Oh, welcome back everyone.
Welcome all of you in the room.
Did everyone eat lunch?
Is someone fasting?
Hopefully not.
This is a time of feasting, not fasting.
Amen.
I see some of you guys are ready for a prize.
You guys want to know what we're going to win today?
Hey all of you joining us online, welcome back.
It's good to have you in the room with us as well.
What we're giving away today is a free e-course from Chris Vallotton and you get to choose.
So we're actually going to reach out to you, whoever wins online and in person.
We're actually going to email you and you'll get to choose from any one of Chris Vallotton's
e-courses and you get to choose one of them as your gift today.
Okay?
You good?
All right.
Let's see.
I think we're going to start with online.
Online audience and we should have the wheel back here, the spinning wheel of awesome and
it's already spinning.
Drum roll please.
Come on.
Let's see.
Who is the winner?
And okay, Michelle Anberg-Espinosa, you are the winner.
We're going to reach out to you and make sure you get that.
Yeah, give it up for her.
Come on.
Yeah, we should be happy about winners.
All right.
You're all winners in the kingdom, but you're not all winners in this room.
So I mean winners of the prize.
You're all winners, right?
We were made to win.
All right.
How about in the room?
Where's the wheel?
Okay.
Just a second.
We're getting there.
Okay.
Spin that wheel.
Here we go.
The e-course from Chris Vallotted goes to James Solis.
James, are you in the room?
James.
Yes, you get it.
Michelle and James, we'll reach out to you.
We will hit you up with an email that'll give you all the details for the prize that you
just won.
And why don't you stand to your feet and welcome Bethany as she leads us in activations.
All right, guys.
All right.
Well, hey, we're just going to take about 25 minutes or so right now to kind of start
stirring it up, fanning into flame the gift of God that's already within you.
Right?
Yeah, I don't need it now, but thank you.
You know, it's one thing for us to be up here all day long and be like, you need to stir
up your gift.
You need to fan into flame and not give you opportunity to do that.
So we're going to do some activations today and tomorrow from the 2 o'clock to 2.30 time
period.
And I'm just going to give you guys just an appetizer plate, okay, of some of the trainings
that we do within our trainings for our activate method.
Now first of all, let me just clarify something for you guys.
You know how yesterday I was talking about how we're hardwired to receive, right?
We all have receptors.
What's a receptor?
I know it sounds like a name of a dinosaur or like a stereoceptor or I don't even know.
Receptor is essentially, it's just your ability to receive information.
It's how you're wired.
So we've used that language.
You have a seeing receptor, you have a hearing receptor, right?
A feeling or sensing and then perceiving.
A lot of times I've noticed within the prophetic,
it's like when we're training people,
we're telling them, okay, just try to see this
or see a color without actually giving you
the kind of the guidelines
on how to access that information.
So that's what we're gonna do today.
I'm gonna activate you guys, but let's talk about Jesus.
I mean, because that's what we do, right?
It's all about Jesus anyways.
But did you know that Jesus actually was all four?
He was a seer, he was a hearer,
he was a feeler or perceiver and also a perceiver.
And so I'm gonna just kind of lay this down.
First of all, number one, Jesus was a seer.
John 5, 19, he says, I only do what I see my father doing.
So we know that Jesus, as he went about
and doing the works of God,
he only did what he saw his father doing.
Jesus was a seer.
Jesus was also a hearer.
In John 14, 24, he said, these words I speak are not my own.
So he was hearing words from the father
and then he would speak them.
So we know that he was receiving revelation
from God via hearing.
Jesus was also a feeler.
Hebrews 4, 15 says that he was touched
with the feeling of our infirmities.
So Jesus was literally feeling
the feeling of our infirmities.
He was touched by that.
The Bible also talks about
how he was moved with compassion, right?
Many times he was moved with compassion
and then he taught.
He was moved with compassion and then he healed.
Okay, what was happening?
God was speaking to him through his feelings,
through his internal sensors,
and he understood and recognized
that God wanted to do something through that, okay?
And then our final kind of main point here
is that Jesus was a perceiver.
Luke 5, 22, it says,
but when Jesus perceived their thoughts,
he said unto them, why are you thinking in your hearts?
That word perceive in the Greek word
is the word eponigoscope,
and it means to know thoroughly or to know accurately.
So to perceive, you could also say,
it's like, you know it in your knower.
It's like, you know that you know that you know,
but you don't know why, but you just know.
Does that happen to anybody?
It's like, you know information,
you know revelation,
and it's not because you saw it,
you heard it, you felt it, you just know it.
And that's really more rooted in your heart
or in that conviction of your will.
So I'm gonna activate you guys today in external scene.
We actually have three dimensions.
I'm just gonna touch on this real quickly.
Within the four primary receptors,
we've clarified for the sake of distinguishing
three dimensions within each of these receptors.
The first would be external,
the second is internal,
and then the third dimension is mystical.
And as Dano said earlier today,
let's not get hooked up on the word mystical.
It really does come from that Greek word mysterion,
which has to do with just the unveiling,
the revealing of mysteries.
So let me give you an example
of what that three dimensions would look like
in the way you're hardwired to see God.
So external creation, okay?
So external scene would be
where you're physically seeing God speak
through the natural created realm around you, right?
So you're looking at a tree, a sky,
you're looking in this room.
God is speaking to you spiritually
through what you're seeing physically, all right?
That's the external dimension.
Internal scene is the realm of imaginations,
dreams, vision.
So it's that realm where if you were to close your eyes
or just in your mind's eyes,
you're seeing pictures, you're having dreams.
It's that realm of the inner realm, okay?
That's internal scene.
Mystical scene, the way that we would define that
would be where you're physically seeing the spirit realm
with your physical eyes.
So it'd be where the spirit realm of angels,
you're seeing the angelic activity or things,
you're seeing that in the mystical,
that'd be mystical scene.
It's where the spirit realm is overlaid
on the natural realm, but you're seeing it,
not in your mind's eye, not an internal scene,
but through the mystical scene.
Does that make sense a little bit?
So you can apply all three of these dimensions
to every single primary receptor.
And I just wanna tell you guys something really quick.
Every single one is equally spiritual, okay?
You seeing God speak through a tree.
is as spiritual and profound and can be
as you've seen God speak through an angel
or something where he comes to you, okay?
From the heavenly spirit realm, okay?
This is not a hierarchy where you start
with the external realm and you move your way up
to the mystical realm.
We know a lot of people are honestly,
they're just like, I'm not a seer because I don't see God.
I don't see angels like that.
No, stop calling your little something,
like it's not a little something.
This is how you're made.
We want to be obedient with the ways that God speaks to us.
So now I'm gonna go into activation.
I just need to give you guys a little bit of context.
So let's talk about seeing, you guys.
Okay, two prophetic questions throughout the Bible
we see is this.
God actually trained many of his prophets this way
and he would say to them, son of man,
what do you see and what does it mean?
What do you see and what does it mean?
In fact, he would train like Amos and Zechariah
and Jeremiah.
You know, he would come up to Jeremiah,
oh, son of man, what do you see?
And Jeremiah, this is my interpretation.
He's probably just sitting in his like rocking chair
in the front yard and he's just looking around his yard
and the almond tree catches his eye.
So he says, I see the rod of an almond branch.
And the Lord says, oh, you have seen correctly
for I'm watching over my word to perform it.
Okay, what was happening?
Jeremiah literally saw something in creation,
caught his eye and then the Lord brought the revelation.
He brought the interpretation of what it was
that he was revealing.
I love this passage in Romans 1 20
and we've referenced it earlier,
but it says since the creation of the world,
God's invisible qualities, right?
His eternal power and divine nature, what?
Have been clearly seen through what has been made
so that man is without excuse.
What is that saying?
That is saying that God's DNA
is in every single thing created.
Everything you can see, God's DNA is in it.
And for those who look to see,
they will recognize that God can speak through that.
And then we see later on,
there's this other principle of Exodus 3, 3 with Moses, right?
So Moses is going about his day.
He's been a shepherd for 40 years.
He's doing his same thing every day.
It's like you getting in your car, driving to work.
You've been doing this for a long time,
but all of a sudden this day, something was different.
He saw what?
A burning bush off to the side.
Okay, something caught his eye.
Something that he saw caught his eye.
Now here's the key.
In Exodus 3, 3, it says Moses turned aside
to look to see what this great sight was.
And then the Bible goes on to explain
that when the Lord saw that Moses turned aside,
then he called to him.
Okay, this is what I want you guys to catch.
I believe that there are proverbial,
I believe there's burning bushes
all around us all the time.
And the Lord is looking for those who would turn aside
to look to see what God is gonna speak.
He is trying to catch your attention.
So what does this look like practically?
Okay, how does God do this?
Well, the first example would be like, what do you see?
What catches your eye?
Have you guys ever walked up to a person
and like something they're wearing
just caught your eye immediately, right?
Okay, well, it could be that God is speaking to you
through that thing.
So the first thing you would do is pay attention
to the thing that catches your eye
and then you look to see it, right?
It's a difference between passively seen
and actively looking, okay?
You're looking to see, and then you would say,
Holy Spirit, what is it you're saying
through that thing that I'm seeing?
So we were in England a few years ago
and we were part of a team.
Did I hear a few woos?
Yeah, England.
You wanna hear my English accent?
No, I'm not gonna do it.
My daughters are so good at the English accent
and every time I do it, they're like,
Mom, you sound like Mary Poppins.
Like, just stop.
Like, you're not cool.
Anyways, I won't do it for your sakes
because I don't wanna dishonor
the amazing nation of England.
So anyways, we were in England
and we were like ministering to a group
and there were some leaders there.
And there was this couple that was standing up.
They were an African couple.
He had like a royal blue shirt on
and she had a purple dress.
Now, it wasn't like regalia or anything like that.
It was just normal, everyday, modern Western clothes.
So as, I think it was Dana who was actually
prophesying over them at the time,
I was looking at them.
What caught my eye was the colors of the shirts
that they were wearing and the purple.
Like, it made me think of royalty.
Now, those colors mean royalty to me.
So I felt.
I felt like the Lord was speaking royalty.
Now, the funny thing was is like,
I started arguing with the Lord about this,
because I'm like, God, everybody's royalty.
Like, give me a really good word.
That's such a generic word.
Like, oh, you're royalty.
Like, we're all royalty.
Like, give me something really good, right?
And like, I just kept hearing royalty.
So finally, I just stood up and said,
you know, I feel like the Lord is saying
that you guys are royalty
and that you're called to walk with kings and queens.
And I even told them, I said,
you know, I know we're all royalty,
but you really are royalty.
Like, I was really trying to emphasize this point, right?
I was trying to make it a less generic word.
And afterwards, when the meeting was over,
the gentleman came up and he said,
does she know who I am?
And we're like, of course not.
He's like, I am an ambassador to an African king.
And he was used to walking on the arm with the king.
And there had recently been a coup in their nation.
And they had been exiled from that position
and been asking the Lord,
will I ever walk with kings and queens again?
Will I ever walk in that arm?
And so the Lord really affirmed that word for them.
And then he said this, he's like,
does she know who my wife is?
And we're like, no, he's like,
my wife is the daughter of the king.
She literally is the princess of that nation.
So she really was royalty.
Okay.
I think it's a cool word, but this is the thing, you guys.
That amazing word was because I saw the color purple.
It was royal blue.
It was something caught my eye.
And then I just asked the Holy Spirit,
what do you want to say through that?
Okay.
And that's what we're going to do right now.
All right.
So what we're going to do in just a minute
is we're going to practice our ability to hear God speak
through the external scene realm.
So I'm going to ask you guys in a minute to stand up,
to get a partner.
Hopefully it's somebody close by to you.
Cause you know, it's going to take a minute
to walk across the room.
We'd love to do a couple activations.
So stand up, but try to find somebody you don't know.
Cause that's fun too.
When, okay, wait, wait, don't go yet.
Woo hoo, sit down, sit down.
So eager.
This is great.
Okay.
What you're going to do is when you guys partner up
with somebody, you're going to wait until I tell you
to start.
Cause there's a couple other things I need to let you know.
As you meet them, I want you to scan them up and down.
Not in a creeper sort of way, but like in a,
but like a what's catching my eye kind of a way.
And look to see.
Now it could be anything.
It could be the color of their clothing.
It could be the logo they have.
It could be their glasses.
It could be their hair.
It could be the jewelry they're wearing, the shoes,
the watch.
It could be anything.
This is the key.
The first step, look to see what catches your eye.
All right.
And then ask Holy Spirit.
Cause you're not going to know what it means
right off the bat.
Then you're going to ask Holy Spirit, Lord,
what does that mean?
Okay.
Now here's the protocols.
We're going to give you a couple rules of the game
for our time together.
Okay.
You're going to be encouraging.
Every word you give today is going to be encouraging,
strengthening, or comforting.
Okay.
And we like to say it like this.
If you're not sure if the word you're going to give
is encouraging, strengthening, or comforting,
you're going to take your hand.
You're going to put it on your head
and you're going to give yourself the word.
And if you don't like it,
then you're not going to give it to anyone else.
All right.
Cause this is about the law of love.
Okay.
We're going to love our neighbor as ourselves.
So this is one of the ways that we're going to do that.
So that's our first rule.
Okay.
Encouraging, strengthening, or comforting.
Secondly, there will be time limits.
Okay.
We're going to ask that you have 90 seconds to prophesy.
Okay.
We've been talking for the last two days
about stirring up your gift, fanning into flame.
So when I say begin, okay,
I don't want you guys to start prophesying
when you find your partner.
I want you to wait.
Just look at them, ask Holy Spirit.
And then I'm going to say go.
The first person is go for 90 seconds.
You're going to share your impression.
And then I'm going to say, okay,
it's time for your partner,
your partner's turn now to switch.
And then they're going to prophesy.
Okay.
You guys got this?
Is everyone feeling okay?
I can feel a little bit.
Okay.
Let me just release the grace in this room.
Cause I know there's a lot of people.
This is very new.
Father, I thank you that you poured out your spirit on,
what?
All flesh.
Who qualifies?
We qualify.
So Father, I thank you Lord.
I just release again,
just a greater measure of faith in this room
for the grace and the gift
that's already residing within them in Jesus name.
Okay.
So find a partner,
but don't start until I tell you to.
Okay.
You are?
All right.
Now, if you still need a partner,
raise your hands.
Okay.
Now walk around the room.
Look for somebody else who has their hands up.
Raise your hands if you need a partner.
You do have to walk around the room.
Hey, mom.
You can sit.
Partner.
Yeah?
Do you want a partner?
Are you doing it?
No.
How about this lady right there?
Ma'am?
Yeah, right here.
This is my mom.
All right, who else needs a partner?
Raise your hands.
Who else needs a partner?
Okay, you guys can go with each other if you want.
It's okay if you know each other.
There's another lady right here.
All right, shh.
Who else needs a partner?
I just want to make sure.
There's a couple people.
Look behind you.
There's a lady behind you.
That's Paula.
There's a gentleman on the far, far wall.
Raise your hand.
Nice and tall.
Okay.
Okay, if somebody has their hand up
and they're around a team of two, just join them.
You guys will have 60 seconds, okay?
You guys are gonna do a round robin.
All right, because we just, it's a big room.
All right.
Everybody, look at your partner.
Look to see what's catching your eye.
Asking Holy Spirit.
All right, we're gonna go.
You're gonna have 90 seconds each.
Ready?
Begin.
Okay, wait, I want to write it.
I want to write it.
Okay.
I want you to push your computer.
All right?
You have the globe on it and the rainbow.
So, he thinks promises of God around the world
and God's promise to the nations.
So, I feel that.
But, also, the rainbow, I really feel like
we're exploring something where I can read
what God is saying to us.
Where I can see what's wrong with me and my family.
But we're actually gonna do it in such a way
that it's gonna bring something back.
And then, your shoes, I see the grid on.
And, I thought there's actually gonna be
a great partnership with technology
in all the things you're delivering.
And there's gonna be a new delivery system
that actually increases your ability to connect
even broader than you are right now.
They know you're already part of the technology
and there's more kind of technology things
that I think God's gonna download.
All right, the first person should be done.
Now, it's your partner's turn.
It's your partner's turn.
Prophesying, what do you see?
Oh, my mom.
It's your partner's turn.
Wow.
I wonder if I should have them stay the same.
And, you know what I'm speaking on, right?
I'm carrying a message that I believe prophetic identity
is the solution to what's happening with gender confusion
and all that stuff.
That's my prophetic identity.
Uh-huh, you don't know that one.
That's awesome.
Hey, time's up, you guys.
Time's up, you guys.
Time's up, time's up, time's up, time's up, time's up.
Time's up, time's up, time's up, time's up, time's up, time's up.
You guys, it's like burning.
Yes, yeah, yeah, transformation address.
Yeah, all right, time's up.
Shh, all right, don't go anywhere, just stay where you are.
All right, I just wanna check in really quick.
There's still some anointed people,
but they are out of order, shh.
Okay, how many of you guys would say
that the word you received was encouraging, strengthening?
And you're not just raising your hand
because your partner's looking to see
if they're raising their hands right now.
Okay, okay, this is what I really want you to do.
We only have six minutes left.
So what I want you to do,
I think I'm gonna have you stay with the same partner
in this activation.
We're gonna put a little weight on the bar, okay?
What I want you to do this time
is instead of looking what's on their person,
I want you to look around the room
and see what catches your eye,
asking Holy Spirit what is He speaking through it
and prophesy an encouraging word.
So it could be anything from the lights,
the screen, the texture on the ceilings.
I mean, there's times I see the exit season,
I'd be like, I feel like the Lord's transferring you
from a former things season into a new seasons
and you're in a transition of season.
And so again, the key here, guys,
is you're not looking for what would prophesy the easiest.
You're looking to see what catches your eye
and then asking Holy Spirit, what does this mean?
What is it you wanna encourage them with through this thing?
So right now, just take like maybe 20 seconds,
look around the room, look to see,
because I want you guys to understand
that God speaks through the external realm, okay?
You guys all got something?
All right.
Also for those online, what you guys can do,
I'm gonna look at you guys, those that are online,
I want you to look around your room right now.
So wherever you're sitting, look around your room.
It might be the clock on the wall, maybe you have a picture,
maybe you've got bedding or a certain color,
look to see what catches your eye.
And then when you go into your breakout room,
you're gonna prophesy from that thing that's in your room
to your partner in just a minute, okay?
Breakout rooms, you guys can go ahead
and go into your breakout rooms online.
All right, you guys ready?
Again, you're gonna have 90 seconds
to prophesy an encouraging word.
You're ready?
Begin.
Yeah, just give me a moment.
Give me breath.
Yep.
Yeah.
All right.
Okay.
Yey.
Yeah.
All right, time's up.
Time's up, you guys.
Hey, can we just thank the Lord?
Can we just thank the Lord for what he just did?
All right, you can make your way back to your seats.
All right.
Lots of hugs.
Hey, for those of you on the chat,
we'd love to hear some feedback.
Go ahead and put in the chat some words
that resonated with you, that spoke to you.
We'd love to start celebrating what God said to you.
All right, let's make our way back to your seats.
The tricky thing,
the tricky thing with fanning in the flame sometimes
is turning it off, right?
Once you start getting into the flow, it's so great.
But again, the spirit of the prophet
is subject to the prophet.
So we wanna also train our gifts to stop
because they're there to serve us.
Now, how many of you guys have never prophesied
using that method before?
Just wanna see.
All right, come on, you guys.
So know what's beautiful about that?
Is then you suddenly, you're seeing God speak to you
everywhere you go.
You know, it's not like everything has to be,
he spoke to me through the sun and this.
I mean, he can, but it's,
this is the principle I want you guys to catch,
is that you look to see what God is speaking.
When something catches your eye,
you look to see, you focus on that,
and then you ask, you expect him to be speaking
to you through that, and you stir up yourself,
asking him what it means, giving that away in love.
Hey, we are about ready to shift now our teachings.
We're gonna be moving from some of our foundations
and teachings to our prophetic reformer messages.
And what better way to kick it off
with the prophetic reformer himself, Dan McCollum.
Can you guys welcome Dan on?
Thank you guys.
Love you too.
Thank you, Lord.
If you still have your blue book with you,
why don't you pull that one out?
And I just want to recap what we've been through so far.
If we're gonna build something,
we have to have foundations.
And when we talk about prophetic reform,
the first thing we need is to make sure
the foundation's good.
And that's why this book is so important.
It has really been used as a foundational tool
for prophecy all around the world.
And if you've heard this stuff a lot of times before,
then don't listen like a student, listen like a teacher.
Okay?
Because we don't want you just building with it
in your life, we want you to be able to build culture
with these things, culture with these principles.
So I wanna recap where we've been
before we move on to where we're going, okay?
So I just wanna moderate this transition a little bit
that is beginning this session.
And so the first day, the first session,
I'm not counting the night session,
but in the first morning session,
Haley did chapters one and chapters two of this book.
And again, that went through the purpose
of prophetic ministry.
And it went through the difference
between prophets and prophecy.
So again, if you're looking for the answer to that question,
what is the difference between prophets and prophecy?
That is chapter two in this manual.
And so that's a place you can kind of go back to,
get the scriptures, get the notes.
And I wanna encourage you,
I've been to at least 16 or 17 school of prophets
and I've heard this material that many times
and I learned something new every time.
So please know that when God is doing a new thing
or when he's releasing a new song, so to speak,
the word for new in the Hebrew there is the word kadesh,
which means rebuilt or restored.
And oftentimes the new thing
is actually a new perspective on a timeless truth.
Clearly a new truth, it's a new perspective
on a timeless truth.
Because often if it's absolutely new,
it's probably not true.
So all that to say, go over this, and then over this,
and then over this, and then over this.
These are tools for building
a healthy prophetic foundation.
Know what our purpose is.
You're gonna hear different opinions
on the purpose of prophecy.
And you know what, that's okay.
I'm not here to debate their opinions
on the purpose of prophecy.
We're here to establish what our focus is.
And from our apostolic partnership,
our main apostolic mandate
is how much of heaven can we bring to earth, okay?
That is this tribe, Bethel School of the Prophets,
this is a primary mandate,
is how much of heaven can we bring to earth
through the new creation,
through our divine union with Christ,
through the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on all flesh.
And so our purpose of prophecy
comes from our apostolic mandate
or our apostolic mission or vision.
Sometimes people are gonna have a different purpose
for prophecy because they have a different mandate
or they're building on a different apostolic viewpoint,
mission, or assignment.
So we're not challenging them, we're not debating them,
but we are saying that those who wanna run
with the prophetic reformer tribe
that we are building at Bethel School of the Prophets,
this is our foundation.
This is how we view the purpose of prophecy for our tribe.
Amen.
Okay?
And so then again, so chapters one and two,
Haley did such a great job with that.
Chapters three and four then,
Ben shared with us listening to hear
and the voice of God and the language of God.
I'll never forget a few years ago,
Ben said that he believed that dream interpretation
and dreams actually,
that dreams were a form of speaking in tongues
because they were a language of God.
It changed my life.
I'm like, I speak in tongues all the time
and I'm a huge proponent of it
because John G. Lake said
that it was that strange communication
where he got his divine revelation.
And so I use it as a communion tool,
but I actually use it as a revelation generator as well.
And so when he said that about dreams,
I'm like, oh my goodness, I've never heard that before.
That changed my life.
And I do view dreams as one of the languages of God
as a oftentimes unknown tongue to people
because we don't recognize that God is speaking in that way.
So you can review the different ways that God speaks
in chapter three and chapter four and the language of God.
And then we had Bethany share from chapters five and six
on judging and receiving prophetic words.
Now, remember that if you're building a prophetic community,
you've got to build with accountability.
You've got to build with accountability.
Every prophetic movement that has gone wrong
has been a lack of accountability.
Every prophetic movement that has gone wrong.
I'm gonna say it again.
We are part of the greatest prophetic revival
ever on the planet.
And I can, yeah, no, I'm not trying to rah-rah you,
but thank you for your encouragement.
No, I'm actually saying this as a fact
because there are more people prophesying
than any time in history right now.
Who's gonna lead them?
And that's the wine, it's not the wineskin.
And the wineskin is, part of the wineskin
is how are we gonna keep prophetic exchanges
healthy and safe?
And this is where protocols come in.
This is where judging prophecy comes in.
This is where being teachable comes in.
This is where being accountable comes in.
We're not just here, as Bethany said,
to build prophetic entities.
We're here to build prophetic communities.
And communities have to have boundaries and accountability
for there to be continued health.
And so these chapters are hugely important.
Again, chapter five and chapter six
for the health of a prophetic community.
And then Chris Vallotton shared on chapter seven
and chapter eight, prophetic etiquette and false prophets.
If false prophet isn't an issue for you,
I guarantee it will be for somebody that you encounter.
Okay, so it's good to arm yourself with this
to be ready of what do we believe makes a true
and a false prophet, why?
Because unfortunately, many people have not made
the Old Testament transition to the New Testament,
and so they're still trying to judge a prophet
by virtue of accuracy.
But the New Testament standard of prophecy
is not accuracy, it's affection.
He said, if you can speak with the tongues of angels,
if you can fathom mysteries, if you can,
you know, basically, if you can prophesize
somebody's face off, but you don't have love,
it doesn't mean anything.
And you've got to make that exchange.
You've got to be able to cross over,
or you won't take the risk.
And you might say, well, I've never had a wrong prophecy,
you know, like Chris shared.
Well, then you probably haven't taken enough risks.
You're probably just staying so much within the safety
and the comfort of what you already know
that you're not actually expanding the measure
of your faith.
I know the Lord came to Graham Cook,
who was our senior prophet for 10 years,
and he said, Graham, I wish you had made more mistakes.
And he was shocked by that.
Now, he knew that he didn't mean moral mistakes
or something like that, so come on.
But he's saying, you're not taking enough risks,
you're not taking enough chances.
And he's like, well, Lord, I can make as many mistakes
as you want, you know.
That invitation to take greater risks.
And I think Chris shared that metaphor again
about getting out of the boat and walking on the water.
Like, let's not focus on those who sink,
let's focus on those who get out of the boat.
And then finally, chapter nine, the practice of prophecy.
Lindsay covered that this morning.
Didn't Lindsay kill it?
I thought that was so good.
And so refreshing to hear her perspective
from her Metron of Hollywood and influencers
and coming from that place, I thought it was beautiful.
So use this as a tool for building yourself,
for building your foundation.
Use this as a tool for building prophetic communities.
And the gray book that you received as well,
Basic Activations in, or Basic Training
in Prophetic Activations, I wrote that companion manual
with Chris's permission.
And what I really recommend is if you're teaching this
to a small group, to a Bible study,
to a prophetic community, use one chapter of this,
of the teaching, and then one chapter of the gray book,
the Prophetic Activation Manual, where you're activating it.
And then the second chapter and the second chapter.
And just start using them as a parallel tool together
of learning the theology of the foundations
and also doing it and putting it into practice, okay?
So we're very intentional in the tools
that we're giving you and sending you home with.
And I love that right from the beginning,
Chris established that we would sow into you guys
a bunch of resources so that as you left,
you had discipleship tools built into you
for building a healthy prophetic community.
So that's an exciting thing.
Now along with that, if you wanna learn more
about the languages of God and the ways that God speaks,
Bethany's book that we gave you, The God Connection,
goes over 12 receptors, 12 ways that we can recognize
and respond to the voice of God.
And it really covers it very, very well.
And then I think we gave you the book,
Love and Prophecy as well,
which is if you've had people
that have been offended by prophecy
or victims of the wrong use of prophecy,
or even people that are skeptical
about the use of the prophetic,
that is a great tool to make them feel safe, honestly.
If they know that you are going to be
speaking the truth in love,
that you are gonna be sharing prophetic words
from a love protocol,
that is a great way to establish health
and life and trust within your prophetic community.
So again, these are the tools
that we've sewn into you guys this year.
And I wanna encourage you to really.
Don't allow them to just be in your conference pile if you're gonna be a prophetic reformer if you're gonna build something
Make sure you build you first and then as you're building other people
I highly recommend that you use these tools that that we've given you. All right, so
That was our basic foundation now, we're gonna start building
Okay, and as we're building we're gonna we're gonna free flow a little bit
We're gonna go with
different aspects of prophetic reform that each one is carrying and different revelations that
people have and I want to go back to this subject of the difference of
prophetic protesters and prophetic reformers
And I want to say that there are there is value for each one of those
there are times when the focus is a
Protest against the injustice. Okay against the injustice
But again, I believe our tribe and what we're building now is the heart of the prophetic reformer
so let's just talk a little bit about the difference in
again broad strokes, but simple concepts and that is a
Protester is often the one who stands outside the fence
Kind of yelling what's wrong
Okay, speaking to what the problems are and what is wrong and they often are
Kind of throwing stones. All right
Their signs are picket signs
okay, and
Again, there is a time to make a statement against injustice
Against evil against sin all those kind of things
There are times when the darkness needs to be challenged in that kind of way
And so don't hear what I'm not saying. I'm not saying we have no value for that function
I'm saying what we believe the season right now is calling for and what we believe the spirit of
reconciliation and redemption is calling for is
to be
Revolutionaries and the difference between a protester and a reformer is this a protester stands outside the gate
focusing on what's wrong the reformer gets inside the system and
They find out I want you to get this
they find out what's good about the now and what's better about the future and
They take us from one to the other
All right
It's important that you're hearing what I'm saying they find out what's good about the now
Prophets tend to see ahead of where we're actually at
It's something in past years I've shared a message called
Anachronistic living and and I want to share a little bit of that concept right now
I'm not gonna teach it, but I want to share a little bit of the concept it is this that from Habakkuk chapter 2 and
verses 2 & 3 it says
write down the revelation and make it plain upon tablets so that runners can run with it and
there's something about refining your vision so that it can be a
Systemic solution and and we'll talk maybe a little bit more about that later
What do I mean? It's things that whole groups of people can run with
Okay, we're working on this with finders right now
Kay Nagel's in the second row right here Kay. Would you just stand up and wave at people?
Kay has been the pioneer of finders after we
Started this experiment in our local prophetic ministry of could we find missing children?
Could we find lost things? Could we help in situations?
Well, what happened is as we did R&D in that research and development
we began to create structures out of it that other people could run with and
Kay is the person who has done more to advance those structures those ideas
Than anybody on our team and deserves the honor for that
You know in America
Lewis and Clark are often the explorers who are credited with the
Discovery or the exploration of the Pacific Northwest, but they were far from the first ones to explore
or they were just the first ones to write it down.
And often the influence of reformation
doesn't go to the person who discovers it,
it goes to the person who refines it and writes it down
and makes it plain so others can run with it.
And guys, one of the things I'll say to you
as you're reforming a system, as you're pioneering an area,
make sure you mark the trail.
Make sure you mark the trail
so that people can follow you,
so that people can walk the same steps.
So that's verse two.
But we're talking about the anachronistic side
and what is anachronistic?
The definition of it,
you can hear the word chronos in there,
which refers to time,
but it speaks to something out of its proper time.
Okay, something out of its proper time.
The prophetic is often an anachronistic revelation
and this is verse three of that Habakkuk 2 passage.
It says, for the vision awaits an appointed time.
The vision awaits an appointed time.
It says, though it linger, wait for it.
Though it tarry, it will not delay.
Okay, this is that weird paradox,
prophetic kind of language right here.
It's like, you know, it's gonna come soon.
So wait for it.
And here's the challenge.
Oftentimes as prophetic people,
when we see something, when we hear something,
when we feel something, we perceive it,
the impression is so strong that it feels like now.
And we get so centered on how exciting that thing is
that when we measure it against current reality,
we're constantly frustrated.
And when we begin to share the vision,
it sounds like nobody gets it.
Well, why don't they get it?
Because they don't see it
and also because it actually isn't time yet.
Most prophetic, big words, big structures
will come at least two to five years ahead
of where everything else is at.
And this is why I say world change is a long distance run.
It's not a sprint.
Like you've gotta be committed to the long distance run.
Let's go back to Chris's incredible story
on the first night where he has this bear come and hug him.
And he understands that there's going to be something,
a connection with California that is very positive.
And then he perceives that it has to do
with the immigration crisis.
And then what does he do?
He sends a team down there.
Well, first of all,
you gotta have the team to send down there.
That was a 10-year process right there.
And then on the first try, nothing happened.
And they came back.
And then 10 years before that,
a pastor has a vision to build a 1,500-seat auditorium.
And he puts his time and his money into building that
and has a vision that one day there's gonna be a white guy
that's gonna come help them.
And so all these stories of these immigrants
that are getting the food and the housing
and the help and administration and paperwork
that they need as the fulfillment of that prophetic word
has a 10 to 15-year backstory of connections,
of building something.
That vision awaited at a point in time.
But he wasn't without activity in that time.
They were doing things and building things
for a future breakthrough.
And guys, we've gotta be a little more committed
to the process, not just the promise.
I feel like prophets are coming in
and throwing these prophetic grenades
and then running out of the situation
and then getting frustrated because society doesn't change.
It's like society doesn't change
when you're not committed to local transformation.
If you're not willing to get inside the system
and find out what's good about now,
you will have little hope of transforming that system.
You can stand outside the gate and yell what's wrong,
but you're not gonna be invited into the structure
if you have no honor for the structure.
And I can't tell you how many prophets I've met
that are so frustrated with their church
that they don't go to their church
because they see a vision of how.
church could be better. And when they've tried to share it with leadership, they have felt unheard.
I'm telling you that until you can see what's good about now,
they will never be able to see what's good about the future.
They can't see what you see until you can see what they see.
And you've got to take your prophetic focus of the future, and you've got to pull that same
prophetic grace into real time. You've got to pull it into the now and find out what is good here,
what is good now, because there is always something good that God is doing.
He's always working, even if it's behind the scenes. But that's why you have prophetic vision.
That's why you have prophetic ears. That's why you have prophetic receptors,
so that you can see through the fog of what looks kind of chaotic and hopeless,
and you can see the good thing that God is doing in the midst of it.
So many prophets have become protesters because they've never learned the power of real-time
vision. Their future vision works great, but their real-time vision doesn't work
because they've never applied that grace, and they get more committed to a future that may never be.
You realize that many prophetic words are words of potential,
and that potential is activated by process. And I want to see a company of prophetic reformers
that are as committed to the process as they are to their prophetic declaration.
Well, I did my part. I declared it.
That sounds like a guy who came in and had sex and wouldn't take responsibility for the baby,
who wouldn't marry the mother, who comes in and releases his thing and then abandons the situation.
Can we be done with that?
No, I'm serious. What if this many people gathered right now made a commitment to build on these
values? What if this many prophetic people and prophets that are in this room and online and
in our school in Brazil here, our partnership with Brazil, what if we said, I'm going to build
on these foundations, and I'm going to commit to be a prophetic reformer, and I'm going to be as
involved in the process as I am in the promise. And I will not just declare a future and take no
responsibility for its coming to birth.
I'm so not here to hype you up.
I'm so not here to froth you into an excitement about something that's not real.
I really believe we can do this.
I really believe we're meant to do this. I really believe that the reason God's poured out his
spirit on all flesh for such a time as this, do you realize that this is a fulfillment of God's
dream that he's had for thousands of years, that for thousands of years, he just dreamed of a
generation where everybody could hear his voice, where everybody could know his heart and have
access to their thoughts. And they were committed to a process of releasing those treasures in the
earth and manifesting them as sons and daughters. And I want to say it again, world changer is a
long distance run, and we've got to be as committed to the process as we are to the promise. And so
what do we do? Well, let's take some practical steps here. First of all, one of the things you
can do is adopt a local problem. All right. One of the things that a reformer can do
is adopt a local problem. Do you remember last
I said that sometimes there are clouds of favor,
authority, influence that hang over someone's head
and they're awaiting a declaration of responsibility.
They descend when somebody takes responsibility.
Who will go for me?
Who will I send?
And so first of all, it can often be about owning a problem
or owning a challenge or owning something that is wrong.
But then how we come into that problem is very important.
You can't come in arrogantly like you know everything.
Even if you have a great solution,
you can't come in like you're the only one
who has a solution or that you're the only one
who has a piece to this puzzle.
Chances are when you get into this problem,
you'll find out that there are people
that have been on it quite longer than you.
And maybe they just need some partnership
of what you're seeing in the future.
But again, that could be a team that you could mobilize
or that could be a team that you ostracize and offend
depending on how you manage that situation.
Come in low, come in low, learn how to come in low.
Again, prophetic vision,
especially when it's a solution to a problem,
has a euphoria attached to it.
It does, it has an ecstasy attached to it.
It supercharges us with divine adrenaline
and it can be very, very exciting.
And when you speak out of that place,
that often isn't received in the moment.
I'm not saying that you don't speak with vision,
but I'm saying you also speak with protocol.
This is not a popular word,
but it is really, really important, okay?
For every sphere of influence,
there are protocols that need to be followed.
And the protocols are made up of three things.
They're made up of the language,
they're made up of the people,
they're made up of the procedure,
and they're made up of the purpose for that gathering.
When you violate the protocol,
you often can have a singular impact
upon that group, positive or negative,
but you will rarely have a systemic impact.
In other words, when you violate the protocol,
they might receive this one-off thing,
but they're probably not gonna walk with you.
You're probably not gonna get a call back.
You're probably not gonna get invited into the system
because there is an understanding
that you don't understand how their thing works.
And so one of the things you can do as a reformer
is learn the language of the sphere that you're called to.
There's a different language
for being a prophet to families or children
than there is to executives and millionaires.
There's an entirely different language.
So you prophesy not with heaven's language,
you prophesy with their language.
Listen, the outpouring of the Holy Spirit
on all flesh that started on the day of Pentecost
was heavenly languages in the tongues
of every tribe and nation.
In other words, we were making the things of heaven known
in the language of man.
And oftentimes you come in speaking prophet,
and oftentimes you come in speaking church prophet,
and you use words that they have no idea what they mean,
and sometimes language and styles
that don't have the same meaning to them
or the same impact to them.
And again, if you do it that way,
you can often have a single impact,
but you'll rarely have an ongoing systemic impact
where you'll be invited into the process itself.
So learn the language of the people you're talking to
and take the time to actually speak the way
that they can hear.
Jesus could have come speaking about black holes
and quantum physics and the genius of the cosmos
because that's who he was.
But he came to fishermen and he talked about fish.
And he came to farmers and he talked about seeds.
And he came to parents and he talked about lost sons.
And he spoke in the simple language of the world.
of the person that he was serving in the moment,
and he was sharing the profound things of God
in a package that was customized to their language.
The prophetic has to be customized,
not compromised, but it has to be customized.
Ephesians 4 says,
let no corrupt communication come out of your mouth,
but only that which is helpful,
which benefits the one who is listening.
In other words,
you are to customize your prophetic language
to your listener,
and you're to speak about things they actually care about.
So when you talk to a businessman
that doesn't know Christianese about their anointing,
it doesn't land,
because they don't know what anointing is.
So what's a better way to say that?
Learn their language.
Learn their language so that you can cross over
and have a greater impact.
All right, are you guys okay?
Yeah.
All right.
Secondly, learn their procedure.
How does prophetic input function in this environment?
Nathan used different prophetic procedure
when he was approaching the king.
Now, again, this is Old Testament,
so it was about sin, it was about Bathsheba,
but he's like, hey, king, let me tell you a story.
There was a guy who had a whole bunch of sheep,
and there was another guy that had one sheep,
and the guy with lots of sheep stole the guy,
who only had one sheep,
and David gets outraged.
That man deserves to die.
And he's like, that guy's you.
What was he doing?
Was he kind of soft-soaping his way in?
No, he was following protocol
of how you prophesy to a king.
He was using a method of self-discovery.
He was using a story to touch his justice button
to help reveal the injustice
that he was flowing in at the time.
There was a protocol to it that was different
than the prophet who bursts open the door,
runs in, shares a word,
and then gets out before he gets killed.
You know what I'm saying?
And that's why Nathan served in the house of the king
as a prophet, because he had the proper procedure
for that environment.
And the final thing is the purpose.
These are the three things that make up protocol
is language, procedure, and purpose.
And what is the purpose for the gathering that we are in?
Because if you bring prophetic content
that's outside of the purpose for which we gathered,
it won't be appreciated.
So you have to be mindful of the purpose
of a particular gathering as well.
And you're like, well, Dana, I don't do all those things,
and I seem to have impact.
Yeah, you can, but you're probably not going
to be a reformer.
You're probably not gonna be a reformer.
You're probably not gonna bring lasting change
to a problem, to a structure.
You're probably not gonna bring lasting transformation
if you're not willing to invest in the development
of the protocol of your particular sphere.
Ha ha.
So I mean, one of the things we've been doing with Finders
is I've been meeting with police officers,
and I've been meeting with investigators,
and I've been meeting with people who work with FBI,
and I've been meeting with people,
and I'm like, teach me, teach me, how does this work?
How do we say these kind of things?
How do we deal with these kind of circumstances?
The very first week that we did our first Finders event,
we just got a bunch of posters, and we prayed over those,
and God gave us insight into one out of these 10
missing children, and that child was found within two days.
And then, yeah, and then a police officer in our city
heard about it, who was related to our senior leadership,
so we had a connection already, and he came in,
and he said, hey, I heard about what happened
in the prophetic training, and he goes,
I have two missing children right now,
and one of them will die if they're not found
within the next 24 hours, because they needed medication.
And so we sat down with the team there,
one of which was.
was one of the senior leaders,
Deborah Crone from The Mission,
and she began to share some clues about,
oh, I see a greenhouse,
I see a street that begins with the letter J,
and I see friends of the family.
And so the policeman went back and said,
hey, do you guys have friends that live in a greenhouse
on a street that begins with the letter J?
And they were like, yeah, Jefferson Street,
this family, and they went to that house
and they found that their child
was being held in that place.
And we gave clues in that moment
where both those children were found within 24 hours.
And so he comes back to me and he says,
hey, maybe we could do this more often, you know?
And I'm like, yeah, we can, teach me.
Like, teach me, I wanna know what you need to know.
And some of the things he said, he goes,
well, first of all,
we don't wanna know how you get your information.
Like, don't include that at all.
Like, don't start with, we had a dream,
or we went into a trance, we had a vision,
we had, you know, like, don't start with that,
or they're not gonna listen to what you're talking about.
He said, don't start with that.
And then he goes, we don't care,
we don't care, like, impressions about the person.
Like, oh, I don't really think they're a bad person,
they just got caught up in a, it's like, we don't care.
Give us a name, give us an address, give us a location.
And this is where we got the term for this area
called actionable data.
All we want is actionable data.
And you know what we found?
We had to develop a procedure
for prophetically mining actionable data.
Because we weren't used to prophesying in that way,
we were used to prophesying encouragement words
over people which are incredibly powerful,
but we, they don't necessarily,
we weren't structuring our faith
around getting certain details.
So now we begin to prophesy person, place, or thing,
and then trying to measure our success
in person, place, or thing.
And that was a procedure that was helpful
to that sphere of influence.
You don't apply that to every sphere of influence,
but it applies specifically to that one.
So we've gotta learn their procedures,
but we've also gotta revamp our training
to produce the kind of outcome
that these people are looking for.
Are you following what I'm saying?
And so these kind of things,
now people have launched finders groups all over the world,
and they're using these structures
because we're writing it down and making it plain
so that other runners can run with it.
And we're not just like having a little breakthrough
here and here in our little group,
but it's becoming a system of transformation
where people are developing partnerships
with prophetic people and with local police
and government agencies and missing children organizations
and those kind of things.
And guys, it's still very much in the infancy of development
because World Changer is a long distance run.
But what I'm saying is the call to a reformer
is to embrace the language, the procedure,
and the purpose for your meeting.
And when Lindsay was sharing her process with the lab
and prophesying over influencers,
that started in the mountain of entertainment,
of arts and entertainment.
And she developed a procedure and a language
that was appropriate to that particular environment.
And so they're coming in and prophesying at parties
where people are doing drugs and drinking
and all kinds of stuff is going on.
Well, that's not a normal environment for the prophetic,
but it is appropriate to this form of prophetic evangelism
is there's a certain procedure and purpose and language
that you come in with.
And so she spent years developing the structure
that creates the kind of people
that can speak into influencers within that environment.
And those are the kinds of things
I'm talking about you guys,
is that we have an opportunity right now
where God has poured out his spirit on so many people,
so many people are prophesying,
so many people are embracing the prophetic.
Well, I have a feeling that this is an army
that is waiting for commanders.
This is an army that's waiting for apostolic assignments.
This is an army.
where if we had some prophets who would station themselves to watch and see what the Lord will say
about a specific complaint and we have people who will take what the Lord says and take enough time
to refine it into a system that other people can run with if we have prophets who will not just
focus on a future potential outcome but will focus on a process that brings us from this place
to that future that God is showing us I believe if we could raise up prophets like this then
this prophetic army would be mobilized like no time in history.
So for the next several sessions we're going to be sharing with you just some of the hints,
some of the ideas, some of the shadows, some of the clues of prophetic reform that we are
are sensing and feeling and we're going to begin to pioneer in this area and I feel like
I'm so excited about this year like and I want you to know we laid a foundation so we could build
something and now this session is just marking the turning point let's build together let's build
together and I want to do two things as we close this session real quickly I want to just minister
to two areas I want to minister to people that have been in an anachronistic funk in other words
you've been so focused on the future that you're in a constant frustration about the now and I'm
going to break that off you and release a grace to see in real time so that you can see the good
that is in the now and if that's if you need that I want you to stand your feet whether you're online
whether you're here in the room whether you're with our group in Brazil I want you to stand to
your feet and we are just going to go after that right now so father first of all we thank you
that we can see a more desirable future and lord we thank you that this gift and this ability
is a good thing not a curse not a bad thing it's a good thing and so lord we embrace the goodness
of being able to see a more desirable future but now lord god we break off the frustration
in Jesus name with the now come on eternal life is now there is eternal life for you right now
which is a quality of life that God wants to extend into your present God does not want you
to be so enamored with your future that you have no joy in the now and so we break off the shackles
of an anachronistic viewpoint and lord I release right now a grace for real-time seeing real-time
hearing real-time sensing real-time perceiving father I thank you that if I can see three to
five years out I can see three to five days I can see now I can see the treasure that is in the
present and father we release the grace and the commitment into this reformational army that is
standing lord God to be able to see the good of the now in Jesus name come on let's just
thank him with our hands with our mouths let's thank him
I'm just gonna ask one more thing and and then I'm getting out of here I'm a little over time
but just a minute or so um and and um doesn't matter okay
I don't want an emotional response out of this I want a calculated response out of this
I actually want to ask you and call you to the prophetic reformation I want to call you to
those who be committed to a long distance run those would be committed to to addressing systems
of change those that would take the time to refine things to learn language to learn procedures to
understand purposes and begin to adapt their prophetic gift into various spheres of influence
it's time for the church to quit yelling Jesus is the answer Jesus is the answer
and to start manifesting some of the answers that he is
Jesus never meant for that to be a generic catch-all he meant that to have a very specific
manifestation and I'm telling you that there is a Solomon type wisdom that is coming upon the body
right now for prophetic innovation where the kings of the earth will come to hear them talk
about plants and talk about architecture
and that their hearts will be transformed
by how the servants are dressed and how the table is set.
And that's every bit as prophetic
as what the other prophets did.
And I want you to know that Solomon
in his prophetic wisdom created something
where all the kings of the earth were sending people in.
Come on, what if instead of us sending prophets
to the kings of the earth,
our prophets are creating a structure of reform
that's so radical that the kings are sending
their ambassadors in to learn of the structures
that are being created.
I see it, it's out here
and we need an army to accomplish it.
But I wonder who would be committed
to the long distance run of a world changer
as a prophetic reformer.
And I want you to know that responding to this
will come with a responsibility.
Like I won't be there to call you on it,
but the Lord will.
And so it starts again with probably adopting a problem
until the solution is revealed
and then entering into the process,
discovering what is good now,
honoring the team that's already in place
and learning how to build with them
from the good of the now to the great of the future.
And you're resonating with that call
and you're not just doing it emotionally,
but you're making a calculated response
of counting the cost.
I wanna invite you into this journey.
And again, if that's resonating with your heart
and you're ready to make that declaration of responsibility,
I believe there's going to be a descending of grace,
a favor of authority in this room as we respond.
So I just invite you to respond.
Online, here, just stand to your feet
if you're saying yes to that journey,
to that discovery, to that long distance run.
Thank you, Father.
So Lord, I just pray for this army.
I pray for this moment.
I pray for a catalytic transformation, Lord,
that in Bethel's school of the prophets
and those that are associated with this movement,
we would join with the apostolic voice
of how much heaven can we release on this earth.
Lord, in every sphere of society,
we commit to prophecy as a life skill,
not just a ministry skill.
Lord, we commit to the treasures of wisdom and knowledge
that are hidden for us in the person of Jesus Christ
and releasing those treasures, those structures,
those strategies, those processes in the earth
as a manifestation of the good works
that as we show forth those good works
and shine the light of Jesus, that men would come to you,
that women would come to you,
that children would come to you
and declare that you are the one
who deserves all honor and glory and power in Jesus' name.
Amen.
Thanks, you guys, so much.
God bless you.
Okay.
God bless you.
We have a break till 3.45, okay,
and then we're going to come back
and Bethany is gonna be sharing the first Reformer message.
And it is powerful.
I have heard some hints of this.
And honestly, she's gonna share with you
a transformational Reformer tool
that you can use for one of the great problems
of our society right now.