WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.680 Good morning, everybody. 2 00:00:05.680 --> 00:00:10.520 Welcome to Supernatural Saturday and Happy New Year. 3 00:00:10.520 --> 00:00:13.120 Happy New Year. 4 00:00:13.120 --> 00:00:19.240 Ah, yes, my calendar's not off for those that are like, hey, is it January already? 5 00:00:19.240 --> 00:00:21.520 Doesn't it feel like this year is just flying by? 6 00:00:21.520 --> 00:00:23.480 I can't, I mean, we say that all the time. 7 00:00:23.480 --> 00:00:27.600 I think that's what old people say, just so you know. 8 00:00:27.600 --> 00:00:29.360 Now I never said that when I was a kid. 9 00:00:29.360 --> 00:00:33.840 In fact, it was like, when's next week going to get here? 10 00:00:33.840 --> 00:00:35.920 When's summer break going to get here? 11 00:00:35.920 --> 00:00:36.920 When's this going to get here? 12 00:00:36.920 --> 00:00:38.240 When's Christmas going to get here? 13 00:00:38.240 --> 00:00:46.560 And now, you know, as a woman who's 51 years old, I'm like, where does the time go? 14 00:00:46.560 --> 00:00:49.740 It was the new year and now the year's almost over. 15 00:00:49.740 --> 00:00:54.840 And then you're like, Christmas is only 45 days from now or something stupid like that. 16 00:00:54.840 --> 00:00:55.840 Okay. 17 00:00:55.840 --> 00:01:00.760 So yes, it is the Hebraic New Year, friends. 18 00:01:00.760 --> 00:01:03.440 La Shana Tova. 19 00:01:03.440 --> 00:01:05.519 Happy New Year. 20 00:01:05.519 --> 00:01:06.520 Happy New Year. 21 00:01:06.520 --> 00:01:13.160 We have just entered into the year 5787 and that year is going to cross over 2027. 22 00:01:13.160 --> 00:01:18.840 And I'm not going to talk about the significance of that crossover, but we'll just have a little, 23 00:01:18.840 --> 00:01:24.860 we'll have a basic lesson on the year 5787 today, because it's so beautiful how God 24 00:01:24.860 --> 00:01:27.020 just brings everything together. 25 00:01:27.020 --> 00:01:33.120 If you were here last week on Supernatural Saturday, I talked about the Good Shepherd. 26 00:01:33.120 --> 00:01:40.080 I talked about how we're just little lambs, all of us are just little lambs and in God's 27 00:01:40.080 --> 00:01:49.080 way of confirmation, as he does, this year, 5787 is a lot about rest and letting that 28 00:01:49.080 --> 00:01:50.240 Good Shepherd lead. 29 00:01:50.240 --> 00:01:52.860 And so we're going to talk about that. 30 00:01:52.860 --> 00:01:55.800 People have been asking if I'm going to do prophesy your year this year. 31 00:01:55.800 --> 00:01:58.720 Yes, we'll do that at the American Gregorian New Year. 32 00:01:58.720 --> 00:01:59.720 So we'll do that in January. 33 00:01:59.720 --> 00:02:03.460 I am going to do another Times and Seasons with Bethany Hicks. 34 00:02:03.460 --> 00:02:07.280 For those of you that did that, you know that that was amazing and powerful. 35 00:02:07.280 --> 00:02:10.440 You need to know your times and seasons, because even though we're going to talk about 36 00:02:10.440 --> 00:02:14.560 the year 5787, this year means something different to everybody. 37 00:02:14.560 --> 00:02:19.200 Rosh Hashanah, this moment, it means something different to everyone. 38 00:02:19.200 --> 00:02:28.800 I'm going to go over what these numbers mean, because numbers are important in the Hebrew, 39 00:02:28.800 --> 00:02:32.060 in the ancient days, you know, numbers were important. 40 00:02:32.060 --> 00:02:33.060 Numbers were letters. 41 00:02:34.060 --> 00:02:39.060 For those of you that are familiar with Hebrew, with the alphabet, every single letter of 42 00:02:39.060 --> 00:02:43.380 the alphabet also corresponds to a number and a symbol, like a picture. 43 00:02:43.380 --> 00:02:46.000 It's kind of like playing Pictionary, right? 44 00:02:46.000 --> 00:02:49.580 And so we're going to talk about the significance. 45 00:02:49.580 --> 00:02:51.420 And why would we do that? 46 00:02:51.420 --> 00:02:52.900 It's just another year. 47 00:02:52.900 --> 00:03:01.380 We do it because God said himself that he is a God of times and he is a God of seasons. 48 00:03:01.380 --> 00:03:02.740 He's a God of times and seasons. 49 00:03:03.420 --> 00:03:05.820 And then go back to the creation story. 50 00:03:05.820 --> 00:03:10.380 He was very intentional about what he was creating and when he was creating it. 51 00:03:10.380 --> 00:03:15.980 And then he was very intentional about resting from creating. 52 00:03:15.980 --> 00:03:21.500 And so we're going to talk about that because the number that changed as we entered into 53 00:03:21.500 --> 00:03:28.420 this divine time was the last letter, 5786 and now 5787. 54 00:03:28.420 --> 00:03:34.500 So that number six, we went from work to rest. 55 00:03:34.500 --> 00:03:38.300 That's going to be really significant for a lot of us. 56 00:03:38.300 --> 00:03:39.660 We went to actively resting. 57 00:03:39.660 --> 00:03:46.620 But that number seven actually in the Hebrew alphabet also, and you know, you guys know 58 00:03:46.620 --> 00:03:51.300 I can't even speak English, so I definitely can't speak Hebrew. 59 00:03:51.300 --> 00:03:57.980 But that letter, that Yain letter is going to also be a sword. 60 00:03:57.980 --> 00:03:59.300 It's also going to be a knife. 61 00:03:59.300 --> 00:04:02.060 It's also going to be a weapon, which is interesting as well. 62 00:04:02.060 --> 00:04:03.620 But we're going to get into this. 63 00:04:03.620 --> 00:04:06.580 So Father God, we just thank you for your times and seasons. 64 00:04:06.580 --> 00:04:11.140 We thank you that we can know our times and seasons individually and corporately. 65 00:04:11.140 --> 00:04:13.060 What are you doing in the earth through your body? 66 00:04:13.060 --> 00:04:14.820 What are you doing through your people? 67 00:04:14.820 --> 00:04:16.019 What are you doing through your church? 68 00:04:16.019 --> 00:04:18.779 Also, what are you doing through us individually in our lives? 69 00:04:18.779 --> 00:04:23.580 What is it time for in our lives, corporately and individually? 70 00:04:23.580 --> 00:04:26.780 Help us to not be one step behind or one step ahead. 71 00:04:26.780 --> 00:04:31.180 Help us to be right in cadence with you, God, in our lives and what you want to do in our 72 00:04:31.180 --> 00:04:32.180 lives. 73 00:04:32.180 --> 00:04:36.980 Let us give you permission to do the things that you want to do in this new year. 74 00:04:36.980 --> 00:04:41.140 This is a new beginning for all of us if we want it to be. 75 00:04:41.140 --> 00:04:46.140 And so Lord, we just take you at your word that you're doing a new thing in each and 76 00:04:46.300 --> 00:04:50.780 every one of us and that we can step forward into something amazing and that we can let 77 00:04:50.780 --> 00:04:53.180 go of all the things in the past. 78 00:04:53.180 --> 00:05:00.060 We can exhale and we can have the things that you've promised us and even more. 79 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:02.800 more in Jesus name, amen. 80 00:05:02.800 --> 00:05:06.240 All right, so if I was gonna title this year Rosh Hashanah, 81 00:05:06.240 --> 00:05:09.540 I would title 5787, a year that we're armed, 82 00:05:09.540 --> 00:05:11.200 but we're also at rest 83 00:05:11.200 --> 00:05:14.320 and we're letting the good shepherd lead us. 84 00:05:14.320 --> 00:05:16.400 So for those of you that were here last week, 85 00:05:16.400 --> 00:05:17.640 we did talk about the good shepherd, 86 00:05:17.640 --> 00:05:19.640 we talked about Psalm 23, 87 00:05:19.640 --> 00:05:22.360 we talked about how God repeatedly talks 88 00:05:22.360 --> 00:05:24.740 about himself as a shepherd. 89 00:05:26.000 --> 00:05:27.320 You know, he's leading, he's guiding, 90 00:05:27.320 --> 00:05:28.960 he's providing, he's protecting. 91 00:05:29.000 --> 00:05:31.000 And really as sheep, 92 00:05:31.000 --> 00:05:35.520 it's just our responsibility to just follow, right? 93 00:05:35.520 --> 00:05:37.280 To know his voice and to follow him, 94 00:05:37.280 --> 00:05:39.560 that's pretty easy, right? 95 00:05:39.560 --> 00:05:42.300 No, it's not, it's not easy. 96 00:05:43.760 --> 00:05:45.600 That's why the Bible says we have to labor 97 00:05:45.600 --> 00:05:48.360 to enter into his rest because it's not easy 98 00:05:48.360 --> 00:05:52.260 because our human condition makes it hard for us. 99 00:05:52.260 --> 00:05:55.000 We're stubborn, are we stubborn? 100 00:05:55.000 --> 00:05:56.500 Have you guys ever seen those videos 101 00:05:56.500 --> 00:06:00.740 where, you know, the farmer, the shepherd, I guess, 102 00:06:00.740 --> 00:06:02.840 is like getting a sheep out of a ditch 103 00:06:02.840 --> 00:06:04.480 or out of like, it's all tangled up 104 00:06:04.480 --> 00:06:06.340 in a barbed wire fence or whatever. 105 00:06:06.340 --> 00:06:08.100 And then it finally gets it out 106 00:06:08.100 --> 00:06:09.640 and the sheep just bounces around 107 00:06:09.640 --> 00:06:11.320 right back into the hole again. 108 00:06:11.320 --> 00:06:13.380 Have you ever seen those hilarious videos? 109 00:06:13.380 --> 00:06:15.780 It's just like, yeah, I'm that sheep, that's me. 110 00:06:15.780 --> 00:06:20.780 That's me for sure. 111 00:06:21.080 --> 00:06:22.360 Every time I see that, I'm like, 112 00:06:22.360 --> 00:06:24.940 yeah, that's definitely me right there. 113 00:06:25.880 --> 00:06:30.780 But God is not expecting us to follow perfectly, friends. 114 00:06:30.780 --> 00:06:35.600 And as we enter into this Hebraic New Year, 5787, 115 00:06:35.600 --> 00:06:40.500 we are going to talk about what is in front of us 116 00:06:40.500 --> 00:06:42.260 and what God is offering us 117 00:06:42.260 --> 00:06:45.260 and what really he's inviting us into. 118 00:06:45.260 --> 00:06:47.900 I love to take this time to really take 119 00:06:47.900 --> 00:06:51.180 and examine my life, my heart. 120 00:06:51.180 --> 00:06:53.500 I've always, I love January 1st. 121 00:06:53.540 --> 00:06:56.020 I love the Gregorian New Year, 122 00:06:56.020 --> 00:06:58.980 but there's something special about the fall. 123 00:06:58.980 --> 00:07:03.700 Friends, Rosh Hashanah always falls in the fall sometime. 124 00:07:03.700 --> 00:07:05.940 And this year, it's a little early 125 00:07:05.940 --> 00:07:08.740 because fall doesn't start until September 22nd. 126 00:07:08.740 --> 00:07:12.280 But you guys, it is such a supernatural time of year. 127 00:07:13.180 --> 00:07:14.900 It really, really is. 128 00:07:14.900 --> 00:07:17.900 If you just take some time to just set yourself apart, 129 00:07:17.900 --> 00:07:19.780 take some more time in prayer 130 00:07:19.780 --> 00:07:21.580 and just to look to the Lord 131 00:07:21.620 --> 00:07:25.460 and to just tap in supernaturally into, 132 00:07:25.460 --> 00:07:26.460 hey, God, what's up? 133 00:07:26.460 --> 00:07:27.300 What are you doing? 134 00:07:27.300 --> 00:07:28.180 What are you doing in my life? 135 00:07:28.180 --> 00:07:29.740 What are you doing in the world? 136 00:07:29.740 --> 00:07:32.740 I promise you, he will meet you there. 137 00:07:33.820 --> 00:07:35.660 Right after this holiday, Rosh Hashanah, 138 00:07:35.660 --> 00:07:37.580 we're gonna go into the Days of Awe. 139 00:07:37.580 --> 00:07:38.820 We're gonna go to Yom Kippur. 140 00:07:38.820 --> 00:07:41.220 It's just such a beautiful time of reflection 141 00:07:41.220 --> 00:07:44.460 and repentance, turning away from things 142 00:07:44.460 --> 00:07:46.780 that are not working, are not serving you 143 00:07:46.780 --> 00:07:48.660 and turning towards God again, 144 00:07:48.660 --> 00:07:51.460 following after that shepherd again in a new way, 145 00:07:51.460 --> 00:07:54.860 and then also forgiving those people who have hurt you. 146 00:07:54.860 --> 00:07:57.140 We talked about the Lord's Prayer last week as well, 147 00:07:57.140 --> 00:07:59.740 just forgiving those that owe us debts 148 00:07:59.740 --> 00:08:01.540 as we are forgiven of our debts. 149 00:08:01.540 --> 00:08:03.780 Just really beautiful, beautiful stuff. 150 00:08:04.900 --> 00:08:05.940 So there's only three numbers 151 00:08:05.940 --> 00:08:07.340 that I want you guys to remember today 152 00:08:07.340 --> 00:08:09.140 as we talk about this new year. 153 00:08:09.140 --> 00:08:12.020 80, six, and seven. 154 00:08:13.340 --> 00:08:15.140 Because we're still in the 5780s. 155 00:08:15.140 --> 00:08:16.380 You guys, we're still in the 80s. 156 00:08:16.380 --> 00:08:18.640 For all of you that are like, man, I miss the 80s. 157 00:08:18.640 --> 00:08:20.520 The 80s were such a great time. 158 00:08:20.520 --> 00:08:23.600 We're in the 80s on the Hebrew calendar. 159 00:08:23.600 --> 00:08:26.440 We are in the 80s, which is the pay. 160 00:08:26.440 --> 00:08:28.600 The eight is the pay, P-E-Y, 161 00:08:28.600 --> 00:08:31.560 and it is the decade of the mouth. 162 00:08:31.560 --> 00:08:33.480 We're in the decade of the mouth still. 163 00:08:33.480 --> 00:08:37.640 You gotta watch your mouth, all right? 164 00:08:37.640 --> 00:08:38.520 You gotta watch your mouth. 165 00:08:38.520 --> 00:08:40.900 It's really hard to not murmur and complain. 166 00:08:40.900 --> 00:08:42.720 I know everyone is always making fun 167 00:08:42.720 --> 00:08:43.760 of the children of Israel. 168 00:08:43.760 --> 00:08:45.800 Yeah, God parted the Red Sea for them, 169 00:08:45.800 --> 00:08:47.520 and then they still rebelled. 170 00:08:47.560 --> 00:08:49.080 Yeah, because they're humans, 171 00:08:49.080 --> 00:08:51.000 and they're in the human condition. 172 00:08:51.000 --> 00:08:52.960 And I promise you, if you would've lived back then, 173 00:08:52.960 --> 00:08:55.120 and you would've walked on dry ground through the Red Sea, 174 00:08:55.120 --> 00:08:56.720 you would've done the same thing. 175 00:08:59.920 --> 00:09:01.840 Because when you get into a hard place, 176 00:09:01.840 --> 00:09:03.640 and you're not really sure what God's doing, 177 00:09:03.640 --> 00:09:07.040 people have a tendency to do their own thing, don't they? 178 00:09:08.520 --> 00:09:10.480 This is what we do, this is what we do. 179 00:09:11.760 --> 00:09:13.080 So we gotta watch our mouths. 180 00:09:13.080 --> 00:09:14.640 Murmuring, complaining. 181 00:09:14.640 --> 00:09:16.280 I wish I was back in Egypt. 182 00:09:16.600 --> 00:09:18.400 We've gotta watch what we're saying. 183 00:09:19.440 --> 00:09:22.920 I do love that we are leaving a year that ended in six, 184 00:09:22.920 --> 00:09:26.920 and that we're entering a year that ends in seven. 185 00:09:26.920 --> 00:09:29.760 Just seven in general, just biblically speaking, 186 00:09:29.760 --> 00:09:31.960 it's a number of completion, 187 00:09:31.960 --> 00:09:33.600 it's a number of perfect completion, 188 00:09:33.600 --> 00:09:35.240 it's a number of rest. 189 00:09:35.240 --> 00:09:37.840 It's just a beautiful, shepherded number. 190 00:09:37.840 --> 00:09:39.280 And I love that. 191 00:09:39.280 --> 00:09:40.680 Anyone else love the number seven? 192 00:09:40.680 --> 00:09:41.880 Love the number seven? 193 00:09:41.880 --> 00:09:42.880 You guys see sevens? 194 00:09:42.880 --> 00:09:44.200 You like the sevens? 195 00:09:44.200 --> 00:09:45.280 Okay. 196 00:09:45.280 --> 00:09:46.720 All right. 197 00:09:46.720 --> 00:09:49.880 So today, hopefully we're gonna talk about, 198 00:09:49.880 --> 00:09:51.600 we're gonna watch our mouths. 199 00:09:51.600 --> 00:09:53.800 We're gonna do the work that's assigned to us. 200 00:09:53.800 --> 00:09:55.640 We're not gonna just work for no reason, 201 00:09:55.640 --> 00:09:57.800 and we're not gonna exhaust ourself working. 202 00:09:57.800 --> 00:10:00.120 We wanna tune in, friends. 203 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:03.300 We've got to tune into, what is my assignment? 204 00:10:03.300 --> 00:10:06.800 And then we need to know when to fight and when to rest. 205 00:10:06.800 --> 00:10:14.520 We need to know what hills to die on, what to persevere in, and what to let go of, and 206 00:10:14.520 --> 00:10:16.460 how to trust our shepherd. 207 00:10:16.460 --> 00:10:20.600 So in this decade of the mouth, as we continue in the decade of the mouth, we have to remember 208 00:10:20.600 --> 00:10:25.320 that we have a beautiful opportunity to ask ourselves, what has been coming out of my 209 00:10:25.320 --> 00:10:26.320 mouth? 210 00:10:26.320 --> 00:10:27.320 We can ask ourselves that today. 211 00:10:27.320 --> 00:10:29.360 I want you to go ahead and ask yourself that. 212 00:10:29.360 --> 00:10:32.520 Proverbs 18.21 says, death and life are in the power of the tongue. 213 00:10:32.520 --> 00:10:37.400 Go ahead and just ask yourself, hey, you know, what has my speech sounded like lately? 214 00:10:37.400 --> 00:10:39.280 Have I been discouraged? 215 00:10:39.280 --> 00:10:40.760 Am I losing hope? 216 00:10:40.760 --> 00:10:44.920 Am I starting to murmur and complain about a bunch of things? 217 00:10:44.920 --> 00:10:48.400 Am I starting to sound like a cranky old lady or man? 218 00:10:48.400 --> 00:10:50.280 Is that what I'm starting to sound like? 219 00:10:50.280 --> 00:10:54.680 You know, if people were around me and they didn't know me, say a new coworker started 220 00:10:54.680 --> 00:10:58.720 working in your office, would they know that you're a believer? 221 00:10:58.720 --> 00:11:02.600 Would they know that you're giving glory to God or that you're just pretty disgruntled 222 00:11:02.600 --> 00:11:03.600 and upset? 223 00:11:03.600 --> 00:11:09.760 What would they think about the speech that's coming out of your mouth? 224 00:11:09.760 --> 00:11:17.160 Guys, I know that it's hard to say things that maybe we're not seeing evidence of. 225 00:11:17.160 --> 00:11:20.280 But remember, we are creators like our father in heaven. 226 00:11:20.280 --> 00:11:27.160 We've been made in his image, and so we have to use our words to create, not to deteriorate. 227 00:11:27.160 --> 00:11:28.280 We've got to use our words. 228 00:11:28.280 --> 00:11:29.280 All right. 229 00:11:29.280 --> 00:11:32.720 So in the 80s, which we're in right now, we're going to continue to be in the 80s for three 230 00:11:32.720 --> 00:11:33.720 more years. 231 00:11:33.720 --> 00:11:38.280 It's important that we remember that death and life are in the power of the tongue. 232 00:11:38.280 --> 00:11:44.280 And you know, if we can connect that to what we taught last week about the good shepherd, 233 00:11:44.280 --> 00:11:47.040 I think that that would be powerful as well. 234 00:11:47.040 --> 00:11:50.960 Because God can be leading us towards green pastures. 235 00:11:50.960 --> 00:11:54.000 You know, we can be walking behind him being like, where are we going? 236 00:11:54.000 --> 00:11:55.480 Hey God, where are we going? 237 00:11:55.480 --> 00:11:56.680 You know, what's going on? 238 00:11:56.680 --> 00:11:57.680 I don't like this. 239 00:11:57.680 --> 00:11:58.680 What's going on? 240 00:11:58.680 --> 00:12:01.560 And because it doesn't say when he's leading us to green pastures that we're not going 241 00:12:01.560 --> 00:12:06.160 to walk through, you know, some places that maybe we don't like. 242 00:12:06.160 --> 00:12:08.640 I've been walking through some stuff the last couple of years. 243 00:12:08.640 --> 00:12:10.520 Anybody else? 244 00:12:10.520 --> 00:12:11.520 I really have. 245 00:12:11.520 --> 00:12:13.800 I've been walking through some stuff the last couple of years. 246 00:12:13.800 --> 00:12:18.280 In fact, you guys know, and I didn't say this to anyone, so you wouldn't know, but I was 247 00:12:18.280 --> 00:12:22.600 in the emergency room a couple of weeks ago, a week, a week and a half ago. 248 00:12:22.600 --> 00:12:28.160 I was in the emergency room a week and a half ago and I was in the same emergency room 249 00:12:28.160 --> 00:12:34.000 almost a year previous to that, to the day. 250 00:12:34.000 --> 00:12:38.280 Same emergency room a year later. 251 00:12:38.280 --> 00:12:47.920 Both times in there for super crazy stress related stuff. 252 00:12:47.920 --> 00:12:49.440 I didn't have a good summer last summer. 253 00:12:49.440 --> 00:12:54.880 It was a really, really, really hard time from June until about October of last year. 254 00:12:54.880 --> 00:12:55.880 Really, really rough. 255 00:12:55.880 --> 00:12:56.880 Physically. 256 00:12:56.880 --> 00:12:57.880 Some of you were here. 257 00:12:57.880 --> 00:13:00.760 You remember, you know, I thought it was my gallbladder was crashing out. 258 00:13:00.760 --> 00:13:01.760 It was really sick. 259 00:13:01.760 --> 00:13:05.160 I lost 20 pounds, which was the silver lining of the whole thing. 260 00:13:05.160 --> 00:13:06.160 Don't worry. 261 00:13:06.160 --> 00:13:07.280 I found those pounds again. 262 00:13:07.280 --> 00:13:13.800 But then, you know, this, this summer I kind of was like, Hey, you know, I had a really 263 00:13:13.800 --> 00:13:15.560 bad summer last year. 264 00:13:15.560 --> 00:13:18.400 I was supposed to go to Portugal on vacation last year. 265 00:13:19.400 --> 00:13:20.640 I couldn't go because I was sick. 266 00:13:20.640 --> 00:13:23.280 Couldn't do much of anything because I was sick. 267 00:13:23.280 --> 00:13:27.000 And you know, this year I was like, yeah, it's going to be a great summer. 268 00:13:27.000 --> 00:13:28.000 Guess what? 269 00:13:28.000 --> 00:13:29.000 It wasn't. 270 00:13:29.000 --> 00:13:30.000 I wasn't a great summer. 271 00:13:30.000 --> 00:13:31.880 In fact, I was in that same emergency room a year later. 272 00:13:31.880 --> 00:13:33.880 It's like, happy anniversary. 273 00:13:33.880 --> 00:13:34.880 I'm back. 274 00:13:34.880 --> 00:13:42.440 This time I thought I was having a heart attack, but it just turned out to be, you know, gallbladder 275 00:13:42.440 --> 00:13:44.880 stuff again. 276 00:13:44.880 --> 00:13:47.880 So bottom line is, is stress will kill you. 277 00:13:47.880 --> 00:13:52.400 But also been walking through some things and, you know, we can be following after the 278 00:13:52.400 --> 00:13:56.120 good shepherd being like, Hey, we're going to get to those green pastures anytime soon. 279 00:13:56.120 --> 00:14:00.200 We're going to get to those wide open spaces anytime soon. 280 00:14:00.200 --> 00:14:07.720 You know, we can be walking behind, walking, walking behind God, you know, the shepherd 281 00:14:07.720 --> 00:14:08.960 Jesus leading us. 282 00:14:08.960 --> 00:14:11.680 And we can be like, we're all going to die. 283 00:14:11.680 --> 00:14:16.560 You know, we could be saying anything because God can be providing while I'm still saying 284 00:14:16.560 --> 00:14:17.560 there's not enough. 285 00:14:17.560 --> 00:14:24.600 And God can be opening doors and I can still be saying nothing ever works out for me. 286 00:14:24.600 --> 00:14:29.240 You know, God can be busy restoring something in my life that I'm declaring is already over. 287 00:14:29.240 --> 00:14:34.000 Like it's over, it's over, it's over, it's hopeless. 288 00:14:34.000 --> 00:14:36.440 And I know that we all want to be led into something new. 289 00:14:36.440 --> 00:14:40.360 And, you know, I do believe that that eight is all it's the pay. 290 00:14:40.360 --> 00:14:45.280 It's the decade of the mouth, but you know, the number eight also means new beginnings. 291 00:14:45.280 --> 00:14:46.960 It's also indicative of new beginnings. 292 00:14:46.960 --> 00:14:50.440 And so it's important for us to remember that God could be leading us into something completely 293 00:14:50.440 --> 00:14:55.440 new while we're still speaking language of the old season that he just brought us out 294 00:14:55.440 --> 00:14:56.440 of. 295 00:14:56.440 --> 00:14:58.680 And that's why it's important that we know our times and seasons. 296 00:14:58.680 --> 00:15:00.040 So here's our first question. 297 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:07.360 Ring into 5787 today, does my mouth agree with my shepherd? 298 00:15:10.920 --> 00:15:18.880 Not talking about positive mental attitude or saying stuff like I'm gonna speak a Ferrari into my driveway. No, that's not what I'm talking about. Okay. 299 00:15:20.760 --> 00:15:22.360 I'm talking about agreement. 300 00:15:22.360 --> 00:15:36.160 I'm talking about speaking that I'm held, that I'm kept, that I'm loved, that I'm accepted, instead of language that would suggest that I'm being abandoned. 301 00:15:39.880 --> 00:15:44.800 I'm talking about speaking the language of provision and not scarcity. 302 00:15:44.800 --> 00:15:56.040 Right? Because our shepherds promise to lead us, friends. I think sometimes we're not following and then we get mad because we're not where we want to be. And yet we're also not following. 303 00:15:56.640 --> 00:16:02.920 We're not following because yeah, that's that, you know, that way doesn't make sense. I'm not going to do that because that seems harder than it has to be. 304 00:16:03.160 --> 00:16:09.080 Or that doesn't seem like the direction that I want to go. I'd rather go this way. This was what makes sense to me. 305 00:16:09.080 --> 00:16:21.200 Well, the Bible says, trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not to your own understanding what makes sense to you, but in all your ways, acknowledge him and he will direct your path. Right? 306 00:16:22.400 --> 00:16:23.320 Isn't that what it says? 307 00:16:26.440 --> 00:16:28.720 So let's get control of our mouths. 308 00:16:30.240 --> 00:16:33.440 Let's ask ourselves, what have I been taught? 309 00:16:33.440 --> 00:16:34.880 Let's get control of our mouths. 310 00:16:36.520 --> 00:16:45.120 Let's ask ourselves, what have I been talking about? What have I been saying? What have I been coming into agreement with? Which is really the most important thing about our mouth. 311 00:16:45.440 --> 00:16:51.560 What are you coming into agreement with? Lack, scarcity, hopelessness. 312 00:16:54.680 --> 00:16:56.480 I really want to encourage you to journal that. 313 00:16:57.480 --> 00:17:04.880 You don't get what you expect. You get what you inspect. You need to inspect the words of your mouth. Ask yourself, what have I been talking about lately? 314 00:17:07.640 --> 00:17:18.560 And then just say, I don't want to carry this into this new year. You guys, I know it's not January 1st. I know it's weird to say that it's a new year today. And maybe you can't really wrap your head around that. Maybe you're just hearing about this for the first time today. 315 00:17:19.560 --> 00:17:30.160 But I promise you, it is a new season, regardless of whether or not you're going to mark it on your calendar. Something has shifted. We are in a shift right now. We shifted from 5786 to 5787. 316 00:17:31.160 --> 00:17:37.040 And I want to ask you, what have you been saying that you don't want to bring into 5787? 317 00:17:39.240 --> 00:17:40.280 Go ahead and put it in the chat. 318 00:17:40.480 --> 00:17:41.560 Go ahead and put it in the chat. 319 00:17:42.600 --> 00:17:50.000 Maybe it's something like, I'm too old. It's too late. I'm never going to have enough. I'm always going to be alone. Nothing ever works out for me. 320 00:17:52.920 --> 00:18:05.920 Maybe all you can do is ever just imagine something bad happening. So you're just like something bad is going to happen. You can imagine yourself in a lot of predicaments, a lot of bad predicaments, but it's hard for you to ever imagine yourself in any kind of really good breakthrough. 321 00:18:07.520 --> 00:18:08.760 Can imagine yourself 322 00:18:11.280 --> 00:18:16.480 in some bad, bad place, but it's hard for you to imagine yourself in a good place. 323 00:18:19.880 --> 00:18:20.880 Put that in the chat. 324 00:18:27.760 --> 00:18:28.760 Come on, put it in there. 325 00:18:28.760 --> 00:18:42.000 And as you guys were reading each other's declarations here, confessions, I should say here, I want us to remember what the Good Shepherd says about us or what he says to us. He says he's with us. He says he's going to lead us and provide for us. 326 00:18:43.520 --> 00:18:53.080 Right. He said he's going to give us wisdom. He's going to give us the breath of life. He's going to give us the strength to move forward. He's going to give us the strength to move forward. 327 00:18:53.880 --> 00:18:55.880 He's going to be with us in the valley. 328 00:19:08.280 --> 00:19:09.680 Look at all those things, friends. 329 00:19:09.680 --> 00:19:24.680 Okay, we're leaving that behind. Let's just declare that we're leaving these confessions, these things that we have been saying to ourselves and about ourselves. We are leaving them as we enter into this new divine time. 330 00:19:25.680 --> 00:19:38.680 One of the things that we're leaving as well is we're leaving that season of work. You know, the previous year ended in a six and the six is a lot of things. You know, I'm just talking about the sixth day of creation right now when God worked and then he rested. 331 00:19:39.480 --> 00:19:45.480 One of the things that we're leaving as well is we're leaving that season of work. You know, the previous year ended in the six and the six is a lot of things. You know, I'm just talking about the sixth day of creation right now when God worked and then he rested. 332 00:19:45.480 --> 00:19:58.440 The sixth also is a connector. It's the Vaave. There's a lot of different things going on but the call to action about work puts it at the center of practice. 333 00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:07.100 going on there, but I really want to focus on it being a number that represents us working. 334 00:20:07.100 --> 00:20:12.360 You know, God is the one that established this rhythm, building, cultivating, creating, 335 00:20:12.360 --> 00:20:16.560 producing, doing all the things and then resting. 336 00:20:16.560 --> 00:20:19.540 And I think a lot of us are really good at six, right? 337 00:20:19.540 --> 00:20:20.540 We know how to work. 338 00:20:20.540 --> 00:20:21.540 We know how to hustle. 339 00:20:21.540 --> 00:20:22.540 We can fix things. 340 00:20:22.540 --> 00:20:23.920 We can manage things. 341 00:20:23.920 --> 00:20:27.080 You know, some of us are always rescuing everybody. 342 00:20:27.080 --> 00:20:32.080 We're doing all the things we're working. 343 00:20:32.080 --> 00:20:36.800 And I know a lot of us have felt like that's all that we've been doing lately is just trying, 344 00:20:36.800 --> 00:20:41.240 trying, trying, trying, striving, striving, striving, striving. 345 00:20:41.240 --> 00:20:45.560 And you know, work has a purpose and when God's in it, you know, it's great. 346 00:20:45.560 --> 00:20:48.680 He says when he's not in it, we're building in vain, but when he is in it, it's great 347 00:20:48.680 --> 00:20:49.680 and it's wonderful. 348 00:20:49.680 --> 00:20:57.560 You cannot live in six forever because there's a reason why there's a seven. 349 00:20:57.560 --> 00:20:59.600 And I believe that this year is going to be about rest. 350 00:20:59.600 --> 00:21:01.000 Does that mean you're not going to work? 351 00:21:01.000 --> 00:21:06.240 No, it means you're going to work from a place of rest. 352 00:21:06.240 --> 00:21:13.580 The differences between plowing the hard soil and working like sweating, you know, trying 353 00:21:13.580 --> 00:21:15.500 to make it happen. 354 00:21:15.500 --> 00:21:21.500 The differences between that and things happening while you're just resting and trusting in 355 00:21:21.500 --> 00:21:22.500 God. 356 00:21:22.500 --> 00:21:25.020 Guys, I have a little story about that. 357 00:21:25.020 --> 00:21:29.500 You know, a couple of years ago when I first kind of went into business on my own, some 358 00:21:29.500 --> 00:21:34.460 of you may not know this, but when I first launched this business, um, to help singles 359 00:21:34.460 --> 00:21:40.020 get married, I had a business partner, I had a radio partner and I was heard on 350 different 360 00:21:40.020 --> 00:21:42.620 radio stations across the U S and Canada. 361 00:21:42.660 --> 00:21:48.540 This was back in 21 and a lot of you may have heard me on the radio back then. 362 00:21:48.540 --> 00:21:51.060 Maybe you didn't join the program, but you might've heard me back then. 363 00:21:51.060 --> 00:21:55.500 So I had this business partner and you know, things weren't working out with that business 364 00:21:55.500 --> 00:21:58.420 partner as often that happens in business. 365 00:21:58.420 --> 00:22:03.420 They worked out for a while and we're still, we're still good friends, but you know, didn't 366 00:22:03.420 --> 00:22:08.260 work out to the place that I wanted to continue to stay in that situation. 367 00:22:08.260 --> 00:22:17.020 So at about 2023 I decided that I was no longer going to be partnered there anymore 368 00:22:17.020 --> 00:22:20.300 and I went off on my own. 369 00:22:20.300 --> 00:22:25.220 Now friends, all of my marketing and all my advertising was radio stuff. 370 00:22:25.220 --> 00:22:28.620 And so going away from that partnership meant that I didn't have any marketing, I didn't 371 00:22:28.620 --> 00:22:33.180 have any advertising and marketing advertising is really, really, really expensive. 372 00:22:34.180 --> 00:22:43.820 It's probably the most expensive part of business, but I trusted God, I trusted him and you guys, 373 00:22:43.820 --> 00:22:44.820 I'm a hard worker. 374 00:22:44.820 --> 00:22:47.380 I'm a very hard worker and I know how to work hard. 375 00:22:47.380 --> 00:22:50.060 You know, I'm a child of a single mother. 376 00:22:50.060 --> 00:22:53.180 I've been working, I've got my first job when I was 12 years old. 377 00:22:53.180 --> 00:23:02.700 I have, I know how to work, but my twin grandbabies had just been born. 378 00:23:02.700 --> 00:23:06.260 This is actually like, yeah, beginning of 23. 379 00:23:06.260 --> 00:23:08.100 My twin grandbabies had just been born. 380 00:23:08.100 --> 00:23:14.380 They were just a few months old and my daughter and my son-in-law and my twin grandbabies 381 00:23:14.380 --> 00:23:19.060 were coming to my house because they live in Ohio and I really wanted to spend time 382 00:23:19.060 --> 00:23:20.740 with them. 383 00:23:20.740 --> 00:23:22.540 And God's like, Hey, you know what? 384 00:23:22.540 --> 00:23:28.020 You take care of my business and I'll take care of your business. 385 00:23:28.020 --> 00:23:32.380 I still wasn't running advertising and you guys, even to this day, God is so good. 386 00:23:33.060 --> 00:23:34.060 I really have never had to advertise. 387 00:23:34.060 --> 00:23:35.140 It's all word of mouth. 388 00:23:35.140 --> 00:23:37.340 It's all just people's success stories. 389 00:23:37.340 --> 00:23:41.460 It's all just people telling people and me making funny videos on my Instagram that I 390 00:23:41.460 --> 00:23:44.260 enjoy doing. 391 00:23:44.260 --> 00:23:47.540 But during this particular month, God said, he said, Hey, they're going to come and stay 392 00:23:47.540 --> 00:23:48.540 for a month. 393 00:23:48.540 --> 00:23:49.540 You're going to see your grandbabies. 394 00:23:49.540 --> 00:23:51.620 You're going to see your daughter that you don't get to see a lot. 395 00:23:51.620 --> 00:23:55.900 You see your son-in-law, you know, I don't want you, I want you to take this whole month 396 00:23:55.900 --> 00:23:58.460 off of work. 397 00:23:58.460 --> 00:23:59.460 I was like, what? 398 00:23:59.460 --> 00:24:00.460 Excuse me. 399 00:24:00.460 --> 00:24:01.460 Pardon me. 400 00:24:01.460 --> 00:24:02.460 What? 401 00:24:02.460 --> 00:24:03.460 What'd you say? 402 00:24:03.460 --> 00:24:08.460 But I did it you guys. 403 00:24:08.460 --> 00:24:10.380 He was asking me to enter into his rest. 404 00:24:10.380 --> 00:24:11.940 He was asking me to trust him. 405 00:24:11.940 --> 00:24:14.540 He was asking me to not worry about. 406 00:24:14.540 --> 00:24:19.300 And when I say work, I, it means like, you know, trying to, you know, find people to 407 00:24:19.300 --> 00:24:23.580 join the program, you know, trying to market, trying to, you know, do whatever, do whatever 408 00:24:23.580 --> 00:24:26.420 it is that you think that you need to do. 409 00:24:26.420 --> 00:24:27.420 And I did it. 410 00:24:27.420 --> 00:24:28.420 You guys. 411 00:24:29.420 --> 00:24:30.420 And I did it. 412 00:24:30.420 --> 00:24:34.780 And it just so happened that that month, one of the biggest bills that I've ever had to 413 00:24:34.780 --> 00:24:36.980 pay came due. 414 00:24:36.980 --> 00:24:43.220 So not only was I not actively trying to build my business, I was, I was also paying a huge 415 00:24:43.220 --> 00:24:46.940 bill. 416 00:24:46.940 --> 00:24:51.900 And I was like, Jesus. 417 00:24:51.900 --> 00:24:55.740 But I continue to spend time with those squishy little babies and it was such a precious and 418 00:24:55.740 --> 00:24:58.100 sweet time with them. 419 00:24:58.100 --> 00:24:59.900 And the day, friends. 420 00:25:00.000 --> 00:25:06.680 The day, please hear me because someone needs this story, the day that I put my daughter 421 00:25:06.680 --> 00:25:15.220 on the plane to go back to Ohio with the babies, that very day, I got an email inviting me 422 00:25:15.220 --> 00:25:22.560 to be on a very famous podcast. 423 00:25:22.560 --> 00:25:28.660 And then I got another email inviting me to be on another really famous podcast. 424 00:25:28.660 --> 00:25:34.100 I went on both those podcasts within the next week or two after my daughter left. 425 00:25:34.100 --> 00:25:43.660 And that brought in probably about, I don't know, 400, 500 new students. 426 00:25:43.660 --> 00:25:47.740 I couldn't have even done that running an ad if I wanted to, which I don't want to. 427 00:25:47.740 --> 00:25:51.140 And I usually don't ever do that. 428 00:25:51.140 --> 00:25:55.240 So God knows, God can do it. 429 00:25:55.240 --> 00:25:56.240 He will do it. 430 00:25:56.240 --> 00:25:58.100 But what was he trying to show me? 431 00:25:58.100 --> 00:26:04.620 He was trying to show me that, hey, you know what, if you build without me, you're building 432 00:26:04.620 --> 00:26:05.620 in vain. 433 00:26:05.620 --> 00:26:06.620 You're striving. 434 00:26:06.620 --> 00:26:08.400 Yeah, you might get a little bit of fruit out of it. 435 00:26:08.400 --> 00:26:14.920 But building with me, resting in me, that is the more powerful way to live your life. 436 00:26:14.920 --> 00:26:19.160 And there's a scripture that says that God provides for his lovers even while they're 437 00:26:19.160 --> 00:26:21.240 sleeping. 438 00:26:21.240 --> 00:26:23.280 And that was the scripture that he showed me back then. 439 00:26:23.280 --> 00:26:26.380 So you guys, this year is going to be marked by that. 440 00:26:26.380 --> 00:26:27.380 Is this exciting? 441 00:26:27.660 --> 00:26:30.460 It's not just about one Supernatural Saturday. 442 00:26:30.460 --> 00:26:36.380 Last Saturday, God had me talk about him being the good shepherd, Jesus being the good shepherd, 443 00:26:36.380 --> 00:26:41.980 John 10, 10, about abundant life, about what it looks like, Psalm 23, okay? 444 00:26:41.980 --> 00:26:47.460 And this week, we are celebrating a new year that is going to be marked by that very type 445 00:26:47.460 --> 00:26:48.460 of rest. 446 00:26:48.460 --> 00:26:51.740 Isn't that powerful? 447 00:26:51.740 --> 00:26:53.300 Now we have to enter into it, friends. 448 00:26:53.300 --> 00:26:55.500 You can keep living your life the exact same way. 449 00:26:55.500 --> 00:26:57.020 That's not going to stop you. 450 00:26:57.020 --> 00:26:59.620 It's not going to stop you. 451 00:26:59.620 --> 00:27:03.180 But you could also have a Sabbath year. 452 00:27:03.180 --> 00:27:06.060 If you want, you could have a Sabbath year. 453 00:27:06.060 --> 00:27:08.980 You know, people mistake the Sabbath. 454 00:27:08.980 --> 00:27:12.140 They don't understand. 455 00:27:12.140 --> 00:27:14.220 The Sabbath wasn't about just not working. 456 00:27:14.220 --> 00:27:21.460 The Sabbath was about God providing from the work that you've already done. 457 00:27:21.460 --> 00:27:24.740 When people have a Jubilee year, that's another thing. 458 00:27:24.980 --> 00:27:26.460 I was so excited for my 50th birthday. 459 00:27:26.460 --> 00:27:28.420 I was like, 50 Jubilee. 460 00:27:28.420 --> 00:27:30.420 And I'm going to have a Jubilee year, and I'm going to do this, and I'm going to go 461 00:27:30.420 --> 00:27:31.420 here, and I'm going to do that. 462 00:27:31.420 --> 00:27:33.260 I'm going to work, and I'm going to build, and it's going to be great, and it's going 463 00:27:33.260 --> 00:27:36.860 to be blessed by the Lord, and I'm going to have favor. 464 00:27:36.860 --> 00:27:40.020 And someone was like, you know that Jubilee was a year of rest, right? 465 00:27:40.020 --> 00:27:44.660 And I'm like, shut your mouth. 466 00:27:44.660 --> 00:27:45.900 What do you mean a year of rest? 467 00:27:45.900 --> 00:27:53.060 Because you guys, a lot of us, when we hear rest, what we hear is not having control, 468 00:27:53.060 --> 00:27:57.980 not moving forward, being in a holding pattern, being put on pause again. 469 00:27:57.980 --> 00:28:03.940 Isn't that what you think when you hear the word rest? 470 00:28:03.940 --> 00:28:06.660 You think of like bed rest, like, oh, you've overdone it. 471 00:28:06.660 --> 00:28:11.380 Now you got to go lay down for a long time and be bored and have nothing to do. 472 00:28:11.380 --> 00:28:14.020 And no, no, that's not the kind of rest we're talking about. 473 00:28:14.020 --> 00:28:16.380 We're talking about resting from your labor. 474 00:28:16.380 --> 00:28:19.660 We're talking about resting from your striving. 475 00:28:19.660 --> 00:28:22.420 We're talking about supernatural abundance. 476 00:28:22.420 --> 00:28:26.860 We're talking about the wind of heaven being at your back instead of you walking uphill 477 00:28:26.860 --> 00:28:30.340 into the wind. 478 00:28:30.340 --> 00:28:33.900 That's what we're talking about here. 479 00:28:33.900 --> 00:28:36.140 God didn't rest because he was tired on the seventh day. 480 00:28:36.140 --> 00:28:41.220 Let's make sure that we are really clear on that. 481 00:28:41.220 --> 00:28:43.340 He didn't say, whew, humans took it out of me. 482 00:28:43.340 --> 00:28:44.340 I need a nap. 483 00:28:44.340 --> 00:28:47.180 No, that's not what happened. 484 00:28:47.180 --> 00:28:53.220 He was modeling something for us. 485 00:28:53.220 --> 00:28:58.300 We rest because we trust that what we needed to do has been done and now God is going to 486 00:28:58.300 --> 00:29:00.740 do his part, right? 487 00:29:00.740 --> 00:29:06.940 So maybe that's the invitation of 5787. 488 00:29:06.940 --> 00:29:11.640 Can I stop trying to control the outcome? 489 00:29:11.640 --> 00:29:15.420 Can I plant a seed without digging it up every three days to see what's growing, what's going 490 00:29:15.420 --> 00:29:16.420 on down there? 491 00:29:16.740 --> 00:29:22.220 Can I just trust God to do his part in the year 5787? 492 00:29:22.220 --> 00:29:27.020 I promise you guys, if we take our hands off some things in 5787, knowing that we've already 493 00:29:27.020 --> 00:29:34.420 done all that we can do and asking God to breathe on it as we rest from our striving 494 00:29:34.420 --> 00:29:39.100 and allow him to do what only he can do, I think we're going to see some miracles. 495 00:29:39.100 --> 00:29:40.940 I think we're going to see some breakthrough. 496 00:29:41.660 --> 00:29:49.660 Now, don't forget that seven also carries the image or the picture of a weapon, a sword. 497 00:29:49.660 --> 00:29:51.860 But for me immediately, what is the sword? 498 00:29:51.860 --> 00:29:57.900 The sword of the Lord is the word of God, isn't it? 499 00:29:57.900 --> 00:29:59.580 This is you guys remember that song? 500 00:29:59.580 --> 00:30:00.080 This is how I fly. 501 00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:04.400 fight my battles. 502 00:30:04.400 --> 00:30:05.520 This is how I fight my battles. 503 00:30:05.520 --> 00:30:06.520 How do I fight my battles? 504 00:30:06.520 --> 00:30:09.560 I fight my battles through the word. 505 00:30:09.560 --> 00:30:12.680 I fight my battles through praise. 506 00:30:12.680 --> 00:30:17.240 This is how I fight my battles. 507 00:30:17.240 --> 00:30:21.000 We're going to rest from our labor and not go to war. 508 00:30:21.000 --> 00:30:25.000 I don't think that that number is, oh, rest and also war. 509 00:30:25.000 --> 00:30:26.000 No. 510 00:30:26.000 --> 00:30:27.620 But, you know, sheep do have enemies. 511 00:30:27.620 --> 00:30:29.100 There are wolves. 512 00:30:29.100 --> 00:30:30.100 There are threats. 513 00:30:30.100 --> 00:30:31.100 There are things. 514 00:30:31.100 --> 00:30:38.600 Psalm 23 doesn't say that enemies don't exist, but he says, I have prepared for you a table 515 00:30:38.600 --> 00:30:40.200 in the presence of your enemies. 516 00:30:40.200 --> 00:30:41.200 Come on, y'all. 517 00:30:41.200 --> 00:30:43.780 And can you picture that table? 518 00:30:43.780 --> 00:30:47.120 You know what that table, ooh, that table had some stuff on it. 519 00:30:47.120 --> 00:30:50.000 That table had some provision and some abundance on it. 520 00:30:50.000 --> 00:30:51.420 That table was a banquet. 521 00:30:51.420 --> 00:30:57.240 That table was something fit for a king or a queen. 522 00:30:57.240 --> 00:31:04.220 And I have prepared that table for you right in the presence of your enemies. 523 00:31:04.220 --> 00:31:07.640 I love that. 524 00:31:07.640 --> 00:31:08.640 I love that. 525 00:31:08.640 --> 00:31:12.140 It's like, oh, there's an enemy. 526 00:31:12.140 --> 00:31:14.140 Well, apparently we're having dinner. 527 00:31:14.140 --> 00:31:15.140 It's good. 528 00:31:15.140 --> 00:31:16.140 It's good. 529 00:31:16.140 --> 00:31:19.580 So we're not going to fight our battles. 530 00:31:19.580 --> 00:31:24.220 We're not going to all of a sudden start fighting our battles in the year 5787. 531 00:31:24.220 --> 00:31:25.580 That's not what we're going to do. 532 00:31:25.580 --> 00:31:28.360 We're not going to be doing that, okay? 533 00:31:28.360 --> 00:31:32.160 What God is saying here is he's saying he's already fought our battles, and he's saying 534 00:31:32.160 --> 00:31:34.080 that all we have to do is come into agreement with him. 535 00:31:34.080 --> 00:31:37.720 The sword is the word of God. 536 00:31:37.720 --> 00:31:43.860 The Bible says the word of God is a two-edged sword. 537 00:31:43.860 --> 00:31:47.360 It says it, doesn't it? 538 00:31:47.360 --> 00:31:53.080 Our praise coming into agreement with the word, that is all that we need to do. 539 00:31:53.080 --> 00:31:57.740 So I want you to think about what those battles are right now, because I believe that God 540 00:31:57.740 --> 00:32:01.940 is declaring rest for you from your battles in 5787. 541 00:32:01.940 --> 00:32:05.980 But remember, we are in the decade of the mouth, so we're going to continue to speak 542 00:32:05.980 --> 00:32:06.980 the word. 543 00:32:06.980 --> 00:32:09.140 We're going to continue to worship and praise God. 544 00:32:09.140 --> 00:32:13.380 But whatever it is, whatever those battles are, go ahead and put them up, something in 545 00:32:13.380 --> 00:32:18.180 your health, something in your faith, something in your family, something, whatever it is, 546 00:32:18.180 --> 00:32:20.800 the battles that you feel like you are fighting today. 547 00:32:20.800 --> 00:32:23.660 What are those financial battles? 548 00:32:23.660 --> 00:32:24.820 Put them in the chat. 549 00:32:24.820 --> 00:32:29.260 Let's see them, because these are the battles that we are going to begin to use our weapons 550 00:32:29.260 --> 00:32:33.220 of our warfare that are not carnal, which is praise, which is coming into agreement 551 00:32:33.220 --> 00:32:34.580 with the word of God. 552 00:32:34.580 --> 00:32:36.900 That's what this year is marked by. 553 00:32:36.900 --> 00:32:40.700 It's marked by you using your sword, which is the word of God. 554 00:32:40.700 --> 00:32:43.660 Friends, I know the Bible inside and outside. 555 00:32:43.660 --> 00:32:44.980 I've read it several times. 556 00:32:44.980 --> 00:32:46.740 I have lots of it memorized. 557 00:32:46.740 --> 00:32:50.220 I am a student of the word for many, many decades, but I will say this. 558 00:32:50.220 --> 00:32:56.740 I started reading the word actively again, even though it's in me. 559 00:32:56.740 --> 00:33:04.360 And I really want to encourage you in the year 57, 87 to have your word open, to be 560 00:33:04.360 --> 00:33:05.360 reading it. 561 00:33:05.360 --> 00:33:06.360 I know you know it already. 562 00:33:06.360 --> 00:33:08.640 I know it already too. 563 00:33:08.640 --> 00:33:09.640 Just reread it. 564 00:33:09.640 --> 00:33:13.520 It should be your favorite story. 565 00:33:13.520 --> 00:33:16.580 God will show you things in it that you maybe haven't seen before, or maybe you're going 566 00:33:16.580 --> 00:33:19.960 to hit differently in this season of your life. 567 00:33:19.960 --> 00:33:25.440 So let's put it all together. 568 00:33:25.440 --> 00:33:26.440 We have the 80. 569 00:33:26.440 --> 00:33:27.440 We have the six. 570 00:33:27.440 --> 00:33:28.440 We have the seven. 571 00:33:28.440 --> 00:33:29.440 We're going to watch our mouths. 572 00:33:29.440 --> 00:33:32.480 We're going to, we're going to only do the work that God gives us to do because we're 573 00:33:32.480 --> 00:33:38.520 entering into rest, right? 574 00:33:38.520 --> 00:33:42.760 We're going to do our best, and then we're going to trust God with the rest. 575 00:33:42.760 --> 00:33:51.980 That is what we're going to do because he is our shepherd. 576 00:33:51.980 --> 00:33:53.980 He is our shepherd. 577 00:33:53.980 --> 00:34:03.420 Look at all those battles people have been fighting, friends. 578 00:34:03.420 --> 00:34:09.699 Yes, Jesus. 579 00:34:09.699 --> 00:34:19.040 Thank you, Lord. 580 00:34:19.040 --> 00:34:20.040 Thank you, Lord. 581 00:34:20.040 --> 00:34:23.440 Let's just press into this for a second. 582 00:34:23.440 --> 00:34:30.440 I really feel like this can be a significant shift for us this year, a real significant 583 00:34:30.440 --> 00:34:34.480 shift for us this year. 584 00:34:35.480 --> 00:34:41.100 Yes. 585 00:34:41.100 --> 00:34:44.699 Just take a posture of prayer for a few minutes here. 586 00:34:44.699 --> 00:34:52.699 Just lean into this. 587 00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:11.720 Who wants to commit to really following the shepherd in a posture of rest this year? 588 00:35:11.720 --> 00:35:17.840 It's really, really following the shepherd in a posture of rest this year. 589 00:35:17.840 --> 00:35:22.560 Guys, we have a blank slate right now. 590 00:35:22.560 --> 00:35:28.880 Doesn't matter what you were doing yesterday, today and going forward, you can make a decision 591 00:35:28.880 --> 00:35:37.280 that you are going to follow after the voice of your shepherd this year. 592 00:35:37.280 --> 00:35:39.960 He's good. 593 00:35:39.960 --> 00:35:45.840 He wants to lead us into green pastures. 594 00:35:45.840 --> 00:35:51.720 He wants to lead us into the fruitful and abundant places, the places that are ripe 595 00:35:51.720 --> 00:35:52.720 and ready. 596 00:35:52.720 --> 00:36:07.160 It's going to be very counterintuitive, I think, for a lot of us. 597 00:36:07.160 --> 00:36:12.600 The things that he's going to lead us into or the direction that his voice is going to 598 00:36:12.600 --> 00:36:18.960 tell us to go could be counterintuitive to what it is that you either had planned or 599 00:36:18.960 --> 00:36:21.080 just the way you already do things. 600 00:36:21.080 --> 00:36:26.160 I'm really feeling in my heart right now that this year is going to be marked by us 601 00:36:26.160 --> 00:36:33.600 not trusting, trusting God more than we trust ourselves because we trust ourselves and yet 602 00:36:33.600 --> 00:36:38.760 we continue to be in the same place over and over and over and over again. 603 00:36:38.760 --> 00:36:44.760 I think it's time that we stop trusting ourselves to direct our steps and we start trusting 604 00:36:44.760 --> 00:36:52.000 God to direct our steps. 605 00:36:52.000 --> 00:36:54.360 I feel like this year is going to be marked by that. 606 00:36:54.360 --> 00:37:00.360 Yeah, okay, that doesn't make a lot of sense to me but I think I'm going to, yeah, I really 607 00:37:00.360 --> 00:37:07.560 feel like God's telling me to do it so I'm going to do that. 608 00:37:07.560 --> 00:37:15.480 I never forget I had this student, it's been a few years ago now, probably 2021, anyway, 609 00:37:15.480 --> 00:37:20.760 she came in and she was just like, you know, I want to be married, you know, she'd never 610 00:37:20.760 --> 00:37:27.840 been married, she wanted to be married and she was in the military and she, actually 611 00:37:27.840 --> 00:37:32.760 she had been married, I'm sorry, she was divorced and she wanted to be remarried and she had 612 00:37:32.760 --> 00:37:43.880 a child and, you know, a bunch of different things and she wanted to, oh, so she comes 613 00:37:43.880 --> 00:37:49.280 to me and she goes, I really feel like God, so she comes in and, you know, she really 614 00:37:49.280 --> 00:37:50.640 just starts growing spiritually. 615 00:37:50.640 --> 00:37:54.360 She comes in here and starts really growing spiritually and she says to me, yeah, I really 616 00:37:54.360 --> 00:37:55.360 want to move to Ohio. 617 00:37:55.360 --> 00:38:00.000 Now, I had just moved to Texas in 2020 from Ohio and I said, why do you want to move to 618 00:38:00.000 --> 00:38:01.000 Ohio? 619 00:38:01.000 --> 00:38:03.360 I said, I really feel like God's telling me to move to Ohio. 620 00:38:03.360 --> 00:38:08.080 She lived in the Pacific Northwest at the time and I said, well, you have a shared parenting 621 00:38:08.080 --> 00:38:12.320 agreement with your former spouse and she said, yeah, I know. 622 00:38:12.320 --> 00:38:17.120 She said, I told him that I want to move to Ohio and he said he was willing to also move 623 00:38:17.120 --> 00:38:22.960 to Ohio and I was like, well, that's weird. 624 00:38:22.960 --> 00:38:28.880 Now I still, she said that God told her that her husband was in Ohio and that she just 625 00:38:28.880 --> 00:38:30.600 needs to move to Ohio, right? 626 00:38:30.600 --> 00:38:35.440 And I was just like, you know, that doesn't, I can't sign off on that, you guys, because 627 00:38:35.440 --> 00:38:37.840 people say crazy things, right? 628 00:38:37.840 --> 00:38:44.360 But remember, she was pressed in with the shepherd. 629 00:38:44.360 --> 00:38:47.760 Don't let anyone else talk you out of something that the shepherd is telling you. 630 00:38:47.760 --> 00:38:53.180 Now get wise counsel and she did and, you know, and she got confirmation because her 631 00:38:53.180 --> 00:38:58.160 former husband agreed to also move to Ohio. 632 00:38:58.160 --> 00:39:04.760 That doesn't happen, just so you know, in most shared parenting situations. 633 00:39:04.760 --> 00:39:08.120 And so they all moved to Ohio because she was in the military. 634 00:39:08.120 --> 00:39:10.960 She was able to transfer to Ohio to whatever. 635 00:39:10.960 --> 00:39:16.560 So everything lined up, friends, all T's crossed, all I's dotted. 636 00:39:16.560 --> 00:39:20.520 And sure enough, she was probably there for about 30 days and she met her husband. 637 00:39:20.520 --> 00:39:23.640 Who am I to say? 638 00:39:23.640 --> 00:39:26.920 I can't say. 639 00:39:26.920 --> 00:39:28.120 And what was she doing? 640 00:39:28.120 --> 00:39:31.960 And friends, please don't take that as a template for yourself, okay? 641 00:39:31.960 --> 00:39:33.960 Everyone moved to Ohio, all right? 642 00:39:33.960 --> 00:39:38.180 But here's the thing. 643 00:39:38.180 --> 00:39:46.640 We are in a season where we have to trust God more than we've been trusting ourselves. 644 00:39:46.640 --> 00:39:53.600 Because a lot of us have been walking around in circles, thinking that we're going to figure 645 00:39:53.600 --> 00:39:54.600 this thing out. 646 00:39:54.600 --> 00:39:55.680 And I'm not just talking about your love life. 647 00:39:55.680 --> 00:39:59.640 I'm talking about your whole life, your whole life. 648 00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:08.460 And so we have this beautiful opportunity right now to step into this gorgeous, beautiful 649 00:40:08.460 --> 00:40:14.420 year that if we just take the numbers at face value is marked by grace and it's marked by 650 00:40:14.420 --> 00:40:21.440 double sevens, which is completion and rest and God's perfect plan, right? 651 00:40:21.440 --> 00:40:25.820 And then it's marked by a beautiful eight of new beginnings. 652 00:40:25.820 --> 00:40:27.820 I love that. 653 00:40:27.820 --> 00:40:29.380 I love the hope in that. 654 00:40:29.380 --> 00:40:34.500 I love the expectation in that, but we have to follow the voice of our shepherd. 655 00:40:34.500 --> 00:40:39.500 We have to trust our shepherd to take us where we need to go. 656 00:40:39.500 --> 00:40:42.160 He knows what we have need of before we even ask. 657 00:40:42.160 --> 00:40:43.780 Remember that? 658 00:40:43.780 --> 00:40:48.420 He knows what you have need of, which means he knows you better than you know yourself. 659 00:40:48.420 --> 00:40:54.420 You think you know yourself, but the Bible says in Jeremiah that the broken heart, the 660 00:40:54.420 --> 00:41:00.160 human heart is wicked and deceitful and no man can know it. 661 00:41:00.160 --> 00:41:06.360 But the redeemed heart through Christ, the new creation heart, that becomes the GPS, 662 00:41:06.360 --> 00:41:09.440 doesn't it? 663 00:41:09.440 --> 00:41:15.900 That becomes the GPS. 664 00:41:15.900 --> 00:41:18.600 We want to follow after that. 665 00:41:18.600 --> 00:41:23.420 We want to follow after his heart that is in us. 666 00:41:23.420 --> 00:41:27.860 And sometimes that's going to mean maybe walking through some valleys that you're like, 667 00:41:27.860 --> 00:41:30.060 ah, are you sure this is the way we're going to go? 668 00:41:30.060 --> 00:41:33.780 Yeah, this is the way we're going to go because on the other side of this valley, there's 669 00:41:33.780 --> 00:41:39.860 a big, beautiful, open, expansive green pasture. 670 00:41:39.860 --> 00:41:49.020 Yes, yes, it's time, friends. 671 00:41:49.020 --> 00:41:53.240 It's time for us to take some steps forward. 672 00:41:54.060 --> 00:41:59.440 And we see that there's just a lot of stuff going on right now, a lot, a lot, a lot of 673 00:41:59.440 --> 00:42:00.440 things going on right now. 674 00:42:00.440 --> 00:42:04.120 A lot of people very weary, more than I've ever seen before. 675 00:42:04.120 --> 00:42:09.080 People very weary right now. 676 00:42:09.080 --> 00:42:13.840 And so that's why it's so beautiful that this year is going to be marked by super natural 677 00:42:13.840 --> 00:42:17.320 rest. 678 00:42:17.320 --> 00:42:21.180 Who wants that rest? 679 00:42:21.180 --> 00:42:25.160 And I don't mean like, oh, we're going to take a year off and, you know, maybe our promises 680 00:42:25.160 --> 00:42:26.580 will come true next year. 681 00:42:26.580 --> 00:42:28.580 We're just going to rest this year. 682 00:42:28.580 --> 00:42:34.580 No, I'm talking about the type of productivity that can only come from rest. 683 00:42:34.580 --> 00:42:37.860 I'm talking about the kind of progress that can only come from rest. 684 00:42:37.860 --> 00:42:42.780 I'm talking to the kind of breakthrough that can only come from resting from the way that 685 00:42:42.780 --> 00:42:45.820 we were doing it and doing it God's way. 686 00:42:45.820 --> 00:42:50.660 That is the rest that this year is marked by. 687 00:42:50.660 --> 00:42:57.940 So as we close up today's Supernatural Saturday, we're going to revisit Psalm 23. 688 00:42:57.940 --> 00:43:06.380 Oh, yes. 689 00:43:06.380 --> 00:43:09.500 The Lord is my shepherd. 690 00:43:09.500 --> 00:43:10.500 What does that mean? 691 00:43:10.500 --> 00:43:12.860 It means I don't have to shepherd myself. 692 00:43:12.860 --> 00:43:18.700 I shall not want, I shall not want. 693 00:43:18.700 --> 00:43:19.700 Therefore what? 694 00:43:19.740 --> 00:43:24.780 I don't have to declare scarcity because he makes me lie down in green pastures. 695 00:43:24.780 --> 00:43:25.780 Where's that? 696 00:43:25.780 --> 00:43:26.780 That's the rest. 697 00:43:26.780 --> 00:43:29.700 He leads me beside the still waters. 698 00:43:29.700 --> 00:43:38.100 I don't have to know the route because he is the one restoring my soul. 699 00:43:38.100 --> 00:43:40.980 I don't have to fix everything myself. 700 00:43:40.980 --> 00:43:42.300 He's restoring my soul. 701 00:43:42.300 --> 00:43:45.020 He leads me in the paths of righteousness for righteousness sake. 702 00:43:45.020 --> 00:43:46.860 My responsibility is to follow. 703 00:43:46.860 --> 00:43:52.620 Only and all responsibility is just to follow because he's leading me in the path of righteousness. 704 00:43:52.620 --> 00:43:57.340 And then even though I walk through the valley, notice the word I walk. 705 00:43:57.340 --> 00:43:59.180 That's all we're doing. 706 00:43:59.180 --> 00:44:01.560 He's leading us. 707 00:44:01.560 --> 00:44:02.860 He's leading us through. 708 00:44:02.860 --> 00:44:05.740 We will fear no evil because you are with us. 709 00:44:05.740 --> 00:44:07.100 That's the rest. 710 00:44:07.100 --> 00:44:11.740 Resting from your fear, resting from your worry. 711 00:44:11.740 --> 00:44:13.100 You walk, but you don't worry. 712 00:44:13.100 --> 00:44:14.100 You don't panic. 713 00:44:14.100 --> 00:44:16.020 You obey, but you're not trying to control. 714 00:44:16.020 --> 00:44:20.540 You're working in this scripture, but you're not striving. 715 00:44:20.540 --> 00:44:26.020 You're fighting, but only the battles that you've been assigned with the, with the weapons 716 00:44:26.020 --> 00:44:30.060 of your warfare that are not carnal, which is just praise and worship in the word of 717 00:44:30.060 --> 00:44:31.460 God. 718 00:44:31.460 --> 00:44:35.580 And you're moving forward without believing that everything depends on you. 719 00:44:35.580 --> 00:44:37.460 All right. 720 00:44:37.460 --> 00:44:42.300 So as we enter into 5787 today, I want you to think about the Lord being your shepherd 721 00:44:42.300 --> 00:44:44.660 and not shepherding yourself. 722 00:44:44.660 --> 00:44:51.340 And I want you to really make a shift into what that looks like. 723 00:44:51.340 --> 00:44:54.460 Because last week we learned that we have a good shepherd, but this week as we enter 724 00:44:54.460 --> 00:44:59.380 into the new year, we're actually being asked to actually let him shepherd us. 725 00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:02.880 We got to let him shepherd us. 726 00:45:02.880 --> 00:45:07.520 I believe that you're going to start hearing your shepherd's voice even louder than you 727 00:45:07.520 --> 00:45:09.040 have in the past. 728 00:45:09.040 --> 00:45:10.040 And guess what? 729 00:45:10.040 --> 00:45:18.320 He'd be saying something very counterintuitive to your human reasoning, and that's okay. 730 00:45:18.320 --> 00:45:26.880 That's all right. 731 00:45:26.880 --> 00:45:29.680 The key is to follow. 732 00:45:29.680 --> 00:45:35.720 Yes, the key is to follow. 733 00:45:35.720 --> 00:45:53.080 All right, go ahead and put that in the chat right now. 734 00:45:53.080 --> 00:45:55.920 What am I trusting my shepherd with? 735 00:45:55.920 --> 00:46:02.920 Come on. 736 00:46:02.920 --> 00:46:28.880 I really want to encourage you friends and myself to really spend some time in the Psalms 737 00:46:28.880 --> 00:46:33.040 and in Psalm 23 specifically, Psalm 27 is another one. 738 00:46:33.040 --> 00:46:38.520 And just really reminding yourself that, you know, you are lamb, you are that lamb, that 739 00:46:38.520 --> 00:46:43.780 you are that sheep, that you are being shepherded, that you are being cared for. 740 00:46:43.780 --> 00:46:48.600 Really important for us to continue to remind ourselves of that and to continue to ask the 741 00:46:48.600 --> 00:46:54.000 good shepherd to lead you, to guide you, to show you, teach you, show you, heal you, grow 742 00:46:54.000 --> 00:46:55.000 you. 743 00:46:55.000 --> 00:46:57.920 That's really important prayer right now. 744 00:46:57.960 --> 00:47:00.120 Your prayers do not have to be fancy in this year. 745 00:47:00.120 --> 00:47:01.320 This is what I'm feeling in my heart. 746 00:47:01.320 --> 00:47:04.620 Your prayers don't really have to be fancy this year at all. 747 00:47:04.620 --> 00:47:05.760 You don't have to be eloquent. 748 00:47:05.760 --> 00:47:08.160 You never have had to be eloquent in your prayers. 749 00:47:08.160 --> 00:47:10.880 Your prayers don't even have to be right on target. 750 00:47:10.880 --> 00:47:13.140 They really just have to be very humble. 751 00:47:13.140 --> 00:47:19.840 Your prayers need to be in a posture of, hey, I just need you to lead me. 752 00:47:19.840 --> 00:47:21.480 I need you to lead me. 753 00:47:21.480 --> 00:47:22.480 You're my good shepherd. 754 00:47:22.480 --> 00:47:25.480 I need you to lead me. 755 00:47:25.480 --> 00:47:26.680 I need you to protect me. 756 00:47:26.720 --> 00:47:27.800 I need you to keep me. 757 00:47:31.920 --> 00:47:33.840 That's what your prayers need to sound like. 758 00:47:35.080 --> 00:47:41.400 And if you set aside some time, I saw a word, I don't know, it was a few weeks ago, that 759 00:47:41.400 --> 00:47:44.200 the secret place was being restored in people's lives. 760 00:47:44.200 --> 00:47:45.320 And I really believe that. 761 00:47:45.320 --> 00:47:46.960 It's definitely happening for me. 762 00:47:47.280 --> 00:47:48.400 I hope it's happening for you. 763 00:47:48.400 --> 00:47:52.960 Has anyone else felt themselves called into prayer more than normal? 764 00:47:54.040 --> 00:47:55.960 I see people nodding their heads yes. 765 00:47:56.680 --> 00:48:01.640 You just feel drawn into prayer more than normal, maybe in your car, maybe in the morning 766 00:48:01.640 --> 00:48:03.400 you're getting ready to go, whatever. 767 00:48:03.400 --> 00:48:06.160 You just feel you're being drawn into prayer more than normal. 768 00:48:07.960 --> 00:48:09.840 That's just your secret place being restored. 769 00:48:09.840 --> 00:48:13.360 You guys, it doesn't have to be formal and it doesn't have to be extensive. 770 00:48:13.360 --> 00:48:15.600 It can just be a few minutes, but it doesn't matter. 771 00:48:17.240 --> 00:48:21.400 Powerful things are being accomplished when you look to heaven. 772 00:48:22.400 --> 00:48:26.800 That's why Supernatural Saturday is so powerful, because all of us, 210 of us right now on 773 00:48:26.800 --> 00:48:28.480 this call are looking to heaven together. 774 00:48:32.920 --> 00:48:39.400 So in this year, I do believe that you're going to be connected more in prayer if you 775 00:48:39.400 --> 00:48:42.720 want to be, and you're just going to get more downloads. 776 00:48:45.400 --> 00:48:50.320 I just saw in the spirit that, you know, that old Staples commercial, that easy button, 777 00:48:50.720 --> 00:48:51.800 that big red button. 778 00:48:55.520 --> 00:49:00.520 I feel like God's saying, hey, you know, I'm offering you, you're taking the hard way, 779 00:49:00.520 --> 00:49:04.280 you're doing things the harder way, and I'm offering you my direction. 780 00:49:08.520 --> 00:49:10.720 I want to point something out about Psalm 23. 781 00:49:12.480 --> 00:49:18.520 Is it possible that the valley in Psalm 23, because it says, as I walk through the valley 782 00:49:18.640 --> 00:49:23.160 of the shadow, by the way, that that was a treacherous place where there were a lot of 783 00:49:23.160 --> 00:49:27.680 enemies and there were a lot of, it was dangerous, it was a dangerous place. 784 00:49:30.400 --> 00:49:35.080 But you're being led through by a guard, you're being led through by the shepherd, so 785 00:49:35.080 --> 00:49:39.080 he's there with you, because if you were there by yourself, this place, you know, that 786 00:49:39.080 --> 00:49:42.040 they talked about, it was a real place, friends, and it was a place that was very 787 00:49:42.040 --> 00:49:44.440 dangerous and people died there, OK? 788 00:49:49.520 --> 00:49:52.640 Just because of the way that it was set up, you know, you're down here, you're like a 789 00:49:52.640 --> 00:49:56.040 sitting duck and then there's, you know, the end of year, you know, the people that are 790 00:49:56.040 --> 00:50:00.040 up to no good and the things that are up to no good, you know, can see. 791 00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:09.600 Come on guys, we've got to stay muted. 792 00:50:09.600 --> 00:50:13.480 And you're just like, you know, you're just, you're an easy target, so to speak, but he's 793 00:50:13.480 --> 00:50:15.000 walking through with you. 794 00:50:15.000 --> 00:50:19.360 But if you're walking through the valley of the shadow of death, the valley of the shadow 795 00:50:19.360 --> 00:50:27.080 of death into the green pastures, is it possible that it's a shortcut? 796 00:50:27.080 --> 00:50:30.200 Is it possible that it's just an easy way to get there? 797 00:50:30.200 --> 00:50:32.720 It's an easier way to get there. 798 00:50:32.720 --> 00:50:36.720 Yeah, it might be like kind of a scarier way to get there, but you're with, you're a good 799 00:50:36.720 --> 00:50:39.640 shepherd, so you're protected. 800 00:50:39.640 --> 00:50:42.760 But I was just thinking about that, like, you know, I'm walking through it. 801 00:50:42.760 --> 00:50:43.920 I'm not staying in it. 802 00:50:43.920 --> 00:50:47.720 It's not talking about, you know, you're with me in the valley of despair. 803 00:50:47.720 --> 00:50:48.720 You're with me. 804 00:50:48.720 --> 00:50:49.720 I set up my house here. 805 00:50:49.720 --> 00:50:51.720 I live here now. 806 00:50:52.600 --> 00:50:59.440 You're walking through those treacherous places to the abundant places, to the green places, 807 00:50:59.440 --> 00:51:03.720 to the places filled with life and filled with provision and filled with, you know, 808 00:51:03.720 --> 00:51:05.760 the promises of God. 809 00:51:05.760 --> 00:51:09.040 I mean, isn't that kind of God's MO? 810 00:51:09.040 --> 00:51:13.040 Isn't that what happened with the children of Israel? 811 00:51:13.040 --> 00:51:17.120 He was trying to, you guys, I don't know if you're familiar with that, with the actual 812 00:51:17.240 --> 00:51:21.840 geography of going from Egypt to Canaan. 813 00:51:21.840 --> 00:51:29.920 But I promise you that this was the straight as the crow flies way to go. 814 00:51:29.920 --> 00:51:38.280 Could they have gone a very, a much longer route around all the trouble, around the places 815 00:51:38.280 --> 00:51:41.400 where the things were that were scary? 816 00:51:41.720 --> 00:51:47.640 Yes, they could have, and it would have taken a long time. 817 00:51:47.640 --> 00:51:55.960 God was taking them from point A to point B, but it was through some treacherous stuff. 818 00:51:55.960 --> 00:51:56.960 Into what? 819 00:51:56.960 --> 00:52:05.160 Into the green pastures, into the land flowing with milk and honey. 820 00:52:05.160 --> 00:52:06.520 Two reasons. 821 00:52:06.520 --> 00:52:08.880 One reason it was the quicker route. 822 00:52:08.880 --> 00:52:16.240 And the second reason is that it kind of puts you on a crash course of trust, doesn't it? 823 00:52:16.240 --> 00:52:20.240 We've been delivered out of this. 824 00:52:20.240 --> 00:52:24.600 We're going towards something great, but the person that delivered us out of this is going 825 00:52:24.600 --> 00:52:27.240 to keep us on the journey from here to there. 826 00:52:27.240 --> 00:52:33.600 Friends, God gave me some pretty amazing promises when I first became a believer back in, you 827 00:52:33.600 --> 00:52:36.040 know, 30 years ago. 828 00:52:36.200 --> 00:52:42.840 And I, like everyone else, like you, thought that was just like, oh, great, that's going 829 00:52:42.840 --> 00:52:46.440 to happen tomorrow or that's going to happen a month from now or two months from now. 830 00:52:46.440 --> 00:52:48.680 Let's just all laugh at that. 831 00:52:48.680 --> 00:52:50.920 But no, that's not what happened. 832 00:52:50.920 --> 00:52:56.960 But what happened was, is my character got developed, spiritual maturity came, also physical 833 00:52:56.960 --> 00:52:57.960 maturity came. 834 00:52:57.960 --> 00:53:01.320 I mean, I've aged 30 years since then. 835 00:53:01.320 --> 00:53:05.240 Some of those things I've lived out in different ways than I expected to live them out, meaning 836 00:53:05.440 --> 00:53:09.400 that what he said and what I thought he said, not the same thing. 837 00:53:09.400 --> 00:53:13.560 I imagined it to be different than it was, but it was actually better than what I imagined 838 00:53:13.560 --> 00:53:15.760 it to be because it was eternal. 839 00:53:15.760 --> 00:53:20.400 It had eternal value. 840 00:53:20.400 --> 00:53:25.240 So much of what we pray for and so much of what we want in life has very little eternal 841 00:53:25.240 --> 00:53:28.840 value and also just has to really do with us. 842 00:53:28.840 --> 00:53:29.840 And it's pretty frivolous. 843 00:53:29.840 --> 00:53:33.880 God's like, okay, hey, let me take the desire of your heart and let me make it not just 844 00:53:33.880 --> 00:53:36.560 abundant, but also eternal. 845 00:53:36.560 --> 00:53:41.640 Let me take what it is that you're asking for and let me show you how you can have that, 846 00:53:41.640 --> 00:53:46.120 but you can have it so that it doesn't just impact you, it impacts others and that it 847 00:53:46.120 --> 00:53:47.620 bears fruit for eternity. 848 00:53:47.620 --> 00:53:48.620 How about that? 849 00:53:48.620 --> 00:53:49.620 Does that sound better? 850 00:53:49.620 --> 00:53:51.960 Yeah, that's kind of what God does. 851 00:53:51.960 --> 00:53:58.160 It's like, oh, you thought this little loaves and fish was just your lunch for today? 852 00:53:58.160 --> 00:54:05.040 No, actually, if you let me have that little desire of yours, then I'm going to bless it 853 00:54:05.040 --> 00:54:10.120 and break it and multiply it so that it can feed an entire multitude. 854 00:54:10.120 --> 00:54:13.680 How about that? 855 00:54:13.680 --> 00:54:14.680 Isn't this our God? 856 00:54:14.680 --> 00:54:17.320 Isn't this how he does things? 857 00:54:17.320 --> 00:54:21.360 So you guys were going to trust him in the year 5787 because he is a good, good shepherd 858 00:54:21.360 --> 00:54:25.160 and he's going to lead us maybe through some of the harder things that we've already been 859 00:54:25.160 --> 00:54:26.520 going through. 860 00:54:26.520 --> 00:54:29.160 You didn't want to go through this, but it developed character in you. 861 00:54:29.160 --> 00:54:33.080 You've gone through some lean times and you're going to live in some abundant times. 862 00:54:33.080 --> 00:54:37.360 You've gone through some lonely times and you're going to live in some very highly relational 863 00:54:37.360 --> 00:54:39.640 community times. 864 00:54:39.640 --> 00:54:41.480 That's what's going to happen. 865 00:54:41.480 --> 00:54:45.960 There's been sadness, but the Bible says that the sadness, the heaviness is going to be 866 00:54:45.960 --> 00:54:48.600 replaced with praise. 867 00:54:48.600 --> 00:54:50.800 The ashes are going to be replaced with beauty. 868 00:54:50.800 --> 00:54:54.200 And so we just declared all this over our year as we go into 5787. 869 00:54:54.200 --> 00:54:55.640 God, it is a new year. 870 00:54:55.760 --> 00:54:56.760 It is a new season. 871 00:54:56.760 --> 00:55:00.040 It is a new time and we want to be on. 872 00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:06.080 point with you. We want to be walking with you. We want to be lead by you. We want to be guided by 873 00:55:06.080 --> 00:55:11.840 you. We want to be on the same page as you are. We want to be able to surrender to you. Let go of 874 00:55:11.840 --> 00:55:17.520 control of what things need to look like and trust that you have a better idea for us than we have 875 00:55:17.520 --> 00:55:23.280 ever had for ourselves. So we're letting go of our own counter-intuitiveness. We're letting you show 876 00:55:23.280 --> 00:55:30.160 us things that we would have never seen, maybe never even know we wanted. Give us the things 877 00:55:30.160 --> 00:55:36.320 that we never knew we even wanted in this year of 5787, Lord. I pray even now that your sons and 878 00:55:36.320 --> 00:55:41.280 daughters going forward from this call, they would begin to seek you in the secret place. 879 00:55:41.280 --> 00:55:48.640 They would begin to give you permission to lead them and guide them in ways that they never 880 00:55:48.640 --> 00:55:54.720 expected, and that they would hear your voice more clear than they have ever heard it 881 00:55:55.920 --> 00:56:03.520 in any recent times, and that they would trust to do the things that you're telling them to do, 882 00:56:04.800 --> 00:56:09.440 even if it wasn't their original plan. And so, Lord, I thank you for that. I think you're going 883 00:56:09.440 --> 00:56:18.000 to have crazy testimonies of people that have been working hard, hard, hard to get certain 884 00:56:18.000 --> 00:56:22.560 things in their life and certain breakthroughs in their life. And in this year, those breakthroughs 885 00:56:22.560 --> 00:56:29.840 are going to come quickly, and they are going to come easily as they rest in you. In Jesus' name. 886 00:56:31.760 --> 00:56:41.520 Amen. All right, friends. Happy New Year. Love you all. See you soon. 887 00:56:41.520 --> 00:56:54.800 Breakthroughs. Amazing, amazing. Love you all. Thank you, Jackie. 888 00:56:54.800 --> 00:56:59.440 Thank you, Jackie. Hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus.