Alright, welcome everybody.
Good morning.
I am not going to be able to be on camera today.
I'm actually mobile.
I'm mobile.
I'm in Charleston, South Carolina and some of you have been watching and following the
Wisdom Challenge and I'm going to be on there today, the last day of Proverbs, the last
day of January and ladies, you know this is Proverbs 31.
You know, for a lot of us that has been held over our heads as what women should be, but
you know, Proverbs 31 isn't about women.
It's actually celebrating women.
It's not, it's not instruction for women.
It's actually celebrating what women are, at least the second half of the chapter, which
is really a poem.
I don't think a lot of people know that, but it's an acrostic poem, which means that every
line of it is a different letter of the alphabet and it's just a really powerful, a really
powerful time today.
So I hope you're going to join us here.
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So this morning, for those of you that are new, I see a lot of new faces.
So welcome you guys.
Welcome to last year's single.
Welcome to our Supernatural Saturday session.
This session is my favorite session.
It's also one of the only sessions that I do, but that's not why it's my favorite session.
It's my favorite session because we lean into what is the current prophetic reality.
I love knowing what heaven is doing.
I really love to know what God is up to and this is where we lean into that together.
What is God up to?
What's on his heart?
What is he thinking about?
What is he doing in the earth?
What is he doing in our lives?
That's what Supernatural Saturday is all about and everyone who is an OG here can attest
to you that we have some amazing times here.
God really speaks to our hearts in so many different ways, very personal ways, very corporate
ways.
But all in all, it's just a really great time of community and fellowship, just leaning
in together.
So today I want to talk about something that is affecting Christians, affecting the body
of Christ at large.
Sorry, friends, just having a few technical difficulties here, just being mobile.
I'm actually sitting in a car right now.
I'm sitting in a car.
So a lot of you know, and a lot of you are really new to any type of community that talks
about the gifts of the spirit.
Some of you are total newbies to that and you're like, Hey, what the heck is going on?
I didn't even hear about this.
I don't even know about this.
Well, just go ahead and buckle your seatbelt because we're going to advance you kind of
quickly here.
We're going to teach a little bit today about the prophetic.
Raise your hand if you've been following anything that's been going on about just different
churches and different people being called out for misusing gifts and different things
happening.
Just raise your hand.
I know some of you have messaged me, so I definitely know that some of you are concerned
and as you should be.
That's okay.
It's okay to feel concerned.
We don't want to feel fear.
And I'm going to talk about that here in a few minutes.
But we do want to feel concerned and we do want to mature.
You guys, when Jesus said that he was going to give the gifts of apostle and teacher and
pastor and evangelist and prophet to the church, it was for the edification of the church.
It was for the maturing of God's people.
Maturing doesn't always feel great.
You know, growing up and having more responsibility and more accountability doesn't always feel
great, but God is calling his church to more accountability.
And that's not a bad thing because you know what?
With more accountability comes more responsibility, the good kind.
Go ahead and put your hands down real quick.
Who wants to be trusted with more of God's kingdom?
Raise your hand if you want to be trusted with more.
Raise your hand.
And that's really what's happening in the day and age that we're living in right now.
I'm going to get around to it, but God spoke to me last night.
He spoke to me in my sleep.
He spoke to me very emphatically last night, specifically about one part of the kingdom
of God, which is the prophetic.
And it's not a small part, friends.
It's a big part.
Paul said above all of the gifts that are available to you via Holy Spirit,
the number one gift that you should want is you should covet to prophesy.
And I'm going to talk about what that is and what that isn't in just a minute,
because I think things have gotten really twisted, especially if you're new to this.
You're like, what the heck is this sorcery?
We're going to talk about what it is and what it isn't just briefly this morning.
But God wants to trust us with more.
He wants to upgrade us.
He wants to put down some of those baby gates that I talk about.
Not just corporately as the body of Christ, but also individually.
And look at all the people that have their hands up.
Like, hey, I want to be trusted with more.
I want to know.
I want God to know he can trust me.
And you guys, that is what's happening right now.
So it's not just about what's happening.
This is important.
Listen up.
It's about our response to what is happening.
Our response should never be judgment.
I just want to let you guys know this.
Our response should never be judgment.
The only thing that God ever tells us to judge.
There's a lot of scriptures that tell us not to judge.
Judge not, lest you be judged.
With the same measure that you judge, you will be judged.
Right?
But he does tell us to judge fruit.
And it's always for the purpose of participation.
What I mean by that is, is that if you see something that's not producing good fruit,
you get to make an educated decision about whether or not you want to participate with that.
Okay, we're a matchmaking community.
We are a last year single community.
So let me use this example.
You meet someone on the dating app.
They seem nice at first.
They seem good.
You know, you're like, cool.
I'm going to go with that.
They seem nice at first.
They seem good.
You know, you're like, cool.
I really want to get to know this person.
But as you get to know them, you see some fruit that you know is not good.
You see some irresponsibility in their stories that they're telling you.
You see some broken relationships that they are not willing to repair.
Possibly in the stories that they're telling you.
Maybe you see that they're never on time or they never follow up or they're not consistent.
Then when you see that fruit, you get to decide whether or not you want to continue.
And some people will ignore fruit.
And they'll just be like, yeah, well, you know, nobody's perfect.
Yeah, nobody is perfect.
That is true.
But if you ignore fruit, then you're going to eventually get bit when you knew it was
a rattlesnake, right?
And so we don't want to ignore fruit.
We don't want to defer discernment.
That's not intelligent.
That's not wise.
God tells us, you know the tree by its fruit.
And he tells us that we should judge that.
And the other thing that we're supposed to judge is prophecy.
And we'll talk about that in a second.
So those are the two main scriptures about what we should be judging.
We should be judging fruit.
You shouldn't ignore fruit.
If you see fruit that's not good, you don't judge that person.
You say, what a rotten person.
What a terrible person.
No, you just get to opt out of whatever's coming.
You just get the opportunity to make a wise decision to not get on that boat because apparently
it has some holes in it and it's taking on water.
You don't need to judge why they're the way they are.
You don't need to call them out.
You don't need to do any of that.
I mean, you know, if there's someone that's under your authority for some reason, okay,
cool.
But in the dating environment, ladies, you guys do this a lot.
You see a man acting badly and then you try to mother him.
Come on, you do.
He sends you, you know, he sends you a dick pic and then you try to have a big sermon
with him about why that's wrong instead of, you know, bless him and block him.
You know, you do it.
I've seen you do it.
It's just like, well, Jackie, you know, I tried to talk to him about why this is wrong
and why he shouldn't be doing this.
What?
No, you saw what you needed to see.
And now it's time.
Now it's time to go, right?
Gentlemen, same thing.
Go on a first date.
You tell her, oh, I just really want us to go somewhere where you're really going to
enjoy it.
So you pick the restaurant and she picks some super expensive restaurant, some crazy expensive
restaurant, you know, over $100 a person.
You kind of saw what you needed to see, didn't you?
It's like, oh, well, that lady thinks very highly of herself.
Well, she's probably thinking, hey, if this isn't going to go anywhere, I'm at least going
to get a really good meal out of it.
You guys, we can't ignore fruit.
The Bible tells us to judge that.
So there's a lot of judgment being thrown around right now about a lot of people that
none of us know personally.
I think it's important because I believe that God, not the judgment part of it, but I think
the conversation is important because God is maturing us.
but part of maturity is how we respond to something. We should respond in prayer.
We should respond in a responsibility to ask God to bring clarity,
to ask God to bring healing to people that have been hurt. That is how we should be responding,
friends. So the word that God gave me in the middle of the night last night, in my sleep,
I just kept waking up, I kept waking up, and this is what the Lord said to me. He said,
prophecy is a guidepost, it's not a map. Prophecy is meant to be a guidepost in our lives, not a
map. Not your GPS, it's a guidepost. You know what a guidepost is, right? It's a marker along
the road that tells you which direction to go while you're already moving. This is what's
important. These are guideposts that help you keep moving forward on the path that you're on.
Sometimes shifting paths, yes, but it's not supposed to be a map or blueprint for your life.
So let's talk about prophecy very quickly, just biblically.
Prophecy, first of all, was never meant to replace wisdom. It was never meant to replace relationship.
And when I say relationship, I don't just mean with God, I mean with community, with others.
In fact, the other scripture about judging is about judging prophecy. And you don't do that
just on your own, you do that in the company of people that you trust.
People have just run off willy-nilly with words from all kinds of unknown people because they
have platforms and then they get really upset when they've run a hundred miles an hour down a
dead-end road into a brick wall. You guys, we have a responsibility to this, not just people that are
prophesying. We have responsibility. Let me share some scriptures with you. First Corinthians 14.3,
remember we're talking about what prophecy is right now. But everyone who prophesies
speaks to people for the purpose of edification, exhortation, and comfort.
You guys, modern day prophecy. Now, of course, it's not that I don't believe that there are
prophets in the earth, you know, like the office of prophet. Jesus said he gave us the five-fold
ministry for our maturing. I know that there are, but all of us are called to operate in the spirit
of God and to operate in prophecy. Some of you are so prophetic and you don't even know it.
Some of you are edifying people, exhorting people, and comforting people all the time
via Holy Spirit. And that makes you prophetic. And prophecy is meant to build people up. I'm not
talking about flattering people. I'm talking about building them up into their identity in Christ,
edifying them. It's meant to exhort people. Exhorting means encouraging. Raise your hand
if you've ever received an encouraging word from a friend. You know who's exhorted me more than
anyone else? My own children. I'll be having a hard time and my kids will come with an exhort,
an exhortation, a word of prophecy. They don't even know they're doing it. Like, hey mom, I was
thinking about you and this is what I was feeling. And they'll tell me. And it's just so right on time.
And what does that do? That gives you the courage to keep going, doesn't it?
It lets you know that God sees you, doesn't it? Mickey was just at a retreat in Austin this summer
and God exhorted her, didn't he Mickey? He exhorted you. You guys, when it's used correctly, this is a
beautiful, beautiful way that Holy Spirit moves in our lives. And then the last thing is comfort.
All of us are going to go through hard times and having a word that's spoken to us in due season,
the Bible says in Proverbs, it's like apples of gold in pitchers of silver. It's priceless.
So this is what prophecy is. So let me just tell you right now, if anything comes in the
form of prophecy that feels controlling or confusing, if anything replaces your
responsibility or your agency, because you have free will, it's already off.
It's already not under the guidelines of what the prophetic is. If it causes confusion,
if it feels like you have to do it, even though it's out of left field, you're like, oh, well,
the prophet said it, so I've got to go do it. I've never thought about doing this in my entire life.
You guys, prophecy should come as a confirmation to you. There's some times that I've received
words that are just out of left field, and it's not anything that I've ever thought about before.
And you know what I do with that? I write it down in my prayer journal. I don't just throw it out.
Now, if it's off the word of God, and I'll talk about that in a second,
if it's completely opposed to God's word, then I'm going to throw it out. That's how you judge it.
My good friend says you either keep it or you flush it, and that means down the toilet.
Some of us receive words of judgment or correction from someone that we don't know,
something that feels totally off. Instead of allowing condemnation,
come to your heart like, oh my gosh,
is this the way God sees me?
No, just flush that.
If it makes you feel confused or afraid, just flush it.
But if it's neutral,
if it's something that you just haven't thought of before,
but it's not necessarily bad
or it's not necessarily in misalignment
with the word of God, just write it down.
Pray over it.
Show it to some trusted friends.
Remember, we judge these words in community.
Say, hey, what do you think about this?
Okay?
Now let's talk about what prophecy is not.
We just talked a little bit.
You guys, this is a very brief overview.
And if you guys need a deeper teaching, I will do it.
But I wanna get to the word of it being a guidepost
and not a map.
What prophecy is not,
is it's not a map or a blueprint for your life.
It is not a substitute for decision-making.
I know people personally love them,
but they go to a church that operates in the prophetic
and they go up to the prayer line every Sunday.
Every Sunday, there's people at the front of the church
at the end of service that will give you a word
or will pray over you or agree with you for something.
And they go up there every single week
to get something different, a new.
That is a recipe for confusion, friends.
That is someone trying to outsource
their spiritual discernment to other people,
outsource their spiritual life to other people.
Remember, the prophetic is not a replacement
for relationship with God.
You have to pray.
You have to read your word.
God wants to mature you.
He wants to stretch you.
And he's not gonna do it
through you getting your spirituality via other people.
So it's not a map for your life.
It's not a substitute for decision-making.
You've gotta make decisions.
You can't always go up and get a prophetic word
about whether you should turn right or left,
zig or zag.
You can't do that.
You cannot outsource your discernment.
God wants to sharpen you.
And you know what that's gonna require?
It's gonna require you making wrong decisions.
I know people don't wanna hear that,
and I know we're so afraid of making wrong decisions,
but let me just tell you something right now.
If you make a wrong decision with the right heart,
let me tell you that again.
If you make a wrong decision with the right heart,
you're still gonna get to the right destination.
If you go left instead of right,
but you are doing what you knew to do,
God will still take your feet
and put them on the right path.
I've experienced it so many times myself.
I'm doing what I know to do.
I'm doing all that I know to do.
I'm doing it prayerfully.
I'm Proverbs 3, fiving it.
In all my ways, I'm acknowledging him
and expecting him to direct my path.
And he does.
Because why?
Because I'm God defended.
I'm God defended, you guys.
When I don't know what to do,
I trust that God knows where I am and who I am
and what I need and how to get it to me.
This is called maturity.
You cannot use the prophetic for a substitute
for not making bad decisions or decision-making in general.
You can't outsource that.
It's not a loophole to avoid responsibility.
You guys, there's no Easter eggs in the kingdom.
There's no shortcuts.
There's only process.
I know we don't love process,
but this is what comes with the promises of God.
So there's no spiritual shortcut to avoid maturity.
There's not.
So here's some more things that prophecy is not.
Prophecy does not override scripture.
Okay?
It also doesn't override your maturity process,
the character process that God has you in.
You may have an amazing prophetic word,
maybe even a series of them,
of something that God is preparing you for in the future.
And I've done this myself.
You run out and you try to do it right now
because it's an alignment.
It's a confirmation to something God was speaking
to your heart in your private prayer time.
And then you get all kinds of words that confirm it.
You know what that is?
That's an invitation to a process.
When you get prophetic words that confirm something
that God has been telling you in your heart,
something that you haven't done yet,
something that you aren't yet.
God gave me a prophetic word about television.
He told me that I was gonna be working in TV.
Friends, I didn't even own a TV,
but he was saying that to my heart.
And then guess what?
Prophetic voices of edification started to come around me
and say, hey, you know, when I look at you,
I see television.
When I look at you, I see you on TV.
What was that?
Those were confirmations.
And what did I do?
I put feet on those prayers.
I called every single TV station in my phone book.
This is how.
oldest story is and until one of them gave me an internship because I believed the word
of the Lord.
It had been confirmed and I wanted to take action on it.
What's the Bible say?
Through the mouth of two or three witnesses, let a word be established.
You guys, I was discipled by a Bible believing church.
They weren't perfect.
In fact, you guys know the story.
The pastor went to prison, but some good things came out of that because I was taught the
word of God.
I was taught how to read the word of God.
I was taught how to study the word of God.
I was taught how to, you know, um, to get into and, and honor the word of God.
And because of that, when I received all of those confirming words to my private prayer
closet communication with the Lord, I knew that I needed to activate it.
Now, does that mean that I was going to be on TV the next day?
Some people think that, no, there's a process.
There's a process of maturity.
God gives us prophetic words and confirms them to invite us into a process.
And so for me, that process looked like an internship.
It looked like me learning about television.
It looked like me going to broadcasting school.
Some of you may not know that about me.
I went to broadcasting school.
It looked like that for me.
And that's what this is.
That's what this is supposed to be about besides just exhorting us and comforting us.
It's supposed to be a guidepost that says, Hey, you're on the right road.
Keep going.
Is anyone getting anything from this?
Let me see your hands.
I know it's quick.
I'm going fast.
So prophecy does not override our responsibility to put some time in.
In fact, prophetic words, they require you to ask questions.
They require you to do some work.
Okay, what's this look like?
How do I walk this out?
So when God woke me up in the middle of the night, kept waking me up with the idea that
it's a guidepost and not a map.
It's a metaphor kind of, right?
So a map is what?
What is the map?
The map is scripture.
The map is wisdom that you gain over time by making the right decisions and the wrong
decisions sometimes.
And also the community that you're around of wisdom, the people that you do life with.
The map is wise counsel and a multitude of counselors are safety.
The map is your character that's being tested and tried over time.
And guideposts are just inside along the way, along the road that you're already walking.
This is how you should be treating prophecy.
They are signs and guideposts along the way to let you know that you are on the right
or wrong road, what you should maybe do differently.
And you guys know that guideposts only make sense if you're already moving.
So if you're standing still right now and you're waiting for the prophetic, and this
is what I was receiving in my DMs, people asking me questions about the prophetic.
So if you are waiting for God to tell you through somebody who to marry, when to move,
what job you should take, what decision to make, this is how you're using the prophetic
incorrectly.
You should be praying about that.
You should be talking to wise counsel, people that know you, people that have a vested interest
in you.
That's what you should be doing.
And then if, if prophetic confirmations come as you're walking that road, amazing, wonderful.
Otherwise you're asking prophecy to do a job that it was never assigned to do.
And this is where we get in trouble.
And that's why we're seeing so much damage now.
And you guys, we are in a reset.
I know that you can look around and be like, Hey, the whole world's on fire.
No, it's not.
We're in a reset.
The Bible says that shaking comes only so that what can be shaken will be shaken so
that what can't be shaken can remain.
And that's what God's doing.
He's removing all the junk right now.
He's removing all of our human interpretations and all of our human theologies to get us
back to the basics.
He's taken us back to study hall friends.
That's what's happening.
We're seeing fallout because prophecy has been elevated above process.
People want the quick fix.
They want the shortcut.
And then they want to blame it on somebody else when it doesn't work out.
Right?
Charisma has been elevated above character.
I know there's all kinds of people on platforms and they become famous because they have a
gift and okay.
What about accountability?
What about looking at fruit?
I'm going to talk about a false prophet and what that is in just a minute.
It's not probably what you think it is.
Just because people have a revelation gift.
or a reputation to have revelation
doesn't mean that that's for you.
In fact, back in the day, I used to tell people,
look, the internet's amazing, it's wonderful,
but the problem is is that we're no longer
in communities with a pastor.
We have all kinds of pastors on Instagram
that are not our pastor.
Those are strange pastors, friends.
That's not your pastor.
They don't know you.
So why are you taking words from them for your life?
Get in proximity.
It doesn't even have to be a church.
It could be a home group.
God has family for you.
That's what I'm out here doing.
I'm out here supporting my family.
I'm out here learning from my family.
It's a business group, but it's my family.
It's my spiritual family.
It's my spiritual community.
Do I have a home church at home in Austin?
Sure I do, but they don't know me even half
as well as these folks do.
I would trust these folks' wisdom and discernment.
I would put my decisions before these folks
before I would even do it at church.
Not because I don't love my church,
but your spiritual community should be a place
where you're known.
And if you don't have that,
Proverbs tells us that God takes the solitary
and he puts them in family, and you gotta get in family.
That's where the prophetic works,
and this is where it's gone wrong.
We have all these prophets on the internet
just throwing out prophetic words,
and yeah, they sound good because they sound spiritual,
and you might go ahead and grab it,
but this is not name it and claim it, friends.
That doesn't work.
You can't just grab it and say it's for me.
You can't.
Now, if you happen to hear something
that's a confirmation of something God's already speaking
to you, great, wonderful,
but what about all the other prophetic words out there
that cause confusion?
You can't just cherry pick.
You can't just be out here shopping
for spirituality on the internet.
I'm not saying that the things that they're saying
are not true or relevant,
but they might not be true or relevant for you
in the season that you're in.
We've gotta respect the season that we're in, right?
And yes, this is a prophetic community of sorts
just because I'm a spirit-filled believer
and I'm the leader of it.
And you guys are here,
and this is part of your community,
and it's part of your accountability,
but only if you get known here.
For those of you that are just always here,
your camera's off, you never share in group,
you never let people know what's going on in your life,
you never invite feedback from the coaches,
we don't know you.
We want to know you, but we don't know you.
Do you guys understand what I'm saying?
Just because people out there have audiences
doesn't mean that they have authority.
We have to be held accountable to who we're listening to.
Just because they have a huge audience,
they have a million followers on Instagram
doesn't mean they have authority,
doesn't mean they have accuracy,
it just means they have an audience.
And here's another thing.
A prophetic word can be accurate,
it can be from God and still not be for you.
And also, depending on who the person is
that's delivering it, it can be immaturely delivered.
God could be speaking to them,
but they can be adding their own stuff to it
because they don't know, they're immature in the spirit realm
and they're just doing their thing.
Just because they're gifted doesn't mean they're mature.
So we have to test prophecy, we have to judge prophecy,
and we have to do it without becoming cynical, you guys,
because once again, one of the greatest teachers
of our entire life, world, Christianity, is Paul.
And Paul says that prophecy is important
and we need to take that to heart.
It's an important thing because what does it do?
It matures us, it edifies us, it exhorts us,
it builds us up, it helps us to grow.
So the Bible doesn't say to reject prophecy,
it says to test it, to judge it.
And here are some things, you guys,
that I have written down that you can test prophecy with.
First and foremost, does it align with scripture?
Write it down, does it align with scripture?
And if you don't know,
then you need to get in your Bible and find out.
Don't ask someone else, hey, does this align with scripture?
You do the heavy lifting.
You get in the word.
If you have dyslexia like me and so many other people,
I learned how to sight read, you guys.
I can read because I have an amazing memory
and I have memorized the words.
I know what they are from memory,
which means if I see a word that I've never seen before,
guess what I cannot do?
I cannot say it, because I don't know what it is.
And so many of us have these types of limitations,
but you know what?
You can just download an app.
My son-in-law built an app, it's called Sword,
because he has dyslexia, and it will read the Bible to you.
It will read the Bible to you.
So if you have trouble with reading.
in reading comprehension, you have no excuse in this tech age, you can read the Bible.
And I know that Trevor would love it if you would download his app because he built it
to solve a problem for himself and it's really good.
He's a little baby genius is what he is.
All right.
Does it align with scripture?
Does it produce peace in your heart when you receive it?
Did it make you feel afraid?
Did it make you feel judged by God?
Did it make you feel like you want to run away from God or did it, did you feel peaceful
about it?
Did it bring clarity or confusion?
The only way that it's going to bring fruit in your life over time, the words you're receiving
is if it's going to bring clarity and peace.
Okay.
Here's another way you can test it.
Does it confirm what God is already working in your life?
Maybe someone comes and gives you a word about patience.
You're like, Oh yeah, God's really been talking to me about that.
Maybe God comes and give, maybe someone gives you a word about judgment.
You know, I'm not a judgmental person.
You guys, I'm really a live and let live person.
I have a hard time judging people because I know where I came from.
I really do.
I, I remember, you know, that song that says, I can't remember what I was doing before I
met you.
Well, I do remember what I was doing before I met God and I was partying hard.
Okay.
Remember I met him in my twenties.
I do remember the road that I was on and it was a road of destruction, so it's really
difficult for me to judge other people's mistakes.
I really am not a judgmental person, but God starts speaking to me at the end of last year
about being even less judgmental, about having such a clear heart lens that I can see the
why behind the what the people do.
And why is that?
He's preparing to take me somewhere, I believe, where people are acting badly.
They're behaving badly.
And he wants me to be able to correctly discern, you know, their hearts, not their behavior.
And so I'm being prepared for that.
So maybe you receive a prophetic word, um, that is just in agreement or in confirmation
of something that you know that God is already working in you.
Another thing that I always look for, is it spoken in humility?
You know, is the person like, you know, are they coming and saying, Hey, you know, I don't
know, you know, this may not resonate with you at all, but I just really feel like God
was really speaking to me about you and this is what he said.
Is it, is it delivered with humility?
And another thing is that if it's given to you from a stranger, okay, you need to weigh
it.
You need to write it down.
You need to judge it with people that are not strangers, your family, your friends,
your community.
You know why?
Because that person's not accountable to you.
You don't even know them.
Anytime we get received anything prophetic from someone that's a stranger, we don't discard
it.
If it lines up with all this other stuff, it aligns with scripture.
We have peace, you know, brings some clarity, but we judge it with people that do know us,
people that are accountable to us and we're accountable to.
And most importantly, does it leave room for discernment?
I know that there's a saying out there that delayed obedience, delayed obedience is disobedience.
I actually don't believe that.
I believe that God gives us words because he gives it to us kind of in the timeline
of how he knows us.
God knows how I operate.
He knows I'm my MO.
And so when he says something to me, he knows what I'm going to do.
He knows that I'm going to think about it.
I'm going to ponder it.
I'm no longer the person that just goes zero to a hundred miles an hour on something as
soon as I hear it.
Why?
Because I've been face first into too many brick walls.
Now I am a fast start in certain ways, but I believe that God gives us things knowing
how long it takes us to kind of really be able to step out on that.
And he'll confirm it.
You guys, this whole kingdom is about grace, truth, and time.
And if you're not giving yourself grace to apply truth over time, then you're not in
the right kingdom.
Anytime anything makes you feel like you're pressured, you're pushed.
You got to really look into that because God woos us.
He leads us.
He draws us.
That's what he does.
And healthy prophecy always invites you to be able to have some discernment time.
Unhealthy prophecy is always going to demand immediate submission, right?
Immediate obedience.
It's not that we're being disobedient.
We're trying to be.
discerning, there's a difference.
All right, so you guys, this is a maturity shift
that we need, we need it because God wants us
to make us wiser, more grounded, right?
The world is watching, friends, they really are.
They really are in a lot of ways.
I have a lot of friends that are pre-believers
that are like, hey, what's up with that?
So it's important that we mature,
especially in this because it's so important.
I know it'd be easy to say, okay,
let's just get back to the basics.
Let's get back to just Bible teaching
and just dry Christianity.
But you guys, we have to have the spirit.
We have to have the spirit.
So it's time for us to get back to responsibility.
Prophecy should activate our responsibility.
It's not gonna replace it, it's gonna activate it.
So really quickly, I just wanna tell you
what makes up a false prophet
in case you guys were wondering, people have been asking.
So I'm just gonna give you an overview.
You guys, there's so much more to this
than what I'm saying, okay, and I'm not a theologian.
I'm not.
But from what I know, a false prophet
is not someone who misses it.
We can all just give something
that's sort of out of alignment.
We're stepping out in faith.
We're wanting to encourage someone
and maybe they don't really seem to receive it
or maybe it seems to miss the mark.
That does not make it a false situation, okay?
So not everyone who misses the mark is a false prophet.
And another thing, not everyone who has a platform
that calls themselves a prophet is a true one.
So how do we know the difference?
Well, biblically, we have to look at fruit.
All right, we have to look at fruit.
And in the olden days, I'm trying to remember,
I think that false prophets,
they were just defined as people
who gave prophetic words that didn't come true.
That was kind of the fruit.
And you're like, well, why would anyone wanna do that?
For favor, think about who the prophets were talking to.
A lot of times they were talking to leaders, right?
Back in the Old Testament, they were talking to leaders.
And so you kind of wanna tell people
what they wanna hear, right?
Especially if they're an important person.
And I know in the book of Daniel, especially,
Daniel was told not to listen to the prophets,
that they were prophesying something that wasn't true.
They were saying that the captivity was gonna end.
The Babylonian captivity was gonna end.
And yet God said, no,
it's gonna actually go on for 70 years.
They were telling people what they wanted to hear.
I'm not saying that these were prophetic words,
but you guys remember when COVID first started
and people were like, oh,
this is gonna be over in two weeks.
Remember that?
Remember the spiritual voices that said,
oh, this isn't gonna last, it's just gonna be over.
It's gonna be over in two weeks.
As quickly as, I remember hearing this prophetic word,
as quickly as it came,
because it kind of happened overnight,
that's how quickly it's gonna leave.
Well, y'all, that was really not accurate, was it?
It's still lingering.
I still see people with masks on.
I still see people's families torn apart,
not even like getting together for holidays anymore
because people are vaxxed or unvaxxed.
It was a whole thing, wasn't it?
So in the olden days, in the Bible days,
back in the Old Testament,
they actually would put you to death for this, okay?
It's not good.
It's not cool.
You definitely didn't wanna be falsely prophesying.
But you guys, we live in a New Testament church age.
We live in a new dispensation, a dispensation of grace.
You know, it's not just about one prophet.
It's about the prophetic and we need the prophetic,
but we also need reform.
We need to test, we need to weigh.
Weigh words, sorry, guys.
We need to pray.
We need to confirm.
We need to walk wisely.
We need to take accountability.
We need to take responsibility.
And we don't need to call everyone who says something
that we don't like a false prophet.
Now, in the situation that's happening now,
for those of you that know about it,
it seems to be that people are talking about
that there's a lot of pride instead of repentance going on.
You guys, that's not good.
We wanna always have a heart of repentance and humility.
There's a lot of prophetic people out there
that are monetizing that gift.
And that's manipulation instead of service, you guys.
We wanna serve people.
What the gifts of the spirit are supposed to serve people.
Remember, we're not supposed to be gift inspectors.
We're supposed to be fruit inspectors.
You're not gonna know whether or not someone is good news
just by their gift.
You're not gonna know whether or not someone is good news
just by their gift.
They might have a really amazing gift.
It's by their fruit.
We're fruit inspectors, not gift inspectors.
feel manipulated, take a pass, pass on that.
If someone that you don't know
is trying to bring correction to you,
correction happens within relationship.
It happens within community relationship.
Oftentimes.
Now, if you're really going 100 miles an hour off a cliff
and God just uses some person that's standing there
to grab you by the back of your neck before you fall off,
okay, there's definitely exceptions to the rule
where God may give you a strong word through someone
you don't know because you're wild and out
and you're about to crash out.
Yeah, that definitely happens.
But for the most part, you guys,
I'm talking about most of the time.
I'm not saying that there's never exceptions.
So instead of just blaming and pointing fingers
at what we want to say are false prophets,
let's start taking responsibility
for the prophetic in our own lives.
Don't blindly follow prophecy.
Don't surrender your agency and your free will.
Test and weigh and pray.
Walk wisely, you guys.
Get in community.
Don't get into any community that discourages questions.
That's a flag.
If you have questions and they don't have answers
or they don't think you should be asking questions,
they think you should just submit and listen,
that's already unhealthy.
And I want you to know right now
that God is not embarrassing the church.
He's not.
He's protecting his people
and he is giving out a mass invitation to maturity.
This exposure that's happening right now,
I believe it's mercy.
It's a revealing for healing.
It is not judgment.
It is not judgment, you guys.
Okay, it's a reset.
Back to accountability, back to humility,
back to shared discernment within trusted community,
back to wisdom.
That's what it is, all right?
The prophetic is a guidepost.
It is not a map.
All right, who wants to pray?
You guys wanna pray for a minute?
And then I'm gonna go jump on a wisdom challenge,
talk about more wisdom.
It's gonna be good.
All right, so Father God, we come before you right now
and we're acknowledging that you are the same yesterday,
today and forever, Lord.
And you're not confused
and you're not the author of confusion.
And we're asking you personally right now,
we see that you're doing a prophetic reset.
We see that you're doing a reset in the earth,
but we're asking for a prophetic reset in our own hearts.
Any place where prophecy has replaced discernment,
we're asking you to restore balance in our hearts.
Any place where we've been seeking revelation,
but it's replacing relationship with you
or trusted others that you've brought into our lives.
Father, we're asking you to bring us back
to a place of intimacy.
We're asking you to bring us back to a place
where these words that we receive, God,
they are just a confirmation of the relationship
that we already have with you.
We're not elevating them above wisdom.
We're asking you, God, to fill in any cracks
in our foundation where there might've been wrong teaching,
anything that we've been given that's wrong theology.
Lord, this is the time, take us back to study hall,
show us what's true.
Show us what's true, Lord.
And I just wanna pray for all of you
that have received prophetic words
that have caused confusion.
They were misused or mishandled.
Maybe you just misunderstood them, I don't know.
But Father, I pray for all of those hearts
that have been hurt and now they're unsure,
they don't know what to believe.
They've actually shied away from your spirit, Father,
because of the mishandling of this area of the kingdom.
Father, I just pray right now that you would heal them,
that you would show them that you alone are God and not man
and that they would put people
into their proper perspective and place,
not on pedestals, Lord, ever again.
They would trust you first and foremost,
and then you would show them through good fruit
who they can trust as far as in human form.
You are the source, but you are the head
of the human resource department, Lord.
Send human resources into our lives
that can help edify, encourage us, build us up, mature us,
and that we can find our place in community again.
Father, break unhealthy dependency on voices
that were never meant to replace your spirit, Lord,
and teach us to value your word, Lord,
above any sensation, above any encounter,
above any goosebumps, above any supernatural situation.
It's time for us to come back to a place
where we're looking for fruit over fame, Lord,
character over charisma, and Father, most importantly,
community where we can be seen, known, and loved
and we can continue to grow, in Jesus' name, amen.
I love you guys.
I love you so much.
I love this community, you guys.
I pray for it.
That's why we.
We have prayer seven days a week.
We want to be people of prayer.
We want to come together.
We want to know each other.
We want to help each other through this season and the seasons ahead.
Do you think singleness is hard?
Marriage is hard too.
All right.
And we need each other.
We need each other and we need to be accountable.
So find people in proximity that you can be accountable to be accountable
here and anywhere else God leads you.
I love you guys.
I'll see you soon.
Hopefully you'll come to the wisdom challenge.
Bye everybody.