Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I won't be alone.
Come on, sing it!
Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I won't be alone.
You're my shepherd, you're my keeper, my provider, my protector.
You surround me, you're in it.
You're the goodness, you're the comfort.
Oh, you are the goodness, you're the goodness, you're the comfort.
You're my first love, my whole future.
You surround me, you're in it.
Love you.
Hello, hello, hello, School of the Prophets.
How is everyone?
Are you doing good?
Are you awake?
Yes?
How about all our friends online?
How's everyone doing?
I am going to bring up some testimonies because I want you to know some of the stuff that God is doing.
Let me find that list.
Look at this.
Okay, how many want to hear some testimonies?
All right.
Okay, someone this morning took out their hearing aid and they could hear.
Come on.
How many remember the ears we went after?
I already shared that vertigo testimony last night when we prayed for ears.
Someone put their hands on their ears and all of a sudden the vertigo left.
I'm like, that's awesome.
Migraine headaches healed in the middle of community group.
I love when we're in community and breakthrough happens.
Amen.
And then this is another one.
I think Shannon had her neck and spine had pinched nerves and God healed her.
And this is so important because she's a full-time caregiver for her son and it's super painful to lift, but now no pain.
Come on.
God is our healer and I love what he's doing here at School of Prophets and I love when people get healed.
Hey, we're going to give some prizes away.
That's why you're in the room, huh?
No, you're actually here because you love all the teaching and you're ready for another activation with Bethany Hicks.
She's so incredible at activations.
I love it.
But we get to, what are we giving away here?
Okay.
We are giving away an e-course from Dano, Prophecy 103.
That's not 101, 102, but 103.
Sounds pretty advanced.
Who wants that one?
Of course you do.
Everyone online, everyone in person wants that stuff.
So what we're going to do is we're going to do our wheel for online.
So let's see.
Where are we at?
We're accelerating our prophetic calling.
Come on, here we go.
Here's the wheel.
Go ahead and press that wheel.
Drum roll.
Here we go.
Who wins prophetic 103 e-course?
Dun, dun, dun, dun.
Russell, Victor, online, give a hand for Russell.
Come on, Russell.
We will email you and get you all the information on how to redeem your e-course.
And then for in the room, okay, who are we going to win here?
Spinning.
Come on.
Drum roll.
I hope they're in the room.
Judy Chow! Judy! Where are you? She's your wife? Where is she? Oh, we'll allow that to happen.
Yeah, yeah. I got you. See, hey, they're one. So they're in the room. All right, so we'll email you
and get you your course. Hey, I want you to let you know that between five and seven o'clock,
and they were out here earlier as well, BraveCo, our men's ministry, they have some amazing
resources, amazing things going on. And we would love for you to partner with BraveCo
and everything God's doing. We believe there is a movement of men that is sweeping across not only
America, but of the world. And really, it is a mandate of the prophetic. It's the restoration
of the fathers to the children. And God is restoring healthy fatherhood, healthy masculinity
as well. And this is such a vital ministry to everything we're doing. Jason Vallotton is doing
incredible resourcing men. And we want you to know more about that. They'll be out there between five
and seven o'clock. So check them out during our break. And then other than that, let me see.
Welcome Bethany Hicks for activating. Oh, yeah. Okay. Joking. Why don't you stand to your feet
and welcome Bethany as she comes to lead us in our activations. All right. Thanks, guys.
All right. So I promised that we were going to do an activation connected to the prophetic identity
message I did yesterday. How many of you guys genuinely would say that message helped you
yesterday? Like, that is awesome. I mean, I've had already so many people come up and tell me like,
hey, for decades, it literally brought deliverance for decades of false names that they didn't even
know that they were walking with. And again, I believe that alignment. I didn't get a chance
to say this yesterday. But for those of you who answered that mandate and said, yes, I'm going to
go out, I'm going to declare prophetic identity over people. I want to encourage you guys, because
I do believe that if you are going up to somebody, let's say I go up to Ben and Ben is not a believer
yet, right? What's your name? What's your first name? Benjamin. I mean, what does it mean?
Son of my right hand. I love that. Come on. Son of my right hand, Armstrong. Like, that's literally
Ben's name. And his middle name is Joseph, which obviously the dreamer. Okay, so he's obviously
living out his destiny, right? But okay, so let's say, for example, Ben wasn't a believer yet, right?
He doesn't know anything about God, and I'm somebody who wants to call out that prophetic
identity, right? We're going to start being an answer and bringing this transformation to
the identity crisis. Okay, so if I am a friend of Ben's and I'm like, Ben, I just feel like
wow, man, I just feel like you are such a strength and support to others around you. Like, you're
really strong and that I feel like you're really gifted at dreams and stuff. So do you see what
I'm doing? I'm starting to like speak into his heavenly identity. Okay, this is what I believe.
Do you guys remember when I was talking on the second day about the piano chord with the guitar
chord when you strum it? I believe that as you're speaking to people that have no context for God,
no context for kingdom, that as you speak the truth of who God says they are, there's going to
be like, you're literally sending out that piano chord of his voice. And deep within, because that's
how they were created, there's going to be something that begins to resonate or vibrate with the truth
of that heavenly identity. And I believe that what's going to happen is, as you continue to
reinforce that, that it's going to be like a seed planted in them, and then it comes to the
surface. I mean, some people are going to have a lot of junk and lies that they're going to have to
work through, but that seed of truth is going to resonate because it's his voice speaking to them.
Did you want to say? I can tell you do. This is exactly what happened last night when the guitar
prophesied over you. A lady actually just a few minutes ago, she just came up to me and said,
actually it was crazy because I was worshiping in the room and I could feel that. And she said to
God, God, am I a harp? Because I feel like I'm vibrating with this very thing. And that
the guitar actually released the prophetic ability for transformation into your truest identity.
And it's an exact example of what you're actually talking about.
So again, I want to give you guys just some practical tips on how to prophesy using names.
do an activation today, prophesying over names.
So I'm gonna give you three ways
that we can prophesy using names.
And every time we give you activation,
I also wanna give you the biblical basis
because I want you to know, first of all,
that it's rooted in scripture.
We're not just giving you association methods
that we made up.
It actually are ways that God prophesied
and we can see in the word.
So the first way that you can prophesy using names
is the etymology or the meaning of a name.
Okay, the meaning of a name.
You know, I talked about this yesterday,
but Abram was called exalted father
and God said, you will no longer be called Abram,
but Abraham for you will be a father of many nations.
So in order for his destiny to come forth,
he actually needed that identity upgrade.
And the way that God did that was through a name.
So my name, Bethany, means house of figs
and figs often signify fruitfulness, peace, and prosperity.
And that is something that has absolutely marked my life.
Again, I shared that story yesterday with my son, Ethan,
where his name means strong and steadfast, right?
And I would declare that over him and he is,
he's like, his whole personality is like even keeled
and just strong and steadfast and unmovable.
Like you cannot make him do something he doesn't wanna do.
And that's the way God created him.
And you actually can see it in his name.
So the meaning of a name is one of the ways
that you can prophesy.
Second way you can prophesy is name association.
Name association.
And this is where if you meet someone,
someone who has that same name
or someone they remind you of,
you would prophesy to that person from that character,
that nature, or something that God is speaking to you
about someone with the same name, right?
For example, and we find this in Zechariah 12, eight,
where it says, on the day of the Lord,
we'll shield those who live in Jerusalem
so that the feeblest among them will be like David
and the house of David will be like God,
like the angel of the Lord going before them.
So we can see that there's kind of this connection,
this association.
So for example, my name, Bethany,
the meaning of the name is house of figs,
but it was also the place in, right?
There was a place in the Bible.
It was the place where,
it was Jesus's favorite place to hang out, right?
So Jesus loves to rest in me.
He loves to hang out with me.
But also it was a place where Mary, Martha,
and Lazarus lived.
And I remember one time someone gave me this word,
like, I feel like you have a resurrection anointing.
And then they would prophesy
because Bethany was the place
where Lazarus was resurrected, right?
And they're like,
so I just feel like you have a resurrection anointing.
And you know what?
I do.
I have prayed for someone to be resurrected before,
and they wanted to stay in heaven.
Who could blame them?
But you know what's happened
is I have gone into churches, into ministries,
into schools that were either dying or had died.
And I would step into that.
And my presence there,
I had an anointing to bring those places back to life
so that they're still thriving
and they're still going on even today.
So I have seen that resurrection anointing in my life,
and it's found in my name, that name association.
We were in New Zealand several years ago,
and I was partnering up with someone.
Her name was Kim.
And when I partnered with her,
immediately I heard Kim Possible.
Now Kim Possible, I've never even seen the TV show,
but Kim Possible is a cartoon
about a girl who's a teenager by day,
and she goes to high school.
And at night, she's a superhero.
So because I've learned
that this is one of the ways God speaks,
I didn't immediately dismiss it, right?
We're talking about one of the ways
that God speaks to us through names association.
So what was it about Kim Possible
that God was speaking through?
So I prophesied over her.
I feel like the Lord has called you,
like you're called to do the impossible
and command mountains to flee.
And you know, just like how God created her
to actually overcome impossible things.
So after I shared that with her,
she told me that she was a young woman,
and she was just in the middle of going through,
she had breast cancer,
and she was dealing with this particular disease.
And you know what?
That word, it wasn't just something
that God was gonna do for her,
it was something that God created her to be.
So she now was empowered to be, I am Kim Possible.
And she was able to speak to that mountain
and tell it to be removed.
And about maybe three months later,
I heard back from her that she was completely cancer-free.
And then she's had like several children since then.
But again, I want you to catch here,
it wasn't just.
God revealing himself as healer, it was God had anointed her
and it was within her name to actually overcome
the impossible circumstances that were in front of her.
So that's a second way that you can prophesy
over someone's name is somebody
or something that they remind you of.
And then thirdly, you can prophesy with a similar sound.
Okay, this is where it sounds like something else,
kind of like a homophone.
Ben had referenced it this morning out of Jeremiah
where we see that God actually used a similar sound
to prophesy where he was asking Jeremiah,
what do you see?
You know, and he says, I see the rod of a shaked tree,
almond tree, right?
Shaked, that's in the Hebrew.
And the Lord says, you've seen well
for I'm watching, shakad, my word to perform it.
So the Lord used a similar sound,
play on words, shaked, shakad,
to actually release a prophetic word.
And so again, we can see God using a many times
a similar sound to prophesy.
So for example, you guys, my name Bethany,
again, I've had people say Bethany and like, oh, Bethesda,
like it's a similar sound.
And what does that remind them of?
They would prophesy like, oh, I feel like you have
a healing anointing on your life, you know,
or they would maybe prophesy from the pool.
And that absolutely resonates with me.
I know we were again in New Zealand
and this lady or this man came up to Dano
and they're like, you know what?
When I first heard your name Dano, I heard Drano.
And if you know what Drano is, it's like a chemical
or a liquid to unclog like toilets
and sinks and stuff like that.
They're like, I just feel like you have this ability
to get people unstuck.
And there's like areas that maybe are too complex
or they maybe seem too mysterious
and you have this ability to bring this clear path to them
and help them get unstuck.
And like for Dano, that was like his favorite word.
It still is to this day, like one of his favorite words.
Why?
Because he knows that God has given him the Drano anointing.
So when he walks into a place and there's like,
people are confused or they're stuck in an area,
he's like, I am Drano and I'm here with the Drano anointing
and I can get you unstuck.
It's not just something I do, it's who I am.
So do you guys see like, I hope this is awakening
a hunger in you to get really excited
about who God calls you to be
because who he's made you to be,
you just live from that place and then you own it.
You own that authority and say, I am the light of the world.
I am Drano.
I have an anointing for resurrection and it's in my name.
So we're gonna activate that today.
Again, those three areas, the meaning of a name,
a name association, what it reminds you of
or somebody else or something it reminds you of,
like my name is a place.
And then of course, similar sound.
So this is what it's gonna look like.
And the online group,
you guys are also gonna participate in this as well
in your breakout rooms.
So in a minute, I'm gonna ask you to get a partner
and I want you to look at their name tag, okay?
Right now, let's go off first names, okay?
So you're gonna get their first name
and this is really redeeming for a lot of people too
who feel like maybe their parents
gave them a name they didn't like.
Like I told you guys about the policeman,
his last name was Crook, right?
I'm like, oh, your name's Justin.
You're bringing justice to Crooks.
Do you know how redeeming that was for him?
And I know that some of you here
have never loved your names for whatever reason.
I feel like the Lord is actually gonna redeem
his heavenly purpose for your name today.
I really do think the Lord's gonna do that.
Also, please bring your phones and record these words, okay?
That is honestly, if you wanna steward prophetic words,
you've gotta value it.
And one of the most practical things you can do
is to record the words right now
so you can listen to them over and over and over.
So you're gonna get a partner, look at their name.
You are welcome to ask them,
hey, do you know what your name means?
If they don't know, you are welcome to Google it
and look up, like I would do this all the time,
Benjamin name meaning.
And then you look at the name meaning
and you're like, okay, what does that name mean?
What does that speak to me?
Holy Spirit, what are you saying through his name?
Or if it's not the meaning of a name,
maybe they say their name is Kim, like I shared you.
Or like maybe they say their name is Terry.
And immediately you think, oh, that scripture
about that I'm going to Terry
until you're filled with power from on high.
So again, you might have this sense of a scripture
or something connected to it.
So pay attention to like the first impressions
that you're getting from that, okay?
And then you're gonna prophesy, remember, our protocol,
an encouraging, strengthening, or comforting word
over your partner.
You're gonna have 90 seconds each,
but don't start until I tell you guys to start, okay?
You guys ready for this?
Are you got your phones?
Okay, let's find a partner.
I'm gonna try to do this a couple times.
So let's quickly find a partner.
It doesn't have to be across the room.
Break an online community.
You guys can go ahead, go into your breakout rooms.
You guys will have 90 seconds each
to prophesy over your names.
That's crazy that your name is like literally double-double.
It's like double portion of like strength.
It's crazy.
I know.
He also got five times.
He got five times.
All right, if you need a partner, raise your hands.
Raise your hand if you need a partner.
There's a gentleman over here.
Keep your hands up.
All right, who else?
You gotta kind of raise it higher, walk around, okay?
Who else needs a partner?
Sir, do you still need one?
You can come up here.
Oh, wait.
All right, do you need a partner?
Lisa, do you see him?
Great, thank you.
All right, shh.
Awesome, look how anointed you guys are.
You're like listening.
Okay, does everyone have a partner?
I wanna make sure we're all.
Okay, if you need a partner, no.
Okay, are you looking at each other's names?
All right, look at their names.
Prophesy an encouraging word.
I'm gonna ask the first person to start.
You'll have 90 seconds.
Remember, we're fanning in the flame, the gift of God.
All right, here we go.
Ready, begin.
Are you backwards or like anywhere?
That's the word.
All right, the first person should be done.
Now it's your partner's turn, prophesying over your name.
First person should be done.
Now it's your partner's turn.
All right, time's up, time's up, time to stop.
Time's up.
That beautiful flow.
All right, let's check in.
Awesome, don't move yet.
Stay with your partners.
Before you guys, before I activate you guys again,
I wanna do another activation.
So stay with your partners.
Some of y'all have already moved.
Okay, honestly, like how many of you guys
really feel like the word you received
really resonated through?
Come on, that is so awesome.
You know what's beautiful about this now?
Is that everyone with a name tag
is a target for the love of God.
Right?
So again, you can do this with anybody that you meet
because I truly believe within the seeds of a person's name
there's a prophetic identity.
There's something that God wants to speak to.
All right, we're gonna do one more activation.
We're gonna put, again, a little weight on the bar
with your same partner.
And this time what we're gonna do,
instead of prophesying over their name,
what I want you to do is I want you to share
with your partner the name of either like a business
you own, a place you work at, a ministry you have,
the name of your church, or even the street name,
the name of the street that you live on.
And you're gonna share that with them
and they're gonna prophesy to the anointing of that.
Did you know places have anointings too?
Bethel is known as the house of God, right?
And it's like we are literally like in the house of God.
We are the house of God.
But so many places in scripture it talks about like,
and they named this place this
because that's where God encountered them.
There was an anointing.
There was an identity that was related
to the name of that place.
And actually we can do the same thing
through places and things like that.
So again, think of a ministry that you are a part of
that you own or a business maybe,
if you wanted that prophesied over,
or again, the name of your church
or the name of your street name,
share that with your partner.
And you're gonna use the same tools that I just gave you.
Okay, what's the meaning of it?
What is it speaking to you?
Is there an association with it?
Or is there a similar sound asking Holy Spirit,
Lord, what is it you wanna speak through these impressions
and prophesy over that place to your partner?
All right, you guys ready?
So go ahead.
I'm gonna give you guys just like a second to share.
And I'm gonna start you guys with the first person.
Again, those that are online,
you're gonna do the same things.
In your breakout rooms,
you're gonna share the name of a place,
a ministry, a street name,
and then your partner's gonna prophesy over that.
All right, you guys ready?
Ready?
First person goes, begin.
♪ My hands are open, my heart is free ♪
♪ Open the gates, rain down, fall down ♪
♪ My hands are open, my heart is free ♪
♪ Open the gates, rain down, fall down ♪
♪ There's a swing in my heart and a storm in my breath ♪
♪ Pushing back when the dark and sweat begins to pour ♪
♪ There's a power on my knees, even death can't defy ♪
♪ With the name of our God is lifted high ♪
♪ There is resurrection power ♪
♪ When we sing the name of Jesus, resurrection power ♪
♪ When we raise a mighty sound, so come and let the praise get loud ♪
♪ Make that integrated sound, there is resurrection power ♪
All right, the first person should be done.
Now it's your partner's turn,
prophesying the name over a ministry, a place.
♪ There is a prayer in my heart, I'm going for it ♪
I bet that mine's missing, Chris, are you coming after me?
♪ Let dead things rise up from the ground ♪
♪ I won't leave my song inside that empty grave ♪
♪ There is resurrection power ♪
♪ When we sing the name of Jesus, resurrection power ♪
♪ When we raise a mighty sound, so come and let the praise get loud ♪
["Resurrection Power"]
Yeah, let's go.
["Resurrection Power"]
All right, time's up.
Time's up.
You guys can make your way back to your seats.
Hey, for those of you guys online,
we would love to hear some testimonies
of a word that was meaningful to you
that we just did on this activation.
So even in the chat section,
why don't you guys just post
what the meaning of it was for your name
and why it was meaningful to you
so we can just celebrate what Jesus did for you.
Go ahead and start posting those testimonies in the chat.
For those of you guys in the room,
you can make your way back to your seats.
Got a lot of anointed people here.
Told you, once you start the flow,
it's hard to stop.
How many of you guys received real revelation
into the identity of a place or a ministry
or something like that?
That's awesome.
I just, you guys, these things aren't accidents.
You know what I mean?
Like the McCollums used to live
on Morningstar Way in Vacaville.
You know what I mean?
It's just not an accident.
God can speak to us through these names.
So I'm just gonna wrap it up
like some of you all need to.
Guys, this tool that I just gave you
is a powerful tool to discover heavenly identity
over yourself, over your family,
over those that you're around.
And then, again, if you wanna be part of this,
what I truly believe is going to be
a identity reformation, a prophetic identity reformation,
those people that God highlights to you
that you're supposed to speak truth into,
this is a powerful tool to be like,
okay, Holy Spirit, what are you saying
over the meaning of their name?
Write that down.
Holy Spirit, just getting that intel
so they're a heavenly identity,
and then you start declaring that over that person
until they start to see themselves
the way that God sees them, amen?
All right, guys, well, we get to welcome
the Christ-bearer himself, Christopher Vallotton.
I know, that's your name, right?
Hey, I just wanna, can we,
can you guys just extend your hands to him?
I was just reading that your last name
means strong and healthy.
Did you know that?
See?
He's living out his identity.
But five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10,
11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20,
21, 22, 23, 24, 25.
He's living out his identity.
But Father, we just released, Father,
that heavenly identity of strength and health
in the Vallotton family line, Lord God.
Father, that there would be no sickness or disease
that would bow at the name of Jesus,
and this family would be known
for just quality life into their 90s and beyond,
however long they wanna live, Lord, honestly.
Father, we thank you, and we just released right now
your strength, your health, and Chris's body right now,
Father, Father, that you would align everything
according to what your blood has paid for,
and we just thank you, Father, for who he is
as a gift and the bearer of your face, Lord,
of who you are, Jesus, like he truly is,
the expression of Jesus in such a unique way.
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
Amen.
You're good.
Well, I hope you're having fun,
and I have to tell you that I'm very proud of our team.
And I've been in most of the sessions.
You know, part of our call as leaders and fathers and mothers
is that we would have a legacy.
And that means, you know, you begin to measure your success
not by what you do, but by who you empower
to do it better than you.
And you know, it's always fun as a theory.
It's not so easy as actualizing it in your life, you know,
because, well, there's probably obvious reasons,
but I personally am in this season where I feel like
the Lord is moving me, many of us,
to more like the patriarchal role
where now it's time for us to actually,
I'm not ready to retire or anything like that.
I wanna be clear, like, I'm not.
But I feel like we're in this role
where we're making sure that there is a legacy.
And so this has been, last year,
we sort of started with this mindset.
I say sort of, that's not true.
We proactively, I'm talking about Dan and I,
we proactively started with this mindset last year,
more specifically, because we always have a team,
we always have other people minister,
but like proactively, like we need to give our teams
more room to grow and take more responsibility
and authority, and so in this year, we did even more.
And it's actually, I thought it'd be really hard,
but it's actually been really fun to sit in the front row
and watch our sons and daughters
who have now become mothers and fathers themselves,
like share and teach and then express things
that's been in them that they didn't get from us, too.
And that's been exciting.
So I am, I mean this sincerely,
I'm very proud of our teams and the job they've done
and hope that you have, too.
So I'm gonna pray for just a minute.
Holy Spirit, thank you for all of these people.
We have people we have from all over the world online.
It's kind of hard for you to connect
with these folks that you have,
but you've got another 300 people online
that are actually learning at the same time you are,
but they're just not in the same space you're in.
And then we have 1,200 Brazilians
actually learning at the same time you are, too.
And it's just pretty exciting.
So I don't know, we have 600 in this room, 650 or something,
and then another, you know, I don't know, 1,800 people,
1,700 people, something like that, you know,
that are with you and are on the same journey with you,
but just not in the same room.
So really exciting.
Again, Lord, we just thank you for all these folks.
And Lord, we really do want to see the kingdoms
of this world become the kingdom of our God.
We just, we pray for that,
that we would have that kind of impact
on the lives of people,
and they would have that kind of impact
on the lives of people,
and they would have that kind of impact,
and that it would be that kind of a, if you will,
kind of a pyramid of influence, in Jesus' name.
Amen.
So last night, my, I probably didn't know
where I was going last night, because I didn't,
but the goal of last night, I actually felt that we met,
even though we were way off the notes,
and that was this, that you realize
that you're part of an apostolic movement,
that we're moving out of denominationalism,
we're moving into apostleships,
and that the core root of apostleships
is one, based in family and covenant,
and two, based in the idea
that we would actually be discipling nations.
Those two things are in the root of the word apostle,
and also in the root of the legacy of the apostle,
the apostles that Jesus released.
So I think that although we were, you know,
kind of took a big, long journey,
that the point was still well made,
that you, when you're coming, when you get saved,
that you're getting saved into a kingdom,
and that kingdom is an ever-expanding kingdom,
and that you're part of something much bigger than yourself.
And I'm gonna close that little part,
because today, this session,
I wanna talk about the war of the worlds,
and I wanna talk a little bit about the warfare
that there is over who actually gets to shape history.
But in Isaiah 61, which is the verse the Lord gave me,
the verses the Lord gave me the year I was saved,
I didn't know what they meant,
but I kept getting them as prophecies in the Jesus movement,
and later on, I realized that, hey, this is my core message.
My core message is actually based in four verses in Isaiah.
And it begins with, and I know that you'll know it as soon as I start to quote it,
Isaiah 61,
The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, for the Lord has anointed me,
to preach the good news to the afflicted, to bind up the brokenhearted,
to speak release to captives and freedom to prisoners,
the favorable year of the Lord, the day of vengeance of our God,
to grant all those who mourn in Zion, give them a garland instead of ashes,
a mantle of praise instead of a spirit of heaviness,
that they might be called oaks of righteousness,
to plant the Lord that he may be glorified.
Those are the first three verses.
So he talks about in those verses,
he talks about the fact that the Spirit of the Lord God is at first upon Jesus.
By the way, this is called the Messiah's mandate.
If you didn't know that it's repeated in Luke.
This is what Jesus quoted when he sat at the temple in the chair that hadn't been
sat in in 500 years.
He sits in the synagogue and the chair that hadn't been sat in,
they reserved it for the Messiah.
He sits in the Messiah's chair and he quotes the Messiah's mandate,
which was Isaiah 61.
And it says, every eye was on him.
I don't know if you know this.
So this is a little bit interesting history if you didn't know this,
but that chair was reserved for the Messiah.
So when Jesus goes over to the seat and sits in it and it says,
every eye was on him, it was like,
it was like almost a call for security.
Like, okay, what's he doing?
He's not supposed to be sitting in that chair.
That's reserved for the Messiah.
And then he calls for the scroll of Isaiah and he begins to quote the
Messiah's mandate.
And for the first time he's actually exposing the spirit of the Lord God is
upon me.
That's me.
I'm the Messiah.
And then it has that whole connotation of,
and the graceful words were falling on them.
They ask questions like, where did you get this authority that comes from?
They put a seat out there that the Messiah would come.
They believe this was their eschatology.
The Messiah will come, he'll come into the temple.
They also had him in the synagogues as kind of a replica and he'll sit in his
chair and he'll read the Messiah's mandate.
So that was the Messiah's mandate that he read.
It finishes with this thought.
So you have, you know, the spirit of the Lord's on me.
He's going to heal the broken, the captive, the prisoner.
Take the people who are, that are depressed, you know,
I'm going to give them joy for mourning.
Mantle praise for the person who has the spirit of heaviness or fainting.
And he goes through,
I'm basically going to heal and restore all these broken people.
Then the fourth verse says, and then they shall return.
This is the verse I'm in now.
Then they shall return and they shall restore ruined cities.
Ruined cities.
They shall raise up the former foundations and rebuild ruined cities.
Who is they in the story?
The broken, the depressed, you get the idea.
And what I'm getting at is that right there in the Messiah's mandate is once
you get healed yourself, the goal is to go back and heal your city.
So I want to tell you this story.
So, you know, I told you I had a nervous breakdown,
moved to this little town called Lewiston first.
You probably wouldn't know where any of the cities are,
but Lewiston is just 15 miles from Weaverville.
It's a town of 900 people.
So when Kathy and I first moved out of the Bay Area,
we bought this little destroyed farmhouse and we remodeled it in this little town
of Lewiston.
I was, I never, when I say I had a nervous breakdown,
I never missed work one day, but I was very demonized.
And when I was in the little town of Lewiston,
we only lived there about a year and a half because we were driving into
Weaverville every day.
And it was a very treacherous road because, you know,
we lived in the mountains.
So you got rain, you got snow, it's slippery, it's freezing.
And so even though it was only, you know, 15 or 20 mile drive,
it was treacherous.
So we soon moved into Weaverville because our kids went to school there.
We went to church there.
But when I was in Lewiston, in the middle of my nervous breakdown
and having all these demonic experiences, the Lord said to me,
I'm going to give you this city.
I think it's pretty interesting that I'm in the middle of a nervous breakdown.
The Lord said, I'm going to give you this city.
It's only 900 people, right?
So anyway, we moved to Weaverville and I ended up being the volunteer youth
pastor of Mountain Chapel.
This is the year before Bill got there, they appointed me.
And I was nine years, Kathy and I were nine years.
Kathy was a children's pastor and I was the youth pastor
of our volunteer youth pastor.
We still had, we had ended up with four businesses
and we were youth pastors.
Anyway, when we got a, we got a official full-time youth pastor
in the ninth year or so, I got a break from that.
And I just began to pray for a new assignment.
I was like, okay, Lord, what do you want me to do?
And I felt, I heard the Lord say,
I want you to go to Lewiston.
Remember, I hadn't been there for 10 years.
I want you to go to Lewiston,
and I want you to walk the streets of Lewiston.
And honestly, that was it.
And I thought that, so what I thought was,
I was going to do this obedient thing,
kind of like fasting.
It's like, okay, I don't know why I'm doing this,
but I'm going to do it.
And I thought he meant like,
definitely no longer than a couple of weeks.
I didn't think this was a big commitment.
And he gave me instructions, and he said to me,
I want you to go Sunday nights,
and I don't want you to talk to anybody.
I want you to walk and pray.
I'm going to teach you how to pray.
I'm like, okay, great.
So I went to Lewiston.
I went at nine o'clock at night,
because that's about time the sun went down.
And obviously, I know you've never been there.
So out of the 900 people who populate Lewiston,
750 live in the subdivision,
which you can actually walk in exactly one hour.
You can walk every street in one hour.
So I would go at dusk,
and I started at dusk in the summer,
and I just started walking the streets of Lewiston.
And I just took every street,
and I didn't know what to do.
I knew I wasn't supposed to talk to anybody,
and I knew I wasn't supposed to make a scene.
So I just walked the streets back and forth,
every street, which again was no big deal, one hour.
And then I got in my car and went home.
And then the next Sunday, I was kind of like,
you know, on call, okay?
Oh, I felt like I was supposed to do it again.
So I did it the next Sunday,
and the next Sunday, and the next Sunday.
And finally, I'm like three months into this,
and I'm like, Lord, how long am I going to do this?
And he said, you just do it till I tell you to stop.
All right, I'd like to have an end date.
Anybody else like to know where we're going, you know?
And I want to tell you that at first,
it was kind of exciting,
because the Lord tells you to do something,
you're like, oh, something amazing is going to happen.
You have that?
But nothing did.
So after about three months, it wasn't exciting.
It was like, you know, I wasn't allowed to talk to anybody,
and I was doing it at night,
and my family's like, where are you going?
So I mean, it was like, it was really like not,
it wasn't like, I'm having this great ministry,
and I have this anticipation.
I'd had that for about two months,
and then nothing happened.
I had no encounters.
I wasn't feeling anything.
And so I'm like, oh, now I'm like,
hey, how long did you say this was going to be?
And so I'm walking, and I'm praying.
I'm walking and praying.
And honestly, I have to say
that I went completely out of obedience.
Like, I'm in obedience and sacrifice mode.
I'm not in learn and discern mode, right?
But by the time I get through three months, I'm like,
okay, we could be doing this a while.
Ben, could you put this in my bag for me?
We could be doing this a while,
so maybe you should shift my mode, right?
I know you do this too.
Maybe you should shift, let's shift modes.
So I start really praying, and I'm like, all right.
And as I start praying, the Lord,
as I really start like connecting, like,
okay, let's not just do this out of rote.
There's probably something supposed to be happening here.
And as I start praying that way,
the Lord starts giving me information about Lewiston.
By the way, Lewiston is the worst city
in Trinity County at the time.
It's where most of the drug activity was,
and it's where the police,
the sheriff's department was out there all the time.
The worst, they called the armpit of Trinity County.
And so I start walking by each house
and just stopping in the house,
and the Lord would say,
there's a prostitute that lives in this house.
And he would tell me things about her.
So I'd pray specifically about her.
And then I'd maybe walk another block,
and the Lord would be like,
this is a drug pusher house right here.
And then this person, and he'd tell me specific things.
And then after about, so I'm still walking,
and now we're in six months, seventh month, eighth month.
And now I can close my eyes and walk down the street,
and I can tell what house I've been in front of
by the spirit I feel in front of it.
And I actually am making connections,
like I know this woman's a prostitute.
Now, not in a judgmental way,
but I'm like, Lord, heal her heart.
Lord, break the spirit off of her.
And now I'm like, I'm knowing these houses
after the spirit, right?
So this goes on all through, and now it's wintertime.
So we've walked nearly a year,
but we're like the 12th month.
So we must've started in the winter,
because this is winter again,
and we walk for 12 months.
I walk for 12 months by myself.
Every once in a while, someone would join me.
They're like, I heard you're going walking and praying.
And I'm like trying to tell them,
like, yeah, it's not exciting.
But they would come, and they'd walk,
and I'd have a couple people walk with me.
And then the next week, they're like, oh, I'm busy.
I'm like, yeah, I know, I'd be busy too.
If I could be, I'd be busy right now.
So, but it started to be like, I started to get the idea,
well, oh, we're actually walking and we are discerning
and we are praying and we are learning something here.
I didn't know what we were learning,
to be completely frank, until way past, it was over.
But, so, you know, we did wintertime and summer and spring
and then now we're back to winter.
And it's cold, it's rainy,
and it's way up in the mountains.
And when there's no moon, there's no streetlights.
So when there's no moon, you know,
you've been places where it's so dark,
you can't see in front of your face when there's no moon,
it's that, right?
So this particular Sunday night,
a whole bunch of people from our church say,
hey, we heard you're praying at Lewiston.
I'm like, yeah, yeah.
And I'm always trying to like,
create really low expectations,
because I know they think,
well, he's been praying for a year,
it's probably amazing.
And I'm like, it isn't.
So, you know, so they're like,
hey, we want to come with you.
And it's like, 20 people want to come with me.
Like the most I've ever had is like three.
And I'm like, no, oh yeah, well, no, no,
you know what, I'm not having a prayer meeting.
I'm just walking and praying.
Like, it's not a prayer meeting.
They're like, oh yeah, I know, well, Lord told us.
And like, literally like 15 of them say,
we want to come tonight and pray with you.
Okay.
I'm like, you know, gosh,
I don't want the pressure of having them with me
and having to entertain them.
So I'm trying to talk them out of it.
And they're like, no, no, we're coming.
Okay.
So we get to this,
Lewiston had this old gym that,
by the way, that whole subdivision was built
when they built the dam.
So it was the housing for the dam workers.
And they built a big old, huge metal,
probably this, maybe the size of the sanctuary gym,
just an old gym that just had basketball courts in it
and stuff, and they hadn't used it for years.
And there was a great big field in front of it
that was just overgrown with weeds
that were about this high.
That was probably, you know,
the size of that front parking lot out there.
So, okay.
So I said, let's just meet at the gym at nine o'clock.
So they meet at the gym, nine o'clock, it's pitch dark.
So I say, tell them, I break them up into teams
and I say, okay, you go, it's actually first street,
second street, they're just numbered like that.
So you guys go to first street, walk street,
second street, third street, fourth street,
and then I'll meet you back here
and you'll do that in 30 minutes.
Okay, so meet back at the gym.
So they go do that.
It's pitch dark again.
It's not raining, but it's cold.
You can't see anything.
It's creepy, right?
It's kind of creepy.
So we get all done.
We end up at the gym and I'm like, all right,
why don't we just make a big circle before we leave?
We've only been there like 40 minutes.
Let's make a big circle and pray
and then we'll go home, all right?
So we grab hands and we start to pray
and Lewiston has got mountains all the way around it
and it's in a valley.
So at nighttime, if you go, hello, it goes,
hello, hello, hello, hello.
So it echoes like that, right?
So I'm trying to get you to feel what we're feeling.
It's dark, it's cold, it's echoey.
So we grab hands and we start to pray
and the minute we pray, all of a sudden,
from the field in front of us,
which is about three times the size of this sanctuary,
probably, all of a sudden it goes,
ah!
But about 50 times louder than that.
It sounds like someone's being murdered in the field
and it echoes.
So it's really creepy and it's really dark.
So everybody stops, right?
And it's like your hair's standing up on your.
And about 10 of the 15 people that came go,
I'm leaving.
I said, no, you're freaking staying here, we're praying.
And I'm thinking, everything in me goes, I'm going too.
But I'm putting two to two together
that we're all together, first time,
I've never had this many people.
And I don't know what that voice is,
but we stop praying.
Of course, everybody stopped praying
and this voice immediately stops.
All right, grab hands again.
And we're talking through,
I'm gonna go, no, no, no, you guys are staying here.
You wanted to pray with me.
And we grab hands and we start praying again
and immediately the voice starts, ah!
Like way louder than that.
You can hear it echoing through the valley, right?
And then we stop praying and immediately it stops.
And we start praying again and it's, ah!
And it gets louder and louder and louder.
And it's like, you can feel the voice.
So, you know, everybody's like,
this is really creepy, you know?
So.
After about probably six or seven minutes
of us starting and stopping,
it's really obvious like this is not a human voice.
There's nobody dying in the field.
This is some kind of spirit,
which none of us had ever had experience with.
So I'm like, oh, let's just pray
and let's just pray violently.
So they're like, there ain't nobody on that team
that wants to pray violently.
Okay, so we grab hands again and we start praying
and we're like, Lord, we just, right now we plead,
whatever you can think of.
We're definitely not flowing in the spirit.
We're just like, whatever.
Plead the blood of Jesus.
Someone else like, yeah, blood, blood of Jesus.
And we just plead the blood of Jesus over this city.
And back and forth, like seven or eight more minutes,
which seems like forever.
And finally, we're like, the louder it gets,
the louder we get.
And pretty soon, you kind of lose the fear, right?
You start losing the fear and you start like getting into it.
So now we're kind of flowing like,
okay, we've been doing this for 15 minutes.
Nobody died.
Just go for it, you know?
So now we're starting to get into flow
and you're starting to get some spiritual thing.
Lord, we break the principality over the city.
We break the drug addiction over the city.
It's getting louder every time you call another prince out.
About seven more minutes goes by and it goes,
and we're praying, and it goes.
Just like that.
We stop praying.
Just pray one more time to make sure we got this thing.
Pray for a few more minutes, it's gone.
Really strange.
Two people on our team couldn't hear it.
This was not a spiritual experience.
This is an audible experience.
This was happening audibly.
And two people got in cars and said,
what were you guys listening to?
Neither one of these guys could hear
the audible voice of this demonic spirit
like the Lord had protected them.
And we all go back home and we're like,
that is the worst experience we ever had.
The next morning I got a call from the probation department.
Dick Mabee, he was over the probation and he said,
hey, I'd like to, we're going to take all the people
that have broken probation,
all the juveniles that have broken probation,
and we're going to insist that their parents
come to a seminar for the next six weeks
to learn how to parent.
And we have 37 of them who are on probation
who will be required to go to something,
and we'd like it to be a youth group.
Would you like to start a youth group for six weeks
under the probation department?
And I know the probation officer
because we work on his cars.
And he goes, you know, Chris,
I know you like to bang the Bible.
The guy's not a Christian, but you know,
you can do everything that,
but you can't like say Jesus or bring the Bible.
I'm like, that's cool.
Anyway, we ended up going there, sweeping out the thing,
and this is a whole longer story
that I actually don't want to tell the story,
but we ended up there, no, we ended up there for five years.
And we adopted our oldest son out of that group.
We averaged 120 kids a night.
For six weeks, we couldn't preach Jesus,
but we just preached morals.
The very first night I talked about sexual morality.
And I don't know if you've ever read the book,
Moral Revolution, but the first story that came out of there,
the first story that's in that book came,
the Lord gave it to me in 15 seconds in a vision
the night that I, first night I got there.
And I started talking about virginity
and how the Lord had,
why the Lord had given us a sex drive.
And at the end of the message,
I talked about this story about a ring
and how this guy had this ring
and he kept it through Vietnam
and kept it in the ring at the end of the story
that the ring is his virginity.
And you know that the girl lost the ring
at the end of the story
and she thought the value of the ring
was in the gold and the diamonds.
She didn't realize that the value of the ring
was actually in the blood, sweat and tears
it took to get the ring from the battlefield
all the way to the honeymoon suite.
Oh, and I said that, of course they were all,
you know, how long are we gonna talk?
You know, it was like they were playing basketball
and it was at halftime.
We got 10 minutes.
And it's in the story and they're weeping on the benches.
And at the end of the story, when they said,
and the ring was her virginity,
and the Lord has given you a trophy, da, da, da.
And I said, and the guy, the toughest guy in the front,
we've already had five fistfights the first night.
And he instituted like three of them.
He said, no one ever told me this
about the fact that his virginity mattered.
And the toughest girl in the room said,
no one ever never told me this either.
And we ended up with 37 kids weeping
about losing their virginity.
And I ended up shepherding them for five years,
twice a week for five years.
And we'll have this beautiful ministry.
But let me say, it started by bringing down
the Prince of the Pallady of the air
that was over a little city of 900.
And I'm like, I loved what we did in Weaverville
and in Trinity County,
because it felt like the Lord hit us away
and taught us spiritual things.
It's like we were in this big laboratory
where we could do stuff, we could succeed and fail
where nobody could see us.
And we did that for 20 years.
And the things we're teaching you here,
we learned almost all of them there.
And we got to do things like,
and I left there years later and I'm like,
I wonder if what we learned in a town of 900
could work in a town of 9 million.
And so I wanna talk to you a little bit
about spiritual warfare in this whole prophetic
and apostolic movement, because I feel like,
well, let me just begin by saying this,
we don't inhabit this planet, we cohabit this planet.
We cohabit this planet and this planet
doesn't just have humans on it.
It has angels and demons.
Now, this is the Bible.
And the challenge is that most Christians
don't actually believe in the devil.
I don't mean they don't theologically believe in the devil.
They just don't realize that if you don't,
if you don't actually believe in a devil,
you can actually become the victim of the invisible man.
They don't understand that there is actually warfare
in a realm that is invisible but tangible
that affects the realm that is visible and tangible.
And so let me just give you a little theology for it.
First of all, there is actually three heavens.
So some of you know this, but if you don't,
we're just gonna start with the basics.
How do we know there's three heavens?
Well, first of all, we know there's three heavens
because in 2 Corinthians 12, verse two through four,
Paul says, I knew a man who went to the third heaven.
Now we know by the time he's finished
that he's talking about himself.
And he saw things that were indescribable.
Okay, so if there's a third heaven,
then there has to be a second and a first.
So let me just give you a little theology.
In Genesis one, God made the heavens and the earth.
Okay, we call that the first heaven.
I used to say it's the visible realm,
but how many know that the first heaven
has lots of invisible things in it?
Like wifi, like radio waves, like sound waves.
So it's the human realm that we live in.
Are you following me?
Am I boring you?
Okay, you do have that look
that we've been talking to you about.
You have that look.
Okay, in Ephesians chapter six, verse two,
I'm sorry, verse 12.
It says, our struggle is not against flesh and blood,
but against rulers, against powers,
against world forces of this darkness,
against spiritual forces of wickedness in heavenly places.
How many know that there are no devils in God's heaven?
So we call that the second heaven.
So the demonic realm lives in the second heaven.
Humans live in the first heaven,
and God and all the angels live in the third heaven.
Are you with me?
Okay, so this is, I know this is highly theological,
but you actually need to know this.
So when you receive Jesus Christ,
you became a new creation.
And the word new there is,
there's two words for the word new in Greek, by the way,
kind of like we have in our language.
So the word new, there's the first word new in Greek
is like, I got a new car.
The other word new means prototype, never before created.
So when you receive Jesus Christ,
you actually became a new prototype,
a creature that had never before been created.
So when the Bible, when Paul says
that you are a new creation,
He's not talking about like you're renewed, like you got a car and it got all new,
or even that it got restored. The word there is that you actually got a completely,
you got a prototype, you became a creature that had never before been created.
And as far as we know in the Bible, and this may not be true, but as far as we know in the Bible,
you're the only creature that lives in two dimensions at the same time.
So you live on earth, you're here in Reading, California, some of you wherever you're
watching from on our online school, and you are currently, currently living in heaven.
Now for most believers, and probably most of the people in this room right now at least,
that's a theology and a philosophy. You're like, yeah, I'm living in heavenly places.
But when it becomes a reality, it changes your destiny. Because you literally live
in heaven and on earth. So people are like, do you believe in a rapture?
Well, that's another conversation, but rapture means to be caught up,
and when you receive Christ, you literally had at least one rapture already.
Because you've already been caught up in heavenly places.
So Ephesians, well, maybe you need a verse for it someplace. I'm sure I have one.
Yeah, so verse two of Ephesians, I mean, chapter, sorry, chapter two of Ephesians,
verse six, he raised us up with him, past tense, he raised us up with him,
and seated us in heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that for the ages to come,
he might show the surpassing greatness of his grace towards us and kindness in Christ Jesus.
And chapter one, verse 22, he put all things in subjection under his feet,
and gave him as head over all things to the church. Okay, let's just look at this one more time.
He put all things in subjection under his feet. Remember, this is the metaphor of the body.
He's the head, all the way down to the feet. And he's saying, the least of the saints, the feet,
the feet, right? He put all things in subjection under his feet. He raised us up,
and then he put all things in subjection under his feet. It's just really simple. He's saying
that the least saint, the youngest brand new believer, is still over in the third heaven,
over the second heaven. Are you following me? And not only were you seated in heavenly places,
but I don't know how technical to get here, but when you were born, you were born a little
lower than the angels. But when you were born again, you were raised up above the angelic,
and in Hebrews one, that you were born under, you became born over, and they became, angels,
became the servants of those who receive salvation. Okay, so there are levels in the demonic realm
of authority, which we'll read in just a minute. You're so, and you know, from demons all the way
to principalities. Are you with me? And so at the top of the second heaven is principalities.
You're, not only are you over the principalities as a brand new believer, but in the third heaven,
there are also levels of authority. Are you with me? The angels, and also then you got the
archangels, and you are above all of those, and you're sitting with Christ in heavenly places. So
literally, everything that has authority is under your feet. Like this is important because
we have Christians running from demons who have been, have, are you with me? Been disarmed and
defeated. They have no arms or feet. If they were in your swimming pool, their name be Bob.
Okay, so let's give you a little theology. The devil has power, which is the Greek word
um, deutomus, something like that, deutomus. He, God, Jesus said, I'm going to give you power, deutomus,
over all the power of the enemy. So you're not, so he has a knife, you have a gun,
so you have more power. But in Matthew 28, Jesus said, all authority has been given to me.
This is the word exousia. Remember Acts chapter two, don't lead, I'm sorry, Acts chapter one,
don't leave Jerusalem until you receive power, deutomus, from on high. Okay, so he's like,
Hey, I don't want you to leave this.
to receive power from on high.
So you have power and authority.
Okay, so think about a police officer.
He has power, he has a gun.
But he has authority, he has a badge.
Are you with me?
The devil has no authority anymore.
When Jesus rose from the dead,
he took away authority by paying for our sins on the cross.
Are you with me?
So the only way the devil gets authority to use his power
is when we deputize him.
And one of the ways you deputize him, of course,
is to agree with him in sin or to fear him
because fear is faith in the wrong God.
Are you with me?
You can't be afraid without faith.
Think about it.
If a little boy comes up to me
and says, I'm gonna beat you up, I feel no anxiety.
You know why?
Because I believe him, right?
If a gangster comes up and says, I'm gonna beat you up,
I have anxiety, why?
Because I believe him.
Fear is faith in the wrong God.
And when I fear, I actually have transferred my authority
just as Adam did when he ate the wrong tree
to the enemy who God defeated, I just deputized.
Are you with me?
Okay, so you have authority over principalities
and powers and demons.
So now, if you have a Bible, which you probably do,
turn to Ephesians chapter six.
And I actually want you to look at verse 10 with me
because I wanna show you something in your Bibles.
So verse 10, finally be strong in the Lord
in the strength of his might, put on the full armor of God
so that you may be able to stand firm
against the schemes of the devil.
For our struggle is not against flesh and blood,
but against the, now, depending on what version
of the Bible you have, that first word,
my mind says, our struggle is not against flesh and blood,
but against rulers.
Some of yours will say principalities.
If you have a numeric, I mean, sorry, NIV,
King James, I think says principalities.
Look at the very first word.
Our struggle is not against flesh and blood,
but against, see the word in your Bible?
Okay, the actual Greek word is the word origin, O-R-G-I-N.
So they're translated all kinds of things in English,
but the actual Greek word is the word origin.
Are you with me?
So we'll read the rest of them against rulers,
against powers, against world forces of this darkness,
against spiritual forces of wickedness in heavenly places.
All right, I just wanna show you one thing.
Demons and the demonic realm is named
after the influence they have on humans.
So origin is not its name.
It's not like your name, like your name's Chris, my name's,
it's like naming a disease.
Are you following me?
So when Jesus cast out a deaf and dumb spirit,
the name of the spirit wasn't deaf and dumb.
They're named after the influence they have on humans.
So when the deaf and dumb spirit was cast out,
the boy could hear and talk, right?
Okay, so this spirit, this prince,
this is actually not a demon, this is actually a prince,
and his name is origin.
Why is his name origin?
Because his responsibility,
the principality's responsibility
is to question the origins of God.
Are you with me?
Okay, I wanna show you one other place
where this word is used.
And this is gonna sound like it doesn't make sense.
In Philippians 4.15, Paul writes,
"'You yourselves also know, Philippians,
"'that at my first preaching of the gospel,'
"'at my first preaching of the gospel.'"
This New American Standard says first preaching.
The two words first preaching
are actually the Greek word origin.
You're like, what are you trying to say?
I'm saying that when Paul said to the Philippians,
"'When I first came to you and first preached to you,'
Paul wasn't talking about,
"'Well, the first time I preached to you.'
He says to the Philippians,
"'When I laid the origins of God out,
"'when I came to you the first time,
"'I laid out all the origins of God.'"
That word origin is the same word, Ephesians 6.
This ruler is named origin.
Are you following me?
What I'm trying to show you is that there is.
a war over who shapes the mindsets
and ultimately crafts history.
This spirit says, this spirit origin is responsible
for questioning and redefining the origins of God.
It says things like, are you really created
in the image of God or are you an evolutionized ape?
That is not a scientific statement.
That is a spirit that says,
you weren't made in the image of God.
You're just an evolutionized amoeba.
And you're like, I believe in evolution.
Maybe you do, but you should think of the repercussions
of thinking you're just a smart ape.
And I'd like to point out, the Bible says
that your origin is actually traced back
to the likeness of God.
Seven times, God says in Genesis one,
seven times God says let us make birds
in their own image, in their own likeness.
Let us make cattle in their own likeness.
Let us make fish in their own likeness.
And six times, God says likeness, likeness, likeness
in their own likeness, after their own kind he says.
After their own kind, he says in New America Standard.
After their kind, after their kind, after their kind,
after their kind, after their kind.
Seven times he says after their kind.
The very next verse says, God says,
let us make man in our likeness.
Can I say God's saying let us, now he says
after the fish, after their kind,
the birds after their kind, the cattle after their kind.
In other words he's saying they can't cross pollinate.
Then God goes and let us make man in our likeness
and in our image.
What's God saying?
Let's make man after the God kind.
You are not an evolutionized ape.
God is your daddy.
He made you in his image and in case you didn't know this,
he also made you in his likeness.
You look like your daddy.
Ephesians 5.1, be imitators of God as beloved children.
When you act like God, you're being yourself.
Well I'm not supposed to be like God,
I'm supposed to be like Jesus.
Well you better think about who Jesus is.
Because God gave you an image in Jesus Christ
so you could become like Jesus who is God.
Because your daddy is God.
It's not, you know, it's not Godzilla.
It's not Fifi.
Are you with me?
You were made in the image of God.
Your DNA can be traced back to God.
Okay, this spirit of origin says,
is that really a baby?
Maybe it's a fetus.
I know I'm making some people mad
but right now I don't care.
If you can't figure out that a fetus is a baby,
you are under a spirit.
If you can't figure out that what you're carrying
in your womb is human,
you can't tell me that you believe in science.
You can't tell me you're trying to protect women's rights
when half of the babies you're carrying are female.
And you can't tell me that your argument is logical
because it is not logical.
You're under the spirit of origin
when something so logical seems ridiculous to you.
Are you really a boy?
Maybe you're a girl.
I'm not making political statements.
These aren't political statements.
If anything, these are scientific statements.
But my point is, is that when you argue science
with somebody who's under the spirit of origin,
you will never win that argument
because the root of their decision making,
of their reasoning is not first heaven.
I just need to say that again.
You can't win a second heaven argument
with a first heaven logical reasoning.
You can't.
It's why Supreme Court protects
like the smartest people in the world.
You got, you know, the Association of,
APA, you have the Association of Psychiatrists
actually saying that transgenderism is normal.
These are smart people that you and I.
might go to for counseling.
And then when they get under the Spirit in this one area,
this seems totally logical to them.
I'm like, really, a boy who thinks he's a girl
is not mentally ill.
But if I'm so skinny, you know, I have anorexia,
but I think I'm heavy, I'm mentally ill.
But if I think I'm a boy when I'm actually a girl,
I'm actually mentally healthy.
And I'm saying that the people who are supposed to help
those people get well,
because they need compassion and they need help.
They don't need judgment.
But the people who are supposed to help them get well,
they're under the Spirit.
And pretty soon you're like, who do I believe?
And I'm pointing out that when we make arguments
with those people, we make first heaven arguments with them.
And we leave frustrated because no matter what you say,
it doesn't change their mind
because their mind isn't their own.
There's a spiritual war over the mindset of the world.
It's being fought in an invisible,
yet tangible dimensions of three heavens.
Second and third are engaged in a huge struggle
over who will influence the first heaven.
I'm letting you just think about it from what I just said.
I'm not mad at anybody.
I'm not mad at gay people or transgender people
or people who think it's okay.
I'm not mad at anybody, I'm a passionate person.
And I realized that those people need love and compassion,
but they also need truth.
Well, you have your truth, I have my truth.
Yes, but our truth, when I jump off here,
I'm probably gonna go down.
100 times out of 100, if I jump off a roof
with no equipment, I'm going to go down.
That's not your truth or my truth, that's the truth.
It's called gravity.
There is the truth.
Your truth doesn't override the truth.
You never break the law, it only breaks you.
When God says don't, there's always a reason.
God created sex, he created orgasms,
he created taste buds, he created fun.
God created all that.
Like, God's not the cosmic killjoy.
I mean, can you imagine what it would be like
if you had children through laying an egg
and had sat on it for nine months?
I mean, how many would be here?
I mean, orgasm was God's idea.
I'm not being gross.
That was God's idea.
God doesn't get the credit for that.
It was God's idea to make that fun.
This is God's idea.
God himself says he loves the pleasure of his people.
So when God says, hey, don't do it that way,
God is like, he's trying to take away my fun.
He created the Disneyland you love to go to.
That was discreet.
That was discreet, right Ben?
That was pretty discreet.
Very discreet.
For a guy who started Moral Revolution,
I thought that was very discreet.
Oh, I have eight minutes.
I'm only on page two of the 17 pages.
So, God is saying, hey, don't do it that way.
So, here's the deal.
Revelation four, Jesus is talking to John the apostle.
You with me?
And he says to John, come up here.
And John said, I was in the spirit on the Lord's day.
Come up here and I'll show you
what must take place after these things.
What I'm getting at is that when we sit
in our heavenly seat, come up here,
our heavenly seat gives us eternal perspectives.
So, we see things not as they are, but as they should be.
And then we pray and our prayers become prophecies
and our words become worlds.
Are you with me?
And what I'm, listen, if you don't hear anything else
I have to say today, I'm saying,
we live on earth and in heaven.
The question is, do we live from earth towards heaven?
Or do we live, come up here, come up here,
or do we live from heaven towards earth?
Listen, if you're not careful,
you'll remember the theology and not get the experience
of what I'm trying to say.
I'm saying, if we come up here and we live.
from heaven towards earth, right?
Now, I'm not under the circumstances.
I'm over the circumstances.
Because when I live from earth towards heaven,
I'm always, get the word always,
I'm always living in reaction to what's already happened.
Which by the way, there's going to be a lot of that.
I get that.
I'm praying for the person who's already sick.
I'm praying for the person who's already demonized.
I'm praying for my country who are in a problem.
I get that.
I don't mean don't do that.
But when that's all I do,
I'm actually living from earth towards heaven,
and I'm living in reaction
to what the second heaven already did.
But if I come up here,
and I begin to dictate by the power and authority
of Jesus Christ, of course, and the mind of the Lord,
I begin to dictate history.
Now, the enemy's in the defensive position
because I am directing history as the Holy Spirit leads
and guides me through my prayers and prophecies.
And I begin to say, my nation shall prosper.
My children, my children shall all be taught of the Lord.
And I begin to call things that are not,
maybe, maybe they're not, as though they are, right?
Remember, we talked about foretelling
is I'm telling the future,
but foretelling is I'm causing the future.
I'm going down to the valley of dry bones,
Ezekiel 37, so to speak,
and God says, can these bones live?
And I go, I don't know.
You know.
And God says, prophesy, get this,
prophesy to the bones.
I'm not prophesying about the bones,
I'm prophesying to the bones.
This is foretelling.
And God gives me a progressive revelation
about the bones, right?
First he said, first the bones stand up,
and then they rattle, then I get sinews,
then we get flesh, then finally we have breath.
You get the idea.
I'm saying it's progressive revelation,
it's progressive prophecy.
I didn't get it all at once,
and I'm progressively prophesying,
and it becomes a mighty army.
And the challenge is, is that most of us,
I'll say all of us, because we include everyone in this room,
we get under the circumstances,
and we start repeating what the news says.
You know, whatever you eat comes out in your crap.
That was scientifically true.
Your crap tells me what you're feeding on.
My, yeah, a little too, like, okay, change the metaphors.
I'm pointing out that what goes,
what's coming out of our mouth
is often what we're feeding on.
And so I listened to the president,
and he just got, you know, whatever.
DEA or whatever, they broke into his house,
and pretty soon I'm mad, and I'm like,
I repeat that, and I'm like, I'm under the circumstances.
I'm angry, the media has told me what to think.
I watch the news, not just to hear what happened,
but for someone to tell me, what should I think about that?
Was that good or bad?
Is that right or wrong?
And I'm like, I'm literally,
the second heaven is literally feeding me their information,
and I am complaining,
and I'm taking the anointing on my life,
and I'm digging the bones deeper into the ground
and calling it prayer, and complaining is in prayer.
Complaining is to the devil what worship is to God.
When I see something, I don't like to watch the news anymore.
I do read the headlines quite a bit,
and I'm like, all right, Lord, what do you think about that?
And maybe the Lord's like, I wanna rebuke that,
I wanna help that, I wanna pray for former President Trump,
I wanna pray for President Biden.
No, President Biden can't put two words together.
Lord, I just pray for him, 79 years old, he's my president.
God, I pray you'd change his mind,
that you would, you know, whatever, whatever.
I'm not praying at him, but I am, Lord.
He have an encounter.
Lord, let him know the truth in this area.
Lord, support him.
Lord, 79 years old, leading the country.
Lord, I pray for strength for him.
I pray for wisdom, Lord, I pray.
Lord, you put prophets in his life
to lead our country out of immorality and into purity.
Lord, you see where I'm going, I'm like.
I could get under that spirit, and you know how I feel about morality, I started a moral revolution.
I mean, I could really get in the complaint mode when it comes to moral issues.
Especially when it's affecting my children and my grandchildren, I could get really pissed.
You just get me started.
And now I'm just feeding the ecosystem of hatred and bitterness.
And I want to tell you, the devil hates Republicans.
The devil hates Democrats.
The devil hates conservatives.
He also hates liberals.
He hates humans.
He doesn't care what side of the aisle they're on in your country or in mine.
He just hates them because they were made in the image of God.
And he said, I will be like God.
And God said, no you won't.
He said, I will rise up to the assembly of the Trinity.
And God said, no you won't.
And then he said to us, I'll make you in my image, and I'll raise you up and seat you in heavenly places.
The devil hates you because you have what he wanted.
By the way, have you ever thought about why God put the devil and you on the same planet?
I mean, why not put the devil on Jupiter?
Or Pluto, or some other universe would be fine with me.
He didn't put the devil here to torment you.
He put the devil here to torment him.
Do you know that?
The lake of fire was never made for humans.
Before humans ever sinned, angels sinned.
And God gave them no redemption plan.
And when you sin, God goes, I'm even going to give them a redemption plan.
And the devil's like, you favor them.
And God's like, I do.
I do.
You're going to bruise their heel, and they're going to crush your head.
And this is the sentence over Satan.
I'm going to take away your authority, and I'm going to leave you alive with people who hate you.
And by the way, do you know who is carrying hatred for the devil more than anyone?
Women.
You know why?
Because that's what the curse over the devil was.
I'm going to put enmity between your seed and her seed.
Enmity means anger, bitterness, hatred.
He's saying, here's the curse over the devil, not the woman.
The woman is going to hate you forever.
She's going to teach her seed to hate you.
When they come out of the womb, they're going to step on you so hard,
they're going to bruise their heel and crush your head.
Do you know why the devil hates women?
Because he knows that if women get in power, he's in deep trouble.
Because hatred for the devil is inherent in women.
If you think I'm wrong, go read Genesis 3.
That's the curse.
I read it as the curse over women for years.
And then when I was writing the book Fashion to Reign, I realized,
oh, the curse over the devil is that the woman is going to be eternally angry with you.
I'm going to put hostility, not between the man and you,
between the woman and you.
That's why any time you call the intercessors together in any church,
if 100 intercessors come, 70 of them are women.
Well, it's just a feminine thing.
No, it's a violent thing, and they are violent against the devil.
Now you want me to keep preaching, but my time is up.
You guys have to have a break.
At this point, you're only going to get a few minutes.
You were born to be more than a conqueror.
Listen to me now.
You are not a victim.
Please stop acting like one.
The church is inherently victimized.
I know, I'm going to offend you with my example.
Oh, they wouldn't let us in the churches.
Our church is over.
Listen, if they can keep you out of a church building,
and you no longer have a church, you didn't have one.
In the first place.
I know, I just made half of you mad.
I did it on purpose.
I was trying to make you realize, like, you are not a victim.
You are the victor.
You are not the little guy.
It's not my little light of mine.
I'm going to make it shine.
You don't have a little light.
You have the sun of righteousness.
S-U-N, sun of righteousness.
We've got to get out of it.
We're just powerless people hiding over here in a corner,
hoping the big guy doesn't get us.
That's just bull crap.
Well, in the last days, you know, the church is going to get brighter and brighter and
the world is going to get darker and darker until Jesus gets back.
Well, that's funny because you're called the light of the world, not the light of the church.
I'm telling you, the devil is twisting our theology against us in a way that makes us
feel good about the world getting darker.
Well, it's just a sign of the times.
No, it's a sign that you're not doing your job.
Can you imagine being the janitor and singing songs about how bad the place looks after
you're done?
This crappy little sanctuary looks so dirty.
Like that's not a revival song.
That's a song about how poorly you're doing your job.
You're a light of the world.
You're the salt of the earth.
It's your job to destroy the works of the devil.
You've been called to disciple nations, not just disciple people in nations, to disciple
the nations.
There's someone else trying to disciple the nations.
That's what this message is about.
You're in a war with the second heaven.
You got to come up here or you're going to get your butts kicked down here.
And we're living down here and we're like, yeah, I believe in a devil.
And every time I get anything sick, anything, and I'm not saying there isn't first heaven
problems.
There obviously is.
But every time anything bad happens, I go to the doctor before I go to the great physician
because I really don't believe that spirits can actually affect me.
Then I go to Africa and they're like, they got witch doctors.
They got the same stuff everywhere.
Just the Africans know about it and you don't.
You can't smart yourself out of demonic activity.
You can't educate yourself out of a demonic spirit.
Those people over there are just not educated.
They know more than you do.
Hopefully that's not true.
Well that was a bad prophecy, Chris.
There it is.
See how it felt to be cursed?
So I'm going to pray for you right now.
Now you only have a 10 minute break.
Holy Spirit, you should stand up.
You should stand up on your chair.
Stand up on your chair.
Come up here.
Come on, you guys.
You're online.
You should stand up on your chair.
Come up here.
Okay, I commission you as an apostolic prophetic people to live up here.
Amen.
God bless.
You have until 345, which now is nine minutes.
And sorry, you encouraged me, so you got a shorter break.