All right, everyone, good morning, good morning and welcome to Supernatural Saturday.
I apologize for my raspy voice.
I am getting up very early this morning here on the West Coast and like I said, I have
not had that many hours of sleep, but we're going to press on through and push on through
and it's going to be a wonderful and amazing.
Today I wanted to talk a little bit about Advent.
That is the season that we are currently in and if you haven't noticed yet, I am very
much a times and seasons girl.
And the reason why is because God taught me years ago to respect my times and seasons.
I'm a prophetic person, a prophet actually.
They say that you're only a prophet if other prophets say you're a prophet and other prophets
have said I was a prophet.
So I'm like, all right, I'm a prophet, let's go.
And as a prophetic person, because I've always been a prophetic person, God has taught me
to really look and see what time is it, what are you doing and set my expectations according
to that.
And I really want to just release that over all of you because there's a lot of things
that we want to have happen, but it may not be time for them to happen.
And so you're just going to be pushing against, you know, the rock trying to roll it out of
the way.
It's better to allow God to roll it out of the way.
Amen.
And so I'm not talking about predestination.
I just had a little exchange on my Instagram yesterday with someone who apparently must
be a Calvinist of some sort.
They must believe in predestination and, you know, predestination takes away our ability
to have free will and free will is what it's all about.
And this person was pushing back saying that I shouldn't be helping people to get married
because they don't need to participate in that.
If God has that for them, then one day it's just going to show up.
God's going to let them be in the right time, the right place, and they're going to meet
their person because God has already foreordained that.
And while there's some truth to that, you are going to be in the right place at the
God wants to give you.
That is not because God has predestined it to happen is because God is inviting you to
it and you have received the invitation because you have the right mindset and the right heart
posture.
Because think about it, if God chooses our spouse and he chooses everything else, including
whether we choose him, it's going to let that settle in for a second.
If God chooses your spouse, if it's true that he chooses your spouse, he's already picked
them out for you, then that means he chooses your job, he chooses where you live, he chooses
whether or not you choose him.
And that just doesn't seem very fair, does it?
And it also seems like we would just be a whole entire human group of robots, humanoids.
I mean, there's nothing, there's nothing left for us to choose if God has chosen everything
for us.
And so it isn't either or, it's both and.
I believe that God is constantly inviting us into his choice for us.
Come on, y'all.
God is always inviting us into his best for us, his choice for us, but we have to pull
the trigger on it.
We have to choose.
He's showing us the right choice.
And I don't believe that it's about always best.
It's good, better, best.
Good, better, best, oftentimes, the choices.
And I do believe that even when we zig instead of zag, go right instead of go left, if the
case may be, that God in his mercy and in his goodness will still help us to make the
next best choice, right?
In order to get us to good places.
I do not believe that it is like, okay, well, I made a bad choice here.
I followed after my flesh here.
I didn't follow the spirit here.
I was caught up in my fear of man over here, but I'm still going to make it to the very
same destination.
No, I don't think that you do get to the same destination.
I think that you get to a similar destination.
I think it's kind of like those choose your own adventure books.
Remember guys, remember reading those?
Raise your hand if you remember reading those.
I cheated in those books.
I just want to let you know when it said, if you, if you choose this, go to page 14.
If you choose this, go to page 26.
Well, I went to page 14 and page 26 to see which story.
I liked better.
And I did that all through the book.
Why?
Because I was choosing my own adventure and I choose to make the right choice to have
the ending that's happily ever after.
Because if you remember those books, sometimes you're like eaten by a crocodile and then
up, got to go back to page one.
So apparently none of you read those books, okay, but I think that walking with God is
a lot like that.
It's, you know, every single path that we take, if we surrender to the Lord, even after,
you know, we've realized, oh, this is not really the best path.
I can't tell you how many times I have made a choice based on some of the things that
I mentioned before, fear of man, fear of disappointing others, lack of obedience on my part.
Sometimes friends, I saw the red flags waving in my face.
I'm not talking about romance right now.
That's a whole different story with me.
I got some crazy stories in my life of romantic escapades, romantic entanglements, okay?
You know, I was married before, but I had plenty of boyfriends too.
So we won't go into all that right now, but I will tell you that in my life, okay, even
married to David for the last 18 years, there have been decisions.
All of us make decisions.
We make decisions every day about what to eat, where to go, who to be friends with,
what invitations to take, which ones not to take, which freeway to get on, which job promotion,
which opportunity.
And I will tell you that there have been decisions that I've made where the red flags were literally
hitting me in the face and I still did it.
I still did it.
I knew it was a rattlesnake before I picked it up.
And you're like, Jackie, why would you do such a thing?
Well, because I didn't want to disappoint somebody.
I had the fear of disappointing people.
I had the fear of people being upset at me.
I had, you know, just fear in general.
Fear is a really bad decision maker.
Did you guys know that?
It's really, really, really bad decision maker.
And so I had all kinds of different things that caused me to make the wrong choice kind
of on purpose.
I knew it wasn't going to work out well.
And then guess what?
I wasn't surprised when it didn't work out well.
Whether it was a business opportunity, whether it was having someone come and work for me,
whether it was, you know, whether to go to an event or not, or to receive an invitation
or take an invitation, there's just all kinds of lists of things.
So for all of you that are sitting around and thinking, hey, you know, people that are
super spiritual like Jackie Dorman, they make all the right decisions.
Let's just laugh at that together because that's ridiculous.
And so as you can see, our life is made up of all kinds of decisions.
Tiny decisions and big decisions.
But I believe that after we make the decision, I just recently made a really bad decision.
I halfway knew that it wasn't the greatest decision.
And I don't want you guys to think that I'm just roaming through life making all the bad
decisions.
I make good decisions too, you know.
But I want you to see the beauty of the freedom of free will and choice.
Now, very few of those decisions did God just say, don't do it.
I'm not talking about having a word from the Lord and being disobedient.
I'm not talking about that at all.
I'm talking about my regular laying down, sitting up, eating, drinking, walking around
life.
There's all kinds of decisions to be made.
And how many of you know that you don't have a word from the Lord on all of them?
You just got to kind of use your own wisdom.
And we lack wisdom, don't we?
We lack wisdom because we're operating under a lot of fear.
All of us, without exception, is believing a lie right now about something in our life,
about ourselves, about someone else, about situations.
And so I try to make good decisions, but sometimes I make decisions with the wrong motivations.
Like I just said, not wanting to disappoint someone, not wanting to let somebody down.
Trust me, I'm getting cured of that.
It's been a long road though, because of my past, because of my childhood.
We all have a predisposition to certain things that trip us up and distract us a lot.
So life is full of all these decisions.
And you know, I pray about them.
I do, but you don't always get a clear answer, do you, friends?
Sometimes you get a gut instinct.
Sometimes you have a check in your heart like, hey, yeah, that's probably not the best choice.
Sometimes other people come along and they're just like, hey, you know, I took that road
once too and it wasn't actually the greatest road.
There's a lot of potholes on it.
So maybe you want to take a different route and you just do it yourself.
You just go yourself.
You just do it anyway.
Why?
Because you've got a hard head.
I get it.
I've been hard headed many, many times and I don't know where Holy Spirit's taking us
right now because I want to talk about Advent, but apparently Holy Spirit wants to talk about
this.
We're going to talk about this for a few minutes.
So life is made up of all these beautiful moments of choice, friends.
And I just want to let you know that if you make a choice and it's not the right choice
and you realize it's not the right choice and you come to God and you say, hey, I made
a bad choice here.
I can see it very clearly.
I shouldn't have trusted this person.
I shouldn't have gone to this thing.
I shouldn't have taken this job.
I'm two weeks in now and they're already giving pink slips out to people because they're downsizing.
There's things that we do, friends, where we can just come to the Lord and we can say,
hey, I exercise this beautiful gift of free will and choice that you've given me.
And I went down the wrong road and I need you to put my feet back on the road to you.
I need you to take my feet off this path of pain.
This is a scripture, actually, and lead me back to you, lead me back to your will for
my life.
And friends, His will for your life is for you to be in perfect peace, for you to have
perfect joy, for you to be in health, for you to prosper even as your soul prospers.
And it's a journey to get there.
It's a journey to get there.
And God will do exactly what you've asked.
And so this is where I wanted to get to.
He will lead you to good places.
Will they be the same places that you would have gotten to if you would have made different
decisions along the road?
Probably not.
Maybe sometimes, but it's okay.
What I'm trying to help all of you understand is that you haven't missed any boats because
every time you ask God to put your feet back on the path, you're still going to a really
great place.
And this is why God doesn't choose our spouses, because we always end up on different roads
because of our own free will and choice.
I hope it doesn't offend you for me to tell you that there is right now on earth, probably
dozens of people that you could be happily married to out of the eight plus billion people.
It's not really a lot of people because there's eight plus billion of us.
Maybe there's hundreds of people that you could be happily married to.
You're like, what?
Oh my God, that's so random, Jackie.
No, it's not.
It's not random.
I want you to get out of this idea of the one.
Even if you believe it's just a little tiny bit, I want you to get out of that idea.
What I want you to understand is that there are people on this earth like you that love
God and that are trying their best.
They're putting one foot in front of the other every single day, and they're praying these
prayers, asking God to lead them to him.
And all you have to do is cross paths with one of them.
And make a decision that you guys are going to walk together.
David and I did not have to love each other.
There were definitely obstacles to us coming together.
And there were many times in our friendship where it occurred to me that, hey, you know,
maybe this could become a relationship.
And then there were also times that I was like, yeah, I don't really want that.
And it wasn't relationship anxiety.
It wasn't relationship OCD.
It wasn't necessarily my attachment style.
It was I have free will.
And I stand before you today to tell you that had I not married David and gone on this adventure
of blended family and all the things that we've done for almost 20 years now, which
I do not regret for one moment, I'm so glad that I said yes, I still believe I'd be happily
married right now.
Does that weird you out?
I would just be happily married to somebody else.
The reason why I believe that Holy Spirit is taking us down this road this morning is
because he wants you to stop believing that there's just one adventure that you can take
in this life.
There's many adventures.
adventures that are of Him.
There's many adventures that are of Him because we make God so black and white, so wrong and
white.
But you have to understand this is the same author of the cosmos, of quantum physics,
of everything outside of this tiny little ball that we're spinning around.
Yes, I believe that the earth is round and not flat in the universe because we put everything
in our lives in such a tiny little box.
And that's the beauty of the season of Advent, which is what I want to do Supernatural Saturday
on.
So thank you, Holy Spirit, for bringing this thought full circle.
Do you guys realize that during Jesus's time, Israel had not heard from a prophet in 400
years?
Wow y'all.
That's crazy.
If your only way to hear from God is through a person, through a prophet, and there's been
dead silence for 400 years, that'd be pretty scary, wouldn't it?
It'd be really scary.
There's some different players in the Advent story, and all of them had to risk a lot.
Mary risked a lot, Joseph, there was a lot of risk, Israel in general, 400 years of silence.
And a lot of you feel like that too.
Right?
A lot of you feel like there's been a lot of silence, there's been a lot of missed expectations.
And so let's talk about that because God wants to increase our expectation during the season.
I believe this is a miraculous season, bringing it full circle to the beginning of Supernatural
Saturday today.
I do believe that there are times and seasons where there's just more angelic movement.
And this is one of them, friends.
This is a season marked by angels.
And I know that you can't see them, or at least most of you can't.
Some of you may have been able to see them once or twice, or maybe you see them regularly.
I used to have a pastor who used to see angels all the time, but they're all around you.
The messengers of heaven, they're all around.
There's all kinds of agents of heaven, agents of heaven all around us all the time, ready
to make things happen.
So we're not going to talk about Advent this morning as a tradition.
A lot of people, it's traditional, they have an Advent calendar, they light a candle, they
do something depending on what your denomination of Christianity is.
I want to talk about living in this expectation season.
Because Advent is about being between the promise and the fulfillment.
And a lot of us have felt like that is where we live all the time, between the prophecy
and the manifestation of the prophecy, between whatever God said to you and it actually showing
up in your life.
And that space has a name and we call it Advent.
But it's important that we understand that Advent is not about passive waiting, and that's
not what last year singles about either.
It's about active expectation.
And that's why during your heartwork season, when you come into this community, the very
first thing we do is heartwork.
And the very first thing we do in heartwork is we raise up our expectations.
Because there's nowhere in the word of God where God tells us to not hope too much or
to lower our expectations or to be content with less.
He doesn't.
He tells us to prepare.
He tells us to ready our hearts.
He tells us to stay awake.
He tells us to keep our oil full.
Always ready for some kind of divine encounter.
And so this season is the embodiment of that.
Advent is the tension of knowing that something is coming even when you can't see it yet.
And I love expectation.
A lot of you that have been around here for some time know that at the very beginning
of my discipleship, God began to teach me expectation.
He began to teach me preparation.
I remember the days where he told me to pack a bag and leave it by the front door like
you would if you were pregnant and going to give birth and go to the hospital.
I didn't know what to put in the bag.
I asked him, what should I put in the suitcase that I'm packing?
And he just said a little bit of everything.
Well, where am I going?
Well, you'll see.
And I kept a packed bag at the door ready to go.
I was ready to go.
I've also made sure in my life, this is something that I continue to do, is I tie up loose ends.
So if God wants to put me into a new season, he can.
There's never a time in my life where I have lots of loose ends.
I don't.
I tie up my loose ends and I tie them up pretty quickly because I want God to be free to promote
me no matter what I'm doing.
You know, back in the days where, you know, wars would pop up, thankfully that's not necessarily
happening right now.
We have a different type of war.
We have cyber wars and we have chemical warfare wars and, you know, biological contaminant
wars.
But back in the day of just the footman wars, there were these people, these men, and they
called them minute men and they were a militia and they were highly trained, but they were
just busy doing their regular lives.
They were farmers and, you know, most of the population was agricultural, so they were
mostly farmers, but they could be craftsmen, tradesmen of some sort.
But at any moment they could be called to go to battle and they were ready.
They were ready, you guys.
That's where the scriptures talk about beating your plowshares into swords.
It's talking about just leaving what you're doing and going.
And I live my life that way.
I'm always ready for the adventure.
If God is going somewhere, I'm calling shotgun.
I'm going to.
Now, I'm not saying you need to live your life that way.
Maybe that isn't for everybody.
Maybe that's just something that God's given me to do, but if that sounds exciting to you,
then I want to encourage you to tie up your loose ends.
Tie up your loose ends.
I know that we get frustrated because God starts with small things and that's what Advent
is all about.
Jesus could have arrived instantly.
We know that.
But instead, God chose him to be gestated inside of Mary, a teenage girl's womb.
He definitely could have arrived supernaturally, fully formed, fully grown, unmistakably powerful.
I mean, all of Israel had been waiting for Meshuach forever, right?
So I mean, that would have been amazing and incredible, and I'm sure that most people
expected him to arrive that way, but he didn't.
He chose a buildup.
He chose a gestation, a pregnancy, an incubation, a process, because every promise has a process.
And why is that?
Because miracles are often formed.
They're formed.
I know that we think of miracles as being instantaneous, and there definitely are very
instantaneous miracles.
But oftentimes, miracles are formed before they're revealed.
And we see Jesus, even in process, when he's healing people and doing things, just doing
some sort of process, having people wash, making mud packs for people's eyes, and just
doing all kinds of different things, we see some process in some of the miracles that
Jesus performed when he was on earth.
I think there are lots of reasons for that.
I think that one of the reasons is that Jesus was showing that there was a part to play
and also showing that not all miracles look alike.
But most of all, I just really believe that Advent teaches us that God is always working
behind the scenes, y'all.
I really want to encourage you with that right now, because a lot of you don't see any changes
on the surface of your life, and I want to encourage you that God is always working behind
the scenes long before anything steps onto the center of the stage.
Long before.
Have any of you ever been in a play?
I have.
I really wanted to be involved in the theater when I was younger, and I was in theater in
high school, and I was in plays when I was younger.
And before that curtain goes up, even dress rehearsal curtain goes up, the day before,
long before the show, we're preparing, right?
In fact, it's all preparation.
It's all preparation for, you know, I was only in plays that ran for one day.
Perhaps there's shows that run for weeks and months, and I know that they do.
But in my experience, it was a lot of preparation for just one day of center stage.
So
it was a lot of preparation.
is 95% behind the curtain or behind the scenes.
And so I don't want you to despise small beginnings
because small beginnings do not equal small outcomes.
Just because there's only maybe a little bit of progress
in something that you've been praying for for years
doesn't mean that tomorrow it can't show up fully formed.
That happened with my brother.
In fact, if I'm being fully transparent with you,
I actually had been sort of giving up hope
that anything was gonna change with him.
And he's physically just so unwell
that I actually was expecting instead of the miracle
that God promised me 28 years ago,
I was more expecting his miracle
to be just him taking home to be with Jesus,
if I'm being fully honest.
And can I tell you that even though
there's been 28 years of prayer on this,
I didn't really see any type of change
on the surface of him.
In fact, I had just talked to him.
He had just been at my house and I was so frustrated
because he wanted to like live in his car in my driveway
for the winter and I had to tell him no.
See friends, these are the lessons that we learn
when we make decisions
because we don't wanna disappoint people.
This is the kind of stuff I'm talking about
where I have allowed my brother or someone else
to do something that I knew wasn't a good idea
and then I had to live in the consequences of that
because I said yes, because I didn't wanna upset them.
You guys do it too.
Y'all do it too.
I know you do.
So he had just left here
and he was roaming around Texas somewhere.
And you guys, I've been through this for 28 years with him.
And then he calls me out of nowhere and says,
I found a house because I've been asking him for years.
Will you please find a trailer?
Will you please find a camper?
Will you please find a double wide?
Will you please find a little house somewhere,
a piece of land that we can put a camper on,
anything so that you're not homeless?
Because my mom left money for him.
There's no reason for him to be homeless
and he just wouldn't do it.
No, I don't wanna do that.
I don't wanna do it.
I wanna live in my car.
I wanna be mobile.
I wanna be in my car.
I don't wanna, 100,000 different reasons why.
None of them make sense
and none of them are based in reality.
And then out of nowhere, friends,
out of nowhere during this Advent season,
he says, I found this place, I want it.
What, you want it?
You wanna put down a trailer?
You wanna put down roots?
You wanna make a commitment and buy this little house?
Okay, well, it's out of the price range
of what mom left for you.
So go out for the guy this much money.
See if he'll take this much money
for this little tiny 1,000 square foot house
on a literally a tiny little 3,000 square foot lot.
And the guy took it.
And at any point in that process of closing on that property,
my brother could have backed out
and I've seen him change his mind a million times,
not necessarily about a house.
This is as far as we've ever gotten with this,
but all kinds of different things,
renting an apartment,
something that would cause him to not be homeless
and not have us worry about his safety every day.
And you guys, it went all the way through
and he's now a homeowner and lives in a house.
And can I tell you that this miracle kind of snuck up on me
because I wasn't expecting it at all.
I've been expecting it in past seasons and maybe that's you.
I can tell you about past seasons where I was like,
man, I really think something's gonna shift with Jake.
I was praying for him and I felt something in my spirit.
And I really think that this is the time.
And guess what?
It wasn't.
But this time it came with no fanfare.
It came with no Holy Ghost goosebumps.
It came with nothing that would announce
any kind of miraculous time except it just happened.
So friends, I don't care if you feel
spiritually dull right now.
If you haven't had a word from the Lord for a while,
if you haven't felt angelic activity for a while,
if you haven't felt like there's any kind of
supernatural hope on your promise for a while,
I am telling you that we are in a season
where messiahs come unannounced in mangers.
Do you hear me?
And they may not look like much at first, but they grow.
into the most miraculous events of our lives.
So just because you don't see it yet
doesn't mean it hasn't started,
because it has.
So just like what I just went through,
the danger of this type of season
is that we are losing expectation
right before our breakthroughs,
just like me and my brother Jake, okay?
So what happens?
Why do we lose expectation?
Well, it's been a long time.
Hope feels risky.
Anybody else?
Hope feels risky.
You know, my brother was saying,
you know, he's gonna sleep in my driveway
in his car for the winter.
Dear God, by the way, I said no.
Are you proud of me?
I literally said, no, you're not.
You're not gonna stay in my driveway in your car.
You're not gonna do it.
Sometimes, you know, our miracle breakthrough
is gonna come on the other side of us
saying no to something,
something that we would normally say yes to,
because once again, we're people pleasers.
Let's just admit it.
Most of you women on here are definitely people pleasers.
So try this word.
It's a little word.
It's very easy to say.
No, say it with me.
No.
I kind of like it.
You like it?
It's kind of a good word.
No.
And the reason why we have such a hard time
saying no to other people
is because we've had too many people say no to us.
We've had too many no's in our lives,
and we just simply don't want to cause
the same type of disappointment in others
that we've had all of our lives,
and I understand that,
but you cannot say yes to everything.
You gotta say no
so that you can have that better yes, right?
We want that better yes,
and so I don't think it's an accident,
because guess what?
My brother wouldn't have been off driving around Texas
if I would have said yes.
He would have been in my driveway, wouldn't he have?
He would have been sleeping in my driveway,
and what would have caused,
it would have been a delay.
There would have been another delay,
and maybe that house would have been purchased
by someone else,
and maybe it would be a different house that he lived in,
because once again,
I believe the breakthrough was gonna come,
but I think that we, a lot of times,
decide the timeline of the breakthrough
based on what we're willing to put up with.
I mean, if you're willing to go around the mountain
another 40 years
instead of facing some of your fears in the promised land,
then so be it.
I do know this.
I know that when you begin to partner with expectation,
it's going to stretch your capacity.
You are going to have to face your fears.
You're going to have to align your posture with heaven
in a place of faith,
and the reason why we let go of that fear
and let go of expectation
is because it's been too long,
and hope feels risky.
We don't want to take risks anymore.
We're constantly listening to that voice of disappointment
that's whispering to us,
don't get your hopes up.
I know that voice very well,
and I know you do as well.
So how can we stay expectant in this season
without demanding to be in control?
How can we do it?
Well, we can continue to align and prepare.
I packed that bag,
I set it by the door,
I had no idea where I was going or when I was going,
I just knew I was going.
And friends, you don't prepare a nursery
after a baby arrives
unless you didn't know the baby was coming,
and I have seen some stories like that,
and they're very strange stories,
but we prepare for what we believe is coming.
Remember, belief requires action.
And so you continue to prepare
even when it doesn't feel like anything has changed.
And so for those of you
that are praying for miracle breakthroughs
in whatever area of your life,
but you have not made room for them yet,
that's your first step.
Because if Advent is anything,
it is not just the invitation to hope
and to expect,
but also to prepare.
So let's apply this.
Let's personally apply this.
We have a few minutes left.
All right, so what are we gonna speak over?
What have you lost some expectation in?
I just use my brother as an example
because it's a miracle that my family is still celebrating.
Just happened this month.
So, very excited about it.
Still just, actually just in awe of it.
My brother's sending me pictures.
The washer and dryer got delivered.
My brother lives in a house with a washer and dryer.
My God.
What in the world?
What?
Sleeps in a bed.
Sleeps in a bed, you guys.
Sleeps in a bed.
All right, so, maybe there's a relationship in your life
and I don't mean romantic,
but a different type of relationship
that you just stopped expecting any kind of healing
to happen in.
It's just been so bad for so long.
You used to believe that you were gonna have breakthrough
in that relationship.
You used to believe there was gonna be healing,
forgiveness, reconciliation, but you stopped believing.
Right?
Maybe there's something that you've wanted to do
and you've worked towards in the past,
but it didn't work out, so you shelved it.
Some of you have shelved promises.
You have promises that are on a shelf somewhere.
You gotta take them down during this season.
You gotta dust them off,
just like you do your Christmas ornaments.
Take them out of the boxes, clean them up, look at them.
Remember, remember where you got them
and how it made you feel.
A lot of people don't have just Christmas box,
Christmas ornaments from Target.
You have things that mean something.
You have memories tucked away in boxes
that you bring out once a year.
So, perhaps at this time of year,
it's time for you to take some of your wishes and dreams
and hopes off the shelf and take a good look at them.
That might look like taking out your old journals
and reading them.
You'd be surprised what you've written to yourself.
Can I tell you that those of you that journal,
you are literally journaling to yourself.
And if you go read old journals,
you will minister to yourself
like nothing you've ever experienced.
I can't tell you how many times I've needed encouragement
and no one was encouraging me.
And I went and read old journals
because I have haphazardly been a journaler,
meaning I'm not consistent, I don't do it every day.
But I go through spurts of it since 2010
and I will get out those old journals
and I will minister to myself with them.
So, maybe that's what it looks like.
Maybe getting out an old vision board.
Maybe for those of you that keep prophetic words,
maybe you have them recorded in your phone
or you have them written down somewhere,
getting those things out, taking a look at those things.
Guys, we are gonna be doing a very, very fun,
I should have done this at the beginning
during the housekeeping portion of Supernatural Saturday,
but we are going to be doing a really fun event
at the new year for our times and seasons.
My good friend, Bethany Hicks,
who is one of the most accurate prophets of our day,
in my opinion and a lot of other people's opinions as well.
She has written a book called Seasons and Assignments,
Know What to Do and When to Do It.
So we did prophesy your year at Rosh Hashanah
and we're going to do Seasons and Assignments
on January 4th.
It's gonna be a really cool, very prophesy your year like.
First, you're going to be able to discern what season is,
what your season is and what you should be doing
in that season and then we're going to lean
into the prophetic to find out what it looks like
to partner with that season, January, February,
March, April, May, June, July, August, throughout the year.
So what does it look like to partner with that season
throughout the year?
And so we'll be going into Zoom rooms,
we'll be giving each other prophetic words
and we'll be activating and we'll be doing
a lot of the things that we do at prophesy your year,
but just with a different bent on knowing your season
and your assignment and how can you walk it out this year
so that this year can be a year of breakthrough.
Did you know that this coming year is your year?
It's your year for something.
There should not be a year that passes
where there's not something significant
that happens in your life.
It's your year.
A lot of people are always hoping and praying
it's gonna be their year, but it is your year.
The problem is, is a lot of times we do not come
into alignment with heaven on what actually
is happening in our lives.
If I told you all the times that I cried and I moaned
and I complained because I wanted it to be my time
and season for something that wasn't ripe yet,
when there was something ripe right in front of me
that I was not taking advantage of,
that was amazing and wonderful.
It just wasn't the thing that I had my eyes on.
We have to work with God, we have to partner with heaven.
We do.
And of course, I believe that all of you are here because partnership is something that
you're ripe and ready for.
So Advent is a time to pick these things back up because whatever miracle you decided was
not for you anymore, let my situation with my brother Jacob tell you differently.
It may not have happened when you wanted it to, but it's not dead yet.
All right, go ahead and close your eyes, we're gonna do some activations here.
Here's the question that I want you to ask.
Holy Spirit, ask the Holy Spirit, say Holy Spirit.
By the way, Holy Spirit is not an it, it's a he, it's a person of the Godhead, Father,
Son, Holy Spirit, you can talk to him.
You know that, right?
If you didn't, now you do.
Holy Spirit, where have I lowered my expectations to protect myself?
Ask Holy Spirit to show you.
Where have I lowered my expectations to protect my heart, myself from disappointment?
Go ahead and ask that.
All right, now I want you to ask, what do you want me to expect again in this season?
What do you want me to expect again in this season?
What do you want me to expect again?
Okay, go ahead and put it in the chat.
All right, go ahead and put it in the chat.
All right, hopefully you guys are looking at what people are posting.
I'm just giving you guys some space.
Some powerful stuff in there, and I think you can see yourself in each other's responses,
can't you?
One thing that's beautiful about this community is that you're not in this by yourself.
And every single week we see someone graduate from this place of expectation for marriage
and family into the reality of it, don't we?
We do.
And just so you know.
that person soon is going to be you.
And I hear time after time after time from those people that they didn't think that it was going
to be them. They just continued to prepare, they were continuing to hope. We don't just get what
we expect, we get what we inspect. They continued to inspect what God had promised them and they
continued to declare it. They had down days just like all of you do and it's not just about marriage
and family, about all the other things that make up your life that you do not feel like are in
complete alignment with what God has created you for. We all live in that tension friends, all of
us, including myself. But it's a beautiful tension because it's called an adventure.
I want you to stop looking at this life as a destination and start looking at it as an adventure.
There's all kinds of things that I'm expecting that I don't have possession of
in the natural. I believe that they've been declared in the spirit realm
and I'm walking towards them. Some days fast, some days slow.
We're all going to get there.
So let's let this be a time of introspection with God during this Advent season.
It's time to let go of some things. It's time to embrace some other things.
This is a beautiful time at the end of the year where God can prune and purge.
He can shift some things. Go back a couple Supernatural Saturdays to the dream a new dream
message. Apply that here. There's some of you that your dream is just a little outdated. It needs an
update. It's not lacking faith for you to ask for an update. Some of you are holding on to things
that that really need a makeover. Okay, those things need a makeover. God wants to upgrade
those things for you. He does. Lord Jesus, let's do a little prayer here.
Father God, we come before you in this holy season of Advent. This beautiful space,
Lord, between promise and fulfillment in the place where faith meets action.
God, we acknowledge that you are not absent in our waiting.
Just acknowledge that right now. God, you are not absent in our waiting.
You are present. Lord, you're so present. You've just been preparing us. You've been repurposing
some of us. Some of us have lost purpose and you're repurposing us. Help us to surrender
to that repurposing. Things have felt quiet, Lord, concerning our promises.
And we need a reminder right now that you're still at work. Father, I pray that every single
person on this call, all 264 of them, get a reminder that you're still at work. That you've
been working behind the scenes. We're asking, Holy Spirit, that you just peek your head from behind
the curtain and you show us that you're still preparing the set. That you're still at work
in these areas where we have longing. And our longing and desire is from you.
It's not wrong. Our longing and desire is not wrong. Friends, I just want to let you know the
Bible talks about people with strong desire and they are never shamed. And whatever you have
come from the Lord, if it wasn't from God, you would have given up a long time ago.
I want you to remind yourself of that. The human will is pretty fragile, friends. I just
want to let you know. Strong-willed or not, the human will is fragile. And if it was not
a desire from the Lord, it would not continue to renew itself. You would have given up
and just moved on. A little jaded, perhaps, a little bitter, but you would have moved on.
I submit to you this morning that the very fact that you still have whatever that desire is,
desire is, after years and years and years of it not being fully fulfilled, means that
it's from the Lord.
Like my brother.
Yeah, I just went through a season where, you know, I was starting to lose some hope,
but trust me, friends, my fire would have been restoked, I would have been in a time
of prayer, I would have felt the presence of Holy Spirit over the promise, and I would
have been right back on it again.
Right back on it again.
Deep longing is allowed.
Do not let anyone shame you for it.
Do not let anyone tell you it's become an idol.
You know what an idol is?
An idol is something that you go to instead of God.
All of you are coming to God with this.
People don't bring their idols to God.
They worship their idols, not God.
Do you get it?
Do you see the difference?
People bring their requests and their desires, their hunger to God.
Idols are something that you use instead of God.
Now there may be some of you that are running off and making really bad decisions because
you're trying to get your identity from something other than God, and that's where you get an
idol territory.
So if you're doing that, repent this morning and let it go.
Put it back into God's hands.
Your identity comes from Christ.
It does not come from your job, your money, your career, a friendship that's gone the
wrong way that you've had since you were five years old, and now you think without it, who
are you even?
You're a child of God.
That's who you are.
Marriage, family, being a mother, being a father, whatever it is, that you think that
you have no identity without it, you're wrong.
You do have an identity.
You have an identity in Christ.
That is where your identity is, and if that is where your identity is, then God can give
you anything because you're not looking to it for significance.
I'll just be honest with you.
There's a lot of things that God's promised me that I don't think he gave me yet because
I wasn't ready to receive it because my significance still was not in Christ, and I don't want
you to get scared and say, oh, I'm never going to be there.
I don't think God's waiting for us to have perfection.
I think that he's waiting for us to align our hearts.
It has nothing to do with perfection.
You are going to fail a million more times before you leave this earth, but if you're
And if God knows you have the kind of heart that's teachable, you have the kind of heart
that is repentant, that is soft towards him, you have the kind of heart that he could come
alongside you and say, oh, hey, by the way, this thing's not really healthy for you.
I want you to let it go, and you would say, okay.
I'm not saying you're not going to fuss a little now, friends.
Come on, let's get real.
I'm not going to say you're not going to pout a little bit.
I'm not even going to say that you're going to do it the first time he tells you.
You might wait till he tells you five or six times, but if he knows that you have the kind
of heart that's eventually going to say yes to him, that's all that it matters.
That's all that matters.
I'm telling you, it's a beautiful thing when God says to you that, hey, you know what?
I know you trust me, but I want to let you know I trust you too.
Jesus, and I just release that over all of you right now.
I don't think that you would be here if you didn't trust God.
I think you'd be doing something else on a Saturday morning.
But I want you to know that God trusts you, too.
He trusts you with his promises.
That's why he gave them to you.
He trusts you with his prophecies.
That's why he gave them to you.
He trusts you with lineage and legacy.
That's why you're the kinsman redeemer of your family.
He knows you're not perfect, but he also knows that he is.
And that his strength is made perfect when you give him your weakness.
And so, Lord, we thank you that you've chosen us, that your hand's upon us, and we thank
you for this season of expectation that we call Advent, this time of miracles, this time
of manifestation, this time where things that have been long promised actually start
to become visible.
Lord, we thank you for these things, and I thank you for every Advent miracle that you
are going to perform.
I thank you for every life that's going to be changed, God.
And we're asking that you would speak to us, but also through us, God, in this Advent
season. We don't just want miracles for ourselves.
We want miracles through us for others.
And so, Lord, we are declaring right now that we are your agents of heaven, that we are
your agents, that we are your feet, we are your hands, we are your mouths on the earth,
Lord, and that you can.
Use us to bring someone else's promise to pass.
You can use us to bring someone else's prophetic word
to fruition, Lord.
You can, God.
We are volunteering.
We're saying, here we are.
Send us, utilize us, speak through us.
Do what you need to do, Lord,
through your human body on earth.
In Jesus' name, amen.
All right, friends, I love y'all.
I'm expecting to hear about some wonderful things
that God is speaking to you and breakthrough
that's happening in this season of miracles.
Go ahead and dust off some of that old stuff.
Take a look, take a look.
Remember, what is it that you've lost expectation for
and what does God want you to start expecting again?
That is the assignment.
I'll see you soon, bye-bye.