00:00:00       It's good to be here, you know, I've been to Colombia, we have a church in Columbia, South Carolina, and I worked with churches in Indiana but I've never been to Colombia, Ghana. So this is just really awesome. We'll turn them around later. It's turn this way so you can get stared down by your fellow congregants here. Yeah, we call them the hot seat. This is going to be the hot seat while it's good to be here. And um, you know, you can't believe everything you read on the Internet, Chuck, because I've actually been in ministry 36 years. But that was, I felt younger though when you said that made me feel good. And uh, I currently live in, well I say I have a house in Durham, North Carolina, but I live on Delta Airlines and um, we've been in North Carolina about 18 years. Prior to that, when we first went into ministry, he was on staff at several churches.

00:00:53       I was in Florida 17 years. We planted a church in 1992 in Fort Myers, Florida. Password that. And in all that time I was being trained and mentored in prophetic ministry, started doing traveling, actually started traveling about 30 years ago. And um, it just grew and grew and grew and got to the point in the very late nineties, right about 1999. I'm the Lord started pricking my heart about change. And I think my wife said it clearly. She said, you need to do one or the other, either pass with this church or travel. Come on, Lynn, can I have an amen on that? Yeah, right. So either you got to keep this. Can't do both in faculty. She was right. And so we made a major transition where I stepped out and full time traveling ministry in 2000 and joined a very powerful Apostolic Group of Churches in North Carolina.

00:01:40       And uh, it's just been a great ride for 18 years and uh, God's allowed us to go to 45 different nations and train a lot of people in the prophetic teach on the prophetic prophecy. I oversee about 10 churches, seminar network's summons, some other networks, some of the UK. And so between conference speaking and giving oversight of churches, I'm a governing elder at our church, Grace Church of Chapel Hill, North Carolina. And uh, we have a fantastic group there and have a wonderful pastor that, uh, they just send me out, they're very happy to do it. And we have great support team there. And it's just a joy. We do have four children, three boys and the rest are girls. Um, our two oldest boys live in Florida. Our daughter lives in Baltimore with four kids. Our one son in Florida has a little girl and then our youngest son is in our area and he's on staff at our church.

00:02:30       So, um, we move around and it's good to be here. I'm here because of another mutual friend, dwight and Tammy Bennett with them about a year ago. And so I'm, your pastor bravely took the bait when I, because white must have recommended me, so he took the bait. And so here we are. So we're gonna have a good night. I just want to share a couple of things, um, about prophecy and what we're going to be doing. And this is a corporate gathering, this is something for everybody here tonight. God will speak to individuals, but the context of God speaking is always the community. God does everything with a heart for the church. And so Jesus said, I will build my church. So tonight we're going to build church. Uh, profits are builders. That's what they do for [inaudible] 14 three to he that prophesize profit sites for the edification or the building up exploitation and comfort of the saints.

00:03:25       So profits are builders. And so we really emphasize a strong building thrust to the words that are coming tonight for years. When I start out in prophetic ministry back in the eighties, um, there was kind of a, a wrapping around prophecy that dealt with personal blessing. So to get a prophecy was to get a personal blessing, you know, and so you're going to be blessed. And so we would even advertise meetings, you know, you need to come, you'll be blessed. And we kind of did a disservice to the body of Christ. He stuck. We tried to, we basically labeled and identified prophetic ministry as an avenue of personal blessing, which it is, I'm not taking away from it, but that's kind of where it rested and it produced something in the church, have a demand, a little bit of selfishness and expectation and people just kind of thought about me, my word.

00:04:12       I'm going to get my word. Did you get your word? Too Bad? I got mine, you know, and this, this almost a competitive. So we've had to really shift some things over the number of years. And uh, we really speak about a strong building dimension to the prophetic because Jesus said I will build, you know, a template from the Old Testament and Ezra as I was writing about the prophets and the rebuilding and the restoration that was going on. And he said this, that, uh, the prophets in the time of the restoration came along and it says they help them build and finish what was being built. So the profits are builders. They come and help build. They come alongside other fivefold ministries. And together, apostles and prophets are powerful combination of two of Christ's anointings that, uh, not only build the church, but they are agents of change. You're ready for some change, okay? The rest of your dismissed.

00:05:08       That's what happens when an apostolic grace comes, it moves you because the word apostle apostello in the Greek literally means to send. And so there's a sending thrust that comes under epistolic grace and will be prophesied. He prophesied into an epistolic sphere. And so that means that's where you're authorized to speak. The only reason I'm authorized to speak tonight is because pastor chuck and the elders agreed to have me and they've authorized me to come. So there's an epistolic sphere that we can speak into. And because of that, there will be the power to send and release. Not we're not going to send you to China tonight, but maybe some of you. The idea is we're releasing something in you that God has already put in there something that God already knows about. So the epistolic grace of Christ. When it comes, I say it this way, the epistolic is the most powerful releasing mechanism that God gave to the church. You understand that? That's why in First Corinthians 12, 28, it says, and God gave first apostles. He set them in. The church means he appointed. I'm in first apostles, second purpose through teachers. Why? Those three words of order, the Greek, because God's very specific about how he wants to build his church and the firstness of episodic race is important because it releases everything else you need. When anybody plants a church, they operate in an epistolic grace.

00:06:28       They may not be an apostle, you don't have to be, but there's a grace to release the gospel into a vicinity, into a region, and then begin to gather saints and then begin to release giftings in people. That's what we do. That's what fivefold ministers do. We equip the saints for the work of the ministry. Never says to do all the ministry. We equip the equippers, so we're going to equip tonight in the grace of Christ, the prophetic Christ will beer tonight to equip and to furnish you and to release some things in you and to dig down in and reveal things that he wants in your life. For a quick testimony in March of 1982, my wife and I were about to be married in May of 1982 and we were living. Actually, my wife was, had just finished at Michigan State University. I graduated a couple of years before that and I was working in Detroit in the hotel business, and then I was going to go out west and go back to the company I was with before we were building and developing hotels out in the West corridors of Montana and Colorado and Arizona. All that. Anyway, long story short

00:07:36       out in Sheridan, Wyoming where we were building a brand new hotel. I was going to go out there for six weeks, open the hotel and then moved to Denver. That was my plan. We're about to get married as march of 1992. We're in Michigan and out in Sheridan, Wyoming. How many know where that is? It's a rather obscure, but it was right on the major interstate from Montana all the way down to Arizona. So we building anyway, so we're going to go out there for six weeks. No, no problem. Six weeks. We get under six weeks in Sheridan, Wyoming with the cowboys and Indians and um, in March of 1982 in the small charismatic church plants in Sheridan, Wyoming, it was about three or four years old, a prophet by the name of Dr. Bill Hamon and Dr Bill Hammond, he's probably what many would consider one of the fathers of the prophetic movement. Dr. Bill Hamon came into that church and he prophesied this. The day is coming, says the Lord. I'm going to send heads of hotels and motels into this church. That was in March of 1992. We're in Michigan. I'm not even saved.

00:08:38       I'm a dead dry episcopalian with one thing on my mind. Get married and make a lot of money. Have a successful career. Right? So unbeknownst to me, God spoke and something was created and God released something into the earth that he wanted to happen. He wanted me to get into that church and so he spoke it and so we fulfilled that prophecy in June of 1982 because we got married in May, went on our honeymoon, came back and moved temporarily. We thought to Sheridan, Wyoming, got to the town, got settled in a a hotel that was across right near where we were building this big holiday inn. And then we were right across the street from this little storefront, charismatic church and my wife one night on a Wednesday night, believe it on a Wednesday night, said, look. And we talked about going to church. She had been saved through fellowship of Christian athletes and Michigan State.

00:09:35       And you know, I didn't, I wasn't a god hater. I just, I didn't know Jesus grew up in the church, loved being in church. I sang in the choir, was a musician, all that. So anyway, I said, okay, so Wednesday night, but in San going, people don't go to church on Wednesday, do they? It's like, why would you go to church on a Wednesday? Because it's a charismatic church and they taught the Bible and was there any way, so we went across the street on a Wednesday night, walked in, and when they found out that I was part of the opening management team for this new hotel, everybody started getting giddy. Oh my gosh, we didn't know. We walked in and guess what? The pastor was teaching that night, why you need the Holy Spirit? And he taught and that he said, gave seven steps to receive the Holy Spirit. He says, who would like to receive the Holy Spirit? And my wife and I are the only two up out of our chair standing right there in front of him going, well, we'll take it totally ignorant. He laid hands on us. Boom. We both received the baptism. The Holy Spirit began speaking in other tongues and my life was never the same.

00:10:41       I got one. Amen. That was great. That was a life changing. You see how the prophetic word can change you. God can speak one thing and then you blindly walk right into destiny and so that's what happened to us in long story short is we stayed. I opened the hotel, quit my job, took a lucrative 85 percent pay cut and went to work at that church you would to offer you can't refuse. Stayed there for a year and a half and then we moved to Florida with that pastor. He took a church down in Florida. We moved with them and they're like, I said, we're in Florida. Seventeen years and grew, and here we are tonight and Columbiana, all part of God's plan, so they men. Let me just give you one thought from scripture. I've just been rambling on and we're going to get going here. Genesis Chapter One, verse 27 and Twenty Eight. God created man in his own image. In the image of God, he created him, male and female. He created them and God blessed them. Verse Twenty Eight and God said to them, wow, isn't that the most amazing phrase? Are you with me? Did I lose anybody?

00:11:56       What's the first thing God did after he created? Man, he spoke to him, he talked to him. First thing, what's that mean? What was the first requirement of man to hear the Voice of God? You see the prophetic? It's part of our creativeness. We were created to hear God didn't have to push any buttons, do an Abracadabra lay hands on. He did. He made them instead

00:12:27       and said he made man and started talking to them and gave them the requirements for life, told them how we wanted to live on the earth he had created for them and began to speak instructions on how to live on the planet that he made for them. So the prophetic is part of our creativeness. It's not weird. It's not for super spiritual people. It's for everybody. We were created to hear the voice of God. So we want to hear tonight and as Chuck said, you know, we want to be listening. Um, when we speak over individuals, remember the context of this community, you really don't understand what God's saying. If you try to apply it individually, you don't really understand the speaking of God outside the context of community because we're part of a body. We don't dismember people, take them in another room, minister to them, and then come back and glue them back into the body of Christ. You know, this is like a body event and so be listening because when we prophesy over people, I call it, that's our primary revelation, comes to the individual, but there's always a secondary illumination that comes to everybody because God's talking to family

00:13:34       because we have four kids and so it's ever growing up. You know, if one of them needed personal instruction,

00:13:41       the other kids were all ears. What's exciting? I don't know. It doesn't sound good, but they're all listening because they're saying that could be me, right? It goes for the correction to, but it goes for the blessing to raw God's kids. He loves us all. So let's minister by the spirit. Let's be corporate about it. Let's be engaging, as chuck said, and let's just be anticipating and not striving and not like, when's my turn? My Gosh. You none of the. No striving, it's more like I want my brother, I want my sister built up in Christ so we can bless the church, build the church, and touched this region for Christ. Amen. Alright. So. Alright, we're ready. Monica, play ball. Here we go.

00:14:46       I got your own slide. That over there. Come on down. I doing tonight. Good to see you. You Got Yours. Ready to go. We're ready to record. All right, father, thank you so much for this couple. We just, we'd do bless them. God, we thank you for the blessings of God. We thank you lord for their tenacity. And there's a tenacity that both of you have. Um, there's, there's this, what we call almost like a bulldog faith where you, uh, you get a hold of something brother and you're like a bulldog. You just will not let go. You just get a hold of it and you say there's something good here and I'm going to hang onto it. And there's things you've hung on to for decades. There's truth that runs in you that you got as a young man. There's things that run inside of you.

00:15:34       You've never let go of and, uh, there's things that you're going to be begin to pass off into another generation. Both you have a heart for young people and uh, that's gonna Continue. You'll grow old, but your heart will grow young. You'll have such a passion to see the next generation rise up and do what you did and take the places that, that, uh, that you took early in leadership and in development and in discipleship. And there's such a heart of discipleship and both of you and the Gods, God's going to increase avenues of discipleship is going to show you creative ways to reach people, creative ways to gather and sister, you've got such a gathering gift. You just love to gather people together. We were at your house. I said that's a natural knowledge. I know, but there's also this heart to gather and uh, you are going to be a catalyst for gatherings and it won't all be at the church and it won't all look like church smelled like church and sound like church.

00:16:28       There's going to be some eclectic type of gatherings that you're going to be coaching people to do and you say, well, you know what? When you're, when you're doing that activity, you know what, you Oughta do this, and I just see all kinds of wisdom and inventiveness. You're so creative. There's a lot of creativity in this head up here. There's a lot of ideas that flow and there's creativity and there's art, art, Art, artistic ideas and and ways to blend the weird things together. Uncommon. Okay? Characteristics can blend when the Holy Spirit's there and we often say in with couples, you know, opposites attract and so there's gonna be a lot of opposites that are going to be attracted to one another. People that come from total background have no religion, don't even know there is a god. Don't know who Moses is there, anybody else, and then people that you know grew up in church and you're going to have a capacity to pull them together and put them into a setting where the holy spirit can come, pull them out of their various backgrounds and into a commonality of Christ.

00:17:32       You guys are going to be just having fun. You're going to be having spiritual children and spiritual grandchildren, and there's going to be just something that warms your heart and pouring out brother. Pouring out truth is just dandy for you. You just love to truth and there's not a. you're not. You're not an overpowering voice that you have. There's not an overpowering or an overbearing lording over type spirit, brother you've truly are. When that comes in on the low road, there's a humility. There is a capacity. You have to follow Christ as the greatest cause to be great. Jesus said, is to be servant of all servant of all, whether you're a leader but you're a leader because you're a servant. That's why he said that the gentiles, Lord it over one another. Brother. You've never tried Lord position or Bible knowledge or anything else over.

00:18:32       You've come under and that's what his cause. You'd be a man of influence and caused you as a couple to be a couple of influence and that's going to continue and that's. That's why your leaders, you have influence, not position and your influence. God says, is going to grow in the days ahead, greater influence, whether there's some businessmen that you're going to have influenced with some menu been witnessing to. You'd just been actually literally kind of scratching your head going, now what else can I do? How else can I reach them? You really pray. You're really saying, what can I do? What can I say and I just see again, acts of kindness. I see just the ability to just minister practically for and then God's going to just flip the switch as we say and just touch their heart through acts and just practical things and there's just some hardheaded men that are getting ready to be cracked open by the Holy Ghost.

00:19:26       Amen. And kinda their deep seated hurts and cares. Worries are going to come out and you're going to be like a doctor right there on the scene to do emergency surgery and emergency care and they're gonna say, we have never felt anything like this, so pray for those things because God's in it. God's going to just open up some some hearts that you've been. You've been knock, knock, knock, knock, knock. Hello. Trying, you know, feel like the old thing that the door had been knocking for years and God said, keep knocking, keep asking, keep seeking. There's this repetitive phrase that Jesus gave, right? Ask and you shall receive. Seek. You'll find knock and it shall be open. And so knock knock. Who's there? It's bruce again. He just kept knocking, knocking, and God's gonna open doors. Amen. I know you told me you had children, but I can't remember how many.

00:20:24       Do you have? Two children? Yeah. Um, yeah, I just see, you know, sister, you go into your prayer closet and you just go at it for your kids. You don't mess around. You are very blunt with Jesus. If I could say it that way and he doesn't mind. He likes your bluntness, he likes the way you just really pour out and because you've got that kind of Mojo with Jesus, he, he's on your side. He loves that. He likes to fuel your fire and he likes to just whisper. It's okay, I got this. And there's a couple things that I think coming that I think the Lord needs to just keep saying that phrase to you. I got this. He's got your kids, he's got them. He's got a plan. If you could take a dried old dead episcopalian and just prophesy you're going to get into this church and filled with the Holy Spirit.

00:21:18       God's got plans for the people that don't know. He's got a plan and God's got great plans for your children and there's some good things going to happen. Their spouses, for them, there's kids for them, there's destiny for them. There is A. There's church infiltration for them and kingdom mandates over their lives because you have done what you do. Put it before the altar. You put them up there and say, they're yours. God, God's a thank you. I'll take them. They remind any way, but I'll take them back. I gave them to you to steward. Now I got them and they're firmly in his grip and they're firmly in his care and there's going to be some good shifting going on in the next few years. That will not surprise you, but it will surprise them. Amen. You ready for some surprises? Why not? Father? Thank you Lord for a faithful couple tenacious couple builders of the house pillars in the house, but God once it love the body of Christ and love this rising younger generation, father, pour them out and use them to the glory of God. Amen. Amen.

00:22:33       Bless you.

00:22:42       That good God is good.

00:22:48       Whether you crying already, just checking. Just checking. Okay. That's a good sign. You're ready. You've got your voice memos. All right, here we go. And tell me your names. Rich, rich and Beth. Okay. Father, thank you for rich and Beth. We blessed them tonight. We're bringing before you Lord. And we, uh, we just say, Lord, do the makeover. Do the renovations. It's all part of the plan. It's a good thing. God loves to renovate. And brother. There's a phrase out of Romans chapter 12 says to be renewed by or talks about the renewing of the mind and that that word in the Greek actually, it could be well translated, the renovation of your mind and it brother. You're going through a renovation even right now. It's a good one. It's a god ordained one. It's a. it's a probing. It's a pushing. It's a little uncomfortable, but you know what?

00:23:41       In the stripping away of old mindsets and things that don't produce kingdom, there's this fresh renovation like a fresh countertop on a kitchen or a new floor or new furniture. There's renovation coming brother tools for you to handle the word of God would even greater capacity got stretching you. God's given you a download. It's like brother, you better get a quick upgrade in your internal software because brother, the bandwidth is going to increase and the download from heaven is going to get faster and sharper and the demand is rising. The reason we keep upgrading our phones and all that stuff, that's why we got to keep up with the current demand of the invisible world called the worldwide web, but you know like God has an invisible world called the spirit and God's increasing spiritual bandwidth in this hour. The whole reason he gave the Internet to our generation is so we can help understand how fast God is and where he's taken us.

00:24:37       He's taken us to the finish. She's taken us to the culmination of the ages, and this is all something the two of you are going to help prepare the body for. You're gonna help get people ready for what's ahead. There's a cry brother that's going to come out of you like Paul Revere. You know if not chicken. Little is Paul revere was like, Jesus is coming. You better get your act together. Not condemning, not judging, not fear tactics, but truly an alarm to wake people as Paul revere today to wake people up in the night and said, get ready. Jesus is coming. That is a fact. Nobody knows the hour and all that stuff. We know that, but he is coming in. There's a readiness that you're going to help the body of Christ grab hold of and there's just some books and there's some teaching and you're, you're a little bit of a bookworm and you're kind of a browser and you're all kind of a one that likes, you got certain blogs you like to dig into and you're an inquisitive man and God says, ask of me while you're at it while you're asking.

00:25:40       You ask good questions, brother, deep questions, and God says, go deep with me, son. I'm going to open up revelation to you. I'm gonna open up. Actually, I even want to say that I, I believe God's even going to open up the book of revelation to you and some fascinating new ways not to make you a Weirdo and not to make you one that says, you know, just everything's a symbol. There's a very practical, um, impartation that comes with the book of revelation that's kind of just, again, renovate your thinking system. Um, sister, there's a such a proverbs 31 kind of lady here and there's a titus woman and all these wonderful things that the Bible uses to describe godly women and women that really make an impact. And, and there's, there's, I think of the one phrase in proverbs 31 talks about this woman, she was a businesswoman.

00:26:35       She, she could get things done and make a little money and sister, you've got the capacity to make some money. I don't know if you've done it or you're doing it, are you going to do it? But gods, when God speaks, it's past, present and future are all one to him. So we just kinda bring it. So there's money, let's put it that way. There's enterprise, there's business capacity in you and you know, you're going to have to sort that out with God so he'll show you. But I just see the, the ability for you to merchandise some things and make some money. But here it's not about the money, it's about the people. It's about the money in people's pockets and purses. It's those people. God is going to divinely connected to some brand new relationships through offering something and they're going to pay for it and they're going to get more than they bargained for.

00:27:22       They're going to get more than a product. They're going to get relationship, they're going to get prayer, and you're going to pray for people. They won't be clients. There'll be prayer assignments. There's so much capacity, sister, you have that. God's taken to a whole new. You're stepping into something big, something wide broad that it's just, your season is kinda like God's withheld not in, not in a, not in a punitive way. He's just withheld for the right time. And he says, I'm about to thrust you into a marketplace type scenario that you're going to be rubbing shoulders and seeing people and meeting all kinds of people and going to a little meeting here in a little meeting there. And, and, uh, you know, you're going to have to just do a calendar drill every week with your husband and say, wait, no, no, no. I've got a meeting that night.

00:28:08       And suddenly there's going to be suddenly intersections where you know you're both thought you had a green light and there's could be a crash and you're going to have to just sort out the future a little more closely so you sink into what the Holy Spirit's doing in both of you. And so this is going to be a good season. You're coming into a very fruitful season. Not that you haven't been fruitful, just saying it's going to be very fruitful. There was a, there was a season of loss. There was a season of dearth and drought, but God was with you. He was there and you know, he loves to walk with us through the valleys. He likes to walk with us through the floods. He's always there, but he just reassures you tonight that that wasn't punishment and you didn't do anything wrong. He was just shaping you up. He was stretching you, he was fortifying you.

00:29:04       He was getting you ready internally for what's going to be coming up at you externally. So did your capacity would then be ready. You're both, you're a high capacity couple for the kingdom. And I just feel like got sent unc, anything next. The next several years. It's like putting rockets on you and like what happened to that cup of, well, they just got on fire, not that you weren't on fires, just like booster booster rockets thrusting, okay? And that's going to come from the word of God and it's going to come from prophetic destiny. It's going to come as fuel to vision that's gonna even come out of this house and even in the community and even some other places where you're going to just get sparks of fresh vision and you're going to say, we can do that because you see the prophetic word will push and give you unction and provide fuel and it'll all dovetail into kingdom advance. Keep the kingdom first and foremost as Jesus said, seek first the Kingdom and its righteousness and all these things will be added. There is a seeking of the kingdom, not just what we're going to do at church. It's like, what are we going to do in the kingdom? And then God's going broaden you out and push, renovate and cause you to explore some new things that are going to bring great delight and bring your giftings all to a new level of productivity for the king of kings. Amen. Amen.

00:30:36       Are these electric or are they real? Thank you. I just wasn't. You know, I sometimes don't know what. No, I don't know if we're not going over and suddenly they're going boy claims on fire tonight. So what's your name? Adam. Adam and eve. Oh, sorry. You've never had that joke. Have you know, but is know Janell. Alright. Who's that? Who are these kids? What are you doing up here? What are you kids doing up here? Do you want to just say hi guys? Do you know these people? Do you know this couple? Are they nice? Are they good?

00:31:19       Praise God. Thank you father. Thank you Lord. God

00:31:35       has you firmly in his grip tonight.

00:31:39       And there's something about the hand of the Lord. Just as my hands are on your shoulders and we, we do believe in the laying on of hands and prophecy. There's a powerful combination of impartation that comes. As Paul was instructing timothy, he said, don't neglect the gift that is in you that was given you by prophecy with the laying on of hands, and I really believe there's an impartation coming to you tonight. I really believe that there's a gift there. There's charisma or something of the Holy Spirit that's in you and God says, there's a string of that and an impartation of that given to you through prophecy, at the very words that God imparts into your spirit tonight will be a channel of gifting that comes supernaturally because brother Europe, you're naturally gifted, both Ebr, both the natural gifts. You grew up a gifted guy, you jealous, you make people jealous.

00:32:36       Other guys are jealous and this one was and you kinda got shot at a few times and kind of like, who do you think you are? And just get some. Use some battles. Okay. You've got reverse bullying. You were, you could have bullied right back, but you just kinda just like not worth it kind of attitude. Not demeaning, but it's kind of like, you know what? I'm not gonna Bother and there's just this gifting that people kind of got actually upset with you about your gifting and there's been favor and sister you've had favor and there's some things that you kinda just Kinda as we say, fell into and there's charisma and gifting and God says, I'm going to begin to really pull this together into my grip and caused a gift that he doesn't want you to neglect, called the holy spirit and his giftings and to be moving in that dimension even more and even more and even more.

00:33:27       God wants you to move into people's lives by the spirit. God wants you to be continuously led by the spirit, but God wants you to desire spiritual gifts. Hallelujah. That's in the Bible. Yeah, follow after charity and desire spiritual gifts, desire them. Old King James said, covet for crying out loud. What? What a nasty word, right? And Old Testament as a bad word. Don't covet this and that. There's a whole long list and then you get to the new testament. There's one thing we can covet, right? Spiritual gifts, prophecy, covet to prophesize Paul set, and so that means have this burning desire because you're going to find that you're going to be able to do things by the spirit that you can't do in the natural, and that's been the words, a little bit of a lid and a little bit of a frustration. Not a bad one, but there's.

00:34:18       I sense frustration when I first. I hesitated for a minute. That's why I didn't just launch out. I'm saying, God, what is this? I'm sensing this little frustration. This is a good couple, but they're frustrated and God says, because they can't do everything I want them to do in their own power. That's why they're frustrated because you're so stinking talented that you think you can just do it yourself and there's a lot of things you can do yourself, but God has brought you to an impasse and said, you can't do the next things I've called you to do without me. You can't do it in the power of your own natural talent and ability and smartness and favor and all those things that we do want that, but there's some projects coming and people and there's open doors coming for the two of you, a brother.

00:35:01       You've got some open doors coming in the realm of vocation that are going to be a little bit startling, and that's why you need a word from God. When he says, I opened a door, no man can shut. He's going to do it, but he also closes doors. No Man can open and this is door season for you. You're going door hunting and you're going to be door rattling. You're going to be rattling some handles. Nope, not that one. Nope, not that one, and then God says this one and it's going to scare you at first and that's going to be God because see if you say, oh, that's easy. I can do that. Then you don't need. God is going to be God. I can't do this without you, and you'll get to witness. Your wife will get a witness to say, well, this must be God because for once you can't do it on your own, it's going to be really good brother, and you're gonna.

00:35:50       Find that low road of humility. You're going to find you know that grace is going to come. You're going to find that God's going to elevate you as you go down. Yeah. As you go down in spirit, God's going to raise you up. The most perplexing paradox of the kingdom that if you want to find your life, you'll lose it. So brother, you're going to embrace personal death, death to what you're able to do, and pick up a fresh mantle from Jesus on what the Holy Spirit can do in you and you'll be. You'll just be refreshed. You will. You will. You won't miss your devotions as much as you are now. I'm kidding. You're going to say, man, I got to get in the Bible this morning. I gotta I got pray in tongues on the way to church or on the way to work that I got.

00:36:33       I gotta, I gotTa. You'll feel a desperation and it will be so good. God, I can't do this without you, and then you'll get the victories you know, just see victories and you'll get the win and you'll get spiritual trophies and all kinds of things that rang your bell as a young man. God's going to turn that into spiritual reward. God is a rewarder of those who diligently seek him, and so this is a fresh season of seeking God, not only for yourself. This is not just about let's, let's just build a better life for our families like this is about the kingdom. This is about people and and sister. You're very evangelistic. There's such evangelism that runs in you and you have got very cunning ways to get into people's lives. God's going to give you incredible ways to talk about doors. God's going to give you a door after door to get into people's world and they won't even know how you got in, but you're going to hook them.

00:37:32       You're going to get in. You're going to just off the cuff, say things. Maybe sometimes an off the cuff invitation to church and say, where do you go to church? It's like this needs a little casual little phrases that are going to come flying out by the Holy Spirit and it's going to hook them. It's going to pierce their heart. It's going to get them because see, you're going to go in and pumped and prepared by the spirit of God and so the preparations of your hearts are the most important things in the days ahead for your own marriage, for your own house, for your children, and for the people that God is going to continue to expose you to, and so here's the other thing. You're going to have to say no to some things in the days ahead. There's some big nose and all caps with exclamation points and bold letters coming from heaven and you're going to go, nope.

00:38:17       Can't, can't give in to that. Can't do that. I think there's even some no's for your kids. They don't like that word. No kid does. I don't like it and I'm 62. I still don't like the word no, but they're going to be some knows that God gives you for your children and you're gonna gracefully. Give them the morality behind it, not just because I said so. You'll give them the moral biblical reason why it's a no, and you're gonna raise up your kids and set them apart. You're going to protect them. That's already part of your conversation now, but God says, I'm hearing your prayers. I'm hearing your please and I'm going to give you strategies to not completely insulate your kids, but to regulate them and to impart to them spiritual power to face their world. You're concerned and every parent should be in this day, an hour, but God is going to raise up a generation to raise up.

00:39:14       Your kids are going to grow fast and God, I mean fast and you're going to be shocked and you're going to be almost like, oh my gosh, that happened so fast, and there'll be some times they're going to even challenge you spiritually on some things that are going to make you say, oh, I'll get back to you on that and you will run to the, to the Bible and Google at the same time. I say, Oh God, I need to go find out. Answer might just be like, wow, God, that was a great question and you'll learn and you'll grow enough. You're going to be involved with young people when by the time your kids hit teenage years, you're going to be heavily involved in an intrastate youth ministry. It'll be interesting. Uh, it won't be just Ohio will be touched several states and they are going to be busy kids per Jesus.

00:40:05       And that's why there's got to be some nos coming now because the yeses are even bigger and the yeses are going to cost some money. Just going to tell you the way it is. Ministry needs money, okay? But you know what, don't look at the money, look at the ministry. Money always follows ministry. It's never the other way around. You Minister God will bring them money and you put your kids forward to to minister. God will supply for those retreats in those camps. I just see them kind of involved in some kind of a camp or something where they're going to be serving. They're going to experience it and then it's going to light their fire and then they're gonna go, we want to go surf, we want to go do that. We want to be. And suddenly it's just like going to consume something about their destiny is going to be birthed and cultured in that situation. And so God's given you a fair warning. But like all of us that are older parents and all that shit like, man, it's going to go like that. It'll leave skid marks. You Go, wow, that was fast. So God in His grace says, prepare. Now. It's a time of great preparation for your home and for the future. Amen.

00:41:21       Oh, when your kids want to raise their allowance to. I forgot it. That last one. That right? Everybody. All right. Are you listening? Are you hearing things for yourself? So lots of good principles from the Lord.

00:41:37       Amen. Are you doing. What's your name? Steve and Mel. Cool. Amen. Thank you Lord.

00:41:49       Father, thank you for Steve and bill, are we? Thank you that there are survivors survive some things. I'm the devil. Doesn't like you. Doesn't like anybody in this room. It doesn't like the fact we're meeting and doesn't like I needed this stuff and there are some real nasty things he tried to pull on the two of you, but you know,

00:42:14       faith

00:42:16       and you guys have faith. Don't sell yourself short. Don't you? Listen to the lies of the enemy. You have robust faith. You have it. And uh, you know, without faith it's impossible to please him and you're pleasing to God. Brother. That's something you were a little nervous coming up here tonight. You came up with a little apprehension. You went through a little checklist this week, going better, clean that up, better hit the delete button there and do this and I better just kind of confessed that. And applied the blood three more time. Do you have went through your formulas and everything? You dug everything out you knew to do. You even probably took a communion on your own somewhere. I don't know. You just kind of went through it. Whatever it takes. God, I got to come in. I got to come in. So this guy can't.

00:43:01       You know? You know what? God just loves you bro. He just loves you. He doesn't have a checklist out. He doesn't have a report card. He's just saying, that's my boy right there. That's my son in whom I'm well pleased, brother. If you sat in that chair until Jesus game, he'd still be happy with you. He loves you. And the love of the father is just this, this fuel that, that God wants to fill your tank tonight. He wants to fill you up with his love. He wants to speak as goodness over you. He wants to tear apart my beloved son and I am not angry and I'm not mad and I'm not disappointed. When you've heard those words off and on in your life and God's just saying, that's not me. That's my enemy. He loves to accuse. That's his job title is his very name is called the accuser of the brethren.

00:43:55       So these accusations, God just saying, I'm sharpening your ear to hear and accusation. You pluck it out just like a rotten piece of fruit and I get out of here. I'm not putting up with you. Just getting tough brother. Spiritually tough. You're a tough guy in some of your tough guy. Stuff you do tough guy stuff. You drive a tough guy kind of truck and tough. Got tough guy shoes and you got some tough guy outfits and you know we've got the exterior taking care of brother, but inside God says, I want you to get just as tough on the inside. I don't want to hunt the enemy like you like to hunt things and I want you to shoot the enemy like you shoot things and you know we're, we're brother and you're, you're just going to go after the enemy. You're just going to get a little more aggressive.

00:44:41       There's an aggressive side. You in the natural and brothers. God's just saying, I'm going to balance out your outward aggression with some spiritual fortitude. This is going to just put the devil on the run and because the two of you have spiritual capacity and sister, you, uh, you, you, you'd like to live out on the fringe. Mike, my goodness, you get out on the fringe of the spirit. You use like, I just want to float. God is, I think you've, you've asked God to do some bizarre things. It's like, God, I want to be translated. I want to, I want to float. I want to go. If I could just, you know, can I just come to heaven for 20 minutes? And you would just love to do it all. It's just like, can I just live in the supernatural for a week? And you just have these. It's not fantasy. It's like you really have a heart for the spirit. There's such a heart for the spirit and you are fascinated by some things that took place in the Bible. Why not? We all should be, we should be shocked. Angelic visitations and manifestations and miracles and signs and wonders and all that stuff. That's good reading.

00:45:43       You're not satisfied. You want more. Not to be weird and not to put it on your profile on facebook bend to the spirit realm vendor, the third heaven. You're not trying to brag about anything. You're trying to say, God, I want to know you like Paul cried out in Philippians three that I might know him and the power of his resurrection. Here's the hard part of that verse, right, and the fellowship of his sufferings, you know doesn't mean I want to suffer exactly like he did because thank God we don't ever have to suffer the way he did, but we fellowship. That's the Greek word. Koinonia,

00:46:22       where Paul use that for strategic times in the book of Philippians itself starts out with a coin and nea of the Gospel, the fellowship of the Gospel, and that then the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, but then there's the fellowship of his sufferings. We liked the first two, don't we, but the fellowship of his sufferings and there's something to that sister that resonates in you because it's tied into that same verse that I may know him and so you're going to be a little more in touch with what we call the the sufferings of Christ and understand human suffering and understand that dimension is almost a dirty word in the kingdom. We don't like to talk about it, but you know what? Look around, it's happening everywhere. People go through suffering. Suffering is part of the Christian life and Peter and he wrote about it well in his epistles and there's there's a measure where you're going to get in touch with that and you're going to fellowship with Jesus and a level where you understand how powerful his suffering was for us and you know what? You're going to get invincible. It's like the enemy just won't be able to penetrate

00:47:39       because like I said, you guys have faith. Faith has manifested in courageous acts. We take courageous steps for God because we have a shield of faith. Faith becomes a shield to the enemy's lies and accusations, and so these are kind of spiritual metaphors God's pumping into you tonight, but it's because he is really building up your faith for the battles and for the victories and the toughness brother's gonna. Come flying out of you and strength of the spirit. Sister. You're going to see things manifest and you're going to have faith not only for yourself, but you're going to face for other people. This just isn't about you tonight. God's building you up so you can build others up and sister your prayer life and the way you pray for people and you don't want. I just have the sense that God's us. Oh, you're going to see some miracles.

00:48:31       You are because you don't ask for them in a weird way. You asked for them not to make yourself important. You asked for them so that God can be glorified in someone's life and keep believing. Sister, you keep believing. I had that early prayer of the early church. One of its first purse at the baby church cried out in a time of suffering and the type of persecution, the earliest persecution, and they cried out and they didn't say, God protect us, make them go away. They didn't whine. They boldly said, you are sovereign, sovereign Lord, creator of Heaven and earth what they want sovereign, and they said, stretch forth your hand to heal and the name of your holy child, Jesus with signs and wonders, they. They cried out to God. Do signs and wonders were not going to put up with this persecution. We're not putting up with it.

00:49:25       Your sovereign. This is your idea. Wasn't our idea, oh, I'm preaching. This is good preaching. This is good stuff though. You start quoting the Bible, you can't help it. It's like God just loves to hear his own voice. God loves his own text, so the best prophecies you can give is right out of the word of God and I just feel that thundering at prayer of the early church. Come on, God, stretch forth your hand to heal signs and wonders. Father Man, you know what? God answers that prayer. He will answer that prayer and you're going to see some things happen. Um, sister, you have a passport. Yeah, blow the dust off it and check the expiration date and get ready. You're going to some places in the next few years and God's got mission for you. Got some places to take you and you're just going to put some of this to work outside of the good old us.

00:50:18       Obey God's got other places on the planet that we can get to rather easily these days. And you're going to go and sometimes you know, the tough guys going to go to, but other times you'll just go with the team. And, uh, there's just some things God wants to expose you to in the kingdom. They're gonna. Open your eyes to how big God is and what he's doing in other places, other nations, other cultures. And sometimes we just as Americans, we need to get out of this country and realize that God is not an American. He doesn't think like an American. He thinks like God and we need just a refreshing of the bigness of God. And this is all part of the package of the walk of faith. The just shall live by faith. Amen. Amen.

00:51:25       All right, we on the air here. You got your phones on. Ready to fire. Okay. What is your name? Jeremy. Jeremy. Julie. Amen. Father, we thank you for this couple. We blessed them tonight. Wow. Thank you Lord. God imported. You hear this was God's idea for you to be here. You didn't have this on your five year plan, brother. You didn't. This wasn't something you even prayed for. It. Isn't that funny how God does things without us even praying, you know? And it's almost like my testimonies, like God just said, I'm not just going to say it and it's going to happen. So here you are and you don't get to leave until God says you leave. So drop, put your fantasy suitcases away because they're not going to manifest for awhile because God has worked for you to do here and that only works for you to do.

00:52:15       God has major equipping to take place in the two of you. You're going to come. It's like you guys are going from junior high to like almost senior year, you're going to, you're going to skip some grades, you're going to go into some ap classes, advanced placement, God's going to place you into some leadership opportunities. Um, that doesn't mean you get a title and a badge and kind of struck around. That means you're going to be rolling your sleeves up like of the other company going to be serving because leaders are servers. That's how you know they're a leader because they can lead people and not just in their own ideas and not just, well, this is, this is my great ideas like heart for the house. It's a big phrase. We use it a lot at our church and I just want to speak that over you. And I remember to speak it over. Use the church. We're not here for ministry.

00:53:08       Thought about a heart for ministry. It's a heart for the house. If you have a heart for the house, then God will release ministry through you because God is building his church. He builds a house. You know, it's just like in a family, you know, kids can't a separate vision from their parents. It's like mom and dad, how do you want to build this house? What do you want to put the furniture? It's like we're just here. We get the benefits, but they're not out for their own agenda. That's why they leave when they're 18. I'm just kidding. But anyway, it's like buy, build your own house you'd like, but there's a heart for the house. Just a desire to see people integrated in and you guys are going to be swinging doors. People are going to come in through you and people are going to go out through you in and out, in and out. People are going to go out of here and pass through your hearts and you're going to make sure they carry. I want to say it this way, the DNA of this house.

00:54:07       Um hmm.

00:54:11       There's some new people coming in. They need to pass through the DNA machine. It's like a Tsa, you know, DNA. It's like they got to go through and get scan and go, oops. That's a false doctrine that's picked that up right now. Let's put them over in that class and let's put them with this couple and you're going to get assignments from the Lord by relating to people that need to get the DNA of this house because it's more powerful than their gift. There's gonna be some gifted people. God's going to send her, but you know what? If they don't have the heart for the house, they're going to cause trouble and they want intend to cause trouble. They're just going to be frustrated because they're going to say, well, this church we came from, we did it this way and you go, well, we don't do it this way.

00:54:55       This is how we do it. So get a heart for the house and come to morph more adjust and we'll tell you why we do it this way and why it works and you guys are going to be right in the thick of that. It's like I see you're teaching some beginning classes, classes almost like cultural immersion into the culture of this place, but even there's gonna be people coming from outside this region. Like I said, God's gonna send some people from not from around here and they're going to need to be culturally immersed into this church and even this region and you guys are just the ones to do it. That's why you can't go anywhere right now. You've got your important part of the fabric of getting people adjusted climatized and ready to roll their sleeves up and surf. Serving community. The upper room fellowship would be a serving community that people will say, you know, I don't know something about that church. They just, they love to serve and I got a little taste of it last night. Now they can sense it here and there's such a family, heart and a heart for the house and a heart for people, but there's shifting and changing. Coming. Your culture is going to change some over the next few years. It's get ready, buckle up. There are some major changes coming and part of it's going to be cultural culture is more powerful than vision.

00:56:10       Say That again? Culture, the culture that people sense when they walk in this building for the first time before they ever hear music or preaching, they'll since the culture and they'll go, hmm, and what they're going to pick up as these people really love each other and these people love to surf and that's kingdom. They're gonna taste the kingdom when they walk in and you guys are going to be a big part of that big part, sister. You love kids and this is going to be more and more activity with kids and there's gonna be some things in the children's ministry that you're going to engineer, put it that way and you've got some great ideas and you're going to put it forth and it's going to fit the culture, but it's gonna also stabilize some things and improve. There's a reinventing of some things.

00:56:59       See, part of part of growing and kingdom cultures, we're constantly reinventing and making things better and constantly upgrading. You know? That's why, again, why God gave us the Internet and our generations to show how fast we need to upgrade and how fast we need to move with the latest technology is to keep up with God just the way we have to keep up with our changing world. We have to keep up with God. He's moving fast. He's. He's heading in a very direct a course. He's going to the finish. Jesus is taking us to the finish and we got it. We got to stay up with him. So sister, you're going to be a little bit of a catalyst and you're going to come up with some ideas and we can do this. And we do. You have children of your own. Yeah. And I just see where your even your children and other children are going to give you ideas and you're going to probe the mind of the young, not just a coddle them and say, well, what do you want to do?

00:57:54       You know, it's like, what do you want to eat? You know that craziness. It's like, you know what, I'm the parent. I'll tell you what you're gonna eat. So anyway, but you want to get input, you want to get input and you want to get into their world and you want to hear where their hearts are at so that even the children will have a heart for the house. It won't be recorded. We got to go to church because mom and dad said to us like, we want to go to church. We love it. We love what happens. We love the people. That heart for the house will trickle all the way down into children's ministry and there's gonna be some good things, brother, that are going to bridge you into the business world that you're going to be taking more and more kingdom ideas into the business world, into a world of people.

00:58:37       You work in two worlds. You work in the world of product spills or work in the world of people and together God's going to make a bridge out of that where you're just going to be able to see how the kingdom works in that stuff powerfully and with. The more you do that, the more you'll sense of violation coming quickly. It's like, man, that's so not the kingdom. You're just going to insight. It's. It's not like, oh, that's not religious as I'm talking about that, about God's just going to start poking you saying, that's not how I do life in the kingdom. That's not how I set things up and you're going to see the violations of biblical principles and things are going to poke you and prick you and convict you and you're going to have to make some bold statements and bring change even in the marketplace.

00:59:22       And that's gonna be good because that's going to be part of your training. And um, yeah, there's some, just some great stuff ahead. But this is internalizing the mechanisms of change inside of you. That's what we said from the get go tonight. Get ready for change. When God started to speak, he speaks things that are not yet. And so now he goes to work. And these concepts become the catalyst for change in your concepts to God's concepts are higher than our concepts. Isaiah said, my thoughts are higher than your thoughts. My ways are not your ways and how do you close that gap by letting God transform us inside. So let the transformation begin and it's going to begin and it's gonna grow and it's going to get into your house and it's going to get into this house and your hearts are going to be enlarged. I love Paul's pry to the Corinthian church. Old Corinthians be enlarged. I love that prayer. He just cried it out. Paul wanted to see their heart's enlarged for greater capacity for what he was doing. Amen. Amen.

01:00:36       Okay,

01:00:49       I am. Hi, what's your name? Bob and Laurie. Laurie. Okay. Praise the Lord.

01:00:58       Thank you Lord. Hallelujah. Amen. Hallelujah.

01:01:15       So do you have a beautiful gift of mercy? I'm just sensitive to the Lord. How? How much variety

01:01:25       you bring into people's lives, but it comes always in wrapped and mercy are. There was a time when you felt the sting of judgmental words and the very opposite of mercy was what things came wrapped in into your life for awhile and God just came in and rescued you out of a severe situation where by Gotcha says I, I bring mercy, not judgement, and there's just the season you went through, you just really felt judged and God said, that wasn't me and I've come to not only rectify it, but I've come to pour out my mercy through you to undo and to just cause you to be a vessel of mercy and I love in Hebrews 4:16, we're just says, let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace in our time of need and I love this and obtain mercy and find grace to help but obtain mercy.

01:02:24       There's mercy at his throne. It's a throne of grace and sister ICU, ICU. Very comfortable at the throne of grace. You're, you're, you're not intimidated as why says, come boldly to the throne of his grace and obtain mercy. And it says, blessed are the merciful and good old adage is right. Blessed are the Merciful. So what they shall obtain, mercy, you know how to get mercy. It's not just like you'd have an endless supply. You know where to get it. You know where to get his mercy and it just drips off you and it flows into everything you do. And there's been such mercy. You have given comfort to some people that have gone through grieving loss. Uh, you've just been there with a dish of incredible food or a little gift. You're such a gift person. Oh my goodness. You must love Amazon. I don't know.

01:03:12       I don't know what your, how do you, how you get them, but you just get these amazing little gifts that just touched someone's light. If it's light up, just have a way of giving and showing mercy. And you're a great listener. You've just got some just ears that just don't get tired. My, my ears get tired sometimes around certain people they make my ears hurt. And uh, you don't. Your ears just have great endurance to listen and listen and then you love and then you just kind of the mercy comes out that is so beautiful to God. It's so beautiful to God and there's going to, God's going to continue to use you to, uh, to bring his mercy into people's lives that are hurting and needy and how do those practical acts of kindness, Jesus is going to show up into their lives and you're going to see some people rescued him.

01:04:07       You have children, you know, three children. Well, one's one's on God's agenda for a rescue operation. God's got a rescue plan and God's got just says, I already got it. It's on his list. Okay? And so God's going to rescue and then there's going to be mercy. And here's the thing. You've already kind of have to anticipate prophetically the mercy, okay, that God's going to rescue them and God's going to heal and God's going to restore. And there's going to be a, a kind of a prodigal son party where there's going to be just, let's have a party. Let's not, let's not rehearse the failures. Let's rejoice in the success that one has come home and this is gonna. Be a good party and it's going to be something that you guys can rejoice in. And uh, yeah, just, just one of those things God just says, watch what I'm going to do because it will be the work of God and these are good days for you to pal around with some mighty men, brother.

01:05:08       You sometimes observe other men in the house and go, hmm. So maybe someday I'll be like them, but probably not. And you know, brothers, sometimes you just so devalue who you are, you so put yourself at a lower level. It first of all, you're his son and your son status. We all had the same status in the kingdom. Whereas Boys, fathers, sons, that's it. And titles and positions and all that stuff. They're just all the fathers doings. But brother, don't sell yourself short. You've got some strong shoulders. You've carried some things. You've carried burdens, you know, it says bear one another's burdens and so fulfill the law of Christ. And you've done that many, many times. Sometimes you've done it silently, sometimes you've done it and nobody else knows, but God does. You've, you've gotten help. Somebody talk about a rescue or brother, you get the heart of a rescuer.

01:05:55       He liked to go help somebody with a flat tire, plow them out of a snowbank or do you just go do it and you don't need to put it on social media and you know, get, get a few likes a. it's like, Eh, that's what we do. We just like to help people. My brother, you're just helping people is what the Bible calls bearing one another's burdens when things are too heavy for them. There you are. You just there and brother God's seats that that's in his book. Man. He loves that about you and you know what? That doesn't make the precursor to that verse, which is Galatians six, two, Galatians six, one it says, if you see your brother taking an a fault, you have their spiritual restore, such a one in a spirit of meekness, less youtube fallen soul. Brother. You've seen men in a misstep and just like you guys are not judgmental.

01:06:43       That's why people like you and that's why you're so valuable because you don't judge them. You want to restore them, restore them. In a spirit of maybe you that are spiritual, restore the brother. You're more spiritual than you think. It's just that the way we tend to label spiritual people are sometimes slightly lunatic. You know, they're the weird. People are, as we say, instead of prophetic people, they're pathetic people. They're just the weird people go yet. Well, you know there prophetic. That's why they act stupid. Just like really it gets. It gives God a bad name. It gives the prophecy of bad name and it doesn't describe spirituality at all. The Bible says you that our spiritual go and restore somebody's in trouble. Somebody that's been taken in a fault, don't we say, you know the body of Christ, we're good at shooting our own wounded.

01:07:31       We kick them when they're down. I, ah, I knew it was coming. I sought come. No you didn't. You're just being judgemental. We're not out to judge. Route out to restore people and there's some people that are out of the church that you know, there's some people that used to go to church and you're going to rescue them from themselves. Yeah, they're deceived. The enemy has just had his date with them and just told them all kinds of lies. And brother, you're going to go rescue some people back into the house, back into the kingdom. There's still Christians, but man, they just fallen out of love with the thing closest to God's heart. His bride, the church had a church anymore. They grumble and mumble and got all these offenses about the church, and I always tell people, start mumbling about the church. I go, well, which one?

01:08:23       I said, obviously you've never been to my church. I love my church. Like you know, hey, it's not the church. The church is people, right? You're going to get down to the root of why they're offended. It's somebody that's not a church. It's somebody in the church and brother. You're going to bring healing and restoration. You can rescue some people from their own bitterness and unforgiveness, and that is a big issue to God so big that he said, if you don't forgive, I don't either. Wow, I don't like that verse, but it's in there. That's a pretty heavy mandate on forgiveness and you two are going to be just offering it free. You're going to be offering forgiveness to people. You're going to be coaching them, pleading with them, praying for them. You're going to see people broken, repentive, forgiving, and restored. It's God does it for others. He'll do it for you. Amen. Amen. What a good couple. Amen.

01:09:42       Wow, that's a great church. Could do some damage to the Kingdom of darkness with these people, but he hear anything for themselves so far. You getting things in your own life. I mean, some of that is like this is the Bible. God just likes to rehearse his own words and put them into us in a life giving way that hits where we live. That's the power of the prophetic voice. So good. We're going to shift gears then. Alright, why don't you just stand up for a minute. It's like seventh inning stretch. Stand for a minute. Let's just give God thanks for what he's already done. Thank you, Lord. Thank you that you're here obviously, and you're speaking and you're loving. You're giving as you do. You're building the church. You've said every member in the church as it pleases you. We are the many membered body of Christ.

01:10:45       God, I pray that you just divinely touch certain members tonight to inspire, equip, encourage, edify. Thank you. This is. You're doing God and so we're going to lay it down. All striving, all ambition, all like inside going. Pick me. Pick me, pick me. Pick me. Just like God bless the guy next to me. Bless my sister inside. That's the heart of the house seat. Not a hard like me, my me, my mind, all that. All those words have to disappear. Tonight is all about his church, his body, your brother, your sister. When that spirit is in a room, God just flows. We're going to give God liberty to flow where he wants to float tonight. It's as he wills. Amen. Amen. All right. You can be seated. Do people know if they're on the list for tomorrow? So if I call you out in, you're on the list if you're part of the elite group. No, I'm kidding. I'm just say you know we're on the list. I'll just waiting prompts, so. Okay. All right. You just don't look at me that way. You don't feel like you're starting to look pathetic and it doesn't help me. It's like, all right, we're going to get there. Um,

01:12:28       you three. Are you on the list?

01:12:31       You were doing you?

01:12:37       No, they're too young. Okay. Alright. What's the three of you come up here? I just want to know if you're scheduled or you are. Okay. Well, the rest.

01:12:53       Nice.

01:12:59       What do we do? We sit. Do we stand? Just stand right here. It's fine. Just stand right here. I'm gonna Start with you. What's your name? Lisa. Alright. Alright. Thank you Lord.

01:13:14       Hm. Hmm.

01:13:17       Yeah. We're talking about fabric, the fabric of the house and there's an interesting analogy there in First Corinthians 12 about the body woven together and you know, when we're woven together we'd be come this mosaic of Christ and you are a bright fabric. You are bright threat. If I could say that where you had woven your life into the body of Christ. It always brings out something and other people and there's something selfless about you in the way that you just want to make a difference in the way you like to minister. And I just really feel like God's going to continue to reward the selflessness. And there was a time that there was plenty of ambition. You a lot of ambition and you know, there's, there's a place for zeal. Yup. And there's a place for passion. Yep, we like that. But was times that you just were so wanting that you slipped into ambition of the heart and God's just tempered you.

01:14:19       And you have to be really grateful for that. That God says, I'm going to rescue you, I'm going to keep you from your own destruction and I'm going to kind of throttled back some things. And you felt like God was withholding some things and you felt like what I do wrong. And you went through this really deep personal introspection and you were really hard on yourself and God's to saint you. Don't lighten up. It is hard on yourself. You even go home. You evaluate how you, how you did church on a Sunday morning, you'll go home and go, Uhm, that I did. I do this right? It kinda like you Kinda, you just want to just please him. And you know what? God is saying like I spoke of this brother, he's pleased with you no matter what, he's really pleased with you, but there's also the side of excellence.

01:15:01       That's what I want to get at, that God is growing your excellence in serving and giving and how you minister and there's a hunger for the prophetic, no doubt about it. You love that, quoted it tonight, desire to prophesied, desire spiritual gifts at you. You still want to be using it and God says, what are you waiting for? Just be natural. Just be prophetic all the time. See, being prophetic means I'm. I'm, I'm listening to the Voice of God. Like Jesus was profoundly prophetic and appeared to be profoundly ignorant at the same time because he said, I only do what I see my father doing. I only. I only say what I hear my father say. It almost sounds like ignorance. Like one, you can't speak for yourself. He goes, no, only what the father says, and he was prophetic. His whole internal operating system was holy ghost.

01:15:52       He got filled with the Holy Spirit in everything he did was run by the Holy Spirit operating system. Call it spirit, wind, and it seems almost scattered sometimes, right? John? Three, eight. The wind blows wherever it wants to go. Yeah, that's kind of weird. But then he says, oh, so is everyone is born again? Hello? And so guess what? You are born again. Therefore you have the Holy Spirit operating system in you, and guess what? He's going to blow you wherever he wants to, and I love it when he said, you don't know where it comes from. You don't even know where to go on. Sometimes you feel like some days you don't know where you're going, you don't know where you're coming from and that's because you're really trying to press in and follow the Holy Spirit and it's not weird and it's not whimsical is just I got to follow him and I'm just saying, oh, this from the spirit of God saying you're doing well, you're doing well, and here's the thing.

01:16:43       God just says, open your mouth and I'll fill it and you don't have to say just a minute. I'm getting a word from God. You don't have to say thoughts, Sayeth the Lord, and just a minute I gotta just let it flow. You know, Jesus said, out of your innermost being, out of your belly will flow rivers of living water. This he said, of the spirit, so the spirit flows. These not jerky. He's not weird. He's not wild and crazy. He's a spirit. He's wind. Sometimes he was a little bit of a violent wind, but let it flow, sister, let it flow. We'll pray for you. Father, just feel fresh every day we need the holy spirit to come and fill us. Paul said, be be being filled with the spirit because we leak. We all have leaks. We all give out. So father right now, Phil, my sister with fresh annointing, fresh oil.

01:17:34       Wow. Just a freshness and a confidence that you may all prophesize. Paul said, you may all prophesize. You may all be prophetic. You may all hear my voice. You may all speak for me at the right time, the right place as the spirit. Wills. Thank you Lord. A release of Holy Spirit function in the most common places in the marketplace, in the coffee shop here. There everywhere. God is just going to say, say it. Amen. All right, good. And what is your name? Jayden. That is a cool name holder. You Jayden. Twelve. You look at. You're like 16. Oh No, we need to get a posse.

01:18:22       Kidding.

01:18:25       You're special to the ward. And uh, yeah. I'm, I'm just like a little surprise. Just like you're. You're beyond your years and maturity and growth already, but there's a, there's a hunger you have and it's not just childlike faith. There's a mature faith in you. You've wrestled with God over some things at a young age. God likes that you have big questions and God is a big God. God can answer your big questions. There's a big word. It's actually not in the Bible per se, but it's a massive concept about who god is in this word, that God is sovereign. Jehovah at Oni would be the closest you can get to the sovereign Lord. He is sovereign. You know what that means? There's nothing higher than God. Nothing has sends above him. He's all powerful, all knowing, decent charge, and you can trust the sovereignty of God

01:19:23       in the days ahead. You can also trust the sovereignty of God. In the days passed, there is nothing that has come into your life that God did not allow for your growth in him, for your growth in him. That's the kicker, because you've said you've had a lot of why questions. You said, God, why'd this will god? Why did this? Well, why did this happen? You've had a lot of good. Those are good questions. God loves questions. He's the master. He asked people lots of hard questions. Jesus asked people questions all the time. Jesus usually answered most questions with another question, so keep questioning God, but in that listen and read and then listen and then read. You're a reader. You know what? Books are still cool. You know, I read on my phone all the time, I've got candlelight or that, but every now and then the smell of a new book or the smell of an old book and keep reading your. You know you're going to be a very scholarly, not to be brainy and goofy. You're just going to be a knowledgeable young lady. I'm going to step out and say there's some things coming.

01:20:28       Hmm.

01:20:30       As you study and grow, God's going to reward your studying and I'm just going to step way out here. You're your mom's here that I just keep hearing the word scholarship. You're going to have an academic scholarship presented to you in the future. Now that's not a tease and that's not a. we're not fortune telling. I just keep. I hear from God. He knows your heart. He knows your capacity. He built this brain and he's given you a good brain. And so keep reading, keep learning, keep studying, but not only will you know and have knowledge you're going to write, you're going to be a writer. Uh, there's some things that you're going to write from the heart, so it's going to get into the brain, but you're not a brainiac euro, a woman of the heart, and you're going to express knowledge through the medium of God's heart, into your generation. That's going to really affect some people and you're going to really affect. Some

01:21:25       people have gone through trouble. Some, I'm going to say it the way to some young people that have gone through trouble. You are already at your age at your. You just seem so old. You have an old soul, you know, and you have a heart for hurting people and particularly those of your peers and it's like you hear it. You hear things that others don't even here and you have cried out to. God said, God, what can I do? How can I help? God said, I'm going to train you. I'm going to equip you. I'm going to protect you and I'm going to give you an audience. I'm going to give you a voice into your generation and you will have an impact because it's going to come from God's voice. It's no mistake. You're here tonight. I'm not even sure if you want it to be here tonight when officer audition, but God says I wanted you here because I wanted to talk to you about your future and what I have for you, and God says, I going to cause you to be a prophetic voice to your generation. Amen. Amen.

01:22:24       That's good.

01:22:29       No offense, but I really like young people. I really like. There's so much destiny and that's really good. So tell the young people that keep coming up these meetings too. Amen. Are you a young person next to that old guy with a beard? Who is that old guy next to you? Do you know him? You want you to come up here? Don't bring him though. We're going to get him another night. I assume that your dad. What's your name? Kina like the Bible Caner. Oh, my word. That is. So you know you're going to have to have a wedding someday just because of your name, right? The wedding of Canaan course. Did you plan that? Was that the plan? Oh, God is good. All right. Kainos, how old are you? Okay, you're legitimate. 12. I'm kidding. I like your personality, God likes it. You're a bubble. There's some things that you're going to be doing, very innovative things, creative things. There's quick leadership coming for you, uh, in, in your, your own spirit appears. And Are you in junior high yet?

01:23:48       Middle School? Yeah. This, you're going to start slowly getting more and more influential in the junior high age group and then it's going to carry you into the senior high. And I just really sense that God has youth ministry available to you for you through you and God says, learn, learn. Now a study. I'm kind of even check out what youth events are happening. I just even see where you're going to be a catalyst to get some young people together and go to go off and get a power encounter somewhere. Like almost like, you know, whatever. Catch the fire or whatever they have. They have all kinds of things now where you're just going to really be a catalyst to say, come on and I'm not talking about church kids either. I'm talking about get your school friends and other people that people that play sports and people in your world and people that even your parents know and others and say, hey, we're gonna. Go to this thing. You need to come. And uh, I just see what kind of been a little bit of a cheerleader, that kind of a catalyst and you're going to be just stirring people up because you can sell sister, you know how to sell things. You've sold your parents and they didn't even know what they were buying. But they said, well, let's get it are a salesman because you see benefit. You see the good. You know, I, I just feel like you've just got this beautiful view of people.

01:25:11       This is the way Jesus looked at him. He just saw the good prostitutes and drunkards and centers and gentiles. Jesus saw the good tax collectors. Look at the twilight, pick 12 young guys that nobody would have picked. Nobody would have one of the 12 is an elder in their church today. They would have never made it, but he picked him and he made them disciples. I want you to say that other thing. You're not too young to make disciples, so Kanon. God's going to give you some assignments in the days coming and you know what you do. You just go up and do what Jesus said. Hey you. Yeah, what are you doing afterschool? Let's meet. Follow me. You know patients like, Hey, come follow me. We're going to go get a coke. We're going to go have a cookie and we're going to want to share something.

01:26:00       I got this cool little book and you'll have all these little. You're like a tool junkie for Jesus. You're going to have Jesus tools, little booklets, little things, little and bracelets are cool stuff, and going to be given them as little hooks to pull people into your world where you and Jesus liked to hang out and you can tell them good things about them in their life and then you're gonna. Pray. That's the other thing. You don't pray. Twelve-Year-Old prayers, Caina. You're praying. Some adult size prayers asked big. You know you can ask big. God says, I am so big CAINA. You will never surprise me with your prayer life. You'll never surprise me, but you will please me as you cry out and ask of me. There's one more thing. God's going to give you a heart for the nations, and um, you're going to be praying for certain nations, certain countries, people, groups in other countries.

01:27:02       It's going to start with prayer. God's just going to lay it on your heart. You might be just skimmed through an old atlas or you might go online and look at Google maps and go, what's that country? Or you might hear something, but God is going to just power into you a nation or two and suddenly you're gonna. Get infatuated with it. You're going to check out their flag. You're going to check out their customs, their food, all the suddenly. And I just want to tell the other thing. You're gonna. Learn some languages in the next few years. So get ready. God's going to gift you. That means it doesn't mean you have to not study, you have to study, but you're going to have a grasp of language where you can pick up a foreign language. Because you're going to use it in the days ahead, and this is all God laying the groundwork. Insane. I'm so glad you're here tonight. Candidate [inaudible]. I'm laying out a path that's got the Kingdom of God written on it. It's got your destiny and it has to do with people and nations in prayer and just selling Jesus the best product that ever is a man. Look out. Look out for Caina. That's awesome. That's good.

01:28:11       I wish I'd had a prophecy and I was 12, you know, and it's like, man, I got one later and that's so cool though. That God would speak to us. Yeah. So rather back here and black shirt right in the middle. Yeah. There's two brothers and the bikes are, are you, are you by yourself?

01:28:40       Come on down, brother. No, he's not on the list. No. God forbid we'd be on a list. Great. What's your name? Ernest. Ernest. Good to see you. Is it Jewish church? This church. Who knows? That's why I'm just kinda getting this all from the right. So you're here. Welcome. So God has, uh, God has. I'm getting the vision. I get in the picture is a simple metaphor analogy. God's put new tires on you, brother. It's time for an upgrade. He's putting some very good, durable, all weather radial best top of the line tires on you because brother, you got some more miles to go. You're going to be going some places for God and God's got assignments for you, but it's not just long distance. It's just all the little things here and there and you're a busy guy. I'm almost surprised you're here tonight, but you're a busy guy because like man, weekends are not relaxing for you.

01:29:46       You don't look forward to the weekend and go, oh, I can just kick back and do nothing, man. You, you're a busy man and you've got already got a busy 2019 ruling and God's gonna use you and brother. There's going to be opportunities to speak and share and minister to men and administer, and here's the thing. God's going to open up some very unique speaking opportunities for you to share. You've got a very unique testimony that God has given you and you're going to share with some non church groups. I just see where you don't have a chance to speak with things like, I dunno, like a rotary club, Quantas club, something. This group, that group. And here's the other thing. Wow. Have you ever administered into prison?

01:30:26       I really did. I had believed God's got some opportunities for some men that are locked up in prison and I really believe God's going to open some really significant doors to really set some captives free in the spirit, you know? And uh, sometimes we forget about the whole prison system and you know, there's some men are called to it and some women are called to it. Not gonna Leverage and I, but you know, I just think for you there's just some opportunities coming and you, you make, you have to get from God whether you, you pursue or they pursue you. But when it happens brother, it's God's saying it tonight to help confirm. Like, should I, should is. Oh yeah, that's that prison thing. God said that night. So that's one. But that's part of your retooling and upgrading and brother, you got a lot of miles. That's the whole thing about, you know, new tires.

01:31:11       It's like we gauge them by not only the tread, but how many miles am I going to get in your brother? You've got a lot of miles to go. Got a lot of miles to go. There's some young men, uh, some young athletes that you're going to touch. That's another group you're going to speak to us. Young athletes and a goddess. Got some amazing opportunities coming your way. So be ready. This is a word, you know, it's just fresh in the new year. And God saying, son, get ready. I'm going to use you. I'm going to keep you fit and I'm going to put you out there so you can tell the story. Tell the story of what God has done for you. He's not done to you. Do you have children? I do. You have sons? I have three. Recent. Yeah, the white. You know your son's. Yeah. They're gonna. Be Part of the testimony, man. God's not done right in their testimony and neither are they.

01:32:07       Wow. And one of your sons got a call to ministry. He really is a call to ministry and it, but here's the thing, don't just don't put them in a ministry box of you're making, just say, I know it and that's just going to help direct your prayers and you can't make it happen. God's going to make it happen, but here's you can pray as dad. Dad Can pray and say, I believe in you, and when he comes to you for advice, which is like gold, isn't it? When adult children start coming for advice, you go, yes, you never took it for 18 years, but now you're asking, no, I'm kidding. When they come and ask for advice, you're going to go, I've been praying and God gave me a word and I and you just going to share your heart and God's heart and it's gonna empower.

01:32:46       You know? In fact, I just want to say this over it. God wants you to just take some extra time. I know you pray for your kids. We all do some extra time and get a word for them this year. I feel like God's saying, I'm going to give you a word for your children, each one, just like Jacob gathered all of his 12 sons in genesis 49 and gave each one a prophecy that you're going to gather them and give them each a prophetic word for the year, kind of like you know, the year, whatever it might take, two years, five years, but just say, I got a word for you. I want to share it with you and knew what their self esteem is going to go to a whole nother level. Their love for you and respect is just going to just get deep and rich and they're going to take hold of it because it came from dad didn't come from the Internet, didn't come from any place else. Came from dad and brother. It's going to be like gold. Hey Man. Good man. I'm glad you're here tonight. God bless you.

01:33:37       Thank you.

01:33:46       The bishop just did the. Come on down. We're going to let you sit when. That'd be nice. Yeah. I might join you. I'm kidding. Tell me your name. Karen. Karen. Alright. Alright. Does this part, is this your church? No, no. We welcome you. Pick up a visitors card in the back and Karen, praise God.

01:34:20       Wow.

01:34:22       You are a prayer warrior. Mighty intercessor. You have carried the weight.

01:34:29       Have a lot of people.

01:34:32       You have carried spiritual weight that others had no idea you were carrying.

01:34:37       Um hmm.

01:34:42       You broke out of a spiritual prison

01:34:46       and God set you free. There was a religious veneer that tried to wrap itself around you and hold you captive. God said, Nope, I'm going to set her free and God set your feet a dancing and you picked up a tambourine and you got free sister and the Holy Ghost did something in you that no man could do and it brought you to a new realm of understanding. There is truly a spiritual world and there is war fare in that world and you immersed yourself in principles like Ephesians six and principalities and powers. You understand the hierarchies and what you're doing and you've been a bit of a warfare strategists like we have in our natural military. You know, they have war rooms and they have where they strategize. You've done that in the spirit. You've said, God, what do I do here? Give me a plan, and so sister, you got some stripes and some bars on your uniform because you have got battle experience.

01:35:51       You've got time in the war zones and you've seen victories and there's more to come, and I'd love to say good news. You get to retire. The war is over, but guess what? It's escalating. It's not going to get any easier. As Christ's return becomes more and more imminent, and the devil fights harder. Darkness, gross darkness. Isaiah said, is going to cover the earth, but the light of the glory of the Gospel is going to get brighter and brighter and brighter, and we're going to pray, okay, as the church in a new way with new strategies and understanding what we're up against, weapons of our warfare, they're not carnal. We don't wrestle against flesh and blood and boy, if anybody knows that you do, and that's going to continue to be your clarion call to intercessors and, uh, you're going to continue to gather people to pray, always under covering.

01:36:45       That's where you know the enemy wants you to get all out there and strung out and Kinda just dissipating. He wants to isolate. He said isolator and you are going to be one that's going to bring people together and you're going to be one that's going to make sure people are under authority. That's a, that's a naughty word to most Christians, but that's because the devil hates authority, so he doesn't even want Christians to like authority. So there's authorization coming from God, but he comes through his appointed headships and that's what the devil's attacking marriage and the family and church and you name it. Anything that that even as a whiff of God's authority structures, the devil's trying to beat it and he's been attacking it for centuries and no wonder it says demise. So he said to the Jesus substances and turned, I haven't seen such great faith in all of Israel because he was a man under authority and you are a woman under authority and God is gonna.

01:37:47       Use you in authority. Just don't self authorize some most dangerous thing we ever did that took place in the garden. Adam authorized himself to make decisions outside of God and he blew it for all of us, so you know what? Stay under authority, but be in authority and you're going to move troops. Just like that centurion. I say to this one, go here and I say, that will go there. Why? Because I'm a man under authority and as you're under authority sis, you're going to be moving things around in the spirit and you're going to see some damage done in some cities. Now this is, I guess the city is. Is this actually a city? Yeah, so it's a city, but there's more cities that you're going to have influence in and you're going to help. I just see you going to bolster spiritual warfare in other cities and I don't know how that's going to happen, but it's going to happen through the local church.

01:38:41       Let me just say that. Don't go rent a hotel room and say we're going to pray down. You know the spirits of darkness, the the next two hours. No, it's not the weirdness. It's not the goofy stuff. I got to go up into the mountain, take the high places and got all this. No spiritual mapping and all that garden. None of that. Okay. You're going to go in serving, find them at a piece and it's all about the gospel is not just about, oh, we did water and everything's great. It's like, what's the proof of the pudding? Souls where God wants you to infiltrate an area of darkness and loose people. Okay? From the blinders that Satan has blinded them with and you're going to see victories in lives changed and saved. That's going to be the proof of the pudding, but if you do what God tells you to do it and how God tells you to do it, that's what's going to happen. Just like when Paul that can x 16 came into emphasis, man, he blew everything up just because he set one young girl free from a demon and it wrecked the whole economy.

01:39:42       Yeah, it doesn't make you popular, but you know what? Emphasis became a powerful center for the Gospel in a great church, right? So wow. Thank you for your warrior, Lord. Thank you Lord. That she has a heart for people the last but God, when she gets on her knees, the devil gets nervous and I just thank you for such as her and others. You don't, you're not alone. Ranger. You've got a good team. We've got people around. You got great friends like these guys and others that uh, and you guys are going to be doing strategies to see the Kingdom of darkness disturbed. Yeah. Turbulence. You're going to create spiritual turbulence where the enemy's going to. So don't be afraid of backlash. It's almost like a sign like, well, we kicked the Hornet's nest on this one, didn't we hip? Well, and this is going to happen. This is going to happen. This. No, it happened. And then boom, souls remembers all about souls. I just, I'm being grilled. Careful here.

01:40:42       Yeah, I will say it is going to happen though. All right. I'm going to tell you later, but it's just a, it's a. yeah, it's good. It's good. Bless you. How many we get in on the war I'm in. If she recruits you just go and say I'm in. So we finished with that. That's a good place to finish. Let me pray for you everybody. I just stand to your feet again. This is good. There's momentum. This is just night one meeting number one, but there's already spiritual momentum. We're hearing things. What I really want you to do is hear what is God saying to the church? There's already some little glimmerings of new people coming and the culture and DNA and these little terms. Don't just blow them off like as just fancy language. Like God is saying something that's going to affect everybody here.

01:41:38       So you've got to be listing. What's my part? God, yeah, we prophesied over this one. That. But what's my part in that? Because they can't fulfill these prophecies without y'all, as we say in North Carolina. So, uh, let's pray. Father, we thank you for the body of Christ. We thank you that you love your church and you're building it. God. We think of that every one of these words like with Samuel, not one will fall to the ground, that God, we would capture your heart, not just the information, but God in these days ahead that we would come to know you. We want to know the god that gave these prophecies tonight. We want to know your heart. We want to know your intentions. We want to one of your plans and purposes and how we fit into that because that's what matters. It's how we advance the kingdom in this community around the people you've put us around, God, they're all precious. We pray for the last night. We pray for lost people. God give us the last send forth laborers into the harvest, right here in this part of the United States, in this part of Ohio, and God, we just, we want you to bust down all the borders. We want you to just flood this area with your goodness and kindness with proclamations. God loose the tongue of the church to proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ and unprecedented ways we pray. In Jesus' name, Amen. Amen. Amen. Let's give the Lord a great

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