Hey, good evening. Everyone welcome.
Hello. Hello. Hello. Let me just kind of do a couple little tech things here. Still.
I think we've got everything situated. All right. I'll go ahead and spotlight our other team members here in just a few minutes. I see some of y'all right now. So let me go ahead and do that.
There we go. Miss Yamina. Other team members just know when I see you in the thing here in a little bit, I'll add you too. So welcome. If you've never been here for a prophetic ministry night, we do this one Sunday night a month, typically the last Sunday night of every month.
And just want to let those of you that are new kind of know what the expectation is for the night. This is a time where our team, our prayer leaders, people that operate in the prophetic have prayed and prepared and brought what we believe God is saying for the movement in general.
Back in the day, we used to try to give prophetic words to individuals and y'all were just too big for that now. But God does some really awesome stuff. And so I pray and hope that you'll be encouraged.
This isn't necessarily a time where other people who operate in the prophetic will have opportunity to share. So these are all people that are a part of our team or they volunteer with us. And so they're vetted out, if you will.
So while I know and I'm confident that a lot of you probably have those giftings, it will be just our team doing that tonight. And so be praying as we go about the evening. One of the things I'm going to ask all of you tonight is that there wouldn't be a lot of side conversations about stuff that is not being shared tonight.
So I know you all are trying to connect with each other. That's awesome. But sometimes that's very distracting when the team is trying to minister and we're trying to stay in the flow of the Holy Spirit. And so even if some people are struggling, I don't want anyone to feel like you have to minister to people tonight. We're here to receive from the Lord.
And so I just really want to encourage everyone to stay focused on what we're here for tonight. We're here to hear from heaven for ourselves. And what is God saying to us through what is he releasing over the movement of last year's single? And so if you did not know, that is really kind of what we want to do every time we have a prophetic ministry night.
Even on Supernatural Saturdays, sometimes there's just total side conversations happening. And y'all, that can be very distracting for the other people that are really just trying to respond regarding what's being shared. So I want to encourage everybody to work on that in the community in the days to come. And we're going to go ahead and pray. We're going to get started. I see some of the other team members saying hi. So as team members join, please let me know in the chat and I will go ahead and work on pinning you as well.
So Father, thank you so much for this night. We thank you for everything that you're already doing in our lives. God, we thank you that you desire to have relationship with us. You desire to help us to hear what your spirit is saying, not just to us as individuals, but to us as a movement. God, we believe that everyone that is here right now in this season is here by divine design by you. God, I pray that you would help us to hear what your spirit is saying to the movement.
God, and that we would grab onto that for ourselves. God, that as things are released, God, that we would have ears to hear and hearts that are open. So Lord, remove any callousness, remove anything that could hinder us from receiving the truth of your word. God, we thank you that you move. And yes, Lord, you're powerful. Your word is alive. It's living. It's sharper than any two-edged sword.
And God, we know that your prophetic words, the utterances from heaven, God, can bring life and breakthrough supernaturally. And that's what we're asking for tonight. God, we're just your vessels doing our best to hear what your spirit is saying, but help us to hear clearly and release it the way that you designed it. So we just thank you in advance for all that you're going to accomplish, Lord. In Jesus name. Amen.
Amen. Hey, Kemi. Hey, Shelly. I'll go ahead and pin you all here in just a minute. I'm going to go ahead and launch a couple things very quickly. And then as soon as I pass it to the team, I'll work on pinning some of the other team members. And so I always just love how intentional God is and the way that he sets some things up. I'm going to release two words now. I do have several other words that also tie into these initial words, but I'm just excited to see where else God takes it with the other team members.
This is not something we get together and plan in advance. We just hear and do our best and bring that to you all. And it's just always exciting and fun to see that unfold. And so the first thing tonight that I saw this afternoon as I was praying is I saw like a wheel turning like almost like a clock, but it wasn't a clock.
the Lord what it was. And it was, it was like, I know this
might sound weird, y'all, but this is what he gave me. It was
like a dial on a gambling machine. And then I saw the
dial stop and I heard jackpot. And so when I was praying and
asking the Lord what he was trying to show us, it has
nothing to do with gambling, y'all. Okay. What I heard him
say was this. There's going to come a time where that which is
unseen, that has been accumulated over time, will then
be released out onto us. For some of you, you've been
praying, you've been praying, you've been praying and you, you
haven't seen God working or you believe he's not working, but he
wants you to know tonight that he has been working. And what is
being accumulated in the heavenly realm, isn't, he's not
withholding it from you. He's waiting for divine timing to
release it into our lives at the appointed time for the
appointed purpose. And yeah, it's just this belief that we
have to break out of that, that believes that in us, in us, that
God, that there's scarcity, that there's not enough, whether
that's not enough good men, not enough good women, maybe it's
not enough money, whatever the need is, maybe it's jobs, maybe
it's, you know, houses, I don't know. And it's more than that.
Some of us need peace, right? Some of us need grace. We need
that ability to overcome struggles and addictions and
things that have held us back for many, many years. And God is
saying that all the things that we've been doing, all the things
that we've been partnering with him, it's all working together.
He's using it all. He's working it all together for good to save
many people alive from Genesis 5020 is that scripture. And then
I heard the word Medina. Y'all I'm originally from Ohio. So I
immediately thought of Medina, Ohio. But then I heard the Lord
say, that's not what I'm saying. And this is what he revealed to
me as I prayed into this and did a little research on just, you
know, just the origin of the city of Medina in historic like
historically, and this is what I found. Medina can mean a place
of refuge and safety, somewhere that people flee to not from the
historical Medina was a haven, like a safe haven for a
persecuted community. So the name gets associated with
sanctuary, and God providing shelter. I believe God is saying
that last year single is that place where people the singles
and people that have been kind of pushed aside by the church are
told that we have to sit and wait, you know, for that Boaz to
come and all these things that are beautiful scriptures and
words, but they get twisted in a way that really can bring
bondage to so many people. And God is saying, I've created a
safe haven for you a place of refuge, where people can flee
to not from. And it is a place where God's presence dwells and
people are drawn together. And man, that just felt like a
confirmation for me. For those of you that don't know my story.
I came through this movement. I'm a success story from this
movement. I've been married in September 4 will be four years.
And still, even as a coach, it has been a safe haven for me.
And so I'm praying for those of you that maybe you're still
trying to figure out where you fit. Remember that Psalm 68, six
says this, God places the solitary, the lonely and family.
But y'all, it's a heart shift first. It's a heart shift first,
God does it, but we also have to get the revelation that God has
placed us somewhere and then have the capacity to receive
what he's placed us in and the people he's placed us around.
Some of you man, God loves you so much that he's saying
tonight, I've drawn you to a place that is safe. It's time to
let the gates down. This is a safe haven, it's time to let the
gates down. God's presence is here. And he's drawn people
together. We're here to help each other. The last word I'm
going to release it goes with this as well. And then I'm going
to open it up to the team. I'm kind of bouncing around, but
there's a theme in these three words. I saw kids leaping one
over the other, like the game leapfrog. I haven't played it in
years, kind of remembered the rules, but looked it up. And
here are some things that God was speaking to me through this
very simple game. I know last month, I think we really honed
in on you know, that child likeness. I think there's an
element of that as well. Some of you are really still struggling
to break out of these obstacles and places of imprisonment. And
God is saying, practice being childlike, practice playing,
practice having fun. But there's a deeper word in this as well.
In leapfrog, what happens is one person must first kneel down.
They stoop down, and then the next player runs and then jumps and vaults over that person,
clearing that person entirely if they're doing the game really well.
And then it begins kind of that person in the back, same thing again. But after you go,
what happens? You actually end up being the person in the front that's stooped down. So
if there's only two of you, you kind of do that leapfrog over each other. And as I prayed,
this is what God was saying. It's cooperative. It's not competitive.
So often in this community, whether we want to or not, let's just be honest. When someone else
has their blessing happen, sometimes for some of us, we're like, why does it never happen for me?
And we want to be happy. And we're trying to be happy. But we're struggling. And one of the
things, the best thing you can do if that's you is get real honest with God, because it's not
about competition. It's about cooperation. What we make happen for other people, God will make
happen for us. When we bless other people, and get past that belief that it's not going to happen for
us, or we're jealous of their blessing, God will make those things happen for us as well. And so
if that is something you've been struggling with, I really want to encourage you to really humble
yourself and ask God to help you heal so that you can genuinely... Y'all, I know what it's like.
I see people getting pregnant left and right. We have three people pregnant in our church right now.
I know how this feels. But if we partner with the lies and not truly partnering with the blessing
and blessing them from the inside out, man, we lose out on something God's trying to give us.
So we rise by someone else lowering themselves. Someone else rises by us lowering ourselves.
But y'all, there's trust in both directions as well. And so the Father is asking you to trust
Him. Will you trust Him to advance your life, to accelerate things back to that original Word,
the things that have been accumulating up in the heavenly realms, that He's going to pour out a
blessing on you which you cannot contain it and do season? God sees you. He hasn't forgotten you.
And He's bringing friends and camaraderie around you. A word I release even Thursday night during
a heartwork session, I've talked about it in the phase one, is that God has been showing me over
and over, we aren't a line from the beginning to the end. We're a line shoulder to shoulder next
to each other. My victories bring victory for other people. Your victory brings victory for
other people. We win. We win, you all. But if you don't believe that yet, God wants to help you get
there a little bit more tonight. All right, I'm going to open it up to the team. And just if
there's anyone that has something, it can go in alignment with this. It can be totally different
if God has shown you something in a different direction as well.
Yeah, I do have something, Bethany. Thank you. That was so powerful. As you shared in the
beginning, you were giving some guidelines in order to encourage the robustness and the power
of this time together. And so as you were giving those guidelines, I thought about the word to
soften, to soften our hearts, to soften our gaze in order to receive. And then I thought about the
psalmist and different things. Even the psalms have been put into songs. And so the psalmist
says, when I gaze into the night sky and see the works of your fingers, the sun and the moon
suspended in space, oh, what is man that you are mindful of him. And so thinking about the word
gaze, that we look up to the sky, even in the dark, and we gaze, it's a soft gaze,
acknowledging the one who created us. And so when we soften our hearts and we soften our gaze,
there is an opportunity to receive, as opposed to resisting and doing what we want, because
we're so used to the familia and we're comfortable with the familia. But God is saying, you've walked
too hard. You've been doing things, including myself, we've been doing things in our own
strength. But God says, you just be and soften your gaze and see the miracles, the possibilities,
the numerous stars, the abundance. And so when we soften our gaze, I think about even the seed
that is planted. Seeds planted today become flowers tomorrow. And the seeds just be.
When the seeds are planted, they die.
Things are happening naturally.
They are not forcing their ways to germinate,
but they're going with the flow, the flow of nature.
And God is saying, I have called you out,
your way of being to flow.
And so when the seed is planted and it begins to germinate
and it becomes the flower for tomorrow,
the flower flourishes and blooms in light of the sun.
And so I think about the word not just the S-U-N,
but the S-O-N, that we blossom in light of the sun.
And so it's a way, my way of being,
when I gaze into the night sky, when I be,
and then I get to see more of the supernatural.
Though, yes, I see the abundance of the stars,
but God is saying, there is more even beyond those stars.
There is that supernatural that we don't see.
And we begin to experience more of him.
As Jackie was sharing yesterday, Elisha
saying, open the eyes of my prophet,
because these things are already,
they were already there.
The protection is already there.
The abundance is already there.
So we get to soften our gaze to be present so that we
can experience the abundance that God is saying,
it's time to unleash, to unravel, to reveal.
Thank you, God, for this moment to soften our gaze
and look up to you, where our joy and our help comes from.
And we find peace and rest.
And the stress level, the cortisol,
it comes down because our trust and our hope
is in you all day long.
And we choose to surrender this to you.
In Jesus' name, amen.
Amen, Kemi.
Thank you so much.
That was beautiful.
And Bethany, you're not going to believe this,
but God gave me two words.
And one of the words that he gave me was leap of faith.
Can you believe that?
Leap of faith.
And when I heard that word, like immediately,
I had this image in my mind of a movie
that actually Jackie mentioned a couple of weeks
ago on Supernatural Saturday, which is Indiana Jones.
So if you're familiar with that movie,
I haven't seen that movie in years and years.
But this is specifically Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
And this is where for every movie, he's on a mission.
He's looking for some kind of artifact.
And in this movie, he is looking for the Holy Grail.
And in the movie, and this is a myth.
This is not biblical.
But in the movie, the Holy Grail is
supposed to represent the cup that Jesus
drank from in the Last Supper before he was crucified.
And then whoever drinks from that cup
will get eternal life.
But we know that Jesus paid the price for us.
So we already have eternal life through Jesus.
Amen?
So there's this part of the movie.
He needs to go through, like get through different challenges
so he can get to where this cup is hidden.
And he gets to a point where he's, you know,
this is inside a mountain.
And he's at the mountain.
And he gets to a point where it's,
he's at the edge of the mountain.
And he needs to get to the other side.
But there's a huge gap.
There's like an abyss.
And the challenge is he needs to take a leap of faith.
He needs to trust God that God is going to get him
to the other side of the mountain.
So it's really cool.
Like when you see like the movie,
they really focus on his feet.
So he takes off the first foot.
And then as soon as the second foot comes off the mountain,
I mean, and there's nothing, right?
The second foot comes off the mountain.
Then you see a bridge underneath come,
like it appears underneath his feet.
So that means that bridge was there the whole time.
He just couldn't see it with his physical eyes, right?
He had to believe in faith.
And what the Lord is telling us today
is that he is calling us,
he's challenging us to take a leap of faith,
to start making decisions,
taking steps towards these things that we're praying for.
And as soon as we take the steps,
then the path will be made clear.
Then the pieces will come together
and we will see our path clear.
You know, a lot of times when we're praying for something,
we're asking God to give us signs, to give us a word,
and he will do that.
But I really believe that sometimes
he wants to challenge us, right?
He was like, do you really believe me?
Do you really trust me?
Do you really believe all these prayers
that you're saying to me?
Then show me, you'll take the step first
and I will bless it.
And then the path will become clear.
Amen.
The first word, the second word that I got was actually a question.
So I was praying about this night and the Lord asked me a question.
He said, what do you have in your hand?
And that's the question that he wants me to ask tonight to all of you.
What do you have in your hand?
So just kind of think about that.
And he started to speak to me about Moses and specifically his staff.
And the Lord said, I use his staff.
I use Moses' staff to accomplish three major things.
The first one, I use this staff to help Moses discover his purpose.
That was the first thing.
And if you read the story of Moses back in Exodus, the book of Exodus,
you can also read the dialogue and Moses used to speak to God, right?
So the first time that Moses heard the voice of God was through that
burning bush in the wilderness.
And the Lord is speaking to him.
And basically he's telling him, Hey, I'm going to use you.
You know, you're going to take this staff that I put you in, that I put in your
hands, and I'm going to show my signs and wonders so that I can prove to the
people of Egypt that I am the only God.
I am the one true God.
So at that moment, he found his identity.
He discovered what his purpose was.
Amen.
Cause I'm sure at that time he was pretty confused, right?
And if you're not familiar with it, the story, Moses was born a Hebrew,
but he was raised as an Egyptian.
He was raised as a prince of Egypt.
So, excuse me, the second thing that he accomplished, the first thing,
discover his purpose.
The second thing, the staff was used to defeat the enemy, right?
So God performed those signs and wonders.
He sent all the plagues until Pharaoh released God's people and set them free.
And number three was deliver God's people.
So number one, discover his purpose.
Number two, defeat the enemy.
Number three, deliver God's people.
And what God's telling us tonight is that he's going to use whatever he has placed in
our hands.
And it might not be a physical thing.
Everything about us, he's going to use our culture, our background, your profession,
your occupation, your skills, your talents.
Stop looking outside.
Stop looking outside for your resources and your answers to come.
The Lord says, I will use everything that I have put in you.
I have already equipped you and empowered you to perform, to fulfill my purposes
through you.
Amen.
And he says, going back to the staff, you know, the staff was, it was an ordinary
thing, right?
It was, it was like made of a piece of wood.
The Bible doesn't specify it, but it's believed that it was just a piece of wood.
So what the Lord says, that what looks ordinary or insignificant in your hands, I
will, I will, I will, I will, I will teach you how to create extraordinary things.
So I will make the extraordinary out of ordinary things.
So do not overlook the simple things, the small things.
The Bible says, do not spy small beginnings.
Amen.
God is going to use everything that you have.
He's going to use your sphere of influence.
He's going to use the languages that you speak.
If you speak different languages, it's the same with Moses.
Moses was the only person who could accomplish that task because basically he
had two nationalities, right?
He was a Hebrew, he was an Egyptian, and he was the only one who had access to the
palace, who had access to the Pharaoh.
That's why he could go deliver God's message to his people.
Amen.
And this is what the verse that the Lord gave me for this.
And it's Hebrews chapter 13, verses 20 through 21.
And it says, now may the God of peace, who through the blood of eternal covenant
brought back from the dead, our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, equip
you with everything good for doing his will.
And may he work in us what is pleasing to him through Jesus Christ, to whom the glory
forever and ever.
Amen.
So earlier today, as I was praying, I was in my car actually praying and I looked up
and I saw that a Nissan Pathfinder right in front of me.
And across the back of the car, it had in big letters Pathfinder.
And it really that word really got highlighted to me.
I then saw I was I saw some people and they were walking around with a compass in
their hands. And they to me looked like they were just trying to find direction.
The arrow of the compass was pointing outward as they walked around.
And I heard the Lord say, you are a Pathfinder and God is your compass.
What's interesting about a compass is that unlike a map, it shows you a map shows you
the entire layout.
But a compass.
It shows you that the next step and so similar to a compass showing us our next step, God shows us our next step, too.
And he I felt that the Lord was saying that he's requiring us to have personal trust and faith in him and not look around at anybody else's next step to just look around at your next step and to trust in him to take that next step.
So he could take us further because he's not going to show you the whole picture.
He doesn't usually do that.
He uses the next step.
The next word that I wanted to share is pretty much in line with what Jennifer was talking about.
I was I was brought to the book of Exodus where God parted the Red Sea and by telling Moses to stretch out his hand and raise his staff over the water to divide the sea.
And then I was taken to the book of Joshua where God parted the Jordan River and the priest carrying the Ark of the Covenant walked right up to the edge of the rushing water and stepped in.
And I heard the Lord say, I sensed I sensed him say, my instructions to each one of you is as unique as your fingerprints.
And just like I asked Moses to to raise his staff over the water and divide, you know, the sea.
And I asked Joshua to do that to the Ark of the Covenant, the priest to go and place their toes or their feet right in the water in the Jordan River.
I'm asking each one of you.
I'm giving you unique instructions.
And once you follow your unique instructions, there's nothing too hard for him to do the breakthrough.
There's nothing too hard for him.
But I sense that a lot of times we look at how things the breakthrough came for somebody else in a certain way.
And we focus on that.
Well, that wasn't me.
That didn't come through for me in that way.
And so we compare.
And God wants us to know that the same way that he did that, those breakthroughs back then, that he will do them the same way this now, but that, you know, they are unique.
The instructions he's going to give you are unique to you.
And so he wants us to just be aware of that and to really pay attention to what he's talking to us to do next, instead of looking around at others.
And focusing on what they have been told to do next.
Comparing.
I can jump in on that.
So the words of the Lord gave me was a little different, but I guess you could say it would almost on a timeline go before you mean is in a way like before the step.
So when I was on my way to church this morning, the Lord gave me this scripture out of Galatians, don't return yourselves again to a yoke of slavery.
And I realized, like, I have been struggling for the past two weeks with wondering how come I wasn't feeling afraid of something that I usually feel afraid of.
So I kept thinking, like, forgive me if I cry, but there must be something wrong.
I must be missing something.
How come I'm not afraid of this?
And it's like I was so unfamiliar with being free and so familiar with being fearful that it's like I was stirring up fear in myself just to stir up fear in myself to return to what was familiar.
And it's like I almost didn't realize that that's what I was doing.
But on the way to church this morning, the Lord said to me, don't return yourself again to a yoke of slavery.
And so I just want to say, you know, when I was married the first time, my first husband had a lot of good qualities about him.
But something that that happened all the time was, you know, he grew up in a very, very chaotic environment.
Very.
And so it's like when our life would be peaceful and what I would have called normal, he always had to stir up chaos.
And I remember one time a therapist explaining to me that it's because that's what he was familiar with.
So peace and like a normalcy were uncomfortable for him.
So it's like he was subconsciously constantly stirring up chaos when the road would get too smooth, when things would be too peaceful, because that was his familiar place.
He was returning again to a yoke of slavery.
And remember the Israelites, when they were on the way to the promised land, they grumbled and complained to return to Egypt.
And we always like want to throw a stone at the Israelites.
But but don't we do the same thing?
You know, I'm sure they didn't think to themselves, you know, we just want to skip out completely on the promised land and we don't want our.
destiny. I don't think it was that black and white, I think it was that it was unfamiliar
where they were. And even though Egypt was literally slavery for them, there was a familiarity
there, and where they were familiar, they were comfortable. So they were literally willing to
forfeit their destiny, so to speak, to return to the comfortable place, but I'm sure they didn't
necessarily see it like that. So I felt like the Lord said, like, don't return yourself, like you,
don't return yourself again to a yoke of slavery. And I realized, you know, like,
Egypt has no place in us. God did not create, like, create us for Egypt to have a place in us,
and we have no place in Egypt. It's not our portion, and it's not our cup. God has a plan
for our future. He has a spouse for us. He has a family for us. He has people for us to touch.
He has careers for people to step into. He has a purpose and a plan. Do not return yourselves again
to a yoke of slavery. And I found myself at the end of my time with the Lord this morning on the
way to church about this. I heard myself pray for myself, and I want to pray for you all the same
thing, that, Lord, you would heal the places in my heart, in our hearts, that were long devastated.
I'm not speaking to, like, the little tiny things that have happened, but the places
that were long devastated. You know, sometimes you can have a wound or a belief or a familiar routine,
you know, a place of familiarity, like fear, so deeply rooted in yourself, and that you just
keep wanting to return there. And so, Lord, I just ask that you would heal those places in our hearts
that have been long devastated, that have been rooted there. And I speak to those places,
and I say every tree that my Heavenly Father, that our Heavenly Father has not planted,
be rooted up in Jesus' name, and release us in Jesus' name. And, Lord, help us to come out of
agreement with the familiarity of those places, out of agreement with the comfort of those places,
and know that you gave an all-sufficient sacrifice for me, for everyone on this call,
to be able to walk on, to walk forward, knowing that you go with us into unfamiliar places,
that you have a good plan for us, a good plan for a future and a hope.
Help us, help us, grace us, not to return again to a yoke of slavery,
but to walk on into something new. In Jesus' name, amen.
Man, it's bringing some fire, ladies. I love it. This is so good. Candy,
I also want to make sure you know, like I see you, so if you have something, just get ready,
because I'm going to share a couple things, and then I'll open it back up to the team.
And, Candy, if you have something, you can go first. So, yeah, everyone, let's just receive
that. I feel like let's not move past that too fast. As Shelly was releasing that, and just the
other words, I just feel like God is kind of giving us some building blocks tonight, as we allow and
bring it all together. There's so much that can be received for revelation of how to walk into,
not just like getting freedom in the moment, but living it out, you know, living out freedom,
and really walking into the wholeness and the fullness of everything God intended for us.
But as She was saying that, right towards the end, and She was talking again about that,
like not going back to the place of bondage, and coming out of that familiarity, I can't say it
right, y'all. I literally saw someone starting to run, and shackles just starting to fall off of
them. And so, I just want to speak that over you. This is what happens. We have to start going. You
know, sometimes we get stuck in like the idea of, I'm stuck. I'm overwhelmed. This is hard. And then
where we partner with that stuff, it doesn't mean that we don't feel those things, but you all, we
cannot stay in those places. When Shelly said, this is not our portion. This is not our cup.
Egypt is not your cup. Stock is not your cup. The obstacles come. Yes, the Bible says that literally
the enemy will resist us. He will try to hinder us. But who do we focus on? We focus on the maker
of heaven and earth. Our eyes are set on Him, the one where our help comes from. He lifts us out of
the muck and the mire, and He sets our feet upon the rock. The rock is Him. He's a steady place.
We can trust Him. He's not leaving.
us. He's not forsaking us. He never abandoned us. But if we believe those things, we got to
get back to the heart work. We got to get back to the root of where did this come from, that we
believe that we're abandoned in the middle of this thing, that Egypt is our lot. Whatever that lie is,
God is asking us to partner with Him tonight. And so one of the other things I saw as I was praying
is I literally saw God like almost like He reached His hand up and He just started swirling it.
And then immediately, and y'all, I just, I see things and I don't always, I'm like, okay, what
does that mean? And then I just start asking good questions. God, what are you trying to say?
Because then immediately after that, after the upward motion, I saw, and I won't even say I know
it was God's hand, I just saw a hand in a cotton candy machine swirling, you know, to make cotton
candy. And as I've prayed into it, this is just what it comes back to that first word, things that
are accumulated, that get built up. Think about cotton candy. It's something very simple. Sugar,
all these little tiny particles, and some of the other stuff. I've never made cotton candy, y'all.
So just from the little things, but it's put in there. And then out of what looks like nothing
comes something. You know, there's this thing that is hidden that's being made manifest.
You know, we can't see God swirling His hand up in the heavenly realm,
but that doesn't mean He's not doing it. God is moving on our behalf all the time. Jesus is
sitting at the right hand of the Father even right now, interceding for all of us. He knows you by
name. He knows you by name. Some of y'all really need to receive that. Maria, Kay, He knows you by
name. He sees you. Angela Everett, the times you're crying and you're just like, God, I don't
understand. Why is it so hard? And there's probably others on here, but God is just highlighting a
couple people to me. And He's saying, Daughter, I see you. Don't give up. Don't grow weary in
well-doing, for in due season you will reap if you don't faint. He is for us. So who can be against
us? Nothing can win when God is on our side. Heaven is speaking, and I pray and I hope that
you continue to receive what the Father is saying. As I was just contemplating this whole Habakkuk,
or excuse me, stirring and stirring, I came to Habakkuk 1.5. Now, y'all, I'm not just going to
give you the fluff scripture, okay? I'm going to give that to you. And what I mean by that, this is
the one where we love, we love to feel like we win, right? It says this, I will work a work in
your days which you will not believe. This is about a swift. It's a work that outpaces expectation,
but y'all, you got to look at the whole, you got to look at the whole context.
And when you do, the word right before it was actually a hard word.
It was a full word, full of pregnancy, full of potential, but it was a hard word. And God
was, wasn't saying that they wouldn't be triumphant, but he did say they would encounter
hard things. But in Habakkuk 1.5, it says, I will work a work in your days that which you will not
believe. God is asking us tonight to have faith, to continue to trust in his movement,
to continue to trust in his movement, even when what he's doing is bewildering, if you will,
when it doesn't make sense to us, because we have a human mind. We do our best to understand the
things of heaven. You know, God calls us to be people that we would bring heaven here on earth
through us. We do our best again, comprehend it, understand it. But even our best, we can only
comprehend a little inkling of what is really happening in the spirit realm and the way that
God is moving and what he's doing and how he goes all throughout our timeline and heals and redeems
and restores. He builds up all the broken and fallen places, you all. Two more things real
quick, and then I'm going to open it back up to the team. I saw a man spotting another man lift,
lifting weights like a barbell, and there were weights on the barbell. I did not see the man
that was lifting the weights suffering, but what I saw was a man clearly standing there,
helping him, ready to help him lift the load. God was saying that, hey, this spotter, it's the
guardianship. The father is saying tonight, I'm your guardian. I'm your protector. That spotter
stands there ready, waiting, attentive. They're typically, hey, you all, if they start to look
away and that person with the weights cannot lift them up, they're like, oh, my gosh, oh,
my gosh, you know, because that can actually hurt someone. But that is not the vision I saw. I just
saw him very attentive. I saw him standing there, ready, ready to lift.
lift the weight that is too heavy for us.
So if you have a weight that is on you tonight
that is too heavy for you, or you're
in that position of lifting the weights, y'all, guess what?
Lifting weights makes us stronger.
Practicing and building strength over time.
Resistance is how we gain strength.
So I don't love to experience warfare and hardship.
None of us do.
But you know what?
In that, when we give it all to him,
and he works it all together, again, for good,
not only to save us, not only to lead us
into the full measure of his plan and purpose for us,
but everybody else around us.
So the weights that you are lifting,
that practicing, that resistance,
that building strength, God is standing with you
every step of the way.
And then I happened to see Kathy Parsons, her picture
tonight, all of a sudden, she's not even on my screen anymore.
So I don't know if she left.
God just kept highlighting to me the steering wheel
from the ship in her picture.
And as I was praying about that, God was saying, hey,
it's time to let me, God, be at the helm.
Whoever is at the helm is the one
that sets the direction of the ship.
They are the one that has control over the vessel.
So my question to you tonight is, who is steering your life?
Who's steering your ship?
Proverbs 3, 5 through 6 says, lean not
on your own understanding.
In all of your ways, acknowledge me,
and I will make your path straight.
Don't be wise in your own eyes.
It goes on.
Are we really willing to, again, go back
to that supernatural surrender and surrender it all to him
and allow him, God the Father, Jesus Christ,
and the Holy Spirit, three in one,
to be at the helm of our ship?
God is asking us to surrender, to partner with him in faith,
to walk by faith and not by sight,
to call forth those things that are not as though they
are in Jesus' name.
I'm going to open it back up to the team.
I have a word.
Wow, I love all these words.
I missed the first part, Bethany,
but this last part that y'all shared,
it seems like there's a theme for sure.
And I want to share what I saw, which is diamonds.
And along with what you guys are saying,
the scripture verse is 2 Corinthians 3, 18.
We all with unveiled faces are looking, as in a mirror,
at the glory of the Lord and are being
transformed into the same image from glory to glory.
Wow.
This is from the Lord, who is the Spirit.
So I won't read the whole thing, but the first part that
really caught my eye on this word was created.
We were created to shine.
So even like with the diamond, the diamond
goes through a really, really rough, rough time
to get to where the diamond is.
So I love, I love, I'm just skipping over some of my words
that I wrote down.
The diamond is formed under great pressure,
along with what Bethany's saying,
great pressure and heat.
And when it's found there in the dirt, a film covering it,
it's found in the ground with various types
of dirt and elements.
Naturally, a diamond is rough, not shiny.
Wow.
But what I saw in the beginning was I saw him in us,
because we saw who we were.
So the identity piece, that's what I saw.
I saw his reflection.
As I looked into the diamond, I could see myself
reflecting back.
And I saw him in me and him in you.
And we saw who we were.
And as we saw who we are in Christ, wow.
That is such a theme and such a foundation
in this community of the heart healing and seeing who you are,
seeing how he sees you.
And the other part of this is I love
how he makes beautiful out of the tough situations.
So to finish my word, naturally, the color of a diamond
depends upon which elements are present
when the diamond's formed.
So in the beginning, what I saw in my picture
was I saw white diamonds.
But I also saw red diamonds.
According to these words that I looked up
about the biblical meaning is they
can be white, yellow, brown, chocolate.
Sometimes they have black spots.
Regardless of the coloring.
And the diamond's history, a diamond has the potential to shine brilliantly.
Wow.
And the, so, so Lord, I thank you that each and every person in this
community, each and every woman, each and every man that they would, we
would shine and show the light.
Uh, we would see who we are, but as we see who we are, then we shine the light.
No matter what we've been through, you still shine through us.
Wow.
And you get all the glory.
You get all the glory.
Wow.
And those rough edges he's been, he's been smoothing out.
He's been, um, loving on us.
And I feel like the love is what is the theme here in my, in my spirit.
Uh, because he loves us so much.
He doesn't leave us like that.
And he does such a process and such a work that it brings
us into this beautiful diamond.
So there's the word I got.
I wanted to share the last word that I heard I, uh, earlier today, I kept
hearing cherry blossoms and I don't know too much about cherry blossoms, but,
um, I felt that the Lord after that, uh, brought me to Ecclesiastics 311 and
the first part of it, where he says he has made everything beautiful in its time.
And just like the cherry blossoms, they bloom at the precise right time.
He wanted us to know that God has a precise, he has a precise right time for
every season and event in our lives as well, just like those cherry, cherry
blossoms.
And so I just wanted to share that.
I heard that earlier this morning.
Yeah.
I wanted to, um, kind of go along with, um, Candy's word.
So when you were speaking, Candy, you were talking about diamonds.
The Lord showed me, um, a man pressing olives.
And then the word that came to my mind was first press first press.
And if you're not, if you don't know, uh, if you don't use olive oil, I'll
use olive oil all the time, but, um, extra virgin olive oil only takes one
press.
Why?
Because it's pure and you're going to see it.
Like you're going to notice the taste is different.
You're not supposed to add heat to it, right?
You're supposed to like, use that in, I'm a chef, so I'm all about food.
Um, so you mix it with salad, you're not really supposed to add any heat to it
because that will lose some of the properties and the purity and the flavor
of that olive oil, right?
The first press.
And what the Lord is saying that, um, in the times where they had to, um, fill
the lamps, you know, the oil with lamps and actually lights the fire to, to make
sacrifices to God atonement, right?
Um, that the Lord did not allow them to use second presses because, and this goes
along with Bethany's word, the second press required heavy weights to squeeze
out the low quality oil.
So what the Lord is saying to us is that these, these things that we're facing,
these pressures that we're facing, he wants, God wants to release from us and
within us, the first press, that extra version, pure oil, because this oil is
clean, it's bright, it's odorless.
And it is, it's like the Bible says that it's like a fragrance.
It is like a fragrance.
Um, you know, when, when he thinks of us and when he's pleased with us, so don't
be discouraged about the trials.
I know that a lot of times we would like to blame the devil, right?
For everything, some pressures, the Lord allows those pressures to come because he
wants to purify us.
And that's what it's going to take.
If we are praying and believing for kingdom marriages, we need to be about kingdom
business.
So anything that's of the world, that's still in us, those little sediments and
those heavy weights that, that, um, uh, create impurities in, in our oil, God is
pressing that out of us.
Amen.
Thank you, Jennifer.
I'm going to look at some olive oil differently.
You just described our characteristics, really.
Um, the first press, that's who we are.
We are the first press and God is saying, there's no need to edit yourself.
Just be, you're my chosen.
You're my people, a Royal priesthood, a Holy nation.
I have called you for great and marvelous things.
And so when we edit ourselves, we're taking our eyes off the creator who made the
first press when we compare ourselves or when things go another direction.
And my first reaction is, Oh, I'm unsure.
I'm, I'm, I'm anxious about this.
How am I?
going to, this has happened. And let me give a specific
example. The basement, where I am was, we had a leak. And it
was, I mean, in fact, it wasn't a leak, it was really a flood
that I mean, I'm stepping into there and I'm going splash,
splash, splash, splash. The flooring, everything just the
walls were ripped. And so we had to do some big remodeling.
And just about a week or two, I'm looking at the basement, I'm
like, what in the world is going on? There is, there's
expansion, the flooring, I can see pockets and so I'm hearing
moisture, I'm hearing, you know, it's an avenue for mold
and, and my first reaction is like, oh, my legs, I don't want
to go through this again. Now, this is not to judge what I was
feeling. But it's to also, this was how God was communicating
with me. Arrest it, arrest that thought, be in that space, feel
that emotion. You feel concerned, you feel anxious, you
feel worried. Now that is not, that is not the first press. I'm
going into the second press with worry and anxiety. But God
is saying rest, be aware that the second press of worry and
anxiety is coming up. But rest, abide in me, the first press.
We'll see, Kemi, I'll take care of you. I'll take care of it. It
might not be easy. But rest, rest in me. We'll see what will
happen. Something amazing may happen out of all of this. But
God is saying, this is a distraction, Kemi. This is a
distraction. And it's taking you away from the so many miracles
happening. And so, again, I'm hearing God saying, be mindful
of the many, many little miracles happening in a day as
opposed to focusing on that one big thing you want to happen in
your life. But there are miracles happening every day.
And so there are distractions of whether it's the basement, or
whether it's caring for my papa, or whether it's this and that
or the other. A lot of distractions that the enemy wants
to take us out of the game, wants to take us out of being
the first press. But God is saying, don't judge those
emotions. I gave the gift of emotion. But be aware that
they're there and arrested so that it doesn't escalate. And
the way you are arrested is to invite my presence, because my
presence is the promise. Thank you, Lord.
I couldn't tell Shelly if you were gonna go. Okay, okay, I
just wanna make sure. Man, that's so good. So, so good. You
all were rounding the corner here, but I have something to
kind of partner with the words that were just given. So as
Candy said, the word or phrase, see who you are, God really
highlighted the word see to me. And as I was just kind of like,
okay, is this about God, you're trying to say something about
the CSEA? Or is there something about the actual CSEE, you know,
that we see? And immediately, as soon as I asked that
question, I saw like, what I, you know, first thought they
were like spectacles being put on eyes, but God said they're
goggles. And I asked him about goggles. And just what he was
trying to say, obviously, we go typically, at least for me, I go
right to swimming goggles, you know, and that is part of the
word that we would see clearly under the water into the deep.
The word talks about like the deep calls onto the deep, like
the deep things of God calls into the deep places of us. And
as I prayed into that more, I really believe God is saying
over this movement, you know, the team was even just releasing
a word about just that reminder of what Jackie's even been
saying, like, yeah, we're here on purpose for a purpose. Yes,
the goal, a lot of us, we come into this community to find our
spirit mate to heal to learn how to date in healthy ways and all
of that. But man, it's so much bigger. Not everyone's going to
feel called to become a part of the movement. Everyone goes out
and still is a part of it. But some people are going to be
feeling like, okay, I need to link arms with what is happening
here. There's a call upon
movement. And what God is saying in this season is that he's going to give us heightened discernment.
That's what I heard him say. Heightened discernment. And this is for everyone,
but I really want to speak to those people that you have made mistakes before hearing God.
You haven't trusted yourself and your own ability to recognize unhealthy patterns in people.
You blew past red flags. We coached on this on Thursday night for my people that were in there.
And God wants you to know he's going to heal all of that. He's going to teach you how to trust
yourself again. But as a whole, for all of us, there's going to be heightened discernment in
this next season. God wants to give us the ability to see into the deep places, things that are
hidden, things that are submerged, truths that other people might miss. Y'all, that's a fresh
word. And that's for anybody that wants to reach up and grab that. And that might feel big for some
of you because you might be like, I don't even know if I hear from God. But I want you to know
that if you'll allow that word, somebody said earlier, the seeds one day become flowers the
next day. I want all of you to know and hear, years ago when I first started believing in the
Lord, started my walk, I didn't know how to pray out loud. I didn't know anything about the
prophetic. As I went, as I've grown in the Lord, I've been saved since 1998. It's been a long time.
I've picked up things along the way, but y'all, it's not just what I've picked up and grabbed
from other people or heard. Those were powerful things. Y'all, I've done things. I've taken
trainings. I've read books. I've studied the Word of God. I've prayed and prayed and prayed.
You know, I tell this community all the time, way back when, you know, I used to literally every day
do what Joyce Meyer, you know, I'll give her credit because she's amazing.
She said, I am his sheep and I hear his voice. She said, put your hands on your ears. And so I give
that to all of you again tonight. If you struggle to hear God, he wants to know that he wants to
enable you to hear what his Spirit is saying. But man, we have to get into the Word. We have to,
we have to learn what his voice sounds like. If you want to know what God sounds like,
study the words of Jesus, because Jesus is a representation of the Father to us.
So how do we grow in discernment? We grow in understanding the voice of the Father,
understand things that he's saying and practicing. Y'all, I've practiced and practiced
in rooms full of like safe people that even if you mess up when you're trying to release
the prophetic, they're not going to be really hard on you. And for some of you, again, like,
I'm not saying I do it perfectly either. This is about me just putting it all out there and
trusting that even if I mess up, that God will protect you before you receive it,
that he'll turn it so that you hear it the way that you need to. And so if you are someone that
you just feel like God is calling you to kind of step into that gifting to like you get words
of wisdom, but you feel afraid to release them to people, I really want to encourage you.
God wants you to take some steps of action on that. I think that he's calling you out of that
place of fear into a place of faith to become that person that he can trust with the words
that he's going to release in this next season. And there was another thing in here that I thought
was really important that I want to share with you really quickly about goggles.
Oftentimes, goggles can also cause us to shift our perspective, right? Sometimes if you try,
I don't know about you guys, sometimes it's hard for me to open my eyes underwater because of,
you know, the chlorine or whatever. But if you put those goggles on, man, you can see something
really clearly, right? Maybe you're diving even deep down in the ocean and you've got, you know,
those different, those wide across goggles and it just makes you like you can see the fish,
you can see the coral, whatever that is. So this is for someone. There's something that God is
trying to help you see and you're frustrated. You're feeling like you want to see it, but you
don't know how. And God is saying, I'm going to give you the goggles. I'm going to give you the
ability to see. It's a process to trust him. Remember who's at the helm? Who's at the helm
of your ship? What do you need tonight? Let's go ahead and put it in the chat. We're going to do
this real quick. What do you need from God tonight? It could be something we said. It could be
something that you just need. And you all, we all, I know I'm already married, but I know you
all want a spirit mate. Let's talk about something else. What else do you need from God tonight? Go
ahead and put it in the chat for me. Somebody saying clarity. I don't know if that was on what
I just said. Healing, debt paid off, healing, direction. I'm going to try to keep up there
going fast. Good sleep and rest. Praise the Lord. I need that too. Peace, purpose, breakthrough,
confirmation.
strength, financial freedom, debt paid off.
Y'all, I'm gonna say this out of love.
Do you know a lot of times we pray for things
and then God gives us experiences to practice that?
So, for those of you that want patience,
I'm gonna just encourage you
that when those situations come in the next few weeks,
that you will not get angry at God
for presenting you with things
that might test your patience.
And I don't say that lightheartedly.
I'm saying that to pastor you and love you
because sometimes the things that we want,
you know, some of us beg and plead to have a spirit mate
but then like just totally rip that person apart,
we meet them.
Ouch, I know that one probably landed hard.
It's true.
The enemy, as soon as people are stepping into marriage,
he's coming quick to try to divide.
So, let's get our hearts as right as we can,
as healthy as we can,
so that you can navigate those things
well with your spirit mate, your teammate.
Not just someone you're getting to the aisle with
but God wants to create this really beautiful tapestry
through your life with your spirit mate,
something you guys can do together for the kingdom.
He's for you.
He's not against you.
Trust him to provide for every one of your needs,
the things that y'all are sitting in here saying
when you need sleep.
I know, man, the enemy is attacking people's sleep
left and right.
Pray over your mind.
Pray over your heart and your spirit before you go to sleep.
Start partnering with God.
Thank you so much for giving me sale arrest.
Thank you for ministering to me in the spirit realm
while I sleep.
Thank you for removing barriers and obstacles
and bringing breakthrough on my behalf.
His eyes never slumber.
He never slumbers.
He never sleeps.
His eyes are on us because he loves us.
He's not looking to find fault in us.
If we make mistakes, he's lovingly going to convict us,
not shame us, not guilt us, not condemn us.
That's from the enemy.
Okay?
Y'all, we're cheering you on.
We believe in you.
I just wanted to say a couple of those things
because sometimes even, you know,
I remember way back I heard a preacher say
they prayed and prayed and prayed for kids
and then once they got the kids,
all they did was complain
until God convicted them for complaining
for the blessing that they begged God for.
Right?
So that's where my heart is landing as we're closing.
So for those of you that are asking for things right now,
I pray that God will also cleanse your heart
from the things that would cause you
to then be frustrated by the blessing
that is given unto you.
Father, I pray that you would just help us, Lord,
in the days ahead
to have the capacity to receive
and believe in the supernatural realm,
which as Jackie talked about it yesterday,
God, to know that you are fighting on our behalf.
God, just like Elijah prayed
for his servant's eyes to be opened,
God, I pray that you would open our eyes to see,
God, what you're already doing,
the ways that you're working,
the ways that you're sending angels
to war on our behalf right now.
God, that you would remove the things that we cannot do.
God, sometimes it's so natural.
We're trying so hard.
And even when you tell us, Lord, to not strive and not try,
we don't know how to do that sometimes
because our whole lives, that's what we learned.
So God, I pray that wherever each one of these individuals
finds themselves tonight, God,
that you would help them just to sense your presence
right now, washing over them.
God, give them a renewed understanding
and revelation of your closeness to them.
God, that you are close to the brokenhearted,
those who are crushed in spirit,
those who are weary, worn out, discouraged.
God, I thank you that you would encourage them tonight,
that you would pour in fresh hope.
God, that it would be a supernatural work, God,
that you would help us to partner with you
and not be afraid of when the things feel hard,
that we would not give up quickly or easily, God,
that we would stay in the game
because the jackpot is coming.
The things that you've been accumulating
and the things that you've been working
in the heavenly realms, God,
that you're gonna pour it out on us,
that which we could not contain it,
but it's gonna be good.
It's not gonna be harmful.
It's gonna be a blessing.
Help us to not fear even the good things
that you wanna send our way.
We just thank you, God,
that you would give Salem rest to all those that are here.
Jackie, David, the team,
even those that couldn't be here tonight,
when they hear this, God, I thank you.
Yes, Lord, for going before all of us
and making a way for us,
that you would help us to be strong and of good courage
to know, God, that you are with us,
and you will not fail.
You're not a man that you should lie.
God, we thank you and we bless you.
In Jesus' name, amen.
Amen. Amen. God bless you all. We hope you have a great night.
Be blessed. We'll see you in the groups this week.
Bye everybody.
Thank you.