Prophetic Intent 2023 - Clem Ferris - Being a Prophetic House

Church. I'm a governing elder there and I operate out of there. We've

been there twenty two years, almost twenty three years, and before that I

passed her down in the state of Florida, I planted a church in the

early nineties. Before that, I was at a church in Tampa, Florida

under one of my greatest mentors, doctor David blogn who's also been here.

Keith who he mentioned and Dave were kind of cohorts in prophetic ministry, and

so I trained under them, traveled with them, came to England with them.

They're both in heaven now. So guess what, I'm still carrying some

of their work. I have to get the work done. It's a real

privilege. So yeah, we have four children. We've been married forty years,

coming up on forty one. Four children, adult children. We have

five grandchildren and our youngest son is getting married in May. So there's hope

for more grandchildren still and keep it going. Scraped me with David Juliet as

always in the RCF family, who have come to know and love. So

this is exciting. So I you know, it's a prophetic weekend right,

which means we have license to do whatever we want and just blame it on

God. I just felt prophet like, Dave, well, I feel like

we need to do this. I'm like, yes, it's like so we

kind of have rules, but we kind of can slide around. And I

wanted to do something this morning because of what's kind of on God's agenda.

Man, there's a lot going on in the spirit. Last fall a friend

of mine and I think, Dave, you know Jim Lafun right, Yeah,

yeah, Jim Lafoun is a prophet from America, but he came up

under our family of churches in North Carolina. But now and Jim works with

another major network called Every Nation. Jim travels a lot, and he's he's

a little bit older than I am, but very well known in America and

around the world. But God gave him a very powerful world or a powerful

vision for some things happening in the world. And the context he gave it

in was for the United States, but I believe it's got a global impact

that's coming. I just want to read it. A couple of highlights of

the word that God gave him, and it was about revival and the way

he put he says the Holy Spirit focused my eyes on the feet of Jesus.

He said they were very dusty. As I pondered this vision, I

realized we were in danger of the God had shaking the dust of our nation

off of America's ongoing rejection of the Gospel. And we are guilty of that.

I mean, and I'm sure you sense over here in Britain. We

sense it in other parts of the world where people are just really don't want

anything to do with God, you know, just shaking off the Gospel.

And I asked Jesus, when will this revival begin? And he said,

the first drops are already falling. This is last this is the fall of

twenty twenty two. And suddenly an unusually large rain drop fell from heaven right

next to Jesus's dusty feet, and much to my amazement, it did not

evaporate immediately. It glistened in the burning sunshine. It actually created a dome

like canopy over the hot, parched ground. Then Jesus spoke to me again

and said, tell my church to create cisterns, spiritual water storage systems to

track the first drops of revival rain. These words, luckily, with an

unusual sense of urgency, I realized watch. We had to create fresh space

in our churches for the Holy Spirit to move in touch lives. Dave just

actually said that he didn't know I was going to read this. You,

Dave say that we have to make space. We have to make space for

the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit impressed upon me that without these first drops,

our people would not have the spiritual strength they need in order to press

in for the fullness of the outpouring which would come soon. As this vision

was coming to an end, the Holy Spirit spoke to these words to me

repeatedly. It's not business as usual, business as usual. It's not business

as usual. And there's many other things. I'll send this today. Maybe

you can can share it and elaborate more. But there's something happening. Two

and a half weeks ago. There's a Asbury University in America had their normal

Wednesday morning chapel and when it was so students wanted to linger and stay.

And maybe you've heard about it, maybe it's been on the internet over here,

but launch story short, it was an ongoing prayer meeting for two weeks

twenty four to seven. People began to come from all over America. People

even came from the UK and other nations to come and see. At one

point they closed the streets to the city because over one hundred thousand people come

to a town of six thousand, and they said, we can't. We

don't have room for any more people talking about making room for God. It's

interesting. Our pastor coming into the new year, felt like God said.

We started out the year with twenty one days of prayer and fasting, and

we had live prayer meetings every morning at seven am at our church Monday through

Saturday, and we had the greatest turnout we've ever had. We had seventy

or eighty people live in the room, sometimes up to one hundred, and

then double that online. We had a lot of young people coming, a

lot of young people, and something was happening. And we started a series

in our church and we called it Make Room for God, and we opened

up our altars on Sunday mornings. We've always had prayer, but we really

there was such a move of God that people were staying after church and coming

up for prayer like we've never seen such a move of God. People coming

for prayer. There's a hunger going on in these campuses, and now there's

other campuses breaking out. Would you call it revival? I don't know.

They're calling it all kinds of things. I like the word of waiting.

There's an awakening, and I think it's the one thing we keep hearing is

there's hunger. There's a hunger. Why we're not satisfied. We tried everything,

We binged on Netflix, We've tried this, we've tried that. Right,

we were all locked down for you know, in COVID. But there's

this unrest, but a hunger for God. And so that's kind of what

we're being launching into here is I want to challenge you from what Pastor Dave

said too, let's make room this morning, let's make room for God.

And to launch that, I'm actually going to be talking about the prophet of

Elisha and how there's a woman, the Shunamite woman made room for him,

made room for the prophetic. We said, the prophetic, but which just

means the voice of God. There's all kinds of voices out there. First

Corinthians fourteen eleven. Paul was teaching the Corinthian Church. He said, there's

many voices out there, and I don't think I don't think he had the

internet in mind back then when he wrote it. But if Paul could see

the Internet, he'd say, yep, I was right. There's many voices

out there, more than ever. We have voices twenty four to seven.

And he says none is in the Greek, it's a double negative. He

says none is without signification. In the Greek it would say literally and none

of them are a non voice. In other words, they all have something

to say. They all think they're significant. So whether it's an advertising slogan

or the news feed or whatever you're listening to, there's voices out there.

There's a lot of voices. We need to make room for the voice of

God. And so let's pray that way. Let's just say God, I

want to make room for you. Father. We come and there's no buttons

to push, there's no abricadabras or we just say in our hearts, God,

we want to make room for you. Speak to us, meet us.

We're hungry, we're not satisfied. But the world has to give.

So God give us what only you can give, your presence, your voice.

You can hear the voice of God. Amen, you can hear him.

You're gonna hear him today. Let me know that when God created the

first man Genesis one. The first thing God did when he created man was

talk to him. He made him, and then he said, and the

Lord said, we stopped there because well, what did he says? That's

secondary. What's primary is God made man and the first thing he ever did

was talk to him, which means the first requirement of man was to hear

the voice of God, not be a Christian. He didn't make mena say

now you need to be a Christian and behave No. He made man and

then began to speak into his creation. That's who we are. So let's

go to Second King's chapter four. We're going to be in Second Kings in

several different chapters and uh, there's a lot of ways to describe this scenario.

I think, big picture, I want to call it residing faith for

the supernatural church. The church has to maintain the status of we are a

supernatural church. We're a church, but there's something about the church that's supposed

to be supernatural. Natural. You can have natural gatherings, all kinds of

natural gatherings. You can be in a club, you can have an organization,

you can have sporting clubs. There's always to gather people. But we're

a gathering of God's people, where the ecclesia the Greek word the called out

ones. And so we need a residing faith to be the supernatural people God

called us to be. So in Second King's chapter four, we're gonna pick

up this story in verse eight about this Shunamite woman. I want to suggest

to you, using metaphors now and looking for symbolism here, that the Shunamite

woman represents the needy church, the hungry, needy church. Look at yourself

today as the Shunamite woman. I need something from God. I want something.

So one day Elisha, who represents is the prophet, but he also

represents the voice of God, hearing from God. Elisha went on to shun

Him, where a wealthy woman lived who urged him to eat some food.

It's the problem of traveling, ministry, Dave. Everywhere I go people want

me to eat food. So anyway, it's your last name. It's terrible.

You guys do it really well. So whenever he passed that way,

he would turn in there to eat food. And she said to her husband,

behold now I know that this is a holy man of God who's continually

passing our way. Let us make a small room on the roof with walls,

and put there for him a bed, a table, a chair,

and a lamp, so that whenever he comes to us he can go there.

I call this building the Prophet's chamber, in other words, building something

that can contain not only a person, but the voice of God, someone

that represents the voice of God. And now it's not just I'm not talking

about a physical room. I'm talking about the chamber of your heart. I

know your heart is the chamber of your faith. It's where you say,

if I said right now, where would you locate your faith? You say,

well, my left foot. No, it's like in my body.

I is it in my head? Is it in my arm? Like it's

in your heart? Why, well, you become a Christian by believing in

your heart Romans ten right, How do you say, believe in your heart

and confess with your mouth. So that means the heart is the chamber of

faith. That's where God puts faith. God gives you faith, and your

mouth is the organ of your faith. How do you know if someone has

faith? Listen to him talk, Listen to the way they talk. Are

they filled with faith or fear. It can be both. So faith resides

in the chambers of our heart. And so what we want to do today

is help all of us build what I would call the prophet's chamber in our

heart. You could actually, you know, you can't just build it on

a building. Say there, we've built a We've built a prophet's chamber out

back here. We want to build it inside. But there's some principles here

that we can understand. And it starts out with relationship has to be relational.

Back to verse eight. One day Elisha went on to shoot him where

a wealthy woman lived who urged him to eat some food. That's relationship.

Hey, let's have a meal, let's have a coffee, let's get together.

God build relationship. And that's true of all nations. I've been just

blessed to be in over forty eight different nations over my time of ministry.

And everywhere you go, whether it's Asia, Africa, wherever you go,

you create relationship with a meal. We're probably going to have food today,

right, mister food or we gonna have food, okay, missus. Food

are going to make sure we have some food because it's part of how we

build relationship. We have a joke saying, you know what, there's no

food. It's not actually an official Christian gathering because Christians have to eat something,

but we do. And every culture in the world is built around food,

right, So eating bread urged him to eat some food. Whenever he

passed that way, he would turn in there to eat food. So there's

this idea of building relationship. And it says, and she said to her

husband, behold, now I know that this man is a holy man of

God. Perception something about when you start building relationship, you get to know

not only the person, you get to know what their spiritual status is.

I perceive something about this guy's holy It's like I don't know, well,

he hasn't cossed yet, he hasn't done any cussing, and he talks about

God. And so there's this perception that comes. I perceive the sky is

a holy man of God who's continually passing our way. So let's do something.

Then you want to do something, so let's make a room for him.

So this whole. So then there's the idea of reception. Once you

sit and have food with somebody and you begin to perceive who they are,

you get to know them. Sometimes you want to make a connection, and

so there's this idea of let's make it inspires building, and I think that's

in the body of Christ whenever we get together. God is a builder.

God likes to build stuff. He builds people, that's his best work.

And then he inspires people to build stuff. And we've been building stuff ever

since the beginning, all the way back to Genesis. I'm reading a book

right now. It's been fascinating. It's called God Technology in the Christian Life.

And you look back on how God has given man the ability to create

technology for himself, and it goes all the way back to the beginning,

and early technology was building building stuff. First of all, they made tools.

Goes back. You know they they've just made tools out of metal.

You know, they formed tools. And here's Noah got a job to build

a boat that had never seen before. There was no Google, you couldn't

google it, say how do I build a boat? And the technology just

in the ark. You know, the greatest technology of the arc was not

the wood. It was the pitch. Not the pitch to seal the boat.

It would have never made it, it would have sank. So I

mean, you look back and say, God just gave men amazing ability to

build stuff. So she says, let's build something. So the profits profits

were inspire building. They inspire how to build lives, build people. So

a prophetic word like all bright and see, God was at work already,

first thing this morning, building somebody up. Dave got up and said,

I feel like somebody's here and you need to hear this. What was that

inspired? Building? Somebody's life needs to be built. Let's jump ahead into

the New Testament. The theme of building is throughout all of the New Testament,

but particularly when it comes to the gifts of the spirit. When it

comes to the work of fivefold ministry is to equip the saints, equip them.

We know that Ephesians four right eleven God gave apostles, prophet and advantage

of pastory teacher four verse twelve the equipping of the saints, and the word

equipping is is a word. It's a compound word that has to do with

crafting toft like through the work of a craftsman. So basically fivefold ministers are

craftsman. Kat Artismus is the word and the root Where are artismus is where

we get the word artisan, so kata to artismus kata is a prefix that

when you put it on there, it kind of says a standard. It's

a standard by which you hold something to. So fivefold ministers have a standard

on how to build people. They build them according to the standard or to

the book. Right, here's our standard for building people's lives. Right,

it's all in the book. And so we build in craft lives according to

God's standards for marriage, life, family, morality. And the beautiful thing

is we build with words. Our tools are our words. That's why we

preach sermons, That's why we teach in small groups. That's why we hand

you out endless amounts of paper and websites because they're full of words, right,

And those words are what shape us and change us. So when a

prophet speaks, he's shaping your life. When a pastor preaches, he's shaping

your life. He's crafting you with his words. So building is in the

heart of God. There's still a how many know there's a new Jerusalem coming.

The plans are already in heaven. It's great architecture. It's done.

There's a new Heaven, a new Earth. Y'all look at me like really,

it's like it's gonna be good. Folks. You look around and say,

this isn't it. Thank God, this just isn't it. This is

like practice. Some of you smiling now. I like to see the smiles

on your face. Say yeah, that's right. This isn't all. There

is no not business as usual as the problem. My prophet friend Jim said,

there's new things coming. So here the prophetic presence inspires building. Let

us build something. Let us make a small room. And what we're gonna

do is we're gonna put a bed in there, table, in a chair,

in a lamp. Interesting, I like that. What does that mean?

Well, you know, you got some ideas, but I like I

like beds in bed like beds. I sleep in a lot of beds in

any given year. I haven't met a bed. I haven't gotten in love

with you know, I just love I love you. I'm so tired.

I've never met you before. But here I come. All over the world.

Rest building. Part of the presence of God has to do with how

we rest. Very important concept we think, you know, serving God and

being busy for God is so important to God. And I'm impressing God.

And here's my list of things I got done for God today and everything,

and oh, I can't do anything more for God because I'm exhausted. So

I'm just going to rest and God goes finally good rest. Rest is important

to God. God rested, He set the example right, He worked six

days and then he rested, because it's very important to God. How we

rest without your phone on? I'm guilty, guilty, it's right next to

my bed. Where's my phone? We're just terrible, So I'm telling you

myself. A few weeks ago, I went to a retreat in Florida.

Some guys that I've mentored and everything. They invited me to retreat and I

thought I was going to be ministering there until towards the end I got the

revelation I'm not ministering. I'm going to receive. I was like, there's

only twelve of us. Great retreat it's called a Centurion's retreat, and you

deal with scripture and your identity in Christ, and there's a lot. There's

exercises, and there's sharing time, and there's prayers. It was really good,

and I had to switch off my ministry brain and get into receiving mode,

and it was hard at first, but after a while, I just

so I had this forced quiet time. That sounds good, forced quiet time.

So here's what. So this started on a Thursday afternoon and that was

great. Friday was great. We had sessions. I had notes Saturday morning.

Friday night. We finish after dinner and they go, so tomorrow,

they're like, tomorrow's our last day. Now we're gonna start at seven am.

You all need to be in the room at seven am. And tomorrow

we're having a monastic fast. We are. I didn't see that on the

he goes, No, it's not on the schedule. You'll start at seven

am. It'll be fasting all day and it's a monastic fast, which means

you'll also be not talking to anybody all day. So there's no talking and

no eating all day. We've got water and some juice. I mean,

they had stuff and cakes. What am I gonna do all day? You're

gonna talk with God. We're gonna be with God. And we had some

scriptural assignments and everything. We actually had some exercise isis and it started at

seven. I was done with all my exercises at eight thirty. Now what

I'm like, I'm filling out everything and so, and one of the things

was, what's the Holy Spirit saying to you right now? I'm a theologian.

I could come up with a lot of great stuff, right but guess

what he said? Rest. It's so clear, like, what are you

saying to me? What's this retreat all about? I'm a busy guy,

Okay. I did all these asignments. What are you saying to me?

And I just wows And I put it in big capital letters on my notes

there rest, And then I had to say, I don't know how.

I really I came to the I don't really know how. Here's the other

funny thing is we started a series in our church after the first year on

the twenty third song, and our theme is make room for God, and

to do that, we went through the twenty third Psalm six weeks. There's

six verses. You know, you can create on one verse of the twenty

three song that'll preach and we took it apart, and so I started traveling

pretty heavy. But the last Sunday that I was actually in our church,

the verse that they were speaking on was he leaves me beside the still waters.

It restores my soul. And I'm sitting there listening and they're talking about

rest and everything. I kind of look over at my wife and I go,

I don't rest. I don't rest very well. Almost like a I

was almost prideful, but I was I was being honest, like I don't

I don't really rest very well. I'd like to be busy for God.

And then I go on this retreat and surprise Paris, what are we gonna

do all weekend? You're gonna learn to rest? And I said, all

that, because you know, resting in God is how you prepare to hear

from him. If we're gonna make room for God, how you have to

build that profit's chamber you have to build. Make sure you put a bed

in there. Make sure you have a spiritual bed where you can rest.

So she said, let us put in there for him a bed and a

table in a chair. I think also, if you're going to make room

for God, you got to make room for his word and a time to

sit and fellowship with God around his word, table and chair, sitting reading

the Word. You can study there. You can eat there. Of course,

table and chair we got to eat. I mean, this is all

making. We got to eat the word, sit, down at his table.

And if you do that, if you rest, and if you sit

at the table and fellowship with God and eat his word, guess what you

get? The lights come on and put a lamp there for illumination. The

lights will come on. There will be revelation as you meet with God.

And as you do that, And you know, I don't know about you.

You have to you have to make room for God. You have to

make room and prepare and God will meet you. And I think the reward

if we keep going in this little dissertation here, there's a reward when you

make room for God. Because remember the shoe Tomite woman was represents us the

needy church. We're needy. She was needy, yet she how did she

get her needs met? She ministered to someone else. So verse eleven,

and we'll pick up the story. One day he came there, and he

turned into the chamber and he rested there. He got it, and he

said to GHEs, his servant called this shoe Tomite. And when he called

her, she stood before him. And he said to him, say now

to her, See you've taken all this trouble for us. What is to

be done for you? What do you need, give me needs. Oh,

yes, we are people. We are a needy church. Would you

have a word spoken on your behalf to the king or to the commander of

the army. Great to know that we can have a word spoken to our

king. That's called intercession, that's prayer. And she said, watch I

dwell among my own people. And he said, well, what then is

to be done for her? And hayes I answered, well, she has

no son and her husband is old. And he said call her. And

when he had called her, she stood in the doorway. There's a lot

of symbolism even in that act. She stood in the doorway, and he

said, at this season, about the time, about this time next year,

you shall embrace a son. And she said, no, my lord,

oh man of God, do not lie to your service like too good

to be true. Sometimes God might speak to you and go, that can't

be God, not the voice of God. Why it's too good to be

true? That would be impossible, or that would be impossible. The very

thing you're hungry for, God begins to meet you, and you go,

God, what's that mean? No faith? See, that's why you got

to make room for God, so that God can put faith in you,

and faith comes by hearing. So see the very fact that he spoke,

it began the process of imparting to her what she needed more than a son.

She needed faith in God for a son having faith. Don't lie to

your servant. Is this really true? Are you really saying this? And

then we know the end of the story Verse seventeen. But the woman conceived

she bore a son about that time the following spring. As Elisha had said

to her, spoken, the spoken word brings faith. Faith comes by hearing,

Romans ten seventeen. So that's the reward. So you have the relationship,

you build a relationship. Out of relationship comes recognition and perception, and

then the reception, receiving and building, causing you to build that relationship and

build something. And then comes the reward. And that's a pattern we have

with God. That's building the prophet's chamber, that's making room for God,

making room for him. That's how we want to have a residing faith,

not just on Sunday morning, but when we leave this room or wherever you

fellowship, you leave the gathering with a residing faith for supernatural things to happen

outside the church, outside the church meeting right, it's not how was the

meeting? The question is what are you going to do when the meeting's over?

How was the meeting Sunday? Well it was great? So now what

what are you going to do now that the meeting is over? You just

got imparted faith, you got a sermon preach to, you had prayer,

You've been built up, you've been you've built up your chamber of faith?

What are you going to do with it? Who are you going to minister

to? So whenever there's an encounter with God like this and God gives you

something, so he gave her a gift. The longing of her heart was

what reproduce? That's see, that's what's really the longing of the church's heart

should be what we want more children? What do you think is on God's

heart? So there's been this outpouring at this university and it's young people,

and I think God's saying, I want this next generation, I want more

kids. God's God's hardest to reproduce the family. Back to Genesis, what

what do you speak to the first humans? Be fruitful and multiply. That's

never changed. God's never changed his desire. So he said to Noah,

after he wiped out everybody else? Noah, what continue with what my plan?

A? I know God does a new plan. B. God has

had one plan from the beginning, create a Well, it's because God's lonely.

No, he's not. God would have been fine without us. But

you know what, God is love and the only way he could really express

who he really is it was to create a family to show how much he

loves. So here's this amazing continuation, and so let's read on. We

look at this whole idea of residing faith for miracles. Go back to verse

fourteen. What then is to be done for her? It's almost like a

play on words. He's almost like playing because he knows there's a need.

He's prophetic. He goes, she wants something. She's not just giving to

get. She's actually she wants something. But out of her heart's desire,

God put faith for miracles. And it was to break the band of barrenness.

She was suffering under barrenness. And I really believe that, you know,

God wants to break the bands of barrenness for every believer. We're called

to reproduce, we're called to see people saved. You know what I don't

know. I go through dry spells. Honestly, I'm not the greatest evangelist

in the world. I work apostolically, I have a prophetic gift. I

love teaching, and I've been a pastor and a shepherd evangelist. Not me.

I almost disqualify myself or I say that people get saved by accident in

meetings I have. It's not even what I'm thinking about. And yet there's

times you know that God has to inspire me to share the Gospel with somebody,

you know. And this whole thing about breaking spiritual barrenness in our life

to reproduce more kids for God. And this is what happened. God broke

the barrenness in the shoe to my woman, and God's going to break the

barreness. And so yes, we want revival, and revival means to revive,

to bring life where there's no life. So that's why I call it

an awakening. A lot of people call the thing in Asbury Are an awakening

because Christians are the ones that are getting together. They're already saved, but

God has to reawaken the passion of the Gospel in them. He has to

reawaken the grandeur of the great commission that why are you here on the planet

Earth. I need to have a career. I get a job, and

I have to make this much money, and I have to feed my retirement

plan, and you know, I have to have this kind of a house

and we have all of our things on why we think we're still here?

You're here? Why? Because I want you to reproduce my family. That's

why you're here. We're here to reproduce his family and build his family.

God's a builder. What are we building? Well, I'm building a vacation

home. No, what are we building for God? It goes back to

the early early commandment, right, be fruitful, multiplied. We planted the

earth, so breaks the band of barness. And here's here's the other thing

that's amazing. Now we're going to go a little bit further into the story.

Because the presence of God and residing faith in a Christian we become the

supernatural church that does the ultimate. It brings life out of death. Do

you realize you're an agent of life on this earth to bring people from death

to life. There's dead people walking that lady, we don't know'sus. There's

a bodies there's bodies walking by the window all morning long. How many are

going to happen? Do you ever wonder? You ever get burdened for that?

I need that. I want more of a burden to look at people

and go, God really going. So here's as we say the rest of

the story, verse eighteen. I'm just gonna read through it. I don't

know if Dave has it all on scripture, but you probably know the story,

but refreshed when the child had grown up. Now so that she asked

this, She wanted a child, and God gave her supernaturally gave her a

child. And when the child had grown, so who's an adult? He

went out one day with his father among the reapers, and he said to

his father, my head hurts. The father said, the servant carry him

to his mother, And when he had lifted him, brought him to his

mother. The child sat on her lap till noon and then died. So

she went up and laid him on the bed of the Man of God.

Oh interesting the resting place. She shut the door behind him and went out.

And then she called to her husband and said, send me one of

the servants and one of the donkeys, that I may go quickly to the

Man of God and come back. Why, I've got a relationship. I

know where to go when I'm in trouble. That's part of making room for

God, because guess what, we'll all have trouble. Well, there's going

to be a time you need to call on God. I'm in trouble,

He said, why would you go with him today? She says, it's

neither the new moonder of the Sabbath, And she said, well all is

well? And I always stumble at that phrase. What do you call the

Man of God for? What's what's the problem? Nothing? Your son just

died and you're saying all is well. I have to believe that's faith in

God. In other words, no matter what or is the old hymn says,

it is well with my soul, when sorrows like sea billows, all

is well? Really, all is well. Then she saddled the donkey,

and she said to her servant, urged the animal on to not slacken the

pace unless I tell you. So. She pedaled to the metal as we

say, put it in fifth gear, and let's go. When the Man

of God saw her coming, he said to Gahezi, look there's the shoot

Tomite run at once to meet her and say to her, is all well

with you? It is all well with your husband? Is all well with

the child? And she answered, all is well? Again, I look

at it and go, how can she say that, I'd be freaking out

of mine song? All is well? Something inside of her was there.

From that deposit there was residing faith for the supernatural in her wife. She

built it. She had built a relationship with the Man of God. She

administered to the Man of God. There was a recognition you're I perceive you're

a holy man of God. There's something about you. And so I'm gonna

make a chamber so that what you have I get, especially when I'm in

trouble. I'm gonna ceasey to say I have faith until you have to use

it. Right, Ye have faith, aye, aye, A lot of

faith until crisis. So all is well. Really. And when she came

to the mountain to the Man of God, she caught hold of his feet

and gaze, I said, came to push her away, but the Man

of God said, leave her alone. She's in bitter distress. And the

Lord has hidden it from me and has not told me. But he perceived

again prophetically, he said, she's in distress. Don't know why? How

men know? God doesn't tell you everything. That should take a lot of

pressure off here. Today I came to hear from God. Well, let

me just tell you. You're gonna hear what God wants you to hear,

not what you want to hear. God's just that's mercy. By the way,

that's not God being mean. That's the mercy of God. I remember

Prophi saying over a pastor's daughter a number of years ago. She was about

fifteen sixteen, she was in that age. I was Prophis saying a number

of things, and one point I said, you know, I see you

going through kind of a dark and sad time. But God and I invented

a word if you've never heard it before, I said, and God will

be your worker outer. It just came to me that way. In other

words, God's going to work it out. But it came out this way,

God's going to be your worker outer. And so I was going,

I can't believe I just said that, but that's how it came out,

going to work it out. And then other things, you know, And

so you think you're sixteen and you hear that phrase I see you going through

a dark and sad time, but God's going to work it out. And

you're think it's six you know, you're think sixteen. What's a six How

does a sixteen year old process that at that time? Well, maybe she's

going to break up with their boyfriend, she won't get to go to the

prom, someone's going to unfriend her on Facebook, she'll lose her cell phone.

Dark and sad time. You think, how does a sixteen year old

process that phrase, amongst the other things God was saying. And she's had

prophecy before, they had prophecy to their church before. Ten years later,

I get an email. I'm in alask I'm actually in a last guy.

I remember it so clearly. I'm in the last guy. I'll put my

email. It's this girl. I don't know if you remember being immediately I

knew who she was. I hadn't seen her in ten years. I'm so

and so so and So's daughter and nahnahbah you prop said over me. And

just so you know, I got married. He's now maybe twenty five pointy

six. I got married. We had our first child. It was born

with severe autism. Severe autism because it's like someone kidnaps your child, but

the body they leave the body my son sits in the backyard and eats dirt.

It has truly been the darkest and saddest time of my life. And

those words that God spoke to me are the only thing that gives my husband

and I any hope. When he said I will be your worker out we

are clinging to that. It's the only thing that keeps us going wow wow.

And you know, we think we hear a word from God and we

think there's what else? God says, I'm hiding the rest from you?

Is there anything else? I see you go through the darkness head time with

what how? What's my dark and said time? God explained it to me?

He goes, no, not no. I can imagine if God had

given me three extra words on that prophecy. I see you going through a

dark and sad time with your child. Three words more, God, I

want more information? You want more? Okay, it's with your child.

Huh, I'm going to go through a dark and said time with a child.

What kind of how would those three words have affected her life? Maybe

she would have never gotten married, or maybe she would have got married and

said I don't want children. I just don't want him the kids. And

yet God hid that from her because he wanted her to focus on I will

be your worker out her. I'm I'm in charge, and I will work

this out so bringing life out of death. Leave her alone. She's in

bitter distress. The Lord has hidden it from me and has not told me.

And then she said, did I ask my Lord for a son?

Let us we heard a little history here. Didn't I ask you for a

son? Did I not say? Do not deceive me? And he said

to Gehesei, all right, tie up your garment and take my staff important

authority in your hand, and go. And if you meet anyone, do

not greet him. And if anyone greets you, don't reply. And lay

my staff on the face of the child. His staff represented his authority,

his position. Thy rod and thy staff comfort me, to bring comfort.

Then the mother of the child said, as the Lord lives, and as

you yourself live, I will not leave you. So he arose and followed

her. Gehesi went on ahead, laid the staff on the face of the

child. But there was no sound or sound or sign of life. It

was just like comfort. I rod and thy staff. First of all,

there's comfort that first comes. God has to comfort our soul. I'm not.

You can't get in a place of receiving unless you get in a place

of comfort. And God is our comforter. Guess what, ding ding,

Ding, ding ding. Who's got the name comfort to her Holy Spirit?

The Holy Spirit is our comforter. Why do you think that's his nickname?

Because we need comfort. I'm a comfort creature. I don't know about you.

I actually confess it to God all the time I get done praying,

I go. And that was just for my own comfort. I admit it.

God, I'm a comfort creature. I like comfort. God says,

okay, I'm going to send you a comforter then, and he will guide

you. So Jesus said. So when Gehese returned to meet him, he

told the prophet, he said, the child has not awakened Verse thirty two.

When Elisha came to the house, he saw the child lying dead on

his bed. So he went in and he shut the door behind the two

of them and prayed to the Lord. Then he went up and laid on

the child. Impartation. There's there's something about the prophetic and impartation to impart

means to make a deposit. And so we have we have a biblical technology

that's given to us, not only here in the Old Testament, that actually

carries into the New Testament what they call the laying on of hands. That's

why that's one of the doctrines in Hebrew six. It talks about the doctrine,

the doctrine, the teaching, and the practice of the laying on of

hands. That's it's a spiritual technology. There's an impartation. God just invented

that. God. God made that technology up and it's it's still alive today,

the laying out of hands. That's why it says lay hands on no

man suddenly, he's don't run around laying hands on anybody anywhere for any purpose.

It's not it's not it's not abracadabra poof. It's something that God has

to instill that we do. And he prodded Elisha to go and lay on

the child. That's creepy. I just shut the door too, like I

hope nobody's looking, because I'm gonna be about to do something that, you

know, the politically correct people would not approve of. So he went up

and laying the child, putting his mouth on his mouth, his eyes and

his eyes, and his hands on his hands. It's all symbolic. And

as he stretched himself upon him, the flesh of the child became warm.

He got up again and walked once back and forth in the house, went

up and stretched himself upon him. The child sneezed seven times, God bless

you, and the child opened his eyes. And then he summoned Gehesa and

said, call the Shoonamite. So he called her, and when she came

to him, she said, he said, pick up your son. She

came and fell at his feet, bowing to the ground. She picked up

her son and went out. Wow, bringing life out of a death experience.

You know, we all suffer different kinds of loss as part of life.

We're gonna lose friends, We're gonna lose loved ones. As we say

that I lost a loved one. It's part of life. But can I

challenge you Christians, if you're a Christian, we we should have the best

attitude, we should have the best language around death. Yes, we're sad,

we comfort one another, but in the end, people hopeless, people

need to know what you're hoping in. Yeah, this mortal life is so

short. Bible actually calls it a breath. How long is your life there?

I just describe your life breath vapor done compared to eternity. And we

don't I don't think we talk about it well. We don't think about it

well. And we need to have the same hope. That's our relationship with

God, the ultimate relationship, the ultimate thing in this whole story is a

relationship with God. Okay, that ends in bringing life out of death.

Can I tell you something else? Kind of morbid but true? We're all

going to die. Can I have a do I get a discount on what

I paid for this thing? This is like not what I came for.

And this guy come up here from America and tell me I'm gonna die.

This is kind of getting dreary here. Well, we're gonna have coffee in

just a minute. So no, guys, we have to really think about

life and we want I work with churches. I love working with churches.

I want churches to grow. Why as long as Heaven and Hell are a

reality, we have to grow. We have to keep gathering people. We

have to get the people around Egan. Why because Heaven and Hell are real,

the more real than the room you're sitting in. It's an eternal reality

that it's just too easy for Hollywood and Netflix and everything else to push and

make it a fantasy. It's a reality. So we need to be able

to talk about the greatest event ever to take place on Earth, and it's

coming. Easter Sunday is coming. That's like you ought to be talking it

up. You ought to be inviting your friends. If you're going to invite

anybody to anything, They've done surveys and we all we know the two grades

Christmas and Easter. But Easter is I think there's gonna be a new hunger

this Easter. I just sense it. With all these revivals and things happening.

Invite somebody to say, what do you do on Easter Sunday? You

know what we're having? Just come come with me. I'll pick you up,

God forbid. You might even say I'll buy you lunch. But you

know, bribe them. I say, bribery is bad, No one isn't.

I used to bribe my kids to memorized scripture. I pay them to

memorize scripture. We pay for other stuff. Clean your room, here's a

pound, you know, but memoried scripture here you go, it's like,

you know what, I'm going to reward you. That's good work. Anyway,

that was for somebody. Some parents just got a revelation. All right,

there you o, Dave does it? Yeah, So let me just

finish with this rest. What's our timetable, Dave, we're breaking it?

Eleven thirty No, it was eleven okay, okay, let me let me.

Let me just finish with this. Where we're at balance okay, the

last one, death of life, okay, d balancing, doctrinal, diet

and error. We are living in an incredible time of information overload. Right.

The Internet's wonderful, we all love it. But now it's like it's

too much. Somebody turn it off. They go, No, it's never

going away. To the point we now have AI artificial intelligence and we're just

getting so let me just take this last little portion of this chapter. Chapter

four, verse thirty eight. Elisha came again to Gilgal, and there was

a famine in the land, and the sons of the prophets were sitting before

him, and he said to his servant, set the large pot on the

and boil stew for the sons of the prophets. And one of them went

out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine and gathered

from it in his lap full of wild gourds, and came and cut them

up and put them in the pot of stew. Not knowing what they were.

Interesting. They poured out some for the men to eat. But while

they were eating of the stew, they cried out, Oh, Man of

God, there's death in the pot. There's poison in the pot. We're

feeding ourselves stuff off the Internet, and somebody sent me this link, and

we're we're just eating stuff and realizing a lot of us poison. We're out

gathering wild information, wild theology. There's wild theology out there. Let me

tell you, there's movements going on, almost unbelievable. I'm just gonna say

it. I guess it's being recorded. I don't care. It's on the

internet. Have you heard of that Read letter Christianity. Yeah, where it's

like, we only believe the Red Letters of Jesus. We disavowed everything else.

Are you kidding me? Can't trust the rest? So we just o't.

We're Red Letter Christians. I was like, we're superior, We're better

this phariseeic. Really, we're the Pharisees. Why we only read, we

only read and believe the red letters of Jesus, those black letters, they're

not authentic. I mean, there's such crazy theology floating around out there.

Everything's being attacked. Why the devil, devil's been attacking. He's been doing

this a long time. I mean, yeah, the Bible's full of attack.

Paul had to deal with the Galatians right this letter to the Galatians.

It was all about an attack on the Gospel. The Gospel is still being

attacked and we've got there's better tools to attack with today than ever. It's

called the Internet and information overload. It's poison. There's poisonous, and so

we have to train up a generation that can be poison proof. They found

wild vines and wild gourds, and now, oh there's death in the pot,

and they could not eat it. And he said, then bring flour

or meal, bring the word. So the prophet had to counter false doctrine

with a pure word. Bring then flour, and he threw it into the

pot and said pour some out for the men, and they and that they

may eat it. And there was no harm in the pot. So the

antidote to the poisonous doctrines out of there is going back to the apostles doctrine.

We've got to stay pure in our doctrine, and prophets aren't always necessarily

known as being doctrinally, but there's and that's where a lot of the poison

comes from. These fake prophets and false apostles. There's false apostles, false

prophets, and false teachers that are warned about in scripture and so turning to

unknown food sources in a time of famine when people are when there's a family

feels ver are desperate. Go back to the Elisha came to Golge when there

was a famine in the land, which is what hunger. That's what I'm

saying. There is a true hunger for God, but they're gonna people are

gonna try to satisfy it with wrong things. That's bottom line. Why Why

don't people are turning to drugs and alcohol and all kinds of stuff. Why

they're hungry, They're they're in pain, they're hungry, but they're turning to

wild food sources that turn out to be poisonous, and they'll go to false

doctrines. That's why cults are still thriving. So it was Elisha's input,

the prophetic input at a time when people are searching, and his discernment.

He goes, I know what's wrong. You put there's poison in the pot.

So here, let's put the word in. Let's put the flour in

right, let's let's put the right ingredients in the in the in the soup

pot. And so this all happens because of his predictions that came. Go

back, so I'm just gonna end with the beginning. Go back to chapter

eight or chapter four, verse one. Sorry, no, I'm going we

have all day, don't we. I'm not gonna rust that. Just skip

over to chapter eight. Just look at the first person. Then we'll stop

there because we're going to pick it up later. Now, Elisha had said

to the woman whose son he had restored to life, arise and depart with

your household, and sojourn wherever you can, for the Lord has called for

a famine, and it will come upon the land for seven years. I'm

going to close with that only to say it's God that sets these things up.

God sets up hunger, and I believe what's happening right now. God,

God has called for a famine. So here's the question. If God

calls for a famine, how do you pray? You say, take it

away? You say, I rebuke you in the name of Jesus. He

goes, excuse me, I'm the one that called for the famine. How

do you pray when there's a famine and God called for it? Are you

going to agree with the God that called the famine? Are you going to

rebuke him and take authority over? How do you respond when God is moving

in the earth and there's crisis and other things happen? How do we respond?

And I think I really believe God has called for a famine, a

spiritual famine. Why too desperate? Hunger in the people of God. That's

why those kids never left the prayer room at that small college. They just

wouldn't leave, and they just kept coming. Why there was hunger? I'm

hungry. Well, I'm trying all this other food. I'm trying spiritual junk

food. I'm tired of Netflix. I'm tired of this. I'm tired of

I'm so tired of swiping. I can't watch enough reels in a row,

and I get all done and I'm exhausted and going what I just do for

the last hour zen spiritual junk food. There's true hunger. Let's pray.

Let's pray for that. Father. I really believe you want hungry people.

God, if you call for a famine, that must mean you want people

to get hungry. So God, help us recognize famine in our own lives,

and God produce in us that which you want, which is hunger for

you. Nothing else satisfies. Lord. We are hungry for you, not

just for you, but for what you want to build. What is it,

God, you want from us? What did you want from that Shunamite

woman? You wanted to meet her need, but ultimately you wanted to demonstrate

resurrection life. You wanted to show her you are the God that can bring

the dead to life. God put that in us, especially as we on

the cusp of this Easter season. We're right now and lent. God help

us to focus on the mighty resurrection story and make it part of our gospel

conversations. Wherever we go. May we be the very vessels that bring the

good news to people who are hungry, desperate and don't know where to turn,

don't know how to find life, can't answer the question, what's going

to happen when you die. I don't know. I guess I'll just turn

into a frog come back in another life. Maybe I don't know. I

hope, well, I hope this wow nothing. I'm just going to cease

to exist. You know, even that answer doesn't satisfy when it comes off

someone's lips. Deep down inside, they're going, I hope that's not true.

I really do want to know. God, give us hunger, your

spirit upon every one of us today. Let us not leave the same,

let us let us leave hungry. I kind of it's kind of a funny

prayer. I'd like to pray, God just fill us up, satisfy us,

comfort us, maybe walk out floating on a spiritual cloud, happy clappy,

saying that was the best day. I'm sorry, God, I'm not

gonna pray that. God, we want to be hungry, stir our hearts

today, cause hunger to seek you, find you, and then glorify You

in all that we do. Pray this in Jesus name. Amen. Okay,

I totally ruined the schedule, So now daves the