Prophetic Intent 2023 - Clem Ferris - Wisdom to Build - restoring your cutting edge

Everything about it, but there might be some questions you have about prophecy.

It's just talking with it's Eddie, right, So Eddie and I were just

having a little exchange, just talking about there's there's this tends to be sometimes

pushed back against the prophetic and for right, for good reasons. But uh,

anybody, yeah, yeah, a question, and it wasn't public.

How does one taste the profit as opposed in the prophecy and this word althing

that right, that's a great question. Part of what data Day was alluding

to. The Scripture requires prophecy to be judged, evaluated. That's required as

part of the package. You can't there is no private prophecy because it's very

subjective, and so the Bible is very clear how there should you should be

the multitwo three witnesses. There's propas he must be evaluated, the Scripture says,

because it can be very destructive if it's not properly evaluated and judged.

So you have to be authenticated by some kind of spiritual authority. The most

dangerous thing for any Christian, I would say, is to self authorize any

kind of ministry. Self authorization is what got Adam in trouble. Come on

this. We're all started and so again Eddie and we're talked about the internet

phenomena of prophetic words has become an epidemic and it's been very destructive because people

are going on social media and saying the Lord says, and they go who

said the Lord said? Right as you think the Lord said. So we're

very careful about how we distribute the prophetic It needs to be done under governance.

It needs to be spoken into a governmental environment where there's some kind of

leadership and somebody is responsible. Quite frankly, so you might get a letter

from someone, but hopefully you know the person and that they're connected to a

local church and they're governed. Bottom line. If they're not, then I

would just say take it with a grain of salt. So yeah, I

mean that's the short end of it. Authorization is very important. Who authorizes.

So for me, I use myself as an example. I only go,

first of all, where I'm invited. Thankfully, Dave just keeps inviting

me, and if he doesn't, I ask Julia, can I please come?

I just invite myself. No, No, I go where I'm invited,

and I'm only authorized to speak and prophesy in the church I'm invited into

because the local leadership has invited me in. I'm under their authority, and

then if there's any problems, it's they have to handle it. And then

I come under authority. I'm part of a local church. I'm an elder

in my church. They know where I am, they have my schedule,

and if I do something weird, you can get a hold of them.

So, because the again the prophetic is very subjective in nature, there needs

to be some kind of governance over it. So that's why. So as

far as you can judge content, but judging the person, well, there

has to be certain qualifications that someone becomes a recognized prophetic voice, and that's

first tim To me, it's first Timothy three and Titus one. Those are

the character qualities of an elder. So they have been good standing in their

church and good report and all those things are part of again, why you

need to be part of the local church. So does it make sense that

helped you so stay off the internet? Just stay off there, get your

prophecies somewhere else. That's a good question, though, Nicky, I think

I was going gives you know how to for that suit either that judge is

me, judge is believe by a judge and in this in this case will

be row If I share this, what fas I'm sitting next to whom are

they never see again? Right? Yeah? Well there, that's in the

category that of first Printain's fourteen I would not find that person. If this

word myself giving it, I have to check it according to the Word of

God to see if it's true, then I would share it. But in

this case, would it be wrong if it falls in the category of first

Printain's fourteen three, which says prophecies for edifications, build up, exhortation,

and comfort. That's that's great. You can do that without being a prophet.

You can do just exactly what David. Hey, you're okay. God

loves you. You can give a word that can bring comfort to somebody.

It's when you the dangers when you start getting into prediction and fu mature things

and specificity about somebody's personal life, that has to be weighed and governed because

it could really, it could really hurt somebody if it's wrong. You know

what I'm saying. So it's okay if you get something that's going to really

help their life. Maybe you just sense sorrow and just say I don't know

why, I just feel like you're going through a sorrowful time. Can I

pray for you? Something like that? So it's not wrong, it's just

that you got to watch how deep you're going into someone's life because you could

actually mess them up. Does that make sense? I mean, I don't

think God's going to use you to change someone's career and tell them who they're

going to marry on an airplane to a total stranger. Probably they're not even

going to receive it. But if it's something that's very life changing, you

may be the one that God wants to use. So we're not against it.

It's just a matter of guarding it. I would say, does that

make sense to you? Yeah, could be careful how you're how you're going

to be saying. And then again, you know, if you have someone,

of course on an airplane rising and you're a Christians here, I think

I have a prophecy for somebody and we need we need a witness. It's

like, now those would just be that quick little word of knowledge, that

little word of comfort. I'm finding too. I think this is a real

segue to activating, and Dave basically mentioned it. We're in a season now.

People want prayer. They want it. They don't know that they even

want it. They don't even they don't even know what the word prayer really

means, but they want it. And so I think it is that the

greatest open door in this hour is offering to pray for people. And I

was in an elevator at a hotel in Florida a few weeks ago. Oh

this is actually it was a few years ago because we were still wearing one

of those things we were in our faces and what were they call it again?

Oh? Mask? Yeah, anybody remember the mask? So and and

that's when you know in an elevator, you he had a maximum you know,

occupancy if an elevator is like four four people. Right. So I'm

on a like fourth floor and I pushed the button and I get in,

and I'm standing there and I see a guy comes around the corner and he

sees me in the elevator and he just stood there. He wouldn't get in.

So the door starts to close. Well, he pushed the button too

soon, and the door reopens and I'm still standing there, and he looked

at me and kind of looked around like, oops. We did it two

more times. He just kept push it too soon. Finally I said,

come on in, there's just the two of us. I'll stand over here.

You stand over there, okay, And he's like okay, and he

goes there. He stands there and I just looked at it and said,

so, how are you doing today? And he goes, well, not

too good back and he starts telling me about his back pain. That guy

never met before, right, And I just I said, okay, Well,

I got three floors to go. I said, what's your name?

John? John? You know what, John, I'm a praying kind of

guy. I said, would it be okay if I prayed for your back?

He goes, would you? I said sure, I'd be glad,

and I prayed for John's back and the door opened and we both left and

it was just that quick. Most of it a divine appointment because he didn't

want to get on the elevator, but he was in back pain, and

God says, I can help you. People want prayer. I don't know

if you've made it over in the United States and the news, but there

was a major what we call football. I know it's fake. It's fake

football. It's not real football. You have the real football, but our

version of football with doesn't even look like a football, does it. I

don't know what is anyway. There's a young twenty to twenty four year old

millionaire, they're all millionaires, collapsed in a football game, and the whole

stadium started praying. The team's all praying, they're all bowing down. A

very good friend of mine who's a pastor, was at the game and said

he just started praying. People all around got in a big humble of the

ulcer and first of all, half of them they don't even know the god

they're praying to, but you know what, everybody prayed. It made it

on the news. Even the sportscasters are talking about it, and you know,

we're just living in an era. It's kind of like what I was

saying this morning. There's a famine. God has ordained a famine, a

hunger. People want want prayer. So I have to say, the greatest

open door that God will give you is offer prayer. And I think nobody's

gonna say no, thank you. People want prayer. So I don't know

why I said all that. Anyway, Yeah, pray start with the prayer.

Sometimes the prophetic will just come as you start praying. So don't be

afraid to pray. Even now I lay me down to sleep. I mean,

just start with something and God can open a prophetic door for you.

And the other questions that was those are great questions too, by the way,

any other questions. One thing that happens yesterday, that's for my sake.

My she loves talk about the business. We do you know for what?

And then she started pulling out to me she's as m so londy.

And then she says she's only young, she got banned at work, she

was bad. She says, my whole brother's bad. I'm going to get

the company to be to say me. And then my husband died in Convid

certainly. And then in my family, ma'm I's got children who have got

sicknesses, only me and I'm the only one to have got up problem.

But this is she's only young, but she's she's a week or twice.

Yeah, and in her family she's got all things happening. So I sat

there and I was questioning myself where to put this from She's AMoD me.

I'm a work where I'm not allowed to get her faith in such circumstances.

So I said to her that two lads, I can see that something from

the first is traveling you and your family. From what you're saying, you

need, you need some prayer. You need to be prayed for. I

almost did. I almost prayed for her, and I said, I haven't

put it in a line. Yeah, because she's there unless you said that.

I first to uh to ask that she didn't ask me? So what

would you do in this case? So she did or did not ask you?

I ask, yeah, right, you know you get you can pray,

though you don't have to ask someone else's permission to just to praise to

God yourself obviously, right, I would just for me. I would just

pray for her anyway, not out loud. I don't wanna, you don't

wanna violate your work. You did tell her that, and she would quickly

turn around to sit to one to demand, so tell tell me what.

So how did you leave it? Then you did pray for her, but

not there that you're going to pray for her. I think that's beautiful.

I'm gonna pray for you with confidence. You say, I'm gonna tell me

your name I'm gonna pray for you and just walk away. It's like they

can't stop you from me. And if you get something, it might be

interesting. If God actually give you something, you know, you can even

write it down and bring it back to I was praying for you at home.

And I hope this encourages you. Don't have to call it a prophecy

or anything, but I hope these words encourage you. There's a church I've

worked with and did prophetic training at, and they have a whole prophetic team.

But it's interesting how again, because there's pushback on the language. They

don't call it prophetic ministry. They call it a time of encouraging words because

they want to couch it in that framework. Who needs an encouraging word.

We have a team up here. They love to give encouraging words, say

some of that. Thank you. Yeah, it's prophecy. But that's what

prophecy is. It brings encouragement. So if you keep it in that category,

it's safe. Yeah, good, any other questions. You know the

word prophecy the way, and I love what Dave was saying in his illustrations.

The Greek groups pro fu tale the root word foetaloe comes from another root

word called fame may, which is where we get the word epiphany and the

idea of famey is. I guess the easiest way to say it is to

assert one statement over another. You're asserting a statement from God over your statement,

okay over So you say, this is where I'm at today, this

is how I feel, this is what's going on in my life. But

God comes and speaks something totally different. Right, He's asserting the way he

sees you out of Isaiah. My thoughts aren't your thoughts. That's how you're

thinking, But here's how I'm thinking about you. So prophetic word comes and

asserts itself over your current situation. And that's where you grab hold of the

prophecy and believe it whether you feel like it. It's like I don't feel

that at all. God says, I know you don't, but I see

you that way. So it's really it's an elevated statement from an elevated source.

God is up here. My thoughts aren't as higher as the heavens are.

That's where I come from. And the other thing to remember, God

sees the end from the beginning. Another Isaiah wisdom Isaiah forty six ten.

God who knows the end from the beginning. God already sees you finished.

So God doesn't evaluate you where you are currently. Isn't that good news?

We look in the mirror every morning, go, well, I guess as

good as it's going to get today. So you know, we evaluate on

our current circumstances. God looks at you and he sees the end. So

that's that's good news. Well, we're going to just kind of finish up

in Second Kings now, the sixth chapter, and I think the way to

be back and look and say how did you put that down? There have

says to do with it. You're, you know, restoring your cutting edge,

so to speak, how to stay on the cutting edge, and how

the prophetic is designed to give us that edge and bring wisdom, help us

walk in wisdom. I think what Dave was sharing was a great story even

in the marketplace. I mean, God was given him wisdom. So here's

an interesting story. Two Kings, chapter six, Verse one. The sons

of the prophets said to Elisha Seed, the place where we dwell under you

is under your charge is too small for us. So let's go to the

Jordan and each of us get there a log. Let's make a place for

us to dwell there. And he answered go And one of them said,

well, be pleased to go with your servants, and he said, okay,

I'll go with you. So he went with them. And when they

came to the Jordan, they cut down trees. But as one was felling

a log, his axe had fell into the water, and he cried out,

alas, my master, it was borrowed. Then the man God said

where did it fall? When he showed him the place, he caught off

a stick threw it in there and it made the iron float. Actually,

the Hebrew It says it actually swam. The word swim swimming iron. And

then he said take it up. So he reached out his hand and he

took it. It's an amazing story. It's easily as much of a miracle

as donkeys talking and water turning to wine. And here's a piece of metal

swimming. So we start out the story, and I kind of call this

kind of broadening out the prophetic company. So we've seen how you know,

we've seen how Elisha was ministering to the Shunamite woman, the death of her

son. There's other things happening in this amazing story. But now we have

the sons of the prophets. It's another generation coming and realizing. First of

all, you have to recognize your confinements, recognize your limits. And I

think God wants to take the limits off. And God is They said,

see the place where we dwelt under your charge is too small for us.

And so I think God is broadening us right now. I think he wants

the prophetic not to be contained in a few minutes on a Sunday morning.

He wants it out there. So I think the church is too small for

the prophetic. So he says, let's go to the Jordan, and each

of us get there a log and make a place for us to dwell.

And it's exactly what the Schunemite woman did. She built something. The prophetic

is to build. It's meant to build. I mean the very idea of

equipping and building. Infrast Corinthians. The fourteenth chapter is one of the most

dense pieces of theology and doctrine on prophecy, where Paul teaches strongly on what

prophecy is and he uses the word build I think eight or nine times in

that one verse or that one chapter. Because the prophetic builds as a design.

So the word build to build somebody oikodomos is the Greek word. It

means to build according to a specific pattern or design, with a focus on

the process involved. Isn't that interesting? So it's to build something specifically with

a focus on the process involved. That's how God builds. So I said

it earlier, but to remind us, God is more interested in the process

than anything else because it's the process that actually builds you. It's the process

that God takes you through is what builds you. So we're going to talk

at the end how to engage in the prophetic process for your own life.

I've got a handoff for that, but I just want to hit a couple

of these principles. So recognizing the confinement and though now watch, the strategy

is, let us go to the Jordan and each get a log. I

would say that everybody recognize your gift. Everybody has a log. Everybody needs

to get your log. Let us each get there are building material? Right?

What was a log for them? Building material? You are God's log.

Isn't that encouraging? Don't you feel better now? Bumps and sticks and

bark and everything, so you might even bark. I don't know your God's

building material. I mean God wants to use you to help build somebody else.

Let's all get a log and make a place, build something to dwell,

the dwelling place God wants you. You're building gift. Okay, a

dwelling place, another chamber. We saw how the Shunamite woman built a profits

chamber. These are the sons. Now the prophets want to build a place

where they can dwell, where they can express their gift. Right. They're

prophetic men, men being trained by Elisha. So they move in team.

Then one of them said, be pleased to go with your servants. And

he says, I will go team ministry going no more no loan rangers out

there. That's where the internet got problems. We have all these self authorized

loan rangers not even going to church and saying I've got a word. Now

go with us. Who's going with you? Travel together? He went with

him, and they came to the Jordan. They cut down trees and then

here's the problem. Now here's this problem. This one guy is he's felling

his lug his axe, said fell into the water. When you begin to

minister, you're going to encounter some challenges. If he just stayed home and

there wouldn't have been any problem, right, But in the going, you're

going to have obstacles, You're going to have challenges. So he literally,

as we said, he lost his cutting edge. So into the water it

goes, and he comes to the Man of God, and the Man of

God says, where did it fall? It starts with a question. It

goes back on him, and it wasn't like, you, stupid idiot,

why didn't you glue it on? You know, it didn't chastise him.

He said, let's let's go back to where it fell. And so sometimes

when you feel like you've lost your cutting edge, you need to you need

to let the Lord take you back to where you begin to lose it.

If you begin to lose your passion, maybe got distracted. And so again

here's the miracle. He showed him places. We went in right there,

and he cut down a stick or wood actually again hebrew wear a tree,

some some kind of wood, and he threw it in up came the iron,

and then he turns it back on the guy and says, now you

take it up. Because a lot of times when we lose our cutting edge,

we're afraid to go back. Or like again, we were talking like

I don't believe in prophecy anymore. I lost my cutting edge. I just

I don't believe in it anymore. I've lost confidence. He says, no,

you take it up, and so he reached out his hand and he

took it. So notice in this there's the restoration that comes. And the

bottom line that I want to point out in this whole little text I think

is so important is the concept of mentoring. We really need to mentor and

have a mentor. Everybody needs a mentor if you don't have a living one,

and find a dead one. Isaiah happens to be one of my dead

mentors. I love Isaiah, can't wait to meet him, my older brother

in heaven. He's taught me so much. But really, you do need

a mentor of some kind that can someone that's just enough ahead of you to

pull you up, someone you can go to when you have a crisis.

He knew exactly who to go to. He went to his mentor. And

we have a saying all the time in our circle of churches, encouraging pastors

and leaders. Everybody needs a mentor, and everybody needs a model. We

always say, what are you modeling right now? Who are you modeling your

services after? Who's mentoring you? Chris Hodge says this. He says,

imitation is a lot easier than innovation. Who are you imitating? Find someone

that's doing it better. We also have another thing for all of our staff.

We always say, find three people that do your job better than you.

Somewhere in America, we say in America, could be find them and

develop a relationship with him. They have the same job you do, but

they're doing it better. They're at a bigger church, whatever, they're out

there, and he says, and you build a relationship. Our pastor did

that. Took over our church eighteen years ago. We were around three hundred

people, and we always with pre COVID numbers, right, that always sound

better. We're almost back to pre COVID numbers. But in fifteen years built

us up to fifteen hundred people. How did he do that? He found

a mentor, and he found a model. He found three guys that did

his job better than him, and just pursued relationship. He invited him in,

they spoke, He went to their conferences. He went to their churches,

coached me up. What do I need to do? I'm now at

five hundred? How do I get to eight hundred? Okay, I'm in

one thousand? What's it going to take to break a thousand? While you're

going to need to hire this person, change this, and change it.

That's all he did was become coachable and teachable. And I think, whether

it's the prophetic or the apostolic, or pastoral or healing or whatever, whatever

log you have, find someone that knows logging really well, you're type of

logging and say, can I learn from you? Will you with Can I

go with you? Can I travel with you? Can I let's meet up

together? So these are ways that we can stay sharp because the Bible says

iron sharpens iron, And these are ways that we can walk in wisdom,

walk in someone else's wisdom. Because there will be battles. Let me just

go on a little bit further down in this story, because the battle is

for vision, prophetic vision, and the next part of the story, I'll

make it. I'll try to make it fast. But this is now.

The kings are at war. King of Syria is fighting the ing Israel,

And every time the King of Syria went and set up a camp to attack

Israel. The prophet would tell the King of Israel where the Syrians were,

and they blew it, and so they warned them more than once, the

King of Israel, and so the mind of the King of Syria was greatly

troubled because this is military intelligence that hadn't even been invented on the planet.

Right, this is coming from another source. He called to servants and said,

will you not show who's for the King of Israel. In other words,

he's accusing one of his servants as a spy and a trader, basically

like, how does this guy know what we're doing all the time? Every

time we go to attack them, they knew, they knew we were coming.

So one of you must be a trader. I mean, the king's

mad. His mind is trouble. He's mad. And finally one sheepish guy

goes, oh, excuse me, sir, No one, my lord,

but Elisha the prophet who is in Israel. He tells the King of Israel

the very words you speak in your bedroom. Wow, testing it's like somebody's

listening. Pretty scary thought, isn't it. Yeah. So his response is

we need to go get this guy. He did. He says, go

find out where he is. I'm gonna seize him. He said, well,

we heard he's in Dothans. So he sends an army for one guy.

One guy that can hear from God is a threat. Man that's a

threat to an entire army. So they send an entire army for one guy.

And he goes, Oh, and by the way, go at night

so he won't know you're coming. Excuse me, he hears the word you

speak in your bedroom. Do you think are we going to surprise him or

what? So they do, they go at night, They surround the city

of Dothan. When the servant of the Man of God rose early in the

morning, he went out. You can just just see him getting up,

could of rub him the sleep out of his eyes, getting ready to make

a cup of tea for his Master opens the windows and out there it's not

like now the Bible tones it down. He says, alas, Master,

alas ah, there's an army out there. What shall we do? And

he said, don't be afraid. First, Now, how did he come

up with that one? Do you think he was afraid? Alas? Now,

he's probably like don't be afraid. First of all, don't be afraid

of what you see, because those who are with us are more than those

who are with them. And the servants probably now really think of this guy

has lost it. Go back to bed. You know, there's two of

us and there's an army out there. What are you even talking about?

So Elisha didn't argue with him, He didn't explain anything. He didn't have

a Bible study. He prayed one short, powerful prayer. It's the same

one we can pray. Here's what he prayed. Lord opened his eyes so

he can see not agreement. Think about that. We can be so spiritually

blind sometimes that what we actually see we think is actually real. What we

see is often an illusion of what's really there. So the Lord opened the

eyes of the young man his other eyes. How many know you have two

sets of eyes. You got a set in your head, but the Bible

tells us we also have a set of eyes where in our heart. Fijians

Chapter one, Paul prayed for the Ephesian Christians. He prayed for Christians that

the eyes of their heart would be and the word is foot tides, oh

would be enlightened, which is where we get the word photograph. That's why

Dave was so good at saying, get a picture, get an object.

God opened my eyes. What I want to see heavenly pictures, pictures in

the spirit realm. That's all. That's all Elishah did. I said,

God opened his eyes, give them a picture of what's really there, because

his current picture is producing fear. So I'm training him. Lord opened his

eyes and he saw and behold watched the mountain was full of horses and chariots

of fire. Now there's a whole nother army there, the heavenly host.

So that's what we learn is often what we see is just an illusion of

what's ably real. This mortal life is a temporary illusion of what's to come.

So what's the second thing we learned? A statement of truth begins to

change your sight. Notice how he responded, alas, Master, what shall

we do? Watch? We said, don't be afraid what those who are

with us are more than with them. Was that true or false? It

was true. That was a statement of truth. He just stated the truth,

and that begins the process of change in someone with truth. That's why

the word of God is truth. Right. So I have a question for

you when did that other army show up? When did the chariots of fire

show up? Do you think it showed up when he prayed? Or do

you think they were already there? How many think they were already there is

their last chance to raise your hand in church today. I promise, Okay,

they were already there. Right. So here's my other question. What's

already in this room? You just don't see it? What's already right here

in egham? Sister, our intercessors, you're praying for eghem, what's already

around the egghem? Maybe we don't see it. We have to pray.

Lord open our eyes for every individual. If you're walking to the train station

on your way, God, open my eyes. I want to see what

you see. And that's how you become prophetic by just seeing what God sees.

So when you're sitting on an airplane, just say, God, open

my eyes. What do you see in this person? Is there anything you

might get silence? I don't know. Or when you go to work,

Lord, open my eyes. Let me see what's already there. But they

don't see it. These are things that we can pray. It's in the

Bible. It's one of the most powerful prayers. Not only did the prophet

pray that, the Psalmist prayed it Psalm one and nineteen verse eighteen. The

Psalmist said, opened my eyes that I could behold wonderful things from your law

if he prayed that. And God did, and I think that's why he

wrote the longest psalm in the Bible. It's one hundred and seventy six verses.

He couldn't stop once God popped his eyes open. He just kept going

right. And then the apostle prayed it. I just quoted it in Pheesians

Ie. Paul prayed that for Christians, that the eyes of our heart would

be enlightened that we may know. It says, But that's that word ido

that I used earlier, which literally means to see with faith, that we

may see with faith the hope of our calling. That's why Paul prayed for

their eyes to be open. So the battle for prophetic vision, I don't

know. Faith is the substance of things, hope for the evidence of things

not seen with the eyes. I was just close with this. Elisha's final

enemy was Jezebel, and I would say that prophetic enemy number one is witchcraft.

It's the false dimension of the prophetic. It's where we get fortune telling

from and all the stuff that comes with the tarot cards. It's all in

the realm of witchcraft because people people want to know the future, they really

do. And you know, there's another way into the spirit realm, but

it's illegal. That's why Jesus said, I'm the door. If you want

to get in the spirit realm, you got to come through me. You

can get in another way. If you do, you're a thief and a

robber. You're trying to get revelation. You're trying to steal it from another

entrance. So there is another way. There's a dark way to get into

the spirit realm. But Jesus said, you've got to go in through the

door. So Elisha's final enemy was Jezebel, and Elijah prophesied her destruction,

prophesied it. But Elisha, what did he do? Did he destroy her?

No? You know what he did. He anointed leaders. See,

the prophetic helps release leaders to combat in spiritual warfare. No one person can

do it. You need leaders to train the saints and how to do spiritual

warfare. So Jehu was anointed. He was a leader. He was a

warrior. He was anointed to destroy the false prophetic dimension, which is Jezebel.

I mean that was even brought up in Revelation chapter two in the Seven

Churches. They said, you know that woman Jezebel who calls herself a prophetest.

She wasn't, but that's what she called herself. I'm a prophetest.

No you're not. You're a witch, that's what you are. So prophetic

input is always dependent on the strategic use of your faith. It's how we

use our faith strategically, how we use the wisdom that God gives us.

Because ultimately, in the battle, there's only one target Satan has and that's

your faith. He wants to destroy your faith. How does he do it?

Oh, finances, relationships, your health. He'll come at you in

so many ways, but what is really after is your faith. That's the

one thing that he just can't stand. It's your faith, having faith in

God. Have faith in God. So what I want to do now is

we'll take a little bit of time left. I'm going to give this to

you. We won't get it all done today, but I want to take

these home. I'll take you through these six little points and hands of his

way. This is just a tool to help you engage in the prophetic process.

So I'm kind of drafting off of the second teaching today when I talked

about if you don't engage in the process, there's no arrival that the destination

God has. And again the reminding phrase, the prophetic isn't the delivery of

a singular word. It is a process of inquiry. So I hope you

use these to stimulate your conversation with God. That's all this is. This

is a God assignment. This is between you and God. And I'll just

talk to you through these real quickly. Number One, in reviewing your own

historical journey with God? Are there things which God has spoken to you that

have yet to be built or manifested? And again we're not talking abracadabra,

We're talking about what kind of a process are you in that you're currently building?

Something could be a relationship, could be anything that God's building you,

could be faith. Are you Are you in a faith journey right now?

So you do want to go back and rehearse your own history with God.

You know God loves to rehearse history. This book is full of God rehearsing

history with his people, right, So it's good to go back and rehearse

and see where you've come from. If you have had a personal prophecy,

go back to it. I just did that before I took this trip.

I was amazed. I look back at prophetic words my wife and I got

in the early eighties, almost forty years ago, and I just had forgotten

him. Thank God, I had him written down, but I hadn't read

him. In probably twenty twenty, I haven't gone back, and most of

them have been fulfilled. But I looked back and there were some things they're

going, my goodness, Yeah, that was I didn't even understand what God

was saying then, and I look at it now and go, oh,

that was God. God did that. And there's still some promises from things

he promised back twenty forty years ago that have not yet been fulfilled. And

I had to go back and revisit that and say, God, what's next?

Then? What do I need to do to build the mechanism in me

to see that fulfilled? But God has to build internal systems in us to

fulfill what he wants for us. As I said, God's all process,

it's what he's building on the inside. So you know, you can get

a prophetic word, but if there's no capacity to actually execute that, God

has to build that into you, and he does it through the equipping the

church are in and the people you're around. Wooho, that exciting. So

go ahead and change churches. See how that works out. You're just going

to slow down the building process. I mean I laugh at people going,

ah, I'm just going to go to another church. High good luck.

God will meet you there too. The same God that's aggravating you and frustrating

you here, He's going to love you and not give up on you.

Number two, if if there were were there any specific or strategic performance imperatives

that were established where God could specifically say I want you to do this,

you just have to go back and talk with God about that. And that's

why again we record prophecies and we write them out so we can remember it,

because I don't remember. Were there any assumptions that quote if God said

it, He'll do it, which absolves you of any personal responsibility. There

might be we're just but God has to clearly say that to the point where

you then can say this has got to be God, not me. But

there are other things that for instance, there's well, I'll put that down

at the bottom. I'll move on. Number three. Has your process started

from a correct starting point? That's pretty good, But now has you deviated

into religious postures and formulas? Isn't that good? I'll remind you what Paul

wrote to the Galatians? Are you so foolish? Having begun by the spirit?

Are you now being perfected by the flesh? And we can all fall

into that because we're very capable and we have the Internet, ding ding ding

ding ding. Hey we got Google. We don't need God. So the

danger is to impose human ingenuity and fleshly creativity upon a divine process. Transformation

of a human is a divine process. We age on our own, no

problem there, but christ like transformation is a divine process, And the danger

is to impose human ingenuity or fleshly creativity on what only God can do?

Number four? Are there areas of your life which now require a fresh season

of inquiry? There may be you may have to go back and God,

say God, are there any areas of my life? I need some fresh

questions? What about that? Am I done with that? Do I pick

something up that I haven't was supposed to pick up. That's part of our

prayer life is talking and questioning God so that He can refresh us in our

journey with him. Number five, In reviewing what God has said to you

previously, can you find any clearly declared requirements? It's just good to go

back. Sometimes a word will pop out when you say, I'm supposed to

be doing this. God's requiring this of me to do this? Or Number

six, are there any implied requirements? They're not overtly stated, but they're

implied. For instance, if someone maybe you got a word I was talking

about something to be a missionary, right about a couple here, So you

get a word about missions and everything, Well, the implied requirement is do

you have a passport? You know? It's like, well, God never

said I had to get a passport. Everybody's called you to the mission field?

How are you gonna? You know, that's just wisdom. That's using

the wisdom, or that's using the question game where I call it the journey

of inquiry with God. That's how you journey with God in questions and keep

going back, say God, is the anything I missed? God's got perfect

memory? Is there something I missed? God, is there something I should

be doing but maybe I'm just not getting it made me? Can you open

my eyes? Am I blind to something? All these are just tools to

help you engage in the process of development, because that's what God wants.

Man. Any questions on that I did go a little fast. We got

to look. But I really want you to take these with you. That's

why we've haven't printed out. Take them with you and spend some time with

God and start and seriously just read the questions and go Okay, God,

Well, anything I should be working on right now, anything I'm supposed to

be building, Anything I'm not supposed to be building? How about that one?

Right? That journey of inquiry has to go on both sides. Is

there anything I'm supposed to be doing? Is there anything I'm not supposed to

be doing? So Someth'm supposed to pick up, someone I'm supposed to let

go. God will tell you it's not a game, it's your development and

he's very interested in that process. So good Any questions on any questions on

the questions they make sense to you. Good? Well. God is a

rewarder of those that diligently seek him. So we're going to reward you with

ten minutes early dismissal. Is that okay, Professor, Okay, go back

to you, Dave, if you want to