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All right, good morning and welcome to Supernatural Saturday.

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If this is your first Saturday with us, welcome.

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We're so glad you are here.

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We're so glad that you joined last year single.

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This community is going to be such a blessing to you.

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I believe that you are here on purpose and for a purpose, and that is for God to draw

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you closer to himself, for you to be returned to yourself, and then for you to be able to

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do all the things that God has had in his heart for you all along on the earth, including,

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but not limited to, getting married to an amazing partner.

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And so we're so glad that you're with us.

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Supernatural Saturday is the one session a week that I usually lead.

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I lead some other things, but usually I lead Supernatural Saturday.

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And what it's all about is us looking to the current reality of heaven.

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What is heaven doing?

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What is God up to?

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What are his thoughts concerning us?

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And it's really important that we revisit that at least once a week.

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I would hope that you guys revisit that daily.

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When you get into the word of God and you're reading and you're having your daily devotional,

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God, what are your thoughts towards me?

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Hey God, what are you doing?

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I know what the news says is happening.

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I know what social media says is happening.

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I know what my family says is happening.

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I know that what my doctors say are happening.

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I know what everybody else says is happening, but what do you say is happening?

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And friends, we have to, if we're going to live in the world that we live in right now,

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we do and we have no choice because we've been matched with this timeline.

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And I just really want to encourage you with that.

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Just starting off this morning strong, I want to encourage you that God knew where to put

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you in the timeline of history.

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Remember you're intentional.

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You're not an accident.

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I know your parents may have said you were an oopsie daisy, but you're not.

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Before your parents knew that you had been conceived, God had conceived you in his imagination.

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The Bible says that he's known you since the foundation of the earth.

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Friends, these are not just words and these are not just passages of scripture that we

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should just gloss over and push past and be like, oh yeah, that sounds nice.

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No, what that is saying is that you have been intentionally thought up in the imagination

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of God long, long before the world ever began.

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You have lived inside of him.

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You know what that means?

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That means you're eternal.

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And I know that you started your life or you think you started your life when you came

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out of your mother's womb on this earth, but that's not when your life started.

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That's just when your earthly life started.

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You have always been.

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Just like God, you have always been, you have always been existing in his imagination.

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The Bible says that he took that dream called you and he wrapped your flesh around it in

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your mother's womb.

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And friends, that's why I'm just so adamant about this life that we're living right now

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because it's very short and it's extremely temporary.

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This experience that we're having, what a wonderful experience to have.

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Yeah, I wish it was under better circumstances.

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I wish Adam and Eve would not have been disobedient.

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I wish that those things wouldn't have happened that way.

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We'd be living a very different situation right now, but that's okay because that's

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in the future.

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But right now, this is the only time that you will ever have to experience you, a supernatural

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eternal being experiencing a earthly life.

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There are things that we are going to do right now in this life that will not be necessary

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later.

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And they're not bad things.

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Enjoy them.

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I woke up this morning and I'm like, Laura, what do you want to say to your people?

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He said, tell them, don't worry.

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Be happy.

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Remember that old Bobby McFerrin song?

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You guys, I don't know if you know this or not, but he got a lot of flack for that song.

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He was an accomplished musician and that song was, that song seemed naive.

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It seemed overly optimistic.

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You know, it was an earworm.

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Once you start singing it, which I don't recommend doing, you will not be able to get it out

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of your head because it'll get in there.

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It'll burrow in there like a worm and then you'll just have it kind of like, this is

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the song that never ends.

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And also baby shark.

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Don't do any of those things.

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I do not recommend.

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It took.

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me like six months to get baby shark out of my head once. It was not a fun time.

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Anytime I wasn't actively thinking about anything, baby shark would pop up.

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That includes trying to go to sleep at night.

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You guys know, some of you know. And we're going to go somewhere really important, you guys,

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because I believe that there's some testing happening because there's some attacks happening,

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there's some spiritual warfare happening. And through it all, God is allowing it to test us

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and try us and strengthen us, which is beautiful. And we're going to get there. But right now,

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I want to talk about this song I popped up this morning. And I haven't thought of that

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song in many, many, many, many years. It came out when I think I was a teenager.

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And I just want to say that, you know, that song has a very simple message. You can't change

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tomorrow. So enjoy today. And the reason why I'm saying all that to you right now is because of

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what I was talking about already. You guys, we're never going to get another chance to live an

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earthly life. Eternity is going to be amazing. It's going to be wonderful. Heaven's going to

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be incredible. I'm so excited for all the things that God has planned for us going forward after

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we leave these flesh suits. But in the meantime, there's some good things to be had here.

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There's some wonderful experiences to be had here that I believe in part will shape our eternity.

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I'm not going to get into, I'm not going to get into the teaching on this, but, you know,

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heaven is not kind of a one size that fits all situation. The Bible clearly shows us that there

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are very specific things that we will be entrusted with in heaven based on what we're doing here.

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And no, I'm not talking about any kind of crazy theology outside of scripture.

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It's right there in the word of God. It's not taught on a lot. And I think the reason why is

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because people are not worried about eternity because they're really just trying to make it

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through right now. Yeah, that makes sense. And I'm here with you. So friends, the reason why this

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message is so timely for all of us, because if you live in America, especially, and really,

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if you live anywhere, the whole world seems to be on fire right now, doesn't it?

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Every day, a new scandal, every day, every day, a new turmoil, every day, a new argument,

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a new fight, every day, a new conflict. Am I wrong? And guess what? We haven't been created

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to endure that. Remember, we were originally created to live in a place where we were in

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perfect union and communion with God, Eden. And every time we kind of get our nervous systems

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back to a state of peace, it's surrounded by all this fire all the time, right? It's really

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difficult to live in this life and to stay into a place of peace because of what's happening all

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around us. So I really want to encourage you, if you're being affected by the political parties

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fighting, and the Epstein files being released, and all of the crazy stuff that's happening out

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there, and a president of the free world who seems to have that sense of humor and the emotional

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intelligence of a 10-year-old boy, you're not alone. If you have friends that are being affected

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by immigration laws and people that you love, I know. Guys, I have a friend right now who has

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someone that they really love, that works for them, that's really young, really amazing,

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but is still in the process of immigration. And unless you've done it, and I've walked through

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this with some of our students because we have Canadian students that marry Americans that have

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to walk through this process. And I'm not waxing political on this call, I'm just telling you what

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I've had a front row seat to. It's very difficult to become an American citizen. It's not as hard

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maybe to come and to work and to have short-term ability to do things here, but to actually become

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a citizen, it's a little harder, a lot harder actually for people. And I don't know what that

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process is in other countries. Maybe it's even harder there. Maybe there's other countries where

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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

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that have worked with them for years that are scared to even leave their houses. And that's

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really, really sad. It's a sad situation all the way around. And what would fix it? What would

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reform the system? I don't know. But what I do know is that politics doesn't usually seem like

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they're that interested in reform. True reform.

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form of anything.

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You know, I drive down the street,

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cause you guys know I have a heart for the homeless.

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Like that is, that is my big hairy audacious goal in life

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is to impact homelessness somehow.

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Like on a grand scale, even if it starts with the one,

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for those of you that want an update on James,

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he's still alive, he was in the hospital,

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he had a horrible staph infection all over his body

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from being homeless.

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He survived it.

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We're closer and closer,

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and I'll just give you guys an update on this

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in case you're interested.

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I am working with a real estate developer

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that I met in a business group years ago.

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I just saw him a couple of weeks ago,

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and I'm working with him on what it would look like

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to buy a piece of land here in Austin.

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And for him, because this is what he does,

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for him to put a series of tiny houses on it

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for the chronically homeless,

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but not just the chronically homeless,

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geriatric homeless.

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I really have a heart for people

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that are homeless over the age of 55.

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Their bodies are broken down, they're weak.

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Yes, it's not good to be young and homeless either,

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but at least the young and homeless people

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have a little bit more strength.

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I literally, in Austin, we have people in wheelchairs

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sitting on street corners.

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In fact, I just picked this man up the other day, you guys.

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I took him a bag of protein bars, I gave him some cash,

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but he was in a wheelchair and just shuffling,

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like he legit can't walk.

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It's not a gimmick to try to get people to give him money.

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And he's just sitting there, literally cannot move,

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sitting there in his own waste,

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sitting there and just not being able to do anything at all

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and elderly, probably in his 80s.

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And finally the authorities came and took him.

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Where they took him, I don't know,

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but they took him someplace.

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And so all I'm saying is, is that there's lots of areas

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in our world that need reform

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and perhaps you're the reformer.

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I didn't really expect Supernatural Saturday

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to take this kind of tone or this term,

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but maybe that's what part of what we need

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to talk about today is that we need to stop being distracted

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by all the noise all around us.

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And we need to allow God to make a solutionaries, reformers.

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Reforming is not easy.

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It's not easy at all.

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It's actually very, very, very hard.

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But if God is with us, we can do all things, right?

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We can do all things.

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And so that's exciting.

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It's an exciting thought that a bunch of reformers,

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no one person is ever going to change the world.

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And if you see someone doing something that you wanna do,

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instead of being like, oh, well, they got it.

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I guess I don't need to do it because they're doing it.

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No, no, no, no, no, no, no friends.

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The problem is much bigger than any one person

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or 10 people or a hundred people

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or even a thousand people doing the same thing.

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If you see someone doing something

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that's in your heart to do, that's called help.

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Okay, that's what that's called.

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That's called help.

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And so we need to make sure that we understand.

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We're not in competition with each other,

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especially if we're trying to solve

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some sort of social ill, that's called help.

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And so we have to work together.

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We have to band together.

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All the people that have the same callings,

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all the people that have the same pain points

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for the same issues, we have to do that

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if we wanna make a difference in the world, we do.

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And so you guys, it's noisy right now.

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It's really noisy.

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And some of you are really being affected by that noise.

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And I really wanna encourage you to shut it off.

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I've told you this in the past,

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but if you have to go off media, if you have to tune it out,

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because God wants you,

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he doesn't want you to live in ignorant bliss.

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And that's, see, that's what happened with that song,

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"'Don't Worry, Be Happy.'"

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I don't know what was going on in the world

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when that song came out,

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because like I said, I think I was a teenager,

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but I do know that people thought that it was tone deaf.

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"'Oh, don't worry, just be happy.'"

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How naive.

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You know, how ignorantly optimistic.

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But no, it actually is scripture, right?

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"'Take no thought for tomorrow,

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"'because tomorrow will take care of itself.'"

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The trouble in tomorrow,

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there's solutions for it in tomorrow.

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"'Today, be in joy.'"

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I just did a post on my Instagram.

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If you don't follow me on Instagram,

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I do post a lot over there.

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And I just did a post about what God's will is

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and what it's not.

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This elusive thing called God's will

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is always hanging over people's heads

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because it's been described, it's been insinuated,

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it's even been taught that it's some.

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sort of secret blueprint that you have to somehow stay in the bounds of even though you don't know

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what it is. It's a mystery, but you have to make sure that you comply with it.

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And you guys, that's not scriptural. So I did a teaching on my Instagram about what God's will

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is and what it's not. Just so you know, and the reason why this fits with what I'm saying right

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now, God's will is that you would be able to live in joy, that you would be able to mature and grow

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in wisdom and grow in patience and grow in character. This is what God's will is towards

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you in Christ Jesus. There is no such thing as God's predetermined purpose for your life.

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Friends, we have a thing called free will. And I know people are like, well, you know,

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you got to submit your free will to God's will. No, guys, there's better, there's good,

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there's better, there's best in your life. There is not a predetermined trajectory.

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At any given moment in your life, biblically speaking, there is a new plan, depending on

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which decisions and choices you make. God does not remove choice from us.

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He gives us wisdom to make better ones. Do you understand?

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And the reason why this is such a dangerous idea, God's will, is because a lot of people are stuck

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wondering if it's God's will. Is it God's will that I should move here? Is it God's will that

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I should do this? And they stay in this place of analysis paralysis for so long that they don't

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end up doing anything at all, because they don't have the right amount of words from God or the

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right amount of confirmations or the right amount of signs from heaven. The only sign that you need

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is the desire in your heart. That's why we do the heart work. And that's why we do it very,

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the very first thing that we do in this community is heart work. And the reason why is because God

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wants you to get to a place where you can trust the GPS of your own heart. The Bible says,

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if you delight in me, I will give you the desires of your heart, meaning that they come from him.

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They come from him. You can trust that desire to do this thing that you've never wanted to do

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before. You're like, wow, man, that looks like an interesting job. I'd like to check that out.

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I wonder if I could do that. Where's that thought coming from?

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It's coming from a redeemed heart that's now acting like a GPS to try to get you to step out

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and to move forward. But people will push that stuff down. They'll be like, oh, no, I can't do

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that. You know, God told me that I have to be a missionary to Zimbabwe. And he gave me that word

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when I was 21 years old. And have I ever been to Zimbabwe? No. But I got to leave space for it.

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I got to make sure that I have open space for it because one of these days, you know, I may have

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to go there. I can't just marry anyone. I got to marry someone who also is called to Zimbabwe

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because, you know, I mean, eventually I'm going to go there. These are ridiculous things, you guys.

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And of course, that same person, and this is kind of a true story of someone that I dealt with,

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that same person doesn't even want to go to Zimbabwe. They don't want to go.

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That's not what they want to do with their lives. Fill in the blank with whatever country or whatever

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job or whatever thing. And you guys, there could be times in your life where you receive some sort

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of direction and you acted on it, but that doesn't mean that that's the direction for the rest of

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your life. That's why I had Bethany come and teach us about times and seasons. The Bible says that

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you should know your times and seasons. Now there is a scripture in the book of James, and someone

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was very quick to point it out on my Instagram because people love to debate scripture. Okay,

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we've got a lot of amateur theologians running around on the internet, and they wanted to

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tell me very quickly that God's will is about who you marry, and it is about where you move,

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and it is about blah, blah, blah. And that is shown in the book of James in chapter four,

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where it says, you know, don't say that you're going to go here and do this or do that. You're

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only going to do it if God wills it. Yeah, it actually does say that, but that's not what it

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means. And that's the problem. People do a lot of reading of the Bible and a lot of quoting of the

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Bible, but they don't do a lot of studying of the Bible. They don't know what they're reading. They

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read the Bible, but they don't read

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the Bible and so much of the scripture that has been used to keep you stuck

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because I just want to let you know the kingdom model is a forward model it's a

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victory model it's a freedom model and we're gonna talk about that today this

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isn't even the message this is just a bunny trail that Holy Spirit has us on

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for somebody's benefit it's a forward model and so if you're stuck and you're

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doing the same thing and you're stuck in the same problems year after year you're

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not living in the kingdom you're living in the church age the church age will

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keep you stuck it will keep you sitting on a pew with the same problems in the

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same situations year after year after year after year so that you have to come

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and hear a word of encouragement and pay the man I'm sorry that's the way it is

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and guess what that system is crumbling look around that system is crumbling

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it's falling apart isn't it and I believe it's falling apart so that

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better things can fall together because God does not want his people stuck

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anymore he wants them moving forward so take the scripture in James that

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someone cherry-picked they cherry-picked it out you ever been cherry-picking we

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had a cherry tree in my backyard on the lake on Lake Erie in Cleveland Ohio when

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I was a kid and when you pick cherries you don't pick them all there's a method

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to picking cherries so that you leave certain cherries for certain for for

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a certain pattern of ripeness you only kind of take certain ones okay and

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you're like well that's apple picking and that's well yeah it's a version of

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it for every fruit but it's even more so for this okay and so they're

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cherry-picking there's taking something that they like that proves their point

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out of a whole text out of an entire chapter out of entire book what was that

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book about was the book of James about it was to the early believers it was

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discipleship right but it was you guys it was specific discipleship I really

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need you to understand this about Paul's letters I need you to understand this

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about pretty much all of the New Testament after the Gospels most of its

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written to a very specific people group and it isn't that we can't learn from it

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and isn't that we can't glean from it and isn't that it doesn't enrich our

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lives but a lot of it is lost on a modern age it's different and people

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have used it to oppress like for instance the scriptures about how women

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should be silent in the churches you guys that was to a people group that

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came to Christ they were converted remember Paul was a missionary he was

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going around and he was spreading the gospel people were being converted these

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were the earliest Christians on record in these letters and this group of

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people they worshipped goddesses they didn't worship God they worshipped

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goddesses and so the females in their community were put on pedestals and

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everyone did whatever they said and it was a very out of balance society you

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guys where women were worshipped because the gods that they worshipped were

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female and there was a lot of debauch going on but long story short in order

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to bring that back in balance God Paul was trying to get the men to have a

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voice he was trying to bring balance back to this specific community because

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it was out of balance do you understand because either what either either it's

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that or Paul's just you know bipolar schizophrenic because in other letters to

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other places he's like there's no there's no male there's no female

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there's no bond there's no free there's no Jew there's no Gentile we're all

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equal in Christ and lots of other lots of other scriptures you guys that would

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refute that letter so let's go to the book of James who was James talking to

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what he said don't say you're gonna go do this or go do that because it would

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look like God is saying hey my will trumps everything so your will your

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decisions you can't say you're gonna go make decisions unless I will it well

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that sounds a lot like predestination doesn't it if you take it out of context

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and you look at it then it sounds like oh yeah well you can do whatever you

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want but unless it's God's will it's not gonna work out and of course you don't

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know what God's will is right because it's an elusive and mysterious that's

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what this person said to me and so I just want to let you guys know that that

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passage of scripture in James it is talking to rich landowners it's

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talking to early church members that were merchants that's why it says go

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from city to city they went from city to city okay but what they did in city to

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city is they were oppressing people they were oppressing people for labor they

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were doing things that they shouldn't be doing and they were continuing to do it

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even after conversion and

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So it was a place of correction, you guys.

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It was James correcting their arrogance.

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It was James correcting their self-sufficiency and the ways that they were getting their

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wealth.

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Do you see that?

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It wasn't a blanket statement on making decisions in a believer's life.

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You guys, I had no intention of going here at all today, so Holy Spirit has us here,

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but it's really important that you guys hear this.

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Because otherwise, God's will is always going to be against you.

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God's will is for you to have a good life.

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God's will is for you to mature and to grow.

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That's what God's will is.

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God's not moving us around like chess pieces on a board, overriding our desires, forcing

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outcomes.

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You guys, that's fear-based theology.

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Yeah, I even know people that are like, oh, you know, I'm like, oh, I'm never moving

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back to Ohio, because I hate the cold.

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They're literally in a blizzard right now.

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My kids still live there.

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And people are like, oh, don't you say that.

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Don't you say you're never going to do it, because if you say that, God's going to make

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you do it.

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Really?

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Wow.

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The Bible in no scripture presents God as waiting to spite you for saying, I hate the

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cold by shipping you off to Minnesota.

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That's not sovereignty, friends.

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That's superstition.

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That's religion.

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And at the helm of that religion is a very mean, revengeful, immature God.

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That's not the God I serve.

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God is not threatened by your preferences.

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He created them.

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He doesn't override human will for sport.

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Friends, we got to get rid of these theologies.

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They're destroying us.

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Throughout scripture, God forms people.

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He teaches people.

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He grows people in wisdom.

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He invites people into partnership.

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He does correct pride and injustice.

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And that's what he's doing in the book of James.

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He's correcting these men's pride through James.

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He's correcting injustice.

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God is not playing chess with your life.

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He's raising sons and daughters who can think, choose, and walk with him.

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Amen?

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Amen, friends?

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I want you to raise your hand.

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I want to see the people that believe that God's will is mysterious and they can't get

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out of it.

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Because if they get out of it, then they're going to destroy their life.

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They're going to ruin their chances at whatever.

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They have to make sure that they're in God's will and they have a hard time knowing what

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God's will is.

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You have a hard time making decisions because you never really know what God, quote unquote,

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wants you to do.

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It's not really that many people.

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I thought it would be more.

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I definitely dealt with this type of religious analysis paralysis back in a former season

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of my life when I was in a church that taught this kind of stuff.

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The only two people that could sign off on anything that you wanted to do was God or

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the pastor.

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Everything that you were going to do, all of your plans, it doesn't matter if how personal

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your plans were, they had to be approved by the pastor.

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You want to take a new job?

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You got to get the pastor's approval.

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You want to move to a new house?

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You want to sell your house?

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You got to get the pastor's approval.

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You're going to miss church one Sunday.

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You need to make sure you let the pastor know that you're not going to be there.

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You guys, I'm not talking about like someone who worked for the pastor.

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I'm not talking about like some under shepherd.

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I'm not talking about your cell group leader.

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I'm talking about the pastor of the church.

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That's how small the church was.

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It was very controlling, as you can see, and now that pastor's in prison.

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So go figure.

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You guys, my theology on these subjects doesn't come from pain or hurt or anger at being controlled.

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I was young.

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I didn't know anything different.

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I'm thankful for my discipleship.

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I got a lot of good things from it.

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But my primary purpose on earth, I know you think it is to help you find a husband or

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wife and it is part of my purpose to help God's single sons and daughters get married.

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But my main purpose besides just being a daughter of God myself, my main purpose is

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to eradicate religion and to invite people into the kingdom.

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Friends, we've got to get rid of these kinds of mindsets because they're keeping us stuck.

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So I'm going to go ahead and go forward.

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I feel like that was just a soundbite.

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We could do an entire Supernatural Saturday about God's will, what it is, and what it's

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not.

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We could.

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You can go watch my very, very small little excerpt on Instagram about it.

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Obviously, there's a much larger, larger teaching that we could go into about what the Bible

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says is His will, God's will.

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So it's really important that if you really are stuck in that area, that you continue

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to see that the things that you believe are not true.

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James 4, 13 through 17, is talking about something very different than what people think it's

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talking about, right?

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It's not saying don't make plans.

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It's not saying don't choose.

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It's not saying don't act unless I supernaturally tell you exactly what to do.

459
00:31:55.660 --> 00:32:00.560
It's not God saying, stop pretending that you're God, stop being God, stop acting like

460
00:32:00.560 --> 00:32:02.360
you're the one that's sovereign.

461
00:32:02.360 --> 00:32:03.360
That isn't.

462
00:32:03.360 --> 00:32:04.580
It's not about planning, you guys.

463
00:32:04.580 --> 00:32:06.920
It's not about executing your plans.

464
00:32:06.920 --> 00:32:11.680
In fact, the Bible says in different scriptures that we make our plans and God orders our

465
00:32:11.680 --> 00:32:12.680
steps.

466
00:32:12.680 --> 00:32:15.800
It says, trust in the Lord with all your heart and don't lean to your own understanding,

467
00:32:15.800 --> 00:32:20.760
but acknowledge Him in all your ways and He will direct your paths as you're moving,

468
00:32:20.760 --> 00:32:21.760
friends.

469
00:32:21.760 --> 00:32:25.560
All of that implies movement, okay?

470
00:32:25.560 --> 00:32:29.520
That one scripture in James that talks about this, and you can't find it anywhere else.

471
00:32:29.520 --> 00:32:35.960
It's only right here in James that it seems to imply if you cherry pick it, that you shouldn't

472
00:32:35.960 --> 00:32:37.240
make your own plans.

473
00:32:37.240 --> 00:32:39.640
You should just wait for God's will.

474
00:32:39.640 --> 00:32:43.720
It's not talking about marriage or dating or even career choices or even geographic

475
00:32:43.720 --> 00:32:44.720
moves.

476
00:32:44.720 --> 00:32:48.200
It's not talking about anything about that at all.

477
00:32:48.200 --> 00:32:54.680
You have agency, you've been designed to choose, and you shouldn't be waiting for a sign.

478
00:32:54.680 --> 00:32:55.680
You shouldn't.

479
00:32:55.680 --> 00:33:01.560
You need to remember that that scripture is all about James correcting early Christians

480
00:33:01.560 --> 00:33:05.000
in their arrogance, in their profit without conscience.

481
00:33:05.000 --> 00:33:11.560
You guys, they were taking advantage of people in these cities that they were going to.

482
00:33:11.560 --> 00:33:14.680
This was to bring humility.

483
00:33:14.680 --> 00:33:17.040
That's what it was for.

484
00:33:17.040 --> 00:33:19.280
And if you skip down to verse 17, you'll see that.

485
00:33:19.280 --> 00:33:26.280
If anyone knows the good they ought to do and doesn't do it, it is sin for them.

486
00:33:26.280 --> 00:33:29.800
So he's talking about what they are doing, what they're going to these cities and doing

487
00:33:29.800 --> 00:33:31.560
and how they shouldn't be doing it.

488
00:33:31.560 --> 00:33:37.040
And now that they become believers, they know to do good and they ought to be doing good

489
00:33:37.040 --> 00:33:40.420
because if they don't, then it is sin for them, all right?

490
00:33:40.420 --> 00:33:43.720
So that is what that whole passage of scripture is talking about.

491
00:33:43.760 --> 00:33:45.840
It is correcting people's behavior.

492
00:33:45.840 --> 00:33:49.640
It is not a diatribe against planning.

493
00:33:49.640 --> 00:33:52.200
All right.

494
00:33:52.200 --> 00:33:56.200
So what I really wanted, I know we're all over the place today, you guys, and there's

495
00:33:56.200 --> 00:33:59.480
a lot of the gold nuggets for whoever they're for.

496
00:33:59.480 --> 00:34:00.480
Lots of gold nuggets.

497
00:34:00.480 --> 00:34:04.880
I love it when Holy Spirit takes us on a treasure hunt, and I think we've been on one this morning

498
00:34:04.880 --> 00:34:05.920
already.

499
00:34:05.920 --> 00:34:13.480
But my main Supernatural Saturday thought was about things revisiting us in this season

500
00:34:13.639 --> 00:34:16.000
that we thought we were fully delivered from.

501
00:34:16.000 --> 00:34:18.320
We thought we were fully over.

502
00:34:18.320 --> 00:34:19.320
They could be fears.

503
00:34:19.320 --> 00:34:20.719
They could be emotional reactions.

504
00:34:20.719 --> 00:34:24.480
They might be some sort of situation going on in your body.

505
00:34:24.480 --> 00:34:29.360
They could be relational dynamics with your boss or a friend, just things that you struggled

506
00:34:29.360 --> 00:34:34.520
with in the past and you thought, yeah, that was a hard season, but that season's over

507
00:34:34.520 --> 00:34:39.600
and I got the victory or that thing just mysteriously went away and I don't have to deal with it

508
00:34:39.600 --> 00:34:40.639
anymore.

509
00:34:40.639 --> 00:34:46.080
But for some reason, something like it, it or something like it, is trying to rear its

510
00:34:46.080 --> 00:34:47.080
head.

511
00:34:47.080 --> 00:34:48.080
Put down your hands.

512
00:34:48.080 --> 00:34:49.080
Everybody put your hands down.

513
00:34:49.080 --> 00:34:57.720
I want to see who I'm talking to, and I'm definitely talking to myself.

514
00:34:57.720 --> 00:35:00.000
Over the course of the last two months, since.

515
00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:05.000
2026 came, I have been being revisited, so to speak,

516
00:35:05.000 --> 00:35:10.000
by some things that I thought I had overcome decades ago.

517
00:35:10.860 --> 00:35:12.300
Anybody else?

518
00:35:12.300 --> 00:35:14.660
Raise your hand if all of a sudden

519
00:35:15.540 --> 00:35:18.580
some old border bullies are just popping out

520
00:35:18.580 --> 00:35:21.960
of the woodwork trying to push you back.

521
00:35:24.900 --> 00:35:26.840
Old thoughts trying to come back.

522
00:35:27.680 --> 00:35:31.320
And of course, when it shows up,

523
00:35:31.320 --> 00:35:36.080
immediately you're like, wait, I thought I healed this.

524
00:35:36.080 --> 00:35:38.160
I thought I was past this.

525
00:35:38.160 --> 00:35:39.440
I thought I overcame this.

526
00:35:39.440 --> 00:35:41.220
I thought this was over.

527
00:35:42.240 --> 00:35:43.760
Anybody, anybody, anybody?

528
00:35:46.600 --> 00:35:47.440
Anybody?

529
00:35:49.960 --> 00:35:50.840
All right, so if that's you,

530
00:35:50.840 --> 00:35:54.160
I just want you to listen clearly to what I'm about to say.

531
00:35:54.160 --> 00:35:55.240
It's very important.

532
00:35:56.240 --> 00:35:59.200
Whatever that thing is, it's not back.

533
00:36:00.520 --> 00:36:01.440
It isn't.

534
00:36:01.440 --> 00:36:03.160
It's not here to stay.

535
00:36:03.160 --> 00:36:05.580
You didn't lose the ground,

536
00:36:05.580 --> 00:36:08.800
the territory that you took back during that initial battle

537
00:36:08.800 --> 00:36:11.040
with whatever this thing is.

538
00:36:11.040 --> 00:36:13.280
You're not experiencing regression.

539
00:36:13.280 --> 00:36:15.060
This is just warfare.

540
00:36:16.480 --> 00:36:18.180
You guys, warfare is a real thing.

541
00:36:19.320 --> 00:36:20.800
I know I don't talk about it a lot

542
00:36:20.800 --> 00:36:24.200
on Supernatural Saturdays because I don't really feel

543
00:36:24.240 --> 00:36:28.960
like we need to give it a lot of airtime,

544
00:36:30.320 --> 00:36:34.920
but I believe that 2026 is a really special year.

545
00:36:34.920 --> 00:36:35.760
I do.

546
00:36:35.760 --> 00:36:40.640
I think it's a special year of growth,

547
00:36:40.640 --> 00:36:42.320
and I also think it's a special year

548
00:36:42.320 --> 00:36:45.360
of forward movement, of victory.

549
00:36:45.360 --> 00:36:48.760
Remember, God said that the siege is over.

550
00:36:48.760 --> 00:36:50.560
It's time for us to go forward.

551
00:36:50.560 --> 00:36:53.520
It's time for us to make up lost time.

552
00:36:53.560 --> 00:36:55.080
I believe that with all my heart.

553
00:36:55.080 --> 00:36:57.280
Even the stuff that's happening political,

554
00:36:57.280 --> 00:36:59.080
the political stuff that's happening.

555
00:36:59.080 --> 00:37:00.120
All the people that voted,

556
00:37:00.120 --> 00:37:01.640
and you guys, this is not political.

557
00:37:01.640 --> 00:37:02.560
Do not get offended.

558
00:37:02.560 --> 00:37:03.760
Do not send me emails.

559
00:37:03.760 --> 00:37:06.560
I don't care what side of the aisle you're on, okay?

560
00:37:06.560 --> 00:37:09.000
Both sides are corrupt.

561
00:37:09.000 --> 00:37:12.720
All right, it doesn't matter what side

562
00:37:12.720 --> 00:37:13.560
of the aisle you're on.

563
00:37:13.560 --> 00:37:18.520
Politics in its very nature is evil, okay?

564
00:37:18.520 --> 00:37:19.520
It is.

565
00:37:19.520 --> 00:37:21.560
Are there good people caught in the crosshairs of it

566
00:37:21.560 --> 00:37:23.120
that try to run for government

567
00:37:23.120 --> 00:37:24.840
to make some kind of change?

568
00:37:24.840 --> 00:37:28.200
Yes, there are, and they very quickly get snuffed out.

569
00:37:31.000 --> 00:37:32.240
God showed me this years ago,

570
00:37:32.240 --> 00:37:33.960
because you can see, I'm a leader,

571
00:37:33.960 --> 00:37:35.760
and I want to make change.

572
00:37:35.760 --> 00:37:36.800
I want reform.

573
00:37:36.800 --> 00:37:38.000
I'm a reformer.

574
00:37:38.000 --> 00:37:39.760
I thought when I was a younger woman

575
00:37:39.760 --> 00:37:41.840
that I was gonna run for some offices,

576
00:37:41.840 --> 00:37:44.800
and God's like, that's not the best use of your giftings.

577
00:37:48.480 --> 00:37:50.720
Because nothing can really actually get done

578
00:37:50.720 --> 00:37:53.000
because of the red tape of bureaucracy.

579
00:37:53.000 --> 00:37:55.120
And of course, I'm only talking about America.

580
00:37:55.120 --> 00:37:57.360
That's why you guys see that we put a president in,

581
00:37:57.360 --> 00:37:58.480
and they make change,

582
00:37:58.480 --> 00:38:01.520
but as soon as the new administration comes in,

583
00:38:01.520 --> 00:38:02.720
they just undo it all.

584
00:38:02.720 --> 00:38:04.320
It doesn't really matter, right?

585
00:38:06.080 --> 00:38:08.160
It's just a lesson in futility.

586
00:38:08.160 --> 00:38:10.520
And so, I don't want to get off on that,

587
00:38:10.520 --> 00:38:12.040
because I will get off on that,

588
00:38:12.040 --> 00:38:15.360
and I don't want to get off on a rabbit trail there.

589
00:38:15.360 --> 00:38:18.320
Okay, so what I want to say to you guys is

590
00:38:18.480 --> 00:38:20.720
that some of you may feel like, oh no,

591
00:38:22.040 --> 00:38:25.840
this reminds me of all the turmoil back in 2019

592
00:38:25.840 --> 00:38:28.320
when Trump was president the first time, right?

593
00:38:29.560 --> 00:38:31.160
2020, when COVID came.

594
00:38:31.160 --> 00:38:32.160
Do you guys remember?

595
00:38:32.160 --> 00:38:33.440
Remember all the craziness?

596
00:38:33.440 --> 00:38:35.440
The world was on fire, wasn't it?

597
00:38:35.440 --> 00:38:38.000
So do you see how it seems like some patterns

598
00:38:38.000 --> 00:38:39.280
are trying to repeat?

599
00:38:39.280 --> 00:38:41.440
How some things are trying to circle back around,

600
00:38:41.440 --> 00:38:42.280
but not in a good way?

601
00:38:42.280 --> 00:38:44.120
You guys, God did give us a word

602
00:38:44.120 --> 00:38:45.600
that everything was coming full circle,

603
00:38:45.600 --> 00:38:47.160
but this is not what he meant.

604
00:38:49.320 --> 00:38:54.320
He meant things that were now mature enough to accomplish,

605
00:38:56.120 --> 00:39:00.320
things, opportunities that we can take advantage of now.

606
00:39:00.320 --> 00:39:02.680
He isn't talking about this kind of stuff.

607
00:39:02.680 --> 00:39:04.040
But this is what the enemy is doing,

608
00:39:04.040 --> 00:39:05.400
because you guys, there is an enemy.

609
00:39:05.400 --> 00:39:09.200
There is an opposing force in the earth.

610
00:39:09.200 --> 00:39:11.880
There is a kingdom, so to speak, of darkness.

611
00:39:11.880 --> 00:39:12.720
It is true.

612
00:39:12.720 --> 00:39:13.560
It is real.

613
00:39:13.560 --> 00:39:14.920
It does exist.

614
00:39:16.320 --> 00:39:18.080
The Bible talks about it,

615
00:39:18.840 --> 00:39:20.800
and a lot of us have experienced it.

616
00:39:20.800 --> 00:39:22.160
And friends, I'm just gonna tell you,

617
00:39:22.160 --> 00:39:24.160
it's really, really tempting

618
00:39:24.160 --> 00:39:26.840
as these things start to try to pop up again in your life,

619
00:39:26.840 --> 00:39:29.120
these old mindsets, these old behaviors,

620
00:39:29.120 --> 00:39:30.720
these old problems.

621
00:39:30.720 --> 00:39:33.720
It's really tempting to say, oh no, it's back.

622
00:39:34.960 --> 00:39:36.760
I thought this was over.

623
00:39:36.760 --> 00:39:37.960
I thought I was healed of this.

624
00:39:37.960 --> 00:39:40.440
I thought I was delivered of this.

625
00:39:40.440 --> 00:39:42.640
I thought I got the victory over this.

626
00:39:42.640 --> 00:39:44.200
And that is where the test is,

627
00:39:44.200 --> 00:39:46.360
and that is where the warfare is.

628
00:39:46.360 --> 00:39:51.240
Because familiarity, it shocks our nervous system.

629
00:39:51.240 --> 00:39:52.560
New pain is confusing.

630
00:39:52.560 --> 00:39:55.160
If something starts happening in a relationship that's new,

631
00:39:55.160 --> 00:39:57.040
it causes curiosity, right?

632
00:39:57.040 --> 00:39:59.040
You're right, you're like, what is this?

633
00:39:59.040 --> 00:40:00.400
Like, what's going on here?

634
00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:05.240
You know, why all of a sudden is this person that I've been in relationship with and we've

635
00:40:05.240 --> 00:40:09.000
just been in really great relationship, why all of a sudden are they acting like they're

636
00:40:09.000 --> 00:40:10.000
mad?

637
00:40:10.000 --> 00:40:14.220
Like it's a new situation and it's a little confusing and it causes curiosity.

638
00:40:14.220 --> 00:40:18.460
But familiar pain can become terrifying, amen?

639
00:40:18.460 --> 00:40:20.940
Because you've already lived through all that.

640
00:40:20.940 --> 00:40:25.300
You've already lived through all that many times and you thought it was finally over.

641
00:40:25.300 --> 00:40:28.380
You remember all the times you prayed and prayed and prayed and prayed to be healed

642
00:40:28.380 --> 00:40:37.620
of it, to be delivered of it, for it to be resolved, for it to end and it did.

643
00:40:37.620 --> 00:40:41.100
And now all of a sudden it's trying to pop up its head.

644
00:40:41.100 --> 00:40:44.540
And then of course your body's going to go into the fight or flight response at some

645
00:40:44.540 --> 00:40:46.300
level.

646
00:40:46.300 --> 00:40:52.140
Your nervous system is going to react before your theology, your identity, the finished

647
00:40:52.140 --> 00:40:54.940
work of the cross, teaching in your brain reacts.

648
00:40:54.940 --> 00:40:56.500
And so that is what we're going to do today.

649
00:40:56.620 --> 00:41:02.740
We're going to talk about this for just a second, guys, because the enemy is not after

650
00:41:02.740 --> 00:41:03.740
your circumstances.

651
00:41:03.740 --> 00:41:05.100
He's after your agreement.

652
00:41:05.100 --> 00:41:09.820
So if there is a type of battle going on in your life right now where some old mindsets

653
00:41:09.820 --> 00:41:13.340
are creeping in, some hopeless mindsets, I'm feeling that in the spirit right now.

654
00:41:13.340 --> 00:41:18.940
Some people that are starting to partner with hopelessness again, what's the use?

655
00:41:18.940 --> 00:41:23.100
I was coaching a couple the other day that they're starting to have the same problems

656
00:41:23.100 --> 00:41:24.620
that they used to have.

657
00:41:24.620 --> 00:41:27.020
They overcame those problems and they were doing good.

658
00:41:27.020 --> 00:41:28.020
They were getting along.

659
00:41:28.020 --> 00:41:29.880
It was great.

660
00:41:29.880 --> 00:41:31.060
They were happy.

661
00:41:31.060 --> 00:41:35.420
They were looking at the future with expectation and excitement.

662
00:41:35.420 --> 00:41:39.340
And then all of a sudden they started having some old arguments and those old arguments

663
00:41:39.340 --> 00:41:42.500
escalated.

664
00:41:42.500 --> 00:41:45.740
And then the woman said, what's the use?

665
00:41:45.740 --> 00:41:48.980
What difference does it make?

666
00:41:48.980 --> 00:41:50.940
You guys, this is the battle.

667
00:41:50.940 --> 00:41:57.420
I want to see the people who, you've been having thoughts like that, no matter what

668
00:41:57.420 --> 00:41:58.700
I do, nothing ever changes.

669
00:41:58.700 --> 00:42:00.020
You were excited.

670
00:42:00.020 --> 00:42:01.420
You were running forward.

671
00:42:01.420 --> 00:42:03.140
You were making changes.

672
00:42:03.140 --> 00:42:05.620
Things were starting to kind of break open.

673
00:42:05.620 --> 00:42:08.820
And then all of a sudden you're starting to have these thoughts again, well, it's never

674
00:42:08.820 --> 00:42:09.820
going to be good enough.

675
00:42:09.820 --> 00:42:11.260
It's never going to be enough.

676
00:42:11.260 --> 00:42:14.340
Maybe you got back on the apps and you had a couple of good dates and you're like, okay,

677
00:42:14.340 --> 00:42:15.340
I can do this.

678
00:42:15.340 --> 00:42:16.540
It's a new season.

679
00:42:16.540 --> 00:42:21.100
And then all of a sudden you had, you know, a crappy date or you got ghosted or, you know,

680
00:42:21.100 --> 00:42:30.060
something happened that caused you to just believe, no, same old crap, different day.

681
00:42:30.060 --> 00:42:35.060
Anybody?

682
00:42:35.060 --> 00:42:38.260
Remember you guys, the opposing forces are after our agreement.

683
00:42:38.260 --> 00:42:45.500
If they can get us to agree that we're back here again, then they don't need authority.

684
00:42:45.500 --> 00:42:46.500
They don't need authority.

685
00:42:47.460 --> 00:42:50.120
You guys, first of all, they don't have authority and they don't need it because if they have

686
00:42:50.120 --> 00:42:52.900
our agreement, they're borrowing our authority.

687
00:42:52.900 --> 00:42:56.300
Do I need to say that 15 more times?

688
00:42:56.300 --> 00:42:59.000
You are in authority.

689
00:42:59.000 --> 00:43:01.660
The enemy's authority was taken at the finished work of the cross.

690
00:43:01.660 --> 00:43:02.660
You know that, right?

691
00:43:02.660 --> 00:43:06.540
Jesus took the keys of authority, took the keys of death and hell.

692
00:43:06.540 --> 00:43:14.140
The only authority that the enemy gives you or has over you is what you give it.

693
00:43:14.140 --> 00:43:19.100
And when I say the enemy, I'm not just talking about the devil, Lucifer, Beelzebub, Satan.

694
00:43:19.100 --> 00:43:21.100
Of course, he's not omnipresent.

695
00:43:21.100 --> 00:43:22.100
He's not like God.

696
00:43:22.100 --> 00:43:23.100
He's not omniscient.

697
00:43:23.100 --> 00:43:24.100
He's not everywhere.

698
00:43:24.100 --> 00:43:25.100
He doesn't know everything.

699
00:43:25.100 --> 00:43:26.500
It's just one angel, y'all.

700
00:43:26.500 --> 00:43:28.340
It's one fallen angel.

701
00:43:28.340 --> 00:43:29.340
Okay.

702
00:43:29.340 --> 00:43:36.460
When I say the enemy, I mean the opposing forces as at large, as a whole, the kingdom

703
00:43:36.460 --> 00:43:41.700
of darkness, the things that are opposing righteousness in the earth.

704
00:43:41.700 --> 00:43:44.620
And some of the things that are opposing righteousness in the earth are things that

705
00:43:44.620 --> 00:43:45.980
you wouldn't think.

706
00:43:45.980 --> 00:43:49.980
You know, one of the things that's opposing righteousness in the earth, religion.

707
00:43:49.980 --> 00:43:52.380
The spirit of religion is strong, friends.

708
00:43:52.380 --> 00:43:59.020
And it's probably public enemy number one to a grace-filled life.

709
00:43:59.020 --> 00:44:02.540
When you start to have these ideas that you've offended God and that he's not going to bless

710
00:44:02.540 --> 00:44:07.620
you and he's not going to give you something because of what you did in 2015 and, you know,

711
00:44:07.620 --> 00:44:11.540
you ran off on your own and you got involved in some bad relationship, started having sex

712
00:44:12.380 --> 00:44:14.860
and, you know, that's why you're still single now, because you're still being punished for

713
00:44:14.860 --> 00:44:19.900
that, because you didn't trust the Lord, you know, you'd have your V card to your 45 years

714
00:44:19.900 --> 00:44:23.540
old and finally you're like, yeah, well, God's not doing it, so I'm going to go do it myself.

715
00:44:23.540 --> 00:44:31.540
And now you're stuck because you were outside of God's will and now he's not going to give

716
00:44:31.540 --> 00:44:32.540
you anything good.

717
00:44:32.540 --> 00:44:36.360
You guys, that is not biblical.

718
00:44:36.360 --> 00:44:38.900
That is not biblical at all.

719
00:44:38.900 --> 00:44:44.700
If God tells human people to forgive each other 490 times a day, it's important that

720
00:44:44.700 --> 00:44:47.940
you understand that that's a day.

721
00:44:47.940 --> 00:44:50.460
That's not in a lifetime.

722
00:44:50.460 --> 00:44:53.140
That's not you tallying up how many times you have to forgive your spouse.

723
00:44:53.140 --> 00:44:56.660
And as soon as you get to 490, you're like, we're good.

724
00:44:56.660 --> 00:44:59.980
70 times 7, that's all God said.

725
00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:02.760
I had to forgive you and now I don't have to forgive you anymore.

726
00:45:03.120 --> 00:45:03.960
We're done here.

727
00:45:05.440 --> 00:45:06.840
No, you guys, that was a day.

728
00:45:08.080 --> 00:45:12.200
So if God told us as humans, and you guys know, we're not really that great at

729
00:45:12.200 --> 00:45:17.160
forgiveness. If God told us as humans to forgive each other 490 times a day, then

730
00:45:17.160 --> 00:45:21.840
it's pretty, it's pretty accurate to say that God's not holding something that you

731
00:45:21.840 --> 00:45:27.040
did 10 years ago against you that you've repented for.

732
00:45:27.720 --> 00:45:31.160
I don't know who all needs to hear this, you guys, but these are very specific

733
00:45:31.160 --> 00:45:36.480
examples. And I believe it's because they are for very specific people because that

734
00:45:36.480 --> 00:45:42.920
is how Holy Spirit works. So the enemy doesn't have to have any authority over

735
00:45:42.920 --> 00:45:50.160
you. If he can get you to agree, he's borrowing your authority. Guys, we've all

736
00:45:50.160 --> 00:45:53.360
had a lot of victories over things that have troubled us for years, but victory

737
00:45:53.360 --> 00:45:57.600
doesn't mean that there is not going to be anything that tries to attack us in

738
00:45:57.600 --> 00:46:03.040
that area. Overcoming doesn't mean that the enemy forgot about you. It means he

739
00:46:03.040 --> 00:46:10.760
remembers what used to work. Friends, if that weapon of his warfare used to,

740
00:46:10.800 --> 00:46:15.440
remember, the Bible says that we're not ignorant of the enemy's devices. If that

741
00:46:15.440 --> 00:46:22.080
device used to work against you, you don't think that he's going to try it again?

742
00:46:22.280 --> 00:46:28.240
He's going to try it again to see? Yeah, you overcame, you were strong. You're like,

743
00:46:28.240 --> 00:46:32.480
no way. No way am I ever going to think those thoughts again. No way am I going to

744
00:46:32.480 --> 00:46:36.960
get into victim orphan mentalities again. No way am I going to put up with people

745
00:46:36.960 --> 00:46:40.520
wasting my time because my time is valuable. No way am I going to date this

746
00:46:40.520 --> 00:46:49.080
kind of person again. Let's just see if that's true. Let's just see, right? I feel

747
00:46:49.080 --> 00:46:54.120
like the opposing forces take a, let's just wait and see. Yeah, they were strong.

748
00:46:54.120 --> 00:46:58.120
They were adamant, right? Coming out of the gate. But now it's 10 years later and

749
00:46:58.120 --> 00:47:10.360
they're still not married. So perhaps we can try again. Amen. Come on, guys. Let's

750
00:47:10.360 --> 00:47:16.880
see if some pressure can override what they believe as truth. And you guys, these

751
00:47:16.880 --> 00:47:22.000
tests of our resolve, it doesn't mean that we're weak. It just means that God

752
00:47:22.000 --> 00:47:29.240
wants to trust us with more movement. I believe that some of us are getting

753
00:47:29.240 --> 00:47:35.120
revisited with old warfare. And you guys, it doesn't have to last as long as it did

754
00:47:35.120 --> 00:47:40.360
the first time it came around. Those old fears, that the old way that your body

755
00:47:40.360 --> 00:47:43.280
reacts. Maybe you guys are, some of you are dealing with anxiety, panic,

756
00:47:43.280 --> 00:47:48.640
depression, those old lies, those old scripts in your head, those old narratives of who

757
00:47:48.640 --> 00:47:53.680
you are. All of a sudden, you guys, I told you when I was in Utah, I started thinking,

758
00:47:53.680 --> 00:47:57.960
why can't I just be normal? What's wrong with me? I started repeating an old narrative.

759
00:47:59.520 --> 00:48:03.800
So I just want to let you guys know, if something pops in your head from the past, if it

760
00:48:03.800 --> 00:48:08.040
feels old, if it feels like some old script that you used to read from in your life.

761
00:48:08.040 --> 00:48:19.400
If it's old, then you need to take this word and you need to submit this word to it. If it's

762
00:48:19.400 --> 00:48:23.800
something that you used to deal with, that you used to think, that used to overcome you,

763
00:48:23.800 --> 00:48:28.920
that used to get you depressed, that used to get you unhappy. Remember, don't worry,

764
00:48:28.920 --> 00:48:32.760
be happy. Used to get you worried. Remember the word that God gave me at the beginning of 2026

765
00:48:32.760 --> 00:48:37.960
for myself. He said, Jackie, in 2026, I don't want you to worry about anything.

766
00:48:40.440 --> 00:48:45.880
Don't waste one moment on worry. He said, if you can control it, control it. And if you can't,

767
00:48:45.880 --> 00:48:52.440
give it to me. So if it's old, you guys, you might've thought that it beat you once,

768
00:48:52.440 --> 00:48:57.400
but it didn't. You got the victory over it, but now it's come back. But it really hasn't.

769
00:48:57.400 --> 00:49:00.920
It's just a border bully. And that's really where I want to end today, you guys.

770
00:49:01.880 --> 00:49:07.080
I believe that 2026 is a year of forward momentum. This is not a year where we're going to stay

771
00:49:07.080 --> 00:49:11.320
stuck. This is not a year we're going to dream about things and not manifest them. That's not

772
00:49:11.320 --> 00:49:15.640
going to happen this year. I've already seen so much breakthrough just in the first two months

773
00:49:15.640 --> 00:49:20.280
of this year in people's lives. Things that they've been praying for for years, you guys,

774
00:49:20.280 --> 00:49:23.800
there's new territory with your name on it. There's transition with your name on it.

775
00:49:24.600 --> 00:49:28.920
But this always happens when we're in a season of transition. The things that worked on us in

776
00:49:28.920 --> 00:49:37.240
the past, the enemy comes back and tries to see if it will work now. It's just a bunch of noise,

777
00:49:37.240 --> 00:49:42.280
you guys. And that's why it's important that you turn off the media and you turn off all the noise

778
00:49:42.280 --> 00:49:46.440
and all the people that are fighting and arguing and pushing and pulling against each other.

779
00:49:46.440 --> 00:49:50.120
The reason why there's so much conflict in the earth is because I know it doesn't seem like it,

780
00:49:50.120 --> 00:49:55.320
but we are in a season of breakthrough. For those of you that have had a baby, I want you to

781
00:49:55.320 --> 00:49:59.800
remember what it's like in those final moments before that child breaks into the earth realm.

782
00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:01.680
It is chaotic.

783
00:50:02.680 --> 00:50:04.720
We are in a birthing season, friends,

784
00:50:04.720 --> 00:50:06.840
and in a birthing season, you feel weak.

785
00:50:07.720 --> 00:50:10.720
But Isaiah 66 tells us that he has given us strength

786
00:50:10.720 --> 00:50:11.800
to push forth.

787
00:50:11.800 --> 00:50:14.680
He said, I will not bring the children to the birth

788
00:50:14.680 --> 00:50:19.680
and not give you strength to push them out.

789
00:50:22.620 --> 00:50:25.000
I'm not gonna bring you into a new season

790
00:50:25.000 --> 00:50:28.040
and not give you strength to birth it.

791
00:50:30.080 --> 00:50:33.640
We feel weak because 2025 was hard, you guys,

792
00:50:33.640 --> 00:50:35.560
and I'm likening it to my labor right now

793
00:50:35.560 --> 00:50:36.800
because it's really important.

794
00:50:36.800 --> 00:50:39.520
By the end of my pregnancy, I was exhausted.

795
00:50:39.520 --> 00:50:41.120
And some of you haven't heard this word,

796
00:50:41.120 --> 00:50:43.260
and I had no intention of saying this word,

797
00:50:43.260 --> 00:50:45.900
but Holy Spirit's bringing it to my remembrance.

798
00:50:45.900 --> 00:50:47.720
At the end of my pregnancy with Reagan,

799
00:50:47.720 --> 00:50:52.520
who's 25 years old now, well, she will be next month.

800
00:50:53.840 --> 00:50:58.480
At the end of my pregnancy, I was exhausted

801
00:50:58.480 --> 00:51:02.040
because I had been battling spiritually

802
00:51:02.920 --> 00:51:06.960
and mentally and emotionally, huge battles, you guys.

803
00:51:06.960 --> 00:51:09.320
I was in a very, very dysfunctional,

804
00:51:09.320 --> 00:51:13.100
unhealthy, exhausting marriage.

805
00:51:14.120 --> 00:51:17.360
I already told you what kind of church I went to,

806
00:51:17.360 --> 00:51:22.360
and I was already like 10 years in, spiritual abuse.

807
00:51:23.280 --> 00:51:26.560
I was dealing with severe mental health problems

808
00:51:27.440 --> 00:51:29.280
when my daughter was conceived.

809
00:51:29.280 --> 00:51:31.080
I was skin and bones, you guys.

810
00:51:31.080 --> 00:51:33.360
I weighed 120 something pounds.

811
00:51:33.360 --> 00:51:36.000
I was, the wind could have blew me over.

812
00:51:36.860 --> 00:51:38.760
I was agoraphobic.

813
00:51:38.760 --> 00:51:40.080
I couldn't leave my home.

814
00:51:40.080 --> 00:51:41.680
I was scared of everything.

815
00:51:41.680 --> 00:51:42.940
And I was a believer.

816
00:51:42.940 --> 00:51:44.160
I was a leader in a church.

817
00:51:44.160 --> 00:51:47.000
In fact, the only place that I could go safely

818
00:51:47.000 --> 00:51:49.640
with my mental health was to the church building,

819
00:51:51.900 --> 00:51:53.280
my house to the church.

820
00:51:53.280 --> 00:51:56.320
I worked there, their home,

821
00:51:56.800 --> 00:51:58.040
I couldn't even go to the grocery store.

822
00:51:58.040 --> 00:52:01.240
Back in those days, all I prayed for was to be normal.

823
00:52:01.240 --> 00:52:05.480
This is why when this attack came in Utah of my mind,

824
00:52:05.480 --> 00:52:06.600
the battlefield of the mind,

825
00:52:06.600 --> 00:52:08.400
when the attack came of me just saying,

826
00:52:08.400 --> 00:52:10.480
man, why can't I just be normal?

827
00:52:10.480 --> 00:52:12.280
Why can't I just be like everybody else?

828
00:52:12.280 --> 00:52:14.240
Why do I have to think these kinds of thoughts?

829
00:52:14.240 --> 00:52:15.820
Why am I like this?

830
00:52:15.820 --> 00:52:17.160
That was familiar.

831
00:52:17.160 --> 00:52:22.160
That was a familiar soundtrack from my 20s.

832
00:52:23.680 --> 00:52:26.240
I lost all of my 20s to anxiety.

833
00:52:27.040 --> 00:52:28.900
The entire decade, poof, gone, y'all.

834
00:52:31.480 --> 00:52:34.480
And so I was pregnant during these circumstances.

835
00:52:34.480 --> 00:52:37.760
And of course, pregnancy takes a toll on your body as well.

836
00:52:37.760 --> 00:52:39.840
And so I'm exhausted, you guys,

837
00:52:39.840 --> 00:52:41.040
at the end of this pregnancy,

838
00:52:41.040 --> 00:52:45.220
and I am begging the Lord to deliver me of this baby.

839
00:52:45.220 --> 00:52:46.200
I'm excited about her.

840
00:52:46.200 --> 00:52:47.320
I can't wait to see her.

841
00:52:47.320 --> 00:52:48.560
I can't wait to meet her,

842
00:52:48.560 --> 00:52:51.880
but I also cannot take another step.

843
00:52:51.880 --> 00:52:55.260
And you guys, that's how a lot of us left 2025.

844
00:52:55.260 --> 00:52:56.560
And even though there's this hope

845
00:52:56.560 --> 00:52:59.660
of this beautiful future in 26 and what God's doing,

846
00:52:59.660 --> 00:53:04.660
and it's a new season, and it's a new day, I get it.

847
00:53:07.660 --> 00:53:09.580
And yes, there's been some positive things

848
00:53:09.580 --> 00:53:10.660
that have happened in 26,

849
00:53:10.660 --> 00:53:12.820
but it doesn't mean that we're not tired from 25,

850
00:53:12.820 --> 00:53:14.300
but this is what I know.

851
00:53:14.300 --> 00:53:17.580
As God spoke to me when I was begging Him daily

852
00:53:17.580 --> 00:53:18.900
to go into labor, and He said,

853
00:53:18.900 --> 00:53:22.460
Jackie, you will go into labor on your appointed date.

854
00:53:22.460 --> 00:53:24.660
He said, on your due date, you will go into labor.

855
00:53:25.060 --> 00:53:27.340
He said, and I know the pregnancy has been long and hard.

856
00:53:27.340 --> 00:53:30.580
He said, but the labor will be short and easy.

857
00:53:31.660 --> 00:53:34.620
He said, and I am using this as a word

858
00:53:34.620 --> 00:53:36.740
for you to give my people in the coming days.

859
00:53:36.740 --> 00:53:40.900
And you guys, I wasn't giving any people any words back then.

860
00:53:40.900 --> 00:53:42.980
This is 25 years ago, you guys.

861
00:53:42.980 --> 00:53:44.700
I was tore up from the floor up.

862
00:53:48.380 --> 00:53:51.960
He said, this is going to be what is going to be happening

863
00:53:51.960 --> 00:53:54.240
in the days to come in my people's lives.

864
00:53:54.760 --> 00:53:57.280
They are going to be going through a long season

865
00:53:57.280 --> 00:53:59.440
of hardness, that pregnancy.

866
00:53:59.440 --> 00:54:01.440
He's like, but when it shifts,

867
00:54:03.320 --> 00:54:05.600
it's gonna be an Amos 9.13 moment, you guys.

868
00:54:05.600 --> 00:54:08.640
Suddenly, everywhere you look, everywhere you look,

869
00:54:08.640 --> 00:54:10.160
all of the seed that's in the ground

870
00:54:10.160 --> 00:54:12.360
from that hard time of plowing the soil,

871
00:54:12.360 --> 00:54:14.040
of planting, of watering,

872
00:54:14.040 --> 00:54:16.640
all that time of believing and hoping,

873
00:54:16.640 --> 00:54:19.140
all that time of pressing forward.

874
00:54:20.140 --> 00:54:22.660
Even when there was no guarantee of outcome,

875
00:54:23.540 --> 00:54:25.020
it was going to pay off.

876
00:54:25.020 --> 00:54:26.420
There was going to be a blessing

877
00:54:26.420 --> 00:54:28.300
for faithfulness and fruitfulness.

878
00:54:29.940 --> 00:54:31.060
And I believe that we're living

879
00:54:31.060 --> 00:54:32.700
in the days of suddenly, y'all.

880
00:54:32.700 --> 00:54:34.620
I believe we're living in Amos 9.13.

881
00:54:34.620 --> 00:54:39.100
So to put a period on the sentence,

882
00:54:39.100 --> 00:54:41.420
on my appointed day, on the due date

883
00:54:41.420 --> 00:54:42.940
that the doctor gave me,

884
00:54:42.940 --> 00:54:44.980
I went into labor at 10 o'clock at night.

885
00:54:45.180 --> 00:54:47.220
I went into labor at 10 o'clock at night.

886
00:54:49.660 --> 00:54:51.180
My husband didn't think I was in labor

887
00:54:51.180 --> 00:54:52.660
because I wasn't in any pain.

888
00:54:52.660 --> 00:54:53.580
And I called the doctor

889
00:54:53.580 --> 00:54:55.100
and he also didn't think I was in labor,

890
00:54:55.100 --> 00:54:57.180
but I knew I was in labor.

891
00:54:57.180 --> 00:54:58.460
I had never had a baby before,

892
00:54:58.460 --> 00:54:59.780
but I knew I was in labor.

893
00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:07.700
Because God had said, and also I felt a stirring in my body that I had never felt before.

894
00:55:07.700 --> 00:55:11.620
And I told the doctor on the phone, because he told me to just stay, he's just like, well,

895
00:55:11.620 --> 00:55:16.520
you know, if you don't have any contractions and this isn't happening and that's not happening,

896
00:55:16.520 --> 00:55:19.520
you know, then, you know, you need to wait until you have those things.

897
00:55:19.520 --> 00:55:22.680
This is your first child, you know, you could be in labor.

898
00:55:22.680 --> 00:55:26.920
He wasn't arguing that, you know, maybe you are in labor, but you could be in labor for

899
00:55:26.920 --> 00:55:28.220
days.

900
00:55:28.220 --> 00:55:33.220
And I said, are you sure, doctor, because I feel like I need to push.

901
00:55:33.220 --> 00:55:38.660
And he said, oh, get in the car and come to the hospital right now.

902
00:55:38.660 --> 00:55:39.660
And I did, you guys.

903
00:55:39.660 --> 00:55:45.540
And if I hadn't, that baby would have been born in the car.

904
00:55:45.540 --> 00:55:47.260
In the car.

905
00:55:47.260 --> 00:55:52.100
I was in labor for a total of four hours, six if you count the time that I was just

906
00:55:52.100 --> 00:55:56.540
at home sitting around thinking I'm in labor.

907
00:55:56.540 --> 00:56:03.260
When I got to, when I got to the hospital, I was only two centimeters away from pushing.

908
00:56:03.260 --> 00:56:06.540
I'll give you a two, seven centimeters dilated.

909
00:56:06.540 --> 00:56:07.540
Okay.

910
00:56:07.540 --> 00:56:08.540
Hold on.

911
00:56:08.540 --> 00:56:09.540
Hold on.

912
00:56:09.540 --> 00:56:10.540
Hold on.

913
00:56:10.540 --> 00:56:11.540
Is that all right with you?

914
00:56:11.540 --> 00:56:12.540
Hold on, guys.

915
00:56:12.540 --> 00:56:13.540
Yesterday I gave you an ivermectin.

916
00:56:13.540 --> 00:56:15.420
Got to mute our nurse.

917
00:56:15.420 --> 00:56:23.100
Our nurse that's on here, God bless her.

918
00:56:23.100 --> 00:56:27.900
You guys, I believe that that's our word.

919
00:56:27.900 --> 00:56:28.900
So what do we do?

920
00:56:28.900 --> 00:56:29.900
We press.

921
00:56:29.900 --> 00:56:30.900
We don't analyze.

922
00:56:30.900 --> 00:56:31.900
We don't spiral.

923
00:56:31.900 --> 00:56:32.900
We don't retreat.

924
00:56:32.900 --> 00:56:37.660
Just so you know, we're not forcing anything because it's moving out of the way anyway.

925
00:56:37.660 --> 00:56:38.740
This is not real.

926
00:56:38.740 --> 00:56:40.540
You guys, it's just a border bully.

927
00:56:40.540 --> 00:56:43.420
It's not real.

928
00:56:43.420 --> 00:56:46.660
It's meant to slow you, confuse you, exhaust you, but we're not going to stop.

929
00:56:46.660 --> 00:56:48.020
We don't stop at borders, y'all.

930
00:56:48.020 --> 00:56:49.620
We're not stopping here.

931
00:56:49.620 --> 00:56:53.300
God already told us that we could take the land and we're going to.

932
00:56:53.300 --> 00:56:57.100
So I want everyone that can, I want you just to stand up and I want you to take one physical

933
00:56:57.100 --> 00:57:00.860
step forward and I want you to say, I'm pressing through this.

934
00:57:00.860 --> 00:57:04.940
I'm not stopping here.

935
00:57:04.940 --> 00:57:05.940
This is not real.

936
00:57:05.940 --> 00:57:12.900
It's a distraction.

937
00:57:12.900 --> 00:57:16.880
My body remembers this war.

938
00:57:16.880 --> 00:57:22.240
My spirit also remembers this victory.

939
00:57:22.240 --> 00:57:24.680
I am safe.

940
00:57:24.680 --> 00:57:27.880
I am not under attack.

941
00:57:27.880 --> 00:57:32.560
God is with me.

942
00:57:32.560 --> 00:57:36.980
Any crack that's still open, that's allowing this to come through, we seal it in the name

943
00:57:36.980 --> 00:57:38.760
of Jesus.

944
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We will not be stopped at this border.

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We will not be distracted by any of the noise that's around us.

946
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We press through now.

947
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Father, we just thank you for your goodness and your love.

948
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We thank you, Lord, that you are with us and for us and that you've already told us what

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we can have in this time and season that we're in.

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It's not just us individually, it's us corporately as your children in the earth, Lord.

951
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We are in a time of harvest.

952
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What season are we in?

953
00:58:08.060 --> 00:58:09.860
We are in a season of harvest.

954
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We are in a season of the birthing.

955
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We are in a season where the things that we have prayed for, the things that we have hoped

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for, the things that we have overcome for are manifesting in our lives.

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And we will not be distracted.

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We will not be dismayed.

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We will not be delayed anymore, Lord.

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We thank you, God, that we are not going to pay attention to these things, Lord, because

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all it is is noise.

962
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All it is is static in the spirit realm.

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We are going to pay attention more than ever to your voice, to your love, to your will,

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which is for us to prosper, even as our soul prospers.

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And so, Lord, we thank you for this in Jesus' name, amen.

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I love you guys.

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I'll see you soon.