WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.000 School of the Prophets, good morning. 2 00:00:03.000 --> 00:00:05.860 Oh, it's so fun to see your faces again. 3 00:00:05.860 --> 00:00:09.460 David Armstrong and Kathy, Glenda. 4 00:00:09.460 --> 00:00:12.760 If you guys were unable to join last night, 5 00:00:12.760 --> 00:00:14.360 my name is Allie Vallatin, 6 00:00:14.360 --> 00:00:16.079 and I'm the online host for this week. 7 00:00:16.079 --> 00:00:17.640 So I will be here all week. 8 00:00:17.640 --> 00:00:20.660 I get the privilege of sitting down with our speakers 9 00:00:20.660 --> 00:00:23.180 to just pick their brain and ask them some questions 10 00:00:23.180 --> 00:00:25.100 and get some wisdom from them. 11 00:00:25.100 --> 00:00:27.200 So we are so excited. 12 00:00:27.200 --> 00:00:30.340 Today, we have Dano McCollum in the house. 13 00:00:30.340 --> 00:00:32.140 So happy to have you with us. 14 00:00:32.140 --> 00:00:32.980 It's so fun. 15 00:00:32.980 --> 00:00:33.800 Yeah, great to be here. 16 00:00:33.800 --> 00:00:34.640 So, so fun. 17 00:00:34.640 --> 00:00:37.500 And if you could, as you're just popping on this morning, 18 00:00:37.500 --> 00:00:40.620 just put your name in your little name box 19 00:00:40.620 --> 00:00:42.980 because it's so fun to be able to see your guys' name 20 00:00:42.980 --> 00:00:43.980 and where you're from. 21 00:00:43.980 --> 00:00:46.100 So even if you wanna type in the chat 22 00:00:46.100 --> 00:00:48.780 so we can see where you guys are joining us from today, 23 00:00:48.780 --> 00:00:49.700 that is so fun. 24 00:00:49.700 --> 00:00:52.020 We love to see how everyone is joining us 25 00:00:52.020 --> 00:00:53.260 all around the world. 26 00:00:53.260 --> 00:00:54.540 It's just the best. 27 00:00:54.540 --> 00:00:56.860 Los Angeles, that's where I'm from. 28 00:00:57.560 --> 00:00:58.400 The best. 29 00:00:58.400 --> 00:00:59.240 And Texas, that's where you're living now. 30 00:00:59.240 --> 00:01:00.440 A lot of Texans, yeah. 31 00:01:00.440 --> 00:01:01.880 A lot of Texas. 32 00:01:01.880 --> 00:01:02.720 Yes. 33 00:01:02.720 --> 00:01:03.540 So fun. 34 00:01:03.540 --> 00:01:04.379 What part of Texas are you in? 35 00:01:04.379 --> 00:01:05.519 I am in the Austin area. 36 00:01:05.519 --> 00:01:06.680 Austin area. 37 00:01:06.680 --> 00:01:07.660 Okay. 38 00:01:07.660 --> 00:01:09.040 Oh man, Switzerland. 39 00:01:09.040 --> 00:01:10.460 You got Canada. 40 00:01:10.460 --> 00:01:12.640 So it's not necessarily morning for everybody, 41 00:01:12.640 --> 00:01:14.480 but you know. 42 00:01:14.480 --> 00:01:16.040 Norway and Germany. 43 00:01:16.040 --> 00:01:18.280 I know, it's so cool to see how people join us 44 00:01:18.280 --> 00:01:20.080 from all over the world. 45 00:01:20.080 --> 00:01:20.920 So fun. 46 00:01:20.920 --> 00:01:22.320 Nashville, I love it. 47 00:01:22.320 --> 00:01:23.600 I love it so much. 48 00:01:23.660 --> 00:01:27.820 Well, this morning, I'm gonna ask you some questions. 49 00:01:27.820 --> 00:01:29.660 And then we're even just gonna have some time 50 00:01:29.660 --> 00:01:31.380 to just minister to the people on the call 51 00:01:31.380 --> 00:01:32.220 with us this morning. 52 00:01:32.220 --> 00:01:33.340 So pray for them. 53 00:01:33.340 --> 00:01:35.660 And if you have any words for anybody, 54 00:01:35.660 --> 00:01:37.060 that's what we're gonna do this morning. 55 00:01:37.060 --> 00:01:40.440 So I am excited to ask you some questions. 56 00:01:40.440 --> 00:01:42.540 First question for you this morning is, 57 00:01:42.540 --> 00:01:45.420 you know, Chris really opened it up well last night. 58 00:01:45.420 --> 00:01:46.900 He had a powerful message. 59 00:01:46.900 --> 00:01:49.300 If you guys have been able to listen or maybe not, 60 00:01:49.300 --> 00:01:51.100 sometimes with the time zones, 61 00:01:51.100 --> 00:01:53.060 it's a bit tricky to find the right times 62 00:01:53.400 --> 00:01:54.340 to watch things. 63 00:01:54.340 --> 00:01:57.200 But last night, Chris spoke and it was just powerful. 64 00:01:57.200 --> 00:01:58.520 He really shared a lot of the things 65 00:01:58.520 --> 00:02:01.360 the Lord has been speaking to him about in this last year. 66 00:02:01.360 --> 00:02:05.400 And really just the sort of metamorphosis 67 00:02:05.400 --> 00:02:07.580 that we've been in and sort of this new, 68 00:02:07.580 --> 00:02:09.360 we're kind of breaking out of the cocoon 69 00:02:09.360 --> 00:02:12.280 and finding our wings and beginning to fly, right? 70 00:02:12.280 --> 00:02:13.200 Just really fun. 71 00:02:13.200 --> 00:02:15.360 But I think most of us could agree, right, 72 00:02:15.360 --> 00:02:18.280 that the last couple of years, they've been wild. 73 00:02:18.280 --> 00:02:20.360 It's been a unique time in history, right? 74 00:02:20.360 --> 00:02:22.880 Like we've all across the globe experienced 75 00:02:23.700 --> 00:02:25.620 some trials and some things that have just been difficult. 76 00:02:25.620 --> 00:02:28.140 We've had some unique circumstances. 77 00:02:28.140 --> 00:02:30.980 And, you know, we found ourselves kind of grabbing to things 78 00:02:30.980 --> 00:02:33.300 and holding onto things just as people, 79 00:02:33.300 --> 00:02:36.660 as prophetic people, just kind of in survival mode a bit. 80 00:02:36.660 --> 00:02:39.580 And I'm curious if you have felt as prophetic people, 81 00:02:39.580 --> 00:02:41.780 maybe even as a church or individuals, 82 00:02:41.780 --> 00:02:44.700 have there been things that we've sort of lost 83 00:02:44.700 --> 00:02:48.620 and we kind of need to get back to this morning, you know, 84 00:02:48.620 --> 00:02:50.260 or just in this next season, 85 00:02:50.280 --> 00:02:52.200 are there some things that we kind of need 86 00:02:52.200 --> 00:02:54.720 to go after again, you know? 87 00:02:55.760 --> 00:02:57.600 I mean, what a great question, 88 00:02:57.600 --> 00:02:59.560 but I feel like we're in, 89 00:02:59.560 --> 00:03:02.000 we are in such a transitional time in history. 90 00:03:02.000 --> 00:03:04.560 And I feel like in the prophetic community, 91 00:03:04.560 --> 00:03:07.560 one of the things that's switching is that 92 00:03:07.560 --> 00:03:11.440 I feel like the Lord is hiding the future 93 00:03:11.440 --> 00:03:14.800 as an invitation for us to create it. 94 00:03:14.800 --> 00:03:15.640 Wow. 95 00:03:15.640 --> 00:03:17.920 So rather than the prophetic community 96 00:03:17.920 --> 00:03:20.100 trying to predict the future, 97 00:03:20.100 --> 00:03:22.060 like, hey, this is what's gonna happen, 98 00:03:22.060 --> 00:03:25.180 as if the script has already been written, 99 00:03:25.180 --> 00:03:27.940 He's giving us a canvas and inviting us 100 00:03:27.940 --> 00:03:31.180 to co-write the future with Him. 101 00:03:31.180 --> 00:03:33.980 And I think through what we've been through 102 00:03:33.980 --> 00:03:34.860 the last few years, 103 00:03:34.860 --> 00:03:39.300 that the temptation is to live like a victim 104 00:03:39.300 --> 00:03:41.300 of a pre-written timeline, 105 00:03:41.300 --> 00:03:44.200 rather than to enter into the divine partnership 106 00:03:44.200 --> 00:03:46.300 of co-creating with Christ. 107 00:03:46.680 --> 00:03:49.080 The new things in the earth come, 108 00:03:49.080 --> 00:03:53.800 Chris mentioned this last night from Isaiah 42, 9 and 10, 109 00:03:53.800 --> 00:03:57.680 but the new things in the earth come through the new song 110 00:03:57.680 --> 00:04:00.520 or the prophetic edge 111 00:04:00.520 --> 00:04:03.240 that releases that new thing in the earth. 112 00:04:03.240 --> 00:04:07.220 And so I really think there is actually like 113 00:04:07.220 --> 00:04:09.280 the Lord is hiding a bit. 114 00:04:09.280 --> 00:04:12.320 Like when I talk to seasoned prophets, 115 00:04:12.320 --> 00:04:14.480 it's like, what do you see in the future? 116 00:04:14.500 --> 00:04:18.140 And a lot of them aren't seeing or they aren't saying. 117 00:04:18.140 --> 00:04:21.579 Is it like a bit of silence maybe? 118 00:04:21.579 --> 00:04:24.580 Well, but I think the silence is an invitation. 119 00:04:24.580 --> 00:04:26.340 I really, with all my heart, 120 00:04:26.340 --> 00:04:29.320 I believe that we're making a transition 121 00:04:29.320 --> 00:04:31.660 from understanding foretelling 122 00:04:31.660 --> 00:04:33.660 to truly understanding foretelling. 123 00:04:33.660 --> 00:04:37.120 And we're gonna be talking about that in sessions today, 124 00:04:37.120 --> 00:04:39.820 but the foretelling is seeing the future 125 00:04:39.820 --> 00:04:42.700 and the foretelling is causing the future. 126 00:04:42.720 --> 00:04:44.600 And I believe with all my heart 127 00:04:44.600 --> 00:04:47.620 that there's an invitation on the prophetic community 128 00:04:47.620 --> 00:04:50.100 to find out what's in the heart of the father 129 00:04:50.100 --> 00:04:53.440 and then actually to co-create it and co-release it with him. 130 00:04:53.440 --> 00:04:55.520 Wow, it's really powerful. 131 00:04:55.520 --> 00:04:56.360 That's really good. 132 00:04:56.360 --> 00:04:57.800 I was even feeling this morning, like, 133 00:04:57.800 --> 00:05:00.200 you know, it's interesting as you're coming out. 134 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:05.720 this season, there has been this level, I feel like, of wondering, have I lost touch 135 00:05:05.720 --> 00:05:07.080 with my dreamer? 136 00:05:07.080 --> 00:05:09.120 Have I lost touch with my visionary? 137 00:05:09.120 --> 00:05:12.740 Because of that, there feels like this block, there feels like something I haven't been 138 00:05:12.740 --> 00:05:17.160 able to work through or force through or find on the other side of this. 139 00:05:17.160 --> 00:05:22.160 And I'm curious if anyone else has been feeling that way, kind of what Dana was saying. 140 00:05:22.160 --> 00:05:27.760 If you've been feeling like, I feel like, yeah, I haven't been able to see what's coming. 141 00:05:27.760 --> 00:05:29.120 Maybe there's something that's hidden. 142 00:05:29.120 --> 00:05:34.960 And I want you to just sort of wave your hand, let us see if that is resonating with you. 143 00:05:34.960 --> 00:05:35.960 Yeah. 144 00:05:35.960 --> 00:05:37.160 And I want to speak over you guys. 145 00:05:37.160 --> 00:05:42.600 You know that the gifts and calling of God are irrevocable, the scripture says. 146 00:05:42.600 --> 00:05:49.760 And you know from little John, he says that the anointing you have from the Holy One remains 147 00:05:49.760 --> 00:05:52.940 in you and it's real and it's not counterfeit. 148 00:05:52.940 --> 00:05:57.620 And so we know that it's not the gift that is changed. 149 00:05:57.620 --> 00:06:05.660 But because we know that the Lord will never leave us or forsake us, we know that whenever 150 00:06:05.660 --> 00:06:13.180 there is a shift in the grace, it's not a leaving or it's not a less than because we're 151 00:06:13.180 --> 00:06:16.020 going from glory to glory with ever increasing glory. 152 00:06:16.020 --> 00:06:17.940 It's an invitation into the new. 153 00:06:17.940 --> 00:06:18.940 It's beautiful. 154 00:06:18.940 --> 00:06:19.940 Yeah. 155 00:06:19.940 --> 00:06:20.940 It's really beautiful. 156 00:06:20.940 --> 00:06:25.300 And I love that you're talking about Elijah going into the cave and talking about, oh, 157 00:06:25.300 --> 00:06:26.740 actually the Lord didn't leave him in the cave. 158 00:06:26.740 --> 00:06:27.740 He was right there. 159 00:06:27.740 --> 00:06:30.740 He just, he needed to find him in that new, in that new circumstance. 160 00:06:30.740 --> 00:06:33.740 It's really beautiful kind of what you're speaking to. 161 00:06:33.740 --> 00:06:37.540 I saw Stacey Towles on the screen. 162 00:06:37.540 --> 00:06:43.500 You were really highlighted to me as we were just speaking specifically about this that, 163 00:06:43.500 --> 00:06:48.220 you know, the wondering is, is the Lord, you know, what is he showing me for this next 164 00:06:48.220 --> 00:06:49.220 season? 165 00:06:49.220 --> 00:06:50.220 And is he, is he hidden? 166 00:06:50.220 --> 00:06:51.220 Is he? 167 00:06:51.220 --> 00:06:52.220 Oh, there she is. 168 00:06:52.220 --> 00:06:53.220 We can see your face right there, Stacey. 169 00:06:53.220 --> 00:06:54.220 Hi. 170 00:06:54.220 --> 00:06:58.700 And I just really felt even the Lord's speaking and saying that dream of your heart that you 171 00:06:58.700 --> 00:07:00.540 thought maybe had been lost. 172 00:07:00.540 --> 00:07:04.300 I feel specifically there, there was like a specific dream that you thought was supposed 173 00:07:04.300 --> 00:07:06.980 to be for a specific season of your life. 174 00:07:06.980 --> 00:07:12.060 And I felt like there might have been a questioning or wondering, did it, did that just not happen? 175 00:07:12.060 --> 00:07:13.660 Did that get stolen away from me? 176 00:07:13.660 --> 00:07:16.540 Did the enemy just steal that right from out underneath my feet? 177 00:07:16.540 --> 00:07:18.980 And I just saw redemption written over you. 178 00:07:18.980 --> 00:07:21.820 And I feel like the Lord is saying, no, no, no. 179 00:07:21.820 --> 00:07:22.820 That season didn't pass. 180 00:07:22.820 --> 00:07:24.340 I'm actually redeeming time. 181 00:07:24.340 --> 00:07:26.620 I'm actually redeeming that dream. 182 00:07:26.620 --> 00:07:31.380 Whatever it is that was hidden in your heart, that was something that you feel like, ah, 183 00:07:31.380 --> 00:07:32.980 the time is over. 184 00:07:32.980 --> 00:07:34.780 That time for that dream has passed. 185 00:07:34.780 --> 00:07:37.500 I feel like the Lord is saying no, and he's actually highlighting it. 186 00:07:37.500 --> 00:07:42.460 And I just, I speak to your heart and I just say, whatever disappointment or discouragement 187 00:07:42.460 --> 00:07:48.100 in seeing this dream come to pass, I just speak, just encouragement. 188 00:07:48.100 --> 00:07:53.300 There would be fresh vision and fresh hope in Jesus in this season to see that specific 189 00:07:53.300 --> 00:07:54.460 dream come true. 190 00:07:54.460 --> 00:07:57.740 And that it would be more than you could ask or imagine. 191 00:07:57.740 --> 00:07:59.460 That it would be like 10 times fold. 192 00:07:59.460 --> 00:08:03.100 Anything the enemy has tried to steal, that the Lord would turn like 10 times fold. 193 00:08:03.100 --> 00:08:06.380 It would just be above and beyond any of your wildest dreams. 194 00:08:06.380 --> 00:08:08.100 We just bless you, Stacey. 195 00:08:08.100 --> 00:08:09.900 We're so excited that you're here. 196 00:08:09.900 --> 00:08:10.900 Sweet, sweet. 197 00:08:11.020 --> 00:08:12.020 Sweet, sweet. 198 00:08:12.020 --> 00:08:13.020 So good. 199 00:08:13.020 --> 00:08:14.020 Oh yeah. 200 00:08:14.020 --> 00:08:15.020 Such a good word. 201 00:08:15.020 --> 00:08:16.020 I love it. 202 00:08:16.020 --> 00:08:20.940 Well, Dano, you're kind of known for prophetic community. 203 00:08:20.940 --> 00:08:24.260 That's how I first kind of was introduced to Dano. 204 00:08:24.260 --> 00:08:30.020 And I feel like if any of us can glean something from you this morning, things I want these 205 00:08:30.020 --> 00:08:34.900 people to walk away with is, you know, it's interesting being on a Zoom call. 206 00:08:34.900 --> 00:08:39.820 And often we feel like we might be the only prophetic person in our environment or in 207 00:08:39.860 --> 00:08:40.860 our community. 208 00:08:40.860 --> 00:08:45.060 And this is an amazing opportunity to connect with people, prophetic people from all over 209 00:08:45.060 --> 00:08:46.060 the world. 210 00:08:46.060 --> 00:08:51.060 But specifically, I heard you say last night that you feel like there's going to be more 211 00:08:51.060 --> 00:08:55.300 prophets and people prophesying than ever before in history. 212 00:08:55.300 --> 00:08:57.620 And I'm curious, maybe you could speak a little bit to that. 213 00:08:57.620 --> 00:09:02.900 What it, you said, but not for any, not for no reason, but for a really, you know, specific 214 00:09:02.900 --> 00:09:03.900 purpose. 215 00:09:03.900 --> 00:09:08.300 Maybe you could speak to a bit about the purpose and why community is going to be so key for 216 00:09:08.300 --> 00:09:11.260 us as prophets in this next season. 217 00:09:11.260 --> 00:09:12.780 These are brilliant questions. 218 00:09:12.780 --> 00:09:13.780 Isn't she amazing? 219 00:09:13.780 --> 00:09:15.780 This is awesome. 220 00:09:15.780 --> 00:09:25.020 Yeah, well, the prophetic community, if we look through the scripture, we see that the 221 00:09:25.020 --> 00:09:31.020 healthiest time of all prophets was when they were living in prophetic community. 222 00:09:31.020 --> 00:09:37.620 And that prophets went through the hardest times when they weren't in community. 223 00:09:37.940 --> 00:09:41.500 And we're all built for a body. 224 00:09:41.500 --> 00:09:48.060 We're all built, every dream, every vision was made to be fulfilled in the context of 225 00:09:48.060 --> 00:09:50.300 a community or a body. 226 00:09:50.300 --> 00:09:56.380 And I think there's been a tendency to isolate through misunderstanding. 227 00:09:56.380 --> 00:10:00.020 Also when you're pioneering and you're forerunning, then, um. 228 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:03.320 then that can be kind of lonely too, you know, 229 00:10:03.320 --> 00:10:06.760 because you're out front a little bit, 230 00:10:06.760 --> 00:10:09.840 but that's why I think it's so important 231 00:10:09.840 --> 00:10:12.200 that prophetic communities come together, 232 00:10:12.200 --> 00:10:16.160 that we can run together out front, you know, 233 00:10:16.160 --> 00:10:18.700 and there's such a hunger in this generation 234 00:10:18.700 --> 00:10:21.400 for the new thing. 235 00:10:21.400 --> 00:10:22.240 Yeah. 236 00:10:22.240 --> 00:10:25.400 And so I think there's also an opportunity for community 237 00:10:25.400 --> 00:10:26.880 like never before. 238 00:10:26.880 --> 00:10:30.960 You know, there's a passage in Psalm 139 239 00:10:30.960 --> 00:10:32.000 that we quote a lot, 240 00:10:32.000 --> 00:10:34.520 but it's that his thoughts towards us 241 00:10:34.520 --> 00:10:36.920 are as many as the sands of the seashore. 242 00:10:36.920 --> 00:10:39.320 Well, I'm kind of analytical that way, 243 00:10:39.320 --> 00:10:42.280 so I looked up how many sands there are there. 244 00:10:42.280 --> 00:10:43.580 I did. 245 00:10:43.580 --> 00:10:47.220 And it's like seven quintillion or something like that, 246 00:10:48.400 --> 00:10:50.120 but is what they estimate. 247 00:10:50.120 --> 00:10:54.760 But the idea is that if his good thoughts are in numbers, 248 00:10:54.760 --> 00:10:57.280 we can't even quantify. 249 00:10:57.280 --> 00:11:00.120 And his good thoughts are things he wants to release 250 00:11:00.120 --> 00:11:00.960 in the earth, 251 00:11:00.960 --> 00:11:03.640 but they're waiting for someone to see it, 252 00:11:03.640 --> 00:11:05.740 to hear it, to agree with it, 253 00:11:05.740 --> 00:11:08.440 to implement it within society. 254 00:11:08.440 --> 00:11:11.640 That's why I believe that God is pouring out his spirit 255 00:11:11.640 --> 00:11:13.720 in these last days on all flesh 256 00:11:13.720 --> 00:11:15.960 so everybody can prophesy to release 257 00:11:15.960 --> 00:11:20.040 all the new good things that are in the heart of the father. 258 00:11:20.040 --> 00:11:21.160 It's gonna take an army. 259 00:11:21.160 --> 00:11:22.000 Yeah. 260 00:11:22.000 --> 00:11:23.040 That is incredible. 261 00:11:23.040 --> 00:11:24.040 That is wonderful. 262 00:11:24.280 --> 00:11:28.000 And you know, we've been speaking a lot about reformation. 263 00:11:28.000 --> 00:11:30.640 That's kind of been the theme of this conference. 264 00:11:30.640 --> 00:11:35.600 And I'm curious if you have seen prophetic voices 265 00:11:35.600 --> 00:11:38.120 or maybe even your own prophetic voice 266 00:11:38.120 --> 00:11:39.960 be a voice of reformation, 267 00:11:39.960 --> 00:11:42.480 whether that's in the church and society, 268 00:11:42.480 --> 00:11:45.640 but maybe just kind of cast some vision for our folks 269 00:11:45.640 --> 00:11:47.840 just on the screen of what it might look like 270 00:11:47.840 --> 00:11:49.840 to be a prophetic performer in this day. 271 00:11:49.840 --> 00:11:51.880 I'm probably gonna do a whole session on this, 272 00:11:51.880 --> 00:11:53.320 but I'll give you guys. 273 00:11:54.240 --> 00:11:56.360 A little foretaste, okay? 274 00:11:56.360 --> 00:11:58.760 So you guys are insiders right now. 275 00:11:58.760 --> 00:12:00.440 Right, it's a VIP. 276 00:12:00.440 --> 00:12:02.640 This is VIP, totally. 277 00:12:02.640 --> 00:12:07.600 But I do believe that there are seasons of protesters 278 00:12:07.600 --> 00:12:09.720 and seasons of reformers. 279 00:12:09.720 --> 00:12:12.920 And the reformer, the protesters stand outside the gate 280 00:12:12.920 --> 00:12:16.680 yelling what's wrong, holding signs, throwing stones. 281 00:12:16.680 --> 00:12:18.520 And there've been times when the church 282 00:12:18.520 --> 00:12:21.960 has called to protest what's going on. 283 00:12:21.960 --> 00:12:25.560 But I actually believe that we're in a reformer season, 284 00:12:25.560 --> 00:12:28.320 which is to get inside the system, 285 00:12:28.320 --> 00:12:31.000 to find out what's good about the now 286 00:12:31.000 --> 00:12:33.760 along with what's better about the future 287 00:12:33.760 --> 00:12:37.440 and help plot the course, not just declare the promise, 288 00:12:37.440 --> 00:12:40.480 but plot the course from what is good now 289 00:12:40.480 --> 00:12:42.840 to what is better about the future. 290 00:12:42.840 --> 00:12:45.160 And I think that's the heart of the reformer. 291 00:12:45.160 --> 00:12:47.880 And that is the prophetic company 292 00:12:47.880 --> 00:12:51.360 that we're endeavoring to partner with right now 293 00:12:51.400 --> 00:12:54.720 in this season of people that are not focusing 294 00:12:54.720 --> 00:12:57.040 on what's wrong with society, 295 00:12:57.040 --> 00:13:00.320 but people that are actually providing the solutions 296 00:13:00.320 --> 00:13:05.000 to the problems within society by not just declaring, 297 00:13:05.000 --> 00:13:07.200 but actually entering the system 298 00:13:07.200 --> 00:13:09.080 and be an agent of transformation. 299 00:13:09.080 --> 00:13:11.480 Man, that is powerful. 300 00:13:11.480 --> 00:13:12.560 Who is excited about that? 301 00:13:12.560 --> 00:13:15.280 I love, I'm seeing the waves and the excitement. 302 00:13:15.280 --> 00:13:17.200 Yes, we wanna be prophetic reformers. 303 00:13:17.200 --> 00:13:19.360 We wanna be people that don't just talk about it, 304 00:13:19.400 --> 00:13:20.880 but that are actually active 305 00:13:20.880 --> 00:13:23.480 in seeing the reformation of that happen. 306 00:13:23.480 --> 00:13:24.760 Yeah, so good. 307 00:13:24.760 --> 00:13:26.280 Dano, how about in closing today, 308 00:13:26.280 --> 00:13:28.760 you just pray for the people on the call 309 00:13:28.760 --> 00:13:31.960 that they would feel the excitement for this next season 310 00:13:31.960 --> 00:13:33.840 as prophets and prophetic people 311 00:13:33.840 --> 00:13:35.600 and what the Lord is doing. 312 00:13:35.600 --> 00:13:39.080 Thank you, God, that your sheep know your voice. 313 00:13:39.080 --> 00:13:43.040 And every one of those gathered here 314 00:13:43.040 --> 00:13:46.600 are your precious sheep who know your voice. 315 00:13:46.600 --> 00:13:50.160 And that is the most powerful force in the universe. 316 00:13:50.160 --> 00:13:52.560 One person plus God's already a majority. 317 00:13:52.560 --> 00:13:54.200 You're already in his community. 318 00:13:55.440 --> 00:13:59.120 And we release a sense of connectedness over you. 319 00:13:59.120 --> 00:14:04.120 We release a sense of the destiny of this hour over you. 320 00:14:05.760 --> 00:14:10.080 We let go of the former season and the past season. 321 00:14:10.080 --> 00:14:12.360 And we take a hold of the promise 322 00:14:12.360 --> 00:14:15.480 and the purpose of the future. 323 00:14:15.600 --> 00:14:18.640 And Lord, we even take responsibility 324 00:14:18.640 --> 00:14:21.240 for co-creating the future with you. 325 00:14:21.240 --> 00:14:24.600 So Father, I release courage over your people. 326 00:14:24.600 --> 00:14:27.800 I release depths of insight. 327 00:14:27.800 --> 00:14:32.640 Lord, I release divine strategies over these prophets 328 00:14:32.640 --> 00:14:35.000 and over these people training in the prophetic. 329 00:14:35.000 --> 00:14:37.880 And Lord, I pray that there would be a clarity 330 00:14:37.880 --> 00:14:41.920 that locks in that as we take responsibility 331 00:14:41.920 --> 00:14:44.960 for challenges within our society, 332 00:14:44.960 --> 00:14:47.200 that we could be the solutionaries 333 00:14:47.200 --> 00:14:49.920 that would not just declare Jesus as the answer, 334 00:14:49.920 --> 00:14:52.520 but show what the answers are. 335 00:14:52.520 --> 00:14:56.640 And Lord, we ask it that your name would be glorified 336 00:14:56.640 --> 00:14:58.440 and that your kingdom would be built. 337 00:14:58.440 --> 00:15:00.200 So thank you that we get to. 338 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:04.160 partner with you in this way, in this generation. 339 00:15:04.160 --> 00:15:05.000 Amen. 340 00:15:05.000 --> 00:15:07.000 Amen. Thank you, Dano. 341 00:15:07.000 --> 00:15:08.640 We'll see you guys tomorrow morning 342 00:15:08.640 --> 00:15:10.040 for our next coffee chat. 343 00:15:10.040 --> 00:15:13.080 Enjoy your day two of School of the Prophets. 344 00:16:00.000 --> 00:16:02.000 Subs by www.zeoranger.co.uk 345 00:16:30.000 --> 00:16:32.000 Subs by www.zeoranger.co.uk 346 00:17:00.000 --> 00:17:02.000 Subs by www.zeoranger.co.uk 347 00:17:30.000 --> 00:17:32.000 Subs by www.zeoranger.co.uk 348 00:18:00.000 --> 00:18:02.000 Subs by www.zeoranger.co.uk 349 00:18:30.000 --> 00:18:32.000 Subs by www.zeoranger.co.uk 350 00:19:00.000 --> 00:19:02.000 Subs by www.zeoranger.co.uk 351 00:19:30.000 --> 00:19:32.000 Subs by www.zeoranger.co.uk 352 00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:07.840 School of the Prophets. How is everyone? Anyone doing good? Yeah, you're doing well. 353 00:20:08.640 --> 00:20:16.080 We've got all our friends joining us online. Hello, online audience. And all our friends in Brazil, 354 00:20:16.080 --> 00:20:24.000 we want to say hello to you as well. We are so excited for what God is going to do this morning 355 00:20:24.000 --> 00:20:30.560 and with our teams. How many of you enjoyed your community groups? 356 00:20:33.120 --> 00:20:37.760 What about you online? Wave at me if you enjoyed your community groups. 357 00:20:39.040 --> 00:20:46.880 They are so incredible, impactful. I believe that God is going to set up some unique encounters 358 00:20:46.880 --> 00:20:52.880 in community group times. I really believe some of you, even physically, are going to get healed 359 00:20:52.880 --> 00:20:57.920 in your community groups. Breakthroughs are going to happen in incredible ways. 360 00:21:01.120 --> 00:21:09.040 I can't emphasize enough that community groups are really one of the most vital parts of what 361 00:21:09.040 --> 00:21:15.360 we'll do here at School of the Prophets. So I want to make sure you're there and involved. 362 00:21:15.440 --> 00:21:23.760 And then I want to also tell you we have a unique opportunity with our Transformation Center. 363 00:21:23.760 --> 00:21:31.440 Our Transformation Center, it has SOZO, it has counseling, it has live coaching, all kinds of 364 00:21:31.440 --> 00:21:38.480 stuff. But they are actually doing a special offer just for School of the Prophets. And all the way 365 00:21:38.480 --> 00:21:45.920 through, I think, September 30th, there's a discount for you if you want to check out and 366 00:21:45.920 --> 00:21:52.480 get a SOZO, which I think they're always awesome. SOZO's good. Like, I'm just going to make sure I'm 367 00:21:52.480 --> 00:22:00.400 all good with everything. And SOZO is such an incredible and prophetic tool for health and 368 00:22:00.400 --> 00:22:06.640 wholeness. And we want to make this available to you. And if you want to talk with any of our SOZO 369 00:22:06.640 --> 00:22:12.560 team or our Transformation Center team, they're going to be out here in what we affectionately 370 00:22:12.560 --> 00:22:20.800 call the donut. It's this little donut-shaped information booth right out front. Does that, 371 00:22:20.800 --> 00:22:33.360 any of you, make you crave donuts? I love donuts. And not those paleo, like gluten-free, 372 00:22:34.240 --> 00:22:42.720 so like, no, like free fat donuts, where the, it's free fat. The fat's all free in there. 373 00:22:42.720 --> 00:22:47.760 Full sugar donuts, that's the donut I'm talking about. What were we talking about? 374 00:22:49.120 --> 00:22:53.760 Transformation Center, that's right. They're going to be over there. We're so excited to 375 00:22:53.760 --> 00:23:00.720 partner with them. And then also, for those of you that are doing community group over at our 376 00:23:00.720 --> 00:23:07.760 Twinview campus, we're going to put up a slide so you know where not to park. See, this big 377 00:23:07.760 --> 00:23:15.600 building A and building B is where we're meeting. And you can see those on the screens. But please 378 00:23:15.600 --> 00:23:21.840 don't park in these red zones because there's a business there, Chascade there, that does business 379 00:23:21.840 --> 00:23:27.440 and they need those spots for parking. So when you're over there, please don't park in those 380 00:23:27.520 --> 00:23:34.960 spots. You can do that, right? You're good, kind, nice, prophetic parkers. 381 00:23:38.400 --> 00:23:43.200 Well, we're going to jump in this morning and we're going to go after some things. And really, 382 00:23:43.840 --> 00:23:52.240 we felt like, as a group of leaders, when we were talking about School of Prophets 2022, 383 00:23:52.960 --> 00:24:01.200 we began to realize that every year that we do this, the biggest amount of questions aren't 384 00:24:01.200 --> 00:24:08.160 around prophets. It was more around the foundations and the essentials of prophecy. 385 00:24:08.160 --> 00:24:15.120 And so we thought, hey, yes, we feel like that theme of prophetic reformers is so important to 386 00:24:15.120 --> 00:24:21.600 the overall goal of our school. But what we wanted to do as well is, hey, let's take the 387 00:24:21.600 --> 00:24:28.720 first two days and take our team and actually re-dig the wells of all of our foundations and 388 00:24:28.720 --> 00:24:33.680 the essentials in the prophetic. And I'll tell you, at least for my own personal experience, 389 00:24:33.680 --> 00:24:39.840 I get to train in the prophetic all over the world. And I do this all the time. Foundations 390 00:24:39.840 --> 00:24:48.960 in the prophetic is so important to me. But I find this, no matter how many times I've taught it 391 00:24:48.960 --> 00:24:56.640 or I've heard it, I am always learning and I'm always growing. And so I expect that in all of 392 00:24:56.640 --> 00:24:59.920 our times with all of our speakers, even in the essential stuff, 393 00:25:00.000 --> 00:25:07.820 God's gonna unpack it in ways that you've never experienced it before and he's going to mature us and 394 00:25:08.100 --> 00:25:12.260 Grow us in a way that I I don't know that you can always 395 00:25:14.380 --> 00:25:15.900 Expect 396 00:25:15.900 --> 00:25:20.060 Especially with foundation and maybe you're sitting back there like well, I know all this stuff 397 00:25:21.240 --> 00:25:23.240 Yeah, well, let's know it in another way 398 00:25:23.660 --> 00:25:30.040 Let's know it in another level and if we'll stay humble we'll continually grow in ways 399 00:25:30.040 --> 00:25:35.320 We couldn't expect before and and to kick us off this morning. We've got an 400 00:25:36.120 --> 00:25:38.120 amazing South African woman 401 00:25:38.720 --> 00:25:42.000 and I say South Africa because she's a little crazy and 402 00:25:42.600 --> 00:25:48.640 It's legal for her to be crazy and she is awesome. She is so powerful 403 00:25:48.640 --> 00:25:51.560 she's part of our senior leadership team and she is 404 00:25:52.040 --> 00:25:56.920 One of our senior prophets here at Bethel Church and is just such a treasure 405 00:25:57.440 --> 00:26:05.320 To all of us and her passion for God and her passion for intimacy with him has so transformed us 406 00:26:05.320 --> 00:26:09.680 And we live in a richness because of this woman 407 00:26:09.680 --> 00:26:14.580 Will you stand your feet and welcome Haley Braun as she shares with us this morning? 408 00:26:19.640 --> 00:26:21.640 Oh 409 00:26:24.480 --> 00:26:26.480 Hello, hello, why don't you stay standing? 410 00:26:27.720 --> 00:26:30.760 let's just honor the Lord just take a minute just to 411 00:26:31.720 --> 00:26:36.960 Just to just make note that the Holy Spirit is here. Thank you. Holy Spirit that you are here 412 00:26:37.360 --> 00:26:41.700 Why don't you just pray out in the spirit right now? Just activate your spirit, man 413 00:26:42.600 --> 00:26:44.960 Sure. No, no more. So don't know. Yeah 414 00:26:45.680 --> 00:26:47.680 We welcome you Jesus 415 00:26:49.160 --> 00:26:51.480 Just make yourself aware that he is here 416 00:26:51.480 --> 00:26:56.520 God wants to meet with us the spirit of wisdom and revelation wants to reveal 417 00:26:56.960 --> 00:27:02.760 Jesus wants to reveal the thoughts of the Father wants to glorify and magnify the beautiful Son 418 00:27:03.280 --> 00:27:05.480 Holy Spirit we honor you today 419 00:27:06.080 --> 00:27:08.080 We honor your presence 420 00:27:18.680 --> 00:27:20.680 Exaltee 421 00:27:27.960 --> 00:27:29.960 Exaltee 422 00:27:36.880 --> 00:27:38.880 I 423 00:27:42.040 --> 00:27:44.040 Exaltee 424 00:27:46.400 --> 00:27:48.400 Exaltee 425 00:27:49.320 --> 00:27:51.840 We welcome you here God 426 00:28:06.400 --> 00:28:08.400 For thou oh Lord 427 00:28:10.960 --> 00:28:16.200 Art high above all the earth 428 00:28:18.840 --> 00:28:20.840 Thou art exalted 429 00:28:25.480 --> 00:28:27.480 Far above all gods 430 00:28:33.680 --> 00:28:35.680 For thou oh Lord 431 00:28:38.160 --> 00:28:43.400 Art high above all the earth 432 00:28:43.400 --> 00:28:45.400 Thou art exalted 433 00:28:52.840 --> 00:28:54.840 Far above 434 00:28:55.600 --> 00:28:57.440 All 435 00:28:57.440 --> 00:28:58.720 God 436 00:28:58.720 --> 00:29:03.000 So let your spirit rise as we sing I exalt thee and I 437 00:29:04.160 --> 00:29:06.160 Exalt thee 438 00:29:06.920 --> 00:29:09.920 Holy rise to meet you God I 439 00:29:10.920 --> 00:29:12.920 Exalt thee 440 00:29:14.040 --> 00:29:16.040 Holy lift your name on high 441 00:29:20.880 --> 00:29:22.880 Exaltee 442 00:29:23.960 --> 00:29:25.960 Oh 443 00:29:26.600 --> 00:29:28.600 Holy lift high the name of Jesus 444 00:29:30.720 --> 00:29:32.720 And I 445 00:29:34.880 --> 00:29:37.680 Exaltee oh you're worthy worthy worthy 446 00:29:40.440 --> 00:29:42.440 Exaltee 447 00:29:43.080 --> 00:29:45.080 How we love your name 448 00:29:49.600 --> 00:29:51.600 Exaltee 449 00:29:56.280 --> 00:29:59.920 Yeah, Jesus we exalt you today, we love your name 450 00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:01.720 You are worthy of our praise. 451 00:30:01.720 --> 00:30:03.840 You are worthy of our worship. 452 00:30:03.840 --> 00:30:06.040 And God, as we step into teaching God, 453 00:30:06.040 --> 00:30:08.680 we know that we are honoring you, God, 454 00:30:08.680 --> 00:30:12.440 by revealing the beauty of the mysteries of the gospel, 455 00:30:12.440 --> 00:30:15.440 the beauty of the outpouring of your Holy Spirit. 456 00:30:15.440 --> 00:30:17.880 God, would you open our minds and our hearts 457 00:30:17.880 --> 00:30:21.920 and our spirits to receive the beauty of the revelation 458 00:30:21.920 --> 00:30:24.920 of the risen King who is high above it all, 459 00:30:24.920 --> 00:30:27.560 exalted the name above every name, 460 00:30:27.560 --> 00:30:30.640 the name above every kingdom, every king. 461 00:30:30.640 --> 00:30:33.280 You are the King of kings, the Lord of lords, 462 00:30:33.280 --> 00:30:36.320 seated alone in glory, the matchless one, 463 00:30:36.320 --> 00:30:39.160 full of majesty, splendor, and glory. 464 00:30:41.520 --> 00:30:45.320 We magnify you, beautiful, beautiful King. 465 00:30:45.320 --> 00:30:47.440 We magnify you, God. 466 00:30:47.440 --> 00:30:49.560 Let our lives magnify you, God. 467 00:30:49.560 --> 00:30:52.360 Let our teaching magnify your heart. 468 00:30:53.320 --> 00:30:58.320 Woo, woo, in Jesus' name, amen. 469 00:30:59.680 --> 00:31:03.520 Oh, look at someone next to you and say, I love Jesus. 470 00:31:03.520 --> 00:31:06.160 Oh, oh, amen. 471 00:31:07.680 --> 00:31:09.080 You can be seated. 472 00:31:10.960 --> 00:31:15.960 Shurubo sererere, ererere, enamazo. 473 00:31:17.240 --> 00:31:19.400 Thank you, Holy Spirit. 474 00:31:20.000 --> 00:31:24.720 Woo, I gotta be careful I don't get too messed up right now. 475 00:31:25.960 --> 00:31:28.320 We gotta teach some essential foundations. 476 00:31:28.320 --> 00:31:31.240 But you know what, I am so excited today. 477 00:31:31.240 --> 00:31:33.760 When I was reading through the notes 478 00:31:33.760 --> 00:31:36.000 of what I was asked to prepare for today, 479 00:31:36.000 --> 00:31:38.560 I was asking the Lord, God, I want fresh manna. 480 00:31:38.560 --> 00:31:39.600 I want fresh bread. 481 00:31:39.600 --> 00:31:42.320 It says in Ephesians 1 that the Holy Spirit 482 00:31:42.320 --> 00:31:45.120 is a spirit of wisdom and revelation. 483 00:31:45.120 --> 00:31:47.280 That right now, this is worship unto the Lord 484 00:31:47.280 --> 00:31:49.080 as we look into the Scriptures 485 00:31:49.080 --> 00:31:52.760 and we look into what His heart is for the prophetic. 486 00:31:52.760 --> 00:31:55.080 And you're all given a manual. 487 00:31:55.080 --> 00:31:56.600 When you signed up for class, 488 00:31:56.600 --> 00:31:58.200 if you don't have it here, that's okay. 489 00:31:58.200 --> 00:32:00.200 We're not gonna run through it chronologically 490 00:32:00.200 --> 00:32:04.560 in the manual, but that manual is fantastic. 491 00:32:04.560 --> 00:32:08.320 It carries so much meat and so much information 492 00:32:08.320 --> 00:32:10.240 and so much revelation. 493 00:32:10.240 --> 00:32:11.240 And so I wanna encourage you, 494 00:32:11.240 --> 00:32:12.720 even after you hear these essentials, 495 00:32:12.720 --> 00:32:14.920 to go back and revisit the manual. 496 00:32:14.920 --> 00:32:16.120 Go and read what is in there 497 00:32:16.120 --> 00:32:17.680 to lay a foundation. 498 00:32:17.680 --> 00:32:19.280 You know, a lot of the church isn't even sure 499 00:32:19.280 --> 00:32:20.680 if we should be prophesying. 500 00:32:21.960 --> 00:32:22.960 A lot of the church thinks 501 00:32:22.960 --> 00:32:25.680 that the five-fold ministry has ceased. 502 00:32:25.680 --> 00:32:27.760 And we're gonna talk today a little bit about that, 503 00:32:27.760 --> 00:32:31.240 why we prophesy, how we prophesy, 504 00:32:32.200 --> 00:32:34.800 who decided we should prophesy. 505 00:32:34.800 --> 00:32:37.160 Can I tell you, we are created beings. 506 00:32:37.160 --> 00:32:39.720 The world is obsessed right now with personality tests. 507 00:32:39.720 --> 00:32:43.000 We even, you know, I remember being raised in a, 508 00:32:43.000 --> 00:32:44.280 I was raised in a Methodist church. 509 00:32:44.280 --> 00:32:45.360 Thanks, Lord, for my roots. 510 00:32:45.400 --> 00:32:47.040 I'm so grateful. 511 00:32:47.040 --> 00:32:49.000 And I remember doing spiritual gift tests, 512 00:32:49.000 --> 00:32:50.880 but without talking about the Spirit. 513 00:32:54.280 --> 00:32:55.320 And we're all looking up, 514 00:32:55.320 --> 00:32:56.840 kind of according to our personalities, 515 00:32:56.840 --> 00:32:58.960 what our spiritual gifts were. 516 00:32:58.960 --> 00:33:01.400 You know why we're looking up our personality types? 517 00:33:01.400 --> 00:33:03.800 Some of you hate personality tests, that's okay. 518 00:33:04.760 --> 00:33:05.800 But we're looking them up 519 00:33:05.800 --> 00:33:07.880 because we actually don't know ourselves. 520 00:33:09.560 --> 00:33:12.040 We want tests, we want all these things to test ourselves 521 00:33:12.040 --> 00:33:14.240 because we didn't make ourselves. 522 00:33:14.240 --> 00:33:17.120 So many times we're wanting to wrap our theology 523 00:33:17.120 --> 00:33:18.040 around our understanding, 524 00:33:18.040 --> 00:33:20.600 but we weren't actually created by us. 525 00:33:20.600 --> 00:33:22.000 We were created by a God 526 00:33:22.000 --> 00:33:25.080 who lives outside of space and time. 527 00:33:25.080 --> 00:33:28.360 He lives outside of our skin, outside of our limitation. 528 00:33:28.360 --> 00:33:31.520 I like to say that man-made religion makes sense to man, 529 00:33:31.520 --> 00:33:35.120 but a God-breathed theology only makes sense to God. 530 00:33:35.120 --> 00:33:37.720 And we are welcomed into this beautiful mystery, 531 00:33:37.720 --> 00:33:39.320 and we are not without a helper. 532 00:33:40.200 --> 00:33:41.360 And when we use the word helper, 533 00:33:41.360 --> 00:33:45.360 we're not just talking about like a little extra assistance. 534 00:33:45.360 --> 00:33:48.720 We're talking about the living, breathing presence 535 00:33:48.720 --> 00:33:50.600 of the mighty and magnificent God. 536 00:33:50.600 --> 00:33:53.400 The Holy Spirit isn't an addition to the Godhead. 537 00:33:53.400 --> 00:33:55.280 He is the third person of the Godhead, 538 00:33:55.280 --> 00:33:58.720 not ranked number three, but vital. 539 00:33:58.720 --> 00:34:03.720 And He is the gift of the Father and of Jesus to the church. 540 00:34:04.320 --> 00:34:07.840 There's not one thing that you are called to do in God 541 00:34:07.840 --> 00:34:10.400 without the empowerment of the Holy Spirit. 542 00:34:10.400 --> 00:34:11.800 And again, I don't mean empowerment 543 00:34:11.800 --> 00:34:13.440 like He's propping you up at your elbows. 544 00:34:13.440 --> 00:34:17.400 I mean, He is filling you and resting upon you. 545 00:34:17.400 --> 00:34:19.920 God is so personal that He doesn't come as a tool 546 00:34:19.920 --> 00:34:24.920 to your aid, but He gives of Himself to those who He calls. 547 00:34:26.880 --> 00:34:28.440 Amen. 548 00:34:28.440 --> 00:34:29.440 How wild is that? 549 00:34:29.440 --> 00:34:31.920 He doesn't just assist with advice. 550 00:34:31.920 --> 00:34:34.840 He assists with all of Himself, 551 00:34:34.840 --> 00:34:37.480 with the fullness of Himself poured out. 552 00:34:38.480 --> 00:34:41.280 Hmm, I'm gonna let that sit for a bit. 553 00:34:42.560 --> 00:34:44.000 I've known the Lord my whole life, 554 00:34:44.000 --> 00:34:46.120 but I wanna tell you, I had a radical encounter 555 00:34:46.120 --> 00:34:48.320 with the Holy Spirit that transformed the way 556 00:34:48.320 --> 00:34:50.520 that I saw Him for the rest of my life. 557 00:34:50.520 --> 00:34:52.719 I realized I was crying out for God to fill a room 558 00:34:52.719 --> 00:34:54.840 when He wanted to fill me. 559 00:34:54.840 --> 00:34:56.920 I'd made it an impersonal thing where I, 560 00:34:56.920 --> 00:34:58.440 cause you know, it was easier for me to believe 561 00:34:58.440 --> 00:35:00.080 that God would wanna fill a room. 562 00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:02.320 because I was acquainted with my own weakness. 563 00:35:04.080 --> 00:35:05.600 And this is what I wanna talk about today. 564 00:35:05.600 --> 00:35:08.360 And you know, a lot of people think that prophecy 565 00:35:08.360 --> 00:35:10.640 is really accustomed with the Old Testament. 566 00:35:10.640 --> 00:35:12.460 But I wanna tell you Old Testament prophecy, 567 00:35:12.460 --> 00:35:13.520 it's beautiful and powerful. 568 00:35:13.520 --> 00:35:15.680 And in fact, one of the sessions I'm gonna be teaching 569 00:35:15.680 --> 00:35:17.380 from the Old Testament. 570 00:35:17.380 --> 00:35:21.080 But Old Covenant prophecy was based on a covenant 571 00:35:21.080 --> 00:35:23.880 that was surpassed by a greater covenant. 572 00:35:23.880 --> 00:35:26.800 Old Covenant prophecy was there to reveal 573 00:35:26.800 --> 00:35:28.680 a need for a savior. 574 00:35:28.720 --> 00:35:32.840 It was there to reveal a God who was longing for his people, 575 00:35:32.840 --> 00:35:35.680 but was separated from them by sin. 576 00:35:35.680 --> 00:35:38.040 God didn't become loving in the New Covenant. 577 00:35:41.440 --> 00:35:43.880 God has always been a God of love. 578 00:35:43.880 --> 00:35:45.400 And he cannot change his nature. 579 00:35:45.400 --> 00:35:47.520 It says that there's no shadow of turning with him. 580 00:35:47.520 --> 00:35:49.680 That means that he is facing you 581 00:35:49.680 --> 00:35:52.600 and looking at you every moment of every day, 582 00:35:52.600 --> 00:35:55.240 ready to be present to your every need, 583 00:35:55.240 --> 00:35:58.560 to your calls and your cries, wanting to meet you. 584 00:35:59.400 --> 00:36:02.160 But sin was standing in the way of him and his beloved. 585 00:36:04.040 --> 00:36:05.280 And so under this Old Covenant, 586 00:36:05.280 --> 00:36:06.920 and really it was under the Adamic Covenant, 587 00:36:06.920 --> 00:36:08.840 so the covenant that God made with Adam. 588 00:36:08.840 --> 00:36:10.760 And the covenant that God made with Adam was, 589 00:36:10.760 --> 00:36:12.840 listen, you will have authority, you will have rule, 590 00:36:12.840 --> 00:36:14.520 you will have reign, you will have dominion. 591 00:36:14.520 --> 00:36:17.240 Are you guys good if we get into some theology today? 592 00:36:17.240 --> 00:36:18.080 Are you guys ready? 593 00:36:18.080 --> 00:36:19.880 You got your theology brains on? 594 00:36:19.880 --> 00:36:21.360 Your spirit theology brains? 595 00:36:21.360 --> 00:36:22.400 We need those. 596 00:36:23.580 --> 00:36:26.700 The Adamic Covenant was based on Adam's ability 597 00:36:26.700 --> 00:36:28.040 to keep up his end of the deal, 598 00:36:28.480 --> 00:36:29.320 which was God was like, 599 00:36:29.320 --> 00:36:31.000 I'll give you rule and reign of a creation. 600 00:36:31.000 --> 00:36:35.240 You will carry authority to manage the beasts of the field 601 00:36:35.240 --> 00:36:39.440 and creation, so the ground, I can't think of the words, 602 00:36:39.440 --> 00:36:41.240 I'm so sorry, fruit, vegetables, all that stuff. 603 00:36:41.240 --> 00:36:43.580 He got to be the boss of it all, 604 00:36:43.580 --> 00:36:46.080 provided that he didn't do what? 605 00:36:47.600 --> 00:36:48.600 Eat from the knowledge, 606 00:36:48.600 --> 00:36:50.920 the tree from the knowledge of good and evil. 607 00:36:50.920 --> 00:36:55.040 And under his inability to keep covenant with God, 608 00:36:55.040 --> 00:36:56.440 sin entered the world. 609 00:36:56.440 --> 00:36:59.280 How beautiful though that in the midst of the curse, 610 00:36:59.280 --> 00:37:02.160 so there's a curse released on man and woman, 611 00:37:02.160 --> 00:37:03.640 but right at the end, 612 00:37:03.640 --> 00:37:06.240 God prophesied at the end of the curse. 613 00:37:06.240 --> 00:37:09.180 And he prophesied that the seed of Jesus 614 00:37:09.180 --> 00:37:11.840 will come through the lineage of woman. 615 00:37:11.840 --> 00:37:14.320 And that even though the enemy will bruise or heal, 616 00:37:14.320 --> 00:37:16.680 that seed will crush his head. 617 00:37:16.680 --> 00:37:20.040 Even in the midst of Adam and Eve failing 618 00:37:20.040 --> 00:37:21.380 to keep up the end of covenant, 619 00:37:21.380 --> 00:37:23.840 the Lord begins to prophesy a new covenant. 620 00:37:23.840 --> 00:37:25.800 A covenant that is gonna come through the lineage 621 00:37:26.200 --> 00:37:30.180 of flesh and it's gonna crush the head of the serpent. 622 00:37:31.040 --> 00:37:33.240 And so old covenant prophecy was there 623 00:37:33.240 --> 00:37:35.720 to reveal we need a saviour. 624 00:37:35.720 --> 00:37:38.240 We are fallen, we cannot make it on our own. 625 00:37:38.240 --> 00:37:40.840 And it was a bunch of revelation of, 626 00:37:40.840 --> 00:37:42.000 we can't make it on our own. 627 00:37:42.000 --> 00:37:42.840 I was gonna say we suck, 628 00:37:42.840 --> 00:37:44.640 but maybe that's not really appropriate. 629 00:37:45.800 --> 00:37:49.040 We don't, I mean, we're beloved of God. 630 00:37:49.040 --> 00:37:50.400 We were always the beloved of God, 631 00:37:50.400 --> 00:37:52.420 but we couldn't make it in our own righteousness. 632 00:37:52.420 --> 00:37:55.220 Even in our own attempts to be holy, we couldn't make it. 633 00:37:55.260 --> 00:37:57.500 We couldn't reach communion and union with the Lord 634 00:37:57.500 --> 00:38:01.200 the way that He designed it and desires for it to be. 635 00:38:02.500 --> 00:38:07.420 And so we have Jesus, who is the seed of the, 636 00:38:07.420 --> 00:38:11.660 He becomes the second Adam, the seed of a woman from Mary, 637 00:38:11.660 --> 00:38:13.020 and He enters a new covenant. 638 00:38:13.020 --> 00:38:14.860 And this covenant is no longer a covenant 639 00:38:14.860 --> 00:38:16.100 between God and man. 640 00:38:16.100 --> 00:38:18.060 This is a covenant between God and God. 641 00:38:19.260 --> 00:38:21.020 Father, Son, and Holy Spirit get together 642 00:38:21.020 --> 00:38:24.140 and they decide we're gonna make a covenant of redemption. 643 00:38:24.140 --> 00:38:25.340 And this covenant of redemption, 644 00:38:25.340 --> 00:38:28.180 we aren't gonna send a man, we're gonna send ourselves. 645 00:38:28.180 --> 00:38:29.980 I will tell you, no one crucified Jesus. 646 00:38:29.980 --> 00:38:32.340 Jesus willingly laid down His life. 647 00:38:33.900 --> 00:38:36.060 Sometimes people think that the Father sent Jesus 648 00:38:36.060 --> 00:38:37.100 and Jesus was a victim. 649 00:38:37.100 --> 00:38:42.100 No, Jesus came, He was part of this covenant moment, 650 00:38:42.140 --> 00:38:43.860 Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, 651 00:38:43.860 --> 00:38:48.860 and He covenanted to close the gap between man and God. 652 00:38:49.340 --> 00:38:51.760 And now the church is born. 653 00:38:52.760 --> 00:38:56.840 Jesus is crucified, He is resurrected, 654 00:38:56.840 --> 00:39:01.280 and He descends down into the depths of the earth, they say, 655 00:39:01.280 --> 00:39:02.960 which means He goes back to the pit of hell 656 00:39:02.960 --> 00:39:04.420 where the enemy had taken the keys 657 00:39:04.420 --> 00:39:05.680 that Adam had given to Him. 658 00:39:05.680 --> 00:39:07.360 And Jesus comes back in Matthew 28 659 00:39:07.360 --> 00:39:09.160 and He hands the keys back to the people of God. 660 00:39:09.160 --> 00:39:11.980 And He says, now all authority I give to you. 661 00:39:13.000 --> 00:39:14.960 And not just does He give us the keys of authority, 662 00:39:14.960 --> 00:39:17.240 but He gives us the precious Holy Spirit. 663 00:39:17.240 --> 00:39:21.480 In John 16, He says, it is better that I should go. 664 00:39:22.240 --> 00:39:24.800 John 14, 15, and 16 is this wild moment. 665 00:39:24.800 --> 00:39:28.560 The disciples are in anguish, they are upset, 666 00:39:28.560 --> 00:39:29.680 they are lacking peace. 667 00:39:29.680 --> 00:39:32.240 And Jesus says, do not let your hearts be troubled. 668 00:39:33.580 --> 00:39:35.280 Could you imagine being one of the 12 669 00:39:35.280 --> 00:39:37.920 and hearing Jesus say, it is better that I should go? 670 00:39:39.800 --> 00:39:42.640 I would have been like, are you crazy? 671 00:39:42.640 --> 00:39:45.040 You've been drinking too much of the Holy juice. 672 00:39:46.280 --> 00:39:47.760 How could it have been better for them 673 00:39:47.760 --> 00:39:49.400 that Jesus would go? 674 00:39:49.400 --> 00:39:53.280 Well, because Jesus was about to release God unlimited. 675 00:39:54.800 --> 00:39:57.320 God, outside of skin, outside of time, 676 00:39:57.320 --> 00:39:59.440 outside of humanity now. 677 00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:02.440 We're seeing the fulfilment of the prophecy in Joel 2 678 00:40:02.440 --> 00:40:03.280 that says, 679 00:40:03.280 --> 00:40:05.760 in the last days, I will pour out my spirit on? 680 00:40:07.640 --> 00:40:10.080 In the last days, I will pour out my spirit on? 681 00:40:11.960 --> 00:40:14.800 And now we're seeing the fulfilment of a prophecy 682 00:40:14.800 --> 00:40:16.400 of the old covenant, 683 00:40:16.400 --> 00:40:20.120 where God is no longer pouring out His Spirit on one. 684 00:40:20.120 --> 00:40:21.800 Old covenant, the Spirit of God 685 00:40:21.800 --> 00:40:23.640 enabled a prophet to prophesy 686 00:40:23.640 --> 00:40:26.000 according to what he was called to do. 687 00:40:26.000 --> 00:40:29.240 So the Spirit of God would rest on someone for a call, 688 00:40:29.240 --> 00:40:30.760 for an outworking. 689 00:40:30.760 --> 00:40:34.120 Now the Spirit of God is not limited to a call 690 00:40:34.120 --> 00:40:35.120 or to an office, 691 00:40:35.120 --> 00:40:38.400 but the Spirit of God is there for all flesh. 692 00:40:38.400 --> 00:40:39.440 Are you with me? 693 00:40:43.120 --> 00:40:44.520 This Holy Spirit isn't, 694 00:40:45.720 --> 00:40:46.840 He's no joke. 695 00:40:49.320 --> 00:40:51.560 You know, I used to think that the greatest effect 696 00:40:51.560 --> 00:40:53.960 of prophecy was that someone received a word from God. 697 00:40:53.960 --> 00:40:56.040 I used to think if I was prophesying over Bethany, 698 00:40:56.040 --> 00:40:58.760 the greatest blessing was Bethany was receiving a word. 699 00:40:58.760 --> 00:41:02.080 Until I realised God Himself was speaking to me 700 00:41:02.080 --> 00:41:03.080 about Bethany. 701 00:41:05.520 --> 00:41:07.120 You see now in the new covenant, 702 00:41:07.120 --> 00:41:10.040 prophecy is no longer revealing a need for God 703 00:41:10.040 --> 00:41:13.640 as much as it is revealing a God of love. 704 00:41:13.640 --> 00:41:15.560 A God who has come, 705 00:41:15.560 --> 00:41:16.960 a God who is victorious 706 00:41:16.960 --> 00:41:20.880 and a God who has now given His people a new identity. 707 00:41:23.280 --> 00:41:26.880 New covenant prophecy, Paul says in 1 Corinthians 14, 708 00:41:26.880 --> 00:41:29.880 is for the building up and the edification of the church. 709 00:41:29.880 --> 00:41:32.920 Why would we need to build up and edify the church? 710 00:41:32.920 --> 00:41:35.360 Because the church has now just been introduced 711 00:41:35.360 --> 00:41:37.640 into a season. 712 00:41:37.640 --> 00:41:40.000 I'm gonna use a big word, an eschatological season. 713 00:41:40.000 --> 00:41:42.320 So we're talking about eschatology, right? 714 00:41:42.320 --> 00:41:46.080 A season of Jesus has been revealed, 715 00:41:46.080 --> 00:41:48.080 but Jesus is still to come. 716 00:41:49.880 --> 00:41:52.560 And the revelation of what is to come 717 00:41:52.560 --> 00:41:56.280 in the establishment of Jesus' complete rule and reign 718 00:41:56.320 --> 00:41:58.760 with a new Jerusalem is to be revealed 719 00:41:58.760 --> 00:42:01.480 through the people of God 720 00:42:01.480 --> 00:42:04.440 who are carrying the Spirit of God. 721 00:42:04.440 --> 00:42:07.600 And Paul in 1 Corinthians 14 722 00:42:07.600 --> 00:42:11.200 is focusing prophecy now on building up the church 723 00:42:11.200 --> 00:42:15.960 so they can reveal the risen Christ. 724 00:42:15.960 --> 00:42:17.440 Colossians 1 27, 725 00:42:17.440 --> 00:42:20.840 Christ in you, the hope of glory. 726 00:42:20.840 --> 00:42:22.960 Where does the world see hope? 727 00:42:22.960 --> 00:42:24.720 In you. 728 00:42:24.760 --> 00:42:28.400 You are the revelation of a world that is to come. 729 00:42:28.400 --> 00:42:32.440 Your life is a revelation of a new eschatology, 730 00:42:32.440 --> 00:42:34.520 which is Christ has come, 731 00:42:34.520 --> 00:42:37.080 Christ is risen and Christ will come again. 732 00:42:37.080 --> 00:42:39.080 And my life is revealing a kingdom 733 00:42:39.080 --> 00:42:40.920 that you don't see in your own life. 734 00:42:46.560 --> 00:42:49.080 And so New Testament prophecy 735 00:42:49.080 --> 00:42:52.160 is not to uncover our failure, 736 00:42:52.160 --> 00:42:55.600 but to build a church to step into her new inheritance 737 00:42:57.160 --> 00:42:59.360 so that the world will know 738 00:42:59.360 --> 00:43:01.800 that Jesus Christ is victorious 739 00:43:01.800 --> 00:43:03.960 and He is coming again for a bride. 740 00:43:04.840 --> 00:43:07.040 The New Testament church has been handed the keys 741 00:43:07.040 --> 00:43:08.360 to vanquish the enemy. 742 00:43:08.360 --> 00:43:10.760 Our job is to destroy the works of the enemy 743 00:43:10.760 --> 00:43:13.880 and reveal a kingdom that is here now. 744 00:43:14.760 --> 00:43:17.200 So much of the time we get caught up in the not yet, 745 00:43:17.200 --> 00:43:18.840 but what about the now? 746 00:43:19.680 --> 00:43:22.520 There is something so glorious coming 747 00:43:22.520 --> 00:43:26.320 and we have the privilege of revealing that glory now. 748 00:43:27.480 --> 00:43:29.680 And the church needs encouragement. 749 00:43:31.080 --> 00:43:32.320 You know, it's so interesting, 750 00:43:32.320 --> 00:43:34.560 you know, we have these passages, 1 Corinthians 12, 751 00:43:34.560 --> 00:43:37.360 which is talking all about the gifts of the Spirit. 752 00:43:37.360 --> 00:43:39.240 And Paul says now regarding the spiritual gifts, 753 00:43:39.240 --> 00:43:42.640 but actually that word is the Spirit, it's the spiritual. 754 00:43:42.640 --> 00:43:44.800 He's talking to a Corinthian church. 755 00:43:44.800 --> 00:43:45.880 So the church of Corinth, 756 00:43:45.880 --> 00:43:47.560 they were really spiritual people. 757 00:43:49.240 --> 00:43:52.000 They actually were incredibly connected 758 00:43:52.000 --> 00:43:53.160 to the spirit realm, 759 00:43:53.160 --> 00:43:55.600 but they thought that there were many spirits. 760 00:43:55.600 --> 00:43:58.360 And so they get introduced into this beautiful Jesus, 761 00:43:58.360 --> 00:44:00.760 the power of the Holy Spirit. 762 00:44:00.760 --> 00:44:03.000 I love the baptism of the Holy Spirit. 763 00:44:03.000 --> 00:44:03.840 Ladies and gentlemen, 764 00:44:03.840 --> 00:44:06.200 the church needs the baptism of the Holy Spirit. 765 00:44:09.040 --> 00:44:12.240 We need every wineskin to be filled with the wine. 766 00:44:14.200 --> 00:44:17.720 Continually filled, fully, fully filled. 767 00:44:17.760 --> 00:44:20.240 Luke 11, in fact, when talks about, 768 00:44:20.240 --> 00:44:22.200 it says that your father, 769 00:44:22.200 --> 00:44:24.760 he won't give you a snake instead of a fish 770 00:44:24.760 --> 00:44:25.840 or a scorpion instead of an egg. 771 00:44:25.840 --> 00:44:29.200 How much more will he give the Holy Spirit to those who ask? 772 00:44:29.200 --> 00:44:31.000 The context of that passage 773 00:44:31.000 --> 00:44:33.160 is people who will ask, seek and knock. 774 00:44:33.160 --> 00:44:35.280 It's a continual request. 775 00:44:35.280 --> 00:44:39.400 It's a continual, I recognise, I need you. 776 00:44:40.360 --> 00:44:43.560 If your life, oh, I'm being intense, 777 00:44:43.560 --> 00:44:44.560 maybe I gotta back up. 778 00:44:44.560 --> 00:44:46.800 I was gonna say, if your life fits in the framework 779 00:44:46.800 --> 00:44:49.120 of what you can do, I'd like to challenge you. 780 00:44:52.080 --> 00:44:54.880 I feel so out of my depth sometimes. 781 00:44:54.880 --> 00:44:57.240 I'm like, I'm a mom of three little kids. 782 00:44:57.240 --> 00:44:58.960 I lead a school of ministry. 783 00:44:58.960 --> 00:45:00.000 I'm doing. 784 00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:02.080 Senior leadership team things now. 785 00:45:02.080 --> 00:45:02.920 I travel. 786 00:45:02.920 --> 00:45:03.740 My kids are little. 787 00:45:03.740 --> 00:45:04.720 I'm not talking about grown kids. 788 00:45:04.720 --> 00:45:06.820 I thought like I would be called to ministry 789 00:45:06.820 --> 00:45:07.800 when my kids were growing, 790 00:45:07.800 --> 00:45:09.760 I could keep my car and my house clean. 791 00:45:12.160 --> 00:45:16.360 I thought I'd feel confident, powerful, ready, 792 00:45:16.360 --> 00:45:18.480 pulled like a lioness. 793 00:45:18.480 --> 00:45:22.040 Lion of the tribe of Judah roaring out of me, you know? 794 00:45:22.040 --> 00:45:23.440 I thought I'd feel amazing. 795 00:45:24.720 --> 00:45:26.520 God didn't call me when I was ready. 796 00:45:27.580 --> 00:45:29.480 God just called me when I was willing. 797 00:45:30.920 --> 00:45:31.760 Amen. 798 00:45:35.640 --> 00:45:37.700 And if we reduce what God calls us to 799 00:45:37.700 --> 00:45:39.020 to what we're able to do, 800 00:45:39.020 --> 00:45:41.420 we're gonna live in a measure 801 00:45:41.420 --> 00:45:42.820 of living on the power of our gift 802 00:45:42.820 --> 00:45:44.820 and not the power of the anointing. 803 00:45:44.820 --> 00:45:46.300 I wanna tell you the anointing is a person. 804 00:45:46.300 --> 00:45:47.820 The anointing is not a thing. 805 00:45:47.820 --> 00:45:48.660 It's not an object. 806 00:45:48.660 --> 00:45:50.260 It is a person and he has feelings. 807 00:45:50.260 --> 00:45:51.540 His name is the Holy Spirit 808 00:45:51.540 --> 00:45:54.340 and he is sensitive to your longing. 809 00:45:54.340 --> 00:45:55.820 And the gift of prophecy, 810 00:45:55.820 --> 00:45:57.740 when we talk about 1 Corinthians 12, 811 00:45:57.760 --> 00:46:00.840 Paul is pointing out that all of these gifts you see 812 00:46:00.840 --> 00:46:03.160 is the manifestation of one Spirit. 813 00:46:04.360 --> 00:46:06.960 And these gifts, they're not rewards. 814 00:46:06.960 --> 00:46:08.900 They're not how much you got right in your life. 815 00:46:08.900 --> 00:46:09.740 Can I tell you what? 816 00:46:09.740 --> 00:46:13.520 I was born with a measure of the gift of prophecy. 817 00:46:13.520 --> 00:46:15.120 I just came out the womb 818 00:46:15.120 --> 00:46:17.040 and I knew things that people didn't know. 819 00:46:17.040 --> 00:46:18.220 But nobody knew what to do with me. 820 00:46:18.220 --> 00:46:21.480 I kind of grew up on the wild side of the spiritual realm. 821 00:46:21.480 --> 00:46:22.680 No one was teaching me this. 822 00:46:22.680 --> 00:46:25.080 I wasn't in an environment where people were teaching me 823 00:46:25.080 --> 00:46:27.620 about eschatology and about the move of the Spirit. 824 00:46:28.460 --> 00:46:29.300 And I was taught how to love Jesus. 825 00:46:29.300 --> 00:46:30.120 I was taught the Bible stories. 826 00:46:30.120 --> 00:46:31.040 I'm so grateful. 827 00:46:31.040 --> 00:46:32.040 But the things of the Spirit, 828 00:46:32.040 --> 00:46:33.800 I was kind of put on the outside 829 00:46:33.800 --> 00:46:36.040 in my own little tabernacle to learn my own. 830 00:46:37.160 --> 00:46:38.280 I would hear people's thoughts 831 00:46:38.280 --> 00:46:39.600 and I thought everyone could hear them. 832 00:46:39.600 --> 00:46:41.400 And I'd pray things for people 833 00:46:41.400 --> 00:46:42.640 and people would be like, 834 00:46:42.640 --> 00:46:43.560 how do you know that about me? 835 00:46:43.560 --> 00:46:45.600 And I'm like, I don't know how I know that about you. 836 00:46:45.600 --> 00:46:48.520 Little kid at 12 in my Methodist church, 837 00:46:48.520 --> 00:46:51.080 I found myself on stage prophesying 838 00:46:51.080 --> 00:46:53.720 and I didn't know what prophecy was. 839 00:46:53.720 --> 00:46:55.840 My dad, I remember he tells me, 840 00:46:55.840 --> 00:46:57.200 he was sitting in the front row just like, 841 00:46:57.200 --> 00:46:58.480 who is this child? 842 00:47:00.260 --> 00:47:01.740 They were singing, this is the air I breathe. 843 00:47:01.740 --> 00:47:03.780 I remember being at the front. 844 00:47:03.780 --> 00:47:05.500 I've loved Jesus all my life. 845 00:47:05.500 --> 00:47:06.340 I will tell you that. 846 00:47:06.340 --> 00:47:07.740 I really love Jesus. 847 00:47:08.860 --> 00:47:10.380 And some of you, you got kids in this room, 848 00:47:10.380 --> 00:47:11.780 I wanna tell you, your children can love Jesus 849 00:47:11.780 --> 00:47:12.600 all their lives. 850 00:47:12.600 --> 00:47:14.340 They don't have to depart from that. 851 00:47:14.340 --> 00:47:16.940 I wanna speak that as a declaration, 852 00:47:16.940 --> 00:47:18.180 as an impartation for you. 853 00:47:18.180 --> 00:47:20.420 I never had a wild season away from the Lord. 854 00:47:21.380 --> 00:47:22.260 And I was on the front. 855 00:47:22.260 --> 00:47:23.380 They were singing, this is the air I breathe. 856 00:47:23.380 --> 00:47:24.700 And they're singing, I'm desperate for you. 857 00:47:24.720 --> 00:47:27.480 And I was bawling my eyes out as a 12 year old. 858 00:47:27.480 --> 00:47:29.160 And I remember thinking in my head, 859 00:47:29.160 --> 00:47:31.320 why am I crying so much? 860 00:47:32.360 --> 00:47:34.400 And all of a sudden I'm standing on the stage. 861 00:47:34.400 --> 00:47:37.920 I don't know what got me from the altar to the stage. 862 00:47:37.920 --> 00:47:39.440 And I start prophesying about people 863 00:47:39.440 --> 00:47:41.440 who are carrying a spirit of suicide, 864 00:47:41.440 --> 00:47:42.640 that the Lord wants to break off 865 00:47:42.640 --> 00:47:43.680 and you're desperate for God 866 00:47:43.680 --> 00:47:45.560 and you desperately need Him in your life. 867 00:47:45.560 --> 00:47:47.760 And you told the Lord, if I don't meet with you tonight, 868 00:47:47.760 --> 00:47:48.840 it's it for me. 869 00:47:48.840 --> 00:47:50.480 And that night, seven people got delivered 870 00:47:50.480 --> 00:47:52.440 from a spirit of suicide and got saved. 871 00:47:55.440 --> 00:47:59.100 I wanna tell you, that was not because I earned something. 872 00:48:00.280 --> 00:48:02.320 I was still back talking my mom. 873 00:48:02.320 --> 00:48:04.840 I still thought I knew everything all the time. 874 00:48:04.840 --> 00:48:06.040 You know, 12 year olds. 875 00:48:07.840 --> 00:48:09.920 But the Lord had given me a measure of gift. 876 00:48:09.920 --> 00:48:11.920 Romans 11, 29, I believe it is, 877 00:48:11.920 --> 00:48:14.240 that the gifts of God are irrevocable. 878 00:48:14.240 --> 00:48:15.480 That's why you see the gifts of God 879 00:48:15.480 --> 00:48:17.380 operating in the secular world still. 880 00:48:18.280 --> 00:48:20.440 You can have a gift of influence on your life 881 00:48:20.440 --> 00:48:22.440 or leadership and you can actually be influencing 882 00:48:22.440 --> 00:48:24.040 without the power of the Spirit. 883 00:48:25.400 --> 00:48:26.840 But Paul in 1 Corinthians 12, 884 00:48:26.840 --> 00:48:30.880 he's trying to remind them, listen, this is one Spirit. 885 00:48:30.880 --> 00:48:34.000 And in this one Spirit who now indwells in you 886 00:48:34.000 --> 00:48:35.440 and rests upon you, 887 00:48:35.440 --> 00:48:38.520 all of the gifts can be made manifest in your life. 888 00:48:39.640 --> 00:48:42.760 If you make connection, because it follows then, 889 00:48:42.760 --> 00:48:45.340 you see like, if you make connection with God, 890 00:48:45.340 --> 00:48:47.160 sorry, I was jumping ahead of myself. 891 00:48:47.160 --> 00:48:48.720 If you actually live in connection with the Lord, 892 00:48:48.720 --> 00:48:50.520 that the gifts of the Holy Spirit 893 00:48:50.520 --> 00:48:51.960 can flow through your lives. 894 00:48:51.960 --> 00:48:53.840 It's not according to how well you do, 895 00:48:53.860 --> 00:48:55.820 but you can steward the gift. 896 00:48:56.780 --> 00:48:58.460 So you can grow the gift. 897 00:48:59.620 --> 00:49:01.220 But then what's so interesting is this, 898 00:49:01.220 --> 00:49:03.220 and I've never, I didn't know this 899 00:49:03.220 --> 00:49:05.100 till I started doing research for this message, 900 00:49:05.100 --> 00:49:07.380 but in 1 Corinthians 13, 901 00:49:07.380 --> 00:49:09.420 Paul, it seems like Paul kind of jumps 902 00:49:09.420 --> 00:49:11.500 into a different message for one chapter. 903 00:49:12.540 --> 00:49:14.020 But he's not writing in a chapter, right? 904 00:49:14.020 --> 00:49:15.020 This is an entire letter. 905 00:49:15.020 --> 00:49:16.660 So he's not jumping to a different message. 906 00:49:16.660 --> 00:49:17.480 He starts saying, 907 00:49:17.480 --> 00:49:19.640 if I speak in the language of angels and tongues, 908 00:49:19.640 --> 00:49:21.260 but I have not love, we all know this. 909 00:49:21.260 --> 00:49:22.180 Everyone reads it at weddings. 910 00:49:22.280 --> 00:49:24.240 Love is patient, love is kind, love is gentle. 911 00:49:24.240 --> 00:49:25.920 Do you know why Paul is addressing 912 00:49:25.920 --> 00:49:27.560 the language of angels and tongues 913 00:49:27.560 --> 00:49:30.040 in the middle of the spiritual gifts? 914 00:49:30.040 --> 00:49:31.960 It's because the people of Corinth 915 00:49:31.960 --> 00:49:34.840 had elevated themselves to spiritual superiority, 916 00:49:34.840 --> 00:49:37.120 and they were utilising the gift of tongues 917 00:49:37.120 --> 00:49:38.800 and the language of angels 918 00:49:38.800 --> 00:49:42.040 to make them spiritually superior and not serve one another. 919 00:49:42.040 --> 00:49:44.840 And Paul, in his view, has a recognition 920 00:49:44.840 --> 00:49:46.960 that all of the gifts are to build up the church, 921 00:49:46.960 --> 00:49:48.220 not to build up our ego. 922 00:49:52.880 --> 00:49:55.400 And so, off of the passage of love, 923 00:49:55.400 --> 00:49:57.560 where he's actually correcting the people of Corinth, 924 00:49:57.560 --> 00:50:00.240 saying, listen, you are misusing this gift to make. 925 00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:02.640 yourself seem spiritual, to make yourself seem wonderful, 926 00:50:02.640 --> 00:50:04.920 to set you apart from everyone else. 927 00:50:04.920 --> 00:50:07.080 And you're forgetting that the role is not for you 928 00:50:07.080 --> 00:50:09.220 to become some spiritual hierarchy, 929 00:50:09.220 --> 00:50:12.000 but for you to become a blessing to the world, 930 00:50:12.000 --> 00:50:14.680 to build up the church and to bring reformation 931 00:50:14.680 --> 00:50:17.120 so the bride can meet the groom. 932 00:50:20.800 --> 00:50:24.000 And off of 1 Corinthians 13, then he says, 933 00:50:24.000 --> 00:50:29.000 pursue love and earnestly desire the gift of prophecy. 934 00:50:29.600 --> 00:50:31.240 Let's read that, shall we? 935 00:50:31.240 --> 00:50:32.560 Are you guys doing okay? 936 00:50:34.040 --> 00:50:35.580 Redebe shinde rebe. 937 00:50:38.480 --> 00:50:39.760 I love the Bible. 938 00:50:39.760 --> 00:50:40.760 Can I tell you something? 939 00:50:40.760 --> 00:50:42.360 I wanna say this. 940 00:50:42.360 --> 00:50:43.440 I wanna make sure we say this. 941 00:50:43.440 --> 00:50:45.200 The Bible is prophecy. 942 00:50:46.640 --> 00:50:49.400 We're not talking about one kind of prophecy 943 00:50:49.400 --> 00:50:50.480 and another kind of prophecy. 944 00:50:50.480 --> 00:50:53.720 We actually, in this generation, 945 00:50:53.720 --> 00:50:56.260 we need to have a value for the written word of God. 946 00:50:56.260 --> 00:50:58.200 The written word of God is under siege 947 00:50:58.200 --> 00:50:59.860 in the spiritual realm. 948 00:50:59.860 --> 00:51:01.380 It is under attack in the spiritual realm 949 00:51:01.380 --> 00:51:02.940 and people are making up their own truth. 950 00:51:02.940 --> 00:51:04.660 This is my truth. 951 00:51:04.660 --> 00:51:06.780 And ain't nobody can challenge me on my truth 952 00:51:06.780 --> 00:51:08.100 unless there's one God. 953 00:51:08.100 --> 00:51:09.700 And then there's only one truth. 954 00:51:11.740 --> 00:51:16.740 And often when we, as people, 955 00:51:17.380 --> 00:51:20.980 we can elevate what we prefer. 956 00:51:22.340 --> 00:51:24.260 And us as very spiritual people, 957 00:51:24.260 --> 00:51:25.880 if you're in this room, you're either a prophet 958 00:51:26.520 --> 00:51:28.120 or someone that moves powerfully in the prophetic 959 00:51:28.120 --> 00:51:30.600 or hungry to move powerfully in the prophetic. 960 00:51:30.600 --> 00:51:33.080 And sometimes we can elevate the Rhema word of God 961 00:51:33.080 --> 00:51:34.280 over the Logos word of God, 962 00:51:34.280 --> 00:51:35.480 forgetting it's the same spirit 963 00:51:35.480 --> 00:51:37.080 that's giving utterance to both. 964 00:51:38.400 --> 00:51:40.600 In fact, I was trying to plug my iPad in earlier. 965 00:51:40.600 --> 00:51:43.280 It's, pray for it, it's on 14% battery. 966 00:51:43.280 --> 00:51:44.280 Let's see how we go. 967 00:51:45.400 --> 00:51:47.540 And I realised it wasn't charging. 968 00:51:47.540 --> 00:51:48.600 I'd had it plugged in. 969 00:51:48.600 --> 00:51:50.080 And when I started playing with the plug, 970 00:51:50.080 --> 00:51:51.060 it started sparking. 971 00:51:51.060 --> 00:51:52.960 And it reminded me of a word that Bob Jones gave, 972 00:51:52.960 --> 00:51:55.480 I believe around 2010. 973 00:51:55.480 --> 00:51:58.280 Where he was taken into a vision of a building. 974 00:51:58.280 --> 00:52:01.280 And in this building, he switched on the lights 975 00:52:01.280 --> 00:52:03.560 and it flashed and it went off. 976 00:52:03.560 --> 00:52:06.080 And he went up in the spirit into the ceiling 977 00:52:06.080 --> 00:52:08.880 of the building and he noticed that it had a live wire, 978 00:52:08.880 --> 00:52:10.120 but no grounding wire. 979 00:52:11.200 --> 00:52:14.120 And he spoke about the need for the Logos word of God, 980 00:52:14.120 --> 00:52:15.400 the grounding wire of the Lord. 981 00:52:15.400 --> 00:52:18.040 And as I was playing with my plug and it was sparking, 982 00:52:18.040 --> 00:52:21.100 I was reminded that when we only have the Rhema word of God, 983 00:52:21.100 --> 00:52:22.600 we're a flash in the pan. 984 00:52:22.600 --> 00:52:25.080 But it's the Logos word of God that grounds us, 985 00:52:25.640 --> 00:52:27.960 that tests the Rhema word of God 986 00:52:27.960 --> 00:52:29.900 and gives it sustainable power. 987 00:52:33.100 --> 00:52:35.440 The Spirit of God hovers over the Word 988 00:52:35.440 --> 00:52:38.520 and He's there waiting to reveal Himself to us 989 00:52:38.520 --> 00:52:39.360 in the Word. 990 00:52:39.360 --> 00:52:41.160 God is here. 991 00:52:41.160 --> 00:52:43.020 And a revelation of His heart is here. 992 00:52:43.020 --> 00:52:46.460 The beauty about prophecy is that we get to climb 993 00:52:46.460 --> 00:52:48.940 into the heart of God and reveal it to the world. 994 00:52:51.040 --> 00:52:53.760 Prophecy is a revelation of the heart of God. 995 00:52:53.760 --> 00:52:55.760 It says that the Holy Spirit knows the thoughts 996 00:52:55.760 --> 00:52:57.160 of the Father. 997 00:52:57.160 --> 00:53:00.360 This world needs to know the thoughts of a loving Father, 998 00:53:00.360 --> 00:53:03.160 of a good God, of a God that's waiting for them 999 00:53:03.160 --> 00:53:05.560 to come running down the road full of pig filth. 1000 00:53:06.680 --> 00:53:09.640 This generation knows their shame. 1001 00:53:09.640 --> 00:53:10.980 This generation knows their guilt, 1002 00:53:10.980 --> 00:53:13.200 but this generation does not know a Jesus 1003 00:53:13.200 --> 00:53:14.600 that is coming for a bride. 1004 00:53:14.600 --> 00:53:16.960 This generation doesn't know a glorious kingdom 1005 00:53:16.960 --> 00:53:18.920 that wants to redeem them, transform them, 1006 00:53:18.920 --> 00:53:20.460 and change their lives and fill them 1007 00:53:20.460 --> 00:53:21.860 with the love of the Father. 1008 00:53:24.320 --> 00:53:25.520 And this is what Paul is saying. 1009 00:53:25.520 --> 00:53:29.160 He's saying the church doesn't need more issues of sin. 1010 00:53:29.160 --> 00:53:32.880 The church needs to be built up to run this race. 1011 00:53:32.880 --> 00:53:34.400 And I don't think when they were writing this, 1012 00:53:34.400 --> 00:53:35.640 I don't know if they were aware how long 1013 00:53:35.640 --> 00:53:37.940 we were gonna run this race in this generation. 1014 00:53:38.960 --> 00:53:41.960 I think they thought that Jesus was coming back a lot sooner. 1015 00:53:42.920 --> 00:53:44.280 We're gonna touch a wheel. 1016 00:53:46.980 --> 00:53:49.040 Okay, I'm gonna read 1 Corinthians 14. 1017 00:53:49.040 --> 00:53:50.700 Are you guys doing okay? 1018 00:53:50.700 --> 00:53:51.800 I can go on tangents. 1019 00:53:51.800 --> 00:53:53.160 I just wanna tell you that. 1020 00:53:54.000 --> 00:53:54.920 Hallelujah. 1021 00:53:58.080 --> 00:54:01.040 Pursue love yet desire earnestly spiritual gifts, 1022 00:54:01.040 --> 00:54:03.680 but especially that you may prophesy. 1023 00:54:03.680 --> 00:54:05.080 For the one who speaks in a tongue 1024 00:54:05.080 --> 00:54:07.240 does not speak to men but to God. 1025 00:54:07.240 --> 00:54:08.640 For no one understands, 1026 00:54:08.640 --> 00:54:10.960 but in his spirit he speaks mysteries. 1027 00:54:10.960 --> 00:54:13.000 But the one who prophesies speaks to men 1028 00:54:13.000 --> 00:54:17.120 for the edification, the exhortation, and the consolation. 1029 00:54:17.120 --> 00:54:19.440 The one who speaks in tongues edifies himself, 1030 00:54:19.440 --> 00:54:22.460 but the one who prophesies edifies the church. 1031 00:54:23.960 --> 00:54:26.160 Paul later on, he's like, he's not diminishing tongues. 1032 00:54:26.160 --> 00:54:29.600 Tongues are wonderful, but when we raise tongues, 1033 00:54:29.600 --> 00:54:33.420 when we raise our spirituality above our service, 1034 00:54:33.420 --> 00:54:36.260 we are missing the point. 1035 00:54:36.260 --> 00:54:41.260 We're missing the design that God created in us 1036 00:54:41.320 --> 00:54:43.840 to reveal his heart and what he longs for 1037 00:54:43.840 --> 00:54:45.460 is to build up his people. 1038 00:54:47.320 --> 00:54:49.040 You know, just because you can discern it 1039 00:54:49.040 --> 00:54:50.540 doesn't mean we should say it. 1040 00:54:50.860 --> 00:54:51.700 Amen. 1041 00:54:52.940 --> 00:54:54.900 And there's both sides on that in prophecy. 1042 00:54:54.900 --> 00:54:57.940 I have discerned, I've discerned negative things 1043 00:54:57.940 --> 00:54:58.900 on people's lives, but you know what? 1044 00:54:58.900 --> 00:54:59.940 I've also discerned. 1045 00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:01.640 desires in people's lives. 1046 00:55:01.640 --> 00:55:03.660 You can prophesy someone's desires, 1047 00:55:03.660 --> 00:55:04.960 but you're just discerning. 1048 00:55:06.240 --> 00:55:08.960 And you can actually prophesy their desire 1049 00:55:08.960 --> 00:55:11.920 to pay attention to how powerful you are. 1050 00:55:13.320 --> 00:55:14.320 Are you hearing me? 1051 00:55:16.040 --> 00:55:19.520 I see it sometimes as we raise up people in the prophetic 1052 00:55:19.520 --> 00:55:22.320 where we're prophesying lots of stadiums, 1053 00:55:22.320 --> 00:55:26.520 lots of books, lots of hierarchy, lots of power, 1054 00:55:26.520 --> 00:55:31.340 lots of outward recognition. 1055 00:55:31.340 --> 00:55:33.760 That feels really good. 1056 00:55:33.760 --> 00:55:34.600 And you know what? 1057 00:55:34.600 --> 00:55:37.300 There's nothing wrong with that if God is saying that. 1058 00:55:37.300 --> 00:55:40.040 But the Lord is not actually desiring 1059 00:55:40.040 --> 00:55:42.040 that everybody be famous. 1060 00:55:44.680 --> 00:55:48.160 The Lord is desiring that we build up the church. 1061 00:55:48.160 --> 00:55:49.840 And if we build them up from a podium 1062 00:55:49.840 --> 00:55:51.800 or we build them up from within the grocery store, 1063 00:55:51.800 --> 00:55:54.160 if we build up our three-year-old within our home, 1064 00:55:54.200 --> 00:55:56.800 or we build them up within our computer industry 1065 00:55:56.800 --> 00:55:58.460 or our IT or our tech, 1066 00:56:00.120 --> 00:56:02.080 God is not looking to build up you 1067 00:56:02.080 --> 00:56:03.240 on your Instagram platform. 1068 00:56:03.240 --> 00:56:05.220 He's looking to build up the church. 1069 00:56:06.160 --> 00:56:08.480 And as prophets and prophetic people, 1070 00:56:08.480 --> 00:56:10.600 we get to partner with Him. 1071 00:56:13.640 --> 00:56:14.980 Rende besheredeh. 1072 00:56:17.760 --> 00:56:21.520 As I was preparing for this and thinking about this, 1073 00:56:21.520 --> 00:56:22.720 I was thinking, what are we building? 1074 00:56:22.720 --> 00:56:25.160 Do you know that we are building Christ in people? 1075 00:56:26.560 --> 00:56:30.560 In Galatians 4.19, Paul says that I am again in birth 1076 00:56:30.560 --> 00:56:33.200 until the formation of Christ is fully formed in you. 1077 00:56:34.620 --> 00:56:36.280 Paul is in anguish in Galatians. 1078 00:56:36.280 --> 00:56:38.200 He doesn't know why they've kind of fallen off the path. 1079 00:56:38.200 --> 00:56:40.160 And he's saying, I'm staying in this. 1080 00:56:40.160 --> 00:56:41.640 Ladies, if you've ever given birth, 1081 00:56:41.640 --> 00:56:43.600 you know that it is no joke. 1082 00:56:43.600 --> 00:56:45.480 I gave birth three times. 1083 00:56:45.480 --> 00:56:47.440 It is intense. 1084 00:56:47.440 --> 00:56:48.520 There's a point in birth, 1085 00:56:48.520 --> 00:56:49.640 right before you give birth to a baby, 1086 00:56:49.640 --> 00:56:51.080 that you think, I cannot do this. 1087 00:56:51.080 --> 00:56:52.860 I remember thinking, I swallowed a watermelon. 1088 00:56:52.860 --> 00:56:54.360 This is all a lie. 1089 00:56:54.360 --> 00:56:56.020 Somebody cut me open and get this thing out. 1090 00:56:56.020 --> 00:56:57.240 I am done. 1091 00:56:57.240 --> 00:56:58.400 I'm just being honest with you. 1092 00:56:58.400 --> 00:57:00.000 People talked about heavenly births. 1093 00:57:00.000 --> 00:57:01.640 I was heaven until I had to push. 1094 00:57:01.640 --> 00:57:04.120 And then I was like, what just happened? 1095 00:57:04.120 --> 00:57:05.080 I remember watching these videos. 1096 00:57:05.080 --> 00:57:06.480 Women are like, it's the best thing ever. 1097 00:57:06.480 --> 00:57:08.120 I'm like, I was believing for it. 1098 00:57:08.120 --> 00:57:11.080 I had radical heavenly encounters in labor. 1099 00:57:11.080 --> 00:57:12.200 Can I tell you, there's nothing like pain 1100 00:57:12.200 --> 00:57:13.360 to draw heaven close. 1101 00:57:16.440 --> 00:57:18.160 Pain will make you cling to God. 1102 00:57:18.680 --> 00:57:22.960 But Paul is describing his passion 1103 00:57:22.960 --> 00:57:26.480 to see Christ formed in the Church of Galatians. 1104 00:57:26.480 --> 00:57:31.480 He's likening it to birth, to an intense longing. 1105 00:57:32.400 --> 00:57:35.320 That's not me making up words as a woman. 1106 00:57:35.320 --> 00:57:37.280 That's Paul. 1107 00:57:37.280 --> 00:57:39.240 And he's saying, there's this longing for Christ 1108 00:57:39.240 --> 00:57:40.200 to be formed in you. 1109 00:57:40.200 --> 00:57:41.840 This is the same Paul that rose 1110 00:57:41.840 --> 00:57:44.060 first and second Corinthians. 1111 00:57:44.060 --> 00:57:45.480 This is the same Paul that rose first 1112 00:57:45.480 --> 00:57:46.720 and second Thessalonians. 1113 00:57:46.720 --> 00:57:49.520 This man is really the man who's writing 1114 00:57:49.520 --> 00:57:52.240 about the Spirit of God and the spiritual gifts. 1115 00:57:52.240 --> 00:57:53.880 And he's longing to see Christ formed. 1116 00:57:53.880 --> 00:57:56.400 That's what we get to do as people who prophesy. 1117 00:57:56.400 --> 00:57:59.440 We get to begin to see the beginning formations 1118 00:57:59.440 --> 00:58:00.560 of Jesus in someone, 1119 00:58:00.560 --> 00:58:03.480 and we get to begin to form it with our words. 1120 00:58:03.480 --> 00:58:07.520 We begin to start building an identity, a new identity, 1121 00:58:07.520 --> 00:58:10.320 so that when people hear this, 1122 00:58:10.320 --> 00:58:12.320 they are amazed and they give their lives 1123 00:58:12.320 --> 00:58:14.960 to this King that is building himself inside of them. 1124 00:58:17.720 --> 00:58:21.200 Ephesians 1, 7 says that, 1125 00:58:21.200 --> 00:58:23.600 in him we have redemption through his blood 1126 00:58:23.600 --> 00:58:25.160 for the forgiveness of our trespasses 1127 00:58:25.160 --> 00:58:27.200 according to his riches in grace. 1128 00:58:27.200 --> 00:58:29.320 And then I want you to open up to Ephesians 1, 1129 00:58:29.320 --> 00:58:31.800 if that's okay, and we're gonna go from verse 18, 1130 00:58:31.800 --> 00:58:32.920 maybe a little before. 1131 00:58:39.080 --> 00:58:40.480 I just wanna say this real quick, 1132 00:58:40.480 --> 00:58:42.100 that when we're talking about prophecies 1133 00:58:42.100 --> 00:58:44.400 for edification and building up, 1134 00:58:44.400 --> 00:58:46.560 these aren't like fluffy words. 1135 00:58:47.400 --> 00:58:50.400 These aren't just like I'm simply saying nice things to you. 1136 00:58:51.460 --> 00:58:54.160 This isn't a, you know, I think we sometimes, 1137 00:58:55.640 --> 00:58:56.480 how do I say this? 1138 00:58:56.480 --> 00:58:58.640 When you're trying to raise up a lot of people to prophesy, 1139 00:58:58.640 --> 00:59:01.160 you have to put the bar quite low to start. 1140 00:59:02.160 --> 00:59:04.440 When my children start sliding down slides, 1141 00:59:04.440 --> 00:59:06.080 they don't start on the biggest one at the park, 1142 00:59:06.080 --> 00:59:07.520 they start at the baby slide. 1143 00:59:08.420 --> 00:59:10.200 But sometimes what we've done is sometimes 1144 00:59:10.200 --> 00:59:12.200 we've made the entrance bar, 1145 00:59:12.200 --> 00:59:13.280 we've kept people on milk 1146 00:59:13.280 --> 00:59:15.040 when it's time to graduate to meet. 1147 00:59:16.040 --> 00:59:17.360 And this is what we're doing here. 1148 00:59:17.360 --> 00:59:19.880 We're saying, hey, we've received milk, 1149 00:59:19.880 --> 00:59:21.400 but it's time to graduate to meet. 1150 00:59:21.400 --> 00:59:24.400 And here prophecy isn't simply saying nice things about you, 1151 00:59:24.400 --> 00:59:28.120 prophecy is discerning what the Lord is building in someone 1152 00:59:28.120 --> 00:59:29.280 and calling it forth 1153 00:59:29.280 --> 00:59:31.640 so they can step into their prophetic identity. 1154 00:59:32.720 --> 00:59:34.120 Prophecy is forth telling, 1155 00:59:34.120 --> 00:59:35.920 which means it doesn't exist in you yet, 1156 00:59:35.920 --> 00:59:37.160 but as I speak it out, 1157 00:59:37.160 --> 00:59:39.440 create a God who spoke and the world was formed, 1158 00:59:39.440 --> 00:59:42.680 I can actually speak out in accordance with His heart, 1159 00:59:42.680 --> 00:59:44.360 not with my heart, 1160 00:59:44.360 --> 00:59:47.000 accordance with His whisper, with His breath, 1161 00:59:47.000 --> 00:59:51.160 I partner with Him and I co-labour what He is creating 1162 00:59:51.160 --> 00:59:53.280 and I speak it out 1163 00:59:53.280 --> 00:59:55.160 and it begins to become formed in someone. 1164 00:59:55.160 --> 00:59:58.180 That is forth telling, I'm calling it out of you. 1165 00:59:58.180 --> 01:00:00.480 You don't see it yet, you don't know it yet. 1166 01:00:00.000 --> 01:00:02.080 I want to tell you, some people foretold some things 1167 01:00:02.080 --> 01:00:03.520 that I thought, oh no, they were like, 1168 01:00:03.520 --> 01:00:06.920 you're gonna speak to the nations, the mother to nations, 1169 01:00:06.920 --> 01:00:08.480 you're gonna speak to thousands of people. 1170 01:00:08.480 --> 01:00:10.640 I thought, no, I'm scared to speak to four. 1171 01:00:12.700 --> 01:00:13.880 But they were foretelling, 1172 01:00:13.880 --> 01:00:15.420 they were calling something out of me 1173 01:00:15.420 --> 01:00:17.600 that I couldn't see in myself. 1174 01:00:17.600 --> 01:00:19.040 And then foretelling is saying 1175 01:00:19.040 --> 01:00:21.280 of something that is to come. 1176 01:00:21.280 --> 01:00:23.280 There's something to come in your life, 1177 01:00:23.280 --> 01:00:26.120 and it's prophesying the future. 1178 01:00:26.120 --> 01:00:30.480 And this foretelling where we're calling forth, 1179 01:00:30.480 --> 01:00:32.840 we are literally calling forth Christ in people. 1180 01:00:32.840 --> 01:00:34.480 I want to read Ephesians one. 1181 01:00:37.200 --> 01:00:39.220 And then I've got to move on. 1182 01:00:40.480 --> 01:00:43.000 This is probably my favorite scripture right now. 1183 01:00:44.140 --> 01:00:46.600 Paul says, I pray that the eyes of your heart 1184 01:00:46.600 --> 01:00:49.160 may be enlightened so that you will know 1185 01:00:49.160 --> 01:00:51.360 what is the hope of his calling. 1186 01:00:51.360 --> 01:00:53.520 Can I tell you, it is hard to prophesy 1187 01:00:53.520 --> 01:00:56.220 the hope of his calling if you do not know what it is. 1188 01:00:58.160 --> 01:01:00.560 Paul's prayer over the church in Ephesus 1189 01:01:00.560 --> 01:01:02.400 is that the eyes of their heart, 1190 01:01:02.400 --> 01:01:04.420 so their spirit would be opened 1191 01:01:04.420 --> 01:01:07.080 to understand the hope of his calling, 1192 01:01:07.080 --> 01:01:09.640 which are, now he describes what is the hope, 1193 01:01:09.640 --> 01:01:13.560 which are the riches of his glorious inheritance 1194 01:01:13.560 --> 01:01:14.880 in the saints. 1195 01:01:17.120 --> 01:01:19.160 Some of us are waiting for heaven 1196 01:01:19.160 --> 01:01:21.420 to find the richness of his glorious inheritance, 1197 01:01:21.420 --> 01:01:24.300 but he put the richness of his glorious inheritance 1198 01:01:24.300 --> 01:01:26.340 in those who believe in Jesus 1199 01:01:26.340 --> 01:01:28.340 and have been filled by the power of his Spirit. 1200 01:01:28.340 --> 01:01:29.980 The riches of his glorious inheritance 1201 01:01:29.980 --> 01:01:32.880 is that his Spirit lives and dwells in you. 1202 01:01:34.660 --> 01:01:37.460 It didn't bypass some of you who are less gifted 1203 01:01:37.460 --> 01:01:39.140 or less talented or have less education. 1204 01:01:39.140 --> 01:01:41.780 No, it is for everyone. 1205 01:01:41.780 --> 01:01:44.180 It is for the hairdresser from South Africa. 1206 01:01:44.180 --> 01:01:45.020 That's me. 1207 01:01:46.580 --> 01:01:49.140 A 22-year-old that came to Bethel Church, 1208 01:01:49.140 --> 01:01:51.080 knew nothing of prophecy, walked through those doors, 1209 01:01:51.780 --> 01:01:53.200 and I knew, I make sense now. 1210 01:01:53.200 --> 01:01:55.480 All of a sudden, I began to realise 1211 01:01:55.480 --> 01:01:57.860 that the Spirit of God wasn't looking for my strength. 1212 01:01:57.860 --> 01:01:59.600 He was just looking for my weakness. 1213 01:01:59.600 --> 01:02:01.640 He was just saying, hey, if I could fill you, 1214 01:02:01.640 --> 01:02:04.000 you're gonna find a glorious inheritance in me. 1215 01:02:07.240 --> 01:02:10.240 And what, the inheritance in the saints, verse 19, 1216 01:02:10.240 --> 01:02:12.720 and what is the surpassing greatness 1217 01:02:12.720 --> 01:02:15.220 of his power towards us who believe? 1218 01:02:16.200 --> 01:02:18.460 These are in accordance with the working 1219 01:02:18.460 --> 01:02:20.520 of the strength of his might, 1220 01:02:20.520 --> 01:02:22.180 which he brought about in Christ 1221 01:02:22.180 --> 01:02:23.520 when he raised Him from the dead 1222 01:02:23.520 --> 01:02:27.520 and seated Him at the right hand in heavenly places. 1223 01:02:27.520 --> 01:02:28.800 You know, often we say the same Spirit 1224 01:02:28.800 --> 01:02:30.920 that raised Christ from the dead lives in you. 1225 01:02:30.920 --> 01:02:32.200 That is true, but the same Spirit 1226 01:02:32.200 --> 01:02:33.160 that raised Christ from the dead 1227 01:02:33.160 --> 01:02:37.160 and then seated Him in heavenly places lives in you. 1228 01:02:37.160 --> 01:02:39.600 Could you imagine the power that was exerted 1229 01:02:39.600 --> 01:02:41.320 to take Jesus from the earth 1230 01:02:41.320 --> 01:02:43.560 and seat Him at the right hand of the Father? 1231 01:02:45.780 --> 01:02:48.080 Can you imagine the power, 1232 01:02:48.080 --> 01:02:52.200 the transformational power within the Spirit of God 1233 01:02:52.200 --> 01:02:54.960 to take Christ in bodily form 1234 01:02:54.960 --> 01:02:58.740 and seat Him in the spirit realm alongside the Father? 1235 01:03:00.720 --> 01:03:02.720 This is the spirit of prophecy. 1236 01:03:03.660 --> 01:03:06.200 This is the spirit that empowers prophecy, 1237 01:03:06.200 --> 01:03:09.500 a spirit that is so powerful, so transformational, 1238 01:03:09.500 --> 01:03:13.160 lives inside believers and is looking to get out, 1239 01:03:13.160 --> 01:03:14.680 to build the church. 1240 01:03:14.680 --> 01:03:19.680 So, I saw an Instagram post recently 1241 01:03:21.000 --> 01:03:25.180 and it said, zero times 10, my dad's a mathematician, 1242 01:03:25.180 --> 01:03:27.480 so he'll be proud of me, dad, if you're watching. 1243 01:03:27.480 --> 01:03:32.480 Zero times 10 equals zero, but zero plus one equals one. 1244 01:03:34.800 --> 01:03:39.020 You know, a lot of times we can get into a spiritual frenzy, 1245 01:03:39.020 --> 01:03:41.780 but we're actually not adding anything to the body. 1246 01:03:42.380 --> 01:03:46.780 A lot of times we can get really anxious about things 1247 01:03:46.780 --> 01:03:48.420 and it can feel like we're doing a lot of work, 1248 01:03:48.420 --> 01:03:50.560 but we actually aren't adding anything. 1249 01:03:52.900 --> 01:03:54.780 And a lot of times you can see a lot of people 1250 01:03:54.780 --> 01:03:56.920 doing very impressive things, 1251 01:03:56.920 --> 01:03:59.340 but it's not about zero times 10, 1252 01:03:59.340 --> 01:04:01.300 it's about, are you taking one step? 1253 01:04:02.900 --> 01:04:04.980 You know, even in this room, in your community groups, 1254 01:04:04.980 --> 01:04:06.820 you maybe are with people that have been doing this 1255 01:04:06.820 --> 01:04:08.680 for a long time and you can diminish 1256 01:04:08.680 --> 01:04:10.180 the power of God flowing through you 1257 01:04:10.180 --> 01:04:12.780 because it doesn't look like the person next to you. 1258 01:04:12.780 --> 01:04:15.060 It doesn't sound like the person next to you. 1259 01:04:15.060 --> 01:04:16.380 When I was called to be a prophet, 1260 01:04:16.380 --> 01:04:18.860 I didn't have an experience with Jesus walking into my room 1261 01:04:18.860 --> 01:04:21.140 and talking to me in the bathtub. 1262 01:04:21.140 --> 01:04:22.840 Does that mean I'm not a prophet? 1263 01:04:24.700 --> 01:04:26.680 This isn't about someone else's journey, 1264 01:04:26.680 --> 01:04:29.340 this is about the Holy Spirit who personally wants 1265 01:04:29.340 --> 01:04:32.740 to fill you and rest upon you so that you can build up 1266 01:04:32.740 --> 01:04:35.180 the church with the power of the prophetic gift. 1267 01:04:36.060 --> 01:04:39.620 And if you earnestly desire it, He will give it to you. 1268 01:04:39.620 --> 01:04:41.580 He longs, if He will not give you a snake 1269 01:04:41.580 --> 01:04:43.900 when you ask for a fish, how much more will your Father 1270 01:04:43.900 --> 01:04:46.880 give you the Holy Spirit to those who ask? 1271 01:04:48.820 --> 01:04:52.340 Now, the difference between prophecy and the prophet, 1272 01:04:52.340 --> 01:04:53.800 we're just gonna touch on this real quick 1273 01:04:53.800 --> 01:04:56.220 and then Ben is gonna come share. 1274 01:04:56.220 --> 01:04:59.540 Some of you might need a little exercise. 1275 01:04:59.540 --> 01:05:00.380 Guys, you're in. 1276 01:05:00.000 --> 01:05:01.680 School, hey? 1277 01:05:01.680 --> 01:05:03.080 This is not Conference of the Prophets, 1278 01:05:03.080 --> 01:05:04.680 this is School of the Prophets. 1279 01:05:08.600 --> 01:05:10.000 I'm so glad you're so encouraging. 1280 01:05:10.000 --> 01:05:10.980 You're very kind. 1281 01:05:13.360 --> 01:05:15.040 Let's go to Ephesians four. 1282 01:05:16.160 --> 01:05:17.400 Here in a mama soul. 1283 01:05:24.280 --> 01:05:25.120 I just wanna say this, 1284 01:05:25.120 --> 01:05:26.980 one of the greatest lies that is facing the church 1285 01:05:26.980 --> 01:05:29.680 is that we have to be famous to do something effective. 1286 01:05:30.920 --> 01:05:33.960 That we have to have thousands of Instagram followers 1287 01:05:33.960 --> 01:05:35.520 or a TikTok account or, 1288 01:05:37.000 --> 01:05:38.840 you know, God can use all of those platforms 1289 01:05:38.840 --> 01:05:40.120 and people that do have thousands 1290 01:05:40.120 --> 01:05:42.160 or millions of followers, praise God. 1291 01:05:42.160 --> 01:05:43.580 Let them be a megaphone to the world, 1292 01:05:43.580 --> 01:05:48.140 but God isn't looking for a grandiose offering, 1293 01:05:48.140 --> 01:05:49.960 He's just looking for obedience. 1294 01:05:51.480 --> 01:05:53.380 He's just looking for your obedience. 1295 01:05:55.200 --> 01:05:56.200 I wanna tell you, 1296 01:05:56.200 --> 01:05:57.880 we're gonna read about the call of a prophet. 1297 01:05:57.880 --> 01:06:00.880 When I got, I didn't have a big moment, 1298 01:06:00.880 --> 01:06:02.560 a big la-di-da prophet moment. 1299 01:06:02.560 --> 01:06:04.160 In fact, last year at School of the Prophets, 1300 01:06:04.160 --> 01:06:05.000 they asked the question of, 1301 01:06:05.000 --> 01:06:06.420 when was I commissioned to be a prophet? 1302 01:06:06.420 --> 01:06:07.560 I said, never have been. 1303 01:06:09.040 --> 01:06:11.680 And they commissioned me on stage. 1304 01:06:11.680 --> 01:06:13.000 I was called out. 1305 01:06:14.600 --> 01:06:17.360 It wasn't about how grand the event was, 1306 01:06:17.360 --> 01:06:20.580 it was about steps of obedience and faithfulness. 1307 01:06:20.580 --> 01:06:21.900 That is what the Lord looks for. 1308 01:06:21.900 --> 01:06:25.920 He's not looking for big outward expressions of sacrifice. 1309 01:06:25.920 --> 01:06:28.920 In fact, when Saul was asked to go kill, 1310 01:06:28.920 --> 01:06:30.080 I think it was the Amalekites, 1311 01:06:30.080 --> 01:06:31.040 I know it was King Agog, 1312 01:06:31.040 --> 01:06:32.560 he was asked to kill all of them, 1313 01:06:32.560 --> 01:06:34.400 including their livestock, all their people. 1314 01:06:34.400 --> 01:06:35.960 And what he did was, 1315 01:06:35.960 --> 01:06:37.400 he did part of what he was asked to do, 1316 01:06:37.400 --> 01:06:40.440 but he kept the choice animals and the king alive. 1317 01:06:40.440 --> 01:06:41.280 And Samuel came and said, 1318 01:06:41.280 --> 01:06:43.480 God regrets that he anointed you as king. 1319 01:06:43.480 --> 01:06:45.080 And Saul said, but I kept all these things 1320 01:06:45.080 --> 01:06:47.560 to sacrifice to the Lord. 1321 01:06:47.560 --> 01:06:51.040 All these big expressions of wealth and favour. 1322 01:06:51.040 --> 01:06:52.760 And the Lord said, I don't want your sacrifice, 1323 01:06:52.760 --> 01:06:54.080 I want your obedience. 1324 01:06:56.920 --> 01:06:59.500 Sometimes people have a lot to offer. 1325 01:06:59.500 --> 01:07:01.320 The Lord's not looking about how much you have, 1326 01:07:01.320 --> 01:07:03.120 He's just looking for what you have. 1327 01:07:05.080 --> 01:07:05.920 You need to know this, 1328 01:07:05.920 --> 01:07:07.580 the Lord is looking for what you have. 1329 01:07:07.580 --> 01:07:10.160 The Lord is wanting to come back for a bride. 1330 01:07:10.160 --> 01:07:11.680 He's looking for a bride 1331 01:07:11.680 --> 01:07:13.720 and He's not looking for the apostle, 1332 01:07:13.720 --> 01:07:15.880 the prophet, the apostle to do the work. 1333 01:07:15.880 --> 01:07:18.280 He's looking for the saints to rise up. 1334 01:07:18.280 --> 01:07:19.960 And this is what the prophet gets to do. 1335 01:07:19.960 --> 01:07:22.040 And so Ephesians four, 1336 01:07:23.040 --> 01:07:27.280 verse six, verse seven, let's go verse seven. 1337 01:07:27.280 --> 01:07:28.800 But to each one of us, 1338 01:07:28.800 --> 01:07:32.040 grace was given according to the measure of Christ's gift. 1339 01:07:32.040 --> 01:07:36.120 Here's the first kind of difference. 1340 01:07:36.120 --> 01:07:39.840 The Holy Spirit gives the gift of prophecy, 1341 01:07:39.840 --> 01:07:41.960 but the grace on the office of a prophet 1342 01:07:41.960 --> 01:07:43.800 is a gift of Christ. 1343 01:07:43.800 --> 01:07:44.640 Have you ever heard someone say, 1344 01:07:44.640 --> 01:07:46.800 oh, you think you're God's gift to the world? 1345 01:07:47.720 --> 01:07:49.400 The fivefold ministry is. 1346 01:07:50.400 --> 01:07:54.680 But in God's kingdom, leadership is servanthood. 1347 01:07:54.680 --> 01:07:56.180 Leadership is not hierarchy. 1348 01:07:57.600 --> 01:07:59.800 So Christ's gift to the world 1349 01:07:59.800 --> 01:08:01.880 says that you get to lay a foundation, 1350 01:08:01.880 --> 01:08:03.360 not be the pinnacle. 1351 01:08:03.360 --> 01:08:05.600 So that you get to be the one that people walk on, 1352 01:08:05.600 --> 01:08:07.200 not the one that stands on them. 1353 01:08:09.880 --> 01:08:10.720 Therefore it says, 1354 01:08:10.720 --> 01:08:12.040 when He ascended on high, 1355 01:08:12.040 --> 01:08:14.000 He led captive to the host of captives 1356 01:08:14.000 --> 01:08:15.600 and He gave the gifts to men. 1357 01:08:16.600 --> 01:08:19.920 You know how undeserving we are of this? 1358 01:08:19.920 --> 01:08:21.680 And yet He is so deserving. 1359 01:08:21.680 --> 01:08:24.399 Isn't it wild that the very creation that crucified Him, 1360 01:08:24.399 --> 01:08:26.120 He came back to hand authority to? 1361 01:08:27.439 --> 01:08:28.600 He didn't go, no, I'm done. 1362 01:08:28.600 --> 01:08:30.240 Go to the angels, we'll go figure it out. 1363 01:08:30.240 --> 01:08:31.680 You can just end this thing on the earth. 1364 01:08:31.680 --> 01:08:32.720 We'll wait till you're done 1365 01:08:32.720 --> 01:08:34.640 and then we'll establish a new heaven and new earth. 1366 01:08:34.640 --> 01:08:38.960 No, the very creation that failed Him, 1367 01:08:38.960 --> 01:08:40.120 He didn't change His plan 1368 01:08:40.120 --> 01:08:41.760 because God is a covenant-keeping God. 1369 01:08:41.760 --> 01:08:43.399 His plan was to redeem us 1370 01:08:44.040 --> 01:08:49.040 and then to give Himself to us, to reveal Himself. 1371 01:08:52.200 --> 01:08:55.279 Do you know that God doesn't technically need us? 1372 01:08:56.720 --> 01:08:58.279 Technically, you know when you're like, 1373 01:08:58.279 --> 01:08:59.520 God's asking for my money. 1374 01:08:59.520 --> 01:09:02.600 Do you know that God doesn't actually need your money? 1375 01:09:02.600 --> 01:09:04.439 God's asking for my dreams. 1376 01:09:04.439 --> 01:09:06.560 God actually has enough dreams. 1377 01:09:06.560 --> 01:09:08.439 God's asking for my gift. 1378 01:09:09.760 --> 01:09:10.960 He is the giver. 1379 01:09:10.960 --> 01:09:15.960 God, the terminology, I can't think of the word. 1380 01:09:16.319 --> 01:09:18.680 I'm so sorry, I'm struggling today. 1381 01:09:18.680 --> 01:09:20.439 But the definition of poor in spirit 1382 01:09:20.439 --> 01:09:23.200 is that I recognise I can add nothing to God. 1383 01:09:24.479 --> 01:09:28.920 But God is a God of love and relationship 1384 01:09:28.920 --> 01:09:31.080 and He does not want to do it 1385 01:09:31.080 --> 01:09:33.160 without the ones that He loves. 1386 01:09:33.160 --> 01:09:38.160 So God wrote into the story His prophets and His people 1387 01:09:38.720 --> 01:09:42.000 because He wants to reveal His heart through His beloved. 1388 01:09:43.560 --> 01:09:46.880 He wrote His need for you into the story 1389 01:09:46.880 --> 01:09:48.279 and He's not gonna change it. 1390 01:09:50.319 --> 01:09:51.800 He doesn't change His mind. 1391 01:09:51.800 --> 01:09:53.399 There's no shadow of turning. 1392 01:09:53.399 --> 01:09:55.800 You are on this planet for such a time as this 1393 01:09:55.800 --> 01:09:58.760 because He desires to move and breathe 1394 01:09:58.760 --> 01:10:00.240 and live inside of you. 1395 01:10:00.000 --> 01:10:03.240 you and reveal His glory through your life. 1396 01:10:03.240 --> 01:10:05.700 He wrote the story, that's how He wants it. 1397 01:10:05.700 --> 01:10:07.800 No matter how insecure you feel, 1398 01:10:07.800 --> 01:10:09.680 no matter how unworthy you feel, 1399 01:10:09.680 --> 01:10:12.280 no matter what your mom or your dad or your teacher 1400 01:10:12.280 --> 01:10:14.560 or your pastor or the preacher 1401 01:10:14.560 --> 01:10:17.040 or the guy on TikTok said about you, 1402 01:10:17.040 --> 01:10:18.440 it doesn't matter to God 1403 01:10:18.440 --> 01:10:20.100 because He has chosen you 1404 01:10:20.100 --> 01:10:22.520 before the foundations of the world. 1405 01:10:24.920 --> 01:10:27.260 You are His redemption plan. 1406 01:10:27.260 --> 01:10:28.100 Amen. 1407 01:10:29.660 --> 01:10:32.660 Okay, we're gonna keep talking about prophets. 1408 01:10:32.660 --> 01:10:35.180 Verse nine, now this expression, He ascended, 1409 01:10:35.180 --> 01:10:37.340 what does this mean except that He also descended 1410 01:10:37.340 --> 01:10:39.300 into the lower parts of the earth? 1411 01:10:39.300 --> 01:10:41.540 He who descended is Himself, 1412 01:10:41.540 --> 01:10:44.660 also He who ascended far above all the heavens 1413 01:10:44.660 --> 01:10:46.420 so that He might fill all things. 1414 01:10:46.420 --> 01:10:47.640 So beautiful. 1415 01:10:48.660 --> 01:10:52.820 All He gave, and He gave some as apostles 1416 01:10:52.820 --> 01:10:55.300 and some as prophets and some as evangelists 1417 01:10:55.300 --> 01:10:57.540 and some as pastors and some as teachers 1418 01:10:57.540 --> 01:11:00.940 for the equipping of the saints for the work of service 1419 01:11:00.940 --> 01:11:04.140 to the building up of the body of Christ 1420 01:11:04.140 --> 01:11:06.740 until we attain the unity of faith 1421 01:11:06.740 --> 01:11:09.060 and the knowledge of the Son of God 1422 01:11:09.060 --> 01:11:12.420 to a mature man to the measure of the stature 1423 01:11:12.420 --> 01:11:16.260 which belongs to the fullness of Christ. 1424 01:11:16.260 --> 01:11:19.700 I'm gonna say that again, it's a lot of words. 1425 01:11:19.700 --> 01:11:22.780 Until we attain, so He gave the fivefold, 1426 01:11:22.780 --> 01:11:26.500 apostles, prophets, evangelists, teachers, pastors, why? 1427 01:11:26.500 --> 01:11:29.980 So that they would become a unity of the body of Christ, 1428 01:11:29.980 --> 01:11:33.380 so the spirit of religion would be vanquished among us, 1429 01:11:33.380 --> 01:11:35.380 that we would stop fighting one another 1430 01:11:35.380 --> 01:11:38.520 with the weapons of the Spirit and start fighting the enemy 1431 01:11:38.520 --> 01:11:42.460 so that we could attain unity of the faith, 1432 01:11:42.460 --> 01:11:45.140 the knowledge of the Son of God to a mature man, 1433 01:11:45.140 --> 01:11:46.180 that we would become mature 1434 01:11:46.180 --> 01:11:48.220 in our knowledge of the Son of God 1435 01:11:48.220 --> 01:11:49.720 to the measure of the stature 1436 01:11:49.720 --> 01:11:52.300 which belongs to the fullness of Christ. 1437 01:11:52.820 --> 01:11:55.180 A lot of people think that the apostolic and the prophetic, 1438 01:11:55.180 --> 01:11:57.300 it's somehow just dwindled away 1439 01:11:57.300 --> 01:11:59.360 after the apostles went to heaven. 1440 01:12:00.640 --> 01:12:02.580 There was, there's actually different words 1441 01:12:02.580 --> 01:12:04.060 used for the 12 apostles 1442 01:12:04.060 --> 01:12:06.660 than there is for the apostolic fivefold grace. 1443 01:12:06.660 --> 01:12:09.260 Junia is actually a later day apostle, 1444 01:12:09.260 --> 01:12:11.740 she's a woman as well, I just thought I'd mention her. 1445 01:12:13.320 --> 01:12:14.300 Some people don't think women 1446 01:12:14.300 --> 01:12:15.860 should be doing what I'm doing. 1447 01:12:19.940 --> 01:12:21.620 I'd like to read the Bible to you. 1448 01:12:22.380 --> 01:12:23.220 Thank you. 1449 01:12:30.320 --> 01:12:32.900 Thanks Chris, yeah. 1450 01:12:32.900 --> 01:12:34.900 You know, we don't have anything to prove to anyone, 1451 01:12:34.900 --> 01:12:36.480 we just be who we call to be. 1452 01:12:38.620 --> 01:12:41.820 And the message of the Lord will shine through our lives 1453 01:12:41.820 --> 01:12:44.380 and they will know we are Christians for how we love. 1454 01:12:45.620 --> 01:12:47.880 But here, you know, for some reason 1455 01:12:47.880 --> 01:12:51.180 we're okay calling people pastors or teachers, 1456 01:12:51.180 --> 01:12:54.220 where we struggle with apostles and prophets. 1457 01:12:54.220 --> 01:12:57.560 But here it literally says that until 1458 01:12:57.560 --> 01:12:59.380 there's the unity of the saints, 1459 01:12:59.380 --> 01:13:02.220 the knowledge of Christ and the mature man, 1460 01:13:02.220 --> 01:13:05.780 and then like the stature belongs to the fullness of Christ 1461 01:13:05.780 --> 01:13:08.740 until we're seeing the fullness of Christ in the body, 1462 01:13:08.740 --> 01:13:11.460 the apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers 1463 01:13:11.460 --> 01:13:13.540 are there to serve the church. 1464 01:13:13.540 --> 01:13:14.960 And we have not seen the fullness, 1465 01:13:14.960 --> 01:13:16.220 we have not seen the fullness of unity, 1466 01:13:16.220 --> 01:13:19.100 we have not seen the fullness of Christ in the body. 1467 01:13:19.100 --> 01:13:20.940 And this is what prophets get to do. 1468 01:13:21.700 --> 01:13:22.540 Now listen, I wanna tell you, 1469 01:13:22.540 --> 01:13:25.220 becoming a prophet is not being a very prophetic person 1470 01:13:25.220 --> 01:13:27.160 that all of a sudden became a prophet. 1471 01:13:27.160 --> 01:13:28.940 It's not like you get better and better at prophecy 1472 01:13:28.940 --> 01:13:31.180 and then you become a prophet. 1473 01:13:31.180 --> 01:13:32.880 And being a prophet doesn't make you 1474 01:13:32.880 --> 01:13:34.820 more special than a saint. 1475 01:13:34.820 --> 01:13:37.020 What it does is it delineates your function. 1476 01:13:38.820 --> 01:13:41.780 And for me, when I discovered that I was a prophet, 1477 01:13:41.780 --> 01:13:45.080 it was helpful in understanding my function as a leader. 1478 01:13:45.080 --> 01:13:46.940 So I was actually, I was a revival group pastor 1479 01:13:46.940 --> 01:13:50.180 here in our school, and Chris won't even remember this 1480 01:13:50.220 --> 01:13:52.140 because he said it so offhandedly. 1481 01:13:52.140 --> 01:13:55.000 So first thing, when I was in second year, 1482 01:13:55.000 --> 01:13:56.480 I was sitting next to a woman, you'll know her, 1483 01:13:56.480 --> 01:13:58.260 Stephanie Gretzinger. 1484 01:13:58.260 --> 01:14:00.380 And Stephanie and I were close friends 1485 01:14:00.380 --> 01:14:03.820 and Chris was teaching on the fivefold gifts. 1486 01:14:03.820 --> 01:14:05.780 And she wrote on a piece of paper, 1487 01:14:05.780 --> 01:14:07.500 are you a prophet, question mark. 1488 01:14:07.500 --> 01:14:08.980 Now I wanna tell you, I was raised in the wild. 1489 01:14:08.980 --> 01:14:10.820 I told you the things of the Spirit raised in the wild. 1490 01:14:10.820 --> 01:14:12.780 So I'm like, I don't know, I think I'm a saint. 1491 01:14:12.780 --> 01:14:13.600 That's a true what I said. 1492 01:14:13.600 --> 01:14:14.440 I was like, I think I'm a saint. 1493 01:14:14.440 --> 01:14:17.340 I'm like, I feel apostolic and evangelistic and prophetic. 1494 01:14:17.340 --> 01:14:19.420 I feel like we're supposed to do all those things. 1495 01:14:19.420 --> 01:14:20.300 I'm just gonna do all those things. 1496 01:14:20.300 --> 01:14:21.760 And I really just didn't really know. 1497 01:14:21.760 --> 01:14:23.140 Like I was the first time I was ever hearing 1498 01:14:23.140 --> 01:14:25.100 that there was such things. 1499 01:14:25.100 --> 01:14:29.060 And, but something inside of me began to be like, 1500 01:14:29.060 --> 01:14:30.700 it's kind of interesting though how I was raised. 1501 01:14:30.700 --> 01:14:34.340 And here's the thing, is a prophet is who you are. 1502 01:14:35.420 --> 01:14:37.760 The gift of prophecy is a gift you receive. 1503 01:14:37.760 --> 01:14:40.740 But there's something about like, if I look at my life, 1504 01:14:40.740 --> 01:14:42.320 I was always a prophet. 1505 01:14:43.920 --> 01:14:46.460 And it was always on my life. 1506 01:14:46.460 --> 01:14:48.380 I just didn't know it. 1507 01:14:48.380 --> 01:14:49.860 Because it was not functioning the way 1508 01:14:49.860 --> 01:14:51.860 that maybe other prophets would function. 1509 01:14:51.860 --> 01:14:54.540 I'm what you call a heart prophet, a love prophet. 1510 01:14:54.540 --> 01:14:56.340 So I'm really mushy and loving. 1511 01:14:56.340 --> 01:14:58.560 Prophets often are quite serious and quite direct, 1512 01:14:58.560 --> 01:15:00.660 which I am, you can tell I'm quite direct. 1513 01:15:00.000 --> 01:15:03.140 direct and strong, but I cry really easily. 1514 01:15:03.140 --> 01:15:05.900 I'm really tender, so I thought I was really pastoral. 1515 01:15:05.900 --> 01:15:07.940 But anyway, I started getting invited to this group 1516 01:15:07.940 --> 01:15:09.580 at Chris V's house. 1517 01:15:09.580 --> 01:15:12.520 And he told us basically, listen, if you're invited here, 1518 01:15:12.520 --> 01:15:14.340 I don't know if you're a prophet, you might not be. 1519 01:15:14.340 --> 01:15:16.140 So don't start calling yourself a prophet. 1520 01:15:16.140 --> 01:15:17.540 I'm just inviting prophetic people here. 1521 01:15:17.540 --> 01:15:19.340 And if I do call you out as a prophet, then you're a prophet 1522 01:15:19.340 --> 01:15:20.520 but if I don't, you don't. 1523 01:15:20.520 --> 01:15:22.900 Listen, I was so happy to be in that room. 1524 01:15:22.900 --> 01:15:25.220 I paid all this money just to sit in the back of this room 1525 01:15:25.220 --> 01:15:26.440 and listen to him teach during school. 1526 01:15:26.440 --> 01:15:28.860 So I thought, I'm sitting in this man's basement room, 1527 01:15:28.860 --> 01:15:30.260 like he's got this cool little room. 1528 01:15:30.260 --> 01:15:32.060 I was like, me and Melissa Casey, my friend, 1529 01:15:32.060 --> 01:15:33.740 we're like, I'll just sit at his feet and listen 1530 01:15:33.740 --> 01:15:35.340 to everything and write it all down. 1531 01:15:35.340 --> 01:15:38.420 And I don't care if I'll just be covert non-prophet Hayley, 1532 01:15:38.420 --> 01:15:39.260 that's fine. 1533 01:15:40.460 --> 01:15:43.540 And anyway, I was leading, he came and spoke 1534 01:15:43.540 --> 01:15:45.640 at one of my revival groups probably six 1535 01:15:45.640 --> 01:15:47.180 to seven months later. 1536 01:15:47.180 --> 01:15:50.980 And he introduced me to our revival group as a prophetess. 1537 01:15:50.980 --> 01:15:52.300 And then he kept talking. 1538 01:15:52.300 --> 01:15:56.900 I remember sitting there being like, oh, it is true. 1539 01:15:56.900 --> 01:15:58.100 That was my big moment. 1540 01:15:58.100 --> 01:15:59.620 That was my big prophet moment. 1541 01:15:59.620 --> 01:16:01.640 It was like, and she's a prophetess in our house. 1542 01:16:01.640 --> 01:16:02.480 Isn't she wonderful? 1543 01:16:02.480 --> 01:16:03.380 Does anyone have questions? 1544 01:16:03.380 --> 01:16:04.220 That's pretty much what he did. 1545 01:16:04.220 --> 01:16:07.620 And I was like, I'm a prophet. 1546 01:16:07.620 --> 01:16:09.540 Have any of you had that moment where you're like, 1547 01:16:09.540 --> 01:16:11.500 you recognize I'm a prophet, now what? 1548 01:16:11.500 --> 01:16:12.340 Anyone? 1549 01:16:12.340 --> 01:16:13.160 Can you raise your hand? 1550 01:16:13.160 --> 01:16:14.660 You're all nervous to do it, okay. 1551 01:16:14.660 --> 01:16:15.860 Some of you are in that right now. 1552 01:16:15.860 --> 01:16:17.060 I get emails from people. 1553 01:16:17.060 --> 01:16:18.420 I think I'm a prophet, now what? 1554 01:16:18.420 --> 01:16:19.660 And I'm like, now you get to do 1555 01:16:19.660 --> 01:16:21.580 faithful step-by-step obedience. 1556 01:16:21.580 --> 01:16:25.100 It wasn't like, now I'm in the office of a prophet. 1557 01:16:27.900 --> 01:16:32.180 And I get to rule the world and the church and be awesome. 1558 01:16:32.180 --> 01:16:33.460 You know, like in Star Traveling World, 1559 01:16:33.460 --> 01:16:35.720 Prophet Haley coming to town. 1560 01:16:40.160 --> 01:16:41.100 But you know what it did for me? 1561 01:16:41.100 --> 01:16:44.680 It made me recognize my function is to equip the saints 1562 01:16:44.680 --> 01:16:46.640 to hear the voice of God. 1563 01:16:50.680 --> 01:16:55.540 My function now is no longer to simply prophesy, 1564 01:16:55.540 --> 01:16:57.780 but actually at times to lay down 1565 01:16:57.780 --> 01:17:00.160 that powerful gift of prophecy 1566 01:17:00.160 --> 01:17:02.860 so that I can allow others to step in 1567 01:17:02.860 --> 01:17:04.340 to what he's calling them to. 1568 01:17:05.980 --> 01:17:08.980 And I began to lead my revival group differently. 1569 01:17:08.980 --> 01:17:11.060 I began to lead my revival group thinking, 1570 01:17:11.060 --> 01:17:15.140 okay, if I'm a prophet, there is a grace on my life 1571 01:17:15.140 --> 01:17:17.420 to connect people to the voice of God. 1572 01:17:17.420 --> 01:17:19.780 See, it's like, people used to think the prophet 1573 01:17:19.780 --> 01:17:21.320 was like the one on the other side of the phone 1574 01:17:21.320 --> 01:17:22.740 and they'd call and be like, I need a word. 1575 01:17:22.740 --> 01:17:23.860 And then the prophet gives them a word 1576 01:17:23.860 --> 01:17:24.700 and then they hang up the phone 1577 01:17:24.700 --> 01:17:26.500 and then they have to wait like another seven months 1578 01:17:26.500 --> 01:17:28.140 until they get the next word. 1579 01:17:28.140 --> 01:17:30.100 But the prophet's job is not to be the one 1580 01:17:30.100 --> 01:17:31.140 on the other end of the phone line, 1581 01:17:31.140 --> 01:17:34.100 it's to connect the phone line between the people and God. 1582 01:17:36.180 --> 01:17:41.180 The prophet reveals a grace to the body of Christ 1583 01:17:41.460 --> 01:17:43.940 and connects them in to the heart 1584 01:17:43.940 --> 01:17:45.580 and the voice of the Father. 1585 01:17:46.660 --> 01:17:49.540 In fact, I think we as prophets have a unique grace 1586 01:17:49.540 --> 01:17:53.360 on our lives to speak on the reality of the Holy Spirit. 1587 01:17:53.360 --> 01:17:54.200 I really do. 1588 01:17:54.560 --> 01:17:57.440 One of my greatest concerns in the church right now 1589 01:17:57.440 --> 01:17:59.480 is how willing we are to do church 1590 01:17:59.480 --> 01:18:00.880 without the presence of God. 1591 01:18:01.880 --> 01:18:05.200 It's one of my greatest, that we can literally 1592 01:18:06.600 --> 01:18:08.980 create things where we don't have dependency 1593 01:18:08.980 --> 01:18:10.440 on the Holy Spirit. 1594 01:18:10.440 --> 01:18:12.040 I wanna tell you, I was in that spot. 1595 01:18:12.040 --> 01:18:14.360 I was in a school of supernatural ministry 1596 01:18:14.360 --> 01:18:17.280 and I'd learnt all the tools and I'd forgot dependency. 1597 01:18:17.280 --> 01:18:19.280 And not because I didn't want dependency, 1598 01:18:19.280 --> 01:18:21.560 but honestly, probably because I didn't know 1599 01:18:22.520 --> 01:18:24.240 how available God was to me. 1600 01:18:25.560 --> 01:18:27.200 You know, a lot of people, we're not relying 1601 01:18:27.200 --> 01:18:29.520 on the Holy Spirit, not because we're arrogant. 1602 01:18:29.520 --> 01:18:31.760 There is obviously that on us, but I think most of the times 1603 01:18:31.760 --> 01:18:33.320 because we don't understand how available 1604 01:18:33.320 --> 01:18:35.120 He wants to be for us. 1605 01:18:35.120 --> 01:18:38.240 We don't understand how present God is to us. 1606 01:18:38.240 --> 01:18:41.280 Hungering for the Lord isn't trying to make God come 1607 01:18:41.280 --> 01:18:43.080 to something that He doesn't wanna come to. 1608 01:18:43.080 --> 01:18:45.320 Hungering for the Lord is me making myself aware 1609 01:18:45.320 --> 01:18:47.980 of just how available He is. 1610 01:18:47.980 --> 01:18:50.280 Hunger is for my benefit, not for His. 1611 01:18:52.280 --> 01:18:56.080 And as prophets, if you're a prophet in this room, 1612 01:18:56.080 --> 01:18:57.920 and if you're just a prophetic person right now, 1613 01:18:57.920 --> 01:19:00.000 I just wanna tell you, your goal is not to graduate 1614 01:19:00.000 --> 01:19:01.500 to being a prophet. 1615 01:19:01.500 --> 01:19:03.440 Your goal is to serve the church. 1616 01:19:03.440 --> 01:19:04.880 And if you're a prophet in this room, 1617 01:19:04.880 --> 01:19:06.640 you serve the church with your function. 1618 01:19:06.640 --> 01:19:08.900 Your function is actually sometimes to lay down 1619 01:19:08.900 --> 01:19:11.520 your strength to enable others to step in. 1620 01:19:13.840 --> 01:19:18.840 I remember Kim Walker-Smith, she was teaching a worship AMT 1621 01:19:19.360 --> 01:19:22.080 and I was in the worship team when I was in first year. 1622 01:19:22.080 --> 01:19:23.280 That's how I met my husband. 1623 01:19:23.280 --> 01:19:26.480 Miss Kathy Vallaton was overseeing worship in first year. 1624 01:19:26.480 --> 01:19:28.400 And my husband was the third year. 1625 01:19:28.400 --> 01:19:30.600 We used to call them interns, they're now third years. 1626 01:19:30.600 --> 01:19:32.240 He was the third year over the worship team, 1627 01:19:32.240 --> 01:19:35.640 this cute little 20 year old boy from Wisconsin. 1628 01:19:35.640 --> 01:19:38.200 He had the skinniest jeans I'd ever seen in my whole life. 1629 01:19:38.200 --> 01:19:39.180 They should have been illegal. 1630 01:19:39.180 --> 01:19:41.080 They were literally jeggings, I'm sure. 1631 01:19:45.120 --> 01:19:45.960 And he was skinny. 1632 01:19:45.960 --> 01:19:47.980 He was like 135 pounds and he's six foot. 1633 01:19:47.980 --> 01:19:48.820 So you can just imagine, 1634 01:19:48.820 --> 01:19:50.460 you know those skinny musicians that don't eat? 1635 01:19:50.460 --> 01:19:51.300 That's what he was. 1636 01:19:51.300 --> 01:19:53.340 And then he married me and he gained like 30 pounds. 1637 01:19:53.340 --> 01:19:55.980 Maybe 40 now, actually, sorry babes. 1638 01:19:55.980 --> 01:19:58.740 And Ryan had this like swoopy long hair. 1639 01:20:00.000 --> 01:20:01.600 part of my story, but it's good to make you laugh. 1640 01:20:01.600 --> 01:20:02.640 He wore deep V-necks. 1641 01:20:02.640 --> 01:20:04.400 I was like, how are those even legal in church? 1642 01:20:04.400 --> 01:20:06.040 Things are gonna fall out of that shirt 1643 01:20:06.040 --> 01:20:08.280 if you just move the wrong way. 1644 01:20:08.280 --> 01:20:10.520 And you know, like super, but anyway, 1645 01:20:10.520 --> 01:20:11.720 so that's how I met my husband. 1646 01:20:11.720 --> 01:20:13.080 Thanks, Miss Kathy, for, 1647 01:20:13.080 --> 01:20:14.240 I remember when he asked me on the day, 1648 01:20:14.240 --> 01:20:17.000 I'm like, have you asked Kathy Vallotton permission? 1649 01:20:17.000 --> 01:20:18.160 Listen, I thought third years 1650 01:20:18.160 --> 01:20:19.320 were having throne room encounters, 1651 01:20:19.320 --> 01:20:20.880 so I thought he must have had a word from the Lord 1652 01:20:20.880 --> 01:20:21.700 to ask me out, 1653 01:20:21.700 --> 01:20:23.600 because I was ready to meet this third year Bethel boy. 1654 01:20:23.600 --> 01:20:24.760 And so when I asked him, like, 1655 01:20:24.760 --> 01:20:26.600 did you get a word from the Lord or something? 1656 01:20:26.600 --> 01:20:28.360 And he's like, no, 1657 01:20:28.360 --> 01:20:30.320 I just know that God loves what we love. 1658 01:20:30.320 --> 01:20:33.200 And my heart says that I'd like to take you out. 1659 01:20:33.200 --> 01:20:34.680 And God didn't say no. 1660 01:20:36.840 --> 01:20:39.160 So anti-climatic, I'll tell you that. 1661 01:20:39.160 --> 01:20:40.800 And he was so nervous. 1662 01:20:40.800 --> 01:20:41.620 He was so nervous. 1663 01:20:41.620 --> 01:20:42.880 He was making donkey sounds. 1664 01:20:42.880 --> 01:20:45.360 From Shrek, you know, they go. 1665 01:20:45.360 --> 01:20:46.420 He was doing that the whole time. 1666 01:20:46.420 --> 01:20:48.600 I remember thinking, Lord, if I marry this guy, 1667 01:20:48.600 --> 01:20:49.920 can you stop doing the donkey sounds? 1668 01:20:49.920 --> 01:20:51.720 Because I cannot abide by this. 1669 01:20:51.960 --> 01:20:54.960 We drove a 1992 Camry that had its headlight 1670 01:20:54.960 --> 01:20:56.720 held on by duct tape. 1671 01:20:56.720 --> 01:20:59.000 The windows, you know how hot it is right now. 1672 01:20:59.000 --> 01:21:00.200 You're all experiencing hot. 1673 01:21:00.200 --> 01:21:01.680 The windows wouldn't open or close. 1674 01:21:01.680 --> 01:21:03.800 They were jammed up with a piece of wood. 1675 01:21:03.800 --> 01:21:06.880 When we got married, he was volunteering 1676 01:21:06.880 --> 01:21:08.720 for a production company. 1677 01:21:08.720 --> 01:21:10.040 I've got to tell these stories to our students, 1678 01:21:10.040 --> 01:21:10.880 because you forget these. 1679 01:21:10.880 --> 01:21:12.680 He was volunteering for a production company, 1680 01:21:12.680 --> 01:21:14.320 hoping that he could gain some skills, 1681 01:21:14.320 --> 01:21:15.560 that he could step into what he wanted to do 1682 01:21:15.560 --> 01:21:16.400 as videography. 1683 01:21:16.400 --> 01:21:17.240 Honestly, I don't know. 1684 01:21:17.240 --> 01:21:18.080 I don't know. 1685 01:21:18.080 --> 01:21:18.900 I don't know. 1686 01:21:18.900 --> 01:21:19.740 I don't know. 1687 01:21:19.740 --> 01:21:20.580 I don't know. 1688 01:21:21.300 --> 01:21:22.740 Honestly, I was terrified that the man 1689 01:21:22.740 --> 01:21:23.780 wasn't skilled or gifted. 1690 01:21:23.780 --> 01:21:25.780 I'm like, I married a 21-year-old 1691 01:21:25.780 --> 01:21:27.380 that was like dreaming of being a creative, 1692 01:21:27.380 --> 01:21:29.180 and I thought, oh Lord, please let him be good at this. 1693 01:21:29.180 --> 01:21:31.980 Otherwise, we're gonna be poor for the rest of our lives. 1694 01:21:33.860 --> 01:21:36.460 He used to come home with his face flushed red 1695 01:21:36.460 --> 01:21:38.020 because he couldn't open or close his windows, 1696 01:21:38.020 --> 01:21:39.660 and it's 110 degrees outside, 1697 01:21:39.660 --> 01:21:40.940 and you have to drive home at 5 p.m., 1698 01:21:40.940 --> 01:21:42.960 which is the hottest time of the day. 1699 01:21:42.960 --> 01:21:44.420 Listen, humble beginnings, man. 1700 01:21:44.420 --> 01:21:46.620 Do not despise the days of small beginnings. 1701 01:21:47.620 --> 01:21:49.180 Do not despise. 1702 01:21:49.180 --> 01:21:52.340 I feel like I share that story for some of you to know. 1703 01:21:52.340 --> 01:21:53.900 That's not about your age. 1704 01:21:55.060 --> 01:21:55.880 Do not despise. 1705 01:21:55.880 --> 01:21:57.660 God, there's a beginning happening for some of you. 1706 01:21:57.660 --> 01:21:58.500 I can feel it. 1707 01:21:58.500 --> 01:22:00.420 The seed of the Spirit right now is, 1708 01:22:00.420 --> 01:22:01.620 I can feel it moving through the room. 1709 01:22:01.620 --> 01:22:04.180 God is depositing a seed of hunger and desire, 1710 01:22:04.180 --> 01:22:06.560 making you aware that he has called you 1711 01:22:06.560 --> 01:22:07.980 for such a time as this, 1712 01:22:07.980 --> 01:22:09.460 and that you're gonna take these gifts, 1713 01:22:09.460 --> 01:22:10.620 you're gonna take this knowledge, 1714 01:22:10.620 --> 01:22:11.860 you're gonna take these tools, 1715 01:22:11.860 --> 01:22:14.420 and you're gonna become a reformer. 1716 01:22:14.420 --> 01:22:17.100 You're gonna build the church with the words of God. 1717 01:22:17.100 --> 01:22:19.300 You're gonna climb into the heart of the Father 1718 01:22:19.300 --> 01:22:23.860 and reveal his nature to a world that is full of orphans. 1719 01:22:23.860 --> 01:22:27.180 He says that he's given us the spirit of adoption. 1720 01:22:27.180 --> 01:22:28.500 I believe some of you this week, 1721 01:22:28.500 --> 01:22:31.020 you're gonna get a revelation of the spirit of adoption, 1722 01:22:31.020 --> 01:22:33.780 and your prophetic language is gonna completely change. 1723 01:22:33.780 --> 01:22:35.020 You're gonna begin to release words 1724 01:22:35.020 --> 01:22:36.400 that are gonna draw sons and daughters 1725 01:22:36.400 --> 01:22:38.020 back into the kingdom. 1726 01:22:38.020 --> 01:22:40.980 I feel like orphanhood is breaking off of people this week. 1727 01:22:42.860 --> 01:22:43.700 Thanks, God. 1728 01:22:43.700 --> 01:22:44.900 I don't remember what I was gonna say. 1729 01:22:44.900 --> 01:22:45.940 Does anyone remember? 1730 01:22:47.480 --> 01:22:48.980 Probably a good time to close. 1731 01:22:49.980 --> 01:22:51.140 I'm gonna pray for you. 1732 01:22:56.100 --> 01:22:57.060 Wow, God. 1733 01:22:58.100 --> 01:23:00.800 God, we thank you that we are part of a new covenant. 1734 01:23:02.900 --> 01:23:05.140 God, we thank you that we don't have to earn your love, 1735 01:23:05.140 --> 01:23:06.980 and we don't have to earn the gifts. 1736 01:23:08.740 --> 01:23:11.460 God, that every promotion is unto servanthood. 1737 01:23:11.620 --> 01:23:12.460 Amen. 1738 01:23:13.620 --> 01:23:16.940 God, make us lovers of your presence 1739 01:23:16.940 --> 01:23:18.340 and lovers of your people. 1740 01:23:20.860 --> 01:23:22.460 I'm thinking of Galatians 5.1 that says, 1741 01:23:22.460 --> 01:23:24.420 it was for freedom that Christ set us free. 1742 01:23:24.420 --> 01:23:27.260 And then 5.13 said, now do not use your freedom 1743 01:23:27.260 --> 01:23:30.800 to serve yourself, but instead serve one another in love. 1744 01:23:30.800 --> 01:23:33.780 God, would you make us lovers of your people, 1745 01:23:33.780 --> 01:23:35.100 lovers of your bride? 1746 01:23:35.100 --> 01:23:37.480 God, would you remind us of a king 1747 01:23:37.480 --> 01:23:40.220 that is coming back to establish a kingdom 1748 01:23:40.220 --> 01:23:42.100 that will not be shaken? 1749 01:23:42.100 --> 01:23:44.020 And Lord, would you allow us, God, 1750 01:23:44.020 --> 01:23:45.300 by your grace and your mercy, 1751 01:23:45.300 --> 01:23:48.340 it is your desire that we reveal that kingdom 1752 01:23:48.340 --> 01:23:49.980 through our prophetic words, 1753 01:23:49.980 --> 01:23:51.420 through our prophetic declarations. 1754 01:23:51.420 --> 01:23:53.800 God, let us be builders of the church 1755 01:23:53.800 --> 01:23:55.740 that the gates of hell will not prevail. 1756 01:23:55.740 --> 01:23:58.660 God, let us be ones that thwart the plans of the enemy 1757 01:23:58.660 --> 01:24:01.100 and build the plans of God. 1758 01:24:01.100 --> 01:24:02.540 Redebesorodo. 1759 01:24:02.540 --> 01:24:06.260 Holy Spirit, I pray for a fresh visitation this week. 1760 01:24:06.260 --> 01:24:08.780 God, I pray for fresh revelation this week. 1761 01:24:08.780 --> 01:24:10.820 God, I pray that the orphan spirit 1762 01:24:10.820 --> 01:24:13.940 and the spirit of religion would bow in Jesus' name 1763 01:24:13.940 --> 01:24:16.020 and the spirit of the resurrected Christ 1764 01:24:16.020 --> 01:24:18.980 would be lifted high for all to see God. 1765 01:24:18.980 --> 01:24:21.500 That every knee would bow at your name, God. 1766 01:24:21.500 --> 01:24:24.580 That every, every hindrance, 1767 01:24:24.580 --> 01:24:26.340 every valley would be raised up 1768 01:24:26.340 --> 01:24:29.020 and every mountain would be put low, God. 1769 01:24:29.020 --> 01:24:30.780 That every hindrance in front of your people 1770 01:24:30.780 --> 01:24:32.980 in believing the beauty of the freedom 1771 01:24:32.980 --> 01:24:34.380 of the new covenant, God, 1772 01:24:34.380 --> 01:24:36.620 would be laid at the foot of the cross. 1773 01:24:36.620 --> 01:24:38.260 Amen. 1774 01:24:38.260 --> 01:24:40.780 God, would you awaken us to a revelation 1775 01:24:40.780 --> 01:24:42.860 that the same Spirit that raised Christ from the dead 1776 01:24:42.860 --> 01:24:45.060 and seated Him in the heavenly realms 1777 01:24:45.060 --> 01:24:48.980 is living and dwelling and available to us right now. 1778 01:24:50.060 --> 01:24:52.740 Holy Spirit, we say yes to you. 1779 01:24:54.140 --> 01:24:57.060 Oh, we say yes to being people who build your church 1780 01:24:57.060 --> 01:24:58.980 with the words and the heart of God. 1781 01:25:00.000 --> 01:25:05.000 In Jesus' name, amen, amen. 1782 01:25:09.300 --> 01:25:10.620 I'm gonna have you join me 1783 01:25:10.620 --> 01:25:11.900 because one of my favorite people, 1784 01:25:11.900 --> 01:25:14.820 and actually my revival group pastor in first year, 1785 01:25:14.820 --> 01:25:16.220 this man was the first pastor 1786 01:25:16.220 --> 01:25:17.780 that ever led me in this environment 1787 01:25:17.780 --> 01:25:18.940 and I have a real love for him. 1788 01:25:18.940 --> 01:25:20.780 I used to cut his children's hair 1789 01:25:20.780 --> 01:25:22.380 in my little side laundry room. 1790 01:25:22.380 --> 01:25:25.100 We go back nearly 15 years now. 1791 01:25:25.100 --> 01:25:26.820 So if you'd please join me in standing 1792 01:25:26.820 --> 01:25:29.760 and welcoming our prophet, Ben Armstrong. 1793 01:25:30.520 --> 01:25:31.360 Thank you. 1794 01:25:45.320 --> 01:25:47.200 All right, can you hear me? 1795 01:25:48.440 --> 01:25:49.880 Praise Jesus. 1796 01:25:51.960 --> 01:25:55.580 Is that a Mr. Armstrong I see on the screen online? 1797 01:25:56.580 --> 01:26:00.260 I think there's an Armstrong online here. 1798 01:26:00.260 --> 01:26:02.300 Is that David Armstrong? 1799 01:26:02.300 --> 01:26:06.180 Yeah, I see you, bless the Armstrongs. 1800 01:26:06.180 --> 01:26:09.180 I love that, that's good. 1801 01:26:09.180 --> 01:26:12.680 Hey, I'm super excited to be with you, 1802 01:26:13.740 --> 01:26:14.900 to speak with you today. 1803 01:26:14.900 --> 01:26:18.100 I'm not gonna try and preach, it is a gift of mine. 1804 01:26:18.100 --> 01:26:23.100 I'm a good preacher and I'm a good communicator, 1805 01:26:23.540 --> 01:26:25.180 but that was enough. 1806 01:26:26.860 --> 01:26:31.300 And I feel like I'm trying to catch my breath for Haley. 1807 01:26:32.900 --> 01:26:34.820 Because I was like just drinking 1808 01:26:34.820 --> 01:26:36.820 from the fire hose of glory. 1809 01:26:41.300 --> 01:26:45.980 And that was beautiful, so good, Haley. 1810 01:26:45.980 --> 01:26:47.900 And I brought the stool 1811 01:26:47.900 --> 01:26:52.300 because the stool helps me not preach, right? 1812 01:26:53.340 --> 01:26:55.860 Because I get a little excited if I stand up 1813 01:26:55.860 --> 01:26:57.500 and I get a little more animated. 1814 01:26:57.500 --> 01:27:00.740 So I'll try and just be animated with my hands 1815 01:27:00.740 --> 01:27:02.920 and we'll just try and do this together. 1816 01:27:04.340 --> 01:27:07.060 Let's start out with this. 1817 01:27:07.060 --> 01:27:10.760 Bethel Music released an album last year called Homecoming. 1818 01:27:12.180 --> 01:27:17.180 And if any of you have children who are away from the Lord 1819 01:27:18.980 --> 01:27:20.780 and not serving the Lord, 1820 01:27:20.780 --> 01:27:22.380 I want you to stand to your feet. 1821 01:27:22.700 --> 01:27:25.140 If you're online, put up your wave hand 1822 01:27:25.140 --> 01:27:27.540 or put it in the chat, that's me. 1823 01:27:27.540 --> 01:27:29.360 This is the year of homecoming. 1824 01:27:33.620 --> 01:27:36.700 Our sons and daughters are coming back. 1825 01:27:36.700 --> 01:27:38.860 As for us in our house, 1826 01:27:38.860 --> 01:27:42.800 they will serve the Lord all the days of their life. 1827 01:27:42.800 --> 01:27:47.580 God, we declare that this is their year of homecoming. 1828 01:27:47.580 --> 01:27:49.700 And God, will you hunt them down? 1829 01:27:49.700 --> 01:27:52.700 Will you chase them down with your kindness, your goodness? 1830 01:27:53.780 --> 01:27:56.940 God, would you pursue them relentlessly? 1831 01:27:57.980 --> 01:27:59.660 God, everywhere they turn, 1832 01:27:59.660 --> 01:28:02.220 would they be reminded of your goodness? 1833 01:28:02.220 --> 01:28:04.300 Would they be reminded and called back? 1834 01:28:04.300 --> 01:28:06.100 God, we're prophetic. 1835 01:28:06.100 --> 01:28:08.820 God, would you prophesy over our children? 1836 01:28:08.820 --> 01:28:10.920 Call them back to their identity. 1837 01:28:10.920 --> 01:28:12.920 Call them back to who they are. 1838 01:28:13.800 --> 01:28:16.760 We release wholeness and restoration 1839 01:28:16.760 --> 01:28:19.720 to our whole family lines, our lineage. 1840 01:28:19.720 --> 01:28:22.220 I saw even grandfathers, 1841 01:28:22.220 --> 01:28:26.300 Dr. V was sharing a dream this morning about his grandfather. 1842 01:28:26.300 --> 01:28:30.680 I see grandfathers and grandmothers coming back as well. 1843 01:28:32.680 --> 01:28:35.440 They're prodigals, they've been running for a long time. 1844 01:28:35.440 --> 01:28:38.900 They're not the prodigal sons and daughters anymore. 1845 01:28:38.900 --> 01:28:41.520 They're the prodigal fathers and mothers, 1846 01:28:41.520 --> 01:28:45.220 grandfathers and grandmothers, come home in Jesus' name. 1847 01:28:46.220 --> 01:28:48.500 Come home in Jesus' name. 1848 01:28:48.500 --> 01:28:53.500 This is the season of breakthrough in Jesus' name, amen. 1849 01:28:53.700 --> 01:28:55.140 Okay, you can sit down. 1850 01:28:56.060 --> 01:28:58.500 Just gotta go after those things. 1851 01:28:58.500 --> 01:29:03.500 Is there any ladies from Ireland here? 1852 01:29:04.160 --> 01:29:06.620 Anyone from Ireland at all? 1853 01:29:06.620 --> 01:29:09.340 If you're in the chat, you can put it in the chat. 1854 01:29:09.340 --> 01:29:12.900 Cause I felt like I had a word 1855 01:29:12.980 --> 01:29:16.260 and I'm gonna release it because they could be in the chat. 1856 01:29:16.260 --> 01:29:17.780 If someone raises their hand, 1857 01:29:18.700 --> 01:29:22.580 maybe our moderators could put them on the screen for me. 1858 01:29:22.580 --> 01:29:26.620 But I felt like this. 1859 01:29:26.620 --> 01:29:30.860 I had a friend who's from Ireland and she's my age. 1860 01:29:30.860 --> 01:29:34.740 She's 48 and just found out she's pregnant again 1861 01:29:34.740 --> 01:29:36.380 with her third child. 1862 01:29:36.380 --> 01:29:38.740 And I'm like, oh my goodness, that's amazing. 1863 01:29:38.740 --> 01:29:41.440 And she said, that's exactly what I thought too. 1864 01:29:43.780 --> 01:29:45.540 Here's what I feel. 1865 01:29:45.540 --> 01:29:47.900 I feel like there's some of you, 1866 01:29:47.900 --> 01:29:50.060 you feel like you missed your season. 1867 01:29:51.000 --> 01:29:53.180 And you missed your season 1868 01:29:53.180 --> 01:29:56.540 and you're past the birthing season of those dreams. 1869 01:29:56.540 --> 01:29:58.900 And maybe you're not just from Ireland. 1870 01:30:00.000 --> 01:30:03.680 It's just some of you in this room and watching, 1871 01:30:03.680 --> 01:30:06.880 but God is actually doing a new thing in you 1872 01:30:06.880 --> 01:30:08.440 and he's birthing something 1873 01:30:08.440 --> 01:30:10.460 and you thought it was impossible, 1874 01:30:10.460 --> 01:30:12.040 but God's bringing it alive 1875 01:30:12.040 --> 01:30:13.860 in a way you never thought before. 1876 01:30:13.860 --> 01:30:15.360 So we just release that. 1877 01:30:15.360 --> 01:30:17.880 Yeah, I like the ones that just stand up and say, 1878 01:30:17.880 --> 01:30:19.840 I'm receiving that for me. 1879 01:30:19.840 --> 01:30:21.360 Yeah, I gave up on that. 1880 01:30:21.360 --> 01:30:23.120 I thought that was another season, 1881 01:30:23.120 --> 01:30:24.900 but it's not another season. 1882 01:30:24.900 --> 01:30:28.440 It's a now season and he's birthing it right now. 1883 01:30:28.480 --> 01:30:30.980 And he's gonna see it to full term. 1884 01:30:33.380 --> 01:30:35.660 This is not something you're gonna have to fight for. 1885 01:30:35.660 --> 01:30:38.740 It's something that God is actually releasing. 1886 01:30:38.740 --> 01:30:42.020 So we bless that in you in Jesus name. 1887 01:30:42.020 --> 01:30:46.780 And I really feel like that Abraham and Sarah anointing, 1888 01:30:46.780 --> 01:30:49.900 that whole laughter in this season 1889 01:30:49.900 --> 01:30:52.220 is gonna be marking your season. 1890 01:30:52.220 --> 01:30:56.240 You're gonna laugh your way into birthing a new thing. 1891 01:30:56.240 --> 01:30:58.820 So anytime it becomes stressful, 1892 01:30:58.820 --> 01:31:00.700 just do the Steve Backlund thing 1893 01:31:00.700 --> 01:31:02.780 and let's just laugh over that. 1894 01:31:02.780 --> 01:31:04.900 Amen, you just laugh at that thing 1895 01:31:04.900 --> 01:31:07.300 until the joy of the Lord fills you 1896 01:31:07.300 --> 01:31:10.060 and then operate from that place. 1897 01:31:10.060 --> 01:31:13.420 So bless you with that as well. 1898 01:31:13.420 --> 01:31:16.220 And then anyone at all, 1899 01:31:16.220 --> 01:31:17.860 I'm just doing a few things, 1900 01:31:17.860 --> 01:31:19.620 this is the housekeeping, right? 1901 01:31:19.620 --> 01:31:20.780 This is good stuff. 1902 01:31:20.780 --> 01:31:25.780 Anyone who, you as a spouse, 1903 01:31:27.060 --> 01:31:30.060 as a wife or as a husband, 1904 01:31:30.060 --> 01:31:32.900 you guys are going after having babies, 1905 01:31:32.900 --> 01:31:37.900 but there's some kind of difficulty in having babies. 1906 01:31:39.260 --> 01:31:41.100 We're gonna go after that. 1907 01:31:41.100 --> 01:31:43.140 Boy, you're just getting a lot of things this morning. 1908 01:31:43.140 --> 01:31:43.980 Come on. 1909 01:31:44.940 --> 01:31:46.460 We wanna go after that. 1910 01:31:46.460 --> 01:31:48.820 And if that's you online as well, put it in the chat. 1911 01:31:48.820 --> 01:31:51.140 We're gonna believe with you and for you 1912 01:31:51.140 --> 01:31:52.980 because God is healing bodies, 1913 01:31:53.000 --> 01:31:57.200 both male and female reproductive issues. 1914 01:31:57.200 --> 01:32:01.520 God's healing right now is releasing that in Jesus' name. 1915 01:32:01.520 --> 01:32:03.120 God, this is your plan. 1916 01:32:03.120 --> 01:32:06.200 When you declare, be fruitful and multiply, 1917 01:32:06.200 --> 01:32:09.560 you actually made us with that ability. 1918 01:32:09.560 --> 01:32:14.560 And so God, we say no more to the enemy stealing 1919 01:32:14.700 --> 01:32:19.700 from these and we speak order over your body in Jesus' name. 1920 01:32:20.680 --> 01:32:23.920 Christ came to redeem us from the curse of the law 1921 01:32:23.920 --> 01:32:26.580 by becoming a curse for us, for it is written, 1922 01:32:26.580 --> 01:32:29.000 cursed is any man who hangs from a tree. 1923 01:32:29.000 --> 01:32:32.760 Jesus paid the price to redeem the birthing cycle. 1924 01:32:32.760 --> 01:32:36.000 And every curse that was placed on the birthing cycle 1925 01:32:36.000 --> 01:32:41.000 is removed right now, including women, 1926 01:32:41.000 --> 01:32:46.000 even your menstrual cycle, over bleeding, 1927 01:32:46.000 --> 01:32:51.000 pain is not supposed to be part of that. 1928 01:32:51.380 --> 01:32:54.740 So we just remove that in Jesus' name 1929 01:32:56.580 --> 01:33:00.900 and we release your order to the birthing cycle 1930 01:33:00.900 --> 01:33:04.220 for both the men and the women in this room. 1931 01:33:04.220 --> 01:33:06.920 In Jesus' name, we declare healthy sperm, 1932 01:33:08.020 --> 01:33:10.900 a healthy sperm count as well. 1933 01:33:11.740 --> 01:33:13.940 No miscarriages anymore. 1934 01:33:13.960 --> 01:33:17.680 And even the pain of miscarriage, 1935 01:33:17.680 --> 01:33:20.000 the injustice and the stealing, 1936 01:33:20.000 --> 01:33:22.800 God, you would redeem that and you would heal that 1937 01:33:22.800 --> 01:33:26.280 and you would be the comforter in that in Jesus' name. 1938 01:33:27.640 --> 01:33:30.140 In Jesus' name, amen. 1939 01:33:31.120 --> 01:33:31.960 All right. 1940 01:33:35.840 --> 01:33:38.520 This is what we do, this is a house of healing, 1941 01:33:38.520 --> 01:33:41.480 this is a house of miracles and I'm a healing prophet. 1942 01:33:41.480 --> 01:33:44.500 So, you know, I think when prophets show up, 1943 01:33:44.500 --> 01:33:45.800 miracles should happen. 1944 01:33:47.800 --> 01:33:49.980 That should be normal. 1945 01:33:49.980 --> 01:33:52.860 I mean, if you're confronted with an issue 1946 01:33:52.860 --> 01:33:57.860 and you're a prophetic person, person, person, person, 1947 01:33:58.340 --> 01:34:01.100 it doesn't matter if you're at the grocery store 1948 01:34:01.100 --> 01:34:03.900 or anything, you're there to bring the justice 1949 01:34:03.900 --> 01:34:07.620 of what God paid the price for when he sent his son, 1950 01:34:07.620 --> 01:34:10.100 Jesus Christ, to die on the cross. 1951 01:34:10.100 --> 01:34:12.840 And you get to be an enforcer of that justice. 1952 01:34:15.120 --> 01:34:18.580 That's more exciting than you're responding, but. 1953 01:34:21.320 --> 01:34:24.760 We're gonna talk about hearing the voice of God 1954 01:34:24.760 --> 01:34:29.120 and we're gonna talk about different languages of God 1955 01:34:29.120 --> 01:34:31.960 and what's gonna happen in the room 1956 01:34:31.960 --> 01:34:36.480 as we process through this is eyes are gonna open, 1957 01:34:36.480 --> 01:34:40.000 ears are gonna open, our senses are gonna be trained, 1958 01:34:40.860 --> 01:34:41.900 our senses are gonna increase, 1959 01:34:41.900 --> 01:34:44.420 you're gonna have a greater recognition 1960 01:34:44.420 --> 01:34:47.340 of who God is, how he operates, 1961 01:34:47.340 --> 01:34:50.320 not just his deeds, but his ways, right? 1962 01:34:50.320 --> 01:34:52.340 I'm not just studying to find out, 1963 01:34:52.340 --> 01:34:55.380 okay, I love dreams and dream interpretation, 1964 01:34:55.380 --> 01:34:58.360 but my goal is not to interpret a dream. 1965 01:34:59.540 --> 01:35:00.380 My goal. 1966 01:35:00.000 --> 01:35:03.480 The goal is to have such a relationship with God 1967 01:35:03.480 --> 01:35:08.160 that anytime he speaks, I'm able to understand what he's saying. 1968 01:35:08.160 --> 01:35:10.680 And not just that, release that to others. 1969 01:35:10.680 --> 01:35:12.840 Moses knew God's ways. 1970 01:35:12.840 --> 01:35:14.960 The Israelites knew his deeds. 1971 01:35:14.960 --> 01:35:17.960 Israelites were putting God in a box. 1972 01:35:17.960 --> 01:35:22.160 Moses was learning God's nature. 1973 01:35:22.160 --> 01:35:26.200 And the hope was that we would all know God's nature and his ways. 1974 01:35:26.200 --> 01:35:30.160 And Haley did a great job unpacking the value of Scripture, 1975 01:35:30.160 --> 01:35:33.840 both the Logos and the Rhema word of the Lord. 1976 01:35:33.840 --> 01:35:34.840 And it's valuable. 1977 01:35:34.840 --> 01:35:39.880 And that's really our anchor spot for starting to hear the voice of God 1978 01:35:39.880 --> 01:35:41.600 is reading Scripture. 1979 01:35:41.600 --> 01:35:45.240 I can remember my first encounter with God. 1980 01:35:45.240 --> 01:35:49.240 The first time he ever spoke to me was through the written word. 1981 01:35:49.240 --> 01:35:52.080 And it was the very first time the written word actually 1982 01:35:52.080 --> 01:35:55.040 became Rhema in that moment. 1983 01:35:55.040 --> 01:35:57.480 I was reading Scripture at the age of eight. 1984 01:35:57.480 --> 01:36:00.800 And I was reading in Proverbs. 1985 01:36:00.800 --> 01:36:04.440 And I began to read, life and death are in the power of the tongue. 1986 01:36:04.440 --> 01:36:07.200 And those who love it will eat of its fruit. 1987 01:36:07.200 --> 01:36:10.400 And it was the first time it came alive to me. 1988 01:36:10.400 --> 01:36:12.920 It was like God himself was speaking to me. 1989 01:36:12.920 --> 01:36:17.000 And he said, Ben, I want you to speak life. 1990 01:36:17.000 --> 01:36:19.600 Well, I'm eight years old. 1991 01:36:19.600 --> 01:36:21.920 Oh, OK, speak life, you know. 1992 01:36:21.920 --> 01:36:24.680 But I'm a Weaverville guy, right? 1993 01:36:24.680 --> 01:36:28.400 Weaverville, hunting, fishing. 1994 01:36:28.400 --> 01:36:31.240 Our main employer in the town was a lumber mill. 1995 01:36:31.240 --> 01:36:38.360 So, you know, when God said speak life to Ben Armstrong, 1996 01:36:38.360 --> 01:36:43.160 like I'm used to how men showed affection in Weaverville 1997 01:36:43.160 --> 01:36:45.600 is we would punch each other in the arm, 1998 01:36:45.600 --> 01:36:48.240 greet each other not with a holy kiss or a hug. 1999 01:36:48.240 --> 01:36:50.440 It was a holy punch in the arm. 2000 01:36:50.440 --> 01:36:54.120 And in those moments, for me, it was like, 2001 01:36:54.120 --> 01:36:56.760 oh, I felt really like I was super loved 2002 01:36:56.760 --> 01:36:59.560 if I walked home and I couldn't use my arm anymore. 2003 01:37:03.440 --> 01:37:06.720 And part of the way we showed affection to one another 2004 01:37:06.720 --> 01:37:11.000 and showed love to one another was by ripping on each other. 2005 01:37:11.000 --> 01:37:14.600 You know, joking. 2006 01:37:14.600 --> 01:37:19.400 There's a scripture says like a madman shooting firebrands 2007 01:37:19.400 --> 01:37:22.320 or deadly arrows is a man who deceives his neighbor 2008 01:37:22.320 --> 01:37:23.760 and says, I was only joking. 2009 01:37:26.560 --> 01:37:28.720 And life and death are in the power of the tongue. 2010 01:37:28.720 --> 01:37:32.440 And I, that was different than my culture. 2011 01:37:32.440 --> 01:37:34.680 Yes, I was raised in church. 2012 01:37:34.680 --> 01:37:36.480 You were raised in Bill Johnson's church 2013 01:37:36.480 --> 01:37:40.720 and you ripped, yeah, that's just, we're mountain kids. 2014 01:37:40.720 --> 01:37:41.920 That's what we did. 2015 01:37:41.920 --> 01:37:44.200 Like, that's how we showed affection. 2016 01:37:44.200 --> 01:37:46.200 So, you know, locker room talk, 2017 01:37:46.200 --> 01:37:50.400 that kind of stuff was normal for Ben Armstrong. 2018 01:37:50.400 --> 01:37:54.440 So when God said that, he was actually changing 2019 01:37:54.440 --> 01:37:57.840 or giving me the ability to partner with a new culture 2020 01:37:57.840 --> 01:37:59.240 that wasn't my culture. 2021 01:38:00.880 --> 01:38:02.800 It doesn't matter what your upbringing is. 2022 01:38:02.800 --> 01:38:04.560 It doesn't matter what your history is. 2023 01:38:04.560 --> 01:38:08.640 What matter is the choice you make 2024 01:38:08.640 --> 01:38:11.560 to actually partner with the future God has for you. 2025 01:38:11.560 --> 01:38:13.520 See, he didn't say, Ben, one day you'll be 2026 01:38:13.520 --> 01:38:16.320 the prophetic ministries director at Bethel Church. 2027 01:38:18.160 --> 01:38:20.120 He didn't say, Ben, one day you're gonna travel 2028 01:38:20.800 --> 01:38:22.600 the world and prophesy over people. 2029 01:38:22.600 --> 01:38:25.280 Ben, you're gonna travel the world and train people in this. 2030 01:38:25.280 --> 01:38:26.680 No, he didn't say anything like that. 2031 01:38:26.680 --> 01:38:28.520 There was no such thing back then. 2032 01:38:28.520 --> 01:38:30.800 I mean, back then there was the pastor 2033 01:38:30.800 --> 01:38:33.880 and then there was the associate pastor, 2034 01:38:33.880 --> 01:38:36.400 which was the youth pastor, the janitor, 2035 01:38:36.400 --> 01:38:39.280 you know, the bus driver and all that stuff. 2036 01:38:39.280 --> 01:38:41.920 And if you're lucky enough, you got paid for five hours 2037 01:38:41.920 --> 01:38:44.560 of that work as that associate pastor. 2038 01:38:44.560 --> 01:38:46.460 But there were, you know, that was it. 2039 01:38:47.300 --> 01:38:50.700 The prophecy stuff, I didn't know God 2040 01:38:50.700 --> 01:38:55.340 was leading me in a direction, but I honored his voice. 2041 01:38:56.460 --> 01:38:57.740 Here's what's amazing. 2042 01:38:57.740 --> 01:39:00.360 When you honor his voice, you start hearing it more. 2043 01:39:01.780 --> 01:39:04.860 God's number one language is communication. 2044 01:39:04.860 --> 01:39:06.660 He's always communicating. 2045 01:39:06.660 --> 01:39:09.900 It's not, oh, God speaks Spanish, God speaks English, 2046 01:39:09.900 --> 01:39:11.460 God speaks Mandarin. 2047 01:39:11.460 --> 01:39:14.420 No, he's speaking. 2048 01:39:14.420 --> 01:39:18.060 Even in his silence, he's communicating. 2049 01:39:18.060 --> 01:39:20.260 But maybe you had a passive aggressive dad 2050 01:39:20.260 --> 01:39:22.860 or mom or leader in your life. 2051 01:39:22.860 --> 01:39:25.620 And so silence meant you were in trouble. 2052 01:39:26.500 --> 01:39:28.940 It meant displeasure, not with God. 2053 01:39:28.940 --> 01:39:31.440 Silence, God's silence is contentment. 2054 01:39:32.420 --> 01:39:35.500 That's where he hides us under the shadow of his wing. 2055 01:39:35.500 --> 01:39:37.100 And he leads us not with his voice, 2056 01:39:37.100 --> 01:39:38.860 but he leads us with his heartbeat. 2057 01:39:41.980 --> 01:39:43.900 He leads us from intimacy. 2058 01:39:44.340 --> 01:39:45.940 He leads us from pleasure. 2059 01:39:45.940 --> 01:39:48.940 He leads us from rest in that place. 2060 01:39:51.180 --> 01:39:53.780 I just have a feeling maybe this generation 2061 01:39:53.780 --> 01:39:55.900 is really afraid of that dark place. 2062 01:39:57.020 --> 01:39:58.700 We're so, 2063 01:40:00.000 --> 01:40:02.000 maybe 2064 01:40:02.440 --> 01:40:03.720 Deprived 2065 01:40:03.720 --> 01:40:08.920 Because we're so we need attention all the time. We need noise all the time 2066 01:40:08.920 --> 01:40:13.880 I need a scroll all the time. I need all this stuff and God's like 2067 01:40:18.760 --> 01:40:22.200 Why don't you come in here into the deep darkness where I am 2068 01:40:23.200 --> 01:40:29.640 Right and Moses went into the deep darkness where God was and the Israelites were afraid he says no 2069 01:40:29.640 --> 01:40:34.760 No, everyone like the fear is good, but it's not supposed to keep you away 2070 01:40:34.760 --> 01:40:39.080 It's supposed to keep you from doing bad things fear the Lord, but come in here with me 2071 01:40:39.080 --> 01:40:42.540 No one else would go in there. Moses like well, I'm going 2072 01:40:43.400 --> 01:40:49.580 I'm going and that place that dark place with God is a place of transformation 2073 01:40:50.100 --> 01:40:56.020 It's a place where you become like him Moses comes off the mountain. He's shining with the glory of the Lord 2074 01:40:57.140 --> 01:41:01.620 he's shining because now he looks like the one he's beholding and 2075 01:41:03.060 --> 01:41:07.060 What did it do it provoked believers and non-believers alike? 2076 01:41:08.060 --> 01:41:13.860 It provoked the believers and says hey, we can't handle that. Will you put a will you put a veil on your face? 2077 01:41:15.740 --> 01:41:19.020 Your relationship with God is convicting me 2078 01:41:19.820 --> 01:41:21.820 Please cover it up 2079 01:41:25.380 --> 01:41:31.300 There's a jeopardy that you know, everyone wants to hear the voice of God, but 2080 01:41:33.380 --> 01:41:40.900 There there may be a little bit of a perversion I want to hear the voice of God, but I don't want the relationship portion I 2081 01:41:41.180 --> 01:41:43.180 I 2082 01:41:43.220 --> 01:41:45.940 Want to hear the voice of God so I can Wow people 2083 01:41:46.140 --> 01:41:51.080 That's not the intention the intention of the voice of God is just intimacy with God 2084 01:41:51.940 --> 01:41:53.940 That's what he wants 2085 01:41:54.020 --> 01:41:58.620 Moses he says in Numbers chapter 11 verse 29 2086 01:41:58.740 --> 01:42:02.100 He's talking to Joshua as Joshua was afraid that you know 2087 01:42:02.140 --> 01:42:08.300 Me dad and el dad or are are prophesying and I these guys stop him Moses. Stop a prophesying 2088 01:42:09.300 --> 01:42:14.340 And he's like I wish that all of the Lord's people were prophets and 2089 01:42:14.820 --> 01:42:17.020 That the Lord's Spirit would be on them 2090 01:42:17.020 --> 01:42:23.500 And and it's funny because that's almost becomes a prayer an Old Testament prayer that God 2091 01:42:23.740 --> 01:42:30.620 Answers through Paul in 1st Corinthians chapter 14. He says for you all can prophesy and 2092 01:42:31.940 --> 01:42:33.700 Every one of you 2093 01:42:33.740 --> 01:42:41.100 Can do this so that we can be instructed and encouraged by God all of a sudden what was rare in the Old Testament 2094 01:42:41.700 --> 01:42:47.660 Becomes a normal operating system in the New Testament. This is what God actually creates for us 2095 01:42:47.660 --> 01:42:54.060 It should be normal to hear God and I love the fact that we can actually create this from intimacy 2096 01:42:54.420 --> 01:42:56.420 from infancy with our own children 2097 01:42:56.420 --> 01:43:02.500 Maybe it took you a long time to get it. Maybe you know, this is not normal in the generations 2098 01:43:02.500 --> 01:43:07.540 I'll tell you it was normal in my generation, but it showed up as mental illness 2099 01:43:10.100 --> 01:43:13.100 You're like what were you talking about? Yeah 2100 01:43:13.940 --> 01:43:20.620 Experiences that no one could understand. So they said you were crazy until you believed you were crazy and 2101 01:43:20.700 --> 01:43:22.700 You were crazy and 2102 01:43:22.700 --> 01:43:26.740 They never anchored it back to actually hearing the voice of God is normal 2103 01:43:26.740 --> 01:43:31.740 it didn't matter if they grew up in the church because the church were saying that's not normal and 2104 01:43:34.340 --> 01:43:36.340 It turned into mental illness 2105 01:43:37.420 --> 01:43:41.540 Why because people were lying about their own identity 2106 01:43:42.700 --> 01:43:47.180 They weren't able to anchor them in this there was no school of the prophets back then 2107 01:43:48.020 --> 01:43:50.020 It was let me put you in a sanitarium 2108 01:43:51.340 --> 01:43:56.620 Let me put you in a place where we we can handle all that and and then tell you other 2109 01:43:57.220 --> 01:43:59.220 interpretation for what that really is 2110 01:44:02.300 --> 01:44:04.300 Wow that sounds intense 2111 01:44:04.300 --> 01:44:09.980 I'm not trying to be intense, but I I can feel the the glory of the Lord in the room 2112 01:44:09.980 --> 01:44:16.300 I can feel the weight of God's presence in here. And and I I feel like 2113 01:44:17.060 --> 01:44:22.700 We're we're not just getting rewired I don't feel that 2114 01:44:25.460 --> 01:44:31.880 It is that thing Chris said it's a metamorphosis that we are actually in right now 2115 01:44:34.020 --> 01:44:36.500 In 2019 I had a dream and 2116 01:44:38.620 --> 01:44:39.980 Four 2117 01:44:39.980 --> 01:44:41.980 different times in one night 2118 01:44:42.260 --> 01:44:46.140 There was these transformers, you know, like the movie the robots 2119 01:44:47.380 --> 01:44:48.980 the robots 2120 01:44:48.980 --> 01:44:50.980 Transformers and they're fighting, you know 2121 01:44:50.980 --> 01:44:56.940 You got the Autobots and Decepticons and they're fighting so I have this one dream and it's this epic battle of 2122 01:44:57.620 --> 01:45:00.180 these transformers and I wake up 2123 01:45:00.000 --> 01:45:01.280 I wake up after the dream, I'm like, 2124 01:45:01.280 --> 01:45:02.400 that was weird. 2125 01:45:02.400 --> 01:45:04.280 I haven't been watching Transformers movies. 2126 01:45:04.280 --> 01:45:07.880 Like, why am I having a dream like that? 2127 01:45:07.880 --> 01:45:10.420 I go back to sleep, I have the same dream again. 2128 01:45:11.560 --> 01:45:13.920 And I wake up, I'm like, that's weird. 2129 01:45:13.920 --> 01:45:15.400 God, what are you trying to say? 2130 01:45:15.400 --> 01:45:18.200 I fall back asleep, I go in the same dream again. 2131 01:45:18.200 --> 01:45:20.520 Epic battle, Transformers fight. 2132 01:45:20.520 --> 01:45:22.600 Four different times in one night. 2133 01:45:22.600 --> 01:45:24.520 And then finally, the fourth time I wake up 2134 01:45:24.520 --> 01:45:27.840 and I hear God say, there's a battle for transformation. 2135 01:45:27.840 --> 01:45:31.560 There is an epic battle for transformation right now. 2136 01:45:31.560 --> 01:45:34.960 And we're not just getting rewired, 2137 01:45:34.960 --> 01:45:36.260 we're getting transformed. 2138 01:45:38.000 --> 01:45:41.120 We are transformed by the renewing of our mind. 2139 01:45:41.120 --> 01:45:42.000 How does that happen? 2140 01:45:42.000 --> 01:45:43.860 By hearing his voice. 2141 01:45:43.860 --> 01:45:46.760 The more I hear his voice, the more I behold him, 2142 01:45:46.760 --> 01:45:49.200 the more I perceive him, the more I perceive him. 2143 01:45:52.720 --> 01:45:54.200 Lord, help us perceive you. 2144 01:45:55.200 --> 01:45:57.760 Lord, would you activate our senses, 2145 01:45:58.840 --> 01:46:02.440 every single one of them to perceive you. 2146 01:46:03.800 --> 01:46:05.920 I love the still small voice of God, 2147 01:46:05.920 --> 01:46:08.820 but it's interesting because as I grew up, 2148 01:46:08.820 --> 01:46:11.380 even learning the still small voice of God, 2149 01:46:12.500 --> 01:46:16.880 that same voice that was the still small voice of God 2150 01:46:16.880 --> 01:46:21.460 in my early years with God is actually a booming shout. 2151 01:46:21.460 --> 01:46:23.020 It is a thunder right now. 2152 01:46:25.040 --> 01:46:28.920 And it's almost like the longer you go with God, 2153 01:46:28.920 --> 01:46:31.620 the still small voice gets stiller and smaller. 2154 01:46:34.400 --> 01:46:36.520 That might sound scary to you. 2155 01:46:36.520 --> 01:46:37.960 That might sound upsetting. 2156 01:46:37.960 --> 01:46:39.440 Well, why is that? 2157 01:46:40.480 --> 01:46:41.960 Watch this. 2158 01:46:41.960 --> 01:46:44.000 Hey, Dr. V, can you hear me? 2159 01:46:45.160 --> 01:46:46.360 Still small voice. 2160 01:46:51.880 --> 01:46:52.920 Can you hear me now? 2161 01:46:53.920 --> 01:46:54.760 Okay. 2162 01:46:58.600 --> 01:46:59.440 Hi, Dr. V. 2163 01:46:59.440 --> 01:47:00.440 Can you hear me now? 2164 01:47:01.680 --> 01:47:02.760 Come on, baby. 2165 01:47:02.760 --> 01:47:04.420 Can you hear me now? 2166 01:47:19.000 --> 01:47:19.840 Woo! 2167 01:47:19.840 --> 01:47:20.660 Woo! 2168 01:47:20.660 --> 01:47:21.500 Woo! 2169 01:47:21.500 --> 01:47:22.340 Woo! 2170 01:47:22.340 --> 01:47:23.160 Woo! 2171 01:47:23.160 --> 01:47:24.000 Woo! 2172 01:47:24.000 --> 01:47:26.340 The more intimate we are with God, 2173 01:47:28.120 --> 01:47:30.520 the less loud he needs to be with us. 2174 01:47:33.360 --> 01:47:37.880 If he gets, listen, he is such a wooing God 2175 01:47:39.840 --> 01:47:43.780 that he'll actually speak quieter to you. 2176 01:47:43.780 --> 01:47:45.280 And you may get frustrated, 2177 01:47:45.280 --> 01:47:47.540 but he's actually inviting you to lean in. 2178 01:47:50.480 --> 01:47:54.480 When it gets quieter, he's saying, come closer. 2179 01:47:56.360 --> 01:47:57.480 Come closer. 2180 01:47:59.440 --> 01:48:01.880 I wanna be closer to you in this season. 2181 01:48:02.960 --> 01:48:05.440 I wanna teach you new things in this season. 2182 01:48:06.360 --> 01:48:08.600 He's inviting us into those things. 2183 01:48:08.600 --> 01:48:09.800 I love Proverbs. 2184 01:48:09.800 --> 01:48:13.320 One of my favorite scriptures is Proverbs 25, verse two. 2185 01:48:13.320 --> 01:48:15.520 It's the glory of God to conceal a matter. 2186 01:48:15.520 --> 01:48:18.280 It's the glory of kings to search it out. 2187 01:48:18.280 --> 01:48:22.480 God actually hides stuff for us, for your benefit. 2188 01:48:22.480 --> 01:48:25.080 It's amazing because we've got a guy here. 2189 01:48:25.080 --> 01:48:25.960 Maybe you know him. 2190 01:48:25.960 --> 01:48:27.640 His name's Bill Johnson. 2191 01:48:27.640 --> 01:48:28.960 You guys ever heard of him? 2192 01:48:29.960 --> 01:48:33.800 You know, if you've ever been at a Sunday service 2193 01:48:33.800 --> 01:48:37.120 or maybe you've listened to one of our podcasts, 2194 01:48:37.120 --> 01:48:39.440 one of our Sunday services, 2195 01:48:39.440 --> 01:48:44.440 Bill Johnson, it doesn't, just every week, every week, 2196 01:48:44.760 --> 01:48:49.320 he comes up here and he gets right about here 2197 01:48:50.440 --> 01:48:53.720 and he hangs his toes over the edge 2198 01:48:54.680 --> 01:48:57.380 and he drops his heavy Revis. 2199 01:48:57.380 --> 01:48:59.060 You know, his one-liners, 2200 01:48:59.060 --> 01:49:02.700 that he does one liner after one liner after one liner 2201 01:49:02.700 --> 01:49:03.940 and he strings them together 2202 01:49:03.940 --> 01:49:06.500 like Haley Braun did this morning. 2203 01:49:06.500 --> 01:49:10.060 And there's this revelation like waterfall, 2204 01:49:10.060 --> 01:49:11.820 a cascade where you're drinking 2205 01:49:11.820 --> 01:49:13.660 from the fire hose of revelation, 2206 01:49:13.660 --> 01:49:17.740 but you're stuck on the very first word that he said. 2207 01:49:17.740 --> 01:49:22.540 And you're like, oh my goodness, what was that? 2208 01:49:22.540 --> 01:49:25.820 And you're taking into realms of wisdom and revelation 2209 01:49:25.820 --> 01:49:28.020 and you're stuck and you're gone somewhere 2210 01:49:28.020 --> 01:49:32.360 in revelation realm, all off one word. 2211 01:49:32.360 --> 01:49:34.060 What happened in that moment? 2212 01:49:34.060 --> 01:49:37.220 See, Bill Johnson, in his intimacy with God, 2213 01:49:37.220 --> 01:49:40.140 in his passionate for God, passion for God, 2214 01:49:40.140 --> 01:49:42.540 in his relational capacity with God, 2215 01:49:42.540 --> 01:49:46.060 he's actually sought out the secret things of God, 2216 01:49:46.060 --> 01:49:48.020 the stuff that God had for him. 2217 01:49:48.020 --> 01:49:51.580 And when he's generous and when we as prophets, 2218 01:49:51.580 --> 01:49:54.420 as prophetic people give the word of the Lord 2219 01:49:54.420 --> 01:49:56.180 that came from intimacy, 2220 01:49:56.180 --> 01:49:59.180 all of a sudden people's esteem for you grows. 2221 01:49:59.180 --> 01:50:00.020 Why? 2222 01:50:00.000 --> 01:50:02.840 God is establishing your kingship. 2223 01:50:05.100 --> 01:50:08.940 He's establishing your royalty in that moment. 2224 01:50:10.020 --> 01:50:13.020 Now there's a jeopardy because I could get addicted 2225 01:50:13.020 --> 01:50:15.680 to being royalty, being awesome. 2226 01:50:18.060 --> 01:50:21.280 There is something that is so fulfilling 2227 01:50:21.280 --> 01:50:25.120 when you help usher people into their identity. 2228 01:50:25.120 --> 01:50:27.520 And the value that can come from that, 2229 01:50:28.220 --> 01:50:30.680 it could be pretty overwhelming. 2230 01:50:30.680 --> 01:50:33.760 This is why the weight of worship 2231 01:50:33.760 --> 01:50:37.660 that gets put on artists sometimes in the world, 2232 01:50:37.660 --> 01:50:40.660 secular artists and even Christian artists, 2233 01:50:40.660 --> 01:50:44.500 sometimes the only option for them is suicide. 2234 01:50:45.940 --> 01:50:50.000 Because no one can hold up under the weight of worship 2235 01:50:50.000 --> 01:50:52.240 that's only reserved for God. 2236 01:50:52.240 --> 01:50:55.580 No one can hold up under that weight. 2237 01:50:55.580 --> 01:51:00.540 And if I pursue it too long, that thing will kill me. 2238 01:51:00.540 --> 01:51:04.720 This is why Daniel had so much longevity in his leadership. 2239 01:51:06.620 --> 01:51:08.520 I used to read the book of Daniel all the time 2240 01:51:08.520 --> 01:51:10.420 because I wanted to be like Daniel. 2241 01:51:10.420 --> 01:51:11.320 I still do. 2242 01:51:12.800 --> 01:51:15.820 But I wanted to be like the Daniel that I saw 2243 01:51:15.820 --> 01:51:18.100 who had influence over four kings. 2244 01:51:18.100 --> 01:51:19.600 I'm like, oh yeah. 2245 01:51:22.200 --> 01:51:24.940 I wanna be like that, 10 times wiser 2246 01:51:25.800 --> 01:51:28.240 and the ability to interpret all kinds of dreams and visions. 2247 01:51:28.240 --> 01:51:30.040 Oh yes, sign me up for that. 2248 01:51:30.040 --> 01:51:31.140 I'm all over that. 2249 01:51:31.140 --> 01:51:32.700 I wanna be that. 2250 01:51:32.700 --> 01:51:36.540 And God talked to me one day, like God does. 2251 01:51:36.540 --> 01:51:38.740 You know, he's so kind. 2252 01:51:38.740 --> 01:51:42.380 He turns on the light with a two by four over your head. 2253 01:51:42.380 --> 01:51:45.480 And he usually comes in the form of a question. 2254 01:51:45.480 --> 01:51:49.640 And God says, hey Ben, you know the problem with you? 2255 01:51:58.480 --> 01:52:02.480 Obviously not, but no, God, what's the problem with me? 2256 01:52:02.480 --> 01:52:05.060 He says, you know, when you read the book of Daniel, 2257 01:52:05.060 --> 01:52:09.320 you read too much of Daniel and not enough of me. 2258 01:52:09.320 --> 01:52:13.500 And God says, hey Ben, you know the problem with you? 2259 01:52:16.460 --> 01:52:20.040 He said, you wanna know the secret to Daniel's longevity? 2260 01:52:20.040 --> 01:52:22.200 I said, yeah, I'd love to know that. 2261 01:52:22.200 --> 01:52:27.080 Look at the way every king responded to Daniel. 2262 01:52:27.080 --> 01:52:28.640 Daniel, let me give you all these gifts. 2263 01:52:28.640 --> 01:52:31.580 If you do this, I will reward you. 2264 01:52:31.580 --> 01:52:33.820 Cause we're reward driven people. 2265 01:52:34.860 --> 01:52:36.860 Okay, I wanna hear the voice of God. 2266 01:52:36.860 --> 01:52:38.220 Cause if I hear the voice of God 2267 01:52:38.220 --> 01:52:41.860 and I say the voice of God, I'll add followers. 2268 01:52:41.860 --> 01:52:43.560 I'll get more influence. 2269 01:52:43.560 --> 01:52:45.160 I'll get to speak. 2270 01:52:45.820 --> 01:52:47.020 People will know that I'm powerful. 2271 01:52:47.020 --> 01:52:49.280 There is something inside of every one of us 2272 01:52:49.280 --> 01:52:53.480 that wants to know we're important, that we're valuable. 2273 01:52:54.720 --> 01:52:58.300 But in those moments, Daniel responded in a unique way. 2274 01:52:58.300 --> 01:53:01.940 Oh, king, keep your gifts. 2275 01:53:01.940 --> 01:53:06.240 This is so that you would know what's in God's heart for you. 2276 01:53:07.700 --> 01:53:11.140 This is not for my benefit, this is for your benefit. 2277 01:53:11.140 --> 01:53:13.040 And what would happen every time? 2278 01:53:13.060 --> 01:53:16.000 Every time if the kings would turn around, 2279 01:53:16.000 --> 01:53:17.800 they said, there's none other 2280 01:53:17.800 --> 01:53:20.700 in whom the spirit of the gods is in. 2281 01:53:20.700 --> 01:53:23.200 Well, that was the polytheists, right? 2282 01:53:23.200 --> 01:53:27.840 They're like, oh, I can see God's in this person. 2283 01:53:27.840 --> 01:53:29.480 They were talking about Holy Spirit. 2284 01:53:29.480 --> 01:53:32.580 They could just hadn't have right words for it. 2285 01:53:32.580 --> 01:53:34.980 Surely the spirit of the gods is in you. 2286 01:53:34.980 --> 01:53:39.960 And what every time the king would worship the God of Daniel 2287 01:53:39.960 --> 01:53:42.560 and then still give Daniel gifts, 2288 01:53:42.580 --> 01:53:44.580 still gave him the gifts, still. 2289 01:53:44.580 --> 01:53:47.320 See, God wants to give you all that stuff. 2290 01:53:47.320 --> 01:53:50.180 He wants to give you all the extras and all the benefits. 2291 01:53:50.180 --> 01:53:51.960 And he wants to give you praise. 2292 01:53:51.960 --> 01:53:54.300 What father doesn't want to praise his own children 2293 01:53:54.300 --> 01:53:55.720 when they do good things? 2294 01:53:57.300 --> 01:53:58.360 This is normal. 2295 01:53:58.360 --> 01:54:01.260 But if we're looking for the glory for ourself 2296 01:54:01.260 --> 01:54:03.900 and we don't recognize where it came from 2297 01:54:03.900 --> 01:54:06.100 and point everyone back to that, 2298 01:54:06.100 --> 01:54:07.980 that's the glory that will kill you. 2299 01:54:08.060 --> 01:54:08.900 Yes. 2300 01:54:10.000 --> 01:54:12.800 That's the worship that none of us 2301 01:54:12.800 --> 01:54:15.140 can afford to have in our life. 2302 01:54:15.140 --> 01:54:17.140 And if we want to hear God better, 2303 01:54:17.140 --> 01:54:19.220 then we've got to humble ourselves. 2304 01:54:19.220 --> 01:54:23.180 There's a deep level of repentance in my life right now. 2305 01:54:23.180 --> 01:54:26.580 Not because I'm like, oh, I've sinned 2306 01:54:26.580 --> 01:54:28.860 or I've got some kind of moral issue in my life. 2307 01:54:28.860 --> 01:54:31.660 No, I just don't see the way God sees. 2308 01:54:31.660 --> 01:54:33.460 I'm reading through the gospels again 2309 01:54:33.460 --> 01:54:37.160 and there's statements and knowing their thoughts. 2310 01:54:38.940 --> 01:54:41.740 He declared this to them. 2311 01:54:41.740 --> 01:54:43.700 And I'm like, yeah, sometimes I think I know 2312 01:54:43.700 --> 01:54:46.540 people's thoughts, but I'm actually just judging them. 2313 01:54:48.100 --> 01:54:50.540 And I'm not accurate with their heart. 2314 01:54:50.540 --> 01:54:51.640 Lord, forgive me. 2315 01:54:53.940 --> 01:54:54.860 You know, it doesn't say, 2316 01:54:54.860 --> 01:54:57.860 don't ever take the sliver out of their eye. 2317 01:54:57.860 --> 01:55:00.100 It says, first, take the plank out of yours. 2318 01:55:00.000 --> 01:55:01.920 so you can see clearly. 2319 01:55:03.100 --> 01:55:04.260 If I want to hear God better, 2320 01:55:04.260 --> 01:55:06.300 I've got to have clean hands and a pure heart. 2321 01:55:06.300 --> 01:55:10.140 Yeah, but those that see God, it's perception. 2322 01:55:11.300 --> 01:55:13.560 Hearing, seeing, all of it. 2323 01:55:14.560 --> 01:55:16.400 I want to perceive the nature of God. 2324 01:55:16.400 --> 01:55:19.740 We want to perceive God wherever he's at. 2325 01:55:19.740 --> 01:55:23.140 You know, one of the greatest accelerations 2326 01:55:23.140 --> 01:55:25.240 in partnership with God came 2327 01:55:25.240 --> 01:55:27.940 when I started asking two questions. 2328 01:55:28.100 --> 01:55:31.220 When I started recognizing that God's at, 2329 01:55:31.220 --> 01:55:34.220 I maybe feel something, maybe I sense something, 2330 01:55:34.220 --> 01:55:37.520 maybe I don't sense anything, I just walk in the room. 2331 01:55:37.520 --> 01:55:41.500 Well, I know that God never leaves me nor forsakes me, 2332 01:55:41.500 --> 01:55:44.420 so wherever I go, God is, so he's here. 2333 01:55:44.420 --> 01:55:47.000 God, what are you doing, number one. 2334 01:55:47.000 --> 01:55:49.780 Number two, how do I partner with it? 2335 01:55:49.780 --> 01:55:51.360 How do I partner with it? 2336 01:55:51.360 --> 01:55:54.220 And God starts revealing new things. 2337 01:55:54.220 --> 01:55:58.320 You know, I grew up kind of thinking metaphorically. 2338 01:55:58.320 --> 01:56:02.240 I was different because I had a conversational 2339 01:56:02.240 --> 01:56:05.460 relationship with God, and Jesus does it through parables. 2340 01:56:05.460 --> 01:56:08.480 He spoke in parables so those that had ears to hear 2341 01:56:08.480 --> 01:56:12.060 would hear, and those who had eyes to see would see, 2342 01:56:12.060 --> 01:56:13.860 so that people who couldn't see 2343 01:56:13.860 --> 01:56:17.240 wouldn't actually be responsible with what he said 2344 01:56:17.240 --> 01:56:18.660 and be judged by what he said, 2345 01:56:18.660 --> 01:56:21.440 because he who knows what is right and does not do it, 2346 01:56:21.440 --> 01:56:22.860 to him it is sin. 2347 01:56:23.700 --> 01:56:26.280 So he'd mask it for the benefit of people, 2348 01:56:26.280 --> 01:56:29.160 but also for the invitation to relationship. 2349 01:56:29.160 --> 01:56:32.380 And the more I see God, the more I start seeing him, 2350 01:56:32.380 --> 01:56:36.200 and he starts concealing things for me and releasing it, 2351 01:56:36.200 --> 01:56:38.540 and the more I actually partner with it, 2352 01:56:38.540 --> 01:56:43.620 the more I start not just knowing how God would respond, 2353 01:56:43.620 --> 01:56:47.200 but starting to think like God thinks. 2354 01:56:47.200 --> 01:56:49.460 It's kind of like my dad. 2355 01:56:49.460 --> 01:56:51.940 My dad and I have spent a ton of time together. 2356 01:56:51.980 --> 01:56:54.540 If you want to know God's voice really well, 2357 01:56:54.540 --> 01:56:56.420 spend time with him. 2358 01:56:56.420 --> 01:56:58.900 I spent more time with my dad 2359 01:56:58.900 --> 01:57:01.860 than any of my other siblings combined, 2360 01:57:01.860 --> 01:57:03.360 because we work together. 2361 01:57:03.360 --> 01:57:05.820 So I can finish my dad's sentences, 2362 01:57:05.820 --> 01:57:09.460 and a lot of times we have the same exact sense of humor, 2363 01:57:09.460 --> 01:57:10.900 because why? 2364 01:57:10.900 --> 01:57:12.940 Because I have the mind of my dad. 2365 01:57:15.720 --> 01:57:18.000 And it's not about being a greater favorite. 2366 01:57:18.000 --> 01:57:20.540 Some of you think, oh, if I could just be 2367 01:57:20.540 --> 01:57:22.700 one of God's favorite, I would hear him better. 2368 01:57:22.700 --> 01:57:24.540 No, it's not about favorites. 2369 01:57:24.540 --> 01:57:26.140 It's about time spent. 2370 01:57:26.140 --> 01:57:30.660 Years ago, we had a young man in the school of ministry, 2371 01:57:30.660 --> 01:57:32.040 and people were enamored 2372 01:57:32.040 --> 01:57:34.460 with this young man's relationship with God. 2373 01:57:34.460 --> 01:57:36.260 And it was pretty incredible. 2374 01:57:36.260 --> 01:57:38.380 And I was on the streets of San Francisco 2375 01:57:38.380 --> 01:57:42.580 taking a group out to minister in the Haight-Ashbury area. 2376 01:57:42.580 --> 01:57:45.320 And I come around a corner, 2377 01:57:45.320 --> 01:57:48.620 and there's a group of these students looking in the window 2378 01:57:48.620 --> 01:57:49.820 like they're gawking. 2379 01:57:50.940 --> 01:57:52.580 And I'm thinking, what do they see? 2380 01:57:52.580 --> 01:57:57.580 Maybe they see like maple donuts with bacon on top. 2381 01:57:57.620 --> 01:57:59.540 You know, what are they looking at? 2382 01:57:59.540 --> 01:58:00.840 Like what is in the window? 2383 01:58:00.840 --> 01:58:02.640 And I turned the corner to look, 2384 01:58:02.640 --> 01:58:05.580 and there's this young man reading the Bible. 2385 01:58:05.580 --> 01:58:07.500 I said, what are you guys looking at? 2386 01:58:07.500 --> 01:58:09.580 Well, this guy, he's so amazing. 2387 01:58:09.580 --> 01:58:12.780 We wish we could have a relationship with God like him. 2388 01:58:12.780 --> 01:58:13.940 And I said, oh, you can. 2389 01:58:13.940 --> 01:58:15.160 They're like, no, no, no. 2390 01:58:15.160 --> 01:58:17.300 The way he hears God and all this stuff. 2391 01:58:17.300 --> 01:58:18.720 I said, do you wanna know the difference 2392 01:58:18.720 --> 01:58:19.820 between him and you? 2393 01:58:21.060 --> 01:58:22.100 They're like, yeah. 2394 01:58:23.140 --> 01:58:25.660 I said, he spends more time with God than you. 2395 01:58:25.660 --> 01:58:26.700 That's it. 2396 01:58:26.700 --> 01:58:27.940 He's not more of a favorite. 2397 01:58:27.940 --> 01:58:29.260 We're all God's favorite. 2398 01:58:30.180 --> 01:58:33.340 Dano is God's favorite Dano. 2399 01:58:33.340 --> 01:58:36.700 He doesn't compare him to any one of you. 2400 01:58:36.700 --> 01:58:39.700 He compares him to him, and he's God's favorite. 2401 01:58:39.700 --> 01:58:43.180 Regina, Regina is God's favorite Regina. 2402 01:58:43.180 --> 01:58:46.700 He loves her so much, and he doesn't compare, 2403 01:58:46.700 --> 01:58:50.220 even if your name is Regina, he doesn't compare you. 2404 01:58:51.420 --> 01:58:54.860 We're all God's favorite us, 2405 01:58:54.860 --> 01:58:57.540 and we all have the same amount of access. 2406 01:58:57.540 --> 01:59:00.080 A lot of it has to do with time spent. 2407 01:59:01.100 --> 01:59:03.260 How much time are you gonna spend, 2408 01:59:03.260 --> 01:59:05.820 or how much time are you gonna carve out in your life? 2409 01:59:05.820 --> 01:59:08.460 How much time are you gonna be present with God? 2410 01:59:08.460 --> 01:59:11.340 Because see, the point isn't just to get a word. 2411 01:59:11.340 --> 01:59:13.220 The point is to think like God. 2412 01:59:15.080 --> 01:59:19.860 The point is to be so uniquely connected with God 2413 01:59:19.900 --> 01:59:24.240 that you're able to respond as if it's God himself. 2414 01:59:25.700 --> 01:59:28.100 Do you have that kind of connection? 2415 01:59:28.100 --> 01:59:31.780 See, I like to think, I like to say this. 2416 01:59:31.780 --> 01:59:33.060 You think more like God 2417 01:59:33.060 --> 01:59:35.020 more than you think you think like God. 2418 01:59:37.420 --> 01:59:38.800 When you're connected with him, 2419 01:59:38.800 --> 01:59:41.140 you start having the thoughts of God. 2420 01:59:41.140 --> 01:59:43.820 And Bethany and I were just whispering 2421 01:59:43.820 --> 01:59:45.240 to each other a few minutes ago, 2422 01:59:45.240 --> 01:59:48.180 but I love what is said of Samuel, 2423 01:59:48.180 --> 01:59:51.300 and God didn't allow any of Samuel's words 2424 01:59:51.300 --> 01:59:54.020 to fall to the ground without accomplishing well. 2425 01:59:54.020 --> 01:59:58.180 What type of intimacy with God's heart is that? 2426 01:59:58.180 --> 01:59:59.980 See, do you have God's? 2427 02:00:00.000 --> 02:00:02.800 heart, is your heart in alignment with his heart? 2428 02:00:02.800 --> 02:00:05.440 Is your words in alignment with his words? 2429 02:00:05.440 --> 02:00:08.360 Because sometimes we'll say a thing and God's like, 2430 02:00:08.360 --> 02:00:11.000 that is totally my nature. 2431 02:00:11.000 --> 02:00:12.200 We're gonna do that. 2432 02:00:13.320 --> 02:00:16.080 That's the way I would think about that. 2433 02:00:16.080 --> 02:00:17.680 Let's partner with that. 2434 02:00:17.680 --> 02:00:18.560 Let's do that. 2435 02:00:18.560 --> 02:00:19.960 We're gonna make that happen. 2436 02:00:19.960 --> 02:00:22.600 I want that kind of relationship. 2437 02:00:22.600 --> 02:00:25.280 You know, John chapter 10 is so important for us 2438 02:00:25.280 --> 02:00:26.520 hearing God. 2439 02:00:26.520 --> 02:00:28.900 The sheep know the shepherd's voice. 2440 02:00:29.860 --> 02:00:30.700 Right? 2441 02:00:30.700 --> 02:00:34.100 And there's so much protocol in John chapter 10 2442 02:00:34.100 --> 02:00:36.260 in that whole thing of the shepherd and the sheep 2443 02:00:36.260 --> 02:00:38.740 because remember the thief comes 2444 02:00:38.740 --> 02:00:40.540 not through the sheep gate. 2445 02:00:41.580 --> 02:00:44.080 Let's be careful prophets and prophetic people 2446 02:00:44.080 --> 02:00:47.040 that we're actually coming in right structure, 2447 02:00:47.040 --> 02:00:48.460 in right authority. 2448 02:00:50.000 --> 02:00:52.920 Because if you want sheep to listen to you, 2449 02:00:52.920 --> 02:00:57.120 then you go through the structures that are set up. 2450 02:00:57.120 --> 02:01:00.320 Otherwise, you're actually operating as a thief. 2451 02:01:01.160 --> 02:01:03.920 And you wonder why people run away from your voice. 2452 02:01:05.560 --> 02:01:07.440 Because it says in that scripture, 2453 02:01:07.440 --> 02:01:08.920 they know the shepherd's voice 2454 02:01:08.920 --> 02:01:11.280 and if they hear a stranger's voice, 2455 02:01:11.280 --> 02:01:14.040 they'll actually run away from it. 2456 02:01:14.040 --> 02:01:16.600 Be careful what voices we're entertaining. 2457 02:01:19.660 --> 02:01:21.020 I have a wonderful wife. 2458 02:01:21.020 --> 02:01:22.640 Her name is Heather. 2459 02:01:22.640 --> 02:01:24.800 You'll see her some this week, 2460 02:01:24.800 --> 02:01:29.800 but you can put me in a room with a hundred women, 2461 02:01:30.160 --> 02:01:33.960 blindfold me, give all the women the same script, 2462 02:01:33.960 --> 02:01:35.320 one of them being my wife, 2463 02:01:35.320 --> 02:01:38.040 99 others not being my wife. 2464 02:01:38.040 --> 02:01:39.000 Hi baby. 2465 02:01:39.000 --> 02:01:40.500 Oh, it's her calling right now. 2466 02:01:42.500 --> 02:01:43.840 Hi baby. 2467 02:01:43.840 --> 02:01:45.200 It's me. 2468 02:01:45.200 --> 02:01:46.800 I love you so much. 2469 02:01:46.800 --> 02:01:50.000 I guarantee you every time I'll pick out my wife. 2470 02:01:50.000 --> 02:01:50.840 Why? 2471 02:01:50.840 --> 02:01:53.880 Not because I studied 99 other voices, 2472 02:01:53.880 --> 02:01:55.820 but I studied one voice. 2473 02:01:57.320 --> 02:02:00.920 It used to be popular in the church to study the devil. 2474 02:02:03.600 --> 02:02:05.080 Oh, devil's here, devil's here. 2475 02:02:05.080 --> 02:02:07.640 Look out, the devil's after us. 2476 02:02:07.640 --> 02:02:08.720 The devil's bad. 2477 02:02:08.720 --> 02:02:10.180 That's how we read scripture, 2478 02:02:10.180 --> 02:02:12.320 through the lens of devil's bad, 2479 02:02:12.320 --> 02:02:15.480 rather than God is good and finding God. 2480 02:02:15.480 --> 02:02:17.080 And we wonder why we were never able 2481 02:02:17.080 --> 02:02:18.360 to recognize this voice. 2482 02:02:18.360 --> 02:02:19.800 Well, I don't want to be deceived. 2483 02:02:19.800 --> 02:02:21.340 Well, study the original. 2484 02:02:21.540 --> 02:02:22.380 Yes. 2485 02:02:23.500 --> 02:02:25.460 Then when counterfeit shows up, 2486 02:02:25.460 --> 02:02:27.020 you'll recognize it right away. 2487 02:02:27.020 --> 02:02:28.020 That's not God's voice. 2488 02:02:28.020 --> 02:02:29.980 This is Jesus, right? 2489 02:02:29.980 --> 02:02:33.980 When he's led into the wilderness by the spirit, 2490 02:02:33.980 --> 02:02:38.980 and then the devil comes with the words of God. 2491 02:02:40.540 --> 02:02:45.040 The words of God, but not the person of God. 2492 02:02:47.340 --> 02:02:49.320 See Jesus, and I think it's crazy 2493 02:02:49.320 --> 02:02:52.760 because the devil tried to use the word 2494 02:02:52.760 --> 02:02:54.280 against the word of God. 2495 02:02:58.200 --> 02:03:00.960 How stupid was that? 2496 02:03:00.960 --> 02:03:05.120 Like he's the word that was made flesh 2497 02:03:05.120 --> 02:03:06.400 and he dwelt among us. 2498 02:03:06.400 --> 02:03:10.020 Like this is the word himself. 2499 02:03:10.020 --> 02:03:11.720 And he's like, no, no, no. 2500 02:03:11.720 --> 02:03:13.360 I hear your words. 2501 02:03:13.360 --> 02:03:15.520 And God did say that. 2502 02:03:15.520 --> 02:03:16.560 That's just not him. 2503 02:03:20.000 --> 02:03:22.260 Because I'm intimate with the person. 2504 02:03:25.080 --> 02:03:29.400 And I want us to be that intimate with the word. 2505 02:03:29.400 --> 02:03:32.680 He invites us into this relational intimacy 2506 02:03:32.680 --> 02:03:37.680 and this increase of everything that is his voice, 2507 02:03:39.440 --> 02:03:40.520 that is his ways, 2508 02:03:40.520 --> 02:03:42.680 that we would just move with the subtleness. 2509 02:03:42.680 --> 02:03:43.680 He could lead me. 2510 02:03:43.680 --> 02:03:45.620 My wife leads me with her eyes. 2511 02:03:47.020 --> 02:03:48.080 It is her voice. 2512 02:03:48.080 --> 02:03:50.320 That's her shouting voice. 2513 02:03:50.320 --> 02:03:51.960 You ever seen those eyes? 2514 02:03:51.960 --> 02:03:53.800 I mean, how many of you are married? 2515 02:03:57.440 --> 02:03:58.280 She just. 2516 02:04:01.800 --> 02:04:03.320 And now she's yelling. 2517 02:04:03.320 --> 02:04:05.320 Stop yelling at me. 2518 02:04:05.320 --> 02:04:06.580 I hear you. 2519 02:04:11.840 --> 02:04:13.880 His voice is all kinds of stuff, 2520 02:04:13.880 --> 02:04:16.280 but there's such an intimacy when we know him, 2521 02:04:16.280 --> 02:04:18.580 he can guide us real easily. 2522 02:04:21.160 --> 02:04:23.420 If I want to hear him more, 2523 02:04:23.420 --> 02:04:24.880 I've got to value things. 2524 02:04:24.880 --> 02:04:26.480 Not only the word of God, 2525 02:04:26.480 --> 02:04:28.280 the worship and adoration of God, 2526 02:04:28.280 --> 02:04:30.160 because the more I adore him, 2527 02:04:30.160 --> 02:04:32.040 the more I see him, behold him. 2528 02:04:32.040 --> 02:04:32.980 I see his nature. 2529 02:04:32.980 --> 02:04:33.820 I see his ways. 2530 02:04:33.820 --> 02:04:36.640 I see different facets of him and he's infinite. 2531 02:04:36.640 --> 02:04:39.160 So I can never exhaust all the facets of him. 2532 02:04:39.160 --> 02:04:43.160 So I'll continually learn his voice throughout eternity. 2533 02:04:43.880 --> 02:04:48.880 I'm going to hear nuances of his voice throughout eternity. 2534 02:04:48.880 --> 02:04:50.120 This is an adventure. 2535 02:04:50.120 --> 02:04:51.740 Dan Fairley puts it this way. 2536 02:04:51.740 --> 02:04:53.640 This is practice for eternity. 2537 02:04:54.920 --> 02:04:57.360 We're practicing for eternity right now. 2538 02:04:58.440 --> 02:05:00.080 So as I value him and his. 2539 02:05:00.000 --> 02:05:04.560 presence, actually, I start recognizing who I am too. 2540 02:05:04.560 --> 02:05:06.380 And Dano put it this way. 2541 02:05:09.080 --> 02:05:14.080 He said that it is such an important thing. 2542 02:05:15.240 --> 02:05:17.080 It is so validating. 2543 02:05:18.800 --> 02:05:21.040 As a man or woman of God, 2544 02:05:24.160 --> 02:05:28.880 it is so identity-affirming 2545 02:05:30.200 --> 02:05:31.960 to actually hear the voice of God. 2546 02:05:33.480 --> 02:05:37.560 And when I hear him and I behold him 2547 02:05:37.560 --> 02:05:41.360 and he teaches me more about him, my face is burning. 2548 02:05:42.340 --> 02:05:47.340 But we're just hearing, we're feeling, we're perceiving. 2549 02:05:49.880 --> 02:05:54.480 And when I do that, all of a sudden, I'm reminded of me 2550 02:05:55.440 --> 02:05:57.140 because I was made in his image. 2551 02:05:58.140 --> 02:06:00.100 If you have an issue with your identity, 2552 02:06:00.100 --> 02:06:02.900 you need to hear the voice of God again 2553 02:06:02.900 --> 02:06:05.200 because the voice of God affirms your identity. 2554 02:06:06.620 --> 02:06:07.740 Could come through an angel. 2555 02:06:07.740 --> 02:06:11.300 Remember Matthew, the book of Matthew 2556 02:06:11.300 --> 02:06:15.380 and Joseph's like about to divorce Mary and get rid of her 2557 02:06:15.380 --> 02:06:17.300 because she's like, hey, don't worry. 2558 02:06:17.300 --> 02:06:19.820 Holy Spirit got me pregnant. 2559 02:06:19.820 --> 02:06:21.780 Remember that one? 2560 02:06:21.780 --> 02:06:25.540 Joe, I need you to sit down for this one. 2561 02:06:25.540 --> 02:06:30.540 And so let me show you that in scripture, Joseph. 2562 02:06:35.100 --> 02:06:37.140 Oh yeah, darn, it's not in scripture. 2563 02:06:37.140 --> 02:06:38.940 It wasn't in scripture at that time. 2564 02:06:38.940 --> 02:06:41.740 So there was no precedence for that. 2565 02:06:41.740 --> 02:06:43.540 And Joseph being a righteous man 2566 02:06:43.540 --> 02:06:44.860 and he actually loved Mary. 2567 02:06:44.860 --> 02:06:47.200 He's like, yeah, but this is just too hard. 2568 02:06:48.380 --> 02:06:53.380 And then an angel Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. 2569 02:06:54.300 --> 02:06:57.300 Dreams can be a language of God. 2570 02:06:57.300 --> 02:07:01.740 And dreams are not just a second class encounter with God 2571 02:07:01.740 --> 02:07:03.220 because God didn't differentiate. 2572 02:07:03.220 --> 02:07:05.500 Like it was the angel Lord appeared to him 2573 02:07:05.500 --> 02:07:09.420 and said, Joseph, son of David. 2574 02:07:09.420 --> 02:07:11.380 He could have just stopped right there. 2575 02:07:12.520 --> 02:07:13.880 Why? 2576 02:07:13.880 --> 02:07:18.880 That was an identity statement from heaven. 2577 02:07:20.600 --> 02:07:22.780 It was the voice of the Lord saying, 2578 02:07:23.180 --> 02:07:24.380 hey, this is who you are. 2579 02:07:24.380 --> 02:07:25.940 You're the son of David. 2580 02:07:25.940 --> 02:07:28.740 Guess what was prophesied about Jesus Christ? 2581 02:07:28.740 --> 02:07:31.420 He would come through the lineage of David. 2582 02:07:32.740 --> 02:07:34.460 When the angel Lord declared that, 2583 02:07:34.460 --> 02:07:36.120 he could have just stopped right there 2584 02:07:36.120 --> 02:07:39.180 because he actually in the identity statement 2585 02:07:39.180 --> 02:07:41.260 affirmed and confirmed him 2586 02:07:41.260 --> 02:07:44.340 and gave him the dignity he needed 2587 02:07:44.340 --> 02:07:46.960 to actually operate in his identity. 2588 02:07:48.580 --> 02:07:51.300 That's what hearing the voice of God does to us. 2589 02:07:51.300 --> 02:07:55.700 Dano said it, it creates extreme dignity. 2590 02:07:55.700 --> 02:07:59.380 It's the dignity that we all need as believers in God. 2591 02:07:59.380 --> 02:08:00.780 But it not just does that, 2592 02:08:00.780 --> 02:08:04.800 it establishes that everywhere we deliver that as well. 2593 02:08:08.180 --> 02:08:10.060 Valuing our prophetic words. 2594 02:08:12.100 --> 02:08:15.420 Whoever welcomes a prophet in the name of a prophet 2595 02:08:15.420 --> 02:08:17.420 receives a prophet's reward. 2596 02:08:18.420 --> 02:08:22.020 And then Paul to Timothy. 2597 02:08:22.020 --> 02:08:26.460 Paul says to Timothy in 1 Timothy 1, verse 18, 2598 02:08:26.460 --> 02:08:28.240 he says, Timothy, my son. 2599 02:08:30.500 --> 02:08:33.380 You hear the relational voice there? 2600 02:08:33.380 --> 02:08:36.260 Timothy, my son, I give you instructions 2601 02:08:36.260 --> 02:08:38.340 in keeping with the prophetic words 2602 02:08:38.340 --> 02:08:40.020 once made over your life 2603 02:08:40.020 --> 02:08:43.140 so that with those you would fight the good fight of faith 2604 02:08:43.140 --> 02:08:44.980 and have a clean conscience. 2605 02:08:44.980 --> 02:08:47.220 Hearing the voice of God, 2606 02:08:47.220 --> 02:08:49.580 reminding ourselves of the prophetic word, 2607 02:08:49.580 --> 02:08:51.580 his voice that was spoken over us 2608 02:08:51.580 --> 02:08:54.980 and valuing the instructions of fathers and mothers 2609 02:08:54.980 --> 02:08:57.580 actually gives us number one, faith, 2610 02:08:57.580 --> 02:09:01.340 and then number two, we rightly think about us 2611 02:09:01.340 --> 02:09:03.100 the way God thinks about us. 2612 02:09:03.100 --> 02:09:06.620 See, clean conscience there had nothing to do with, 2613 02:09:06.620 --> 02:09:08.380 I didn't think about sin today. 2614 02:09:10.780 --> 02:09:13.220 Clean conscience was, do you see yourself 2615 02:09:13.220 --> 02:09:14.500 the way God sees you? 2616 02:09:15.300 --> 02:09:16.860 Here, let me give you instructions 2617 02:09:16.860 --> 02:09:20.180 in keeping with the prophetic words over your life. 2618 02:09:20.180 --> 02:09:23.980 Let's keep the prophecies of God in the forefront 2619 02:09:23.980 --> 02:09:26.900 as you look at this, because if you're gonna go forward, 2620 02:09:26.900 --> 02:09:29.340 if you're gonna grow in hearing his voice 2621 02:09:29.340 --> 02:09:31.180 and apprehending your future, 2622 02:09:31.180 --> 02:09:33.340 then you're gonna have to keep what he already said 2623 02:09:33.340 --> 02:09:34.980 in front of you. 2624 02:09:34.980 --> 02:09:38.100 And what instructions of good fathers and mothers 2625 02:09:39.180 --> 02:09:41.940 help propel you into those futures. 2626 02:09:41.940 --> 02:09:44.380 That's what a good father and mother does. 2627 02:09:44.380 --> 02:09:47.620 None of us want someone just to tell us what to do, right? 2628 02:09:47.620 --> 02:09:49.300 None of us want that. 2629 02:09:49.300 --> 02:09:51.700 We hate people just telling us what to do. 2630 02:09:53.900 --> 02:09:55.380 It is so hot in here. 2631 02:09:57.460 --> 02:09:58.700 Is my face red? 2632 02:10:00.000 --> 02:10:03.880 Like radish red, or just? 2633 02:10:03.880 --> 02:10:08.880 Whoo, Holy Spirit. 2634 02:10:13.400 --> 02:10:15.840 I'm just trying to get through a lot of notes. 2635 02:10:15.840 --> 02:10:17.880 How do I recognize the voice of God? 2636 02:10:17.880 --> 02:10:19.080 Because I don't want to be deceived. 2637 02:10:19.080 --> 02:10:21.600 How many of you don't want to be deceived? 2638 02:10:21.600 --> 02:10:23.680 I want to recognize the voice of God. 2639 02:10:23.680 --> 02:10:27.160 Here's five ways to recognize His voice. 2640 02:10:27.160 --> 02:10:28.900 And these are really important. 2641 02:10:28.940 --> 02:10:31.580 Whether it's in a dream, in an encounter, 2642 02:10:31.580 --> 02:10:35.220 in prophetic words, in whatever we're doing, 2643 02:10:35.220 --> 02:10:37.420 in happenings, whatever. 2644 02:10:37.420 --> 02:10:39.400 Number one, scriptural resonance. 2645 02:10:41.460 --> 02:10:46.300 His voice should be in alignment with the Word of God, 2646 02:10:46.300 --> 02:10:48.080 His character and His nature. 2647 02:10:48.080 --> 02:10:49.220 We're not trying to say, 2648 02:10:49.220 --> 02:10:52.620 okay, how is that word for word in here? 2649 02:10:52.620 --> 02:10:55.660 It's not, it doesn't have to be word for word in here, 2650 02:10:55.660 --> 02:10:58.180 because how many of you drive a car? 2651 02:10:59.780 --> 02:11:02.960 Oh, those Satan demonized things. 2652 02:11:02.960 --> 02:11:04.420 That's not in the Bible. 2653 02:11:04.420 --> 02:11:06.460 Cars are not in the Bible. 2654 02:11:06.460 --> 02:11:10.060 No, we're not trying to find out how this is it, 2655 02:11:10.060 --> 02:11:11.100 put God in a box. 2656 02:11:11.100 --> 02:11:13.860 We're trying to learn His nature and His ways. 2657 02:11:13.860 --> 02:11:16.660 So does it line up with the character and nature of God 2658 02:11:16.660 --> 02:11:20.240 that's actually displayed in scripture? 2659 02:11:20.240 --> 02:11:21.340 That's number one. 2660 02:11:21.340 --> 02:11:22.540 Number two, Holy Spirit. 2661 02:11:22.540 --> 02:11:23.820 Holy Spirit is our guide. 2662 02:11:23.820 --> 02:11:25.420 He's our teacher, He's our counselor. 2663 02:11:25.420 --> 02:11:28.780 He's gonna affirm and confirm those things. 2664 02:11:29.620 --> 02:11:30.580 Maybe through redundancy, 2665 02:11:30.580 --> 02:11:34.620 maybe through that person showing up five or six times, 2666 02:11:34.620 --> 02:11:38.180 but these are ways to recognize Holy Spirit, 2667 02:11:38.180 --> 02:11:40.660 or whether or not it's God. 2668 02:11:40.660 --> 02:11:44.500 He may give you the same exact thing in different forms, 2669 02:11:44.500 --> 02:11:47.220 because Holy Spirit's trying to confirm something with you. 2670 02:11:47.220 --> 02:11:49.360 And we need community affirmation. 2671 02:11:49.360 --> 02:11:50.920 This is why it's so important 2672 02:11:50.920 --> 02:11:53.420 you guys are in prophetic communities. 2673 02:11:53.420 --> 02:11:57.240 The prophetic company that Bethany and Dano created 2674 02:11:57.240 --> 02:12:00.520 is so vital to Healthy Prophetic, 2675 02:12:00.520 --> 02:12:02.720 because it actually gets feedback. 2676 02:12:02.720 --> 02:12:06.120 I think I thought I heard the voice of God. 2677 02:12:06.120 --> 02:12:08.480 And then, no, that sounds like your soul, 2678 02:12:08.480 --> 02:12:09.640 because we know you. 2679 02:12:10.620 --> 02:12:11.720 We know your desires. 2680 02:12:11.720 --> 02:12:12.840 We know how you're wired. 2681 02:12:12.840 --> 02:12:15.560 We know that conversation you just had with someone. 2682 02:12:15.560 --> 02:12:17.080 And we get good feedback. 2683 02:12:17.080 --> 02:12:18.520 Oh, yeah. 2684 02:12:18.520 --> 02:12:20.720 Like Haley was talking about, 2685 02:12:20.720 --> 02:12:25.000 like sometimes we just give people their desires. 2686 02:12:25.000 --> 02:12:26.600 That's soul-based prophecy. 2687 02:12:27.000 --> 02:12:29.200 That's not actually prophecy. 2688 02:12:29.200 --> 02:12:30.240 That's fluff. 2689 02:12:32.040 --> 02:12:34.320 And it's really manipulation, 2690 02:12:34.320 --> 02:12:36.680 because all you're trying to do is get praise. 2691 02:12:38.160 --> 02:12:40.500 Feel good in those moments. 2692 02:12:40.500 --> 02:12:44.000 We don't wanna do that, unless God's doing that, right? 2693 02:12:44.000 --> 02:12:45.840 Unless it is the voice of God. 2694 02:12:45.840 --> 02:12:48.140 And we get it through community affirmation. 2695 02:12:48.140 --> 02:12:50.000 Community affirmation's two-pronged. 2696 02:12:50.000 --> 02:12:52.960 It's your friends and family with a shared value system, 2697 02:12:52.960 --> 02:12:55.380 but it's also your leaders. 2698 02:12:55.380 --> 02:12:56.900 It's also your leaders. 2699 02:12:56.900 --> 02:12:59.940 And this is how you get promoted in an environment. 2700 02:12:59.940 --> 02:13:01.940 You grow in favor with God and man. 2701 02:13:03.660 --> 02:13:07.900 Favor with man, that's this. 2702 02:13:07.900 --> 02:13:10.480 It's community and your leaders, both of them. 2703 02:13:10.480 --> 02:13:11.700 It's two-pronged. 2704 02:13:12.720 --> 02:13:14.740 If you have favor with your community, 2705 02:13:14.740 --> 02:13:17.020 but you don't have favor with leadership, 2706 02:13:17.020 --> 02:13:19.680 and the community tries to promote you, 2707 02:13:19.680 --> 02:13:22.300 when you didn't build any trust with the leadership, 2708 02:13:22.300 --> 02:13:23.500 what do you get? 2709 02:13:23.500 --> 02:13:24.580 A church split. 2710 02:13:26.260 --> 02:13:29.100 What do you get when a leader promotes you, 2711 02:13:29.100 --> 02:13:31.220 but they didn't have to go through the same things 2712 02:13:31.220 --> 02:13:33.080 that the community went through? 2713 02:13:34.020 --> 02:13:36.140 You get mistrust for your leadership. 2714 02:13:37.760 --> 02:13:40.460 This is why you can be the intergalactic prophet 2715 02:13:40.460 --> 02:13:43.100 of four galaxies and come here to Bethel Church, 2716 02:13:43.100 --> 02:13:45.620 but we don't know you in this galaxy. 2717 02:13:45.620 --> 02:13:47.880 So you're gonna have to go through the same classes, 2718 02:13:47.880 --> 02:13:49.840 the same courses of everyone else. 2719 02:13:49.840 --> 02:13:50.680 Why? 2720 02:13:50.680 --> 02:13:52.780 So you can build trust with our community. 2721 02:13:53.780 --> 02:13:57.380 When we do these things and when we're rightly connected, 2722 02:13:57.380 --> 02:14:00.200 we hear the voice of God a lot more accurately. 2723 02:14:01.060 --> 02:14:03.580 And the word of the Lord that's delivered 2724 02:14:03.580 --> 02:14:05.160 has way more potency. 2725 02:14:06.700 --> 02:14:09.080 Fruit, the fruit of it. 2726 02:14:09.080 --> 02:14:10.160 We're looking at fruit. 2727 02:14:10.160 --> 02:14:12.820 What does that word produce? 2728 02:14:12.820 --> 02:14:14.260 What did it produce? 2729 02:14:14.260 --> 02:14:18.080 It would always produce lasting fruit if it's from God. 2730 02:14:18.080 --> 02:14:20.560 Things like transformation, identity, wisdom, 2731 02:14:20.560 --> 02:14:25.560 faith, healing, counsel, freedom, solutions, inventions. 2732 02:14:25.680 --> 02:14:29.240 And then one that prophets and prophetic people 2733 02:14:29.240 --> 02:14:33.580 are really bad at that actually identify the voice of God, 2734 02:14:33.580 --> 02:14:34.420 time. 2735 02:14:35.920 --> 02:14:37.400 Oh, that's... 2736 02:14:38.760 --> 02:14:40.160 We're trying to accelerate. 2737 02:14:41.360 --> 02:14:44.360 Dano's got a great teaching on this anachronistic living. 2738 02:14:44.360 --> 02:14:47.600 Sometimes we're always so far in the future 2739 02:14:47.600 --> 02:14:49.520 and we're impatient. 2740 02:14:49.520 --> 02:14:51.420 And so we're always frustrated 2741 02:14:51.420 --> 02:14:54.640 because we're trying to push people into the future. 2742 02:14:54.640 --> 02:14:56.480 And God is such a patient God. 2743 02:14:56.480 --> 02:14:57.600 He's actually infinite. 2744 02:14:57.600 --> 02:14:59.040 So he's not in a panic. 2745 02:15:00.000 --> 02:15:05.000 Like we superimpose our 120 year lifespan on a word from God 2746 02:15:05.620 --> 02:15:07.060 and think it's a now word, 2747 02:15:07.060 --> 02:15:10.720 and it may not be now as we perceive it. 2748 02:15:13.200 --> 02:15:14.120 But guess what? 2749 02:15:14.120 --> 02:15:16.680 If you'll be patient with this whole process, 2750 02:15:16.680 --> 02:15:21.200 you'll start recognizing the voice of God quicker, quicker. 2751 02:15:22.880 --> 02:15:24.920 Languages of God are so important 2752 02:15:24.920 --> 02:15:26.600 and he speaks in many different ways 2753 02:15:26.600 --> 02:15:28.280 and I've already shared a few of them, 2754 02:15:28.280 --> 02:15:31.720 but I love Romans chapter one 2755 02:15:31.720 --> 02:15:35.160 because it says God's invisible attributes, 2756 02:15:35.160 --> 02:15:38.160 his divine nature and his internal power 2757 02:15:38.160 --> 02:15:40.400 can be clearly seen through what he's created 2758 02:15:40.400 --> 02:15:43.160 and creation is a language of God. 2759 02:15:43.160 --> 02:15:45.040 We've already talked about scripture 2760 02:15:45.040 --> 02:15:46.760 being a language of God. 2761 02:15:46.760 --> 02:15:48.960 We've talked about dreams and visions 2762 02:15:48.960 --> 02:15:51.040 being a language of God. 2763 02:15:51.040 --> 02:15:55.480 These are all, see, we should have a lot of different tools. 2764 02:15:56.480 --> 02:15:59.640 Tools, I don't know if it's tools. 2765 02:15:59.640 --> 02:16:03.720 I just think there's a lot of different capacity for us 2766 02:16:03.720 --> 02:16:05.760 or channels that we could turn to 2767 02:16:05.760 --> 02:16:09.320 and like, oh, that's how God's speaking right now. 2768 02:16:09.320 --> 02:16:12.200 And God's unique because he's multifaceted 2769 02:16:13.280 --> 02:16:15.440 and he speaks in so many different ways. 2770 02:16:15.440 --> 02:16:17.240 And sometimes you think he's being silent. 2771 02:16:17.240 --> 02:16:19.400 He's just speaking on a different channel. 2772 02:16:19.400 --> 02:16:21.360 He's just speaking in a different way. 2773 02:16:22.360 --> 02:16:27.000 And he actually created us to perceive all things in heaven. 2774 02:16:27.000 --> 02:16:32.000 The problem is we live in a warfare realm 2775 02:16:33.639 --> 02:16:36.600 where all spiritual realms thrive on attention, 2776 02:16:38.120 --> 02:16:41.920 but because the demonic kingdom is a pride-filled kingdom 2777 02:16:41.920 --> 02:16:45.600 and they actually need your attention in order to thrive, 2778 02:16:45.600 --> 02:16:47.760 that's the only way they get power and authority 2779 02:16:47.760 --> 02:16:49.959 is partnership with you and I. 2780 02:16:52.240 --> 02:16:53.360 So they need it. 2781 02:16:53.360 --> 02:16:54.320 God doesn't need it. 2782 02:16:54.320 --> 02:16:55.440 Haley already said it. 2783 02:16:55.440 --> 02:16:58.920 God's not like, oh, if I don't get attention, 2784 02:16:58.920 --> 02:17:00.400 I'm not gonna be able to function. 2785 02:17:00.400 --> 02:17:01.959 No, he craves our attention. 2786 02:17:01.959 --> 02:17:03.959 He just doesn't need it. 2787 02:17:03.959 --> 02:17:06.440 But all spiritual realms thrive on attention. 2788 02:17:06.440 --> 02:17:08.719 What realm are we giving our attention to? 2789 02:17:08.719 --> 02:17:12.040 Romans 12, 21, do not be overcome by evil, 2790 02:17:12.040 --> 02:17:14.920 but overcome evil by doing good. 2791 02:17:14.920 --> 02:17:17.879 My job is to pay attention to God. 2792 02:17:17.920 --> 02:17:19.639 I'm focused on him. 2793 02:17:19.639 --> 02:17:23.400 And I do that with my sense of smell. 2794 02:17:23.400 --> 02:17:25.080 I do that with hearing. 2795 02:17:26.879 --> 02:17:28.959 I don't just do it with pictures, 2796 02:17:28.959 --> 02:17:31.559 although we're very visual generation. 2797 02:17:31.559 --> 02:17:33.360 I'm looking for a broader sense. 2798 02:17:33.360 --> 02:17:35.760 And there's more than just our five senses. 2799 02:17:37.400 --> 02:17:40.360 Our skin is the largest sense organ on our body, 2800 02:17:40.360 --> 02:17:44.280 but touch is not the only sense 2801 02:17:44.280 --> 02:17:45.959 that we can feel on our skin. 2802 02:17:45.959 --> 02:17:47.200 There's pressure. 2803 02:17:49.200 --> 02:17:51.840 Dano loves this one, chronoception, 2804 02:17:52.680 --> 02:17:54.200 the passage of time. 2805 02:17:55.440 --> 02:17:58.040 There's magnetoception, 2806 02:17:59.080 --> 02:18:01.559 the ability to perceive magnetic fields. 2807 02:18:01.559 --> 02:18:03.559 There's equilibrioception. 2808 02:18:06.639 --> 02:18:08.320 That's like our ears. 2809 02:18:08.320 --> 02:18:09.639 And it gives us balance. 2810 02:18:09.639 --> 02:18:11.000 Have you ever walked in a room 2811 02:18:11.000 --> 02:18:13.920 and all of a sudden, whoa, something's moving? 2812 02:18:13.920 --> 02:18:15.840 And it wasn't actually something physical. 2813 02:18:16.719 --> 02:18:17.559 Sometimes you're actually perceiving 2814 02:18:17.559 --> 02:18:19.280 something going on in the spirit. 2815 02:18:20.240 --> 02:18:24.200 That's why you felt physically sick or dizzy in a room. 2816 02:18:24.200 --> 02:18:25.360 God, what are you doing? 2817 02:18:25.360 --> 02:18:26.760 How do I partner with that? 2818 02:18:28.240 --> 02:18:31.000 We've got a ton more in-depth teaching 2819 02:18:31.000 --> 02:18:33.600 on all of these different languages, 2820 02:18:33.600 --> 02:18:36.520 different ways that God speaks. 2821 02:18:36.520 --> 02:18:38.440 I love that he speaks in metaphors 2822 02:18:38.440 --> 02:18:41.840 because it's actually a wooing language 2823 02:18:41.840 --> 02:18:42.680 and he's trained it. 2824 02:18:42.680 --> 02:18:44.120 And we'll talk later about this 2825 02:18:44.120 --> 02:18:45.959 and I'll talk about interpretation. 2826 02:18:45.959 --> 02:18:49.959 But he speaks in parables and metaphors 2827 02:18:49.959 --> 02:18:53.400 because I believe it is the language of mystery, 2828 02:18:53.400 --> 02:18:55.559 but it's the language of intimacy. 2829 02:18:55.559 --> 02:18:59.040 He's wooing us into thinking like him. 2830 02:18:59.040 --> 02:19:00.360 And he's not just trying, 2831 02:19:01.360 --> 02:19:02.440 so many people come to me, 2832 02:19:02.440 --> 02:19:04.920 I just need this one dream interpreted. 2833 02:19:05.799 --> 02:19:07.959 Well, my goal as an interpreter 2834 02:19:07.959 --> 02:19:11.320 is not that you would get one dream interpreted. 2835 02:19:11.680 --> 02:19:15.680 My dream is that you would eventually think like God thinks 2836 02:19:15.680 --> 02:19:18.480 so that these would be natural for you. 2837 02:19:18.480 --> 02:19:21.000 So it'd be said like of you as well, 2838 02:19:21.000 --> 02:19:23.400 you are 10 times wiser, 2839 02:19:23.400 --> 02:19:26.160 10 times more brilliant than anyone else. 2840 02:19:26.160 --> 02:19:27.639 And you were able to interpret 2841 02:19:27.639 --> 02:19:30.559 all kinds of dreams and visions. 2842 02:19:30.559 --> 02:19:33.040 God speaks through spiritual happenings. 2843 02:19:33.040 --> 02:19:37.000 He speaks through signs and symbols, patterns and trends. 2844 02:19:37.000 --> 02:19:38.600 I love patterns and trends. 2845 02:19:38.959 --> 02:19:41.559 Joshua 1, 6, be strong and courageous. 2846 02:19:43.520 --> 02:19:46.320 Joshua, be strong and courageous. 2847 02:19:46.320 --> 02:19:48.280 Be very strong and courageous. 2848 02:19:48.280 --> 02:19:49.600 There's a pattern there. 2849 02:19:50.640 --> 02:19:52.640 There's a pattern showing up. 2850 02:19:52.640 --> 02:19:56.040 Some patterns show up in things called fashion, right? 2851 02:19:56.040 --> 02:19:57.680 Lindsay, you love fashion. 2852 02:19:57.680 --> 02:19:58.880 She loves fashion. 2853 02:19:58.880 --> 02:20:00.000 I'm sometimes. 2854 02:20:00.000 --> 02:20:05.200 disappointed with fashion because like the 90s are coming back. 2855 02:20:05.200 --> 02:20:10.160 Wasn't a great fashion decade, was not a great fashion decade, but it's coming 2856 02:20:10.160 --> 02:20:13.040 back again. Patterns and trends and God speaks 2857 02:20:13.040 --> 02:20:18.560 through all of these different things. The whole point is that God is speaking 2858 02:20:18.560 --> 02:20:22.160 over so many different languages, so many 2859 02:20:22.160 --> 02:20:26.720 different ways, and the mature prophetic 2860 02:20:26.720 --> 02:20:30.880 person, the mature prophet actually has an ability 2861 02:20:30.880 --> 02:20:34.880 to tap into all of those different languages at different times 2862 02:20:34.880 --> 02:20:39.360 and sometimes multi-layers. Well God's speaking on this and 2863 02:20:39.360 --> 02:20:42.880 he released this dream and then this person had this vision 2864 02:20:42.880 --> 02:20:47.040 and then someone was reading the Bible that actually lined up with that 2865 02:20:47.040 --> 02:20:51.200 and we start doing something called connect the dots prophetic 2866 02:20:51.200 --> 02:20:56.000 and we're connecting things. This is why the company of the prophets is so 2867 02:20:56.000 --> 02:21:01.920 important so that we would, we together collectively would have the 2868 02:21:01.920 --> 02:21:05.120 mind of Christ. We would think like he thinks about 2869 02:21:05.120 --> 02:21:08.880 issues, about problems. 2870 02:21:10.000 --> 02:21:13.200 We talked a little bit about angelic encounters and 2871 02:21:13.200 --> 02:21:17.040 angels deliver the voice or messages from God. 2872 02:21:17.040 --> 02:21:20.560 Many times that's their function. In the Bible it says 2873 02:21:20.560 --> 02:21:25.360 they were sent to serve those who would inherit eternal life. Are you inheriting 2874 02:21:25.360 --> 02:21:29.040 eternal life? Yeah. Well they're gonna come and show 2875 02:21:29.040 --> 02:21:32.320 up regularly. Did you know that when you start 2876 02:21:32.320 --> 02:21:36.640 talking about angels they they get excited and more show up? 2877 02:21:36.640 --> 02:21:40.080 They're attracted to that. 2878 02:21:40.720 --> 02:21:44.480 I feel like this is a season where that more than 2879 02:21:44.480 --> 02:21:53.120 any moment in history there is a battle for our attention. 2880 02:21:54.000 --> 02:21:58.960 There is so much distraction I can partner with. 2881 02:21:58.960 --> 02:22:03.440 There and it's competing with one voice. 2882 02:22:03.520 --> 02:22:09.600 My favorite day of the week is Sunday morning about 5 a.m right here. 2883 02:22:10.000 --> 02:22:17.680 Lights out, dark, early morning. Did you know God's voice sounds really 2884 02:22:17.680 --> 02:22:21.920 loud at that moment? And it's not because it's louder it's 2885 02:22:22.000 --> 02:22:25.680 because there's no other competing noise. 2886 02:22:25.680 --> 02:22:32.480 This is why the 3, 4, 5 a.m time is such a powerful time for us. 2887 02:22:32.480 --> 02:22:35.840 Some of you are wondering why why do I always wake up at that time? 2888 02:22:35.840 --> 02:22:40.560 Because everything else is quiet and God knows it and he's trying to speak to you. 2889 02:22:40.560 --> 02:22:44.320 His voice is really loud in those moments. So recognizing that 2890 02:22:44.320 --> 02:22:49.280 and partnering with it we're just skimming the surface. 2891 02:22:49.280 --> 02:22:52.960 Really we could spend days on each of these 2892 02:22:52.960 --> 02:22:57.280 and each of the different languages of God, each of the different ways that he 2893 02:22:57.280 --> 02:23:01.280 speaks. We could go in super depth with. This is 2894 02:23:01.280 --> 02:23:04.960 why that Dano and Bethany have so many trainings 2895 02:23:04.960 --> 02:23:08.560 accessible for this. This is why we have Bethel Prophetic and 2896 02:23:08.560 --> 02:23:12.880 and all kinds of training on this stuff. This is why we're doing this 2897 02:23:12.880 --> 02:23:17.440 because we want you to go even deeper and more in depth with these 2898 02:23:17.440 --> 02:23:20.720 and not just for yourself but so that you can start 2899 02:23:20.720 --> 02:23:24.640 reforming your communities by releasing the very same thing 2900 02:23:24.640 --> 02:23:28.960 that you're partnering with. But I don't want to just, I don't want us to just be 2901 02:23:28.960 --> 02:23:35.360 teachers of information. We want to, we want to actually release wisdom, 2902 02:23:35.360 --> 02:23:40.000 knowledge and the ability to apply it. And that wisdom only comes from you 2903 02:23:40.000 --> 02:23:44.800 practicing yourself and it becoming a part of you. 2904 02:23:44.800 --> 02:23:49.520 You can repeat and regurgitate or you can become. 2905 02:23:49.520 --> 02:23:52.800 And there's a grace to become. I feel it in the room. 2906 02:23:52.800 --> 02:23:56.480 There's a grace to actually be transformed 2907 02:23:56.480 --> 02:24:00.160 in the teaching that is being released. So would you stand your feet and I'm 2908 02:24:00.160 --> 02:24:05.040 going to pray over you. If you're at home and you can stand, go 2909 02:24:05.040 --> 02:24:08.160 ahead and stand as well. 2910 02:24:10.240 --> 02:24:14.000 We need about 53 hours. 2911 02:24:15.680 --> 02:24:20.640 But this is just a scratch and sniff. 2912 02:24:22.560 --> 02:24:26.720 The meal is later. The meal is where you and God get alone 2913 02:24:26.720 --> 02:24:32.560 and actually work this out. Some of you have a propensity, a real 2914 02:24:32.560 --> 02:24:37.200 gift in one area or another. It doesn't mean you can't, don't have 2915 02:24:37.200 --> 02:24:40.560 an ability in another place. Hebrews chapter 5 2916 02:24:40.560 --> 02:24:44.240 verse 14, it says, the mature who through 2917 02:24:44.240 --> 02:24:49.680 practice and repetition have their senses trained to discern good 2918 02:24:49.680 --> 02:24:52.560 and evil. But we're just looking for good, right? 2919 02:24:52.560 --> 02:24:55.920 We're building a better kingdom. 2920 02:24:56.320 --> 02:25:01.760 The devil doesn't care if you're fighting him. 2921 02:25:00.000 --> 02:25:03.160 as long as you're not building the kingdom. 2922 02:25:05.800 --> 02:25:08.260 Let's stop fighting the devil, build the kingdom, 2923 02:25:08.260 --> 02:25:09.900 because that's what disarms him. 2924 02:25:12.840 --> 02:25:14.600 This is what we're stepping into. 2925 02:25:14.600 --> 02:25:16.800 And I want us to feel equipped 2926 02:25:16.800 --> 02:25:19.360 to go and practice and repeat. 2927 02:25:20.680 --> 02:25:22.600 Want us to actually go and say, 2928 02:25:22.600 --> 02:25:26.640 no, I'm gonna be diligent in learning those voices 2929 02:25:26.640 --> 02:25:29.000 or those ways that God speaks 2930 02:25:29.040 --> 02:25:34.040 that I haven't had a high aptitude in before. 2931 02:25:34.300 --> 02:25:36.140 And those things that you're really good at, 2932 02:25:36.140 --> 02:25:37.100 get better at it. 2933 02:25:37.960 --> 02:25:39.920 Keep practicing, push yourself in it. 2934 02:25:40.920 --> 02:25:43.160 Continue to activate yourself. 2935 02:25:43.160 --> 02:25:44.620 Well, they don't give me any time 2936 02:25:44.620 --> 02:25:46.040 on the microphone at church. 2937 02:25:46.040 --> 02:25:48.440 Well, you got six other days a week 2938 02:25:49.940 --> 02:25:51.520 and a lot more hours. 2939 02:25:52.960 --> 02:25:57.480 You got so many different places to happen, right? 2940 02:25:57.480 --> 02:25:59.760 Happen, please happen. 2941 02:25:59.760 --> 02:26:01.920 Father, we thank you 2942 02:26:03.540 --> 02:26:07.800 that you have chosen us as your children. 2943 02:26:07.800 --> 02:26:12.800 You adopted us according to both your will and pleasure. 2944 02:26:14.360 --> 02:26:17.840 It's your will, you chose us, and it's your pleasure 2945 02:26:18.920 --> 02:26:21.420 that we would be called sons and daughters of you. 2946 02:26:22.760 --> 02:26:26.800 And you are the most present father there ever was. 2947 02:26:28.360 --> 02:26:33.280 When we talk to you, God, you have our full attention. 2948 02:26:33.280 --> 02:26:35.120 You are never distracted, 2949 02:26:36.400 --> 02:26:40.760 not like earthly dad or earthly mom or earthly leader. 2950 02:26:40.760 --> 02:26:45.000 You are fully present and you wanna speak to us. 2951 02:26:45.000 --> 02:26:48.200 You wanna have conversation with us all the time. 2952 02:26:49.760 --> 02:26:52.760 God, stir us up, open our ears, open our eyes, 2953 02:26:52.760 --> 02:26:57.400 open our senses, all of our senses to perceive you 2954 02:26:59.040 --> 02:27:01.560 and then give us courage to partner with you. 2955 02:27:02.720 --> 02:27:04.840 Because God, we need more courage. 2956 02:27:04.840 --> 02:27:09.040 And Holy Spirit, that is one of your number one attributes 2957 02:27:09.040 --> 02:27:13.360 is you give courage because you gave the gift of prophecy 2958 02:27:13.360 --> 02:27:18.360 which instills courage, strength, and comfort. 2959 02:27:18.520 --> 02:27:19.900 Those are your nature. 2960 02:27:20.780 --> 02:27:23.980 And we choose to partner with you, Holy Spirit. 2961 02:27:23.980 --> 02:27:26.620 And as your glory descends on us, 2962 02:27:26.620 --> 02:27:30.940 in the glory we are transformed with ever-increasing glory 2963 02:27:32.020 --> 02:27:33.600 into your likeness. 2964 02:27:34.540 --> 02:27:36.900 And God, as we're transformed, 2965 02:27:36.900 --> 02:27:40.340 we begin to think like you think. 2966 02:27:40.340 --> 02:27:44.860 So glory releases wisdom, and in that place of wisdom 2967 02:27:45.860 --> 02:27:48.180 and that place of intimacy, 2968 02:27:49.140 --> 02:27:51.860 you can trust us with supernatural power. 2969 02:27:53.220 --> 02:27:57.220 So God, would you release your power through these as well? 2970 02:27:57.220 --> 02:27:58.620 Because they are, they're rooted 2971 02:27:58.620 --> 02:28:00.300 and they're grounded in love. 2972 02:28:02.820 --> 02:28:07.100 First of all, the love you have for them. 2973 02:28:08.140 --> 02:28:10.880 We can love you because you first loved us. 2974 02:28:12.300 --> 02:28:14.620 We're rooted and grounded in love for you. 2975 02:28:15.100 --> 02:28:16.760 And then love for your people. 2976 02:28:17.900 --> 02:28:22.900 And thank you for the gift of the stewardship 2977 02:28:23.500 --> 02:28:26.400 of other people's lives and identity. 2978 02:28:26.400 --> 02:28:29.740 Thank you for sharing with us how you feel about people, 2979 02:28:30.900 --> 02:28:33.820 how you love them, how you care for them. 2980 02:28:33.820 --> 02:28:36.640 Help us to display that accurately. 2981 02:28:37.580 --> 02:28:40.660 And if there's any place in our hearts 2982 02:28:40.660 --> 02:28:43.220 that has gotten in the way of your voice, 2983 02:28:43.220 --> 02:28:48.220 gotten in the way of affection for you, we repent. 2984 02:28:50.380 --> 02:28:55.380 Take that away so we can see your face clear. 2985 02:28:57.420 --> 02:29:02.420 In Jesus' name, in Jesus' name, amen, amen. 2986 02:29:03.740 --> 02:29:04.780 Well, hey. 2987 02:29:04.780 --> 02:29:06.500 Oh, thank you. 2988 02:29:06.500 --> 02:29:07.340 Thank you. 2989 02:29:10.780 --> 02:29:12.100 It's lunch break. 2990 02:29:12.100 --> 02:29:14.700 And let me give you just a few things 2991 02:29:14.700 --> 02:29:17.460 before online and before you leave. 2992 02:29:19.220 --> 02:29:21.940 2 p.m. our session is gonna start in here 2993 02:29:21.940 --> 02:29:23.340 and it's always starts, 2994 02:29:23.340 --> 02:29:27.100 our afternoon session starts with big giveaways. 2995 02:29:28.020 --> 02:29:33.020 Like year subscriptions to our learning platforms, 2996 02:29:33.120 --> 02:29:34.760 like big things. 2997 02:29:34.760 --> 02:29:38.160 So that means you'll wanna be back in the room at two 2998 02:29:38.160 --> 02:29:41.400 because you have to be present online or in the room 2999 02:29:41.400 --> 02:29:44.240 and we're giving away on both platforms. 3000 02:29:44.240 --> 02:29:46.480 So you have to be present to win it. 3001 02:29:46.480 --> 02:29:48.520 And we'd hate to have to give it to someone else 3002 02:29:48.520 --> 02:29:49.800 cause you weren't here. 3003 02:29:49.800 --> 02:29:53.640 And then as well, if you did buy lunches 3004 02:29:53.640 --> 02:29:55.080 and you got lunch tickets, 3005 02:29:55.080 --> 02:29:58.360 the dining room is actually right behind us down this hall 3006 02:29:58.360 --> 02:30:00.200 and you can pick up your lunch. 3007 02:30:00.000 --> 02:30:07.600 there. We're going to leave the doors open, so if you guys want to potentially rest in here or do 3008 02:30:07.600 --> 02:30:11.760 that kind of stuff, it's a little cooler in here than out there, and we're going to have that 3009 02:30:11.760 --> 02:30:19.680 available for you as well. We'll see you at two o'clock. Bless you all.