Hey everyone, welcome for Prophesy Your Year Rosh Hashanah edition.
We're so excited to have you joining us tonight.
Be sure as you're joining to mute yourself and make sure that you're just double checking
to make sure that doesn't come unmuted throughout the night unless you're in breakouts and talking.
Again, if you don't know me yet, I'm Bethany Cooper.
I'm one of the Master Heartwork Coaches here in the community and I work on the Last Year
Single team.
And we are so honored to have Lindsay Ryman here with us tonight.
And so I just want to do a little intro to welcome her and so that you all can get to
know her a little bit more.
Lindsay is one of the, excuse me, Lindsay is the Director of Prophetic at Bethel Church
in Redding, California.
She is the co-founder of the SQ Institute alongside of Chris Fallatin and Dan McCollum,
the founder of the Spiritual Intelligence Company, Aqua, I think it's Regia.
I don't know if I just said that right.
And she's also the author of the Prophesy Your Year book.
For those of you that didn't know that this link is available inside of the Prophesy Your
Year app group on our Last Year Single app under the resources tab.
The link to Lindsay's full book is there so you all can click that to find out more about
her book.
And some of the things she's going to touch on tonight, her book expands on that even
more.
And so that's just another great way to dive into this further for those of you that are
interested.
So without further ado, I'm going to pass it over to Lindsay.
And Lindsay, I'll be here to help you throughout the night.
And yeah, just excited for what God is going to do.
Thank you.
Hi, everyone.
It's so good to be with you.
I love Jackie Dorman.
I think she is such a pioneer and an innovator.
And I've also seen just the anointing that she has for marriage.
My best friend actually met the guy that they're about to get engaged from her.
So anyways, it's really good to be with you.
It's an honor to serve in this community.
And yeah, today, we are going to do somewhat of a contemplative exercise, though there
will be moments of breakout rooms, so we'll do things with each other.
So Bethany, there'll be times that I need breakout rooms.
And we just want two people in the breakout room, if possible.
I don't know if we have any notebooks in here, like AI Fathom note, mine might even be in
here, please kick mine out the notebooks, the AI notebooks throw off the breakout rooms.
So you guys welcome to zoom, we'll do the best we can when it comes to breakout rooms.
But mostly, what's most important is that you have your tools for tonight.
So these are the tools, you're going to need either a piece of paper and a pen, where you're
going to be journaling with the Lord for different months.
Or you can do it digitally, maybe you want to pull up your notes, if you're on Mac, or
Google Docs, Microsoft Word, whatever you use, you're going to want to have a space
dedicated to what you are hearing God about for each month.
And we are because of time, I can't take you through all 12 months.
But I want you, I'm going to take you through some months and show you how this works.
So then wherever you're writing this, I want it to have enough room for you to go back
and do the rest of the months, if that makes sense.
Okay, I'm going to share my screen.
Because I always have visuals, one second, I'm going to do the thing with notes, because
I have some stories to tell you, and I want to make sure that I have them.
All right.
Can you see my screen?
Are my notes in the way?
You guys see?
Bethany?
Okay, great.
Cool.
All right.
So prophesy your year, it is so funny, I do so many teachings and activations.
But this one, for whatever reason, I received the most testimonies from, it was the publisher
wanted to do this book first.
And I just think it's so interesting.
Because I'm like, are you sure it's literally just journaling with God month by month, people
don't need a book for this.
They're like, there's something on it, Lindsay, we're doing it.
So I was like, okay, so we published it.
And I still get such interesting testimonies back.
And I'm going to share some of those with you.
But I think God's just on this right now, because I think he's just so delighted that
we are leaning in to hear him for ourselves.
I believe in the prophets and prophetic voices in your life and community, but you need to
know the voice of the Lord for you.
And so that is what we're doing.
This was kind of my anchor verse.
When I put this one together, which is I love the passion translation.
It's if you wait at wisdom's doorway, longing to hear a word for every day.
Joy will break forth within you as you listen for what you say.
So listen, I always say this.
I'll probably say it a few times because you got to hear it a few times before you get it.
The point of this course today is not so that you can know what's going to happen in the future every single day.
It's so that you can learn to recognize how you hear God and look for his presence.
So this isn't just about forecasting the future. It's about creating moments of intimacy with God and connection points with him throughout the year.
All right, so how this thing got started was the night before 2020.
It was December 31st, 2019, and I was in somewhat of a strange place in my life where I had a lot of big decisions that I needed to make.
I was living in Reading at the time. I didn't know if I was going to move back to L.A.
I didn't know if I was going to go back to my career. I was just like, what am I doing?
And this thing had happened after I had gotten saved. I was so excited about the prophetic and I loved hearing God's voice.
And I really valued prophetic community.
But this thing started to happen where as I was pursuing God for questions about what's next, I found myself going to prophets and prophetic community first before I was going to the Lord myself.
If you're looking for the verse, it's Proverbs 834.
There you go.
Okay, so anyways, I remember I went to my friend Emery and I was like, what do you think I should do?
And she's like, well, what's the Lord telling you?
And I was like, dang it, that's a really good question, but I kind of just wanted you to give me a word.
And it was funny because it felt like this warning light was going off in my car, if you will.
It was like, warning, warning, Lindsay, this isn't good.
You need to come to me first.
And you need to hear me clearly for yourself.
Because I felt confident prophesying over other people.
But when it came to me listening for myself, I started to get like, beklept.
And so I sat down with a friend, I called my friend over to my house.
I was like, do you want to do New Year's Eve in a kind of a weird way?
We lived in Reading. There's nothing to do in New Year's Eve.
So I was like, come to my house, I'm going to make a bunch of snacks.
And I want to try this thing where we sit and then we'll just prophesy over ourselves for every month.
And so she came and we set timers and we had chips and dip and I had like a playlist.
And I'd be like, okay, January, eight minutes, go.
And then like two nerds, like we sat there like on our laptops next to each other, not talking.
And then the timer would be up and then be like, okay, how was that?
Okay, then we go next month.
So we just, and that's what we did.
It was like the most awkward New Year's Eve, just sitting silently next to each other.
But it's also awesome.
Music is really important when you do this on your own.
I really suggest you have a playlist.
And here's what happened.
Little did I know, like I had set out for myself a year long treasure map.
And probably one of the most tumultuous years to come, 2020.
And I'll have you know, I did not hear anything about COVID.
Nowhere did I write about a sickness, a cough or a pandemic, okay?
In fact, I really thought that I heard that I think it was in March of 2020.
I kept seeing Italy and I thought I was going to go to Italy.
Which is ironic because if you know, in March of 2020, they literally shut the country down.
Like nobody was going in and out of Italy at all.
And so here's what I learned.
Like from that process, like one, I learned, okay, I can get things wrong, right?
And that's okay.
Like I just don't like, okay.
And I kind of laughed about it with God.
I was like, remember when I thought you said I was going to Italy?
And like, clearly not.
But like it made me tap into like, oh, I think I just want to go to Italy.
And so then in 2021 or 22, whenever it opened back up, I can't remember, I went.
Actually, I just went again this year, again.
So it turns out I love Italy, big, big fan.
But it was a really interesting time period.
And I'm going to share some things from my journal from that year with you.
Just to model how this works.
So let's look at why we do this.
The reason we do prophesy your year is to hear God's voice personally.
To create intentional moments of connection.
with God throughout the year and then to strengthen faith by listening and
tracking measurables. All right, if you're like, Lindsay, what is that word
measurables? I have a slide for you. Essentially, a measurable is anything
that is noticeable, trackable, or significant. The actual definition is
able to be measured, something that can be quantified. It is large enough to be
significant. Let me just say an example. I was really hungry to grow. I
was kind of camping out in some general spaces in my prophetic. Why? Because I was
afraid of getting more specific, because I was afraid of getting it wrong. But I
felt this beckoning from the Lord to learn how to inquire of him and not be
scared of asking him more questions, like picking, like going for things that were
trackable, like it was either right, or was it going to be wrong. And I wanted to
do it in a responsible way. So I was like, you know what, I'm going to start
going for specifics for myself for a year before I ever practice on somebody
else. And that is measurables. When you're doing it, you can go hog wild,
because it's you, right? And nobody knows your life more than you, because
sometimes I would prophesy over people. And they would be like, yeah, that
doesn't resonate or laugh at me. I've had all sorts. I've been prophesying a
long time. Not that long, actually, compared to some people. For me, it feels
like a long time. Six years, seven years. Okay, but I've been busy. Okay. So
anyways, so I've been prophesying for a while. And a lot of times, you don't
always you say something and they're like, yeah, it falls flat. This isn't I
doesn't resonate with me. But then I'll get a phone call two years later, being
like, I'm so sorry about that thing. I said, it all happened. And so that taught
me that the prophetic humility is the way forward. You're prophesying about
what is not like, like, you're prophesying, prophesying calls, what's
not into what is. And so sometimes you've got to get used to things not
making sense in the moment, because it's about a future date. And that is a
great, that's a great way to learn measurables is to start prophesying over
yourself. Okay. Yeah, I see a lot of questions about previous slides. You
know what the most important part of this is? It's what you write when we get
into the months. Okay. So just trust me, the main point of this is so that you
can hear God and learn how to connect with them.
All right, how this works. I know, like people like to have the 10,000 foot
view. So here's what it is, I will give you months and prompts. A prompt is
simply a question to help you stir conversation with God. An example might
be like, for the month of July, it might be like, what will I enjoy this month?
Here's the deal with prompts. Their purpose is to help you, but not
constrain you. prompts get it started, but I want you to follow what you're
getting. If I'm like, ask God what he's doing in your relationships this month,
it doesn't mean that the whole your whole entry has to just be about
relationships. Maybe you might hear him say something about relationships, and
then he might start talking about your finances. I mean, you're all different.
He has different things to talk about with all of you. So we are stirring up
the gift of God that's within you, right by doing these prompts, but I don't want
you to feel stuck on them. I want you to lean in and write what you're getting.
Your number two, you'll have a set amount of time to write and then I want
you to write whatever comes to you. The moment you start overthinking is the
moment you're going to lose the plot. Just write it all down. Some of the
things that I wrote down that I thought for sure was me, like my thoughts or a
TV show I watched the night before ended up having significant meaning for me
because we're learning how to capture the whole point of is it like, what are
we getting? We're capturing it. And then as we walk throughout the timeline of
our life, we're able to look back and be like, oh, wow, that was him. So write
everything. When I yell time, we'll stop. And number three, there's going to be
teaching and testimonies along the way. And the purpose is to show you how other
people prophesy and how sometimes how what you heard may come to pass in a
different way than you expected. And then four, I won't have time to cover every
single month today, but you can finish this on your own. And I have created a
prompts for every month for you to use if you want them. But again, the prompts
are not to constrain you. They're there to help you. But mostly what you want to
do is have a moment and be like, God, I'm listening for you month by month.
Okay. Ways to write. All right. So I get this question a lot. And so I just
wanted to, to give some examples.
you could write as if Jesus is writing to you,
like in his voice, you can write in your own voice,
or you might write kind of like,
I call it like prophetic rain man.
You're like, I see colors, I see crowds, I see these,
you know, you're writing pictures,
you're jotting things down.
There's no right, wrong way to do this.
Do not feel locked into having to write beautiful prose
and perfect grammar, okay?
I wanna release you from that.
I want you to enjoy receiving
and then capturing what you're receiving in written word.
And one thing to keep in mind is I have this tree here.
It's a symbol for me to remember to say this.
A lot of people are like,
how can I tell the forest from the trees?
How do I know if it's his thoughts or my thoughts?
Oh my gosh, what if it's just my own personal wants
and desires?
And here's what I wanna say to you.
We both think and hear our own thoughts
and the Lord will often speak to our thoughts
and we must learn to discern his voice from ours.
So when you're like, how do I know if it's my thought
or if it's God thought, my first response is this.
When you gave your life to Jesus, he took it.
So I want you to rest in your salvation.
I want you to trust that he is speaking to you
and that when you are leaning into a personal want
or desire, the Holy Spirit will illuminate it for you.
So we need to remove the chains of shame and fear here, okay?
And then as you read scripture,
you will begin to study and understand his nature
and character and like, I want you to just believe
in that he is in you and that you are abiding in him
and the purpose of this is to learn where he ends
and you begin, okay?
Next up, rules of engagement.
All right, we are only going,
because you're gonna do stuff for yourself
and then a couple of times with other people,
I wanna create this.
We are only listening for words that bring hope.
In every activation, does the Lord ever correct you?
Yes, the Lord, I love it when the Lord disciplines me.
I feel like I'm his favorite child, but whenever he does,
it honestly is from a tone of kindness,
but some of y'all are still hard on yourselves
and working out your theology on the goodness of God.
So I'm just gonna create a guideline.
We are only listening for words that bring hope.
We want to stay encouraging of no judgment or correction,
especially when you're in a breakout room with somebody else
and I want you to prophesy at your level of faith.
Romans tells us, prophesy according to your faith
and so here's the thing.
I think when we're prophesying over other people
in the breakout room, if you're like,
I feel like God is gonna give you a check
for a million dollars.
I'm not saying God can't do that.
Sometimes God can do crazy things,
but I just want to make sure you're prophesying
from a place of faith and not for a place of favor
because it feels good to give a big word to somebody
and I get it, but you want to stay grounded.
Do I have faith for this, okay?
So lastly, just let love guide everything that you share.
So I always just ask myself, does this sound like love?
All right, now we're gonna do the agreement
because I want us all to agree on the same things
before we prophesy over each other and here we go.
So number one, even though we're all on mute
or you might not be and we'll have some noise pollution,
it'll be great.
We're just gonna do it, okay?
And if you're on a plane
and you don't want to say this out loud, I get it,
but here we go.
So number one, the agreement
and also how are you watching this on a plane?
I'm getting good service, okay.
So number one, I'm gonna look at your mouths
to make sure you're saying it with me.
I will not be a dodo bird and have a faith crisis
if none of what I heard or my breakout partner here
has come to pass.
We are all learning and that's okay.
Awesome, number two, ready?
I am not fragile.
My relationship with Jesus is not fragile.
This is important.
You're gonna write things down
and they may come to pass in ways that you weren't expecting
or you may get things wrong.
Your relationship with Jesus should not be contingent
on your interpretation of what you think
you should be doing in your life, okay?
We are not fragile.
I've heard too many people give me sob stories
about I got this prophetic word.
And it didn't come to pass. And I'm like, so what? Like one, we can talk about if you're
partnering with it, but two is your relationship with Jesus based on what you think he's supposed
to be doing for you. Okay. All right. That's what getting off my soapbox on that number
three, ready? Here we go. The number three, I will take on the responsibility to partner
with the words that give me life in any way I can.
And then lastly, this one I feel like is the most important. I am comfortable with mystery,
knowing that God is always good and his ways are above my ways. A friend of mine, her name
is Susan, right? She is a mystic and a counselor. And she once said something to me. She said,
every believer needs a mystery file. And I love that. All right, let's get into getting
ready. Now we are talking about listening for God, for what is to come. But when we
are listening, we are entering his courts, right? And scripture tells us we should enter
his courts with thanksgiving and praise. And so what I want us to do right now is I'm going
to set the timer for like five minutes. And I want you to follow. I want you to make a
list of things that you're thankful for that God has done from last September to this September.
Here's an example. I was really moved by Psalm 136. I wrote that it's David's composition,
but scholars are actually not sure who wrote it. So I need to change that slide. But the
point is the author of Psalm 136 lists out all these things that God does. You can check
it out and it'll be like, he led the Israelites out of Egypt. His faithful love endures forever.
He raises up kings. His faithful love endures forever. Like it lists all these things that
God did and then they put underneath it, his faithful love endures forever. So I was like,
oh, I'm going to do the same thing. And so I wrote a list. Like mine was, I wrote a book
and it was published. His faithful love endures forever. I reconnected with an old friend.
His faithful love endures forever. I stayed in good health this year. His faithful love
endures forever. So I just want you to think of things that God did in this past year because,
and you're going to list it out. What are you thankful for? So I'm going to set the
timer for five minutes. And I want you to listen. I want you to remember and recall
and write down what he did that you are thankful for. Go.
you
okay that's time I would just for I would just love to have some
volunteers you could raise your digital hand to read one thing that you're
thankful for that he did this past year and I want to set you up well and so we
don't need big long stories I just want you to say the one line which is like
let's say you're like let's say you're like I bought a house this year so you
would say I bought a house this year his faithful love endures forever or he
healed he healed me his his faithful love endures forever we're gonna say the
one line of the thing that we're thankful for followed by his faithful
love endures forever it's just our moment of giving Thanksgiving and praise
all right I'm gonna do my best to call on you but please forgive me if I did if
I mispronounce your name but the first person was you Velsi Hovi like I'm not
sure what's happening with that yeah hi hi okay he brought me my first
granddaughter his grateful his faithful love endures forever amazing he's
providing life and family yosh or yash I in fact I'm grateful that God saved my
mother's life from heart conditions his faithfulness his faithful love endures
forever oh my gosh beautiful Jehovah Rapha on the move
Mikayla Martin God healed my stomach his faithful love endures forever I'm
hearing a lot of healing you know when we do this I want you to listen and take
these testimonies for you for yourself and say do it again God
Natasha moss wickety Natasha I said that wrong I'm sorry okay he carried me
through a very difficult time in my life here in New Zealand with work
friends and self-hurt and doubt his faithful love endures forever oh my yes
the comforter okay I'm hearing the comforter and the healer Gail he brought
me through a surgery and provided for me his faithful love endures forever Wow
beautiful Lauren love I let my grandfather for salvation he's 91 years
old I'm grateful his faithful love endure forever hey listen it's never too
late take this testimony right now that he is the God of salvation and he loves
your family Christy deja de Jong yeah de young he
broke the spirit of suicide over my 11 year old his faithful love endures
forever oh amen and that is a personal thing in my life the spirit of suicide
has run rampant in my family line so I am he is on the move I want to devote my
life to taking that down okay Laura Bethel we share a family name I see kind
of yeah I got a job and what I'm doing basically is tutoring special education
kids within the classroom that need extra help and it has been such a
blessing not only to the kids but to me it's just brought me so much joy and his
faithful love endures forever I love that and they'll do our last one even
there's so many Meg Smith
Meg
I was muted. Yes, sorry. I didn't unmute myself. He protected my job and my income, even with
all the government layoffs and everything. His faithful love endures forever.
Okay. Did you hear that? I heard so much of the healer on the move, the provider, the
God of deliverance, the God of breakthrough, the God of salvation. So God is on the move.
God, thank you for all that you have done in our lives. So we just praise you and thank
you. And we know that there's areas, I just feel to also say in the areas that there's
some of you that are still seeking movement and you're wondering where he is. Remember
what he has done because he is moving behind the scenes. The tapestry is beautiful from
the front, but from the back, it doesn't make any sense. It's messy. There's yarn everywhere.
Just know that he is stitching your story together. He is the God of hope. And that's
who we're leaning into here tonight. Okay. So now that we've entered his courts with
thanksgiving and praise, we are going to listen to what is to come. I'm going to start this
off by showing you an example from one of my journal entries, because it's going to
show you how I've done it and then how it manifested in a way I wasn't expecting. Okay.
So it was the year was 2020 and this was for my personal February. And this was my prompt.
What am I aware of this month? And I wrote, I wrote in the voice of Jesus talking to me
and I, this is what I heard. You will start to grab conflict in the moment. You won't sweep
things under the rug. You will address things quickly and you will learn how to keep short
accounts. Quick address of conflict is happening. Now, um, if you guys know the app Evernote,
I had an Evernote notebook where I was keeping track of things that happened in my business
throughout the year. And it was an entire year later that I happened to pull up that notebook.
I don't even remember why it wasn't to look for prophesy your year stuff. It was to look for some
information. And I ran across my, my entry for February 14th. And this is what I saw that I
wrote. I, um, I redacted some information to protect the innocent, but I was writing about,
I had worked with a company. I partnered with somebody and it didn't go great.
And I wrote about it and you'll notice I wrote this. It said, it was good to confront and catch
it quickly rather than letting it sit and brew for a long time. When I wait, I tend to not think
it's important. And when it starts to fade and never dealt with, it becomes a problem.
So here's what's crazy. When I got to February and I read this thing about conflict, I was like,
Oh, right. I'm like, this will be a fun month. And here's what happened. I, I forgot about it,
which is what's going to happen with you. Your life is big. There is a lot going on.
And so I, when the conflict thing happened, my brain did not think about what I wrote at all.
I just moved through my life. But later a year later, when I went into my Evernote journal and
I realized that it had happened, I was like, Oh, this is crazy. He knew that was going to happen.
And he was moving through me in that moment. I thought I was being Lindsay Ryman,
smart business woman, which FYI, I'm not, but, and then I was like, Oh wait, that was him.
Like how often are we moving with him? But we don't realize like, like, you know, I'm the vine.
You are the branches apart from me. You can do nothing. He said that nothing. And so all of a
sudden it was like, Oh, wow. I did not catch that. But that was you. You were teaching me
in that moment. And so I just want to tell you, you're going to write stuff for months
and you might not remember it. So you're going to want to check back often. Okay.
And I hope that part of this activation is you will come to the awareness that you're moving
with God more than you realize. All right. So let's get into our very first month. We are going
to do October and just how I was learning how to address conflict in the moment and keep short
accounts. I want you to ask, what is the Lord inviting you to learn about this month?
So I put the example, I put a couple examples here just so that you can like get your mind around
what this looks like. I'm going to set a timer and I want you to be like God next month, which
is October. What are you?
inviting me to learn about this month.
Okay. That's time. We did our first entry. How did that feel?
Okay. Okay. There's going to be more. All right. And if you can always go back to this,
I do think the timer is helpful though, because when I first started out doing this,
I, I, I was like spending way too long on each month, trying to like, kind of started to
overthink the timer kind of made me go like, okay, God, I believe I can hear you. I'm going
listen right now and grab it and write it down. So, but you can go back. All right. Are my notes,
can you see my screen or my notes in the way? Okay, great. Um, so I have some stories I want
to make sure to be able to tell you. All right. We first did our first entry, which was just
listening like God, basically like, what is this month about? And now we're going to do
something different where I'm going to teach you the biblical framework for prophesying with signs.
So, um, one prophesying signs, the biblical framework for it is that signs can confirm
the prophetic word and signs point us to Jesus. So these are the two purposes of signs,
confirming the prophetic word and, or pointing us to Jesus. Let's look at some examples.
All right. Here's what there's actually several examples in scripture. Here's one in Isaiah.
Um, let me set up that Hezekiah is sick and he thinks he's going to die.
All right.
So the Lord says, go tell Hezekiah.
This is what the Lord, the God of your father, David says, I have
heard your prayer and seen your tears.
I will add 15 years to your life.
This is the prophetic word.
This is the promise.
And I will deliver you in this city.
I will defend this city.
This is the Lord's sign to you that the Lord will do what he has promised.
I will make the shadow cast by the sun.
Go back the 10 steps.
It has gone down on the stairway of a has.
So the sunlight went back the 10 steps.
It had gone down.
Let me be real with you.
The first time I read this new believer, I was like, what are these old dudes talking about?
This is so verbose.
So many were so wordy, but it took me a minute and I realized, oh, he's talking
about supernatural daylight savings time.
He's like, listen, Hezekiah is freaking out.
He's like, I'm going to die.
And he's like, you're not going to die.
I'm going to add 15 years to your life.
And as a sign to you, I'm going to hold the sun in the sky longer as a sign to you.
That your days will be longer than you think they are, which is crazy and
beautiful that the Lord would do such a thing.
Okay.
Like he made the day last longer so that Hezekiah could rest in peace and know
that his life was going to last long.
The sign confirmed the word.
Now there's old Testament.
Let's look at new Testament because remember what does signs do?
They confirm the word and they point us to Jesus.
So here's an example where it is literally pointing to Jesus.
The angel shows up prophesies in Luke 12 today in the city of David, a
savior has been born to you.
He is Christ the Lord, and this will be assigned to you.
You will find a baby wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying in a manger.
Okay.
So there's just an example.
So here's the thing about prophesying signs.
Um, I learned about this from a mentor of mine and I got really excited about it.
And I prophesied a sign over this producer who doesn't know Jesus.
Okay.
I was like, you're, I can't remember the whole word, but I basically was like,
uh, there's the season of understanding times and seasons is going to begin.
And you're going to realize that God is the orchestrator of times and seasons.
And as assigned to you, someone's going to give you a time piece.
And this is my first time doing it.
It was a big swing because I sent the word to this girl and she read it in
front of a group of people, all non-believers, all new age wackadoos.
This was my previous life in LA anyways.
And everyone started freaking out and they recorded it because she had just
opened a present where someone gave her a watch.
And so this caused two conversations, the birthday girl and somebody else that
was there that was like, Hey, how do you know, how did you know that?
Like, can, can Jesus talk to me the way he talks to you?
And I'm like, yeah.
So that was the power of the prophetic and signs is it points people to Jesus.
Now I was so excited.
I went to my mentor and I was like, I prophesied a sign.
And I told him what I did.
And he was like, wow.
He was like, that's risky.
And he goes, I prophesied signs over myself for like a year before
I ever did it over somebody else.
And that was like, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool.
You're like, okay, so here's the thing.
This is a fun, this is a language of God signs and symbols.
And it's a fun thing to do.
And it's really safe when we are doing it for ourselves, we are going
to practice one time with each other.
And we made the agreement that we are practicing and we are
learning and it's okay.
All right.
So I'm going to show you an example of one of the first signs I prophesied
over myself and what happened because this might happen to you.
So here is my entry.
I see the sign.
This was my entry for April.
I see this.
I see the car from back to the future.
I think you will go back in time quotation marks to resolve some
things that generations did in the past.
This could look like a sozo.
I'm sorry.
The word sozo is a name for an inner healing.
Think of it like therapy modality that, um, that we do at Bethel often.
So anyways, it's just, it's just inner healing.
So this could look like a sozo or a dream with the word
of knowledge to pray into.
You will become armed with intercession.
Intercession is on a whole other level.
You are praying more.
And then I wrote a sign to confirm it.
You will hear someone talking about back to the future
more than once this month.
And it will be assigned to you that the time of intercession has begun.
All right, so I'm just going to walk you through what happened.
I color-coded it, so follow my lead.
So you see this in the yellow under signed to confirm it, it says, you will hear someone
talking about back to the future.
So here's what happened.
April came and went and nobody talked about back to the future.
I was like, oh yeah, this word, nothing happened.
So I was like, all right, I guess I got it wrong.
But then in the month of May, I was sitting in my living room and my roommate comes out
and she goes, hey, did you know back to the future was on Hulu?
Do you want to watch it?
And I was like, yeah.
And then I sat there and watched it with her and didn't remember what I had written.
Next up.
In the blue.
All right, ready?
So remember it says, I see the car from back to the future.
Well, while I was watching it, I then, because I was watching the movie with her, I was getting
so many revelations, back to the future is a very prophetic movie, by the way, I was
getting so many revelations while watching it that I was like, oh my gosh, I was writing
them all down.
And then on my Instagram, I put this, this is the actual post I posted about back to
the future and the revelations that I was happening, having, and I still didn't remember
that I had written that this was going to happen the month before.
I joke that like my angels were probably watching me, like, I can't believe she's not getting
this.
Like, hello, McFly.
Like, what's up with her, right?
And then lastly, let me go to my last slide in the pink.
Remember how I wrote, this could look like you're going to go back in time to resolve
some things that generations in the past, this could look like a sozo.
Um, and this will be assigned to the time of intercession has begun.
Then I literally in that month scheduled a sozo and I sat with Donna De Silva is the
woman who like basically the queen of sozo herself, she wrote a book on it.
It's all about inner healing, looked at me and she goes, cause I was having some experiences
in my family, my family member had become suicidal.
And I, in the process of walking this out with her was also having some really strange
dreams and strange things in the night.
Anyone ever been there?
Um, and so I was like, what is going on, Willis, I need to go see someone about this.
And so she was like, Lindsay, I think this is about intercession.
There's something going on with you with intercession.
These wake-ups in the middle of the night is like God calling you to intercede.
And I still, I still didn't remember finally, finally.
Embarrassingly enough later that month, I was at a coffee shop.
I was talking to a friend about back to the future.
I was like, listen, I watched back to the future and it's such a prophetic movie.
Let me tell you all my revelations from it.
And as I was talking to her suddenly, and I'm telling you this, cause it will happen
to you.
It was like that prophetic word from the month before stood up inside of my spirit.
And it felt a little bit like deja vu where I was like, wait a minute.
Why does this feel familiar?
And the Holy spirit is he'll do this.
He'll remind you to look back was like, prophesy your year.
And I was like, Oh my gosh, I pulled up my phone cause I put it all on my phone.
And there it was.
I saw it.
I was like, Oh my gosh, it all happened.
I thought it was going to happen in April, but it happened in May, but it all happened.
And it showed me I'm like, Oh my gosh, how often.
And I was thinking about him, me watching this movie.
And I was like, he's moving.
Like he was, he was like over here, like moving throughout right in front of me.
And I didn't catch it.
And it really humbled me because I know there are moments you're in this group, I think
because you want to get married.
I think this is the single group, right?
Okay.
You're in this group cause you want to get married.
And you're like, where is he or her?
And I'm telling you he's moving, but we're not catching it.
Okay.
Let this story, this story built my faith for all the things that I felt like I was
like, why aren't you doing stuff?
And I was like, Oh, you're doing stuff.
I just, and my little finite human brain can't catch them all the time.
And it put me into a space of, I don't know what you're doing all the time, but I trust
you.
And I trust that you haven't forgotten about me.
And I know that you're moving.
So that is my story of prophesying and prophesying signs.
So for this prompt for no member, just as intercession was on God's heart for me that
month, what I wrote about, I want you to ask God, what is on your heart for me this month?
And I want you to press in.
You don't have to, but you see how I wrote, what do you see?
And that particular exercise, I was like pressing into what I liked, what I, what we call the
internal seeing receptor.
Um, I'm a trainer with Dan McCollum and Bethany Hicks, and, um, they have some really great
language about understanding ways you can receive God's voice.
And so a lot of times you may hear people say, um, get a picture in your mind's eye.
So for this particular prompt, if you want to, I want you to be like, God, speak to me
through, it's going to feel like your imagination, but I'm going to tell you something, God sanctified
your imagination.
Okay.
He is the ultimate imagineer.
And so I want you to think of it like a TV screen in your mind's eye and be like, God,
what is on your heart for me this month?
And I want you to write down, what do you see for me?
I wrote, I see the car from back to the future and unpacked what I thought it meant.
Makes sense.
And then I want you to write a sign to confirm it.
So I'm leaving this up.
Remember, you're doing this for yourself.
It's safe.
No one has to read what you're writing.
Okay.
I'm going to set the timer.
I'm going to go on mute.
We're all going to write.
It's going to be awkward.
It's going to be great.
And I'm going to call you back.
All right.
So enjoy seeing and writing what you're getting.
Bye.
Wait, what?
What was the line for?
Bye bye.
Okay.
That is time.
Bye bye.
we are going to do an activation with each other. Um, you're going to be out. I'll have
Bethany create the breakout rooms. There should just be two people in a breakout room.
Inevitably something's going to happen where you're going to, some of you are going to go
to a breakout room and maybe someone's internet doesn't work or they're not there or they're on
a plane. I don't know if that happens. No pity parties. It's going to be okay. You can work
more on your word. If you end up in a breakout room by yourself, there's going to be a couple
more times. Um, but I do know that some people are driving while listening. This is a very
interactive lab, but, uh, you'll get a few chances to do this. Um, so here's what we're going to do.
Remember how I had you practice. What do you see when you get into a breakout room?
Let's say I'm in the breakout room with Mary Harris. I'm going to be like, I'm going to
prophesy God. Can you tell me, um, what do you, what do you see for the month of November? And
I would prophesy on what I saw for the month of November. And if we have time, a sign to confirm
it. Um, does this make sense? Okay. Natasha, did you have a question?
Yes. Um, quick question. Cause I was struggling to see something when I closed my eyes and I
before today watching about something that stands out in your, in your, in your room,
the room that you're in. So that's what I did instead. So there was a picture that stood out
to me. So I, and it caught my attention. So is that one way of doing it or is it about seeing?
I was prompting you to do internal seeing, but external seeing is fine too. I just want you to
your, your seeing receptor. So again, guys don't get too locked into right or wrong. Okay. We are
humans love categorizations, but it's all God, right? So you're just pursuing God speaking to
you. And honestly, if I'm like, what do you see? And you hear the audible voice at God,
I am mad at you write down what he says. Okay. All right. Um, lastly, really quick Keisha,
did you have a question? Yes. Really, really quickly. Can you see me or hear me?
I can hear you. Thank you. Can you just summarize again, really quickly how it will go in the break
breakout room? I wasn't quite sure you're going to prophesy over your partner on what you see
for their month of November. Got it. Thank you. Um, and so, and then if you can prophesy sign
to confirm it, does this make sense? Okay. All right. So you're going to go, I'm going to give
you four minutes. That means you each have two minutes to prophesy. All right. Um, I just need
you to, you know, use your, the first one to how about this? The first one to prophesy is the one
who lives closest to Nebraska. I don't know anyone that lives in Nebraska. So whoever lives closest
to Nebraska, you're the first one to prophesy. All right. And you have two minutes. If I were
you, I would have my cell phone up ready to record the word they're giving me so I can transcribe it
Okay. Are we all set Bethany? How many minutes total did you say for the breakout?
Four minutes. Okay. Awesome. Hold on one. If you, for some reason, if your partner gets scared,
drops off, that happens, um, has bad internet and you're in a room by yourself, like I would just
continue to work on your word, um, because it's bound to happen and it'll be okay. We live in a
send these out for everyone. Here we go. They're there on screens. Go ahead and click as quick as
you can.
Okay.
So maybe these are a few people that aren't really on maybe. Oh, there they go. Some.
No one, I mean, the person didn't show up,
like the name showed up, but no one,
like she didn't respond, didn't come off of,
you know, her camera was off and everything,
or his, I don't know.
Yeah, there's some people that aren't here,
like we do our best to tell them it's an interactive lab,
but it's been on.
So, and then I think these are some of those people here,
can Aaron and Mickey go in a breakout room?
Because they're both for sure here.
How much time do we have?
Mickey, do you know what room you were in?
Okay, I have someone sitting by themselves
in a different room, so let me put you with them.
Okay.
Aaron, you're on mute if you're talking to us.
That should be there, Mickey.
I also accidentally somehow abandoned a person in room 45,
so there's an opening there.
I think she's working on it.
I don't see Aaron.
I don't see that you were in 45,
so I can't find you to put you in a different room.
Oh, I see 25, here you are.
Okay, let me put...
Okay, give me a minute, I'll find someone for you.
There you go.
Thank you.
Bethany, I'm gonna, I know that Jackie told me
it's best if it's 90 minutes, but I could do two hours,
so I'm trying really hard to hit 90, but is two okay, or?
She said if we go an hour and a half at max two,
just because we told people about an hour and a half, so.
You told them an hour and a half, okay.
We told them it would be approximately,
so if you need some wiggle room, it's totally fine,
because we want people to have a full,
yeah, a full experience,
but we definitely don't wanna go longer than two.
Great, okay, I was feeling the,
just wanna make sure I'm happy to honor the time,
whichever you need, so.
Okay, and then does it have a 30 second countdown,
or 20 second?
Ours always have 60, so they have 60 seconds.
Oh, did you set it for three minutes, or four minutes?
I set it for four, so next time I can change that to three.
Correct, because they'll usually stay the whole time,
and then that way it'll help us keep on time.
Okay.
I'm like the queen of Zoom these days.
You can change it to 30 seconds if you want for future.
Yeah, and I probably can look at that before our next one.
Okay, great, some people are coming back.
I'm just curious, there's still people coming back,
but for whoever's here,
did any of you guys write something for November,
and then your partner gave you a word
that kind of like connected with what you wrote for yourself?
Can you, Yamina, I saw you shaking your head yes,
can you share just really quick for fun,
brag on Jesus and your partner?
Yes, of course, thank you.
So I wrote several, a lot of things for November,
but one of the things that I wrote
was that the Lord wanted me to like roll with Him,
to just move with Him, not to resist it.
And so in the breakout room,
she said that she sees me having to roll more with God.
Okay, I love the use of this word roll
and the fact that that came up,
that's a very specific nuanced word to use for both.
So I'm like, ooh, what does that mean?
It sounds like a little bit less planning and calculation,
but that's my interpretation,
that you could be somewhat,
okay, we're just gonna have to roll with this.
Are you a very organized person?
Interesting, you're on mute, you're on mute,
you're on mute, can you unmute so we can hear you?
Yes, I am organized and like my sister says,
I like to put God in a box.
Oh, so that you heard this and then he confirmed it.
So listen, I want to,
I'm just going to quote the Chronicles of Narnia.
I love that scene when they're asking about Aslan,
who's representing the Lord, like, is he safe?
And they were like, no, but he's good.
And here's the thing I want to say about
prophesy your year, you guys,
is I want you to pay attention to the patterns
and the things that connect.
And I also want you to continue looking back
because again, he's outside of time
and we're doing our best to capture him for certain moments.
But as you, sometimes like I wrote something for May
and it made sense.
I mean, I wrote something for April
and it made sense in May, right?
But right now in what month are we in?
End of September.
I recently got an invitation, talk about rolling with God,
to do some stuff I'm not quite used to doing.
It was like some speaking stuff
in a very unconventional manner.
And it's for next month.
And it was like, you would have to do it in DC,
New York and Brazil.
And it would be, take up two months of your time.
And I was going to say no,
because I was like, I'm uncomfortable.
I don't know if I can do that.
And it's a long time, but you know what I did?
I opened up my prophesy your year journal.
You can see it right here.
And I happened to read my January entry,
which basically said, be open to new beginnings.
Say yes to some new things, some uncomfortable things.
Be aware of how you feel when you're asked.
And then it said, and I hate this,
but it said say yes to being on the stages
and the screens don't shy away.
And right when I read that, I was like, oh no.
And like, I remember reading that in January
and I was like, okay, I'm ready.
And like, nothing happened.
There was nothing uncomfortable.
No one asked me to do anything.
So I like forgot about it.
And right now I have this, like,
I might have to be gone for like two months.
And I looked at my prophesy your year journal,
mostly because I was doing this class.
And I was like, what have I said in the past?
Is there anything?
And I read that entry and I called my assistant
and I was like, I think I have to say yes to this.
So be open, guys, we're writing,
be open to keep checking back
because it's crazy how it will mean something later.
Okay.
So I'm going to show you a little testimony
and we're going to do this again
about testimonies that come to pass
or signs that come to pass in ways that are not expected.
So here's a word.
So I'm going to set this up and I have a video.
And I want you guys to think like
I could do this with my friends too.
Me and a group of friends in December one year,
we got together and we wrote down,
we made each other code names.
So like it was person one, two, three, and four, right?
We had like, we called my mom and I was like,
make us code names.
My poor mom, she never knows what I'm doing.
And then we put like little months,
we wrote down months and we would pick a code name
in a month and we would write words for each other,
but we didn't know who it was.
And so here's the word that my friend received from me.
I wrote it, but I didn't know it was for him.
I wrote, I hear your debt has been canceled.
It's been ruled in your favor.
This could be literal debt or metaphorical.
Something that has been weighing you down
is about to be removed.
As a sign to you that you will no longer have this debt,
you will see an image GIF or TV episode
of Maya Rudolph dressed as a judge.
All right, so I have a little video.
I just need you guys to give me a thumbs up
because sometimes videos don't make sound on here,
but it won't make sound right away.
Hi everyone, I'm Donnie.
And I wanted to take a brief moment to share a testimony
about what happened when some friends and I decided to do
the prophesy your year exercise at the end of last year.
So stay tuned to the next stories
to see the rest of the details.
Okay, so this is me basically saying what we did.
We basically just prophesied over each other's months.
So this is the word.
And I'm gonna talk about this word in a second.
And then here is what happens.
A month later, I was watching a show on Netflix
called Nailed It Holiday, and this happened.
At the end of the month, I had a massive encounter with the Lord where he took me back to some
trauma from my childhood that had been defining my personality for the past 23 years.
And in a moment, he spoke something into me that released a debt from my heart and my
life.
And so Maya Rudolph, debt canceled, dressed as a judge.
Okay.
So here's what I want to talk about.
So we prophesy these signs and we think it's going to happen in a certain way.
When I wrote that word, I had just watched the show not that long ago called, I already
forgot the good place, Kristen Bell.
It's basically a sitcom about philosophy and it works kind of good, but the last season
I didn't like it.
But the point is this, okay.
This is not a TV review.
The point is this, um, I kept remembering Maya Rudolph's character who plays a judge
and I kept seeing her.
And so I, and I couldn't get away from it.
And I was like, you know what, this literally could be because of the TV show I watch or
God is speaking to me.
And so I, this is how prophesy your, your works.
You just write it down.
Okay.
And what is interesting is he was watching a holiday, a holiday show, right?
They like nailed it.
Holiday is about crafts, but she was there as a judge, right?
She was quote dressed as a judge.
But I was imagining that he would see her in her judge costume.
And so I just kind of want to show you that to open your mind to what is possible, because
oftentimes these signs will come to pass, but not in the literal way that you are expecting.
Okay.
So we just watched a December nailed it holiday.
So we're going to move into December.
And here is the prompt.
I want you to ask, okay, I want you to be Lord.
What is a gift you want to receive from?
What is a gift you want me to receive from you this month?
And then, and just like how I was going off what I hear, I want you, you don't have to,
but if you want, I want you to press into hearing.
So maybe you hear the still small voice, maybe you hear a sound, an actual sound in your
room.
And it brings you a prophetic word from there.
I just want you to tap into hearing.
What do you hear?
He is the father of lights.
All good gifts come from above and he is always giving to you.
What is a gift you want me to receive from you this month?
And I want you to write down, what do you hear?
All right.
You're going to have a few minutes.
All right.
you
okay that is time were you able to write something down yeah okay good um
all right I because there's a activation I really wonder I'm gonna
move into February and the prompt that I have for February now this is it's
what is happening in my relationships this month and how can I pray into them
so relationships can be your family friends co-workers or your marriage
present or future because this is the last year single group I would suggest
that you start out being like hey what's happening in my dating relationships how
can I pray into my future marriage I would suggest that you focus on that but
you can do any of these or all of these okay and then we're gonna do something
else with it okay but I do want you to like if you want to hear God about your
family or your friends or how to pray into them great but because this group
is focused on marriage I would suggest to you that you start there okay so I'm
gonna set the timer you're gonna have a little bit less time and then we're
gonna do a little something with it all right so we're time-traveling into
February Thank You December Thank You Lord for what you're doing in December
and now we're in the the love month God how what is happening in my
relationships and how can I pray into them in this month
and I want you to write names of people if you write different people to pray
over just list list them out
you
okay that is time remember just write all that's come to you we don't want to
be the judge we want to be like we want to be the scientists scientists are
curious oh I heard this I heard this I'm gonna write it all down I'm curious
what that all may mean we don't want to judge right now every single thing or
try to unpack what we're getting I just want you to grab it and write it down
all right so hopefully you wrote down I hope you wrote down a way that you can
pray into your future marriage but also any other relationships are fine too and
what we're gonna do is I want you to pursue God on what a prophetic act is
that you can do to bless this relationship now or these relationships
if you wrote about several really quickly if you've never heard of what a
prophetic act is I'm just gonna unpack that really quick we there's quite a
few prophetic acts in Scripture but essentially it's when you do an action
in the natural to symbolize what God is doing in the spirit to partner with it
okay and declaring like this will be done so here's an example in second
Kings we Elisha tells Joash to open a window and shoot an arrow arrow eastward
he's like shoot the arrow eastward to symbolize Israel being delivered from
the Lord from Syria okay or here's another example Ezekiel who I feel like
was like an ancient Banksy okay he was doing all sorts of interesting like
what's the word he well he was doing prophetic acts but he was there's a word
coming but I'll forget it but performance art basically but one thing
that Ezekiel did was he baked bread over cow manure to symbolize the food
supply being cut off in Jerusalem resulting in the inhabitants having to
ration what they eat so we have a saying here at Bethel that says sometimes
obedience and the natural can create can partner and create a spiritual reality
so it is I've heard of what people doing all sorts of things as prophetic acts to
declare who the God is over their situation and so it's a it's symbolism
okay I'm gonna show you an example of what someone in my lab last year did her
name is Carissa and here is her prophetic word she did the same one as
you and she wrote I felt led to pray that there would be a cohesion in the
blending of the family should I have the opportunity to remarry I prophesied that
it would be smoother than the Brady Bunch a seamless transition into a
family union unit okay so she was married she has kids I can't remember
why she's no longer married before I think he died that's not the point the
point is she was like if I ever get to remarry I I hope there would be a
right so that was her word and that's what she prayed that's what she wrote
for her for her February on how to pray into it and then she was like my
prophetic act would be to create a braid right seamless coming together all right
so this is her testimony I wrote it out so you can read it along with me this is
what happened the thing I love about prophesy your year is that Holy Spirit
will tell you something and then you'll promptly forget and he doesn't remind
you until after it happens so that you know it was him aligning things and not
you manipulating the situation well sure enough on Valentine's Day he reminded me
to check my journal to see what February was supposed
to be about. And just that week, my daughters and I had been watching an episode of the masked
singer. This is a reality show. Basically, um, people come on and they sing and they have masks
on and then they reveal like who it really is singing to you. So it could be like,
um, share or somebody like you have no idea they're like under a mask. So ready? Here's what
happened. It turned out that the three original actors who played the Brady brunch brothers were
unmasked after performing together for the first time on stage in four decades.
And the cherry on top was that as we had been watching the show, my oldest daughter had asked
me to how to braid hair and was practicing on me as they were unmasked. Okay. She didn't catch it
in the moment, but it happened later in October. I did end up getting remarried and our families
were blended like a braid. Okay. So here's what I love is she actually did the prophetic act,
but didn't even realize she was doing it. Right. So I just like, I kind of just tell you like
this thing you're entering into, it's like a spiritual scavenger hunt. And I want you to
if you get a prophetic act, do it. Right. But I also want you to trust in like what you're doing
right now is you're like, as we're listening to God, I like to say, it's almost like you're like,
what's happening this month. And it's almost like we're looking for where his hand is in the future
timeline. And then as we live our lives and this thing happens, we look back and we realize he told
us, we realized we've been holding his hand the whole time. Right. And so you just become more,
you feel more aware and connected with them. That's the whole point of this. It's not to
forecast what's going to happen. It's just creating moments of intimacy with them and
understanding how present he is in your life. So here we go. You wrote different ways to pray
into different relationships in your life. Okay. And hopefully one of them was your future marriage.
So now I want you to ask, I'm going to give you a couple of minutes. What is a prophetic
act that you can do? That is like a symbol, an act of symbolism on how you wrote what you're
going to pray for these relationships. All right. Let me give you a few minutes to do that.
Notice how her prophetic act made sense and was cohesive to what she had written.
Okay. That's time. I hope you got a chance to write down a prophetic act.
And now what we're going to do, just wait for the change of the slide. I want to walk you through
this. We're going to do an activation. We're going to go into a breakout room and I want you
to pursue God on what a prophetic act your partner can do to bless the relationship
that they wrote about. Now here's the deal. They don't need to know what you wrote. They don't
need to know who you wrote about. You might've, maybe some of you wrote just about your future
marriage. Maybe some of you wrote about your families, your coworkers. It's okay. They don't
need to know anything about what you wrote. All I want is that when you
You get into the breakout room. Here's how you do it. I want you to ask God,
like what is a prophetic act that they can do to bless their relationships in
the month of February? And you may get,
um, like you may get something in your mind's eye. You may hear something, um,
that my best tip for you is maybe you see something and then you can just say
what it is and unpack it. Um, so
Shani, I'm going to do it right now. Okay.
So I, all right, I saw something and now I have to unpack it.
I saw a washcloth. Okay.
And I feel like, uh, in the month of February,
you are to get a washcloth and I pick something,
but I want you to do the prophetic act of washing something away because I feel
like there are things from past relationships that God is like the paint,
the sting of that is going to be washed away.
The words are going to be washed away. Um, and almost parts,
old parts of your identity are going to be washed away because you are becoming
fuller, um, stepping into the identity of who God says you are.
And that is going to attract the right relationships to you.
Okay, cool. Cause I had a moment where I was like, I just see a washcloth.
What am I doing? Okay. So, but you go with it. All right.
I just went with, what did I get? And then we stepped into it. All right.
So Shawnee can then write this down. I hope I see your name. Right. Um,
can say can write this down and then decide if in February she wants to do
this prophetic act. And you know what, when we do prophetic acts,
do it with childlike wonder. Okay. Don't, don't make it a to-do list or like,
Oh, I got to do this thing. Just like, it's just more like, Hey God,
are you in this? And we do it as an act of worship.
We're doing it like, and go through the Bible, Google,
Google with God prophetic acts in the Bible and see what your fathers and
mothers did before you. Okay. And it'll be great. In the month of February,
we all have two prophetic acts. We're going to get weird with God.
Because we're in the natural declaring what he's doing in the
spirit.
And basically what we're also declaring is that we are women and men of faith,
no matter what we see our circumstances may be trying to tell us,
we believe God is on the move. All right.
Does this make sense? So you don't, don't, we don't actually have time.
You don't need to tell them what you wrote.
You're just going to give them the, the prophetic act,
start with what you see and unpack it. Okay. Um,
and please keep things in mind. The last time I did this,
someone told someone to buy a ticket to New York as a prophetic act.
So let's just not do big financial investments,
although he did it and he had an encounter and it was great,
but just keep that in mind. All right. Are we all, do we have breakout rooms?
Bethany? Yep. I'm ready to go. All right.
So you guys are going to be in there. You're going to have three minutes total.
That means you have 90 seconds. The, um,
the first person to go is the one whose birthday is closest to June
5th, which is my birthday. And I want you guys all to know that.
So you can get me a present. Okay. June 5th.
If your birthday is closest to June 5th,
then you are the one to give the prophetic act first.
You have 90 seconds and then it's your partner's turn to do the same for you.
Here we go.
Okay.
Okay. Set the timer for two minutes and I'll let you know,
and then you can hit close breakout rooms and it'll have one minute countdown.
I'm going to get a drink of water. Really? Okay. I'm alone.
I was alone in the breakout room.
Okay.
You'll have to go back in and then I can either move you around to a different
room or whatnot. Okay. Okay.
I you're going to, are you going to go invite me into it again?
What room were you in Alexandra?
I don't know. 54 maybe. I'm not sure.
Okay. I see a room I can put you in right now.
There you go. Thanks.
Oh, no one went in my room. I was the only one in a room.
Is it, are you sure you're not waiting for the other?
Cause sometimes there's internet delays, Mickey. Okay.
How about this Mickey?
And Karen, you're both here.
Awesome.
You guys just do each other right now.
That would be great.
OK.
When is your birthday, Karen?
I was muted.
I'm July 12th.
You're closer.
Mine is October 22nd.
OK.
So let's see what we got here.
OK, I'm seeing something about a nail,
like maybe a nail and a hammer.
But I don't know what that means.
I'm going to help.
I feel like it's going to be an act of that you're
believing in what he's saying for these relationships,
and he's securing it into place.
That you trust that God, like a nail, like a hammer to a nail,
he's going to secure his word to your life and into your spirit
and that you can trust him.
OK, timer.
You're going to close the breakout rooms, Bethany,
for one minute.
OK, Nikki.
So I see like tossing things out the door,
like containers just being thrown out the door.
And so going with that, I'm going
to say you're going to clean out things that no longer serve
you in life, and God is trying to remove and bring
new life and new things into your life.
And so he's getting rid of things that don't serve you
and you've given your energy to in the past,
and he's bringing new things for you to focus on.
OK.
That aligned with what I heard for myself, so good job.
That's so exciting.
All right, sorry.
I just got to witness people practicing with each other,
and she gave her prophetic act that
aligned with something that she also wrote down.
Has anyone had that happen yet, where your partner like
confirmed something that you heard?
Can you wave your hand?
OK.
OK, I see your hands, yep.
There's a few pages of you.
All right, cool.
All right, awesome.
Yeah.
Listen, when that happens, it's like an exclamation point.
You're like, ooh, pay attention.
OK.
We're going to have time for another one.
I want to move in to March.
And the thing with March is what I want you to do
is I want you to schedule a date with the Lord.
So I wrote the prompt like, dear Jesus,
I would like to go on a date with you this month.
Where would you like to go, and what do you want to talk about?
OK.
And then I want you to pick a calendar date for this,
and then do your best to protect it as we get up to March.
Now listen, don't stress out.
Maybe you pick March 12, and then it turns out
you have to go to your best friend's wedding or a cat's
funeral.
I don't know.
Life happens.
So don't be religious about this.
If you're like, I have to move the date, it's OK.
But there's something really powerful
about putting something in the future
and being like, I have this time scheduled
to do this thing with the Lord and protecting it.
But again, don't get religious.
All right?
It's OK if you need to move the actual date.
Here, now, I just showed you an example from my journal
from this year.
There have been times where we've got like,
one time he made me go to a restaurant and order,
like he was like, order two meals,
and don't explain to the waiter why.
So I had to like order two meals and then just sit there.
But it was sort of like a prophetic act for me
to really believe that he was part of my life.
And not having to and being willing to be misunderstood.
And so a lot of times, my dates with the Lord
have involved going places.
But this year, it actually wasn't.
He was like, I want you to list out childhood memories.
And this isn't about trauma.
This is actually like, it was like,
I felt like good memories.
He was like, I want you to list out childhood memories,
and I will talk to you about those moments
and what you were learning and where I was in that moment.
And so I just let him, I'm like, just
bringing up what childhood memories for me
just came to my mind.
And then I wrote, and then wrote, let's go apple picking.
And I was kind of like, what does this mean?
And I started to understand like,
because there was, it didn't make sense for the month
that he was kind of being a little bit,
metaphorical regarding it.
So I don't need to go into this about what happened with me.
My point is I'm showing you this from my journal
because you can hear anything and it might be like,
you're gonna go on a date
or you're gonna go to Disneyland together, I don't know.
Or it could be something like,
hey, I wanna do this thing with you.
So just opening your mind to what is possible.
And I want you to, I'm gonna set the timer
and I want you to pick a date,
like March 9th, March 8th, March 7th, pick a date,
let him highlight a date
and then highlight what he wants to do.
It's just, we're spending time with him.
Okay.
Okay, that's time, I wanna,
because I think we're doing good on time,
I wanna do one more partner activation.
Are you guys into it?
Yeah, okay.
So you've written down your date with the Lord, okay,
which is great.
We're going to go into a breakout room.
And I just want you to ask,
when you're in your room with your partner,
I want you to ask,
I want you to prophesy over your partner and be like,
what's on God's heart for them for the month of March?
Do not tell your partner what you wrote about your date
or what he wants to talk about.
That's not necessary.
I just want you to be like,
okay, we're going to prophesy into their month of March
and be like, God, what's on your heart for them
for the month of March?
Does that make sense?
Okay.
Can we do breakout rooms, Bethany?
Yep, I'm ready.
I have a feeling that the word you receive,
that some people are going to get some stuff
and it's also going to become conversation points for you
when you go on your date in March, okay?
So you're just like,
if I was in a room with someone like with Jamie or someone,
I would be like, okay, God,
what is on your heart for her in the month of March?
And for me right now,
what I'm seeing is I'm seeing her surrounded
by a big group of people.
And what his heart is about her,
I feel like what's on his heart is for you.
I feel like you are someone that people lean on very easily,
but he wants you in that month to start investing
and learning how to lean on those that he surrounds you with
because it's so great that you're the power node,
you're the heart,
but he wants you to also lean in and be vulnerable.
So his heart for you in that month is community.
Okay, does that make sense?
All right, so here we go.
Here come your breakout room invitations.
You each have two minutes to prophesy.
The first one to prophesy is the one whose birthday
is closest to March 1st.
Everybody's going, so it's okay.
Fine, all right.
All right, I set the timer.
Oh, I'll wait for everyone to get in there.
Okay.
I'm always trying to figure out how to do this,
get enough in in the amount of time.
Well, and there's no easy way,
because even after like I kept watching
to make sure people weren't dropping off,
and then like as soon as I click,
then people are dropping off, so it's just tricky.
I know, I think it's January.
I'm just gonna do a lab that's a two-parter
and we'll just do all the months.
You can come, it's like you sign up for two days
and then we can do all of it.
Yeah.
Okay.
And then when they come back, I'll wrap up.
Hey, Mikayla.
Yes, I didn't, no one joined my breakout room.
It happens sometimes.
Which room were you in?
Because I have someone else I see sitting by themselves.
Mikayla.
I was in 61.
Okay, give me one second.
Okay.
You should see that there to click to join that room.
Okay, thank you.
Michael, were you by yourself?
What room were you in?
66, no, 55.
Okay, that's fine.
So weird, I think some people are not,
give me one second.
Maybe Michael and Heather can do each other right now.
Okay, that's great.
Yeah.
All right, Michael, you go first.
I don't see a Michael.
You don't?
See me?
Oh, there you are.
Okay, now I do.
Let's see.
Someone calls part of the month of March.
Yeah, I saw community over you,
that people's hearts for community.
I saw that God's gonna bring more connections,
but also the people that are invested in you,
there's gonna be even deeper connection.
And I see even deeper partnerships,
and even now for business too,
that God's gonna do that with you.
Bless you then.
Thank you.
I think for me, the word intimacy just keeps being highlighted, that there is, God wants
to talk to you about intimacy, about deeper intimacy and moving things out of the way
that might be blocking that, whether it is a mental block or past experiences, but they
are in a space to be removed, to create opportunity for greater intimacy in March, in your life.
Amen.
I receive that.
I see.
Okay.
All right.
So listen, you got a word about what your partner pursued heaven, believed in their
inheritance, pursued God, what is on your heart for your partner in the month of March?
And so hopefully you wrote it down or recorded it so you could transcribe it later.
And I would write it like for you to bring up on your date, when you go on your date
with the Lord in March, okay, to like bring that before him.
And here's the deal about prophecy.
Prophetic words must be judged and weighed.
All right.
You are allowed and it is legal and mandated to judge and weigh the prophetic.
So hold everything open-handed, but I will tell you in my own life, I got several prophetic
words that I never thought were true.
And then I watched them through the sovereignty of God, no matter what I thought about it,
he like made it all happen.
So there are things that we can believe in and partner in, and some stuff is just happening.
Hang on for the ride.
Okay.
So, so it's okay.
It's good to judge and weigh your prophetic words.
Just if they don't make sense to you and you want to flush it, that's fine, but bring it
to your community because sometimes they see blind spots that we miss.
All right, really quickly.
So we did this.
I wanted to share just a last testimony with you.
One of my favorite ones from this prompt from someone who was in my lab who did this last
year with me.
They did the same thing about pick a date with the Lord.
And this is Rachel's testimony.
And the prompt was asked the Lord, what kind of date would he like to go on with you in
the month of September?
And here is what happened.
Let me make sure I have my notes up because I have her story written down for you.
Okay.
So I'm going to tell you the story.
She says, I took the class when I was six months pregnant with my son.
The doctors told me that I was due on September 17th.
When we prophesied for that month, the prompt was to ask the Lord for a special date, right?
Remember I told you to pick a date, like March 9th, March 12th.
And she she's like, I felt the Lord highlights September 13th.
However, with that being my birth month, I decided to take another measurable risk and
ask the Lord for the date that my son would be born.
So she's like, okay, I'm going to go on a date with the Lord on September 13th.
When will, what date will my son be born?
Right.
She was kind of pressing the envelope and she heard this.
He said, I, you will be in the hospital on the 18th.
I will be there with you too.
So she was like, okay, I'm gonna have a date with the Lord in September 13th.
And it sounds like my son's going to be born on September 18th.
Here's what happened.
When September rolled around, my water broke on September 12th.
And I had my son on September 13th.
So she's like, I was excited that I at least got one date, right?
Even though I got the reason wrong, right?
She goes, we went home from the hospital a day or two later, but at 11 PM on September
17th, we got a call from my son's pediatrician that his labs came back at critical levels
and we needed to take him to the ER right away.
I arrived to the hospital just after midnight on September 18th.
And all I could remember was the prophetic word that the Lord said, you'll be in the
hospital on the 18th and I'll be there with you too.
Um, so I went in with absolutely no fear, despite everything the doctor was saying.
I remembered this word.
I had heard the Lord tell me and lo and behold, about four hours later, he ended up being
released because his labs were completely normal guys.
This is why we do this because she, in that moment, remember it was like, we're looking
for God's hand.
And then we realized we've been holding it the whole time.
She was like, if I hadn't written that down, I probably would have been a hysterical mess.
But I remember he's like, you'll be in the hospital on the 18th and I'll be there with
you.
So she went in, guns a-blazing, being like Jesus,
asleep in the boat during the storm
because he said he would be there.
And so this, I want you to finish this out, guys.
I have prompts for you.
This is the point.
It's to build your faith.
It is to become aware of his presence,
to know that he is always with you,
holding his hand and making you courageous
for every day and step of your life.
So you can do this on your own.
I have prompts for the rest of the month, new ones.
If you've done my book or you've done this class with me,
they're actually new prompts.
I'm gonna tell you really quickly,
you can try it at home with your friends.
You can also do this if you wanna have friends over,
this is what you do.
You write down all the months and on pieces of paper,
you fold it up, you throw it in a bowl.
Then you have somebody write code names for you.
Take a picture of this, screenshot it, right?
So like with your friends,
somebody writes person one, two, three, and four,
and then you pull them out of the hat.
You pick a person and you pick a month.
Sometimes you might pick yourself
and then you write words for each other, okay?
And then at the end, you reveal whose word was for who.
Hopefully you've got a picture, you can screenshot it.
It's really fun to do with friends.
It's a fun new year's thing to do.
If you need some help doing it, I also have my book.
You can't see it on here,
but I'm gonna show you a prophesy your year,
which walks you, it's an interactive journal.
It's basically this class written down.
If you need help doing it,
it's kind of fun to do it with friends
because you hold each other accountable
and you can call each other and being like,
dude, that thing happened this month.
Sort of fun to walk it out with friends.
Here's what I do wanna remind you of what will happen
with your prophesy your journal.
You will forget things that you wrote.
So check back often.
You will get things wrong.
I miss things.
I miss an entire pandemic shutdown, okay?
Like you're gonna miss things and it's okay.
Don't be a judge, be a scientist, be curious.
Oh, okay, I got that wrong.
I wonder why God talked to me about that.
Some stuff that I wrote in my prophesy your journal
from like three years ago is happening now.
I just, look, the timing is weird.
So just be curious and have fun with it.
You're gonna get things that are accurate
but they're off on the timeline.
And all of this is okay because we're learning.
This process is the pursue of the person of the Holy Spirit
who is a gift to you because Jesus,
when he went to the cross was like,
I must go so the helper can come.
So I want you to know that all of this
is not about right or wrong.
I don't treat it that way.
I try this stuff out, I get wrong all the time.
What I'm doing is I'm pursuing the person of the Holy Spirit
who was a gift to all of us.
All right, and then lastly,
there is a book, if you need it written down,
it's on Amazon, you can quickly Google it.
It's called Prophesy Your Year.
It's an interactive prophetic devotional.
It has all the months with testimonies and teachings in it.
I also have it as an e-course.
If you are like, I'm not gonna read anything,
then you can do it with me.
I filmed it literally in my apartment in LA.
I can't believe that somebody
actually wanted to distribute it.
It's so funny.
I'm like, this, you want this?
Okay, so, and here's the deal.
We're gonna send, Bethany will send you an email.
I can show you, can you see it?
Can you see the prompts right now?
Yeah, I'm actually gonna post the image
in their Prophesy Your Year group, everyone.
And so it will be in your group, okay?
So pinned right to the top.
Yeah, so these are, I created prompts for you,
but here's the deal.
People are always like,
what prompt do I do for the missing month?
Guys, this is what I wanna remind you.
I am here to hold your hand
and help you stir up conversation.
But at the end of the day,
what you are doing is you are sitting with the Lord.
And then you're like, Lord, talk to me about this month.
What do you wanna share with me?
That's basically it.
But I am happy to provide prompts.
Just don't get too close,
cause this girl met me once and she was like,
I just didn't know what the prompts were
for June, July, and August, so I didn't do them.
Thought that she had done something wrong.
And I was like, you can do this.
I want you to know, you can do this.
The Holy Spirit, when you gave him your life, he took it.
So rest in abiding theology.
Lean in, listen, and write down what you get,
and then have fun going through the scavenger hunt of life.
I hope it opens your eyes
that life is like a scavenger hunt with God.
And you're looking for him in every nook and cranny
and discovering that he's there waiting for you.
Okay, I'm gonna stop.
We've hit time.
I did it, I did it in two hours.
Jackie, you're welcome.
So good.
This is awesome.
Can everyone just give her a shout out?
This was so great.
Lindsey, as always, incredible night tonight.
I did want to call out something that was in the chat
because Lindsey's been saying it,
but I want you all to hear me say it too.
Christy DeJong said in there, thank you so much.
I did this once before,
but for me, this was so much more powerful.
What I want those of you that are new to keep in mind
is that practicing will make it,
like it will start to flow differently.
And I've done this several years in a row,
and I can tell you that the more that I've done it,
I feel like the easier it's been to trust myself
in what I'm hearing.
And so maybe tonight for some of you,
maybe it felt a little uncomfortable,
but I would encourage you, keep practicing,
keep hearing what God is saying and trust the process.
And that's what Lindsey was saying,
but I want you all to kind of have that extra kind of punch
but yeah, the prompts are gonna be in your prophesy,
your year group in the last year single app.
So be looking for them there.
I'm gonna literally go there right now and put that up.
Praying for you all.
Love you.
Have a great night, everyone.
Bye, Lindsey.
Thanks.
Bye guys.
Bye everyone.
Thank you.