What is the anointing; why do you need it; and what does it have to do with the prophetic?
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Translating God with Shawn Bolz | Prophecy and the Anointing | May 16, 2021
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- We can't talk about the prophetic gifts
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- without talking about the anointing of God.
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- Often times when we look at the anointing
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- we think of it as an anointed person,
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- a message, or that song was anointed,
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- or that was powerful.
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- And we think of anointing as connection to Gods power,
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- which it is, but Gods desired and designed us
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- to be connected to the nature of his anointing,
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- not just the power of his anointing.
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- Which means connected relationship brings
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- that result of anointing that we're all longing for.
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- I want to teach a little bit about this today
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- because I think it's going to help you in your pursuit
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- for the prophetic gifts.
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- To not just have powerful moments,
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- but to have a powerful relationship with God.
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- The anointing itself is the Holy Spirit.
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- He is not an it, He is a He.
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- And I remember growing up around
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- all kinds of tent meetings and revivals,
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- and people would get, you know, passed out in the Spirit
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- which means they would fall down
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- into the power of the Spirit and those kinds of things.
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- And there's reality and different levels of a lot of that,
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- which is beautiful, but when we
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- receive something without receiving him,
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- then we're not receiving the fullness
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- of what we were intending in the first place.
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- The anointing through the prophetic isn't just to
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- bring about a power encounter or a moment in time.
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- It's to bring about a before and after moment
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- to meet the nature of God
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- and to initiate an even further journey
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- with someone in the relationship.
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- If we understand that,
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- then every time we're speaking to somebody
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- we're not just looking for it to be in a contained moment,
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- we're looking for it to be part
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- of their ongoing journey with God
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- and it will change the result
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- of how we speak and communicate.
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- I think of myself,
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- I've been translated by
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- some of the most powerful translators in the world.
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- I mean, I had the prime ministers translator
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- in Canada in Montreal and it was so wonderful
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- to be translated by a really good translator
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- because as he spoke I felt like I was speaking through him,
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- he was sharing words and I felt like he could keep up.
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- I could almost be in complete sync with him
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- as I talked through him to this crowd of French speaking
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- people who are beautiful in the audience.
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- And at the end of it he said,
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- "That was one of my favorite times I've ever translated
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- "because you used such beautiful language
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- "and poetic words and such big thoughts
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- "and I felt like I was so in sync with you."
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- And we had the Holy Spirit resting on us,
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- not as an it to help him to translate my message,
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- but as a He to be known through the message I was giving
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- in the first place.
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- And that's one of the reasons why
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- I came up with Translating God
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- because I felt so translated in that moment that I said,
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- "God, I want to be like that relationship for you right now.
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- That he was to me, I want to do that for the world around me
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- through your voice and through your anointing."
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- Prophetic power does start with
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- learning how to be an encourager.
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- I always teach people when they're starting,
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- just learn how to encourage people in spiritual ways.
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- Learn the favorite scriptures you have in the bible
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- and how to use those in conversation.
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- Learn how to use them in prayer times for other people.
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- But it doesn't stay there.
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- The reality is that we're not just called
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- the spirit to encourage,
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- we're called to actually see the transformation of God.
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- And when you have the power of his nature
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- to the anointing inside of you,
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- you start to move into Gods heart,
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- which inspires you to see the world how he sees it.
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- And when you see how he sees it,
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- you get a different result because you begin to call forth
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- what he sees from heaven on Earth.
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- You begin to bridge the gap between what's not yet,
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- as though it is.
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- And the anointing is his presence coming from heaven,
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- bridging between here and there though his nature
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- and someones heart.
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- That's why He's a Father,
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- because it takes a father to speak into their son
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- identity enough to do a great work.
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- You don't just do a work out of obedience,
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- eventually that runs out.
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- But when you have his nature and you have his understanding
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- of who he is come inside of you, you'll do anything for him.
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- I remember one of the first times
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- I learned about the anointing,
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- I went to one of my friends houses.
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- He said, "Would you go visit my spiritual mother with me?
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- "She's an older woman and she's in a nursing home right now.
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- "She's actually in nursing care because she had an injury
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- "and I don't know how long she has left on the earth,
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- "but she's one of the most amazing people I've ever met."
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- And so on the way there,
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- he was telling me all these incredible stories.
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- How she brought from the lord almost every day of her life
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- just through her love.
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- And we get to the little hospital room,
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- little hospice room,
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- cause she's actually in her last days of life.
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- And there's a couple coming out of the room crying.
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- I said, "Are you okay?"
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- cause I thought maybe their family member had died
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- or something had happened.
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- They said, "We just met with Grandma Hanuman,
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- "She's so beautiful, she's so beautiful."
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- It was the one we're going to go see and I said,
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- "Well, what happened?"
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- They're in their 40's and they just were crying
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- meeting with her.
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- They said, "She just spoke the most beautiful words of love
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- "and we met Jesus through her just now,
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- "like we're Christians, but...
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- "Are you a Christian? Do you know who Jesus is?"
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- And they're trying to evangelize me they just met the lord.
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- And I've been in revival services,
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- or like things that are named all kinds of things
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- where we have labels put on things where its
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- the power versus
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- the intimate relationship with God manifest.
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- But I walked in
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- and this woman just carried such a presence of love.
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- I had never felt anything like it.
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- I mean, the rumors of mother Theresa,
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- that's what I felt in the room.
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- Like, this woman carried liquid love.
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- And I sat down with her and I just wanted to cry,
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- not because I was sad,
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- but because I just felt so much connection to God.
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- And then she said, "How are you, honey?"
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- and she stroked my face,
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- like we're there to see this woman who is dying,
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- she's stroking my face and saying,
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- "Oh, it's so good to meet you, I love meeting you."
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- And I'm like who are you? Like, how are you?
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- And so after we talk for a while,
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- I remember asking her,
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- "Grandma Hanuman, what's the hardest thing about being
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- "a mature Christian in your life that you've had to do?"
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- And she said, "Oh, honey. God is so good,
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- "but he has had to teach me how to keep my heart open
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- "to people because people can be so evil,
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- "but if you keep your heart open,
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- "if you keep your heart open to his love
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- you'll have endless anointing for all your days."
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- I said, "What does anointing mean to you?"
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- And I'm crying as I'm asking her and she said,
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- "Intimate friendship with God."
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- And it just so touched me!
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- Because here's a woman on her death bed
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- who's leading people to the lord right before I walk in.
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- And she had it, she got it, she understood what it was.
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- And I think so many people who pursue
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- the word anointing in the bible,
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- they pursue the manifestation of Gods power
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- versus the nature of who God is as a person.
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- But if we pursue prophetic gifts;
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- prophecy, words of knowledge, words of wisdom,
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- these kinds of gifts out of a place of relationship
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- that they would be connecting devices
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- to his heart and to peoples hearts around us,
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- so we can be fully present with who God is
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- in the world around us.
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- We're gonna have such a different result of living,
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- so I'm going to encourage you.
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- Pursue the anointing,
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- but pursue it out of intimate relationship with God.
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- (transitional music)
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- So I'm so excited to have my friend, Pastor Che Kahn,
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- who is one of the leaders in my life with me here
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- and we're going to be talking about a God story
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- that happened between us because I love how
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- when we're pursuing hearing Gods voice,
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- how it should affect the people that were in movements
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- and churches with.
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- It should affect the world we're around right now,
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- like in a very real practical way.
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- And you would ask me,
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- we were in Singapore together.
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- And you would ask me, would you pray
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- and ask God with prophetic intention
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- just to be as an in for me. - Right, right.
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- - And that was the first time I think you'd ever
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- asked me to pray directly. - Yeah
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- I mean, we had been together so many times,
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- but you never prophesied over me, never gave me a word.
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- I've been seeing you give
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- all these amazing words to everyone else.
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- And finally, It's our conference, right?
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- It was HIM conference in Singapore,
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- and I just took a risk and I probably said,
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- would you pray about giving me a word?
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- And you came back the next day and it was amazing.
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- - Well, I remember
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- because I went to my hotel room that night,
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- I prayed and I started to get a few words of knowledge
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- and one was the Rojas,
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- I saw it written out. - Yeah.
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- - And then I saw some street addresses,
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- it wasn't all the ones I gave you that night,
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- but I think it was two or three
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- words of knowledge written out.
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- And I remember the word Ho came into it
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- and I got a word of knowledge and I said,
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- "Does Ho make sense to you?"
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- - Exactly. Well, you said two things in the beginning.
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- You said Ho and then Roxas,
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- and so Roxas, of course,
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- is the phonetic spelling of my wife's maiden name,
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- which is actually pronounced Rojas.
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- - Oh, okay.
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- So when you said Roxas, it took me a while to figure it out.
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- And of course,
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- Ho is my middle name.
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- - Which you didn't remember. (laughs)
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- - No one calls me by my middle name.
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- I haven't used my middle name in so many years,
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- and so it took me like a minute to get it.
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- And then it finally hit me,
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- I said, "Oh my goodness.
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- "Well, that's my wife's maiden name
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- "and that's my middle name."
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- And that's how the word began.
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- And then,
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- if I could just got ahead? - Tell us, yeah. Tell us.
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- - Because you then said,
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- "Does silver spring mean anything to you?"
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- And I said,
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- "Yes, that's the place where I experienced salvation
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- "and the Jesus people movement,
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- "the revival." - Yeah. In Maryland, right?
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- In Maryland because we're part of a bible study
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- that just started out with a handful of people
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- in Silver Spring and
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- grew to over 2000 over night in two years.
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- And then you gave me 2020 Woodland,
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- which was my address when the revival broke out
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- at Madou Auditorium. - Yeah.
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- - We had nightly meetings for like three years
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- and then we moved into a house,
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- we call it our revival house
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- because the models name is actually revival.
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- - Wow, so the house models name is actually revival?
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- - Yeah, there's like eight different names,
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- you know, like Portofino, Legacy,
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- ours is called revival.
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- (laughing)
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- We moved into revival 1998,
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- but you gave me the landline
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- for that house. - That house.
- 00:08:23.426 --> 00:08:25.294
- - And then finally you gave me
- 00:08:25.294 --> 00:08:26.629
- our current address. - Wow.
- 00:08:26.629 --> 00:08:28.264
- And so I said, "That's our current home."
- 00:08:28.264 --> 00:08:30.700
- And then you began to prophecy
- 00:08:30.700 --> 00:08:32.768
- in each of those addresses you experienced a wave of revival
- 00:08:32.768 --> 00:08:36.706
- and there are different aspects of that revival
- 00:08:36.706 --> 00:08:39.008
- and different characteristics of that revival
- 00:08:39.008 --> 00:08:41.644
- that were unique for that specific time
- 00:08:41.644 --> 00:08:43.846
- and location you were at. - Yeah.
- 00:08:43.846 --> 00:08:45.381
- - And of course, you said,
- 00:08:45.381 --> 00:08:47.083
- "All the revivals you experienced,
- 00:08:47.083 --> 00:08:49.118
- "you're going to experience a greater revival
- 00:08:49.118 --> 00:08:51.487
- "with the best of the characteristics
- 00:08:51.487 --> 00:08:53.122
- "of the previous revival manifesting at this current place."
- 00:08:53.122 --> 00:08:57.460
- - You know, I didn't have all that in advance.
- 00:08:57.460 --> 00:08:58.928
- A lot of that came like in the moment and...
- 00:08:58.928 --> 00:09:01.030
- Because a lot of the time I'll pray in advance,
- 00:09:01.030 --> 00:09:02.231
- I'll get a few words of knowledge,
- 00:09:02.231 --> 00:09:03.432
- - Right.
- 00:09:03.432 --> 00:09:04.934
- - But I start to see, like, listed out addresses
- 00:09:04.934 --> 00:09:06.435
- and it's amazing when you're friends with somebody
- 00:09:06.435 --> 00:09:08.504
- because we've been friends for a long time
- 00:09:08.504 --> 00:09:09.872
- - Yeah.
- 00:09:09.872 --> 00:09:11.340
- - But I wasn't friends with you at most of those addresses,
- 00:09:11.340 --> 00:09:12.875
- like I wouldn't have known. - No, that was in Maryland.
- 00:09:12.875 --> 00:09:14.343
- - And you don't really know your friends wives maiden names,
- 00:09:14.343 --> 00:09:16.078
- you don't really know these, like your middle name.
- 00:09:16.078 --> 00:09:18.347
- I don't know most of my friends middle names.
- 00:09:18.347 --> 00:09:19.649
- - Right.
- 00:09:19.649 --> 00:09:20.850
- - And it places the context of like,
- 00:09:20.850 --> 00:09:22.184
- God really knows you,
- 00:09:22.184 --> 00:09:23.185
- He loves you,
- 00:09:23.185 --> 00:09:24.654
- and He's using someone you love to speak to you.
- 00:09:24.654 --> 00:09:26.255
- And I thought it was so profound because I felt
- 00:09:26.255 --> 00:09:28.591
- the excitement for the season of your life,
- 00:09:28.591 --> 00:09:30.660
- the culmination.
- 00:09:30.660 --> 00:09:31.994
- I felt so connected to the different
- 00:09:31.994 --> 00:09:33.429
- seasons of your life coming together and
- 00:09:33.429 --> 00:09:35.297
- I love how God uses prophetic to aid our relationships,
- 00:09:35.297 --> 00:09:38.567
- to help ground us in our faith
- 00:09:38.567 --> 00:09:40.369
- for what God wants to do for us personally.
- 00:09:40.369 --> 00:09:41.570
- Cause you lead a whole movement with
- 00:09:41.570 --> 00:09:43.072
- tens of thousands of churches around the world,
- 00:09:43.072 --> 00:09:45.141
- but you need that personal moment with God.
- 00:09:45.141 --> 00:09:47.443
- - Absolutely because a lot of the times it's overwhelming.
- 00:09:47.443 --> 00:09:51.480
- His goodness has manifested in so many different ways,
- 00:09:51.480 --> 00:09:54.717
- and when you have that word I said, "God, You're so good.
- 00:09:54.717 --> 00:09:57.253
- "Thank you so much."
- 00:09:57.253 --> 00:09:58.721
- And of course, prophecy is fortification and encouragement
- 00:09:58.721 --> 00:10:02.058
- and comfort, and so that was a great word at a great time.
- 00:10:02.058 --> 00:10:05.194
- As your friend, as I'm hearing stuff,
- 00:10:05.194 --> 00:10:06.362
- because I know you so well,
- 00:10:06.362 --> 00:10:07.863
- each level brought me up to a new place of faith for you.
- 00:10:07.863 --> 00:10:10.232
- Which is so excited.
- 00:10:10.232 --> 00:10:11.767
- So I love how when God uses us, he also uses it for us.
- 00:10:11.767 --> 00:10:14.937
- - I believe that we're experiencing at this current address,
- 00:10:14.937 --> 00:10:17.506
- is a culmination of seeing the harvest come in.
- 00:10:17.506 --> 00:10:20.443
- We want to actually see society transformed.
- 00:10:20.443 --> 00:10:23.813
- And to me, the best way to do that
- 00:10:23.813 --> 00:10:25.314
- is through the local church.
- 00:10:25.314 --> 00:10:26.816
- Planning churches that would transform their little sphere
- 00:10:26.816 --> 00:10:30.319
- in their community, plan to our state and our nation
- 00:10:30.319 --> 00:10:33.756
- so that's - Yeah.
- 00:10:33.756 --> 00:10:34.790
- - That's what I want to do.
- 00:10:34.790 --> 00:10:36.025
- The lord began to speak to me to target
- 00:10:36.025 --> 00:10:38.427
- the 12 million illegal immigrants in America,
- 00:10:38.427 --> 00:10:43.432
- and to plan churches, life giving churches among them.
- 00:10:43.899 --> 00:10:47.336
- And so the Lord began to speak to me through our network,
- 00:10:47.336 --> 00:10:50.039
- because we were focusing on
- 00:10:50.039 --> 00:10:51.340
- planning churches around the world,
- 00:10:51.340 --> 00:10:52.842
- which is great, but when you're in the United States
- 00:10:52.842 --> 00:10:55.144
- - That's very great. - Yeah, it is.
- 00:10:55.144 --> 00:10:56.612
- I mean, we're just an episodic network for the nations,
- 00:10:56.612 --> 00:10:58.914
- but the Lord said
- 00:10:58.914 --> 00:11:00.316
- intentionally start planning churches in America.
- 00:11:00.316 --> 00:11:02.284
- - Wow.
- 00:11:02.284 --> 00:11:02.485
- as the money comes in,
- 00:11:02.852 --> 00:11:03.719
- we're planning churches.
- 00:11:03.719 --> 00:11:04.920
- We're planning around 7 churches so far.
- 00:11:04.920 --> 00:11:06.455
- - That's awesome.
- 00:11:06.455 --> 00:11:07.823
- - All of them in California, one in Dallas,
- 00:11:07.823 --> 00:11:09.358
- but we're just doing the best we can to advance Gods kingdom
- 00:11:09.358 --> 00:11:13.395
- with the resources that he's given to us,
- 00:11:13.395 --> 00:11:15.464
- by the grace of God. - Some of the churches,
- 00:11:15.464 --> 00:11:17.133
- Like in India, under HIM, is just exploding,
- 00:11:17.133 --> 00:11:20.336
- and China is exploding. - Yeah.
- 00:11:20.336 --> 00:11:21.637
- - So believing for that kind of growth here
- 00:11:21.637 --> 00:11:23.672
- takes a lot of different faith - Absolutely.
- 00:11:23.672 --> 00:11:26.175
- - And I love that God is giving you the words,
- 00:11:26.175 --> 00:11:27.543
- is giving you the foundation of faith for it.
- 00:11:27.543 --> 00:11:28.944
- I'm so grateful. - I think it's bringing
- 00:11:28.944 --> 00:11:30.613
- the power onto transformation,
- 00:11:30.613 --> 00:11:33.082
- that God is serious about us discipling nations
- 00:11:33.082 --> 00:11:35.551
- and we got to disciple the United States.
- 00:11:35.551 --> 00:11:38.020
- - You know what I think?
- 00:11:38.020 --> 00:11:39.455
- I'm kind of having a prophetic moment right now
- 00:11:39.455 --> 00:11:40.689
- and it's when you said Cambridge,
- 00:11:40.689 --> 00:11:41.891
- the street name that you're on now.
- 00:11:41.891 --> 00:11:43.425
- I just kept feeling like that place of...
- 00:11:43.425 --> 00:11:46.362
- Cambridge being one of the excellent colleges in the world,
- 00:11:46.362 --> 00:11:49.198
- I feel like you're life is now a college for revival.
- 00:11:49.198 --> 00:11:52.234
- And that you're going to speak out of so much,
- 00:11:52.234 --> 00:11:54.436
- you already do, but so much depth.
- 00:11:54.436 --> 00:11:56.539
- But the practical teaching, along with the
- 00:11:56.539 --> 00:11:59.341
- foresight and hindsight for what's happened,
- 00:11:59.341 --> 00:12:02.244
- but the foresight for what's coming.
- 00:12:02.244 --> 00:12:04.713
- That there's something like your life as a college
- 00:12:04.713 --> 00:12:05.948
- for leaders who get involved with you,
- 00:12:05.948 --> 00:12:07.149
- and for people who get involved with you,
- 00:12:07.149 --> 00:12:09.318
- and I saw business leaders and church leaders
- 00:12:09.318 --> 00:12:10.586
- and political leaders.
- 00:12:10.586 --> 00:12:12.021
- Those three main veins coming out of this college.
- 00:12:12.021 --> 00:12:14.056
- Like, coming in and then going out of this college.
- 00:12:14.056 --> 00:12:15.925
- So I have another prophetic word for you,
- 00:12:15.925 --> 00:12:17.059
- that your life is like you're
- 00:12:17.059 --> 00:12:18.727
- living in the Cambridge right now and you are Cambridge or
- 00:12:18.727 --> 00:12:21.764
- you are a school of revival for the world around you.
- 00:12:21.764 --> 00:12:26.001
- It's not just that you teach,
- 00:12:26.001 --> 00:12:27.269
- you're life is actually going to impart culture
- 00:12:27.269 --> 00:12:29.905
- and impart the culture of what we need
- 00:12:29.905 --> 00:12:31.841
- for revival in the future.
- 00:12:31.841 --> 00:12:33.108
- - Well, thank you.
- 00:12:33.108 --> 00:12:34.343
- I'll come on the show all the time (laughing)
- 00:12:34.343 --> 00:12:36.111
- if I get words like that.
- 00:12:36.111 --> 00:12:37.379
- Thank you so much, that was awesome.
- 00:12:37.379 --> 00:12:39.315
- Thank you, I receive that.
- 00:12:39.315 --> 00:12:40.349
- and I love this story
- 00:12:40.449 --> 00:12:41.917
- because it's someone I know someone really well,
- 00:12:41.917 --> 00:12:43.185
- but I'm also serving under his leadership
- 00:12:43.185 --> 00:12:44.753
- and I just had the faith in that moment.
- 00:12:44.753 --> 00:12:46.255
- When he pulled on that and said, "Can you pray for me?"
- 00:12:46.255 --> 00:12:48.123
- I said, "God, I know you have something for him."
- 00:12:48.123 --> 00:12:50.125
- I don't know what it is
- 00:12:50.125 --> 00:12:51.060
- and he gave me a few details
- 00:12:51.060 --> 00:12:52.294
- that turned into a very big story,
- 00:12:52.294 --> 00:12:53.729
- so take the risk.
- 00:12:53.729 --> 00:12:55.497
- - [Woman] Does God speak to us today?
- 00:12:55.497 --> 00:12:57.666
- If so, what does he sound like?
- 00:12:57.666 --> 00:13:00.302
- Thundering roars?
- 00:13:00.302 --> 00:13:01.804
- Crashing waves?
- 00:13:01.804 --> 00:13:03.205
- A booming megaphone.
- 00:13:03.205 --> 00:13:05.040
- Maybe sometimes,
- 00:13:05.040 --> 00:13:06.508
- but maybe it's not quite as Hollywood dramatic as all that.
- 00:13:06.508 --> 00:13:10.479
- Maybe it's a little more simple.
- 00:13:10.479 --> 00:13:13.816
- John 10:27 says, My sheep hear my voice
- 00:13:13.816 --> 00:13:17.253
- I know them, and they follow me.
- 00:13:17.253 --> 00:13:19.622
- In the midst of all the noise and questions,
- 00:13:19.622 --> 00:13:22.524
- God is speaking and we can hear his voice,
- 00:13:22.524 --> 00:13:25.361
- we just need to learn to recognize it.
- 00:13:25.361 --> 00:13:28.264
- So what does He sound like?
- 00:13:29.131 --> 00:13:31.400
- He sounds like love.
- 00:13:31.400 --> 00:13:34.036
- Like reconciliation.
- 00:13:34.036 --> 00:13:36.005
- Like kindness, wisdom, hope, truth.
- 00:13:36.005 --> 00:13:40.175
- Do you know those sounds?
- 00:13:40.175 --> 00:13:42.378
- Then maybe you hear his voice more often than you think.
- 00:13:42.378 --> 00:13:45.581
- Maybe you're being led by him more than you realize.
- 00:13:45.581 --> 00:13:49.018
- Maybe God is speaking to you
- 00:13:49.018 --> 00:13:51.086
- and you actually are listening.
- 00:13:51.086 --> 00:13:53.389
- You just didn't know it.
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- - I love how prophecy aligns us to what
- 00:14:56.919 --> 00:14:59.021
- God knew from the very beginning.
- 00:14:59.021 --> 00:15:00.723
- He never changes mind.
- 00:15:00.723 --> 00:15:02.324
- Prophecy helps us to see
- 00:15:02.324 --> 00:15:03.692
- what was in his heart in the first place.
- 00:15:03.692 --> 00:15:05.494
- And when we hear God,
- 00:15:05.494 --> 00:15:06.762
- we start to see what was in his original agenda.
- 00:15:06.762 --> 00:15:08.998
- What was on his schedule from the beginning of time,
- 00:15:08.998 --> 00:15:11.233
- and we start to ask him to bring that in the world again.
- 00:15:11.233 --> 00:15:14.236
- Jesus paid this huge price on the cross,
- 00:15:14.236 --> 00:15:16.271
- not just for a little restoration
- 00:15:16.271 --> 00:15:18.140
- so that we could go to heaven,
- 00:15:18.140 --> 00:15:19.208
- but for a full restoration of
- 00:15:19.208 --> 00:15:20.676
- Gods original plan and desire over humanity.
- 00:15:20.676 --> 00:15:23.145
- That means when we hear God,
- 00:15:23.145 --> 00:15:24.880
- we start to see how we can restore
- 00:15:24.880 --> 00:15:26.515
- everything that's been broken.
- 00:15:26.515 --> 00:15:28.484
- I remember several years ago I had a day off
- 00:15:28.484 --> 00:15:30.819
- and so I was playing a video game in my room
- 00:15:30.819 --> 00:15:32.621
- and all of a sudden I had a vision,
- 00:15:32.621 --> 00:15:34.923
- a radical vision, of this person come in through the side
- 00:15:34.923 --> 00:15:38.260
- and he was a shorter man and he was from Korea,
- 00:15:38.260 --> 00:15:41.630
- and he said it right away, "I'm from Korea."
- 00:15:41.630 --> 00:15:43.499
- I'm like, who is this?
- 00:15:43.499 --> 00:15:44.700
- This is a vision, but it feels so real.
- 00:15:44.700 --> 00:15:46.535
- And I said, "Are you from North or South?"
- 00:15:46.535 --> 00:15:48.103
- He said, "I am from Korea!"
- 00:15:48.103 --> 00:15:50.005
- And I realized in his mind,
- 00:15:50.005 --> 00:15:51.240
- there was no North and South Korea.
- 00:15:51.240 --> 00:15:52.741
- Now, I didn't know a lot of geography
- 00:15:52.741 --> 00:15:54.276
- or that much about Korea.
- 00:15:54.276 --> 00:15:55.677
- I didn't know their politics or the history,
- 00:15:55.677 --> 00:15:57.679
- but he said, "I've come to give you a message
- 00:15:57.679 --> 00:16:00.115
- "that I'm going to be moving in Korea,
- 00:16:00.115 --> 00:16:02.251
- "that God was going to do something profound there,
- 00:16:02.251 --> 00:16:04.319
- "that during the next presidency,
- 00:16:04.319 --> 00:16:05.754
- "that I want to bring a relationship back to the west,
- 00:16:05.754 --> 00:16:08.524
- "especially America.
- 00:16:08.524 --> 00:16:09.691
- "And so I want to prepare you
- 00:16:09.691 --> 00:16:10.993
- "to go talk to a future president there."
- 00:16:10.993 --> 00:16:13.128
- And I was just like, what is happening?
- 00:16:13.128 --> 00:16:14.830
- I'm just playing a video game and I'm having this whole,
- 00:16:14.830 --> 00:16:16.899
- like full motion movie play out in front of me,
- 00:16:16.899 --> 00:16:18.901
- that felt a little interactive.
- 00:16:18.901 --> 00:16:20.602
- So he left, and I just thought did this just happen?
- 00:16:20.602 --> 00:16:23.372
- This didn't happen, did this happen?
- 00:16:23.372 --> 00:16:25.474
- But I've heard these stories through out
- 00:16:25.474 --> 00:16:26.775
- the last 2000 years of history.
- 00:16:26.775 --> 00:16:28.010
- I've read them and I've heard them currently.
- 00:16:28.010 --> 00:16:29.945
- So I said, okay this might have really happened.
- 00:16:29.945 --> 00:16:31.980
- So I was invited shortly after to go to Korea,
- 00:16:31.980 --> 00:16:33.615
- and it was interesting because I was invited to speak
- 00:16:33.615 --> 00:16:35.918
- to three hopefuls who were all running for president.
- 00:16:35.918 --> 00:16:39.221
- One woman and two men.
- 00:16:39.221 --> 00:16:40.222
- I thought this is crazy.
- 00:16:40.222 --> 00:16:41.557
- I go to countries all the time,
- 00:16:41.557 --> 00:16:42.825
- I don't get invited to meet with people
- 00:16:42.825 --> 00:16:43.959
- who are running for president.
- 00:16:43.959 --> 00:16:45.461
- And I met with the first two, and it was very interesting.
- 00:16:45.461 --> 00:16:47.429
- I was able to pray with them.
- 00:16:47.429 --> 00:16:48.363
- Neither was Christian.
- 00:16:48.363 --> 00:16:49.598
- And then the third one, who was a Christian,
- 00:16:49.598 --> 00:16:51.633
- but he looked so tired.
- 00:16:51.633 --> 00:16:52.901
- He didn't look like he wanted to meet with me
- 00:16:52.901 --> 00:16:54.403
- and I ended up saying, "Hey, I know you speak English,
- 00:16:54.403 --> 00:16:56.772
- "would you please speak English to me?"
- 00:16:56.772 --> 00:16:57.706
- Because they had an interpreter.
- 00:16:57.706 --> 00:16:59.141
- And he said yes.
- 00:16:59.141 --> 00:17:00.542
- And I said, "I have a spiritual expression for you.
- 00:17:00.542 --> 00:17:02.244
- "Can I share something?"
- 00:17:02.244 --> 00:17:03.745
- And I ended up sharing somethings
- 00:17:03.745 --> 00:17:05.080
- that I can't tell you here on camera
- 00:17:05.080 --> 00:17:06.582
- about his life and about how he needed to position himself
- 00:17:06.582 --> 00:17:09.118
- because of some of the controversy he had been in.
- 00:17:09.118 --> 00:17:11.286
- And I gave him a word of wisdom advice.
- 00:17:11.286 --> 00:17:13.355
- If you want to win this,
- 00:17:13.355 --> 00:17:14.590
- I believe God wants to make you the man for
- 00:17:14.590 --> 00:17:16.391
- this season of presidency
- 00:17:16.391 --> 00:17:17.659
- and you're going to be very controversial
- 00:17:17.659 --> 00:17:19.361
- because of your history,
- 00:17:19.361 --> 00:17:20.629
- and it was both negative
- 00:17:20.629 --> 00:17:21.830
- and positive in some different areas.
- 00:17:21.830 --> 00:17:23.065
- I believe God wants to reestablish
- 00:17:23.065 --> 00:17:24.800
- a relationship to America and to some other places
- 00:17:24.800 --> 00:17:27.436
- and he wants to create trade again between Korea
- 00:17:27.436 --> 00:17:29.905
- and western world countries
- 00:17:29.905 --> 00:17:31.406
- and that South Korea,
- 00:17:31.406 --> 00:17:32.941
- He's preparing South Korea and North Korea to merge.
- 00:17:32.941 --> 00:17:34.443
- Something is going to happen between the two countries
- 00:17:34.443 --> 00:17:36.745
- and you're going to be a catalyst
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- for opening up conversations between
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- North and South Korea again.
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- So I gave him all these words,
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- and I was shocked it came out of my mouth.
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- I had no idea that angel had told me this much,
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- but I even had more once I opened my mouth.
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- And that's sometimes when the spirit of God
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- comes on your mouth, even when you don't intend it,
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- and speaks for you and I felt that.
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- I felt possessed by God, that he was speaking through me.
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- It felt so amazing.
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- And I looked at him and his eyes were wide and he said,
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- "I will do all these things. I will do this."
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- And he just knew, like he knew.
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- He was believing I will be president.
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- Was very controversial over the next few months.
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- I had many Korean leaders who were very upset with me,
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- that I would meet, as a Christian,
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- with this man who they felt
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- like wasn't even a repentant Christian.
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- That he had committed some sins and some stuff,
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- that they believed that I shouldn't be
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- speaking to him at all, especially not prophesying
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- about politics.
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- Now picture that right now
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- in America or whatever country you're from.
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- If a prophet meets with the president
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- and begins to prophecy agenda.
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- That feels very unsafe to a lot of people,
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- but I just felt to obey God, walk it out.
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- And I walked with him for his first six months
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- as he was going after presidency
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- and then after he became president.
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- Yes, he did. He became president.
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- And he contacted me right after he became president,
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- he said, "Would you set up a meeting
- 00:18:43.812 --> 00:18:45.681
- "between your president and me?
- 00:18:45.681 --> 00:18:47.282
- "I want to meet him just like prophetic word."
- 00:18:47.282 --> 00:18:49.251
- And I said, "I don't know if you know who I am,
- 00:18:49.251 --> 00:18:51.286
- "but I don't actually have the clout to set up a meeting
- 00:18:51.286 --> 00:18:53.288
- "between you and the president."
- 00:18:53.288 --> 00:18:54.623
- And in my head, that's what I rehearsed,
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- but I felt like God said, why not?
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- So I ended up contacting a few
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- state congressmen that I knew, one state senator.
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- And sent the messages and said
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- is there any way you can set up this meeting
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- between this person, this is why.
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- And one of them contacted me back, said I don't know...
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- The president was President Bush at the time.
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- But I think I can get to him
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- and I think that this is important.
- 00:19:12.307 --> 00:19:13.809
- So he soccer balled it all the way to the white house.
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- I was able to get them a meeting
- 00:19:16.445 --> 00:19:17.946
- and this president was the first Korean president,
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- South Korean president to be
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- in American soil since the 80's.
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- They established so much trade
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- and so much of what I said happened
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- and it actually created the conversation between
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- North and South Korea for the first time in his presidency,
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- and it wasn't a Cinderella story.
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- There was a lot of problems in his presidency,
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- but it was really interesting is
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- the whole time you have to realize,
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- the whole time I was in this story
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- I was thinking about what I had been studying about Korea.
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- Now, Korea just over 50 years ago was a developing nation
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- and a generation of Christians came in who believed
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- that God wanted to do something for Korea as a country,
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- South Korea specifically.
- 00:19:52.314 --> 00:19:53.849
- And they began to pray and God showed them
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- do sponsoring a child.
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- Have one western world parent,
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- in Canada or America, sponsor a child
- 00:19:58.820 --> 00:20:00.522
- all the way through school,
- 00:20:00.522 --> 00:20:01.723
- since they can't adopt them formally,
- 00:20:01.723 --> 00:20:03.492
- do sponsorship financially so they can get an education.
- 00:20:03.492 --> 00:20:06.228
- And this group turned into Compassion International,
- 00:20:06.228 --> 00:20:09.431
- and Korea is where they started out of dream
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- and an encounter with God.
- 00:20:11.700 --> 00:20:13.135
- And they started to support these kids
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- that by the time the first round was graduating college
- 00:20:14.636 --> 00:20:18.073
- they became, you know, one became a supreme court justice.
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- One became a leader in their new school, Seoul University.
- 00:20:21.643 --> 00:20:25.047
- One became one of the lead lawyers in the country.
- 00:20:25.047 --> 00:20:28.317
- One became a politician.
- 00:20:28.317 --> 00:20:30.385
- And so the first round of compassion kids
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- started to change their nation
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- and they were loved on by Christians
- 00:20:34.589 --> 00:20:36.558
- who had supported them with Gods dream all the way through
- 00:20:36.558 --> 00:20:38.794
- the country that would no longer be a developing nation,
- 00:20:38.794 --> 00:20:41.496
- but a developed nation.
- 00:20:41.496 --> 00:20:42.798
- And in one 50, whatever plus year history,
- 00:20:42.798 --> 00:20:45.267
- we've seen a nation get born into Gods plan for it.
- 00:20:45.267 --> 00:20:49.304
- They sent more missionaries than anyone else,
- 00:20:49.304 --> 00:20:51.306
- they do more for Christianity in Israel than anyone else.
- 00:20:51.306 --> 00:20:54.676
- And it's all because God redeveloped them through visions
- 00:20:54.676 --> 00:20:57.913
- and through strategy from
- 00:20:57.913 --> 00:20:59.414
- Christian leaders around the world.
- 00:20:59.414 --> 00:21:00.982
- Now, if God can do that in South Korea
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- where it was so occupied, so at war with so many countries;
- 00:21:02.951 --> 00:21:06.121
- People tried to occupy them all the times.
- 00:21:06.121 --> 00:21:07.723
- What about Congo?
- 00:21:07.723 --> 00:21:08.690
- What about Syria?
- 00:21:08.690 --> 00:21:09.624
- What about Malawi?
- 00:21:09.624 --> 00:21:10.892
- These countries that are in devastation.
- 00:21:10.892 --> 00:21:12.594
- What was Gods original dream and purpose there?
- 00:21:12.594 --> 00:21:15.030
- And can you see with Gods eyes in war torn areas,
- 00:21:15.030 --> 00:21:18.066
- or industries that are falling apart,
- 00:21:18.066 --> 00:21:19.801
- or in places in your own city.
- 00:21:19.801 --> 00:21:21.103
- Can you look at it with Gods eyes and say,
- 00:21:21.103 --> 00:21:23.238
- in one generation it can redeveloped,
- 00:21:23.238 --> 00:21:25.440
- repurposed and brought into Gods glory
- 00:21:25.440 --> 00:21:27.642
- so that it can have true usefulness to the entire world.
- 00:21:27.642 --> 00:21:30.779
- That last part of the story is I went to Seoul University.
- 00:21:30.779 --> 00:21:32.447
- I met with one of the leaders of technology
- 00:21:32.447 --> 00:21:34.850
- and he's also one of the historians over in South Korea.
- 00:21:34.850 --> 00:21:36.952
- And I said, "If South Korea never got developed,
- 00:21:36.952 --> 00:21:39.020
- "what would have happened to the world at this point?"
- 00:21:39.020 --> 00:21:40.689
- He said, "Well, your smartphones would be
- 00:21:40.689 --> 00:21:42.357
- "probably be 15 years behind,
- 00:21:42.357 --> 00:21:43.692
- "a lot of medical science would be behind.
- 00:21:43.692 --> 00:21:45.727
- "Emissions, fuel emissions would be behind worldwide.
- 00:21:45.727 --> 00:21:47.662
- "Water agriculture would be behind by five to ten years."
- 00:21:47.662 --> 00:21:51.066
- So basically the world would be behind in so many industries
- 00:21:51.066 --> 00:21:54.169
- because of South Koreas non-development
- 00:21:54.169 --> 00:21:56.438
- if they weren't developed that we would've all suffered.
- 00:21:56.438 --> 00:21:58.840
- We need each other to become the version
- 00:21:58.840 --> 00:22:00.642
- that God dreamed of.
- 00:22:00.642 --> 00:22:02.077
- So we all move forward together, so that we're all blessed,
- 00:22:02.077 --> 00:22:04.413
- there's grace given to the whole world.
- 00:22:04.413 --> 00:22:06.148
- And that's my prayer for the prophetic,
- 00:22:06.148 --> 00:22:07.616
- is that we could start to use this
- 00:22:07.616 --> 00:22:09.584
- as one of Gods formulation tools to nations,
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- to people groups, and to individuals.
- 00:22:12.154 --> 00:22:14.723
- Now, looking back on our statements from earlier,
- 00:22:17.092 --> 00:22:18.727
- lets see which of there were true.
- 00:22:18.727 --> 00:22:21.096
- God speaks only to prophets.
- 00:22:21.096 --> 00:22:22.697
- Well we've proven that wrong
- 00:22:22.697 --> 00:22:23.899
- through the whole series of Translating God.
- 00:22:23.899 --> 00:22:25.634
- We know that God wants to speak to all believers.
- 00:22:25.634 --> 00:22:28.236
- He loves us.
- 00:22:28.236 --> 00:22:29.438
- It's on of his primary ways of loving us,
- 00:22:29.438 --> 00:22:31.706
- is through communication.
- 00:22:31.706 --> 00:22:33.341
- All Christians can prophecy.
- 00:22:33.341 --> 00:22:35.243
- Absolutely, Paul would've never told the Corinthian Church
- 00:22:35.243 --> 00:22:38.113
- to go after prophecy in a major way as a mandate
- 00:22:38.113 --> 00:22:41.016
- if it wasn't possible for them to go through.
- 00:22:41.016 --> 00:22:43.118
- He wasn't just saying, you apostles, you prophets.
- 00:22:43.118 --> 00:22:45.120
- He was saying to the church of Corinth,
- 00:22:45.120 --> 00:22:46.955
- follow love like your life depends on it
- 00:22:46.955 --> 00:22:49.291
- and eagerly desire that you may prophecy.
- 00:22:49.291 --> 00:22:51.693
- Prophecy comes through the Holy Spirit.
- 00:22:51.693 --> 00:22:54.463
- And this is one of my favorite ones that's true
- 00:22:54.463 --> 00:22:56.598
- because Holy Spirit Himself speaks to us
- 00:22:56.598 --> 00:22:59.434
- from the Fathers heart.
- 00:22:59.434 --> 00:23:00.669
- Prophecy is not a power, its not just a gift,
- 00:23:00.669 --> 00:23:03.138
- it's not just something that happens.
- 00:23:03.138 --> 00:23:04.372
- It's the personhood and the personality of God
- 00:23:04.372 --> 00:23:06.875
- speaking to you what's on His current heart right now.
- 00:23:06.875 --> 00:23:09.344
- The main goal of prophecy is correction.
- 00:23:09.344 --> 00:23:12.347
- This is so a myth!
- 00:23:12.347 --> 00:23:14.282
- It is not Gods main heart to bring correction
- 00:23:14.282 --> 00:23:16.518
- through prophecy.
- 00:23:16.518 --> 00:23:17.986
- It can happen at times, but the main use of prophecy
- 00:23:17.986 --> 00:23:20.155
- is actually to bring you into your fullness.
- 00:23:20.155 --> 00:23:22.457
- To be able to see Gods vision and version
- 00:23:22.457 --> 00:23:24.759
- of who he sees you as in the right now.
- 00:23:24.759 --> 00:23:28.096
- Okay, so here's a couple things you can do this week
- 00:23:28.096 --> 00:23:30.131
- to start activating the prophetic in your life.
- 00:23:30.131 --> 00:23:32.667
- Number one, identify a time when you felt Gods power.
- 00:23:32.667 --> 00:23:35.904
- Did you recognize that it was Him giving you His nature?
- 00:23:35.904 --> 00:23:37.906
- It wasn't something He was just doing in you, or for you.
- 00:23:37.906 --> 00:23:39.941
- It was something He was doing with you and through you.
- 00:23:39.941 --> 00:23:43.144
- Number two, think about a time that you had a deep
- 00:23:43.144 --> 00:23:45.213
- conversation with someone,
- 00:23:45.213 --> 00:23:46.481
- but you didn't really feel connected to them
- 00:23:46.481 --> 00:23:47.716
- while they were talking.
- 00:23:47.716 --> 00:23:49.084
- Have you ever felt this way during church,
- 00:23:49.084 --> 00:23:50.552
- maybe during worship or with God?
- 00:23:50.552 --> 00:23:52.053
- What are tools you can use to feel
- 00:23:52.053 --> 00:23:54.089
- connected to the heart of God?
- 00:23:54.089 --> 00:23:55.423
- Prophecy is one of them,
- 00:23:55.423 --> 00:23:56.892
- but how do you use that in your prayer life?
- 00:23:56.892 --> 00:23:59.160
- I'm gonna pray for you right now.
- 00:23:59.160 --> 00:24:00.762
- Holy Spirit would you speak to us
- 00:24:00.762 --> 00:24:02.397
- even in our alone time when it's just about you and I,
- 00:24:02.397 --> 00:24:05.233
- would you speak to each one of us
- 00:24:05.233 --> 00:24:06.735
- who are watching right now?
- 00:24:06.735 --> 00:24:08.036
- Would you awaken a deeper level of intimacy
- 00:24:08.036 --> 00:24:09.905
- through the gifts of the Holy Spirit,
- 00:24:09.905 --> 00:24:11.673
- especially prophecy, words of wisdom,
- 00:24:11.673 --> 00:24:14.075
- and words of knowledge.
- 00:24:14.075 --> 00:24:15.277
- We just invite you to the process
- 00:24:15.277 --> 00:24:16.711
- that you would translate everything that's in your heart
- 00:24:16.711 --> 00:24:18.947
- to us so that we can be a light
- 00:24:18.947 --> 00:24:20.782
- and intimate with the world around us.
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- In Jesus' name, Amen.
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