All right, welcome, everyone, to Supernatural Saturday.
I know we have some new people joining us, so welcome.
If you wonder what Supernatural Saturday is all about, it is the one session a week where
we gather together, regardless of what phase you are in in the program, we all come together
on Saturdays to look to the Lord to see what's the current prophetic reality of heaven.
What is God doing?
What's he up to?
In the life of humanity, what's he up to in our lives?
And so this is what we do on Saturdays, and it's always a really good time.
I always learn a lot.
Do you guys always learn a lot?
There's always a lot of things that happen here that are very encouraging, very corrective
in a good way.
God always puts us back on course, so to speak, and so I love that.
In fact, you guys, just recently, I've had several different people say to me, hey, God
just wants you to know that you're on the right track.
God just wants you to know that you're on the right track, and that meant a lot to me.
Several different people, unbeknownst to each other, telling me that God says I'm on the
right track, and I just assumed that had something to do with the railroad.
You know, I'm an etymology girl.
I really like the origin of words.
Words mean a lot to me, and that's why God is very specific when He talks to me, because
He's created me in such a way that I love words, which is interesting, because I had
dyslexia when I was a child.
I feel like I've healed from a lot of it, but when I was little, I had a really hard
time with words and with reading.
I couldn't learn to read the way that children learn to read phonetically, so in first grade,
my teacher told my mom that I was probably mentally retarded, true story, because I could
not phonetically read or understand how to read the way that they were teaching kids
back then in the, let's see, first grade, like early 80s.
My mom got me a tutor.
Our next door neighbor was a retired school teacher, and I started going over her house
after school, and she taught me to sight read, so meaning that she basically utilized
my memory.
You know, children have great memories.
If you don't think they have great memories, just promise them something and then don't
deliver it, and then you will see very well that a child will remember for the next ten
years that you did not take them to get ice cream that day.
They'll actually continue to remind you of it too, just so you know, but she used something
that I had, an asset that I had, which was I had an amazing memory because I'm a child,
and she began to show me flashcards of words and then just tell me what the word was.
This is what the word dog looks like.
This is what the word, you know, hanger looks like.
This is what the word balloon looks like.
She just showed me the words, and eventually what happened was, is I started recognizing
those words, and we'd read these reader books together, and when I didn't recognize a word,
she would just tell me what it is, and eventually I started reading, and I became a voracious
reader, and now to this day, if I come across a word that I have never seen before and no
one has told me what the word is, I still have a really hard time sounding it out, and
that's why I butcher a lot of your names, because I just don't know how to say your
names.
I know, you know, I know letters and I know sounds now because I'm 51 years old, but yeah,
it's still a hard thing.
So bottom line is, is that, you know, things change.
Things happen.
God is with us.
All the thoughts.
All the things.
Okay.
So let's move forward into today's Supernatural Saturday.
I have no idea why I was even telling you that story because I don't remember.
My memory is not as good as it used to be, but we're going to go ahead and head into
the amazing and beautiful word that God has for us.
Oh, right.
On the right track.
So God said, I'm on the right track, and I was like, you know, I think that's about like
being on the railroad and, you know, not being on a track where another train is coming,
but I actually looked up the origin of that saying, and that just, it had to do with hunting.
It had to do with being on the trail of something.
You know what I'm saying?
You know, on the trail of something, like hunting something.
So I thought that was really interesting being on the right track, on the right trail.
And so God is basically saying to us, Hey, you got the scent of what I have for you.
You got the scent.
You got it.
continue to follow the scent, continue to follow the trail,
continue to follow the track
because you're headed the right direction.
You're gonna get the prize kind of thing.
I like that better than the train analogy, right?
Because there's a prize, you're on the right,
you know, you're going the right direction
to find the pot of gold, you know, whatever it is.
You're headed the right direction and I like that.
But you guys, I would be lying if I told you
that the trail hasn't all of a sudden gotten kind of rocky.
Anybody else?
Not that it was ever that smooth, if I'm being honest.
You know, not that it's ever been that smooth.
And you guys, here's the thing that we do
and we should not do.
We look at other people's trails
through their highlight reels, right?
I'm sure that there are people out there
that don't know me.
They don't get on a Supernatural Saturday call with me.
They just look at my Instagram.
They see my smile and pearly whites on there
and they're like, oh, she's got such a good and easy life.
Oh my God, God's so good to her.
Not that he isn't, but like, you know,
they just think that my life's all rainbows and butterflies
and ascending the mountain, mountaintop experiences.
Have you ever seen those goats on the side of the mountain
and they're standing on like a little tiny piece of rock
and you're like, how'd that goat get up there?
What are these goats even doing?
Are they showing off?
Like, what's going on with these goats?
And you're like, how, how in the world
are they scaling this cliff, these goats?
It looks like they're Velcroed to the side of a mountain.
Yeah, I feel like the goat a lot.
You know, and in fact, I have to be honest with you.
Every time someone calls someone the goat,
like the greatest of all time, it's an acronym, G-O-A-T.
Every time anyone, people call me that.
Oh, Jackie, you're the goat.
And I'm like, yep, I'm the goat on the side of the mountain
in the treacherous place trying to climb.
You know, that's what I always think of.
But, you know, we look at other people's lives
and we are tempted to believe that they don't have
the kind of problems that we have.
We're tempted to believe, ladies,
that, you know, they're not having hot flashes
and they're not in menopause.
We have a temptation to believe that,
oh, just because they're married
that their life is all rainbows and butterflies, right?
It's not true.
It's not.
In fact, I have my own theory that the reason
why so many married people are trying
to get all you single people to forget about getting married
is because they're not happily married.
I can, listen, I can promote marriage
and I can promote it from the rooftops.
Get married.
It's amazing.
You're gonna love it.
Is it hard sometimes?
Sure, it's hard.
Any relationship is hard sometimes,
but I love being married and I have a good marriage.
I have a good partnership.
I have a good partner.
And so I, of course, am gonna want this for everybody.
I'm gonna want it for everybody, right?
But people who are not happily married,
people who think that singleness looks better than marriage,
people that have been talking to their divorced friends,
come on now.
People that have been talking
to their divorced friends too long.
Look, I just wanna tell you one thing.
You talk to people that are disgruntled about anything.
Let's take a couple examples here
because this is what we're gonna talk about today.
You're like, Jackie, are you rambling?
No, this is actually the subject for today.
It's about our words.
And we're gonna dive into that really deeply
here in a second.
But let's just take any example.
Let's take your workplace.
You've been working there for 15 years.
Of course, you're taken for granted at some level
because that's every human relationship.
People don't know what they got
until it's gone kind of thing.
But maybe you're having a really bad week.
You have some deadlines.
You feel like you're doing your unfair share of work,
whatever, and you're at the company coffee shop,
the place everyone from the company goes,
and you're sitting there
and another disgruntled worker comes
and sits down next to you.
Let's call her Pam.
If your name's Pam, just,
I took it from the office, the show, The Office.
So it's not you that I'm talking about.
So sitting next to each other,
having a little Americano, latte, whatever it is you drink,
and she starts complaining about work,
commiserating with you.
You start talking about it.
But you know, Pam's getting out.
Pam's getting a new job.
She's getting out of here.
And every time you see her up until,
you know, she's working out her notice,
her two weeks, one month notice or whatever,
you're like, oh, well, that looks,
grass looks greener where Pam is going.
Is it?
No, because she started, first of all,
she's starting over from scratch.
She's gonna be the new kid on the block.
You've already been here for 15 years.
No one thinks about watering their patch of grass.
Everyone just wants to find a greener patch of grass.
And this is what happens.
You know, there are a lot of people,
and I'm gonna tell you this because you need to know this,
and you might be one of these people.
You might be one of these people,
and it's important for you to hear this from my mouth.
There are people that are divorced right now
that did need to get divorced.
They did not need to get divorced.
I'm just gonna say it plainly.
They didn't.
I'm not one of those people,
you guys have known me long enough,
and if you're new here, you're gonna get to know me.
I'm not one of those people
that does not believe in divorce.
I believe that divorce sometimes is inevitable.
I do think that it should be the last resort,
but I do think that it should be a resort.
I think that it should be something
that people are allowed to do.
I think that it's something people shouldn't be shamed for.
I think that God advocates it.
I think that God gave it as a last resort.
He's like, look, if you're gonna have hard hearts,
if you're gonna mistreat each other,
then just get divorced.
Don't stay here.
I don't think that you can heal
in the same environment that's making you sick.
I think that the healing cannot begin
until after those divorce papers come through.
That has been my experience.
I teared in that marriage for 12 years
before I finally said, enough's enough,
I can't do this anymore.
Every year, I tried to get divorced,
and every year, the people around me convinced me
that I needed to pray more and stay longer.
But after 12 years, and a lot of you know
the details of that story,
I was like, no, I gotta get out.
And I did, and I'm so glad I did.
I have not regretted that for one moment.
Was it easy?
No.
Did it solve all the problems that were me?
This is important.
Did it solve all the problems
that actually weren't my former husband, they were me?
No, no.
In fact, you'll know what those problems are
because guess what?
Your former spouse will be gone,
but the problems will still be there
because they're you.
They're you, they're little old you.
And so I had to deal with that stuff,
and I finally got a chance to deal with it
because once again, you can't heal
in the same environment that's making you sick.
And the dynamic between me and my former spouse
was making me very, very sick.
My life was almost lost several times
during that 12-year marriage.
So all that to say this,
there are people divorced right now
that didn't need to get divorced.
They needed to do their hard work.
They need to grow up.
They need to stop being immature and selfish.
They need to stop complaining.
They need to stop hanging out with their single friends
or their divorced friends that were poisoning their mind
about how great it is out here
in these single streets.
How you can find someone to treat you better,
treat you like the queen
that you deserve to be treated like.
Get out of here.
Stop.
Now that's water under the bridge
because those people are already divorced,
but hopefully they have, now that they are divorced,
seen that the company you keep is important
and you friends, listen,
I wasn't gonna do Supernatural Saturday
about the company that we keep,
but it seems Holy Spirit is leading a direction.
So let's go here for a little while.
The company you keep is so important.
You know, they say that you become
like the five closest relationships in your life.
Have you ever heard this?
This is not in my notes for today.
This is not anything that I planned on talking about,
but I really do believe God wants us to hear this.
You have to surround yourself with people
who are aligned with heaven,
not just for their own lives, but for your life as well.
This is why I don't take advice from just anybody.
I don't.
This is gonna sound a little bit maybe arrogant.
It's gonna sound maybe a little unteachable on my part,
but I've learned this the hard way.
I've learned this the hard way.
There's a lot of people that know a lot of things
because they read some books.
They listen to some webinars or some, you know,
some sort of psychology coaching thing.
They read something somewhere, an article.
I don't take advice from people
who haven't had to implement that advice
for their own lives.
Also don't take advice from people
who are not invested in helping me walk out,
not just that advice, but the consequences of that advice.
All advice has consequences.
All change has consequences.
And I don't just mean bad consequences.
It could be good consequences.
But you cannot allow people to speak into your life
that are not going to be invested in the outcome.
Does that make sense?
They gotta be invested in the outcome.
Take your doctor, for example.
If you have a doctor that you're just a number for,
they don't know you.
They don't know you.
They're not invested in your health
and your life and your family.
They don't know the names of your kids.
They don't know you.
You're just a number.
Okay, you're just an appointment on their calendar.
They come in, they spout off
about what they learned in medical school
concerning your test results,
your blood work, your whatever.
And then they spend five seconds talking to you
and then they rush out into another patient's room.
And I understand that doctors are overworked
and I understand that they have quotas.
Did you guys know that doctors have quotas?
They're not supposed to spend a lot of time
with each patient in some of these,
I called it something with my husband,
but he was just like, gosh, what did I call it?
One of those places where, not a chop shop.
Chop shop keeps coming to mind,
but that is not what I said.
It was just a kind of place
where they just turn and burn you.
They're just in the room and then they're out.
Don't have a doctor like that.
You might have to search for a little while,
but you need to find someone who's invested in your story,
your health profile, your life.
Cattle call is what I called it.
I felt like some of these places,
when we first moved to Austin,
I was looking for just a primary care doctor,
someone to get your annual test done with.
And I felt like it was a cattle call.
And I didn't like it.
So now I work with a tiny little nurse practitioner,
tiny little office, little practice,
nurse practitioner, functional health doctor.
She's invested in me.
She knows me.
She knows my son just got married.
Her sister just passed away.
My husband just had a telehealth call
just to check in with her yesterday.
And I said, oh, I'm so sorry.
I was in the car when he was on the phone with her.
And I just said, I'm so sorry to hear about your sister.
So we've been praying for you.
She said, oh, thank you so much.
That's so kind.
This is the kind of relationship
that I wanna have with my doctor.
Yes?
Friends, who are you surrounding yourself with?
This is not even the topic
of today's Supernatural Saturday,
but Holy Spirit wants to ask you,
who are you surrounding yourself with?
Remember when we were kids
and someone in your life,
maybe it was a parent, maybe it's a teacher.
I don't wanna say a parent
because some of you raised by wolves, okay?
Parents didn't care where you were or what you were doing.
I've experienced that.
So I know that to be true.
But some adult in your life said,
you shouldn't be hanging around with those kids
or watch who you hang around with
and be careful who you hang around with.
Raise your hand if someone has ever said that to you
growing up.
Get those hands up.
The company you keep.
Birds of a feather flock together.
Come on, have we ever heard any of this stuff?
Has anyone ever been told
that someone was being a bad influence on you?
Anybody else?
Guys, we're influenced.
We are, and this is important for you to understand,
we're influenced overtly,
which means you know that you're being influenced
and we are also influenced covertly
by the company that we keep.
I will tell you,
when my pastor went to prison
and I got away from that small church
that I had been at for 12 years,
the same church that was trying to convince me
to stay in an abusive marriage every year for 12 years,
when I got away from that, I love those people.
I love them, they were my family,
but when I got away from it,
and I got away from it because the church fell apart
because the pastor went to prison,
when I got away from it,
I started to realize how much of my thinking
was being influenced by those people,
by that church, by that community.
I started to realize how religious I had become.
I actually started to realize,
you guys, this is 20 plus years ago,
I started to realize, you guys, this is 20 plus years ago,
how judgmental towards people who weren't like us,
who didn't live life the way that we did,
I had become.
You can't see it while you're on the inside.
You get what I'm saying?
saying. You don't see how you're being influenced until there's distance, until there's time
and space that brings clarity. So it's better before you get into a friendship, before you
get into a community, for you to really ask yourself, I know we all want to belong, we
all want friends, we all want community, and nothing's perfect. Look, I'm not asking you
to look for anything perfect here. Nothing's perfect. But you need to ask yourself, hey,
is this group of people really aligned with who I want to become? Do they have marriages
that I admire? Do I want to be like these folks? You know, I always say that relationships
come in the form of reasons and seasons and treasons, if you guys have never heard me
say that. I'm saying it now for your benefit. So what it means is that you get into relationship
and I'm talking, I'm not talking about, obviously not talking about romantic relationship, but
you can't apply it. I'm talking about friendships. I'm talking about your inner circle. I'm talking
about the people that you might take advice from, the people that you do life with. Those
people come into your life for reasons sometimes. For instance, you could be traveling and you
met someone while you were traveling. The reason was you were traveling. That's why
you met this person. They can come into your life for seasons. Maybe you became friends
with your children's friends' parents during, you know, baseball season. Your child traveled
to play baseball and you became friends with the other parents. Your child's grown up now.
They don't play baseball anymore. Do you see those people anymore? Probably not. Those
were seasonal friends for that season of your life. Maybe for a season of your life, you
were a missionary and you made friends in that place where you were a missionary, that
were other missionaries, whatever. It doesn't matter. And then there's, of course, the treason
friends, and those are the friends that they come into your life to teach you a lesson.
They come into your life for you to learn something. Because of Romans 8, 28, God works
all things to our good. Some of us have been betrayed by people. There's even been people
in this community that their best friend ran off with their spouse. Yes, friends, that
has happened here. I mean, it hasn't happened here, but it's happened in the lives of people
that are here. Betrayed you, lied to you, lied about you, whatever. And we're like,
man, I wish I would've saw that coming. Well, you probably did at some level see it coming,
but what happens is that we make a lot of excuses for the people that we love. We ignore
a lot of things. And also what happens is there's grace that we're giving that we probably
shouldn't be giving, but we do give it and it's not wasted because once again, we learn
a lot through those relationships, don't we? When we heal from those relationships, we
learn a lot and hopefully you became better and not bitter.
Right. So that was just an add on from Holy Spirit today about really taking a close look
at your close relationships. If you're in my book club, then you're doing something
called relationship advisory circle and you need to make sure that the people that are
closest to you, you know, I've always noticed that people, especially when they get older,
they have a lot of frenemies in their lives. And let me tell you what I mean by that. Some
of the closest people to them are also people who speak so negatively about them. They're
always telling you what's wrong with you. They're never building you up. They're, you
know, either jealous or, um, they just don't want you to win. They're threatened by you
in some way. They don't want you to win. They don't clap when you win. They don't celebrate
you. I mean, why would you, why would your inner circle have people like this in it?
I want you to ask yourself that question. I don't care if they're a family member. I
don't care if it's your sister or a cousin that you grew up with. It's like a sister
or brother to you. I don't care if it's your mother or father. Yeah. You can be in a relationship
with these people because they're your family. Um, but with good boundaries, you don't have
to let them be in your inner circle. You don't have to let them speak into your life. You
don't have to let them degrade you and you know, tell you all the time what's wrong with
you. This is why you're single. Anyone else ever had someone in your life that supposedly
is supposed to be a friend or a family member who's supposed to be close to you, tell you
that you're single because of, and then they just fill the blank with all kinds of crap
that's wrong with you.
And it's supposed to sound like it's helpful, but it actually is just, um,
just degrading you. Anybody else ever experienced that?
Okay, so my next question is for all the people that are putting their thumbs up and their hands
up. Why? Why are you allowing this to continue? Why? Oh, because Jackie, if I say something,
they're going to be offended. Well, they're offending you. They're going to continue to
do that until you put them in their place and just let them know. You don't got to be mean about it.
You just got to be like, oh, hey, listen, I don't need your advice.
I didn't ask.
I didn't ask for that.
Friends, you need to be surrounded by people who see the best in you and pull it out.
They see who you could be, and they pull that out by celebrating you, by encouraging you,
by promoting you, by clapping when you win.
Right? Some of these people that are doing this to you, they're not even malicious or evil people.
They're just people who are negative. They're already negative. They're negative people.
And they're people who probably think that they're doing it because they're concerned
about you and they want to help you. But guess what? You don't need that kind of help.
That's like drowning. And instead of someone throwing you a rope, they send you,
they throw you a cement block. Here, I'm helping you. No, you're drowning me. I'm good.
So friends, if you're going to make new friends, which I hope that you will.
And by the way, for all of you that missed the book club, I have decided to do it again. So
after this five weeks is over, we're going to recycle back. And not even after the five weeks
is over, not tomorrow, or I'm sorry, I don't even know what day it is. My grandbaby's just
left. And you guys, if you have never been loved and also terrorized by twin three and a half
year olds, then you're missing out. Because they loved me and terrorized me for an entire two
weeks. And I was glad they were here. But when I tell you I've never experienced this type of
tired, there's a reason why older people can't have children, I think. And this is probably the
reason. Lord help me. But I will recover. But not this Monday, but next Monday, whatever that date
is, someone put it up in the calendar. What's not? A week from this Monday, the new book club will
start on Mondays. So if Mondays is a good day for you, and you want to do a book club with me,
and you're sad that you missed out, and you're been like kicking yourself because you didn't get
in the registration in time, you're in luck, because we're going to do another one by popular
demand. There are a lot of people that wanted to do it and just missed, they missed out on the timing
of it. Okay. All right. So you will see that either in your email, or we'll post it in the
group or something will happen. Anyway, I'm really encouraging people to build the circle around them
in the book club. And if you don't have a circle, a lot of people don't have a circle. You're like,
Jackie, you know, I know what you're saying is helpful, but I don't even have any friends. I don't
even have any close friends. I'm doing life all alone out here. Okay. Well, God wants to take the
solitary and put you in family, put you in community, put you in friendship. But in order
for you to choose correctly, you need to really ask yourself, do I, do I want,
what do I want in a friend? What do I need in a friend? What, who am I in a friendship? What,
what do people need and want from me? And remember, it needs to be reciprocal.
It can't just be what people need from you. It also has to be what you need from them. It has to be
that that's what defines a friendship. Y'all. A lot of you have people that they, that you do
things for all the time that also do not do things for you. That's not a friendship.
Friendship has to be back and forth, giving and receiving. You understand that, right?
You're like, well, then what are those other people? Takers. That's what they are. They're
not friends. You're a giver and they're a taker and givers do attract takers just so you know,
so you got to be careful with that. I have a friend right now and they call me a friend.
And I call them a friend because I don't know what else to call them.
But I only hear from them when they want something from me. Anybody else?
That's it. In fact, when I see their number pop up on my phone because they're calling me,
I know they want something from me. Now they'll shoot the breeze for a few minutes before the ask.
And we have, you know, it's a funny friendship, you know, funny, a funny connection. So we'll
laugh a little, we'll, we'll joke a little and stuff. And then, you know, we'll, we'll have fun.
comes the ask.
Mm-hmm.
Right?
And when I ask for something from them, they say they'll do it, but you know what they
do?
They don't ever do it.
See that?
All right.
So the bottom line is, is that you want reciprocal relationships.
you and I want to help you to, you know, make a little list of what it is that you need.
And for those of you that are like, oh, I saw someone say, my dad says I'm too picky
when it comes to, you know, a romantic relationship, let me just say this.
It's important to have non-negotiables.
It's important to understand that your preferences are exactly that, their preferences.
It's important to be realistic and not be in some fantasy world about your future love
life.
But then I want to say this.
I'm going to add this to it.
It's equally important for you to understand that you are picking someone that you are
going to spend the rest of your life with.
And so you need to choose accordingly.
Okay?
All of that being said, you really have to be more than mildly interested in this person.
You have to have more than just tolerance for this person.
Otherwise, stay single and have an amazing life.
Seriously, have an amazing life.
Amazing friendships, travel, see the world, work on your career, become everything that
God created you to be.
You definitely are not just going to pick someone just to have, ladies, a penis and
a pulse.
And gentlemen, to have whatever it is that you're looking for.
I could say a lot of things here and I'm not going to.
Why?
Because I've matured.
Anyway, I want to talk about what we've been talking about, what our words have been saying.
Last night, you guys, I don't know if you guys live in Texas, if any of you live in
Texas, but we were having torrential rains this year.
I've never seen it rain this much in Austin, Texas, in the whole eight years that I've
lived here.
We've had two months of solid rain and heavy rain and crazy rain, sideways rain, flood
alerts, crazy stuff happening here.
And last night, because you know it doesn't rain a lot here, it doesn't rain a lot at
all.
We have maybe a couple of weeks of rain every year and then a lot of dryness to the point
of everything turning brown because there's not been any rain.
And the reason why I'm saying this is because not only is it unusual, but you guys, I bought
this house four years ago.
This is my first house.
For those of you that are just joining the story, I have never owned a house my entire
life.
I was a foster kid.
I lived in 36 different houses before I finally owned my own house, which is here.
But I don't think this house has ever experienced this type of rain because it doesn't rain
like this in Austin, Texas.
I've lived here for eight years and I can attest to the fact that it does not rain like
this.
And guess what happened when it started raining like this?
My house started springing leaks.
You think your roof is good if you never have rain.
And last night, friends, my house started leaking everywhere.
I felt like I was in a cartoon.
Have you ever seen those cartoons where they're trying to hold something together and it springs
a leak here and they're trying to cover that leak and then it springs another leak?
My windows were leaking.
There was water coming in through the window panes.
My windows were leaking.
My ceiling was leaking.
Right now I'm sitting in my living room and I'm looking at all the buckets everywhere
and I'm looking at the cracks in the sheetrock on the ceiling and the paint chipping and
I'm looking to see all the towels everywhere.
All right.
So that started happening and guess what?
That started happening and my mind started saying, oh, great.
I found myself saying last night, I'm sick and tired of this.
And then I realized that I just said about myself that I'm sick and I'm tired.
And Holy Spirit was like, are you sick and tired?
And I was like, oh, man, I don't want that.
So what I felt like I really wanted to hit home with us today and we're going to do an
activation here in a second is we need to take some inventory of what we've been saying,
what's been going on in our hearts, because out of the abundance of the heart, the mind
mouth speaks, and we've covered this several times on Supernatural Saturday, but I really
think that we need to revisit it just for a second.
Because I found myself, I've been in kind of a hard season.
You guys, I told you on a Supernatural Saturday just recently that I felt like it's just been
one thing after another.
Anybody else?
And I don't mean good things.
I don't mean things to write home about.
I don't mean things to post on your Facebook page, praise report.
I mean things that I'm not looking to have happen, and I'm not interested in having happen,
and I don't want to have happen, okay?
So I wrote down a few things that we say without realizing that we're saying it.
And then when we realize that we're saying that, friends, it's not just a fun little
saying.
We have to dig in deeper.
Where does that come from?
Who taught me to say that?
When did I start saying that?
Why am I saying it now?
And one of those things is like, I'm sick and tired, all right?
So yes, that's a phrase, and it's a phrase that people say.
Maybe we need to stop, you know, we need to stop being sick and tired of being sick and
tired and figure out why we're sick and tired, amen?
So here are a few of the things.
I'm sick and tired of this.
I'm sick and tired.
Nothing ever works out for me, put in the chat.
My luck is terrible.
Of course, of course, this would happen to me.
Well, you know, it's Murphy's Law, everything that can go wrong will go wrong.
I'm just a mess.
I'm losing my mind.
Anyone else say, I'm going crazy.
I'm losing my mind.
Well, I'll probably always be alone.
It's always something.
I can't do this anymore.
Come on, put in the chat what yours is.
What are the things that you find yourself saying over yourself habitually?
Don't be putting any nice, sweet thing in here right now, Gwen.
We all know that we got some stinking thinking that's coming out of our mouths.
I want to see it.
Yours might be someone else's and it might help them to have the courage to post theirs.
Come on.
I'm so over this.
So tired of this.
Tired of being alone.
Why do I even try?
Anyone else be like, I give up.
I give up.
I can't do this anymore.
I give up.
I'm done.
Oh, that's a good one.
There's no point.
This is pointless.
There's no point.
And that's just about your love life, just in general, y'all, just in general.
And friends, this is not some religious talk we're having this morning about how you can
never have a bad day and how you can never say anything negative.
Nothing negative can ever come out of your mouth.
But we got to nip in the bud the habitual complaining if you have that.
Now we don't all have that.
But if you are a habitual complainer, if you are habitually negative.
My little child was like this.
My youngest daughter used to come home from elementary school looking like someone kicked
her around all day.
Sad little face, little grouchy, grumpy face.
She just hated school.
Anyone else hate school?
She just hated school.
She came home and I'd be like, oh, baby, what's wrong?
And then Holy Spirit checked me one day, said, stop asking her what's wrong, because she
would give me a huge laundry list of what was wrong when I would ask her that.
And you know, it's one of those complain and remain, complain and remain.
If you want to change your life, you got to stop complaining about it or you're going
to remain there.
And so Holy Spirit was like, ask her today when she gets home, ask her what's right in
her life.
Like, what went right today?
And man, that threw that little girl for a loop.
When she got home, I was like, oh, baby, what's right today?
Like, what good thing happened today?
And she didn't know what to do with that.
She didn't have anything to say right away, I'll tell you that, because she's used to
just complaining.
She's used to just, you know, bellyaching and telling me all the bad things and blah.
Blah blah blah and how she hates school this child I would have to threaten her in the morning when she left for school
Threaten her that I better not get a call from the nurse's office
That she was sick and had to come home
She was in the nurse's office at least three times a week trying to come home from school y'all this child
And you're like was she being bullied no
She had a great packed lunch she wasn't being bullied in fact she was pretty popular in school
She just didn't like school. She didn't want to be there, and I eventually let her homeschool in high school
I eventually let her stay home and just do school online, but I
Just had a battle with kid
But eventually she found something to be glad about and we used to do something in this community called playing the glad game
I'm not gonna do that today, but I really want you to take an inventory of your words
Because remember friends
A
Agreement is the spiritual principle of
Manifestation and all these new ages are out here manifest in okay
They're out here talking about manifestation, but manifestation actually belongs to the children of God. Are you listening?
Manifestation belongs to us. Do you believe me I?
Give you lots of scripture for it. You're like, but Jackie. It's not saying manifestation. Yeah, but it's the concept
Death and life are in the power of the tongue and they that love it will eat the fruit of it. What is the fruit manifestation?
What is that what about Ephesians 320
What's that say
To him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all we can ask think or imagine by what the power that works in you
What's the power the power is your words?
The power is Holy Spirit in you in your words
If you speak to this mountain and say be removed I
Just want to tell you guys yes people use that as the faith scripture because it's about the faith the grain of a mustard seed
But it is saying using your voice, isn't it?
You
Have you not been created in the image of your father let's make them in our image Genesis
First five scriptures of the Bible
What is the image of God? He spoke everything to into existence except for us
he made us with his hands, but he did breathe his breath into us, but
speaking and
Manifesting belongs to us. Are you convinced yet?
You
You know who cannot create the kingdom of darkness the kingdom of darkness cannot create
That's why he hates the children of light. He hates the children of the father because we can create we've been created in the image of
God
Only God creates
So the enemy is constantly doing what he's looking for your agreement
He's looking for you to use your creation power for him
Do you hear me?
He wants you to use your power to create
To create a reality it wants you to live in because you're the only one that can create not him
He can influence you
And I don't just mean him I mean the opposing forces working through people working through situations and circumstances all of it
You see this through scripture
The battle is about power the power of words because the battle is over agreement
Who will you agree with the voice of fear the voice of lack the voice of scarcity or the voice of faith?
The voice of circumstances when they're not going your way or the voice of God
Every day friends. We're coming into agreement with things with our words
And a lot of these agreements we don't even realize we're making them and I'm talking to myself
Every time you say things like I'm never going to get ahead. I'm never going to get married
This is never gonna happen for me. I'm never gonna make enough money. I
Might as well just give up you're agreeing with hopelessness
Every time you say nothing good happens to me. You're agreeing with disappointment
Every time we say that things are never gonna change we're agreeing with defeat
You
We're agreeing with defeat look if you're going through a hard season get around people who are gonna lift you up and
They're going to speak life over you.
Like here, that's why you should come to Supernatural Saturday.
Let's look at the Israelites for a second.
I think that we can learn so many fascinating things from the old
Testament, just so you know, I don't live my life in the old Testament.
Neither should you.
Not everything that's written there is for you and about you, just so you know.
But it's some good examples of just humanity and human nature and
what we can learn from that.
We live in a new dispensation.
We live in the dispensation of grace.
So stop applying old Testament rules to your new Testament life, please.
Please stop that.
The law kills, but the spirit gives life.
Jesus fulfilled the teaching of the prophets.
He didn't come to do away with it.
He came to fulfill it and it's been fulfilled.
He didn't decide for you.
He died as you on the cross.
You don't have to sacrifice yourself in goats anymore.
God's not for a pound of flesh from you and he's not looking for you to bleed out.
Jesus did that for you already.
It's now for you to live in the freedom that he bought for you.
Anyway, the Israelites, they teach us something fascinating, don't they?
They teach us what it looks like to come out of crazy bondage, slavery, abuse,
something that was killing them and come into a place of freedom.
And because that place of freedom didn't look like what they expected or it was,
you know, unfamiliar to them, they started complaining.
They would complain that they didn't have a place of freedom, that they
were complaining.
They would rather be back in prison in something familiar than being free in
something unfamiliar.
It's about control, isn't it?
Even though they were out of control in Egypt, someone else was in control of
them.
They at least knew what life looked like every day and they preferred that over
the open ended promises of God.
Except for a couple of them, they were all in the same desert.
They all saw the same giants that were blocking them from the promised land, or
at least they thought they were the same obstacles.
But there was a different agreement that happened.
And these in this other group of people, Joshua, Caleb, whoever was with them, one
group agreed with fear and the other one agreed with God.
Right.
We can do this.
Do you remember what Joshua and Caleb said?
We can do this.
God said we could do it.
So we can.
What would happen if we just started saying that God said I could be married so
I can.
Yeah, I know it's not looking good out here, but God said I could.
God said I could have it.
God said that I could prosper even as my soul prospers.
I know the bank accounts looking really low right now, but God said that I'm the
head and not the tail.
He said that I'm the lender and not the borrower.
We could do this.
Because I don't know if you notice this or not, but I have kind of noticed this
complaining doesn't actually change your circumstances, does it?
It might feel good for a second.
For a second, it might feel good to just get negative and just cry and feel sorry
for yourself.
But when you're done, you're in the same exact place, aren't you?
Complain and remain.
You're just right there.
And there's something else that's happening that you don't realize is
happening.
If you do this enough, you're not even able to see the opportunity in front of
you because negativity now has trained your eyes to look for evidence that
things aren't going to work out.
It's your default.
I write about this in Married in 12 Months or Less and the woman that I ran
into in the bathroom that was in the line that wanted to see Bill Johnson at the
conference and she got put in the overflow room and she was literally having a
meltdown in the bathroom because this always happens to her.
For instance, I just want to tell you something.
If something always happens to you, there's a root.
And we got to get to the root of it because God has not created you for lack
and loss.
If we always are complaining, if we're always looking for evidence that things
aren't going to work out, we start filtering everything through
disappointment.
David had a different habit and I've always loved this about David.
David had some really crazy things happen to him.
He gets attacked when he's tending the flock by all these wild animals.
He doesn't ask to be anointed as king, but he gets anointed as king, and as soon as he
gets anointed as king, people start coming for him in a bad way, hunting him down, trying
to kill him.
He's like, I didn't sign up for this.
But David did something that a lot of us need to learn to do.
When he started commiserating, he interrupted himself.
Read the Psalms.
He'll start describing a problem that he's having, and there's nothing wrong with that,
friends.
You can pray.
You can be honest with God about how you're feeling about things, but he refused to end
it there.
He started talking to himself.
He started saying things like, hey, soul, why are you cast down?
Why are you depressed?
Hope in the Lord.
This ain't the end.
Soul, why are we doing this?
Why are we spiraling?
Why are we partnering with fear?
When David does something else, he starts rehearsing God's faithfulness, not because
he feels like it, but because he needs it.
He needs to remind himself that God is good and that God always comes through.
So he always says in his Psalms, I will remember, I will meditate, I will recall, I will declare.
Have you ever noticed that about David?
He's like, God is faithful, and I need to remind my soul that God is faithful.
Where does my help come from?
Does it come from the hills, which is a typology of human strength?
No, it comes from the Lord, the maker of the hills.
The maker of the kingdom of heaven, remember?
Do you remember?
That's what he's asking himself.
Do you remember, David?
God has failed you zero times.
Let me remind you, friends, of the Scripture in the Bible.
Many are the adversities of the unrighteous.
Many are the adversities of the righteous.
But God delivers them out of everyone.
It's okay to be frustrated.
It's okay to be overwhelmed.
It's okay to have want something to have happened yesterday that has not happened yet.
But I will tell you, one of your sisters just recently got married.
I was at her wedding because it was here in Texas, and she asked me to make a toast, make
a speech.
And in the speech, I reminded her of all the failed dates that she had gone on.
She was in her 50s when she got married.
I just want to let you guys know, in her later 50s, I think she's past 55, she's 56 or something,
57.
And one day I got a DM from her, someone she was really excited about, just told her that
he wasn't interested in another date.
And I started to encourage her, and she said, okay, it's okay, Jackie, I don't need encouragement.
Because something shifted in her.
She didn't need me to, she didn't need encouragement from an outside source anymore, because something
had happened on the inside of her.
And she said, thanks, Jackie, for the kind words.
She said, but I just want to let you know that I already had a talk with God today,
and I let him know I'm ready.
He can go ahead and send my husband.
And the very next person she dated was Clayton.
He sent me a picture of their first date.
The very next thing in my DMs with her is a picture of their first date, because she's
been a private client, like a coaching client of mine.
She sends me the picture of that.
And I looked at that picture of them, they looked like they have known each other all
their lives.
And I was like, that's it, he's the one.
And he was.
And now they're happily married, as I think they've been married for a little over a month
now.
She knew she was ready.
We say we're ready, but there's a time when it shifts.
And you know how I knew she was ready?
She wasn't down in the mully grubs over this failed situation.
She didn't care.
She knew that she had a husband.
She knew that she had a partner.
Because the issue isn't with our words, you guys, it's with our hearts.
God said to us, out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.
The mouth is the reporter.
Just so you know, it's just reporting what your heart already believes.
And so if it's negative words that keep coming out, we can't just police our language.
We have to heal our hearts.
All right?
We have to heal our hearts.
So I want you as homework to write down all the negative statements that you say regularly.
And I want you to get to the root belief.
And then I want you to write down right under it, what does God say instead?
Remember I tell you, we can't erase, we have to replace.
It's not just enough to try to stop being negative and start being positive, you got
to get to the root of where the negativity is coming from, where the lie is, where the
unbelief is.
So write down the truth and then write down, I agree with God, that blank, whatever it
is, complete the sentence.
Do you understand the assignment?
This is what you're going to bring tomorrow to activation if you go to Sunday night activation.
Write down the things that you say, write down the root of where those things are coming
from, the hurt, the pain, the unbelief, the lie, and then write down truth and then write
down a simple declaration, I agree with God, that blank.
We have to stop rehearsing our disappointment, you guys, I'm talking to myself.
Rehearsing our fears, rehearsing our offenses, rehearsing our lack, that's a terrible play.
Stop rehearsing those lines.
We don't ever want to be in that play ever again.
Stop memorizing those lines, it's time to change the conversation and not because we're
pretending, you guys, not positive mental attitude, not the, you know, eternal sunshine
of the spotless mind.
I'm not talking about that.
Not denying reality, but because we're choosing faith, we're choosing God's reality over present
circumstances.
It's all about perspective, you guys.
And I believe that if we are willing to let God help us change our perspective right now,
we'll start to see like Joshua and Caleb did, we'll start to see the opportunity instead
of the obstacle.
We'll start to see the provision instead of the problem.
We'll start to see the solution.
We'll start to see God's fingerprints that were there all along.
Do you believe that?
I believe it.
Carrie says, how do we get to the root?
Will you write down that, the statements or you write down, you know, what you say when
you're overwhelmed, when you're frustrated, write it down.
And then you ask yourself, what is this saying?
What am I saying when I'm saying this?
I'm sick and tired.
Okay.
I'm sick of what?
And then you go a little deeper.
I'm sick of being disappointed.
I'm sick of nothing ever working out for me.
And then you write down, what am I disappointed about?
What hasn't worked out for me?
Then you ask yourself, well, what do I believe about this?
Do I believe that God's promised me this or do I believe that this only happens to, I've
had so many people say to me, yeah, Jackie, that kind of love is only for lucky people.
I've been posting on my Instagram.
If you don't follow me on Instagram, follow me on Instagram.
I've been posting things like, you know, encouraging things and people in the comments,
some of these posts have gotten like a million views.
And in the comments, people tell me the state of their heart because they'll say things
like, yeah, that's beautiful and that's wonderful, but that's not going to happen to everybody.
Stop telling people that's going to happen to everybody or stop telling people that they
can have that.
Not everyone can have that.
But if you believe something like that, it comes from somewhere.
There's a root to it.
There's a lie that was believed somewhere along the line and you got to get down to
it.
You got to find it.
When's the first time I started believing that?
When's the first time I started saying this?
When's the first time I heard this?
And then you need to replace it with truth.
Nothing is impossible with God.
That's the truth.
And here's some more truth.
If it's happened to somebody, then it can happen.
Nothing is impossible with God.
But guess what?
It's not impossible.
Why?
Because it's already happened.
It's already happened to a bunch of people, which means it's not only not impossible,
it's probable.
And if it can happen for them, why can't it happen for you?
It's going to happen for somebody.
Why can't that somebody be you?
And that's where you get down to the real lie of what you think about yourself.
Because if it's going to happen for somebody, but you don't believe that somebody can be
you, then you need to ask yourself why, why not?
Why not?
Why can't it be you?
And I'm not just talking about getting married.
I'm talking about being healthy.
I'm talking about being provided for.
I'm talking about being reconciled.
Please reconcile every day for those of you that, you know, have all kinds of relationships.
problems with your family, with your kids, with this or that, people get healing in
their relationships all the time. People reconcile all the time. Axes are buried
all the time. Why can't yours be? People get forgiven by others all the time.
There's so many things. All right, Father God, we just thank you for this time
together. We know this is an important subject, Lord, and so arrest our attention
Holy Spirit, help us to focus on this, not just let it just roll off our back.
Don't let us just be doers of the word. Let us be not just hearers of the word,
but doers of the word. Let us do the work right now, do the hard work with you,
really press into this so that we can have freedom because you have designed us,
you have created us to live powerfully, to manifest good things, to come into
agreement with the good things that you've already manifested for us.
Let it be done on earth as it already is in heaven. In Jesus' name, amen.
Love y'all. See you soon.