Speaker 1: So today I'm excited.
Speaker 2: I am. I am at the butt end of this
Speaker 2: series we're doing restoring the Ancient Pathways of Life, and
Speaker 2: and I'm just I'm excited to do the topic I'm doing.
Speaker 2: I'm doing the prophetic topic. And I like this topic
Speaker 2: because there's so many things. This topic is so vast
Speaker 2: that I'm not going to do justice to cover it
Speaker 2: even halfway. You know, I'm just going to do a
Speaker 2: partial lick of it. But I am excited because my
Speaker 2: goal this morning is to restore a practicality to the
Speaker 2: prophetic that that goes with us and every single one
Speaker 2: of us everywhere we go. That makes sense. So, you know,
Speaker 2: in the prophetic topic, it's it's interesting because we do
Speaker 2: one of two things. One, it's like I don't want
Speaker 2: to hear it. I don't want anything to do with it,
Speaker 2: keep it away from me. Two we say, uh, we
Speaker 2: put the pressure on someone else, and we like to
Speaker 2: receive words. We put it on a person, kind of
Speaker 2: like they did the Old Testament, or in certain sects
Speaker 2: of our religion, they say, what does the man? What
Speaker 2: does the woman of God have to say? What's the
Speaker 2: word for the hour? I don't know what the term
Speaker 2: they use. What's the thing for the anyway? You know?
Speaker 2: So we we put the pressure on somebody else and
Speaker 2: we come more as receivers rather than participators.
Speaker 1: Does that make sense?
Speaker 2: And so I believe God this morning wants to do
Speaker 2: something good in our hearts and our souls that would
Speaker 2: restore this to us all individuals. Does that make sense?
Speaker 1: Okay? So I'll try the best I can this morning,
Speaker 1: and you try the best you can just to keep.
Speaker 2: The heart open.
Speaker 1: Cool, all right?
Speaker 2: I want to do something pretty cool this morning. I
Speaker 2: want to do a prophetic act. So bear with me. Shana,
Speaker 2: would you come on up please? I'm gonna have who else?
Speaker 2: Who else? Am I gonna pick on?
Speaker 1: Craig?
Speaker 2: Please? Would you come? Claara was like, is the heart
Speaker 2: that was not me? Terrell? Would you come up real quick?
Speaker 2: And I want one more? One more Lord? Who would be?
Speaker 2: Who would be? Costra Anchlow? Would you come up? Again?
Speaker 2: I had her come up for service. So I'm gonna
Speaker 2: ask each one of you, because we're in the topic
Speaker 2: of the prophetic, I'm gonna ask you just to take
Speaker 2: thirty seconds and pray over the congregation. You can leave
Speaker 2: it out of prayer, but if the Lord puts something
Speaker 2: in your heart, just release the word okay for today,
Speaker 2: for now, for the congregation ye have, for whatever the
Speaker 2: Lord might be doing. It might be a word of encouragement,
Speaker 2: might be a word of comfort, might be a word
Speaker 2: of you know straight, whatever it is, okay.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna give the mic to Shana.
Speaker 2: We're gonna go and just thirty seconds, be gracious with me.
Speaker 3: I just think that the Lord's saying that there's a
Speaker 3: breaking that's happening, and this is a different kind of breakthrough.
Speaker 3: It's starting to shake from the ground up, so you
Speaker 3: might feel the shaking and then see the breakthrough later.
Speaker 3: So if now you're experiencing a shaking, expect the breakthrough
Speaker 3: to come.
Speaker 2: Come on. Thank you.
Speaker 4: I just the Lord gave me a picture of a
Speaker 4: pair of shoes, and so I feel like what that
Speaker 4: means is that this He's called this congregation to be
Speaker 4: those that would put out the leather, get the shoes on,
Speaker 4: and then take the prophetic to where you are, to
Speaker 4: your job, to whomever you interact with. And I also
Speaker 4: hear the other thing I hear is that he has
Speaker 4: called New Horizon Church to be those that would be
Speaker 4: the breakers of the demonic realm. Come like he's calling
Speaker 4: us to take out the shoe leather, and he's saying,
Speaker 4: I have equipped you as a body or as a
Speaker 4: church to go and destroy the works of the enemy,
Speaker 4: to destroy the works of darkness, and that he's actually
Speaker 4: saying he's participating with the words that come out of
Speaker 4: your mouth, and he's actually sending his angels out to
Speaker 4: destroy the demonic realm based upon what's coming out of
Speaker 4: your mouth and what you prophesy over those you are
Speaker 4: interacting with.
Speaker 2: So good, come on, thank you, So first service.
Speaker 5: I got a picture of a tree, and on that
Speaker 5: tree I've seen fruit, and I feel like the Lord
Speaker 5: is saying that all the old fruit is dead and gone.
Speaker 5: And so I decree and declare over each one of
Speaker 5: you that all the dead fruit is dead and gone,
Speaker 5: and new fruit is coming in this season. I also
Speaker 5: see in the spirit realm, I see the power and
Speaker 5: electricity going through that trunk of that tree, and I
Speaker 5: feel like the Lord is saying, I'm coming in power
Speaker 5: and authority in this new season for New Horizon.
Speaker 6: Come on, solue, I'm hearing the same thing as Craig declaration.
Speaker 6: The Lord is saying, I want you to declare who
Speaker 6: you are in me, and he says that you are
Speaker 6: a royal priesthood, a chosen nation, a city on the
Speaker 6: hilltop that cannot be hidden, a light.
Speaker 7: Of the war old.
Speaker 6: You are filled with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms.
Speaker 7: You are righteous and holy.
Speaker 2: I feel like, on this one, can you lead us
Speaker 2: through like three declarations decorations? Okay, so when he declares it,
Speaker 2: let's declare it right after and agree.
Speaker 7: I am a royal priesthood.
Speaker 2: I am a royal priesthood.
Speaker 7: I am a chosen nation.
Speaker 2: I am a chosen nation.
Speaker 6: I am filled with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms.
Speaker 2: I am filled with every spiritual blessings in the revenue.
Speaker 2: Helms can't continue, but we're good.
Speaker 7: I am righteous. Come on, man, I am holy.
Speaker 2: Come on.
Speaker 6: I am one spirit with God, one spirit with I
Speaker 6: am seated with Christ.
Speaker 2: I am seated with heavenly places.
Speaker 7: I cannot be defeated.
Speaker 2: I can.
Speaker 7: I am.
Speaker 6: I am as Christ is in Jesus name, in Jesus Name.
Speaker 5: Was that it?
Speaker 2: Or did you have more? That's it? Come on? Wow,
Speaker 2: that's so. I told him a week ago that I
Speaker 2: was gonna do that. I'm kidding. They got as much
Speaker 2: notice as you did, except Angela. She was here first service,
Speaker 2: so she had anyway. So I love I love hearing
Speaker 2: all the things that God's doing. You can feel it.
Speaker 2: You can feel when when somebody partners with the prophetic,
Speaker 2: they're climbing a ladder into the heavenly places, reaching into
Speaker 2: the heart of heaven and bringing it into our current reality.
Speaker 2: And so the temptation you and I would have is
Speaker 2: to put that on people and disqualify ourselves. For whatever
Speaker 2: reason you want to come up with, you have it.
Speaker 2: And so I feel like the Lord wants to restore
Speaker 2: the reality of simple prophecy to us, Okay, And so
Speaker 2: this morning I want to do the best I can
Speaker 2: to dismantle what the End has put in our hearts
Speaker 2: over the years, or over even the centuries as the
Speaker 2: church progressed. And I feel like I feel like coming
Speaker 2: out this morning, we're gonna be a little bit stronger,
Speaker 2: a little bit sharper, a little bit wiser in the Lord.
Speaker 2: And I think that we're gonna go out winning a
Speaker 2: lot more spiritually speaking.
Speaker 1: Cool.
Speaker 2: So close your eyes for a second and say Jesus,
Speaker 2: open my ears to hear, open my heart to feel
Speaker 2: in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. So this morning, the title
Speaker 2: of my message, the subtitle under our series is what
Speaker 2: are you saying?
Speaker 1: Can you say that?
Speaker 2: What are you saying? The emphasis I have this morning
Speaker 2: is primarily with the words that come forth from your mouth. Okay,
Speaker 2: keep that in mind. Naturally, we are all very prophetic people.
Speaker 2: And as we speak this morning, and as I share
Speaker 2: my heart with you, I hope that you will realize
Speaker 2: that prophetic gifting is all around us. It's in us
Speaker 2: and through us. We're called to desire it, to crave it,
Speaker 2: and to participate with it. So naturally, the words we utilize,
Speaker 2: especially if you're a believer, are prophetic, almost like in
Speaker 2: their essence. You know, you can be pathetically pathetically prophetic,
Speaker 2: where you declare things that are not of God, but
Speaker 2: that still come true. Because the scripture says, actually, let's
Speaker 2: put it up on the screen Proverbs eighteen twenty one.
Speaker 2: Watch this.
Speaker 1: It says death.
Speaker 2: And life are in the power of the tongue, and
Speaker 2: those who love it will eat its fruits. What he's
Speaker 2: saying is, you will reap the consequences of how you speak,
Speaker 2: and so death and life are in the power of
Speaker 2: your tongue. James writes that if you figure out how
Speaker 2: to control this thing, you'll be like perfect.
Speaker 1: Like this thing makes grand.
Speaker 2: Speeches and it breaks things down, like it can serve
Speaker 2: as a blessing, but then it turns around and can
Speaker 2: curse something too. Like the power that comes forth from
Speaker 2: the words you utilize is phenomenal.
Speaker 1: It's amazing.
Speaker 2: We see this in the Life of Jesus where he
Speaker 2: comes to the grave place of Lazarus and he says,
Speaker 2: a Lazarus, come out. He comes to a place of
Speaker 2: death and the source of life releases a word of
Speaker 2: life that brings forth life.
Speaker 1: It's actually an amazing story.
Speaker 2: I'm going to go into it a little bit because
Speaker 2: it's a very important one that we understand because the
Speaker 2: words that we utilize, it's more than just opinions you're spewing.
Speaker 2: Sometime you know what's carried on your opinions of spiritual
Speaker 2: powers and principalities.
Speaker 1: So Jesus comes, he tells.
Speaker 2: His disciples, we gotta go because our brother Lazarus fell asleep.
Speaker 1: We gotta go wake him up.
Speaker 2: He's dead, basically, And so when he gets to the place,
Speaker 2: he reaches Martha, and Martha's like, Jesus, if you would
Speaker 2: have been here, he would have not died. And Jesus
Speaker 2: goes into a journey of trying to get Martha to
Speaker 2: believe that the source of life just entered your room.
Speaker 2: So would you believe for a miracle. And Martha begins
Speaker 2: to delay the miracle for another day, and she says,
Speaker 2: I know you're the resurrection, and I know we will
Speaker 2: all raise from the dead on the last day. And
Speaker 2: Jesus like trying to get these people to believe in
Speaker 2: him that life has come, transformation has come, the miracle
Speaker 2: is here.
Speaker 1: She doesn't get it. Mary comes.
Speaker 2: This is the Mary that at the feet of Jesus.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. She's a presence girl. We
Speaker 2: got Martha's in the room. Those are more like the
Speaker 2: analytical this, this, and this needs to get done.
Speaker 1: How many Martha's we got in the room.
Speaker 2: There's no shame in it. We got some here, you
Speaker 2: know what needs to get done. And then we got
Speaker 2: a lot of Mary's in the room. I just want
Speaker 2: to sit here in the presence and get figured it.
Speaker 2: So fout, you know, the food will get ready, the
Speaker 2: things will get done.
Speaker 1: How many Marys we got in the room. Raise your hand.
Speaker 2: I know we got more Marris than Martha. I know
Speaker 2: some of you just lazy, but you're a Martha, all right.
Speaker 1: We know the truth.
Speaker 2: So it's a beautiful marriage when two come together because
Speaker 2: the engine works. But really, well you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: You got the tires and you got the heart. It
Speaker 2: needs to happen anyway. So you got both of these
Speaker 2: people and both have the same response. So it's not
Speaker 2: a question of who God created you to be. It's
Speaker 2: a question of faith.
Speaker 1: So Mary comes and.
Speaker 2: She says, oh, Jesus, if only you had been there,
Speaker 2: my brother would not have died. Lazarus would still be here.
Speaker 2: And once again she puts this situation of death on Jesus,
Speaker 2: and Jesus again tries to say, well I'm here, I'm
Speaker 2: the miracle maker, I'm the source of life.
Speaker 1: They don't get it, and so.
Speaker 2: The scripture says that anger builds up within Jesus, and
Speaker 2: then that shortest verse in the scripture is recorded he wept,
Speaker 2: and a lot of us we like to relate that
Speaker 2: scripture to the humanity of Jesus. That look, Jesus also
Speaker 2: had a heart he also knew how to mourn.
Speaker 1: He also knew how to weep.
Speaker 2: And that's what John is writing actually when he's talking
Speaker 2: about the people are saying, look how much he loved
Speaker 2: his friend and all this stuff. But if you read
Speaker 2: that in context, Jesus is not sad. Why would he
Speaker 2: be sad when he's about to go raise somebody from
Speaker 2: the dead and he told his disciples, we're gonna go
Speaker 2: raise him from the dead. He's sad. No, he's not sad.
Speaker 2: He's angry because he's saying, guys, I am life. I
Speaker 2: have come to restore, to bring life.
Speaker 1: Would you believe in me?
Speaker 2: And all they can see is the death. They can
Speaker 2: see their issue, they can see their trauma, they can
Speaker 2: see their difficulty, they see their situation, and they don't
Speaker 2: see Jesus. But Jesus is in their midst and they
Speaker 2: continue to tell him about their problem.
Speaker 1: So they bring him to the grave because he's angry.
Speaker 2: He's like, where have you laid him? Like he's he
Speaker 2: can't like the closest people to him don't get it.
Speaker 2: So he's like, I just have to show them. So
Speaker 2: he gets to the grave and the scripture still says
Speaker 2: still angry, as he arrived, still angry, and then he says,
Speaker 2: roll the stone away, Roll open up the tomb. But Jesus,
Speaker 2: it's gonna smell bad. It's gonna get ugly. Man, how
Speaker 2: many times we pray for God to intervene, but we
Speaker 2: keep that stone closed in our heart. We don't open
Speaker 2: up the places of our heart that need healing. We
Speaker 2: want to tell God about the pain and the situations
Speaker 2: and the death and the difficulties and the hardships and
Speaker 2: what they did and what it happened and how it
Speaker 2: should have happened, all this stuff. But yet when Jesus
Speaker 2: is in the room, oh that heart is closed. Oh,
Speaker 2: don't mess with that sensitive part. I'm still looking for healing.
Speaker 2: And healing is in the room. Transformation is in the room.
Speaker 2: Your breakthrough is in the room. But no, not that part.
Speaker 2: I'm not ready. But Jesus is gonna smell bad. They
Speaker 2: roll the stone away, and Jesus is like, God, I'm
Speaker 2: saying these words allowed, not for my sake, but for theirs.
Speaker 2: I know you heard me. I know you always do.
Speaker 2: Then he says, Lazarus come out. He releases that word
Speaker 2: of life. How many of us need that word of life?
Speaker 2: In Jesus' name, and so it's a beautiful picture of
Speaker 2: the power of the world of life. But Jesus also
Speaker 2: in a situation as he got close to his crucifixion,
Speaker 2: was going to Jerusalem, back and forward, and at a
Speaker 2: certain point he walked past the tree that looked like
Speaker 2: it was luscious and good, and so he reached into
Speaker 2: the tree to pick a fruit. I believe it was
Speaker 2: a fig tree, and when he reached in, there was
Speaker 2: no figs, there was nothing there, and he cursed the tree.
Speaker 2: The next day as they were walking past it again.
Speaker 2: You know what happened. The disciples saw the tree that
Speaker 2: was and it was cursed from the root. It was
Speaker 2: withered from the root up. And Jesus shows us the
Speaker 2: power of our words, where a blessing, a good word,
Speaker 2: can produce life, and then a negative word, a curse,
Speaker 2: produces death. And he shows us that we carry the
Speaker 2: power of both in our life. I personally believe that
Speaker 2: that tree that looks so good goes hand in hand
Speaker 2: with the scripture of we look like we have it
Speaker 2: all together, like the we look like we're blessed of God,
Speaker 2: but lack the power thereof We look like it's what
Speaker 2: it's called is religion where we put on a facade
Speaker 2: to show and look at us. We look so good,
Speaker 2: but we produce nothing. And so that area of our life,
Speaker 2: it's okay to curse it. It's okay to curse the
Speaker 2: religion that might be in you. Trust me, you don't
Speaker 2: want it anyway. It's okay to curse anything that is
Speaker 2: hindering you from the Lord. You see a bit of bitterness,
Speaker 2: Oh bitterness in me, you are cursed. You are set
Speaker 2: apart for destruction. Be out of me, spirit of animosity,
Speaker 2: spirit of hatred, spirit of fear.
Speaker 1: All that stuff is cursed in Jesus' name.
Speaker 2: You speak a negative word over something that is evil,
Speaker 2: it withers. It's what it does. In twenty eighteen, there
Speaker 2: was a study done in a little school where a
Speaker 2: teacher had their students take two plants and they put
Speaker 2: it on the windowstill two exact plants, everything all the same.
Speaker 2: And what they did for the next several days is
Speaker 2: they watered it the same and got the same amount
Speaker 2: of sun. But the destruction was one tree. You speak
Speaker 2: of blessing over it, Tell it how beautiful it is,
Speaker 2: how amazing it is, how it's gonna flourish, how it's
Speaker 2: gonna do great.
Speaker 1: And the other tree, you take it and you say, how.
Speaker 2: Fat it is, how ugly it is, how it's good
Speaker 2: for nothing. It's never gonna account for nothing. It's ugly,
Speaker 2: it's withering all this stuff. Seven days, one tree, the
Speaker 2: one that was spoken blessing or it was flourishing. The
Speaker 2: other tree was withered. Seven days the power of your words.
Speaker 2: Ikea actually thought it was great idea. So they did
Speaker 2: the same thing. They took an insulated these two plants
Speaker 2: out of the warehouse. They took it and put it
Speaker 2: side by side, enslated in glass containers, and they had
Speaker 2: people record message of goodness over one that they pressed
Speaker 2: play on, and then they recorded message of bad stuff.
Speaker 2: You know, anything you want to say that is negative, okay.
Speaker 2: Thirty days later, one tree was flourishing, really good. The
Speaker 2: other tree was withering away. That's the reality of what
Speaker 2: we carry. And that's just even for the non believer.
Speaker 2: How much more for the believer who partners with Heaven,
Speaker 2: who understands we have a mission here on earth to
Speaker 2: demonstrate the Kingdom of God and to bring it into every.
Speaker 1: Sphere of life.
Speaker 2: How much more for those who are activated as believers,
Speaker 2: as representation of the King of king and the Lord
Speaker 2: of lords here on this earth. You might be upset
Speaker 2: over a job you lost, but you might have been
Speaker 2: the only Jesus that they would have ever seen. I
Speaker 2: want to quickly go into First Corinthians, chapter fourteen.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna read verse one.
Speaker 2: But in the early Church, the Corinthian Church had a
Speaker 2: lot of things that they need a little bit of
Speaker 2: correction with, and that was okay. And one of them
Speaker 2: was the balance of the prophetic and also the balance
Speaker 2: of speaking in tongues. But I want to emphasize on
Speaker 2: the prophetic. And Paul writes here in the first verse
Speaker 2: the chapter fourteen, he says, let love be your highest goal,
Speaker 2: but you should also desire the special abilities the spirit gives,
Speaker 2: especially the ability to prophecy. Verse three. The one who
Speaker 2: prophesies strengthens, encourages, and comforts. Can you say those three
Speaker 2: with me? Strengthens, encourages, comforts one more time, strengthens, encourages
Speaker 2: and comforts. So what Paul is laying out, He's laying
Speaker 2: out the boundaries of what we do and why we
Speaker 2: do it. He's saying, when you prophesy, you have three agendas.
Speaker 2: You're either strengthening somebody, you're encouraging them, or you're comforting them.
Speaker 2: It's kind of interesting because this word comfort that you
Speaker 2: look at, it has a lot to do with past
Speaker 2: things that happen, traumatic things that took place. Potentially, maybe
Speaker 2: somebody died and there's a word of comfort.
Speaker 1: Maybe you're going through a hardship, maybe a persecution.
Speaker 2: Maybe something happened that your work stop that work, job
Speaker 2: that anyway you get it, something happened bad, and you
Speaker 2: need a word of comfort because that is holding you back.
Speaker 1: And the one who prophesies.
Speaker 2: Is required to go up into the places with God
Speaker 2: and to bring down a word that would relieve you
Speaker 2: of trauma or hardships from the past. What the enemy
Speaker 2: would like to do is utilize the people around you
Speaker 2: to get you second guessing about things of the past.
Speaker 2: You might be in your place of pain and you
Speaker 2: might share with somebody and then somebody's getting you the
Speaker 2: second guess everything you've ever done.
Speaker 1: They say, well, you should have done this, You could
Speaker 1: have done this.
Speaker 2: Man, if I was out, would have And you hear
Speaker 2: all these three You hear all these things that are
Speaker 2: bringing no comfort, no relief, no help. But you, as
Speaker 2: a mighty man and mighty woman of God, the one
Speaker 2: who knows Jesus, you're a call to say, you know
Speaker 2: what the past is, the past, yes, sterday is gone.
Speaker 2: You know what. Jesus is alive today. He can help
Speaker 2: you out. He can give you a word that needs
Speaker 2: to be done for that season. We're so used to
Speaker 2: giving people our opinions. Who's got so much information? I'm
Speaker 2: telling you they don't need a piece of your mind.
Speaker 2: They don't. I'm not trying to be route. They need
Speaker 2: a peace of God's mind. They need to They genuinely
Speaker 2: need what's in his mind. Comfort deals primarily with past situations.
Speaker 2: You look at this word strengthening. The word strengthening comes
Speaker 2: from the word edifying, edifying, and strengthening. It's it's really
Speaker 2: related to building something. You're building a house, You're you're
Speaker 2: fortifying something. Maybe you're shifting things around, you're maturing, you're
Speaker 2: you're you're there's something happening, but it's primarily in the now. Listen,
Speaker 2: you're going through something right now, and I feel like
Speaker 2: the Lord is saying this and this needs to shift,
Speaker 2: this and this needs to change. As a matter of fact,
Speaker 2: when we have the pathetic words come out. We heard
Speaker 2: a word of strengthening.
Speaker 1: What was the word changing that you had?
Speaker 3: Shaking?
Speaker 1: Shaking?
Speaker 2: And did you hear falling off to something falling off
Speaker 2: breaking apart? I don't know what it was.
Speaker 1: But there's even first service.
Speaker 2: We had words that are shifting and changing, and in
Speaker 2: this part correction happens too. We run from correction when
Speaker 2: correction brings the most strength. We run from things that
Speaker 2: challenge our life, when those very things are the breakthrough
Speaker 2: that we need for life.
Speaker 1: We want to stay.
Speaker 2: Comfortable, but I'm telling you, the prophetic spirit amongst us
Speaker 2: is not a spirit that keeps you comfortable. That's why
Speaker 2: he's the comforter. Because you're gonna be uncomfortable. That's just
Speaker 2: how it is. If you haven't been uncomfortable for a while,
Speaker 2: this morning, I hope that you will be a little
Speaker 2: bit uncomfortable so you can lean into the comforter. Okay, strengthening.
Speaker 2: What the enemy would like to use your mouth for
Speaker 2: is to weaken those around you. He wants you to
Speaker 2: see other people's issues, and he wants you to compare
Speaker 2: yourself to them, cause them to be a little bit weaker,
Speaker 2: so that maybe you can feel better about your own weakness.
Speaker 2: That's not a good way to go. That's not a
Speaker 2: good way to go. He wants to use your words
Speaker 2: to tear people down. He wants to use your words
Speaker 2: with the background of judgment, criticism. He wants to utilize
Speaker 2: how you speak with the intention of criticism wrapped in
Speaker 2: maybe positive language. How many of us know God sees
Speaker 2: your heart strengthening one deals with present situations.
Speaker 1: And then you got this word encouraging.
Speaker 2: I love this word encouraging. We're all called to be encouragers. Brother, brother,
Speaker 2: pray for me.
Speaker 1: I just need some encouragement. This is this happened.
Speaker 2: I'm just dealing with a lot of can you I
Speaker 2: need some encouragement. You're not asking for encouragement. When you
Speaker 2: ask that, you're asking for comfort that deals with feelings, emotions,
Speaker 2: past stuff, Encouragement. That word and encouragement is it's courage.
Speaker 2: So when you're asking for encouragement, courage deals with actions.
Speaker 2: So when you say, brother, pray for me, I need encouragement,
Speaker 2: what you're saying is I know what I need to do,
Speaker 2: and I need grace to do it. I need something
Speaker 2: that I'm gonna need for my near future. That God
Speaker 2: needs to take me into. So I might be sitting here. Wow,
Speaker 2: I just see a vision and this situation and the boom.
Speaker 2: God's gonna take your strength and he's gonna multiply it.
Speaker 2: You're gonna speak with boldness, You're gonna go and you're
Speaker 2: gonna transform that. And that's a word of encouragement.
Speaker 1: When you speak into the future.
Speaker 2: There's times where we see it written that the apostles
Speaker 2: will write and the disciples remember those things that Jesus
Speaker 2: said after he raised from the dead. There's things that
Speaker 2: Jesus speaks in the now that.
Speaker 1: Are meant for your future.
Speaker 2: Wow, there's words of encouragement. But the enemy, he would
Speaker 2: like to use your mouthpiece, your tongue, your prophetic utterances
Speaker 2: for things like fear. Well, you better be careful if
Speaker 2: you go into that place is kind of dark. He
Speaker 2: wants to sirup anxiety within your soul.
Speaker 1: He wants you to be afraid.
Speaker 2: He wants you to be thinking NonStop of the negative
Speaker 2: outcomes of stepping out or doing something God's calling you
Speaker 2: to do. Man, some of us are meant for government,
Speaker 2: and we're sitting in places of low class places just
Speaker 2: because we're comfortable there. And I'm telling you, if you
Speaker 2: partner with the encouragement that comes from the Lord, God
Speaker 2: will take.
Speaker 1: You to places that only he can.
Speaker 2: Jesus God forbid that we use our words to discourage
Speaker 2: each other from the very things God is calling us to.
Speaker 2: We're so afraid of change that we like everything the same.
Speaker 2: We like everything where we know what's coming. We want
Speaker 2: to control everything. Whether you're a Mary or a Martha,
Speaker 2: you still like to be a bit in control of
Speaker 2: outcomes and situations. That's a scary place to be because
Speaker 2: Jesus rebukes that mindset many many times. You gather so
Speaker 2: much and you say that, oh now I can relax,
Speaker 2: like you're a withering thing that's going to be gone tomorrow.
Speaker 1: And you plan so much. And I'm not saying we
Speaker 1: don't plan with.
Speaker 2: The Lord, but we exclude him from the very things
Speaker 2: that God has called us to. And I'm not gonna
Speaker 2: go there. But in First Timothy Paul writes to Timothy,
Speaker 2: he says, do not neglect the spiritual gift in part
Speaker 2: to you through prophecy when the elders lay their hands
Speaker 2: on you. See, when you partner with Heaven to bring
Speaker 2: forth a word into your current situation. You're releasing spiritual
Speaker 2: gifts to those around you that are desperately needing them
Speaker 2: for their walk in the Lord. And I'm telling you,
Speaker 2: when you keep that mouth shut, you're withholding from those
Speaker 2: around you.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 2: I'm reading scripture, and I'm reading even in the Old
Speaker 2: Testament when God's starting to stir up his justice and
Speaker 2: Leviticus and Deuteronomy, and he's saying to the people, if
Speaker 2: you see your neighbors, donkey. If you see something and
Speaker 2: you don't bring it back, you are withholding something you're
Speaker 2: responsible to do.
Speaker 1: Serve one another, Serve one another, serve one another. And
Speaker 1: in this faith we do it a lot of times
Speaker 1: through our words.
Speaker 2: In John chapter five, Jesus says, I only do what
Speaker 2: I see my father doing. And then John chapter eight,
Speaker 2: and John chapter twelve, and John chapter fourteen he says,
Speaker 2: I only say what I hear my father saying. Three times.
Speaker 2: He tells the people, the words that come forth from
Speaker 2: me reflect what I hear. If you and I want
Speaker 2: to be good prophesires on this earth, we need to
Speaker 2: hear what the Father saying. We're so anxious about a
Speaker 2: gift of prophecy when God's just saying, Hey, what is
Speaker 2: the good Shepherd saying? Why don't we just lean in
Speaker 2: our ears so that we can hear what he's saying.
Speaker 2: If we hear what he's saying, it won't be hard
Speaker 2: to say what he's saying. We're trying to come up
Speaker 2: with things to say when he's just like, hey, just
Speaker 2: listen to what I have to say, and we get
Speaker 2: in trouble because because then we make things up and
Speaker 2: say it feels like the Lord. And I'm not saying
Speaker 2: there's anything wrong with making mistakes. I'm just saying, let's
Speaker 2: be good. Heres, let's be good. Here's And somebody at
Speaker 2: the door told me said, I think that's why God
Speaker 2: gave us one mouth and two ears. Yeah. Maybe, And
Speaker 2: it's okay to make mistakes.
Speaker 1: It's okay to say something that.
Speaker 2: You might regret, but it's okay to own up to
Speaker 2: that too. We have so much fear around the prophetic
Speaker 2: topic that it's ridiculous. Jesus says this profound statement. He says,
Speaker 2: I am the good Shepherd, and my sheep what hear
Speaker 2: my voice? I want she is to let us thinking,
Speaker 2: my sheep hear my voice.
Speaker 1: You might be in this room and.
Speaker 2: Maybe it's been a long time since you're heard the voice.
Speaker 2: You might be in this room and you hear his voice,
Speaker 2: you just ignore it. I don't know, but this morning
Speaker 2: I want to do something very practical that would release
Speaker 2: us into hearing his voice and speaking it out. And Uh,
Speaker 2: what we're gonna do in a little bit, We're gonna
Speaker 2: lift the key volume up and we're gonna we're gonna
Speaker 2: soak for about three to five minutes in God's presence,
Speaker 2: where we will allow the voice of our shepherd to
Speaker 2: ring loud in our hearts. Again.
Speaker 1: In the beginning, you prayed a crazy prayer.
Speaker 2: You said, God, open up my ears to hear, open
Speaker 2: up my heart to feel. Did you not pray it?
Speaker 2: That's on you. And so what we're gonna do is
Speaker 2: we're gonna bring action to that prayer and we're gonna
Speaker 2: give God the opportunity to speak to us. Now. When
Speaker 2: he does, it comes in a still quiet voice.
Speaker 1: Many times, maybe you.
Speaker 2: Hear something audible, maybe you feel an impression. But this
Speaker 2: part of our walk is very, very important for us
Speaker 2: to hear his voice over our own lives, because if
Speaker 2: we hear it well over our own lives, we'll hear
Speaker 2: it well over others, and we'll restore the prophetic utterances
Speaker 2: that God's called us to restore.
Speaker 1: And it might be a scary thing.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 2: If God speaks to me, listen, he loves you so
Speaker 2: much if you just open up your heart, it might
Speaker 2: be crazy. You might be like, well, I've never felt
Speaker 2: that before. And so what I want us to do
Speaker 2: here as we go into this moment. I want us
Speaker 2: if you have something you could write on and you
Speaker 2: feel like God's speaking something to you, write it down.
Speaker 2: If you got your phone, take out your notes. I
Speaker 2: want you to be intentional. I want you to set
Speaker 2: the Holy Spirit up to speak to you and try
Speaker 2: the best you can to avoid all distractions. We'll do
Speaker 2: three minutes. Okay, I'll set a time. We'll do three minutes.
Speaker 2: I want to make it super intentional, super practical. Forget
Speaker 2: about everything else for these next few minutes, okay, and
Speaker 2: just pay attention. The Lord might want to you from
Speaker 2: something you've been dealing with for twenty years.
Speaker 1: The Lord might want to.
Speaker 2: Change some perspective that you might have. He might want
Speaker 2: to strengthen your building your soul right now. He might
Speaker 2: want to encourage you to take steps of faith. He
Speaker 2: might want to do something, maybe he's given you a
Speaker 2: word for somebody else, but we want to be people
Speaker 2: who hear his voice.
Speaker 1: Amen, So I'm gonna do this.
Speaker 2: Would you lift the volume on the keys please, and
Speaker 2: we're gonna take these next. I will set a timer. Okay,
Speaker 2: So don't think about anything else except calming your soul,
Speaker 2: calm your mind down, don't even pray, just listen for
Speaker 2: these moments. Okay. I'm gonna pray a quick prayer over you,
Speaker 2: and then we'll let you be Jesus. I thank you
Speaker 2: for each person in this room. God, I asked that
Speaker 2: you would give him the ears to hear and the
Speaker 2: heart to feel. Whatever you're doing and whatever you're saying
Speaker 2: in Jesus's name