Okay, yeah, yeah, does she want, only is she, she's going to be here a little longer, right?
Yes.
Good.
Yeah, I can, I'll find her, that's good.
Okay.
Gary?
Gary.
Okay.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Mark didn't want to do it, I'm like, oh.
Oh, oh, oh, so, wait, on number two?
Yeah, yeah.
Okay.
Good.
Good evening, everyone.
Hey, everybody, hey, all right, all right, we got a beautiful evening tonight.
I'd love to invite you to please stand.
We are going to sing beautiful songs to the Lord.
We're going to lift our eyes to the hills where the hope comes from.
Our hope comes from the Lord, the maker of heavens and earth.
We want to welcome everyone online and everyone in Brazil, everyone all over the world,
everyone intergalactically, depending upon your theology and where you're at in that capacity.
We're so excited about what the Lord is doing on the earth and in the heavens,
and we're going to worship our King.
He is worthy, that's a good word.
Preach that, brother, that's good.
If you could just put a hand on your heart,
could be the left, the right, whatever.
Lord Jesus, Lord Jesus, we are excited, we come in anticipation.
We come with expectation and anticipation.
We are confident in what you have been doing.
We're confident in what you are doing.
We're excited about what you're about to do.
Say this with me, spirit of wisdom, come and speak to me tonight.
Come and speak to me tonight.
Our eyes are open.
Our ears are open.
Our hands are open.
Open wide.
♪ Open wide, prepare the way, prepare the way, prepare the way ♪
Come on, let's sing this out.
Found in your name.
The power to save.
With only a whisper, mountains shake.
Jesus, our hope and strength.
You made a way.
You've unlocked these chains.
Here in your presence, strongholds break.
We're freed by the love you gave.
Every voice in this place.
We give you the highest praise.
You deserve it all.
We give you the highest praise.
You deserve it all.
Yes, he does.
They're on a tree.
My merciful king.
Broken and shamed for all to see.
The father laid down his son.
From darkness to light.
Death, loss to life.
Heaven and earth will join and sing.
Jesus has overcome.
We give you the highest praise.
You deserve it all.
We give you the highest praise.
You deserve it all.
We give you the highest praise.
You deserve it all.
We give you the highest praise.
You deserve it all.
Every trial.
With every breath that's in my lungs.
My heart cries out to you belongs the glory.
Through every loss or victory.
My soul will rise to only bring you glory.
With every breath that's in my lungs.
My heart cries out to you belongs the glory.
Through every loss or victory.
My soul will rise to only bring you glory.
To glory.
We give you the highest praise.
You deserve it all.
♪ You deserve it all ♪
♪ We give you the highest praise ♪
♪ You deserve it all ♪
♪ We give you the highest praise ♪
♪ You deserve it all ♪
♪ We give you the highest praise ♪
♪ You deserve it all ♪
♪ With every breath that's in my lungs ♪
♪ My heart cries out to you below ♪
♪ For the glory ♪
♪ You have been lost for victory ♪
♪ My soul arises in the holy grail ♪
♪ You glory ♪
♪ Oh, you glory ♪
♪ We give you the highest praise ♪
♪ You deserve it all ♪
♪ We give you the highest praise ♪
♪ You deserve it all ♪
♪ We give you the highest praise ♪
♪ You deserve it all ♪
♪ We give you the highest praise ♪
♪ You deserve it all ♪
♪ We bring everything, everything to the feet of Jesus ♪
♪ Everything, everything to his feet ♪
♪ We bring everything, everything ♪
♪ To the feet of Jesus ♪
♪ Everything, everything to his feet ♪
♪ Everything, everything to the feet of Jesus ♪
♪ Everything, everything to his feet ♪
♪ We bring everything, everything to the feet of Jesus ♪
♪ Everything, everything to his feet ♪
♪ With every breath, I'm still in my lungs ♪
♪ My heart cries out to you, Lord ♪
♪ The glory, oh, the glory ♪
♪ To every loss, for victory, my soul will march ♪
♪ We only praise you, Lord ♪
♪ Oh, we bring you glory ♪
♪ Everything, everything to the feet of Jesus ♪
♪ Everything, everything to his feet ♪
♪ We bring everything, everything to the feet of Jesus ♪
♪ Everything, everything to his feet ♪
♪ Oh, we bring it all ♪
♪ Everything, everything to the feet of Jesus ♪
♪ Everything, everything to his feet ♪
♪ Everything, everything to the feet of Jesus ♪
♪ Everything, everything to his feet ♪
♪ Everything, everything to the feet of Jesus ♪
You know what time we give you.
So we give you the highest praise.
♪ You deserve it all, cause you deserve it all ♪
♪ We give you the highest praise ♪
♪ You deserve it all, you deserve it all ♪
♪ Everything you need ♪
Whoop.
Yeah.
♪ Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh Whoa ♪
♪ There is love that came for us ♪
♪ Humble to a sinner's cross ♪
♪ You broke my shame and sinfulness ♪
♪ And rose again victorious ♪
♪ Faithfulness none can deny ♪
♪ Through the storm and through the fire ♪
♪ There is truth and it sets me free ♪
♪ It's Jesus Christ who lives in me ♪
♪ You are stronger, You are stronger ♪
♪ Sin is broken, You have saved me ♪
♪ It is written, Christ is risen, Jesus is King ♪
♪ You are Lord of all, yes You are, You're Lord of all ♪
♪ No beginning and no end ♪
♪ You're my hope, my strong defense ♪
♪ You came to seek, to save the lost ♪
♪ You paid all upon the cross ♪
♪ You are stronger, You are stronger ♪
♪ Sin is broken, You have saved me ♪
♪ It is written, Christ is risen, Jesus is King ♪
♪ Jesus, You, You are Lord of all, You're stronger ♪
♪ You are stronger, You are stronger ♪
♪ Sin is broken, You have saved me ♪
♪ It is written, Jesus Christ is risen, Jesus You ♪
♪ You are Lord of all, Lord of all, Lord of all ♪
♪ You're Lord of all, yes You are, yes You are ♪
♪ So let Your name be lifted higher, be lifted higher ♪
♪ Be lifted higher, come on church ♪
♪ So let Your name be lifted higher, be lifted higher ♪
♪ Lift the name of Jesus, let Your name be lifted higher ♪
♪ Be lifted higher, be lifted higher in my life ♪
♪ Let Your name be lifted higher, be lifted higher, oh ♪
♪ Let the name of Jesus be lifted higher, oh ♪
♪ Let the name be lifted higher, let Your name be lifted higher ♪
♪ Be lifted higher, be lifted higher ♪
♪ You are stronger, You are stronger, sin is broken ♪
♪ You have saved me, it is written, Christ is risen, yes He is ♪
♪ Jesus, You are the King of kings, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh ♪
♪ Oh Lord, You are stronger, You are stronger ♪
♪ Sin is broken, Your love is risen ♪
♪ Christ is risen, Jesus You are Lord of all ♪
♪ You are Lord of all, yes You are, You are Lord of all ♪
♪ You are Lord of all, of every single thing, You are Lord of all ♪
♪ You are Lord of all, yes ♪
♪ I wanna know the gospel deeper than before ♪
♪ You are Lord of all, yes You are, You are Lord of all ♪
♪ I wanna know the gospel deeper than before ♪
♪ You are Lord of all, yes You are, You are Lord of all ♪
♪ Oh the more I seek You, the more I find You, the more I love You ♪
♪ The more I love You, You are Lord of all ♪
♪ The more I seek You, the more I find You, the more I love You You are Lord of all ♪
♪ The more I search You, the more I find You, the more I love You, You are Lord of all ♪
♪ The more I seek You, the more I find You, the more I love You You are Lord of all ♪
♪ So let Your name be lifted higher, be lifted higher, be lifted higher ♪
♪ Let Your name be lifted higher, be lifted higher, be lifted higher ♪
♪ You are stronger, You are stronger, sin is broken, You have saved me ♪
♪ It is risen, Christ is risen, Jesus You are Lord of all ♪
♪ You are stronger, You are stronger, sin is broken, You have saved me ♪
♪ It is risen, Christ is risen, Jesus You are Lord of all ♪
♪ Jesus You are Lord of all ♪
♪ Lord of all, I seek You, the more I find You, the more I love You ♪
♪ Lord of all, the more I seek You, the more I find You, the more I love You ♪
♪ The more I find You, the more I love You, oh Lord of all ♪
♪ The more I seek You, the more I find You, the more I love You, Lord of all ♪
♪ The more I love You, Lord of all ♪
♪ The more I seek You, the more I find You, the more I love You, Lord of all ♪
Yeah, just put praise in your lips right now.
Seek the Lord.
He wants to be found.
He's not hidden to trick you.
It's our duty as sons and daughters
to seek out the mysteries of the Lord.
Because there's so much more.
Put praise on your lips.
Yeah, all over this room.
Look to Jesus.
♪ Worthy, worthy, worthy one ♪
Oh, it's your promise to be found.
It's your promise to be found.
♪ Worthy one who is faithful ♪
Oh, it's your promise to be found.
It's your promise to be found.
♪ Yes, he is worthy one who is faithful ♪
Oh, it's his promise to be found.
It's his promise to be found.
He's giving you vision to see him more clearly.
Oh, seek first.
His kingdom, we seek first.
His kingdom, it's your promise to be found.
It's his promise to be found.
Seek first his kingdom
and everything else will be added.
Seek first his face.
Wow.
♪ Sore amanae, kere amanae ♪
Seek first his kingdom.
Lord, I seek you.
Now, let's just sing that again, the more I sing.
♪ The more I seek you, the more I find you ♪
♪ The more I love you, Lord of all ♪
♪ The more I seek you, the more I find you ♪
♪ The more I love you, Lord of all ♪
♪ The more I seek you, the more I find you ♪
♪ The more I love you, Lord of all ♪
♪♪
♪ Ahhhh ♪
♪♪
♪ We look full in his wonderful face ♪
♪♪
♪ Look full in his wonderful face ♪
♪♪
♪ We turn our eyes upon Jesus ♪
♪ We look full in his ♪
Yeah.
And the things.
♪ And the things of earth will grow strangely dim ♪
♪ In the light of his glory and grace ♪
Oh, we turn our eyes.
♪ We turn our eyes upon Jesus ♪
♪ We look full in his wonderful face ♪
♪ And the things of earth will grow strangely dim ♪
♪ In the light of His glory evermore be ♪
Sing it out one more time, turn here.
♪ We turn our eyes to the Lord ♪
♪ Let us be a people, seek His face, look full in ♪
♪ Wonderful things ♪
♪ And the things of earth will grow strangely dim ♪
♪ Will grow strangely dim in the light of His glory and grace ♪
♪ And the things of earth, and the things of earth ♪
♪ Will grow strangely, and the things, sing that again. ♪
♪ And the things of earth are growing strangely dim, yeah. ♪
One more time, add the things.
♪ And the things of earth will grow strangely dim, yeah. ♪
♪ Will grow strangely dim in the light of His glory and grace. ♪
♪♪
♪ And who is like no one that I know? ♪
♪ I could search all the earth and find not one. ♪
♪ There's no shadow that you won't be found. ♪
♪ Your face illuminates the deep in me. ♪
♪ Oh, no one like you. Oh. ♪
♪ Faithful and true, no one like you. ♪
♪♪
♪ In all creation, it's flickering your beauty. ♪
♪ Every starlight responding to your name. ♪
♪ And all of heaven is caught up in your glory. ♪
♪ Jesus Christ, our humble weekday King. ♪
♪ Oh, no one like you. Oh. ♪
♪ Faithful and true, no one like you. ♪
There is no one, oh, oh, oh, oh, no one like you.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, faithful.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, faithful and true.
No one like you, oh.
I could search all of heaven above and never find another like you, another like you.
I could search all the earth below and never find another like you, another like you.
There's no other more beautiful, I'll never find another like you, another like you.
There's no other more wonderful, I'll never find another like you, another like you.
I could search all of heaven above and never find another like you, another like you.
I could search all the earth below and never find another like you, another like you.
There's no other more beautiful, I'll never find another like you, another like you.
There's no other more wonderful, I'll never find another.
Who is like the Lord? Who is like the Lord? Who is like the Lord?
Who is like the Lord?
No one like the Lord
Faithful and true
No one like the Lord
No one faithful and true
No one like the Lord
Who is like the Lord?
Sing it over again
Who is like the Lord?
I could search all of heaven above
I´ll never find another like you
Another like you
I could search all the earth below
I´ll never find another like you
Another like you
There´s no other more beautiful
I´ll never find another like you
Another like you
There´s no other more wonderful
I´ll never find another like you
Another like you
♪♪♪
To celebrate the Lord, we're a people who love to celebrate the Lord.
Oh, as for me and my house, we will celebrate the Lord.
Come on, begin to move your bodies.
Whatever that looks like, He's calling you to freedom.
He's calling you to freedom.
♪♪♪
I want us to, Ben's going to come up and pray in a minute,
but I want us to stay in the spirit.
I want to read you something I wrote a while back.
It's just been kind of going over my mind as we were worshiping.
And I'll just read it to you.
Jesus put his disciples in a boat
and sent them to the other side of the sea.
Later on, he came trotting on the water
in the midst of a bad storm.
The guys saw him, thought he was a ghost,
and pretty much freaked out.
But Jesus spoke to them saying,
take courage, it is I, don't be afraid.
Peter suddenly had this brilliant idea,
and he yells, Lord of a Jew,
command me to come out on the water.
You have to admit the guy's got guts,
yet on the surface,
Peter doesn't ever seem to be the sharpest knife in the drawer.
I mean, if a ghost can talk to you from the water,
certainly he can say, come.
Yet Peter possesses a special kind,
a spiritual intelligence that's rooted in faith
and inspired by courage.
The rest of the story is powerful.
Jesus shouted, come.
Peter, hearing the command above the howling wind
and crashing seas,
got out of the boat and began to walk on the water.
I love that Peter refuses to be satisfied
with spiritual principles that have no practical application.
Instead, he gets out of the dang boat
while 11 theologians watch from the deck.
This is it for me.
This is it for me, the main point of the book,
the thing that drives the religious world nuts,
that someone actually tried.
He actually got out on the water
and attempted to walk on the sea.
What good is spiritual intelligence
if it has no purpose?
I have observed that radical faith
is so convicting to doubters,
the lukewarm, the half-hearted, and the religious
who have rescripted the Bible
to require them to live only in the realm of reason.
The truth is, you have to either be the next one
out of the boat or find some spiritual excuse
to relieve your cowardliness.
Peter's walk didn't last long.
Here's what the Bible record says.
The rest is a story.
But seeing the wind, he became frightened
and began to sink.
And he cried out, Lord, save me.
And immediately, Jesus stretched out his hand
and took hold of him and said to him,
you of little faith, why did you doubt?
If Peter had little faith,
I'm not sure what level of faith
the 11 world changers watching from the deck had.
I'd like to point out also that Peter didn't drown.
He walked back to the boat, holding hands with Jesus.
It's important that we don't miss this main message,
the main message of the story.
Faith caused Peter to tap in
to the third heaven superior laws of the spirit.
However brief the moment,
the guy accomplished a physically impossible feat
by having faith in God,
which allowed him to experience the kingdom
come near him.
I mean, the guy actually walked on water,
demonstrating that faith is the on-ramp
to experiencing a superior ecosystem
manifest over an inferior ecosystem.
We can't grow in our faith on the deck of a ship.
We can't watch other water walkers.
We can't watch other water walkers
hear their stories and read their books.
But ultimately, the only way we are going to grow
our water walking faith is to get out of the dang boat.
And I just felt so strongly tonight,
this was to me, to all of us,
I felt this, I just demonstrate,
I felt we were right here.
We're hearing Jesus out there and we're like,
man, I'd like to have my own story.
Man, I'd like to have my own story.
I'm hearing these stories.
I'd like to have my own story.
And I hear the Lord saying, come on, come on.
And you're looking around, it's a metaphor, me too.
This is not about you, it's about us.
We're looking around at the 11 theologians
who have 45 reasons why you're gonna drown.
And when you get home, people are gonna make fun of you.
We're at the crazy Bethel people and they're all crazy
and they try to raise the dead.
Well, Jesus said, heal the sick, raise the dead.
I'll say this, we may not do it very often,
but I don't know very many other movements that are trying.
And so I just wanna really, I want to encourage you.
I want to give you courage,
like you're here for three more days.
Why not step out?
Why not do something you've never done before?
Like, don't just hear what you've never heard before,
why not do what you've never done before?
Why not anticipate that the Lord's gonna meet you
on the water?
What if he doesn't?
Well, then you'll drown.
And you'll go to heaven.
And you'll be there before us.
I mean, everybody in here is dead, you're all terminal.
I don't wanna die, you're gonna die.
The question is, are you really gonna live?
That's the question.
So Ben's gonna come up and lead us in prayer
for whatever he had in mind.
Why don't everyone stand for a minute
and I'm just gonna pray about what I had in mind.
Which what I had in mind is what the Lord had in mind,
so I don't know what Ben's gonna do.
Yes, you are, I'm just being funny.
Why don't you put your hand on the shoulder
of the person next to you.
Every year we ask our students this question,
these two questions.
If you were 10 times bolder and money was no object,
what would you do?
And we say this to them, and we have them write it down
on a piece of paper, which takes like 15 minutes exercise.
Then we say, look at that paper.
If you're doing anything on that paper
that you're not doing now, fear has reduced you.
So Lord, we pray right now.
We pray for ridiculous courage.
We pray for Joshua one kind of courage.
Pray for the courage of the apostles
when they got beat and they were rejoicing.
Lord, we pray for boldness and courage
that shakes nations and changes the course of history.
Lord, we pray for crazy courage.
And Lord, I break that thing off of all of us tonight
that says, I'll just wait till the first one gets out,
and then.
If he makes it I'll go with him. Lord I pray that you would give us pioneers.
Lord I pray for the pioneers. I pray for the pioneers that say if I drowned I
drowned but I'm not standing in a boat writing about someone else doing it.
And I just bless what you're doing with our team, with this whole school of the
prophets. Thank you Lord. Okay Ben you do your thing.
I don't know, I mean, that's it. In Jesus name Amen.
Why don't you bless someone next to you. We can do more stuff.
This is not our only time together right? God's doing a million things and that's
the crazy thing about God right? He can do so many things all at once and we're
believing for more. Give someone a hug while you find your seats and why don't
you thank the worship team. Thank you guys. Such an amazing time. And as you
make your way to your seats why don't you turn your attention to the screens
and we've got a video for you.
Can you see it?
A movement.
The soil of our land. The work of the Lord's hand.
A legacy of revivalists.
Heaven invading earth. Can you see it? Generations transformed. The Father's
perfect vision. Going to the ends of the earth. Set the stage for his glory to
dwell.
Can you see it? The light of heaven.
The power of the Spirit. A movement of people.
United by one cause. With eyes on the dawn.
And his blueprint in our hearts.
Arise. Build. Take your place. Prepare the way for a world that waits to know.
Such a good video. We are, I don't know if you know this or not, but we're
building an apostolic center to expand our capacity. And we really believe that this
center is going to increase our capacity. Well actually it increases our capacity
for by more than four times. And we think that that is going to actually increase
our impact on nations. And we you can actually go see we actually started
building a couple months ago. I want to read you something that I wrote about
five years ago when we first started this building project. In the oracles of
history there are always a few exceptional of individuals who by virtue
or new birth push the envelope of humanity, of human expectation, and shape
the destiny of nations. Often born in adverse conditions and in the midst of
perilous times, these revivalists refuse to be reduced to their circumstances and
instead they somehow find the capacity of soul to rise in dark times and
courageously shift society towards wholeness. The first great awakening
was instigated by two of these radicals
who dared to defy the religious protocols of their day
and instead moved in the power of the Holy Spirit.
Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield's ministry
literally shifted the course of history.
Yet a large part of what fueled the Great Awakening
was William Tennant's log college,
which was often referred to by Whitefield
as the School of the Prophets.
Founded in 1726 in a small cabin
in the backwoods community of Pennsylvania
and in contrast to the great stone universities of England,
the log college graduated only 13 students its first year.
But what's often overlooked is that all 13
of the original log college graduates
became pioneers in Christian education in America.
And although the log college would only graduate
fewer than 100 students in its short history,
51 colleges stemmed from this little school,
including the famous Princeton University.
The log college became a sort of Bethlehem,
giving birth to revivalists who dared to believe
that they could change the world.
The renowned professors of William Tennant's day
ridiculed his log school, yet little did they know
in that insignificant community,
William Tennant was trained and equipping world changers.
Is it possible that history is repeating itself
in our own obscure community?
Could it be that this move of God
birthed in a small mountain town of Weaverville
is called by God to alter the course of nations?
It just might be that we are in the midst
of a third Great Awakening,
that the 10,000 reformers who have come here
from more than 80 nations to be trained and equipped
are just the beginning of the fulfillment
of the prophet Isaiah's vision of kings
coming to the brightness of his rising.
We are obligated by the sheer number of souls
migrating here to be equipped for greatness,
to ready ourselves for growth.
We must prepare our facility, enlarge our capacity,
and deepen our resolve.
We are not here to erect a monument to the glory of God.
We are feeling a movement, forging a legacy,
and hosting his presence.
Like Antioch in the first century,
we are preparing an apostolic center
to mold the future revivalists
who will reach into the darkest corners of the planet
with the good news of the gospel of the kingdom.
With this in mind, we must arise and build,
build a house for the mighty,
build a people who are equipped to restore ruined cities,
build a launching site for the generations to come,
build a community that models on earth as it is in heaven.
Please join us in this epic endeavor
to transform the world till the kingdoms of this world
become the kingdoms of our God.
We know that you paid a lot of money to come here
and that it was a great sacrifice for you to be here.
So there's no manipulation.
But we also know that people who come here
and sacrifice this much are usually part of our movement
and part of our family.
And most of them, like us, like Kathy and I
and the rest of our team,
wanna make a difference in the world.
And I wanna invite you,
we need to raise just under $100 million.
We raised 38 million already.
So we're a little, we're almost 40% there.
And we are building now.
So we're building building C
and we'll finish that this year.
And then we'll start on building A,
which is we're already doing the infrastructure,
all the infrastructure for it.
You're like $100 million building, what are you building?
Well, let me tell you, 40 million of that's infrastructure.
We have to put in three stoplights.
We have to widen roads.
We've already spent millions of dollars
that you probably can't see
because when you build a building this size
in a city this small,
you have to put in all the infrastructure.
For example, we have to put a pipe 12 inches large
for fire containment, water for fire containment,
a mile long.
Just that's like $5 million.
And it has to have a pressure tank and on and on.
I started out thinking that this is gonna be
a $40 million project.
And the building itself is very nice,
but it's not like the Crystal Cathedral or anything.
Not that I actually like the Crystal Cathedral,
it's not something I'd wanna live in,
but I think it's beautiful.
My point is that we need your help.
Like we can't do this alone.
And by the way, I wouldn't ask you to do something
that I hadn't, that Kathy and I hadn't make
a significant investment in.
So we'll give over a quarter of a million dollars
to the project ourselves.
So I would never ask you to do something
that we don't believe in and that we aren't doing.
But I wanna give you the opportunity.
Again, please don't feel manipulated.
If you feel like you shouldn't give, just don't give.
But I do wanna give you the opportunity
because there's just no possible way
that this church can do that thing by itself.
As a matter of fact, over half of our money
has come from other countries, other cities,
and people that are part of our movement
but not a part of our local church.
So we just wanna say thank you to that.
So we'll give you an opportunity right now just to pray.
Those of you that are online, same thing.
Thank you so much for being with us.
You know what you got online, guys?
We have you right in front of us.
Like we have the screen right in front of us,
but we have to look down to see you.
And so we're looking down on you right now.
I wonder why they don't laugh.
And then someone told me that they have a 30-second delay.
So I was like, that's weird.
They don't get any of my jokes.
And then when I'm being serious, they laugh.
So thank you.
So do we have a slide up there, the way they can give?
Did we think that far ahead?
Oh, good.
So you can give with the slide there if you'd like.
If you just put your camera, you probably know this
because everyone uses these now, but in case you don't,
if you put your camera right on that,
what do you call that?
QR code.
You put, yeah, thank you.
You put your camera on that,
it'll take you right to where you can give.
And we really appreciate it.
Our goal right now is we have,
the next thing we're doing
that we're actually started already is 500,000.
So our goal for this next month
is to raise 500,000 this month.
By the way, we raised 500,000 last month
and we got a gift two months ago for 5 million.
So we're really gaining momentum.
Like we're, I mean, people are seeing now
that we're actually building.
We've just been talking about it for five years
and now we're actually building
and we've got tractors out there and all that.
So we don't wanna stop.
Like we wanna build for cash.
By the way, we're gonna build for cash.
And we just wanna keep building
until we got building A, B, and C all done.
So that's the goal.
So you can go there.
And if not, if you don't wanna give there,
we also have, do we have ushers?
Am I lying?
Yes, okay, we have ushers.
Are the ushers single?
Cause we could.
Telling you, I have a guardian angel.
His name is Cupid.
So why don't you bow your heads for just a second
and give you an opportunity to practice
what we've been preaching up here.
Just take a second and ask the Holy Spirit
if you're supposed to do something.
And if you are, awesome, do something.
If you aren't, then that's fine too.
You go home with a very clear conscience,
knowing that you did what the Holy Spirit asked you to do.
That's all we're out doing is giving you an opportunity.
So Holy Spirit, we ask right now
that you would just hover over this company of people
online, on campus, and even people who will watch later.
And Lord, I thank you that we live among a generous people.
I thank you that we live among people who know your voice.
And so Lord, we pray right now that you would show them
what it is they're supposed to do.
Amen.
Okay, if you have a number
and your spouse has a different number,
just add two zeros to both your numbers
and then you'll know for sure you heard the Lord.
Amen.
God bless you.
Thank you so very much.
You can pass those bags right now.
And Dano's coming up tonight.
He's all ready.
Come on.
This guy, man, do you guys love this guy?
That was...
Okay, let's try that again.
You guys love this guy?
That's better.
It's so good to be with you all.
Hey, online folks, it's good to see you.
Bless you.
All right, well, I have a few things to give away
real quickly.
And you know what?
We'll start with this.
This is a book I wrote called, Bending Time.
And I wanna give a digital copy to everybody.
Okay?
So my lovely wife, Regina, and one of our trainers, Emery,
did a little book club together
where they took one chapter of this every month
and just had a discussion about it.
And I love the discussion because it is so gritty real.
And so they just kind of talk through
each one of the concepts and how they were working
or not working for them and sharing testimonies
and all that kind of stuff.
But the concept of this book is accessing heavenly realities
for abundant living.
What happened is, for 20 years,
I traveled two weeks a month, mostly international,
which meant this, I'd leave on a Monday,
arrive on a.
Wednesday and there was no Tuesday.
It wasn't that I flew during the Tuesday,
there just wasn't one.
And so in 10 years, in the first 10 years,
I literally lost six months of Tuesdays.
Six months gone, just gone.
And so, you could really freak out about that,
but oftentimes I'd leave on a Monday
and get home before I left.
Yes.
It's about as close as you can get
to being translated, really.
But I found, of course, that time is actually
a perception of duration.
And I'm not really gonna go into all that,
but it's a perception of duration that is relative
to your position to certain elements.
In other words, on the Earth, it's a perception of duration
in terms of where you are on the Earth
and where the sun is and the moon is in the sky.
And so if you fly over the north axis of the world
or the globe, you can end up a different day
or a different time.
And I began to wonder, well, what does that mean
if I'm seated in heavenly places
with Christ Jesus above time?
And I began to find things that,
kingdom things that would actually bend
the constructs of time and extend moments
of encounter and glory and goodness and fun and joy
and also multiply hours and days themselves.
So I talk about it in the book.
And anyway, what you can do is you can go
to activateprophecy.com and you can sign up
for the Bending Time Book Club.
And you'll get those videos and you'll get
the digital copy of the book for free.
I know some people like me, I'm not that into digital books.
I like the hard copies.
So we do have some at the book table back there.
And I would love to give this one to,
do we have somebody, it's actually their birthday today.
I was kind of feeling a birthday vibe in here today.
Is, yeah?
Do we have two people that have birthdays today?
I see two hands up.
Yeah, is that a yes?
That's a yes.
Okay, yeah, no, why don't you both of you come up here?
I have more than that, so.
Yeah, come on up.
I guess we should sing to them on the way, huh?
♪ Happy birthday to you ♪
♪ Happy, God bless you, God bless you ♪
♪ Happy birthday to you ♪
Come on, give them a hand.
Awesome, well, go ahead and take a hold of this.
Father, I thank you that you are not only redeeming time,
you're restoring years.
And Father, even a season that felt like it was stolen away
from her, Lord God, you are multiplying back.
Lord, both in quality and in quantity.
And there's even some things that you invested
in that season, in people, in situations,
expectations you had that just didn't work out.
In situations you had that didn't come to fruition.
And I want you to know, those very things
have been incubated in the heart of God
to be returned to you with the interest
that is due throughout those years.
And so we bless you for the increase of kingdom
and restored time and years in Jesus' name.
Hallelujah, bless you, bless you.
Stay up here, I have something for you too.
Hallelujah.
I have a series back there, and you can also get
the digital version of this at the Activate Prophecy,
but it's called God Vibrations.
And this is my geeky study of how spirituality
and science converge, okay?
And so oftentimes in school, the prophets will talk
about the quantum physics of prophecy
and how we actually co-create with the words
of the kingdom.
And so this is six 20-minute video sessions
talking about the power of sounded healing
and in deliverance and in brain function
and transformation and all those kind of things
from kind of a quantum perspective.
And then the workbook is all the documentation
of the science and where you can kind of connect with that.
So I'm gonna give this to you, God bless you.
I'm gonna pray for you too.
Father, I just thank you for even a,
I thank you for the lightnings of God
being attached to her declarations.
that Father, you're even taking her into another level
of prophetic intercession.
She's already, Lord, hit some levels before this,
but Father, I see the lightnings of God,
which to me is the gift of faith,
is increasing upon you for the causative effect
of prophetic intercession
to create kingdom realities in Jesus' name.
Amen, amen, God bless you, happy birthday.
Amen, amen, God bless you, happy birthday, God bless you.
This is my newest book,
so new that this is the first time I've seen it.
And it's just a really short one.
It's our Prophetic Coaches Manual,
and we have a whole structure
that we have built around Prophetic Community,
and it's called The Prophetic Company.
And I originally, as a matter of fact, even in the book,
it says, hey, this is just our ideas and our thoughts.
You can build different forms and different ideas.
And last year, the Lord rebuked me and said,
no, I gave that to you as a prototype.
I want other people to build off of that prototype.
So check out that book, Prophetic Company,
and I may talk a little bit about it later this week,
but part of it is that there were five spokes
that contributed to our prophetic community,
and that is team members and then coaches.
And coaches, for us, are both referees
of the quality of the words, but they're also pastors.
So we don't just want a prophetic ministry,
we want a prophetic community that is connecting
not just with the gifts of people,
but with the heart of people,
and just help us to build something powerful together.
And the other three spokes of the community
we talk about in there is mystics,
and by that, we mean people that are having,
like Ezekiel, are having many extreme experiences
where the kingdom of the Spirit
is vividly overlapping the natural kingdom.
And I like to pull the word mystic
from the root mysterion in scripture.
And you'll find this in 1 Corinthians 14,
where it says the one who speaks in tongue
speaks mysteries, that's the word mysterion.
And one of the definitions in the Greek lexicon
is secrets of the kingdom not revealed to ordinary mortals.
I love that, I love that.
Did you know in scripture, Paul actually says,
hey, there's things I wanna share with you,
but I can't, because you're acting like mere humans.
It's like, wait, you're accusing me of being human?
Like, what are my choices here, you know?
So we have a building that we do
with people that are having a lot of mystical experiences,
or mysterion, secrets of the kingdom,
not revealed to ordinary mortals.
And what we do is we have a kind of a three-part model
of normalizing their experiences.
In other words, saying, hey, this is a safe place
to share this.
Contextualizing, which is grounding it in the word
or in Christian history, and then weaponizing,
which is attaching their experiences
to something that can transform society.
And so having a structure where we can help people
that are normally overstimulated spiritually
or experientially to find outlets
that are transformational and biblical
has been an incredible joy of our prophetic structure.
And then the fourth area is prophets,
and the fifth spoke is presbyters.
And again, we may talk a little bit about this more
later this week.
I said next week, later this week.
But this is the prophetic coach manual,
and it helps lay down some of the values
and the structure of developing prophetic teams.
And I feel like there's somebody in the room,
in the physical room, that is launching their,
launching their first prophetic teams like this month.
Okay?
Oh, is there a bunch of you?
Oh, cause I, oh, that's interesting.
Oh, I think it's you.
Yeah, come on up.
Yeah.
Ha ha ha ha ha.
Bless you.
Dun dun dun, dun dun dun.
Grab a hold of that.
Thank you, Jesus.
Oh.
Father, I thank you that there is a grace
for prophetic innovation.
There's a grace for prophetic strategies.
Lord God, there is a grace for creating the wineskin,
Lord God, upon him right now.
Lord, there's a acceleration upon his favor,
Lord God, to be able to build things
that other people wouldn't be allowed to build.
And so Father, I thank you for that favor.
I thank you for that innovation.
Lord, just, yeah.
Hallelujah.
We got the brawn catching.
She's using her brawn to catch.
That's awesome.
Yeah.
This guy's getting wiped out online.
Whoo, Shabbat.
Get him, Lord.
Brent.
Brent Higgs, I think.
Hallelujah.
Bless Higgs to get shiggy with it, hallelujah.
It's a Hebrew word.
It's a Hebrew word for a prophetic expression.
You don't have to look it up.
Take my word for it or something.
Okay, I wanna talk tonight a little bit about,
yeah, about woe.
Yeah.
Now, I wanna talk tonight a little bit
about what a prophet is, what a prophet does,
and the road to a prophetic office.
I wanna talk a little bit about that.
And I wanna start by saying,
I wouldn't even know I was a prophet
if it weren't for Chris Falliton.
And I believe flattery is a sin.
I'm not trying to flatter,
but you give honor where honor is due.
And I want you to know, I love this school
because this school changed my life.
Chris asked me, I don't know how many years ago,
we can never figure it out what the first one was,
but it's been a while.
And Chris asked me if I'd help him
start the School of the Prophets.
And I'm like, well, I'd be glad
to help you start your school,
but I'm not a prophet.
And he's like, well, don't you call out
worship leaders in nations
and they become the leader of revival movements and stuff.
And I'm like, yeah.
He goes, well, that's a prophet, just shut up and do it.
That's what he said, that's a prophet,
just shut up and do it.
And so I did, I just shut up and did it.
But honestly, for the first three years of the school,
I still didn't believe I was a prophet.
I just believed I had some revelation
and I had some grace upon my life,
but there was no sense that I had
this prophetic call on my life, really.
And I should have believed Chris, he was right.
But,
but what's funny is one year we had a guest,
Dr. James Gall, and the very first five minutes
of the school, he goes, Danno, stand up.
And I stand up and he goes,
the Lord says you're a prophet after the order of Asaph,
and you're restoring the Levitical priesthood,
and you're releasing the new song.
And he described exactly what I'd been doing for years.
And I was like, oh, maybe I am a prophet.
And Chris, I'm sorry I didn't believe you,
but I did later on the testimony of two or three witnesses,
everything will be established, you know.
And I'd love to tell you that once I acknowledged that,
poof, everything changed.
But that's not really what this is.
There is a power in embracing an assignment from the Lord.
As a matter of fact, I was talking to this apostolic leader
from England, and he said that he often sees clouds
of blessing and authority hovering over people's head,
but they don't descend, they don't come down.
And I said, well, what makes them come down?
And he said, declarations of responsibility.
He said, until people take responsibility for something,
the authority that's attached to that assignment
doesn't descend upon them.
The favor that's attached to that assignment doesn't descend.
And since he said that, I've been able.
to see that. I've been able to see clouds of authority, clouds of destiny hanging over people's
head, waiting for a declaration of responsibility so that God's yes could touch heaven's or earth's
amen. You know, we wrongly sing all God's promises are yes and amen because the scripture actually
says all God's promises are yes and therefore through Christ we add the amen to the glory of
God. And why is that important? Because what God wants to do, his yes has already been released.
He's just looking for a landing pad on earth because God actually established man's dominion
so that it requires man's amen for his yes to have a resting place. And, um, and it can't just
be a general yes. It can't be yes, Lord, whatever you want to do. That's surrender. It's not receiving.
All right, like that's great. Yes, Lord, to whatever you want to do. That's called surrender.
But the word receiving in the scripture is the word lumbano and it means to grasp with the hand.
It means to take a hold of something. It's a very intentional act of grabbing a hold of something
and pulling it down and pulling it in to who you are. And so receiving is never a passive thing.
It's always an active and intentional thing associated with revelation. And so there is this
part of being a prophet where you take that favor, you take that authority and you pull it down and
you pull it into yourself for specific assignments. And at times it feels like a hat that I put on
and take off as far as there'll be many times where I'm preaching at a church or teaching at
a church and then occasionally I'll say, hey guys, this next thing I'm going to say, I'm not saying
as a revivalist, I'm not saying as a trainer or speaker, I'm actually speaking as a prophet now.
So I want you to put on your ears to hear me as a prophet. And what am I doing in that moment?
I'm accessing and I am pulling on the authority of that specific office.
And it's just a different thing. It has a different weight. It has a different effect.
It has a different responsibility. So what is a prophet? How do you know you are one?
What is the pathway from the call of a prophet to the office of prophet? And this is something really,
I think this is something that can really help the frustration of some of your journeys.
I mean, you're not at a prophetic school this week. You're at a prophet school this week.
So we're not just training prophetic people. We are fishing in the prophetic pond for prophets.
And we're fishing in the prophetic pond for a certain kind of prophet.
And we're going to talk about this some tomorrow, but we're actually looking for prophetic reformers.
We're looking for prophetic, not performers, reformers who want to build as apostolic
architects. In other words, they're taking an apostolic grace and a prophetic assignment,
and they're building something in the earth. So the first thing I'd like to say about a prophetic
office is this, that I believe when somebody is in the prophetic office, they have a who, a where,
and a what. They have who they are a prophet to, because one of the greatest deceptions
is that when you are a prophet, you're a prophet to everyone. And that will get you in so much
trouble if you think you're a prophet to everyone. And then you're not a prophet everywhere.
All right? You're not a prophet everywhere. You're a prophet somewhere. And Chris has a
whole teaching about this, about your metron, which is basically a Greek word for the measure
of your rule. Or another phrase to describe it would be the sphere of your influence.
And I love how Chris describes this. He talks about how your authority is related to a specific
place. In other words, when he owned auto parts stores, he had, you know, all these different
stores.
I think he had like 21 at a time or at one time or something.
Huh?
You only had three.
So yes, I was exactly right.
I'm prophesying it.
No.
Three, he had three.
Now I'm worried about the rest of the story.
But anyway.
You know, in his store, he was talking about how,
you know, he has all authority.
He has all power.
He has the employees, you know, are answering to him.
Everything, there is all power and authority
in the place of his assignment.
But across the street was a machine shop.
And if he just walked across the street,
suddenly he moves from owner authority
to customer authority.
And now he can't boss people around.
He is requesting, he is asking, you know?
And so his authority shifted by walking across the street.
And we like to say it this way.
And I learned this from Chris.
Your gift will work everywhere on everyone,
but it works best somewhere on someone.
And guys, part of the prophetic office is the journey
to discovering your somewhere and your someone.
Who is the someone that I'm supposed to serve?
And where is the somewhere that I am to work
or I am to build?
And that's very, very important.
Why?
Because we do have all power and authority,
but you have all power and authority
in the place that you are assigned,
in the place that you are created for.
You don't have all power and authority everywhere
in every situation.
Like, don't go out into the middle of the street
and act like you have authority
to stop traffic or direct traffic.
You're gonna get in trouble.
Don't come into my home
and start telling my kids what to do.
You will experience the laying on of hands suddenly
and some five-fold ministry,
if you know what I'm talking about.
Like, you can't do that in my home.
And so it's like, well, we have all power
and we have all authority.
Yes, you do, but you have that in a specific place,
in the place you were created for.
See, we were created for good works in Christ Jesus
that God ordained before we were born
that we should walk in.
And that is the place
where you have this increased power and authority.
And part of the journey of the call of a prophet
is not just developing your gifts or people recognizing you,
it's you clarifying your who and your where.
And then let's talk about the what for a moment
because a prophet has a what.
And the what question for me is this,
what are you building?
What are you building?
All right, a prophet gift is a foundation gift.
And to be part of a foundation,
it must be building something.
It must be supporting something.
It must be creating something.
And so there is a function to it.
There's a function to that office
that is more than just prophesying.
As a matter of fact, if you only prophesy as a prophet,
your gift will be exploited
and you'll end up feeling like a show pony.
You're just like, people will bring you in
to perform for them.
Hey, do that thing that you do,
that prophet thing, that spiritual thing.
And I want you to know, you can do that for a while,
but after a time, it is very, very unsatisfying
for people to know you after your gift.
And there's this sense of not building something,
not creating something, and you were born to build.
You were born to create.
And so a prophet office is someone who knows their who,
their where, and what they're building,
and is actually in that place.
I know Graham Cook said it takes 15 to 25 years
for the making of a prophet.
And I don't know, the Bible doesn't necessarily say that.
We do have some journeys that were that long in scripture.
And I'm also wondering, can we accelerate that process
by creating a wineskin where we identify prophetic calls
and begin to create structures for them
to advance that call and clarify those issues sooner?
I think we can.
I believe we're in a season of acceleration.
acceleration, but I also want to say this, that the call,
the distance between a promise and a purpose is a gift.
All right, the time from when you're called to do something
and then when you're actually in that place, it's a gift.
The time is a gift for development.
People want to fight with the time between the call
and the office, between the promise and the purpose.
And I want you to know that that time is there
as a gift to you.
It's not something that is holding you back.
It's not something that's keeping you from something.
It's something that is building in you the power
for sustainable victory.
And so if you have the call in this place to be a prophet
and nobody else recognizes it yet,
quit fighting against that.
Quit striving with that, quit struggling with that
because I'm going to tell you some things you can do.
Okay?
And I want to just draw a parallel to the life of David.
And we've been doing this in School of the Prophets
for many years.
But you know, David was anointed to be king
at the party he wasn't invited to.
Chris talked about that last night.
But it is 14 years before he takes the throne of Judah
and three more years before he takes the throne
of all Israel.
So 17 years from the call to the office
and actually being in the office.
14 to 17 years of development.
But he wasn't waiting to be discovered.
He wasn't waiting to be discovered.
Actually, David began to appropriate the favor
and the authority of his future office and identity
into his present circumstances.
What are we talking about?
When Goliath happens, okay?
And Goliath comes out and everybody cheers
and everybody yells and you know,
and they're giving up the war cry.
But then Goliath steps down into the Valley of Elah
and he gives the challenge.
Hey, who's going to come down and fight with me?
Like, why should everybody die?
Listen, you send out one champion, whoever wins.
The other side will be their slaves.
And as soon as he stepped down, everybody went quiet
and nobody came out and this went on and on for 40 days.
And guys, I'm tired of a prophetic community
that has a war cry,
but not the courage to walk down into the valley.
What gave David the confidence to walk in that valley
was first of all, his zeal for God,
but also a sense of destiny that,
hey, I'm called to something greater
and he was literally doing
what a king would do in that situation.
We like to say it this way,
David didn't need a throne to act like a king.
He actually did everything that a king would do
before he inherited the throne.
He took on multiple enemies of Israel.
He expanded the borders.
He consulted with kings.
He built an army in the desert with no budget
and with people that nobody else wanted.
And it turned out to be the greatest army
in the history of Israel.
He was acting kingly, not in an entitled way.
Not like, hey, everybody, I'm the future king.
Honor me, respect me.
No, no, he was hiding his kingship in his heart,
but he was manifesting the favor, the authority,
and the influence of a king through that gentleness
and through that humility.
And he was building something before he had the title
or before he had the throne.
I think the greatest mistake that prophetic people make
is waiting for their throne.
Yeah.
They're waiting to be recognized as a prophet
before they do anything.
Well, my pastor doesn't recognize prophets
or nobody sees me as a prophet.
One person called me out,
but nobody else knows I'm a prophet.
Hey, cherish your obscurity.
You know, Bill Johnson went to a restricted country,
and he was to meet with several of the leaders
of that country, and when he got to the border,
there were secret police waiting for him,
and they followed him around the entire time he was there,
and he never got to meet with the leaders.
And a week later, I came, and they didn't know who I was,
they didn't care who I was, and I prophesied personally
over 400 leaders of the underground church.
And I want you to know,
I cherished my obscurity in that moment.
There's this desire to kind of be recognized as a prophet.
Put that away.
Put that away, it'll come.
By the time David stepped on the throne,
he was the obvious choice,
because he was already manifesting such a regal authority.
And you don't need a throne to act like a king,
and you don't need a title to build like a prophet.
You can begin to build now.
You can begin to appropriate a favor, authority,
and an influence of a future season
into your current circumstances.
And I would have to say, in my life,
I was building like a prophet before I knew I had the call.
So it was a little bit easier for me,
because I was intuitively doing something
that I didn't know was prophet stuff.
And so by the time it was called out,
I'd already been doing it for many years.
And so it wasn't like this poof moment
of suddenly everything changes.
It was kind of like, oh, this shoe fits.
And I want to encourage you that I think
that is probably more common than you think.
And I would say that one of the challenges is
when your call doesn't look like
what you think a prophet looks like,
then you might not think you're a prophet.
But there are so many flavors of prophet.
It's huge.
Well, let's talk a little bit then
about what a prophet should do.
And I want to just hit this directly from Ephesians 4
that speaks about the fivefold gifts
and what their assignment is.
These are the five offices that are ascension gifts, okay?
And so in Ephesians 4, it says that he who ascended,
it says, now what is he ascended?
What is it?
But also that he descended first
into the lower parts of the earth.
And he that descended is the same also that ascended
up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things.
And he gave some apostles and prophets
evangelists, pastors, and teachers.
Okay, I want to draw your attention to something
before we move on to the office assignment here
is that I want you to recognize that it says here
that New Testament prophets were given
from the ascension of Jesus Christ.
Why is that important?
Because we already had prophets.
So why was the ascension given?
So why was the ascension necessary?
Why are prophets associated
with the ascension of Jesus Christ?
Well, when Jesus ascended, what did he do?
He sent the Holy Spirit to pour out his spirit on all flesh
so that every son and daughter can prophesy.
We know that because prophet was an ascension gift,
are you guys okay?
You're a little bit quiet.
I don't know if you're bored or if you're,
okay, you're getting it.
All right, when you guys are super quiet,
I have Presbyterian flashbacks.
And there's many great Presbyterian churches in the earth.
Just the one I attended was not one of them, okay?
So I'm pretty secure.
I don't need necessarily your feedback,
but I do need this.
I need to know that you're getting it,
that it's helpful for you.
And then also, can I just say that for the rest
of the school, and I wanna speak this
over our online students as well,
that you're being a little more vocal.
would help you more than it would help me.
All right, I'm not trying to change your style of church.
I'm just saying this,
you need an amen to heaven's yes that is in the room.
And you need to start practicing a more verbal agreement
with trues and impartations and mantles
that are going out from this platform.
And so I wanna encourage you,
you guys have been kind of quiet all day long.
And I do know this group,
we all speak better
when there's a little more sound in the room.
And, but it really isn't for us, it's for you.
I've been concerned that your mental agreement
is not the same as your verbal agreement.
And so I wanna encourage you
to make declarations of agreement with your mouth,
even if it's not your habit.
Listen, again, I was brought up Presbyterian.
I remember the first time I raised my hand,
one hand half-masked, you know what I mean?
It was like, whoa, I felt so radical,
you know, in my, whoa, you know,
I got one hand half-masked and it was like,
this is radical Christianity right here, you know?
So for some of you saying yes, saying amen,
saying, you know, I'll take that.
I mean, may seem really, really radical,
but I do think there's something powerful
to you engaging on another level,
especially with your voice,
in some of the things that are coming forth.
So, all right, okay, okay, good, that's good for you.
All right, I wanna reiterate the point we just made.
Prophets, I'm feeling the love, I'm feeling heard, whoo.
I wanna reiterate that truth
that if prophets were given from the ascension,
they must be a different kind of prophet
than what came before.
This is the dividing line
between Old Testament and New Testament.
Prophets was the ascension of Jesus Christ.
If Jesus sent prophets as a gift from his ascension,
then there's something about that
that changed the DNA of prophets in the earth.
And part of that is now they are working
with a group of people who have now been empowered
to recognize and respond to the voice of God.
And so it changed the nature of what prophets are like.
Let's just go over one more thing in regard to that.
Prophets were first established at Mount Horeb
when the body of believers rejected
the priesthood of the believer.
God invited everybody to come up onto the mountain
and God's voice and God's appearance,
the smoke, the lightning, the thunder, holy smoke,
was freaking them out.
And so they're like, no, God, you're too scary for us.
We'll send Moses, you tell him and he'll tell us.
Guys, this was a turning point in Christian history.
And so the Lord at that point says,
therefore he appointed prophets.
This is the Old Testament appointing of prophets
to be the mouthpiece of God.
And this is why New Testament prophets are so different
because it is the reversal of the curse
that happened at Mount Horeb.
At Mount Horeb, he said this.
He says, therefore from now on, you'll have eyes,
but you won't be able to see.
You'll have ears, but you won't be able to hear.
And you'll have hearts, but you can't understand.
And Jesus quoted this passage many, many times.
Why did he quote it so much?
He wasn't reinforcing the hardness of people's hearts.
He was talking to the state of transformation
that he was about to unleash.
He was going to unleash a metamorphosis
into what it meant to be a follower of God.
And that metamorphosis was that
with the outpouring of the Holy Spirit,
now everyone could have eyes to see, ears to hear,
and hearts that could understand the voice of God,
the vision of God, the thoughts of God,
the very nature of God himself.
And then so God had to give a new kind of prophet
who was not being the voice.
for us but the voice with us the voice that's helping us recognize and respond to this outpouring
of the holy spirit so guys an ascension prophet is a different thing it's a different type of
prophet it is as different as the new creation itself i'm so happy for you
and you guys can do the same thing in the chat just blow up the chat you know you can use your
little icons and everything online and i'll take that as an amen yes good for you oh yeah go for it
all right hallelujah some of you need to inform your face that you're getting this though
because you're you're scaring me
you're scaring me i know you're getting it but tell your face that you're getting it
i feel like i'm watching zombie tv here or something
moving along moving along
ephesians 4 12 let's just talk about this and we're going to close in a little bit
you've had a very full day i'm not going to keep you long tonight we're going to close in just a
few moments here okay what is the what is the purpose of a ascension prophet this is the same
text all right this is the same context god is establishing a new type of prophet we are going
from the mount horeb model of prophet where someone is the voice of god for me to the
ascension prophet who uh now you are the voice of god with me we're a community we're together
and we're guiding those that are hearing the voice having visions having encounters
and and this is what it says in verse 12 it says for the perfecting of the saints or the equipping
of the saints for the work of ministry all right this is in keeping with the ascension model
when he ascended he poured out his spirit on all flesh so that every son and daughter
now could prophesy and that's why now one of the major roles of prophets is to equip the saints
to recognize and respond to the voice of god so whether you're in the office or whether you've
been called and you're on a 10-year journey a 15-year journey a 20-year journey you could
start equipping people right now you could start helping people recognize and respond to the voice
of god you don't have to wait for the title come on you don't need a throne to act like a king you
know who you are in christ jesus start manifesting who you are now in humility and in gentleness
and you can do it by starting to equip people around you let's not make this about you
no let's not make this about you i am speaking to you i am pulling something out of you but guys
equipping is one of the most fulfilling things you can do because it's not about you my goodness
i do more equipping meetings now than i do speaking and it's like i go in and they do all the work
i'm just coaching them and activations and things like that and doing feedback and
feedback and and uh and i love it and they love it come on there's so many people bored for the lord
and and i believe that boring is a sin it's a misrepresentation of the most creative being
in the universe
yes
the kingdom is voice activated and when you teach people to recognize the voice of god
to recognize what to do with their visions what to do with their dreams
what to do with thoughts that pop into your head and pains that pop into your body and and all
these different things that happen to prophetic people as you begin to teach them that they are
greatly empowered we were in india and we were doing a meeting and our senior leader's wife who
is a prophet but she came to me she said daniel i'm gonna have to go home i'm gonna have to go
back to the hotel she said my kidneys are hurting me so bad i can't stand it and i said what do you
think it's a word of knowledge and she goes i don't know it sure feels like mine and i said
yeah i know but if it's a word of knowledge like then you can get rid of it you know what i mean
so we might as well try you know hey that's stepping out of the boat
That's, hey, you know the guys in the boat were sinking too.
Everybody talks about Peter sinking on the water,
but the guys in the boat were sinking too.
You just get to choose where you wanna sink, you know?
You're gonna make mistakes,
just choose where it's gonna happen.
And so, she, you know, being the senior leader's wife
and co-leader, she was able to interrupt him
while he was speaking and say, hey,
does anybody here have pain in their kidneys?
And I think we had more than a dozen people respond,
but one person had seven tumors on their kidneys
and they were instantly dissolved, totally healed.
More than a dozen people healed,
but that one person with tumors,
absolutely totally healed in the moment,
and now she's fine and can stay the rest of the meeting.
Well, what is that?
That's the equipping of the saints.
That's, hey, what's happening to you right now?
That could be God, let's find out, okay?
And so, equipping of the saints
doesn't always look like a conference
or always like a training.
It's about walking with people.
It's about recognizing the gifts of the Spirit
on your children.
Come on, I believe that every child
is already super sensitive to spiritual things
and they just unlearn it.
Yeah.
I actually believe that the enemy
is storming children's gift gate
through fear, through overstimulation, through torment,
and he's trying to get them to close the faith gate
because the gifts and calling are irrevocable,
but every gift has to pass through the measure of your faith
and so when you say, I don't wanna dream anymore,
you don't shut off the gift of seeing in the nightwatches,
you close the faith gate that makes that gift operate.
And many times, we as parents,
we just want the pain to stop
and so we don't realize that we're actually partnering
with the kingdom of darkness
to desensitize our children to the spiritual world.
We just want the pain to stop,
so we're like, oh Lord, take away these tormented dreams.
No, their language is dreams.
Teach them the authority in their dream life.
Mommy, I'm seeing bad guys in the room.
Oh, that's a good thing.
That's a good thing.
Look over their shoulder and see what they're hiding.
Hey, wherever there's bad guys, there's good guys.
Look for the good guys and see what they're doing.
See, we don't desensitize our children
to their spiritual gifts.
We normalize, contextualize,
and weaponize them with their authority.
What if we could raise up a whole generation of children
that recognize their innate God connection
and spirituality at a young age?
That's the equipping of the saints.
And you can do that now.
You don't need a throne to do that.
You can do that now.
You can help your boss know the difference
between a God idea and a good idea.
I was with the minister of technology
of a South American country,
and he had come into one of the trainings that I was doing,
and I knew that he had had an idea
that had radically transformed his country.
And they asked if I would prophesy over him,
and I said, no, I won't prophesy over him,
because I knew he was kind of a newbie,
not sure if he was a Christian or not kind of thing.
And also I said, but I will interpret an encounter for him.
And so I said, tell me how you got that idea.
And he began to go through it.
And as he began to go through it, I go,
yeah, I know what that is.
I said, this is how that works.
This is how that gift happens.
And this is what was going on when you experienced that.
And I said, right now, you're feeling pressure
to come up with another great idea
because of the success of the last one.
And I said, right now, I want you to know
that that first idea, that was a God idea.
And when you felt this, and when you saw this,
that's how you know it's God.
And from now on, you'll be able to separate
every God idea from a good idea,
because these are the characteristics
of how God downloads his creative ideas to you.
That's an equipping of the saints.
I didn't give him a prophetic word.
I showed him how he was connecting with the father.
You can do that now with your boss, with your business.
I love the story.
of how Chris, at his auto parts store,
there was a, they needed a different operating system.
Like they needed a different way
to be able to tally their accounts
and nobody could figure out the code for it
and God gave it to him in a dream.
And even though he helped start the coding school here,
he knows nothing about coding whatsoever.
You know what I mean?
And I don't either, I don't either.
But I think that's so cool
that God would give him the code,
he would download the code for his company.
Listen, ha ha ha,
there's so many ways we can equip the saints
for the work of the ministry.
Well, the second thing that it says here
is it's for the edifying or the building up of the body.
And that's why, again, I say,
an office prophet is building something.
But again, you don't have to wait for the office
to start building, all right?
What we are creating should be building.
I'm gonna talk about this tomorrow afternoon,
but we'll give a quick just kind of taster.
And that is this, that the kind of prophet our culture
at School of the Prophets wants to bring up
is prophetic reformers.
There are prophetic protesters and there is a place for that
but the kind that we're going after is prophetic reformers.
And we'll define that more tomorrow
but part of it is we are the prophets who build up,
not the prophets who tear down.
We are the prophets who are creating solutions,
not pointing out problems.
We are done amplifying what's wrong in the earth
and now we only focus on problems
so that we can provide solutions.
And we're gonna talk more about how we go after this
tomorrow but it's for the building up of the body.
The third thing here that it says in verse 13
is till we all come to the unity of the faith.
The prophetic culture we are building guys,
the prophetic DNA that is part of the Bethel
School of the Prophets is building unity.
Can I say there is a lot of revelatory
deconstructionism out there?
There are a lot of people that are trying to deconstruct
what the church is.
And can I say, I'm not interested in any deconstruction
that doesn't have a reconstruction plan.
It doesn't do any good to tear down what exists
if you don't know what should go in its place.
And not only that, you don't have to tear down
one truth to build another truth.
And there's an attack against the authority of scripture
itself that's happening right now and a lot of people
are doing it from a prophetic revelatory position
and I just wanna say like, hey, I am for questions,
I am for exploration, I am open to new ways of thinking
but I want you to know we are built on a foundation
of absolute truth and the person of Jesus Christ.
That's our goal and we are trying to build unity
not section off a little fan club from the rest
of the body of Christ.
You do know that when you do that, the enemy roams about
like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour
and he's looking for those people that have isolated
themselves from the herd.
The moment you separate from the body of Christ,
you are making yourself a prey.
You are making yourself the target of demonic activity
through your disconnection because he doesn't fight fair.
He fights when you're hurt, he fights when you're tired,
he fights when you're sick, he fights when you're young,
he fights when you're weak and when you allow your offenses
or your questions or your concerns to isolate you,
you have made yourself a target for the enemy in a fight
you will probably not win.
Prophets who are isolating little groups unto themselves
and have no value for the body of Christ.
I'm concerned because here I see that our assignment
is for the unity of the faith.
We are championing around truths together
and we were building into the greater body of Christ
and you can't transform anything you judge or condemn.
Amen.
Verse 13, it also says and of the knowledge
of the son of God.
I wanna share something with you
that's very dear to my heart.
And that is, I believe that part of the prophetic office
in every one of the five-fold offices,
but the prophetic office,
I wanna speak to this very strongly today,
very tenderly today, even better than a word,
even better than the most accurate word of knowledge
that blows people's minds,
one of the greatest things a prophet can do
is reveal Jesus Christ.
Amen.
The most prophetic book in the Bible
is called the revelation of Jesus Christ.
It's not the revelation of end times,
it's the revelation of the person of Jesus Christ.
And the seven letters to the seven churches
each have a unique revelation of the personhood of Christ.
This is a prophetic book,
and the prophetic is the revealing
of the personhood of Jesus Christ.
Even in the book of Daniel,
what's happening is the king is having a dream,
the king is having a vision,
and when he goes to him,
he's not just interpreting his vision.
When Daniel stands before the king,
he is revealing the person of God.
He's saying, the revealer of mysteries has spoken to you.
The sovereign God of heaven has showed you,
oh king, the future.
What is he doing?
He's equipping him by connecting him
to how God is speaking.
He's helping him recognize and respond to the voice of God.
He's building unity between parties
that would normally be divided.
And what is he doing?
He's revealing the personhood of God.
Amen.
You wanna dig into mysteries?
You wanna be known for revelation?
Reveal Christ.
Reveal the wonders and the glory of who he is.
Listen, the four living creatures that surround the throne
are some of the most prophetic beings on the planet,
because they're covered with eyeballs,
and all they do is behold the one who sits on the throne.
And they keep having holy encounters with God
as they're beholding new things about him
that they've never seen before.
See, I asked God one day, I said,
God, why are they covered with eyeballs?
And he said, unlimited perspective
of the one who sits on the throne.
No matter where they turn, they can see him,
and they're seeing him with different parts of their body
that are relating to different revelations
of the personhood of Christ.
And they've been doing it for thousands of years,
but it says they never tire day or night.
In other words, they're not bored.
They're still discovering new things about him every day.
And if you feel like you've known it all, seen it all,
Dan, I know it all, I've seen it all,
I grew up in the church,
I don't know what Jesus you're looking at.
I know it all.
Because the four living creatures
haven't exhausted the revelation of who he is.
And maybe you don't know that the revelation of Jesus Christ
is the master key of the kingdom of God.
The scripture says in 2 Peter
that his divine power has already given us
everything we need pertaining to life and godliness
through the knowledge of him who is called us
by his own glory and goodness.
All right, what does all that mean?
Because sometimes in the Pauline phraseology,
we kind of lose the center of what he's saying.
Let me say it this way.
The fullness of God is already inside of you.
The fullness of God is already in you.
Everything pertaining to your life and to godliness,
it's already in there.
It's already in there in the person of Christ.
But it's only unlocked to the measure
that you have seen in him.
It's only unlocked to the measure that you've seen in him.
See, when I first got saved,
I didn't know Jesus was a healer.
So salvation was coming out of me.
I led thousands of people to Jesus.
I was a lead guitar player for a rock band
and I would give altar calls
and thousands of people would come to Jesus.
From 15 years old to 17 years old,
I led over 2,000 people to Jesus.
But no one ever got healed
because I didn't know that Jesus was a healer.
I knew that God could heal because he's God.
But I thought it was like the lottery.
Millions of people enter and once in a while
your ticket is pulled and somebody wins.
But when I found that healing is not something Jesus does,
it's something that he is.
Healer is his very nature.
a character in nature,
then I didn't have to talk God into doing something.
I just had to be where the healer was
and just be in alignment with his nature.
And we started seeing incredible things.
I mean, we had one meeting in Fiji
where over 30 blind people were healed in one meeting.
It was awesome.
So I knew him as healer.
And then I'll give you the very short version,
but I was a youth pastor and worship leader
in Kentucky for about 12 years.
And our senior leader hardly ever had
any of the staff speak.
And you know, as a youth pastor,
you're kind of wondering when you're gonna make it
to the big leagues.
I mean, I wondered what I did.
You know, I loved what I did,
but you still kind of think,
hey, you know, I can speak about more than sex,
sin and self and have pizza parties.
Like I got something more to say.
So we had two services.
We had the one hour early morning service
that was like, you know,
three songs and a sermonette for Christianettes
kind of thing.
You know, it was the in and out version of Christianity.
And then we had the second service,
which was no holds barred.
It was basically everything but snakes.
And in Kentucky, that's a good thing.
That's no snakes.
So he asked me to preach at the first service,
you know, the conservative Christianette service.
And so, man, I was praying, I was fasting.
I was like, this is gonna be the best service ever.
And then he's gonna, you know, ask me to speak more.
And this is the beginning of my ministry right here,
like launching to another level.
And yeah, yeah, that wasn't all good,
but that's where I was at.
And so I, first of all, led the three songs,
and then I got up to preach.
Now, man, I had prepared an awesome message.
I'd been praying, I'd been fasting.
I step up and a woman in the second row drops over dead.
It's true.
There was a nurse there, Susan.
She went over, checked her.
She looks up at me.
She's like, she's gone.
I'm a young youth pastor, worship leader.
They didn't teach us this in Bible college,
like what to do when people die.
And it definitely put a damper on the service.
I didn't know what to do.
So there was a phone back behind the stage.
So I went to call 911, and I come out from calling,
and one of our teenagers is standing on a chair
screaming over the body.
And she's screaming, Satan, you can't have her.
I rebuke the power of death.
Satan, you can't have her.
Yeah, screaming at the top of her lungs.
Well, we don't scream in the first service.
We don't stand on chairs.
We don't rebuke the devil.
Second service, maybe, kinda,
but definitely not first service.
And I'm the youth pastor.
I know what's going on.
This is her grandmother.
And so I go over to comfort her.
I'm like, Sarah, honey, it's okay.
Your grandma's in heaven.
And she turns to me, I swear, this is the truth.
She goes, get behind me, Satan.
She did.
She called me Satan.
I was already feeling down.
She goes, get behind me, Satan.
I know what I'm doing.
And she goes back to screaming.
Satan, you can't have her.
I rebuke the power of death.
At this time, I am considering career options.
Swear to God, it's true.
I'm like, real estate, maybe,
because ministry is over.
This is the worst service ever.
People are dying to get in, you know.
So finally, I hear sirens coming.
I'm like, oh, thank God, you know.
Where comes my help?
And the sirens stop.
And this is before they had sensitivity training.
And so the EMTs, like, they bust open the back doors.
They're doors open.
They're like, oh, my God,
Like, they bust open the back doors.
They're jogging in with a gurney
and say something tactful, like, where's the body?
That's what I'm saying.
There's probably a better way to say that.
And right when they said it,
Grandma had been dead for over 20 minutes
and she coughs and stands up.
Yeah, she does.
I know.
Okay.
Yeah.
I'm feeling better.
And,
and I turn and I go, uh, over there?
And I'm like, I swear she was dead.
Talk to the nurse.
I promise you, she was dead.
And so they take her to the side, they check her out,
and they say, ma'am, we can't find anything wrong with you,
but we'd like to take you back for observation.
She was in her mid-80s at the time,
and she's an old mountain woman in Kentucky,
so she had kind of this hillbilly accent
that was really cute, and she turned to the EMTs,
and she said, Sonny, God just raised me from the dead.
I think I'm gonna stay and praise him for a while.
Hey!
Best service ever!
Best service ever.
I had nothing to do with it.
Ha ha ha.
But I was still the benefactor of a very good service.
Ha ha ha.
What does this have to do with prophets?
Ha ha ha.
I'm gonna tell ya.
That day, I met Jesus as the resurrection and the life.
Ha ha ha.
See, when I knew Him as Savior,
salvation was coming out of me
and people were coming to Christ.
When I knew Him as healer, the blind began to see,
the deaf began to hear, the lame began to walk.
And when I met Him as the resurrection and life,
resurrection began to come out.
And we've anointed resurrection teams all over the world
that have had resurrections.
We had three resurrections in Siberia in 24 hours.
Just a few years ago, Chris and I were there.
He lost his passport or something and showed up late,
so I had to take the service.
And that's where we anointed a couple hundred pastors
for the ministry of resurrection.
And that night, on the way home,
one of those pastors,
there was a car accident on the highway.
And he stopped, he said,
I'm a pastor, can I do anything?
And they said, well, you could give the last rites,
he's already dead.
And so he walked over to him
and he was gonna give the last rites
and then he realized, oh, I just promised Dano
that I'd pray for a hundred dead people before I gave up.
And so he's like, okay, I don't know how to do this,
and he just said, in the name of Jesus, come alive.
And the guy came alive in front.
In front, not only of the EMTs and the police,
but also the news cameras were already there
and it was broadcast.
And so some crazy stuff happened from that.
It's not a small thing to reveal the person of Jesus Christ.
The fullness of Christ is in you,
but you're only walking in the measure of fullness
that you have seen in the person of Jesus Christ.
And one of the great privileges that prophets get to do
is to reveal the different, to unveil the beauty
and the glory of the person of Christ
that unlocks the fullness of Christ inside of the believer.
And so the most prophetic,
revelatory book in the Bible
is the revelation of the person of Jesus Christ.
Don't trade a message, don't trade a word,
don't trade a gift for the privilege
of unveiling the personhood of Jesus,
because whatever you see in him gets unlocked in you.
And whatever you convey with that level of revelation
unlocks another measure of the fullness of Jesus
inside of his body.
And by beholding him, we go from glory to glory
with ever increasing glory.
What can you do now?
You can equip the saints.
You can build the body.
You can promote the unity of the faith.
And you can reveal the beauty and the personhood
of our Lord Jesus Christ.
The privilege of the most prophetic creatures
in the heavenly realms has also been granted to us.
And you've been given eyes to see
so that you could behold the beauty of the Lord,
so that you could release the fullness of Christ
in the earth.
And I'm telling you, whatever we see
and release on that level gets unlocked in the believers.
And we start having an army that is walking
in levels of glory and authority
that is directly related not to our giftedness.
not to our titles, not to even our level of training,
but it is equal to the level of the glory
of the person of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Guys, we're raising up an army of prophets.
Some of you are there, some of you are called,
but in the journey, some of you don't know
what the heck you're doing here,
but you were supposed to be here.
And I wanna tell you that this is something
you can start now.
You don't need the throne to act like a king.
Let's pray.
Holy Spirit, I thank you that you have covered us
with the eyes of the Spirit.
Lord, I thank you that you have given us ears to hear
and even hearts that understand.
And Lord, tonight in this place,
I pray for fresh revelations of the person of Jesus Christ.
Lord, we don't wanna just see mysteries and great words.
Lord, we want that.
We want that.
We wanna be able to amaze people
with the power of your gifts and the clarity of your gifts
so that they would see our good works
and glorify the Father who is in heaven.
We want that, Lord.
But Lord, may we never forget the greatest privilege
perhaps that we have in this calling
is to see who you wanna be for us in a certain hour,
in a certain time, in a certain situation,
and to release the glory and the power
and the authority of that.
We would see Jesus.
We wanna see Jesus.
Lord, we wanna see you in new ways and fresh ways.
We wanna behold you the way the 24 elders behold
and the four living creatures behold, Lord.
Thank you that you've given us eyes
to see the beauty of the person of Jesus Christ.
And we're not just seeing the same thing
over and over again,
but we're seeing new things that are astounding us
with your power, with your glory,
with your holiness, with your righteousness.
And we are being changed from glory to glory
by what we see in Jesus' name.
Amen.
Can we just thank Dano, you guys?
I don't remember much.
Thank you guys.
Bless you guys.
Hey, here's a little starting point
that's just really, really easy.
You can stay standing
because honestly, this is gonna be super quick,
that Graham Cook taught us.
He said, just ask the Lord,
who do you wanna be for me right now?
Right?
Lord, who do you wanna be?
Who do you wanna show yourself as?
You know, there's 120 descriptions of God,
120 names of God directly stated in scripture.
And every one of them is an invitation
to another level of glory.
Every one of them is an invitation to an encounter.
And as we see Christ in that way,
you know, there's a whole bunch of people
that are praying for boldness
that actually need to see Jesus, the friend of sinners.
That'll transform you more even than boldness will.
But when you see his friendship without corruption
is a phenomenal bridge builder.
And so who does Christ wanna be for us right now?
It's just a powerful thing.
Hey, we're gonna ask tomorrow, guys.
You might not have realized that today,
and I'm sorry we didn't convey this better,
but one of the books we gave you
was Basic Training in the Prophetic Ministry.
This is Chris's book.
I think I gave you the parallel book also,
Basic Training in Prophetic Activation.
You don't need that one tomorrow.
Bring with you Basic Training in Prophetic Ministry
by Chris Fountain, one of the books
that came in your packet.
If you bring it with you,
you can actually follow along
with what we're teaching in the morning sessions, okay?
Because today we taught chapters one and two,
three and four, five and six,
and we're gonna finish that out tomorrow.
And then the rest of the week,
we're going off of that foundation
to begin to describe what prophetic reformers look like
and how we together can build them into our culture
to transform society.
So bring that book with you tomorrow.
Thank you.
All right, you guys,
can you believe this was only day one?
I think we're bending time in a different way,
but it's been a wonderful evening.
We're gonna go ahead and close.
If you wanted some ministry,
I'm gonna ask that the ministry team
could come forward right now,
and we will have ministry team available
for you guys in person.
For those of you online,
there is a link for you to click on
so you also can receive ministry.
And friends, abrigado.
Thank you for joining us.
You guys have a wonderful night.
Get some great rest.
We will see you at 8 a.m. in the morning
for your community groups.
All right, goodnight you guys.
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