WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.880 All right, friends, welcome to Supernatural Saturday. 2 00:00:05.880 --> 00:00:09.560 I hope you're ready for some goodness from the Lord this morning. 3 00:00:09.560 --> 00:00:15.160 For those of you that have never been here before, you're in for a treat. 4 00:00:15.160 --> 00:00:16.960 Saturday is my favorite session. 5 00:00:16.960 --> 00:00:21.120 It's my favorite time of the week because it is a time when we look together to the 6 00:00:21.120 --> 00:00:26.080 Lord to find out what the heck is going on in heaven, because we want to have heaven 7 00:00:26.080 --> 00:00:27.280 on earth. 8 00:00:27.280 --> 00:00:31.320 So God has a reality, and we have a reality, and we want to live in God's reality, not 9 00:00:31.320 --> 00:00:32.320 ours, right? 10 00:00:32.320 --> 00:00:33.320 Amen? 11 00:00:33.320 --> 00:00:36.520 Do we want to be partaking of His reality? 12 00:00:36.520 --> 00:00:41.680 So today, because I am off-site, I'm down in Miami about to officiate a wedding, and 13 00:00:41.680 --> 00:00:46.440 I have lots to do today to go and get that done. 14 00:00:46.440 --> 00:00:49.640 We're going to have an abbreviated Supernatural Saturday. 15 00:00:49.640 --> 00:00:51.880 So it's not going to be an hour long. 16 00:00:51.880 --> 00:00:55.760 We'll see how long it takes, but I have a word for all of you, and I want to release 17 00:00:55.760 --> 00:00:56.760 that. 18 00:00:57.240 --> 00:00:58.240 Thank you, Lord. 19 00:00:58.240 --> 00:01:00.920 Father God, I'm so thankful for your goodness and your love. 20 00:01:00.920 --> 00:01:05.960 I'm so thankful that you see us and that you know us and that you still love us. 21 00:01:05.960 --> 00:01:10.520 You're always leading us and guiding us into bigger and better things, into your goodness, 22 00:01:10.520 --> 00:01:14.240 Lord, into your goodness, into good things for us. 23 00:01:14.240 --> 00:01:17.280 You don't want to give us tragedy, trauma. 24 00:01:17.280 --> 00:01:19.920 You're not trying to give us lessons. 25 00:01:19.920 --> 00:01:23.740 You're always leading us into good things, and good things require lessons a lot of times 26 00:01:24.180 --> 00:01:27.220 because we're not big enough to receive those things. 27 00:01:27.220 --> 00:01:31.860 We don't understand who we are, and so even the receiving of good things sometimes causes 28 00:01:31.860 --> 00:01:35.620 us pain, Lord, because it causes us to have to stretch. 29 00:01:35.620 --> 00:01:42.100 It causes us to have to acknowledge the places inside of us that do not believe that we are 30 00:01:42.100 --> 00:01:46.420 worthy, and so, Lord, we thank you, God, that you never give up on us, and you keep giving 31 00:01:46.420 --> 00:01:52.460 us opportunity after opportunity after opportunity to grow into and become everything that you 32 00:01:52.460 --> 00:01:55.700 created us to be, in Jesus' name, amen. 33 00:01:55.700 --> 00:01:58.220 Is that not the truth, friends? 34 00:01:58.220 --> 00:02:02.580 I know a lot of times people are like, oh, it's the bad things that change you and transform 35 00:02:02.580 --> 00:02:03.580 you and grow you. 36 00:02:03.580 --> 00:02:04.580 No. 37 00:02:04.580 --> 00:02:08.740 In fact, a lot of people just become bitter in the bad things. 38 00:02:08.740 --> 00:02:13.980 If we're being honest, if we're being honest, think about for those of you that have been 39 00:02:13.980 --> 00:02:17.140 parents, and if you've never been a parent, you can imagine. 40 00:02:17.140 --> 00:02:22.420 I believe in my heart you can imagine what it would be like to be a parent, and it isn't 41 00:02:22.420 --> 00:02:26.620 the punishment that transforms the child. 42 00:02:26.620 --> 00:02:32.660 A lot of times, it's the correction to abundance that transforms the child. 43 00:02:32.660 --> 00:02:37.100 You know, when they have to really step up and stretch in order to receive something 44 00:02:37.100 --> 00:02:40.580 that they really want, that's what transforms the child. 45 00:02:40.580 --> 00:02:44.260 A lot of times, punishment just hardens their heart, and that's why if you grew up in a 46 00:02:44.260 --> 00:02:50.260 family where you were overpunished ... Just recently, I was part of a weekend of transformation 47 00:02:50.260 --> 00:02:55.700 where we had to really acknowledge set limits inside of ourselves, inside of our hearts, 48 00:02:55.700 --> 00:02:57.980 and we're going to be doing a lot of that in 2026. 49 00:02:57.980 --> 00:03:01.820 Friends, I announced this the other night on Ask Jackie. 50 00:03:01.820 --> 00:03:04.500 At the very beginning, if you didn't see that, go back and watch it. 51 00:03:04.500 --> 00:03:08.780 I announced it, and I'm going to announce it again right now, that 2026 in this community 52 00:03:08.780 --> 00:03:13.260 is going to look really different than 2025, especially for those of you that are in what 53 00:03:13.260 --> 00:03:17.380 we call VIP community, which is the phase three community. 54 00:03:17.380 --> 00:03:20.780 We've been here long enough to know better, and we're going to really help you to get 55 00:03:20.780 --> 00:03:25.780 unstuck, however you're stuck, and moving forward, because God wants you moving forward. 56 00:03:25.780 --> 00:03:26.780 He really does. 57 00:03:26.780 --> 00:03:31.020 If you're going to stay here with us in community, we're going to really challenge you in some 58 00:03:31.020 --> 00:03:32.020 good ways. 59 00:03:32.020 --> 00:03:35.260 We're going to really challenge you in some good ways, and I'm looking forward to that. 60 00:03:35.260 --> 00:03:39.180 In love, we're going to challenge you in some good ways, because you need to be living that 61 00:03:39.180 --> 00:03:42.900 big, beautiful life that Jesus died to give you, and we want that for you, not just in 62 00:03:42.900 --> 00:03:45.780 your love life, but in every area of your life. 63 00:03:45.780 --> 00:03:49.420 With that in mind, I want to announce that I have a pre-sale on Modern Dating Sucks, 64 00:03:49.420 --> 00:03:53.500 my new book, A Matchmaker's Guide to Love in a Swipe Left World. 65 00:03:53.500 --> 00:03:56.900 I'm only releasing 500 copies as of now. 66 00:03:56.900 --> 00:04:00.140 Those are the only copies that I'm going to release. 67 00:04:00.140 --> 00:04:05.340 You'll be able to get a signed copy for $25 at my website. 68 00:04:05.340 --> 00:04:13.860 The link is JackieDorman.com forward slash MDS, Modern Dating Sucks, MDS book. 69 00:04:14.860 --> 00:04:19.060 It doesn't matter if those are capitals or lowercase, MDS book. 70 00:04:19.060 --> 00:04:23.660 You can go over there, and I believe that Bethany put up the link in all the groups. 71 00:04:23.660 --> 00:04:28.020 But as soon as those copies sell out, that is going to be our pre-sale. 72 00:04:28.020 --> 00:04:34.060 So 500 copies, and I'm going to release it to the public probably next week, so people 73 00:04:34.060 --> 00:04:36.180 can get it for their Christmas. 74 00:04:36.180 --> 00:04:40.140 They can't get it for their Christmas, because it's four to six weeks to delivery, but they 75 00:04:40.140 --> 00:04:43.540 can actually know that they have it. 76 00:04:43.560 --> 00:04:45.740 A lot of people have been waiting for that book for a while. 77 00:04:45.740 --> 00:04:49.000 A lot of challenging things coming in 2026. 78 00:04:49.000 --> 00:04:55.260 Some of the content from that book is going to really challenge you. 79 00:04:55.260 --> 00:04:59.460 Ladies, especially for those of you that are like, oh, he just needs to pursue me, actually 80 00:04:59.460 --> 00:04:59.900 that's not really my thing. 81 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:04.400 that biblical. If you want an arranged marriage, that's cool, and I know a lot of you think that's 82 00:05:04.400 --> 00:05:09.120 what you're waiting for. You're waiting for God to arrange you a marriage, but that's just not 83 00:05:09.120 --> 00:05:14.720 how it works, friends. That was part of culture. That wasn't part of God's plan. That was part 84 00:05:14.720 --> 00:05:20.480 of culture. You know, when you read the Bible, you have to differentiate between what is God, 85 00:05:20.480 --> 00:05:24.640 what is like God's original plan, and what was the culture that the Bible was written in. 86 00:05:24.640 --> 00:05:31.840 The Bible was written during a time where people did specific things. They did specific things, 87 00:05:31.840 --> 00:05:35.840 but we live in a modern world, and that's why it's about modern dating. You can't even find 88 00:05:35.840 --> 00:05:41.280 the word dating in the Bible, because the way that we approach love in our love lives and romance 89 00:05:41.280 --> 00:05:45.920 in this modern age is not like anything that's ever been seen or done before. But you know what? 90 00:05:46.480 --> 00:05:52.800 It might suck, but your love story doesn't have to. But if you're trying to take a page from a 91 00:05:52.800 --> 00:05:57.840 playbook of things that don't exist anymore, and I'm not talking about God's ways. God's ways are 92 00:05:57.840 --> 00:06:03.440 the best ways, and God's ways are just woven all throughout this book. Community-based matchmaking, 93 00:06:03.440 --> 00:06:08.160 kind of bringing back some things that I believe are God's heart and His ways. But do not look for 94 00:06:08.160 --> 00:06:12.880 things from a bygone era in culture, because we don't live in those times. And thank God, 95 00:06:12.880 --> 00:06:16.800 ladies, thank God, because if you lived in that time, you'd be in big trouble. 96 00:06:18.720 --> 00:06:22.000 If you had a strong personality like me, they would have stoned you already. 97 00:06:22.560 --> 00:06:27.920 You would be gone. You would not be here anymore. And a lot of you have strong personalities. 98 00:06:31.040 --> 00:06:34.720 So I just want to let you know that those times are not coming back. There's some of you that 99 00:06:34.720 --> 00:06:38.560 are older. You're from the baby boomer generation, and you're waiting for the things to come back, 100 00:06:38.560 --> 00:06:41.440 of the way people dated in the 50s and stuff. That ain't coming back. 101 00:06:42.480 --> 00:06:46.240 And you better be glad, because the book talks about how that was a patriarchal 102 00:06:47.200 --> 00:06:52.800 propaganda generation, where they were trying to put things back from the World Wars. They 103 00:06:52.800 --> 00:06:56.800 left the ladies out of the house to go work in the factories to help make bullets and guns, 104 00:06:56.800 --> 00:07:00.640 and then they wanted them back in the house after the wars were over in the 50s. That's 105 00:07:00.640 --> 00:07:06.000 what happened there, friends. This isn't a hype. This isn't conspiracy theory. That's the truth. 106 00:07:06.640 --> 00:07:12.560 And so that was the media machine trying to tell you ladies that this was the better life, 107 00:07:12.560 --> 00:07:17.440 to be vacuuming your house and your pearls and sleeping with your makeup on and waking up, 108 00:07:18.240 --> 00:07:21.840 and your only goal in life was to make sure that your little hubby was happy. 109 00:07:22.720 --> 00:07:27.520 Friends, that is downplaying the divine feminine. The feminine is powerful. 110 00:07:28.400 --> 00:07:32.080 And when the masculine and feminine partner together, we're powerful. 111 00:07:33.200 --> 00:07:36.400 And I'm not saying you can't be the keeper of the home, but in the Bible, 112 00:07:36.400 --> 00:07:40.880 that scripture doesn't mean what you think it means. It actually means the defender of the 113 00:07:40.880 --> 00:07:46.880 home, spiritual defender. It means you're a warrior, the warrior of the home. So it doesn't 114 00:07:46.880 --> 00:07:54.320 mean housekeeping. It means something different. But if that's your vibe, you want to be a trad 115 00:07:54.320 --> 00:07:58.240 wife, a traditional wife. They call it trad wife now, friends, if you haven't caught on to this 116 00:07:58.240 --> 00:08:04.480 trend, is a trad wife. If you want to be at home, homesteading, milking goats and making sourdough, 117 00:08:05.440 --> 00:08:14.320 do it. Whatever your vibe is, whatever you want, find a partner who also wants that and do it. 118 00:08:14.320 --> 00:08:18.560 I was just going through some notes from old weddings, old weddings that I've officiated. 119 00:08:19.280 --> 00:08:24.480 And one of the notes said that the thing that the person liked about the other person is that 120 00:08:24.480 --> 00:08:29.040 they both wanted a traditional marriage where he was going to go out and bring home the bacon and 121 00:08:29.040 --> 00:08:34.240 she was going to fry it up in the pan. That's amazing because they wanted the same things. 122 00:08:34.240 --> 00:08:37.840 And that's the most important thing about partnership. You gotta want the same thing. 123 00:08:39.919 --> 00:08:44.480 If you want one thing and they want another thing, that's not going to be, that's not going to be 124 00:08:44.480 --> 00:08:48.720 good. Especially if you're like, well, I just want them. So I'm just going to want what they want. 125 00:08:48.720 --> 00:08:53.840 Can I tell you that that's not going to work? Oh, I'll just grow to like what they like. No, 126 00:08:53.840 --> 00:08:57.360 that's not going to work. Well, I don't really want to do this with the rest of my life, 127 00:08:57.360 --> 00:09:00.720 but maybe after we get married, they're going to change their mind. Oh no, no, 128 00:09:00.720 --> 00:09:05.680 that's really not going to work. If they tell you who they are and what they want, 129 00:09:05.680 --> 00:09:08.480 don't try to change them. If they tell you they don't want children, then they don't want 130 00:09:08.480 --> 00:09:12.400 children. If they tell you they don't want any more children, then they don't want any more 131 00:09:12.400 --> 00:09:16.240 children. If they tell you that they can't have any more children, don't marry them. 132 00:09:16.800 --> 00:09:21.520 Just banking on a miracle from God. Does God do miracles? Yes. But if you really, 133 00:09:21.520 --> 00:09:24.800 really want children and they tell you that it's medically impossible to have children, 134 00:09:25.360 --> 00:09:28.800 don't just marry them thinking that you're going to get a miracle just because you married them. 135 00:09:30.000 --> 00:09:34.800 Now, if God tells you to marry them anyway and ask you to release that desire and let him fulfill 136 00:09:34.800 --> 00:09:39.520 it however he wants to. Okay, cool. But if they absolutely tell you that they don't want any more 137 00:09:39.520 --> 00:09:43.520 kids or they don't want any kids, then if you really want kids and that's the desire of your 138 00:09:43.520 --> 00:09:47.680 heart, then guess what? That's not your match. But, but they like me, Jackie. I don't care. 139 00:09:47.760 --> 00:09:52.560 That's not how it works. Because a couple years into that marriage, you're going to 140 00:09:52.560 --> 00:09:57.600 be feeling some kind of way about whatever it is that you gave up that was the desire of your heart. 141 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:07.600 Just so that you could have someone sleeping next to you in the bed. 142 00:10:07.600 --> 00:10:11.720 This is why we have non-negotiables from heaven, and if having children is a non-negotiable 143 00:10:11.720 --> 00:10:16.760 from heaven for you, you're still in your childbearing years, you want a child, you 144 00:10:16.760 --> 00:10:21.200 know that it's part of God's plan for you to be a parent, whether it's through adoption 145 00:10:21.200 --> 00:10:26.000 or through birth, and this person says they absolutely do not want to raise any children, 146 00:10:26.000 --> 00:10:27.960 then you have to move on from that relationship. 147 00:10:27.960 --> 00:10:29.220 I don't even know why I'm saying this. 148 00:10:29.220 --> 00:10:32.700 It must be a word from the Lord for someone, because it's not even part of my supernatural 149 00:10:32.700 --> 00:10:33.700 Saturday today. 150 00:10:33.700 --> 00:10:36.820 It doesn't have anything to do with it. 151 00:10:36.820 --> 00:10:40.820 We're off on a tangent now, and I have to be shorter today than normal. 152 00:10:40.820 --> 00:10:43.240 So here is the word for today. 153 00:10:43.240 --> 00:10:47.900 When what you've been waiting for, and it's not just, okay, I want you to expand your 154 00:10:47.900 --> 00:10:48.900 mind. 155 00:10:48.900 --> 00:10:51.520 This is not just about your love life. 156 00:10:51.520 --> 00:10:54.860 So close your eyes, let God expand your mind. 157 00:10:54.860 --> 00:10:58.460 When what you've been waiting for, and a lot of us have been waiting for a lot of things. 158 00:10:58.460 --> 00:11:05.540 We have a lot of dreams that are unrealized, have unrealized dreams in our lives, a lot 159 00:11:05.540 --> 00:11:09.500 of things that we've been wanting to have happen in our lives, whether it's a healing, 160 00:11:09.500 --> 00:11:14.340 whether it's a financial breakthrough, whether it's a relational breakthrough, whether it's 161 00:11:14.340 --> 00:11:19.120 someone else's healing that we love, whether it's an opportunity that we've always dreamed 162 00:11:19.120 --> 00:11:21.500 of having, whatever it is. 163 00:11:21.500 --> 00:11:23.620 Maybe you've always wanted to go to the Grand Ole Opry. 164 00:11:23.620 --> 00:11:26.300 Maybe you've wanted to travel abroad. 165 00:11:26.300 --> 00:11:28.860 You know, it doesn't matter what it is. 166 00:11:28.860 --> 00:11:29.860 This is the word. 167 00:11:29.860 --> 00:11:33.360 When what you've been wanting and waiting for shows up, it's going to be better than 168 00:11:33.360 --> 00:11:36.220 you expected. 169 00:11:36.220 --> 00:11:38.620 Remember that we're in this season of the siege is over. 170 00:11:38.620 --> 00:11:41.800 Remember we're in this season that God said we're no longer going to have to make do and 171 00:11:41.800 --> 00:11:43.540 just kind of muddle through. 172 00:11:43.540 --> 00:11:45.660 Remember that God said we're in this season of firsts? 173 00:11:45.660 --> 00:11:48.020 Well, it's happening, friends. 174 00:11:48.020 --> 00:11:49.020 It's happening. 175 00:11:49.020 --> 00:11:52.820 You guys already know about my brother getting his first house, but I had some other firsts 176 00:11:52.820 --> 00:11:57.940 that happened that I want to tell you guys about, because I want to talk to the people 177 00:11:57.940 --> 00:12:01.000 that are afraid to hope again. 178 00:12:01.000 --> 00:12:04.300 Just briefly this morning, I want to talk to you folks that are afraid to get your hopes 179 00:12:04.300 --> 00:12:05.620 up again. 180 00:12:05.620 --> 00:12:12.780 You're afraid to even believe that anything good is coming for you, and it's not that 181 00:12:12.780 --> 00:12:15.740 you stop believing God necessarily. 182 00:12:15.740 --> 00:12:21.460 It isn't, but disappointment is painful, amen? 183 00:12:21.620 --> 00:12:23.620 It is. 184 00:12:23.620 --> 00:12:28.660 And so it's not that you stop believing God or in God, I should say. 185 00:12:28.660 --> 00:12:33.500 You haven't stopped believing in God, but you just stop maybe believing that good things 186 00:12:33.500 --> 00:12:34.940 could happen to you. 187 00:12:34.940 --> 00:12:38.260 I run into people all the time that have no problem believing that good things can happen 188 00:12:38.260 --> 00:12:39.260 for everybody else. 189 00:12:39.260 --> 00:12:43.460 In fact, they pray for good things to happen for everybody else, and things happen for 190 00:12:43.460 --> 00:12:44.460 other people. 191 00:12:44.460 --> 00:12:47.900 It's just you that's kind of stuck, but it's not because you're faithless. 192 00:12:47.900 --> 00:12:51.460 I just want to really make sure that that point is clear, but it's because you've been 193 00:12:51.460 --> 00:12:54.260 disappointed time after time after time. 194 00:12:54.260 --> 00:12:57.780 And you guys, I have the same shoes on that you do. 195 00:12:57.780 --> 00:13:03.700 I have all kinds of things in my life that I thought, oh, this is it. 196 00:13:03.700 --> 00:13:04.700 This is the time. 197 00:13:04.700 --> 00:13:08.060 It's going to happen, and let's call those things near misses. 198 00:13:08.060 --> 00:13:12.300 You know how many times I thought my brother was going to finally be inside and not outside, 199 00:13:12.300 --> 00:13:14.340 living outside or living in his car? 200 00:13:14.340 --> 00:13:19.060 You know how many times we got so close to that happening in the past? 201 00:13:19.060 --> 00:13:21.740 And you guys have a lot of almosts as well. 202 00:13:21.740 --> 00:13:25.700 Raise your hand if you have a lot of almosts. 203 00:13:25.700 --> 00:13:26.700 Get them up. 204 00:13:26.700 --> 00:13:28.260 Get them up. 205 00:13:28.260 --> 00:13:33.300 A lot of almosts. 206 00:13:33.300 --> 00:13:37.940 Almosts. 207 00:13:37.940 --> 00:13:41.820 The almost breakthrough, whatever it is, the almost breakthrough, look at all those hands 208 00:13:41.820 --> 00:13:43.820 coming up. 209 00:13:43.820 --> 00:13:44.820 Almosts. 210 00:13:44.820 --> 00:13:45.820 Almosts. 211 00:13:45.820 --> 00:13:46.820 It almost happened. 212 00:13:46.820 --> 00:13:47.820 It looked like it was going to happen. 213 00:13:47.820 --> 00:13:51.380 He thought that this was it. 214 00:13:51.380 --> 00:13:54.980 And I just want to tell you, for some of you, like for healing and different things like 215 00:13:54.980 --> 00:13:57.260 that, you just got to walk that out. 216 00:13:57.260 --> 00:14:00.860 You know, if you believe and you receive, then you will have, is what the Bible says. 217 00:14:00.860 --> 00:14:03.540 If you believe it and receive it, then you will have it. 218 00:14:03.540 --> 00:14:04.940 And sometimes you just got to walk it out. 219 00:14:04.940 --> 00:14:06.100 You just got to ignore the symptoms. 220 00:14:06.100 --> 00:14:07.420 You just got to keep walking forward. 221 00:14:07.420 --> 00:14:08.860 You just got to keep speaking faith. 222 00:14:08.860 --> 00:14:11.580 I'm telling you, for some of you, that is the truth. 223 00:14:11.580 --> 00:14:16.380 You can't just say, oh, well, I still have a little bit of symptoms, so I guess I wasn't 224 00:14:16.380 --> 00:14:17.380 healed. 225 00:14:17.380 --> 00:14:19.140 No, you just got to walk it out. 226 00:14:19.140 --> 00:14:21.140 Believe it, receive it, and you will have it. 227 00:14:21.140 --> 00:14:22.140 That's what the Bible says. 228 00:14:22.140 --> 00:14:25.380 But I'm not here to talk about that today. 229 00:14:25.380 --> 00:14:29.460 I'm here to talk about more tangible things where you almost got the job. 230 00:14:29.460 --> 00:14:32.500 Okay, not things that you just have to walk out in faith. 231 00:14:32.500 --> 00:14:33.900 You almost got the job. 232 00:14:33.900 --> 00:14:39.420 You went to the third interview and then they chose the other person and it was your dream 233 00:14:39.420 --> 00:14:40.420 job. 234 00:14:40.420 --> 00:14:41.420 You really wanted it. 235 00:14:42.260 --> 00:14:47.700 You almost got the house, but someone outbid you, or you just couldn't quite get there 236 00:14:47.700 --> 00:14:48.700 financially. 237 00:14:48.700 --> 00:14:54.220 You know, whatever it was, those almost, but God wants you to know that this is not a season 238 00:14:54.220 --> 00:14:56.100 for you to manage disappointment anymore. 239 00:14:56.100 --> 00:14:59.300 This is a season where you need to expect God's goodness again. 240 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:03.400 It's time to expect God's goodness again, so I tell you a story 241 00:15:04.000 --> 00:15:07.840 And I have some notes written down here, so I don't miss anything. I want to tell you a story 242 00:15:09.880 --> 00:15:15.680 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? 243 00:15:16.360 --> 00:15:20.240 She's this amazing sold-out woman of God who? 244 00:15:21.400 --> 00:15:25.000 Could have done anything she wanted to she came from a lot of people don't know this about her 245 00:15:25.000 --> 00:15:27.000 But she came from an affluent family 246 00:15:27.680 --> 00:15:34.280 Okay, her dad graduated from Stanford her family was affluent she grew up in the Orange County area of California 247 00:15:34.680 --> 00:15:38.360 In fact when she became a believer her parents were just like what the what? 248 00:15:38.880 --> 00:15:44.400 Because she was 16 years old and she started doing some radical things for Jesus and her parents were not believers 249 00:15:44.400 --> 00:15:48.560 And they were just like what what's happening here. She was she was 250 00:15:49.080 --> 00:15:56.280 Raised to live this more affluent lifestyle, and she's very smart. She's a very smart businesswoman once again 251 00:15:56.280 --> 00:16:01.560 She could have done anything that she wanted to but what she wanted to do after she met Jesus in her late teens is 252 00:16:01.720 --> 00:16:05.480 She wanted to do whatever Jesus asked her to do and I love people like that 253 00:16:05.480 --> 00:16:07.840 And I've heard about the meetings that she has 254 00:16:08.200 --> 00:16:13.880 she went over to Mozambique and she's done amazing things in Africa God sent her to the poorest of the poor and 255 00:16:14.040 --> 00:16:22.000 She has built schools there, and she has improved lives there. They have you know had to deal with all kinds of terrorism and 256 00:16:22.960 --> 00:16:24.680 Rebels over there in Africa 257 00:16:24.680 --> 00:16:30.240 You know Africa's always that some kind of civil war and they've just had all kinds of horrible crazy things 258 00:16:30.680 --> 00:16:38.160 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 259 00:16:38.320 --> 00:16:45.600 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 260 00:16:46.200 --> 00:16:49.920 About her adventures with Jesus. I'm like man. I really want to see Heidi Baker 261 00:16:50.760 --> 00:16:54.520 I'd love to be in one of those meetings one of those services with Heidi 262 00:16:55.360 --> 00:17:01.440 But let me tell you this every time I've been anywhere where Heidi Baker was supposed to be she didn't show up 263 00:17:02.240 --> 00:17:05.040 There's a word for you here listen to it 264 00:17:06.079 --> 00:17:11.760 Every time that I put myself in proximity to where this woman was gonna be 265 00:17:12.520 --> 00:17:14.319 She was not there 266 00:17:14.319 --> 00:17:17.980 Because something happened their flight was delayed or there was a cancellation now 267 00:17:17.980 --> 00:17:22.619 She was never the main speaker at any of these situations. I don't want you to think that she's flaky and unreliable 268 00:17:23.220 --> 00:17:28.140 She just was gonna be there and word was on the street that she was gonna be there and it was gonna be amazing 269 00:17:28.420 --> 00:17:29.980 But guess what? 270 00:17:29.980 --> 00:17:31.500 She wasn't 271 00:17:31.500 --> 00:17:38.940 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 272 00:17:39.620 --> 00:17:44.460 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 273 00:17:44.460 --> 00:17:45.780 I'm like 274 00:17:45.780 --> 00:17:49.140 What you talking about with us what are you serious? 275 00:17:50.060 --> 00:17:56.060 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 276 00:17:56.060 --> 00:18:03.380 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 277 00:18:04.460 --> 00:18:09.020 Anywhere where Heidi Baker was supposed to show up. She never shows up. He's like bro. Don't say that 278 00:18:10.020 --> 00:18:17.220 And I'm like, I'm just telling you and he's like well, you know, she has had some medical difficulties recently 279 00:18:17.220 --> 00:18:22.900 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 280 00:18:23.100 --> 00:18:30.540 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 281 00:18:31.060 --> 00:18:35.180 Sharing all kinds of amazing things about her adventures with Jesus 282 00:18:35.380 --> 00:18:41.180 She shared for about an hour and then our host asked if we would pray for her and her husband 283 00:18:41.980 --> 00:18:48.420 Y'all instead of seeing Heidi up on a platform somewhere speaking from a distance and I'm sure it would have been amazing 284 00:18:48.420 --> 00:18:54.780 I was on the floor with my head and my hands on this woman's tiny little feet praying for her 285 00:18:55.540 --> 00:18:57.740 Touching her I was touching her you guys 286 00:18:58.420 --> 00:19:02.540 Alright, I was touching her all up on her feet praying for her 287 00:19:03.500 --> 00:19:05.500 Interceding for her. I mean come on 288 00:19:08.220 --> 00:19:15.500 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 289 00:19:16.380 --> 00:19:18.820 Just want you to know that it was better 290 00:19:19.940 --> 00:19:24.220 It was better because those platform moments when I was supposed to see her never happened 291 00:19:24.940 --> 00:19:31.060 They never happened. But this was a no stage moment. This was a no microphone moment. This was a no crowd moment 292 00:19:32.540 --> 00:19:35.020 And it was just me at her feet 293 00:19:35.540 --> 00:19:39.060 Praying for her thanking God for her life loving her 294 00:19:39.540 --> 00:19:43.660 ministering to her and then she reached on she put her hands on my head and 295 00:19:44.460 --> 00:19:47.500 As I sat there and I got to touch her feet and prayed for her 296 00:19:47.500 --> 00:19:50.940 She prayed for me and then her husband and her prayed over everyone in the room 297 00:19:50.940 --> 00:19:54.140 And when I tell you the place was wrecked with the joy of the Lord 298 00:19:54.620 --> 00:19:57.820 It was wrecked with the joy of the Lord. Everyone was just 299 00:19:58.540 --> 00:20:00.540 laid out everywhere 300 00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:08.640 Just enjoying the sweet, beautiful presence of God that only sold-out lovers can bring, 301 00:20:08.640 --> 00:20:11.160 like Heidi and Roland Baker. 302 00:20:11.160 --> 00:20:13.680 And the Holy Spirit whispered to me in this moment, this is what I'm going to whisper 303 00:20:13.680 --> 00:20:16.120 to you because this word is for you as well. 304 00:20:16.120 --> 00:20:20.360 This is why I didn't let you have it before. 305 00:20:20.360 --> 00:20:22.360 Woo! 306 00:20:22.360 --> 00:20:24.360 Jesus! 307 00:20:24.360 --> 00:20:31.600 This is why it didn't happen before. 308 00:20:31.600 --> 00:20:36.280 Because whatever I was asking for, or even wasn't even asking, friends, this isn't even 309 00:20:36.280 --> 00:20:38.460 about what you've been asking for. 310 00:20:38.460 --> 00:20:41.280 Even what I was hoping for in my heart, well, wouldn't that be nice? 311 00:20:41.280 --> 00:20:42.280 Wouldn't that be fun? 312 00:20:42.280 --> 00:20:44.220 Oh man, I hope that happens. 313 00:20:44.220 --> 00:20:49.940 Even what I was hoping for, God was preparing to exceed. 314 00:20:49.940 --> 00:20:52.080 He was already going to exceed my expectations. 315 00:20:52.080 --> 00:20:59.860 And him who's able to do exceedingly abundantly above all we can ask, think, or even imagine. 316 00:20:59.860 --> 00:21:05.380 It was not going to be a distant encounter when I met Heidi Baker. 317 00:21:05.380 --> 00:21:07.740 God saw fit that it was going to be a personal one. 318 00:21:07.740 --> 00:21:08.740 Wow, y'all. 319 00:21:08.740 --> 00:21:13.660 And I want you to think I'm some kind of stalker, I'm like idolizing her. 320 00:21:13.660 --> 00:21:17.540 For all of you religious folks that are stuck in here and we ain't got that religion out 321 00:21:17.540 --> 00:21:18.540 of you yet. 322 00:21:18.540 --> 00:21:19.540 It's not like that at all. 323 00:21:19.540 --> 00:21:22.500 It's not like that at all. 324 00:21:22.500 --> 00:21:24.840 God says to give honor to whom honor is due. 325 00:21:24.840 --> 00:21:30.800 And these people, it's not that they've made billions of dollars, but they've won millions 326 00:21:30.800 --> 00:21:31.800 of souls. 327 00:21:31.800 --> 00:21:37.720 And I'm telling you what, that's worth sitting down and opening up your ears and your heart 328 00:21:37.720 --> 00:21:40.040 and listening to someone like that talk. 329 00:21:40.040 --> 00:21:41.040 Amen? 330 00:21:41.040 --> 00:21:42.040 Amen. 331 00:21:42.040 --> 00:21:48.040 Okay, so let's talk about why these delays possibly have been mercy. 332 00:21:48.040 --> 00:21:50.200 Because sometimes we zig instead of zag. 333 00:21:50.200 --> 00:21:53.780 Sometimes we're the reason for the delay and we're going to address that in 2026. 334 00:21:53.780 --> 00:21:57.820 If you're the reason for the delay, if you're the problem, we're going to address that. 335 00:21:57.820 --> 00:22:02.580 And I'm not putting out the registration for it yet, but on January 4th this year, we are 336 00:22:02.580 --> 00:22:07.300 going to do a times and seasons with the renowned prophet, Bethany Hicks. 337 00:22:07.300 --> 00:22:08.540 She's also a good friend of mine. 338 00:22:08.540 --> 00:22:09.860 She lives in Austin. 339 00:22:09.860 --> 00:22:14.540 I have enjoyed Daniel McCollum and hers ministry up close and personal. 340 00:22:14.540 --> 00:22:19.280 They have been mentors in my life and friends in my life, and she wrote a new book, Times 341 00:22:19.280 --> 00:22:25.040 and Seasons, and I decided that this was the perfect start for 26, where I did prophesy 342 00:22:25.040 --> 00:22:26.520 your year at Rosh Hashanah. 343 00:22:26.520 --> 00:22:30.640 I want to do something that's more of an activation where you guys know what to do and when to 344 00:22:30.640 --> 00:22:31.640 do it. 345 00:22:31.640 --> 00:22:32.640 You know your season. 346 00:22:32.640 --> 00:22:38.160 And after this time together on January 4th, you are going to know what time it is in your 347 00:22:38.160 --> 00:22:42.400 life, what you need to be doing and how to do it. 348 00:22:42.980 --> 00:22:44.220 Because it's time for action, friends. 349 00:22:44.220 --> 00:22:46.020 2026 is going to be all about action. 350 00:22:46.020 --> 00:22:50.140 It's going to be all about taking action. 351 00:22:50.140 --> 00:22:51.540 And God wants you to take action. 352 00:22:51.540 --> 00:22:54.020 And so that is what that night's going to be about. 353 00:22:54.020 --> 00:22:56.180 Because some of you, your delays are you. 354 00:22:56.180 --> 00:22:59.380 I'm just going to tell you, point blank, it's you. 355 00:22:59.380 --> 00:23:02.940 You're stuck on the inside, and that's getting you stuck on the outside. 356 00:23:02.940 --> 00:23:04.820 And so we've got to get unstuck. 357 00:23:04.820 --> 00:23:08.180 We've got to get challenged in these things that we're continuing to hold on to that are 358 00:23:08.180 --> 00:23:14.720 keeping us stagnant, apathetic, that are keeping us from really taking the action. 359 00:23:14.720 --> 00:23:19.080 We say we believe, but there's not the right appropriate action to prove that. 360 00:23:19.080 --> 00:23:23.880 And so we are going to address all of those things starting January 4th and going forward 361 00:23:23.880 --> 00:23:24.880 into the new year. 362 00:23:24.880 --> 00:23:25.880 In love, y'all. 363 00:23:25.880 --> 00:23:26.880 In love. 364 00:23:26.880 --> 00:23:27.880 But some of you need a kick. 365 00:23:27.880 --> 00:23:28.880 You need a boot in the butt. 366 00:23:28.880 --> 00:23:30.800 You need a kick in the pants. 367 00:23:30.800 --> 00:23:31.800 You do. 368 00:23:31.800 --> 00:23:33.600 And lovingly, that's going to happen. 369 00:23:33.600 --> 00:23:34.600 All right. 370 00:23:34.940 --> 00:23:39.900 But I want to talk to all of you that it was outside of your control, but those delays 371 00:23:39.900 --> 00:23:42.140 were mercy. 372 00:23:42.140 --> 00:23:45.940 And a lot of you, a lot of you, I really feel it's in my spirit, you're still grieving those 373 00:23:45.940 --> 00:23:47.380 doors that didn't open. 374 00:23:47.380 --> 00:23:50.980 You're still grieving that relationship that didn't make it all the way to the finish line, 375 00:23:50.980 --> 00:23:51.980 that breakup. 376 00:23:51.980 --> 00:23:55.060 But I want you to know that those were not rejections. 377 00:23:55.060 --> 00:23:56.620 I know they feel like rejections. 378 00:23:56.620 --> 00:24:01.140 And I have a post on my Instagram right now about rejections, and I wish you would go 379 00:24:01.140 --> 00:24:02.140 see it. 380 00:24:02.140 --> 00:24:04.140 I posted it yesterday. 381 00:24:04.440 --> 00:24:05.880 What if it wasn't a rejection? 382 00:24:05.880 --> 00:24:08.280 What if it was just a divine upgrade that was in process? 383 00:24:08.280 --> 00:24:12.120 I could have seen Heidi from a distance, from a platform, and I'm sure it would have been 384 00:24:12.120 --> 00:24:13.120 great. 385 00:24:13.120 --> 00:24:16.720 But God wanted better for me. 386 00:24:16.720 --> 00:24:20.000 He wanted something more powerful for me. 387 00:24:20.000 --> 00:24:24.200 He told me that there was going to be an impartation between her and I, that she was going to impart 388 00:24:24.200 --> 00:24:25.200 something to me. 389 00:24:25.200 --> 00:24:29.000 I know a lot of you don't know this about me, but when I first met Jesus at 22 years 390 00:24:29.000 --> 00:24:32.160 old, I wanted to be a missionary. 391 00:24:32.180 --> 00:24:36.940 I felt like God called me to be a missionary, specifically to Africa. 392 00:24:36.940 --> 00:24:38.900 And it never worked out. 393 00:24:38.900 --> 00:24:40.820 I was estranged from my husband at the time. 394 00:24:40.820 --> 00:24:42.100 I was separated from him. 395 00:24:42.100 --> 00:24:49.060 And when I met Jesus, the people that were discipling me convinced me that it would be 396 00:24:49.060 --> 00:24:54.780 God's will for me to get back together with my husband, who was a believer, a very legalistic 397 00:24:54.780 --> 00:24:55.780 believer. 398 00:24:55.780 --> 00:24:57.120 And I got back together with him. 399 00:24:57.120 --> 00:25:00.140 But when I did, you guys, I signed up for the ideology. 400 00:25:00.000 --> 00:25:04.200 that a woman is just an accessory to a man and it doesn't matter what my callings are 401 00:25:04.200 --> 00:25:07.600 because only a man has callings, not a woman. 402 00:25:07.600 --> 00:25:12.400 And so even though I had a calling when I first met Jesus to go and be a missionary, 403 00:25:12.400 --> 00:25:18.280 a foreign missionary on foreign soil, when I shared that with him after getting back 404 00:25:18.280 --> 00:25:22.820 together with him, we had been married for two years, separated, I became a believer, 405 00:25:22.820 --> 00:25:23.860 we got back together. 406 00:25:23.860 --> 00:25:30.060 When I shared that hope and dream and word from the Lord, he immediately cast it down 407 00:25:30.060 --> 00:25:33.900 with women don't have callings, men do, and I'm not called to be a missionary, so you 408 00:25:33.900 --> 00:25:38.980 might as well just let go of that hope and dream because it's never going to come true. 409 00:25:38.980 --> 00:25:41.620 And you guys, it didn't come true. 410 00:25:41.620 --> 00:25:43.180 I believe I am a type of missionary. 411 00:25:43.180 --> 00:25:45.860 I'm a missionary to the single nation. 412 00:25:45.860 --> 00:25:46.860 Come on. 413 00:25:47.780 --> 00:25:51.500 God can repurpose your callings and your giftings. 414 00:25:51.500 --> 00:25:58.060 But one of the most profound and prolific missionaries to Africa, where I felt called, 415 00:25:58.060 --> 00:26:05.380 laid hands on me last weekend and I got to pray for her feet that will surely go back 416 00:26:05.380 --> 00:26:09.280 to Mozambique and other places and other countries in Africa. 417 00:26:09.280 --> 00:26:14.260 And I feel somehow that was a full circle moment. 418 00:26:14.260 --> 00:26:15.260 Right? 419 00:26:17.500 --> 00:26:19.180 Nothing's lost. 420 00:26:19.180 --> 00:26:20.860 It's just invested. 421 00:26:20.860 --> 00:26:22.340 Nothing's lost in the kingdom, friends. 422 00:26:22.340 --> 00:26:24.260 It's only invested. 423 00:26:24.260 --> 00:26:26.420 It's seed that's sown and it's invested. 424 00:26:26.420 --> 00:26:29.700 So whatever that delay was, it wasn't a denial. 425 00:26:29.700 --> 00:26:30.700 You didn't miss it. 426 00:26:30.700 --> 00:26:33.460 You were being positioned. 427 00:26:33.460 --> 00:26:35.180 And God has very precise timing. 428 00:26:35.180 --> 00:26:36.180 He really does. 429 00:26:36.180 --> 00:26:37.180 Right? 430 00:26:37.180 --> 00:26:40.340 And if that was all that I had to share with you, that would be powerful. 431 00:26:40.340 --> 00:26:43.500 But I have one more thing to share with you guys. 432 00:26:43.500 --> 00:26:48.260 Ever since I was a little kid, there's some specific dental work that I, I know that I 433 00:26:48.260 --> 00:26:51.460 had Invisalign, so my teeth look good right now. 434 00:26:51.460 --> 00:26:52.900 They look better than they've ever looked. 435 00:26:52.900 --> 00:26:55.980 But when I was a kid, I was mercilessly teased because of my teeth. 436 00:26:55.980 --> 00:26:56.980 Anybody else? 437 00:26:56.980 --> 00:27:02.420 I had a huge overbite and I had my, my, my front two teeth were very bucked. 438 00:27:02.420 --> 00:27:06.920 They were bucked toothed and there was a space in between them and the bottom teeth were 439 00:27:06.920 --> 00:27:10.220 very crooked and just, I had really messed up teeth. 440 00:27:10.220 --> 00:27:14.780 And when you come from a childhood like mine, where your basic needs are being neglected, 441 00:27:14.780 --> 00:27:19.100 your clothes are not being washed, you know, there's not someone home making the food, 442 00:27:19.100 --> 00:27:20.900 you know, you're kind of on your own. 443 00:27:20.900 --> 00:27:21.900 Guess what? 444 00:27:21.900 --> 00:27:22.900 You're not going to get braces. 445 00:27:22.900 --> 00:27:24.540 That's a luxury item. 446 00:27:24.540 --> 00:27:28.260 You know, I wasn't even getting my basic needs met emotionally or physically. 447 00:27:28.260 --> 00:27:30.900 I'm not going to definitely not going to end up with braces. 448 00:27:30.900 --> 00:27:31.940 And so I didn't get them. 449 00:27:31.940 --> 00:27:35.500 And so I was bullied and I was teased for a lot of different things because my clothes 450 00:27:35.500 --> 00:27:38.820 were dirty because they smelled because I know it's hard for you all to picture me 451 00:27:38.820 --> 00:27:44.420 like this, but second through sixth grade, little Jackie was dirty. 452 00:27:44.420 --> 00:27:45.420 Okay. 453 00:27:45.420 --> 00:27:50.780 She went to private school where people wore uniforms, but my uniform was never washed. 454 00:27:50.780 --> 00:27:56.820 So my uniform stunk and it made it worse that I wet the bed until I was like in eighth grade 455 00:27:56.820 --> 00:27:59.780 because of my mental and emotional state. 456 00:27:59.780 --> 00:28:07.340 And so there was poor hygiene, there was unwashed clothes, there was, you know, not clean underwear. 457 00:28:07.340 --> 00:28:08.700 There was no lunch. 458 00:28:08.780 --> 00:28:11.300 I was stealing other kids lunches in the coat room. 459 00:28:11.300 --> 00:28:15.860 I mean, I know it's hard for you to imagine me that way, but that was my childhood. 460 00:28:15.860 --> 00:28:16.860 My poor mom was young. 461 00:28:16.860 --> 00:28:20.020 She was only 21 years old when I was born. 462 00:28:20.020 --> 00:28:23.300 And you know, so she would have been in her twenties still when all this was happening. 463 00:28:23.300 --> 00:28:26.380 And she was married to very abusive men one after another. 464 00:28:26.380 --> 00:28:31.340 She was married three times before I was 10 years old and they were all abusive, alcoholics, 465 00:28:31.340 --> 00:28:32.340 addicts. 466 00:28:32.340 --> 00:28:35.020 It was bad news bears. 467 00:28:35.020 --> 00:28:41.500 So my teeth kind of became this thing, friends was kind of like a, I don't know, a thing, 468 00:28:41.500 --> 00:28:45.180 but there's some dental work that I've really wanted to have done all my life. 469 00:28:45.180 --> 00:28:49.900 And I've come really close to having it done really close to letting someone do it because 470 00:28:49.900 --> 00:28:54.980 I mean, it's, it's a situation where if they mess it up, it's not good. 471 00:28:54.980 --> 00:29:00.980 And so I almost, I went to Columbia last year to, we went two years in a row for a retreat. 472 00:29:00.980 --> 00:29:01.980 Guys know we take people to Columbia. 473 00:29:01.980 --> 00:29:05.500 I don't know if you guys know this or not, but Columbia is kind of known as like the 474 00:29:05.500 --> 00:29:08.900 dental tourism capital of the world. 475 00:29:08.900 --> 00:29:13.420 People go there to get dental work done a lot cheaper than they can in the States because 476 00:29:13.420 --> 00:29:16.940 you guys know dental work's expensive, right? 477 00:29:16.940 --> 00:29:19.260 And so I had an appointment. 478 00:29:19.260 --> 00:29:23.260 I was going to get it done last year and I spelled a check in my heart. 479 00:29:23.260 --> 00:29:24.900 Not that it wouldn't have turned out well. 480 00:29:24.900 --> 00:29:28.740 Not that these dentists weren't, you know, don't have great reviews and not because it's 481 00:29:28.740 --> 00:29:34.420 in a foreign country or any of that, but because I just felt like God's just like, 482 00:29:34.420 --> 00:29:35.420 don't do this. 483 00:29:35.420 --> 00:29:38.380 And you guys, we have to listen to that still small voice. 484 00:29:38.380 --> 00:29:42.100 I know that there's, there's, you know, there's a fine line, there's a tension that we have 485 00:29:42.100 --> 00:29:48.220 to hold between, you know, wanting something about, you know, about having something and 486 00:29:48.220 --> 00:29:51.940 about not yet, about now and not yet. 487 00:29:51.940 --> 00:29:56.860 We believe that we receive what God has for us, but sometimes, you know, there's a specific 488 00:29:56.860 --> 00:29:59.980 scenario in which we need to receive it because that's the best scenario. 489 00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:04.220 I could have got it done anyway and I don't think that it would have been an emergency. 490 00:30:04.220 --> 00:30:05.720 I don't think that it would have been terrible. 491 00:30:05.720 --> 00:30:07.900 I don't think that it wouldn't have worked out. 492 00:30:07.900 --> 00:30:09.700 It just wasn't God's best for me. 493 00:30:09.700 --> 00:30:15.940 It wasn't God's best for me and I'm very cautious even using that language with you guys because 494 00:30:15.940 --> 00:30:23.140 some of you live in so much fear that you never take action and so with our times and 495 00:30:23.140 --> 00:30:27.020 seasons thing that we're going to do on January 4th, we're going to see the difference between 496 00:30:27.020 --> 00:30:35.500 moving and taking action and not being afraid and waiting because we know that God's saying, 497 00:30:35.500 --> 00:30:39.340 hey, I have something for you but that's not it. 498 00:30:39.340 --> 00:30:44.580 There's a fine line between those things and if you have the mindset of fear, then you're 499 00:30:44.580 --> 00:30:49.020 never going to take action in faith and this life requires action in faith and some of 500 00:30:49.020 --> 00:30:53.580 you are always paralyzed by the fear of making a mistake or doing things wrong and so that's 501 00:30:53.580 --> 00:30:57.580 why I hesitate to even use language like this with you but I want to let you guys know 502 00:30:57.580 --> 00:30:59.260 that I'm not that kind of person. 503 00:30:59.260 --> 00:31:01.300 I'm not analysis paralysis person. 504 00:31:01.300 --> 00:31:02.820 In fact, I'm a fast start. 505 00:31:02.820 --> 00:31:06.220 I'm the kind of person who throws against the wall, see what sticks. 506 00:31:06.220 --> 00:31:11.140 I take quick action on the words that God gives me and so I wasn't saying no to Columbia 507 00:31:11.140 --> 00:31:12.140 because I was afraid. 508 00:31:12.140 --> 00:31:17.140 I was saying no to Columbia because I know when God is telling me to not do something 509 00:31:17.140 --> 00:31:20.300 and I want to teach you to be those people as well. 510 00:31:20.300 --> 00:31:24.900 So I knew that the Lord said no to that so that was last spring. 511 00:31:24.900 --> 00:31:27.740 It was April, I believe, that we went there. 512 00:31:27.740 --> 00:31:30.220 Now there's this dentist that I follow. 513 00:31:30.220 --> 00:31:31.700 I follow all his stuff. 514 00:31:31.700 --> 00:31:33.020 I follow his website. 515 00:31:33.020 --> 00:31:34.500 I just love him. 516 00:31:34.500 --> 00:31:41.060 He does some of the work that I want done and I just, I've always wanted to go to him 517 00:31:41.060 --> 00:31:43.660 but it's really difficult to work with this dentist. 518 00:31:43.660 --> 00:31:47.420 Of course, everyone wants to work with him but because of this word that the siege is 519 00:31:47.420 --> 00:31:51.740 over and we don't have to muddle through and it's a season of firsts, I went ahead 520 00:31:51.740 --> 00:31:55.380 and put an inquiry into his office and guess what? 521 00:31:55.380 --> 00:32:01.620 They called me a few days ago and they have a cancellation and the cancellation is on 522 00:32:01.620 --> 00:32:02.620 my birthday. 523 00:32:02.620 --> 00:32:08.380 Not only do they have a cancellation but the cancellation is on my birthday and so on my 524 00:32:08.380 --> 00:32:15.980 birthday, January 16th, I'm going to get something done that I've wanted done for probably 40 525 00:32:15.980 --> 00:32:21.100 years since I was about 10 years old. 526 00:32:21.100 --> 00:32:25.860 I'm just so excited about it because the woman who had this appointment got pregnant so that's 527 00:32:25.860 --> 00:32:29.780 a happy thing and they don't work on, they don't do dental work because, you know, they 528 00:32:29.780 --> 00:32:31.700 got to give you like, you know, drugs and stuff. 529 00:32:31.700 --> 00:32:35.180 They don't do dental work on pregnant people in their first trimester and she's in her 530 00:32:35.180 --> 00:32:36.700 first trimester. 531 00:32:36.700 --> 00:32:41.580 She's had this appointment with him for over a year and so she's pregnant. 532 00:32:41.580 --> 00:32:43.220 She can't come and guess what? 533 00:32:43.220 --> 00:32:51.340 The first person that got offered that appointment that happens to be on my birthday is me. 534 00:32:51.340 --> 00:32:55.260 When she said we had an opening, a cancellation, she's like, this never happens. 535 00:32:55.260 --> 00:32:59.900 She said, this is really a very unusual circumstance but we had a cancellation. 536 00:32:59.900 --> 00:33:05.780 This person has had this appointment for over a year and she said it's in January and as 537 00:33:05.780 --> 00:33:07.620 soon as she said January, I perked up. 538 00:33:07.620 --> 00:33:08.940 I said, what day in January? 539 00:33:08.940 --> 00:33:10.100 She said, January 16th. 540 00:33:10.100 --> 00:33:12.700 I was like, shut the front door. 541 00:33:12.700 --> 00:33:15.820 Happy birthday to me. 542 00:33:15.820 --> 00:33:18.900 So every time I tried to do this, it was just the wrong timing. 543 00:33:18.900 --> 00:33:20.420 It was the wrong doctor. 544 00:33:20.420 --> 00:33:22.420 I didn't have peace about it. 545 00:33:22.420 --> 00:33:24.460 Isn't this incredible, you guys? 546 00:33:24.460 --> 00:33:26.780 It's the season of first because the siege is over. 547 00:33:26.780 --> 00:33:34.780 Okay, hold on, we got someone unmuted, got someone unmuted on here. 548 00:33:34.780 --> 00:33:35.780 Make sure you're muted. 549 00:33:35.780 --> 00:33:39.620 There should be a little red line through your microphone so that you're not messing 550 00:33:39.620 --> 00:33:48.620 up the recording for later when people are trying to listen back. 551 00:33:48.620 --> 00:33:50.620 Mute yourself. 552 00:33:50.620 --> 00:33:57.780 Okay, you guys, you cannot make this kind of stuff up. 553 00:33:57.780 --> 00:34:00.020 You can't. 554 00:34:00.020 --> 00:34:01.940 I feel like I'm in perpetual Christmas time. 555 00:34:01.940 --> 00:34:03.580 My brother gets a house. 556 00:34:03.580 --> 00:34:05.500 I can't tell you. 557 00:34:05.500 --> 00:34:12.820 For over 28 years, I have been interceding and crying out to the Lord for my brother. 558 00:34:12.820 --> 00:34:13.820 Help him, Lord. 559 00:34:13.820 --> 00:34:14.820 Please help him. 560 00:34:14.820 --> 00:34:16.300 Deliver him, Lord. 561 00:34:16.300 --> 00:34:17.300 Make him, keep him safe. 562 00:34:17.300 --> 00:34:20.820 You know how many times I thought he was dead because I didn't hear from him for months 563 00:34:20.820 --> 00:34:24.659 at a time because you don't hear from homeless people a lot. 564 00:34:24.659 --> 00:34:30.340 And how many times I've like called police stations in the last area that he was, I found 565 00:34:30.340 --> 00:34:33.780 friends that lived in those areas that were searching the streets for him and looking 566 00:34:33.780 --> 00:34:34.780 for him. 567 00:34:34.780 --> 00:34:40.699 And, you know, I can't tell you guys, can't tell you the breakthrough that is. 568 00:34:40.699 --> 00:34:45.100 And I believe that this teeth thing, it's a sign. 569 00:34:45.100 --> 00:34:48.699 All of the trauma from my childhood, all the pain, all the hurt. 570 00:34:48.699 --> 00:34:53.699 This has become kind of like the poster child for that because of the bullying and everything. 571 00:34:53.699 --> 00:34:59.740 I feel like it's some part of restoration, it's like a final piece of the puzzle of restoration 572 00:34:59.740 --> 00:35:00.240 in my life. 573 00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:01.600 Life. Does that make sense to you guys? 574 00:35:03.400 --> 00:35:04.400 I know it's a silly thing. 575 00:35:04.400 --> 00:35:07.600 It's just some dental work, but you guys, it has such a bold 576 00:35:07.600 --> 00:35:08.700 significance. 577 00:35:10.100 --> 00:35:11.500 Because of my childhood. 578 00:35:13.700 --> 00:35:15.000 And God has that for you too. 579 00:35:16.500 --> 00:35:19.000 Now, some of you have been bracing for the worst to come. 580 00:35:20.100 --> 00:35:21.700 You've been bracing for impact. 581 00:35:22.100 --> 00:35:24.200 Got your seatbelt on, bracing for impact. 582 00:35:24.300 --> 00:35:27.800 Instead of putting your seatbelt on, ready to go on a ride with 583 00:35:27.800 --> 00:35:30.000 Jesus to blessing. 584 00:35:30.900 --> 00:35:32.600 You got your seatbelt on for the wrong reason. 585 00:35:32.600 --> 00:35:34.100 You're bracing for impact. 586 00:35:35.100 --> 00:35:36.800 Instead of bracing for blessing. 587 00:35:37.500 --> 00:35:38.200 Come on. 588 00:35:39.700 --> 00:35:41.800 I want you to put your seatbelt on because we're about to get 589 00:35:41.800 --> 00:35:45.600 on a ride, but it's going to be a good ride to good places. 590 00:35:47.600 --> 00:35:49.400 I know you're still praying but you're still expecting worst 591 00:35:49.400 --> 00:35:51.400 case scenarios and we can't have that anymore. 592 00:35:52.100 --> 00:35:54.200 You're hoping but you're kind of flinching while you're hoping 593 00:35:54.200 --> 00:35:57.600 we can't have that anymore because this is the season where 594 00:35:57.600 --> 00:35:59.600 what is going to show up is going to be better than you 595 00:35:59.600 --> 00:36:00.400 imagined. 596 00:36:00.800 --> 00:36:03.000 Come on, who's going to grab a hold of this? 597 00:36:03.600 --> 00:36:04.600 I'm proving it to you. 598 00:36:04.600 --> 00:36:05.900 I'm giving you examples. 599 00:36:08.200 --> 00:36:10.300 What arrives is going to come with peace. 600 00:36:10.600 --> 00:36:12.800 You're going to know that this is what you've been waiting for 601 00:36:14.200 --> 00:36:18.400 and when it happens and when God does what only he can do, you're 602 00:36:18.400 --> 00:36:21.000 going to say, oh, that's why. 603 00:36:22.100 --> 00:36:23.700 That's why I didn't work out before. 604 00:36:23.900 --> 00:36:25.100 That's why I didn't get that job. 605 00:36:25.100 --> 00:36:26.500 That's why I didn't move to that city. 606 00:36:26.500 --> 00:36:27.300 That's why. 607 00:36:27.700 --> 00:36:29.700 That's why I didn't get that house in that neighborhood. 608 00:36:30.400 --> 00:36:31.100 That's why. 609 00:36:33.000 --> 00:36:35.300 So I want you to go ahead and name that thing out loud right 610 00:36:35.300 --> 00:36:35.600 now. 611 00:36:35.600 --> 00:36:38.100 Don't unmute yourself, but out loud where you are name that 612 00:36:38.100 --> 00:36:40.900 thing that's coming into your spirit right now and just want 613 00:36:40.900 --> 00:36:42.900 to let you know that no matter what you name, it could be a 614 00:36:42.900 --> 00:36:46.000 different thing that God's going to just rock your world with 615 00:36:47.600 --> 00:36:49.900 because when I tell you this dental thing was not on my mind 616 00:36:49.900 --> 00:36:52.300 at all when this happened, it was not on my mind at all, but 617 00:36:52.300 --> 00:36:53.800 it's powerful and it's amazing. 618 00:36:54.700 --> 00:36:57.600 And so instead of you just naming a thing, why don't you just 619 00:36:57.600 --> 00:37:00.000 instead say, God, I give you permission to surprise me. 620 00:37:04.800 --> 00:37:06.400 Release the specifics. 621 00:37:06.400 --> 00:37:08.600 God, I just give you permission to surprise me. 622 00:37:08.900 --> 00:37:11.500 Expect the upgrade, but you don't got to know what it is in 623 00:37:11.500 --> 00:37:12.100 advance. 624 00:37:15.500 --> 00:37:19.100 God, I give you permission to surprise me. 625 00:37:23.800 --> 00:37:24.900 Because the siege is over. 626 00:37:26.800 --> 00:37:27.000 All right. 627 00:37:27.000 --> 00:37:28.200 So here's our declaration. 628 00:37:29.000 --> 00:37:30.100 The siege is over. 629 00:37:30.200 --> 00:37:31.100 Repeat after me. 630 00:37:31.300 --> 00:37:31.900 Don't run. 631 00:37:31.900 --> 00:37:36.600 Don't unmute yourself because we all have delays in our 632 00:37:36.600 --> 00:37:37.300 technology. 633 00:37:37.300 --> 00:37:40.900 So we will not be speaking on time together. 634 00:37:41.300 --> 00:37:42.200 The siege is over. 635 00:37:45.900 --> 00:37:49.000 From this moment forward, I will stop rehearsing disappointment. 636 00:37:49.400 --> 00:37:52.300 From this moment forward, I will stop talking about my 637 00:37:52.300 --> 00:37:53.100 disappointment. 638 00:37:54.000 --> 00:37:56.900 Starting right now. 639 00:37:56.900 --> 00:37:58.300 I expect God's goodness. 640 00:38:01.000 --> 00:38:03.000 I am in my season of firsts. 641 00:38:07.500 --> 00:38:11.400 What I've been waiting for is going to be better than I 642 00:38:11.400 --> 00:38:12.200 expected. 643 00:38:14.800 --> 00:38:16.200 Better than I imagined. 644 00:38:18.000 --> 00:38:20.000 And I'm going to finish 2025 strong. 645 00:38:20.500 --> 00:38:23.100 And I'm going to start 2026 full of faith. 646 00:38:25.600 --> 00:38:27.800 Because friends, how you end one thing is always how you start 647 00:38:27.800 --> 00:38:28.300 the other. 648 00:38:28.300 --> 00:38:29.400 Because remember, it's just one day. 649 00:38:29.400 --> 00:38:31.300 It's one calendar page turned. 650 00:38:32.900 --> 00:38:34.600 We're not even in 2026 yet. 651 00:38:35.500 --> 00:38:38.200 But God is already exceeding our expectations. 652 00:38:41.200 --> 00:38:43.100 It's already exceeding our expectations. 653 00:38:43.600 --> 00:38:44.600 So lift your head. 654 00:38:44.800 --> 00:38:45.900 Get your hopes up. 655 00:38:45.900 --> 00:38:46.900 Put on your seatbelt. 656 00:38:48.200 --> 00:38:50.300 To go on a wild good ride with the Lord. 657 00:38:52.300 --> 00:38:55.300 Because this is the season where God is going to outdo even 658 00:38:55.300 --> 00:38:57.700 himself in your life. 659 00:38:59.200 --> 00:39:00.700 So let's activate that you guys. 660 00:39:00.900 --> 00:39:03.800 The blessed are blessed to be blessings. 661 00:39:04.100 --> 00:39:07.300 And if you believe that you're going to be blessed, if you 662 00:39:07.300 --> 00:39:11.100 believe that you've been created to be a conduit of blessings 663 00:39:11.100 --> 00:39:11.800 in the earth, 664 00:39:11.900 --> 00:39:14.200 One thing I learned from Heidi is that she wasn't afraid to go 665 00:39:14.200 --> 00:39:15.000 after the one. 666 00:39:15.600 --> 00:39:19.000 And so let this Advent season, the season of miracles, the 667 00:39:19.000 --> 00:39:21.700 season of first, the season where the siege is over as we're 668 00:39:21.700 --> 00:39:25.400 entering into all of these beautiful promises of the Lord 669 00:39:25.400 --> 00:39:27.600 better than we ever expected or imagined. 670 00:39:27.700 --> 00:39:29.300 Look for people that you can bless. 671 00:39:29.500 --> 00:39:33.800 Have your eyes wide open while you walk around this life for 672 00:39:33.800 --> 00:39:35.500 people that you can bless. 673 00:39:35.500 --> 00:39:38.700 And I want you to know that God is going to outdo even himself 674 00:39:39.100 --> 00:39:44.000 around this life for people who need an encouraging word, for 675 00:39:44.000 --> 00:39:46.600 people who need a compliment, for people who need to smile, 676 00:39:46.600 --> 00:39:50.200 for people who need, you know, someone to buy them a cup of 677 00:39:50.200 --> 00:39:52.900 coffee, for people who just need something. 678 00:39:54.600 --> 00:39:56.800 Because you're an abundant person. 679 00:39:58.100 --> 00:40:00.000 And the way you can practice abundant is by 680 00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:05.000 beginning to give, give, give, give, give. 681 00:40:08.360 --> 00:40:11.160 I will tell you, that's how I live my life 682 00:40:11.160 --> 00:40:12.340 because I am a missionary, 683 00:40:12.340 --> 00:40:15.140 regardless of whether I ever got to go to Africa. 684 00:40:15.140 --> 00:40:19.800 Missionaries are always on a mission and that is who I am. 685 00:40:19.800 --> 00:40:22.160 No matter where I am, no matter what I'm doing, 686 00:40:22.160 --> 00:40:23.600 I'm stopping for the one. 687 00:40:23.600 --> 00:40:24.480 No matter where I am, 688 00:40:24.480 --> 00:40:27.160 no matter what my agenda is for the day, 689 00:40:27.160 --> 00:40:28.480 I'm looking for need. 690 00:40:28.480 --> 00:40:30.560 I'm looking people in their faces. 691 00:40:30.560 --> 00:40:34.400 I'm watching for places where I can help. 692 00:40:34.400 --> 00:40:37.600 I'm that person that overhears someone 693 00:40:37.600 --> 00:40:39.680 asking someone else where something is 694 00:40:39.680 --> 00:40:41.840 or overhears someone having a problem 695 00:40:41.840 --> 00:40:45.300 and then I just turn around and I just try to help them. 696 00:40:46.160 --> 00:40:48.240 Whether they're looking for a seat, 697 00:40:48.240 --> 00:40:50.080 I'm the person that's pointing out an open seat 698 00:40:50.080 --> 00:40:52.060 maybe that they don't see. 699 00:40:52.060 --> 00:40:55.640 Because I'm listening, I'm watching all the time. 700 00:40:55.640 --> 00:40:57.520 How can I be of service? 701 00:40:59.480 --> 00:41:00.320 How? 702 00:41:02.280 --> 00:41:06.580 How can I make this life matter for the kingdom of God? 703 00:41:10.680 --> 00:41:12.500 We all have problems, friends. 704 00:41:12.500 --> 00:41:13.960 We all have things that we wish 705 00:41:13.960 --> 00:41:15.520 weren't going on in our lives. 706 00:41:16.360 --> 00:41:19.320 But we also all know Jesus. 707 00:41:20.160 --> 00:41:21.000 And guess what? 708 00:41:22.720 --> 00:41:23.560 We win. 709 00:41:24.800 --> 00:41:25.820 We are blessed. 710 00:41:26.820 --> 00:41:28.580 So let's take off any kind of victimhood 711 00:41:28.580 --> 00:41:31.220 that we've had on and let's put this word on 712 00:41:31.220 --> 00:41:33.260 because now is our time. 713 00:41:33.260 --> 00:41:36.560 Let's get out there and let's just begin to love people, 714 00:41:36.560 --> 00:41:38.120 love them up, love them well, 715 00:41:38.960 --> 00:41:41.180 all the while knowing that God knows who we are. 716 00:41:41.180 --> 00:41:42.580 He knows where our address is. 717 00:41:42.580 --> 00:41:44.420 And so when your friends have breakthrough, 718 00:41:44.420 --> 00:41:47.420 like today, Benjamin and Julia from this community 719 00:41:47.420 --> 00:41:48.740 are getting married. 720 00:41:48.740 --> 00:41:50.280 Julia's from this community. 721 00:41:51.940 --> 00:41:53.260 She is your neighbor. 722 00:41:53.260 --> 00:41:54.740 She is getting married. 723 00:41:54.740 --> 00:41:55.740 And guess what that means? 724 00:41:56.460 --> 00:41:58.060 That means God's in the neighborhood. 725 00:41:59.220 --> 00:42:02.300 So get excited because he knows where you live too. 726 00:42:02.300 --> 00:42:03.140 I love you guys. 727 00:42:03.140 --> 00:42:03.980 Have a great day.