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All right, good morning and welcome to Supernatural Saturday.

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I have a few announcements for everyone who is here and everyone who's going to be listening

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and replay.

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My last book club of 2026 starts on the 25th, which is next Tuesday.

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So if you wanted to take the book club, if you didn't and weren't able to because of

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whatever reason, this will be the last modern dating book club of 2026.

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And I purposely made it so that it would end on the first day of fall.

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So we're going to have a lot of fun in there.

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The last three book clubs have been amazing.

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People have gotten lots of breakthrough from them.

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There are people that are already in relationships from the first couple book clubs.

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And so I think that that information, that wisdom is a game changer, huge game changer.

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There's something else that I'm doing that I haven't done in over two years.

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And that is I'm opening up my private coaching.

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If you didn't know, we do have one-on-one coaching available.

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You can find it on our services page on my website, JackieDorman.com.

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That website is getting a facelift.

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It's going to be completely different.

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It's going to have all kinds of bells and whistles for all of you in the program.

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It's actually being actively worked on right now by our designer and it should be done

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within the next couple of weeks.

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So when you go there, you're going to be able to very easily see what you have access to,

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including that community-based matchmaking group that I was talking about.

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That's part of our app.

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And so all of that's coming, lots of new things rolling out, very exciting.

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But in order for me to really dig in, this is what I've always done for the last six

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years.

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If I have new things available, if I have new ways of doing things, this matchmaker

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mindset that I wrote about in my book, I usually practice it with real-life clients.

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I've had a lot of success with my real-life clients as I have with my community.

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Guys, we have engagement announcements pretty much every other week.

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And I know that it feels like, wow, you know, things are taking forever in my life.

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I get it.

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And there are a lot of people that were in that boat as well that are no longer in that

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boat.

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And so just because you feel it now doesn't make it true forever.

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And so there's a lot of things God's doing in your heart.

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He's doing in your life.

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There's a lot of things that are happening.

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There's a lot of change that has to happen.

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I had a woman in my book club just recently tell me that she was willing to make a few

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changes, but she wasn't willing to make all the changes that she knew she needed to make.

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Yet.

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I'm going to add that word yet there.

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She knew that she wasn't willing to make all the changes that she needed to make yet.

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But God has a way of wooing us and drawing us and encouraging us until we are ready to

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make those changes.

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And so those changes are necessary because we're not just interested in relationships.

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We're interested in relationships that are sustainable.

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And so there's this could be a really good Supernatural Saturday Day.

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I have a great word for you.

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God actually gave me a word last week that I wanted to release over you guys today.

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So that's going to be fun, but I'm opening up my VIP coaching is going to be available

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for a limited number of people.

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I put it out with a application originally wanted people to fill out an application.

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I wanted to make sure that they were right because it's such a small cohort.

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I don't want people joining it because they have the finances to join it.

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I want people to join it because they actually are my ideal client.

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Because once again, for my ideal clients, you know, I'm looking for, you know, long

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term and short term wins.

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And so in order to do that, I need to make sure that I'm coaching the right people in

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that small cohort.

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Now I coach all of you in a group setting here on Supernatural Saturday in phase three.

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If you're just in heart work right now, you get me in video form.

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If you're in phase two, you get my amazing dating coaches that have been raised up under

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me and they are telling you everything that I've taught them.

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And so there you're going to get that.

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You're going to get the matchmaker mindset no matter where you are in the program.

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If you're in phase three, then you get a little bit of me.

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You get Ask Jackie there.

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I do women's only.

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Sometimes I do the men's sessions.

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I am there, but this is going to be an opportunity for you to have me kind of all to yourself.

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Now there's two opportunities to do that and one opportunity is this book club.

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You have me for five weeks.

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You have me on the app with you.

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I'm answering your questions that you're writing in.

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I'm the person that is coaching you on all five sessions, all five Tuesdays of the book

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club.

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We are going through my new material and the new material is based on everything that I've

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learned in the last six years that works and doesn't work.

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Everything that works in the year 2026 when it comes to dating as a faith, a person of

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faith as a believer, what works and what doesn't work.

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And so jump in there, buy that.

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That's the lowest hanging fruit.

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It's $97.

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Get it while you can.

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I'm not going to say it's not going to run out.

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There's very few people signed up for this book club because it's the last one and I

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think that everybody that was going to sign up for it has already signed up.

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So it's going to be a really small group.

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So, that might be what you want to do.

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And then if you want 90 days of VIP coaching with me, email JackieDorman.com.

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We have a handful of spots left.

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There is a limited amount of those, because that's a very small group, and I think they're

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about half gone.

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So, there might be about 10 spots left.

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So get over there, JackieDorman.com, if you're interested in that, and Reagan will give you

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the information.

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All right.

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Those are all the announcements for right now.

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I'm so excited about today's Supernatural Saturday.

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I guess I do have one little announcement.

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I'm going to be putting out in a devotional for the year 2027, but you'll be able to pre-order

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it here in the next maybe 60 days, 30 days, 60 days, and it is a Supernatural Saturday

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devotional.

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It is the best of the best.

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It is the greatest hits of Supernatural Saturday that you'll be able to use as a weekly devotional

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for yourself, and you'll be able to really dig into some of these incredible truths and

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wisdom that Holy Spirit has released over us over the last, you know, 6, 9, 10 months,

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and it's going to be exciting.

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All right.

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That is all the announcements, so let's get started.

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Father God, we're so thankful for your goodness and your love.

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We're so thankful that we get to come together today and look to heaven.

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What is the current prophetic reality?

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What are you doing?

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A lot of times, Father, I'm just being honest.

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It feels like you're not doing much.

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It feels like nothing is happening on our side of the lens, and we really can't see.

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We definitely aren't seeing clearly, and it can get discouraging at times.

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So we just give you all of our discouragement this morning.

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We give you all of any hopelessness we've been carrying, any disappointment we've been

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carrying, anything that we've been carrying, Lord, that we know is not part of your kingdom.

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Anything, Lord, that we've fallen into that has caused us to feel like things are never

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going to change, we just give that all to you this morning, and we're asking you to

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give us an exchange, that beautiful exchange program.

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We give you our ashes.

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You give us beauty, and we're asking in return you would give us hope.

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You would give us peace.

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You would give us joy.

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You would give us excitement and anticipation.

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You would give us instructions.

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We're asking that we would download wisdom from heaven this morning together.

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In Jesus' name, amen.

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All right, friends.

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All right, so David and I, it's hot, you guys, in Austin.

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I know that for those of you that have ever been in Texas in the summer, you understand,

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but it is very hot.

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We have about three months of triple digits that we have to look forward to right now.

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And because of that, David and I used to try to get in a morning walk because we're trying

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to be healthy, especially David.

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You'd be so proud of him.

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He's getting up every morning.

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He's getting up an hour earlier, and he's doing pushups, and he's doing these weird

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lymphatic calisthenic things that he's got going on.

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He's got his own little plan going, and he's being faithful to that plan.

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Friends, you've got to make a plan.

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You've got to work the plan.

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God can't order your steps if you don't have a plan that you're working.

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I just want to start out there this morning.

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The Bible says, make a plan.

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Doesn't it?

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It doesn't say that.

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It says, make a plan.

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And then it says what?

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And then it says, I will order your steps.

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Got to make a plan.

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So David's been doing that, and it's so cute.

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He's been giving me his bicep like, feel it, babe.

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Feel how muscular this bicep is.

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And it really is.

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That man can build muscle like nobody's business.

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It must be nice.

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So we try to get a walk-in, and because it's so hot, you guys, we are currently – wait

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for it, very exciting – we are currently the youngest members of the mall walking retirement

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community.

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So I don't know if they do this where you live, but where we live, the malls – you

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guys know a mall, an indoor mall – they open the doors to the mall an hour before

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the stores open.

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And so you can come in there and you can walk because, you know, the mall's big.

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You can walk.

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And we figured out that five laps of the mall is – well, one lap of the mall is 1,000

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steps.

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So if we want to get in 10,000 steps, we'd have to walk 10 laps, which we don't ever

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do.

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But the most we've ever done so far is seven.

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So that's 7,000 steps.

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Not bad.

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And we can get that done in about 45 minutes.

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That's what we're doing.

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We're doing that because we want to keep moving, because we've seen that when you

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get over 50 years old and you kind of stop moving, then you really stop moving.

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And we're like, okay, we've got to keep the works oiled up.

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So we've been doing that, and it's been really fun.

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But something happened.

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happened to me at the mall the other day and I want to talk to you guys about it, all right?

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So we're at the mall.

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We're walking because it's 900 degrees here in Texas and this particular mall, you guys,

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malls are dying.

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If you notice that malls are dying, they really are.

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These indoor malls, at least where we live in Austin, Texas, there's just not a lot of

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people there.

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It just feels like they're falling down and dilapidating and deteriorating and the stores

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are closed.

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You know, there's one store at the, you know, the hub stores, the big department stores.

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It's just like a vacant building because that department store moved out.

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So then there's nothing there now.

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Just stuff like that.

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But this particular mall, I have been going to ever since we moved here to Austin, Texas.

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Moved here about eight years ago.

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So I have been going to this mall for eight years and I want to tell you, this mall has

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seen better days.

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When I first moved there, Abercrombie was there.

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When I first moved there, they had a Dillard's for men.

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When I first moved there, they had all kinds of stores that I liked and guess what?

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A lot of those stores have left and like I said, some of those stores are vacant now.

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The big, the big hub stores, a couple of those are vacant because the mall has seen better

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days for sure.

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But I will tell you this and this might be true of your mall as well.

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For the entire eight years that I have been going to this mall, one side of the main escalator

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in the middle of the mall has not worked.

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The upside.

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You can go downstairs on the escalator.

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That side works.

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But if you want to go back up from the down level, you have to essentially, it's stairs,

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right?

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Technically, it's an escalator, but functionally, it's now stairs.

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So you go down one and you go up the other and I don't know, it just always felt really

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ghetto to me.

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I'm like, why can't they fix this?

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What the heck?

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Why does it have to be this way?

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Right?

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But you get so used to it and here's the word from the Lord, you guys.

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You get so used to it that you don't even think about it anymore.

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You're just so used to that not working.

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You just don't think about it anymore.

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You just do what you got to do.

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You just go, you just walk up it.

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You're not expecting to see it working because you already know it doesn't work.

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Last week, you guys, I went to this mall after eight years of going to this mall and David

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and I were lapping.

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We're doing our laps and we just do the top level laps because it's carpeted.

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You know, it's better on your knees, it's better on your joints and we're lapping and

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we're lapping them all.

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We're lapping them all.

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And I just happened to glance over and the escalator was moving.

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Come on.

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I'm just going to pause there for a second.

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I just happened to glance over, just looking around as I'm walking, and both sides of that

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escalator were moving.

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It wasn't a new escalator.

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It was the same old escalator.

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They didn't put in a whole new system.

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It was the same one.

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It's old.

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It's kind of dingy, a little dirty, you know, looking as far as the steps are concerned

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because they'd been there for a long time.

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But after eight years, that escalator was moving and immediately I heard the Lord say

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to my heart, things that haven't worked in a long time are going to work again.

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Come on, you guys.

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Somebody got mad at me last week because they thought I was talking about end time eschatology

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because I said there was a shaking and then they quit the program.

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You guys, Supernatural Saturday will always be about hope.

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It's always going to be about hope, y'all.

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I know there's a lot of church hurt out there.

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There's a lot of people that have felt spiritually abused.

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You're not going to get that here.

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You're only going to get hope.

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If you ever hear anything in my words that's not full of hope and full of encouragement,

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then it's probably coming from your own heart because I'm telling you right now, this place

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that we meet up once a week is a place where God wants us to be able to participate in

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the supernatural.

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He wants to woo us in.

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He wants to draw us close.

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And I heard him say very clearly, things that haven't worked in a long time are going to

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work again.

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And of course, I knew immediately that this wasn't about an escalator.

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I knew immediately God was inviting me into our Supernatural Saturday for this weekend.

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Okay, so let's dig into this word, you guys.

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First of all, we can't confuse, it hasn't worked with, it will never work again.

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And you can apply this to anything.

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And we all do this.

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I've done this.

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I've done this many, many times.

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I thought, well, it hasn't worked, so it's not going to.

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And you guys, sometimes it's not something that has worked before and now it's not working.

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Sometimes it's something that has just never worked at all, right?

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It's never worked at all.

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Those darn dating apps, they don't work at all.

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It's not like they're broken.

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They were never not broken, right?

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Yeah, it's true.

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So there's a difference between those things.

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Hasn't worked or it will never work.

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Just because it hasn't happened yet, remember?

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For those of you that have been around this community

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for long enough, you know that yet is my favorite word.

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That small little three-letter word that changes everything.

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Just because it hasn't happened yet,

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doesn't mean it's never going to happen.

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And you can apply that to anything in your life.

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I don't care what it is.

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I don't care what it is.

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It doesn't mean it's never going to happen.

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And I understand, and I have this in my life too,

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because some things have been broken for so long.

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They haven't worked for so long that you,

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maybe you don't even realize it,

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but you've stopped expecting them to ever be different.

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Because I never expect to ever go to that mall

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and not have to climb the stairs of that escalator.

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Eight years, y'all.

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If they were going to fix it, they would have fixed it.

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If it was fixable, they were going to fix it.

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You know, I'm a deep thinking person.

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I always wonder about the why behind the what.

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And I thought about that escalator many a time

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when I'm climbing up those stairs and being like,

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you know, why can't they fix this?

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And what I came to the conclusion of

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is that it's probably not fixable.

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It probably would cost way too much money to fix it.

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It'd probably be even cheaper to replace it at some level.

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There's something about it that just means

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it's not fixable at all, right?

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That's the conclusion that I come to.

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And a lot of us come to a conclusion like that.

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We come to a conclusion that's like, you know what?

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This is just not going to work, right?

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It's been years.

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Perhaps it's like a relationship

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that has never functioned the way it should.

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A relationship with your kids, with your siblings,

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with your parents, with a best friend or with someone else.

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It's just, this relationship has always been dysfunctional.

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I had that, you guys, with my mom.

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I never thought I would see a day

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when my mom would literally write a card to me

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and say, call me sweetheart, and tell me that she loves me.

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I had never thought that would happen in my life, but it did.

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Perhaps it's a job, a business,

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something that you make money from

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that has never really produced what you've needed it to.

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It's all right, it's all right, okay?

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As we used to say back in the day, it's all right.

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But it's not what you want it to be.

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It's not.

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It isn't.

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You guys gotta remember where I come from.

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I come from foster care, all right?

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I come from real true orphanhood.

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I come from going to high school

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as the only person that looks like me.

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One of the only people, maybe 10 of us that look like me,

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that have my skin color, that have my ethnicity.

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I come from places where it was hard,

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where I was abandoned and left out and bullied.

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And I come from places,

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and I don't mean bullied just in school.

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I mean by foster family and by situations

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and a lot of things, you guys, a lot of things.

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And so it's easy when you come from that

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to just believe that your life

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is probably gonna be dysfunctional forever.

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Maybe it's a dream of yours that just never got traction.

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You're like, ah, this is just a pipe dream.

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I need to let it go because it's never worked out.

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Anything I've ever tried to build towards it,

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it just never happened.

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Think of your thing right now, something in your own heart,

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something about yourself that you've worked on.

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Maybe it was losing weight.

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Maybe it was getting healthy in a certain way.

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Maybe it's some kind of medical condition that you have

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that you've worked on and you've worked on

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and you tried and you tried.

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Maybe it's menopause, ladies.

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I was up at four o'clock in the morning

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crying out to Jesus last night

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because I have tried everything I can in this season

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for the last almost two years of being in menopause

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to overcome some of the worst symptoms of it.

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And just when I think that it's gonna be okay,

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just when I think it's smooth sailing

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and the rough water is over, here it comes again

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with all these things.

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And you guys, we definitely start thinking

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maybe this is just happening.

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it's going to be. Maybe this is just how it's going to be. But just because something has

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been broken for a long time doesn't mean it has to be broken forever. Ecclesiastes 3.1

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says to everything there is a season and a time to every purpose under heaven. Do you

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believe that? Now I just want to speak to your love lives really quickly because all

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of you are here for that. And I know that you're here for a lot more. God uses this

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community a lot of times as a tipping point in people's lives. He brings you in because

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you want a specific thing, which is marriage. And he does a whole lot more for you than

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just that. And I love that about God. I really do. God is working on something in your life

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right now, even though you don't think he is. God is doing something in your life right

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now, even though you don't think he is. But I want to speak to just your love life. And

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I have no idea where you are in the timeline of this love story because all of you are

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at different places. When I first started this community, I had a prophetic word that

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all of you were kernels laying in the oil in the pan on the stove. And you never know

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which kernel is going to pop first. When you're making that homemade popcorn, you just don't

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know. But you know something? If they stay in the oil and they stay in the heat long

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enough, every one of them is going to pop. Every one of them is going to pop. And God

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is perfect. He's the perfect cook. He knows how to perfectly keep us from getting burned,

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y'all. We're not going to be burnt popcorn. That's the stinkiest stuff in the world. We're

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not going to be any burnt popcorn, okay? I'm just going to tell you that right now. But

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I do know for sure that some pop really quickly. And I will tell you that when God gave me

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that word, when this community was born in 2020, the first popcorn kernel that popped,

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meaning the first love story that popped off, was not the person that I expected it to be.

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It wasn't. I could not have predicted that, you guys. I know I'm very prophetic, but I

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could not have predicted that. And then the second and the third and the fourth and the

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fifth and on and on and on and on. To everything there is a season and a time to every purpose

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under heaven. One thing that we know for sure, friends, is that if you love your season,

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if you don't love your season, seasons change. And sometimes we've lived in one season for

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so long that when God changes the season, our expectation can still be living in the

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old one. The season has changed, but we're still living in that old season because we're

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so used to it. This has been my story, you guys. I'm going to call myself out a little

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bit right now. Let's talk about that escalator. Let's talk about the things in our lives that

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were built to move us forward, but then they became something that we had to climb. You

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know, that's something that really hit me when God was talking to me about this escalator.

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An escalator has a purpose. It's supposed to carry you from one level to the next. Amen?

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It's supposed to make it easier for you to get from one level to the next. It's supposed

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to make it easier for you to come up higher. But because it was broken, I had to climb

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it. The thing that was designed to assist me became something that required effort from

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me, a lot of effort. And I know that I've lived like that for a long time in a lot of

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areas, and maybe you have too. We've had to overcompensate and overfunction for things

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that weren't functioning properly. Anybody else? Maybe you were in a best friendship.

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This is what's coming into my spirit. Best friendships are supposed to be reciprocal.

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They're supposed to bring us up higher. They're supposed to be the person that claps when

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we win. But maybe this best friendship has been so broken for so long that it has been

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really difficult. It has been heavy on you. You've had to overfunction in that friendship

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because the other part of the friendship was not carrying any weight. We've carried what

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should have helped carry us. This is what we do, friends. As human beings, we are very,

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very, very adaptable. We begin to manage dysfunction. Instead of getting rid of dysfunction,

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we'll manage it. We'll start managing it, become the manager of dysfunction. If there's

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gaps that start showing, we'll fill the gaps. I will, at least. Some of you guys might check

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out. Some of you guys might have more of a victim mindset where you just shut down and

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you just, you know, sit down and shut down. That's not me. When the going gets tough,

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I get tougher. I don't like that about myself. I start to overfunction at the drop of a half.

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at you guys, I will overfunction and maybe that's some of you as well.

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I will push, I will climb, I won't even think about it.

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I won't even think in my own heart, this isn't how life is supposed to be.

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I won't even think this isn't how it's supposed to work.

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I already told you a little bit about my background, about my childhood.

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I have been used to hard things.

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There's a saying out there, you guys.

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There's a saying and it's a beautiful saying and I understand why the saying exists.

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But the saying is this, you can do hard things.

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And I'm like, of course I can, that's all I've ever done.

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When I hear that you can do hard things, I understand who that's for, for the people

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who haven't challenged themselves, for the people who don't try, for the people who don't

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push through, for the people who give up at the slightest thing of resistance.

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That has never been me.

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And so when I hear that saying, I just laugh.

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I'm like, yeah, all my life has ever been as hard.

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Anybody else?

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All my life has ever been as hard and I've never given up.

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I'm not a giver.

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So for me, instead of asking myself, you know, this isn't how this is supposed to work.

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This isn't right.

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This isn't what this is supposed to be.

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I just say, well, I guess I better start climbing.

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And that's why this word is so powerful and that's why I'm so thankful that I got to witness

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that escalator moving.

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Because God started speaking to me as I was taking the laps around that mall.

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And he said to me, he said, Jackie, he said, it's time to stop doing things the hard way.

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You are not going to have to do everything the hard way forever.

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And I'm not saying that nothing in life will ever be hard again.

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Please don't hear what I'm not saying.

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Following God means that life will have some effort to it.

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Jesus told us that we would have some persecution.

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We would have some adversity, but he also said he'd deliver us out of all those adversities.

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There is a difference.

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Write it down in your journal.

468
00:27:09.120 --> 00:27:13.640
If you're taking notes between obedient effort, meaning God tells you to do something because

469
00:27:13.640 --> 00:27:16.240
belief requires action, friends.

470
00:27:16.240 --> 00:27:17.800
Belief requires action.

471
00:27:17.800 --> 00:27:19.120
Belief without what?

472
00:27:19.120 --> 00:27:20.120
Action is what?

473
00:27:20.120 --> 00:27:21.120
Dead religion.

474
00:27:21.120 --> 00:27:23.000
You hear me say it here all the time.

475
00:27:23.000 --> 00:27:30.520
You're going to have to play your part, but your part's not 99% and then his part is 1%.

476
00:27:30.520 --> 00:27:35.960
There's always going to be a difference between obedient effort and unnecessary struggle.

477
00:27:35.960 --> 00:27:37.160
Please write that down.

478
00:27:37.160 --> 00:27:43.560
There's always going to be a difference between obedient strength and unnecessary struggle.

479
00:27:43.560 --> 00:27:48.120
You guys, I'll start struggling with something before I even ask for help.

480
00:27:48.120 --> 00:27:51.160
Anybody else?

481
00:27:51.160 --> 00:28:01.440
I'm so used to doing it myself that I will just do it myself.

482
00:28:01.440 --> 00:28:08.520
There are places in our lives for a lot of you where you've gotten so accustomed to struggling

483
00:28:08.520 --> 00:28:13.880
That struggle has become our default setting.

484
00:28:13.880 --> 00:28:23.000
Hard has become our default setting.

485
00:28:23.000 --> 00:28:26.800
And that's probably the biggest part of this word that God's releasing over us because

486
00:28:26.800 --> 00:28:34.160
when something hasn't worked right or at all for a long period of time, you stop checking.

487
00:28:34.160 --> 00:28:36.640
You stop looking for the breakthrough.

488
00:28:36.760 --> 00:28:41.040
One of the scriptures that God gave me back when I had panic disorder in my 20s, I had

489
00:28:41.040 --> 00:28:46.480
OCD, I had panic disorder, I had panic attacks, obviously, because that's what becomes panic

490
00:28:46.480 --> 00:28:47.480
disorder.

491
00:28:47.480 --> 00:28:49.920
I had, you guys, I was tore up from the floor up.

492
00:28:49.920 --> 00:28:53.320
I was messed up and I knew Jesus.

493
00:28:53.320 --> 00:28:54.800
I was a leader in my church.

494
00:28:54.800 --> 00:28:57.000
You guys, be nice to the leaders in your church.

495
00:28:57.000 --> 00:29:01.960
They're just people and they're fighting their own battles.

496
00:29:01.960 --> 00:29:03.080
And you know what?

497
00:29:03.080 --> 00:29:06.520
Just because they have a leadership gift doesn't mean that they shouldn't be able to rest and

498
00:29:06.600 --> 00:29:08.720
take a sabbatical.

499
00:29:08.720 --> 00:29:11.560
Churches have a habit of putting people in leadership that are broken.

500
00:29:11.560 --> 00:29:13.600
They're their most broken soldiers.

501
00:29:13.600 --> 00:29:17.240
It's time to take a rest sometimes for those people because that stuff's going to start

502
00:29:17.240 --> 00:29:18.360
coming out of them eventually.

503
00:29:18.360 --> 00:29:23.200
You can't give what you don't have, right?

504
00:29:23.200 --> 00:29:26.360
But I came from a background where, you know, if you had a leadership gift, you were in

505
00:29:26.360 --> 00:29:29.040
leadership because there was not enough people to be in leadership.

506
00:29:29.040 --> 00:29:31.360
So you're pushed right up in front.

507
00:29:31.360 --> 00:29:34.340
And you guys, I was struggling.

508
00:29:34.340 --> 00:29:41.300
I was hurting so badly, so, so, so badly.

509
00:29:41.300 --> 00:29:47.100
And God gave me a scripture and I wrote it down on a index card and I put it in my purse

510
00:29:47.100 --> 00:29:51.020
and I carried it around with me and I read it several times a day.

511
00:29:51.020 --> 00:29:56.380
And you guys know the scripture, most of you, it's Isaiah 4110.

512
00:29:56.380 --> 00:29:57.980
It promises that he's with me.

513
00:29:57.980 --> 00:30:00.020
It promises that he's upholding me.

514
00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:06.720
his righteous right hand. It promises me that he's not going to let anything harm me

515
00:30:08.320 --> 00:30:11.600
or take me out, right? Just paraphrasing the scripture.

516
00:30:14.480 --> 00:30:22.640
But you guys, the very next scripture, which is Isaiah 41, 11, talks about this. It says,

517
00:30:23.680 --> 00:30:28.240
you will look for them. What? Those that tormented you. What is that? That's not just humans, you

518
00:30:28.240 --> 00:30:32.640
guys. It's things that are tormenting us, problems that are tormenting us. It says you will look for

519
00:30:32.640 --> 00:30:40.960
them. Why? Because they become familiar and you won't be able to find them. They will be gone.

520
00:30:42.400 --> 00:30:47.120
And can I tell you guys, when I was finally delivered of all my mental health situation,

521
00:30:47.120 --> 00:30:52.880
it was in my 30s, I was married to my current husband, David. So much of what was going on

522
00:30:52.880 --> 00:30:57.280
with me had to do with stress. It had to do with being in an unhealthy and dysfunctional marriage.

523
00:30:57.280 --> 00:31:01.760
It had to do with being in an unhealthy and dysfunctional church. You guys, we will have

524
00:31:01.760 --> 00:31:05.760
to make changes in order to get our full healing. I hope that you understand that.

525
00:31:05.760 --> 00:31:10.160
We will have to let go of the familiar to get our full healing. I hope that you understand that.

526
00:31:10.160 --> 00:31:15.200
Oftentimes you cannot heal in the same place that is making you sick. I hope that you understand

527
00:31:15.200 --> 00:31:22.800
that. But I will tell you that one day I woke up and I realized that I hadn't taken the medication

528
00:31:22.800 --> 00:31:26.880
that the doctor prescribed to keep me from offing myself because I didn't need it anymore.

529
00:31:28.240 --> 00:31:34.240
I woke up one day and I realized that I didn't need someone to go with me to the grocery store

530
00:31:34.240 --> 00:31:38.640
because I was going to crash out because I couldn't go anywhere by myself. I couldn't drive

531
00:31:38.640 --> 00:31:43.680
five miles away from my own house by myself. I noticed that I didn't have the intrusive thoughts

532
00:31:43.680 --> 00:31:49.120
anymore. I woke up one day and I noticed that Isaiah 41 11 had come true. The things that

533
00:31:49.360 --> 00:31:57.600
had tormented me, I was looking for them, but they were no more. They were no more.

534
00:32:01.520 --> 00:32:06.080
I stopped checking because I was so used to them being there and I was just living my life.

535
00:32:08.000 --> 00:32:11.840
You guys heard about the story of the elephant that gets chained when it's young

536
00:32:13.760 --> 00:32:17.200
and then when it gets big enough to break the chain because no chain

537
00:32:17.280 --> 00:32:22.160
like that could ever keep it contained. It doesn't even try to go past the perimeter

538
00:32:22.720 --> 00:32:27.120
because the chain that it was chained with when it was young was strong enough to keep it there.

539
00:32:27.680 --> 00:32:33.280
But now that it's older and that chain is no match for it, it no longer tries because it's used to

540
00:32:36.400 --> 00:32:42.400
and familiar with that limitation. Is this speaking to anybody?

541
00:32:48.000 --> 00:32:53.520
Is this speaking to anyone at all? You stop checking. You already know what you're going

542
00:32:53.520 --> 00:33:01.360
to encounter. You've already tried a million times. You stop checking. You start approaching

543
00:33:01.360 --> 00:33:05.600
that area of your life according to your history in that area of your life.

544
00:33:08.240 --> 00:33:12.800
You've learned nobody helps me. Nobody's for me. I have to make everything happen by myself.

545
00:33:13.440 --> 00:33:17.760
Money is always going to be hard. Relationships are always going to be complicated.

546
00:33:19.120 --> 00:33:22.560
Men are always going to be like this. Women are always going to be like this.

547
00:33:22.560 --> 00:33:24.080
Nothing ever works out for me

548
00:33:27.600 --> 00:33:31.360
or nothing ever works out easily for me. You expect a fight.

549
00:33:31.360 --> 00:33:34.800
You got on boxing gloves because life has always been a fight

550
00:33:35.680 --> 00:33:39.120
and maybe God has already started changing some of these areas of your lives,

551
00:33:39.120 --> 00:33:41.520
but you're still climbing the escalator like it's broken.

552
00:33:45.920 --> 00:33:51.200
I didn't pay attention to that escalator for the first couple weeks that we were walking at the mall.

553
00:33:53.200 --> 00:33:57.840
I didn't look over and expect it to be moving. I already know what it looks like. I've seen it

554
00:33:57.840 --> 00:34:02.480
for years and years and years. I don't know what it looks like. I don't know what it looks like.

555
00:34:02.480 --> 00:34:04.560
I've seen it for years and years and years.

556
00:34:09.920 --> 00:34:14.320
Friends, we exert a lot of energy we don't need to exert because our nervous systems

557
00:34:15.440 --> 00:34:20.560
and our habits, our expectations, maybe even possibly our prayers,

558
00:34:21.280 --> 00:34:25.600
they were formed in that season of hardness. They were formed in that season when nothing worked.

559
00:34:26.159 --> 00:34:32.560
Isaiah 43, 18 and 19 says, forget the former things, do not dwell on the past,

560
00:34:33.120 --> 00:34:36.639
but look and see that I am doing a new thing.

561
00:34:38.880 --> 00:34:43.199
Come on, you guys. I'm holding tight to this word.

562
00:34:47.040 --> 00:34:51.840
And don't check out. We got 20 more minutes and I'm going somewhere with you.

563
00:34:52.159 --> 00:34:57.440
And I'm going somewhere with you. Forget the former things. Do not dwell on the past.

564
00:34:57.440 --> 00:34:59.840
Look and see that I am doing a new thing.

565
00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:05.000
Now it springs up, do you not perceive it?

566
00:35:05.420 --> 00:35:07.500
You guys, you know what the word perceive means?

567
00:35:07.500 --> 00:35:09.700
It means, can you see it before you see it?

568
00:35:14.060 --> 00:35:15.860
It's about intuition.

569
00:35:15.860 --> 00:35:18.220
That question is powerful.

570
00:35:18.220 --> 00:35:19.380
God doesn't mince words.

571
00:35:19.380 --> 00:35:24.300
The prophet here is saying, do you not perceive it?

572
00:35:24.300 --> 00:35:26.540
That's what God is saying through the prophet

573
00:35:26.540 --> 00:35:27.780
because something can change

574
00:35:27.780 --> 00:35:29.880
before you recognize that it's changed.

575
00:35:33.860 --> 00:35:35.100
There's an invitation here.

576
00:35:35.100 --> 00:35:36.420
Do you see the invitation?

577
00:35:38.100 --> 00:35:39.340
Forget the former things.

578
00:35:39.340 --> 00:35:41.260
Okay, first there's an instruction.

579
00:35:41.260 --> 00:35:43.380
Forget the former things.

580
00:35:43.380 --> 00:35:46.020
Do not dwell on the past.

581
00:35:46.020 --> 00:35:48.980
You guys, the word dwell is inhabit the past.

582
00:35:48.980 --> 00:35:50.140
It means you live there.

583
00:35:50.140 --> 00:35:52.620
It means you live in the past.

584
00:35:52.620 --> 00:35:56.660
When you dwell, you inhabit, you live.

585
00:35:58.580 --> 00:36:00.720
It's the same kind of word as abide.

586
00:36:03.020 --> 00:36:05.760
Do not dwell on the past.

587
00:36:10.140 --> 00:36:13.020
Don't live in the past, but look and see.

588
00:36:13.020 --> 00:36:14.780
So here's another instruction.

589
00:36:14.780 --> 00:36:15.900
Forget the former things.

590
00:36:15.900 --> 00:36:18.460
Do not live in the past,

591
00:36:18.460 --> 00:36:21.420
but look and see that I'm doing a new thing.

592
00:36:21.420 --> 00:36:23.180
And then there's an invitation.

593
00:36:23.180 --> 00:36:26.700
Now it springs up, do you not perceive it?

594
00:36:27.780 --> 00:36:32.780
Do you not perceive it?

595
00:36:34.380 --> 00:36:35.740
Because something can change

596
00:36:35.740 --> 00:36:38.340
before we recognize that it's changed.

597
00:36:38.340 --> 00:36:41.140
And you guys, some things don't need to be replaced.

598
00:36:41.140 --> 00:36:42.620
There's going to be things in your life

599
00:36:42.620 --> 00:36:44.080
that are gonna be replaced.

600
00:36:44.080 --> 00:36:46.660
Don't try to apply this word to things

601
00:36:46.660 --> 00:36:48.500
that it's not meant to be applied to.

602
00:36:48.500 --> 00:36:49.820
There's gonna be things in your life

603
00:36:49.820 --> 00:36:51.260
that are just going to be replaced.

604
00:36:51.260 --> 00:36:52.820
There's an empty space there.

605
00:36:52.820 --> 00:36:55.020
God's not gonna raise that thing up from the dead.

606
00:36:55.020 --> 00:36:58.460
He's gonna replace it with something better, okay?

607
00:36:58.460 --> 00:37:00.660
Don't let this word be a catalyst

608
00:37:00.660 --> 00:37:04.380
for you to go back to some broken, messed up situation

609
00:37:04.380 --> 00:37:06.460
where you're just like, yep, I perceive it, Lord.

610
00:37:06.460 --> 00:37:07.500
I perceive it, Lord.

611
00:37:07.500 --> 00:37:08.480
I perceive it, Lord.

612
00:37:08.480 --> 00:37:09.320
No.

613
00:37:11.820 --> 00:37:13.540
It's dead, bury it.

614
00:37:13.540 --> 00:37:14.420
Let it be done.

615
00:37:18.820 --> 00:37:20.940
Some things will be completely replaced,

616
00:37:20.940 --> 00:37:22.980
but some things just need to be restored.

617
00:37:23.980 --> 00:37:26.620
In this case, they didn't tear that escalator out.

618
00:37:26.620 --> 00:37:27.460
They fixed it.

619
00:37:28.580 --> 00:37:30.080
Which you know what, you guys?

620
00:37:30.080 --> 00:37:33.700
You know what's so annoying about that for me?

621
00:37:33.700 --> 00:37:35.540
It means it was always fixable.

622
00:37:38.860 --> 00:37:40.420
Remember what I just assumed

623
00:37:40.420 --> 00:37:42.360
when I was climbing up those steps?

624
00:37:43.340 --> 00:37:45.020
I assumed it wasn't fixable

625
00:37:45.020 --> 00:37:47.220
and that they couldn't afford to replace it.

626
00:37:47.220 --> 00:37:52.220
I assumed that it was broken beyond repair.

627
00:37:55.940 --> 00:37:58.500
And then I just walk in one day and it's fixed.

628
00:37:59.460 --> 00:38:01.340
It was always fixable.

629
00:38:04.460 --> 00:38:05.880
It was always fixable.

630
00:38:07.060 --> 00:38:08.540
And there might be some things in your life

631
00:38:08.540 --> 00:38:09.500
that you've written off

632
00:38:09.500 --> 00:38:11.420
that God is not necessarily finished with.

633
00:38:11.420 --> 00:38:12.900
And I want you to have the discernment

634
00:38:12.900 --> 00:38:14.220
to know the difference between things

635
00:38:14.220 --> 00:38:17.460
that do not need to try to be restored

636
00:38:17.460 --> 00:38:18.540
and things that do.

637
00:38:24.020 --> 00:38:27.500
Sometimes broken is not the same thing as useless.

638
00:38:27.500 --> 00:38:29.360
Sometimes dormant is not dead.

639
00:38:29.360 --> 00:38:32.260
I know that because David and I were the dormant dormants.

640
00:38:34.780 --> 00:38:36.100
There were a lot of things in our life

641
00:38:36.100 --> 00:38:38.260
that did not work because of dead religion,

642
00:38:38.260 --> 00:38:40.780
but all it took was God to give us a new word,

643
00:38:40.780 --> 00:38:43.680
a fresh word, a word not based on religion,

644
00:38:44.080 --> 00:38:46.800
but based on grace in order for us to start to thrive.

645
00:38:47.680 --> 00:38:49.640
You guys know all the church talk,

646
00:38:49.640 --> 00:38:52.520
delayed is not denied, all the things,

647
00:38:52.520 --> 00:38:53.960
but sometimes it is true.

648
00:38:58.000 --> 00:39:01.520
Joel 2.25 says, I will restore to you the years

649
00:39:01.520 --> 00:39:03.380
that the swarming locust has eaten.

650
00:39:08.320 --> 00:39:11.080
You guys, the reason why it just doesn't say the fruit,

651
00:39:11.080 --> 00:39:13.280
it says the years is because this is talking

652
00:39:13.840 --> 00:39:15.440
about potential that's been lost.

653
00:39:16.480 --> 00:39:19.520
This is talking about the unrenewable resource

654
00:39:19.520 --> 00:39:21.080
of time that's been lost.

655
00:39:23.800 --> 00:39:26.440
My niece that now lives with me has a cat.

656
00:39:26.440 --> 00:39:29.000
I've never had a cat on my property before.

657
00:39:29.000 --> 00:39:31.740
For those of you that love cats, God bless you,

658
00:39:31.740 --> 00:39:36.740
but the space that she lives in smells like cat,

659
00:39:38.460 --> 00:39:40.760
smells like ammonia, like cat urine.

660
00:39:40.760 --> 00:39:42.680
And I understand that it's the litter box

661
00:39:43.080 --> 00:39:45.320
that she's using, it's an old fashioned,

662
00:39:45.320 --> 00:39:47.340
cheap litter box with cheap litter,

663
00:39:47.340 --> 00:39:50.520
and she works a lot, she's 20 years old,

664
00:39:50.520 --> 00:39:52.080
she's gonna be going to school and working,

665
00:39:52.080 --> 00:39:54.100
gotta scoop that stuff a couple times a week.

666
00:39:54.100 --> 00:39:55.160
I've learned it all.

667
00:39:55.160 --> 00:39:56.400
Why, because I researched it,

668
00:39:56.400 --> 00:39:58.780
because I don't like the smell of cat.

669
00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:00.840
Right?

670
00:40:02.600 --> 00:40:04.500
She got a couple of paychecks in and I said,

671
00:40:04.500 --> 00:40:05.760
come on, we're gonna go to PetSmart

672
00:40:05.760 --> 00:40:09.300
and we're gonna buy one of those robot pet litter robots.

673
00:40:09.300 --> 00:40:11.400
We're gonna buy one of those kitty litter boxes

674
00:40:11.400 --> 00:40:14.680
that looks like the pet is going in into an MRI.

675
00:40:14.680 --> 00:40:17.040
All right, the cat's gonna climb into an MRI every day

676
00:40:17.040 --> 00:40:18.160
cause that's what it looks like to me.

677
00:40:18.160 --> 00:40:20.960
It's like one of those big round tube

678
00:40:20.960 --> 00:40:23.240
spaceship looking things.

679
00:40:23.240 --> 00:40:26.360
And she was like, oh, oh, she's like,

680
00:40:26.360 --> 00:40:29.600
it was $399 at PetSmart.

681
00:40:29.640 --> 00:40:31.320
And I said, you pay half, I'll pay half.

682
00:40:31.320 --> 00:40:35.280
I said, I'm willing to invest in the clean air

683
00:40:35.280 --> 00:40:36.120
of this space.

684
00:40:36.120 --> 00:40:38.480
I'm willing to invest in this, right?

685
00:40:38.480 --> 00:40:40.200
And she goes, oh, but on Jackie,

686
00:40:40.200 --> 00:40:42.800
I think that I can research this.

687
00:40:42.800 --> 00:40:45.120
I think that there's a cheaper one on Amazon.

688
00:40:45.120 --> 00:40:46.840
I can order it, I can get it delivered.

689
00:40:46.840 --> 00:40:49.340
I said, oh no, honey, oh no.

690
00:40:50.840 --> 00:40:52.840
First of all, you're not gonna get it for cheaper

691
00:40:52.840 --> 00:40:54.240
than you're going in on this.

692
00:40:54.240 --> 00:40:56.640
You're half of this, you're not gonna get it cheaper.

693
00:40:56.640 --> 00:40:59.200
I appreciate you trying to save me money,

694
00:40:59.800 --> 00:41:02.440
but I learned something a long time ago, honey,

695
00:41:02.440 --> 00:41:04.840
that I'm gonna teach you right here in this moment.

696
00:41:04.840 --> 00:41:06.840
Money is a renewable resource.

697
00:41:06.840 --> 00:41:08.720
You will always find some more of it,

698
00:41:08.720 --> 00:41:10.380
but you will not find more time.

699
00:41:11.440 --> 00:41:13.160
Time is not a renewable resource.

700
00:41:13.160 --> 00:41:16.320
And you guys, that's what the scripture is about.

701
00:41:16.320 --> 00:41:20.120
I will give back to you the unrenewable resource

702
00:41:20.120 --> 00:41:23.520
that these locusts have eaten out of your life.

703
00:41:23.520 --> 00:41:24.360
Come on, y'all.

704
00:41:27.480 --> 00:41:28.800
You can go get a part-time job.

705
00:41:29.320 --> 00:41:31.360
You can deliver DoorDash, you can do whatever.

706
00:41:31.360 --> 00:41:33.880
You can find some more bucks, okay?

707
00:41:33.880 --> 00:41:37.120
But you're not gonna ever get any time back in your life.

708
00:41:39.080 --> 00:41:39.920
You're not.

709
00:41:43.320 --> 00:41:44.160
You're not.

710
00:41:48.240 --> 00:41:49.920
I will restore to you.

711
00:41:52.280 --> 00:41:54.240
I really feel this in my heart, y'all.

712
00:41:54.240 --> 00:41:57.520
I will restore to you the youth that was stolen

713
00:41:58.960 --> 00:42:01.360
by that dysfunctional relationship that you were in

714
00:42:01.360 --> 00:42:03.360
all in your 20s and 30s.

715
00:42:05.600 --> 00:42:08.640
I will restore to you the innocence and the childhood

716
00:42:08.640 --> 00:42:11.680
that was taken from you by your dysfunctional family.

717
00:42:14.680 --> 00:42:17.680
I will restore to you the years

718
00:42:17.680 --> 00:42:21.240
that you think that you wasted plowing that field,

719
00:42:21.240 --> 00:42:24.800
whatever it was, going to school, going to college,

720
00:42:24.800 --> 00:42:27.840
trying to help that business get off the ground,

721
00:42:27.840 --> 00:42:29.880
doing this, working at that place.

722
00:42:29.880 --> 00:42:31.640
Whatever it is that doesn't make sense to you

723
00:42:31.640 --> 00:42:34.280
and seems like a futile waste of your time

724
00:42:34.280 --> 00:42:37.640
and of your life that you can never get back,

725
00:42:37.640 --> 00:42:39.440
that's what this scripture is about.

726
00:42:45.600 --> 00:42:47.400
That's what this scripture is about.

727
00:42:53.320 --> 00:42:55.360
You guys, the word restoration just in general

728
00:42:55.360 --> 00:42:57.240
means that God can take something.

729
00:42:57.960 --> 00:43:02.120
Anything that has existed in a diminished condition,

730
00:43:05.200 --> 00:43:07.120
meaning it is not working the way

731
00:43:07.120 --> 00:43:08.720
that it's supposed to work,

732
00:43:08.720 --> 00:43:11.400
whether it's your body, whether it's your mind,

733
00:43:12.800 --> 00:43:16.640
whether it's your money, whether it's your relationships,

734
00:43:16.640 --> 00:43:19.600
and he can return it to its,

735
00:43:20.600 --> 00:43:23.320
his original state for it.

736
00:43:24.400 --> 00:43:25.440
You guys, this is why it's so important

737
00:43:25.440 --> 00:43:26.560
to be kingdom people,

738
00:43:26.560 --> 00:43:28.320
because otherwise you're going to be chasing ideals

739
00:43:28.320 --> 00:43:29.800
that are not God's ideals.

740
00:43:32.320 --> 00:43:35.320
We want to have things the way that God designed them to be,

741
00:43:37.520 --> 00:43:39.320
but you have to know what that is.

742
00:43:46.760 --> 00:43:49.120
God wants you to be in perfect health.

743
00:43:51.440 --> 00:43:54.040
I saw 818 on the clock two times yesterday,

744
00:43:54.040 --> 00:43:57.240
and I'm like, okay, God, I'm pressing into,

745
00:43:57.240 --> 00:44:01.240
you've given me the power to prosper.

746
00:44:02.080 --> 00:44:04.000
That's what Deuteronomy 818 says.

747
00:44:04.000 --> 00:44:06.400
He's given us the ability, the power,

748
00:44:08.160 --> 00:44:09.840
that same spirit that raised Christ from the dead

749
00:44:09.840 --> 00:44:12.800
dwells in you, the power to prosper.

750
00:44:12.800 --> 00:44:15.040
You guys, it doesn't just mean financially.

751
00:44:15.040 --> 00:44:16.480
If you hear the word prosperity

752
00:44:16.480 --> 00:44:18.240
and all you ever think about is money,

753
00:44:18.240 --> 00:44:23.240
you gotta expand to prosper in your relationship.

754
00:44:24.200 --> 00:44:26.760
To prosper in your health, to prosper in your finances,

755
00:44:26.760 --> 00:44:30.440
to prosper in your vocation on earth, to prosper.

756
00:44:32.720 --> 00:44:34.960
He's given us the power to prosper, you guys.

757
00:44:37.240 --> 00:44:39.080
Things that haven't produced can start producing.

758
00:44:39.080 --> 00:44:41.240
Things that haven't moved can start moving.

759
00:44:41.240 --> 00:44:43.320
Things that haven't been aligned,

760
00:44:43.320 --> 00:44:45.760
if they are meant to be aligned, they can start aligning.

761
00:44:45.760 --> 00:44:49.200
Things that haven't been useful in your life

762
00:44:49.200 --> 00:44:53.560
that haven't worked can start becoming useful and working.

763
00:44:54.040 --> 00:44:58.500
Things that you thought it would...

764
00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:08.520
require you to always carry, can begin carrying their own weight, whatever those things are.

765
00:45:08.520 --> 00:45:13.160
Now if you know me, and some of you are really new to me, but if you know me, you know that

766
00:45:13.160 --> 00:45:15.200
I am a Hebraic New Year girl.

767
00:45:15.200 --> 00:45:16.560
I love Rosh Hashanah.

768
00:45:16.560 --> 00:45:17.560
I love it.

769
00:45:17.560 --> 00:45:18.880
I expect a shift every year.

770
00:45:18.880 --> 00:45:21.480
It is my new year, not January 1st.

771
00:45:21.480 --> 00:45:22.600
It is my new year.

772
00:45:22.600 --> 00:45:26.840
And as we approach Rosh Hashanah, you guys, just a few weeks away, I love fall.

773
00:45:26.840 --> 00:45:28.200
I love this time of year.

774
00:45:28.200 --> 00:45:30.360
It's so full of the supernatural for me.

775
00:45:30.360 --> 00:45:33.040
It's so full of expectation for me.

776
00:45:33.040 --> 00:45:35.600
And yes, I will be doing something special this year again.

777
00:45:35.600 --> 00:45:38.440
So you're going to want to hang around for that.

778
00:45:38.440 --> 00:45:42.720
In the first couple weeks of September, we are going to be having some supernatural time

779
00:45:42.720 --> 00:45:44.440
together.

780
00:45:44.440 --> 00:45:49.240
But as we approach that, you guys, this is a beautiful time to start asking, what expectation

781
00:45:49.240 --> 00:45:55.080
am I carrying into this next season?

782
00:45:55.080 --> 00:45:59.440
I believe that God has appointed times, you guys.

783
00:45:59.440 --> 00:46:04.360
I believe that God has times when he invites us to remember, to examine, to realign, to

784
00:46:04.360 --> 00:46:06.120
expect.

785
00:46:06.120 --> 00:46:11.600
And I do believe that this time of year is a special time and season to pay attention,

786
00:46:11.600 --> 00:46:16.000
to pay attention.

787
00:46:16.000 --> 00:46:18.360
And it's not just about, hey, God, what are you going to change for me?

788
00:46:18.360 --> 00:46:19.720
It's about God, show me.

789
00:46:19.720 --> 00:46:20.720
Remember my favorite prayer?

790
00:46:20.720 --> 00:46:23.240
Teach me, show me, heal me, grow me.

791
00:46:23.400 --> 00:46:31.680
God, show me what you're already changing so I can stop treating it like it's broken.

792
00:46:31.680 --> 00:46:36.080
You guys, I got a beautiful, beautiful, beautiful message in my inbox this morning when I woke

793
00:46:36.080 --> 00:46:39.660
up that I knew someday would come.

794
00:46:39.660 --> 00:46:41.520
She didn't know it would come someday.

795
00:46:41.520 --> 00:46:43.800
She had a lot of doubt, but you know what?

796
00:46:43.800 --> 00:46:47.360
She didn't give up because she was one of those popcorn kernels that was going to have

797
00:46:47.360 --> 00:46:50.440
to stay in the oil and in the heat a little bit longer.

798
00:46:50.440 --> 00:46:52.940
She's had a lot of really hard things happen in her life.

799
00:46:53.640 --> 00:46:57.260
She had to press through a lot of things to get where she is.

800
00:46:57.260 --> 00:47:02.780
But I got a engagement announcement from Gail this morning in my inbox.

801
00:47:02.780 --> 00:47:05.340
And for those of you that have been around for a while, you know Gail.

802
00:47:05.340 --> 00:47:10.540
Gail's been around since 2023, 2022 or 23.

803
00:47:10.540 --> 00:47:13.400
And she had a lot, she had an uphill climb, you guys.

804
00:47:13.400 --> 00:47:20.820
She had a lot, a lot, a lot, a lot, a lot to overcome.

805
00:47:20.820 --> 00:47:24.700
And there were a couple times when I know she wanted to give up.

806
00:47:24.700 --> 00:47:26.060
I know she wanted to check out.

807
00:47:26.060 --> 00:47:29.140
I know she wanted to just believe that this wasn't going to happen for her.

808
00:47:29.140 --> 00:47:33.340
And you guys, I'm not just talking about God sending her someone who cherishes her and

809
00:47:33.340 --> 00:47:37.540
who loves her and who wants to be her partner and her spirit mate and do life with her because

810
00:47:37.540 --> 00:47:39.700
she was alone.

811
00:47:39.700 --> 00:47:43.280
And I've had the privilege to meet her a couple times in person and she is beautiful on the

812
00:47:43.280 --> 00:47:47.240
inside and on the outside, but she had a lot of brokenness that God was healing.

813
00:47:47.240 --> 00:47:53.440
She had been through a lot of things, a lot of things, a lot of rejection, a lot of stuff.

814
00:47:53.440 --> 00:48:00.800
And I know she would not mind me sharing any of that because she's a trophy of grace.

815
00:48:00.800 --> 00:48:04.680
And there were a few times when she wasn't going to be in the program anymore.

816
00:48:04.680 --> 00:48:09.400
There were a few times when just things, different things happened that were causing her to kind

817
00:48:09.400 --> 00:48:17.320
of just count herself out, but God.

818
00:48:17.320 --> 00:48:22.080
And now not only is she stepping into this beautiful season of life, but this thing that

819
00:48:22.080 --> 00:48:27.000
was always broken and seemed like it was always going to be broken is moving again.

820
00:48:27.000 --> 00:48:30.880
Look, God already knew that I was going to talk about this.

821
00:48:30.880 --> 00:48:34.440
He asked me to talk about the word about the escalator.

822
00:48:34.440 --> 00:48:44.920
And I don't think it's an accident that homegirl got engaged the day before.

823
00:48:44.920 --> 00:48:58.280
Because she is living proof of what I'm saying right now.

824
00:48:58.280 --> 00:48:59.280
All right.

825
00:48:59.280 --> 00:49:00.280
So let's do some activations.

826
00:49:01.280 --> 00:49:05.960
And you guys are going to be hearing a lot more about the season that we're stepping

827
00:49:05.960 --> 00:49:07.640
into.

828
00:49:07.640 --> 00:49:13.120
God always has something very special on the new year at Rosh Hashanah for us.

829
00:49:13.120 --> 00:49:14.760
I hope you're excited about that.

830
00:49:14.760 --> 00:49:21.080
I might even do something again with one of my beautiful prophetic leader friends.

831
00:49:21.080 --> 00:49:26.840
We've always had some special events that happen around this time.

832
00:49:26.840 --> 00:49:28.280
So here's your first activation.

833
00:49:28.280 --> 00:49:29.280
Close your eyes if you can.

834
00:49:29.280 --> 00:49:32.920
If you're not driving or if you're not somewhere where it's just not practical for you to close

835
00:49:32.920 --> 00:49:33.920
your eyes.

836
00:49:33.920 --> 00:49:38.880
Just so you can get, you guys, closing our eyes is no more than us just getting quiet

837
00:49:38.880 --> 00:49:40.760
and kind of getting into our own little bubble.

838
00:49:40.760 --> 00:49:42.800
When you close your eyes, you're not looking around.

839
00:49:42.800 --> 00:49:44.640
You don't see everything around you.

840
00:49:44.640 --> 00:49:49.000
You're just getting, you know, introspective in the best way.

841
00:49:49.000 --> 00:49:50.000
So close your eyes.

842
00:49:50.000 --> 00:49:54.200
And the very first thing I want you to ask yourself or ask God is, God, where have I

843
00:49:54.200 --> 00:49:59.440
accepted dysfunction in my life as permanent?

844
00:49:59.440 --> 00:49:59.960
And then I want you to write

845
00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:03.480
down the first thing that came to mind, put it in the chat.

846
00:50:03.480 --> 00:50:06.440
Don't be digging around for something that you want him to say.

847
00:50:06.440 --> 00:50:12.160
The very first thing that came into your mind when you asked that, put it in the chat.

848
00:50:12.160 --> 00:50:13.200
That's just how it is.

849
00:50:13.200 --> 00:50:14.200
That's what you believe in.

850
00:50:14.200 --> 00:50:15.200
Oh, this is just...

851
00:50:15.200 --> 00:50:16.760
It is what it is.

852
00:50:16.760 --> 00:50:18.960
It is what it is.

853
00:50:18.960 --> 00:50:19.960
It is what it is.

854
00:50:19.960 --> 00:50:24.080
A lot of people talking about their health right now.

855
00:50:24.080 --> 00:50:27.360
God, where have I accepted dysfunction as permanent?

856
00:50:27.360 --> 00:50:28.360
Just it is what it is.

857
00:50:28.800 --> 00:50:32.160
I'm going to stop trying to change this and I'm going to start just accepting it.

858
00:50:32.160 --> 00:50:45.520
I've accepted it.

859
00:50:45.520 --> 00:50:46.920
Lots of people saying health.

860
00:50:46.920 --> 00:50:48.240
Lots of people saying health.

861
00:50:48.240 --> 00:50:50.280
Lots of health going on here.

862
00:50:50.280 --> 00:50:51.280
Finances.

863
00:50:52.280 --> 00:51:00.280
Obviously, there's a few, you know, being a wife, wanting a marriage.

864
00:51:00.280 --> 00:51:18.960
Okay, I'm going to pray over this and then we're going to do one more activation before

865
00:51:18.960 --> 00:51:19.960
we end.

866
00:51:19.960 --> 00:51:27.120
Can we just release our agreement right now with the idea that yesterday's condition has

867
00:51:27.120 --> 00:51:30.400
anything to do with today's reality?

868
00:51:30.400 --> 00:51:35.320
We're asking you to give us eyes to perceive what you are already doing.

869
00:51:35.320 --> 00:51:36.720
You said you're doing a new thing.

870
00:51:36.720 --> 00:51:39.280
Give us the eyes to perceive it.

871
00:51:39.280 --> 00:51:40.840
Give us the eyes to see it.

872
00:51:40.840 --> 00:51:43.640
Open the eyes of our heart, Lord.

873
00:51:43.640 --> 00:51:47.740
Whatever you are restoring, let us recognize that restoration.

874
00:51:47.740 --> 00:51:51.180
Wherever you're moving, help us to move with you.

875
00:51:51.180 --> 00:51:58.660
Not one step forward past you, not one step behind you, but with you.

876
00:51:58.660 --> 00:51:59.660
In Jesus' name, amen.

877
00:51:59.660 --> 00:52:03.420
All right, so here's your next one.

878
00:52:03.420 --> 00:52:05.780
Here's your next activation.

879
00:52:05.780 --> 00:52:11.780
Where God am I making something harder than it has to be simply because that's what I'm

880
00:52:11.780 --> 00:52:13.020
used to?

881
00:52:13.020 --> 00:52:14.740
Where am I over functioning?

882
00:52:14.740 --> 00:52:17.660
Where am I trying to control the outcome?

883
00:52:17.660 --> 00:52:22.500
Where am I just expecting hardships, expecting things to be hard?

884
00:52:22.500 --> 00:52:26.820
Where am I climbing the stairs even though the escalator is moving?

885
00:52:26.820 --> 00:52:27.820
Come on.

886
00:52:27.820 --> 00:52:32.180
The first thing that comes to mind, put it in, put it in, put it in, put it in, put it

887
00:52:32.180 --> 00:52:33.180
in.

888
00:52:33.180 --> 00:52:42.900
Just expecting it to be grueling and hard, dreading it because it's just always been

889
00:52:42.900 --> 00:52:58.940
just so difficult.

890
00:52:58.940 --> 00:53:00.460
Where are you over functioning, friends?

891
00:53:00.460 --> 00:53:04.900
Where are you over functioning?

892
00:53:04.900 --> 00:53:14.060
Okay, now if you can, if you're not driving, you don't need your hands on the steering

893
00:53:14.060 --> 00:53:19.520
wheel, physically open your hands.

894
00:53:19.520 --> 00:53:21.700
Some people put a different one up for this one.

895
00:53:21.700 --> 00:53:25.700
Some people put the same one up.

896
00:53:25.700 --> 00:53:30.940
Open your hands.

897
00:53:30.940 --> 00:53:32.860
Open your hands in a receiving posture.

898
00:53:32.860 --> 00:53:35.700
If you believe it, receive it.

899
00:53:35.700 --> 00:53:37.980
Let's pray.

900
00:53:37.980 --> 00:53:52.380
God, I give you my need to control this area, my need to make things happen, my over functioning,

901
00:53:52.380 --> 00:53:58.580
my striving instead of partnering.

902
00:53:58.580 --> 00:54:02.060
I give you my striving instead of partnering.

903
00:54:02.260 --> 00:54:07.380
Show me where grace is available for me that I haven't been receiving.

904
00:54:07.380 --> 00:54:09.620
Teach me, show me, heal me, grow me.

905
00:54:09.620 --> 00:54:11.980
I am willing to do this in a new way.

906
00:54:11.980 --> 00:54:15.580
I'm willing to believe that there's a new way of doing this.

907
00:54:15.580 --> 00:54:21.580
I'm willing to believe that I can partner instead of strive.

908
00:54:21.580 --> 00:54:28.500
I'm willing to lay down this heavy burden that you never asked me to carry.

909
00:54:28.500 --> 00:54:30.660
I'm willing to stop over functioning.

910
00:54:30.700 --> 00:54:34.780
I'm willing to even let it fall apart if it needs to fall apart so that you can put something

911
00:54:34.780 --> 00:54:35.780
better together.

912
00:54:39.660 --> 00:54:40.420
In Jesus name.

913
00:54:42.940 --> 00:54:46.220
All right, here's a few prophetic declarations that I have written down for today.

914
00:54:46.220 --> 00:54:47.900
We're just going to go over them very quickly.

915
00:54:48.340 --> 00:54:49.660
You can listen to this and replay.

916
00:54:49.660 --> 00:54:50.780
You can write them down.

917
00:54:51.020 --> 00:54:52.740
You can make your own version of them.

918
00:54:52.940 --> 00:54:53.440
Okay.

919
00:54:55.500 --> 00:54:56.540
Here, here they are.

920
00:54:57.260 --> 00:54:58.300
In fact, I want to stand up.

921
00:54:58.300 --> 00:54:59.900
If you can stand up where you are.

922
00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:06.480
you can stand up. I'm putting a prophetic posturing on my declarations. If you want to walk around

923
00:55:06.480 --> 00:55:10.880
while we're declaring them, you can do that. What is that? That just means you're moving.

924
00:55:10.880 --> 00:55:16.640
We're not stagnant. We're not stuck. We're moving. And here's the declarations. Once again,

925
00:55:16.640 --> 00:55:21.520
listen to them, make your own. And I want you to be declaring these things.

926
00:55:22.720 --> 00:55:26.640
You guys, if you believe this word is from the Lord, then we have to take action on it.

927
00:55:26.640 --> 00:55:32.560
And sometimes the action that we take is just partnering with the word in declarations. Okay?

928
00:55:34.160 --> 00:55:38.160
And I want you to be declaring these all the way to the Hebraic New Year,

929
00:55:39.120 --> 00:55:46.160
which is in just a few weeks. Here they are. Things that have been broken can work again.

930
00:55:48.000 --> 00:55:54.800
Things that haven't moved are moving again. Things that have been out of alignment

931
00:55:55.440 --> 00:56:04.080
and are meant for me can come into alignment now. Things that have been dormant can start

932
00:56:04.080 --> 00:56:12.000
producing fruit. Things that have required unnecessary struggle now come under the

933
00:56:12.000 --> 00:56:18.960
finished work of the cross and the grace of the blood of Jesus. Come on.

934
00:56:19.600 --> 00:56:25.520
I will not assume something is still broken simply because it was broken in the past.

935
00:56:26.560 --> 00:56:31.680
I will not expect life to be hard just because it was hard in the past.

936
00:56:32.240 --> 00:56:37.680
I will not carry yesterday's expectations into today's abundance.

937
00:56:39.520 --> 00:56:44.160
I will perceive the new thing that God is doing and I will partner with him in it.

938
00:56:44.800 --> 00:56:49.360
I will work when he tells me to work and I will rest when he tells me to rest

939
00:56:49.360 --> 00:56:53.360
and I will wait when he tells me to wait. And I will stop climbing

940
00:56:54.880 --> 00:56:58.400
when God has already set my destiny in motion.

941
00:57:01.040 --> 00:57:06.400
In Jesus name. Friends, thank you for being here. I hope you have a very supernatural

942
00:57:06.400 --> 00:57:11.520
Saturday and the rest of your upcoming week. Make your own declarations based on these.

943
00:57:11.760 --> 00:57:18.000
Make your own declarations based on these and be declaring them. That is how you tell

944
00:57:18.000 --> 00:57:25.280
God that you believe that this word is from him. And let's see. Let's see what he'll do.

945
00:57:25.280 --> 00:57:29.200
I'm excited to see what he'll do and be celebrating with your sister Gail.

946
00:57:29.200 --> 00:57:36.000
This has been a process and it's a beautiful, beautiful, beautiful celebration of what God is

947
00:57:36.000 --> 00:57:39.920
doing in all of our lives. And you guys, I really do think it's an invitation into an entirely

948
00:57:40.560 --> 00:57:46.720
different level of not just abundance, but of acceleration.

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So I hope you're excited about that. I'll see you soon.