Hey guys. How's it going? Hey, um, it is awesome to see you on here. Uh, some of you may jump
on live. I haven't really given you the very best notice for this. So, um, most of you
I would imagine will probably see this on the replay. Um, so yeah, so sorry. I've been,
uh, I have been, um, on a mission over the weekend. It is crazy. Um, I'm here to give
you, um, I promised a teaching on the word of knowledge. Um, to be honest, this is probably
going to be followed up with a little bit more of an in-depth teaching. Um, this is
probably going to be more of an encouragement to experiment with the word of knowledge than
a teaching on the word of knowledge. Um, but I think it will be helpful and, um, I pray
it will at least be encouraging just to let you know where I'm at. I'm in the middle of
school holidays right now. So I'm kind of in between, um, uh, a little bit of a mission
that we had and, um, and I've actually got to race off real soon to go pick up my kids
from Tauranga, which is a city in New Zealand, just South of us. And then we're going on
a caravan adventure, which is something I promised my kids. So I really apologize for
the, the kind of, um, you might be feeling like, man, you just kind of fitting me in
fitting me in between all your, all your stuff. And to be honest, I kind of am doing that
just for these next few days. So, um, if you'd give me a bit of grace for that, that would
be awesome. But it's stuck in my throat. Uh, so I just, um, I had to do a quick mission
up to Northland and of course in New Zealand, um, where I am, there's, uh, we're in Tairoa
then you come out of Tairoa and if you go North, you've got to go through Auckland.
It's the only way North. And the city that I needed to get to is the next city North
of Auckland called Whangarei, which is where we used to live. And I needed to pick up some
hard drives of, um, basically the last 10 years of Renee's, who is my wife, with her
photography, uh, all her photographs. She's a professional photographer and, um, it was
a bit of an essential trip. She needs the, I'm trying to finish her website and she needed
these photographs and there was no way of getting them unless one of us went and picked
them up. So, um, at the same time, we bought a new vehicle. We're selling our old vehicle.
Um, uh, something that's a little bit more apt to towing our caravan, um, for our, our
adventures. And anyway, long story short, I couldn't get through Auckland. So I, um,
I actually charted a plane, um, a private plane through a guy and, uh, and I was up
at the airport, just, just up in Whitianga, just about there. And, um, he called me, had
to turn around, got stuck in a cloud and had to turn around. He couldn't pick me up. So
I called another private little airline, went all the way down to Tauranga, caught that plane,
made it to Whangarei. When I arrived in Whangarei, I went for a quick surf with a good friend
and, um, I was a level two at the time, got in from our surf and got the news that, um,
Northland was going into level three at midnight that night. I had to go two hours north,
pick up the car, race two hours back. I got stuck in Northland and it all of a sudden
had gone to level three, but I made it through the border. They said, the police officer said
I didn't need a COVID test to get through. So praise the Lord, got through without a COVID
test. Not that I'm opposed to COVID tests. And, um, and they said, you've got two hours to get
from one side of Auckland to the other. We'll ring your head so that the border check on the
other side is going to let you through. Got to the border check on the other side. Um, and
the police officer was obviously not having the most amazing day. And, uh,
he, he wasn't buying any of my sense of humor or anything. He was very, um, to say short with me
would be a real understatement. Um, possibly he could have lost his job for, I mean, he was a
little bit rude, but bless him. He, um, he said I needed a negative COVID test, which takes two
days to get those results. And his intention was to send me back to not where I came from,
but to the middle of Auckland, which is the middle of the epicenter, the epicenter of the outbreak
of the Delta variant in New Zealand right now. Um, which of course they're trying to prevent
the spread off. And I said, mate, it's going to be a little bit counterproductive to what
you're trying to do. Sending me into the middle of the epicenter only to, um, achieve me leaving
again, two days time when I get a negative test result into a place that has no cases.
You know, it was real mind-boggling to me.
He yelled at me a little bit and then said,
I called a superior.
The superior officer said,
you need to go get a test.
So I went all the way back to the middle of Auckland,
got my brain poked with one of those COVID tests.
And by the way, the most incredible team
at the COVID testing station in Manurewa, I think,
it was at the Destiny Church.
Destiny Church, I'm pretty sure it was Destiny Church
doing the, manning the COVID testing station
at their church premises, I'm pretty sure.
Absolutely amazing bunch of people.
And to be honest, kind of the last people
I was expecting to see doing a COVID test,
but I was actually really, really impressed
with these people and it was almost worth
the whole debacle just to meet them.
I'm gonna get to the word of knowledge thing in a second.
And went all the way back, they let me through
and I let out a massive hallelujah
and got back to Tairua and that was yesterday.
And then we went on a little mission,
me and Renee, away from the kids for a night
and now we're gonna pick up the kids.
So anyway, that's just to let you know
my last few days have been like,
whoa, I've been on the full mission.
And yeah, so, and I've gotta head off very soon
and I've gotta head off very soon
to go connect with my little beautiful
three little daughters, so that's pretty cool.
But I wanted to encourage you about
some of the activations I've been putting up.
I realize, I wanted to just acknowledge
that some of the activations that I'm posting,
for some of you are probably just a walk in the park
and for others of you, dramatically challenging.
In fact, challenging to the point of,
oh my gosh, I don't know if I can really do this.
And I just wanted to acknowledge that
and I also wanted to just say
that's kind of part of the plan
and I think the disciples of Jesus felt a lot like that
when they were walking with Jesus on earth.
They often felt like, far out,
we're kind of a little bit in over our heads.
Man, I don't know what, I mean,
you've kind of put us between a rock and a hard place.
Like, you're asking us to do something we can't do.
And that kind of is the whole point.
Our walk with Jesus is a constant ask
for us to do what we can't do
so that we are pushed into a position
where we are forced to rely on the one who is with us,
who is God, to do what only he can do through us.
And that's kind of the point of these challenges.
I do realize that it, again, that it is challenging,
a little bit scary, a little bit daunting,
and a stretch for some people.
Maybe for many of you, maybe for most of you,
could be for all of you.
So I first of all want to acknowledge that
and I want to point your attention back
to the session I did on redefining success.
And maybe it would help to listen to that session again
on the Raising Royalty site,
the one I did in the Three Day School of Sonship series.
It's all around redefining success.
I talked about the scenario
and I used the illustration of my daughter, Sienna.
I asked her to go get some tomato sauce
and she came back with a diaper or a nappy.
And I think in this process of, you know,
me saying, hey, have a word of knowledge for someone,
or hey, go and pray for a sick person,
or do this and do that.
I've asked people to go heal a sick person before,
which is not unbiblical.
It's actually the same thing as Jesus asked
his disciples to do, heal the sick.
Actually he didn't ask, it was a command.
Yeah, that's right, Rosie, amen.
And so, where was I at?
Thought process, come back to me.
Yeah, I used the illustration of Sienna.
And I think in this whole activation,
this 21 day activation,
there is a massively key meditation,
meditate on, thought to think on,
cogitation to cogitate on.
It is worthy of a second watch, a second listen.
I think it's something that you really need to embrace
to really be able to embrace this challenge,
this 21 day challenge that I'm putting to you.
And really the reason for that is this.
I'll explain it in a second.
The kingdom of God is less a tightrope
and more a playground.
Many people approach the kingdom of God
and the gifts of the Holy Spirit
as if it were a tightrope, as if like,
far out, I've got to get this right,
because if I get it wrong, man, I'll fall.
I'll hurt myself. I'm afraid of getting it wrong. I'm afraid of if I take one
step out of line, man, it's over for me. Or I'll be shamed by this person, or I'll
be...you fill in the blank, whatever the fear is. And I think one of the things
that God is really wanting people to get and understand is that, hey, like just
approach the kingdom of God not as if it was a tightrope, but as if it was a
playground. You have freedom to explore God, explore the gifts of the Spirit. You
can pick up that guitar and you don't need to know how to play it straight
away. Just start strumming chords. Just start having a go and it will eventually
come. But it won't come if you don't practice. It won't come if you don't pick
it up. And it won't it won't come if you don't start trying to try and strum
some chords. Some of you'll pick those chords up faster than others. Some of
you'll pick them up slower than others. It's not about that. It's about you
having a go with what God has given you and what God has made available to you.
So when it comes to the Word of Knowledge, I'd encourage you to just do
your own...I will do a little bit more of a proper in-depth study on it in the
days to come. And I apologize it's not going to be today. I'm just trying to
work around the, you know, all the school holiday goodness and all that stuff. All
the family stuff. But I would encourage you just to maybe do some of your own
study on the Word of Knowledge in the Bible. Have a look for examples of
where the disciples were and where Jesus was operating the Word of Knowledge.
Just to inspire you and to give you some insight into the gift of the Word of
Knowledge. The Word of Knowledge is really a tool. It's a gift of revelation
from the Holy Spirit for you to know something about a person or about a
situation that you couldn't know without God sharing it with you. And here's just...
and I will go into some more depth on my journey in the Word of Knowledge
including a dream that I had where two significant prophets, internationally
recognized prophets, laid hands on me in a dream. I woke up in the morning and I
had a gift of...the gift of the Word of Knowledge had been turned on to a
greater degree in my life. And that's all the only way I can explain it. But I will
I will go into more depth on that in the session to come. But one of the things
that I found myself doing after that is I found myself, and you could probably do
this, I actually got a little notebook to do this. And I thought, well, what a joy
it is to be able to ask God questions and know that He's wanting to answer my
questions. And so I realized I didn't need to wait for a real scary
moment to practice the Word of Knowledge. I could practice the Word of Knowledge
doing absolutely anything at all where I was in a situation where I didn't know
what was coming. For example, I would ask God questions like, I'm
about to go into a shop. Could you tell me some stuff about the person
that's going to be in the cashier? What kind of clothes are they going to be
wearing? What kind of top are they going to be wearing? What kind of pants are they wearing? And I'd
write it down in a notebook. And I wouldn't even necessarily need to ask
that person or administer the Word of Knowledge to that person. It's about me
learning at the stage. But I could assess like, oh wow, I actually heard
your voice. Oh, I didn't really hear your voice. I mean, sorry, you do hear his voice.
I didn't understand your voice. Oh, I did understand your voice. I would be
driving down the road and I would be like, okay, the fifth car from now, the
fifth vehicle from now coming the other way, God, what color will it be? And I
would hear like, oh, it'll be a truck. So when you're driving, you don't write
it down. But I'd take a note. It's a truck. And I'd say, what color is it?
Well, it's two colors. Well, what are the two colors? Silver on the top. So I just,
and I'll just go, now, God speaks so naturally to you. It often feels like
your own thoughts. That's how supernatural God is.
And don't try and over-complicate it. Don't try and over-reason it. And again,
don't tightrope it. You're on a playground. Explore it. Enjoy it. And I
started to realize that God answers me way quicker than what I anticipated. In
fact, most of the time, if I ask God a question, and the same will be true of
you, God will answer me in the first few seconds. And it will just come, boom, boom.
God is eager to speak to you. And so just roll, just roll with what you initially
get. And if you get it wrong, you've still got your A-plus on the report card. It's
about you picking up the guitar and strumming the chord and having to go.
It's not about you getting it right.
Especially initially.
And I would, like if I was going to a new hotel that I haven't been to before or a new
building that I haven't been to before, I'd just ask God as many questions as I could
think of, pop questions like, what color is the door?
Boom!
Write the answer down.
What color is the carpet?
Boom!
Write the answer down.
And I would just ask God as many questions as I could and I would share some of my journey
in the next session on the Word of Knowledge.
But I would take as many opportunities as I possibly could to flex the muscle of the
Word of Knowledge, to push weights using that gift.
And they didn't need to be in vulnerable, scary moments.
Sometimes I would have, I would, in fact we did this with friends.
This is beyond the notebook idea.
We, a couple of my friends were really hungry for the Word of Knowledge too.
And so we would often text one another and I would ask the Lord like, okay where is so
and so right now?
Here, like maybe the warehouse.
What color t-shirt are they wearing?
And I would imagine them in a t-shirt and I'd write that down.
And then I'd text them, hey are you in the warehouse right now wearing a blue t-shirt
and are you shopping for tie downs for your car?
And they'd be like, oh classic, I'm in the warehouse but I'm wearing my red t-shirt and
I'm shopping for chocolate.
And I'd be like, whoa, praise the Lord, I got one third of it right and two thirds of
it wrong.
Sometimes I got the whole thing completely wrong.
Sometimes I got the whole thing completely right.
But it's not about getting it right or wrong.
It's about you strumming the guitar.
It's about you strumming the gift.
It's about you making a noise with the Word of Knowledge and using the gift of God, reaching
out to access the gift that God has given you to access.
You can access it without knowing how to play it.
But the more you access it, the more you'll realize you'll be learning how to play it.
And so, yeah, so here's some other resources that I'd recommend to you to have a look into.
I'm not going to post the links for these.
You can do your own research but one guy that is really, has been really inspirational to
me with the gift of the Word of Knowledge is Sean Bowles.
I would recommend looking up Sean Bowles ministry on YouTube and just get inspired for the Word
of Knowledge in that way.
It'll probably make you think like, oh my gosh, I'm never going to be able to operate
like that.
And maybe you won't.
But it's not about that.
It's not a competition.
It's awesome to just be able to be inspired by other people and to realize you're not
on their race, you're on your race.
And so don't compare yourself to him, but be inspired by him.
And another person, another ministry that has inspired me, and this might be slightly
controversial, not to most of you, but maybe to some, is William Branham.
William Branham started his race really, really amazingly, really well.
And in the latter years, just before he died, it kind of went a little bit cultish.
There's a little bit of a cult called the Branhamites.
We love all Branhamites, but there was a little bit of heretical teaching and some interesting
theology and stuff that came through there.
I can't remember the certain year.
There's a certain year you kind of probably, it's not the most amazing idea to listen to
William Branham after that year, in my opinion.
But freedom, you can do whatever you like, but that would be what I would say.
But if you look up on Google or any search engine really, William Branham recordings
of his meetings, one of the things I used to do, William Branham had the most amazing
gift of the word of knowledge.
And he actually describes using his, how it was for him to use the word of knowledge.
Really inspirational.
I used to listen to his live meetings that they recorded some of his live meetings.
And I think it was the ones, the early fifties, the late fifties where it got a bit off, but
the early fifties and he would do lots of teaching.
But then at the end of his meeting, sometimes for the whole meeting, he would just be giving
words of knowledge and he'd be describing how he was getting the words of knowledge.
In my secret place, I'd often, when I was really hungry for the word of knowledge, I'd
listen to William Branham meetings and just get inspired by the spirit.
And I feel like I actually received impartation through those, through listening to those.
It was actually really, really incredible.
If you want the word of knowledge, surround yourself with resources and with people who
are operating the word of knowledge.
And it's a really powerful gift.
Of course, it's one of nine gifts.
It is a really cool gift, it's a really helpful gift, and it blesses a lot of people.
One cool place in the Bible that you can dwell on for a little bit is the story of the woman
at the well.
That's an amazing example of the gift of the Word of Knowledge, and I'd encourage you to
watch that in the Chosen series.
That's also a really great depiction of Jesus.
Who knows if that's actually how it was, I suspect it probably was something really similar
to that.
But that was really inspiring for me too, that re-sparked a real drive for the Word
of Knowledge.
So just surround yourself with that stuff, and you'll find that it won't only make you
hungry for it, it won't only just inspire you towards it, but you'll find that sometimes
stuff is caught more than taught, and you'll find that as you do that, you'll actually
be receiving impartation in the process of doing that.
So that's just some little practical tips if you're feeling a little bit stuck, if you're
feeling a little bit like, how do I do this?
That's something you can do with praying for the sick.
We'll talk about all that stuff, but hey, one thing I do want to say is if you have
any questions that you're like, man I feel stuck, if you could answer this question for
me, or if you could speak to this for me, it would be so helpful.
Please drop them in the comments, I'll be reading the comments.
I'll try and reply to some of them, but I'll definitely read all of them, and it's good
for me to know what would be really helpful for you.
So please do that, and even tag me in the comment if it's something you specifically
want me to address in one of these lives, that'd be real cool.
There's not going to be a slide today with an activation, you can have a day off today,
but my activation for you, or my challenge for you today, is to do one of those things
that I mentioned for the Word of Knowledge.
Look up a William Branham, look up Sean Bowles, read the Woman at the Well story, strum that
guitar, strum that gif, do something with the Word of Knowledge today, and drop a comment
on the comments for this live, let us all know how that goes for you.
Awesome guys, well I'm going to head off, I'm going to go pick up my kids now, apologize
if that felt a little bit like squeezing between a bunch of things, it kind of was squeezing
between a bunch of things, and I know you've all been asking me, could you please give
us some heads up for these lives, and I really apologize I didn't give you a heads up for
this live, other than it's sometime today.
I know, I know, I know there's room for me to grow in the gift of scheduling and time
management, and including other people in my time management.
So I acknowledge that, I will do, really try to give you some more heads up in this next
Word of Knowledge session and everything else that's to come.
I will promise you this, after this week, it's not going to be school holidays anymore,
and it will be a lot easier for me to give you much more notice, and more scheduling,
etc. etc.
Okay, well hey, God bless you guys, remember to drop the comments, the questions, the requests
for hey could you speak to this or that, and also comment on how it is for you as you engage
in the Word of Knowledge in one way or another today.
Also, bless you guys, big love.