Shawn Bolz teaches viewers how to hear from God; participate in the prophetic; and avoid the common pitfalls and misconceptions related to the prophetic ministry.
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Translating God with Shawn Bolz | Prophecy Fighting Against Injustice | May 16, 2021
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- I love our God, he's the only God
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- who is speaking to all of humanity, all the time.
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- He's trying to get through with his love,
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- to anybody who will listen, because he loves us all.
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- He looks at us as though we're sons and daughters
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- who are separated from him, until we're saved.
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- And so he's constantly treating us
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- like the prodigal son story.
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- He's bringing out the best, the signet ring,
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- he wants us to feel loved and adopted again.
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- And that's what Revelation does,
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- is it helps us to get re-acquainted with the God we've lost,
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- this relationship that's so beautiful.
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- And I think as we look at Revelation,
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- and how God speaks, we have to realize
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- that God's speaking through dreams and encounters,
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- visions, visitations, and all people groups.
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- Not just to Christians themselves,
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- he perfects it there, he's more consistent there,
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- but he will speak through dreams especially,
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- in revelations especially, to people in the Middle East,
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- and to people in India, to people in Africa,
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- it doesn't matter where, there's no bounds
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- for the glory of God.
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- I love Joseph and Daniel
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- because they were such clear pictures of these guys
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- who were serving kings, or rulers, who were pagan,
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- completely pagan, who had dreams from God,
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- that these ones helped to interpret.
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- As a matter of fact, when you look at Daniel 1:17,
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- it says that Daniel was given the ability
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- to understand dreams and revelations of all kinds,
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- not just for Israel, but he was doing it for Babylon.
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- Now Babylon was one of the most evil environments to be in.
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- It was totally pagan, and they worshiped so many false gods,
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- that even the king himself declared himself a God.
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- And said Daniel, you must worship me.
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- That's how evil this place was,
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- and yet God still pursued even Nebuchadnezzar with his love.
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- I love how Joseph, he fathered the Pharaoh's children,
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- as though they were worthy
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- of being fathered by an Israelite.
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- He loved them so much, and there's this place
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- in Joseph's heart, that he served in second command,
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- and he served as though it was the most important thing
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- you could do for God.
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- He didn't just serve for himself, or for his family,
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- he served as though it was a God position.
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- But it helps us to understand that being in Hollywood,
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- and pursuing God in film and television
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- could be a spiritual position, an occuation.
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- Or being in education, or politics,
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- could be somewhere that God's sending us,
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- because God's speaking so clearly,
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- in different avenues and places.
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- As a matter of fact, it says in Romans 8,
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- the whole world is pregnant and groaning
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- in eager anticipation that the sons of God
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- would come forth or be revealed.
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- Because what happens when people understand their sonship.
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- They begin to answer huge questions in society.
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- They begin to answer the groaning injustices of the land.
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- They start to look at things
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- that have not been previously looked at with great wisdom,
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- and they start to offer alternative perspectives in wisdom.
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- Like I think of Joseph, he was so wise
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- the the Pharaoh put him as number two in command,
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- and in his jurisdiction, everything was blessed,
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- everything prospered, and I think these are what the church
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- is gonna look like in the end of the age,
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- is a Joseph type of a church, and a Daniel type of a church,
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- the people who are in society, but not of the world.
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- They're in places, speaking to people,
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- and interpreting what God's already doing to people,
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- but they're not in the world.
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- Now I was in Hawaii just a few years ago,
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- and as I was walking down from my condominium
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- to a Subway sandwich shop, at 10 o'clock at night,
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- I was being dropped off every night
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- after a Bible school session I was teaching.
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- And I'd walk over to a sandwich shop, just down the street,
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- that was still open.
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- And I had to walk through the red light district
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- to get through there, and one night,
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- I stopped, I did every night, and one night I stopped
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- because this young man said, "Hey, do you need something?"
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- And I didn't know what he meant, he was a drug dealer,
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- and he was asking if I wanted some pot.
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- And I said, "No, I don't need any pot, thank you."
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- And he's like, "You don't need any weed?
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- "How about a girl?"
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- And he pointed at a young girl,
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- who was probably 16 years old, over on the steps,
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- and I just had this daddy bear thing come up in me,
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- I was like no, not today, and I just felt,
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- just this love of God, but the righteous anger of God,
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- not against him, but against her circumstances.
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- So I walked over to her and I said,
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- "Hey, can I talk to you for a second?"
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- I said, "I wanna talk to your friend, can I talk to her?
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- "Can I talk to you?"
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- And she said, "Yeah."
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- And I said, "I'm a Christian from Los Angeles,
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- "I'm a pastor, can I ask you something?"
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- She goes, "Yeah."
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- And I said, "What do you wanna do in life?"
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- And I didn't know what I was gonna say to her,
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- I just needed to talk to her.
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- She goes, "I don't know."
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- And I said, "Let's ask God together, we're gonna pray,
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- "and ask God what's something I can do in life
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- "that I would really enjoy, that could give me an income,
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- "that you made me to do right now."
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- And she said, "Okay."
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- And so we closed our eyes together,
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- and she had a hard time closing her eyes,
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- because she's a street kid, she's been a runaway.
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- So she, she's like, you know, usually like this,
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- like lookin' around.
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- I said, "Okay, repeat after me."
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- So she repeated after me, and she had two guys
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- on either side of her that were also teenage runaways.
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- And she said, "Dear God, dear God,
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- "Lord, what's something you made me to do
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- "from the beginning of time,
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- "that I would find so much joy in?"
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- And as I'm saying it, I didn't even finish,
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- and she goes (gasping),
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- And I go, "What, what?"
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- And her friend next to her goes, "What?"
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- Because he thought this was stupid.
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- He thought what are those guys doing, this is dumb.
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- And she goes, "Oh I'm supposed to be a cook."
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- And she answered us, "Do you mean like a chef,
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- "like to prepare food?"
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- She goes, "Yeah."
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- And I said, "Have you ever cooked before?"
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- And she said, "No."
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- (laughing) And I said, "Well this is awesome."
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- I said, "Well let's ask God a step you could take,
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- "this week, towards that dream,
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- "because he wouldn't give you something to do,
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- "if you couldn't do it now.
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- "So let's pray again."
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- So we closed our eyes, and I said, "God, what's a step
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- "she could take this week?"
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- And she goes, "I can call my uncle."
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- And I said, "Who's your uncle?"
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- And she said, "He owns a diner,
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- but you know, she's like here I am, you know.
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- I said, "Do you promise to call your uncle,
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- "or get a hold of him this week somehow?
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- "Here's my phone number, and you can call me afterwards.
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- "I wanna just make sure you're doing okay."
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- She's like, "Okay."
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- And I said, "Let's talk anytime you need to talk,
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- "let's talk," and I spent time with her,
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- and the boy next to her says, "I wanna dream,
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- "I want something."
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- So we prayed for him,
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- and the whole thing happened for him too.
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- God spoke to two people who didn't know him,
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- Well here's the story, she ended up calling her uncle,
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- and he said, "Please come stay with us,
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- "you can work at the diner, finish high school."
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- And she went there,
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- and she found out that he was a Christian,
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- him and his wife, and that the mom ran away
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- because she was a drug addict,
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- that was religious.
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- And so when the daughter, my friend,
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- went back to the family, the uncle and the aunt,
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- she ended up getting radically saved,
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- ends up on worship team,
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- and then calls me on her 17th birthday and says,
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- "You'll never guess what's gonna happen."
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- I said, "What?"
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- She said, "My uncle's gonna buy another diner,
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- "and he's gonna make me a partial owner,
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- "like a manager under ownership to this diner."
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- I said, "This is awesome," because she just got her GED,
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- I said, "are you gonna go to business school?"
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- And she's like, "No, we're starting right now,
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- "like he's buying it this week."
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- I'm like, "Yes!"
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- This girl, who was almost a prostitute,
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- became a chef at a diner, creating recipes,
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- that are little hipster recipes,
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- right outside a bowling alley, and her story had changed
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- because she heard God, and she believed what he said,
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- and everything was different.
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- I don't believe we have to hear God for the whole world.
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- I think God's already speaking.
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- We just have to give the world faith,
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- that he loves them enough so that they'll listen.
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- - I love how when we receive prophesies,
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- we can walk them out so practically,
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- and this is one of my good friends Lance Oschner.
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- And Lance, it was wild, because I mean,
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- a lotta times we get words for people we don't know,
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- but sometimes we get words for people we do know,
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- and you're one of the people I obviously do know.
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- But I know that it was in one of those moments
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- I just felt like I saw you differently,
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- because I got to see you according to God's desire,
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- and his plan, and I love how prophecy does that.
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- And let's talk about the word,
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- and I'm real excited you're here to talk about that.
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- - Thanks.
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- - We were, it was a Sunday morning,
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- and I was doing a message, and right after the message,
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- I just said Lance, I have a word for you, I believe.
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- And then let's talk about it.
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- - You actually said my wife's middle name, you said--
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- - Oh I forgot about that. - Kirsten Lee, Kristen Kay.
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- - I didn't even know her name was Kristen,
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- at the time. - No you didn't.
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- - Because we only knew her as Kris.
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- - Right.
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- - So I was like Kristen,
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- my, even my wife goes, "You know her name was Kristen?
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- "I didn't know her name was Kristen."
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- - It's like are you Kirsten? - I didn't know.
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- - She said, "Yeah,"
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- and I mean you said, "Oh you're Southern,
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- "like Kristen Lee, or Kristen Kay,"
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- and she is Kristen Lee, and her sister is Amanda Kay,
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- - That's amazing. - Which is interesting.
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- So my wife and I were like hey, that's us.
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- So we stood up, and then the word progressed from there,
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- and it was that there was a group of people
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- that I was going to be put in touch with,
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- that would give me greater influence.
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- They were an audience of influencers,
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- that would give me greater ability to be creative,
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- and move further in my pursuits.
- 00:08:35.660 --> 00:08:38.997
- You also saw a crown on my head,
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- and our street name is, has to do with a crown, so.
- 00:08:42.133 --> 00:08:46.371
- - Once again, as someone who's receiving the word,
- 00:08:46.371 --> 00:08:48.306
- like I'm getting these, that was a vision,
- 00:08:48.306 --> 00:08:50.108
- like after I saw that your street name,
- 00:08:50.108 --> 00:08:51.743
- all of a sudden I saw it in like this crown place,
- 00:08:51.743 --> 00:08:54.346
- and I think a lot of the words we get are like dual meaning,
- 00:08:54.346 --> 00:08:56.715
- because I think it did represent, of course,
- 00:08:56.715 --> 00:08:58.350
- your street name, and all the things we talked about.
- 00:08:58.350 --> 00:08:59.818
- But then there's also a sense
- 00:08:59.818 --> 00:09:01.219
- of God giving you authority where you live.
- 00:09:01.219 --> 00:09:02.954
- He's giving you authority in this land,
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- and he's crowning you in this land,
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- which I think when we get that language,
- 00:09:05.423 --> 00:09:06.958
- we have that kingly language in the Bible,
- 00:09:06.958 --> 00:09:09.094
- priestly language in the Bible,
- 00:09:09.094 --> 00:09:10.795
- but to apply it to ourselves in a very real way,
- 00:09:10.795 --> 00:09:12.697
- and what we're called to here in the now,
- 00:09:12.697 --> 00:09:14.833
- I think is really amazing that the prophetic
- 00:09:14.833 --> 00:09:16.701
- helps us to look at our inheritance, and our destiny,
- 00:09:16.701 --> 00:09:19.437
- like we're prepared for good works before time began,
- 00:09:19.437 --> 00:09:23.375
- it says in Romans, and so I just think of,
- 00:09:23.375 --> 00:09:25.377
- you know, God sees you, he knows you,
- 00:09:25.377 --> 00:09:27.779
- and the prophetic helps us to be seen, and to be known,
- 00:09:27.779 --> 00:09:30.215
- and connect to what God knows.
- 00:09:30.215 --> 00:09:32.017
- And so I loved in that moment for me,
- 00:09:32.017 --> 00:09:33.752
- getting some words of prophecy,
- 00:09:33.752 --> 00:09:35.153
- and getting words of knowledge, even some wisdom,
- 00:09:35.153 --> 00:09:37.055
- and application, as far as, you know,
- 00:09:37.055 --> 00:09:39.391
- knowing that you're supposed to be here,
- 00:09:39.391 --> 00:09:40.825
- knowing what that journey is gonna be like.
- 00:09:40.825 --> 00:09:42.260
- I thought it was really special.
- 00:09:42.260 --> 00:09:43.828
- And part of this was that you're a screenwriter,
- 00:09:43.828 --> 00:09:46.131
- but you also have a day job.
- 00:09:46.131 --> 00:09:47.632
- - Correct.
- 00:09:47.632 --> 00:09:49.100
- - And you've been really praying into and believing for
- 00:09:49.100 --> 00:09:51.503
- this gift to like manifest, you've had training in this,
- 00:09:51.503 --> 00:09:53.972
- you believe for this, and so at that time,
- 00:09:53.972 --> 00:09:57.742
- I believe you were working on something,
- 00:09:57.742 --> 00:09:59.077
- at that time, if I'm right.
- 00:09:59.077 --> 00:10:01.212
- - Right.
- 00:10:01.212 --> 00:10:02.147
- - That didn't come full circle.
- 00:10:02.147 --> 00:10:03.648
- - Correct.
- 00:10:03.648 --> 00:10:05.350
- - Which is very, a true Hollywood story right there, right?
- 00:10:05.350 --> 00:10:06.551
- - Right, I had sold a screenplay,
- 00:10:06.551 --> 00:10:08.353
- but that was in sort of a you know, a state of
- 00:10:08.353 --> 00:10:12.691
- who knows where it's gonna go.
- 00:10:12.691 --> 00:10:13.925
- And I actually that week, before you gave the word,
- 00:10:13.925 --> 00:10:16.661
- I was feeling this, just maybe just despondency,
- 00:10:16.661 --> 00:10:17.796
- I was really seeking whether God wanted us
- 00:10:18.596 --> 00:10:20.832
- to stay in Los Angeles.
- 00:10:20.832 --> 00:10:22.033
- - Oh wow, I didn't know that.
- 00:10:22.033 --> 00:10:23.068
- - Yeah, you didn't know that.
- 00:10:23.068 --> 00:10:24.335
- So that week, I was actually like, God,
- 00:10:24.335 --> 00:10:27.272
- what do you want us to do, where do you want us to go?
- 00:10:27.272 --> 00:10:29.541
- And so that's the first thing that that did,
- 00:10:29.541 --> 00:10:31.643
- is it just encouraged me. - You're addressed.
- 00:10:31.643 --> 00:10:34.012
- - Right. - You're here.
- 00:10:34.012 --> 00:10:35.213
- - You're here, stay here. - Wow.
- 00:10:35.213 --> 00:10:37.148
- - So that was really the first impact that it had on me,
- 00:10:37.148 --> 00:10:40.118
- and then from there, another part of the word that you gave
- 00:10:40.118 --> 00:10:44.189
- was really to dream with God about what my,
- 00:10:44.189 --> 00:10:47.292
- what I wanted my career to look like.
- 00:10:47.292 --> 00:10:48.927
- And so I got Bill Johnson's book, and I started
- 00:10:48.927 --> 00:10:51.062
- dreaming with God. - I love that book.
- 00:10:51.062 --> 00:10:52.230
- It's such a great book. - It was literally
- 00:10:52.230 --> 00:10:55.266
- about two years from when you gave the word,
- 00:10:55.266 --> 00:10:58.269
- to when I started seeing the fruition of that,
- 00:10:58.269 --> 00:11:02.107
- where out of the blue,
- 00:11:03.141 --> 00:11:05.443
- again I was in a state of like why are we here,
- 00:11:05.443 --> 00:11:07.612
- two years later, and then we got the phone call
- 00:11:07.612 --> 00:11:10.482
- of hey, can you come and write a movie for us.
- 00:11:10.482 --> 00:11:13.985
- And it was completely out of the blue.
- 00:11:13.985 --> 00:11:15.453
- - Wow.
- 00:11:15.453 --> 00:11:16.721
- - And that had led to other projects.
- 00:11:16.721 --> 00:11:19.257
- - So I kinda remember, correct me if I'm wrong,
- 00:11:19.257 --> 00:11:21.893
- it said something about somebody you had already known,
- 00:11:21.893 --> 00:11:24.696
- and you were already on their grid.
- 00:11:24.696 --> 00:11:26.364
- - Right.
- 00:11:26.364 --> 00:11:27.599
- - And that they're gonna see you again,
- 00:11:27.599 --> 00:11:29.134
- and they're gonna ask you to be involved with something.
- 00:11:29.134 --> 00:11:31.035
- - Right.
- 00:11:31.035 --> 00:11:31.970
- - And so was that part of this?
- 00:11:31.970 --> 00:11:32.971
- - It was, and actually I think,
- 00:11:32.971 --> 00:11:34.906
- you had known a little bit of my history,
- 00:11:34.906 --> 00:11:37.475
- when I sold that first screenplay,
- 00:11:37.475 --> 00:11:38.843
- so I think you were thinking, and I was thinking,
- 00:11:38.843 --> 00:11:40.812
- and my wife was thinking, that it was about
- 00:11:40.812 --> 00:11:42.881
- that original group of producers I sold the movie to.
- 00:11:42.881 --> 00:11:45.850
- But while that went to the side,
- 00:11:45.850 --> 00:11:47.819
- it was another group of people
- 00:11:47.819 --> 00:11:49.354
- that just two days before the word that you gave,
- 00:11:49.354 --> 00:11:52.724
- I had completed an outline for a screenplay,
- 00:11:52.724 --> 00:11:55.660
- for a friend of mine, that then led two years later
- 00:11:55.660 --> 00:11:58.763
- to a different project,
- 00:11:58.763 --> 00:11:59.964
- because I did that first project,
- 00:11:59.964 --> 00:12:01.399
- that led to another project.
- 00:12:01.399 --> 00:12:03.067
- And so for those two years, I was really,
- 00:12:03.067 --> 00:12:06.771
- there were moments of like a lot of hope,
- 00:12:06.771 --> 00:12:09.240
- and there were also moments of really questioning,
- 00:12:09.240 --> 00:12:13.578
- I'm in the desert, I don't see any signs,
- 00:12:13.578 --> 00:12:15.680
- am I going the right way?
- 00:12:15.680 --> 00:12:17.315
- And so the words that I had received
- 00:12:17.315 --> 00:12:20.785
- did encourage me along the way,
- 00:12:20.785 --> 00:12:23.388
- but circumstances in life also come up,
- 00:12:24.923 --> 00:12:28.159
- and influenced me the other way, so.
- 00:12:29.360 --> 00:12:31.529
- - Yeah, no I love that about the prophetic
- 00:12:31.529 --> 00:12:33.064
- is that it helps you be led by your spirit,
- 00:12:33.064 --> 00:12:34.899
- because you're gonna have moments of soul,
- 00:12:34.899 --> 00:12:36.234
- and emotion, and intensity, and whatever.
- 00:12:36.234 --> 00:12:38.436
- And then you get regrounded in both the word,
- 00:12:38.436 --> 00:12:40.805
- the Bible, and then also prophetic words.
- 00:12:40.805 --> 00:12:42.907
- - Yeah, definitely.
- 00:12:42.907 --> 00:12:44.542
- I think yeah,
- 00:12:44.542 --> 00:12:45.643
- my soul and my emotions do like battle against
- 00:12:46.845 --> 00:12:51.115
- what I know is truth.
- 00:12:51.115 --> 00:12:52.617
- And even now, even though we've totally been blessed,
- 00:12:52.617 --> 00:12:55.353
- it's like I have to go back to what God has said,
- 00:12:55.353 --> 00:12:59.591
- and why we're here, and that he has a plan,
- 00:12:59.591 --> 00:13:02.293
- and he's in control.
- 00:13:02.293 --> 00:13:03.862
- And the circumstances aren't all that they seem to be.
- 00:13:03.862 --> 00:13:07.298
- So look with those eyes of the spirit,
- 00:13:07.298 --> 00:13:09.000
- and the words that you gave,
- 00:13:09.000 --> 00:13:10.535
- and the words other people have given,
- 00:13:10.535 --> 00:13:11.669
- it really help refocus that.
- 00:13:11.669 --> 00:13:14.005
- - Yeah, so I have to stand in what God said,
- 00:13:15.773 --> 00:13:17.876
- stand firm in the faith, like Paul said.
- 00:13:17.876 --> 00:13:19.210
- But, there's all this other stuff
- 00:13:19.210 --> 00:13:20.712
- that I still have to be honest with, and look at.
- 00:13:20.712 --> 00:13:22.747
- But ultimately I'm gonna come back to this place,
- 00:13:22.747 --> 00:13:25.116
- and be led here, which is really wild.
- 00:13:25.116 --> 00:13:27.151
- That gets me really excited,
- 00:13:27.151 --> 00:13:28.386
- so I pray Jesus, for my friend Lance, God,
- 00:13:28.386 --> 00:13:30.321
- I just pray that there would be a release
- 00:13:30.321 --> 00:13:31.656
- of more application and revelation in his life.
- 00:13:31.656 --> 00:13:33.892
- Thank you for the prophetic you're already bringing,
- 00:13:33.892 --> 00:13:35.493
- but we pray that you would give him
- 00:13:35.493 --> 00:13:36.928
- even more clear steps in their destiny.
- 00:13:36.928 --> 00:13:39.330
- Lord, thank you that you can keep recreating us,
- 00:13:39.330 --> 00:13:41.833
- at any age, and I thank you for the place and the stage
- 00:13:41.833 --> 00:13:45.203
- we're at in life, that you're gonna recreate
- 00:13:45.203 --> 00:13:47.672
- even their occupation, how they spend
- 00:13:47.672 --> 00:13:49.240
- the majority of their time, both of them, in Jesus name.
- 00:13:49.240 --> 00:13:52.377
- - Amen, thank you.
- 00:13:52.377 --> 00:13:53.511
- - Well thanks for being with us.
- 00:13:53.511 --> 00:13:54.579
- - Thank you, that's awesome.
- 00:13:54.579 --> 00:13:56.948
- - [Narrator] Does God speak to us today?
- 00:13:56.948 --> 00:13:58.249
- (happy musicc)
- 00:13:58.249 --> 00:13:59.183
- If so, what does he sound like?
- 00:13:59.183 --> 00:14:01.786
- Thundering roars, crashing waves?
- 00:14:01.786 --> 00:14:04.656
- A booming megaphone?
- 00:14:04.656 --> 00:14:06.557
- Maybe sometimes, but maybe
- 00:14:06.557 --> 00:14:08.760
- it's not quite as Hollywood dramatic as all that.
- 00:14:08.760 --> 00:14:11.930
- Maybe it's a little more simple.
- 00:14:11.930 --> 00:14:15.266
- John 10:27 says my sheep hear my voice, I know them,
- 00:14:15.266 --> 00:14:19.938
- and they follow me.
- 00:14:19.938 --> 00:14:21.572
- In the midst of all the noise, and the questions,
- 00:14:21.572 --> 00:14:24.108
- God is speaking, and we can hear his voice.
- 00:14:24.108 --> 00:14:27.612
- We just need to learn to recognize it.
- 00:14:27.612 --> 00:14:30.615
- So what does he sound like?
- 00:14:30.615 --> 00:14:32.817
- He sounds like love.
- 00:14:32.817 --> 00:14:34.485
- Like reconciliation, like kindness, wisdom,
- 00:14:35.653 --> 00:14:39.824
- hope, truth, do you know those sounds?
- 00:14:39.824 --> 00:14:43.795
- Then maybe you hear his voice more often then you think.
- 00:14:43.795 --> 00:14:47.065
- Maybe you're being led by him more than you realize.
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- Maybe God is speaking to you.
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- He made you for prophecy.
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- He made humanity for communication,
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- and when you understand that,
- 00:16:06.511 --> 00:16:08.012
- you're expecting him
- 00:16:08.012 --> 00:16:09.347
- to be conversing with people around you.
- 00:16:09.347 --> 00:16:11.082
- You're expecting that they've had dreams or encounters,
- 00:16:11.082 --> 00:16:13.151
- or things they haven't understood,
- 00:16:13.151 --> 00:16:14.819
- or reoccurring thoughts about their destiny,
- 00:16:14.819 --> 00:16:16.621
- their future, and their family.
- 00:16:16.621 --> 00:16:18.222
- And as a Christian, the beautiful thing
- 00:16:18.222 --> 00:16:20.158
- is when you understand the vast mercy of God,
- 00:16:20.158 --> 00:16:22.894
- that he's already moving on all of humanity,
- 00:16:22.894 --> 00:16:24.595
- you're not the one that he starts with or stops with.
- 00:16:24.595 --> 00:16:28.066
- You just get to be part of that conversation,
- 00:16:28.066 --> 00:16:30.201
- an interjection or someone who plays a role with someone
- 00:16:30.201 --> 00:16:32.904
- if you prophesy.
- 00:16:32.904 --> 00:16:34.405
- But he's already pursuing man with all his heart,
- 00:16:34.405 --> 00:16:36.841
- and what Jesus did was a complete work,
- 00:16:36.841 --> 00:16:38.843
- which means that alls we have to do
- 00:16:38.843 --> 00:16:40.445
- is introduce people to that complete work.
- 00:16:40.445 --> 00:16:42.246
- We don't have to be the work.
- 00:16:42.246 --> 00:16:43.781
- God so loved the world that he sent his son Jesus,
- 00:16:43.781 --> 00:16:45.917
- and we get to come after him and help that process,
- 00:16:45.917 --> 00:16:48.486
- but we are not that process.
- 00:16:48.486 --> 00:16:50.321
- And I love that so much,
- 00:16:50.321 --> 00:16:51.789
- because that takes all the pressure off of the prophetic,
- 00:16:51.789 --> 00:16:54.158
- from just being a salvation tool.
- 00:16:54.158 --> 00:16:56.127
- It brings it into a place where we get to prophesy,
- 00:16:56.127 --> 00:16:58.729
- for the sake of advancing ourselves,
- 00:16:58.729 --> 00:17:01.132
- and our own humanity.
- 00:17:01.132 --> 00:17:02.400
- Other people around us, in their careers,
- 00:17:02.400 --> 00:17:04.102
- and their lives, and their hearts,
- 00:17:04.102 --> 00:17:05.803
- and their families, and what counselors do,
- 00:17:05.803 --> 00:17:07.872
- what coaches do, that's what we become
- 00:17:07.872 --> 00:17:09.607
- as we hear from God.
- 00:17:09.607 --> 00:17:11.075
- We become someone who sees the big plan of God,
- 00:17:11.075 --> 00:17:14.078
- the very beautiful desire of God,
- 00:17:14.078 --> 00:17:16.547
- and manifest it here on earth right now.
- 00:17:16.547 --> 00:17:19.183
- I love 1 Corinthians 13:2 where it talks about
- 00:17:19.183 --> 00:17:21.986
- I could have all the prophecy in the world,
- 00:17:21.986 --> 00:17:23.488
- but if I don't have love, I'm just a resounding gong,
- 00:17:23.488 --> 00:17:25.656
- or a clanging cymbal.
- 00:17:25.656 --> 00:17:27.091
- And this is the picture I'm gonna give you,
- 00:17:27.091 --> 00:17:28.593
- as you pursue prophecy, that you're gonna realize
- 00:17:28.593 --> 00:17:31.095
- how much you already hear from God,
- 00:17:31.095 --> 00:17:33.030
- and how much it's not just the transactional,
- 00:17:33.030 --> 00:17:34.665
- when you're wanting to hear from him,
- 00:17:34.665 --> 00:17:36.167
- but it's that conversation inwardly, all the time,
- 00:17:36.167 --> 00:17:38.736
- that he lives inside of you, he's speaking to you,
- 00:17:38.736 --> 00:17:41.339
- and as you learn to identify his voice,
- 00:17:41.339 --> 00:17:43.975
- and those love moments, and those choices that you're making
- 00:17:43.975 --> 00:17:46.444
- where he's empowering you to be a version of love
- 00:17:46.444 --> 00:17:48.980
- that you never knew you could be.
- 00:17:48.980 --> 00:17:50.715
- I remember being on a plane, oh my gosh,
- 00:17:50.715 --> 00:17:52.917
- it was so wild, I wanted to just sleep the whole time.
- 00:17:52.917 --> 00:17:55.720
- And I sat, I was upgraded to first class,
- 00:17:55.720 --> 00:17:57.355
- so I sat down, and I had a magazine open,
- 00:17:57.355 --> 00:17:59.490
- I was almost asleep, and there was no one next to me,
- 00:17:59.490 --> 00:18:02.059
- I was like yes God, and this woman who was so grumpy,
- 00:18:02.059 --> 00:18:05.396
- and so upset, sat next to me,
- 00:18:05.396 --> 00:18:07.398
- and she was just, she was done.
- 00:18:07.398 --> 00:18:08.766
- She was (loudly huffing) you know,
- 00:18:08.766 --> 00:18:10.568
- just making lots of noises, and just,
- 00:18:10.568 --> 00:18:12.003
- and I thought God, please no, not today.
- 00:18:12.003 --> 00:18:13.738
- Like I don't wanna even talk to her.
- 00:18:13.738 --> 00:18:15.239
- I wanna pretend like I'm at a urinal, in a mens restroom,
- 00:18:15.239 --> 00:18:17.108
- and just look this way, and just, you know,
- 00:18:17.108 --> 00:18:18.743
- just be quiet with my magazine in my hand,
- 00:18:18.743 --> 00:18:20.244
- look down every once in awhile,
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- because in urinals you never talk to other guys.
- 00:18:21.712 --> 00:18:24.115
- And so she just looked over at me, and she goes,
- 00:18:24.115 --> 00:18:26.217
- "So what's your name?"
- 00:18:26.217 --> 00:18:27.385
- And I go, "No, dear Jesus, no."
- 00:18:27.385 --> 00:18:29.120
- And she asked for a drink from the flight attendant,
- 00:18:29.120 --> 00:18:31.422
- and it was a long story, she asked for a drink,
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- she wanted to get drunk.
- 00:18:32.857 --> 00:18:34.258
- I thought this is the worst case scenario.
- 00:18:34.258 --> 00:18:35.793
- I'm gonna be on the flight with her for hours,
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- and she's totally upset, and she's totally getting drunk.
- 00:18:38.095 --> 00:18:41.499
- And I said, "My name's Shawn."
- 00:18:41.499 --> 00:18:42.533
- She said, "My name's Lisa."
- 00:18:42.533 --> 00:18:43.501
- And she goes, "What do you do?"
- 00:18:43.501 --> 00:18:45.002
- And I thought, I'm gonna tell her the weirdest thing
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- that I can possibly say, I said,
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- "I teach people how to hear from God, as a Christian."
- 00:18:47.939 --> 00:18:50.308
- She goes, "Oh I totally don't believe in that,
- 00:18:50.308 --> 00:18:51.842
- "but explain it to me."
- 00:18:51.842 --> 00:18:53.311
- And I thought no, I wanna have a peaceful trip.
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- So I did the best scenario I could've done,
- 00:18:56.280 --> 00:18:58.983
- and it was so beautiful, like it was,
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- I can't explain how connected I felt to this content
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- I'm giving you, to her, who doesn't believe in God at all.
- 00:19:03.387 --> 00:19:05.957
- Like she doesn't believe at all, she says I'm an atheist,
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- who doesn't believe God can talk.
- 00:19:08.359 --> 00:19:09.727
- I think you're a little crazy, this is great.
- 00:19:09.727 --> 00:19:11.729
- At the end of a couple hours, of her pulling out questions,
- 00:19:11.729 --> 00:19:14.932
- asking me, probing the depths of this,
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- as if she's in a school with me, in a class with me,
- 00:19:17.134 --> 00:19:20.137
- she says, "You know what you're like?"
- 00:19:20.137 --> 00:19:21.772
- And she tells me a mixture of prophetic words
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- I've had all my life, along with some future words,
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- and tells me how amazing I am.
- 00:19:27.311 --> 00:19:28.646
- I said, "You know what you're doing, Lisa,"
- 00:19:28.646 --> 00:19:29.981
- and she said, "What?"
- 00:19:29.981 --> 00:19:31.215
- I go, "You know what you're doing, right?"
- 00:19:31.215 --> 00:19:32.783
- She goes (gasping) and she cussed, and said,
- 00:19:32.783 --> 00:19:34.986
- "I'm prophesying," and we started laughing,
- 00:19:34.986 --> 00:19:36.988
- and I said, "You may not believe in God,
- 00:19:36.988 --> 00:19:38.823
- "but he believes in you, and he just spoke through you.
- 00:19:38.823 --> 00:19:40.758
- And she goes, "I do believe in God."
- 00:19:40.758 --> 00:19:42.493
- She goes, "The reason why I didn't believe in God,
- 00:19:42.493 --> 00:19:43.761
- "I'm going to a funeral right now,
- 00:19:43.761 --> 00:19:45.062
- "and my mom is always using God against me."
- 00:19:45.062 --> 00:19:47.098
- But she goes, "I really do, in my heart, believe in God.
- 00:19:47.098 --> 00:19:48.766
- "I really do believe he just spoke through me.
- 00:19:48.766 --> 00:19:50.735
- "I really wanna know him this way,
- 00:19:50.735 --> 00:19:51.769
- "how do I know him this way?"
- 00:19:51.769 --> 00:19:53.070
- And I led her to Jesus, it was so beautiful,
- 00:19:53.070 --> 00:19:55.439
- she was a stunt woman, I never prophesied to her,
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- she was working in Hollywood.
- 00:19:57.808 --> 00:19:59.310
- She had a hard life, and her whole life turned around.
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- She got her career back on track,
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- she had her life back on track,
- 00:20:03.681 --> 00:20:04.949
- and God knew, on the way to her mom's funeral,
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- that she need to talk to someone like me,
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- who didn't have an agenda,
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- but just loved her where she was at,
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- and through that, she prophesied to me,
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- and I received the word, because it was very powerful.
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- Then she got saved.
- 00:20:17.895 --> 00:20:19.130
- Now I know this messes with your theology,
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- but to understand that God is on the earth,
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- and he wants to speak.
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- I'm not saying go to people who don't know Jesus,
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- and get prophetic words, but understand
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- that God is hovering over humanity,
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- and he longs to reveal himself.
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- He wants to have conversation with everybody around you.
- 00:20:32.510 --> 00:20:35.813
- And sometimes you're gonna find yourself in situations
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- where you don't prophesy, but somebody else,
- 00:20:38.349 --> 00:20:40.251
- even speaks their own destiny over themselves,
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- while you're in their presence, and you help them
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- to create an a-ha God moment, in that moment.
- 00:20:44.221 --> 00:20:47.591
- You know, we were taught that we can't know God's thoughts
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- for people we're close to,
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- or that we can't prophesy to people
- 00:20:51.228 --> 00:20:52.163
- we have information about.
- 00:20:52.163 --> 00:20:53.731
- That we're more like mail carriers,
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- and we just deliver messages for God,
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- if we're prophetic.
- 00:20:56.901 --> 00:20:58.402
- But the reality is, those of you who are new to this,
- 00:20:58.402 --> 00:20:59.904
- I wanna encourage you,
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- you will hear most from God about the things
- 00:21:01.105 --> 00:21:03.341
- you care about the most.
- 00:21:03.341 --> 00:21:04.842
- And the more you can turn your love on towards family,
- 00:21:04.842 --> 00:21:06.544
- friends, your job, your workplace,
- 00:21:06.544 --> 00:21:08.412
- your industry, your church,
- 00:21:08.412 --> 00:21:09.647
- the more you can turn your love on,
- 00:21:09.647 --> 00:21:11.015
- the more you're gonna hear from God.
- 00:21:11.015 --> 00:21:12.983
- God speaks in a context of the God within.
- 00:21:12.983 --> 00:21:16.454
- He speaks within us, he speaks within our conscious.
- 00:21:16.454 --> 00:21:19.090
- You are called to translate God.
- 00:21:19.090 --> 00:21:20.925
- You're called to translate him for yourself,
- 00:21:20.925 --> 00:21:22.526
- and hear him deeply and powerfully for yourself.
- 00:21:22.526 --> 00:21:25.363
- You're your own best personal prophet.
- 00:21:25.363 --> 00:21:27.164
- But you're also called to translate God
- 00:21:27.164 --> 00:21:28.599
- for the world around you.
- 00:21:28.599 --> 00:21:30.067
- You're called to see him, where other people don't see him,
- 00:21:30.067 --> 00:21:32.203
- and know him by his love, and by his virtue.
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- Know what he originally planned,
- 00:21:34.905 --> 00:21:36.207
- know what he's seeing in his heart,
- 00:21:36.207 --> 00:21:37.908
- and through the Holy Spirit,
- 00:21:37.908 --> 00:21:38.843
- who relates the deepest parts
- 00:21:38.843 --> 00:21:40.111
- of his affections and lives to you,
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- you can receive that into your spirit,
- 00:21:42.146 --> 00:21:43.681
- and get these impressions, these thoughts,
- 00:21:43.681 --> 00:21:46.250
- these visions, these dreams,
- 00:21:46.250 --> 00:21:48.152
- that just might change the world around you.
- 00:21:48.152 --> 00:21:49.820
- And I wanna encourage you to keep going on the journey,
- 00:21:49.820 --> 00:21:52.289
- be consistent, it doesn't happen overnight.
- 00:21:52.289 --> 00:21:54.625
- But give yourself to hearing God's voice,
- 00:21:54.625 --> 00:21:57.194
- and to interpreting what he's saying for yourself,
- 00:21:57.194 --> 00:21:58.996
- and everyone else around you.
- 00:21:58.996 --> 00:22:00.264
- (gentle music)
- 00:22:00.264 --> 00:22:02.566
- Now looking back at the statements from earlier,
- 00:22:02.566 --> 00:22:04.268
- let's see which of these were true.
- 00:22:04.268 --> 00:22:06.704
- We can only prophesy to other Christians.
- 00:22:06.704 --> 00:22:08.672
- (buzzer buzzing) This is a myth.
- 00:22:08.672 --> 00:22:10.107
- We can prophesy to anybody that God loves,
- 00:22:10.107 --> 00:22:12.143
- which means the whole world, he loves everybody.
- 00:22:12.143 --> 00:22:14.612
- Also he loves industries, and geographies,
- 00:22:14.612 --> 00:22:16.680
- and places, and things,
- 00:22:16.680 --> 00:22:18.149
- so we can prophesy over creation, and everything else.
- 00:22:18.149 --> 00:22:21.152
- Anywhere that God's glory can go, we can prophesy.
- 00:22:21.152 --> 00:22:24.522
- God speaks to unbelievers.
- 00:22:24.522 --> 00:22:25.856
- This is the truth, I love the story of Peter
- 00:22:25.856 --> 00:22:27.758
- in the book of Acts, where Cornelius heard from God
- 00:22:27.758 --> 00:22:30.127
- to send messengers to Peter.
- 00:22:30.127 --> 00:22:31.862
- And Cornelius wasn't even a believe yet.
- 00:22:31.862 --> 00:22:33.597
- This happens over and over,
- 00:22:33.597 --> 00:22:34.832
- both in the New and Old Testament,
- 00:22:34.832 --> 00:22:36.801
- as well as in history.
- 00:22:36.801 --> 00:22:38.569
- God is speaking to everybody who will listen.
- 00:22:38.569 --> 00:22:41.972
- God only speaks on rare occasions.
- 00:22:41.972 --> 00:22:44.241
- This is a myth (buzzer buzzing)
- 00:22:44.241 --> 00:22:45.476
- God wants to have a relationship with you,
- 00:22:45.476 --> 00:22:46.877
- and no relationship is formed without communication.
- 00:22:46.877 --> 00:22:49.547
- We have the Bible and we have a spirit,
- 00:22:49.547 --> 00:22:51.515
- who's communicating to us constantly,
- 00:22:51.515 --> 00:22:53.651
- and we should prepare ourselves to receive
- 00:22:53.651 --> 00:22:56.153
- that level of communication through a relationship.
- 00:22:56.153 --> 00:22:59.089
- So here are a couple things you can do, this week,
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- to start activating the prophetic in your life.
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- Number on, reflect on a time before you were saved
- 00:23:03.828 --> 00:23:06.864
- that God showed up in a big way,
- 00:23:06.864 --> 00:23:08.199
- or came through for you.
- 00:23:08.199 --> 00:23:09.700
- Write that down, because that could be a prototype
- 00:23:09.700 --> 00:23:11.101
- for how you hear from God.
- 00:23:11.101 --> 00:23:12.970
- Number two, I really want you to practice
- 00:23:12.970 --> 00:23:14.538
- what we've been learning this whole time,
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- pray for a friend,
- 00:23:16.307 --> 00:23:17.575
- and really ask God for a prophetic word for them.
- 00:23:17.575 --> 00:23:19.743
- When you get bold enough, share the prophetic word,
- 00:23:19.743 --> 00:23:22.379
- and let them give you feedback.
- 00:23:22.379 --> 00:23:23.747
- This is gonna so encourage them,
- 00:23:23.747 --> 00:23:25.182
- it's gonna so encourage you.
- 00:23:25.182 --> 00:23:26.750
- And love covers a multitude of failures,
- 00:23:26.750 --> 00:23:28.853
- which means love never fails.
- 00:23:28.853 --> 00:23:30.855
- Don't worry about it if something doesn't land,
- 00:23:30.855 --> 00:23:32.957
- or they don't receive it, or if it doesn't seem right.
- 00:23:32.957 --> 00:23:35.693
- Just worry about the love, not the right or the wrong of it.
- 00:23:35.693 --> 00:23:39.230
- I wanna pray for you,
- 00:23:39.230 --> 00:23:40.464
- because I believe in the power of impartation.
- 00:23:40.464 --> 00:23:41.832
- And I'm gonna pray anything that I have in God
- 00:23:41.832 --> 00:23:43.467
- would be given to you.
- 00:23:43.467 --> 00:23:44.902
- And I believe God's gonna activate some things
- 00:23:44.902 --> 00:23:46.203
- in the prophetic, in revelation,
- 00:23:46.203 --> 00:23:48.138
- that maybe are new to you, or if you already have it,
- 00:23:48.138 --> 00:23:50.241
- it's an upgrade.
- 00:23:50.241 --> 00:23:51.041
- I believe in upgrades.
- 00:23:51.041 --> 00:23:52.276
- So Holy Spirit, would you just come right now,
- 00:23:52.276 --> 00:23:53.577
- and give us more.
- 00:23:53.577 --> 00:23:55.079
- And if we don't have it, give it to us for the first time.
- 00:23:55.079 --> 00:23:56.547
- We pray that you would speak to us, Holy Spirit,
- 00:23:56.547 --> 00:23:58.382
- whatever's in the Father's heart,
- 00:23:58.382 --> 00:23:59.817
- let us know Jesus's heart, in an intimate way.
- 00:23:59.817 --> 00:24:02.520
- We pray that you would touch us so deeply,
- 00:24:02.520 --> 00:24:04.922
- and so realistically, in our faith and in our heart,
- 00:24:04.922 --> 00:24:08.492
- that we would have a before and after moment
- 00:24:08.492 --> 00:24:09.860
- as we're watching this show.
- 00:24:09.860 --> 00:24:11.462
- That you would speak through the prophetic, to us,
- 00:24:11.462 --> 00:24:13.931
- and then through us, in the world around us.
- 00:24:13.931 --> 00:24:16.233
- I'm so glad you started this journey
- 00:24:16.233 --> 00:24:18.002
- of translating God for yourself,
- 00:24:18.002 --> 00:24:19.236
- and the world around you.
- 00:24:19.236 --> 00:24:20.638
- Take risks and be bold.
- 00:24:20.638 --> 00:24:22.540
- You're gonna have a thriving relationship with God,
- 00:24:22.540 --> 00:24:24.375
- through the gift of prophecy, go for it.
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