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Welcome to Supernatural Saturday.

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I'm so glad that you joined us today.

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And this is the time of the week where we all gather, regardless of whether you're in

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phase one, two, three, whether you're in some other type of program with us.

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This is where we all gather together on Saturdays to look to the Lord.

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What are we looking to the Lord for?

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We're wanting to know what's going on in that other dimension that we call heaven.

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I know a lot of people think heaven is just up and it is beautiful up there.

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Look up there and see the clouds.

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And you know, when I was a kid, I always thought heaven was the cloud world, right?

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I wasn't particularly religious.

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I wasn't being raised in faith.

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And I looked up and I knew I'd heard of heaven, obviously.

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And you look up and you see the clouds, especially on a beautiful blue sky day with just some

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white fluffers.

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And you're like, oh, hey, yes, that's heaven.

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Heaven's up there.

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And, you know, sitting on a cloud all day for eternity did not sound like a good time

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to me.

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So I wasn't particularly trying to go to heaven because it sounded kind of boring.

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But now we know, because we're older and we're people of faith, that heaven isn't up.

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It's actually all around.

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It's all around you.

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Heaven is in a dimension that's just out of sight for a lot of people.

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I do know people who get little glimpses into that other realm, into that other dimension.

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I myself have taken a sneak peek every so often it happens, whether it's in a dream,

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whether it's in a vision.

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You know, the Bible says that we will have dreams and we will see visions.

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I'm just following Holy Spirit right now because this is not what Supernatural Saturday is

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going to be about today.

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But I do think that God wants us to be more aware of the supernatural.

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I think that we dumb ourselves down.

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We live so much of our life in our fleshly bodies.

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I mean, obviously we're in our bodies, but we live so much of our life after our flesh.

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Let's talk about that concept for a second.

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The Bible says that life in the spirit is peace, right?

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If you live your life after the spirit, that's where you're going to find peace.

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That's shalom peace, that peace that devours chaos.

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But when we live our life just carnally in the natural, and there are some things that

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you're going to do carnally in the natural every single day.

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I know people that try to be in the spirit all day long, and there's some weirdos, okay?

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Gotta bless them, love them.

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Being around them is really hard though, because they over-spiritualize everything, everything,

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you know?

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It's like, they're like, oh, and I'm like, nah, I don't think that was anything spiritual

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from my friend.

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He's like, look at that bird.

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I'm like, yep, it's a bird.

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It's a bird.

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I do have a funny story about a bird though.

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You guys, this is a supernatural story, thank you, Holy Spirit.

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So we live in a country, we live on a long winding road that just leads to the concrete

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jungle.

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There's a city one mile away, but it feels like you're in the country out here, and it

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is a long winding country road that leads to our house.

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And sometimes that road takes forever, because it's so windy, and you feel like you're never

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gonna make it up to the main street to get to the city.

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And on that long and windy road, David and I are driving, just a few days ago, there's

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a cardinal.

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There's, you guys, we have lots of cardinals out here in Austin, Texas, lots of cardinals

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by where we live.

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And there's a cardinal, and he's just sitting, just as pretty as you please, in the middle

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of the road, just sitting there.

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And as we get closer, and my husband's big F-150, it doesn't move, and I'm like, oh no,

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oh no.

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And so David will attest to you that every time we are together on this long winding

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country road, this road's longer than a mile that goes to our house, I always say to him,

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please be careful, please drive slower, please do not run over any teenage squirrels, please.

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These teenagers are out in the road, they're playing in the road, you know, do not run

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over anything, because I just cannot live, I will pass away if we hit an animal, okay?

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You can't do it.

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And so this red cardinal is just sitting in the road.

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So David, he, you know, he puts his wheels of the truck, like, on either side of it,

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and just, he runs over it, but, you know, it's in the middle of the wheel bed.

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So it doesn't, I look back in the rear view, and it's still just sitting there.

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And I'm like, what the heck?

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I was like, that bird must not be alive.

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So we go home, we were going home to get something, we're leaving again, we come back by maybe

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30 minutes later, it's still there.

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And no one else has squished it either.

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And so I'm like, oh, and then I just prayed this prayer, you guys, because I cannot handle

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smushed animals.

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I'm like, Lord, when we get back, please let that bird be gone.

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Please do not.

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let it be a pancake on the road.

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I don't know what's wrong with it.

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Maybe it's already dead.

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Maybe it's, you know, turned to stone.

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I don't know what's going on with it.

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So I pray this prayer.

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When we come back on the road later on,

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couple hours later, it's gone.

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But you guys, I heard the other part of the story yesterday

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from my niece.

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My niece lives here now.

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You know, we have a couple rentals on our property

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and they're all rented out by sweet, young Christian girls.

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One of them happens to be my niece.

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So my niece is with us last night

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and I don't know how it comes up,

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but somehow this bird in the road comes up.

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She says, oh yeah, there was a red bird in the road.

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And I was like, yeah.

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I was like, did you see that?

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She goes, no, but Laura, this other girl that runs for me,

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she said, Laura told me a story about this bird.

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And I was just like, what story did she tell you?

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She said, she said she was driving down our road

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and she saw this red bird in the road

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and she didn't know what was wrong with it.

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So she got out of her car and she said,

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she pled the blood of Jesus over it

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and commanded it to be healed in Jesus' name

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and it flew away.

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You guys, in between my prayer of God,

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don't let that bird get squished.

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Please God, when we get back here, let that bird be gone.

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Laura comes, she comes down the road,

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she sees the bird, she gets out,

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she takes it one step further

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and she prays for the bird in Jesus' name

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and the bird flies away.

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Guys, this is a true story.

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You can't make this stuff up.

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How much is happening in the spirit realm all around us

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and we really don't even know about it?

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I would have never found out about that.

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All I knew was the bird was gone.

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For all I knew, it really was dead

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and a hawk just swooped down and got it

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and just ate it and took it off

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because there's so many hawks out here.

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But no, God let me find out the rest of the story.

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And so I just declaring that over us this morning,

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this is not where I intended to go on Supernatural Saturday

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but that's what makes Saturday supernatural.

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I want God to help all of you see the rest of the story.

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What's the rest of the story?

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What is it?

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What is the rest of the story?

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I want him to open your eyes

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like that story in the Bible of the prophet

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who was surrounded by the enemy.

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You guys, the enemy had surrounded the prophet

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because they were coming after him.

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You know that, right?

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The enemy had surrounded the city

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because they were coming after the prophet.

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Have you read this story?

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The king had sent his armies to surround the city

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to get the prophet and the prophet sends his servant.

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No, the prophet asks for God to open the eyes of his servant

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because his servant is scared.

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Dude is weak in the knees.

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He's shaken in his boots as most of us would be.

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The reason why the prophet wasn't shaking in his boots

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is because he could see

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that what had him surrounded was surrounded.

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The army that was surrounding him

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was nothing compared to the army that was surrounding it

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sent by God to protect him.

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How far will God go to protect one person?

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I will say this, God has said to me many a time

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and unfortunately I still don't believe him

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because I'm continuing to try to have faith for this.

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I'm continuing to try to believe that God loves me this way.

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You guys, this is a journey, okay?

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It's not a situation where you're just gonna wake up one day

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fully acclimated, fully actualized in your faith.

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Your faith is tried.

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Our faith is stretched.

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That's how it becomes gold.

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That's how it becomes precious.

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So anyway, God says to me frequently,

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he said, oh, Jackie, I just wish you knew.

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I wish you knew how protected you were

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because you guys, I deal with a lot of stuff.

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A lot of stuff happens and then I start worrying about it.

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I started going down all those little rabbit bunny trails

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of all the bad things that can happen,

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all the bad what ifs and dah, dah, dah, dah, dah.

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And God's just like, oh, I just really wish you knew

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how safe you are, how protected you are, right?

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But this prophet knew, this prophet knew

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because he could see.

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He could see what God sent to protect him.

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But you know who couldn't see?

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His servant, his servant, his servant.

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His servant couldn't see.

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And so he prayed for his servant

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that God would open his eyes and he did.

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And he opened his eyes and he showed the servant,

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the great hosts of heaven,

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the armies and chariots of fire

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that were surrounding the armies of man that had come.

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come to do the prophet harm.

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And so Father, I just pray that prayer over your people, over

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myself right now, that you would open our eyes and we would be

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able to see your protection.

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We'd be able to see your provision, Lord.

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We would be able to see that there are more with us than

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there are with them.

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We declare that right now.

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We receive that right now.

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We believe that right now, Lord, in Jesus name.

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So how many times, friends, how many times has something

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supernatural been happening alongside the natural thing that

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you think is happening?

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I think there's a bird in the street, but alongside of that,

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there is a supernatural miracle that kind of took place, right?

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With one of our, not housemates, but landmates, one of the

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people that lives over here on the property.

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And I think that that's just an incredible story.

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And I do know this for sure.

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When you're looking for the supernatural, you will find it.

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When you're open to something beyond just what's happening

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in this fleshly, carnal, two-dimensional world, you will

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find it.

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You will.

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There's always a why behind the what.

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Don't you believe that?

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There's always a why behind the what.

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And I think what happens, and you guys, I experienced this

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as a young woman, when I was in my 20s and I met Jesus and

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I had that radical conversion experience, I was then placed

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in a church.

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God then led me to a church to, you know, get rooted and grounded

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and get discipled.

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But I was so on fire, as they say, for God.

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I was so excited about the kingdom.

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I was so excited about the message.

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I was such an evangelist.

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I was so excited about the love of Jesus.

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And I couldn't understand why all of the older people, people

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that would be the age I am now,

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why they just seem so bored.

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I got to be honest with you.

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I wasn't in judgment of them, but I was confused.

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Why aren't you excited?

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You're so excited.

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This is the greatest thing that's ever happened to us.

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Wow, Jesus, the greatest thing that's ever happened to us.

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And I was so excited about the kingdom and I was so excited

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about bringing people into the kingdom and I was such a soul

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winner.

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I was such a soul winner.

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Guys, I think just even that summer that I received Jesus,

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I won like 11 to 13 people to the Lord, just that summer.

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And I don't consider myself particularly an evangelist, like

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in the office of an evangelist, but you know, you talk about

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what you're excited about.

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You talk about what you love, right?

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And you guys know I can talk.

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So, and I will tell you that at least eight or nine of those

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people were homeless people.

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You're like, what?

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Because I worked at the homeless shelter.

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That's where I worked.

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And so I would drive the church van over and pick up a bunch

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of homeless people and bring them to church.

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And you know, some of those homeless people got lots of

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deliverance from different things that were happening in

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their lives and got back on the right track.

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Lots of exciting things happen.

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But the main point of what I'm trying to say is that I wondered

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why the other people, the people that were 25 years older than

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me, which is how old I am now, the people in their 40s and

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50s and 60s, why they seemed, you know, not so excited.

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And the reason why is because life happens fast, doesn't it?

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You get bogged down by what is the Bible talk about?

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The cares of life.

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The cares of life.

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If you read the parable of the sower, which all of you should

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have read in my book, The Heart Work.

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If you didn't read it in the Bible, then you should have read

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it in my book, The Heart Work, when you did your heart work

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in this program.

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That story, that parable, really changed my life because you

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see that the seed is always good.

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The Word of God is always good.

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There's nothing wrong with the seed.

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The seed has everything that it needs to bear great fruit in

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your life, in my life, right?

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And what is the seed?

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The seed is the good news.

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The seed is the gospel.

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The seed is the finished work of Christ.

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That's what it is.

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You guys, the seed is not the Greek and Hebrew.

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The seed is not something that's above your pay grade.

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The seed is not something that you cannot understand, that only

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theologians can understand.

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That is not the seed.

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The seed is Jesus.

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The seed is Christ and him crucified and rose again for you

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and as you, and as you.

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That's important.

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You guys, yes, he died for you and as you, but he also rose

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again for you and as you.

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Please get a hold of the rose again part.

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Please get a hold of that.

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The Bible says, it says in Scripture that if we're willing

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to die with him, then we will die with him.

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will also be resurrected with him.

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And that doesn't mean someday in heaven.

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That if we suffer with him,

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we can also be glorified with him.

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Do you hear me?

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Do you hear what I'm saying?

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A lot of people are willing to suffer,

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but they're not willing to be glorified.

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Can we meddle a little bit this morning?

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We're willing to suffer with Christ.

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We're like, oh, this life is suffering.

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And you know what?

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There is a lot for sure.

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Some of it we just bring upon ourselves though.

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Like we're suffering needlessly.

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We're suffering.

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We're suffering because we've chosen to suffer,

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because we've chosen to be negative,

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because we've chosen to be a victim and all the things.

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I don't wanna get into that right now,

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but glorified with him.

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So that's the seed.

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The seed is the understanding of that.

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The seed is the revelation of that.

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And it says that the sower has gone out to sow the seed.

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And in the parable,

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it talks about different types of ground

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that the seed falls on.

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And that ground is likened in the parable to our hearts,

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to our hearts, to the hearts of humankind.

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And it says that some seed falls out of the margins.

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It falls on the wayside,

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falls on the hard and fallow ground.

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And it just doesn't penetrate.

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It gets trampled.

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What's it getting trampled by?

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It's getting trampled by life.

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Right?

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It's getting trampled by life.

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And then other seed falls on some soil that,

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you know, it's okay.

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It gets in, but it's kind of rocky soil.

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And so the roots don't get in deep.

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These are kind of those beliefs

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about the finished work of the cross

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that don't get in deep.

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They can't take deep root.

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You kind of believe them.

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You kind of don't believe them.

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You believe them on a good day.

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You don't believe them on a bad day.

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This rocky soil got rocks in our hearts.

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What's the rocks come from?

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Hurt, disappointment, bad experiences.

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We kind of believe we're back and forth,

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we're back and forth, we're double-minded.

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And then there's the thorny soil,

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the soil where, you know, it gets in,

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but then these other things grow up alongside of it

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and choke it out.

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And that's the cares of life soil.

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That's where it is overcome with cares of life,

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with all of the cares of this life.

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And this life has many cares.

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And that's why Jesus said,

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cast your care upon me because I care for you.

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And that's what your Jesus Cares Board is all about.

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Did you guys know that we did some renovations here

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last year?

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I'm ashamed to admit this,

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but we did some renovations here last year.

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When I turned 50, my kids bought me,

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my family bought me a sauna, okay?

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And there's a little alcove in my house

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where the sauna fit perfectly.

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So we've stuck it in that little hole.

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The problem was, is that little hole

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was where I did some praying

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and that's where my Jesus Cares Board lived.

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It lived on the wall there.

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And so during that renovation,

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the Jesus Cares Board got rolled up and it got put away.

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And then I forgot to bring it back out.

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I forgot to bring it back out.

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So for over a year, you guys,

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my Jesus Cares Board has been out of sight and out of mind.

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But can I tell you that I found it the other day?

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I had company coming for my son's wedding.

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I was doing some cleaning.

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I was doing some organizing

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and I found my Jesus Cares Board.

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I'm like, oh, my Jesus Cares Board.

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And I opened it up

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and I looked at all the Post-it notes that were on it.

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And do you guys know that there were at least

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three or four Post-it notes that I can take off of it now

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because God has resolved those things.

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And one of the Post-it notes that was on there

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just said, Willow.

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I had been praying for my niece

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because she had been really struggling

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and really having a hard time and really crashing out.

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She's 20 years old.

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And guess who now lives on my property

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underneath my wing in my care and in our community,

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my niece, Willow, of her own volition.

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That wasn't even on the radar a year ago

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when I put her on my Jesus Cares Board.

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And that's something that has happened.

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So I want to let you know

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that casting your care upon Him works,

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continuing to allow Him to work in these situations

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in your life that you cannot fix.

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So back to the ground.

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The thorns, the cares of life, they come.

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The weeds, they come.

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And they choke out.

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They choke out the fruit.

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They choke it out.

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They don't choke out the belief.

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The belief is there.

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They're choking out the fruit of that belief

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because that belief isn't able to grow up

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and mature inside of you.

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And then there's the good ground.

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The good ground that is, you know why it's good?

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Because it's.

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being taken care of.

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That place in your heart where you're doing your heart work,

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you're taking care of the rocks and the disappointments,

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the discouragement, you're casting the cares upon Jesus.

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You're getting rid of the thorns and the weeds.

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That's the reason why it's good.

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A lot of times people might read a parable like that

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and be like, oh, my heart's just not good.

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You know, I've got good soil, I'm not good soil.

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No, you don't get good soil.

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All of you that are gardeners, you know this.

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You don't just get good soil, you make it good.

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You don't.

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You go outside and you pick a patch and you till it

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and you plow it and you prune it, do you not?

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I'm not a gardener, but I've seen people garden

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and I know that that's what they do.

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So you can have good soil, you can be good ground or seed.

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And here's what should excite you

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about what I'm saying right now.

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Because remember, this is not even

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what Supernatural Saturday was gonna be about.

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Holy Spirit hijacked us and I love it when he does this.

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I love it.

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Because we know that we're getting a ray of my word

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from heaven.

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We're getting something hot off the press right now.

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We're getting something hot out of the oven right now.

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Bread of life out of the oven.

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But what should excite us about this

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is that the seed is the seed.

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It's not, oh, there's seed for me and there's seed for you

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and our seed is different.

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Oh, you got the better seed and I got the lesser seed.

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I got the inferior seed.

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No, the seed is the seed.

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It is about the quality of the heart.

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It's about the ability to receive.

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That's what it's about.

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The seed is the seed.

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There's scripture in the Bible and I write about it

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in the heart work.

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Out of the quality of your heart

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will come the quality of your life.

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Right?

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So how much bigger could we be living?

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How much better could we be living

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if we will just mind our hearts?

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How much of the deceptive heart are we still living in?

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How much of the broken hearts,

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how much of the unredeemed hearts

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still runs the show in our lives?

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Cause Jeremiah says the unredeemed heart can't be trusted.

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It's wicked.

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And I don't mean you guys like,

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oh, sinful when you're out doing only fans or I don't,

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listen, I'm not talking about that.

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I'm talking about, it is opposed to God.

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You remember how mind, will, and emotions

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is interchangeable with the idea of heart in the Bible?

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Well, the Bible says that the carnal mind,

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so you can put heart there,

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the carnal heart is the enemy of God.

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It's the enemy of the supernatural.

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So how much of our boring carnal lives

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that are full of care and full of worry

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and full of problems

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are just a product of us not surrendering to heart work?

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Cause we can't do it on our own, you guys.

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You can't just get out like you can

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outside on a patch of ground.

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Can't just get out the rotor tiller.

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I remember growing up,

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going out to the country in Tennessee

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to visit my grandparents for the summer.

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And my grandpa would always be out bush hogging.

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Bush hogging, all right?

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My grandparents, they're both in heaven right now,

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00:23:46.200 --> 00:23:47.520
but I'm telling you what,

510
00:23:49.120 --> 00:23:51.520
old country folk are the best.

511
00:23:51.520 --> 00:23:52.680
The food's the best.

512
00:23:53.920 --> 00:23:55.680
The language is the best.

513
00:23:55.680 --> 00:23:58.760
I mean, these people were from straight up California,

514
00:23:58.760 --> 00:24:01.520
straight up, OC California.

515
00:24:01.520 --> 00:24:05.200
But as soon as they moved to Tennessee in midlife,

516
00:24:05.200 --> 00:24:08.120
they become as country as a turnip green.

517
00:24:09.240 --> 00:24:10.080
How?

518
00:24:10.080 --> 00:24:10.920
I don't know.

519
00:24:11.080 --> 00:24:13.080
How can you be from California

520
00:24:14.200 --> 00:24:16.920
and move to Shelberville, Tennessee

521
00:24:18.440 --> 00:24:21.160
and turn into a country bumpkin?

522
00:24:21.160 --> 00:24:22.680
I don't know, but they did.

523
00:24:23.720 --> 00:24:26.080
I promise you, I get on the phone with them.

524
00:24:26.080 --> 00:24:27.760
I talk with them on the phone.

525
00:24:27.760 --> 00:24:30.360
I get off the phone and I was full blown country.

526
00:24:32.000 --> 00:24:34.480
Their accents were so strong that I was getting off

527
00:24:34.480 --> 00:24:36.400
and talking about going down to the Yonge

528
00:24:36.400 --> 00:24:38.360
and talking about going to the Yonge.

529
00:24:38.360 --> 00:24:39.400
Their accents were so strong that I was getting off

530
00:24:39.400 --> 00:24:41.440
and talking about going down to the Yonder

531
00:24:41.440 --> 00:24:43.200
and doing this and doing that.

532
00:24:44.680 --> 00:24:46.760
How do you get an accent that quick?

533
00:24:47.960 --> 00:24:48.800
Right?

534
00:24:51.120 --> 00:24:52.360
My grandpa used to always say,

535
00:24:52.360 --> 00:24:54.720
shoo, wait, shoo, wait.

536
00:24:56.200 --> 00:24:57.960
But he was always out bush hogging.

537
00:24:58.880 --> 00:25:00.440
And I wish that we could do that.

538
00:25:00.000 --> 00:25:03.120
to our hearts. I wish we could just run a bush hog. If you don't know what that is,

539
00:25:03.120 --> 00:25:09.840
it's like a plow and till and tractor thing that just takes out all the rough places out there.

540
00:25:12.960 --> 00:25:17.760
You know, we can't. But we could ask Holy Spirit to come and bush hog us.

541
00:25:21.280 --> 00:25:27.760
Come on. You guys, it's spring right before summer. This is pruning season.

542
00:25:28.720 --> 00:25:35.120
Isn't it? Isn't this time, depending on where you live geographically and what the weather's like,

543
00:25:35.120 --> 00:25:41.760
this is the time when people are preparing to plant. Some people already have because it's

544
00:25:41.760 --> 00:25:48.480
warmer and it's been ready. But other people just coming out of the rainy season, coming

545
00:25:48.480 --> 00:25:54.960
into the season where it's time to plant. It's time to prepare the ground and plant.

546
00:25:55.520 --> 00:25:58.480
And so, Lord, we just thank you, God, that you have great things for us.

547
00:25:59.520 --> 00:26:05.680
And we cannot fix our hearts ourselves. But you can highlight, you can reveal and heal

548
00:26:05.680 --> 00:26:10.640
things that need to be released, things that need to be forgiven, things that need to be let go of.

549
00:26:10.640 --> 00:26:16.320
You can do that because we want to have fruitful lives. We want to have fruitful summer. We want

550
00:26:16.320 --> 00:26:25.200
to have a fall harvest of peace and joy and love and provision and all the things, Lord, that are

551
00:26:25.200 --> 00:26:30.240
contained at the finished work of the cross that you're not holding out on us. You've never been

552
00:26:30.240 --> 00:26:38.560
holding out on us. We've just not really been able to receive it, really been able to conceive it,

553
00:26:38.560 --> 00:26:44.560
Lord. We haven't been able to conceive it, have you conceive it inside of us and allow it to

554
00:26:44.560 --> 00:26:50.240
develop and be birthed. And so, Lord, we're asking whatever's cutting it off, whatever's

555
00:26:50.800 --> 00:26:56.960
aborting it, Lord, whatever's happening in that process, we're asking God that you would heal us,

556
00:26:57.920 --> 00:27:05.360
that you would help us. Whatever's keeping us in the carnal and not living in the supernatural,

557
00:27:05.360 --> 00:27:09.360
where there's life and peace, Lord, we're asking that you would help us, Lord.

558
00:27:10.320 --> 00:27:15.120
Don't let us be old and jaded. Don't let us be more focused on disappointment.

559
00:27:17.520 --> 00:27:24.160
Don't let us be focused more on the natural than the supernatural, Lord. Help us to understand

560
00:27:24.160 --> 00:27:31.600
that we are spirits living in bodies. We are spirits, Lord. First and foremost, we are spirits,

561
00:27:32.560 --> 00:27:40.000
Lord, not bodies. So help us to live after the spirit. In Jesus' name, amen.

562
00:27:40.880 --> 00:27:47.120
All right, friends, that was a really great little detour this morning. You have noticed a

563
00:27:47.120 --> 00:27:54.080
lot of negativity. I've noticed a lot of negativity, and I know it's so easy, you guys, I'm

564
00:27:54.080 --> 00:28:00.560
not judging. It's so easy. I have to catch myself. I've had a few things happen. I told you guys that

565
00:28:00.560 --> 00:28:05.520
it seemed like it's just one thing after another. Right now, all of the pipes in my first house are

566
00:28:05.520 --> 00:28:10.560
backed up, the showers, the sinks. We have no idea what's happening. The plumber's coming.

567
00:28:10.560 --> 00:28:18.240
A few days earlier, there was a lot of rain here, and because it does not rain like this in Texas,

568
00:28:18.240 --> 00:28:27.360
we've gotten very unusual rain this year. The house started leaking everywhere. Leaks everywhere,

569
00:28:27.360 --> 00:28:31.040
you guys. Leaks in the ceiling. The windows started leaking. Everything started leaking.

570
00:28:32.240 --> 00:28:37.760
Now, this week, the pipes are all backed up in the house where the girls live.

571
00:28:38.880 --> 00:28:48.000
It's like, it's easy to say, ugh, right? Get negative. Man, this always happens,

572
00:28:48.000 --> 00:28:53.520
just one thing after another. I don't understand. I'm such a good person. I help other people. I do

573
00:28:53.520 --> 00:28:58.160
stuff for people all the time. Why does this always happen to me? This isn't fair. You can

574
00:28:58.160 --> 00:29:06.480
say all kinds of crazy stuff, right? Here's the good news, friends. For those of you that do a

575
00:29:06.480 --> 00:29:12.080
lot of things for other people, you're not earning your blessings. God doesn't owe you

576
00:29:13.840 --> 00:29:18.720
just because you help others. I know because I help a lot of people.

577
00:29:19.680 --> 00:29:22.480
He doesn't owe us. He doesn't. That's not how it works.

578
00:29:25.040 --> 00:29:28.240
But I believe what you help make happen for others, God does for you,

579
00:29:28.240 --> 00:29:31.440
because it's just a reciprocation. The Bible says,

580
00:29:31.440 --> 00:29:34.320
Give and it shall be given to you, pressed down and shaken together,

581
00:29:34.320 --> 00:29:37.520
will men give it into your bosom. And you guys, at some point in time,

582
00:29:37.520 --> 00:29:40.560
we just have to decide that we believe the Word of God.

583
00:29:44.080 --> 00:29:48.080
We just have to decide that we believe the Word of God. We just come into alignment with the Word

584
00:29:48.080 --> 00:29:55.520
of God. We come into agreement with the Word of God. Everyday circumstances, everyday things

585
00:29:55.520 --> 00:29:59.840
that are happening that you don't like are going to be vying for your agreement.

586
00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:07.160
your agreement in what in that oh poor little you right your agreement and oh

587
00:30:07.160 --> 00:30:11.160
nothing's ever gonna change your agreement of I just can't do this

588
00:30:11.160 --> 00:30:15.920
anymore and I just don't understand and why does this always happen to me and I

589
00:30:15.920 --> 00:30:22.800
just give up right these are all familiar and I've seen a lot of you

590
00:30:22.800 --> 00:30:26.800
posting this kind of stuff I've seen you posting it in our groups I've seen you

591
00:30:26.800 --> 00:30:30.920
posting it on your personal pages I've seen you posting it on my Instagram in

592
00:30:30.920 --> 00:30:33.560
the comments

593
00:30:35.800 --> 00:30:43.960
I've seen it and that's why I wanted to focus this morning before Holy Spirit

594
00:30:43.960 --> 00:30:48.000
took us a whole different direction and I'm so glad he did because friends part

595
00:30:48.000 --> 00:30:51.000
of part of what's happening is we're living in the natural and not the

596
00:30:51.000 --> 00:30:57.040
supernatural we're forgetting that all around us because in the natural you're

597
00:30:57.040 --> 00:31:00.160
not liking what's going on right things are not going your way things are not

598
00:31:00.160 --> 00:31:04.480
going according to your plan in the natural and I get it I live there too

599
00:31:04.480 --> 00:31:09.280
you guys but all around us there's another dimension there's another

600
00:31:09.280 --> 00:31:12.680
reality and this is what Supernatural Saturday is all about there's another

601
00:31:12.680 --> 00:31:18.480
reality so when this stuff is happening in the natural what we should be doing

602
00:31:18.480 --> 00:31:22.600
and what we always forget to do is ask God okay God I see what's happening here

603
00:31:22.600 --> 00:31:29.080
but what are you doing what are you doing what's happening in this other

604
00:31:29.080 --> 00:31:34.600
realm that I cannot see except every once in a while little glimpses of what

605
00:31:34.600 --> 00:31:39.600
are you doing and you might get a direct answer you might have a dream I have a

606
00:31:39.600 --> 00:31:43.640
vision you might have a knowing you might have a thought or you might just

607
00:31:43.720 --> 00:31:49.760
have peace it's alright I got you it's okay it's gonna be okay you don't got to

608
00:31:49.760 --> 00:31:53.480
worry about this remember what God told me at the beginning of the year he said

609
00:31:53.480 --> 00:31:57.160
Jackie he said I don't want you worrying this year he said if you can control it

610
00:31:57.160 --> 00:32:03.120
control it and if you can't give it to me I would love to tell you that I've

611
00:32:03.120 --> 00:32:06.360
done this this year this year is half over I'd love to tell you that that's

612
00:32:06.360 --> 00:32:11.280
what I've done but I can tell you what I've done is I've worried about every

613
00:32:11.280 --> 00:32:16.200
single thing that I haven't been able to control why did God tell me that at

614
00:32:16.200 --> 00:32:21.560
the beginning of the year because he knows me do you guys know how much more

615
00:32:21.560 --> 00:32:27.160
I could have accomplished by June of 2026 had I not spent so much time and

616
00:32:27.160 --> 00:32:31.440
energy and bandwidth on worry

617
00:32:33.480 --> 00:32:38.120
I mean I'm a doer I could have gotten a lot done

618
00:32:39.120 --> 00:32:46.960
but I couldn't get a lot done because I was draining my battery with worry about

619
00:32:46.960 --> 00:32:53.680
things that I cannot control anyway anyone else rode that boat anyone else

620
00:32:53.680 --> 00:33:01.720
anybody had just me I thought it was a female thing for the most part but

621
00:33:01.720 --> 00:33:23.920
right you guys the heart has to get not only into alignment but it has to get

622
00:33:23.920 --> 00:33:28.200
into a place of protection one thing I've said a lot and I don't think a lot

623
00:33:28.200 --> 00:33:33.000
of people listen to me but I'm gonna say it again if you're a deeply feeling

624
00:33:33.000 --> 00:33:36.960
person if you're an empathic or empathetic person that is your nature

625
00:33:36.960 --> 00:33:47.600
you cannot take on the cares of this world not yours and not other people's

626
00:33:49.840 --> 00:33:57.080
and I'm specifically talking about social media one scroll will show you

627
00:33:57.080 --> 00:34:01.160
all kinds of people suffering and hurting and all kinds of calamity

628
00:34:01.160 --> 00:34:10.000
happening and all kinds of stuff yesterday last night I was scrolling

629
00:34:10.000 --> 00:34:16.920
mindlessly and I immediately came upon some girl in Nashville Tennessee where I

630
00:34:16.920 --> 00:34:22.520
don't even live asking for people to be looking out for her cousin who went to

631
00:34:22.520 --> 00:34:30.280
the Bonnaroo music fest and now has come up missing y'all this is not on my

632
00:34:30.280 --> 00:34:37.120
watch it isn't just cuz I'm a Christian just cuz I'm an intercessor of course I

633
00:34:37.120 --> 00:34:42.560
did say a prayer for him but the thing is is that it really affected my nervous

634
00:34:42.560 --> 00:34:48.840
system why because I have young people in my life this young man's age I have

635
00:34:48.840 --> 00:34:53.679
children all three of my children my son-in-law's my daughter-in-law all the

636
00:34:53.679 --> 00:34:57.320
people my nieces my nephews what does it cause me to do it caused me to worry

637
00:34:57.320 --> 00:35:00.720
about something I can't control

638
00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:07.000
Am I right?

639
00:35:07.000 --> 00:35:08.700
Who should see that girl's post?

640
00:35:08.700 --> 00:35:13.840
The people in her community, the people in her family, the people that this affects,

641
00:35:13.840 --> 00:35:19.280
the people that can actually come alongside this family in real life.

642
00:35:19.280 --> 00:35:24.600
I'm not saying you never, ever pray for people that you don't know, but if you are scrolling

643
00:35:24.600 --> 00:35:32.200
social media, you will very soon be overwhelmed if you're an empath or an intercessor by the

644
00:35:32.200 --> 00:35:43.920
needs and by the trials and tribulations and catastrophes and afflictions of others.

645
00:35:43.920 --> 00:35:47.240
And the problem is, is that once you start clicking on stuff like that, that's all your

646
00:35:47.240 --> 00:35:54.320
algorithm is going to show you.

647
00:35:54.320 --> 00:35:55.700
Just pray.

648
00:35:55.700 --> 00:36:01.240
Pray for people that you don't know as God lays them on your heart.

649
00:36:01.240 --> 00:36:15.440
But in this situation, all it was doing was creating havoc in my nervous system, right?

650
00:36:15.440 --> 00:36:21.720
So the heart, as it's healing, as we're allowing God to reveal it and heal it, as we're doing

651
00:36:21.720 --> 00:36:29.200
heart work, as we're getting to a place where we are able to really get it prepped with

652
00:36:29.200 --> 00:36:33.600
the help of Holy Spirit for that good seed to get in there, to get in there deep, to

653
00:36:33.600 --> 00:36:40.160
get deep roots and to bear fruit, we got to protect it.

654
00:36:40.160 --> 00:36:42.920
Does she protect your garden?

655
00:36:42.920 --> 00:36:44.600
I know my mother-in-law does.

656
00:36:44.600 --> 00:36:49.480
My mother-in-law sitting with a shotgun on her front porch, ready to kill any varmint

657
00:36:49.520 --> 00:36:51.960
that tries to get in her garden.

658
00:36:51.960 --> 00:37:00.280
I've never seen a woman hate animals as much as my mother-in-law because she does not want

659
00:37:00.280 --> 00:37:06.720
them eating her garden, her flowers, her stuff that she has spent so much time planting and

660
00:37:06.720 --> 00:37:09.800
nurturing and growing.

661
00:37:09.800 --> 00:37:14.760
But we do, we build fences around our gardens, right?

662
00:37:14.760 --> 00:37:19.680
We put boundaries and borders around our gardens.

663
00:37:19.680 --> 00:37:23.040
Same with your heart.

664
00:37:23.040 --> 00:37:27.000
If you know something's not good for your heart, if you know something causes you a

665
00:37:27.000 --> 00:37:31.600
lot of pain and a lot of stress because of the way that you're built, because of the

666
00:37:31.600 --> 00:37:36.080
way that you're made up, stop doing it.

667
00:37:36.080 --> 00:37:40.720
Stop doing it.

668
00:37:40.720 --> 00:37:41.840
You're valuable.

669
00:37:41.840 --> 00:37:43.840
Your heart is valuable.

670
00:37:43.920 --> 00:37:49.920
Stop giving your heart to people who are just stomping on it, to immature people, people

671
00:37:49.920 --> 00:37:53.000
who cannot value you.

672
00:37:53.000 --> 00:37:55.040
Stop giving your heart to those people.

673
00:37:55.040 --> 00:37:56.040
That's a word for someone.

674
00:37:56.040 --> 00:38:00.200
And I'm not just talking about in romance, I'm talking about in friendship.

675
00:38:00.200 --> 00:38:04.520
Just so you know, Supernatural Saturday today was going to be a hybrid about praise and

676
00:38:04.520 --> 00:38:09.320
friendship and now we're all over the place and that's fine with me.

677
00:38:09.320 --> 00:38:14.920
But a lot of you, you either don't have friends because you don't know how to make friends.

678
00:38:14.920 --> 00:38:15.920
You're not friendly.

679
00:38:15.920 --> 00:38:17.120
You don't understand friendship.

680
00:38:17.120 --> 00:38:20.600
You've never really had true friends in your life or the people that you did have in your

681
00:38:20.600 --> 00:38:25.640
life betrayed you, hurt you, left you, abandoned you, whatever.

682
00:38:25.640 --> 00:38:28.600
And now you just really don't trust people.

683
00:38:28.600 --> 00:38:33.280
One of those things is true.

684
00:38:33.280 --> 00:38:36.960
And then others of you have a lot of good time friends, people that are there when you're

685
00:38:36.960 --> 00:38:43.600
laughing and you're fun, but are never there for you when you're going through anything.

686
00:38:43.600 --> 00:38:50.400
You're a giver, maybe a toxic giver that has surrounded yourself with lots of takers because

687
00:38:50.400 --> 00:38:51.400
that's what happens.

688
00:38:51.400 --> 00:38:52.400
Givers attract takers.

689
00:38:52.400 --> 00:38:54.720
That's a true story.

690
00:38:54.720 --> 00:39:00.560
And if you don't have boundaries, you're going to look up in your life and see that you are

691
00:39:00.560 --> 00:39:04.080
surrounded by a lot of people that expect you to overfunction.

692
00:39:04.080 --> 00:39:05.960
They expect you to do everything.

693
00:39:05.960 --> 00:39:07.160
You're the person initiating.

694
00:39:07.160 --> 00:39:08.280
You're the person calling them.

695
00:39:08.280 --> 00:39:09.680
You're the person making plans.

696
00:39:09.680 --> 00:39:14.200
You're the person that's holding the friendship, if you want to call it that, together.

697
00:39:14.200 --> 00:39:21.280
Just so you know, by definition, that is not what a friend is.

698
00:39:21.280 --> 00:39:22.280
That's an acquaintance.

699
00:39:22.280 --> 00:39:23.280
That's an associate.

700
00:39:23.280 --> 00:39:25.920
We used to say that back in the day.

701
00:39:25.920 --> 00:39:29.680
Back in my street days, we used to say, that's not my friend.

702
00:39:29.680 --> 00:39:33.200
That's an associate of mine.

703
00:39:33.200 --> 00:39:37.760
As if we all had small businesses on the street.

704
00:39:37.760 --> 00:39:39.840
I think it's a drug dealer term, honestly.

705
00:39:39.840 --> 00:39:43.080
And because of the foster care situations that I lived in, I was around a lot of folks

706
00:39:43.080 --> 00:39:44.080
like that.

707
00:39:44.080 --> 00:39:48.520
I know it's hard to picture me, Jackie D., in those environments.

708
00:39:48.520 --> 00:39:51.040
But trust me, I was there.

709
00:39:51.040 --> 00:39:53.360
I was there.

710
00:39:53.360 --> 00:39:58.440
But even the street folk, they know the difference between a friend and an associate.

711
00:39:58.440 --> 00:39:59.880
And you know why they know the difference?

712
00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:07.120
Because friends will take a bullet for each other in that economy, in that environment.

713
00:40:07.120 --> 00:40:10.840
You don't just give someone the label of friend lightly.

714
00:40:10.840 --> 00:40:17.120
A friend is someone who's got your back for real, for real.

715
00:40:17.120 --> 00:40:20.040
You hear me?

716
00:40:20.040 --> 00:40:24.200
And it's important that we know that because that should be our definition of friends too.

717
00:40:24.200 --> 00:40:27.040
Yes, we're not in gangs, we're not on the street.

718
00:40:27.040 --> 00:40:28.400
I got it.

719
00:40:28.400 --> 00:40:29.720
That's fine.

720
00:40:29.720 --> 00:40:34.040
But if gangs on the street know this, then we should know this too, that a friend is

721
00:40:34.040 --> 00:40:39.520
someone who's got your back for real, for real.

722
00:40:39.520 --> 00:40:44.320
And you're probably not going to have a lot of those people in the course of your life.

723
00:40:44.320 --> 00:40:48.160
That type of friendship, it's not abundant.

724
00:40:48.160 --> 00:40:53.640
You don't need quantity, you need quality.

725
00:40:53.640 --> 00:40:57.000
And here's the thing, even if you have a friend like that, maybe someone you've known all

726
00:40:57.000 --> 00:41:03.640
your life, we call them your ride or die, you know, that person, maybe two people at

727
00:41:03.640 --> 00:41:09.360
the most, three, went to grade school, high school, college together, you know, you've

728
00:41:09.360 --> 00:41:15.080
been friends, not just in theory, but in real life, you've done life together.

729
00:41:15.080 --> 00:41:16.080
That's beautiful.

730
00:41:16.080 --> 00:41:17.080
That's amazing.

731
00:41:17.080 --> 00:41:21.920
And most of the times we meet those people for a reason during a certain season, right?

732
00:41:21.920 --> 00:41:25.800
And those are the people that can cause us the worst treason too.

733
00:41:26.360 --> 00:41:30.160
That person, if one of those people betrays you, that's hard to get over.

734
00:41:30.160 --> 00:41:36.520
If one of those people does you dirty, stabs you in the back, is a Judas, that's going

735
00:41:36.520 --> 00:41:37.520
to be hard.

736
00:41:37.520 --> 00:41:41.800
But friendships are for reasons and seasons and treasons, and you will have those.

737
00:41:41.800 --> 00:41:45.720
And just because it happens doesn't mean that you're exempt from friendships, that you don't

738
00:41:45.720 --> 00:41:48.720
have to make friends anymore, that you don't have to trust anybody anymore.

739
00:41:48.720 --> 00:41:51.560
Because I'm going to tell you right now, I've noticed that a lot of you are waiting for

740
00:41:51.560 --> 00:41:55.640
your quote unquote person to show up, your spouse, your spirit mate.

741
00:41:55.640 --> 00:41:58.760
And as soon as they show up, you just think you guys are just going to go down a hole

742
00:41:58.760 --> 00:42:02.480
together and just be happy for the rest of your lives, just fat, dumb and happy for the

743
00:42:02.480 --> 00:42:03.480
rest of your lives.

744
00:42:03.480 --> 00:42:08.480
And that's just not the way this works.

745
00:42:08.480 --> 00:42:14.800
God did not create you for a person, he created you for people.

746
00:42:14.800 --> 00:42:18.800
And so for those of you that are waiting for your person because you're lonely, it's not

747
00:42:18.800 --> 00:42:20.280
going to solve that problem.

748
00:42:20.280 --> 00:42:24.440
One person cannot fulfill all of your relationship needs.

749
00:42:24.440 --> 00:42:25.440
Please write that down.

750
00:42:25.440 --> 00:42:26.880
I'm going to say that till I'm blue in the face.

751
00:42:26.880 --> 00:42:28.720
I've said it before, I'm going to say it again.

752
00:42:28.720 --> 00:42:34.160
One person, I don't care if they're the best spouse, the best partner, they cannot fulfill

753
00:42:34.160 --> 00:42:35.800
all of your relationship needs.

754
00:42:35.800 --> 00:42:36.800
They cannot.

755
00:42:36.800 --> 00:42:39.960
And if you expect them to, you're going to overwhelm them.

756
00:42:39.960 --> 00:42:46.160
It's going to be a toxically codependent relationship where one or both of you are going to feel

757
00:42:46.160 --> 00:42:50.680
like you're not getting what you need and be very unhappy.

758
00:42:50.680 --> 00:42:54.480
Do you got me?

759
00:42:54.480 --> 00:42:56.320
You listening?

760
00:42:56.320 --> 00:43:04.000
So even if you have one of those ride or dies, in different seasons of your life, that person

761
00:43:04.000 --> 00:43:05.240
is not all you need.

762
00:43:05.240 --> 00:43:07.520
I know that they're your best friend from childhood.

763
00:43:07.520 --> 00:43:11.600
I know that they know you better than anybody else, but they might not have the tools or

764
00:43:11.600 --> 00:43:15.280
the information or the wisdom to help you navigate whatever you're going through right

765
00:43:15.280 --> 00:43:16.280
now.

766
00:43:16.280 --> 00:43:19.640
You know who God may bring on the scene for that?

767
00:43:19.640 --> 00:43:20.640
A new friend.

768
00:43:20.640 --> 00:43:25.200
And if you're so loyal to old friendships, just because they've been around the longest

769
00:43:25.200 --> 00:43:32.000
and because they've been there for you, you're going to shoot yourself in the foot.

770
00:43:32.000 --> 00:43:35.600
Because they don't have what you need.

771
00:43:35.600 --> 00:43:39.280
They don't have what you need.

772
00:43:39.280 --> 00:43:40.760
There's new people that have what you need.

773
00:43:40.760 --> 00:43:45.400
Oh, but, but, but, but, I just have a best friend and I don't, you know, I'm loyal to

774
00:43:45.400 --> 00:43:46.400
my best friend.

775
00:43:46.400 --> 00:43:47.400
Well, that's silly.

776
00:43:47.400 --> 00:43:52.040
You used to be friends with your best friend.

777
00:43:52.040 --> 00:43:54.880
If they're not holding you back, here's the other problem.

778
00:43:54.880 --> 00:43:59.960
For people who have had, you know, relationships that happen for reasons and seasons, like

779
00:43:59.960 --> 00:44:04.920
say you were both moms or dads when your kids were playing t-ball or something and you became

780
00:44:04.920 --> 00:44:10.000
friends and now you're still trying to drag them with you where you're going in life even

781
00:44:10.000 --> 00:44:12.240
though they're going a different direction.

782
00:44:12.240 --> 00:44:13.440
Your paths have diverged.

783
00:44:13.440 --> 00:44:17.880
Yes, you walk together during a season because you're on the same road.

784
00:44:17.880 --> 00:44:21.520
But now you're on a different road and you continue to try to drag them over to your

785
00:44:21.520 --> 00:44:22.520
road or vice versa.

786
00:44:22.520 --> 00:44:25.140
And you guys, that's not the way to do it.

787
00:44:25.140 --> 00:44:29.280
The way to do it is to bless that season of your life, to be thankful for that friendship

788
00:44:29.480 --> 00:44:38.400
and for all the good things that you shared during that season and to make new friends.

789
00:44:38.400 --> 00:44:39.600
I moved away from Ohio.

790
00:44:39.600 --> 00:44:40.600
I don't live there anymore.

791
00:44:40.600 --> 00:44:41.600
I haven't lived there in eight years.

792
00:44:41.600 --> 00:44:44.280
Guess where my best friend lives in Ohio.

793
00:44:44.280 --> 00:44:45.720
I still love her.

794
00:44:45.720 --> 00:44:49.960
We still talk occasionally on the phone, but it would be a mistake for us to try to be

795
00:44:49.960 --> 00:44:55.200
each other's person, each other's best friend in this season of life because she needs people

796
00:44:55.200 --> 00:44:57.720
in person that are in proximity to her.

797
00:44:57.720 --> 00:45:00.000
Now if things really go south and it's bad...

798
00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:03.720
situation, you know, she knows that I'm going to be there for her.

799
00:45:03.720 --> 00:45:05.040
She knows that she can call me.

800
00:45:05.040 --> 00:45:10.480
I'm her friend that she can call, that's going to pray for her, the friend that knows her

801
00:45:10.480 --> 00:45:14.160
really well, that's going to give her really wise advice if she gets herself backed into

802
00:45:14.160 --> 00:45:16.100
a corner and vice versa.

803
00:45:16.100 --> 00:45:17.920
We know that we're that person for each other.

804
00:45:17.920 --> 00:45:19.240
But I'm not her 2 a.m. friend.

805
00:45:19.240 --> 00:45:21.600
I can't come running at 2 a.m.

806
00:45:21.600 --> 00:45:25.120
I don't live in Ohio.

807
00:45:25.120 --> 00:45:31.440
I'm not her every day have fun, go shopping, laugh, fun friend because I don't live there.

808
00:45:31.440 --> 00:45:36.720
Do you see what I'm saying?

809
00:45:36.720 --> 00:45:40.060
God wants you to have friends.

810
00:45:40.060 --> 00:45:41.060
He wants you to have friends.

811
00:45:41.060 --> 00:45:43.880
It's important that you have friends.

812
00:45:43.880 --> 00:45:48.200
And so instead of this just being a summer of love, I want this to be a summer of friendship.

813
00:45:48.200 --> 00:45:54.260
I want this to be a summer where you're making new friends, where you're meeting new people,

814
00:45:54.400 --> 00:45:57.300
people that really enjoy you, not people that tolerate you.

815
00:45:57.300 --> 00:46:00.500
A lot of you are like, yeah, I don't make any friends because people don't understand

816
00:46:00.500 --> 00:46:01.500
me.

817
00:46:01.500 --> 00:46:03.020
Somebody understands you out there.

818
00:46:03.020 --> 00:46:04.700
Somebody would enjoy you.

819
00:46:04.700 --> 00:46:07.500
You're just not in the right places.

820
00:46:07.500 --> 00:46:11.500
All right.

821
00:46:11.500 --> 00:46:16.660
Now if your face always looks like you just sit in there smelling dog poop, then that's

822
00:46:16.660 --> 00:46:19.740
another reason why you don't have any friends.

823
00:46:19.740 --> 00:46:21.580
All right.

824
00:46:21.580 --> 00:46:27.620
Let's fix your face because when you meet new people, that's what they're going to meet.

825
00:46:27.620 --> 00:46:29.980
They're going to meet a version of you that they don't know.

826
00:46:29.980 --> 00:46:32.100
They don't know you yet.

827
00:46:32.100 --> 00:46:36.420
And so if you're hard to get to know because you're standoffish or, you know, you got a

828
00:46:36.420 --> 00:46:41.660
scowl on your face or you're not friendly, the Bible says the best way to get friends

829
00:46:41.660 --> 00:46:43.820
is to be friendly.

830
00:46:43.820 --> 00:46:50.940
Did it say that you know what else people don't like unless they're like this too?

831
00:46:51.300 --> 00:46:54.100
And then this is not the kind of friend that you need.

832
00:46:54.100 --> 00:46:58.780
People don't like people who sit around and complain all the time.

833
00:46:58.780 --> 00:47:02.420
People don't like to be around negative people that gossip all the time, that complain all

834
00:47:02.420 --> 00:47:04.740
the time, that are bellyaching all the time.

835
00:47:04.740 --> 00:47:06.820
They also don't like needy people.

836
00:47:06.820 --> 00:47:09.620
As soon as they meet you, now you're asking them for stuff.

837
00:47:09.620 --> 00:47:10.620
You're asking them for help.

838
00:47:10.620 --> 00:47:11.620
You're asking them for favors.

839
00:47:11.620 --> 00:47:13.780
They don't even barely know you.

840
00:47:13.780 --> 00:47:16.020
You're calling in favors.

841
00:47:16.020 --> 00:47:18.300
What in the world?

842
00:47:18.300 --> 00:47:20.540
I know that we need a friend sometimes.

843
00:47:20.540 --> 00:47:26.780
I know we need some help sometimes, but you need to ask the Lord to send people into your

844
00:47:26.780 --> 00:47:28.180
life to help you with that.

845
00:47:28.180 --> 00:47:32.540
You can't just be calling new people and being like needy, like, can I have a ride?

846
00:47:32.540 --> 00:47:33.540
Can I have this?

847
00:47:33.540 --> 00:47:34.540
Can I have that?

848
00:47:34.540 --> 00:47:38.100
No, that's exhausting, okay?

849
00:47:38.100 --> 00:47:39.100
That's exhausting.

850
00:47:39.100 --> 00:47:40.100
You have to have good boundaries.

851
00:47:40.100 --> 00:47:41.540
That's another thing that you need to have.

852
00:47:41.540 --> 00:47:46.800
If you want to have solid friendships, good friendships, good friendships flourish when

853
00:47:46.800 --> 00:47:52.720
there's good boundaries.

854
00:47:52.720 --> 00:47:57.920
You're not asking someone brand new that you just met all kinds of personal questions.

855
00:47:57.920 --> 00:47:59.080
You shouldn't do this on a date.

856
00:47:59.080 --> 00:48:03.080
You shouldn't do this when you're meeting a new friend, just asking them all kinds of

857
00:48:03.080 --> 00:48:04.160
inappropriate questions.

858
00:48:04.160 --> 00:48:06.880
You guys, I was just on a podcast, true story.

859
00:48:06.880 --> 00:48:11.400
I was just a guest on a podcast, and it was supposed to be about the Austin dating scene.

860
00:48:11.400 --> 00:48:16.400
Right out the gate, this girl starts asking me about my experience with immigration.

861
00:48:17.280 --> 00:48:19.200
I couldn't figure it out.

862
00:48:19.200 --> 00:48:23.480
I got off the podcast, and I was like, I think that she thinks I'm an immigrant because you

863
00:48:23.480 --> 00:48:27.960
guys know that I'm pretty tan.

864
00:48:27.960 --> 00:48:35.280
I was like, I think this girl, because I looked at her account, and I looked at her podcast.

865
00:48:35.280 --> 00:48:40.800
There's a lot of her interviewing immigrants and stuff, and I was just like, so you guys,

866
00:48:40.800 --> 00:48:41.880
I'm so silly.

867
00:48:41.880 --> 00:48:46.360
She's asked what my experience with immigration is, and then I start talking about my family,

868
00:48:46.360 --> 00:48:52.440
family coming from Luxembourg 100 years ago to Pennsylvania.

869
00:48:52.440 --> 00:48:54.720
I don't freaking know what she's talking about.

870
00:48:54.720 --> 00:48:59.880
It went over my head, but anyway, right after that, she starts asking about my childhood

871
00:48:59.880 --> 00:49:04.320
and about all kinds of really deep things, and you guys, no, I'm not afraid to share

872
00:49:04.320 --> 00:49:06.840
my story, but it seemed really out of place.

873
00:49:06.840 --> 00:49:10.720
It seemed inappropriate.

874
00:49:10.720 --> 00:49:14.480
It seemed inappropriate, and so I just want to say to you guys, don't be inappropriate

875
00:49:14.480 --> 00:49:17.960
with new people in your life.

876
00:49:17.960 --> 00:49:21.440
Don't ask them, okay?

877
00:49:21.440 --> 00:49:22.440
Don't ask them.

878
00:49:22.440 --> 00:49:29.320
I hate it when someone posts on Facebook and says that, oh, my family member, please pray

879
00:49:29.320 --> 00:49:30.320
for us.

880
00:49:30.320 --> 00:49:34.760
We lost a family member, and then in the comments, people are like, how did it happen?

881
00:49:34.760 --> 00:49:35.760
How'd they die?

882
00:49:35.760 --> 00:49:39.600
It's just like, why are you so inappropriate?

883
00:49:39.600 --> 00:49:45.400
You should just be saying, praying for you, so sorry for your loss, but no, people want

884
00:49:45.400 --> 00:49:46.400
the details.

885
00:49:46.400 --> 00:49:50.040
You've been watching too much true crime.

886
00:49:50.040 --> 00:49:53.600
You guys, no.

887
00:49:53.600 --> 00:49:55.960
Be boundaried when you meet new folks, will you?

888
00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:05.060
And you're like, well, Jackie, I don't know how to be that way.

889
00:50:05.060 --> 00:50:06.060
I'm an intense personality.

890
00:50:06.060 --> 00:50:08.060
Well, that's why you don't got no friends.

891
00:50:08.060 --> 00:50:09.060
It's easy.

892
00:50:09.060 --> 00:50:10.060
It's easy.

893
00:50:10.060 --> 00:50:11.060
We found it.

894
00:50:11.060 --> 00:50:12.060
We found the problem, Houston.

895
00:50:12.060 --> 00:50:13.060
All right.

896
00:50:13.060 --> 00:50:14.060
Can we take a walk?

897
00:50:14.060 --> 00:50:15.060
Hallelujah.

898
00:50:15.060 --> 00:50:26.820
I want to end this call today.

899
00:50:26.820 --> 00:50:29.100
God has friends for you.

900
00:50:29.100 --> 00:50:32.300
God says that he takes a solitaire and he places them in family.

901
00:50:32.300 --> 00:50:36.780
It doesn't say he places them in just marriage or romantic relationship.

902
00:50:36.780 --> 00:50:39.640
Not just that, family.

903
00:50:39.640 --> 00:50:41.180
He doesn't just have community for you.

904
00:50:41.180 --> 00:50:42.620
He has family for you.

905
00:50:42.620 --> 00:50:45.460
He has friends that stick closer than a brother.

906
00:50:45.460 --> 00:50:46.460
Remember what Jesus said?

907
00:50:46.460 --> 00:50:48.620
I'm the friend that sticks closer than a brother.

908
00:50:48.620 --> 00:50:51.620
He said, you got a friend in me, right?

909
00:50:51.620 --> 00:50:56.900
He said that way before Woody said that in Toy Story.

910
00:50:56.900 --> 00:50:58.960
Jesus said that.

911
00:50:59.020 --> 00:51:03.160
Jesus is the example.

912
00:51:03.160 --> 00:51:04.160
And so you want friends.

913
00:51:04.160 --> 00:51:08.360
You're not going to have a bunch of friends that stick closer than family, but you're

914
00:51:08.360 --> 00:51:10.400
going to have some friends that do.

915
00:51:10.400 --> 00:51:11.400
You don't need a bunch.

916
00:51:11.400 --> 00:51:12.400
You just need good ones.

917
00:51:12.400 --> 00:51:16.320
And you need to understand that you're going to have to release them in certain seasons

918
00:51:16.320 --> 00:51:18.680
because they have to move on and so do you.

919
00:51:18.680 --> 00:51:23.880
But when you do that and you make space, God will replace.

920
00:51:23.880 --> 00:51:27.040
So let's talk about praise really quickly, just at the end here.

921
00:51:28.040 --> 00:51:32.520
You know, when I woke up this morning, I had that song in my head.

922
00:51:32.520 --> 00:51:33.800
Enter his gates with thanksgiving.

923
00:51:33.800 --> 00:51:34.800
Enter his courts with praise.

924
00:51:34.800 --> 00:51:37.360
You guys know that song?

925
00:51:37.360 --> 00:51:39.360
We'll say this is the day that the Lord has made.

926
00:51:39.360 --> 00:51:41.680
We will rejoice for he has made us glad.

927
00:51:41.680 --> 00:51:44.120
Those are two different scriptures.

928
00:51:44.120 --> 00:51:47.760
Psalm 104, enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise.

929
00:51:47.760 --> 00:51:51.680
And Psalm 118, 24, this is the day the Lord has made.

930
00:51:51.680 --> 00:51:53.860
We will rejoice and be glad in it.

931
00:51:53.860 --> 00:51:59.420
And what these scriptures have in common besides a really good understanding of theology,

932
00:51:59.420 --> 00:52:04.300
you do enter God's places of influence, his gates with thanksgiving.

933
00:52:04.300 --> 00:52:05.620
That's how you get in, y'all.

934
00:52:05.620 --> 00:52:06.620
That's the password.

935
00:52:06.620 --> 00:52:12.500
Remember those old cartoons where the little door opens within the door, the little eye

936
00:52:12.500 --> 00:52:16.500
slot opens and they're knocking on the door and they're just like, what's the password?

937
00:52:16.500 --> 00:52:20.940
You know, the password is thanksgiving.

938
00:52:20.940 --> 00:52:25.600
It's not because God's trying to keep you out, but it's because when you set your mind

939
00:52:25.600 --> 00:52:31.300
on the things above and not beneath, it's what ushers you in.

940
00:52:31.300 --> 00:52:33.260
You're the person that's keeping yourself out.

941
00:52:33.260 --> 00:52:34.860
God's not keeping you out.

942
00:52:34.860 --> 00:52:39.260
It's not an exclusive club, members only.

943
00:52:39.260 --> 00:52:42.780
You are a member.

944
00:52:42.780 --> 00:52:44.000
You have all access.

945
00:52:44.000 --> 00:52:53.320
The problem is, is the way that you yourself access the gates of heaven is through thanksgiving.

946
00:52:53.320 --> 00:52:55.360
It's through your mindset shift.

947
00:52:55.360 --> 00:53:00.160
Remember, if we're in the carnal mind, it's death, but if we're in the spiritual mind,

948
00:53:00.160 --> 00:53:01.840
it's life and peace.

949
00:53:01.840 --> 00:53:06.840
And you can really only get into the spiritual mind when you get into a place, a posture

950
00:53:06.840 --> 00:53:07.840
of thanksgiving.

951
00:53:07.840 --> 00:53:12.880
And then we enter his courts, his inner courts, you guys, his presence with praise.

952
00:53:12.880 --> 00:53:16.440
The Bible says in his presence, there's fullness of joy, at his right hand, there's pleasures

953
00:53:16.440 --> 00:53:18.440
forevermore.

954
00:53:18.440 --> 00:53:21.520
What I do like about both of these scriptures is they're both in the book of Psalms, and

955
00:53:21.520 --> 00:53:29.120
I did look this up, but I bet you that David is the author of both of these.

956
00:53:29.120 --> 00:53:33.080
David had this thing about thanksgiving and praising, even in the midst of calamity.

957
00:53:33.080 --> 00:53:35.520
You notice that about David?

958
00:53:35.520 --> 00:53:37.960
He had a lot of visitation.

959
00:53:37.960 --> 00:53:39.480
He had a lot of victory.

960
00:53:39.480 --> 00:53:45.000
He had a lot of supernatural provision and help that came his way, and it's because he

961
00:53:45.000 --> 00:53:47.480
was opening the door for it.

962
00:53:47.480 --> 00:53:48.480
He wasn't earning it.

963
00:53:48.480 --> 00:53:51.280
He wasn't deserving it, but he was looking for it.

964
00:53:51.280 --> 00:53:53.840
Remember the scripture that says, I'm in big trouble.

965
00:53:53.840 --> 00:53:55.360
Where's my help going to come from?

966
00:53:55.360 --> 00:53:57.760
It's not going to come from the hills.

967
00:53:57.760 --> 00:54:00.840
That was a typology of human help.

968
00:54:00.840 --> 00:54:01.920
It's going to come from what?

969
00:54:01.920 --> 00:54:06.520
It's going to come from God, the maker of heaven and earth.

970
00:54:06.520 --> 00:54:07.760
He had a whole different perspective.

971
00:54:08.360 --> 00:54:13.720
So friends, I just want to say something today that sounds simple, okay?

972
00:54:13.720 --> 00:54:20.080
It's very simple, but just recently when I've been overwhelmed, I had to purposely force

973
00:54:20.080 --> 00:54:26.280
myself to start thinking about God's goodness and to start thanking him for his goodness.

974
00:54:26.280 --> 00:54:33.720
And immediately the fear that was on me disappeared and just worship came over me and joy and peace

975
00:54:33.720 --> 00:54:35.160
came over me.

976
00:54:35.160 --> 00:54:40.320
So I really, really want to just remind you, even when things are bad, even when things

977
00:54:40.320 --> 00:54:45.440
are hard, all you have to do is just look at what God's already done and just thank

978
00:54:45.440 --> 00:54:46.640
him for it.

979
00:54:46.640 --> 00:54:50.240
Thank you, God, for the prayers that you've answered in my life.

980
00:54:50.240 --> 00:54:53.280
Thank you for the times that you've carried me through.

981
00:54:53.280 --> 00:54:56.640
Because Thanksgiving is kind of remembrance, right?

982
00:54:56.640 --> 00:54:57.880
That's what we're being thankful for.

983
00:54:57.880 --> 00:55:00.120
We can be thankful for things that haven't even happened.

984
00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:02.320
Up and yet, for sure.

985
00:55:05.000 --> 00:55:07.240
I'm not going to get in the difference between Thanksgiving and praise,

986
00:55:07.240 --> 00:55:09.880
because I don't have time, just have a few minutes left.

987
00:55:10.080 --> 00:55:12.360
But we praise God because he's a good God.

988
00:55:12.560 --> 00:55:17.160
And I love it that Justin Bieber, Justin Bieber theology kind of is taking

989
00:55:17.360 --> 00:55:21.240
up where David the psalmist left off, because there's a new song out

990
00:55:21.440 --> 00:55:25.080
and the new song is just praising God for the simplest of things.

991
00:55:25.280 --> 00:55:28.080
You can praise God that you woke up this morning, that you opened your eyes this

992
00:55:28.080 --> 00:55:30.040
morning, that your coffee tasted good this morning.

993
00:55:30.240 --> 00:55:32.480
And his song is just called Hallelujah.

994
00:55:32.680 --> 00:55:34.520
And the lyrics are just like, take a walk.

995
00:55:34.720 --> 00:55:35.720
Hallelujah.

996
00:55:35.920 --> 00:55:36.840
The sun is out.

997
00:55:37.040 --> 00:55:38.560
Hallelujah.

998
00:55:40.440 --> 00:55:42.000
The flowers are blooming.

999
00:55:42.200 --> 00:55:43.880
Hallelujah. You got breath in your lungs.

1000
00:55:44.080 --> 00:55:45.080
Hallelujah.

1001
00:55:45.280 --> 00:55:46.680
You made it through another week.

1002
00:55:46.880 --> 00:55:48.680
Hallelujah.

1003
00:55:49.840 --> 00:55:51.360
Right.

1004
00:55:52.880 --> 00:55:56.120
Because if you let one in, it pushes the other one out.

1005
00:55:56.320 --> 00:55:57.880
Praise will shift your attention.

1006
00:55:57.880 --> 00:55:59.160
It will shift your perspective.

1007
00:55:59.360 --> 00:56:02.440
It will shift you to a place of expectation.

1008
00:56:02.640 --> 00:56:04.880
And it's so quick, you guys, that really happens.

1009
00:56:05.080 --> 00:56:09.040
There's a supernatural shift that happens when you do this.

1010
00:56:09.240 --> 00:56:12.480
And no, you don't have to feel like it.

1011
00:56:12.680 --> 00:56:14.480
I will tell you that my experience

1012
00:56:14.680 --> 00:56:19.440
with complainers is that they're remainers, complain and remain.

1013
00:56:20.160 --> 00:56:22.800
If you use that beautiful gift of sound,

1014
00:56:22.800 --> 00:56:26.200
that beautiful gift of agreement, that beautiful gift inside your face,

1015
00:56:26.200 --> 00:56:29.240
that little hole in your face right there of creation,

1016
00:56:29.240 --> 00:56:30.800
because you've been made in the image of God,

1017
00:56:31.000 --> 00:56:34.480
if you use it to come into agreement with what's wrong,

1018
00:56:34.680 --> 00:56:37.840
because all praise is doing praise is not denying what's wrong.

1019
00:56:38.040 --> 00:56:41.520
Praise is just remembering what's still right.

1020
00:56:42.000 --> 00:56:45.480
If you do that, then you're going to notice more and more things that are wrong.

1021
00:56:45.480 --> 00:56:47.240
In fact, your entire perspective is going

1022
00:56:47.440 --> 00:56:52.520
to change and it's going to see more and more and more and more and more things.

1023
00:56:52.720 --> 00:56:54.120
Right.

1024
00:56:54.320 --> 00:56:56.840
Because it magnifies those things.

1025
00:56:57.040 --> 00:57:00.120
You're basically putting a magnifier.

1026
00:57:00.920 --> 00:57:05.320
On what's bad, what's out of place, what's wrong.

1027
00:57:05.520 --> 00:57:07.760
And then you're going to get even even more overwhelmed.

1028
00:57:07.760 --> 00:57:09.360
So if you want to feel at peace,

1029
00:57:09.360 --> 00:57:12.840
even in the midst of the storm and even the midst of circumstances that feel

1030
00:57:13.040 --> 00:57:16.600
like they won't budge, we have to shift our perspective.

1031
00:57:16.800 --> 00:57:18.640
We have to.

1032
00:57:19.480 --> 00:57:21.720
And you guys, we have to live after the spirit,

1033
00:57:21.920 --> 00:57:24.040
so do some more work on that.

1034
00:57:24.040 --> 00:57:26.920
How many of you feel like, hey, we could use a couple of sessions

1035
00:57:27.120 --> 00:57:30.480
on what does it look like practically to walk after the spirit

1036
00:57:30.680 --> 00:57:32.600
in our lives, to live supernatural lives?

1037
00:57:32.600 --> 00:57:34.840
I promise you that your love story is supernatural.

1038
00:57:35.040 --> 00:57:37.280
However, God is bringing you into your love story.

1039
00:57:37.480 --> 00:57:39.080
It's going to be supernatural.

1040
00:57:39.280 --> 00:57:41.760
It is. There's a natural part that you play

1041
00:57:41.760 --> 00:57:44.520
as you prepare for it, as you do what only you can do.

1042
00:57:44.520 --> 00:57:46.800
But there is a part that only God can do.

1043
00:57:47.000 --> 00:57:48.920
And doesn't mean because he's only picked one person.

1044
00:57:48.920 --> 00:57:52.120
And it doesn't mean that he has a special person set aside for you.

1045
00:57:52.120 --> 00:57:53.560
And that's the only person.

1046
00:57:53.560 --> 00:57:56.720
And he's just trying to get them ready and get them positioned and get them.

1047
00:57:56.920 --> 00:57:58.480
No, that's not what it's about.

1048
00:57:58.680 --> 00:58:05.560
It's about when we get to a place where our perspective is changed because we are

1049
00:58:05.760 --> 00:58:10.280
looking at God and not ourselves and not society and not whatever timeline you've

1050
00:58:10.480 --> 00:58:15.280
been looking at and we get to a place where we are willing to accept God's best

1051
00:58:15.280 --> 00:58:17.320
for us.

1052
00:58:17.560 --> 00:58:19.320
Then he'll do the rest.

1053
00:58:19.520 --> 00:58:24.920
So many people could be married right now, but they still want what they want,

1054
00:58:25.120 --> 00:58:27.280
even though it's not good or healthy for them.

1055
00:58:27.480 --> 00:58:29.600
And here's the here's the thing that you need to understand.

1056
00:58:29.800 --> 00:58:34.720
God's not keeping you from that wrecked up thing that you want.

1057
00:58:34.920 --> 00:58:37.040
He's not. I mean, lest you've asked him to.

1058
00:58:37.240 --> 00:58:38.720
He's not. You have free will.

1059
00:58:38.920 --> 00:58:44.000
You can go out and make any kind of cockamamie decision you want to make.

1060
00:58:45.000 --> 00:58:48.520
The difference is, is that you are not

1061
00:58:48.720 --> 00:58:56.040
receiving because you're not believing, you're not conceiving the seed in the

1062
00:58:56.040 --> 00:58:58.600
grass, you know, the seed in the ground that we just talked about, you're not

1063
00:58:58.800 --> 00:59:00.400
conceiving.

1064
00:59:01.400 --> 00:59:04.680
These are the things that are happening, you guys, if we get this into alignment,

1065
00:59:04.680 --> 00:59:07.600
you're not going to just I hate the word manifest, but I don't really know what

1066
00:59:07.800 --> 00:59:12.240
other word to use, you're not just going to manifest the marriage.

1067
00:59:12.520 --> 00:59:14.640
But there's a lot of other things that you

1068
00:59:14.840 --> 00:59:18.040
would like to see improved in your life, wouldn't you?

1069
00:59:18.520 --> 00:59:21.920
Guys, this all comes from walking in the spirit.

1070
00:59:23.480 --> 00:59:25.280
I have a friend right now that's a realtor.

1071
00:59:25.280 --> 00:59:27.440
I just want to say this for one minute over, I don't care.

1072
00:59:27.640 --> 00:59:29.000
She's a realtor, you guys.

1073
00:59:29.200 --> 00:59:31.800
And you know how many realtors there are out there?

1074
00:59:32.000 --> 00:59:33.760
There's a bazillion realtors.

1075
00:59:33.960 --> 00:59:37.160
She's been a realtor for like 15 years.

1076
00:59:37.360 --> 00:59:40.200
And I know I'm sure you've heard the housing market's not that great.

1077
00:59:40.200 --> 00:59:40.600
Right.

1078
00:59:40.640 --> 00:59:43.720
And it's a really hard business to be in right now

1079
00:59:43.920 --> 00:59:46.640
because the buyer's market and not a lot of people are buying.

1080
00:59:46.840 --> 00:59:49.120
A lot of people are selling, but not a lot of people are buying.

1081
00:59:49.320 --> 00:59:51.160
And it's a really crazy market out there.

1082
00:59:51.360 --> 00:59:54.960
I can tell you story after story, after story, after story, after story,

1083
00:59:55.160 --> 00:59:57.800
after story about just this one friend.

1084
00:59:58.000 --> 00:59:59.320
And I know her really well.

1085
00:59:59.320 --> 01:00:00.200
She's one of my good friends.

1086
01:00:00.000 --> 01:00:06.520
good friends, how she doesn't bother doing things the way other realtors do it.

1087
01:00:06.520 --> 01:00:09.080
She doesn't advertise.

1088
01:00:09.080 --> 01:00:10.400
You know what she does?

1089
01:00:10.400 --> 01:00:14.800
She goes into her prayer closet every morning and she worships the Lord.

1090
01:00:14.800 --> 01:00:15.920
She praises God.

1091
01:00:15.920 --> 01:00:20.000
She gets her mind into alignment with his abundance and his goodness.

1092
01:00:20.000 --> 01:00:23.300
She remembers that she's not her own, that she's been bought with a price.

1093
01:00:23.300 --> 01:00:29.560
She remembers that he is her provider, that he feeds the sparrows, and if he feeds them,

1094
01:00:29.560 --> 01:00:33.120
how much more will he take care of her?

1095
01:00:33.120 --> 01:00:34.520
That's what she does in the morning.

1096
01:00:34.520 --> 01:00:38.800
And you know what she does when she comes out of her prayer closet?

1097
01:00:38.800 --> 01:00:41.520
She gets deals.

1098
01:00:41.520 --> 01:00:46.560
She goes out, she meets new people, and she's in the right place at the right time with

1099
01:00:46.560 --> 01:00:47.820
the right heart.

1100
01:00:47.820 --> 01:00:51.240
You don't think that can happen for your love life?

1101
01:00:51.240 --> 01:00:53.100
You don't think that that can happen for your business?

1102
01:00:53.100 --> 01:00:56.400
You don't think that that can happen for whatever it is that you do?

1103
01:00:56.400 --> 01:00:59.440
I meet single people all the time.

1104
01:00:59.440 --> 01:01:03.240
I meet divine connections all the time.

1105
01:01:03.240 --> 01:01:12.240
I have opportunities that I do not earn all the time.

1106
01:01:12.240 --> 01:01:14.680
You guys, we have to stop trying to do this on our own.

1107
01:01:14.680 --> 01:01:16.080
We've got to walk after the Spirit.

1108
01:01:16.080 --> 01:01:19.040
And so, Father God, I thank you for your goodness and your love to us.

1109
01:01:19.040 --> 01:01:24.360
I thank you that you've created us to be dependent on you, not to be dependent on ourselves.

1110
01:01:24.360 --> 01:01:25.720
You've given us choice.

1111
01:01:25.720 --> 01:01:32.400
You've given us free will, but you've also given us the ability and the invitation to

1112
01:01:32.400 --> 01:01:38.200
cast our will, cast our cares, cast our way, our direction on you, and let you to direct

1113
01:01:38.200 --> 01:01:39.200
our paths.

1114
01:01:39.200 --> 01:01:41.960
Let you, let your will prevail in our lives.

1115
01:01:41.960 --> 01:01:46.760
And so, Lord, your will is that we would be healthy, that we would be wealthy, that we

1116
01:01:46.760 --> 01:01:54.120
would be happy and content, Lord, that we would be givers and lenders, Lord.

1117
01:01:54.880 --> 01:01:55.880
That's your will.

1118
01:01:55.880 --> 01:02:01.880
Your will says that we would prosper, that we would have joy and peace and righteousness,

1119
01:02:01.880 --> 01:02:02.880
Lord.

1120
01:02:02.880 --> 01:02:03.880
And so, God, we want your will.

1121
01:02:03.880 --> 01:02:05.240
We don't need our will.

1122
01:02:05.240 --> 01:02:08.840
Yes, we're strong-willed children sometimes, but we don't need our will.

1123
01:02:08.840 --> 01:02:10.440
We need your will, Lord.

1124
01:02:10.440 --> 01:02:12.920
And so, we surrender our will to your will.

1125
01:02:12.920 --> 01:02:17.600
We ask God that you would remind us every day that we don't have to do this on our own.

1126
01:02:17.600 --> 01:02:21.680
And if we feel like we can't do it anymore, good, because we never had to do it on our

1127
01:02:21.680 --> 01:02:23.440
own in the first place.

1128
01:02:23.440 --> 01:02:29.280
To surrender to you, and then as we do whatever little part we can, Lord, you continue to

1129
01:02:29.280 --> 01:02:30.440
multiply that.

1130
01:02:30.440 --> 01:02:32.280
You continue to magnify that.

1131
01:02:32.280 --> 01:02:37.120
You continue to give us supernatural harvest, Lord.

1132
01:02:37.120 --> 01:02:41.440
And we're asking all of this in Jesus' name, amen.

1133
01:02:41.440 --> 01:02:42.440
Love y'all.

1134
01:02:42.440 --> 01:02:42.440