All right, friends, welcome to Supernatural Saturday.
I hope you're ready for some goodness from the Lord this morning.
For those of you that have never been here before, you're in for a treat.
Saturday is my favorite session.
It's my favorite time of the week because it is a time when we look together to the
Lord to find out what the heck is going on in heaven, because we want to have heaven
on earth.
So God has a reality, and we have a reality, and we want to live in God's reality, not
ours, right?
Amen?
Do we want to be partaking of His reality?
So today, because I am off-site, I'm down in Miami about to officiate a wedding, and
I have lots to do today to go and get that done, we're going to have an abbreviated Supernatural
Saturday.
So it's not going to be an hour long.
We'll see how long it takes, but I have a word for all of you, and I want to release
that.
So let's look to the Lord.
Father God, I'm so thankful for your goodness and your love.
I'm so thankful that you see us and that you know us and that you still love us.
You're always leading us and guiding us into bigger and better things, into your goodness,
Lord, into your goodness, into good things for us.
You don't want to give us tragedy, trauma.
You're not trying to give us lessons.
You're always leading us into good things, and good things require lessons a lot of times
because we're not big enough to receive those things.
We don't understand who we are, and so even the receiving of good things sometimes causes
us pain, Lord, because it causes us to have to stretch.
It causes us to have to acknowledge the places inside of us that do not believe that we are
worthy.
And so, Lord, we thank you, God, that you never give up on us, and you keep giving us
opportunity after opportunity after opportunity to grow into and become everything that you
created us to be.
In Jesus' name, amen.
Is that not the truth, friends?
I know a lot of times people are like, oh, it's the bad things that change you and transform
you and grow you.
No.
In fact, a lot of people just become bitter in the bad things.
If we're being honest, if we're being honest, think about for those of you that have been
parents and if you've never been a parent, you can imagine.
I believe in my heart you can imagine what it would be like to be a parent.
And it isn't the punishment that transforms the child.
A lot of times it's the correction to abundance that transforms the child.
You know, when they have to really step up and stretch in order to receive something
that they really want, that's what transforms the child.
A lot of times punishment just hardens their heart.
And that's why if you grew up in a family where you were overpunished, just recently
I was part of a weekend of transformation where we had to really acknowledge set limits
inside of ourselves, inside of our hearts.
And we're going to be doing a lot of that in 2026.
Friends, I announced this the other night on Ask Jackie at the very beginning.
If you didn't see that, go back and watch it.
I announced it and I'm going to announce it again right now that 2026 in this community
is going to look really different than 2025, especially for those of you that are in what
we call VIP community, which is the phase three community.
You've been here long enough to know better, and we're going to really help you to get
unstuck however you're stuck and moving forward because God wants you moving forward.
He really does.
And so if you're going to stay here with us in community, we're going to really challenge
you in some good ways.
We're going to really challenge you in some good ways, and I'm looking forward to that.
In love, we're going to challenge you in some good ways because you need to be living that
big, beautiful life that Jesus died to give you.
And we want that for you, not just in your love life, but in every area of your life.
With that in mind, I want to announce that I have a presale on Modern Dating Sucks, my
new book, A Matchmaker's Guide to Love in a Swipe Left World.
I'm only releasing 500 copies as of now.
Those are the only copies that I'm going to release.
You'll be able to get a signed copy for $25 at my website.
The link is JackieDorman.com forward slash MDS, Modern Dating Sucks, MDS book.
It doesn't matter if those are capitals or lowercase, MDS book.
You can go over there.
And I believe that Bethany put up the link in all the groups.
But as soon as those copies sell out, that is going to be our presale.
So 500 copies, and I'm going to release it to the public probably next week.
So people can get it for their Christmas.
You know, they can't get it for their Christmas because it's four to six weeks to delivery,
but they can actually know that they have it.
People have been waiting for that book for a while.
So a lot of challenging things coming in 2026.
Some of that, some of that, the content from that book is going to really challenge you.
Ladies, especially for those of you that are like, oh, he just needs to pursue me.
Actually, that's not really.
that biblical. If you want an arranged marriage, that's cool, and I know a lot of you think that's
what you're waiting for. You're waiting for God to arrange you a marriage, but that's just not
how it works, friends. That was part of culture. That wasn't part of God's plan. That was part
of culture. You know, when you read the Bible, you have to differentiate between what is God,
what is like God's original plan, and what was the culture that the Bible was written in.
The Bible was written during a time where people did specific things. They did specific things,
but we live in a modern world, and that's why it's about modern dating. You can't even find
the word dating in the Bible, because the way that we approach love in our love lives and romance
in this modern age is not like anything that's ever been seen or done before. But you know what?
It might suck, but your love story doesn't have to. But if you're trying to take a page from a
playbook of things that don't exist anymore, and I'm not talking about God's ways. God's ways are
the best ways, and God's ways are just woven all throughout this book. Community-based matchmaking,
kind of bringing back some things that I believe are God's heart and His ways. But do not look for
things from a bygone era in culture, because we don't live in those times. And thank God,
ladies, thank God, because if you lived in that time, you'd be in big trouble.
If you had a strong personality like me, they would have stoned you already.
You would be gone. You would not be here anymore. And a lot of you have strong personalities.
So I just want to let you know that those times are not coming back. There's some of you that
are older. You're from the baby boomer generation, and you're waiting for the
things to come back of the way people dated in the 50s and stuff. That ain't coming back.
And you better be glad, because the book talks about how that was a patriarchal
propaganda generation, where they were trying to put things back from the World Wars. They
let the ladies out of the house to go work in the factories to help make bullets and guns,
and then they wanted them back in the house after the wars were over in the 50s. That's
what happened there, friends. This isn't a hype. This isn't conspiracy theory. That's the truth.
And so that was the media machine trying to tell you ladies that this was the better life,
to be vacuuming your house and your pearls and sleeping with your makeup on and waking up,
and your only goal in life was to make sure that your little hubby was happy.
Friends, that is downplaying the divine feminine. The feminine is powerful.
And when the masculine and feminine partner together, we're powerful. And I'm not saying
you can't be the keeper of the home, but in the Bible, that scripture doesn't mean what you think
it means. It actually means the defender of the home, spiritual defender. It means you're a warrior,
the warrior of the home. So it doesn't mean housekeeping. It means something different.
But if that's your vibe, you want to be a trad wife, a traditional wife,
they call it trad wife now, friends, if you haven't caught on to this trend,
is a trad wife. If you want to be at home homesteading, milking goats and making sourdough,
do it. Whatever your vibe is, whatever you want, find a partner who also wants that and do it.
I was just going through some notes from old weddings, old weddings that I've officiated.
And one of the notes said that the thing that the person liked about the other person is that they
both wanted a traditional marriage where he was going to go out and bring home the bacon and she
was going to fry it up in the pan. That's amazing because they wanted the same things.
And that's the most important thing about partnership. You got to want the same thing.
If you want one thing and they want another thing, that's not going to be, that's not going to be
good. Especially if you're like, well, I just want them. So I'm just going to want what they want.
Can I tell you that that's not going to work? Oh, I'll just grow to like what they like. No,
that's not going to work. Well, I don't really want to do this with the rest of my life,
but maybe after we get married, they're going to change their mind. Oh no, no,
that's really not going to work. If they tell you who they are and what they want,
don't try to change them. If they tell you they don't want children, then they don't want children.
If they tell you they don't want any more children, then they don't want any more children.
If they tell you that they can't have any more children, don't marry them.
Just banking on a miracle from God. Does God do miracles? Yes. But if you really,
really want children and they tell you that it's medically impossible to have children,
don't just marry them thinking that you're going to get a miracle just because you married them.
Now, if God tells you to marry them anyway and ask you to release that desire and let him fulfill
it however he wants to, okay, cool. But if they absolutely tell you that they don't want any more
kids or they don't want any kids, then if you really want kids and that's the desire of your
heart, then guess what? That's not your match. But they like me, Jackie. I don't care.
That's not how it works. Because a couple of years into that marriage,
you're going to be feeling some kind of way about whatever it is that you gave up
that was the desire of your heart.
Just so that you could have someone sleeping next to you in the bed.
This is why we have non-negotiables from heaven, and if having children is a non-negotiable
from heaven for you, you're still in your childbearing years, you want a child, you
know that it's part of God's plan for you to be a parent, whether it's through adoption
or through birth, and this person says they absolutely do not want to raise any children,
then you have to move on from that relationship.
I don't even know why I'm saying this.
It must be a word from the Lord for someone, because it's not even part of my supernatural
Saturday today.
It doesn't have anything to do with it.
We're off on a tangent now, and I have to be shorter today than normal.
So here is the word for today.
When what you've been waiting for, and it's not just, okay, I want you to expand your
mind.
This is not just about your love life.
So close your eyes, let God expand your mind.
When what you've been waiting for, and a lot of us have been waiting for a lot of things.
We have a lot of dreams that are unrealized, have unrealized dreams in our lives, a lot
of things that we've been wanting to have happen in our lives, whether it's a healing,
whether it's a financial breakthrough, whether it's a relational breakthrough, whether it's
someone else's healing that we love, whether it's an opportunity that we've always dreamed
of having, whatever it is.
Maybe you've always wanted to go to the Grand Ole Opry.
Maybe you've wanted to travel abroad.
You know, it doesn't matter what it is.
This is the word.
When what you've been wanting and waiting for shows up, it's going to be better than
you expected.
Remember that we're in this season of the siege is over.
Remember we're in this season that God said we're no longer going to have to make do and
just kind of muddle through.
Remember that God said we're in this season of firsts?
Well, it's happening, friends.
It's happening.
You guys already know about my brother getting his first house, but I had some other firsts
that happened that I want to tell to you guys about, because I want to talk to the
people that are afraid to hope again.
Just briefly this morning, I want to talk to you folks that are afraid to get your hopes
up again.
You're afraid to even believe that anything good is coming for you, and it's not that
you stop believing God necessarily.
It isn't, but disappointment is painful, amen?
It is.
And so it's not that you stop believing God or in God, I should say.
You haven't stopped believing in God, but you just stop maybe believing that good things
could happen to you.
I run into people all the time that have no problem believing that good things can happen
for everybody else.
In fact, they pray for good things to happen for everybody else, and things happen for
other people.
It's just you that's kind of stuck, but it's not because you're faithless.
I just want to really make sure that that point is clear, but it's because you've been
disappointed time after time after time.
And you guys, I have the same shoes on that you do.
I have all kinds of things in my life that I thought, oh, this is it.
This is the time.
It's going to happen, and let's call those things near misses.
You know how many times I thought my brother was going to finally be inside and not outside,
living outside or living in his car?
You know how many times we got so close to that happening in the past?
And you guys have a lot of almosts as well.
Raise your hand if you have a lot of almosts.
Get them up.
A lot of almosts.
Almost.
The almost breakthrough, whatever it is, the almost breakthrough, look at all those hands
coming up.
It's almost, it almost happened.
It looked like it was going to happen.
You thought that this was it.
And I just want to tell you for some of you, like for healing and different things like
that, you just got to walk that out.
You know, if you believe and you receive, then you will have is what the Bible says.
If you believe it and receive it, then you will have it.
And sometimes you just got to walk it out.
You just got to ignore the symptoms.
You just got to keep walking forward.
You just got to keep speaking faith.
I'm telling you, for some of you, that is the truth.
You can't just say, oh, well, I still have a little bit of symptoms, so I guess I wasn't
healed.
No, you just got to walk it out.
Believe it, receive it, and you will have it.
That's what the Bible says.
But I'm not here to talk about that today.
I'm here to talk about more tangible things where you almost got the job, okay?
Not things that you just have to walk out in faith.
You almost got the job.
You went to the third interview and then they chose the other person and it was your dream
job.
You really wanted it.
You almost got the house.
You almost got the house, but someone outbid you or, you know, you just couldn't quite
get there financially.
You know, whatever it was, those almost, but God wants you to know that this is not a season
for you to manage disappointment anymore.
This is a season where you need to expect God's goodness again.
It's time to expect God's goodness again, so I tell you a story
And I have some notes written down here, so I don't miss anything. I want to tell you a story
For for a couple years at least for years I've wanted to see this lady named Heidi Baker. Do you guys know who she is?
She's this amazing sold-out woman of God who?
Could have done anything she wanted to she came from a lot of people don't know this about her
But she came from an affluent family
Okay, her dad graduated from Stanford her family was affluent she grew up in the Orange County area of California
In fact when she became a believer her parents were just like what the what?
Because she was 16 years old and she started doing some radical things for Jesus and her parents were not believers
And they were just like what what's happening here. She was she was
Raised to live this more affluent lifestyle, and she's very smart. She's a very smart businesswoman once again
She could have done anything that she wanted to but what she wanted to do after she met Jesus in her late teens is
She wanted to do whatever Jesus asked her to do and I love people like that
And I've heard about the meetings that she has
she went over to Mozambique and she's done amazing things in Africa God sent her to the poorest of the poor and
She has built schools there, and she has improved lives there. They have you know had to deal with all kinds of terrorism and
Rebels over there in Africa
You know Africa's always that some kind of civil war and they've just had all kinds of horrible crazy things
All around them during these missionary years and yet they've persevered and there's been miracle after miracle and now they're elder older
You know they're in their 70s or so her and her husband Roland and every time I hear about people getting to hear her speak
About her adventures with Jesus. I'm like man. I really want to see Heidi Baker
I'd love to be in one of those meetings one of those services with Heidi
But let me tell you this every time I've been anywhere where Heidi Baker was supposed to be she didn't show up
There's a word for you here listen to it
Every time that I put myself in proximity to where this woman was gonna be
She was not there
Because something happened their flight was delayed or there was a cancellation now
She was never the main speaker at any of these situations. I don't want you to think that she's flaky and unreliable
She just was gonna be there and word was on the street that she was gonna be there and it was gonna be amazing
But guess what?
She wasn't
So when my good friend that I was going out to a Christmas party at his house out in the Orange County area last weekend
He said to me just kind of offhandedly. He said oh by the way Heidi and Roland Baker are gonna be at my Christmas party
I'm like
What you talking about with us what are you serious
Heidi and
Roland are gonna be at your house. They're gonna be and he's like, yeah, and you know, they're gonna share they're gonna share
They're gonna minister. I'm like, no and so then I said to him I said, well, you know every time I've ever been
Anywhere where Heidi Baker was supposed to show up. She never shows up. He's like bro. Don't say that
And I'm like, I'm just telling you and he's like well, you know, she has had some medical difficulties recently
So that's actually a possibility. And so, you know, I hate to hear you say that. I hope that doesn't come true kind of thing
Well, it didn't come true y'all because not only was she there she was sitting less than two feet in front of me in a chair
Sharing all kinds of amazing things about her adventures with Jesus
She shared for about an hour and then our host asked if we would pray for her and her husband
Y'all instead of seeing Heidi up on a platform somewhere speaking from a distance and I'm sure it would have been amazing
I was on the floor with my head and my hands on this woman's tiny little feet praying for her
Touching her I was touching her you guys
Alright, I was touching her all up on her feet praying for her
Interceding for her. I mean, come on. It's amazing
Blessed are the feet precious are the feet that carry the gospel. Oh, it was powerful. And so I just wanna let you know. I
Just want you to know that it was better
It was better because those platform moments when I was supposed to see her never happened
They never happened. But this was a no stage moment. This was a no microphone moment. This was a no crowd moment and
It was just me at her feet
Praying for her thanking God for her life loving her
ministering to her and then she reached on she put her hands on my head and
As I sat there and I got to touch her feet and pray for her
She prayed for me and then her husband and her prayed over everyone in the room
And when I tell you the place was wrecked with the joy of the Lord
It was wrecked with the joy of the Lord. Everyone was just
laid out everywhere
Just enjoying the sweet, beautiful presence of God that only sold-out lovers can bring,
like Heidi and Roland Baker.
And the Holy Spirit whispered to me in this moment, this is what I'm going to whisper
to you because this word is for you as well.
This is why I didn't let you have it before.
Woo!
Jesus!
This is why it didn't happen before.
Because whatever I was asking for, or even wasn't even asking, friends, this isn't even
about what you've been asking for.
Even what I was hoping for in my heart, well, wouldn't that be nice?
Wouldn't that be fun?
Oh man, I hope that happens.
Even what I was hoping for, God was preparing to exceed.
He was already going to exceed my expectations.
To him who's able to do exceedingly abundantly above all we can ask, think, or even imagine.
It was not going to be a distant encounter when I met Heidi Baker.
God saw fit that it was going to be a personal one.
Wow, y'all.
And I don't want you to think I'm some kind of stalker, I'm like idolizing her.
For all of you religious folks that are stuck in here and we ain't got that religion out
of you yet, it's not like that at all.
It's not like that at all.
God says to give honor to whom honor is due.
And these people, it's not that they've made billions of dollars, but they've won millions
of souls.
And I'm telling you what, that's worth sitting down and opening up your ears and your heart
and listening to someone like that talk.
Amen?
Okay.
So, let's talk about why these delays possibly have been mercy.
Now, sometimes we zig instead of zag.
Sometimes we're the reason for the delay, and we're going to address that in 2026.
If you're the reason for the delay, if you're the problem, we're going to address that.
And I'm not putting out the registration for it yet, but on January 4th this year, we are
going to do a Times and Seasons with the renowned prophet, Bethany Hicks.
She's also a good friend of mine.
She lives in Austin.
I have enjoyed Dana McCullum and her ministry up close and personal.
They have been mentors in my life and friends in my life.
And she wrote a new book, Times and Seasons, and I decided that this was the perfect start
for 26, where I did prophesy your year at Rosh Hashanah.
I want to do something that's more of an activation where you guys know what to do and when to
do it.
You know your season.
And after this time together on January 4th, you are going to know what time it is in your
life, what you need to be doing, and how to do it.
Because it's time for action, friends.
2026 is going to be all about action.
It's going to be all about taking action.
And God wants you to take action.
And so that is what that night's going to be about.
Because some of you, your delays are you.
I'm just going to tell you, point blank, it's you.
You're stuck on the inside, and that's getting you stuck on the outside.
And so we've got to get unstuck.
We've got to get challenged in these things that we're continuing to hold on to that are
keeping us stagnant, apathetic, that are keeping us from really taking the action.
We say we believe, but there's not the right appropriate action to prove that.
And so we are going to address all of those things starting January 4th and going forward
into the new year.
In love, y'all.
In love.
But some of you need a kick.
You need a boot in the butt.
You need a kick in the pants.
You do.
And lovingly, that's going to happen.
All right.
But I want to talk to all of you that it was outside of your control, but those delays
were mercy.
And a lot of you, a lot of you, I really feel it's in my spirit, you're still grieving those
doors that didn't open.
You're still grieving that relationship that didn't make it all the way to the finish line,
that breakup.
But I want you to know that those were not rejections.
I know they feel like rejections.
And I have a post on my Instagram right now about rejections, and I wish you would go
see it.
I posted it yesterday.
But what if it wasn't a rejection?
What if it was just a divine upgrade that was in process?
I could have seen Heidi from a distance, from a platform, and I'm sure it would have been
great.
But God wanted better for me.
He wanted something more powerful for me.
He told me that there was going to be an impartation between her and I, that she was going to impart
something to me.
I know a lot of you don't know this about me, but when I first met Jesus at 22 years
old, I wanted to be a missionary.
I felt like God called me to be a missionary, specifically to Africa.
And it never worked out.
I was estranged from my husband at the time.
I was separated from him.
And when I met Jesus, the people that were discipling me convinced me that it would be
God's will for me to get back together with my husband, who was a believer, a very legalistic
believer.
And I got back together with him.
But when I did, you guys, I signed up for the ideology.
that a woman is just an accessory to a man and it doesn't matter what my callings are
because only a man has callings, not a woman.
And so even though I had a calling when I first met Jesus to go and be a missionary,
a foreign missionary on foreign soil, when I shared that with him after getting back
together with him, we had been married for two years, separated, I became a believer,
we got back together.
When I shared that hope and dream and word from the Lord, he immediately cast it down
with women don't have callings, men do, and I'm not called to be a missionary, so you
might as well just let go of that hope and dream because it's never going to come true.
And you guys, it didn't come true.
I believe I am a type of missionary.
I'm a missionary to the single nation.
Come on.
God can repurpose your callings and your giftings.
But one of the most profound and prolific missionaries to Africa, where I felt called,
laid hands on me last weekend.
And I got to pray for her feet that will surely go back to Mozambique and other places and
other countries in Africa.
And I feel somehow that was a full circle moment.
Right?
Nothing's lost.
It's just invested.
Nothing's lost in the kingdom, friends.
It's only invested.
It's seed that's sown and it's invested.
So whatever that delay was, it wasn't a denial.
You didn't miss it.
You were being positioned.
And God has very precise timing.
He really does.
Right?
And if that was all that I had to share with you, that would be powerful.
But I have one more thing to share with you guys.
Ever since I was a little kid, there's some specific dental work that I know that I had
Invisalign, so my teeth look good right now.
They look better than they've ever looked.
But when I was a kid, I was mercilessly teased because of my teeth.
Anybody else?
I had a huge overbite and my front two teeth were very bucked.
They were bucked toothed and there was a space in between them.
And the bottom teeth were very crooked.
I had really messed up teeth.
And when you come from a childhood like mine where your basic needs are being neglected,
your clothes are not being washed, there's not someone home making the food,
you're kind of on your own, guess what?
You're not going to get braces.
That's a luxury item.
I wasn't even getting my basic needs met emotionally or physically.
I'm definitely not going to end up with braces.
And so I didn't get them.
And so I was bullied and I was teased for a lot of different things.
Because my clothes were dirty.
Because they smelled.
Because I know it's hard for you all to picture me like this.
But second through sixth grade, little Jackie was dirty.
She went to private school where people wore uniforms.
But my uniform was never washed.
So my uniform stunk.
And it made it worse that I wet the bed until I was like in eighth grade.
Because of my mental and emotional state.
And so there was poor hygiene.
There was unwashed clothes.
There was, you know, not clean underwear.
There was no lunch.
I was stealing other kids' lunches in the coat room.
I mean, I know it's hard for you to imagine me that way.
But that was my childhood.
My poor mom was young.
She was only 21 years old when I was born.
And, you know, so she would have been in her 20s still when all this was happening.
And she was married to very abusive men, one after another.
She was married three times before I was 10 years old.
And they were all abusive.
Alcoholics, addicts.
It was bad news bears.
So my teeth kind of became this thing, friends, was kind of like a, I don't know, a thing.
But there's some dental work that I've really wanted to have done all my life.
And I've come really close to having it done.
Really close to letting someone do it.
Because, I mean, it's a situation where if they mess it up, it's not good.
And so I almost, I went to Columbia last year.
We went two years in a row for a retreat.
You guys know we take people to Columbia.
I don't know if you guys know this or not.
But Columbia is kind of known as like the dental tourism capital of the world.
People go there to get dental work done a lot cheaper than they can in the States.
Because you guys know dental work is expensive.
Right?
And so I had an appointment.
I was going to get it done last year.
And I spelled a check in my heart.
Not that it wouldn't have turned out well.
Not that these dentists weren't, you know, don't have great reviews.
And not because it's in a foreign country or any of that.
But because I just felt like God's just like, don't do this.
And you guys, we have to listen to that still small voice.
I know that there's, you know, there's a fine line.
There's a tension that we have to hold between, you know, wanting something.
About, you know, about having something and about not yet.
About now and not yet.
We believe that we receive what God has for us.
But sometimes, you know, there's a specific scenario in which we need to receive it.
Because that's the best scenario.
I could have got it done anyway and I don't think that it would have been an emergency.
I don't think that it would have been terrible.
I don't think that it wouldn't have worked out.
It just wasn't God's best for me.
It wasn't God's best for me and I'm very cautious even using that language with you guys because
some of you live in so much fear that you never take action and so with our times and
seasons thing that we're going to do on January 4th, we're going to see the difference between
moving and taking action and not being afraid and waiting because we know that God's saying,
hey, I have something for you but that's not it.
There's a fine line between those things and if you have the mindset of fear, then you're
never going to take action in faith and this life requires action in faith and some of
you are always paralyzed by the fear of making a mistake or doing things wrong and so that's
why I hesitate to even use language like this with you but I want to let you guys know
that I'm not that kind of person.
I'm not analysis paralysis person.
In fact, I'm a fast start.
I'm the kind of person who throws against the wall, see what sticks.
I take quick action on the words that God gives me and so I wasn't saying no to Columbia
because I was afraid.
I was saying no to Columbia because I know when God is telling me to not do something
and I want to teach you to be those people as well.
So I knew that the Lord said no to that.
So that was last spring.
It was April I believe that we went there.
Now there's this dentist that I follow.
I follow all his stuff.
I follow his website.
I just love him.
He does some of the work that I want done and I just, I've always wanted to go to him
but it's really difficult to work with this dentist.
Of course, everyone wants to work with him but because of this word that the siege is
over and we don't have to muddle through and it's a season of firsts, I went ahead
in and put an inquiry into his office and guess what?
They called me a few days ago and they have a cancellation and the cancellation is on
my birthday.
Not only do they have a cancellation but the cancellation is on my birthday and so on my
birthday, January 16th, I'm going to get something done that I've wanted done for probably 40
years.
So that was about 10 years old and it's just, I'm just so excited about it because the woman
who had this appointment got pregnant so that's a happy thing and they don't work on, they
don't do dental work because you know, they gotta give you like, you know, drugs and stuff.
They don't do dental work on pregnant people in their first trimester and she's in her
first trimester.
She's had this appointment with him for over a year and so she's pregnant.
She can't come and guess what?
The first person that got offered that appointment that happens to be on my birthday is me.
When she said we had an opening, a cancellation, she's like, this never happens.
She said, this is really a very unusual circumstance but we had a cancellation.
This person has had this appointment for over a year and she said it's in January and as
soon as she said January, I perked up.
I said, what day in January?
She said, January 16th.
I was like, shut the front door.
Happy birthday to me.
So every time I tried to do this, it was just the wrong timing.
It was the wrong doctor.
I didn't have peace about it.
Isn't this incredible, you guys?
It's the season of first because the siege is over.
Okay, hold on, we got someone unmuted, got someone unmuted on here.
Make sure you're muted.
There should be a little red line through your microphone so that you're not messing
up the recording for later when people are trying to listen back.
Mute yourself.
Okay.
You guys, you cannot make this kind of stuff up.
You can't.
I feel like I'm in perpetual Christmas time.
My brother gets a house.
I can't tell you.
For over 28 years, I have been interceding and crying out to the Lord for my brother.
Help him, Lord.
Please help him.
Deliver him, Lord.
Make him, keep him safe.
You know how many times I thought he was dead because I didn't hear from him for months
at a time because you don't hear from homeless people a lot.
And how many times I've like called police stations in the last area that he was, I found
friends that lived in those areas that were searching the streets for him and looking
for him.
And, you know, I can't tell you guys, can't tell you the breakthrough that is.
And I believe that this teeth thing, it's a sign.
All of the trauma from my childhood, all the pain, all the hurt.
This has become kind of like the poster child for that because of the bullying and everything.
I feel like it's some part of restoration, it's like a final piece of the puzzle of restoration
in my life.
Life. Does that make sense to you guys?
I know it's a silly thing.
It's just some dental work, but you guys, it has such a bold
significance.
Because of my childhood.
And God has that for you too.
Now, some of you have been bracing for the worst to come.
You've been bracing for impact.
Got your seatbelt on, bracing for impact.
Instead of putting your seatbelt on, ready to go on a ride with
Jesus to blessing.
You got your seatbelt on for the wrong reason.
You're bracing for impact.
Instead of bracing for blessing.
Come on.
I want you to put your seatbelt on because we're about to get
on a ride.
But it's going to be a good ride to good places.
I know you're still praying but you're still expecting worst
case scenarios and we can't have that anymore.
You're hoping but you're kind of flinching while you're hoping
we can't have that anymore because this is the season where
what is going to show up is going to be better than you
imagined.
Come on, who's going to grab a hold of this?
I'm proving it to you.
I'm giving you examples.
What arrives is going to come with peace.
You're going to know that this is what you've been waiting for
and when it happens
and when God does what only he can do, you're going to say,
oh, that's why.
That's why I didn't work out before.
That's why I didn't get that job.
That's why I didn't move to that city.
That's why.
That's why I didn't get that house in that neighborhood.
That's why.
So I want you to go ahead and name that thing out loud right
now.
Don't unmute yourself, but out loud where you are.
Name that thing that's coming into your spirit right now and
just want to let you know that no matter what you name, it
could be a different thing that God's going to just rock your
world with.
Because when I tell you this dental thing was not on my mind
at all when this happened, it was not on my mind at all, but
it's powerful and it's amazing.
And so instead of you just naming a thing, why don't you
just instead say, God, I give you permission to surprise me.
Whoo!
Release the specifics.
God, I just give you permission to surprise me.
Expect the upgrade, but you don't got to know what it is in
advance.
God, I give you permission to surprise me.
Because the siege is over.
All right.
So here's our declaration.
The siege is over.
Repeat after me.
Don't unmute yourself because we all have delays in our
technology.
So we will not be speaking on time together.
The siege is over.
From this moment forward, I will stop rehearsing disappointment.
From this moment forward, I will stop talking about my
disappointment.
Starting right now, I expect God's goodness.
I am in my season of firsts.
What I've been waiting for
is going to be better than I expected.
Better than I imagined.
And I'm going to finish 2025 strong.
And I'm going to start 2026 full of faith.
Because friends, how you end one thing is always how you start
the other.
Because remember, it's just one day.
It's one calendar page turned.
We're not even in 2026 yet.
But God is already exceeding our expectations.
It's already exceeding our expectations.
So lift your head.
Get your hopes up.
Put on your seatbelt
to go on a wild good ride with the Lord.
Because this is the season where God is going to outdo even
himself in your life.
So let's activate that you guys.
The blessed are blessed to be blessings.
And if you believe that you're going to be blessed, if you
believe that you've been created
to be a conduit of blessings in the earth, then just go ahead
and start paying that forward.
One thing I learned from Heidi is that she wasn't afraid to go
after the one.
And so let this Advent season, the season of miracles, the
season of first, the season where the siege is over, as
we're entering into
all of these beautiful promises of the Lord better than we ever
expected or imagined.
Look for people that you can bless.
Have your eyes wide open while you walk around this life for
people who need an encouraging word, for people who need a
compliment, for people who need a smile, for people who need
you know, someone to buy them a cup of coffee, for people who
just need something.
Because you're an abundant person.
And the way you can practice abundant is by
beginning to give, give, give, give, give.
I will tell you, that's how I live my life
because I am a missionary,
regardless of whether I ever got to go to Africa.
Missionaries are always on a mission and that is who I am.
No matter where I am, no matter what I'm doing,
I'm stopping for the one.
No matter where I am,
no matter what my agenda is for the day,
I'm looking for need.
I'm looking people in their faces.
I'm watching for places where I can help.
I'm that person that overhears someone
asking someone else where something is
or overhears someone having a problem
and then I just turn around and I just try to help them.
Whether they're looking for a seat,
I'm the person that's pointing out an open seat,
maybe that they don't see.
Because I'm listening, I'm watching all the time.
How can I be of service?
How?
How can I make this life matter for the kingdom of God?
We all have problems, friends.
We all have things that we wish
weren't going on in our lives.
But we also all know Jesus.
And guess what?
We win.
We are blessed.
So let's take off any kind of victimhood that we've had on
and let's put this word on because now is our time.
Let's get out there and let's just begin to love people,
love them up, love them well.
All the while knowing that God knows who we are,
he knows where our address is.
And so when your friends have breakthrough,
like today, Benjamin and Julia from this community
are getting married.
Julia's from this community.
She is your neighbor.
She is getting married.
And guess what that means?
That means God's in the neighborhood.
So get excited because he knows where you live too.
I love you guys.
Have a great day.