All right.
Welcome to Supernatural Saturday.
It is so great to see all of your faces and you can see my face today.
Look at that.
Very excited to be on camera today.
David has us all set up with Starlink over here in the studio at our house.
So prayerfully that will continue to hold strong.
And then also we will be set up at the wheelhouse studio before too long.
David is down there working diligently to get the studio set up down there and we'll
be live from there very soon.
So why am I all spiffed up?
I did put on a sweatshirt.
I changed out of my suit jacket because I was on the news this morning.
Did anyone catch me on the news?
Raise your hand if you saw me on the news live.
I did put it on my social media that I was going to be on Newsmax this morning.
Did anyone see me on the news?
Nobody.
Nobody watches the news.
Good.
Cause you probably shouldn't watch the news.
But at the same time I was on there.
So I had to get all, you know, fixed up and ready guys.
News starts early in the morning.
I don't know how these people do this news thing because no, sir, starts really early
in the morning.
I heard that people, they get up like in the middle of the night, like the third shift,
they get up at like four in the morning to go and do this new stuff.
But I was on the news this morning to talk about the rise of AI relationships.
People want to hear about, and the news story was there's a rise in people outsourcing their
human connection to AI.
Now I don't think it's the majority of people, but I do think that there's a lot of us that
lean way too much into the internet and away from community.
And that doesn't have to be AI.
It doesn't have to be a chat bot.
It could also be just spending too much time scrolling, too much time on social media,
too much time interacting with people that you don't know in real life and probably will
never meet in real life.
So you guys know that my new book is coming out, modern dating sucks, and it really does
delve deep into the idea that we need to come back to a place of in-person community-based
matchmaking.
And you guys know that that's my mantra anyway.
So it was really fun on the news this morning, but that is why I was there.
But I want to tell you guys something else that occurred to me after I got off the news
this morning.
So I've been on the news four times, four times I've, well, that's not true.
When I first moved here, I was on the news down in San Antonio.
So five times I've been on the news in my life, actually six times.
When I was a kid, I was on the news because they were doing some special on the tree lighting
in downtown Cleveland and I'm on the news.
So six times in my whole life, but as an adult, five times in the last year, four times.
Why is this significant?
Because I really want to release something over all of you.
So years ago, when I first started out in ministry, I had received a word that I was
going to be on television, that I was going to have a TV show and people had dreams and
gave me words based on these dreams of, Hey, I saw you on TV.
You had your own TV show, blah, blah, blah.
And I think that I've told you guys several, several times I've said on some kind of broadcast
on here that I was in a TV contract to actually be the host of a show, a reality TV show three
different times.
And every time something happened that made the contract fall through.
And that's okay.
Timing is everything.
The thing that I remembered this morning is that I auditioned back when God gave me this
TV word, let's say circa 2010, I was not working in television yet.
I had all these beautiful prophetic words that I was going to work in television, but
I hadn't worked in television yet.
And I had done that internship.
Remember for those of you that remember the story that as soon as God told me I was going
to be on TV, I started going around knocking on doors, asking people to give me a TV internship.
I'll get your coffee.
I'll, you know, get your dry cleaning.
I'll do whatever you want me to do.
Just let me hang around at the TV studio so that I can really learn and understand because
I believe in putting feet on my prayers.
And if you don't believe in putting feet on your prayers, then that's where you're going
wrong.
You got to put feet on them.
Imperfect action is still action and belief requires action, even if it's imperfect.
And so I got out the phone book.
This is how old the story is.
And I searched and searched and searched for the TV stations in my city.
And I called each one of them and asked the producers if I could have an internship there.
Are you in school for broadcasting?
No.
Dial tone.
Ding.
You know, like I didn't have any reason to have an internship.
I wasn't in college for broadcasting, wasn't going to school to be working in television
either in front of the.
camera or behind the camera, but I just had a word from the Lord.
And I asked God, make sure that you ask God, if you need some kind of specified,
specialized training, because I said, Lord,
do you want me to go to school for broadcasting?
At the time I was 35 years old. Do you want me to go back to school?
I'll go to school for broadcasting. By the way,
I did end up going to school for broadcasting,
but at the time I didn't feel like God was leading me to do that.
So long story short,
before I went to school for broadcasting,
before I got a job as a general manager of a television network,
before any of that happened in my life, before I got an internship, by the way,
one of those TV stations said yes.
And I ended up being the GM of that station later.
So I came in as an intern and then later on after broadcasting school,
I became the general manager of that station.
So shows you what can happen in a very short amount of time.
If you will trust the Lord and you will move forward on the words he gives you.
But before that,
you guys know that I've always been the matchmaker and I've always been the
love guru. I've,
I've always been the person in my friend group that people come to for love
advice. God's given me a lot of wisdom about relationships.
I've always been the person that helped people get married and also get unmarried
to help 15 of my friends, um, step into their forever love stories.
And the bottom line is,
is that good morning America had a random audition
to have someone be their love guru.
And so I auditioned,
I didn't have any experience besides what I did in my personal and private life.
I didn't have a resume. I didn't have a psychology, um,
bachelor's degree. I didn't have, you know,
I didn't have any of the things that I probably would have needed to be
seriously considered for that.
But I just really felt like the Lord highlighted it to me.
And so I would have been on the news. I would have been on these morning shows.
I wouldn't have been on like every week as the love guru,
like answering relationship questions, kind of like dear Abby, but for love.
Right. And how many of you think I would have been really amazing at that?
Raise your hand. You're not, you're not, listen,
you're not peeing on my leg and telling me it's raining.
I believe I was born to do this.
And I think that I would have been amazing at it. Okay.
But I didn't even get a call back. I didn't even get a call back. And you guys,
I was really sad about that. That made me feel really sad. I was like,
I don't even understand. This is a perfect opportunity for me.
Why can't I have it? Why can't I have it? Someone's going to get it.
Why can't I have it?
And sometimes friends is because you need us to keep sewing towards the things
that God has given you to do.
Because a lot of times we'll have a disappointment like that,
and then we'll give up, right? Oh, this isn't from God.
If this was from God, then it would have happened. This would have happened.
I would have gotten this opportunity. Can't God do anything? Isn't the stuff.
This is stuff we tell ourselves when we step out in faith and we do something
crazy and it doesn't work out. But you guys guess who's on the news.
Now talking about love. Hello,
this little chicken nugget right here. This one's happening, you guys.
And I had a full circle moment this morning after I got off the news where
they're looking to me for my expertise, where they're wanting me to weigh in.
I got off and I went for a walk out here in the country where I live.
And I was like, Oh my goodness. I,
I actually not only am I on TV randomly sometimes,
but also as the love guru as the love expert, because what I tell you,
I was super disappointed that I didn't get chosen for that part.
And for that opportunity, I was super disappointed,
but it wasn't long after that friends that I became the general manager of that
television network, I would say within six months.
And so you see, and that has led us here.
Everything that I've done since then has led to here.
And this is way more important to me than being on the news.
But I just want to let you guys know that there's a lot of full circle moments
out there for you.
And I released that word at the beginning of 2025 full circle.
And so many people have had full circle moments and it's not over yet.
I'm just going to go ahead and call a continuance on that word into 2026,
but God's going to add a new word.
Make sure that you're with me at the beginning of the year,
which is coming so fast friends. It's coming so fast.
The beginning of 2026 is coming so fast and God is going to add to our
Rosh Hashanah word, right?
He's going to add to the words that he gave us there because God is building.
He's always building on it.
Now,
sometimes we have words that kind of are expired in the way that God wants to
give us a new dream. And if you did not see last week's supernatural Saturday,
please go watch it. Cause it's all about that.
It's all about bringing our dreams to the Lord,
especially the unfulfilled ones and asking God to either extend them like a
library book. Remember the library you'd have a book and it was due and you
bring it in. Cause you weren't done with it yet.
And you'd ask them to give you an extension. You want to renew it.
I want to renew this book. I don't want to turn it in. I want to keep it.
And so you need to bring those dreams to the Lord and say, Hey God,
are you going to renew these dreams?
Or do I need to turn them in and go get a different book?
Do I need to be reading a different book in this season of my life?
Then the one that I've been reading over and over again and really
hoping that something more is going to happen with it.
That's a word.
And if you did not hear last week, supernatural Saturday,
then please go.
And listen to it because it is going to be a powerful,
a powerful moment for you of really finding out.
What you should be believing for in this season and what you should be
taking action on.
Two.
Dual twofold.
What you should be believing for,
but also what you should be taking action on because it's not just
about believing.
If you believe something, then you're going to take action on it as well.
Amen.
Yes, there I am. Hi everybody. Okay.
All right.
So we're going to start that.
We're going to start today.
With just a little bit of just.
Breathe in.
Breathe out.
Just reset for a second.
I wanted to give you that update on some full circle moments.
I believe that more and more.
The siege is over.
Whatever was blocking you before and keeping you from being able to do
what it is that God has promised you that you can do.
There's nothing stopping it.
There's nothing blocking it.
One.
Another trend that I'm seeing that I feel like I really need to release.
I am seeing.
As sad as this might be to some of you, I am seeing the ending of long.
Running situationships here at the end of 2025.
I'm going to talk about a couple of things that we've seen in
relationships.
And in relationships that they started out very promising,
but now they've stalled out.
They've stalled out and they've actually been stalled out,
kind of broke down on the side of the road for a little bit of time
now. And people are trying to fix them. They have the hood up.
They're trying to figure out what the problem is.
But they're not fixable.
It's a situation where we need to walk away from those things because
we need to move forward.
And we need to move forward in peace.
And I'm not going to jump into another one,
but just understanding that this took us as far as we can go with it.
And there's beauty to be had there. There's learning to be had.
Right. We learned a lot of things in that relationship.
But we need to take the good that we got from that.
And we need to move forward in peace.
Knowing that God is going to use that.
Nothing is lost in the kingdom.
And God said, I will not be mocked.
Whatever you sow, you will reap.
Meaning that it's not wasted. It's invested. It's invested. Yes.
You cannot see the fruit from it yet, but you will see the fruit from it.
In the way that you date differently.
In the different caliber of people that you choose that are more in
favor of the right thing,
but they're also in a different caliber of people that are more in
favor of the wrong thing.
And they're also in some situations.
They're in some situations where they're not going forward.
They also are leaving these people with a lot of different ideas.
And different.
You know, standards, if you will,
for what they want.
Going forward in a good way.
And none of them are ending with any kind of fight or any kind of.
You know, it will, none of them are ending with ill will.
It's just, you know,
it's just a matter of finding the right balance between the good and
the bad.
And that's where both people are realizing, Hey,
this is not the right fit for marriage.
But I bless you.
And I thank you for the time that we've spent together.
I was just having a conversation with one of those people this
morning.
And I was just thinking about how important it is to remember that
everything is working to our good.
And that we don't have to be, you know,
just in grief and in mourning.
And you know, anger sometimes,
but instead understanding that everything is working to our good
because God is for us and life is for us.
And that is really, really, really important for us to remember.
So I want to talk about something today.
That was introduced to me.
And it's something that's going to hit your heart in a really great way
as well, because as we wind down 25,
Even though we're already in 5786,
As we wind down 2025 and we step into this other season,
This parallel season to the season and year that we're in already with
the Hebrew calendar.
I believe that God wants to tie up some loose ends in our hearts.
I do.
I believe that he wants to make a way for us to release some things.
Especially things that we're carrying that are going to keep us from being able to step into the things we've been praying for
So there's anything in your heart that's really going to keep you from stepping into the things you've been believing for
Let's just open our hearts to the Lord this morning and say hey God
Reveal it and heal it if we're carrying any anger for carrying any kind of misplaced
Expectations if we're carrying especially any kind of shame
shame, especially
Pray that you would reveal that that you would heal that if we're for carrying any
Grudges against others against ourselves
Beating ourselves up for mistakes that other people made that we shouldn't have allowed them to make or that we have made just different things
That would cause us to have an inferiority complex
Things that would cause us to not show up like sons and daughters in our everyday life
Or we're asking that you would reveal and heal that in Jesus name
Amen. All right
Whoo, my eyelashes are sticking together because I put all this stuff on my face for the news this morning
And now my eyelashes every time I close my eyes, they don't want to open
But we're gonna we're gonna muddle through. All right, we're not we're not gonna muddle through because the siege is over
And my eyelashes are not gonna stick together
So I want to talk to you about a very familiar story that we all know from the Bible
And that is the story of the prodigal
The prodigal everybody know that story, let me see the hands of the people that know about that story
Raise your little hands if you know the prodigal story
Okay
A lot of hands up a lot of hands up. So for those of you that don't know the prodigal story
it's just the story of a
man, okay a patriarch of a family a wealthier man that had two sons and
The younger son wanted to take his inheritance and go
He didn't want to stay didn't want to work for the father
I wanted to take his inheritance and just go and do his own thing
And so the father gave him his inheritance and the Word of God says that he went out and he squandered it
he
mismanaged his inheritance and
We could we could stop right there and we could do a whole teaching on
mismanaging the things that God gives us the father gives us right we want all these things from the father like give it to me
Give it to me. Give it to me. Give it to me, but we can't handle it
We don't have the maturity to handle it
It's not that God doesn't want to give it to us
It's that we don't have the maturity to handle it. What are we gonna do with it?
We're gonna squander and a lot of us have already done that we've squandered opportunities. We've squandered relationships
there's at least some of you listening today that feel like
hindsight is
2020 and you're looking back at
Relationships that you had an opportunity to be in in the past and you messed it up for whatever reason
You decided that it wasn't the right thing for you or you had?
Attachment style issues or you had unhealed heart stuff and you weren't mature enough to be in that relationship
You picked a fight for you picked a fight with it. You left it whatever happened
And I get it
I do I see a lot of things that I could have done differently because hindsight is 2020
But we don't live in the past
Nostalgia is just a fancy word for fear. And so it's important that we don't look behind that we're looking forward
Because there's nothing better back there than what God has before us
And so if you're one of those people, I just really want to encourage you to look forward because God has redemption for your story
He wants to redeem whatever it is that you think that you missed out on and I talked about that on last
Supernatural saturday about how we're longingly looking at the boats that have pulled out of port thinking that there's no more coming but there is
There's always boats pulling in seeing if you want to be the captain of them or not
And so I just really want to encourage you that it's not over your chances
Your opportunities are not over by any stretch of the imagination
So this father gives it to him. He goes out. He mismanages it. He gets himself in a lot of trouble
Honestly, he's around good time friends. Anybody have those good time friends? They're happy to be with you when you're happy
They want to be in your life when everything's going right, especially when the wine is flowing and you know
The activities are coming and you're doing all kinds of fun things. But as soon as you go through a hard time crickets, they're gone
You have no idea where they are, right?
We've all been around people who are users or takers
Especially if you're a giver and it sounds like this young man was the life of the party
And he was allowing, you know his inheritance to be used to entertain other people and then pretty soon
He was broke and there wasn't any of the people that were there when he was being so generous
With his money and his time those people were now gone and he was left alone
And it said that he got so low that he ended up in a pig yard. He ended up thinking that the
Pig slop.
And for those of you that have been around a farm
at all in your life, woo, pig pens.
My grandparents had a farm and they had pigs.
And that's about the stinkiest thing that you can imagine.
Stinks so bad, stinks way worse than cows and horses.
Pig, woo, stinky.
Stinky as a pig pen.
And I mean, like literally like,
I have a really sensitive gag reflex.
And so if I smell something gross,
even if it's like rotten food in the refrigerator,
like I start to throw up a little bit.
And so that is the kind of stench
that's coming from these pig pens.
And I remember my grandma would have a bucket
by her back door where she would just scrape
all the garbage in, didn't have a trash compactor,
didn't have a garbage disposal on their sink.
This is back in the day.
She just had a bucket and it was called the slop bucket.
And everything in the world went into that slop bucket.
Things that shouldn't go together, right?
From all different types of meals.
And as soon as it got filled up,
it was time to take it out to do what?
To feed the hogs, to slop the hogs.
And I, many a times in my young adolescence
have slopped a hog, slapped a pig.
No, I slopped a hog.
And that just means taking out the slop bucket
and pouring it in the trough where the pig is going to eat.
And this guy was so hard up that he was thinking
that that looked delicious.
Now I'm telling you, even as a child,
like trying not to throw up from the stench
from the slop bucket and all the flies
and just thinking about it makes me want to, okay.
And he was so hungry and he was so down and out
that he was thinking that that looked good,
that that looked good.
And it says that that's when he kind of came
into his right mind.
How many of you know that you've got to be out of your mind
if you think that that is looking like a good thing?
And so it says he came to himself
and was like, I need to go home.
I need to go home and face the music.
I need to go home and face whatever it is.
My father can make me a servant in his house, right?
I'm a son, I've been a son, but he can make me a servant.
And the thing is friends is that when Jesus tells the story,
by the way, Jesus is the one telling the story.
I took it at face value, the love of the father,
the father running to his son
and welcoming him back as his son,
even though he's made all these bad decisions
and giving him that ring, that signified authority.
It says he put a ring on his finger,
that signified authority and putting a cloak around him,
that signified identity.
You are identified by the clothes you wear,
just like you are nowadays.
You are identified by the clothes you wore in those times.
And so this man was an upper class man, this father,
this is the upper class family,
an aristocratic family, if you want.
And that identifying ring of authority, the signet ring,
back then they used to write letters
and buy things and sell things or whatever,
and they would put their signia on it.
So it gave him back the family ring
and also back his identity of the garment
that he would put on.
And so a really powerful story,
if that's all we ever got from it.
But just recently I was introduced to the Hebrew
or the Hebraic meanings behind the story.
And I'm telling you,
and I really believe that God wants us to,
wants to deliver us from shame this morning.
He wants us to deliver us from inferiority this morning,
and he wants to help us step back
into what Jesus was really talking about.
And that is true sonship,
in a way that I don't know that I have even experienced
and I don't know if you have either.
And so let today, this morning be the beginning of that.
So let's talk about the real Hebraic meaning
behind this story.
So there was a ritual that the Jews,
and remember everyone that Jesus was telling the story to
would have known what I'm about to say.
They were Jews.
So they would have already known
what a son like that deserved.
They would have already known
what would happen to a son like that
if he ever deigned to come back home.
You know how they say you can't go home again?
Well, you can't.
In this instance, in the Jewish culture,
you really can't go home
because if you go home,
something is going to happen to you called Keh-Zah-Zah.
And all my Hebrew scholars can correct my Hebrew,
but like ketchup, like Keh-Zah-Zah.
So Keh-Zah-Zah was a ritual that was performed
in these ancient times
of cutting off disgraced family members.
And I have some notes written down here.
So if you disgraced the family,
like say you ran off and married a Gentile,
and we're only talking about men right now, friends.
We're not talking about women.
Keh-Zah-Zah was a man thing for the most part, a son thing.
And if you disgraced the family,
like maybe you married out of the lineage.
you married a Gentile, you did something like this prodigal,
you wasted your inheritance, you were in sinful living,
whatever it was that you did that brought disgrace
and shame to your family.
When you came back and tried to reunite with your family,
all the people of the town would meet you
at the border of the town, okay?
And they would take a clay pot,
and normally that clay pot was filled with something bad,
like spoiled food, or just like my grandma's slot bucket,
they had clay pots that they put refuse in
and different things, so it was a refuse pot, basically.
And they would bring that to the border of the town,
and as you were trying to come into town,
they would smash it at your feet.
And that was a sign to you and to everyone else
that you are cut off from your people.
You guys, I didn't know this part of the story.
I didn't know it,
but everyone that Jesus was talking to knew it.
They knew that the prodigal deserved Kezaza, Jesus.
That's what he deserved.
This wasn't a private putting away.
This wasn't a private conversation of,
oh, hey, you've shamed your family,
and now you're cut off from us.
It was a public shaming.
It was a public situation, all right?
It was community rejecting,
because remember, most of the people in your community
you were probably related to at some level.
That's why it was so shocking
that Abraham left his father's house.
He wasn't leaving a house, just one place.
He was leaving his father's lineage and legacy.
All these people were related to each other
in some way, shape, or form, right?
So he was leaving the land of his father's.
And so when you come back into the land of your father's
after doing something disgraceful, they Kezaza you.
That's what happens, right?
It is community rejection.
It is a social death.
You're a pariah.
You might as well have leprosy,
even if you don't have leprosy, right?
Because you're gonna be put in, you're put away in shame.
And it was so powerful when I saw this,
because it was permanent.
If you were Kezazed, it was permanent.
It was shameful.
It was final.
It was like being canceled in our day and age, right?
It was a permanent situation.
And everyone listening to Jesus talk and tell this parable,
and you can find this in Luke 15, everyone knew it.
And so the real supernatural revelation was lost on me.
Maybe it was lost on you too.
Some of you may have already known about Kezaza.
I did not.
But what happens next in the story with the father,
this is why it's so crazy.
We already thought it was amazing, right?
Oh, the father sees him and he runs to him
and he puts his robe on him and he puts his ring on him.
We already love the story,
but we're gonna love it even better right now
because the father was subverting a shame-based system.
Come on.
Woo, he was going against protocol
in a way that only the father can do.
And that is so amazing for so many of us
that have been through so much.
And maybe we deserve to be rejected
or maybe we deserve to be cut off.
You know, we've all sinned
and come short of the glory of God for sure.
But because of Jesus and the finished work of the cross,
that's what Jesus was talking about here.
Because of that, we get to step into relationship with God.
We get to step into sonship.
We get to step into authority.
We get to step into identity.
And it's just so incredible.
So when Jesus tells this story,
he wasn't just telling a sweet little parable.
He wasn't.
He was telling a counter-cultural,
subverting, crazy, mind-blowing story.
That's what he was doing here
of yes, unconditional love for sure.
But more than that,
he was turning an entire system on its head.
Do you guys see that?
An entire system that was based on rules
and right and wrong, right?
Based on black and white, wrong and right.
He was subverting the entire system.
That's what he was doing here.
Because this prodigal son deserved Kizazah.
He left his community.
He sinned with Gentiles, right?
He was not just out there with other Jews.
That's not what he was doing.
He was living among the Gentiles.
He was wasting his inheritance.
He was disgracing his family.
You could just hear people whispering.
And I think this is a really important message
because a lot of you are gonna see family
in this holiday season.
Family that maybe wanna Kizazah you
or maybe you've Kizazahed, all right?
There's a whole different layer here
that I feel like Holy Spirit's trying to take us to
right now, all right?
And so God is trying to show us grace
in a way that is going to hopefully change the way
that we think about the people that have done us wrong
and the people that think that we have done them wrong
or the people that just don't like us.
They don't love, they don't,
they just have rejected us for whatever reason.
When he returns, when the prodigal son returns
to the village, I'm sure he fully expected.
This is why it took him so long to come back.
This is why he was rather be laying around with the pigs
instead of coming back.
Because when he came back, it makes sense now.
When he came back,
he knew that he was going to be facing Kazaza.
And that's why he was hoping that his father
would just see it in his heart
to just even make him a servant in his house.
Do you guys see it now?
Do you see it?
He would have been ostracized and cut off.
He would have been shamed and disgraced.
He would have been cut off from his people,
but he was hoping that the father would see it in his heart
to just even allow him to be a servant.
Wow.
And some of you need this type of grace
with grown adult children, with grandchildren,
with brothers, sisters,
you need to extend this grace to people in your lives
instead of continuing to cut them off in disgrace.
So Jesus shifts the story now.
And it would have been a great story
if he didn't get Kazazad
and the father just let him come back home.
Come on, come back home, prove yourself.
All right, you got some proving to do.
You got some explaining to do.
But that is not what happened.
The father did what he's about to do,
what I'm about to tell in the story that you all know,
but I'm gonna tell it from a different perspective.
He did all this without even an apology from the prodigal.
You guys, we need to take that in.
He didn't make him prove himself.
He didn't let him grovel.
It was none of that.
None of that happened.
So the next thing that happens
is that the father is watching for the son, okay?
Word got around that this guy was headed back to town.
Because you and I might say,
hey, you know, there's no telephones and stuff.
So how do people know to meet you out
at the border of the town to Kazazad you?
Yeah, because word of mouth travels fast.
And people knew that he was heading back home.
Word on the street was the prodigal was coming back
with his tail between his legs.
And the father knew that,
and the father was watching for him.
You like how I keep having binoculars?
The father was watching for him.
The father, it says that he was watching for him.
And when he saw him yet afar off y'all, afar off.
And this makes sense to me now,
because the father wanted to get to him
before the maddening crowd got to him,
before all the people that didn't have the father's heart,
before all the people that didn't love him.
And a lot of us, unfortunately,
those people have gotten to us before the father got to us.
The people at our church, the people in our community,
the people that cut us off without even a second glance.
A lot of us have experiences where we've been Kazazad,
even if we shouldn't have been.
I don't tell this story often,
but when I was divorcing my first husband,
I had a woman from the church come
and knock on my front door and tell me
why I was sinful and wrong
and shouldn't be doing what I was doing.
That chick was trying to Kazazad me.
She was, why?
Because I was getting divorced.
She didn't want to hear my side of the story.
She didn't care what my side of the story was.
She just showed up and here's the thing.
She wasn't even a friend of mine.
She never even talked to me at church hardly.
She didn't invite me to lunch.
She didn't invite me to coffee.
She just tried to come to my house and Kazazad me.
And a lot of us have had those,
we've had those experiences.
Raise your hand right now if you've had that experience.
Where the father was trying to get to us,
but the people's voices were louder.
We weren't listening to the father's heart
because people were screaming in our ear
about how bad we were and how wrong we were
and how we shouldn't have done what we did
and religious voices.
Remember the elder brother is watching all this
and he ain't happy about it.
Religion is never gonna run to meet you.
It's going to relish in you being ostracized and shamed.
Religion loves shame.
Come on.
Anyone else ever had someone try to shame you publicly
for whatever it was that was going on in your life?
But the father sees him afar off
and now it makes sense to me.
He wanted to get to him before the others got to him.
So he was watching,
making sure that he could get to him
before this ritual happened.
And so he ran out, he ran.
First of all, friends, patriarchs don't run.
They don't, they don't run, okay?
They don't, they don't have their Nikes on.
They're not running.
They're just having people run to them and come to them.
They're not running to other people.
Once you get to this level in your family,
as a man in this day and age,
a patriarch, a man of great standing,
you're not going to be running.
So he ran.
He ran to his son.
He got to his son before the haters got to him.
He got to him.
before he was publicly shamed. He was a dignified man, I believe. He was a landowner. He was the
head of his household. This story is talking about him being, you know, a man of great reputation
in different ways. And why did he pull up his robe, I'm assuming, and sprint to his son,
besides the fact that he didn't want him publicly shamed? And it's because the father was saying,
shame, public shame is not going to get to my son before I do. Come on, you guys. Shame is
not going to get to my son before I do. I will not allow him to be cut off.
I will not allow him to be disgraced. His actions disgraced himself. But the father
was trying to circumvent this. And that's what Jesus came to do on that cross,
to circumvent the disgrace that we already had earned by just being born into sin. By one man's
sin, we all became sinners. But by one man's righteousness, we all became righteous. And the
father wanted to restore the prodigal before anyone had a chance to publicly reject him.
And this is such a beautiful picture of God's supernatural grace, because it outruns shame.
You know that beautiful song that says that he kicks down the door, reckless love. Anyone know
that song, reckless love? It reminds me of the story of the prodigal. You don't have to do any
of this, but you do. You show up, you kick down the doors of our shame, the walls of our shame,
you kick them in. I love that. He outran judgment for his son. He outran shame for his son.
God wants to outrun our shame, our rejection, our past with the blood of Jesus that's been pursuing
us, pursuing us friends. And it's time that we allow it to catch up with us. So I want to just
release a prophetic declaration over all of us today. For those of you that don't know the song,
reckless love, go listen to it. It's powerful. Okay. Go ahead and close your eyes. I want to
just pray over us. And then we're going to do an activation. Is this powerful? You guys,
when I heard about it, it just rocked my heart. It makes this story so much more special to me.
I always love this story, but it makes it so much more powerful for me.
And you guys, even if you're not right now,
right now, even if you're not relating to the prodigal, because maybe you've been
living a good life for Jesus for a long time,
please don't allow yourself to step into the shoes of the older brother.
Don't allow yourself to step into those shoes.
Understand what God is saying right now. He didn't, he didn't want you to be shamed. He
doesn't want you to be cazazad and he doesn't want us to cazazad anybody else. Yes, there will
be boundaries in relationships. There will be relationships, unfortunately, that we have to,
you know, not have contact with, but we can do that honorably. We can do that gracefully. We can
do that in the love of the father, right? That's how we can do that. We don't have to cut people
off. We don't have to curse people's names. We don't have to do those things. And I really
believe that there's some reconciliations for this holiday season that God wants to
usher in. As we understand this, as you let go of your own shame,
rejection that you're carrying because of the way that people have cut you off and treated you as you let go of that. Yeah, that's not your identity anymore. You become the son and daughter of God that you are, and then you carry yourself differently. And God can do different things through you and to you because of that. And then also the people that we've cut off, that we're holding grudges against,
that maybe if they groveled, we might forgive them. God really wants to do some work in our hearts today. So go ahead and close your eyes.
Because I feel like some of us are just standing on the edge of God's mercy.
Because I feel like some of us are just standing on the edge of community, holding so much shame. We just haven't been getting into community. We don't allow people to get close to us. We've kind of kazazed ourselves because we're carrying so much shame. People haven't cut us off, but we've cut ourselves off. We've cut ourselves off because of perceived failure, because of mistakes, because we've let people down, because we've let people down.
God doesn't want us to be cut off anymore. He wants us to be reconnected to community, to friendship, to love, to marriage, to family, because we're no longer marked by our mistakes. We are marked by the blood of Jesus.
We are. We're not disqualified. We're fully qualified by the blood of Jesus.
Jesus. So hear the word of the Lord today. Shut your eyes. Hear the word of the Lord today.
God says to you, I am the father that runs to you. I want you to picture him in your
mind, running to you, running to you, blocking out the things that are trying to hurt you and
destroy you and cut you off. I am the father that runs to you. I am the one who restores you.
I am the one that who restores you, restores your reputation, your name,
restores your fortunes. I, his vengeance is his. He is the one that repays. He is the one that
restores everything that's been lost. Everything that's been stolen. I am the one who interrupts
the ceremony of your shame. I am the one that interrupts what the enemy is trying to do
through people. I am the one that interrupts what the enemy is trying to do through your own mind
and heart. I am the one that interrupts that. I am the one that is not going to allow you to
be cut off. I'm the one that has grafted you back into the vine. I am the one who carries you. I am
the one who loves you. I am the one who is inviting you to fully come home to me, fully come home.
So put your hand on your heart right now.
You can close your eyes, not close your eyes, whatever you want to do. But I want you to think
right now about a time where people have tried to perform this ceremony of shame on you, have
tried to shame you, try to cut you off, try to disgrace you, maybe even publicly humiliate you,
kazazad you. And I also want you to think of any time where you've done that to someone else.
Maybe it was a family member. Maybe it was something at church that happened, a relationship,
a friend group, maybe even yourself. You've tried to kazazad yourself,
you know, shame yourself, humiliate yourself, talk to yourself in just such a gross inner voice
that's just so full of condemnation and judgment.
What shame story has been following you
that you've been rehearsing over yourself, or maybe you've been rehearsing over someone else?
What shame story do you keep talking about and keep telling over someone else's life?
If you want to share, go ahead and put it in this chat.
I want you to picture the father not hesitating, but running to you,
welcoming you with open arms, giving you authority, not making you prove yourself,
just giving you authority because you're a son, you're a daughter, giving you
garments of identity. And I also want you to see him doing that to the person who wronged you
because he does long to do that. He may not do it through you. You may have nothing to do with
their redemption story, and it may be safe for you to not be in relationship with them. That's fine,
but you can not be in relationship with them and still release them from this kazazad.
And I really want to encourage you to do that right now. They may not even be alive on the
earth anymore. They may be someone that you hope to never see again in your life,
but you can still release them. You can, and we need to.
God wants to cover us all with the blood of Jesus, with that robe of righteousness that
Jesus has provided for us at the cross. And the enemy can't uncover us. You guys,
if you decide to wear that robe of righteousness, the enemy cannot take it off of you.
He can't. So I want you to repeat after me. If you want to make this declaration,
I want you to declare that the father is restoring me. Come on. The father is restoring me.
The father is re-robing me. The father is re-ringing me. Come on. The father is re-naming me.
And today can be the day that I fully come home to his heart. This can be my homecoming day.
This can be the day that I actually allow the father to robe me and ring me.
To reconcile me, to restore me.
Yes, Lord.
I'm going to get back to you.
Yes, because you guys, we're not our mistakes.
I had a quote on a website years ago.
And it was about forgiveness.
And it was the very beginning of me teaching the heart work and.
The quote just said that, you know, when we're the full,
the full circle of forgiveness,
the final layer of forgiveness is when we're willing to no longer
identify someone by the pain that they've caused us.
No longer willing to identify them by the pain that they've caused us
because they are not their mistakes and we are not our pain.
That was the quote that they quoted me on this website as saying.
Because it's true.
Oftentimes when people wrong us, when we wrong others,
our identity gets.
Placed into that mistake.
So if someone's wronged you in your little black book, they're the liar,
cheater, user, abuser, loser.
Right. That's how you think of them.
That's how you think of them.
That's their identity to you.
And oftentimes we think of ourselves that way when we're the ones that
made the mistake.
We're failures.
We're stupid.
Run worthy of love.
And so God wants to strip us.
Of the shame.
He wants to put back on us.
The dignity of sons and daughters.
Of walking in the finished work of the cross and being righteous,
just because of what Christ did for us.
He wants to break off everything.
That would tell you that you not only have made mistakes,
but you are a mistake. We got it. We got to let go of that.
We got to take it back.
We got to let go of it.
And what we did was we got to learn to let go of the sin.
And we learned to let go of the sin of transgressions,
of the transgressions of the law.
And we learned to let go of the sin of transgressions there.
And a lot of people were really set free from a lot of the things that
I'm talking about right now.
And it was, it was just incredible.
It was incredible transformational time.
So as we see from the prodigal story,
we don't have to earn our way back into God's love and neither do other
people, the other people that have wronged.
Us.
They do not have to earn their way back into God's love.
And so I want to give you a little bit of a heads up on this.
Because I know this is a little bit of a long story,
but I want to give you a little bit of a heads up on this.
Because I know this is a little bit of a long story,
but I want to give you a little bit of a heads up on this.
Once again, I'm not using this as a template for human relationships.
We want to make sure that we have appropriate heaven.
Orchestrated boundaries.
But not all the psycho babble that keeps us in these constant shame,
sin cycles. We don't want that.
And we need to release that today.
And so for some of you,
I want to encourage you to accept that.
And I want to encourage you to accept that.
Because I think it's worth.
Your time and effort and such beautiful.
Words of grace.
In this season of your life.
And I just really want to encourage you to accept it,
even if you feel like you don't deserve it.
And especially if you feel like you don't deserve it.
Especially because a lot of us have been living like spiritual orphans.
We really have we're here. Yeah, we're showing up.
We're hoping that God is going to bless us with what it is that we've
come here for.
And God is going to bless us with what it is that we've come here for.
And that is being a son.
You're hoping.
As an orphan,
you're hoping that someone will have benevolence on you as an orphan
more, please, please, more, more.
You're hoping that someone's going to give you something.
But as a son and daughter,
you just go down and you sit at the table and you just start eating.
You're hoping that someone's going to give you something.
You're hoping that someone's going to give you something to eat.
Think about even those of you that.
You know,
would be dining at someone else's home where it's not your home.
You're not the son and daughter of that house.
You don't just go and get in the fridge. Do you? And just.
You don't do that.
You wait to be invited. You wait to be, you know, asked to sit down.
You wait to be invited to eat.
But the sons and daughters of the house don't do that.
They just do whatever they want.
Right. Why? Because that all belongs to them.
And this is the message that the father tried to tell the elder brother
who was so ticked off.
And now I understand why the elder brother was so ticked off.
Not only did the younger brother not get.
The younger brother.
The elder brother was so pious.
Like I've done everything right. I've served the father.
I've been exactly what I'm supposed to be.
And then he sees this younger brother, get all this favor,
get all this love, get all this undeserved grace.
And then on top of that, the father throws a big party for him.
And then he goes, I'm sorry,
I didn't mean to do that. I'm sorry.
I didn't mean to do that.
And then at this point,
a lot of people please see the story.
All the people that would have been meeting him out at the edge of town
and.
And him the father now.
By his own embrace of his son, by running out and showing everyone,
you better not.
That's what's gonna happen here.
You better not even think about it.
I'm bringing him back in, I'm giving him authority.
And this guy was a landowner, this guy was a big deal.
And so no one's gonna mess with what he wants to do.
And he's also giving his son his authority.
So not only you're not gonna mess with me,
but now you're not gonna mess with my son
because he has the same authority that I do, right?
But then he takes him home and he invites all the people
that were ready to shame him, to celebrate him.
Whoa, this story is just blowing me up.
You guys, do you see it?
Do you see it?
I just want you to know the greatest moments of your life.
And I don't want you to have sour grapes about this.
I don't want you to have an ego about this, not sour grapes.
I don't want you to have an ego about this.
I don't want you to have a big head about this,
but there's gonna be moments in your near future
where God is going to literally celebrate you
in the presence of your enemies.
The Psalmist said, in the presence of my enemies,
he welcomes me as his special guest
with blessings overflowing.
His goodness and unfailing kindness will be with me
all of my life.
Woo, come on.
The people that are hating on you from afar
and they can't wait to see your downfall.
I know it's sad to say, but for some of us,
there are people out there that would like nothing better
than to see something unfortunate happen to us.
Maybe not like us die or something,
but like lose our money or lose our relationship or whatever.
They don't want good things for us.
They hate us.
They've come into agreement with a spirit of hatred.
But Father, we just release them today.
You command us in your word to pray for those that hate us
and despitefully use us, right?
And so we just pray for them today, Lord,
that you would just help them, God,
to see that we all deserve kazazah,
but you sent Jesus to the cross
so that we can receive your unmerited grace and favor.
Woo.
Not just to us, but through us, Lord.
And so we just release that, but we know,
and we don't relish in this.
We relish in the favor of the Father,
but there will be a time when they get to see us celebrated.
It's just the word of God.
It's just what it says.
So we're not bystanders and we're not orphans.
We are children of the house.
And so God is inviting us to come and sit at the table
and dig in today, not stand outside the door,
not say, oh God, I'll just be a servant in your house.
I'll just be a servant in your house.
I got divorced.
I messed up.
I did this.
I did that.
You know, I'll just serve you.
Whatever you want, God.
No, he's saying, what do you want?
Go listen to last week's Supernatural Saturday.
What do you want?
What makes your heart beat fast?
The Father wants to not only embrace you,
but he also wants to show you that you can't be replaced.
He wants to embrace you.
Mary, your time is up, sweetie pie.
Not.
I'm sorry, yep.
Okay, hold on.
He wants to embrace you, not replace you.
Okay, all right, he does.
He wants to embrace you, not replace you.
He doesn't want to replace you as a son and daughter
at his table and you become a servant.
No, that isn't what he wants.
That's not what God is looking to do.
Sorry, I'm just looking to see if anyone needs to be muted.
He doesn't want to do that.
He's not doing that.
You may be doing that to yourself.
You may be downgrading yourself to a servant.
You're working for God.
You're punching a time clock for God.
Just how can I serve you?
He wants you to love him and he wants to love you
because you are a child of God.
All right, okay, so I want to speak a blessing
over all of us.
We're down to the wire here.
Hmm, God is telling some of you guys, your robe is ready.
Your ring is ready.
Come on, your robe is ready.
Your ring is ready.
Your place at the table is ready.
It is, so I want you just to close your eyes
and I'm just going to, I'm just gonna speak a blessing
over all of us this morning.
Woo, and for some of you, once again,
this is what needs to flow through you
towards somebody else.
It's not just to you, it's through you.
Yes, Lord, yes, Lord.
All right, thank you, God.
So I just want to do an old-fashioned kind of blessing.
May the Father outrun every lie,
every shame, every mistake, every accusation.
May the sound of broken pots that have been broken at
your feet in the past never define you ever again.
Jesus. May you walk in sonship and daughterhood.
May you know the embrace of the Father who restores,
and may this be the season that you fully allow yourself
to come home as an heir and a joint heir with Christ.
All right, so friends, I want you to try to walk this out
this week in different ways.
If you hear the accusing voices of the past,
because a lot of times we just do this to ourselves.
It's not even anyone else doing it to us.
It's us trying to shame ourselves.
I want you to remember that God is waiting with your ring
and with your robe.
And I want you to picture yourself,
not only not coming into agreement with the accusations,
but actually coming to the Father and allowing him
to embrace you, allowing him to ring you,
allowing him to robe you, right?
Allowing him to help you, allowing him to run to you
as he wants to and desires to do.
And I want you to really try to step back into community.
Instead of fearing community, instead of fearing rejection,
I want you to allow the love of the Father
and this revelation that we've gotten this morning together
to actually propel you back into relationship with people
without the fear of rejection,
knowing that you've already been accepted in the beloved.
All right, I love y'all.
I appreciate you.
Was this powerful for you as it was for me?
So powerful for me, especially the idea
that not only did the Father run,
not only did he circumvent the ceremony of shame,
but then he threw a celebration with the very same people
that were about to, you know,
cut you off.
Wow.
Wow, wow, wow.
Yes, the replay should be up sometime today.
Maybe let someone in your life
that you think really needs to hear this, hear it.
I know that it's for our community,
but perhaps play it for someone who really needs to hear it.
I think that's how you can pay this.
You can pay this message forward
because I believe there's a lot of people
who need to hear this message.
I love you guys.
Have a supernatural Saturday.
See you soon.
Thank you.
God bless.