good morning
hey guys
I’m gonna let you all Gather in
let me know what you’re tuning in from
I am actually in
the Big Apple
they don’t make buildings that big
nowhere else I’m in the Big Apple
um before my uncle passed away my
husband had planned like a date trip for
us and so I am enjoying that day trip
and also waiting to to get back to my
mother
and family and support them through this
transition I was sitting here though
Ashley I am in your city and what’s
crazy is I was in the hotel all day
yesterday because I was like
I don’t know nobody here but that’s not
true I do know people here I just the
way my introvert is set up I’m not able
to be like hey
how do extroverts do it we’ll talk about
it later but how do you all do it
a conversation for another time but also
how do you all just move here I am it’s
not me I’m like very anyways listen
um I am sitting here
and
um next week in Dallas we’re going to be
having hey you live for the very first
time since we started it during the
pandemic and you know I was wondering I
was thinking about like what is the
impact going to be who’s going to come
and I realized something that happens
when I’m thinking about things that um I
want to share with you and see if it
resonates with you I won’t be on here
long so if you can stay on stay on
because I want to read our mail for a
minute maybe it’s just my mail and you
can just pray for me but um
I am wondering do you ever have moments
in your life where you’re going after
something you have a big opportunity
coming up you’re meeting someone for the
first time and you say to yourself I
don’t want to get my hopes up
I don’t want to get my hopes up so I am
not going to expect much from this
moment I don’t want to get my hopes up
so I am not going to allow myself to
dream about the possibilities I don’t
want to get my hopes up how many times
in the last six or seven opportunities
that you’ve had whether they’re new
relationships new job opportunities
entrepreneurship whatever it is how many
times have you had a moment where he’s
like I don’t want to get my hopes up
I don’t need my hopes up
now I want to ask you
what does it mean to live a life where
you are intentionally suppressing your
hope
I’m sitting here and I’m thinking about
this thought going through my mind of
like I don’t want to get my hopes up
and I am wondering
how suppressed how intentionally
suppressed My Hope Is
and if I am intentionally suppressing My
Hope
why should I expect to even have any
level of optimism or expectation I want
to present to you oh my girl said a few
times this year already I’m with you I’m
with you this ain’t the Judgment see I’m
recent beside each other
if you are constantly saying to yourself
I don’t want to get my hopes up then
you’re also saying I don’t want to get
my faith up
so I I don’t want to have hope which
means I don’t want to have faith because
faith is the substance of things hoped
for
so if you don’t have hope or you are
intentionally it’s not even that we
we’re too we’re like too good to say
like oh it’s not that I don’t have any
hope I just don’t want to get my hopes
up but if faith is the substance of
things hoped for and I don’t want to get
my hopes up that means that my faith is
not made up of anything I don’t even
have the faith for the very thing I am
pursuing because I don’t have enough
hope to create the substance for the
faith
did that make sense it makes sense in my
head and I just wanted to share that
with you I’m thinking about the Hope
Revival tour so as you know hope is like
my word for the year
um I believe that after years and years
of having hope suppressed hope rejected
hope abandoned that hope is exactly what
we need and I’m like God how do we get
to this space where the Christ in US is
the Hope for Glory that this world is
going to change our family is going to
change our lives our soul is going to
change by activating the Christ in us if
we constantly live with a mentality that
says I don’t want to get my hopes up
and so I’m sitting here and just as soon
as I had the thought I I intentionally
captured it I captured that thought I
dissected that thought and then I took a
minute to ask myself who would who would
join forces with the Enemy
to attack their own hope
I feel like honestly
maybe you were like thinking that the
enemy is after certain things and I said
this and my message is crazy I think
it’s just continuing to like
manifest and take root in my life is
that like at the end of the day I really
believe that the enemies after our hope
when I experienced any trauma in my past
any trauma you can name it left me
feeling hopeless and if I am hopeless
then I am faithless and if I am
faithless I am stagnant I cannot move I
cannot exist I cannot create I cannot
even position myself to activate the
word of God in my life because I don’t
have faith for it so if I receive a
message from God and that message
resonates with my spirit that message
resonates with what I believe God is
trying to show me for a season in my
life I have to allow it to get my hope
up and so I’m talking to you
on the other side of this no matter
where you are I’m letting you know that
it’s time for you to get your hopes up
again if you’re in any of the Cities I
think I think like two or three of the
cities that we’re doing the Hope Revival
touring is already sold out I think it’s
Charlotte Memphis and DMV but we may
have more seats for the DMV but I don’t
know we’re going to pray about it but I
just want you to know like if you are in
need of a boost of hope I want to invite
you to come kick it with us for the Hope
Revival tour I am excited about us
getting our hopes up again I was looking
at the word Revival and I think whenever
we use the word Revival most of us think
about it I think about it going from
dead to alive again but when I was
looking at the definition for the word
Revival it’s about improving from a
better into a better condition if I
wasn’t on Instagram I would read you the
exact definition but it doesn’t have to
be dead in order to need Improvement and
I’m thinking about the many areas of Our
Lives where we would like to experience
a boost a magnification of Our Hope and
I’m letting you know right now that
there is nothing more powerful than
getting in a room full of other people
who are calling on Hope who believe in
hope it is contagious I have seen women
come into the rooms depressed defeated
coming by themselves thinking to
themselves this is my last straw you
know I don’t do church or church has not
been working or I haven’t felt like
myself in a long time and you come into
this space and it offers you Joy and
transparency and vulnerability in the
presence of God and hope is magnified
I want to invite you to join me for the
Hope Revival tour because I believe now
more than ever that it’s time for us to
get our hopes up I’m looking at this
great big old city and I’m thinking to
myself how many people are walking
around hopeless and we’re the answer may
we never ever forget
that when we see a headline that when we
experience a heartbreak when we
experience grief that it is our call
to respond with hope
to respond with faith when someone has
given up on all Humanity we’re the ones
that say don’t give up on us we’re still
dishing kindness We’re still praying
we’re still believing we’re still
trusting in God to make all things work
together I am
I’m passionate about Hope for this year
and I may I honestly I’m protecting my
own hope I think that that’s been the
greatest call for me this year it’s like
not just because you know it’s January a
lot of folks be like hoped up in January
right hoped up hoped up in January but
um I am learning to protect my hope to
protect it from season to season so we
received some tough news and it’s easy
to be like oh Lord this year’s going
down it’s going down the drain already
like I don’t even trust you but like no
I’m protecting my hope and in protecting
my hope that means me saying God if you
allow this to happen
and then I’m going to allow your joy to
be my strength
you said okay so I’m gonna say this then
I’ll get off the joy of the Lord is my
strength like so churchy we say it all
the time but when I really think about
it when I really think about that
scripture I’m like why is the joy of the
Lord my strength like that’s his
enjoy that you don’t have nothing to do
with me but the fact is that like the
joy of the Lord is my strength because
if the Lord can have joy in the middle
of the thing that is making me feel weak
if the Lord can have joy and the thing
that is making me feel stretched if the
Lord can have joy in the midst of the
most overwhelming season of my life then
the Lord must know something about this
moment that I don’t know and so instead
of tapping into the frustration of this
present moment I’m gonna dare to trust
that if the Lord has Joy then I can have
strength because when I get to whatever
it is that God sees when I get to the
moment where the Lord’s Joy becomes my
joy it’ll all make sense the joy of the
Lord is my strength
because when I’m weak he has Joy because
he knows what is producing in me when
I’m frustrated he has Joy because he
knows what’s on the other side of it
when I’m crying my eyes out the Lord can
still have joy because the Lord knows I
know who you’re going to be at the end
of this and so if certainly I have hope
my things said Slow connection so I hope
you guys are getting this but it means
that I have hope based off of the Lord
having Joy
my hope is in the Lord’s Joy
and yeah I’m excited
um I’m nervous about it the enemy’s been
playing with my mind like just so you
know if you think that like I you’re the
only person who has you know a moment of
inspiration and they’d be getting to
second guess yourself I’m telling you
right now like we in this thing together
because I’m like having second thoughts
which I always do I always have second
thoughts but I’m like how are you going
to revive hope for women we’ve got 15
000 women coming so far 15 000 women
coming so far in different cities and
it’s like girl
girl how you
gonna be Reviving hope for these women
and I was praying and the Lord’s like is
you’re not going to do it I’m gonna do
it
just stay sensitive stay open and keep
your hope up
the next time you have a how am I going
to do it moment you can have a hope
Revival before you even come into the
room you can have a hope Revival if we
aren’t even coming to your city because
the next time you have a moment where
you’re like how am I going to do it get
your hopes up
and start talking to yourself like how
am I not going to do it God gave me the
vision the people are coming with
expectation when we get in this room
together it’s going down like four flats
like how am I not going to show up in
this relationship as someone who is
whole and healed when I’m taking therapy
and I’m making sure that my heart is
connected with God and I’m being
spirit-led how am I not going to raise
these children when God gave them to me
and God’s given me strategy on how to
communicate to make sure that they’re
raised into people who are reflecting of
God’s grace like how am I not going to
be the one how am I not going to do it
my hopes are going to be so high my
hopes are going to be so up that
whenever I start having these thoughts
about like how am I going how am I going
to do this I’m just going to remind
myself that if I’m in it
is producing Grace it’s producing
strength it’s producing purpose
and so I just want you to get your hopes
up I see you Mickey says I feel so weak
for the first time in my life I feel
like I’m falling apart I listen
I think that this is exactly why we need
a hope Revival sis
maybe now more than anything what you
need is to borrow someone else’s hope
so if you’re watching this right now and
you’re like listen I’m not going through
a hard season My Hope Is I’m so excited
I just want you to be reminded that you
have the opportunity to be someone’s
overflow
that you have the opportunity to be
someone’s overflow and if you’re in this
and you’re tired and you’re frustrated
and you’re disappointed and you feel
like you don’t know how to make it I
want to encourage you to reach out to
borrow someone’s hope to say to a friend
to say to a family member this day to
Jesus like the joy of the Lord is my
strength is supposed to be the scripture
Lord I’m gonna need to borrow some hope
buy some help and then I want you to pay
attention to the small signs in which
God allows you to see
there’s something worth hoping for
something worth hanging on for
sometimes we want Hope to come in big
waves like if I just get this big moment
it’ll fill me up with hope but I am
being convinced as I start this year
in a slower Pace with a more intentional
presence that hope is often activated by
the small jolts
when our heart feels like wow
that felt good that felt like something
worth hanging on to that felt like
I was seeing that felt like I was heard
that felt like I’m not alone
I want to invite you guys to come to the
Hope Revival tour come by yourself don’t
worry about your friends bring a group
of friends do what you got to do just
know when we get in that room together
the Christ in US Christ in US is the
hope of glory
you may come into that room and you
don’t even know who Jesus is you may
come into that room and you’re like I
don’t know about Christ or it might be
Christ and a few other things for you
don’t worry about it Sis the holy spirit
will work everything out just come into
the room
and allow us together to allow the
christiness to produce glorious
encounters and from those glorious
encounters may we look at the world
differently I got a word I’ve been
studying for this and I think it’s going
to be helpful for those who are with us
I love you all I hope something I said
here helped you guys and look at the
comments for a minute
let’s link The Hope chain Lord I need to
be let me tell you something we have all
types of
hope things that we’re going to be doing
throughout the evening to help women who
are in need sometimes you need your hope
is down because you have a practical
need that needs to be fulfilled we’re
thinking about all of the practical ways
we can be the hands and feet of Jesus to
be allow the Christ in us to show up and
so some practical giveaways in a way
that we haven’t done before generational
hope I don’t know about you but I’ve
been thinking in terms of generations
and I’m thinking about how hope has been
suppressed throughout generations with
mothers or aunties and uncles and and
fathers telling that and don’t get your
hopes up don’t get your hopes up don’t
get your hopes up and now hope feels
like a betrayal to the family system now
hope feels like a betrayal to the
culture in which we were raised but I
believe that we’re going to break
generational curses and in the process
of breaking those generational curses
we’re going to introduce generational
hope into our families when the
generational Paradigm is don’t get your
hopes to oh hopes up don’t get your
hopes up we can feel restricted by
thoughts that aren’t even ours that say
if I dare to hope then I am going to be
going against the way things have been
done in my family I’m going to be called
foolish I’m going to be called ignorant
I’m going to be a black sheep of my
family for getting my hopes up guess
what
sometimes it takes one person to change
the tide of the family so get your hopes
up get your hopes up get connected with
people who massage and facilitate more
hope in your life and believe like never
before that as you get your hopes up the
world’s coming up everything with me
coming up when my hopes up
um okay I love you all I’m headed back
to Dallas you guys continue praying for
my family
and my mother in particular during this
tough season
um
we need it we need it I’m I’m gonna be
going back to my childhood City for this
farewell for my uncle and
um I’ve been pretty like I feel like
I’ve been pretty settled pretty strong
he was my favorite uncle growing up
um
but I’ve been so concerned about my mom
that I don’t think that I’ve like really
processed fully
um and I’m okay with that um because I’m
trying like to have moments when they
come uh and I anticipate that I will be
a snotty mess when it’s finally time to
say goodbye but right now I feel like I
am best used to help support and cover
and pray for my mother and when the time
is you know time for me to fall out I’ll
do that but I’m really grateful honestly
my uncle has been told so many times
that like this you know this things
aren’t looking good things aren’t
looking good you need to come and say
your goodbyes I mean I will say at least
maybe three times honestly like in the
last I’ll say five years it’s looked
like there have been close calls and he
defied those odds every single time and
so
um I’m blessed by his fight and blessed
by his willingness to say not my time
not my time and for him to go peacefully
I think speaks a lot he wasn’t in a
fight he went peacefully and um so
that’s what’s been carrying me I love
you guys thank you for your time thank
you for your prayers you guys bought
badges thank you you I appreciate that
um
I can’t wait generational hope
for our families generational hope for
our children
that’s what it is are you moving to
Dallas I actually live
in between Dallas and L.A but I spend
more time in Dallas these days
I guess the answer is yes
okay
blessings to you all hope to you hope in
you hope through you
hope to you