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Hey guys and welcome back to the salt not sweetener

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podcast. I am your host Danielle Townsend and

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Today we are going to be discussing prophets

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Prophetic words. What does it look like? To be

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used by God What does it look like To be used

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by God to speak things to people What does it

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look like? when God uses someone else to speak

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something into your life. What does it look like

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to move by faith after you've received a prophetic

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word? What does it look like to be used by God

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to give a prophetic word? How do you discern

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what is from God and what isn't from God? This

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is the topic I feel God leading me to touch on

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today. And I just want to stop for a moment and

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pray that the Holy Spirit speaks through me to

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you. And that God's will is done. through this

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podcast episode today, and that this blesses

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you, guides you, convicts you, reveals something

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to you in whatever way God has intended it to.

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Amen. Now, I want to start with the very basic

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definition I could come up with for a prophet.

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What is a prophet? And that is a messenger of

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God. You know, God has a message to get out.

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He has something he wants to speak. And he uses

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someone else to be the mouthpiece here on earth.

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A prophet of God is someone speaking God's message.

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Now I want to be very clear that that doesn't

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mean that the thing that the prophet speaks,

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the person that God is using to speak. is gonna

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feel all warm and fuzzy every single time. I

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think modern day we have like a misconception

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that every time someone speaks a word from God,

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it's gonna be something that's about how you're

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gonna be financially blessed or your enemies

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are gonna be conquered or all these things. When

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we think of prophetic words, or just words from

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God, we think about things that are gonna make

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us feel good and encouraged and hyped up and

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warm and fuzzy. And that's just not true. We

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see many times in the Bible where God is using

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prophets to rebuke, to warn, to speak about God's

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wrath when the warnings are not heeded, when

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the warnings are not listened to. But we also

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see how God will use prophets, amen, to speak

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about blessing, to speak about hope. We see that

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with Hannah and Panina, right? Hannah's emotionally

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going through it. She spent years of being infertile.

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She spent years of feeling like crap by her husband's

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second wife because she's not able to have kids

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and she runs into the temple and she lays it

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all out before the Lord. And Eli is in the temple

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and he hears and at first he thinks she's drunk

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and he calls her out and he's like, girl, why

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are you in here all drunk? How much longer are

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you gonna be drunk for? And when she speaks to

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him, no, like... I'm just so heavily emotional.

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And this is right after she makes a commitment

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to God of saying, God, if you give me a son,

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I will give him back to you like his life will

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be dedicated to you. He'll never cut his hair.

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And Eli looks at her and says, may God grant

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your request. And in that moment, God was speaking

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through him and confirming to her that he had

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heard her. and that in his timing, her prayer

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would be answered. And we see that later on,

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God did do it. God did bless her with a son,

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and she did keep her word and dedicate that son

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to the Lord. And we also see how she moved by

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faith, right? When she left that temple because

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she believed that God was gonna do it, she had

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a peace. And she moved by faith, meaning she

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wasn't expecting God to do all the heavy lifting.

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She wasn't sitting at home for months expecting

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just like a miraculous birth. She wasn't expecting

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like a merry moment. She did her part of having

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intimate time with her husband and trusting that

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in God's timing he was going to bless that. We

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see with Moses, where God speaks to Moses, we

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have the burning bush situation, when God speaks

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about the deliverance of the Israelites. and

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calls Moses to go and speak to Pharaoh, to rebuke

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Pharaoh, to warn Pharaoh. And we see how God

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moves off of that and delivers the people. And

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we also see how Moses is later on used to rebuke

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the Israelites when they start acting a fool,

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when they start acting a bit messy. Look at Noah.

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who received a word directly from the Lord about

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a flood that was going to come way later on.

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And Noah had faith in what he heard from God.

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He believed that God's word was true. And that

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didn't feel warm and fuzzy, hearing that God

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was going to flood the earth and that he had

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to build a giant boat. He had to build a giant

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ark. I'm sure that didn't make him feel all warm

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and fuzzy inside, but he believed it. he had

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a desire to obey God and he feared the Lord so

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he listened to the moves of faith God was calling

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him to make which was building the ark and his

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life and his family's was saved in the process

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God is known to speak through people and to speak

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to people we were given the Holy Spirit when

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Jesus Christ died resurrected And when he came

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back and left, he left us the helpmate. He left

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us the helper, just the Holy Spirit, God's Spirit

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dwelling within each and every one of us. And

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the Holy Spirit's job, y 'all, is actually to

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guide us, to convict us, to raise that little

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red flag inside of us of when something isn't

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right and we're not supposed to do that thing.

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The Holy Spirit is actually what reveals things

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in the Spirit to us, things that we can't see.

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When a situation looks fine on the surface level,

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but the Holy Spirit is revealing to us, no, there's

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something off with us or something not right.

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And you listen to the Holy Spirit and later on

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you see that that prompting, that guidance was

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correct. The Holy Spirit reveals, the Holy Spirit

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convicts, the Holy Spirit helps us discern. God

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speaks to us today through the Holy Spirit. It's

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not absurd or unheard of for people to hear from

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God today. That's why we were given the Holy

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Spirit. That's why we were made a dwelling place

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for the Holy Spirit and God is still speaking

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through people today. God speaks to us when we

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read scripture. God speaks to us in our prayer

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time with him. God speaks through dreams. God

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still speaks. And God will speak through other

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people to you, especially when you're having

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a hard time listening. the Holy Spirit or you're

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outright rejecting the Holy Spirit speaking from

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experience and also Seeing a lot of other people

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experience it So we're going to step into an

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example of that in the book of Jeremiah Jeremiah

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was a prophet who was sent to warn a group of

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people who were really racking up God's wrath

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God was giving them a lot of chances. A lot of

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opportunities to turn from their sin. A lot of

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opportunities to flee. But these people were

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unrepentant. And these people had hardened hearts.

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And Jeremiah wasn't the first. Fun fact, before

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God sent Jeremiah, God had sent other People

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to convict and to reveal Jeremiah wasn't the

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first God had other people and He would send

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these people to them and What they would do is

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they would rebuke They would correct they would

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say hey you're doing this and this goes against

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God's Word. This is angering God This is going

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against God But these people were also listening

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to false prophets who said things that were sweet

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to their ears So they were also entertaining

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voices that said God can't be mad at you. God's

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grace is, you know, endless. God's actually angry

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at everybody else. You're not the problem. What

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you're doing is defensible. What you're doing

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is fine. And they chose to listen to those voices.

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And they would actually take out the people that

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God was sending. Kick them to the curb. Take

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them down. Whatever. They were offended. And

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in their anger, in their fear, in their intense

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emotions, they would strike them down. And in

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that moment, they were rejecting God's conviction.

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They were rejecting God. When you reject a prophet

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from God, you're rejecting God. So by the time

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Jeremiah was sent, there was already a track

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record. There was already a history of hardened

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hearts and rejecting. But God still sent Jeremiah

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to them. And they also chose not to listen to

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Jeremiah. So we see at first Jeremiah is used

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to rebuke, right? He's used to go in and say,

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hey, this is a sin. You're doing this. You're

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doing that. You're doing this. And all of these

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things are displeasing the God. You need to stop.

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He's pointing out to him, you have a pattern.

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And this needs to stop. You're unrepentant. But

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they chose not to listen to that they chose to

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listen to and we see a lot of people modern -day

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say this all the time Saying only God can judge

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me God loves me God this God that you know what

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God is gonna judge you It's being covered in

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the blood of Jesus is the only thing that's gonna

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protect you on that day and Those who believe

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in him will do the works that he does His sheep

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know his voice God does love you, but he does

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not love the sin God did create you But he expects

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you to deny your flesh to take up your cross

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Jesus doesn't call you to clean yourself up before

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you come to him but once you come to him you're

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supposed to allow him to clean you up and to

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clean up your life you should be different after

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coming to Jesus you should be changed you should

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be developing groups of the spirit these things

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should be happening and see Jeremiah was calling

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that out Jeremiah was calling that out where

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y 'all y 'all clearly don't fear the lord if

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you did you wouldn't be doing these things And

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because they didn't listen to that, God started

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using him to prophesy about the wrath that was

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coming. At first he was a warning, and then he

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was prophesying the wrath, and he started telling

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them about how y 'all are gonna be, your enemies

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are gonna overtake you, and you're gonna be dispersed

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from your land, you're gonna have this loss,

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you're gonna have this hardship. They still didn't

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want to listen. And then when that was going

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down, he started telling them, now y 'all are

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gonna have to serve your enemies. for years like

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this isn't an easy immediate deliverance now

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y 'all are going to have to serve your enemies

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for years and you're going to have to be in that

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position so jeremiah was also being used to prophesy

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about god's wrath and the consequences they were

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going to face for their hardened hearts and their

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refusal to repent but we also see That there

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wasn't an absolute condemnation in this right

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because there was still a bit of hope Because

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we see up near the end where Jeremiah is starting

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to prophesy that there will be a time when these

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people will come to repentance and see that they

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need God and Submit to God and fear God and when

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that happens God will flip the situation. He

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will he will bring them back to the land that

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they were dispersed from. They will be able to

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conquer over their enemies that they were made

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to serve. We see how God declares a restoration

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in lieu of their repentance. Repentance was key

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here, that that wasn't going to happen until

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they truly feared God and submitted to God. Remember

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y 'all that God knows your heart, He knows your

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mind, He knows your intentions, which means He

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knows when you're faking it. He knows when your

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faith isn't legit. He knows when you're just,

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you're trying to fake the fruits. He knows when

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you're just doing something for like an end goal

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of something that isn't Christ -like. He knows.

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But I want to be so clear with this y 'all of

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God uses, God will use prophets to declare blessing.

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to bring about confirmation, but he also uses

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prophets. He speaks through people to bring about

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conviction and rebukes. And when those are unheard,

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to reveal what the wrath, what the consequences

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look like. And he also uses them to speak about

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hope and restoration. You know, I can't tell

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you how many conversations I've had with people

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when people are being corrected by their brothers

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and sisters in Christ. And there's an offense.

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and they're like you can't tell me anything you're

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not perfect like who are you to say something

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to me you know make sure that you take that log

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out of your own eye before you point out my splinter

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which that is scriptural you know before you

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sit there and consistently pick at a brother

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and sister make sure you're not living in that

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same sin make sure that you're not also being

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lukewarm make sure that you're not also living

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that same type of lifestyle because yeah how

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are how are you about to go and convict and correct

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when you are also living that kind of lifestyle.

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And I'll let you in on something, y 'all. That

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being used by God usually comes along with walking

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in obedience and submitting to Him. Because in

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order to be used by God, in order to be used

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as a mouthpiece by God, you have to fear God

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more than you fear Him. You have to fear God

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more than you desire to please other people because

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the things that God is going to call you to speak

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The things that God is gonna call you to rebuke

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the things that God is gonna call you to say

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isn't gonna make everybody happy It's actually

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gonna make some people angry. It's actually gonna

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make some people uncomfortable. It's gonna make

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some people feel called out And if you have a

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fear for how people are going to respond or react

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If you have more of a desire to be liked and

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to be well received, more than you fear God,

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you'll find yourself stopping. You'll find yourself

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watering down God's messages. You'll find yourself

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saying no to God. Because what if these people

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get mad? What if these people take this from

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me? What if I lose this? What if I lose that?

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God has already planned for it. If you lose that

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thing, if Whatever you're worried about happens

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as a result of you obeying God. Trust that if

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you need it, who replace it, and it'll be a lot

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better. God has already planned for whatever

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you'll lose or gain according to your obedience.

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But someone needs to hear this today, is being

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used by God to declare something, to rebuke,

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to warn. Being used by God as a mouthpiece doesn't

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mean you're going to be well -liked or well -received.

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Some of the things you say may be liked or well

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received but there's gonna be a lot of things

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that also will not be Because you're kind of

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like a walking correction And not many people

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like that not many people feel good when they're

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confronted with the truth Demon squirm They get

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angry at the truth And you know, there are lots

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of people I hear say, well, if God has a problem

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with it, then He'll just have to say something

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to me directly. And I want to ask you this question,

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what if He is and you are not listening? We see

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how He speaks to people. We see in the Bible

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how God will use prophets. God will use other

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people. He will use those conversations. Have

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you found that multiple people keep kind of pointing

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out the sin or correcting you. Is that God trying

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to get through to you? Fellow Christians, people

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who know scripture, people who live by the word

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telling you, hey, you can't keep doing that.

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Hey, this is a sin. Hey, this goes against God's

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word. Hey, maybe you keep running into this problem

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because you're willfully living in this. Is that

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God speaking to you? Do you have the conviction?

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Do you have that knowing that feeling of like

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this isn't right and you do it anyway? You know

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at first the conviction is really loud But when

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you get used to ignoring the conviction long

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enough or defending your sin long enough that

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voice starts to get a lot more quiet And before

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you know it you're comfortable and said is God

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speaking through other people to you Because

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you refuse to listen to the conviction. Because

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you defend it away. Because you're not accepting

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the guidance from the Holy Spirit. Are you even

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opening yourself up to hear from God? Are you

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asking and truly receiving and truly being open

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to hearing God to say no? And I say this from

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a loving place, a lot of people have a humility

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issue. I did for the longest time and I'm not

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perfect in this. But there was a long time running

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when I was living in willful sin and I refused

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to listen to the correction from the Lord because

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I was not in a humble enough space. I felt like

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I could defend what I was doing. I felt like

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my sin was helpful and justifiable. And because

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I felt like it was justifiable, because I felt

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like I wasn't a bad person, I ignored the conviction.

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I ignored the people God was sending I ignored

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like literally I was ignoring the people God

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was sending and then next thing you know I was

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seeing different the same scripture was hunting

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me down on social media or I kept running into

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the same messages or I felt like I kept running

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into the same life lesson and I didn't realize

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that God was even trying to speak to me in those

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ways and I was still ignoring it that was a hardened

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heart and eventually he had to get through to

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me through pain and suffering So I wanted to

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clarify to y 'all that a prophet and prophetic

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words don't always sound good or feel good. Truth

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doesn't always sound good and feel good. So if

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you're someone who's being used as a mouthpiece

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by the Lord, I want to say this to you, that

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you have to fear God more than you fear man.

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You have to have a desire to please God more

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than you do to please others. You have to be

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prepared to deny yourself and take up your cross

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because obeying God is sometimes going to put

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you in some pretty uncomfortable situations.

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And you also have to trust in His ability to

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provide for you. Because if you fear, oh no,

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if I do this, I might lose this, I might lose

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that, that'll stop you right then and there.

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You can't fear that. But I also want to tell

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you that there is a reason why we are called

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to correct people gently. You can speak with

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an authority and also not be hateful and angry

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A kind word turns away wrath You can speak with

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an authority you can speak in truth and not be

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hateful How many times when Jesus was being called

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a false this, a blasphemer, he was being slandered,

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all of these things, and he wasn't calling names

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back. He wasn't like threatening back. He wasn't

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going out of his way to like gaslight and do

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all these crazy things. He was speaking the truth

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with an authority. He wasn't backing down on

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the truth, but he still spoke with love. And

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this is kind of leading into my next point. I

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know someone needs to hear this. You will not

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have to force a prophetic word from God into

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happening. If God has spoken it, you do not have

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to force it. I will say this though. A prophetic

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word from the Lord is an invitation into prayer

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and moving by faith. When God gives you a word

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that is an invitation to start praying to Him,

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To guide you to guide your steps to protect the

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promise. It's an invitation to prayer And also

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is an invitation to move by faith like for example

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Hannah and Panina Hannah was given That prophetic

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word from Eli and what did she do when she went

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home? She had intimate time with her husband

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and moved by faith Noah he believed God's Word

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when God said that he was gonna He was going

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to flood the earth, so what know I do? He built

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the ark like God told him to. Moses believed

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that God was going to deliver the Israelites,

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so he had the courage to go to Pharaoh. Joseph

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received word from God not to go back. That,

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you know, the king was about to start killing

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babies right after baby Jesus was born. So by

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faith, he moved away. The wise men who had just

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left the King to go in search of Jesus had made

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a promise to yeah We'll come back to you King

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and tell you about the baby and everything believing

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that the King wanted to worship Jesus But when

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they received word from the Lord don't trust

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that King. He's a liar Do not go back They moved

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by faith knowing that maybe the King could have

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taken them out the King could have gotten angry

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All these other things could happen. They trusted

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in God's guidance not to go back Receiving a

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word from the Lord doesn't mean you do absolutely

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nothing and sit on your hands. God expects us

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to move by faith. But that is where prayer comes

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in, is praying to God of God, what steps do you

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want me to take? It's not about what steps we

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think we should take, what steps we want to take.

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I know I made this mistake a lot when I first

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started recognizing I was receiving prophetic

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words from the Lord I took that as an invitation

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for me to like force it or that God was giving

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me this word and he was expecting me to just

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like strong arm it and like force my way through

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it so like when I would feel he was giving me

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a word I'd be like okay what are the active steps

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I can take to get toward to this position What

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are the active steps I could take to achieve

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this thing and start taking them? And I would

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see pretty quick it honestly kind of like backfire

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on me or like not seeing any fruit. And those

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were learning lessons for me of that was me executing

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my own will. A prophetic word from the Lord isn't

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something that we're meant to be able to do or

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create on our own. It's something that we can

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do with God. by listening to his prompting and

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his guiding. So if God gives you, for example,

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a promise of marriage, that's not him saying,

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okay, now I want you to go out and date every

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single person you can find and try to get married

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as quickly as possible and all these things.

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And God reveals that to you. That is now your

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invitation to start praying to God of God. How

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can I prepare for this? What do you need to do

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in me? What steps do I need to take? Like do

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you want me to be open to dating? Do you want

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me and if God wants you to go out on a date or

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to do something and his timing he will guide

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you he will reveal that to you but I'll tell

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you that the the best way to see God's words

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come to pass is seeking first God and his kingdom.

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When you focus in on your relationship with Christ

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When you focus in on just spending time with

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the Lord and being in His presence, you're going

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to be listening to His guidance and His nudges

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more. You're going to see a lot more work towards

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the promise, towards the prophetic word. You're

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going to see a lot more progress when you are

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just focusing on submitting to God and your relationship

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with Him instead of trying to pursue that promise

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or that prophetic word. I can speak from true

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experience that I never saw the fulfillment of

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those words when I was purposely trying to achieve

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it, meaning like when I was going out of my way

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to take all these steps and I was constantly

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fixing and focusing on it. Actually, when I look

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back, the fulfillment and seeing the fruit of

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these prophetic words was a lot of little steps

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that added up together. And when God was calling

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me to take these little steps, these moves of

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faith, I wasn't even thinking of how it was going

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to contribute to that promise. Honestly, most

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of the time when I was taking those steps, I

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didn't know why God was calling me to take those

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steps or do those things. I just knew he was

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telling me to do it. And it wasn't until I really

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saw the fulfillment where I would look back and

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see, oh, this is how all these things work together

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for my good. Want to give you an example of someone

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who tried to force the promise someone who tried

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to force the prophecy Abraham He wanted a son

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He received the promise that he was gonna be

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the father of nations. He already had a wife

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And it was decades and he had yet to see that

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promise be filled And when him and his wife were

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talking they started To think well, you know,

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God only said Abraham was gonna be the father

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of nations. He never said he had to have those

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kids with Sarah So, why don't we why don't we

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just hook him up with the handmade Hagar? We're

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not technically going you know, because it's

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still Abraham being the father I Want to be so

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clear with y 'all one way that you'll know a

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word isn't from the Lord Even if it sounds good

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to your ears, even if it sounds like everything

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you want A word from the Lord is not going to

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go against Scripture. Is not going to go against

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Scripture. There are a lot of people who are

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unfortunately believing false words, believing

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false prophets, when if you held that prophetic

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word up to Scripture, it goes against God's Word.

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It goes against what we see in the Bible. God

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will not go against His Word. And what's one

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thing God doesn't approve of? adultery. And what

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did Adam end up doing? Committing adultery. He

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ended up having intimacy with a woman that was

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not his wife and expecting God to bless that.

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And we can see that sure he had a child, but

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that wasn't the child that God was speaking of.

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He actually picked up a lot more unnecessary

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suffering in that period. Because now he had

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to deal with hey Hagar and Sarah had the worst

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drama And now he was having to deal with all

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their drama and all their problems. We see Hagar

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She is unfortunately like being damaged in this

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situation She's being abused and mistreated by

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Sarah and she runs away with the child and then

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there are arguments over the inheritance like

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it's Because Abraham He received the word from

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God and he got tired of waiting. He started looking

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for repulse. And because he did that, he picked

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up things that were not intended for the promise,

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for the prophetic word, and he endured unnecessary

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suffering, unnecessary problems. And we do see

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that when he repented and got back on track,

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God did bless him. But someone needs to hear

00:31:19.259 --> 00:31:21.180
that today. A word from the Lord is not going

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to contradict Scripture. God isn't going to tell

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you to slander, to lie, to deceive, to manipulate.

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He's not going to tell you to fornicate, to be

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an adulterer, to covet, to give in to greed and

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envy. He's not going to tell you to do witchcraft.

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He's not going to tell you to take revenge into

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your own hands. If you're receiving a prophetic

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word and it's telling you to do these different

00:31:47.039 --> 00:31:50.039
things, it's not from God. And here's the next

00:31:50.039 --> 00:31:52.299
step to how to know if something is from God

00:31:52.299 --> 00:31:55.480
is take it to God. You receive a word pray about

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it. Take it to God. Say, God, is this from you?

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Please confirm to me if this is from you and

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be open to hearing and receiving and be open

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to hearing from God. No, this isn't from me.

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Take it to God. Hold it up to scripture. And

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y 'all know, I'm sure you've heard the scripture

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quote multiple times, I believe it's Isaiah,

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which is like, God's word will not return void.

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Sometimes when someone receives a word and they

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don't see it happen, like that day or that month,

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or even that year, they believe it was false,

00:32:34.019 --> 00:32:38.220
it was a lie. Sometimes God's word takes years.

00:32:39.539 --> 00:32:42.000
long time. We see that with Abraham in his decades.

00:32:42.339 --> 00:32:45.519
Look at Joseph. When Joseph was young, God gave

00:32:45.519 --> 00:32:47.880
him a vision of his brothers bowing down to him

00:32:47.880 --> 00:32:49.500
and that he was going to be in a position of

00:32:49.500 --> 00:32:52.960
power. But then soon after that, Joseph was in

00:32:52.960 --> 00:32:55.960
jail and sold to slavery and all these things.

00:32:56.180 --> 00:33:00.160
It was decades before he was in that prominent

00:33:00.160 --> 00:33:04.019
place and the vision from the Lord was fulfilled.

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It is true that God's Word will not return void,

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but some people are very quick to close the door.

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There are some things that God will show you

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years before, way before, to get you rooted in

00:33:22.720 --> 00:33:25.180
that promise, to get you to start moving by faith.

00:33:30.420 --> 00:33:36.000
God isn't a God to lie, and He is never. He's

00:33:36.000 --> 00:33:38.900
never going to ask you to do things that go against

00:33:38.900 --> 00:33:41.680
his word y 'all when I was in new age I listened

00:33:41.680 --> 00:33:44.079
to a lot of false prophecies and a lot of false

00:33:44.079 --> 00:33:46.359
words there were people who are claiming that

00:33:46.359 --> 00:33:48.680
they were Christian and They were saying things

00:33:48.680 --> 00:33:51.480
that I was totally believing but it was it was

00:33:51.480 --> 00:33:54.500
crazy once I started reading my Bible every day

00:33:54.500 --> 00:33:57.380
and once I started having a Christian worldview

00:33:57.380 --> 00:34:01.509
and I started getting having like my theology

00:34:01.509 --> 00:34:04.509
was sound I started realizing a lot of things

00:34:04.509 --> 00:34:06.890
these people are saying go against God's word

00:34:06.890 --> 00:34:10.070
or go against God's character like I remember

00:34:10.070 --> 00:34:12.150
and this one was crazy that there was this prophetic

00:34:12.150 --> 00:34:14.730
word that this guy kept speaking over prophetic

00:34:14.730 --> 00:34:18.030
in quotation marks that claimed to be a follower

00:34:18.030 --> 00:34:20.789
of Christ that was speaking multiple times over

00:34:20.789 --> 00:34:23.469
again years ago that I was listening to and he

00:34:23.469 --> 00:34:26.840
kept saying a thing of you know God gave them

00:34:26.840 --> 00:34:28.760
a lot of chances and they refused to repent.

00:34:28.780 --> 00:34:30.900
So God's taking all their spiritual gifts and

00:34:30.900 --> 00:34:35.320
giving them to these people and Things like that

00:34:35.320 --> 00:34:37.860
because I wasn't theologically sound I believe

00:34:37.860 --> 00:34:39.619
those things it was later on when I was reading

00:34:39.619 --> 00:34:44.699
the Bible where I was like The gifts can't be

00:34:44.699 --> 00:34:47.719
taken Like these are gifts. These are spiritual

00:34:47.719 --> 00:34:51.940
gifts that you are born with God doesn't take

00:34:52.550 --> 00:34:55.429
spiritual gifts from somebody and throw them

00:34:55.429 --> 00:34:59.469
on to someone else as a punishment. Will God

00:34:59.469 --> 00:35:03.510
stop speaking to people in seasons? Like if someone's

00:35:03.510 --> 00:35:06.610
a prophet and they're displeasing to God, God

00:35:06.610 --> 00:35:09.769
will stop giving them prophecy. God will stop

00:35:09.769 --> 00:35:17.489
blessing things like 100%. But when I when I

00:35:17.489 --> 00:35:21.139
started really having a sound theology, I started

00:35:21.139 --> 00:35:23.320
seeing, wow, if I really compared these things

00:35:23.320 --> 00:35:26.280
to scripture, I would start seeing that this

00:35:26.280 --> 00:35:29.699
doesn't align with God's character. This doesn't

00:35:29.699 --> 00:35:31.920
align with God's word. Interesting enough, it

00:35:31.920 --> 00:35:34.300
ended up coming out. That person ended up marrying

00:35:34.300 --> 00:35:37.199
a witch and came out that they actually did a

00:35:37.199 --> 00:35:39.699
lot of witchcraft and things like that. And God's

00:35:39.699 --> 00:35:42.760
timing, the false words from that person were

00:35:42.760 --> 00:35:47.559
even exposed to the public. Trust in God's ability.

00:35:49.240 --> 00:35:52.260
To move things around trusting God's ability

00:35:52.260 --> 00:35:55.199
to expose Trusting God's ability to shuffle things

00:35:55.199 --> 00:35:57.320
around this leads me into speaking about David

00:35:57.320 --> 00:35:59.880
because look at David David was anointed to be

00:35:59.880 --> 00:36:03.719
king when he was still a young shepherd boy Just

00:36:03.719 --> 00:36:06.059
because God has anointed you with something doesn't

00:36:06.059 --> 00:36:09.800
mean it's your time to step into that thing And

00:36:09.800 --> 00:36:12.199
I know some people may hate to hear that because

00:36:12.199 --> 00:36:14.840
when God anoints you and reveals something to

00:36:14.840 --> 00:36:16.460
you It's like you want to jump in right then

00:36:16.460 --> 00:36:21.820
and there But David had to go through a lot of

00:36:21.820 --> 00:36:27.539
seasons before he became king. And we see that

00:36:27.539 --> 00:36:31.800
he had to deal with Saul a lot. A lot. And at

00:36:31.800 --> 00:36:34.719
first, you know, at first, at first, when David

00:36:34.719 --> 00:36:37.840
was brand new on the saying, taking out Goliath,

00:36:38.260 --> 00:36:41.619
Saul wasn't too much of a hater, right? But it

00:36:41.619 --> 00:36:44.559
was once Saul started to recognize it, because

00:36:44.559 --> 00:36:46.550
Saul had... it was very clear to Saul that he

00:36:46.550 --> 00:36:48.909
had lost the favor of the Lord and disobeying

00:36:48.909 --> 00:36:51.530
God partial disobedience is still disobedience

00:36:51.530 --> 00:36:55.670
and he partially obeyed God he people he desired

00:36:55.670 --> 00:36:59.210
to people please more than he desired to obey

00:36:59.210 --> 00:37:05.429
God and it was clear that God's favor God's anointing

00:37:05.429 --> 00:37:09.289
had left him and when he started seeing David

00:37:09.289 --> 00:37:12.409
securing these victories and winning it was clear

00:37:12.409 --> 00:37:15.369
that God's hand was over David's life. Saul started

00:37:15.369 --> 00:37:17.030
getting really skeptical thinking, I think this

00:37:17.030 --> 00:37:19.969
is my replacement. I think this is the one to

00:37:19.969 --> 00:37:25.010
take me out. And we see that David didn't have

00:37:25.010 --> 00:37:28.670
to do anything to expose Saul. Saul exposed his

00:37:28.670 --> 00:37:31.349
own intentions. When David was just there kindly

00:37:31.349 --> 00:37:34.570
playing the harp to bring peace, he was actually

00:37:34.570 --> 00:37:37.409
because of those spirits that were tormenting

00:37:37.409 --> 00:37:40.329
Saul. You know, when David would play that instrument,

00:37:40.369 --> 00:37:42.800
Saul would have peace. Even though David knew,

00:37:43.219 --> 00:37:44.940
Saul didn't care for him very much. David was

00:37:44.940 --> 00:37:47.639
still being kind to him. That's another thing,

00:37:47.719 --> 00:37:49.519
y 'all. Our generation says, well, if you know

00:37:49.519 --> 00:37:51.760
someone doesn't like you, or you know someone's

00:37:51.760 --> 00:37:54.500
a bad person, like is making bad decisions, you

00:37:54.500 --> 00:37:56.719
know that someone's doing this. If you're kind

00:37:56.719 --> 00:38:02.460
to them, you're fake. David was obeying God.

00:38:06.380 --> 00:38:09.559
We are still supposed to love our enemies, to

00:38:09.559 --> 00:38:14.130
show kindness. Now you should be having boundaries

00:38:14.130 --> 00:38:20.469
But even though Saul hated David and David knew

00:38:20.469 --> 00:38:24.349
Saul had a problem with them David was still

00:38:24.349 --> 00:38:26.369
playing that harp. He was still obeying the Lord

00:38:26.369 --> 00:38:29.309
He was still bringing a bit of peace and a sense

00:38:29.309 --> 00:38:30.929
to Saul's life because when he would play that

00:38:30.929 --> 00:38:36.030
instrument the spirits would leave him And even

00:38:36.030 --> 00:38:40.940
though David wasn't doing anything to Saul Trying

00:38:40.940 --> 00:38:43.099
to take him out or hurt him or harm him Saul

00:38:43.099 --> 00:38:49.380
was paranoid and in Saul's paranoia and in Saul's

00:38:49.380 --> 00:38:55.619
own Fear His own color started coming out Where

00:38:55.619 --> 00:38:58.059
he was trying to shoot the he was shooting arrows

00:38:58.059 --> 00:39:00.039
and stuff at David trying to take David out Well,

00:39:00.039 --> 00:39:02.340
David was just being kind David was just doing

00:39:02.340 --> 00:39:04.179
his thing obeying God and Saul was trying to

00:39:04.179 --> 00:39:06.909
take him out It was clear who was the antagonizer

00:39:06.909 --> 00:39:09.050
here, and David didn't have to expose who the

00:39:09.050 --> 00:39:12.210
antagonizer was. We see David didn't go and try

00:39:12.210 --> 00:39:14.289
to gaslight Saul and dance around and try to

00:39:14.289 --> 00:39:16.210
get Saul to hit him, try to get Saul to attack

00:39:16.210 --> 00:39:21.829
him. Saul did it on his own. Out of fear, out

00:39:21.829 --> 00:39:28.989
of envy, out of paranoia. I imagine that evil

00:39:28.989 --> 00:39:32.269
spirit torturing him probably created some paranoia.

00:39:32.570 --> 00:39:34.809
We know how much demons and the devil love to

00:39:34.809 --> 00:39:36.630
whisper in our ears and make us think it's our

00:39:36.630 --> 00:39:38.730
own voice. I can't imagine what Saul was hearing.

00:39:41.489 --> 00:39:43.429
And then Saul's tactics picked up to the point

00:39:43.429 --> 00:39:45.630
where David had to flee, but we see that that

00:39:45.630 --> 00:39:47.989
time when David was in the cave, and Saul came

00:39:47.989 --> 00:39:51.690
in that cave to go potty, to take a pee, David

00:39:51.690 --> 00:39:54.429
had the opportunity to take out Saul right then

00:39:54.429 --> 00:39:59.769
and there. His crew was hyping him up, saying,

00:39:59.909 --> 00:40:03.420
do it, do it, do it, take him out. And what David

00:40:03.420 --> 00:40:05.900
did, he cut off just a little edge of his garment

00:40:05.900 --> 00:40:09.960
to show how close he got. And he still decided

00:40:09.960 --> 00:40:11.599
not to, because he said, I'm not going to be

00:40:11.599 --> 00:40:14.980
taking out one of God's. God anointed him. He

00:40:14.980 --> 00:40:16.920
will be removed in God's appointed time. I know

00:40:16.920 --> 00:40:19.320
it's not my job to take him down. Just because

00:40:19.320 --> 00:40:23.199
you are presented with an opportunity doesn't

00:40:23.199 --> 00:40:30.630
mean the opportunity is from God. That was a

00:40:30.630 --> 00:40:32.510
mistake I made a lot before I came to Christ

00:40:32.510 --> 00:40:34.449
is when I had an opportunity to do something

00:40:34.449 --> 00:40:36.389
I would assume well, God wouldn't allow me to

00:40:36.389 --> 00:40:37.769
have the opportunity if he didn't want me to

00:40:37.769 --> 00:40:40.409
take it. Where is that in the Bible? nowhere

00:40:40.409 --> 00:40:43.210
That's why we're supposed to test the spirit

00:40:43.210 --> 00:40:47.230
and be discerning Just because you have the opportunity

00:40:47.230 --> 00:40:49.269
to seek revenge just because you have the opportunity

00:40:49.269 --> 00:40:51.030
to say a mean word Just because you have the

00:40:51.030 --> 00:40:52.510
opportunity to do these things doesn't mean that's

00:40:52.510 --> 00:40:55.809
what you're being called to do So it's so important

00:40:55.809 --> 00:41:02.349
to be discerning and to take it to God But we

00:41:02.349 --> 00:41:05.750
see here that David recognized that he did not

00:41:05.750 --> 00:41:08.909
have to force the word from God David had been

00:41:08.909 --> 00:41:11.449
anointed king and he knew in God's timing he

00:41:11.449 --> 00:41:15.550
would become king Which also meant he would listen

00:41:15.550 --> 00:41:18.429
to God's nudges when God told him to go to battle

00:41:18.429 --> 00:41:22.349
When God told him to go to a place he would obey

00:41:22.349 --> 00:41:26.909
But he recognized the difference of obeying God

00:41:26.909 --> 00:41:31.619
and trying to do it himself And he knew that

00:41:31.619 --> 00:41:34.599
killing Saul in that cave would be doing it himself.

00:41:36.139 --> 00:41:38.480
And in God's timing, because Saul refused to

00:41:38.480 --> 00:41:42.619
try to force it himself, Saul fell on his own

00:41:42.619 --> 00:41:47.059
sword. David's hands were clean and he was appointed

00:41:47.059 --> 00:41:51.420
king. I want to be so clear with this y 'all.

00:41:51.739 --> 00:41:55.139
A prophetic word from God does not require you

00:41:55.139 --> 00:41:57.280
to force. You are not going to have to force

00:41:57.280 --> 00:42:03.969
it if it is from God. Now you will have to obey

00:42:03.969 --> 00:42:08.849
the steps that he is calling you to take But

00:42:08.849 --> 00:42:10.929
you're not gonna have to do it on your own strength

00:42:10.929 --> 00:42:13.329
and force it and this leads into the next step

00:42:13.329 --> 00:42:16.809
this leads into the next topic but prophetic

00:42:16.809 --> 00:42:23.909
words from God do come with opposition a Promise

00:42:23.909 --> 00:42:27.980
from God comes with opposition Okay. So like

00:42:27.980 --> 00:42:30.400
I said before, you are not going to have to on

00:42:30.400 --> 00:42:33.519
your own strength, on your own thoughts, your

00:42:33.519 --> 00:42:37.480
own understanding, try to create and force the

00:42:37.480 --> 00:42:40.920
promise to happen. But when you are truly walking

00:42:40.920 --> 00:42:44.300
in a promise from God and walking by faith, there's

00:42:44.300 --> 00:42:47.760
going to be some kind of opposition. Okay. Some

00:42:47.760 --> 00:42:49.480
people have a misconception that if it's going

00:42:49.480 --> 00:42:51.500
to be from God, it's going to be easy, which

00:42:51.500 --> 00:42:55.019
isn't true. And we see that in the book of Nehemiah,

00:42:55.139 --> 00:43:01.219
right? He has this call. There's this call to

00:43:01.219 --> 00:43:08.179
rebuild the temple, to rebuild for God. He gets

00:43:08.179 --> 00:43:11.599
the confirmation from God. He knows that this

00:43:11.599 --> 00:43:14.119
is what God is calling him to do. He even gets

00:43:14.119 --> 00:43:16.739
the permission from the King. He gets everything

00:43:16.739 --> 00:43:19.519
he needs. But when he starts actually moving

00:43:19.519 --> 00:43:21.960
by faith and when the promise is actually starting

00:43:21.960 --> 00:43:24.739
to be built is when the opposition comes in.

00:43:24.909 --> 00:43:26.909
is when people are mocking and making fun of

00:43:26.909 --> 00:43:29.130
him is when people are slandering him is when

00:43:29.130 --> 00:43:31.050
people are trying to stop the building progress

00:43:31.050 --> 00:43:32.630
is when people are trying to take him out and

00:43:32.630 --> 00:43:35.070
take him down and the spirit behind that is the

00:43:35.070 --> 00:43:38.010
devil trying to stop God's will trying to stop

00:43:38.010 --> 00:43:40.010
God's promise from coming into fruition trying

00:43:40.010 --> 00:43:43.969
to get you to doubt God's word a promise doesn't

00:43:43.969 --> 00:43:46.969
mean no opposition if you're walking in a promise

00:43:46.969 --> 00:43:48.670
from God you can actually expect there to be

00:43:48.670 --> 00:43:51.059
a decent amount of opposition You can expect

00:43:51.059 --> 00:43:52.960
there to be, you know, the whispers in your ear

00:43:52.960 --> 00:43:55.840
from the enemy of the negative thoughts. You

00:43:55.840 --> 00:43:58.699
can expect your faith to be tested. You can expect

00:43:58.699 --> 00:44:00.639
people who are being used by the enemy to try

00:44:00.639 --> 00:44:02.539
to stop you and block you and delay you and do

00:44:02.539 --> 00:44:04.320
whatever they can to stop it from happening.

00:44:09.159 --> 00:44:11.559
But that is also the opportunity for you to lean

00:44:11.559 --> 00:44:14.420
on God and watch what he can do in his strength.

00:44:14.480 --> 00:44:21.559
His grace is sufficient. Again, prophetic words

00:44:21.559 --> 00:44:23.960
are not meant to be our own strength, our own

00:44:23.960 --> 00:44:25.639
understanding, our own control, our own whatever,

00:44:26.000 --> 00:44:27.739
which is why when we are met with opposition,

00:44:28.119 --> 00:44:30.820
we're able to go to God, and God has already

00:44:30.820 --> 00:44:34.199
planned accordingly for it. There are some people

00:44:34.199 --> 00:44:36.579
who think, well, it must not be from God because

00:44:36.579 --> 00:44:39.000
it's hard, or because there's opposition, or

00:44:39.000 --> 00:44:41.400
because there's this, and where is that said

00:44:41.400 --> 00:44:44.079
in the Bible? Where is it said that if you are

00:44:44.079 --> 00:44:46.239
obeying God and you follow Jesus, everything

00:44:46.239 --> 00:44:50.429
is going to be easy? Jesus actually says in scripture

00:44:50.429 --> 00:44:54.610
if they hated me they're gonna hate you. If they

00:44:54.610 --> 00:44:58.289
tried to stop Jesus, if they tried to block him,

00:44:58.630 --> 00:45:00.590
if they lied and called him a false prophet,

00:45:00.630 --> 00:45:03.230
if they slandered him, of course they're gonna

00:45:03.230 --> 00:45:05.829
do it to you because Jesus was literally perfect.

00:45:05.869 --> 00:45:12.730
He was literally beyond reproach. A student is

00:45:12.730 --> 00:45:17.869
not more beloved than their master. than their

00:45:17.869 --> 00:45:30.130
teacher. I want to share with y 'all one more

00:45:30.130 --> 00:45:32.289
prophetic story that's now coming to mind, which

00:45:32.289 --> 00:45:35.610
is Jonah. I love Jonah. It's one of my favorite

00:45:35.610 --> 00:45:39.989
books in the Bible. And Jonah is sent to warn

00:45:39.989 --> 00:45:42.230
the people of Nineveh. And at first he actually

00:45:42.230 --> 00:45:45.010
disobeys God. And then his disobedience, he gets

00:45:45.010 --> 00:45:47.940
swallowed up by a big fish. And when he repents

00:45:47.940 --> 00:45:49.400
and says, God, I should have listened to you.

00:45:49.480 --> 00:45:52.460
I submit to your will. The fish spits them out

00:45:52.460 --> 00:45:55.320
and he gets told by God again. Go to Nineveh

00:45:55.320 --> 00:45:58.579
and tell them that I plan on destroying them.

00:45:59.920 --> 00:46:04.000
Like they have triggered my wrath. Jonah goes

00:46:04.000 --> 00:46:06.519
and he tells them he's like, hey, X amount of

00:46:06.519 --> 00:46:09.059
days and y 'all are going to be destroyed. Jonah

00:46:09.059 --> 00:46:10.639
is not even saying anything about repentance.

00:46:10.659 --> 00:46:12.860
He's not even saying if y 'all repent, God will

00:46:12.860 --> 00:46:14.639
spare you. He's just saying, hey, God has decided

00:46:14.639 --> 00:46:19.599
y 'all are going to be taken out. And in that

00:46:19.599 --> 00:46:24.320
time period, the people of Nineveh hear that

00:46:24.320 --> 00:46:28.119
word. They receive it and they believe it. And

00:46:28.119 --> 00:46:32.420
what do they do? They repent. They put on sackcloth

00:46:32.420 --> 00:46:34.340
like they tear their clothes. They have outward

00:46:34.340 --> 00:46:37.539
signs of repentance. God sees their repentance

00:46:37.539 --> 00:46:40.880
and spares them for a while. For a while they're

00:46:40.880 --> 00:46:43.360
spared and they don't see destruction. Now it's

00:46:43.360 --> 00:46:47.760
later on when the people of Nineveh go back.

00:46:47.900 --> 00:46:52.360
to their wicked ways and they do eventually see

00:46:52.360 --> 00:46:56.320
the wrath of god and i feel led to connect this

00:46:56.320 --> 00:47:01.679
with god knows when your repentance is legit

00:47:01.679 --> 00:47:04.159
he knows when your heart position has really

00:47:04.159 --> 00:47:05.820
changed or when you're stopping just because

00:47:05.820 --> 00:47:09.019
you don't want to face wrath when you're truly

00:47:09.019 --> 00:47:11.400
repentant for something when you truly recognize

00:47:11.400 --> 00:47:13.739
it's wrong and it's a sin and it's indefensible

00:47:13.739 --> 00:47:17.079
and your heart position changes I'm not saying

00:47:17.079 --> 00:47:22.719
you'll never be tempted to go back to that but

00:47:22.719 --> 00:47:26.679
you're not going to be able to defend going back

00:47:26.679 --> 00:47:31.960
to that. And it reminds me of how Jesus called

00:47:31.960 --> 00:47:34.119
out the Pharisees who said like on the outside

00:47:34.119 --> 00:47:37.440
you're holy like he called them whitewashed tombs

00:47:37.440 --> 00:47:39.340
with inside you have all these dry bones saying

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on the outside you present yourselves as the

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perfect You do everything correct, you're beyond

00:47:45.820 --> 00:47:47.420
reproach, you're all these things, but inside

00:47:47.420 --> 00:47:50.079
there's greed and there's all these things that

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are un -Christ -like. And the people of Nineveh

00:47:54.260 --> 00:47:56.880
is a wonderful example of like, in that moment,

00:47:57.719 --> 00:48:00.960
they were repentant, they felt guilt and they

00:48:00.960 --> 00:48:03.719
recognized what they did was wrong. And God gave

00:48:03.719 --> 00:48:05.880
them an opportunity. Okay, I'm pulling my wrath

00:48:05.880 --> 00:48:08.119
back and I'm gonna see what y 'all do with this.

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But eventually they go back. To their ways And

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in doing that is when When they see the destruction

00:48:22.039 --> 00:48:26.019
from God God gives us chances and I want to loop

00:48:26.019 --> 00:48:29.119
that around to that. That's what prophets People

00:48:29.119 --> 00:48:31.199
that God is speaking through are used for a lot

00:48:31.199 --> 00:48:37.260
is to warn Right and God's end goal with sending

00:48:37.260 --> 00:48:39.920
those is repentance he wants us to repent and

00:48:39.920 --> 00:48:43.429
to turn from our ways He wants to see us put

00:48:43.429 --> 00:48:47.530
our faith in Jesus Christ. Even in the book of

00:48:47.530 --> 00:48:51.989
Jeremiah, God was showing them wrath, but it

00:48:51.989 --> 00:48:54.630
was in hopes that they would repent, that they

00:48:54.630 --> 00:48:57.349
would see that they need God, and that they would

00:48:57.349 --> 00:49:06.510
have a fear of God developed. So if you're someone

00:49:06.510 --> 00:49:08.449
who's listening today that you've been receiving

00:49:08.449 --> 00:49:13.739
words, but you I haven't allowed them to take

00:49:13.739 --> 00:49:17.199
root. What I'm encouraging you to do today is

00:49:17.199 --> 00:49:21.760
to take them back to God. Pray and say, God,

00:49:21.760 --> 00:49:28.579
is this from you? Is this something that I need

00:49:28.579 --> 00:49:32.539
to hear? And I want you to look at, hold it up

00:49:32.539 --> 00:49:38.519
to scripture. Does it align with scripture? If

00:49:38.519 --> 00:49:40.739
it aligns with scripture, if it goes with God's

00:49:40.739 --> 00:49:45.139
Word, you take it back to God I also encourage

00:49:45.139 --> 00:49:48.320
you to pray this that God allows you to be humbled

00:49:48.320 --> 00:49:52.400
but he softens your heart because I remember

00:49:52.400 --> 00:49:54.159
praying this prayer so many times over that God

00:49:54.159 --> 00:49:56.320
I love you and I don't want to be disobedient

00:49:56.320 --> 00:50:00.559
to you and I want to look like Jesus in every

00:50:00.559 --> 00:50:02.900
way I can so if there's a part of me that is

00:50:02.900 --> 00:50:06.460
rejecting you is rejecting your word strip that

00:50:06.460 --> 00:50:10.679
out of me break that down in me And if you were

00:50:10.679 --> 00:50:14.579
refusing to pray that prayer, if you were refusing

00:50:14.579 --> 00:50:17.860
to say, God, I submit my entire self to you,

00:50:18.440 --> 00:50:21.039
if there's a part of you that is just refusing

00:50:21.039 --> 00:50:26.840
to pray that anything un -Christ -like is removed,

00:50:27.940 --> 00:50:30.380
that anything opposing God is removed, there

00:50:30.380 --> 00:50:36.159
is a pride that needs addressed there. Because

00:50:36.159 --> 00:50:38.940
we are to be completely submitted to God. These

00:50:38.940 --> 00:50:42.260
bodies aren't our own. These bodies were paid

00:50:42.260 --> 00:50:45.420
for by Christ. These bodies that we are living

00:50:45.420 --> 00:50:48.099
in are temporary but are to be used to glorify

00:50:48.099 --> 00:50:49.940
God. The gifts that are given to us aren't to

00:50:49.940 --> 00:50:51.780
be used for ourselves but to be used to glorify

00:50:51.780 --> 00:50:56.139
God. And if there's a part of you that is opposing

00:50:56.139 --> 00:51:00.320
or resentful to denying yourself and to submitting

00:51:00.320 --> 00:51:03.280
yourself to God, there is a pride there. There

00:51:03.280 --> 00:51:05.480
is some kind of ego there is some kind of hardness

00:51:05.480 --> 00:51:13.460
and it is dangerous to operate Speaking from

00:51:13.460 --> 00:51:20.500
experience God is a heavenly father who loves

00:51:20.500 --> 00:51:24.760
you and you need to trust that he will take care

00:51:24.760 --> 00:51:35.139
of you when you pray that prayer Pray that your

00:51:35.139 --> 00:51:39.739
heart is softened. Pray that you're able to humbly

00:51:39.739 --> 00:51:43.159
receive His Word. Pray that you have fresh conviction,

00:51:43.719 --> 00:51:47.219
okay? If you haven't felt conviction for some

00:51:47.219 --> 00:51:48.860
of the things you're doing that you know God's

00:51:48.860 --> 00:51:51.239
Word say not to do, pray for fresh conviction.

00:51:51.619 --> 00:51:56.800
Truly pray and pray that you receive and take

00:51:56.800 --> 00:52:00.679
conviction in the way God desires you to. Pray

00:52:00.679 --> 00:52:03.400
that you have a fresh desire to read Scripture

00:52:03.400 --> 00:52:07.119
and to obey God. Pray that He removes the parts

00:52:07.119 --> 00:52:10.099
from you that are in opposition to Him. Pray

00:52:10.099 --> 00:52:15.059
that He removes and replaces desires from your

00:52:15.059 --> 00:52:16.820
heart that are not from Him and replaces them

00:52:16.820 --> 00:52:19.059
with desires that are. Pray that you have more

00:52:19.059 --> 00:52:21.440
of a desire to serve Him and more fear for Him

00:52:21.440 --> 00:52:26.099
than you do man. Pray that someone needs to hear

00:52:26.099 --> 00:52:28.599
this today. Pray that God takes away from you

00:52:28.599 --> 00:52:31.300
your desire for revenge and a look back. Pray

00:52:31.300 --> 00:52:33.300
that he helps you to forgive and pray that he

00:52:33.300 --> 00:52:36.659
strips the anger out of you. I know there are

00:52:36.659 --> 00:52:38.460
a lot of people in this world and I was one of

00:52:38.460 --> 00:52:40.719
them for a long time that hold on, that don't

00:52:40.719 --> 00:52:42.280
want to pray that prayer because they're afraid

00:52:42.280 --> 00:52:44.639
that that means that the people who did them

00:52:44.639 --> 00:52:46.500
wrong will get off the hook or that justice won't

00:52:46.500 --> 00:52:51.199
be seen. God is the God of divine justice. Vengeance

00:52:51.199 --> 00:52:53.739
was never yours to hold on to in the first place.

00:52:53.800 --> 00:52:59.119
Vengeance is God's. And when you look at that's

00:52:59.119 --> 00:53:01.139
holding on to something that isn't your right

00:53:01.139 --> 00:53:05.119
to hold on to in the first place, that is meant

00:53:05.119 --> 00:53:09.679
to be given to God. And I ask you today, how

00:53:09.679 --> 00:53:14.280
do you expect God to bless disobedience? How

00:53:14.280 --> 00:53:17.539
do you expect to walk into a promise or expect

00:53:17.539 --> 00:53:20.860
all of these things from God? When you wouldn't

00:53:20.860 --> 00:53:25.059
be stewarding over them in Christlike ways When

00:53:25.059 --> 00:53:27.679
your testimony wouldn't be I sought the Lord

00:53:27.679 --> 00:53:30.860
he heard he answered, you know I did my best

00:53:30.860 --> 00:53:34.059
to pursue Christ and to be in closeness and I

00:53:34.059 --> 00:53:38.960
saw his glory through that That that's the testimony

00:53:38.960 --> 00:53:41.420
God builds it's not the testimony of I was living

00:53:41.420 --> 00:53:43.360
in wickedness and I did all these things that

00:53:43.360 --> 00:53:45.539
went against Scripture and God blessed it anyway

00:53:47.799 --> 00:53:50.139
That was a tough pill I had to swallow. When

00:53:50.139 --> 00:53:51.900
I was a new agent, I was a tarot card reader.

00:53:52.059 --> 00:53:54.219
I was wondering why I wasn't being absolutely

00:53:54.219 --> 00:53:56.039
blessed because I felt like I was using my gifts

00:53:56.039 --> 00:53:58.460
and being a good person. When I held it to Scripture,

00:53:58.599 --> 00:54:01.960
I was like, well, I'm using my gifts to glorify

00:54:01.960 --> 00:54:05.260
myself and bring in my own desires. I'm not pointing

00:54:05.260 --> 00:54:07.539
people closer to Christ. I'm actually leading

00:54:07.539 --> 00:54:10.849
people away or astray at that time period. I

00:54:10.849 --> 00:54:13.030
was like, so what I'm doing actually contradicts

00:54:13.030 --> 00:54:15.050
God's Word. What I'm doing actually goes against

00:54:15.050 --> 00:54:18.030
God's Word. I started realizing I was ignoring

00:54:18.030 --> 00:54:20.329
conviction and all these things, and I had that

00:54:20.329 --> 00:54:22.349
reality moment of, oh my gosh, how can I expect

00:54:22.349 --> 00:54:25.170
God to bless this? This isn't a testimony that

00:54:25.170 --> 00:54:29.489
glorifies Him. This actually actively contradicts

00:54:29.489 --> 00:54:33.309
His Word. In what world do I expect Him to build

00:54:33.309 --> 00:54:41.119
this up? So it's a little bit more of a heavier

00:54:41.119 --> 00:54:43.380
message today, but there are people out there

00:54:43.380 --> 00:54:46.260
today who need to hear this, especially if you

00:54:46.260 --> 00:54:49.380
have been spending a large portion of your life

00:54:49.380 --> 00:54:53.679
living in deceit, living in illusion, living

00:54:53.679 --> 00:54:57.900
contently in your sin, living in disobedience.

00:54:58.480 --> 00:55:04.199
I did it for like 25 years. And when I felt the

00:55:04.199 --> 00:55:07.539
conviction, the weight was so heavy, but like

00:55:07.539 --> 00:55:10.489
I, The way that I'm speaking to y 'all today.

00:55:10.730 --> 00:55:13.969
This was the way that the word spoke to me in

00:55:13.969 --> 00:55:16.010
all honesty I remember writing down in my journal.

00:55:16.170 --> 00:55:20.030
How can I expect God to bless my disobedience?

00:55:20.090 --> 00:55:22.869
How can I expect him to make a testimony out

00:55:22.869 --> 00:55:28.010
of divination and sin and idolatry? Someone needs

00:55:28.010 --> 00:55:31.070
to hear this day. How can you expect God to make

00:55:31.070 --> 00:55:36.389
a testimony? built off of unforgiveness and anger

00:55:36.389 --> 00:55:45.389
and control and pursuing the flesh and witchcraft

00:55:45.389 --> 00:55:51.630
and slander and drunkenness like how whatever

00:55:51.630 --> 00:55:56.690
it is you're dealing with what where is your

00:55:56.690 --> 00:55:59.230
theology going a little sideways right now that

00:55:59.230 --> 00:56:02.989
you expect god to bless them where is your theology

00:56:02.989 --> 00:56:05.070
a little sideways right now where you're calling

00:56:05.070 --> 00:56:08.929
back goodness And when you're calling it good

00:56:08.929 --> 00:56:11.010
enough or when you're saying well God loves me

00:56:11.010 --> 00:56:13.329
more than this other person or God shows me more

00:56:13.329 --> 00:56:15.730
grace than this person or God knows my heart

00:56:15.730 --> 00:56:21.030
He does know your heart and he knows what you're

00:56:21.030 --> 00:56:23.489
refusing to release and he knows where your loyalties

00:56:23.489 --> 00:56:26.909
really lie He knows what you would do with that

00:56:26.909 --> 00:56:30.420
blessing if you got it right now He knows that

00:56:30.420 --> 00:56:32.780
you would use it to hurt other people. He knows

00:56:32.780 --> 00:56:34.619
that you would use it to rub other people's nose

00:56:34.619 --> 00:56:36.659
in it He knows that you would use it to shame

00:56:36.659 --> 00:56:40.059
to slander He knows that you would be used for

00:56:40.059 --> 00:56:42.940
the enemy So he so lovingly has yet to give it

00:56:42.940 --> 00:56:44.900
to you because you haven't gotten straightened

00:56:44.900 --> 00:56:48.699
out yet Speaking from experience because that

00:56:48.699 --> 00:56:52.139
was me too y 'all I'm glad God didn't bless me

00:56:52.139 --> 00:56:53.480
with some of the things then that he's blessed

00:56:53.480 --> 00:56:56.179
me with now Because I wouldn't have used those

00:56:56.179 --> 00:57:01.500
correctly May have received the building blocks

00:57:01.500 --> 00:57:03.179
for the promise, but it wouldn't have looked

00:57:03.179 --> 00:57:07.099
like the promise And I'm and I'm sure I know

00:57:07.099 --> 00:57:09.619
this may feel a little harsh the words I'm saying

00:57:09.619 --> 00:57:11.539
to you today But these are the words that the

00:57:11.539 --> 00:57:13.280
Lord had to speak to me to get through to me,

00:57:13.280 --> 00:57:17.079
and I know That these are planning a seed for

00:57:17.079 --> 00:57:22.139
somebody today for God to move off of And I pray

00:57:22.139 --> 00:57:24.280
that there's fresh conviction I pray that this

00:57:24.280 --> 00:57:26.639
rush revelation if you're one of my brothers

00:57:26.639 --> 00:57:28.960
and sisters in Christ that you're you're You

00:57:28.960 --> 00:57:31.800
know that God is preparing you to be a mouthpiece.

00:57:33.079 --> 00:57:36.340
You know that God is preparing to use you to

00:57:36.340 --> 00:57:41.719
warn, to guide, to convict to these things. God

00:57:41.719 --> 00:57:43.860
speaking through you, not you doing it yourself.

00:57:44.019 --> 00:57:47.260
You know that God is preparing you. I gave some

00:57:47.260 --> 00:57:48.940
advice earlier that I want to reiterate again.

00:57:48.960 --> 00:57:51.860
You have to fear the Lord and have a desire to

00:57:51.860 --> 00:57:58.570
please Him. And this is the next piece of advice

00:57:58.570 --> 00:58:03.530
I am going to give you. Have a Biblical worldview.

00:58:04.889 --> 00:58:07.550
Meaning what you read in the Bible, what you

00:58:07.550 --> 00:58:11.610
read in scripture is 100 % true. And that you

00:58:11.610 --> 00:58:15.769
base your morals and your values and your life

00:58:15.769 --> 00:58:18.929
decisions not off of what you want or what your

00:58:18.929 --> 00:58:26.920
flesh says, but off of what God says. And to

00:58:26.920 --> 00:58:30.639
really, really work on knowing his voice. His

00:58:30.639 --> 00:58:33.820
sheep hear his voice. They know his voice. They

00:58:33.820 --> 00:58:36.760
recognize his voice. And that comes through private

00:58:36.760 --> 00:58:39.920
alone time with the Lord. Be rooted in God's

00:58:39.920 --> 00:58:43.059
Word. Know what God's Word says. Have a sound

00:58:43.059 --> 00:58:48.139
theology. You cannot spend enough time with Jesus.

00:58:52.219 --> 00:58:54.400
And this is another piece of advice you have

00:58:54.400 --> 00:58:58.449
to release. the anger and the unforgiveness.

00:58:59.989 --> 00:59:02.789
You have to be in prayer with the Lord consistently

00:59:02.789 --> 00:59:07.610
of putting the pride and the ego aside because

00:59:07.610 --> 00:59:11.650
you can't be easily offended. In the most loving

00:59:11.650 --> 00:59:14.269
way I can say that. You can't be easily triggered

00:59:14.269 --> 00:59:19.309
and easily offended. And those are hard seasons

00:59:19.309 --> 00:59:22.250
to go through, to get to, speaking from experience.

00:59:26.510 --> 00:59:31.349
But you can't be used by the Lord in that way

00:59:31.349 --> 00:59:34.369
and be holding on to anger and resentment and

00:59:34.369 --> 00:59:37.070
wanting to see people in pain and wanting to

00:59:37.070 --> 00:59:39.829
see people suffer and wanting you to be put on

00:59:39.829 --> 00:59:42.230
a pedestal and wanting you to be proven right.

00:59:42.949 --> 00:59:45.949
Because again speaking from experience, the words

00:59:45.949 --> 00:59:48.429
that you deliver are going to end up being skewed.

00:59:48.829 --> 00:59:51.070
You're going to be speaking things from a place

00:59:51.070 --> 00:59:53.710
of anger and hatred and you'll end up saying

00:59:53.710 --> 00:59:58.119
words that God didn't tell you to say. You'll

00:59:58.119 --> 01:00:00.000
end up speaking death in ways that God didn't

01:00:00.000 --> 01:00:02.440
call you to speak death You'll end up skipping

01:00:02.440 --> 01:00:06.059
over the repentance and the redemption and going

01:00:06.059 --> 01:00:11.760
straight to condemnation You'll skip over the

01:00:11.760 --> 01:00:15.659
mercy you'll skip over the grace you'll find

01:00:15.659 --> 01:00:19.340
yourself moving earlier than God told you to

01:00:21.199 --> 01:00:23.380
You'll find yourself doing things not because

01:00:23.380 --> 01:00:25.579
it's what God said in glorifying God, but because

01:00:25.579 --> 01:00:27.880
you feel like it glorifies you, because you feel

01:00:27.880 --> 01:00:29.900
like it elevates you, because it feels like it

01:00:29.900 --> 01:00:35.119
proves you. You cannot be holding on to those

01:00:35.119 --> 01:00:39.300
things. You gotta let them go. You gotta give

01:00:39.300 --> 01:00:43.159
them to God. I've said this so many times, giving

01:00:43.159 --> 01:00:45.699
justice, giving revenge to God doesn't mean someone

01:00:45.699 --> 01:00:50.289
is let off the hook. God is still going to deal

01:00:50.289 --> 01:00:55.289
with them justly. Giving it to God is literally

01:00:55.289 --> 01:00:57.230
letting go of something you were never meant

01:00:57.230 --> 01:01:01.250
to hold on to in the first place. And I pray

01:01:01.250 --> 01:01:04.730
that this episode has been freeing for you in

01:01:04.730 --> 01:01:07.670
some way, revealing for you in some way, convicting

01:01:07.670 --> 01:01:11.690
for you in some way. However God intends to use

01:01:11.690 --> 01:01:14.880
this episode for you. And I know it's not going

01:01:14.880 --> 01:01:17.440
to make everybody happy to hear. I know the things

01:01:17.440 --> 01:01:19.300
I'm saying, not everybody is going to be pleased

01:01:19.300 --> 01:01:25.000
to hear. But I pray that God, however you feel

01:01:25.000 --> 01:01:27.239
hearing this, that God moves in your life through

01:01:27.239 --> 01:01:34.139
it. And I want to thank you all so much for taking

01:01:34.139 --> 01:01:37.239
the time to listen to this episode today. And

01:01:37.239 --> 01:01:41.679
I pray that God meets you where you are. that

01:01:41.679 --> 01:01:46.000
you feel His love and whatever you're led to

01:01:46.000 --> 01:01:52.480
repent for. That you repent and that you receive

01:01:52.480 --> 01:01:55.340
a peace that surpasses all understanding from

01:01:55.340 --> 01:02:00.500
the love of Jesus Christ. I pray for a restoration

01:02:00.500 --> 01:02:03.420
of your faith and fresh revelation be poured

01:02:03.420 --> 01:02:07.039
out on your life. I want to thank you all so

01:02:07.039 --> 01:02:09.059
much for listening to today's episode and I do

01:02:09.059 --> 01:02:11.119
ask that you subscribe wherever it is you're

01:02:11.119 --> 01:02:14.920
listening to this podcast and Be ready to listen

01:02:14.920 --> 01:02:18.139
to the next episode whenever it drops Have a

01:02:18.139 --> 01:02:19.780
wonderful day. God bless