Hey everyone, welcome to session 7, trusting the still small voice, and excited to have
you here.
Welcome again to everyone who's tuning in on the replay, and to those of you who are
tuning in live.
I'm noticing that as the sessions go on, as always the first session has more liveys,
the second session has slightly less, and I'm imagining that the third session might
have even less again, because three sessions in a row is quite a lot of sessions in a row.
But nonetheless, welcome to this session, and it's really cool, and I just count it
a big honor to have you here, so thanks for taking the time.
Please again, just give us a wave when you're on the live, and engage in the comments, it's
always really cool to have you engaging in the comments, and I love to look back and
read over the comments, and I love to see the comments come up as I'm teaching as well.
That's really, really cool.
So feel free again to ask questions, give any input, or just give a high five.
Just going to give a couple of minutes for a couple of people to jump on, and cool, let's
have a little sip of my tea while you guys are jumping back on board.
Talking about trusting the still small voice, this is the last session of the School of
the Spirit.
Again, I want to say thanks for being a part of it, and these seven sessions will be on
the Raising Royalty group, and so again, you can look back on them if you've missed a session,
you can look back.
You just go to Guides, and look up School of the Spirit under Guides, the Guides tab
is at the top there.
And yeah, so feel free to look back and do that, and feel free to invite other people
into being a part of this, in the replays.
Also, hey Michelle, hey hey.
Also the three week challenge will start next week, not challenge, sorry, three week activation.
Like I said, it's not going to take up a lot of time, it's going to be a little bit
of guidance to supercharge your life into the supernatural, is the kind of goal.
So that's going to be real fun, and I'm going to be giving you challenges and activations
and things to do.
The things aren't going to take up every hour of your day, but the goal is really that you
would be able to more easily embrace a supernatural lifestyle that looks like Jesus life.
So yeah, cool.
Okay, cool guys, well, again, I forgot to put the link in the description, but I will
give you the link in one of the comments afterwards, and that should be cool.
Or, if you'd like me to give you the link, or message you the link, you can also do that
if you want to share it as well.
So anyway, I'll leave that up to you, that's cool.
We're going to be, this last session, trusting the still small voice.
Thanks for jumping on board.
We're going to crack into this, and we're going to begin with prayer.
So Father, right now, and Holy Spirit, I just pray, and I'm asking you Holy Spirit, that
you'd manifest your presence around every person that's tuned in on the replay or live.
God, if they need a miracle, just heal them right now.
Declare your power over people.
God, I pray that they would really have a deep sense of your voice and your presence
during this session, in Jesus' name.
Amen.
Wow, I've got good morning from India.
Good morning, good morning, India.
Good morning, India.
I cannot read your name because it's in, looks like Hindi.
It's in a language that I can't read, but if I was going to read it, it would say,
ri, ri, no, I'm not even going to try.
But good morning.
Good morning, good morning.
Good afternoon, Dorothy, and hey again, Michelle. Awesome. Okay, cool.
All right, we're going to crack into Session 7, Trusting the Still, Small Voice,
and we're going to begin with a principle that really undergirds this session.
And the principle is this, and I've mentioned it in one of the other sessions just passing,
but I'll really go after it in this session.
If you look, you'll see.
Most people don't see or experience God because they're not looking,
and therefore, they miss out on seeing.
If you look, you'll see.
And if you see, you can experience and you can engage with what you see.
If you don't know that God's there, you're not going to engage in His nearness or His thereness.
And you're not going to look.
Here's the reason why people don't look.
You don't look because, people don't look because they don't think there's anything to be seen.
But if you were thoroughly and 100% completely, ridiculously convinced of the truth
that God is with you everywhere you go, then no matter where you are,
you'll be looking to see how it is.
Not looking to see if God is with you, but looking to see how God is with you
for the moment and in the moment that you're in.
The question is never if, the question is always how.
God, how are you with me right now?
Because if I can look to see how you're with me right now,
then I can engage in what you're doing and in how you're doing it,
and I can truly partner with you in what you're doing.
And we together can see the kingdom of God manifest on earth.
And so, if you look, you will see, and if you think there's something there to be seen,
then you will look.
That's the principle we're going to go after today.
And we're going to begin in Genesis 28.
I'm actually not going to turn there because I'm just going to use that as my reference,
but I'm going to retell just pockets of the story.
And the story really goes like this.
Jacob is on a journey and he gets to a place called Luz,
which literally means the place of almonds, where almonds grow.
And he's tired.
And in that place, he finds a stone.
And, oh my gosh, I've got a whole teaching on that stone.
And that is extraordinary, the revelation around the stone.
I love it. It's very, very deep.
But he gets a place. He's tired. He's exhausted.
Many people feel tired and exhausted, by the way.
And many people feel tired and exhausted
because they haven't yet fully learned to trust
or to recognize the still small voice of God
and his leadership, his subtle leadership in their lives.
And he gets a stone. He rests his head on the stone.
And as he rests his head on the stone, he goes to sleep.
When he goes to sleep, he has an encounter with God.
A ladder is set up and the angels of God are ascending and descending on the ladder.
And there's obviously a lot of revelation on that too.
I'm choosing to not go down rabbit trails.
And he wakes up in the morning and he says something
that's profound and relevant for the session.
He says this, this is, this, when I saw this
and the Holy Spirit highlighted this to me,
it really changed my life.
Jacob said this, surely God was in this place
and I knew it not.
And I started to think, God, how many times
have I been in a place that you were surely there?
And yet I didn't recognize your presence.
And how many of those moments where you were present
and I didn't recognize your presence,
did I miss out on what you're doing?
Did I miss out on partnering with you?
Did I miss out on seeing your world explode into this world?
How many opportunities did I miss out on God?
And then when I realized that God is everywhere with me,
no matter where I go, I realized how many
extraordinary opportunities I still miss out on today
because of my lack of awareness and my prayer
since reading the scripture really has been,
God, teach me to be aware.
Teach me to be one that looks,
that's convinced that there's something there to see
and that looks and that sees and engages with what he sees.
God, teach me to be one that is aware
of your subtleties, God.
Teach me to be one that walks in a spirit of revelation,
that has his eyes wide open,
that is not half asleep in the way he walks.
God, I want to be a person that is awake in my walk with you.
That's really been the essence of my prayer.
It's possible for you to be in a place
where God thoroughly is
and for you to be thoroughly unaware of that.
But God can open your eyes
and there are many examples in scripture
of God opening people's eyes.
to his nearness. I'm thinking Road to Emmaus. I'm thinking 2 Kings 6. I'm thinking the story
I'm talking about now, Genesis 28. I'm thinking Joshua walking down the road and saying,
Are you for us or against us? Sword drawn. One warrior against a whole army. And the answer is
no, but I have come. And he drops to his knees realizing he's talking to God.
And there are many moments where God appears and where God shows up, but people don't recognize
that it's him. There are many moments where people are in places in scripture where God is there,
but they don't realize God is there. And it's almost as if God is hiding in plain sight,
longing to be found by us. And I think that is so true about our lives that God is hiding around
every single corner of your life. God is hiding not from you, but for you. It's the glory of God
to conceal a matter, but it's the glory of kings to search a matter out. And God is wanting to
raise his sons and daughters to be kings and queens. And part of the way he does that is he
never ever hides from you, but he often will hide for you because the process of hiding for you and
you finding him where he's hiding is the process that he takes you through in raising you into
your royalty. And after all, we are in a group called raising royalty right now. Just to point
that out, God does not hide from you, but he hides for you. And he hides for you around every single
corner of your life. There is potential in your life to find God if you have eyes to see, to find
him where he's hiding in plain sight to find. This has been my prayer. This has really been one of the
driving motivations of my heart is to be someone, and this has been for near 20 years now, to be
someone who is a seeker and a searcher, to be someone who is attentive to notice the subtle
hints of God. And I really want to speak into that now because it's been a real blessing to me in my
walk with the Spirit is a growing willingness and attentiveness to notice his subtleties. It's been a
big, big blessing. I'm going to share some stories in a second of some of the specific
results of that in terms of my ministry with the Spirit. But before I do, there was a moment
where God really gave grace to me for this that was a real game changer. It was a moment where a
guy prophesied over me and Renee, and at the end of the prophecy he said, and God is giving you an angel
of appreciation, and he's giving you an angel of appreciation. And I thought at the time,
what a stupid angel. Why can't it be a power angel or a glory angel or a translating angel
or some kind of cool angel, but instead an angel of appreciation. What kind of angel is that? I was
the most unappreciated. I had the most unappreciative response to this new thing that God was doing to
me, and only because I had no idea of the consequence of this kind of grace that God was
giving me, me and Renee. And that's just to be open and vulnerable with you. Anyway, the next
day I woke up in the morning. It didn't feel that much different. I felt encouraged, but not that
much different. And we were going for a walk around Lake Shasta. We were living in Redding, California
at the time. And as we were walking around the lake, I noticed this flower, and something about
it just jumped out at me. I'd walked past flowers like that. It wasn't an unusual flower. It was a
Californian poppy. Lots of them in California. And I walked over and started to look at this flower,
and I started to feel the presence of God coming off the flower. I realized that God was speaking
to me through this flower, and I couldn't even repeat to you. I couldn't even put words to what
He was saying. I don't even know if it was relevant for anything in particular, but I was seeing the
beauty of God in this flower, and I was becoming overwhelmed by the presence of God as I was
noticing Him in His creation. And I stayed there for a long time. The other three people
we were with, including Renee, walked off. And I had what I call my hippie moment. I was just buzzing out.
I was just, if you've seen that YouTube clip, double rainbow all the way. I was double rainbowing
all the way. I was like, whoa. People would have thought I was probably on drugs or something.
It was a profound experience for me. And I realized in that moment, there are so many other
flowers and things that I had walked past in the past that God had been subtly drawing my attention
to, but I ignored His subtle prompts and carried on about my day because I had to get somewhere.
do something, or I had a timetable to keep, a schedule to look after, I had to honor this
appointment or that appointment, and my honor of the person that I was trying to honor in
terms of keeping my time frames intact actually dishonored God who was trying to show me something
in the moment.
And I think the same is true of most people, is that often, especially in the Western world
and the way that we live, and I know that not everyone here is tuned in from the Western
world, but especially in the way that we live, especially in New Zealand, it's so time-oriented
and so schedule-oriented that sometimes our times and schedules don't fit with the way
of God and with the way He is with us, and I think that it's a good thing to readjust
our lives and to put margins, and practically that could look like making a meeting here
and then not making a meeting straight after, but giving a half an hour gap between that
meeting and the next meeting so that you have some margins that God can fill.
I'm not saying He can't fill your meetings, but I'm saying sometimes He just wants to
draw your attention to a flower.
Sometimes He wants to just subtly draw you in a different direction, and it's good for
you to have time in your day to be able to respond to those promptings of the Spirit.
Anyway, since that day, since the Angel of Appreciation, I feel I've experienced a much
more heightened awareness and sense of God's subtle promptings, and it's led me to some
really, really cool things, some amazing things, and one of the things I've noticed in the
process that I want to share with you is I've had God speak to me in dramatic, clear,
clear, clear, clear ways as well over the years, but often when I've responded to the
subtle, quiet, still, small voice of God, the one that's really easy to miss, the one
that often just feels like your own thoughts, or that just is, yeah, the volume's right
down at level one, most people miss the still, small voice.
I've noticed that when I've responded to the still, small voice of God, and I've stepped
out and trusted that, I've noticed that the results and the flow of the Spirit has been
dramatically more than when I've responded to the loud, clear voice of God.
I mean, I'm not saying that's a theology, that's just been my experience, and so that's
just an interesting point.
I feel like, in a way, that God is actually really longing and waiting for a company of
sons and daughters to rise up who will walk with Him at a level of intimacy where He can
just do life with them in that way, in the still, small, subtle way, and people will
respond to His subtleties.
I remember being, I mean, there's just a lot of stories, but I just was thinking of a couple
of stories that I wanted to share with you.
I remember being in Myanmar, actually, my second favorite country in the world other
than New Zealand.
I remember being in Myanmar, and I was praying for someone, and I could just sense that they
really wanted a prophetic word.
I was sort of in a bit of a funny mood in terms of, it was at the end of the meeting,
and I was kind of ready to sort of go home, and I was just feeling a little bit like my
mind was wandering off to different places and stuff.
Anyway, my thought when I was praying for this guy was like, I just started imagining
a Burmese astrophysicist or space scientist, and then I started to think.
I thought, it was just a fleeting thought, and I thought, that's a bit weird.
I mean, it's sort of like, to me, I mean, sorry if this is funny, but to me, it was
like the last place I would expect to, you know, it's just not a place I would expect
an astro-scientist to pop up from, you know.
Anyway, so I just thought, it was in my own thoughts, it didn't necessarily feel like
the voice of God.
It just felt like I was thinking on my own, but I chose to think, you know what, I just
have that like, maybe, maybe, maybe that's God.
So I just went with it.
I just said to the guy, listen, and I sort of got a little bit more when I decided to
go with it.
I felt that it was going to be a time of study, and da-da-da, I said, I feel like you're about
to go on a time of study where you're going to study, and I just threw it out there, and
it was like, yeah, yeah, yeah.
It was either right or wrong. I said, you're going to be studying astro, like space science and you're going to be doing stuff with astrophysics and space and astronautical, you know, I was trying to explain it, but didn't have the words.
I still don't have the words. He actually corrected me afterwards, but he freaked out and he said, that's so crazy.
That's exactly what I've just enrolled to study.
And I freaked out because I thought, whoa, I didn't realize that you can even study that in Myanmar, such a specialist thing.
And anyway, that changed his life and he was deeply, deeply encouraged.
He was like, man, I never expected to get a word like that today.
And the Holy Spirit came on him and he just had a powerful encounter with God.
And it was super, super cool.
Another time I was praying for someone and as I was praying for them, four numbers just went across my head.
And, you know, like it wasn't like a flashing light, four numbers, guys.
It was like, I can't impress on you how much it's just a still small, subtle impression.
Like I'm faint, only just visible, like even less visible than my own thoughts are in my own head.
I mean, it's in my own accent.
It's like so easy to miss and it's not like it hangs around for a long time either.
Like these four numbers came and they left as fast as they came.
And, but I chose to honor that and I chose to lean my heart towards that subtle,
the subtlety of what I thought might be, not even sure, that might be God.
And then I saw a padlock and I saw a person's gate.
And so I said, hey, I think I'm seeing a picture of your front gate.
And the code to the lock on your front gate is, and I gave the four digits.
And she burst into tears and said, that's the lock of my front gate.
And then God said to me, tell her that she's had a real hard time feeling safe
because of things that have happened, abusive things that have happened to her in her past.
But tell her that I'm standing at her front gate and I'm the guardian of her house and I will guard her.
And I told her that and she burst into tears, had a crazy encounter with God and it was just epic.
But that never would have happened if I didn't lean into the still, small voice.
I remember another time in Myanmar, another Myanmar story.
And a person was asking me, can you, there were about a hundred or so people up the front
wanting me to lay hands on them or our team to lay hands on them, including me.
And I had one of the people, local people with me and they were just asking me,
how do you move in the Spirit? How do you move in the power of God?
And I could feel the expectation of people that were receiving prayer
to kind of go down one by one and sort of almost like just go down the line
and pray for people one at a time in the order of the line that they came,
which would kind of be the social expectation of prayer moments like that.
But what God often does for me is He just takes me out of that order
and He will just lead me from this person to that person.
So I said to her, I said, well, the first thing that I do is I pay attention to my heart.
And it's like, back again, sorry.
If you can imagine like your heart is wearing a t-shirt and I feel like sometimes
it's like it's as if the Holy Spirit grabs the t-shirt that's around my heart
and just, I feel like a gentle, subtle pull.
My heart has been pulled in a certain direction, a physical direction.
And the same will probably happen for you too.
If you're aware that this is one of the ways that God can lead you.
And I felt this tug towards a certain direction.
And I said, I'm feeling pulled that way.
So we went that way. I took her with me.
And now I just feel a subtle, subtle, subtle, subtle sense.
An intuition just to put my hand on that person's neck.
Not her head, not the shoulder, but her neck.
Not the front of her neck, just the back of her neck.
Put it on the back of her neck.
And now, do you feel that?
And I said to the lady, to the person that was with me, do you feel that?
She said, yeah.
And I just released that.
And the person just had this crazy deliverance encounter with God.
And got set free from a whole bunch of stuff.
And then I felt tugged in a different direction.
And it wasn't the direction that was the expected order of prayer
that was prescribed to me by the nature of the meeting that I was in.
It was the way that God was leading was different.
And it wasn't mechanical.
And it wasn't based on a method.
And it wasn't based on shoulds and shouldn'ts.
It was based on a subtle leading.
And I found if you honor the subtle leading of God,
then the power of God flows much, much, much, much, much more.
I mean, I've got about another five stories in my head that are just ready to spell out.
They're just on the top of my head right now, but I won't share them right now, maybe at another time.
But all that to say, sorry, let me just...
Let me just make sure I haven't missed anything here.
Cool, okay. And there's obviously lots of different dynamics that come in. I mean,
this principle doesn't just apply to supernatural ministry or the gifts of the Spirit.
It applies to so much stuff. I remember just one more story. I remember being in
the Philippines in a slum area. It was a real dangerous slum, actually. It was a real gang area.
And I walked up to this guy, and I had a word of knowledge for him,
which I was pretty sure was correct, for healing. And he just looked at me and said,
you can't pray for me and get out of here. He was not happy with us being there.
And he seemed to be the leader of the thing. And we had a few more words of knowledge,
and people were responding, but he wouldn't let us pray for anyone.
And I just bought this brand new hat, and I felt this real faint impression.
Now, my general pattern of ministry in that kind of environment is just to find sick people and
pray for them, because it just seems to open things up real fast. So that's my go-to.
I felt like the Holy Spirit said to me, give him your hat. I really didn't want to do that,
but I thought, okay, I'll do it. So I took my hat off, and I said, before I go,
I just want to give you this hat. I just bought this hat, and I bought it for you.
Gave him this hat. And I've got a photo of him wearing that hat, actually.
It's one of my memory stone photos, which I talked about in the last session.
And he just got so blessed. And we were walking away, and he said, wait, wait, stop. You can pray
for us now. We started praying for them, and a whole bunch of people got healed, and people
got saved. And it was just really, really cool. But that wouldn't happen unless I'd
leant into the still, small voice that led me in a way that was beyond my normal method,
that was beyond my expectations. And God will do that. God will often lead you out of your
expectations, out of your learnt ways, out of the things that you have become familiar with,
and into new territory, and into new things that you weren't expecting. And that's just part of
the way God is. And so this is my prayer as we come to the end of the School of the Spirit,
in this last little session. I was really weighing up whether I wanted to even put
this session in the school, but I did want to put it in as the seventh session.
And to be honest, I feel like there's a lot more to be said about this.
But in essence, part of me also thinks there might not be too much more to say about this.
And because the reason for that is because I really, this session is really,
the main motivation for me to share this is to invite you into your own journey of discovering
for yourself what the subtleties of God looks like in your life. And they may look completely
different to how they've looked in my life. And so I want to, part of this session is really to
inspire, to stir up a hunger, and to invite you into the subtleties, to invite you to be a person
that looks, that sees and responds, to invite you to be a person that notices. And I really
want to pray just right now that God would give you the same kind of grace that he gave me
at that moment, that he would give you a grace to notice, and that he would
give you a spirit of wonder, that he would restore wonder on the inside of you,
wonder at the simple beauty of his voice. And so if you want to receive that, just drop a comment
on the comments, just say Amen, or Me, or Yes. And I'd love to pray for you right now.
And then what I'm going to do is I'm going to ask you to do something. So Father, right now.
Father, right now. Father, right now. Father, right now. Father, right now.
Shora maraba se te leharu doma she za voro to kare te li meru kia tonoka maore te kia anai.
Jesus, right now. Jesus, right now.
We honor your presence, God, I release through this teaching, through the screen, through
this Facebook live and the replay and in the live, I release on people right now tuned
in.
I release a spirit of wonder and a grace to notice.
God, I declare eyes to see in Jesus' name, eyes to notice, eyes to be aware, eyes to
be hungry, eyes that look Father over every single person.
And I pray that you would dust off their spiritual senses.
I pray that you would enliven and that you would awaken their senses, God.
I pray for the gift of revelation to be strong on them in Jesus' name.
Thank you, God.
Amen.
Awesome.
Well, in closing, guys, here is my activation for you.
My activation for you is I want to invite you to go on a treasure hunt with God.
And to do that, what I'm going to invite you to do is spend a few minutes, I'd love for
you to do this in the very, very near future, like as in the next 24 hours, preferably even
right now.
I want to ask you to go for a walk around your community.
But before you do, take some time and just ask the Lord to give you some clues.
And you're going to go on a treasure hunt with God.
Give Him some clues.
Ask Him, first of all, if there are any locations.
And He might give you like some abstract pictures.
He might give you an actual place.
He might give you a picture of a grass field, or He might give you a picture of a boat,
or He might give you the number of a street number.
But just take note of any little clues you get of locations.
Ask Him if there are any people that He wants you to talk to.
And you might get a person's name.
You might get the color of their clothing.
You might get a detail about part of their clothing.
Ask Him about if there are any prayer needs.
And you might get some healing needs, or you might get marriage, or you might get whatever
you might get.
Just listen to the still...see if you can just pay attention to the still small voice
and just roll with it.
Just roll with it.
I mean, the light is green until it turns red.
It's not red until it turns green.
You've got permission from God to just go for it and explore.
You can have fun with this.
And the last question to ask God as you're asking Him before you go on your treasure
hunt is, is there anything else of significance that I should know about our little walk that
we're going to take?
And I would spend about 10 minutes asking Him those four questions.
Place, people, prayer needs, and anything else.
And don't expect Him to spell it out too much for you.
Expect there to be a little bit of mystery involved.
And just write that down in as much detail as you can, and then just go for a walk with
that list.
And who knows, just see if you can find your way to the place that God is leading you.
See if you can find your way into a conversation with the person that God is leading you to
talk to, and see if you can even have the opportunity to pray for that person in the
area that they need prayer.
We've had some amazing stories from things like this, but this is a great way to learn
the subtle voice of God, is to do the treasure hunt activation.
And so, I encourage you to do that, and I also encourage you, once you've done that,
to share what happens on the comments of this teaching, would be so cool.
Anyway, God bless you, and I really am looking forward to hearing the testimonies.
And again, I'll share the link for the three-week challenge, three-week activation, on this
as well.
So, once it's posted and published on the Raising Royalty site.
Okay, awesome, God bless you, and thanks again so much for joining me on these three days
under the School of the Spirit.
I'll keep you posted as well, because like I said, there'll be more to come.
And this is the foundation of other schools that we'll do in the future.
And if there are any things that you would love to learn about that are related to this
school, I know that Tia, you were talking about wanting to learn about the gift of tongues
and the baptism of the Holy Spirit.
So if there's just anything that you would say, hey Mac, in a future school, could you
teach on this, then just drop that in the comments too, that would just be helpful for
me in terms of planning for the future.
Thank you, Tia.
Big love to you guys. Have an amazing rest of your day or night. Whatever time
of the day you're in. And big love. Melody, you're going to the laundromat tomorrow.
That is epic. That's a absolutely perfect opportunity. You are 100% correct about
that. Let us know how it goes. Okay, awesome. Yep, more teaching on the
gifts of the Spirit. Cool. Yep, I did want to do this foundation first and then
move into the gifts of the Spirit. So, yep, receive that. That's cool. Thank you.
So good. Okay, awesome guys. Well, bless you.