The Shepherd’s Rod

You know, one of the one of the things about

I guess Sean didn't want to hear me talk. One

of the things about us staying a people of his

presence is that you have to get sensitive to his invitations.

You know, I mentioned this earlier this week, actually, I said,

you know, Jesus would be right in the middle of

ministering to the masses, I mean hundreds thousands of people,

and he would literally just leave. I was like, wouldn't

that be crazy? One Sunday, I'm like, halfway through my sermon,

I'm like, all right, peace out. They'd be like, where

are you going? I'm going to pray. But in all honesty,

I mean, it's it's us learning to recognize those divine

moments where the Lord wants to do something and in

that moment, in order for us to respond to an invitation,

we have to lay our will down, we have to

lay our agenda down, we have to be willing for

him to disrupt us. Would Eric, would you do me

a favor and put the picture go to the very

bottom of the still photos and put the shepherds thank you.

And we are in a very unique sea right now,

And I don't think it's a mistake that the Lord

led us down this path of the baptism of fire.

It was fall of twenty four that the Lord gave

me a dream about the fire conferences. And I've said

I said this last week, said this first service. I

am the purifying fire of God that's taking place in

this season. I really thought this intensity was going to

hit us several years ago. You know, it reminds me

of the prophet Ezekiel when the Lord tells Ezekiel, hey,

come here, I want to show you something, and he

digs a hole through the wall and he's watching the

abominations of the elders and the leaders inside the sanctuary

and the grotesque sin that they're committing. Well, there comes

a point where, after so long, God steps in. And

he doesn't step in because we're so amazing and we're

so great. He steps in for his namesake. Go do

a word study for every time he said, for my

name's sake. Because of my name's sake, I will do this.

He's very he's very long, suffering, very patient, slow to anger.

Good thing. Right, we look at somebody next to you

and say, thank God, he's slow to anger. Now look

at your now, look at your spouse and say he

may be slower to anger than you. Now I'm playing,

but seriously, we are in a in a a correction season.

And the other day I was reading and as the

as I was reading about Jesus being tempted, it says,

and the enemy left him until a more opportune time.

We're in a not just a season of God's purifying fire,

but we're also in a moment where the enemy is

going to try to divide the church. It would be

it's his goal to bring division, and you're already seeing

it right now as the Lord is exposing things. It's

messy right now. Can we all agree, it's really messy

right now? Can we all agree everybody in their uncle

has an opinion. Right But on the other side of

this correction, by the grace of God, there will be

a bride and a leadership in the Body of Christ

that is more sanctified and set apart. I said this

last week. Anytime you have a restoration process that ends

up at the expense of the victims, we're in trouble.

We have got to stay balanced with all of this

and that this is unfortunately, and you need to know this. Unfortunately,

this really is the tip of the iceberg with the

amount of things that have been done in secret. Right now,

the Lord is shaking every mountain of influence, and every

mountain is being exposed. They just released more Epstein files

and tons of stuff's coming out on that. Hey, they

couldn't find the noose, big surprise, there's no noose in

a jail. They have no evidence of a noose from

his jail cell. And the one camera that work that

just so happened to be turned our way off to

the side where you could barely see somebody in orange

go up. See, we think we can get away with

things that we think are minimal and that it we're

gonna be just fine, and that somehow the Lord's not

looking at those things the same way as these other

issues that we have dealt with. And I've said this

over the years. What we think is little on earth

is actually big in heaven. And it's the little things

that we justify in our life that we're not yet

ready to let go that's actually hindering us from being

promoted into the deeper things of what God has for

our lives. Your promotion equals responsibility in the Kingdom. So

when God promotes you. He increases the level of responsibility,

because responsibility equates to authority. But then it says, not

many of you should desire to be teachers because guess what,

you're even more accountable. He's we're leaders are on a

shorter leash. If you think you can't get away with something,

just going to full time ministry as a or deacon.

It's like a choker chain you hold on. Lord. But

I want to tell you, if you're one of those

people that can't get away with anything, you ask my wife.

We've been married twenty six years, and I can't get

away with anything. I mean anything which is yes, who

said that that is a good thing? I can't. I mean,

I think about trying to get away with something on

my wh But we can't lose sight in this moment.

Our eyes are supposed to be fixed on the author

and finisher of our faith. Part of one of the

things the enemy wants to do in this hour is

actually cause people to fall away because they get jaded

with the lack of character and the leaders in the church.

And if you're and if you're in a place where

you're already pulling everything apart, and you're and you haven't

dealt with your pain from church. This is just one

more rock on the stack that you, in your own

mind could try to justify and be like, Yep, I

think I'm done. Remember it says that there's going to

be a falling away, y'all. Don't put man on a pedestal.

I don't care who it is, how much anointing is

on there. One of the most godly men that I

that I met in my entire life was John Paul Jackson.

That guy could he could pull into this parking lot

right now, and without exaggeration, you would feel an increase

of the presence of Jesus. Was just talking to a

pastor buddy of mine. They literally had to change the

ISO on the cameras with John Paul because he literally

radiated light and it was picked up on the cameras

and they had to adjust it. But he was still

a human being. He just carried the presence of Jesus intensely.

I walked away that day the first time I met him,

after being froze holding his hand for what felt like

ten minutes and not being able to talk. My wife

saved me. She eventually came in and shook his hand,

but I was getting an impartation I didn't know I

was going to get. And I remember walking away that

day in twenty ten and saying, Jesus, I don't care

what it takes. I want to carry you like he does.

I have tangible proof. Now I met somebody that carries

you the way I want to carry you. And so

I've been on this journey of pursuing him and desiring

to carry the presence of the Living God in a

way that would change people's lives without talking because of

Christ in me. And that comes with the price. It

doesn't come overnight. We don't get to we don't get

to get on some kind of fast track or determine

how much of His manifest presence we're gonna carry. But

like the song says, may we never lose our hunger,

well it says wonder, I say hunger. May we never

lose our wonder, our hunger. And last week when I

released the word about the Shepherd's Rod, I felt like

the Lord was speaking to me to expound on that.

And it's Ezekiel twenty thirty five to thirty eight, and

I will bring you into the wilderness of the people.

And there I will enter into judgment with you, face

to face, as I entered into judgment with your father

and the wilderness of the land of Egypt. So I

will enter into judgment with you, declares the Lord God.

I will make you pass under the rod, and I

will bring you into the bond of the covenant. I

will purge out the rebels from among you, and those

who transgress against me. I will bring them out of

the land where they sojourn, but they shall not enter

the land of Israel. Then you'll know that I am

the Lord. I want to tell you this morning that

if you stiff arm the Lord in this season, you

will forfeit where he wants to take you in the

next one. Mark it down. He is coming closer. The

purifying fire of the Lord is here. He is dealing

with the body of Christ. He is dealing with the

injustice of our nation. And he's doing this because of

his namesake. He's doing this because he's a good father.

He's doing this because of love. And he doesn't wink

at people when they live their lives at the expense

of others. The absolute deprivity of man, and in our culture,

it's honestly mind boggling at times. I mean, you look

at the lighting of the torch at the Olympics and

you realize it's an upside down pentagram and all the

occult symbolism is they're not even hiding anymore. And we

have been and soul lulled to sleep. If I said

that word right, If not, I will have an AI

moment with Caelin. But it's been it's been a slumbering lullaby.

Remember Jesus said, what I say to you, I say

to everyone, stay awake. So have you grown tired? Have

you fallen asleep this morning? Where's your inner desire with

the Lord? I'm very I don't know about y'all, but

I personally am someone who is very structured. I like

my quiet times a certain way consistently. I do not

like it when my quiet times get disrupted and I

have to change how I do my quiet times. I'm

being honest and that I feel like the Lord flipped

me upside down on my head in the last season

and I was like, oh my goodness, and I had

to adjust how I was spending time with the Lord

and the way it looked like, what if we were

so legalistic and rigid with our spouses that we just

did the same old, same old, exact same thing every

single day at the exact same time, and did not

ever vary from that, never went off course from it.

We're doing breakfast at this time. I'm gonna tell you

my needs. In ten minutes, I'm gonna have two cups

of coffee. And I'm serious, y'all. All of a sudden,

the wonder, the all and the wonder and the beauty

of that relationship is literally crushed, because deep down inside

we want to be in control of that relationship so

we don't get hurt. We set our prayer agendas and

stick to them in detail, less the tangible presence of

the Holy Spirit begin to move into places of our

hearts that we're not ready. You understand that you have

to be very conscious of how you handle fire. I

love how Jesus is the metaphor of him is a lion.

And what was it? Who was it said that he's

he's good, but he's not safe. Good luck with putting

a lion on a leash, Good luck with trying to

put a lion in a cage. And right now the

roar of the Lion of Judo is being released and

there's this purifying fire of the Holy Spirit that is

being poured out in this hour. And it's so important that,

just like with Moses in the burning bush, that we

take time to turn and see why this bush is

not being consumed when it's on fire. And it's the

same way that God longs for us to carry his presence,

that we would burn, but yet we're still here, That

we would be like the bush burning with the fire

of God but not consumed. And then people would turn

because of the way you live your life, to see

why you're burning this way and yet you're still here.

People all around us right now are are perplexed, perplexed.

They are having difficulties sleeping, They're worried about their financial future,

They're worried about the what this country is going to

look like? Yet alone are is ai going to take

their job? There's so many things happening right now. I

want to tell you it's not going to make a

lick of difference if you have a bachelor's degree in

five years. That everything that we have called the norm

is literally changing. But you know it's not changing the

truth of the gospel. You know it's not changing. Is

that Jesus is the author and finisher of our faith,

not leaders. You know, it's not changing. He's the same yesterday, today,

in forever Hebrews thirteen thirteen. I believe he does not change,

and he is intentional with his bride in this moment.

And we're going to continue to have invitations where we

can turn and look at the bush and then we hear,

take off your shoes. This is holy ground. What if

you lived a life that was so connected, so close

to him that if somebody messed with you, they instantly

had to deal with the manifest presence of the Lord

that says, back off my son, back off my daughter,

because we're in that dark night of the spirit where

we recognize that nothing of eternal significance can happen apart

from the Holy Spirit doing something through us. In Deuteronomy

eight two to three, it says, and you shall remember

the whole way that the Lord your God has led

you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might

humble you, testing you to know what's in your heart.

It goes back to the same principle when he left

the king to test to see what was in his heart?

Did he know it was in his heart. Absolutely, he

doesn't gain a knowledge, but yet he deals with us

in our finite state. That means you're little. He doesn't

judge you based on tomorrow. That would be injustice. James says,

be quick to hear, and slow to speak, and slow

to become angry. I want to tell you that is

one of the greatest scriptures we can remember in this hour.

Be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to

become angry, for the anger of man does not produce

the righteousness of God. Chris was saying at for Service,

there's a way that seems right and a man, but

in the end it leads to death. Proverbs, and in

this moment we need to be reminded of Proverbs three,

five and six. Trust in the Lord with all of

your heart. Don't lean on your own understanding in all

of your ways. Acknowledge Him and he'll make your paths straight.

You know when it says in the Psalms, delight yourself

in the Lord, and He'll give you the desires of

your heart. That means, through that intimacy, that connection with

the Lord, that your heart changes and you begin to

delight in what the Father delights in. And then Therefore

it is according to his will, and he is justified

to give you the desires of your heart. Remember the

whole way that the Lord your God has led you

these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you,

testing you to know what's in your heart, whether you

would keep his commandments or not. And he humbled you

and let you hunger and fed you with manna, which

you did not know, nor did your fathers know that

he might make you know that man does not live

by bread alone, but man lives by every word that

comes from the mouth of the Lord. Did you know

that's exactly the scripture Jesus quoted to Satan in the

wilderness when he goes to you're the son of God,

command these stones to turn into bread, and he goes,

man shall not live by bread alone, but by every

word that proceeds from the mouth of God. Proverb says,

one man's story sounds right, and so the other one

shows up. You know what I've learned with marriage counseling,

You better get both of them in the room to

get the truth. Come on, we all got that halo

effect when we come into counseling. Oh yeah, if they're

way works and my stuff's you know, well, let's bring

them in and see what they think about that statement.

But the problem is, and especially with social media, you're

getting one side of the story many times, CNN, the

communist News Network, I can go off on all the networks.

It's okay, But the truth is you're being told a

narrative and they want you to believe that narrative. The

enemy's telling you a narrative of your life every single day,

hoping that you take it hook line and sinker so

that you're veered away from actually remembering that you have

the mind of Christ and that his word is spiritually discerned,

which means the world doesn't understand it. So when you're

going down this path and you're like, hey, I need

to go over here, or hey I need to go

for a walk and pray and talk with the Lord,

and somebody else is like, why why are you doing that?

Just go do this because they don't understand. There's a

way that seems right to man, but in the end

it leads to death. And there's there's hundreds of millions

of people that are partaking from the tree of the

knowledge of good and evil. They're partaking of the good

of that tree, and they think it's God and it's not.

And it's the good off the tree of knowledge, of

good and evil that are going to take so many

people to destruction. Y'all with me, But who can endure

the day of his coming? And who can stand when

he appears? For he's like a refiner's fire, like fuller soap.

He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver.

He will purify the sons of Levi and refine them

like gold and silver. They will bring offerings in the

righteousness to the in righteousness to the Lord. Y'all, your

faith is being tried by the fire of God, and

you should not think it's strange when you end up

in these fiery trials. He tells us that why is

it we always get shocked every time we get into

a fiery trial. It's like we get amnesia and we

forget that in this life you're gonna have trouble. Who

kind of wish that would have been, like you know,

capital letters bold and about a thirty eight font, like

you open it up and like in this life you'll

have trouble. And yet when trouble comes, we're like, I

can't believe this, what did I do nothing? You're welcome

so that the tested genuineness of your faith more precious

than gold that perishes, though it's test by fire, may

be found to result in praise and glory and honor

at the revelation of Jesus. You're gonna walk on streets

of gold. Anybody paying attention to the silver and gold

market and just shoo, shoo, shoom like all over the board.

We're gonna walk on it. The things that cause nations

to go to war and sacrifice their people for it,

We're gonna walk on it. In Heaven who gave himself

for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to

purify for himself of people for his own possession who

are zealous for good works. So y'all coming under the rod,

this is a good thing. Coming under the shepherd's rod

prophetically symbolizes undergoing divine examination, just like Yam Kapoor with

those that still observe Yam Kapoor because they've not given

the Jews have not recognized Jesus as their savior. The

day of Atonement. Remember in the Old Covenant, before the

temple was destroyed, on the day of atonement Yam Kapoor,

the high priest would go into the Holy of Holies,

but he would have a rope tied around him with

bells pomegranates, and the moment those bells stop moving, well,

you're gonna ordain a new high priest because he went

into the Holy of Holies with sin in his life.

And then in the New Covenant that says we can

come boldly before the throne of Grace. We can come

boldly before his throne. Why because we are in Christ.

I think if we would have lived under the Old

Covenant just for a few moments and then come and

then transport back into twenty twenty six and the New Covenant,

we would realize the amazing gift, the amazing gift. You

know what that amazing gift is, that amazing gift obviously

eternal life. But guess what. In the Old Covenant, the

Holy Spirit would rest on a select few You're kings

and priests, prophets. And then fast forward into the New Covenant,

the presence of God, the spirit of God is dwelling

inside of every believer. You're the arc, You're the temple,

You're the living stone. You're the one that people should

be like, if I get too close, I might get zapped.

But instead we're so earthly focused and earthly bound that

we forget that we're not near human near men anymore.

We're a new creation. We've become divine partakers of his

divine nature. The God of the universe dwells inside of you.

It's not a metaphor. The creator of the universe, the

one that the universe exists inside of, has taken up

residence inside of you. So coming under the shepherd's rod

symbolizes the undergoing divine examination, discipline, and being fathered by God.

It describes purging and correction, and separation of the faith,

separation of faithful from the faith lists and I want

to tell you there's a line being drawn in the sand.

The wolfs will not hide in this season, and if we,

as leaders are not willing to call them out, we

have no business leading. It represents a covenant relationship where

God guides, protects, and when necessary corrects as people similar

to a shepherd, the shepherd uses the rod to count

and inspect each sheep, distinguishing them, as mentioned in Leviticus

twenty seven point thirty two, where they'd take a tenth

of the animals and set it apart for the Lord.

The rod correction and discipline, and the rod acts as

a tool for discipline, not just punishment, but training to

guide the sheep back under the right path. It's also

a protector. We come under for protection. The Lord's my shepherd.

I shall not want. He makes me lie down in

green pastures. He leads me besides still waters. He restores

my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness. For

his name's sake. Even though I walk through the valley

of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil,

for You're with me. Your rod and your staff they

comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the

presence of my enemy. You anoint my head with oil,

and my cup overflows. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow

me all the days of my life, and I'll dwell

in the house of the Lord forever. This bond of covenant,

This remembering as we come under and go into that

bond of covenant, that God made covenant with us. It

was by the blood of Jesus, just like when He

cut covenant with Abraham and the animal was split in two.

The Lord is the one that went between the two halves,

because they would do that when they cut covenant with

each other, and it was symbolizing that if I break

this covenant, let me be cut into two, just like

this animal. And the Lord knew that God or that

man did not have the capacity to keep those covenants.

So the Lord himself cut covenant with Abraham and went

through that sacrifice between it, and he's saying I would

be He says he would be cut into two if

he broke the covenant. And so therefore, when Jesus comes

to redeem us and this new covenant, he's the sacrifice

because we can't do it. And that's why it says

in First John, even when we are unfaithful, he remains faithful,

for he cannot deny himself even when our hearts condemn us.

He is greater than our heart. And so passing under

the rod brings the sheep into a closer committed relationship

with the Lord. That is the goal, a deeper intimate

relationship with the Lord and actually having a greater revelation

of the new covenant that we're under. Don't worry, I'm

almost done. You know what's interesting is coming under the

shepherd's rod. As the sheep come in every night, the

shepherd inspects the sheep, he counts the sheep, He takes

inventory of his sheep. Kind of goes back to the

Lord's prayer. Give me this day my daily bread. Forgive

me and my trespasses, as I forgive those that trespass

against me. You know, there are scriptures that we don't

like teaching on. How many sermons you heard on the

Book of Job, like the new Believer said, did you

know jobs in the Bible? Or how about this, how

many sermons have you heard of? You don't forgive, you

won't be forgiven. And yet so many times we hold

on to forgiveness for months and years, and it literally

begins to eat away at our soul and cause physical illness.

So many times people literally get physically healed when they

actually forgive and deal with bitterness in their heart. Bitterness

can cause cancer, They can cause osteoporosis, It rots the bones.

There's so many of these principles in proverbs, if you'll

read it, proverb says, the heart knows its own bitterness.

That's why if you've ever been in my office and

you say, I don't know what does pastor justin say

I don't know, don't live here, I don't know. Many

times is actually confusion masquerading under the name I don't know.

And you're partnering with that confusion because if you don't know,

then you don't have to go there, And if you

don't have to go there, you don't have to deal

with the pain. That is called disassociation. And many of

us have a PhD in it. If you find yourself

saying I don't know all the time, could do it?

Send it away, say I break agreement with with I

don't know, because there is a part of you that

knows that was also free. I'm gonna land the plane

you already, I'll be safe. So he's an illuminating fire,

and he is illuminating everything says what is done in

secret will be shout shouted from the mountaintops. This is

actually a beautiful season if you have eyes to see

in the proper way to see it. Now, I'm not

saying beautiful in all the stuff that's happened for us

on a local level, but I'm saying what the Lord's

doing right now in this hour a big picture. As

he's purifying the bride he is cleaning house out of

his love because he's a good father. And I want

to encourage you to stay humble, to stay hungry, and

to stay teachable. Don't lose those things. Don't lose them.

If you don't lose those three things alone, that will

help ensure that you live a life that actually ends

well and you don't shipwreck your faith. I bet you,

at least right now as I stand, I will be

forty nine years old in April. Yes, I know it's

hard to believe Lisa and I are the same age,

but it's a true story. But I'll be forty nine

and I can tell you probably fifty percent of the

people that I had been in in ministry connection with

are no longer in ministry. In fact, many of them

have pulled their spiritual life apart to such a degree

that it's hard to even recognize, and it should not be.

There is a falling away that's been prophesied in scripture,

and I believe that we're beginning to see it. But

it doesn't have to It doesn't have to be you,

and it doesn't have to happen on your watch. To

the best of your ability, keep your eyes on Jesus,

because I'm telling you the corruption in perversion that's being

exposed is way deeper than many think. And so keep

your eyes on the Lord in the midst of it.

And it says, bad company corrupts good habits, right are

good morals? Have wisdom on who you choose for friendships.

If there's anybody in your life right now that is

actually pulling you down, that is actually hurting your life,

your your walk with Jesus, then adjust the boundary of

your life with them. You're commanded to forgive. You're not

commanded to be close friends with everybody. You don't take

al Qaeda into your home and have dinner with them.

And there's gonna be friendships in your life that come

and go, and there's gonna be friendships that, because of

their unhealth, at least in the season you're in, you're

gonna have to bump their closeness to you out a

few circles to have healthy boundaries. And maybe that changes.

But you have got to guard your heart proverbs for

guard your hot, your heart for out of it flow

the issues of life. Don't be misled. Bad company corrupts

good habits, good morals. You want to be a champion

in the faith, and you better start hanging out with

giant slayers, y'all with me. The closer you get to him,

it does affect where you spend your time. You want

to you want to walk and have a life beyond

the veil. You want to radiate the light of Jesus.

You want to truly be the salt that He's called

you to be. Then embrace his covenant, come under his correction,

Understand that his correction is righteousness, his correction is for

our good, and make swift changes when he corrects you.

Swift swift obedience because it's out of a father's love. Man.

That was Jake didn't get kicked off the drums, if

you were wondering. He had to leave for work. So

we were trying to do a swapout, and then I realized,

I don't know that I ever played that last song.

So I was like, Lord, have mercy on me because

I'm like, but y'all don't know the whole story with

Jake and I. You know, it's not my place. But

his testimony was so powerful this morning to recognize that

he's a loving father. When you know that he's a

loving father, it changes your perspective when he brings correction.

My closest friends in my life right now, which aren't many,

but my closest friends will hold my feet to the fire.

They will call me out if I get a spirit

of stupid and I want that. I need that, We

need that, We need those covenant friendships. This guy right here,

we've been through Helen back probably a couple of times,

and I trust him. I trust him more than and

there's been in this last season. I've had to trust

him and our elder's Kylie, my wife. I've had to

trust people. I've had to trust him in the last

couple of years more than I trusted myself in certain seasons.

And I would not have been able to navigate the

last couple of years without amazing people around me. They're

my heroes, Derek and Kylie. They're my heroes, Sean, Sarah,

they're my heroes, our team. There are no long rangers

in the Kingdom. We need each other. And I want

to encourage you and warn you, do not let the

enemy bring division with you in this hour, and don't

blame everything on the enemy either. Sometimes they're blaming the

enemy and it's the Lord and he's over there going

it's not him. I'll finish with this. I remember. Reminded

me of a story of actually John Paul Jackson. He

was over in Europe, I believe, or Scotland or something,

and he was super say, his ankles had swollen up.

He'd had something seriously wrong with him, and he was like, Lord,

if you don't heal me, i am going to the

hospital because he was just in a horrible place. All

of a sudden, this man appears in his room in

the middle of the night. It looked like he was

from Mexico what he said, and he goes, I've come

to heal you. And he laid his hands on him,

and he said he felt like this hot scroll begin

to unfold, going up and going down, and everywhere that

had had unfolded, he was healed, but everywhere else he

could feel the physical pain in his body. And uh

so this was his encounter. The man disappears and John

Paul goes, Lord, thank you so much for sending your

angel to heal me. And he hears the Lord say,

part of me. It wasn't an angel. And John Paul goes, oh, no,

the enemy healed me. I'm gonna die the enemy healed me.

And then he the Lord says it wasn't him. And

then John Paul was like, well, Lord, who was it?

And then he showed him an open vision of this

man way off in the way out in the boondocks

in Mexico, praying and saying, Lord, if you can use

me with whatever time's left in my life, would you

please use me? And when he was there praying, the

Lord had trayed, I know this is a stretching some

of you all, I can feel it. He transported the

Lord transported him from his wherever he was and into

that hotel room to pray for John Paul. And the

Lord told him from here on out that man will

have a part of your fruit, your rewards. So, I know,

talking about the supernatural and angels and demons and deliverance

and all this stuff isn't super popular. And I know

right now the charismatic movements and a stinking boiling pot

of you know, But the reality is the word of

God is the word of God. Don't throw the baby

out with the bathwater. He gave us these gifts to

destroy the works of the evil One, and I plan

on using them, stewarding them and asking for increase, and

I hope and pray that I continue to grow in

my prophetic gifting. And I will promise you this. You

will not see me with my cell phone in front

of me giving you words of knowledge. I'm not kidding.

I will not have a phone in front of me.

I don't care. If it's to write something down, I

won't do it because I want people to know that

when the Lord speaks to me, that oh that it

is legit. And I'm totally fine with getting short, little

words that aren't super detailed. And then that's God's business

how he handles that. You just be willing for him

to speak to you, That's what matters. Well. I trust

that you were blessed by the Lord today and we

look forward to seeing you online next Sunday. In the meantime,

if you would like to learn more about us, about

our School of Ministry or other resources, or you would

like to sew into Cross Kingdom Ministries and help us

further the Gospel to the ends of the earth, simply

go to Cross Kingdom dot or org. We'll see y'all

next week.