WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:09.360 It's good to see everybody today as you can see I am still not at home and still have 2 00:00:09.360 --> 00:00:17.760 my wonderful corded earbuds which they don't sound awesome so that I have to do this otherwise 3 00:00:17.760 --> 00:00:23.680 you're gonna hear me like this and Alex over here my wonderful friend Alex who I will introduce 4 00:00:23.680 --> 00:00:30.760 has this beautiful setup pro setup because he loves all the good sounds so listen if 5 00:00:30.760 --> 00:00:34.200 you saw what it looks like behind the scenes I'm in my living room I've got laundry over 6 00:00:34.200 --> 00:00:40.160 here I got a playpen over here I got a baby carrier over here like just looks looks can 7 00:00:40.160 --> 00:00:44.680 be deceiving don't let it fool you I thought maybe you were in your office I don't you're 8 00:00:44.680 --> 00:00:51.800 at home no I'm at home I yeah okay all right all right so fine whatever okay so I told 9 00:00:51.800 --> 00:00:58.240 him I'm a little bit jealous he's making me look really bad right now I'm gonna take 10 00:00:58.240 --> 00:01:03.560 a picture and put it in the chat okay hi everyone it's good to see everybody let us know where 11 00:01:03.560 --> 00:01:08.800 you're tuning in from so today we have with us special guests and my good friend Alex 12 00:01:08.800 --> 00:01:16.240 Morales he and his wife Sarah and they're four right it's four now it's it's four now 13 00:01:16.240 --> 00:01:23.120 four beautiful children live in the Austin area in Texas and so I'm just so thankful 14 00:01:23.120 --> 00:01:30.040 that he's gonna be on with us today he's he's a called an office prophet called to the office 15 00:01:30.040 --> 00:01:36.060 and so we're gonna have a little bit of a chat and so I love these kinds of calls because 16 00:01:36.060 --> 00:01:41.560 I love to showcase what what prophets can look like because we all we're all on a different 17 00:01:41.560 --> 00:01:46.600 journey and if you can identify with you know oh that's what an office prophet looks 18 00:01:46.600 --> 00:01:52.320 like to this person then maybe it'll help you just a little bit on your journey and 19 00:01:52.320 --> 00:01:57.800 embrace the assignment that's on your life so this is why I love doing that so Alex I 20 00:01:57.800 --> 00:02:02.680 yeah a little bit but you want to go ahead and you know just intro yourself a little 21 00:02:02.680 --> 00:02:10.320 bit yeah so yeah so like Marguerite said I'm Alex and I I do a number of different things 22 00:02:10.360 --> 00:02:16.480 in ministry right so I've been in vocational ministry for almost 30 years I've been by 23 00:02:16.480 --> 00:02:23.200 vocational I've been a pastor I was a senior pastor you know working as a prophet I work 24 00:02:23.200 --> 00:02:28.720 with prophetic company and Dan McCollum and Bethany Hicks as a master trainer in our certification 25 00:02:28.720 --> 00:02:34.240 program I work with George and Banoff in the global school global celebration school of 26 00:02:34.240 --> 00:02:39.820 supernatural and do some travel with him and then my wife and I we we pastor locally and 27 00:02:39.820 --> 00:02:45.340 do ministry as worship leaders and worship worshipers and so yeah it's just been it's 28 00:02:45.340 --> 00:02:51.140 been great and like Marguerite said we've got four kids so we've got a 15 year old we 29 00:02:51.140 --> 00:03:01.380 have a 12 year old we have a 9 year old and a 10 month old yes that was that was all Jesus 30 00:03:01.380 --> 00:03:08.460 he was he was not a surprise he was a complete shock but he was definitely the missing piece 31 00:03:08.460 --> 00:03:18.460 in our family so Zion's actually upstairs taking a nap wow yeah yeah life's life's fun 32 00:03:18.460 --> 00:03:26.740 in my household right now I can't even imagine like that would be so interesting oh it is 33 00:03:26.740 --> 00:03:32.340 yeah that would be like me having a kid right now as well listen I'm their baby I turned 34 00:03:32.340 --> 00:03:39.540 I turned 47 in January and so he was born when I was 46 I was that's not what I thought 35 00:03:39.540 --> 00:03:46.340 was gonna happen when I was in my upper 40s but yeah it's it's been great well I'm so 36 00:03:46.340 --> 00:03:53.420 glad I'm so glad to hear that it's been great yeah yeah so there's people on here you know 37 00:03:53.420 --> 00:04:02.100 that are saying bless you oh my amazing blessing and then Jerry says she Jerry are you a lady or 38 00:04:02.100 --> 00:04:11.620 a man I can't tell from just the name so sorry but says been there completely get it yeah yeah 39 00:04:11.620 --> 00:04:17.500 I got one I got one getting ready to drive and one who's still in diapers it's like it's yeah 40 00:04:17.500 --> 00:04:23.500 it's crazy that's that's got to be so bizarre it is it is I'm here's what I'm honestly looking 41 00:04:23.500 --> 00:04:31.540 forward to when Zion that's his name right when Zion is you know old enough to start going to the 42 00:04:31.540 --> 00:04:35.500 movies and stuff I can probably get a senior discount and a student discount at the same 43 00:04:35.500 --> 00:04:42.060 time so that'll save me some money's money on both sides yeah you know go to Denny's get a 44 00:04:42.060 --> 00:04:48.500 kids meal and a senior meal at the same time that's gonna be fantastic yeah it's gonna be 45 00:04:48.500 --> 00:04:57.820 great as you can see Alex has a great outlook on life yes yes he's very positive thank you Jesus 46 00:04:57.820 --> 00:05:00.140 yes we need more happy prophets around 47 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:00.840 Right? 48 00:05:00.840 --> 00:05:03.560 We do, we do need more happy prophets. 49 00:05:03.560 --> 00:05:07.720 You guys actually just had a prophetic summit in Texas 50 00:05:07.720 --> 00:05:09.000 this past weekend. 51 00:05:09.000 --> 00:05:11.360 And I know that there's some people that are on here 52 00:05:11.360 --> 00:05:14.360 that are gonna watch the replay 53 00:05:14.360 --> 00:05:16.080 that were at that prophetic summit. 54 00:05:16.080 --> 00:05:20.000 So they have seen you just a smidgen. 55 00:05:20.000 --> 00:05:20.840 Just a bit. 56 00:05:20.840 --> 00:05:21.760 Just a bit. 57 00:05:23.560 --> 00:05:25.400 I'd love to talk about your prophet journey 58 00:05:25.400 --> 00:05:26.240 just a little bit. 59 00:05:26.240 --> 00:05:27.060 Yeah, go for it. 60 00:05:27.300 --> 00:05:30.740 You know, I know some of us have unusual things happen, 61 00:05:30.740 --> 00:05:33.860 unusual circumstances, but other times, you know, 62 00:05:33.860 --> 00:05:36.000 we just wanna know what it's like. 63 00:05:36.940 --> 00:05:40.380 So when did you first begin to have an inkling 64 00:05:40.380 --> 00:05:41.740 that you were a prophet? 65 00:05:41.740 --> 00:05:44.500 Like, how did that happen to you? 66 00:05:44.500 --> 00:05:45.900 Oh, I love that question. 67 00:05:45.900 --> 00:05:48.820 So to answer that, 68 00:05:48.820 --> 00:05:51.380 I actually gotta give you some history and background. 69 00:05:51.380 --> 00:05:53.820 So I grew up in church. 70 00:05:53.820 --> 00:05:55.620 I've been in church since I was two years old. 71 00:05:55.620 --> 00:05:59.300 My dad got saved when I was two. 72 00:05:59.300 --> 00:06:01.700 But we grew up cessationist. 73 00:06:01.700 --> 00:06:04.180 We grew up complete cessationists. 74 00:06:04.180 --> 00:06:07.780 Like, think John MacArthur, like, strange fire guys. 75 00:06:07.780 --> 00:06:09.680 Like, that was us growing up. 76 00:06:10.620 --> 00:06:12.100 Went off to college. 77 00:06:13.700 --> 00:06:15.020 I had a full scholarship. 78 00:06:15.020 --> 00:06:18.840 I was pre-med to University of Miami. 79 00:06:19.900 --> 00:06:23.620 And during that time, I was involved in my local church. 80 00:06:23.820 --> 00:06:25.980 It was a Southern Baptist church. 81 00:06:25.980 --> 00:06:30.940 And I felt a calling into pastoral ministry. 82 00:06:30.940 --> 00:06:32.660 So I gave up my scholarship, 83 00:06:32.660 --> 00:06:35.180 got my degree in theology and biblical studies, 84 00:06:35.180 --> 00:06:36.220 and did everything. 85 00:06:36.220 --> 00:06:38.420 So I've been a pastor since I was 18. 86 00:06:38.420 --> 00:06:40.020 At 18, they made me their youth pastor. 87 00:06:40.020 --> 00:06:41.220 By the time I was 26, 88 00:06:41.220 --> 00:06:43.580 I was a senior pastor of my own church. 89 00:06:43.580 --> 00:06:44.620 Wow. 90 00:06:44.620 --> 00:06:48.580 It was in that season that I had an experience with God 91 00:06:48.580 --> 00:06:51.700 that I didn't really have a theological grid for. 92 00:06:51.700 --> 00:06:55.780 And it was the first time I ever heard his audible voice. 93 00:06:55.780 --> 00:06:58.540 And the story is way longer. 94 00:06:58.540 --> 00:07:00.500 And for the sake of time, I won't get into it. 95 00:07:00.500 --> 00:07:04.860 But I found myself one morning at my church in prayer. 96 00:07:04.860 --> 00:07:07.740 It was like 5 a.m. 97 00:07:07.740 --> 00:07:08.940 I was all alone. 98 00:07:08.940 --> 00:07:11.620 I had called a prayer gathering 99 00:07:11.620 --> 00:07:13.220 just to really pray for our church 100 00:07:13.220 --> 00:07:15.500 because we were in some massive transition. 101 00:07:15.500 --> 00:07:17.180 And for a month straight, 102 00:07:17.180 --> 00:07:19.420 I was the only one who would show up. 103 00:07:19.420 --> 00:07:22.580 And I was ready to quit, ready to give up, 104 00:07:22.580 --> 00:07:25.380 ready to walk away from everything. 105 00:07:25.380 --> 00:07:28.660 And I remember I'm kneeling down at the altar area 106 00:07:28.660 --> 00:07:31.780 of this Southern Baptist church in Miami, Florida. 107 00:07:31.780 --> 00:07:35.060 And I prayed the most honest, sincere prayer 108 00:07:35.060 --> 00:07:36.340 I could ever pray. 109 00:07:36.340 --> 00:07:38.540 And it's, God, I don't know what to do. 110 00:07:38.540 --> 00:07:40.940 And unless you show me you're real, I quit. 111 00:07:41.820 --> 00:07:42.780 Wow. 112 00:07:42.780 --> 00:07:44.220 And I heard his audible voice. 113 00:07:44.220 --> 00:07:45.060 Man. 114 00:07:46.020 --> 00:07:47.220 And what he said to me was this. 115 00:07:47.220 --> 00:07:49.140 He said, Alex, you know my word. 116 00:07:49.820 --> 00:07:50.660 But you don't know my power. 117 00:07:50.660 --> 00:07:53.820 And I'm gonna teach you what it means to operate in both. 118 00:07:53.820 --> 00:07:56.660 And for the next two and a half hours, 119 00:07:56.660 --> 00:08:00.540 I was in a third heaven encounter I didn't have a grid for. 120 00:08:00.540 --> 00:08:02.020 And in that encounter, 121 00:08:03.420 --> 00:08:05.260 I won't get into all of the encounter, 122 00:08:05.260 --> 00:08:09.620 but the Lord began to show me. 123 00:08:09.620 --> 00:08:11.380 Jesus started to show me my destiny. 124 00:08:11.380 --> 00:08:15.260 And he started to show me that I was called to be a prophet. 125 00:08:15.260 --> 00:08:18.220 And because I didn't have a grid for all of that, 126 00:08:18.220 --> 00:08:19.660 I sort of shelved that part. 127 00:08:19.660 --> 00:08:23.540 But I knew that what I experienced was real. 128 00:08:23.540 --> 00:08:25.260 And it just made me hungry for kingdom. 129 00:08:25.260 --> 00:08:26.820 It made me hungry for revival. 130 00:08:26.820 --> 00:08:30.540 It made me hungry to know the Holy Spirit. 131 00:08:30.540 --> 00:08:34.539 It made me hungry to see a manifestation of word and power. 132 00:08:34.539 --> 00:08:36.580 And it set me on this pathway. 133 00:08:36.580 --> 00:08:38.419 It set me on this journey. 134 00:08:38.419 --> 00:08:40.260 We'll flash forward a number of years. 135 00:08:40.260 --> 00:08:44.260 It was probably about 12 years ago then. 136 00:08:45.260 --> 00:08:49.860 So that was around 20 years ago, 12 years ago, 137 00:08:49.860 --> 00:08:52.380 my wife and I, we move out to Austin, 138 00:08:54.300 --> 00:08:59.020 hungry, still pretty new in what we'd call revival culture 139 00:08:59.020 --> 00:09:00.660 or kingdom mindedness. 140 00:09:00.660 --> 00:09:05.580 And we moved out here based off of a dream the Lord gave me. 141 00:09:05.580 --> 00:09:09.220 And it was a, he brought me to Austin in the dream. 142 00:09:09.220 --> 00:09:10.580 I had never been here before. 143 00:09:10.580 --> 00:09:13.380 And so we're here for several months. 144 00:09:13.380 --> 00:09:17.820 And we're walking around the city. 145 00:09:17.820 --> 00:09:19.500 And it was probably at this point, 146 00:09:19.500 --> 00:09:22.980 the third time I had heard his audible voice. 147 00:09:22.980 --> 00:09:26.100 And we're walking around Austin, it's our anniversary. 148 00:09:26.100 --> 00:09:28.140 And just getting to know the place. 149 00:09:28.140 --> 00:09:29.180 And I hear the Lord say, 150 00:09:29.180 --> 00:09:31.620 Alex, I want you to begin a prophesy over the city 151 00:09:31.620 --> 00:09:34.220 because I called you to be a prophet. 152 00:09:34.220 --> 00:09:39.220 And that was the first time in probably eight years 153 00:09:39.740 --> 00:09:42.300 that I really remembered that part of the encounter 154 00:09:42.300 --> 00:09:43.860 that I had had. 155 00:09:43.860 --> 00:09:46.580 And I'm like, okay, what does this mean? 156 00:09:46.580 --> 00:09:49.620 And so I'm feeling this internal call 157 00:09:49.620 --> 00:09:51.380 and I just started prophesying, 158 00:09:51.380 --> 00:09:53.900 whatever, just God, what do you want to say over the city? 159 00:09:53.900 --> 00:09:56.660 And as we're walking around doing the tourist thing 160 00:09:56.660 --> 00:09:59.140 and I'm hearing the Lord's voice, 161 00:09:59.140 --> 00:10:00.820 I'm hearing the Lord's voice. 162 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:01.480 in our new town. 163 00:10:00.820 --> 00:10:03.340 And I'm like, okay, what does this mean? 164 00:10:01.480 --> 00:10:03.800 I'm just releasing what I'm hearing. 165 00:10:03.340 --> 00:10:05.620 And I'm like, okay, what does this mean? 166 00:10:05.360 --> 00:10:08.960 About a year, two years later, 167 00:10:05.620 --> 00:10:07.940 And I'm like, okay, what does this mean? 168 00:10:08.960 --> 00:10:13.960 I am maybe three in that timeframe. 169 00:10:14.600 --> 00:10:16.040 It's our anniversary again. 170 00:10:16.040 --> 00:10:20.400 And it was February 22nd. 171 00:10:23.440 --> 00:10:26.380 And I had this dream and in the dream, 172 00:10:26.380 --> 00:10:29.480 I'm walking down this road and I see this, 173 00:10:29.500 --> 00:10:31.980 I see what looked like a massive bird 174 00:10:31.980 --> 00:10:33.980 walking along the road. 175 00:10:33.980 --> 00:10:38.020 He steps over what I would describe as a blanket 176 00:10:38.020 --> 00:10:40.100 because that was the language I had then. 177 00:10:40.100 --> 00:10:41.860 He stops, turns around, looks at me 178 00:10:41.860 --> 00:10:43.460 and has the face of a man and he says, 179 00:10:43.460 --> 00:10:46.060 I want you to pick this up, wear it and walk in it. 180 00:10:47.660 --> 00:10:52.660 And I had that dream three times over the next six months. 181 00:10:53.220 --> 00:10:56.800 The interesting thing was the day that I had that dream 182 00:10:56.800 --> 00:11:01.800 was actually the day that they were burying Bob Jones. 183 00:11:03.940 --> 00:11:06.260 He had passed that February 14th. 184 00:11:07.180 --> 00:11:09.760 And so I didn't have much of a grid for it, 185 00:11:11.260 --> 00:11:14.140 for the dream or what it meant. 186 00:11:14.140 --> 00:11:16.420 Had it three times over six months. 187 00:11:16.420 --> 00:11:20.560 A year later, my wife and I are in Dallas leading worship 188 00:11:20.560 --> 00:11:24.100 at a young adults conference at a church 189 00:11:24.100 --> 00:11:27.160 and Bobby Conner was the main speaker. 190 00:11:27.160 --> 00:11:31.720 And getting to interact with Bobby and just doing stuff. 191 00:11:31.720 --> 00:11:34.480 One day we're sitting at lunch and he starts, 192 00:11:35.400 --> 00:11:36.960 if you've ever been around Bobby Conner, 193 00:11:36.960 --> 00:11:39.960 he's got stories, he's gonna talk and it's amazing. 194 00:11:39.960 --> 00:11:43.080 And he looks at me and he says, son, you're so hungry. 195 00:11:43.080 --> 00:11:44.960 And we're at lunch and I'm looking at the menu. 196 00:11:44.960 --> 00:11:46.160 I'm like, yes, sir, yeah. 197 00:11:46.160 --> 00:11:48.480 He goes, no, no, no, no, no, no. 198 00:11:48.480 --> 00:11:50.080 Start asking your questions. 199 00:11:50.080 --> 00:11:51.760 And so I just start asking questions 200 00:11:51.760 --> 00:11:53.760 for the next two and a half hours. 201 00:11:54.300 --> 00:11:56.500 I'm asking him question after question. 202 00:11:56.500 --> 00:11:59.580 Bobby doesn't really always answer. 203 00:11:59.580 --> 00:12:01.260 He'll go off on a tangent, 204 00:12:01.260 --> 00:12:04.300 but in the tangent is the answer to your question. 205 00:12:04.300 --> 00:12:08.380 And through that, it got to this thing on dreams. 206 00:12:08.380 --> 00:12:10.380 And I said, hey, I've got this dream. 207 00:12:10.380 --> 00:12:13.500 I'd love to know what it means. 208 00:12:14.980 --> 00:12:16.620 And he said, go ahead, tell me your dream. 209 00:12:16.620 --> 00:12:19.660 Now, when I get comfortable around people, 210 00:12:19.660 --> 00:12:22.480 I lose control of my tongue a little bit. 211 00:12:22.480 --> 00:12:25.920 And so I said, I'm sitting here, 212 00:12:26.880 --> 00:12:29.300 I've got two, at that point, I only had two kids. 213 00:12:29.300 --> 00:12:31.700 Sarah was pregnant with our daughter, our third. 214 00:12:32.600 --> 00:12:36.520 And so this is probably around 10 years ago now. 215 00:12:37.360 --> 00:12:41.360 And I said to Bobby, I said, well, you're the prophet, 216 00:12:41.360 --> 00:12:42.340 tell me my dream. 217 00:12:44.000 --> 00:12:45.900 And she kicks me under the table. 218 00:12:45.900 --> 00:12:46.740 She's like, oh my God, 219 00:12:46.740 --> 00:12:49.200 I can't believe how disrespectful you are. 220 00:12:49.200 --> 00:12:50.580 And Bobby took it in stride. 221 00:12:50.580 --> 00:12:52.340 And he looked at me and he said, son, 222 00:12:53.180 --> 00:12:54.420 I need you to tell me the dream. 223 00:12:54.420 --> 00:12:55.660 And I said, okay. 224 00:12:55.660 --> 00:12:57.820 There was something about the way he said that to me. 225 00:12:57.820 --> 00:13:01.020 And so I tell him the dream that I just shared with you. 226 00:13:01.020 --> 00:13:02.540 And he says, I have to tell you 227 00:13:02.540 --> 00:13:04.440 about the first time I meet Bob Jones. 228 00:13:05.540 --> 00:13:07.300 Like, no. 229 00:13:07.300 --> 00:13:10.060 Now, I had met Bobby several times before 230 00:13:10.060 --> 00:13:12.200 because of my relationship with Georgian. 231 00:13:13.340 --> 00:13:18.340 And so I'm rewinding years of encounters with Bobby. 232 00:13:19.340 --> 00:13:21.100 And I'm just, I'm like, no. 233 00:13:21.100 --> 00:13:24.260 And he said, well, I had this dream. 234 00:13:24.260 --> 00:13:26.300 And as I'm walking, I'm in this dream 235 00:13:26.300 --> 00:13:29.420 and I'm walking down this road and I see this bird 236 00:13:29.420 --> 00:13:31.300 and he's walking along the road 237 00:13:31.300 --> 00:13:33.340 and he steps over a mantle. 238 00:13:35.300 --> 00:13:38.260 Turns around, looks and it's the face of Bob Jones. 239 00:13:38.260 --> 00:13:40.100 And Bob Jones says, I want you to pick this up 240 00:13:40.100 --> 00:13:41.060 and I want you to wear it 241 00:13:41.060 --> 00:13:42.300 because you're called to be a prophet 242 00:13:42.300 --> 00:13:45.220 and you're gonna walk in the office of the prophet. 243 00:13:45.220 --> 00:13:46.060 And he looks at me, he goes, 244 00:13:46.060 --> 00:13:48.820 son, you had the same dream I had. 245 00:13:48.820 --> 00:13:51.220 And the Lord has called you to the office of the prophet. 246 00:13:51.220 --> 00:13:53.740 And the moment that you're ready to walk in it, 247 00:13:53.740 --> 00:13:57.740 you'll pick up that mantle and you'll wear it. 248 00:13:57.740 --> 00:13:59.440 You're just staring at the mantle. 249 00:14:00.580 --> 00:14:03.460 The Lord's telling you to pick it up and walk in it. 250 00:14:03.460 --> 00:14:04.740 And it freaked me out. 251 00:14:04.740 --> 00:14:08.560 I was like, oh my gosh, like, okay. 252 00:14:08.560 --> 00:14:11.260 And so two days went by, we're at this conference 253 00:14:11.260 --> 00:14:13.860 and on the third, the final night, 254 00:14:13.860 --> 00:14:16.500 I'm in the green room with Bobby and my wife 255 00:14:16.500 --> 00:14:17.440 and a couple of others. 256 00:14:17.440 --> 00:14:21.400 And I said, Bobby, I wanna walk in that. 257 00:14:21.400 --> 00:14:24.160 I just don't know how, I don't know what that means. 258 00:14:24.160 --> 00:14:26.240 And he says, well, that mantle is the same one 259 00:14:26.240 --> 00:14:29.000 that I carry, it's the same one that Bob Jones carried. 260 00:14:30.320 --> 00:14:31.840 I'm gonna lay hands on you 261 00:14:31.840 --> 00:14:34.920 and release an impartation of it so you'll know. 262 00:14:34.920 --> 00:14:37.760 And boom, I mean, it just hit me. 263 00:14:37.760 --> 00:14:40.120 And for the next three weeks, 264 00:14:40.120 --> 00:14:42.560 I was having encounters and all sorts of stuff. 265 00:14:42.560 --> 00:14:44.680 I was just, it was just so much. 266 00:14:44.680 --> 00:14:45.840 I prayed, I was like, God, 267 00:14:46.040 --> 00:14:48.280 I don't know what to do with this. 268 00:14:48.280 --> 00:14:49.440 We had come back from that. 269 00:14:49.440 --> 00:14:51.840 The only other people who knew anything 270 00:14:51.840 --> 00:14:56.240 about that experience was my senior leaders at the time. 271 00:14:57.440 --> 00:14:58.940 I shared it with them immediately, 272 00:14:58.940 --> 00:15:00.040 but because I didn't. 273 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:02.560 have any idea how to steward it, what it meant. 274 00:15:02.560 --> 00:15:05.520 I was like, I'm looking for somebody to train me 275 00:15:05.520 --> 00:15:07.420 and fathers and mothers and all this. 276 00:15:08.580 --> 00:15:11.660 So I prayed and I said, God, I need you to shut this off 277 00:15:11.660 --> 00:15:15.460 until somebody is able to come around me. 278 00:15:15.460 --> 00:15:20.460 So a year later, it's probably eight years ago now, 279 00:15:20.660 --> 00:15:22.660 Dan McCollum comes through town. 280 00:15:22.660 --> 00:15:25.740 We had already built a relationship with him as a church 281 00:15:25.740 --> 00:15:28.820 and he and Richard are traveling, 282 00:15:28.820 --> 00:15:30.160 doing some stuff locally. 283 00:15:30.160 --> 00:15:32.720 And Richard was a senior leader at the time 284 00:15:32.720 --> 00:15:34.580 and he's such a papa and so proud 285 00:15:34.580 --> 00:15:37.120 and he's bragging on all of the staff and he gets to me 286 00:15:37.120 --> 00:15:42.120 and he shares with Dano my experience with Bobby Connor. 287 00:15:43.680 --> 00:15:46.960 That evening, we're having a meeting at the church 288 00:15:46.960 --> 00:15:49.240 and Dano comes running up to me. 289 00:15:49.240 --> 00:15:52.080 And if you know Dano, he doesn't run to anybody. 290 00:15:53.360 --> 00:15:56.360 No, he makes a beeline, he's running to me. 291 00:15:56.380 --> 00:15:59.180 And he says, Richard told me about Bobby, 292 00:15:59.180 --> 00:16:00.580 I need to talk to you. 293 00:16:00.580 --> 00:16:03.740 And I'm like, sure, yeah, let's talk. 294 00:16:03.740 --> 00:16:06.140 And he's like, I know Bobby, he doesn't do that. 295 00:16:07.100 --> 00:16:08.700 He doesn't do that with anybody. 296 00:16:10.100 --> 00:16:13.700 You need mentors and you need fathers in your life. 297 00:16:13.700 --> 00:16:14.780 And I said, would you be that? 298 00:16:14.780 --> 00:16:18.120 He goes, no, but I'm gonna invite you to walk with me. 299 00:16:18.120 --> 00:16:20.900 And I said, wherever you go, I'll follow. 300 00:16:20.900 --> 00:16:23.260 And it's been eight years and I just been, 301 00:16:24.240 --> 00:16:26.160 like a dog on a bone, man. 302 00:16:26.160 --> 00:16:29.840 I hitched my wagon there and I said, all right, 303 00:16:29.840 --> 00:16:32.960 I'm gonna learn and eat up everything I can do. 304 00:16:33.880 --> 00:16:37.520 About a year later, I'm out in Vacaville, 305 00:16:37.520 --> 00:16:39.280 less than a year later, I'm out in Vacaville 306 00:16:39.280 --> 00:16:42.480 for the first time for School of Prophetic Training 307 00:16:42.480 --> 00:16:45.280 that Dano hosts and Prophetic Company hosts. 308 00:16:45.280 --> 00:16:50.280 And I remember sitting, going to lunch in the, 309 00:16:51.320 --> 00:16:53.160 it was in the hangar, Margaret. 310 00:16:54.060 --> 00:16:56.340 It was in the hangar and I'm going to lunch 311 00:16:56.340 --> 00:16:59.260 and I'm in line and Dano goes, hey, where are you sitting? 312 00:16:59.260 --> 00:17:00.380 And I said, oh, I'm gonna sit with these. 313 00:17:00.380 --> 00:17:02.060 He goes, no, you're not, you're sitting with me. 314 00:17:02.060 --> 00:17:04.819 I said, oh, okay, I guess I'm sitting with you. 315 00:17:04.819 --> 00:17:09.300 And so walk over to the table and I think, 316 00:17:09.300 --> 00:17:12.339 actually Margaret, you may have been sitting at that table. 317 00:17:12.339 --> 00:17:15.180 Probably, I didn't meet you, meet you 318 00:17:16.180 --> 00:17:17.980 until the following year though, so. 319 00:17:19.859 --> 00:17:23.040 Of other people and he says, hey, this is Alex. 320 00:17:23.859 --> 00:17:28.860 He's a friend of mine, he's a prophet in Texas, right, Alex? 321 00:17:29.380 --> 00:17:34.380 And I was like, yes, and that was it. 322 00:17:34.940 --> 00:17:37.780 I was sort of thrown in the deep end, honestly. 323 00:17:37.780 --> 00:17:40.100 And like I said, hitch my wagon there 324 00:17:40.100 --> 00:17:41.580 and I haven't looked back since. 325 00:17:41.580 --> 00:17:44.020 So probably a lot longer of a story, 326 00:17:44.020 --> 00:17:47.420 but that was my journey and just started going, 327 00:17:47.420 --> 00:17:50.220 okay, what does it look like to walk in this office? 328 00:17:50.240 --> 00:17:52.880 What does it look like to raise up 329 00:17:52.880 --> 00:17:55.000 and equip another generation of prophets? 330 00:17:55.000 --> 00:17:57.100 Because that's part of what I feel called to do. 331 00:17:57.100 --> 00:17:59.680 Margaret actually gave me a word years ago. 332 00:17:59.680 --> 00:18:02.800 She said, you're a prophet to the prophets. 333 00:18:02.800 --> 00:18:05.080 And Dano helped me unpack that a little bit. 334 00:18:05.080 --> 00:18:08.160 And it's not only that I'm a prophet to prophets 335 00:18:08.160 --> 00:18:11.160 and prophesy to prophets and work with other prophets, 336 00:18:11.160 --> 00:18:13.800 but it's about identifying and raising up 337 00:18:13.800 --> 00:18:15.560 the next generation of prophets 338 00:18:15.560 --> 00:18:19.120 and raising them from call to office. 339 00:18:19.120 --> 00:18:21.580 And so that's my journey, really. 340 00:18:22.700 --> 00:18:23.540 Wow. 341 00:18:23.540 --> 00:18:24.540 That's quite the journey. 342 00:18:24.540 --> 00:18:26.660 Yeah, I don't think you've ever heard the whole story. 343 00:18:26.660 --> 00:18:29.060 No, I didn't hear about that, Dream. 344 00:18:29.060 --> 00:18:29.900 Yeah. 345 00:18:29.900 --> 00:18:31.980 I didn't hear about your encounter 346 00:18:31.980 --> 00:18:34.380 with Bobby Conner or Dano running. 347 00:18:34.380 --> 00:18:36.420 I think I would have remembered Dano running. 348 00:18:36.420 --> 00:18:38.040 Yes, absolutely. 349 00:18:39.700 --> 00:18:40.820 I love this story. 350 00:18:40.820 --> 00:18:43.220 It's so wild, you know, 351 00:18:43.220 --> 00:18:46.820 and we have so many people in here that are, you know, 352 00:18:46.820 --> 00:18:49.640 mystics and have wild God encounters. 353 00:18:49.640 --> 00:18:52.040 And then we also have people that are just entering 354 00:18:52.040 --> 00:18:54.280 into this new space of this, 355 00:18:54.280 --> 00:18:56.760 or they've had God encounters and can't figure out, 356 00:18:56.760 --> 00:19:00.760 you know, are other people having experiences like me? 357 00:19:00.760 --> 00:19:02.120 Am I crazy? 358 00:19:02.120 --> 00:19:04.040 So this is really great to hear. 359 00:19:04.040 --> 00:19:05.760 You know, we've all heard Chris's story 360 00:19:05.760 --> 00:19:08.080 about Jesus walking into the bathroom 361 00:19:08.080 --> 00:19:10.340 and having that encounter. 362 00:19:10.340 --> 00:19:13.360 Now, so this was, you know, 363 00:19:13.360 --> 00:19:16.660 a short version of your journey, obviously. 364 00:19:17.400 --> 00:19:20.080 What would you say were some really practical things 365 00:19:20.080 --> 00:19:22.600 that you learned, you know, 366 00:19:22.600 --> 00:19:25.880 just walking alongside Dano and, you know, 367 00:19:25.880 --> 00:19:28.280 discovering your, what it looks like 368 00:19:28.280 --> 00:19:31.100 to walk in the office of prophet. 369 00:19:31.100 --> 00:19:33.160 So one of the first things I learned was to, 370 00:19:33.160 --> 00:19:36.740 and I'm actually going to quote Hamilton, the play, right? 371 00:19:38.440 --> 00:19:42.680 Aaron Burr, talk less, smile more. 372 00:19:43.100 --> 00:19:47.140 That was the first thing I actually learned, you know, 373 00:19:48.260 --> 00:19:53.260 you know, I, because I grew up the way that I did 374 00:19:53.940 --> 00:19:58.340 with such a solid Bible background. 375 00:19:58.340 --> 00:20:00.180 And again, I'll go back to the word. 376 00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:02.640 the Lord spoke to me the first time I heard his audible voice, 377 00:20:02.640 --> 00:20:06.640 you know, my word, but you don't know my power. Um, you know, 378 00:20:07.160 --> 00:20:09.520 I've got the degrees, I've got the certifications, 379 00:20:09.520 --> 00:20:11.400 I've got all the stuff on the wall. 380 00:20:12.000 --> 00:20:13.720 So there was a lot of stuff I thought I knew. 381 00:20:13.720 --> 00:20:18.160 And because I thought I knew stuff, I would just talk. Right. Um, 382 00:20:18.240 --> 00:20:22.080 and so the first thing I learned was always be a student, 383 00:20:23.160 --> 00:20:24.200 always be learning, 384 00:20:24.520 --> 00:20:28.860 always be hungry to learn more than you 385 00:20:28.860 --> 00:20:32.140 share or impart. I call it now. 386 00:20:32.140 --> 00:20:34.540 It's the art of being the quietest man in the room. 387 00:20:35.940 --> 00:20:38.740 Because if you're always talking, you're always, Oh yeah, 388 00:20:38.740 --> 00:20:41.060 the Lord showed me this and the Lord showed me that. No. Yeah. 389 00:20:42.420 --> 00:20:43.820 You become white noise. 390 00:20:44.060 --> 00:20:47.940 But if you learn to be the quietest person in the room and then, 391 00:20:48.060 --> 00:20:52.700 and then speak what you release and what you say has more power, 392 00:20:52.700 --> 00:20:55.940 it has more authority. Um, and people will listen. 393 00:20:56.260 --> 00:21:00.580 And so that was one of the first things I learned was be quiet, learn, 394 00:21:00.980 --> 00:21:05.700 listen, um, and just continue to continue to 395 00:21:05.700 --> 00:21:09.460 steward your personal relationship with the Lord. Wow. 396 00:21:09.540 --> 00:21:13.780 Your time will come. You know, I think the second thing, uh, 397 00:21:13.860 --> 00:21:16.420 I learned was, um, 398 00:21:17.180 --> 00:21:20.900 and this is a direct quote from Dano was, uh, 399 00:21:20.940 --> 00:21:24.060 do you want to be right? Or do you want to see the outcome? 400 00:21:25.020 --> 00:21:29.300 And I think one of the things that, because of how I am wired, 401 00:21:29.820 --> 00:21:33.820 I, I am a perceiver knower as my primary receptor. 402 00:21:34.220 --> 00:21:38.260 I don't know how I know the things that I know. I just know that I know. 403 00:21:39.660 --> 00:21:43.100 Um, and, um, 404 00:21:43.820 --> 00:21:48.020 I'm a bit of a mystic in the sense of dreams and encounters in that way. 405 00:21:48.540 --> 00:21:52.500 Um, and so I often see things 406 00:21:53.260 --> 00:21:58.140 before it happens, like sometimes days, sometimes months, 407 00:21:58.140 --> 00:22:02.340 sometimes years before it happens, but because it seems so real to me, I, 408 00:22:02.500 --> 00:22:06.060 I'm also a builder and I'm going to run and try to build it and get it to happen 409 00:22:06.060 --> 00:22:07.940 and go. And, you know, 410 00:22:07.940 --> 00:22:11.300 I would often sit in our pastoral staff meetings and I'd say something, 411 00:22:11.460 --> 00:22:13.660 I'd say, Hey, this is what the Lord is saying. 412 00:22:13.660 --> 00:22:17.460 This is what we need to do. And it would be years before, 413 00:22:17.940 --> 00:22:21.620 before anyone took any action on it. And when they finally did, 414 00:22:21.620 --> 00:22:24.300 I'd be so frustrated. I'm like, I told you this three years ago, 415 00:22:24.700 --> 00:22:27.820 I've been saying this, I've been, I've been ringing this bell for months. 416 00:22:28.180 --> 00:22:32.420 Like this guy walks in off the street and he says something and all of a sudden 417 00:22:32.420 --> 00:22:34.260 it's like, Oh my God, it's the first time you ever heard it. 418 00:22:34.300 --> 00:22:38.620 And I get so frustrated and Dano Dano challenged me. He's like, Alex, 419 00:22:38.620 --> 00:22:42.940 do you want to be right? Or do you want to see the outcome? Wow. And I said, 420 00:22:44.060 --> 00:22:49.060 honestly, I want both because I'm an, I'm a high D I'm an eight personality, 421 00:22:49.980 --> 00:22:53.740 you know, on the enneagram. Like I want both. I said, but, 422 00:22:54.260 --> 00:22:57.140 but the reality is I want to see, I want to see the outcome. 423 00:22:57.300 --> 00:23:01.060 I want to see it happen. And he said, okay, so you just keep going for that. 424 00:23:01.500 --> 00:23:05.020 Don't worry about being right. Don't worry about the, I told you so. And that, 425 00:23:05.060 --> 00:23:08.140 that, that partnered with learning to be just quiet and still, 426 00:23:08.140 --> 00:23:11.620 and learning when to release a word, learning when to hold a word. 427 00:23:13.220 --> 00:23:16.500 Those, those are probably the two biggest things, lessons I've learned. 428 00:23:17.140 --> 00:23:22.020 Mm. Yeah. I think I love your story about like, 429 00:23:23.820 --> 00:23:28.700 you know, D just sharing, knowing things outside of time. 430 00:23:28.780 --> 00:23:32.500 Right. And Dano talks about, this is called living anachronistically, 431 00:23:33.420 --> 00:23:37.340 that we live outside of time. And so we see outside of time and that can be so 432 00:23:37.340 --> 00:23:39.820 hard. I love what, you know, 433 00:23:39.980 --> 00:23:43.140 Deb Crone has done that same kind of experience. 434 00:23:43.140 --> 00:23:45.740 And one of the things that she actually talks about, 435 00:23:45.740 --> 00:23:50.740 which has stuck with me the most is like, you're like a UPS delivery person. 436 00:23:51.140 --> 00:23:55.100 You know, you, you just deliver the package, but you don't look for, 437 00:23:55.140 --> 00:23:58.060 you don't wait for them to open up the package. You don't say, 438 00:23:58.380 --> 00:24:02.820 how was the delivery? You know, can you unwrap it a little bit faster? 439 00:24:02.820 --> 00:24:07.140 What do you think of the product? You know? No, that's, that's not your job. 440 00:24:07.820 --> 00:24:11.140 It's just to deliver the package and, you know, 441 00:24:11.140 --> 00:24:16.020 obviously how the package is delivered, it matters. But, you know, when we're, 442 00:24:16.180 --> 00:24:19.460 when we're seeing outside of time and, you know, 443 00:24:19.460 --> 00:24:23.860 I think it's really important that we steward, how do, 444 00:24:24.180 --> 00:24:26.780 you know, steward the timeline of when, 445 00:24:27.420 --> 00:24:30.380 when we're seeing things, when we're picking up on stuff, 446 00:24:30.380 --> 00:24:32.500 like is it three years out? Is it two years out? 447 00:24:32.500 --> 00:24:37.420 Like some of this is training for, for us when we, when that happens. 448 00:24:37.780 --> 00:24:40.620 And so I love that so much. And I love, 449 00:24:40.660 --> 00:24:42.540 I love the advice that Dano gave you. 450 00:24:42.980 --> 00:24:47.420 And it's, and it's learning sometimes you're just training, right? 451 00:24:47.820 --> 00:24:52.060 And so I've, I've become an avid note taker and journaler, 452 00:24:52.100 --> 00:24:54.100 so to speak, because 453 00:24:56.740 --> 00:24:58.820 because if, if I don't 454 00:25:00.000 --> 00:25:04.120 Um, if I don't, then I can get frustrated. 455 00:25:04.160 --> 00:25:08.580 And so what I do is if I don't have an assignment on something, uh, I just 456 00:25:08.580 --> 00:25:12.780 start taking notes and track it for myself because I know that I'm training. 457 00:25:12.780 --> 00:25:15.120 I'm building up my accuracy. 458 00:25:15.120 --> 00:25:16.360 I'm building up things. 459 00:25:16.380 --> 00:25:20.460 So I think this is, will be the first time I share this anywhere. 460 00:25:21.060 --> 00:25:26.380 Um, but I'll give you a real practical for instance. 461 00:25:26.380 --> 00:25:35.380 And, um, so I've got a note in, in my phone that is dated February 22nd. 462 00:25:36.120 --> 00:25:37.220 Probably can't see that. 463 00:25:38.060 --> 00:25:38.480 Okay. 464 00:25:38.500 --> 00:25:40.240 But it's dated February 22nd. 465 00:25:41.180 --> 00:25:50.460 Um, and I had a dream and in that dream, uh, I dreamt Pope Francis will die in 466 00:25:50.460 --> 00:25:56.980 around the beginning of Easter and by Pentecost, we'll have a new Pope. 467 00:25:58.940 --> 00:25:59.340 Right. 468 00:25:59.860 --> 00:26:00.180 Wow. 469 00:26:01.260 --> 00:26:08.560 If I hadn't built up a history in accuracy and even learning how to hold 470 00:26:08.560 --> 00:26:10.540 onto something, right. 471 00:26:11.040 --> 00:26:17.900 Um, man, the temptation to jump on Facebook and put this out there, right. 472 00:26:18.120 --> 00:26:23.480 The temptation to start telling everybody I know, and the Lord was like, uh, no, 473 00:26:23.480 --> 00:26:25.340 I'm revealing my secrets to my friends. 474 00:26:26.000 --> 00:26:28.940 Um, can I trust you to keep my secrets? 475 00:26:29.180 --> 00:26:29.320 Yeah. 476 00:26:29.320 --> 00:26:33.580 So I, I, I took a note, made sure it was dated. 477 00:26:33.600 --> 00:26:34.920 I emailed it to myself. 478 00:26:34.920 --> 00:26:36.660 So there's an official timestamp on it. 479 00:26:37.140 --> 00:26:37.420 Yeah. 480 00:26:37.520 --> 00:26:37.860 Right. 481 00:26:38.140 --> 00:26:40.640 And shared it with my wife, Sarah, and that was it. 482 00:26:41.500 --> 00:26:44.900 Um, and I'm still waiting to see how this word plays out. 483 00:26:44.920 --> 00:26:45.220 Right. 484 00:26:45.220 --> 00:26:48.780 Because there were some other things that I saw happening with the new Pope. 485 00:26:49.020 --> 00:26:54.660 And so just sitting around going, okay, conclave starts this Tuesday and I'm 486 00:26:54.660 --> 00:26:58.020 waiting to see, right, because I know that I'm training, I'm training in an 487 00:26:58.020 --> 00:27:00.180 area that I'm called to reign in. 488 00:27:00.820 --> 00:27:05.380 And so, you know, um, I think that's a huge part of that. 489 00:27:05.580 --> 00:27:06.140 I do. 490 00:27:06.180 --> 00:27:07.860 I saw a question pop up in the chat. 491 00:27:07.860 --> 00:27:12.020 Can we, can we, hold, hold, hold, please. 492 00:27:12.020 --> 00:27:13.340 While I put on my glasses. 493 00:27:13.820 --> 00:27:14.740 Oh my gosh. 494 00:27:15.300 --> 00:27:18.620 You know, I'm officially at the age, let me just get this out here. 495 00:27:18.940 --> 00:27:23.900 I'm officially at the age where I got to put these on to read, take them off to 496 00:27:23.900 --> 00:27:29.220 see, and these are prescriptions y'all like this, it's not like these are readers 497 00:27:29.220 --> 00:27:30.180 or anything like that. 498 00:27:30.180 --> 00:27:31.940 And it's, it's just driving me nuts. 499 00:27:31.940 --> 00:27:33.460 So I'm, I'm putting that out there. 500 00:27:33.540 --> 00:27:34.780 I'm praying for healing. 501 00:27:35.260 --> 00:27:40.100 Um, for, so I don't have to do that, but there was a question about picking up 502 00:27:41.100 --> 00:27:46.580 and, um, I'm, I'm re looking for it in the chat. 503 00:27:47.060 --> 00:27:52.940 Um, it says, he says it's from does, does one in the office of the prophet 504 00:27:52.940 --> 00:27:54.580 normally pick up someone else's man? 505 00:27:54.580 --> 00:28:04.300 So I think this is huge because I will often get people with well meaning 506 00:28:04.300 --> 00:28:07.500 hearts and intentions say, Hey, can you impart your mantle to me? 507 00:28:08.540 --> 00:28:09.780 And my answer is no. 508 00:28:10.660 --> 00:28:11.700 Because I'm still using it. 509 00:28:15.060 --> 00:28:16.220 I I'm still wearing it. 510 00:28:16.420 --> 00:28:17.980 I'm still learning how, how to wear it. 511 00:28:18.340 --> 00:28:18.660 Right. 512 00:28:18.700 --> 00:28:24.820 I still like, uh, my, my call and assignment isn't up yet. 513 00:28:25.060 --> 00:28:25.420 Right. 514 00:28:25.540 --> 00:28:25.780 Yeah. 515 00:28:25.820 --> 00:28:31.300 It's the reason why, uh, the safest person to sit on, on a long distance 516 00:28:31.300 --> 00:28:34.660 airplane ride is me because I'm not done. 517 00:28:35.300 --> 00:28:35.700 Right. 518 00:28:35.740 --> 00:28:40.140 I like, I, I, I flew to Florida last a couple of weeks ago. 519 00:28:40.420 --> 00:28:42.340 My mom was recovering from surgery. 520 00:28:42.340 --> 00:28:45.500 So I went out to take care of her and help out lady next to 521 00:28:45.500 --> 00:28:47.380 me is bugging on this flight. 522 00:28:47.460 --> 00:28:51.060 Like we hit, we hit some turbulence and it was, it was pretty jarring. 523 00:28:51.620 --> 00:28:53.660 And she's like, Oh my gosh, you're so calm. 524 00:28:54.020 --> 00:28:56.700 You know, I'm like, Hey, listen, you don't got to worry about 525 00:28:56.700 --> 00:28:57.780 this plane ain't going nowhere. 526 00:28:58.180 --> 00:28:59.260 And she's like, why not? 527 00:28:59.300 --> 00:29:00.140 I was like, cause I'm on it. 528 00:29:01.940 --> 00:29:04.060 And she's like, what does that mean? 529 00:29:04.060 --> 00:29:05.260 I said, I know what I'm called to. 530 00:29:05.260 --> 00:29:08.860 I know what God, God's plans for my life are, and I haven't completed them yet. 531 00:29:08.860 --> 00:29:12.340 And I'm not going anywhere until they're done. 532 00:29:12.900 --> 00:29:15.700 And so you're probably in the safest spot. 533 00:29:15.700 --> 00:29:18.220 You can be, she looked at me. 534 00:29:18.220 --> 00:29:18.940 It was like, I don't know. 535 00:29:18.940 --> 00:29:22.100 She thought I was nuts or she was just assured, but 536 00:29:22.100 --> 00:29:23.580 she calmed down really quickly. 537 00:29:24.060 --> 00:29:26.580 Um, but back to the mantle thing, right? 538 00:29:27.260 --> 00:29:31.660 You don't always pick up someone else's mantle, especially 539 00:29:31.660 --> 00:29:32.700 if they're still wearing it. 540 00:29:33.540 --> 00:29:33.980 Right. 541 00:29:34.180 --> 00:29:40.260 So, so the, the, the thing with Bobby and the, the thing with Bob Jones, when Bobby 542 00:29:40.260 --> 00:29:46.060 says, Hey, you're called to wear the same mantle that both I carry and Bob Jones 543 00:29:46.060 --> 00:29:49.100 carried, it wasn't the one that they were wearing. 544 00:29:49.100 --> 00:29:53.500 It's the same as if though, Hey, I've got that same shirt, right? 545 00:29:53.540 --> 00:29:56.620 Oh, I have that same exact jacket, right? 546 00:29:57.820 --> 00:29:59.820 However, it's going to be tailored different. 547 00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:05.000 because it'll be designed to fit me, right? 548 00:30:05.320 --> 00:30:08.840 If I took this over shirt off 549 00:30:08.840 --> 00:30:10.880 and gave it to one of you to wear, 550 00:30:10.880 --> 00:30:14.160 it might look like a boat cover to you 551 00:30:14.160 --> 00:30:16.500 because I'm a big guy, right? 552 00:30:16.500 --> 00:30:21.500 It's not tailored for you, it's meant for me. 553 00:30:21.500 --> 00:30:25.520 But if you went, I guess this is Target, I don't know. 554 00:30:25.520 --> 00:30:28.800 If you went and picked up one from Target, 555 00:30:28.800 --> 00:30:32.080 it would be for you to wear, but it's the same. 556 00:30:32.080 --> 00:30:34.080 Does that make sense? 557 00:30:34.080 --> 00:30:39.080 Now, there are times where there are those generals 558 00:30:39.480 --> 00:30:42.640 that have passed and they laid down their mantle, right? 559 00:30:42.640 --> 00:30:44.560 Or their mantle is laid down. 560 00:30:44.560 --> 00:30:47.260 I believe those you can pick up, right? 561 00:30:47.260 --> 00:30:49.840 But even then the Lord does something supernaturally 562 00:30:49.840 --> 00:30:53.100 to tailor it to you, okay? 563 00:30:53.100 --> 00:30:54.760 Because you're going to wear it differently. 564 00:30:54.760 --> 00:30:56.120 You're gonna walk in it differently. 565 00:30:56.120 --> 00:30:58.680 It's gonna rest on you differently. 566 00:30:59.400 --> 00:31:04.400 Yes, Elijah goes up in the whirlwind, right? 567 00:31:04.840 --> 00:31:09.460 And Elisha sees it and picks up the mantle and puts it on. 568 00:31:09.460 --> 00:31:12.000 But I guarantee you, it looked completely different 569 00:31:12.000 --> 00:31:14.880 on Elisha than it did on Elijah. 570 00:31:14.880 --> 00:31:18.120 Elisha used it and operated in it 571 00:31:18.120 --> 00:31:20.840 completely different than Elijah. 572 00:31:20.840 --> 00:31:25.160 Elisha does twice as many recorded miracles 573 00:31:26.160 --> 00:31:31.160 in the Old Testament than Elijah does with the same mantle. 574 00:31:33.280 --> 00:31:35.840 So it looks differently. 575 00:31:35.840 --> 00:31:40.720 So, you know, especially going to all of these conferences 576 00:31:40.720 --> 00:31:42.480 and these events, man, I tell you, 577 00:31:42.480 --> 00:31:44.480 you got people who are mantle junkies. 578 00:31:44.480 --> 00:31:45.440 Oh, I want it. 579 00:31:46.680 --> 00:31:50.400 You can't have mine, but I can give you an impartation 580 00:31:50.400 --> 00:31:53.940 of the grace that this gives me, right? 581 00:31:54.020 --> 00:31:56.540 And that's what Bobby was doing with me, 582 00:31:56.540 --> 00:31:59.380 is, hey, it might be the same mantle. 583 00:31:59.380 --> 00:32:02.500 This is for you, but I'm going to release an impartation 584 00:32:02.500 --> 00:32:07.500 of the grace that I carry from my mantle. 585 00:32:07.620 --> 00:32:08.940 Does that make sense? 586 00:32:08.940 --> 00:32:11.180 Yeah, that's a great answer. 587 00:32:11.180 --> 00:32:12.520 I love that so much. 588 00:32:14.060 --> 00:32:16.220 Wow, there's just wisdom. 589 00:32:16.220 --> 00:32:18.340 You know, I really feel the presence of the Lord 590 00:32:18.340 --> 00:32:20.020 as you're speaking. 591 00:32:20.020 --> 00:32:22.940 You know, there's just really wisdom being imparted 592 00:32:22.940 --> 00:32:26.140 into people as they're figuring 593 00:32:26.140 --> 00:32:27.500 this whole mantle thing out. 594 00:32:27.500 --> 00:32:30.420 And I feel like that is such a practical answer. 595 00:32:30.420 --> 00:32:33.440 Well, of course you can't have my jacket or my mantle. 596 00:32:33.440 --> 00:32:37.260 Now it's mine, but here's where you can get one, you know? 597 00:32:37.260 --> 00:32:39.180 Yeah, yeah, exactly. 598 00:32:39.180 --> 00:32:44.180 Yeah, I think that another question would be is like, 599 00:32:44.620 --> 00:32:48.900 some people in here are so new to the prophetic 600 00:32:48.900 --> 00:32:53.380 and just, you know, trying to figure out, you know, 601 00:32:53.380 --> 00:32:55.340 whether or not they're called to be a prophet. 602 00:32:55.340 --> 00:32:58.020 Obviously they're resonating with something 603 00:32:58.020 --> 00:33:00.140 because, you know, Chris is in here, I'm in here, 604 00:33:00.140 --> 00:33:02.920 Peter's in here, got a bunch of prophets in here. 605 00:33:03.820 --> 00:33:07.660 What would you say to them in just pursuing 606 00:33:07.660 --> 00:33:10.840 their knowledge of, am I called to be a prophet? 607 00:33:13.100 --> 00:33:17.800 I would first begin to look at, well, what is a prophet? 608 00:33:19.260 --> 00:33:24.260 Right here, let's make this official, like Bible time. 609 00:33:27.060 --> 00:33:30.580 I'm gonna scroll, you know, for years as a pastor, 610 00:33:30.580 --> 00:33:34.100 I'll turn in your Bibles too, I got that language out. 611 00:33:34.100 --> 00:33:38.140 If you have your Bible app, scroll to Ephesians chapter four. 612 00:33:40.540 --> 00:33:41.380 Right? 613 00:33:41.380 --> 00:33:42.220 Okay. 614 00:33:42.220 --> 00:33:46.140 Let's scroll to Ephesians chapter four for a second, right? 615 00:33:46.140 --> 00:33:48.460 Verse 11, and he himself, who's this? 616 00:33:49.020 --> 00:33:49.980 It's Christ Jesus, right? 617 00:33:49.980 --> 00:33:53.180 And he himself gave some as apostles, some as prophets, 618 00:33:53.180 --> 00:33:56.100 and some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers. 619 00:33:56.100 --> 00:33:58.660 And we love that verse, especially as people 620 00:33:58.660 --> 00:34:02.980 who are hungry for a prophetic move 621 00:34:02.980 --> 00:34:07.480 and for, I'll use the language of office, 622 00:34:07.480 --> 00:34:10.139 even though I personally no longer use 623 00:34:10.139 --> 00:34:11.659 the language of office. 624 00:34:11.659 --> 00:34:13.639 I use the language of office simply because 625 00:34:13.639 --> 00:34:16.340 that's what most people recognize. 626 00:34:16.340 --> 00:34:17.179 Right. 627 00:34:17.179 --> 00:34:20.380 Nowhere here in scripture do we see that it's an office. 628 00:34:20.380 --> 00:34:21.219 Right? 629 00:34:21.219 --> 00:34:22.580 It is a grace. 630 00:34:22.580 --> 00:34:24.739 It is an ascension gift. 631 00:34:24.739 --> 00:34:27.780 And he himself gave gifts. 632 00:34:27.780 --> 00:34:29.219 What are the gifts? 633 00:34:29.219 --> 00:34:31.380 The gifts are actually the people, right? 634 00:34:31.380 --> 00:34:34.940 So apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, teachers. 635 00:34:34.940 --> 00:34:38.380 So we look at this and we're like, yes, I want that. 636 00:34:38.380 --> 00:34:39.940 I wanna, I want that gift. 637 00:34:39.940 --> 00:34:40.760 I wanna be that. 638 00:34:40.760 --> 00:34:45.760 Well, listen, first off, it is not a position you fill. 639 00:34:46.600 --> 00:34:48.960 It is who you are. 640 00:34:48.960 --> 00:34:49.800 Yeah. 641 00:34:49.800 --> 00:34:51.719 It is an identity you carry. 642 00:34:51.719 --> 00:34:56.639 If you want to be a prophet because it's a position you fill 643 00:34:58.320 --> 00:35:00.080 you can drop the class right now. 644 00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:05.240 And I hope you stay through, right? 645 00:35:05.240 --> 00:35:08.900 I don't want to get in trouble for having people drop out. 646 00:35:08.900 --> 00:35:20.040 But if you are only about, oh, that's a respected position, I would begin to question your internal 647 00:35:20.040 --> 00:35:21.680 call. 648 00:35:21.680 --> 00:35:25.920 I would begin to really have some serious dialogue with the Lord. 649 00:35:25.920 --> 00:35:32.360 Because it's not easy, right? 650 00:35:32.360 --> 00:35:38.320 It's not a journey that is to be taken lightly. 651 00:35:38.320 --> 00:35:44.140 There is a pressing, there is a crushing, there is, listen, you know, we can glam this 652 00:35:44.140 --> 00:35:45.640 up all we want. 653 00:35:45.640 --> 00:35:47.160 Oh, it looks great. 654 00:35:47.160 --> 00:35:49.340 Look, man, you get to talk to so many people. 655 00:35:49.340 --> 00:35:53.580 You stand on this platform, and you know, you're doing stuff with Dan O'Alex, you're 656 00:35:53.580 --> 00:36:00.260 doing stuff with Georgian, and you know, it has never been about a platform or a microphone 657 00:36:00.260 --> 00:36:01.260 for me. 658 00:36:01.260 --> 00:36:02.260 Right? 659 00:36:02.260 --> 00:36:03.260 Never. 660 00:36:03.260 --> 00:36:05.580 Listen, I got words for days. 661 00:36:05.580 --> 00:36:10.380 I can talk to people, I can talk to my kids, I can talk to the lady down the street. 662 00:36:10.380 --> 00:36:14.860 If it's about talking and being heard, trust me, I can do that. 663 00:36:14.860 --> 00:36:18.480 It's not about that for me, right? 664 00:36:18.620 --> 00:36:21.240 Because there is a price to be paid. 665 00:36:21.240 --> 00:36:26.120 And I don't know, Marguerite, I don't know that we often talk about the price that is 666 00:36:26.120 --> 00:36:31.200 paid and that we have to pay. 667 00:36:31.200 --> 00:36:39.800 And I'm not trying to downplay, or I'm not trying to be dramatic, okay? 668 00:36:39.800 --> 00:36:44.360 But realistically, seriously, there is a price to pay. 669 00:36:44.360 --> 00:36:46.880 There's rejection that happens. 670 00:36:46.880 --> 00:36:49.280 There's betrayal that happens. 671 00:36:49.280 --> 00:36:50.280 Absolutely. 672 00:36:50.280 --> 00:36:51.280 Okay? 673 00:36:51.280 --> 00:36:59.400 There is, there are hard seasons that you walk through that God, I don't believe God 674 00:36:59.400 --> 00:37:07.320 is sending it your way and causing it, but it's part of the process of your formation. 675 00:37:07.320 --> 00:37:14.360 Because when you find yourself in the cave like Elijah, and trust me, every prophet I 676 00:37:14.360 --> 00:37:20.440 know has had a moment in the cave. 677 00:37:20.440 --> 00:37:24.640 I came out of a cave a year and a half ago. 678 00:37:24.640 --> 00:37:29.040 And there are days where I'm like, God, am I back in this cave? 679 00:37:29.040 --> 00:37:31.800 Did I put myself back in this cave? 680 00:37:31.800 --> 00:37:38.000 And I'm just trying to be very transparent with the process. 681 00:37:38.000 --> 00:37:44.320 So the first thing is realize that you are the gift. 682 00:37:44.320 --> 00:37:46.120 If you are called, you are the gift. 683 00:37:46.120 --> 00:37:50.480 And so I would begin to say, okay, what's my motivation? 684 00:37:50.480 --> 00:37:53.520 Why am I looking to be a prophet? 685 00:37:53.520 --> 00:37:56.080 Or is this something that the Lord is actually calling me to? 686 00:37:56.080 --> 00:37:58.440 The second part, right? 687 00:37:58.440 --> 00:38:04.480 Verse 12, for the equipping of the saints for work of service, for the work of service, 688 00:38:04.480 --> 00:38:09.920 to the building up of the body of Christ, until we all attain to the unity of faith, 689 00:38:09.920 --> 00:38:18.480 of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature, which 690 00:38:18.480 --> 00:38:22.120 belongs to the fullness of Christ. 691 00:38:22.120 --> 00:38:27.200 That is your job description as a prophet, okay? 692 00:38:27.200 --> 00:38:29.960 To equip the saints for works of service. 693 00:38:29.960 --> 00:38:35.640 I believe every prophet should be equipping the saints in some way, shape, or form. 694 00:38:35.640 --> 00:38:42.360 And not, this is my personal opinion, this may not reflect the values and the teachings 695 00:38:42.360 --> 00:38:45.640 of emerging prophets, Bethel Church, but, right? 696 00:38:45.640 --> 00:38:49.360 So that's my disclaimer. 697 00:38:49.360 --> 00:38:54.480 But I believe it's more than just preaching equipping and modeling equipping. 698 00:38:54.480 --> 00:38:56.240 It's stuff like what we're doing here. 699 00:38:56.240 --> 00:39:00.560 The fact that y'all are sitting here, we've got 106 people on this call. 700 00:39:00.560 --> 00:39:04.640 The fact that you're here, this is how we equip. 701 00:39:04.640 --> 00:39:06.600 This is how we equip people. 702 00:39:06.600 --> 00:39:10.920 And so it doesn't mean that every person called to the office of a prophet needs to have a 703 00:39:10.920 --> 00:39:15.760 training school or a training program, but there are people that you are pouring into 704 00:39:15.760 --> 00:39:18.960 to equip, right? 705 00:39:18.960 --> 00:39:21.240 To the building up of the body of Christ. 706 00:39:21.240 --> 00:39:24.120 That's the preaching aspect. 707 00:39:24.120 --> 00:39:25.120 That's the preaching aspect. 708 00:39:25.120 --> 00:39:27.720 That's when you stand on the platform. 709 00:39:27.720 --> 00:39:30.360 But the first thing is to be equipping. 710 00:39:30.360 --> 00:39:31.360 Until what? 711 00:39:31.360 --> 00:39:34.480 We all attain to the unity of faith. 712 00:39:34.480 --> 00:39:43.960 If your prophetic ministry is not unifying the body, listen, my biggest, and I know my 713 00:39:43.960 --> 00:39:53.120 prophet hat is on, because my biggest problem, do I want to say it that way? 714 00:39:53.120 --> 00:39:55.080 Oh, I'm already there. 715 00:39:55.080 --> 00:39:57.560 We'll clean this up afterward. 716 00:39:57.560 --> 00:39:59.800 My biggest pet peeve, right? 717 00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:08.240 the corporate big c church at times it's its lack of unity we talk about being the bride of christ 718 00:40:09.600 --> 00:40:15.280 but we come off looking like the bride of frankenstein and behaving like the bride of chuckie 719 00:40:20.640 --> 00:40:28.320 but it takes a prophetic voice to call the dry bones to come together and come back to life 720 00:40:30.800 --> 00:40:36.960 i know that sounded harsh so hear my heart like i am full of joy i am happy 721 00:40:36.960 --> 00:40:43.840 i am walking in grace and there is grace but listen church we need to do better 722 00:40:45.040 --> 00:40:48.560 the church down the street is not my competition they're my brother and sister 723 00:40:50.480 --> 00:40:57.840 right the ministry down the way that has 15 000 followers and i've got 300 i've got 20 i got 724 00:40:57.840 --> 00:41:02.880 five they're not they're not my competition that's not what i'm striving to be i'm striving 725 00:41:02.880 --> 00:41:09.520 to unite the body come on philippians 2 paul says if you have any encouragement from being united 726 00:41:09.520 --> 00:41:14.480 with christ if any comfort from his love if any fellowship with the spirit if any tenderness or 727 00:41:14.480 --> 00:41:20.720 compassion verse 3 then make my joy complete by being like-minded having being in one accord 728 00:41:21.680 --> 00:41:23.920 being one in spirit and in purpose 729 00:41:25.840 --> 00:41:31.200 that's the call that's what paul is saying here right so prophets you unify 730 00:41:33.200 --> 00:41:36.880 so the unity of faith and of the knowledge of the son of god 731 00:41:39.360 --> 00:41:44.720 i i tell you man there there's a generation coming that's hungry for god but they don't know 732 00:41:45.680 --> 00:41:51.120 the word they don't have a knowledge of the son of god are we prophets 733 00:41:52.880 --> 00:41:58.400 are we training equipping in a knowledge this is why i love love the encounter that i had 734 00:41:59.120 --> 00:42:03.360 alex you know my word but you don't know my power i'm going to teach you what it means to operate in 735 00:42:03.360 --> 00:42:11.120 both so prophet you have to have a foundation in the word okay because that is how we get to 736 00:42:11.120 --> 00:42:15.680 the knowledge of the son of god in the beginning was the word and the word was with god and god was 737 00:42:15.680 --> 00:42:23.840 the word john 1 1 john 1 14 and the word became flesh and made his dwelling among us how do you 738 00:42:23.840 --> 00:42:30.160 get to know the son of god not just through divine revelation but it's right there in the pages of 739 00:42:30.160 --> 00:42:39.600 scripture yeah or in the scroll of the app right yeah um until not to a mature man to the measure 740 00:42:39.600 --> 00:42:44.320 of the stature which belongs to the fullness of christ listen we haven't gotten there we're helping 741 00:42:44.320 --> 00:42:50.400 people in their journey to maturity until they have reached to the full measure of the stature 742 00:42:50.400 --> 00:42:55.840 of the fullness of god and we know colossians says that in christ he has placed the fullness 743 00:42:55.840 --> 00:43:02.640 of the godhead and in you and in christ you have been given fullness so we know it's there now it's 744 00:43:03.600 --> 00:43:08.720 bringing it out so as you look at and this is a way long answer sorry marguerite but if you look 745 00:43:08.720 --> 00:43:14.080 at if you look at that as the job description of a prophet 746 00:43:16.400 --> 00:43:24.560 is that what i'm called to do is that what i'm feeling led to do if any of those is no 747 00:43:26.880 --> 00:43:34.320 then re-look at what you're called to do right okay re-look at that and it's not it's not bad 748 00:43:34.880 --> 00:43:43.920 it's okay why because paul says that we are many members of one body and each member has its 749 00:43:43.920 --> 00:43:53.200 purpose listen the head has its purpose but the appendix has a purpose too and the reason why i 750 00:43:53.200 --> 00:43:57.360 bring that one up is because this i once had a person say alex you know we're we're all part 751 00:43:57.360 --> 00:44:01.760 of the body and you say we all have our own purpose i feel like the appendix no one knows 752 00:44:01.760 --> 00:44:06.400 what the appendix does i said okay i can tell you one thing don't go bad because if you go bad 753 00:44:06.400 --> 00:44:13.200 you're going to poison the whole body and then you need to be removed come on wow okay but i guarantee 754 00:44:13.200 --> 00:44:21.280 you you've got a purpose and so so so if your purpose if your call is not to the office or 755 00:44:21.280 --> 00:44:29.280 to to be that ascension gift and walk in the ascension grace of that it's okay you still have 756 00:44:29.280 --> 00:44:36.240 usefulness purpose in the body okay um but that's where i would start to look at it and go okay 757 00:44:36.800 --> 00:44:41.120 is this is this does this then resonate with me is this what i'm actually called to 758 00:44:41.680 --> 00:44:49.760 yeah i think it i love your answer it was long but i went into teacher there i'm sorry it's all 759 00:44:49.760 --> 00:44:54.480 good no no you got your preach on you got your yeah i love it and it was so good it was so full 760 00:44:54.480 --> 00:44:59.840 of wisdom and just practicality of what we actually need to hear because you're right it is not glamorous 761 00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:07.200 The profit life isn't sexy. It's none of that. It's none of the above like they're they're seriously is a price to pay and 762 00:45:07.560 --> 00:45:09.560 we don't want to 763 00:45:10.240 --> 00:45:15.860 Downplay the goodness of God, but at the same time we don't want to downplay the the cost that it actually 764 00:45:16.880 --> 00:45:19.960 Takes to get to the place of the office 765 00:45:19.960 --> 00:45:25.320 So you're called doesn't necessarily mean that you're in what you don't like to call the office of profit 766 00:45:25.320 --> 00:45:29.680 Like have you emerged as a mature profit? You know, that is that is 767 00:45:30.000 --> 00:45:32.000 you know in that place of 768 00:45:32.040 --> 00:45:39.120 Stepping into your assignment. And so, um, I love that because I look back at my life and I think 769 00:45:40.280 --> 00:45:46.020 Yeah, if I had to do that all over again, what I do it. Yes, because it's worth the cost but there was a cost 770 00:45:46.400 --> 00:45:49.760 Yeah, you know, I know some of your journey, you know some of mine 771 00:45:49.760 --> 00:45:55.880 it it's not pretty because you do begin to deal with you know, the self-doubt that 772 00:45:56.600 --> 00:46:00.800 Intimidation the like you said the betrayal there, you know the accusation 773 00:46:01.040 --> 00:46:07.080 There's a jacket. Yeah, all of that action and somebody asked in the chat, which is a great question. What is the cost? 774 00:46:07.080 --> 00:46:12.880 I can't tell you what the cost is for you, right? I know what it cost me, right? 775 00:46:12.880 --> 00:46:16.200 I know what it cost me. Yeah, right 776 00:46:18.440 --> 00:46:25.160 There there were relationships that I had to walk away from yeah, and not that they were bad 777 00:46:25.880 --> 00:46:27.880 And not that we cut off 778 00:46:28.520 --> 00:46:30.080 But you know what? 779 00:46:30.080 --> 00:46:32.840 It was going to hold me back 780 00:46:33.440 --> 00:46:40.960 From running into everything that I I know God had for me, right? Okay, there are those types of things 781 00:46:41.720 --> 00:46:47.400 And so that it could look differently for each person in their journey 782 00:46:48.280 --> 00:46:52.240 Absolutely, and I think this is where that that mantle piece comes in as well 783 00:46:52.480 --> 00:46:58.240 Right, you don't want to wear Alex's mantle not only because he doesn't want to give it up that because 784 00:46:58.640 --> 00:47:04.880 The cost that comes along with that mantle is not designed for you is designed for Alex in his life 785 00:47:04.880 --> 00:47:08.560 And so you don't look for someone else's mantle 786 00:47:08.560 --> 00:47:14.320 like if if someone wants to give you a similar mantle then sure but know that the cost is 787 00:47:15.200 --> 00:47:20.720 Going to be similar in certain ways as well. And D are you ready to pay the price for that? 788 00:47:21.720 --> 00:47:25.880 Mm-hmm. If you want what I have, are you willing to pay the cost that I paid? 789 00:47:27.120 --> 00:47:33.080 And that's a question we have to like really ask ourselves sometimes, right? 790 00:47:34.200 --> 00:47:35.920 again 791 00:47:35.920 --> 00:47:38.480 Let's take this out of the vein of profit for a second 792 00:47:40.720 --> 00:47:43.960 Ministry position notoriety 793 00:47:45.960 --> 00:47:49.880 That that's glamorous that's you know, that is 794 00:47:51.720 --> 00:47:53.720 You use the word sexy 795 00:47:53.760 --> 00:47:58.680 Novel is one of the words I use right that there's a novelty to it. It's like ooh 796 00:47:59.680 --> 00:48:01.560 right 797 00:48:01.560 --> 00:48:03.120 but 798 00:48:03.120 --> 00:48:07.560 but the the cost associated with it 799 00:48:09.160 --> 00:48:11.160 You know Paul 800 00:48:11.600 --> 00:48:14.640 He as an apostle he paid he paid some 801 00:48:15.400 --> 00:48:22.640 Heavy-duty costs, right? You look at all the prophets in the Old Testament and they paid they paid some prices 802 00:48:23.320 --> 00:48:30.040 for for being and walking in that office we can look throughout throughout church history and 803 00:48:30.880 --> 00:48:38.200 Evangelists and pastors that have paid a price for the call in the office in which they carry 804 00:48:40.280 --> 00:48:43.800 Yeah, that's that's that's what that's why Jesus 805 00:48:44.040 --> 00:48:48.280 He said, you know each each one is to weigh the cost 806 00:48:49.600 --> 00:48:56.240 Of following him. Yeah, listen, there's a cost to being a follower of Jesus. Yeah 807 00:48:57.360 --> 00:49:00.760 Okay, there's there's a cost and here in the West and you know 808 00:49:00.760 --> 00:49:06.520 And and I'm not sure where everybody's watching us from but at least in the in the West and in the United States 809 00:49:07.600 --> 00:49:10.160 We we think we're paying a price 810 00:49:10.480 --> 00:49:14.280 Hey, let's talk to the church in North Korea in Korea, let's talk to the church in China 811 00:49:14.280 --> 00:49:22.000 let's talk to the to to to the ones in the Middle East and in in in in in Jordan in Syria, right in 812 00:49:22.520 --> 00:49:26.040 Iraq in Iran like let's let let's talk to those 813 00:49:27.280 --> 00:49:31.480 And see and see see what costs for just being a follower of Jesus's 814 00:49:32.840 --> 00:49:37.360 And so so again, it's not it's not a doom and gloom thing 815 00:49:37.520 --> 00:49:44.640 A doom and gloom thing it is a very true thing. Yeah, there is a cost but the benefit 816 00:49:48.160 --> 00:49:54.840 Listen I would pay I would pay ten times over the things that I've had to pay 817 00:49:56.200 --> 00:49:58.200 Just to be with him 818 00:49:58.760 --> 00:50:00.760 just for the 819 00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:05.680 benefit. And I'm not talking the benefit of a platform, the benefit of an audience, 820 00:50:05.680 --> 00:50:10.080 the benefit of a following, just for the benefit of serving. 821 00:50:12.560 --> 00:50:22.240 Just for the benefit of being close. Now, we have union with God. He's in us and we are in Him, 822 00:50:22.240 --> 00:50:28.640 the scripture says, but the benefit of knowing the benefit of, I served well, 823 00:50:30.240 --> 00:50:34.080 I pay it 10 times over every single day and twice on Sunday. 824 00:50:38.240 --> 00:50:40.560 The reward is so much greater than the cost. 825 00:50:40.560 --> 00:50:49.440 Agreed. And I feel the same way. It's more than well worth it. 826 00:50:50.080 --> 00:50:52.640 Yeah. Any day, all day, any day. 827 00:50:55.520 --> 00:51:01.600 Okay. I don't know who it was, but someone said that sometimes that you don't know the cost until 828 00:51:01.600 --> 00:51:05.680 you're in it. I would have to say that sometimes you actually get a choice. 829 00:51:06.320 --> 00:51:08.320 Yeah. I agree with that. 830 00:51:08.320 --> 00:51:16.080 Because there were definitely, I definitely remember choices being presented to me and like, 831 00:51:17.040 --> 00:51:23.680 will you do this? Yeah. And listen, here's the thing, I don't believe, I don't believe that the 832 00:51:23.680 --> 00:51:31.680 Lord is going to make you pay a price that you're unwilling to pay. Yeah. Like you said, He gives 833 00:51:31.680 --> 00:51:38.560 you the choice. Hey, here's the cost. Because I tell you, through the hard things that we have 834 00:51:38.560 --> 00:51:44.960 walked through, even as a family, my wife and I, some of the stuff that we're navigating even now 835 00:51:44.960 --> 00:51:53.200 in the season that we're in and within ministry in general, there is a choice. 836 00:51:55.200 --> 00:52:03.840 Right? That might be too steep. I'm not going to pay that. And listen, God's going to honor 837 00:52:03.840 --> 00:52:10.720 your free will. Yeah. He's going to honor your will and He's not going to violate that. Now, 838 00:52:10.720 --> 00:52:16.800 you can delay things because of that. Right? It's one of the things I learned from Danno, 839 00:52:16.800 --> 00:52:24.480 you move at the speed of your own obedience. And so I'm constantly checking in with the Lord, 840 00:52:24.480 --> 00:52:31.920 going, okay, am I moving at the speed of obedience? What is it you're saying? 841 00:52:32.640 --> 00:52:34.960 And what is it that I need to do next? Yeah. 842 00:52:35.920 --> 00:52:41.600 Yeah. But it's worth it. I wouldn't change the last 20 years for anything. 843 00:52:44.560 --> 00:52:52.240 Yeah. Agreed. Agreed, agreed, agreed. Now, for those of you that are like, holy smokes, 844 00:52:54.160 --> 00:53:02.000 do I really want to do this? Again, think about Jesus and who He is and what He's invited you 845 00:53:02.000 --> 00:53:09.440 into. Because it's so beautiful. It's like your journey is tailor made for you. 846 00:53:11.200 --> 00:53:19.040 And the outcome is going to be incredible. So there's that part to consider as well. And I, 847 00:53:20.240 --> 00:53:24.000 you know, are there, okay, I know we're getting close to being done. 848 00:53:24.000 --> 00:53:30.800 Yeah. So I just, I know there's a lot of questions here that are just going to have to go unanswered 849 00:53:30.800 --> 00:53:35.040 for right now, because we're not going to sit here for the next two hours. We could do Q and A 850 00:53:35.040 --> 00:53:40.080 for the next two hours. I could totally. Yeah. Yeah. But I want to honor your time and Sarah's 851 00:53:40.080 --> 00:53:47.840 time and everybody else's time. But are there any words of wisdom that you actually want to leave 852 00:53:47.840 --> 00:53:56.640 with this group of emerging prophets and prophetic people? Hey, listen, and I think this is a perfect 853 00:53:56.640 --> 00:54:05.840 setup for what I wanted to share just to close to. There's a cost. The reward is great. The 854 00:54:05.840 --> 00:54:11.200 journey is different for everybody. The mantle is going to be different for everybody. But I want to 855 00:54:11.200 --> 00:54:21.440 say this, you're not meant to do it alone. The wisdom is don't do this by yourself. And this is 856 00:54:21.440 --> 00:54:25.360 what I love about things like emerging prophets is what I love about being a part of prophetic 857 00:54:25.360 --> 00:54:34.320 company is you're not meant to do this alone. Right? You're meant to do this in community. 858 00:54:34.320 --> 00:54:42.160 You're meant to do this in family. You're meant to be part of the body. Right? You know, I've heard 859 00:54:42.160 --> 00:54:49.280 it often said the lone ranger becomes the lone stranger. You're not meant to do this alone. So 860 00:54:49.280 --> 00:54:59.920 the wisdom is wherever you are at in your journey. Get with somebody. Right? Get with 861 00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:06.480 somebody and I like to be around around two types of people people who are further along in my 862 00:55:06.480 --> 00:55:18.080 journey right in their journey and people who are further behind in theirs right so that way 863 00:55:19.040 --> 00:55:22.880 as I'm grabbing over here I can reach back and grab somebody else 864 00:55:23.760 --> 00:55:32.080 hmm okay and and and and find that community you know again I love I love emerging profits 865 00:55:32.080 --> 00:55:37.680 because of that it creates a place where hey we can encourage each other as the scripture says 866 00:55:37.680 --> 00:55:43.200 as long as it's called today we can we can we can spur each other on to love and good works 867 00:55:43.200 --> 00:55:49.760 as the scripture says we can we can we can do that together and I love the fact that I don't 868 00:55:49.760 --> 00:55:59.120 have to do this by myself right I love the fact that I get to operate with friends like Marguerite 869 00:55:59.120 --> 00:56:06.880 with friends like Dano and Bethany and Michelle and with Ryan Pena and and I can go on and on 870 00:56:07.760 --> 00:56:17.920 I love why because when I'm weak they got my back when they're weak I got theirs I don't have to be 871 00:56:17.920 --> 00:56:25.200 the one with the word of the Lord all the time I've got a community of people around me that 872 00:56:25.200 --> 00:56:33.600 are there for me that that care for me that love me not because of what I do not because of how 873 00:56:33.600 --> 00:56:42.160 prophetic I am but because of who I am right some of these people have seen me at my highs they see 874 00:56:42.160 --> 00:56:47.360 me at my lows and they're in my life and they love me my best friend in the whole wide world is Jake 875 00:56:47.360 --> 00:56:54.800 Bullard you know prophet he's now in what uh Charleston South Carolina and and you know what 876 00:56:54.800 --> 00:57:00.480 he's seen me at my highs he's seen me at my lows and we're still in each other's life seven years 877 00:57:00.480 --> 00:57:10.720 later you know and and to have community and family around that's that's the wisdom the wisdom 878 00:57:10.720 --> 00:57:18.480 is don't do this by yourself come on so good well thank you Alex yeah it's my pleasure yeah 879 00:57:18.480 --> 00:57:24.720 especially so last minute guys if you my my brain has not been where it needs to be so I 880 00:57:24.720 --> 00:57:33.200 I texted him yesterday Alex could you possibly I was in panic mode and he just so graciously said 881 00:57:33.200 --> 00:57:40.240 yes oh but this is what friends are for man yeah yeah it's true hey I'm gonna throw a link in the 882 00:57:40.240 --> 00:57:46.240 chat this is uh I'm still building my website but this will bring bring up some link tree stuff and 883 00:57:46.240 --> 00:57:50.640 you can find out a little bit more about what what my wife and I do what we do what I do 884 00:57:51.280 --> 00:57:56.640 um and so it's thrown at home.com and you you'll find all our links to all the stuff 885 00:57:57.200 --> 00:58:02.240 there and uh love to connect with you on social media hit me up on Instagram hit me up on Facebook 886 00:58:02.240 --> 00:58:07.680 and let's let's let's be part of the journey together you know all right perfect perfect all 887 00:58:07.680 --> 00:58:14.560 right um Macy is going to give everybody unmuting powers and everybody unmute and say goodbye but 888 00:58:15.840 --> 00:58:19.280 bye