All right, good morning and welcome to Supernatural Saturday.
If this is your first Saturday with us, welcome.
We're so glad you are here.
We're so glad that you joined last year single.
This community is going to be such a blessing to you.
I believe that you are here on purpose and for a purpose, and that is for God to draw
you closer to himself, for you to be returned to yourself, and then for you to be able to
do all the things that God has had in his heart for you all along on the earth, including,
but not limited to, getting married to an amazing partner.
And so we're so glad that you're with us.
Supernatural Saturday is the one session a week that I usually lead.
I lead some other things, but usually I lead Supernatural Saturday.
And what it's all about is us looking to the current reality of heaven.
What is heaven doing?
What is God up to?
What are his thoughts concerning us?
And it's really important that we revisit that at least once a week.
I would hope that you guys revisit that daily.
When you get into the word of God and you're reading and you're having your daily devotional,
God, what are your thoughts towards me?
Hey God, what are you doing?
I know what the news says is happening.
I know what social media says is happening.
I know what my family says is happening.
I know that what my doctors say are happening.
I know what everybody else says is happening, but what do you say is happening?
And friends, we have to, if we're going to live in the world that we live in right now,
we do and we have no choice because we've been matched with this timeline.
And I just really want to encourage you with that.
Just starting off this morning strong, I want to encourage you that God knew where to put
you in the timeline of history.
Remember you're intentional.
You're not an accident.
I know your parents may have said you were an oopsie daisy, but you're not.
Before your parents knew that you had been conceived, God had conceived you in his imagination.
The Bible says that he's known you since the foundation of the earth.
Friends, these are not just words and these are not just passages of scripture that we
should just gloss over and push past and be like, oh yeah, that sounds nice.
No, what that is saying is that you have been intentionally thought up in the imagination
of God long, long before the world ever began.
You have lived inside of him.
You know what that means?
That means you're eternal.
And I know that you started your life or you think you started your life when you came
out of your mother's womb on this earth, but that's not when your life started.
That's just when your earthly life started.
You have always been.
Just like God, you have always been, you have always been existing in his imagination.
The Bible says that he took that dream called you and he wrapped your flesh around it in
your mother's womb.
And friends, that's why I'm just so adamant about this life that we're living right now
because it's very short and it's extremely temporary.
This experience that we're having, what a wonderful experience to have.
Yeah, I wish it was under better circumstances.
I wish Adam and Eve would not have been disobedient.
I wish that those things wouldn't have happened that way.
We'd be living a very different situation right now, but that's okay because that's
in the future.
But right now, this is the only time that you will ever have to experience you, a supernatural
eternal being experiencing a earthly life.
There are things that we are going to do right now in this life that will not be necessary
later.
And they're not bad things.
Enjoy them.
I woke up this morning and I'm like, Laura, what do you want to say to your people?
He said, tell them, don't worry.
Be happy.
Remember that old Bobby McFerrin song?
You guys, I don't know if you know this or not, but he got a lot of flack for that song.
He was an accomplished musician and that song was, that song seemed naive.
It seemed overly optimistic.
You know, it was an earworm.
Once you start singing it, which I don't recommend doing, you will not be able to get it out
of your head because it'll get in there.
It'll burrow in there like a worm and then you'll just have it kind of like this is the
song that never ends.
And also baby shark.
Don't do any of those things.
I do not recommend.
Okay.
It took.
me like six months to get baby shark out of my head once. It was not a fun time.
Anytime I wasn't actively thinking about anything, baby shark would pop up.
That includes trying to go to sleep at night.
You guys know, some of you know. And we're going to go somewhere really important, you guys,
because I believe that there's some testing happening because there's some attacks happening,
there's some spiritual warfare happening. And through it all, God is allowing it to test us
and try us and strengthen us, which is beautiful. And we're going to get there. But right now,
I want to talk about this song I popped up this morning. And I haven't thought of that
song in many, many, many, many years. It came out when I think I was a teenager.
And I just want to say that, you know, that song has a very simple message. You can't change
tomorrow. So enjoy today. And the reason why I'm saying all that to you right now is because of
what I was talking about already. You guys, we're never going to get another chance to live an
earthly life. Eternity is going to be amazing. It's going to be wonderful. Heaven's going to
be incredible. I'm so excited for all the things that God has planned for us going forward after
we leave these flesh suits. But in the meantime, there's some good things to be had here.
There's some wonderful experiences to be had here that I believe in part will shape our eternity.
I'm not going to get into, I'm not going to get into the teaching on this, but, you know,
heaven is not kind of a one size that fits all situation. The Bible clearly shows us that there
are very specific things that we will be entrusted with in heaven based on what we're doing here.
And no, I'm not talking about any kind of crazy theology outside of scripture.
It's right there in the word of God. It's not taught on a lot. And I think the reason why is
because people are not worried about eternity because they're really just trying to make it
through right now. Yeah, that makes sense. And I'm here with you. So friends, the reason why this
message is so timely for all of us, because if you live in America, especially, and really,
if you live anywhere, the whole world seems to be on fire right now, doesn't it?
Every day, a new scandal, every day, every day, a new turmoil, every day, a new argument,
a new fight, every day, a new conflict. Am I wrong? And guess what? We haven't been created
to endure that. Remember, we were originally created to live in a place where we were in
perfect union and communion with God, Eden. And every time we kind of get our nervous systems
back to a state of peace, it's surrounded by all this fire all the time, right? It's really
difficult to live in this life and to stay into a place of peace because of what's happening all
around us. So I really want to encourage you, if you're being affected by the political parties
fighting, and the Epstein files being released, and all of the crazy stuff that's happening out
there, and a president of the free world who seems to have that sense of humor and the emotional
intelligence of a 10-year-old boy, you're not alone. If you have friends that are being affected
by immigration laws and people that you love, I know. Guys, I have a friend right now who has
someone that they really love, that works for them, that's really young, really amazing,
but is still in the process of immigration. And unless you've done it, and I've walked through
this with some of our students because we have Canadian students that marry Americans that have
to walk through this process. And I'm not waxing political on this call, I'm just telling you what
I've had a front row seat to. It's very difficult to become an American citizen. It's not as hard
maybe to come and to work and to have short-term ability to do things here, but to actually become
a citizen, it's a little harder, a lot harder actually for people. And I don't know what that
process is in other countries. Maybe it's even harder there. Maybe there's other countries where
you can't do it at all. I'm sure that's true. But all I know is that I have friends that have people
that have worked with them for years that are scared to even leave their houses. And that's
really, really sad. It's a sad situation all the way around. And what would fix it? What would
reform the system? I don't know. But what I do know is that politics doesn't usually seem like
they're that interested in reform. True reform.
form of anything.
You know, I drive down the street,
cause you guys know I have a heart for the homeless.
Like that is, that is my big hairy audacious goal in life
is to impact homelessness somehow.
Like on a grand scale, even if it starts with the one,
for those of you that want an update on James,
he's still alive, he was in the hospital,
he had a horrible staph infection all over his body
from being homeless, he survived it.
We're closer and closer,
and I'll just give you guys an update on this
in case you're interested.
I am working with a real estate developer
that I met in a business group years ago.
I just saw him a couple of weeks ago,
and I'm working with him on what it would look like
to buy a piece of land here in Austin,
and for him, because this is what he does,
for him to put a series of tiny houses on it
for the chronically homeless,
but not just the chronically homeless,
geriatric homeless.
I really have a heart for people
that are homeless over the age of 55.
Their bodies are broken down, they're weak.
Yes, it's not good to be young and homeless either,
but at least the young and homeless people
have a little bit more strength.
I literally, in Austin, we have people in wheelchairs
sitting on street corners.
In fact, I just picked this man up the other day, you guys.
I took him a bag of protein bars, I gave him some cash,
but he was in a wheelchair and just shuffling,
like he can't, he legit can't walk.
It's not a gimmick to try to get people to give him money,
and he's just sitting there, literally cannot move,
sitting there in his own waste,
sitting there in his,
and just not being able to do anything at all,
and elderly, probably in his 80s,
and finally the authorities came and took him.
Where they took him, I don't know,
but they took him someplace,
and so all I'm saying is,
is that there's lots of areas in our world that need reform,
and perhaps you're the reformer.
I didn't really expect Supernatural Saturday
to take this kind of tone or this turn,
but maybe that's what,
part of what we need to talk about today
is that we need to stop being distracted
by all the noise all around us,
and we need to allow God to make us solutionaries, reformers.
Reforming is not easy.
It's not easy at all.
It's actually very, very, very hard,
but if God is with us, we can do all things, right?
We can do all things, and so that's exciting.
It's an exciting thought that a bunch of reformers,
no one person is ever going to change the world,
and if you see someone doing something
that you want to do instead of being like,
oh, well, they got it.
I guess I don't need to do it because they're doing it.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, friends.
The problem is much bigger than any one person
or 10 people or 100 people
or even 1,000 people doing the same thing.
If you see someone doing something
that's in your heart to do, that's called help, okay?
That's what that's called.
That's called help,
and so we need to make sure that we understand.
We're not in competition with each other,
especially if we're trying to solve
some sort of social ill.
That's called help, and so we have to work together.
We have to band together,
all the people that have the same callings,
all the people that have the same pain points
for the same issues.
We have to do that
if we want to make a difference in the world.
We do, and so you guys, it's noisy right now.
It's really noisy, and some of you
are really being affected by that noise,
and I really wanna encourage you to shut it off.
I've told you this in the past,
but if you have to go off media,
if you have to tune it out,
because God wants you,
he doesn't want you to live in ignorant bliss,
and see, that's what happened with that song,
Don't Worry, Be Happy.
I don't know what was going on in the world
when that song came out,
because like I said, I think I was a teenager,
but I do know that people thought that it was tone deaf.
Oh, don't worry, just be happy.
How naive.
How ignorantly optimistic.
But no, it actually is scripture, right?
Take no thought for tomorrow,
because tomorrow will take care of itself.
The trouble in tomorrow,
there's solutions for it in tomorrow.
Today, be in joy.
I just did a post on my Instagram.
If you don't follow me on Instagram,
I do post a lot over there,
and I just did a post about what God's will is
and what it's not.
This elusive thing called God's will
is always hanging over people's heads,
because it's been described,
it's been insinuated,
it's even been taught that it's some.
sort of secret blueprint that you have to somehow stay in the bounds of even though you don't know
what it is. It's a mystery, but you have to make sure that you comply with it.
And you guys, that's not scriptural. So I did a teaching on my Instagram about what God's will
is and what it's not. Just so you know, and the reason why this fits with what I'm saying right
now, God's will is that you would be able to live in joy, that you would be able to mature and grow
in wisdom and grow in patience and grow in character. This is what God's will is towards
you in Christ Jesus. There is no such thing as God's predetermined purpose for your life.
Friends, we have a thing called free will. And I know people are like, well, you know,
you got to submit your free will to God's will. No, guys, there's better, there's good,
there's better, there's best in your life. There is not a predetermined trajectory.
At any given moment in your life, biblically speaking, there is a new plan, depending on
which decisions and choices you make. God does not remove choice from us.
He gives us wisdom to make better ones. Do you understand?
And the reason why this is such a dangerous idea, God's will, is because a lot of people are stuck
wondering if it's God's will. Is it God's will that I should move here? Is it God's will that
I should do this? And they stay in this place of analysis paralysis for so long that they don't
end up doing anything at all, because they don't have the right amount of words from God or the
right amount of confirmations or the right amount of signs from heaven. The only sign that you need
is the desire in your heart. That's why we do the heart work. And that's why we do it very,
the very first thing that we do in this community is heart work. And the reason why is because God
wants you to get to a place where you can trust the GPS of your own heart. The Bible says,
if you delight in me, I will give you the desires of your heart, meaning that they come from him.
They come from him. You can trust that desire to do this thing that you've never wanted to do
before. You're like, wow, man, that looks like an interesting job. I'd like to check that out.
I wonder if I could do that. Where's that thought coming from?
It's coming from a redeemed heart that's now acting like a GPS to try to get you to step out
and to move forward. But people will push that stuff down. They'll be like, oh, no, I can't do
that. You know, God told me that I have to be a missionary to Zimbabwe. And he gave me that word
when I was 21 years old. And have I ever been to Zimbabwe? No. But I got to leave space for it.
I got to make sure that I have open space for it because one of these days, you know, I may have
to go there. I can't just marry anyone. I got to marry someone who also is called to Zimbabwe
because, you know, I mean, eventually I'm going to go there. These are ridiculous things, you guys.
And of course, that same person, and this is kind of a true story of someone that I dealt with,
that same person doesn't even want to go to Zimbabwe. They don't want to go.
That's not what they want to do with their lives. Fill in the blank with whatever country or whatever
job or whatever thing. And you guys, there could be times in your life where you receive some sort
of direction and you acted on it, but that doesn't mean that that's the direction for the rest of
your life. That's why I had Bethany come and teach us about times and seasons. The Bible says that
you should know your times and seasons. Now there is a scripture in the book of James, and someone
was very quick to point it out on my Instagram because people love to debate scripture. Okay,
we've got a lot of amateur theologians running around on the internet, and they wanted to
tell me very quickly that God's will is about who you marry, and it is about where you move,
and it is about blah, blah, blah. And that is shown in the book of James in chapter four,
where it says, you know, don't say that you're going to go here and do this or do that. You're
only going to do it if God wills it. Yeah, it actually does say that, but that's not what it
means. And that's the problem. People do a lot of reading of the Bible and a lot of quoting of the
Bible, but they don't do a lot of studying of the Bible. They don't know what they're reading. They
read the Bible, but they don't read
the Bible and so much of the scripture that has been used to keep you stuck
because I just want to let you know the kingdom model is a forward model it's a
victory model it's a freedom model and we're gonna talk about that today this
isn't even the message this is just a bunny trail that Holy Spirit has us on
for somebody's benefit it's a forward model and so if you're stuck and you're
doing the same thing and you're stuck in the same problems year after year you're
not living in the kingdom you're living in the church age the church age will
keep you stuck it will keep you sitting on a pew with the same problems in the
same situations year after year after year after year so that you have to come
and hear a word of encouragement and pay the man I'm sorry that's the way it is
and guess what that system is crumbling look around that system is crumbling
it's falling apart isn't it and I believe it's falling apart so that
better things can fall together because God does not want his people stuck
anymore he wants them moving forward so take the scripture in James that
someone's cherry-picked they cherry-picked it out you ever been
cherry-picking we had a cherry tree in my backyard on the lake on Lake Erie in
Cleveland Ohio when I was a kid and when you pick cherries you don't pick them
all there's a method to picking cherries so that you leave certain
cherries for certain for a certain pattern of ripeness you only kind of
take certain ones okay and you're like well that's apple picking and that's
well yeah it's a version of it for every fruit but it's even more so for this
okay and so they're cherry-picking there's taking something that they like
that proves their point out of a whole text out of an entire chapter out of
entire book what was that book about what's the book of James about it was
to the early believers it was discipleship right but it was you guys
it was specific discipleship I really need you to understand this about Paul's
letters I need you to understand this about pretty much all of the New
Testament after the Gospels most of its written to a very specific people group
and it isn't that we can't learn from it and isn't that we can't glean from it
and isn't that it doesn't enrich our lives but a lot of it is lost on a
modern age it's different and people have used it to oppress like for
instance the scriptures about how women should be silent in the churches you
guys that was to a people group that came to Christ they were converted
remember Paul was a missionary he was going around and he was spreading the
gospel people were being converted these were the earliest Christians on record
in these letters and this group of people they worshipped goddesses they
didn't worship God they worshipped goddesses and so the females in their
community were put on pedestals and everyone did whatever they said and it
was a very out of balance society you guys where women were worshipped because
the gods that they worshipped were female and there was a lot of debauch
going on but long story short in order to bring that back in balance God Paul
was trying to get the men to have a voice he was trying to bring balance
back to this specific community because it was out of balance do you understand
because either what either either it's that or Paul's just you know bipolar
schizophrenic because in other letters to other places he's like there's no
male there's no female there's no bond there's no free there's no Jew there's
no Gentile we're all equal in Christ and lots of other lots of other scriptures
you guys that would refute that letter so let's go to the book of James who is
James talking to what he said don't say you're gonna go do this or go do that
because it would look like God is saying hey my will trumps everything so your
will your decisions you can't say you're gonna go make decisions unless I
will it well that sounds a lot like predestination doesn't it if you take it
out of context and you look at it then it sounds like oh yeah well you can do
whatever you want but unless it's God's will it's not gonna work out and of
course you don't know what God's will is right because it's an elusive and
mysterious that's what this person said to me and so I just want to let you guys
know that that that passage of scripture in James it is talking to rich land
owners it's talking to early church members that were merchants that's why
it says go from city to city they went from city to city okay but what they did
in city to city is they were oppressing people they were oppressing people for
labor they were doing things that they shouldn't be doing and they were
continuing to do it even after conversion and
So it was a place of correction, you guys.
It was James correcting their arrogance.
It was James correcting their self-sufficiency and the ways that they were getting their
wealth.
Do you see that?
It wasn't a blanket statement on making decisions in a believer's life.
You guys, I had no intention of going here at all today, so Holy Spirit has us here,
but it's really important that you guys hear this.
Because otherwise, God's will is always going to be against you.
God's will is for you to have a good life.
God's will is for you to mature and to grow.
That's what God's will is.
God's not moving us around like chess pieces on a board, overriding our desires, forcing
outcomes.
You guys, that's fear-based theology.
Yeah, I even know people that are like, oh, you know, I'm like, oh, I'm never moving
back to Ohio, because I hate the cold.
They're literally in a blizzard right now.
My kids still live there.
And people are like, oh, don't you say that.
Don't you say you're never going to do it, because if you say that, God's going to make
you do it.
Really?
Wow.
The Bible in no scripture presents God as waiting to spite you for saying, I hate the
cold by shipping you off to Minnesota.
That's not sovereignty, friends.
That's superstition.
That's religion.
And at the helm of that religion is a very mean, revengeful, immature God.
That's not the God I serve.
God is not threatened by your preferences.
He created them.
He doesn't override human will for sport.
Friends, we got to get rid of these theologies.
They're destroying us.
Throughout scripture, God forms people.
He teaches people.
He grows people in wisdom.
He invites people into partnership.
He does correct pride and injustice.
And that's what he's doing in the book of James.
He's correcting these men's pride through James.
He's correcting injustice.
God is not playing chess with your life.
He's raising sons and daughters who can think, choose, and walk with him.
Amen?
Amen, friends?
I want you to raise your hand.
I want to see the people that believe that God's will is mysterious and they can't get
out of it.
Because if they get out of it, then they're going to destroy their life.
They're going to ruin their chances at whatever.
They have to make sure that they're in God's will and they have a hard time knowing what
God's will is.
You have a hard time making decisions because you never really know what God, quote unquote,
wants you to do.
It's not really that many people.
I thought it would be more.
I definitely dealt with this type of religious analysis paralysis back in a former season
of my life when I was in a church that taught this kind of stuff.
The only two people that could sign off on anything that you wanted to do was God or
the pastor.
Everything that you were going to do, all of your plans, it doesn't matter if how personal
your plans were, they had to be approved by the pastor.
You want to take a new job?
You got to get the pastor's approval.
You want to move to a new house?
You want to sell your house?
You got to get the pastor's approval.
You're going to miss church one Sunday.
You need to make sure you let the pastor know that you're not going to be there.
You guys, I'm not talking about like someone who worked for the pastor.
I'm not talking about like some under shepherd.
I'm not talking about your cell group leader.
I'm talking about the pastor of the church.
That's how small the church was.
It was very controlling, as you can see, and now that pastor's in prison.
So go figure.
You guys, my theology on these subjects doesn't come from pain or hurt or anger at being controlled.
I was young.
I didn't know anything different.
I'm thankful for my discipleship.
I got a lot of good things from it.
But my primary purpose on earth, I know you think it is to help you find a husband or
wife and it is part of my purpose to help God's single sons and daughters get married.
But my main purpose besides just being a daughter of God myself, my main purpose is
to eradicate religion and to invite people into the kingdom.
Friends, we've got to get rid of these kinds of mindsets because they're keeping us stuck.
So I'm going to go ahead and go forward.
I feel like that was just a soundbite.
We could do an entire Supernatural Saturday about God's will, what it is and what it's
not.
We could.
You can go watch my very, very small little excerpt on Instagram about it.
Obviously, there's a much larger, much larger, larger teaching that we could go into about
what the Bible says is His will, God's will, okay?
So it's really important that if you really are stuck in that area, that you continue
to see that the things that you believe are not true.
James 4, 13 through 17 is talking about something very different than what people think it's
talking about, all right?
It's not saying don't make plans.
It's not saying don't choose.
It's not saying don't act unless I supernaturally tell you exactly what to do.
It's not God saying stop pretending that you're God, stop being God, stop acting like you're
the one that's sovereign.
That isn't.
It's not about planning, you guys.
It's not about executing your plans.
In fact, the Bible says in different scriptures that we make our plans and God orders our
steps.
It says, trust in the Lord with all your heart and don't lean to your own understanding,
but acknowledge Him in all your ways and He will direct your paths as you're moving,
friends.
All of that implies movement, okay?
That one scripture in James that talks about this, and you can't find it anywhere else.
It's only right here in James that it seems to imply if you cherry pick it that you shouldn't
make your own plans.
You should just wait for God's will.
It's not talking about marriage or dating or even career choices or even geographic
moves.
It's not talking about anything about that at all.
You have agency, you've been designed to choose, and you shouldn't be waiting for a sign.
You shouldn't.
You need to remember that that scripture is all about James correcting early Christians
in their arrogance, in their profit without conscience.
You guys, they were taking advantage of people in these cities that they were going to.
This was to bring humility.
That's what it was for.
And if you skip down to verse 17, you'll see that.
If anyone knows the good they ought to do and doesn't do it, it is sin for them.
So he's talking about what they are doing, what they're going to these cities and doing
and how they shouldn't be doing it.
And now that they become believers, they know to do good and they ought to be doing good
because if they don't, then it is sin for them, all right?
So that is what that whole passage of scripture is talking about.
It is correcting people's behavior.
It is not a diatribe against planning.
All right.
So what I really wanted, I know we're all over the place today, you guys, and there's
a lot of the gold nuggets for whoever they're for.
Lots of gold nuggets.
I love it when Holy Spirit takes us on a treasure hunt, and I think we've been on one this morning
already.
But my main Supernatural Saturday thought was about things revisiting us in this season
that we thought we were fully delivered from.
We thought we were fully over.
They could be fears.
They could be emotional reactions.
They might be some sort of situation going on in your body.
They could be relational dynamics with your boss or a friend, just things that you struggled
with in the past and you thought, yeah, that was a hard season, but that season's over
and I got the victory or that thing just mysteriously went away and I don't have to deal with it
anymore.
But for some reason, something like it, it or something like it, is trying to rear its
head.
Put down your hands.
Everybody put your hands down.
I want to see who I'm talking to, and I'm definitely talking to myself.
Over the course of the last two months, since
2026 came, I have been being revisited, so to speak,
by some things that I thought I had overcome decades ago.
Anybody else?
Raise your hand if all of a sudden
some old border bullies are just popping out
of the woodwork trying to push you back.
Old thoughts trying to come back.
And of course, when it shows up,
immediately you're like, wait, I thought I healed this.
I thought I was past this.
I thought I overcame this.
I thought this was over.
Anybody, anybody, anybody?
Anybody?
All right, so if that's you,
I just want you to listen clearly to what I'm about to say.
It's very important.
Whatever that thing is, it's not back.
It isn't.
It's not here to stay.
You didn't lose the ground,
the territory that you took back during that initial battle
with whatever this thing is.
You're not experiencing regression.
This is just warfare.
You guys, warfare is a real thing.
I know I don't talk about it a lot
on Supernatural Saturdays because I don't really feel
like we need to give it a lot of airtime,
but I believe that 2026 is a really special year.
I do.
I think it's a special year of growth,
and I also think it's a special year
of forward movement, of victory.
Remember, God said that the siege is over.
It's time for us to go forward.
It's time for us to make up lost time.
I believe that with all my heart.
Even the stuff that's happening political,
the political stuff that's happening.
All the people that voted,
and you guys, this is not political.
Do not get offended.
Do not send me emails.
I don't care what side of the aisle you're on, okay?
Both sides are corrupt.
All right, it doesn't matter what side
of the aisle you're on.
Politics in its very nature is evil, okay?
It is.
Are there good people caught in the crosshairs of it
that try to run for government
to make some kind of change?
Yes, there are, and they very quickly get snuffed out.
God showed me this years ago,
because you can see, I'm a leader,
and I want to make change.
I want reform.
I'm a reformer.
I thought when I was a younger woman
that I was gonna run for some offices,
and God's like, that's not the best use of your giftings.
Because nothing can really actually get done
because of the red tape of bureaucracy.
And of course, I'm only talking about America.
That's why you guys see that we put a president in,
and they make change,
but as soon as the new administration comes in,
they just undo it all.
It doesn't really matter, right?
It's just a lesson in futility.
And so, I don't want to get off on that,
because I will get off on that,
and I don't want to get off on a rabbit trail there.
Okay, so what I want to say to you guys is
that some of you may feel like, oh no,
this reminds me of all the turmoil back in 2019
when Trump was president the first time, right?
2020, when COVID came.
Do you guys remember?
Remember all the craziness?
The world was on fire, wasn't it?
So do you see how it seems like some patterns
are trying to repeat?
How some things are trying to circle back around,
but not in a good way?
You guys, God did give us a word
that everything was coming full circle,
but this is not what he meant.
He meant things that were now mature enough to accomplish,
things, opportunities that we can take advantage of now.
He isn't talking about this kind of stuff.
But this is what the enemy is doing,
because you guys, there is an enemy.
There is an opposing force in the earth.
There is a kingdom, so to speak, of darkness.
It is true.
It is real.
It does exist.
The Bible talks about it,
and a lot of us have experienced it.
And friends, I'm just gonna tell you,
it's really, really tempting
as these things start to try to pop up again in your life,
these old mindsets, these old behaviors,
these old problems,
it's really tempting to say, oh no, it's back.
I thought this was over.
I thought I was healed of this.
I thought I was delivered of this.
I thought I got the victory over this.
And that is where the test is,
and that is where the warfare is.
Because familiarity, it shocks our nervous system.
New pain is confusing.
If something starts happening in a relationship that's new,
it causes curiosity, right?
You're right, you're like, what is this?
Like, what's going on here?
You know, why all of a sudden is this person that I've been in relationship with and we've
just been in really great relationship, why all of a sudden are they acting like they're
mad?
Like it's a new situation and it's a little confusing and it causes curiosity.
But familiar pain can become terrifying, amen?
Because you've already lived through all that.
You've already lived through all that many times and you thought it was finally over.
You remember all the times you prayed and prayed and prayed and prayed to be healed
of it, to be delivered of it, for it to be resolved, for it to end and it did.
And now all of a sudden it's trying to pop up its head.
And then of course your body's going to go into the fight or flight response at some
level.
Your nervous system is going to react before your theology, your identity, the finished
work of the cross, teaching in your brain reacts.
And so that is what we're going to do today.
We're going to talk about this for just a second, guys, because the enemy is not after
your circumstances.
He's after your agreement.
So if there is a type of battle going on in your life right now where some old mindsets
are creeping in, some hopeless mindsets, I'm feeling that in the spirit right now.
Some people that are starting to partner with hopelessness again, what's the use?
I was coaching a couple the other day that they're starting to have the same problems
that they used to have.
They overcame those problems and they were doing good.
They were getting along.
It was great.
They were happy.
They were looking at the future with expectation and excitement.
And then all of a sudden they started having some old arguments and those old arguments
escalated.
And then the woman said, what's the use?
What difference does it make?
You guys, this is the battle.
I want to see the people who, you've been having thoughts like that, no matter what
I do, nothing ever changes.
You were excited.
You were running forward.
You were making changes.
Things were starting to kind of break open.
And then all of a sudden you're starting to have these thoughts again, well, it's never
going to be good enough.
It's never going to be enough.
Maybe you got back on the apps and you had a couple of good dates and you're like, okay,
I can do this.
It's a new season.
And then all of a sudden you had, you know, a crappy date or you got ghosted or, you know,
something happened that caused you to just believe, no, same old crap, different day.
Anybody?
Remember you guys, the opposing forces are after our agreement.
If they can get us to agree that we're back here again, then they don't need authority.
They don't need authority.
You guys, first of all, they don't have authority and they don't need it because if they have
our agreement, they're borrowing our authority.
Do I need to say that 15 more times?
You are in authority.
The enemy's authority was taken at the finished work of the cross.
You know that, right?
Jesus took the keys of authority, took the keys of death and hell.
The only authority that the enemy gives you or has over you is what you give it.
And when I say the enemy, I'm not just talking about the devil, Lucifer, Beelzebub, Satan.
Of course, he's not omnipresent.
He's not like God.
He's not omniscient.
He's not everywhere.
He doesn't know everything.
It's just one angel, y'all.
It's one fallen angel.
Okay.
When I say the enemy, I mean the opposing forces as at large, as a whole, the kingdom
of darkness, the things that are opposing righteousness in the earth.
And some of the things that are opposing righteousness in the earth are things that
you wouldn't think.
You know, one of the things that's opposing righteousness in the earth, religion.
The spirit of religion is strong, friends.
And it's probably public enemy number one to a grace-filled life.
When you start to have these ideas that you've offended God and that he's not going to bless
you and he's not going to give you something because of what you did in 2015 and, you know,
you ran off on your own and you got involved in some bad relationship, started having sex
and, you know, that's why you're still single now, because you're still being punished for
that, because you didn't trust the Lord, you know, you'd have your V card to your 45 years
old and finally you're like, yeah, well, God's not doing it, so I'm going to go do it myself.
And now you're stuck because you were outside of God's will and now he's not going to give
you anything good.
You guys, that is not biblical.
That is not biblical at all.
If God tells human people to forgive each other 490 times a day, it's important that
you understand that that's a day.
That's not in a lifetime.
That's not you tallying up how many times you have to forgive your spouse.
And as soon as you get to 490, you're like, we're good.
70 times 7, that's all God said.
I had to forgive you and now I don't have to forgive you anymore.
We're done here.
No, you guys, that was a day.
So if God told us as humans, and you guys know, we're not really that great at
forgiveness. If God told us as humans to forgive each other 490 times a day, then
it's pretty, it's pretty accurate to say that God's not holding something that you
did 10 years ago against you.
That you've repented for.
I don't know who all needs to hear this, you guys, but these are very specific
examples.
And I believe it's because they are for very specific people, because that is how
Holy Spirit works.
So the enemy doesn't have to have any authority over you.
If he can get you to agree, he's borrowing your authority.
Guys, we've all had a lot of victories over things that have troubled us for
years, but victory doesn't mean that there is not going to be a lot of
trouble, that there's not going to be anything that tries to attack us in that
area.
Overcoming doesn't mean that the enemy forgot about you, it means he remembers
what used to work.
Friends, if that weapon of his warfare used to, remember the Bible says that
we're not ignorant of the enemy's devices.
If that device used to work against you, you don't think that he's going to try it
again to see?
Yeah, you overcame, you were strong.
You're like, no way, no way am I ever going to think those thoughts again.
No way am I going to get into victim orphan mentalities again.
No way am I going to put up with people wasting my time because my time is
valuable.
No way am I going to date this kind of person again.
Let's just see if that's true.
Let's just see, right?
I feel like the opposing forces take a, let's just wait and see.
Yeah, they were strong.
They were adamant right coming out of the gate, but now it's 10 years later and
they're still not married.
So perhaps we can try again.
Amen.
Come on guys.
Let's see if some pressure can override what they believe as truth.
And you guys, these tests of our resolve, it doesn't mean that we're weak.
It just means that God wants to trust us with more movement.
I believe that some of us are getting revisited with old warfare and you guys,
it doesn't have to last as long as it did the first time it came around.
Those old fears that the old way that your body reacts.
Maybe you guys are, some of you are dealing with anxiety, panic, depression,
those old lies, those old scripts in your head, those old narratives of who you
are.
All of a sudden you guys, I told you when I was in Utah, I started thinking, why
can't I just be normal?
What's wrong with me?
I started repeating an old narrative.
So I just want to let you guys know if something pops in your head from the past,
if it feels old, if it feels like some old script that you used to read from in
your life, if it's old, then you need to, so you need to, you need to take this
word and you need to submit this word to it.
If it's something that you used to deal with, that you used to think that used to
overcome you, that used to get you depressed, that used to get you unhappy.
Remember, don't worry, be happy.
Used to get you worried.
Remember the word that God gave me at the beginning of 2026 for myself.
He said, Jackie, in 2026, I don't want you to worry about anything.
Don't waste one moment on worry.
He said, if you can control it, control it.
And if you can't give it to me.
So if it's old, you guys, you might've thought that it beat you once, but it
didn't, you got the victory over it, but now it's come back, but it really hasn't.
It's just a border bully.
And that's really where I want to end today.
You guys, I believe that 2026 is a year of forward momentum.
This is not a year where we're going to stay stuck.
This is not a year.
We're going to dream about things and not manifest them.
That's not going to happen this year.
I've already seen so much breakthrough just in the first two months of this year
in people's lives, things that they've been praying for, for years, you guys,
there's new territory with your name on it.
There's transition with your name on it.
But this always happens when we're in a season of transition, the things that
worked on us in the past, the enemy comes back and tries to see if it will work now.
It's just a bunch of noise, you guys.
And that's why it's important that you turn off the media and you turn off all
the noise and all the people that are fighting and arguing and pushing and
pulling against each other.
The reason why there's so much conflict in the earth is because I know it doesn't
seem like it, but we are in a season of breakthrough.
For those of you that had a baby, I want you to remember what it's like in those
final moments before that child breaks into the earth realm.
It is chaotic.
We are in a birthing season, friends,
and in a birthing season, you feel weak.
But Isaiah 66 tells us that he has given us strength
to push forth.
He said, I will not bring the children to the birth
and not give you strength to push them out.
I'm not gonna bring you into a new season
and not give you strength to birth it.
We feel weak because 2025 was hard, you guys.
And I'm likening it to my labor right now
because it's really important.
By the end of my pregnancy, I was exhausted.
And some of you haven't heard this word,
and I had no intention of saying this word,
but Holy Spirit's bringing it to my remembrance.
At the end of my pregnancy with Reagan,
who's 25 years old now, well, she will be next month.
At the end of my pregnancy, I was exhausted
because I had been battling spiritually
and mentally and emotionally, huge battles, you guys.
I was in a very, very dysfunctional,
unhealthy, exhausting marriage.
I already told you what kind of church I went to,
and I was already like 10 years in, spiritual abuse.
I was dealing with severe mental health problems
when my daughter was conceived.
I was skin and bones, you guys.
I weighed 120-something pounds.
I was, the wind could have blew me over.
I was agoraphobic.
I couldn't leave my home.
I was scared of everything.
And I was a believer.
I was a leader in a church.
In fact, the only place that I could go safely
with my mental health was to the church building,
my house to the church.
I worked there, their home,
I couldn't even go to the grocery store.
Back in those days, all I prayed for was to be normal.
This is why when this attack came in Utah of my mind,
the battlefield of the mind,
when the attack came of me just saying,
man, why can't I just be normal?
Why can't I just be like everybody else?
Why do I have to think these kinds of thoughts?
Why am I like this?
That was familiar.
That was a familiar soundtrack from my 20s.
I lost all of my 20s to anxiety.
The entire decade, poof, gone, y'all.
And so I was pregnant during these circumstances.
And of course, pregnancy takes a toll on your body as well.
And so I'm exhausted, you guys,
at the end of this pregnancy,
and I am begging the Lord to deliver me of this baby.
I'm excited about her.
I can't wait to see her.
I can't wait to meet her,
but I also cannot take another step.
And you guys, that's how a lot of us left 2025.
And even though there's this hope
of this beautiful future in 26 and what God's doing,
and it's a new season, and it's a new day, I get it.
And yes, there's been some positive things
that have happened in 26,
but it doesn't mean that we're not tired from 25,
but this is what I know.
As God spoke to me when I was begging Him daily
to go into labor, and He said,
Jackie, you will go into labor on your appointed date.
He said, on your due date, you will go into labor.
He said, and I know the pregnancy has been long and hard.
He said, but the labor will be short and easy.
He said, and I am using this as a word
for you to give my people in the coming days.
And you guys, I wasn't giving any people any words back then.
This is 25 years ago, you guys.
I was tore up from the floor up.
He said, this is going to be what is going to be happening
in the days to come in my people's lives.
They are going to be going through a long season
of hardness, that pregnancy.
He's like, but when it shifts,
it's gonna be an Amos 9.13 moment, you guys.
Suddenly, everywhere you look, everywhere you look,
all of the seed that's in the ground
from that hard time of plowing the soil,
of planting, of watering,
all that time of believing and hoping,
all that time of pressing forward.
Even when there was no guarantee of outcome,
it was going to pay off.
There was going to be a blessing
for faithfulness and fruitfulness.
And I believe that we're living
in the days of suddenly, y'all.
I believe we're living in Amos 9.13.
So to put a period on the sentence,
on my appointed day, on the due date
that the doctor gave me,
I went into labor at 10 o'clock at night.
My husband didn't think I was in labor
because I wasn't in any pain.
And I called the doctor
and he also didn't think I was in labor,
but I knew I was in labor.
I had never had a baby before,
but I knew I was in labor.
Because God had said, and also I felt a stirring in my body that I had never felt before.
And I told the doctor on the phone, because he told me to just stay, he's just like, well,
you know, if you don't have any contractions and this isn't happening and that's not happening,
you know, then, you know, you need to wait until you have those things.
This is your first child, you know, you could be in labor.
He wasn't arguing that, you know, maybe you are in labor, but you could be in labor for
days.
And I said, are you sure, doctor, because I feel like I need to push.
And he said, oh, get in the car and come to the hospital right now.
And I did, you guys.
And if I hadn't, that baby would have been born in the car.
In the car.
I was in labor for a total of four hours, six if you count the time that I was just
at home sitting around thinking I'm in labor.
When I got to, when I got to the hospital, I was only two centimeters away from pushing.
I'll give you a two, seven centimeters dilated.
Okay.
Hold on.
Is that all right with you?
Hold on, guys.
Yesterday I gave you an ivermectin.
Got to mute our nurse.
Our nurse that's on here, God bless her.
You guys, I believe that that's our word.
So what do we do?
We press.
We don't analyze.
We don't spiral.
We don't retreat.
Just so you know, we're not forcing anything because it's moving out of the way anyway.
This is not real.
You guys, it's just a border bully.
It's not real.
It's meant to slow you, confuse you, exhaust you, but we're not going to stop.
We don't stop at borders, y'all.
We're not stopping here.
God already told us that we could take the land and we're going to.
So I want everyone that can, I want you just to stand up and I want you to take one physical
step forward and I want you to say, I'm pressing through this.
I'm not stopping here.
This is not real.
It's a distraction.
My body remembers this war.
My spirit also remembers this victory.
I am safe.
I am not under attack.
God is with me.
Any crack that's still open, that's allowing this to come through, we seal it in the name
of Jesus.
We will not be stopped at this border.
We will not be distracted by any of the noise that's around us.
We press through now.
Father, we just thank you for your goodness and your love.
We thank you, Lord, that you are with us and for us and that you've already told us what
we can have in this time and season that we're in.
It's not just us individually, it's us corporately as your children in the earth, Lord.
We are in a time of harvest.
What season are we in?
We are in a season of harvest.
We are in a season of the birthing.
We are in a season where the things that we have prayed for, the things that we have hoped
for, the things that we have overcome for are manifesting in our lives.
And we will not be distracted.
We will not be dismayed.
We will not be delayed anymore, Lord.
We thank you, God, that we are not going to pay attention to these things, Lord, because
all it is is noise.
All it is is static in the spirit realm.
We are going to pay attention more than ever to your voice, to your love, to your will,
which is for us to prosper, even as our soul prospers.
And so, Lord, we thank you for this in Jesus' name, amen.
I love you guys.
I'll see you soon.