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God Speaks Through Prophecy

Creflo Dollar

January 18, 2021

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Creflo: Well, praise God.
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Welcome to thisstudy of God's words.
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We have been talking abouthow God speaks, and he wants
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to direct us, and he wantsto lead and to guide
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our lives.
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And I've already hadopportunity to show you how
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God speaks throughvisions and dreams.
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And tonight I wanna talk toyou about how God can speak
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through prophecy.
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Now, this is very importanthow God can speak
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through prophecy.
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You know, there's a lotof things that happen with
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prophecy and a lotof misunderstandings.
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And my objective in thisseries is, you know, not
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tryin' to get deep butjust tryin' to show you the
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reality of it from God'sWord, to show you it's
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biblical, that God willspeak through dreams, and
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he'll speak through visions,and tonight he will speak to
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you through prophecy.
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Now, I believe that we needto get ready because there's
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gonna be an acceleration.
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We're going tohear from God.
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You're gonna be led by theSpirit of God, and God's
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gonna begin tospeak to your life.
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And so, before I starttalkin' to you about--and
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showing you how God speaksthrough prophecy, I wanna
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take a little detour and goto 1 Corinthians chapter 14,
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and I wanna talk about, youknow, prophecy where we are
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right now so you'llknow what to expect.
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1 Corinthians chapter 14, inthe King James, and then in
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the NLT.
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So here's what he says here.
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He says, "But he thatprophesieth speaketh unto
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men to edification,exhortation, and power."
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So in today's time, when youhear prophecy, it should be
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speaking something that willedify, it should be speaking
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somethin' that will exhort,and it should be speaking
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somethin' that willbring comfort to you.
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Now, the NLT says this, justso you can just really get
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a hold of what to expect whena word of prophecy comes
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your way.
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He says, "But onewho prophesies
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strengthens others."
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So the prophet or theprophecy should strengthen
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you, and he says,"It encourages them."
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So not only should theprophecy strengthen you, but
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it should encourage you.
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And then he says, "andit comforts them."
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So notice the three thingsthat should be takin' place
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in your life whenprophecy shows up.
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It should be somethin' thatstrengthens you, it should
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be somethin' that encouragesyou, it should be somethin'
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that comforts you.
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Now, if those things are notthere, then you might wanna
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be very careful aboutreceiving that because it's
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somethin' that strengthens,it's somethin' that
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encourages you, it'ssomethin' that comforts you.
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When God speaks, man, that'sgonna be a powerful thing.
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And so tonight I wanna lookat how God will speak and
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lead and guide us throughprophecy so he can bring us
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to the place wherewe need to be.
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Let's go to 1 Timothychapter 1, in verse 18, and
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most of the time, I'll go tothe King James, and then the
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NLT 'cause we reallywanna amplify this.
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1 Timothy chapter 1, in 18,and just notice what the
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Scripture says.
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He says, "This chargeI commit unto thee,
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son Timothy--"
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So he's talkin' to Timothy,"according to the prophecies
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which went beforeon thee--"
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So he says, "I'm chargingyou according to the
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prophecies that have alreadygone forth concerning you,
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that thou by thoseprophecies might war a
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good warfare."
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Look at this in the NLT.
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So these propheciesare equipping us for a
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successful fight.
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It's equipping us fora successful battle.
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So when God speaks andthrough prophecy, he's
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tryin' to equip you.
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Here's what hesays in the NLT.
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He says, "Timothy, my son,here are my instructions for
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you, and these instructions,Timothy, are based on the
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prophetic words spokenabout you earlier."
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So, notice, God isconfirming, and he is
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speaking to Timothy throughthose prophetic words, and
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he says, "May thosewords, may they help you.
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May this prophecy, theseprophecies, help you to
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fight well in theLord's battles."
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So there's an equippingeffect that takes place.
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I mean, when God begins tospeak through prophecy in
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your life, he's not onlyspeaking instructions in
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your life, but he's alsogoin' to equip you, he's
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gonna strengthen you, he'sgoing to comfort you, and
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he's going to encourage you.
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So, when God has spoken tous, it gives us a tool to
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use against theenemy of our souls.
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Now, listen to that now:When God speaks to us
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through prophecy, it'sgiving us tools that we can
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use against theenemies of our soul.
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Now, remember, your soul isyour mind, your will, and
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emotions, and once you'veheard from God through
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prophecy, you're equippedto battle all of those
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suggestions of the devil,all of those thoughts of the
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devil, all those thoughtsof failure or "I wonder if I
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can do it?" thosethoughts of doubt.
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When that word of prophecycomes, the reason why I
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believe God allows it tocome to you, before the
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thing even happens, is sothat you can fight against
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the enemy of your soul, soyou can fight against those
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things that are trying todominate your thinking.
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And so we must contendfor everything said to us
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through prophecy.
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We gotta fight for it.
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We gotta compete for all ofthose things that have been
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spoken in our lives andsaid to us through prophecy.
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You know, if God's spokensome things to your life
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through prophecy, man, andyou know it was God, then
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you gotta fight.
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You gotta contend to holdonto that and to not allow
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the enemy of yoursouls to dismiss it.
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Now, we have to seek tofulfill the requirements
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that God has putforth in the prophecy.
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So God's prophesyin'somethin' in your life.
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You know it was God: itencourages, it strengthens.
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it comforts.
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Then we want to seek to doall that we can to fulfill
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the requirements thatGod has put forth in the
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prophecy and, more or less,cooperating and walking
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along with it andnot dismissing it.
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So God has put forth in theprophecy some things that
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will really equip you forthe battle that is ahead,
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and when you take prophecylightly, the prophetic
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promise can never cometo pass, and I know some
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people--and this is whyI'm teaching on it tonight.
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We, just, kind of--wereceive prophetic words.
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We take it lightly.
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We don't take it seriously.
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We're not standing on it.
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We're not holding onto it.
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We don't even know if it wasGod or not, and there you
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go--God was tryin' toforewarn you, prepare you,
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give you the toolsnecessary to use, but you
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dismissed it.
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You took it lightly, and so,unfortunately, it never came
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to pass.
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And so I hope you justreally get a hold of what
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some of the things I'mgonna share with you tonight
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because they are powerfulthings, and God's gonna be a
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game changer in your life,and he's gonna speak and
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lead and guide youthrough the prophetic.
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Now let's go toRomans chapter 4.
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Romans chapter 4, and thisis just kind of an overview
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over the subject.
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I imagine you can go a lotdeeper into this, but I'm
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tryin' to give youinformation to just get
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your attention.
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You know, sometimes we haveto be careful not to let
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certain thingsslip in our lives.
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Certain things that we usedto understand, don't let
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those things slip.
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Romans chapter 4, in verse20 through 22, I'll look at
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this in King James andthe NLT, but he says, "He
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staggered not at the,"referring to Abraham here.
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"He staggered not at thepromise of God through
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unbelief, but was strong infaith, giving glory to God."
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So there's a promise here,and he didn't stagger after
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that promise.
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"He was fully persuadedthat, what he had promised,
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he was also ableto perform."
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In verse 22, he said, "Andtherefore it was imputed to
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him for righteousness."
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And so, you know, let'slook at this in the NLT.
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So we gotta stayon the promise.
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Just like that propheticword comes to your life, you
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know it was God.
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You've got a check inyour spirit that was God.
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You gotta stayon that thing.
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You gotta stayon the promise.
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You don't stagger.
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Look what he said in, now,verse 20: "Abraham never
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wavered in believingGod's promise."
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You know, you know youreceive somethin' from God
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and it came prophetic,don't waver.
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And you've got to know thatthe enemy's goin' to send a
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lot of thoughts your way forthe very purpose of getting
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you to stagger at thatpromise, waver at that
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promise or doubt it.
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"I don't know if that'sgon' really happen to me."
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You gotta learn howto stay with it.
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You gotta learn how to stayon that promise, stay on
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that prophetic, you see?
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And then he says, "He neverwavered believing God, in
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believing God's promise.
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In fact, his faith grewstronger, and in this he
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brought glory to God."
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I believe that's whathappens in the prophetic.
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When you get a word ofprophecy, it ought to
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encourage you enough foryour strength--your faith to
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grow stronger.
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You should be reallystrengthened when that word
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of prophecy comes, andthat's what happened
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with Abraham.
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When he got that promisefrom God that he'd be a
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father of many nations,I mean, he grew stronger.
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He grew strong.
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And then the verse says, 21,and "He was fully convinced
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that God is able to dowhatever he promised."
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You have got to befully convinced.
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When God is speaking toyou through the prophetic,
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you've gotta be fullyconvinced that God is able
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to bring it to pass.
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And then he says, "Andbecause of Abraham's faith,
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God counted himas righteousness."
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And so stay with it.
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Stay on the promise.
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Stay on the promise.
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Stay on the prophetic, whatis it that God has said
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to you.
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Prophetic--you know, it'sGod, it lines up with his
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Word, it comforts,encourages, it strengthens.
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Stay with it, don't let it go.
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Don't let the circumstancesand situations that surround
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you let it go.
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Well, you know, in 2 Peterchapter 1, in verse 19, the
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Bible talks about a moresure word of prophecy, and I
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wanna read this in theKing James and the NLT.
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Again, 2 Peter 1, in 19, hesays in verse 19, "We have
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also a more sure word ofprophecy, whereunto you do
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well that you take heed, asuntil a light that shineth
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in a dark place, until theday dawn, and the day star
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arise in your hearts."
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A more sure wordof prophecy.
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Now, the NLT says, "Becauseof that experience, we have
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even greater confidence inthe message proclaimed by
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the prophets."
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So he's referring to themessage that was proclaimed
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by the prophets, and what hesays is that's a sure word,
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"a message proclaimedby the prophet."
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That's a sure word.
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You know, the New Testament,the written Word of God,
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that's a sure word that wasproclaimed by the prophet,
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and we have a sure word.
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We have a shortword of prophecy.
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I mean, when you look at andtalk about the Bible, that's
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not somethin' that welook at and say, "Well, it
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contradicts itself becausepeople don't know how to
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rightly divide it, or theywonder if that's true, or
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they read out of theScripture and say, 'Well, I
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don't know about that.'"
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We have a more sure word, andit's written in this Bible,
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and I believe it.
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That means, you know, thissure word of prophecy that I
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have right here in thisBible, praise God, I'm gon'
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stick with it.
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I'm gonna stick with it.
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I'm gon' stay withit, praise the Lord.
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And so, in the NLT, it says,"Because of that experience,
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we have even a greaterconfidence in the message
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proclaimed by the prophets.
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You must pay close attentionto what they wrote."
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He says, "You've gotta giveclose attention to what they
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wrote, for their words--"
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He describes their words,the words written in this
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Bible, it'sdescribed as a lamp.
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"It's like a lampshining in a dark place."
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It's like a lamp.
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You see, if you're indarkness and you don't pay
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attention to this sure wordor prophecy, man, you know,
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you're ignoring the lamp,that this Word is like a
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lamp in a dark place.
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And I tell ya, you know,right now we're in a dark
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place in our country and inthe world, and the Word of
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God is like that lamp.
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It's like a lamp, andthat's what I'm goin' to.
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That's what Iwant you to go to.
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That's what I want youto pay attention to.
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It is like a lampin a dark place.
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And so he says, "until theDay dawns, and Christ the
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Morning Star shinesin your heart."
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So ultimately what he issaying here is we have a
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more sure word of prophecy.
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It's sure.
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It's not to be doubted.
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It's not to be questioned.
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It's a sure word ofprophecy, and if you pay
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attention to that sure wordof prophecy, then you're
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gonna have a light in themiddle of a dark place.
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Are you in darknesssomewhere in your life or
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darkness with, you know,how to handle your finances,
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darkness in yourrelationships, darkness with
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raising your children,darkness emotionally, you
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know, because of all thethings that are goin' on?
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I say to you, go tothe Word and hang on.
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Get a hold of the sure wordof prophecy that is your
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light in themidst of darkness.
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And those of you who havebeen getting in the Word
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and, you know, some of youhave been joinin' me for our
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time of confessions in themorning time, that's our
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light in themiddle of darkness.
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And while other people arein the darkness, tryin' to
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figure out where to go andwhat to do and how to govern
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their lives, you and Iare on that sure word of
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prophecy thatis like a lamp.
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It's like a light inthe midst of darkness.
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So the message you receivethrough prophecy, it
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also--listen to this--alsoit has a correct timing
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to it.
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If you receive a propheticword, every prophetic word
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that'll come to you hasa correct timing to it.
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In other word, there's aspecific time that this
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thing is goingto come to pass.
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There's a timing factorthat's involved in that
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prophetic word.
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And so you may get aprophetic word today, but
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you might not see it until,you know, a couple months or
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somethin' like that or maybea year or somethin', but it
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has a timing tothat prophetic.
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Sometimes God allows you tohear a thing way ahead of
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time just so you can juststay with it and stay on it
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and get focused in on it,and lots of other things
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begin to happen to prepareyou for the timing of that
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word to come to pass.
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So just as God gives us workto do, he tells us when, he
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tells us how, he tells uswith whom, and those details
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are just as importantas the task at hand.
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So there's a task at handthat may be given to you
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through the word ofprophecy, but it's--the
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timing is important as well.
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It's when, it's how, it's whom.
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I like to use this phrase:"It's really maturing as a
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barefooted priest."
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You know, you're not walkin'with your shoes on, where
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you're insensitive to thethings you walk on, but you
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take your shoes off.
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You become very sensitiveto what's goin' on, and I
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believe, when you receivea prophetic word, it's
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important for you tounderstand that the timing
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is involved, and there aredetails that are involved in
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that prophetic word.
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And you don't have to sweatto try to figure those
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details out.
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God'll make sure thatyou get all of it.
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You just walk as abarefooted priest.
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He'll make sure you don'tmiss the time, you don't
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miss the who, you don't missthe details that are there.
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And so the steps of God arejust as important as the
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goals of God.
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Let me say that again.
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I said, "steps,"I meant "stops."
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This is important.
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This is the leadership andthe guidance of the Holy
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Spirit, even when hereveals somethin' to you.
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Let me say that again: Thestops of God--and what I
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mean by that is, you know,God may show up and just
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say, "Don't doanything right now."
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The stops of God are justas important as the go's
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of God.
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You know, everybody's reallyconcerned about, you know,
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"When is God gon'tell me to go?"
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A'ight?
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But I tell ya, as importantof a thing it is for you to
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know when God's gon' tellyou to go, it's equally as
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important for you to besensitive to God when he
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says, "stop."
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Wow, so what if you've beendoin' a thing for--I don't
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know--several and,God says, "Stop."
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And, you know, you wanna"Why, God, how come?"
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No, no, no, no, the stops ofGod are just as important as
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the go's of God.
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That's that timing that willwork within that prophetic
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word--the stops of God.
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I don't know.
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Maybe God has spoken to youabout a promotion in your
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life, and you're in theprocess of doin' some
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things, and in the middleof, you know, this whole
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timing, when you're waitingon this prophetic word to
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come to pass, all of asudden, there's a leading in
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your spirit it'stime to stop this.
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And for some people, becausethey don't consider the
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stops of God to be asimportant as the go's of
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God, then the prophetic wordis ready to take place at
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this particular time withthis particular situation,
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but you're not payingattention to the stops
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of God.
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I actually sense that in myspirit that there are some
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of you, right now, haveignored the stops of God.
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We don't ignore the go's ofGod, and sometimes we do,
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but they're equally asimportant for you to become
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sensitive to wherethis is concerned.
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Now, I wanna warn youbecause there are some
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people who just like goin'around, and they wanna
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prophesy to everybody,and you don't want to make
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people your source.
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You don't wanna go tosomebody, you know, "You got
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a word for me?"
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Because, you know, youdon't wanna do that.
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Let's just show youwhat the Scripture says.
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Matthew chapter 7.
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Matthew chapter 7, in verse 21.
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This is so very important.
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Matthew 7, verse 21, hesays, "Not everyone that
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saith unto me, 'Lord, Lord,'shall enter into the kingdom
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of heaven, but he that doeththe will of my Father which
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is in heaven."
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I thought this isvery interesting.
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I've never taken this outon this verse of Scripture
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before, but notice what hesays: "Not everyone that
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saith unto me,'Lord, Lord.'"
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So, obviously, there are gonnabe some people who are goin'
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around and talkin' about "TheLord said that," and "The Lord
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said this," andit's not gonna be so.
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These are the people whoare always trying to give
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a word.
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Have you ever metanybody like that?
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They're always tryingto give--get a word.
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When I was in college,I would come in contact
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with Christians.
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They're always tryingto give a word.
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It made me a littleuncomfortable because
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I couldn't receiveanything they said.
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Every time I came around,they said they had a word
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for me.
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And so dependin' on othersto know the will of God
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is dangerous.
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You don't wanna get in aplace where you're depending
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on other people to knowthe will of God for you.
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You have arelationship with God.
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You don't want todepend on other people.
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Please get that.
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Don't depend on other peopleto know the will of God.
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Don't depend on other peopleto know the will of God for
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your life.
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If there's one area that youneed to make sure that you
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know for yourself--andthat's the will of God for
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yourself because, I tellyou, when the problems show
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up and the situations come,and you're confronted with
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all of these differentthings, you better feel
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comfortable that you knowthe will of God for yourself
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because God's spoken itto your heart, and you are
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convinced, but don't dependon other people to know the
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will God for you.
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You know, oftentimes, peoplewill say to me, "Well, I
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don't know what to do, andI don't know how to respond
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here," and my response isyou need to get on your face
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and you need to prayuntil somethin' happens.
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You need to pray untilyou resolve this issue.
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I don't wanna be the onegoin' around, "Lord, Lord,"
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and, you know, you dependin'on me to know the will of
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God for your life.
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And even as a pastor, Idon't want you dependin' on
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me to know the willof God for your life.
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You need to know the willof God for your life.
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You don't go around and paysome prophet to show you the
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will of God for your life orstop the crystal-ball lady
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and have her to look in yourround ball and see if she
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can say somethin' or readyour palms and all that kind
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of stuff.
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You need to know the willof God for your life.
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Now, let's look atJeremiah chapter 23, in 21.
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This is very interesting howhe says this because, as a
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sheep of God, the Biblesays, "My sheep, they know
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my voice, they hear me."
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And as a sheep of God, youneed to know God's voice
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for yourself.
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And Jeremiah 23, in verse21, he says, "I have not
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sent these prophets--"
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He says, "I have notsent these prophets,
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yet they ran.
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I have not spoken to them,and, yet they prophesied."
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I think that's so effective.
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Look at this in theNew Living Translation.
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There are people that aregonna come around your way.
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God said, "Ididn't send 'em."
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Now, there are peoplethat'll come and try to
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prophesy to you.
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God said, "I hadn't spokenanything through them."
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He says, "I have not sentthese prophets, yet they run
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around claimingto speak for me."
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He says, "I have given themno message, yet they go
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on prophesying."
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I believe Jeremiah--andI so appreciate this
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Scripture here.
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It's just to let you knowthat you've got to be a
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sheep that knowsGod's voice.
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You've got to know that,when somebody comes around
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you and they are prophesyingdiscouragement instead of
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encouragement, they areprophesyin' somethin' that
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makes you feel weak, theyare prophesying somethin'
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that takes away all comfort,you've got to know from
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1 Corinthians 14,that that's not God.
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I showed you at thebeginning of this teaching
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that, when prophesy goesforth, it will exhort, which
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means it willstrengthen you.
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It will encourage you,it will comfort you.
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And if you're not gettingexhortation, comfort, and
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strength, that'sprobably not from God.
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