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Prophecy is to build the church. And prophecy

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really is not a preaching ability that comes

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on you. It's not a license to rebuke and correct

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others. It's not calling you to find a garbage

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in every person's life. And for the longest time,

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we thought that prophecy was all about finding

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the hidden sins of people's lives. So you announced

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that prophets were coming to the church, people

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stayed home. Because they were afraid of confrontation

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or the prophets revealing something. The reality

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is none of us are perfect. We all have shortcomings.

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You don't have to be a prophet to see the garbage

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in somebody's life. But you've got to be a prophet

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to see the treasure underneath the garbage. To

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see the gifts that call. To see the hope of their

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calling. To see what God has put in their lives.

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Amen? And I believe that God wants to train everybody

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here to be a treasure hunter. I believe as you

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get ready and want to be trained in prophetic

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ministries, I want to tell you that you're going

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to have to become a treasure hunter. You're going

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to have to see what others cannot see. Anybody

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can see the messes. Anybody can see the shortcomings.

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We can look at somebody and judge them by their

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cover, just like we judge a book. But when you

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look inside, there are treasures. that are hidden,

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hidden treasures of God. Some of those treasures,

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they might not even know they have. Can I remind

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you of Saul's story? When he went up looking

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for his... Donkeys, lost donkeys, shows up at

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the city. God had already told the prophet Samuel

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to wait for him at the door, that at that next

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day a man would come looking for him, and that

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he was the choice that God had for Israel. Israel

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was asking for a king. Saul was a young man,

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didn't even think about his future in that category.

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He never even thought that he would be capable

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of it. But Samuel waited for him and said, I've

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been waiting for you. Come up and have dinner

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with me. I've prepared a dinner for you. And

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tomorrow I'll reveal the thoughts that are in

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your heart. What he was talking about, tomorrow

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I'll reveal the secrets that are in your heart.

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The secrets. What secrets? The secret of God's

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purpose for your life. You're the king of Israel.

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The desire of Israel is for you and your household.

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You don't know it. No, but how can you talk like

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that to me? That's what Saul's response was.

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If I'm of the least, the least of my families

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and we're the least, the tribe that's the least

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above us and you're talking to me about these

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great things, why do you talk to me in this manner?

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Saul had no clue about what was in him already.

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But there was a king inside of him. Hello, are

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you with me? And there are people. In your church,

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people in your community, people who sit next

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to you on Sunday, people who work with you, people

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who have a secret of God inside of them, a purpose

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of God, a call of God on their life. Somebody's

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got to dare to open it up. Somebody's got to

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dare to bring them a revelation of the plan of

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God for their life. And I believe you're it.

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Look at somebody and say, you're it. It's your

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time. Amen. God wants to use you. Let me talk

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to you a few things about prophecy and we'll

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move along here. We'll take a little break in

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just a few minutes and then we'll come to the

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second session. All right, a few more minutes,

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five more minutes and we'll take a little break.

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The gift of prophecy. So it's not a preaching

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ability, though preaching can have prophecy in

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it. It's not this all of a sudden rhema ability

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that comes on you. It is a word from God, a specific

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word of God. And it has... It has, it should

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be limited. Prophecy has limitations put on it

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by the protocol of the New Testament. 1 Corinthians

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14 verse 3 says, but he who prophesies speaks

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edification, exhortation, and comfort to them,

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to men. Amen? Somebody say edification, exhortation,

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and comfort. And I believe that is a good limitation

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put on the prophetic ministry so that people

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don't go off prophesying people out of the church

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and into these destinies that are disconnected

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from the very thing that God is building. And

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let me say to you, whether you're a prophet or

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one who prophesies, who has the gift of prophecy,

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and the prophet is a call, but the gift of prophecy

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is an ability. It's different than a call. It's

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an ability to prophesy. Just because you prophesy

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doesn't make you a prophet. Some of the greatest

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mistakes in the church is calling everybody who

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prophesies a prophet. And we expect them to act

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with a certain measure of grace, but they don't

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have it because they haven't been called to be

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a prophet. They have a gift of prophecy. It's

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a whole different measure. Amen? And it's limited

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to... Edification, exhortation, and comfort.

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That's where you're at. Are you going to build

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a church? Are you going to exhort the church?

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And some people have thought exhortation is about

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rebuking the church. Well, exhortation can actually

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bring adjustment to the church, but it's done

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with great poise and with great respect for authority

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in the church and with great love for the bride.

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Be careful how you speak to the bride. It's the

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thing he most loves. Amen. Treat her right, the

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church. and comfort the church. Well, those are

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good limitations that the New Testament sets

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into place. 1 Corinthians 14, verse 22, it says,

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Therefore tongues are for a side, not to those

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who believe, but to unbelievers. But prophecy

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is not for unbelievers, but for those who believe.

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For those who believe. So it's really something

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that it should be practiced in the church. Now

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you'll find, Believers out there who believe,

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you know, when you read of the Old Testament,

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how many know that Rahab was a believer? Before

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the spies ever talked to her, she already had

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a consciousness that your God is an awesome God.

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And because she heard the news, she had believed.

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Well, there are people all over our world that

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have a consciousness of God, and somebody's got

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to get out and give them a word of the Lord.

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And maybe I'll get to a part of speaking to you

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about taking it to the streets. Prophets of the

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streets. Taking it to where you live. Prophesying

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in the atmosphere of where you spend your life.

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Well, let's go back to this. Listen to the protocol.

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So, prophecy is for the corporate gathering.

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And I like 1 Corinthians 14, verse 23 to 24.

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1 Corinthians 14, verse 23 to 24 says, Therefore,

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if the whole church comes together. In one place,

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that's the corporate gathering. And all speak

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with tongues and there come in those who are

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uninformed or unbelievers. Will they not say

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that you are out of your mind? But if all prophesy.

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But if all prophesy. Somebody say that word,

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but if all prophesy. And an unbeliever or an

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uninformed person comes in. He is convinced by

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all and convicted by all. And the Bible goes

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on to say that he'll fall on his knees and recognize

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that God is in your midst. It's the revelation

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of God. Well, we have people walking into churches

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in America and all around the world and walking

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out the same way they walked in. And I believe

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it's because we have extracted some of the elements

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of the corporate gathering. We're too busy for

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prophecy in the local church. And no, maybe we

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don't need to, and I'm not suggesting that we

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have four and five hour services. We're in a

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fast paced generation, but we need to be able

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to bring the prophetic into that atmosphere and

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train people to be so cunning and so sharp that

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they can get in in a few seconds, in a few minutes,

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bring the word of the Lord and get out and get

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on with the service. Amen. Not run off with the

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service. Have you ever seen somebody run off

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with the service, with the prophetic? Well, I

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don't. that that's part of the protocol. I believe

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it's a get in there, get the word of the Lord,

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maybe a prophetic moment, maybe a prayer time

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where you have a word or maybe a whisper to somebody's

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ear, the word of the Lord coming to somebody

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while they're at the altar giving their lives

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to God. There are all kinds of places where to

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minister the prophetic ministry, but it should

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be done in an accountable setting in a corporate

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gathering. And it should start with the platform.

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Platform ministries, worship ministries, singers

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and worshipers should be prophetic people because

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you set the prophetic atmosphere. You've got

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to engage. You've got to jump in the pool first.

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You've got to set the tone of what's going to

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happen in the service, and then it should spread

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out to the congregation. But if you've got musicians

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who are not prophetic and they're just interested

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in getting through their list of songs and not

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bringing the presence of God down, nothing is

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going to happen. But thank God for a church like

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yours that is... I love it. I think you're addicted

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to the presence of God. That's what I hear in

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your worship, in your intercessory prayer. You're

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like David. David was a presence addict. He was,

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in other words, if I could use the vocabulary

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from which I got saved from, a junkie. He was

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a presence junkie. I'm hooked. I was hooked on

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alcohol until I met Jesus. Now I'm hooked on

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the Holy Spirit. I got to have the Holy Ghost.

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I got to have his presence. I got to sense him.

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I got to, in my life, when I wake up, I need

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the presence of God. When I go to bed, I need

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the presence of God. I need the presence of God

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in my family. I need it in my house. I need it

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in my job. I need it in my business. I need it

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in church. We need churches so filled with the

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presence of God that an unbeliever would walk

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in and fall to his knees hearing the word of

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the Lord. God, bring back these days. Days of

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great boldness and grace when the prophetic word

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and the spirit of prophecy is loosed in the church

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in an orderly fashion. I'm not talking about

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disorder. I'm talking about it being done the

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right way. And the Bible has enough protocol

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for us to do it and to do it right. Can you say

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amen? We'll take our break now and come back

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for some more. God bless you. Amen. We'll take

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a quick 10 -minute break, and then we'll come

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right back. So give yourself a little relief,

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grab a drink of water, and we'll be right back.

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That first session helped you a little bit. Amen.

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Good. Amen. Let's go back to that scripture in

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Psalms 19, verse 7, out of the Message Bible.

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Can we get me on, guys? Thank you. Psalm 19,

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verse 7. It's a scripture we've adopted in our

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prophetic school again. And it just reads so

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incredibly in the Message translation. The revelation

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of God is whole and pulls our lives together.

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Signposts of God are clear and point out the

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right road. The life maps of God are right, showing

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the way to joy. And the directions of God are

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plain and easy on the eyes. Look at somebody

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and say, keep prophecy simple. That's right.

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It's got to be easy on the eyes, and people have

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got to be able to understand and see the directions

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of God clearly. Well, that's what we're trying

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to do as we go back to the word in 1 Corinthians

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14. 1 Corinthians 14, I talked to you about prophecy

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in the corporate gathering, and prophecy in the

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corporate gathering brings an awareness of God's

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presence to people. In 1 Corinthians 14, verse

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25, 1 Corinthians 14, verse 25, if all are prophesying,

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It says, and thus the secrets of the heart are

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revealed, and so falling down on his face, he

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will worship God and report that God is truly

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among you. I believe that God wants to bring

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a revelation of his presence to people through

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the prophetic, in the local church, in the corporate

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gathering. Nobody should walk out of any one

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of our services without experiencing God. Can

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you say amen? And it's wonderful when the secrets

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of their heart are revealed. Not the sins of

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their life, but the secrets of their heart. Things

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that only they know. That they know that God

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would bring a revelation to them. That only God

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could know this in the midst of strangers. An

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unbeliever walks in and somebody tells him about

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the deepest things of his heart. The things that

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move him. The things that actually... Give him

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a sense of destiny. I am a firm believer, having

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pastored a church in Harlem, New York City, where

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we raised a church out of people from the streets

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in our beginning. Most people wouldn't want to

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come to Harlem to do a church plant with us because

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it was in the middle of crime, in the middle

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of all kinds of community that in those days

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was highly overwhelmed with AIDS victims because

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of drug use and drug trafficking. We were on

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111th Street. 110th Street moved more money than

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Wall Street at times through the trafficking

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of drugs. So you could think about how many drugs

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and crimes and people being killed at our doorsteps.

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It was not an easy place to get people to come

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and say, I want to be part of this. Because they

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put their families at risk. Their cars were at

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risk. No parking. You parked on the streets.

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And we didn't have the facilities. You have.

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But we preach the word. One thing we did have

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was the presence of God, and you have that. Amen?

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So you're way ahead of the game. You've got a

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great place that God has given you, and now with

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the presence of God, everybody who walks in here

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is going to experience God. We watch countless

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lives being changed, and I became aware that

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a prostitute is only a prostitute because she

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doesn't know what God has planned for her. She

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doesn't know the plan of God for her life, but

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if there's somebody that can reveal to her what

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God has planned for her life, she'd turn around

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and give her life back to God. Amen? I stopped

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at a gas station to put some air in a tire. I

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had my family. It was after church service, a

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glorious time. And I walked out, and here by

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the air pump was sitting a man who's bleeding

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profusely out of his head. He had just been beaten,

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and they had opened his head, opened with some

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kind of instrument. And he's sitting there in

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his blood. Well, the moment I walk out, the Lord

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speaks to me. And as I'm concerned and start

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looking for a handkerchief, the word of the Lord's

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coming to me. And God's saying, tell him. that

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he's sitting in his blood because he's rejected

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my blood. Well, that's a pretty hard word for

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somebody who's already bleeding. But I walked

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up to him. First I put my handkerchief and I

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showed him that I really cared because I did.

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I was afraid he was going to bleed to death and

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really lose his life. He was just gushing out

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of him. So I put pressure on his wound in his

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head and began to talk to him. He looked at me,

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tears in his eyes. It was actually a man who

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was weeping because he had been beaten so badly.

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And I said, I'm a minister. And the Lord just

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said something to me. He said that you're sitting

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in your blood because you rejected his blood.

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He also told me that you used to be a deacon

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in the church and you've backslidden and gone

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to the world. And I'm here to tell you, God's

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calling you back home. He sent me to tell you

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that you don't need to sit. His blood still counts.

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His blood is still enough. for you and the rest

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of your family. That man now begins to really

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cry out to God. He forgot about his wounds, got

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on his knees, and began to cry out to God, asking

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him for forgiveness, and he was restored back

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to the Lord. One word from God. One moment in

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God, and you can change a life forever. Well,

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prophecy is to make others aware of God's presence.

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And thus the secrets of their heart, verse 25,

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are revealed. And so falling down on his face,

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he will worship God and report that God is truly

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among you. God is truly among you. That's the

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experience of the impact of the word of the Lord.

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Prophecy can equip people to fight a good fight

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too. When you prophesy to somebody, the words

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you give them, give them courage to take a stand

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for their future and their destiny and to fight.

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That's why Paul encouraged Timothy in 1 Timothy

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1, verse 18. This charge I commit to you, son

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Timothy, according to the prophecies previously

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made concerning you. What Paul was saying is,

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listen, I'm aware of all the prophecies that

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were given to you. You've received words from

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the Lord. I know them well. I'm your spiritual

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father. And this concerning, according to the

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prophecies previously made concerning you, that

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by them you may wage. The good warfare. By them

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you may wage the good warfare. Prophetic word

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empowers people to fight for their destiny. You

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can give somebody a word. And if it's a word

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from God coming out of your mouth. It will encourage

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them to go after their destiny. Come hell or

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high water. They are going to fulfill what God

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said about them. And believe in the promise of

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God. We need that. Fighting edge to be given

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to the church, back to the house of God through

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the prophetic ministry that will give people

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the word of the Lord and affirm them and confirm

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the call of God on them, their house, their children.

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So that when their children, maybe the professors

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in universities start challenging them, we can

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go back and encourage them. A parent can say,

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remember what God said about you. And remind

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them of the word of the Lord to trigger their

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minds back to God. Well, I believe that we can

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put that fight back. the church when we bring

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prophecy back into the house of God. Can you

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say amen? Fight in a good fight with the word

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that has been given to you. How many of you are

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fighting with a word that you've got? A word

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that maybe Circumstances have come against you,

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have risen against you, but every time you recall

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that word, it puts courage back in you. It gets

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you out of bed, out of your most depressed state.

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When you feel like you can't anymore, the word

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of the Lord will refresh you, strengthen you,

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get you back on your feet. Can you give the Lord

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a big hand for the words that you have received?

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The word from God. But also we need to recognize

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that prophecy is always in limited revelation.

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There is no full revelation that comes with prophecy.

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Nobody can tell you everything about your life.

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It's limited. 1 Corinthians 13 verse 9, Paul

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establishes, for we know in part and we prophesy

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in part. All of us can see a part. And that's

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why team ministry is very important in the prophetic.

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In the mouth of two or three witnesses, let every

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word be established. And also because we are

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limited. We have limited revelation. We see only

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part. And somebody else sees the other part.

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I'm reminded of a team of prophetic people that

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were prophesying over somebody. And everybody

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had a word. And the last prophet was really digging

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in. But he didn't have any real deep words. All

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he had, and God kept telling him, say yellow

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to her. And he wrestled with that while everybody

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else prophesied in the team. Yellow, yellow doesn't

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make, what's that? I gotta have something else.

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They're gonna think I'm shallow. What kind of

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a word is that? And so finally he got up there,

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this woman, after she had received all these

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prophetic words, and said, you know, I feel silly

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saying this, but this is what God wants me to

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do, and I'm gonna obey. He said to say to you,

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yellow. When he said yellow, she burst out crying

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and laughing. got up and started cheering. And

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everybody looked at her, the little one's mad.

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But what she had actually said to God before

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she left the house, Lord, if you're gonna heal

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my son, I want you to give me a confirmation

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that sounds so absurd that I'll know it's you

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and that you're gonna work a miracle. I want

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you to tell the prophet to say yellow. That's

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it, nothing else. Just say yellow. So he gets

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up and says, I don't know if this means anything,

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but yellow. It was God's promise. She received

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it and her son was healed. Well, some prophetic

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words don't make sense to the instrument or the

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person who's prophesying, though we try to be

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sensible. And it's your responsibility to make

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sure to bring a clear word and not some words

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so disguised and signs and symbols that people

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have to take two months to interpret it. But

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prophecy, sometimes you won't understand what

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you're prophesying, but you need to be obedient

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to speak that word. It happened to us in, I think

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it was South Wales. We were ministering, and

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my grandson for the first time, both of our grandsons

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were with us for the first time, 17 -year -old,

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and there was their debut in the prophetic. We

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were breaking them into prophetic ministry. So

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in presbyteries, our two grandsons, Bob's grandson,

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and by the way, I am privileged, I don't think

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I said that at the beginning, to be here with

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such a man of faith and a father in the house

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of God, Bob Isabel. Can you give the Lord a big

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hand for Bob? We've been good friends for many

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years. So this past summer we went out to Scotland

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and we went to South Wales and in South Wales

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we were prophesying and each one of the kids

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had just a particular anointing about receiving

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the word of the Lord. And my grandson is just...

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this is new for him, the presbytery setting,

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and we had coached him, you say only what God

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tells you to say, say no more. And so he got

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up and said to this one person, everybody prophesied,

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he gets up and he says, the only thing I have

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to say to you is that God told me that he's going

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to heal you. He wants you to know that he will

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heal you. Well, we thought, you know, Bob and

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I looked at each other, we're trying to mentor

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our kids, you know, we could have dug a little

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deeper, you know. But at the end, that gentleman

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got up and testified and said, you know, the

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words were all great. They all ministered to

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me. But what I was asking was if God was going

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to heal me. Because the doctor just told me I

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have cancer. And I wanted to know whether God

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is going to heal me. Well, that's the word of

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the Lord. Sometimes you just got to say what

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God tells you to say. And don't say anything

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else. Amen. Sometimes we try to add to things.

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And we need to be very careful that we don't

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change the meaning of prophetic revelation or

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that which God is bringing. to your heart so

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prophecy is limited somebody say limited see

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in part and prophesy in part we also prophesy

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according to the level of our faith the Bible

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says in Romans chapter 12 verse 6 Romans chapter

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12 verse 6 says having then gifts deferring according

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to the grace that is given to us let us use them

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if prophecy let us prophesy in proportion to

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our faith So you have a gift of faith. You have

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a prophetic ministry. You want to grow it? Grow

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your faith. You grow your faith and your prophetic

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ministry will grow because you will only prophesy

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to the measure of your faith, to the proportion

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of your faith. When you've seen miracles and

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walked through life and been through some things

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and God has caused your faith to grow through

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the deposit of the word of God because faith

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comes by hearing and hearing of the word of the

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Lord, you raise your level of faith and your

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prophecy level will be raised. You will prophesy.

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That's why you see people who prophesy simple

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words right to the point. and get in and speak

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about the future and prophesy like if they were

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there. Because they have a faith level. They've

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seen God work. They can believe God. They've

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seen the miraculous operating in prophetic ministry.

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So their level of faith is higher. Come on, look

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at somebody and say, raise the level of your

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faith. That's right. And you can do that as you

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spend time in the presence of God and in the

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word of God. Prophecy should always be judged.

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And this is where people have a problem with

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it because if it's the word of the Lord, why

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should they judge me if I am hearing from God?

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Well, prophecy has to go through your ear or

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channel. That word is going to come through you,

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flow through you, and you will speak what you

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are. Not only the level of your faith, but your

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character and who you are will come through in

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that prophetic word. Your belief system will

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come through. that prophetic word. That's why

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everyone who seeks to prophesy must be grounded

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in truth so that what you speak is biblical and

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has a biblical foundation. So you're not prophesying

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some space cadet prophecy. People are in space

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and doing all the crazy things that are totally

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untied to what God is building. He said, I'm

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going to build my church and the gates of hell

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will not prevail against it. So everybody who

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prophesies should be talking about building the

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church. It's what God builds up. Amen? So prophesy

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needs to be judged and that's why in 1 Corinthians

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14 again, let two or three, verse 29, let two

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or three prophets speak and let the others judge.

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And prophecy should also be done in an orderly

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fashion. 1 Corinthians 14, verse 32 -33, but

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if anything is revealed to another who sits by,

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let the first keep silent. Now this is something

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that I'm still trying to get back into the church.

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Because we don't practice this protocol. But

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if anything is revealed to another who sits by,

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let the first keep silent. For you can all prophesy

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one by one, that all may learn and all may be

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encouraged. And the spirit of the prophets are

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subject to the prophets. For God is not the author

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of confusion, but of peace. as in all the churches

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of the saints. He's not the author of confusion.

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The spirit of the prophet is subject to the prophet.

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That means we have dominion. We have control

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over the prophetic. You can't just get up and

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prophesy and say, I don't know, the Holy Spirit

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just made me do that. Don't blame the Holy Ghost,

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amen? You stepped out of line. You actually violated

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the protocol. But this protocol of courtesy,

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that if one is prophesying, and this says a few

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things to me. If one is prophesying and another

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one who sits by stands up, that means when you're

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prophesying, you can't have your eyes closed.

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Hello? Because how are you going to know he stood

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up if you can't see him because you're in La

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La Land somewhere? prophesying and you're deep

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lost in God, you might very well be connected

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to the presence of God. I'm not trying to make

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fun of that. But you need to be aware of your

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surroundings because we are not a one band band.

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prophetic ministry here. We are part of a team.

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It's the church. If one or two or three can prophesy

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at a time, you know, in order, but if one is

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prophesying, let the first one keep signing.

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Usually, we actually are so courteous that we

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let them finish, and that person can go on and

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on, and then sometimes that second person doesn't

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even get to say what God gave them because we

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ran out of time. I think the protocol should

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be followed because they had the same problems

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we had. It was a constraint of time. prophesying

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and somebody else gets up prefer them bring it

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to a halt you see somebody get up you know he's

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got a word from God you know that you're limited

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you only see him part let the other person bring

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the part And we can all flow together, prefer

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each other in love, and build the house of God.

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Are you with me? Does that make sense? I see

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it clearly in the word. And I think we need to

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do that so we don't create confusion in the body

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of Christ. And everybody can flow with the prophetic

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ministry. Not all services are going to turn

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into one big prophetic services. But there should

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be order, two or three at the most, and let their

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others judge. There should be prophetic utterance

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that comes from the platform all the way through

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the church. And it should be in an orderly fashion,

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never creating confusion. Well, how does prophecy

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come? How do we get it? How do we get into this

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flow of hearing God? Well, let me take you to

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a scripture that has helped me a great deal.

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It's found in the book of Isaiah. Isaiah chapter

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50, verse... 4 through 6. Isaiah chapter 15,

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verse 4 through 6. Isaiah 15 says, The Lord God

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has given me the tongue of a learned that I should

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know how to speak. Somebody say the tongue of

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a learned. That's somebody who knows how to speak.

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You're learning how to talk for God. The tongue

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of a learned that I should know how to speak.

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A word in season to him who is weary. A rhema

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word. A word that's on time. A word in season.

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Somebody say in season. A word in season to him

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who is weary, he awakens me morning by morning.

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He awakens my ear to hear as the learned. The

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Lord God has opened my ear and I was not rebellious,

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nor did I turn away. I gave my back to those

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who struck me and my cheeks to those who plucked

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out my beard. And I did not hide my face from

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shame and spitting. Who do you think is speaking?

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It's the Lord. And he's talking about the training

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of prophetic people. He did not turn back from

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what was ahead of him. The persecution, the rejection

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did not stop him from giving a word in season

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to somebody. He kept his anointing, and our anointing

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is not so fragile that it can be persecuted out

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of us. Our anointing resides. Amen? There's a

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Holy Ghost anointing on the church, and where

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the tribulation comes, you still have got to

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be the voice of God in your generation. But I

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like what it says. The Lord God has given me

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the tongue of a learned that I should know how

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to speak a word in season to him who is weary.

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And then the next part is telling you how it

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happens. He awakens me morning by morning. Somebody

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say morning by morning. He awakens my ear to

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hear as the learned. Before you have the tongue

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of a learned, you must develop the ear of a learned.

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You've got to be able to develop the ability

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to hear what God is saying and capture the word

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of the Lord. You've got to develop a relationship

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that just doesn't come through a little conference

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or a little mini conference on a Saturday morning.

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It comes from an impartation of the Holy Ghost,

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and it comes from a relationship that's built

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morning to morning. Every day of your life, you're

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spending time in the presence of God, and God

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has your attention, and he is causing, he is

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opening up your ear morning by morning. morning,

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he awakens me. He awakens my ear as the learned.

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God is training us and he wants to train your

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ear to hear. Matter of fact, it'll involve hearing

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and it'll involve seeing because you've got to

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be able to visualize what you hear. You know,

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when God put a word in Jeremiah's mouth, he spoke

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to him. He says, Jeremiah, what do you see? That

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was God was concerned after he had talked to

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him, what is it that you're seeing? You've received

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my word. Now, what do you see? And Jeremiah answered

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at the beginning, says, I see the branch of an

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almond tree. And the Lord says, you've seen well.

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And he was teaching him how to cause that word

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that he hears to be visualized. Your word has

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now something you hear, and you've got to allow

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for the Holy Spirit to open up your eyes to see.

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Paul prayed, I pray. that the eyes of your understanding.

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Ephesians chapter 1, verse 17 and on. Praying

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for the church of Ephesus, Paul says, I pray

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the eyes of your understanding would be enlightened.

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But before that, he says, I pray that God gives

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you the spirit of revelation and of wisdom so

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that the eyes of your understanding would be

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enlightened, that you might know what is the

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hope of your calling, the riches of your inheritance

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in the saints. And the exceeding greatness of

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his power that is at work in those who believe.

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Three things. You need to know the hope of your

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calling. You need to know your inheritance in

00:34:51.880 --> 00:34:54.219
God. And you need to know the exceeding greatness

00:34:54.219 --> 00:34:56.619
of his power that works on behalf of those who

00:34:56.619 --> 00:34:59.840
believe. Can you say amen? But it comes through

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the spirit of wisdom and revelation. And this

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is what this... Actually, it says he comes, the

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spirit of wisdom not only opens your eyes so

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that you can see it illuminates, the eyes of

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your understanding being illuminated, the eyes

00:35:12.530 --> 00:35:16.329
so that you might be able to know. Well, the

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Lord wants to open up your ears, and he wants

00:35:18.550 --> 00:35:20.929
you to see what he's saying, wants you to visualize

00:35:20.929 --> 00:35:23.429
it. So the word of God can come as a vision.

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Many of you will have visions and dreams because

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that's part of the package of the Holy Spirit.

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Amen? They'll have visions and the old men shall

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dream dreams. Visions and dreams are still the

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language of the Holy Spirit and they shall prophesy.

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What are they going to prophesy about? What they

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see and what they dream about. The prophetic

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word brings us revelation. The Holy Spirit speaks

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to us and expects you to have an ear that is

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open. The problem is that we have ears that don't

00:35:49.949 --> 00:35:53.190
hear. They're not open. They're closed to the

00:35:53.190 --> 00:35:55.460
Lord. People are not spending the time they used

00:35:55.460 --> 00:35:57.920
to spend in prayer. And I think we need to go

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back to that intimacy with God where we spend

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time from him. And that's what Isaiah is saying.

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Listen, morning by morning, this takes a relationship.

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It'll start here, but you're going to have to

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foster it by spending time in the presence of

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God, making time. I don't care how busy you are.

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You want prophetic ministry? You've got to spend

00:36:17.340 --> 00:36:20.360
time in the presence of God. It's the only way

00:36:20.360 --> 00:36:22.599
that I know how to prepare myself is spending

00:36:22.599 --> 00:36:25.340
time. God, waiting on the Lord, saying, God,

00:36:25.420 --> 00:36:27.199
what is it that you want? What is it that you

00:36:27.199 --> 00:36:29.739
want to speak to the church? What am I going

00:36:29.739 --> 00:36:32.420
to do when I get to Brad's church? It's been

00:36:32.420 --> 00:36:34.480
my prayer with my wife. Even my children have

00:36:34.480 --> 00:36:37.000
joined us interceding for you while I was preparing

00:36:37.000 --> 00:36:40.559
to come out here. Because God has a word for

00:36:40.559 --> 00:36:42.320
this house. God has something he wants to do.

00:36:42.360 --> 00:36:45.079
Well, it's the same way in personal prophecy

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or prophecy to build a church. Every Sunday you

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come, it's not where you start praying on Sunday

00:36:50.369 --> 00:36:51.969
morning. Oh, God, what are you going to do with

00:36:51.969 --> 00:36:54.150
the church? Start praying in your house. Make

00:36:54.150 --> 00:36:56.570
it a lifestyle of spending time with the Lord

00:36:56.570 --> 00:36:59.750
morning after morning. Come on, can you say amen?

00:37:00.550 --> 00:37:02.329
You're going to spend time with the Lord. He's

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going to open your ears. That word open, I think

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Ernest Gentile did a great thing with his book

00:37:07.250 --> 00:37:09.170
when he talked about these verses. He talked

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about the plowing of your ears, plowing your

00:37:12.090 --> 00:37:15.170
ears open. I believe the Holy Spirit will plow

00:37:15.170 --> 00:37:18.260
your ears open. so that he can sow the word of

00:37:18.260 --> 00:37:20.380
the Lord, so the word of the Lord can come to

00:37:20.380 --> 00:37:24.139
you. And so that you might have the tongue of

00:37:24.139 --> 00:37:27.579
a learned, you need first the hearing of a learned.

00:37:27.719 --> 00:37:30.559
You need to be able to hear well, clearly, identify

00:37:30.559 --> 00:37:32.840
the word of the Lord, so then you can speak a

00:37:32.840 --> 00:37:37.079
word in season to those that hear you. Can you

00:37:37.079 --> 00:37:41.780
say amen? So prophetic ministry comes by hearing.

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And when you say what you hear, you will see

00:37:47.110 --> 00:37:51.230
what you say. God will cause those things to

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take place. Isaiah 59. Isaiah 59. Again, listen

00:37:57.610 --> 00:38:00.730
to Isaiah 59. This is Isaiah speaking about a

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great heritage that God asked for me, says the

00:38:04.570 --> 00:38:07.869
Lord. This is my covenant with them. My spirit

00:38:07.869 --> 00:38:10.730
who is upon you and my words which I have put

00:38:10.730 --> 00:38:13.800
in your mouth. shall not depart from your mouth,

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nor from the mouth of your descendants, nor from

00:38:16.559 --> 00:38:20.019
the mouth of your descendants' descendants, says

00:38:20.019 --> 00:38:24.280
the Lord, from this time and forevermore. Come

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on. Are you ready for this morning to affect

00:38:27.179 --> 00:38:30.369
generations to come? It's not just about you

00:38:30.369 --> 00:38:32.550
this morning taking time and sacrificing your

00:38:32.550 --> 00:38:34.429
Saturday morning to learn about the prophetic.

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The more you learn about the prophetic, the more

00:38:36.690 --> 00:38:39.269
the heritage will be laid up for your children.

00:38:39.409 --> 00:38:42.210
I thank God that I could travel with my 17 -year

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-old for the first time, bringing him into presbytery.

00:38:44.369 --> 00:38:48.369
Bob took Luca, his grandson, to presbytery. But

00:38:48.369 --> 00:38:50.889
all my kids, from the moment they've been born

00:38:50.889 --> 00:38:53.750
in our house, in our church, we were a prophetic

00:38:53.750 --> 00:38:56.130
church. So when we dedicated babies, we called

00:38:56.130 --> 00:38:58.170
the prophets. We believe in prophetic, let's

00:38:58.170 --> 00:38:59.510
call the prophets. and see what they have to

00:38:59.510 --> 00:39:01.530
say about our children. Let's not wait for them

00:39:01.530 --> 00:39:03.989
to be 19, 20 years old. Send them over to university

00:39:03.989 --> 00:39:08.829
so that the professor who first was an amoeba

00:39:08.829 --> 00:39:12.550
and now is a monkey on a tree, now he's a professor

00:39:12.550 --> 00:39:15.269
in a university, can try to tell them what their

00:39:15.269 --> 00:39:18.969
destiny is. Are you with me? We've got a bunch

00:39:18.969 --> 00:39:22.030
of unbelieving educators who are trying to dictate

00:39:22.030 --> 00:39:24.489
the destiny of our children. Why not bring it

00:39:24.489 --> 00:39:28.489
back to the founder, the Lord, who weaved them

00:39:28.489 --> 00:39:30.510
in their mother's womb when they're born and

00:39:30.510 --> 00:39:32.969
dedicated. Let the prophets speak the word of

00:39:32.969 --> 00:39:35.489
the Lord. Let them say, let's let faith arise

00:39:35.489 --> 00:39:39.349
in the house of God. Well, even Mary received

00:39:39.349 --> 00:39:42.349
the word. Remember when Simeon spoke to her,

00:39:42.409 --> 00:39:45.170
a sword is going to pierce your heart. This child

00:39:45.170 --> 00:39:47.849
has been born to reveal the secrets of men's

00:39:47.849 --> 00:39:52.170
hearts. What was that all about? Not the sin,

00:39:52.309 --> 00:39:56.309
but the destinies of people. Jesus died so that

00:39:56.309 --> 00:39:59.670
people could receive the purpose by which they

00:39:59.670 --> 00:40:03.650
were created for. Powerful. Well, I believe that

00:40:03.650 --> 00:40:05.230
we need to let our children hear the word of

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the Lord. I have eight grandkids, every one of

00:40:08.250 --> 00:40:10.349
them knowing what God wants from them. in the

00:40:10.349 --> 00:40:12.949
future. My grandson just entered law school because

00:40:12.949 --> 00:40:14.730
the word of the Lord has come that he is going

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to be a governmental figure and influence the

00:40:17.269 --> 00:40:19.570
government. He's believing God that maybe 15,

00:40:19.670 --> 00:40:21.590
20 years from now, he'll be the governor of Florida.

00:40:22.489 --> 00:40:25.610
Hello. Well, I'm thrilled about that. Let's go

00:40:25.610 --> 00:40:29.489
for it. Well, I have a little granddaughter who's

00:40:29.489 --> 00:40:31.670
nine years old now, but she's always grown up

00:40:31.670 --> 00:40:33.809
with the fact that the prophets, when they dedicate

00:40:33.809 --> 00:40:35.550
her, and she's heard the prophecy over and over

00:40:35.550 --> 00:40:37.869
again. throughout her life, that she'll be a

00:40:37.869 --> 00:40:39.789
judge. So she's going to study the Lord and become

00:40:39.789 --> 00:40:43.210
a judge, an actual judge on a bench and be a

00:40:43.210 --> 00:40:45.869
judge in the land. That's what she feels that

00:40:45.869 --> 00:40:49.409
she is called to do. So her mother spanked her

00:40:49.409 --> 00:40:51.090
when she was about six years old. She said, Mom,

00:40:51.190 --> 00:40:52.789
that really hurt. And she said, It's supposed

00:40:52.789 --> 00:40:54.969
to hurt. She looked at her mom and said to her,

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But don't forget, someday I'll be judge. Don't

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use it. But they have. They have a sense of destiny

00:41:04.050 --> 00:41:08.050
that puts a fight in them to believe God for

00:41:08.050 --> 00:41:10.469
impossible things until they fulfill what God

00:41:10.469 --> 00:41:13.090
said about them. And they live with that kind

00:41:13.090 --> 00:41:16.210
of purpose. So I believe that this is not just

00:41:16.210 --> 00:41:18.130
for us. This is for our children's children.

00:41:18.409 --> 00:41:20.809
This is for as long as the Lord would tarry,

00:41:20.809 --> 00:41:22.849
our kids are going to be prophetic. When Jesus

00:41:22.849 --> 00:41:25.769
comes back again, he's not coming for a scared

00:41:25.769 --> 00:41:28.519
church. hiding in some corner. He's coming for

00:41:28.519 --> 00:41:30.599
a prophetic church full of authority, full of

00:41:30.599 --> 00:41:33.539
wisdom, speaking the word of the Lord to a dying

00:41:33.539 --> 00:41:36.940
world. Can you say amen? So I believe in that

00:41:36.940 --> 00:41:38.780
kind of victorious church, and it starts with

00:41:38.780 --> 00:41:41.260
people like you who say, I'm going to spend Saturday

00:41:41.260 --> 00:41:43.139
morning. I want training. I want everything God

00:41:43.139 --> 00:41:45.860
has. I want to be a voice of God in my generation.

00:41:46.559 --> 00:41:48.639
You're going to bring that influence, that anointing

00:41:48.639 --> 00:41:51.039
into your family. The word of the Lord that's

00:41:51.039 --> 00:41:52.900
in your mouth shall be upon the mouth of your

00:41:52.900 --> 00:41:56.579
children. Amen? He's a covenant -keeping God.

00:41:57.079 --> 00:42:00.159
He said, I'll keep covenant for a thousand generations

00:42:00.159 --> 00:42:04.320
with those who love me. Think about it. I believe

00:42:04.320 --> 00:42:08.119
that the word of the Lord wants to come, and

00:42:08.119 --> 00:42:10.980
God wants to put a word in the generations to

00:42:10.980 --> 00:42:16.059
come. Listen, go with me to Jeremiah 23. Here's

00:42:16.059 --> 00:42:20.119
another scripture, Jeremiah 23. Verse 18 and

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verse 22. We'll use those two verses to save

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time. Jeremiah says, for who has stood in the

00:42:27.820 --> 00:42:30.539
council? And the word council there is the word

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sod. In the Hebrew, the word, it's secret. Who

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has stood in the council of the Lord and has

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perceived? And who has perceived? And that is

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not what you see, but how you see it. Perception.

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It's how you see things. It's not just what you

00:42:49.920 --> 00:42:52.219
see, but how you're seeing it. You're defining

00:42:52.219 --> 00:42:56.840
something by what you see. For who has stood

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in the counsel of the Lord and has perceived

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and heard his word? Who has marked his word and

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heard it? That word marked means hearkened to

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it, paid attention to it. People come into the

00:43:10.460 --> 00:43:12.639
house of the Lord and we can all sense a prophetic

00:43:12.639 --> 00:43:14.679
moment. God's ready to speak. God's ready to

00:43:14.679 --> 00:43:16.980
move. But very few people can mark that prophetic

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word. Very few people can grab a hold of it and

00:43:19.780 --> 00:43:21.639
say, that's what God is saying. That's the theme

00:43:21.639 --> 00:43:23.460
of this service. That's what God is going to

00:43:23.460 --> 00:43:26.239
say. They have hearkened, they have paid attention

00:43:26.239 --> 00:43:28.699
to the Holy Spirit and what he's doing and have

00:43:28.699 --> 00:43:32.139
heard his word. Well, I believe that God wants

00:43:32.139 --> 00:43:35.639
to do that. Listen to verse 22. Speaks about

00:43:35.639 --> 00:43:39.860
the purpose of the prophetic. Verse 22. in my

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counsel, in my secret, and had caused my people

00:43:44.159 --> 00:43:46.860
to hear, and had caused my people to hear my

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words, then they would have turned them from

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their evil way and from the evil of their doing.

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Turned them from the evil way and from the evil

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of their doing. Two different things there. The

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evil way and the evil of their doing. People

00:44:04.000 --> 00:44:08.099
get touched by an evil way, but then they have

00:44:08.099 --> 00:44:11.800
to Follow it through with evil doing. Well, if

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they could be intercepted by somebody who has

00:44:14.420 --> 00:44:17.579
stood in the secret of God and given them the

00:44:17.579 --> 00:44:19.500
word of the Lord, turned their hearts back to

00:44:19.500 --> 00:44:22.139
God. That's what prophets did from the beginning,

00:44:22.239 --> 00:44:25.320
was turn the hearts of the people back to God.

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Not to them, not to anybody else, but to God.

00:44:28.500 --> 00:44:30.659
He's the God who forgives, the God who restores,

00:44:30.659 --> 00:44:33.099
the God who lifts up, the God who can cause people

00:44:33.099 --> 00:44:37.039
to walk away from their evil ways and from practicing

00:44:37.039 --> 00:44:40.940
evil. Are you with me? But you've got to be able

00:44:40.940 --> 00:44:45.900
to stand. Who has stood in the council? The secret

00:44:45.900 --> 00:44:50.059
of the Lord. Well, Daniel knew the God who reveals

00:44:50.059 --> 00:44:54.800
secrets. Remember when Nebuchadnezzar had a dream?

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None of his wise men could find out or divine

00:44:58.559 --> 00:45:01.780
what the dream was all about. And he purposely

00:45:01.780 --> 00:45:04.380
didn't give anybody a dream. And he was about

00:45:04.380 --> 00:45:06.000
to kill them all. And Daniel said, give me a

00:45:06.000 --> 00:45:08.840
chance. I'm going to go to prayer. And he went

00:45:08.840 --> 00:45:11.980
and prayed with his Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego

00:45:11.980 --> 00:45:14.699
at a vigil that night. And the Holy Spirit came

00:45:14.699 --> 00:45:18.760
and revealed the secret of the heart. And Daniel

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knows and proclaims the God who reveals secrets.

00:45:23.440 --> 00:45:25.960
And I believe we need to see the church rise

00:45:25.960 --> 00:45:29.139
up. As a church that knows a God who reveals

00:45:29.139 --> 00:45:32.320
secret things. There's nothing hidden from the

00:45:32.320 --> 00:45:34.739
eyes of God. We can reveal the real motivation

00:45:34.739 --> 00:45:37.820
behind the actions of man. We can reveal the

00:45:37.820 --> 00:45:41.679
offense that is covered up with all kind of circumstance

00:45:41.679 --> 00:45:44.380
and all kinds of attitudes. But if we could just

00:45:44.380 --> 00:45:46.619
go to the root of the problem, we're able possibly

00:45:46.619 --> 00:45:50.389
to pluck that problem out of their hearts. caused

00:45:50.389 --> 00:45:52.789
healing to come to them and turned them from

00:45:52.789 --> 00:45:55.369
their evil way. How many would love to turn people

00:45:55.369 --> 00:45:58.150
away from sin and turn them back to God? Well,

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I believe the prophetic ministry is key in that

00:46:00.710 --> 00:46:04.210
so that we can be able to speak the secrets of

00:46:04.210 --> 00:46:07.110
the heart of God. Who has stood in my counsel?

00:46:07.250 --> 00:46:10.710
Who has stood in my sword, my secrets? I believe

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God wants to raise a generation of people in

00:46:13.389 --> 00:46:16.110
the church today, a church that would be able

00:46:16.110 --> 00:46:19.050
to know the God who reveals secrets, a church.

00:46:19.719 --> 00:46:22.880
that is able to prophesy. Now let me give you

00:46:22.880 --> 00:46:25.900
a two -sided of prophecies. Prophecy is both

00:46:25.900 --> 00:46:29.760
foretelling, to know the future before it happens.

00:46:30.099 --> 00:46:32.679
So there's a revelation of the future before

00:46:32.679 --> 00:46:34.739
it happens. It's that ability to foretell the

00:46:34.739 --> 00:46:37.980
future. It's foretelling and it's forth telling.

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F -O -R -T -H, forth telling. And forth telling

00:46:42.760 --> 00:46:45.840
is not just to tell the future, it's to cause

00:46:45.840 --> 00:46:50.559
the future. Are you with me? Because the prophetic,

00:46:50.619 --> 00:46:53.300
sometimes we've shied away from the truth of

00:46:53.300 --> 00:46:56.179
the word of God, and we now are trying to minimize,

00:46:56.300 --> 00:46:58.179
because of our lack of faith, the prophetic ministry.

00:46:58.659 --> 00:47:00.780
So, okay, we'll accept that it can foretell the

00:47:00.780 --> 00:47:03.699
future. But what about the other part? Prophecy

00:47:03.699 --> 00:47:05.920
is about foretelling. There's something that

00:47:05.920 --> 00:47:08.460
happens when the word of the Lord comes that

00:47:08.460 --> 00:47:11.909
changes things. And that you are a church that

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right now is living. The theme of this week is

00:47:14.449 --> 00:47:17.969
change. And I'll tell you, prophecy precedes

00:47:17.969 --> 00:47:21.369
change. There is a prophetic word that's ready

00:47:21.369 --> 00:47:24.130
you for great change. You're not just coming

00:47:24.130 --> 00:47:27.889
to enjoy a beautiful building. The greatest days

00:47:27.889 --> 00:47:30.809
of this church are ahead of you. There's great

00:47:30.809 --> 00:47:34.510
change coming to this house. And some people

00:47:34.510 --> 00:47:37.150
not understanding change will become the victims

00:47:37.150 --> 00:47:41.420
of change. I'll speak to you more about that

00:47:41.420 --> 00:47:44.400
on Sunday. But you are called as prophetic people

00:47:44.400 --> 00:47:49.539
to be able to understand and to actually maneuver

00:47:49.539 --> 00:47:52.780
through change and be able to navigate through

00:47:52.780 --> 00:47:55.860
the changes that God brings. Change is meant

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to make you better. Change is meant to increase

00:47:58.840 --> 00:48:02.019
you. Change is never meant by God to destroy

00:48:02.019 --> 00:48:04.780
you or hurt you or take something from you. It's

00:48:04.780 --> 00:48:08.780
called to add something to you. Are you ready

00:48:08.780 --> 00:48:11.099
for what God wants to do? There's a whole new

00:48:11.099 --> 00:48:13.460
dimension you're moving into. There's a whole

00:48:13.460 --> 00:48:16.340
new day in God for this church, for your children.

00:48:16.719 --> 00:48:22.940
Don't you miss out on what God's doing. Fourth

00:48:22.940 --> 00:48:26.739
telling is to cause the future to happen. It's

00:48:26.739 --> 00:48:30.019
to cause things to take place. It's Ezekiel in

00:48:30.019 --> 00:48:32.440
the Valley of Dry Bones. How many remember Ezekiel?

00:48:32.760 --> 00:48:35.920
Ezekiel prophesied and caused things to happen.

00:48:36.119 --> 00:48:42.119
It's Deborah prophesying to Barak, go out to

00:48:42.119 --> 00:48:45.760
where the River of Gishon is, and I'm going to

00:48:45.760 --> 00:48:49.530
send Cesar there. It was an ambush by God. Well,

00:48:49.550 --> 00:48:52.469
she prophesied something. Then in chapter 5 of

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Judges, it says that all heaven went to war with

00:48:55.130 --> 00:48:58.590
her. All of heaven backed her up, and a great

00:48:58.590 --> 00:49:03.309
flood. The river of Gishon actually flooded,

00:49:03.429 --> 00:49:07.429
and all the 900 chariots of Caesarea, which was

00:49:07.429 --> 00:49:10.989
their greatest threat, became useless in the

00:49:10.989 --> 00:49:14.429
mud. They could not move, and God gave the victory

00:49:14.429 --> 00:49:17.590
to Barak. But it didn't happen until a mother

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rose in Israel, until a prophetic mother dared

00:49:20.110 --> 00:49:23.690
to prophesy. It's time. I can see the time. God's

00:49:23.690 --> 00:49:26.590
going to send an ambush. Barak, go. Well, Barak

00:49:26.590 --> 00:49:28.630
didn't even see it. Well, if you, I'm not going

00:49:28.630 --> 00:49:31.369
alone. If you come, I'll, you know, I'll go.

00:49:32.650 --> 00:49:35.090
Well, there are people that are going to see

00:49:35.090 --> 00:49:37.650
things before it happens, and they're not only

00:49:37.650 --> 00:49:39.070
going to prophesy the future, they're going to

00:49:39.070 --> 00:49:41.849
cause it to happen. The word of the Lord will

00:49:41.849 --> 00:49:44.210
go out of your mouth and things will begin to

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take place all around you. Ezekiel prophesied.

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And let me read it to you from Ezekiel. Ezekiel

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37. I'll go there. I'll jump through. Ezekiel

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37. Ezekiel 37, verse 4 through 10. And again

00:49:59.769 --> 00:50:03.070
he said to me, Ezekiel 37, verse 4 through 10.

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And again he said to me, prophesy to these bones

00:50:05.699 --> 00:50:08.300
and say to them, O dry bones, hear the word of

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the Lord. Thus says the Lord to these bones,

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surely I will cause breath to enter into it to

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you. You shall live and I will put sinews on

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you and bring flesh upon you, cover you with

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skin and put breath in you and you shall live.

00:50:25.820 --> 00:50:28.980
Then you shall know that I am the Lord. So I

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prophesied as I was commended. Commanded as I

00:50:32.690 --> 00:50:35.449
was commanded. And as I prophesied. Somebody

00:50:35.449 --> 00:50:38.690
say, as I prophesied. As I prophesied, there

00:50:38.690 --> 00:50:43.349
was a noise, a suddenly rattling, and bones came

00:50:43.349 --> 00:50:46.170
together bone to bone. And indeed, as I looked,

00:50:46.230 --> 00:50:49.449
the sinews and the flesh came upon them. And

00:50:49.449 --> 00:50:52.610
the same thing with the breath. After the bodies

00:50:52.610 --> 00:50:55.389
were put together, the Lord said, prophesy breath.

00:50:56.250 --> 00:50:59.429
Well. He prophesied breath and all the winds

00:50:59.429 --> 00:51:02.909
from the four winds came. Because prophesying

00:51:02.909 --> 00:51:06.670
or prophecy does not only foretell the future,

00:51:06.769 --> 00:51:09.690
it causes the future to happen. The moment you

00:51:09.690 --> 00:51:13.309
step out and you speak a word. Listen, you saw

00:51:13.309 --> 00:51:15.550
me in the video. I want to use it as an example

00:51:15.550 --> 00:51:18.769
to you today. I walked up to a 15 -year -old

00:51:18.769 --> 00:51:22.019
girl. Very precious. And as a father and grandfather,

00:51:22.219 --> 00:51:24.780
I'm very careful that I won't cause a wrong impression

00:51:24.780 --> 00:51:27.780
or build a wrong kind of thing into somebody.

00:51:27.840 --> 00:51:29.960
So I walk very carefully. Even though I've been

00:51:29.960 --> 00:51:33.000
prophesying for 43 years, I still walk very carefully.

00:51:33.500 --> 00:51:36.860
And I think Bob and I both are like that. We're

00:51:36.860 --> 00:51:38.699
cautious. We don't want to hurt people. We want

00:51:38.699 --> 00:51:41.659
to make sure we're building people. So to my

00:51:41.659 --> 00:51:44.099
thing, I'm going to prophesy her healing. Lord,

00:51:44.199 --> 00:51:47.559
you're going to do it. I really. I knew God was

00:51:47.559 --> 00:51:49.320
there. There was the presence of God. I had the

00:51:49.320 --> 00:51:51.659
word of the Lord. But the rest, the work was

00:51:51.659 --> 00:51:54.019
of God. It wasn't my job to heal her. But the

00:51:54.019 --> 00:51:56.360
moment I saw her little feet moving, I knew it

00:51:56.360 --> 00:51:57.619
wasn't just going to happen in a little day.

00:51:57.719 --> 00:51:59.579
I knew it was going to be right then and there.

00:51:59.840 --> 00:52:02.960
She had no sense in her feet. All of a sudden,

00:52:03.000 --> 00:52:04.699
the first thing I saw when I was praying, looking

00:52:04.699 --> 00:52:07.599
down, was her feet began to move. And I knew,

00:52:07.699 --> 00:52:11.760
it's time. Now a boldness came on me, and I began

00:52:11.760 --> 00:52:15.320
to move in that which I saw. Something was happening

00:52:15.320 --> 00:52:17.960
as I was. speaking the word of the Lord. There

00:52:17.960 --> 00:52:20.760
was an anointing being released upon that young

00:52:20.760 --> 00:52:24.079
lady's life and she jumped her feet and you saw

00:52:24.079 --> 00:52:26.159
her. She began to jump. At the end of that service,

00:52:26.199 --> 00:52:28.039
she ended that service dancing in front of the

00:52:28.039 --> 00:52:30.239
whole church. We danced for about an hour and

00:52:30.239 --> 00:52:32.739
a half just celebrating her healing. When you

00:52:32.739 --> 00:52:35.380
saw her run, she ran. I had to let go of her

00:52:35.380 --> 00:52:37.920
lest I would have ended up in a wheelchair. She

00:52:37.920 --> 00:52:41.989
ran so fast, she ran out of the service. After

00:52:41.989 --> 00:52:43.630
she hugged her father, she ran out of the service

00:52:43.630 --> 00:52:45.869
into the children's church that was taking place

00:52:45.869 --> 00:52:47.929
in another building. When all the kids saw her,

00:52:48.010 --> 00:52:50.110
they all fell to the ground, got filled with

00:52:50.110 --> 00:52:52.750
the Holy Ghost, began to prophesy because there

00:52:52.750 --> 00:52:55.789
was an anointing on her life when they saw the

00:52:55.789 --> 00:53:00.920
miracle of God in her life. Things change and

00:53:00.920 --> 00:53:04.719
something is about to happen. I believe that

00:53:04.719 --> 00:53:07.480
as you get caught up in the prophetic, you need

00:53:07.480 --> 00:53:10.380
to believe God's not just called you to foretell

00:53:10.380 --> 00:53:13.460
the future, but to foretell, to cause things

00:53:13.460 --> 00:53:16.980
to happen. Come on, look at somebody and say,

00:53:17.019 --> 00:53:21.360
come on, get your faith up and believe God can

00:53:21.360 --> 00:53:25.699
do it. I was trained in this prophetic realm

00:53:25.699 --> 00:53:28.440
from the very inception of my walk in Christ.

00:53:29.880 --> 00:53:33.199
Months into my prophetic ministry, and that's

00:53:33.199 --> 00:53:35.380
months into being saved, I prophesied things

00:53:35.380 --> 00:53:37.699
that I saw with my very own eyes. And I would

00:53:37.699 --> 00:53:39.480
hear the Holy Spirit train me and say, open up

00:53:39.480 --> 00:53:41.840
your eyes. I want you to see what you're going

00:53:41.840 --> 00:53:44.739
to speak. And I would speak these declarations

00:53:44.739 --> 00:53:47.440
and see them come to place right before my eyes.

00:53:47.880 --> 00:53:51.960
So 43 years of that, my faith is at a whole different

00:53:51.960 --> 00:53:55.960
level. Because I just obeyed God. And that doesn't

00:53:55.960 --> 00:53:59.500
mean that I haven't had my share of failures.

00:53:59.619 --> 00:54:02.219
I remember the first kid I pulled out of a wheelchair

00:54:02.219 --> 00:54:04.679
as a young man preaching the gospel in a community.

00:54:05.260 --> 00:54:07.179
Whole community came out to hear it. People were

00:54:07.179 --> 00:54:09.940
getting saved. And I pulled this kid out of a

00:54:09.940 --> 00:54:11.920
wheelchair. Dragged him half a block. The whole

00:54:11.920 --> 00:54:13.920
community was right behind me. Never got healed.

00:54:14.139 --> 00:54:16.260
Had to put him back in his chair. The only thing

00:54:16.260 --> 00:54:17.800
I can think of telling the parents is thank you

00:54:17.800 --> 00:54:20.380
for letting me practice on your son. But I was

00:54:20.380 --> 00:54:24.139
new at ministry. And when I asked God, God, you

00:54:24.139 --> 00:54:26.360
didn't heal him. He said, did I tell you to pull

00:54:26.360 --> 00:54:29.320
him out of the chair? Did I tell you to do that?

00:54:30.239 --> 00:54:34.420
I said, no, I just assumed. So I've learned how

00:54:34.420 --> 00:54:37.300
to not assume. And there is a thin line between

00:54:37.300 --> 00:54:41.320
assumption and a prophetic word from God. And

00:54:41.320 --> 00:54:43.780
you need to be able to discern that so that you

00:54:43.780 --> 00:54:47.599
can step into sure ground and not blame God for

00:54:47.599 --> 00:54:51.880
some of your own mishaps. Are you with me? All

00:54:51.880 --> 00:54:54.300
right. Is it okay if I share my heart like that?

00:54:54.980 --> 00:54:57.300
Because all of us need to learn from one another.

00:54:57.900 --> 00:55:00.719
But we need to be bold to be able to declare

00:55:00.719 --> 00:55:02.679
the future. I believe God wants to reveal the

00:55:02.679 --> 00:55:04.840
future. I believe the future of this house is

00:55:04.840 --> 00:55:06.820
great. I don't believe God brought you here to

00:55:06.820 --> 00:55:08.320
give you a building so you could sing Kumbaya

00:55:08.320 --> 00:55:11.239
and hang out for the rest of your days. I think

00:55:11.239 --> 00:55:13.900
this church is at the verge of the greatest miracles

00:55:13.900 --> 00:55:16.780
yet to be performed. I believe that there's going

00:55:16.780 --> 00:55:18.599
to be an outpouring and a growth that's going

00:55:18.599 --> 00:55:20.980
to come to this house. I believe that there is

00:55:20.980 --> 00:55:23.920
going to be such a dimension that your children,

00:55:24.000 --> 00:55:27.139
what is extraordinary to you, will become ordinary.

00:55:27.400 --> 00:55:30.639
to them. They'll learn how to live in the extraordinary

00:55:30.639 --> 00:55:34.000
because they've seen the miraculous. This is

00:55:34.000 --> 00:55:36.940
what we did. Our church believed and we saw this

00:55:36.940 --> 00:55:39.900
happen. We had nothing when we started but now

00:55:39.900 --> 00:55:43.760
God has given us they're living in the extraordinary

00:55:43.760 --> 00:55:48.340
of God and for them it's going to become hey

00:55:48.340 --> 00:55:54.239
this is the way we've always lived. So I believe

00:55:54.239 --> 00:55:56.340
that you're at the brink of something great.

00:55:56.829 --> 00:55:59.670
A great change is coming to this house. This

00:55:59.670 --> 00:56:02.510
is your time to believe God for the future. And

00:56:02.510 --> 00:56:05.070
I believe that God wants to show you the future.

00:56:05.269 --> 00:56:08.269
He wants you to get a good look at what he wants

00:56:08.269 --> 00:56:12.230
to do. He wants you there to prophesy the future

00:56:12.230 --> 00:56:15.630
into existence. It's called, in the Hebrew, it's

00:56:15.630 --> 00:56:19.570
the word dabar in the Hebrew. And the word dabar

00:56:19.570 --> 00:56:21.389
in the Hebrew means it comes with everything

00:56:21.389 --> 00:56:23.789
it needs to fulfill itself. All you got to do

00:56:23.789 --> 00:56:28.019
is speak it. So Jeremiah 1 verse 9 says, The

00:56:28.019 --> 00:56:30.820
Lord said to Jeremiah, And the Lord said unto

00:56:30.820 --> 00:56:35.280
me, Behold, I have put my words, my debar, in

00:56:35.280 --> 00:56:38.900
thy mouth. God will put a debar in your mouth.

00:56:39.159 --> 00:56:42.599
It has the power to push people into their destiny.

00:56:42.860 --> 00:56:46.519
A debar. It comes with a Holy Ghost strength

00:56:46.519 --> 00:56:50.659
to push people into their destiny. Isaiah. 55,

00:56:50.820 --> 00:56:53.880
verse 11. Listen to the same word as used. Isaiah

00:56:53.880 --> 00:56:59.239
55, 11. So shall my word, my debar, be that goes

00:56:59.239 --> 00:57:02.599
out from my mouth. It shall not return to me

00:57:02.599 --> 00:57:05.159
void, but it shall accomplish what I please.

00:57:05.420 --> 00:57:10.039
And it shall prosper in the thing for which I

00:57:10.039 --> 00:57:12.920
sent it. And if you need to learn anything, it's

00:57:12.920 --> 00:57:16.090
that every word... That God gives you every,

00:57:16.150 --> 00:57:19.289
the bar word comes attached to a thing. There's

00:57:19.289 --> 00:57:21.889
a purpose. There's a thing that God's out to

00:57:21.889 --> 00:57:24.489
perform and do. It might not do all the other

00:57:24.489 --> 00:57:26.150
things you want it to do, but the thing that

00:57:26.150 --> 00:57:28.630
God wants it to do is going to happen. It's going

00:57:28.630 --> 00:57:32.010
to take place. It will not return that void to

00:57:32.010 --> 00:57:35.309
God. It comes out with power. It comes out to

00:57:35.309 --> 00:57:38.070
do something. And maybe that's why Amos in chapter

00:57:38.070 --> 00:57:43.579
3, verse 8, Amos says, About God. Says God does

00:57:43.579 --> 00:57:45.860
nothing unless he reveals his secrets to the

00:57:45.860 --> 00:57:49.960
prophets. And he goes on to say, if a lion roars,

00:57:49.960 --> 00:57:53.800
who shall not fear? If the Lord speaks, who shall

00:57:53.800 --> 00:57:58.440
not prophesy? Come on. Somebody say who. Look

00:57:58.440 --> 00:58:00.260
at your neighbor and say, who shall not prophesy?

00:58:01.289 --> 00:58:04.530
If the Lord speaks, if you can hear the voice

00:58:04.530 --> 00:58:07.530
of God, he can train you to speak the word of

00:58:07.530 --> 00:58:09.969
the Lord, prophesy with great boldness. If a

00:58:09.969 --> 00:58:13.480
lion roars, who shall not fear? There's something

00:58:13.480 --> 00:58:15.920
about the roar of the Lion of Judah that's being

00:58:15.920 --> 00:58:19.820
heard in a spiritual realm. And listen, I'm not

00:58:19.820 --> 00:58:21.739
talking about you getting out and services starting

00:58:21.739 --> 00:58:24.559
to roar. I'm talking about prophesying. I'm talking

00:58:24.559 --> 00:58:27.239
about coming with such boldness because you know

00:58:27.239 --> 00:58:29.280
that you know that you're heard from God and

00:58:29.280 --> 00:58:32.719
you dare to speak that part, that revelation,

00:58:32.780 --> 00:58:35.460
that illumination that God gave you. And as you

00:58:35.460 --> 00:58:38.000
speak it, the whole place gets filled with that

00:58:38.000 --> 00:58:44.329
presence of God. I can tell you story after story.

00:58:44.889 --> 00:58:47.710
Probably one of my greatest times of learning

00:58:47.710 --> 00:58:50.250
how to speak the debar word of the Lord was as

00:58:50.250 --> 00:58:53.469
a young boy, 17 years old, in a campfire where

00:58:53.469 --> 00:58:55.829
we sought to have a prayer vigil in a mountain

00:58:55.829 --> 00:58:58.429
with all the disciples that we had in Christ.

00:58:58.730 --> 00:59:02.389
We created this fire. The daughter of a marksman

00:59:02.389 --> 00:59:06.510
from the Olympics, he owned a big property, big

00:59:06.510 --> 00:59:09.869
farm. So he, in a little mountain hill, about

00:59:09.869 --> 00:59:17.659
something like 500, meters from his house. We

00:59:17.659 --> 00:59:20.199
were there praying all night. He was a man who

00:59:20.199 --> 00:59:21.920
gave himself to drinking in this season of his

00:59:21.920 --> 00:59:25.420
life. He drove up to the house and came in early

00:59:25.420 --> 00:59:28.460
and locked in. We were praying until 2 or 3 in

00:59:28.460 --> 00:59:30.139
the morning. Somewhere around 2 in the morning,

00:59:30.219 --> 00:59:33.940
I heard the Lord speak to me. As we began to

00:59:33.940 --> 00:59:36.380
intercede, I could hear the intercession of his

00:59:36.380 --> 00:59:39.460
daughter. And I could understand what she was

00:59:39.460 --> 00:59:41.179
praying. She was praying in the spirit. And the

00:59:41.179 --> 00:59:43.219
Lord let me understand. She was at one side of

00:59:43.219 --> 00:59:46.599
the fire bomb, the fire that we had built. I'm

00:59:46.599 --> 00:59:49.159
on this side. And I could hear the Holy Spirit

00:59:49.159 --> 00:59:51.119
say, this is what she's praying. She's praying

00:59:51.119 --> 00:59:53.760
for her dad right now. Tell her I'm going to

00:59:53.760 --> 00:59:57.340
answer tonight. Tell her that tonight I'm sending

00:59:57.340 --> 00:59:59.940
my angels to the house and he's going to give

00:59:59.940 --> 01:00:03.500
his life to the Lord. Well, I looked at her across

01:00:03.500 --> 01:00:06.059
the fire, started prophesying to her. And as

01:00:06.059 --> 01:00:08.340
I prophesied, then the Lord said, okay, now I

01:00:08.340 --> 01:00:09.679
want you to turn around and point to the house,

01:00:09.800 --> 01:00:12.599
open your eyes, because I want you to see the

01:00:12.599 --> 01:00:15.280
word of the Lord come to pass. So I prophesied

01:00:15.280 --> 01:00:17.480
to the house what I had prophesied to her. The

01:00:17.480 --> 01:00:20.199
lights went on, the doors flinged open, and a

01:00:20.199 --> 01:00:24.860
man came out screaming. Ran up this hill. I didn't

01:00:24.860 --> 01:00:26.500
know if he was going to beat me or not. My flesh

01:00:26.500 --> 01:00:28.039
was saying, he's going to come beat you. He heard

01:00:28.039 --> 01:00:29.820
you, he's going to come beat you. He was a big

01:00:29.820 --> 01:00:32.989
man. I'm standing there prophesying, and as he

01:00:32.989 --> 01:00:34.570
got close to the fire, I could see the tears

01:00:34.570 --> 01:00:37.030
gushing out of his eyes. He fell on his knees

01:00:37.030 --> 01:00:39.650
in front of me and gave his life to Christ and

01:00:39.650 --> 01:00:42.710
has served the Lord for over 30 years in the

01:00:42.710 --> 01:00:47.389
kingdom. Amazing. God, his whole family has been

01:00:47.389 --> 01:00:49.809
saved and radically transformed by the power

01:00:49.809 --> 01:00:52.969
of God. It's the Dabar word of the Lord. it will

01:00:52.969 --> 01:00:56.030
not return back empty. And some of you will be

01:00:56.030 --> 01:00:58.989
called to prophesy some things, not just foretell

01:00:58.989 --> 01:01:00.849
the future. There'll be times when you'll just

01:01:00.849 --> 01:01:03.730
foretell it. But there are other times when you

01:01:03.730 --> 01:01:07.570
will speak and things will begin to happen. Are

01:01:07.570 --> 01:01:11.090
you with me? The word of the Lord is powerful.

01:01:12.710 --> 01:01:15.969
Let me close with a little illustration of David.

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David was probably the greatest. prophetic person

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in the New Testament being mentored by Samuel

01:01:24.980 --> 01:01:27.800
himself who started the school of the prophets.

01:01:28.320 --> 01:01:30.599
It was Samuel who went to his house when nobody

01:01:30.599 --> 01:01:33.239
recognized him, not even his father Jesse, enough

01:01:33.239 --> 01:01:35.340
to invite him to the greatest moment in his own

01:01:35.340 --> 01:01:38.679
house. Samuel visits the house, asks for another

01:01:38.679 --> 01:01:40.820
son. He says, yeah, there's another one. He's

01:01:40.820 --> 01:01:44.519
out with the sheep. They bring him out. He anoints

01:01:44.519 --> 01:01:46.980
him with a full horn of oil, prophesies over

01:01:46.980 --> 01:01:50.739
him his destiny. Mark's life and an impartation

01:01:50.739 --> 01:01:53.940
was left on David. The Bible says that from that

01:01:53.940 --> 01:01:55.960
day on, the presence of the Lord was with David.

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And you can read all about it. Samuel is his

01:01:59.800 --> 01:02:02.760
mentor. When Saul is persecuting him, he runs

01:02:02.760 --> 01:02:05.219
to Samuel to tell him everything that Samuel

01:02:05.219 --> 01:02:08.949
did. 1 Samuel chapter 19 tells a story. Samuel

01:02:08.949 --> 01:02:10.489
takes him to the school of the prophets. Come

01:02:10.489 --> 01:02:13.010
on, I'm gonna get you refreshed. He was a fugitive

01:02:13.010 --> 01:02:14.869
running from Saul who was throwing spears at

01:02:14.869 --> 01:02:17.949
him. Samuel says, let's go to service. Let's

01:02:17.949 --> 01:02:20.409
go to that prophetic atmosphere. And he takes

01:02:20.409 --> 01:02:22.550
him to a prophetic service where they're prophesying.

01:02:22.750 --> 01:02:26.130
They hear about it in Saul's house and he sends

01:02:26.130 --> 01:02:29.070
messengers to go arrest David. You know the story.

01:02:29.150 --> 01:02:32.610
They come and the moment they arrive close to

01:02:32.610 --> 01:02:34.849
where the meeting is at, they all fall down.

01:02:34.929 --> 01:02:36.750
The presence of God is so strong that they start

01:02:36.750 --> 01:02:39.849
prophesying. Saul himself goes later after two

01:02:39.849 --> 01:02:42.349
messengers and he starts prophesying as well.

01:02:42.949 --> 01:02:46.550
The presence of God is so strong. I can tell

01:02:46.550 --> 01:02:49.510
you about stories in Harlem where we were prophesying

01:02:49.510 --> 01:02:52.349
in the service. One man, I was preaching one

01:02:52.349 --> 01:02:55.070
day and this prophetic thought came to me in

01:02:55.070 --> 01:02:57.250
the middle of my preaching, my sermon, and the

01:02:57.250 --> 01:02:58.719
Lord said, I want you to illustrate it because

01:02:58.719 --> 01:03:01.820
I'm going to do it. So I said, okay, God, what

01:03:01.820 --> 01:03:04.880
is it? So he said, I want you to illustrate a

01:03:04.880 --> 01:03:07.079
man running into the building through the doors.

01:03:08.360 --> 01:03:10.079
And so in the middle of my message, I have to

01:03:10.079 --> 01:03:13.699
stop, call one of my crazy young disciples and

01:03:13.699 --> 01:03:15.679
tell them, this is what I want you to do. In

01:03:15.679 --> 01:03:17.039
the midst of my message, I want you to break

01:03:17.039 --> 01:03:18.159
through the doors because we're going to do a

01:03:18.159 --> 01:03:20.579
prophetic act. And you're going to act like a

01:03:20.579 --> 01:03:23.260
man who's ready to commit suicide, ready to jump

01:03:23.260 --> 01:03:25.840
off a building, and you're going to run in here

01:03:25.840 --> 01:03:29.030
asking to be, prayed for and give your life to

01:03:29.030 --> 01:03:32.869
Christ. Well, nobody heard it. He went to the

01:03:32.869 --> 01:03:36.010
back. I kept preaching. And then when I cued

01:03:36.010 --> 01:03:39.309
him, the doors flung open. He ran through the

01:03:39.309 --> 01:03:40.849
aisle screaming. He did it so well, everybody

01:03:40.849 --> 01:03:44.460
started crying. They knew who he was, but it

01:03:44.460 --> 01:03:47.280
impacted everybody. And as I'm preaching about

01:03:47.280 --> 01:03:49.699
it, now I start prophesying about how God's going

01:03:49.699 --> 01:03:52.460
to do this thing, and he falls down and gives

01:03:52.460 --> 01:03:53.980
his life to the Lord. Of course, he's saved,

01:03:54.099 --> 01:03:57.059
but he's acting this part out. The moment he

01:03:57.059 --> 01:04:00.679
does that, now everybody claps. Yeah, we're believing

01:04:00.679 --> 01:04:02.199
God. We're a prophetic church. We're going to

01:04:02.199 --> 01:04:04.820
change people's lives. We all sit down. Service

01:04:04.820 --> 01:04:06.760
goes on. I'm finishing the last few points of

01:04:06.760 --> 01:04:10.150
my message. The doors fling open. And a man runs

01:04:10.150 --> 01:04:12.889
down just like he had just acted. Almost the

01:04:12.889 --> 01:04:15.909
exact word for word. Screaming. Yelling. He says,

01:04:16.030 --> 01:04:18.250
I was in the building in front of your church

01:04:18.250 --> 01:04:20.750
building. I was on the seventh floor ready to

01:04:20.750 --> 01:04:24.369
jump. And I heard God say, go to those doors.

01:04:24.489 --> 01:04:27.710
Walk through those doors. And I will use you.

01:04:27.769 --> 01:04:31.090
Turn your life around. Run. And he ran down the

01:04:31.090 --> 01:04:33.590
building. Ran through my doors. And got saved.

01:04:33.730 --> 01:04:36.389
It was a prophetic act. That was a Debar word

01:04:36.389 --> 01:04:39.460
of the Lord being fulfilled. Come on, can you

01:04:39.460 --> 01:04:44.079
believe God for that? When you get a hold of

01:04:44.079 --> 01:04:46.159
this, you'll prophesy people out of darkness

01:04:46.159 --> 01:04:49.239
into light. You'll change the course of people's

01:04:49.239 --> 01:04:52.159
lives. You'll transform them forever. You'll

01:04:52.159 --> 01:04:54.639
ruin the plans of the enemy for people's lives.

01:04:54.780 --> 01:04:57.420
You'll kick down tombstones in the name of the

01:04:57.420 --> 01:05:00.380
Lord as you speak life into those that the enemy

01:05:00.380 --> 01:05:04.219
has spoken death to. This is not for cowards.

01:05:04.719 --> 01:05:06.480
This is for those that would dare to believe

01:05:06.480 --> 01:05:09.190
God. And it's not by our merits, it's by the

01:05:09.190 --> 01:05:12.389
grace of God. It's by the love of God that compels

01:05:12.389 --> 01:05:16.210
you to step out and share the heart of God. Well,

01:05:16.269 --> 01:05:21.929
David foretold the future. He did. Listen, Psalm

01:05:21.929 --> 01:05:27.469
22, how many remember Psalm 22 is all about Calvary.

01:05:27.869 --> 01:05:32.250
In Psalm 22, David, who's been mentored by Samuel,

01:05:32.469 --> 01:05:35.369
in the midst of worship, in the midst of the

01:05:35.369 --> 01:05:40.750
presence of God, He actually brings the prophetic

01:05:40.750 --> 01:05:45.230
ministry into play in the midst of worship. This

01:05:45.230 --> 01:05:47.010
is one of the Psalms, and your Psalms are filled

01:05:47.010 --> 01:05:49.630
with Messianic prophecies. Listen to it. Psalm

01:05:49.630 --> 01:05:52.929
22, verse 16 through 18. I'm just extracting

01:05:52.929 --> 01:05:55.530
one little part of it. For dogs have surrounded

01:05:55.530 --> 01:05:58.530
me, and the congregation of the wicked has enclosed

01:05:58.530 --> 01:06:02.309
me. They pierce my hands and my feet. I can count

01:06:02.309 --> 01:06:06.010
all my bones. And they look and stare at me.

01:06:06.559 --> 01:06:09.280
They divide my garments among them, and for my

01:06:09.280 --> 01:06:12.880
clothing they cast lots. That was a prophecy

01:06:12.880 --> 01:06:16.920
about Calvary. It's like having a videotape of

01:06:16.920 --> 01:06:19.679
Calvary hundreds of years before it ever happened.

01:06:20.599 --> 01:06:23.579
Because prophecy is about the past, the present,

01:06:23.659 --> 01:06:28.139
and the future. And the book of Revelation, God

01:06:28.139 --> 01:06:30.139
says to John, write the things that were, the

01:06:30.139 --> 01:06:32.739
things that are, and the things to come. Past,

01:06:32.739 --> 01:06:35.719
present, and future. There's only time under

01:06:35.719 --> 01:06:39.849
heaven. In heaven, there is no time. The past,

01:06:39.869 --> 01:06:41.409
the present, and the future come all together.

01:06:42.329 --> 01:06:44.969
And here's David prophesying about the future.

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They pierced my hands and my feet. They divided

01:06:48.070 --> 01:06:51.070
my garments among them. And for my clothing,

01:06:51.130 --> 01:06:55.590
they cast lots. He prophesied Calvary hundreds

01:06:55.590 --> 01:06:59.090
of years before it happened. Not only prophesied

01:06:59.090 --> 01:07:00.969
Calvary, he prophesied the ascension of Christ

01:07:00.969 --> 01:07:04.750
after the resurrection. Psalm 24, let me read

01:07:04.750 --> 01:07:07.980
it to you. Psalm 24, verse 7 through 10. Lift

01:07:07.980 --> 01:07:10.960
up your heads, O you gates, and be lifted up,

01:07:10.960 --> 01:07:13.619
you everlasting doors, and the King of glory

01:07:13.619 --> 01:07:17.119
shall come in. Who is this King of glory? The

01:07:17.119 --> 01:07:20.119
Lord strong and mighty. The Lord mighty in battle.

01:07:20.500 --> 01:07:25.059
Lift up your heads, O you gates. Lift up your

01:07:25.059 --> 01:07:28.199
everlasting doors, and the King of glory shall

01:07:28.199 --> 01:07:31.739
come in. Who is this King of glory? The Lord

01:07:31.739 --> 01:07:35.239
of hosts. That's David's prophecy of the ascension

01:07:35.239 --> 01:07:37.980
of Christ. That's Jesus taking captivity captive.

01:07:38.199 --> 01:07:41.079
When he resurrected, when he went down to hell,

01:07:41.159 --> 01:07:44.119
took the keys of death and hell from Satan, he

01:07:44.119 --> 01:07:46.980
opened every prison door of Abraham's bosom because

01:07:46.980 --> 01:07:49.599
no man had ascended into heaven from that point.

01:07:49.699 --> 01:07:53.000
Only three that we know of. Enoch, who broke

01:07:53.000 --> 01:07:54.719
his appointment with death and God, took him.

01:07:54.739 --> 01:07:56.420
He's been the longest in the presence of God.

01:07:57.090 --> 01:08:00.010
Elijah, who went on a whirlwind, and Moses, who

01:08:00.010 --> 01:08:02.590
somehow was resurrected and shows up with Elijah

01:08:02.590 --> 01:08:05.250
on the Mount of Transfiguration. Three men in

01:08:05.250 --> 01:08:08.190
the presence of God. But the rest all went to

01:08:08.190 --> 01:08:10.690
Abraham's bosom waiting for Messiah, waiting

01:08:10.690 --> 01:08:12.809
for the king that would set them free. Well,

01:08:12.869 --> 01:08:15.280
David sings about it. And I think when Jesus

01:08:15.280 --> 01:08:17.699
was opening the doors and opened the prison cell

01:08:17.699 --> 01:08:20.000
of David, David probably popped out and said,

01:08:20.039 --> 01:08:21.939
I've been waiting for this day. You know, Jesus,

01:08:22.220 --> 01:08:25.140
this calls for a song. And I wrote a song hundreds

01:08:25.140 --> 01:08:27.340
of years ago about this moment. Can I lead worship

01:08:27.340 --> 01:08:30.399
on the way to heaven? Help me lead worship. And

01:08:30.399 --> 01:08:32.800
he got all the voices together and put everybody

01:08:32.800 --> 01:08:35.140
in their range and said, all right, guys, here's

01:08:35.140 --> 01:08:40.539
the chorus line. Open up your gates. Open up

01:08:40.539 --> 01:08:42.779
your everlasting doors and the king of glory

01:08:42.779 --> 01:08:44.829
shall come in. That's what we're going to sing,

01:08:44.850 --> 01:08:48.789
guys. Abraham and everybody else got tuned in.

01:08:48.949 --> 01:08:51.970
Deborah. And they all lined up with a chorus.

01:08:52.529 --> 01:08:55.829
And as they ascended to heaven with Christ, it's

01:08:55.829 --> 01:08:59.050
the ascension. He took captivity captive. And

01:08:59.050 --> 01:09:02.289
they went into the heavens, the heavenly doors

01:09:02.289 --> 01:09:07.649
that had not opened ever. All of a sudden, crying

01:09:07.649 --> 01:09:11.390
out from behind the door, who is this king of

01:09:11.390 --> 01:09:18.529
glory? Who is this king of glory? He's the Lord

01:09:18.529 --> 01:09:23.869
mighty in battle. He is the king of glory. And

01:09:23.869 --> 01:09:26.529
as they sang back, there's this conversation.

01:09:26.829 --> 01:09:29.710
David's thinking about it. Heaven cracks open.

01:09:30.409 --> 01:09:33.229
Do I have any doors, ancient doors that have

01:09:33.229 --> 01:09:40.029
never, all of a sudden, boom. They open up. And

01:09:40.029 --> 01:09:43.510
now heaven's aligned to receive Christ, the Son

01:09:43.510 --> 01:09:45.789
of God, like never been seen, glorified Christ,

01:09:46.029 --> 01:09:49.789
enters in through this possession line. I can

01:09:49.789 --> 01:09:52.909
see David and Abraham walking in together, Father

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standing at the throne with his arms stretched

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wide to receive his Son. Oh, it's the ascension

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of Christ coming into that very presence. I can

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see David nudging Abraham, saying, I know what's

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going to happen next. You want to know? Because

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I saw it. I'm a prophet. I prophesied about this

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in another psalm. He said in Psalm 110, and he

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quotes Psalm 110, verse 1. The Lord said to my

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Lord, sit at my right hand until I make your

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enemies your footstool. I was there. Hundreds

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of years ago, I lived this moment in the presence

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of God. I stood right there. I saw the Father.

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The next thing that's going to happen is the

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Father's going to say to the Son, sit at my right

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hand. Until I make your enemies your footstool.

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David had glimpse of the future. And of the purpose

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of God. With Christ and his church. Prophesied

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about them. More messianic prophecies. More mysteries

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revealed in the Psalms. That's why maybe the

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Psalmist said. Upon my harp I'll speak enigmas.

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I'll speak mysteries with my music. Musicians

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haven't tapped into that. the way they need to.

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But if musicians caught up about if they could

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understand what their places on this platform

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is. It's not just to sing pretty songs and entertain

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people and guide people to a moment of worship

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where they give you goosebumps. It's about opening

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heaven. It's about taking the people into the

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very presence of God. It's about creating an

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atmosphere where you can enter and everybody

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ascends and the heaven touches earth and the

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word of God is made clear and revelation is clearer

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than ever. And the people who have trained their

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ears and can see, they'll begin to prophesy.

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Things in the theme of God for every service

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will be established and God will have his way

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and be glorified. I believe in a powerful church.

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I believe in the kind of church that you are.

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You are a prophetic church. Pastors were prophetic.

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Listen, you cannot be anything else. You're never

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going to be a quiet, sophisticated church. Forget

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about it. You're going to be loud, happy. joyful

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church, drunk in the Holy Ghost, but with order.

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Can you say amen? And you're going to know the

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protocol of prophecy. You've got great teachers

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among you. I'm just trying to stir up the fire

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in this house because I believe this change calls

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for a new anointing, a fresh touch of God. I

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believe that God wants to take you deeper than

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you've ever been. I believe God wants you to

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see things that you've never seen before and

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speak things that you've never dared to speak.

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Nobody has ever spoken of over this valley and

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over this area. But now, in the Lord, it is time.

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God's getting ready to release the people who

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already have positioned themselves for a great

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harvest. You had three meetings before. Get ready

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to do it all over again. Get ready to see such

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a harvest come in that you can't contain it.

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Get ready to release the word of the Lord in

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such a way that... will be set free and miracles

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and healings will begin to take place all over

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this house. In the corridors, in your hallways,

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in the children's church, the Spirit of the Lord

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will fall. And what happens in the service will

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happen simultaneously in different places. Oh,

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don't be so surprised when on your floyer and

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your coffee shop, the Holy Ghost comes and takes

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over. Coffee, tea, and prophecy. People prophesying,

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the anointing cut loose in the house of God.

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People falling on their knees all over the place.

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I believe God has called you into a tremendous

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time of transition. Sunday I'll speak to you

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about, maybe even tonight, about the difference

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between transition and change. They're two different

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things. And I believe that I'm here to stir you

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up. Tonight we're going to stir you up to prophesy.

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This morning, I want you to rise to your feet.

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I'm trying to give you in a capsule form 16 hours

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of training. There's a lot to dig out. In the

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word of God, you can study it. You can find it.

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Study the writings of Paul who teaches the church,

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especially the Corinthian church, on the prophetic.

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Chapter 13, he teaches them about love. Because

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he knew that love would be so important to manage

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and rule over spiritual gifts. Chapter 14 is

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all about the gifts of the Holy Spirit. Chapter

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12 is about the actual articulation of the manifestation

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of the Holy Spirit. Love about what governs and

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then the protocol. That order that we need. The

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commandments, I call it the commandments of prophetic

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ministry are in chapter 14. so that we can adhere.

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The spirit of the prophet is subject to the prophet

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and prophets are submitted to the local church.

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Can you say amen? So whatever it is, whether

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you have a call of a prophet, you have the gift

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of prophecy, you were called to build a church.

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You were called to edify others. You were called

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to bring an expression of God to this world that

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the world will not be able to ignore. And I understand

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that God is the creator of heaven and earth.

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And who has the destiny of every man and every

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woman in their head. I believe you're the church

01:15:42.710 --> 01:15:48.029
that can do it now in this time. I believe God

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wants to use you. If you believe that, for a

01:15:51.510 --> 01:15:55.409
moment, let's get lost in God. It's the altar.

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It's the place where the lost get found and the

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found get lost. Get out of your seat. Come up

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front. Let's just, let's dig into the Lord because

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without His presence, There's nothing more. I

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don't have time to prophesy to all of you, but

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tonight we're going to prophesy maybe over a

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few. Bob's here as well. But if there's something

01:16:13.869 --> 01:16:16.250
we want to give you, is that sure word of prophecy

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that will ignite you, stir fire of the gift of

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God in you. You've received gifts you've prophesied

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before. God wants to stir it up inside of you.

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If you've never prophesied, this is a good time

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where God is going to cause your ear to be open.

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Touch your eyes so that you can see what he sees.

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Look at the world from his perspective. Help

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us, Holy Spirit, we need you. If you are interested

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