparation time is not
wasted time whatever's blocking it what i'm doing to block it i release that in the name of Jesus
thank you for bringing us together in this season i press into that and i pray that thank you Jesus
in Jesus name amen father my respect my steps holy spirit lord god our energy my time lord
your guidance holy spirit order our steps in the name of Jesus father god i just pray for us to
have the capacity in our lives grow us in this season of singleness so that we can be ready
like what for our spirit mates
but i pray for a guidance lord in this uh decision that i need to make this weekend
lord about a new uh side job lord and at the same time i want to open space for
for my spirit mate lord because as Jackie said lord it can happen like a suddenly
lord so i pray for for peace in my heart to make this decision this weekend lord in the name of
amen dear heavenly father we thank you Jesus that everything we want and everything we need
is found in you we praise you that you give us the capacity to walk in everything that you
purpose beforehand thank you Jesus we love you thank you that your ways are not our ways your
thoughts are not our thoughts thank you that you've got our best interest our hearts heavenly father
we thank you that you we are each one of us are uniquely fearfully and wonderfully made
and that you know our future from the beginning so thank you heavenly father for each and every
one of us on this call thank you for the wise words that are wise and loving words that Jackie
speaks over us each saturday and she reaches people all over the world and i so thank you
that you know what's best for us even before we ask you so thank you father god for removing these
blockages that are keeping us single and we just say thank you in advance for our spirits
make spirit mates to come in Jesus name i pray lord thank you for the job that i currently have
thank you for preparing me for my next job and show me anything that i may be missing
and i thank you for leading me in Jesus name amen father release any mental blocks that could be
keeping me from moving fully into the next season and new things that you have for me.
Jesus, I ask you to help me make room in my heart and my emotions and in my mind for the
spirit mate that you have for me. Help me to not be afraid to connect with someone on that level
and I pray that you work in my spirit mate that he would make room in his heart
and his emotions and his mind for me. In Jesus name, Amen. Heavenly Father,
thank you for Jackie. Thank you for this group today. I pray that
my next job will open up and that hearts will be moved to make the next position available and that
it will be a position that gives me capacity to meet my spirit mate and to be ready for that
and that you bless and protect my spirit mate to also have that same capacity. In Jesus name, Amen.
Lord, I ask you to show me areas that still require healing and show me what I need to do in
the next season. Lord, I also ask that you remove any barriers to having my spirit mate, the right
person enter my life and that you also heal him of anything that needs healing and remove any
resistance to the things that you want for me. In Jesus name, Amen. Lord, I just thank you so
much for this invitation to surrender and trust and to make room and prepare. Thank you for my
friend Stephanie. That's such a beautiful example. I thank you for all the things you've been showing
me about rearranging and making room and inviting me to use my voice and my own voice.
Lord, thank you so much for this beautiful day. I just repent for being easily distracted and
distractible. Lord, I repent for all of those times that have led to me just like collecting
things that have led to mental clutter and physical clutter. Dear Lord, I ask and just
humbly ask for an increased measure of the Holy Spirit to have more self-discipline. You know,
I love to start things. I will do it and get going and then I lose interest about halfway
through, dear Lord. So help me to see preparation to its fullness so that I can receive your good
measure and your good gifts to their fullness and not be limited by my lack of preparation,
dear Lord. So I just thank you for that and I thank you for the increase of the Holy Spirit and
repent and release any notions of guilt or shame or condemnation, but accept your Holy Spirit and
grace for a fresh start. Amen. Lord, I want to repent and on behalf of anyone else who may be
feeling this and ask you to prune off and relieve shame for those of us who have lived with no
margin, who have lived burnout and tired and saying that we want your best but not actually
making space for it. And Lord, I am the greatest of these. And so Lord, I just ask that you would
detox us from busy, detox us from the need to please everyone and Lord, that you would
just continue to input and remind us of our value. Lord, I know that it's just,
I just even repent of the shame of not and ask you to lift off the shame and repent of
not loving ourselves well, not loving myself well enough to say, no, that's enough. This is where my
boundary lies. And Lord, would you teach us a better way so that we can live vibrant lives
doing what you've called us to do, including loving our spirit mates well, because we've
loved ourselves well in Jesus name. So good, Elizabeth. I'm going to jump in real quick
and actually thinking about you and what you put down in the chat and you specifically prayed to
make margin in an area of your life that you're probably getting a lot of blessing. And you know,
when I stepped down from my job at Hope Clinic, you guys, it's been really hard the last three
years. So sometimes when God asks you for, to make room and make margin, you're going to have
to let go of something that looks really good, something you've been really successful in and
something that has really fed your ego and made you feel really important and special. And so I
say all the time to Brian, I'm like, oh my gosh, I can't believe you're meeting me when I'm just
nobody. I'm not the president anymore. I'm not saving babies. I'm not doing this. I'm just,
he's like, but I got to meet Renee. Like I got to meet Renee, the person that you say no one else
got to meet because you're always so busy. And so I'm also thinking of this song. And I actually
think you guys need to play it when we get off this call. It's make room and says, it says,
Here is where I lay down every burden in every crown.
And I never thought about that, you guys.
The burden might be the bad thing holding you down,
but the crown might be the good thing
that you need to lay down,
the thing that made you feel really special.
This is my surrender.
Here is where I lay it down, every lie, every doubt,
and I would say every praise and every shout.
This is my surrender, and I will make room for you
to do whatever you want to, to do whatever you want to do.
So we still have another 11 more minutes,
but I really just wanted to piggyback off
of what Elizabeth was praying,
because I really think for a lot of us,
that is a really a hard one,
because it includes letting our ego go too.
Thank you.
Dear Heavenly Father, in the name of Jesus, Lord,
I just thank you, I just thank you for Jesus.
And Lord, I just ask you to guide my steps,
direct my steps, let Lolita decrease
so you can increase in me.
Holy Spirit, guide me and bring my spirit mate to me
when you have prepared me to be ready.
I do not want to have to throw him back
because I'm not ready.
So I just thank you for that, Lord.
I thank you for that.
The same thing for a job.
I want to be prepared and ready.
I don't wanna be able to get the job and then can't keep it.
So I just thank you for all of that.
Do what you need to do in me to get Lolita prepared,
the mature Lolita.
No more little girl drinking milk and all of that,
but the one that's eating the meat
and standing on the foundation of God.
So I just thank you for that in Jesus Christ's mighty name.
Lord, I surrender and release me,
my mindset to stop trying to figure out,
to fix things and to fill up my time with more of me.
I surrender and I declare more of your wisdom,
discernment and your will in Jesus name.
God, I just, I thank you that my old job is no more.
I thank you for the time that I have
and the things that I build will actually be
towards future with my spouse
and that I don't waste time now that I have a lot of it.
And God, I ask that you would grow my capacity
for what I can both receive and give in the right content
and not overextended.
And I think what Elizabeth prayed too
of just loving yourself
and making space for boundaries as well.
So God, I just thank you for that.
And I thank you for that in my future spouse as well,
that they would make space in their life both.
Yeah, and just in every way that is needed.
Amen.
Father God, I come to you this morning
with a heart of gratitude and boldly before your throne.
I prayed this over myself
and every other person in attendance here
that you give us the strength, Father God,
to do the hard things.
Jesus had to do the hard things.
Your power is made perfect in our weakness, Father God.
So let us see our weakness as an opportunity
for you to give us that strength
and you to give us that guidance, Father God.
Help us to know our margins,
but to also function in full capacity
within those margins, Father God,
so that we can do your will for our life,
so that we can be a little more ready
and a little more prepared for each season
that is coming our way with our spirit mate
or jobs or families.
But Father God, I just pray over everybody
and release over everybody and myself
the strength to do the hard things
and the wisdom and the discernment to hear your voice
amongst all the chatter that is around us.
In Jesus name I pray, amen.
Yes, God, I just got this vision
and wanted to release it over everyone.
I thank you that we can release discouragement,
we can release the ties that bind us.
And the vision I got was like
when you play like the hot and cold game,
that while it is hard, while we do sacrifice,
that we can have more peace, more joy,
more fulfillment, more of your presence
as we get closer to you, as we are doing the right thing.
So I pray God that as we release things that are hard,
as we wait a little longer, as we do these things,
that you can give us little nudges.
Give us little winks that help us know we're getting warmer.
We're getting warmer.
You're bringing it in.
And anything that you can release immediately, Lord, I pray that you release immediately
inside of us that we let go, but any blessings that are being blocked that you have breakthrough
even today.
In Jesus' name.
Amen.
Yeah, God.
And we thank you that the things we release are blessings for other people.
And we thank you for those that are releasing the things that are.
We thank you for this exciting thing.
Father God, I confess that my identity is probably wrapped around my art business.
And so I surrender it to you, Lord.
And I also surrender the city I live in and the job that I have and, and the age that
I am and all the things that feel comfortable and settled.
And Father, I ask that you would extend the length of my cords of my tent so that I can
bring in more, that the capacity for a spirit mate would be increased.
And that, that you would identify false identities and blind spots.
And Father, I know that these are big prayers.
And I just ask that you would remind me when I get triggered or, or offensive or defensive,
when, when I get triggered, that it is something really good.
It's something good that, that you are exposing and that you are cleansing out of my spirit,
out of my soul.
And Father God, I ask these things for my spirit mate as well, so that we can come together
with the capacity and the margins that you have set.
In Jesus name, I pray.
Lord, I just surrender to you, just my life and everything that's in it.
And just thank you, God, for teaching me grace in this season.
And I have such a tendency to want to pile things on and just get it done.
And I, I pray, God, that you would show me that you'd prune or show me to surrender anything
that's not of you, God.
And you're just doing such a beautiful work and I thank you for it.
But I do feel like I've crowded it and I thank you, God, for what you're doing in my heart.
And I just pray, God, that I would have the courage to release things, to slow down again,
and also give to the two Christian incredible men that I'm speaking to right now.
And just pray that you'd help me to count the cost of long distance and just invite
you to prune in, to prune them, even though they're incredible people.
So I just pray that you'd help, that you would give me wisdom.
And I thank you, God, that when we ask for wisdom, that you will give it to us.
And yeah, thank you, Lord.
I give up what is good for what is best.
I surrender that to you.
And Lord, I thank you that you're showing me a clear green light and forgive me for hesitating.
I make that choice to step in, Lord.
And I thank you for Jackie's word this morning.
I pray for the person that has been holding on to their good instead of what is best,
that is meant for me, Lord, that that breakthrough would come.
I thank you in Jesus name.
Father God, help us in this season, a time for us to grow personally,
a time for us to prepare spiritually and to develop our trust, Lord, in your timing.
Help us to heal from our past.
Help us to use this time to develop our godly character.
Help us to be grateful in the season that we are in singleness,
not distracted by anxiety, loneliness, or jealousy.
Help us to use this time productively and faithfully.
Help us, Lord, to develop our purpose and mission.
Reveal the passions and purposes that you have placed in our hearts, Lord.
Guide us to pursue your kingdom.
Guide us to use your gifts that you've bestowed us with for your glory.
Help us to invest in ministry and serving others so that our lives are filled with purpose and meaning
in the stage, in the season that we're in,
not thinking that somehow marriage is going to bring about our purpose and mission.
And we pray for our future spouse, Lord, that they may be doing the same.
Equipping them, protecting them, allowing them to grow in their relationship with you.
you, and allow them to not be content where they are. And we pray and trust for your timing,
Lord, for all of this. Grant us the wisdom to recognize this past that you have for us
in the right time that you have for us. Help us to see beyond the physical appearance and the charm
and to focus on the Godly character that may take time for us to see. In your precious name,
we pray. Amen. That was good. So good.
All right, I'm going to wrap us up. And for some of you, you might be thinking, oh my goodness,
how do I even measure my capacity? So that was one of the best lessons I learned during
my sabbaticals, the difference between time management and capacity management.
And so between now and maybe activation Sunday, start to jot down everything that's on your
calendar. An hour is not an hour. You guys, like for me teaching and leading prayer or teaching a
class or a fitness class, that one hour actually gives me more energy at the end of the class.
I'm not going to lie. Driving an hour to get to a chaplain gig sucks the life force out of me.
And so start to pay attention to not just how much time things are taking, but what is it drawing out
of you? Does it bring all the good stuff out of you? Does it leave you sapped in energy? So you
might find that an hour is not an hour. So that is a homework assignment that you could probably
take into going into Sunday night. Father God, we just thank you for everything that was spoken
out loud and prayed out loud. Everything that was put in the chats, that was a part of someone's prayer.
Part of the prayers that are just sitting somewhere stuck in people's heart because
they're like, I'm not ready to let it go yet. And I confess that I'm not ready to let it go yet.
But I'm willing for you to work on that. So Father God, those are specifically the people I'm
praying for right now. The ones that are like, yeah, I know I'm supposed to let this go, but I'm not
quite ready. We get it. It's okay. No shame in that. And so we're going to pray that the Lord
helps you take root of that and pull it out when it's ready. So Father God, I ask that you bless
every single person here, that you give them abundance and you give them a special God nod
today that lets them know you were with them through this whole call. In Jesus' mighty name,
have a great rest of the weekend, y'all.
God bless you all. Bye-bye.