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  1. You're listening to the Cross Kingdom Sermon of the Week.

  2. We helped you enjoyed this message from Justin Carpenter here.

  3. We've also been declaring this each week since this has

  4. been put together since our retreat. So say this with

  5. me here at Cross Kingdom. We are a community that

  6. is rooted in the Word. We honor God and others.

  7. We pursue spiritual growth, We love the broken. We are

  8. eager to serve and live a life of radical generosity.

  9. That's who we are. Hurrah. And then if you had

  10. put up the breakdown of what we gave to them,

  11. I mean the sixty eight thousand and one Kim mentioned

  12. earlier about us a percentage of our revenue. What's that?

  13. It's not there? Go to the still photo and the

  14. very bottom. It should be there. It was in the

  15. I did drop it in there now not that one

  16. it says sixty eight thousand and gives a breakdown. It

  17. was there. I'm sorry one secon y'all, Matt knows where

  18. it's at. That's a little better. Huh. Doesn't look like

  19. creepy faces are coming out at you behind the cross

  20. there we go. Okay, just real quick, So last year

  21. we gave sixty eight seven and thirty seven dollars and

  22. eighty six cents to Overland Missions, Mercygate Ministries, Atlason Arrows,

  23. Streams and Burkina Fasso, the Pregnancy Resource Center, Orbis Ministry,

  24. Streams Ministries, Commissioned Minister's Network, Prodigal Road Ministers and then

  25. C KC Tribe for food assistance, rent assistance, emergency and

  26. car repairs and gift cards for groceries. And we help

  27. people hold on to their homes. And so the it is, y'all.

  28. Here's here's the thing. Our total debt as a ministry

  29. is like two grand that's all we got left on

  30. a youth building. And one of the beautiful things is

  31. the less debt you have, the more you can actually

  32. put money into people, because we're here to build people.

  33. Uh oh, I love y'all. But man, that's exciting. I

  34. mean people people don't give to church because they think, oh,

  35. where's it going, what are we doing? Oh we're changing lives.

  36. Well amen, sorry, and I love y'all, and I love y'all.

  37. He leads the Men's Ministry of Your Wondering. His name

  38. is Ben Street Beeck. All email complaints go to Ben

  39. at Crosskingdom dot Org. Are y'all having fun yet? This

  40. has been amazing? I told Sean. It said, man, I

  41. end up with the same amount of time to teach,

  42. whether it's first service or second and I love it.

  43. And I love the fact that things like, even though

  44. we have you know, tooth services, it's not always the same.

  45. So you double dippers, We got any double dippers in

  46. there this morning? There's a few, so coming on the cuffs.

  47. Are sorry. Thursday night, waking up until Friday morning, I

  48. had a dream, you know, like Martin Luther. I had

  49. a dream. I had a dream, and I actually had

  50. an open vision inside of the dream. And it's been

  51. it's been a long time since I've had an open

  52. vision inside of a dream like that. I can count

  53. on one hand how many times that's happened. And in

  54. the midst of that, so I found myself on a

  55. road that I grew up on called Highland Road, and

  56. I look off and there's this massive tornado. It's not

  57. dark like typically you would think of like warfare dreams

  58. and tornadoes and storms and stuff. There's this massive tornado

  59. trying to come towards me, and I look and two

  60. other tornadoes are forming, and so I thought it might

  61. be a good time to find some shelter. And so

  62. I look down when I'm about to start to run

  63. towards this neighborhood, and I look down and I'm in

  64. a suit. I thought, huh, that's weird, because y'all don't

  65. ever see me in a suit, and not since Bible College.

  66. And I start to run, but I realize that those

  67. tornadoes can't get to me, and I'm like what, And

  68. then I realized it's extra bright around me, and I

  69. look up into the sky and in a massive open

  70. vision there is a warrior angel that's in flesh but

  71. dressed in his armor. I'm talking like Roman time, just

  72. like when Paul's talking about Ephesians, say, you know, the

  73. helmet of Salvation has that armor on. And this dude

  74. is huge, I mean massive, and he is and I'm

  75. watching him in this open vision and he's running and

  76. he's like he's going from like rock to rock and

  77. just flying through there. And I realize that this angel

  78. is running into battle to protect me, to keep these

  79. storms from coming at me. Clothing has to do with

  80. spiritual preparation and having a suit. Typically, clothing wise has

  81. to do like with an office like in you know,

  82. Fivefold Ministry. And then the scene changes and all of

  83. a sudden, I'm there on Highland Road again, and Todd

  84. White's next to me. You all know Todd Wright, right,

  85. he's a wild man prophetic evangelism. And there's a bunch

  86. of young people with Todd. And I'm sharing this dream

  87. and open vision with Todd in this next scene, as

  88. if it was the night before that I had it.

  89. And then Todd oft into the distance in the field

  90. there's wild beast. They were dark and they were almost

  91. like a mixture of between cattle and a wild beast,

  92. and Todd goes, you want to charge him? And before

  93. I could answer, not really, all of a sudden, we're

  94. running at these beasts and I come out third person

  95. where I'm watching all of us run towards these beasts,

  96. and Todd he literally got like he's like Superman to

  97. go plow this beast over. And at the last minute,

  98. every one of these you know, demonic looking dudes, all

  99. of a sudden got fearful and they ran away out

  100. of the field, and that was the end of the dream.

  101. One one of the in the process of that of

  102. the dream that was for earlier when I had all

  103. the young people come. I really believe that there's a

  104. call and a mandate and an outpour and coming for

  105. the young people. And and we can't argue people into

  106. the kingdom. Jesus never argued anybody into the Kingdom. I

  107. like to call it show and tell. Paul said, hey

  108. about these people talking, He goes, I want to find

  109. out who they are, because the kingdom's not just in word,

  110. but in power, and we need to present the gospel

  111. of the Kingdom with the with the power of the Kingdom. Well,

  112. it's not it's we can't just intellectually debate and argue

  113. people into the Kingdom. It's the Holy Spirit that convicts

  114. of sin, righteousness and judgment. And it's remember the Jesus.

  115. Well I don't because I'm only going to be forty

  116. eight in April. But who was around when the Jesus

  117. movement happened? Like you, bless y'all, I'm so and you

  118. were you're brave enough to put your hands up. Y'all

  119. are young, not old. And but no, like I mean

  120. the Jesus People movement, think about this, God began to

  121. pour out over a bunch of hippies, and all of

  122. a sudden you had these strange looking people invading the churches,

  123. and they didn't know what to do with it. They

  124. in fact, a lot of the churches shut the doors

  125. and wouldn't let them in. And we know, I mean,

  126. y'all saw the movie, the Jesus People movie that yeah,

  127. Jesus Revolution anyways, great movie. But are are we okay

  128. with God moving the way he wants to? You know,

  129. he's not gonna ask permission, by the way, and when

  130. he starts to do things we don't you know, it's

  131. not like we can schedule revival. Oh hey, next week,

  132. we're gonna have an outpouring. I already talked to the Lord. No,

  133. that's not the way it works. And we are at

  134. this tipping point right now, at this precipice, this tipping

  135. point where you have this intense transition that we're going

  136. through with massive shaking, massive pruning, massive exposure in all

  137. the mountains of influence. I mean literally, I said this

  138. first service, I said, I said, you poor conspiracy theorists.

  139. I said, you're running out of conspiracies because all the

  140. things that everybody got hammered on are literally being exposed

  141. in our country right now, and the massive corruption, political

  142. corruption and finances are being exposed. But I'll take now.

  143. Don't don't be It's both side, y'all. Don't think it's

  144. don't there's corruption on both sides. It ain't just one side.

  145. But the point is it says anything that can be

  146. shaken will be shaken, but the kingdom can't be shaken.

  147. And so let me say this very gently, I don't

  148. care about your political viewpoint this morning. There's right and wrong,

  149. good and evil. Are you with me? And God says

  150. whatever you do in secret will be shouted from the mountaintops.

  151. Doesn't matter what denomination you are, what political affiliation you are.

  152. He is on the move out of love. He is

  153. pruning right now. He is shaking. Why because I've said

  154. this before. If he starts to pour out with intensity

  155. and his glory is being poured out, you have to understand.

  156. The greater the glory, the swifter the correction. And so

  157. anytime God begins to move, you typically will see a

  158. season of significant repentance happening beforehand. Are you all tracking

  159. with me? Okay? But with my dream? In Exodus twenty three,

  160. twenty nine to thirty, it says, I will not drive

  161. them out from before you in one year, lest the

  162. land become desolate and the wild beast multiply against you.

  163. Little by little, I'll drive them out from before you

  164. until you have increased and possessed the land. Yeah, I'm

  165. telling you it's time to possess the land. And you're

  166. gonna You're gonna begin to see the young people set

  167. an example of what it looks like to advance the kingdom.

  168. You're gonna begin to see the young people move in power.

  169. And because it's the gospel, that's the power under salvation.

  170. And this isn't just for young people. But I know this.

  171. When God is stirring, when God is moving, and God

  172. gives an invitation, don't think yourself to be bigger than

  173. what you are. You can miss your visitation. Jesus wept

  174. over Israel and said, and what he say, how I

  175. would love to gather you like a hen does its chicks.

  176. But you missed your visitation. So you have a free will.

  177. Every one of us do. But I think there's a

  178. grace right now for us to go deep and allow

  179. the Lord to prune us, to realign us, and to

  180. refocus us on what really matters in this hour. And

  181. I got to tell you it's not necessarily the American dream.

  182. It's the Gospel. It's us rising up as the Church

  183. becoming the backbone in this country again. Because whatever change

  184. happens in this next however many years, whatever good change happens,

  185. it will only be sustained by the Church waking up.

  186. It says, righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a

  187. reproach to any people. And I've heard it said this way,

  188. God lights the altar, but we got to trim the wick.

  189. We're responsible again, this issue of responsibility over the earth.

  190. The heavens, even the heavens are the lords. But He's

  191. given the earth to the sons of men. There's an

  192. estimated eight billion people on planet Earth right now. Out

  193. of that eight billion, approximately two four It is hard

  194. to talk up here this morning, isn't it. Approximately two

  195. point four billion people identify as Christian, making Christianity the

  196. world's largest religion. It's about a third of the world population.

  197. Now check this out. There's a term called unengaged unreached

  198. people group. Anybody familiar with that term right now? According

  199. to Finishing the Task, there are one hundred and eighty

  200. nine unengaged, unreached people groups numbering over five point seven

  201. million souls that are still beyond the reach of the gospel.

  202. These one hundred and eighty nine ethnic groups are perhaps

  203. the neediest of the needy, as they are unengaged, which

  204. means no one, no church, no missionary, no mission agency

  205. has yet taken responsibility to tell them about Jesus. The

  206. frontier people group is According to the Joshua Project, there

  207. are four thousand, seven hundred and eighty nine frontier people

  208. groups numbering over two billion people. These groups have less

  209. than point one percent Christian of any type, So these

  210. they're not They've been exposed, but it's zero point one

  211. percent that identify as Christian. They have very little access

  212. to the gospel. Two hundred and eighty four of these

  213. people groups have over one million people, and thirty six

  214. of them have over ten million people. If we could

  215. engage these mega frontier people groups, the gospel may be

  216. able to spread to surrounding unreached, unengaged in frontier people groups.

  217. Y'all think about this. Only thirty six percent of people

  218. in the church will have shared anything about their faith

  219. in the last six months, and the number one beast

  220. to kick out of the field if you will is fear,

  221. because the statistics show that the main reason why people

  222. don't ever share their faith is because of fear. Now,

  223. isn't it interesting? I asked this first service? Isn't it

  224. interesting that I asked some? I asked y'all for service,

  225. not y'all, you know, the other part of the body.

  226. I said, hey, what's what's one of your favorite foods?

  227. And people were pizza and rabbis or whatever, And I said,

  228. how many of you told somebody about your favorite restaurant

  229. in the last six months? How many times did you

  230. tell them about your favorite restaurant? How many people did

  231. you tell them about your favorite restaurant? And I saidden,

  232. I bet you did that without fear. But then when

  233. it comes to telling people about your best friend, your savior,

  234. all of a sudden we get this crazy intimidation and

  235. fear that comes Where do you think that comes from?

  236. It ain't Jesus. But what if our love and intimacy

  237. with him killed that fear because perfect love cast out

  238. all fear. What if some of your fleshly strongholds right now,

  239. in this moment could literally disappear by simply an upgrade

  240. of love for the Lord in that area of your life,

  241. because He motivates us by love. Right. So in other words,

  242. what if you actually started loving Jesus more than you're

  243. loving that sin in your life? Y'all with me, haven't

  244. made anybody madg yet, Just wait, I have time. It's

  245. usually unintentional, by the way. So in the United States

  246. there are sixty one million, nine hundred thousand Catholics. There

  247. are eight million, four hundred and fifteen thousand in the

  248. National Baptist Convention. There are six million, nine hundred and

  249. twenty thousand Mormons. For service, I said, that's a lot

  250. of bicycles, but nobody caught the joke. That was a

  251. little better. I thought I'd go for it one more time.

  252. In the United Methodist Church there are five million, seven

  253. hundred and fourteen thousand, eight hundred and fifteen people. In

  254. the Church of God in Christ, there's five million, four

  255. hundred ninety eight hundred and seventy five people. In the

  256. Evangelical Lutheran Church there are three million, three hundred and

  257. sixty three, two hundred and eighty one people. Assemblies of God.

  258. Anybody come out of the assembli as a god background. Oh wow, okay,

  259. well you were at one point a part of that

  260. two million, nine hundred and thirty two thousand, four hundred

  261. and sixty six people. And then the African Methodist Episcopal Church,

  262. I honestly didn't even know of that denomination was two million,

  263. five hundred and ten thousand. So what am I saying?

  264. According to Barna Group, there's about eighty million adults in

  265. the United States that identify as charismatic or Pentecostal. So,

  266. in other words, about thirty six percent make up the

  267. spirit filled charismatic movement if you will. And I know

  268. there's different flavors inside, and we can all argue with

  269. each other in the charismatic movement just as easy as

  270. anything else. But only roughly about thirty six percent. So

  271. what have you ever gone to a place and like

  272. you shared, like let's say, Todd White, everybody, you know,

  273. everybody's hands went up with Todd White. Go across Kerrville

  274. and go to the Methodist Church and say, hey, have

  275. you heard of Todd White? You might get one or two.

  276. But our little, our little circles are not as big.

  277. You know, they're big to us because that's the center

  278. of our lifestyle and our focus are y'all with me?

  279. But there when you take a step back and look

  280. from a higher plane, you realize it's it's not as

  281. big as what you thought. And if only thirty six

  282. what's that? Yeah, that's what it said. Lisa is wondering

  283. if I pulled a statistic accident like I did a

  284. few weeks ago, and a couple of people came up

  285. to me and said, did you know your statistics were

  286. adding up to like one hundred and thirty three percent adults?

  287. That's what it said, according to the Barner Group. You

  288. can fact check it. If my son, if Cole, was here,

  289. he would send me a text. She's anyways, moving on.

  290. You took his place. Thank you. I will double check

  291. that statistic and I will post later. She said she

  292. thought it was eight million. No, it's more than it's

  293. more anyways, moving on. I'm not trying to fib on statistics.

  294. I'm not being Washington. So Matthew nine thirty six to

  295. thirty eight, when he saw the crowds, he had compassion

  296. for them because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep

  297. without a shepherd. You know what interesting? The Hebrew word

  298. for shepherd is rowe, and it means to see, and

  299. it says like sheep without a shepherd. Then he said

  300. to his disciples, the harvest is plentiful, but the laborers

  301. are few. Therefore, pray earnestly to the Lord of the

  302. harvest to send out laborers. Unto the harvest who prays

  303. that consistently. I mean, like I you know, when I

  304. read that, I'm reminded, like, hey, I don't know the

  305. last time, Lord, please. I mean, we're always praying, you know, Lord,

  306. bring more servants. But like harvesters. And what's interesting and

  307. in our Western mindset, we always think that if you're

  308. going to surrender your life fully like the song we saying,

  309. let me get on the altar. We always think that, Okay,

  310. I have to leave what I'm doing and I have

  311. to go become a missionary. We're not saying that because

  312. that's for you to surrender your life and actually function

  313. in your destiny and what God has called you to.

  314. It may not be the mission field, but I can

  315. tell you this that as we are seeing a three

  316. to one closure versus startups with churches in the United States,

  317. and we're looking at these different things, we need to

  318. be praying for harvesters. We need to understand that if

  319. the harvest was plentiful twenty twenty five years ago, what

  320. do you think it is now. And God is dealing

  321. with us right now in the dispensation of gentiles, and

  322. it says when the fullness of the gentile number is full,

  323. that he actually begins to turn his heart toward towards Israel.

  324. It's not a mistake that all of a sudden we

  325. see Israel popping up over and over and over, and

  326. even regardless of what you think strategically or anything, I

  327. found it very fascinating that all of a sudden we

  328. were gonna go rebuild Gaza. There are times where if

  329. you go back and look at the life of Samson,

  330. Samson would go and pick a fight with the Philistines

  331. and no one understood, but it said it was the

  332. Lord behind it. Sometimes God will pick a fight and

  333. it doesn't make sense to us. I'm not saying that's

  334. the situation, but it could very well end up being that,

  335. and we don't technically understand it. There are sovereign acts

  336. of God happening right now because of the timeline of

  337. history we're in, So don't get too ticked off over

  338. some of these leaders, because where we're at, prophetically, you're

  339. about to see a whole lot of end time stuff

  340. begin to line up, and we're at this tipping point

  341. with this final harvest. It's like the parable of the

  342. Midnight Cry. We're somewhere between that eleventh hour in the

  343. in the Midnight Cry. And I was reminded when I

  344. was putting this together Rt. Kendall, I forgot what year

  345. it was. He was in London at a conference and

  346. this was in the height of the charismatic movement, when

  347. the charismatics thought, this is it, This is the this

  348. is the this, it can't get any better than this.

  349. And RT. Kendall stood up and said, you think you

  350. have Isaac, but you have Ishmael. But Isaac is coming.

  351. And I'll never forget that word, because number one, he

  352. ticked off a whole bunch of charismatic leaders when he said,

  353. you don't have Isaac, you have Ishmael. And years later,

  354. leader after leader, some of them have passed away now

  355. came to RT and said, RT, do you really believe

  356. that's a word from the Lord, because this can be it.

  357. Isaac is coming, and I believe that wholeheartedly. I believe

  358. that that prophetic teaching that he gave back in the

  359. early two thousands is absolutely accurate. And guess where Isaac was.

  360. He was on the altar. That means we lay down

  361. our lives, We lay down our right to be offended,

  362. We lay down our right to have sacrifices. Don't talk sacrifices.

  363. Don't get offended, they don't get angry, they don't get

  364. full of bitterness. They're a sacrifice. They don't hold on

  365. to disappointments, they don't hold on to what they thought

  366. should have happened. There's a resilience because when we die,

  367. he lives. To the degree that we give up our lives,

  368. we find our lives in him. So the quickest thing

  369. to do in your life when you have a cycle

  370. of defeat is to let it go, give it back

  371. to the Lord, because then you'll actually find what you've

  372. been trying to find. And it's not been working out.

  373. It's it's it's asking him to pull down our strongholds.

  374. It's asking him to kill the fear when it comes

  375. to sharing our faith with others. I said this earlier,

  376. pen and tell her, Uh, you know, the magicians Penn

  377. is an atheist, and at one point he said, if

  378. you Christians actually believe what you say, how much do

  379. you have to hate the loss to never tell them

  380. about Jesus. Let that sink in. If we really believe

  381. the Gospel of the Kingdom, if we really believe that

  382. Jesus is the only way, the only truth, and the

  383. only life of the Father. If we believe that only

  384. one road leads to the Father, but then we never

  385. tell anybody. Listen, I'm not bringing this to condemn you.

  386. I'm bringing this to challenge all of us, including myself,

  387. that we need to be There was a time with

  388. Lisa and the kids when they were little man. Lisa

  389. was like, justin, would you just please let us have

  390. some family time because we'd get out into the streets

  391. and it was on the only thing I was missing

  392. was those long dreadlocks like Todd. I mean, it was

  393. like I was no one was safe around me. I

  394. was constantly high beams are on. I'm just like, who

  395. can I minister to? Who can I tell? And I

  396. realized that same tenacity, that same dry begin to wean,

  397. and it's like, we have to we have to be

  398. conscious of this. We have to stoke the fires, because

  399. guess what, in the midst of you praying and saying, Lord,

  400. bring more harvesters, you might find him tapping you on

  401. your shoulder. Son, Start talking, daughter, start sharing the gospel,

  402. compelled by love, compelled by His love. We we just

  403. for over an hour ministered unto the Lord, took communion,

  404. talked to and and then literally started popcorn character you know,

  405. prayers of the characteristics of God. Christia was gonna sing

  406. this weekend and she to pull out last minute, and

  407. all of a sudden we saw on social media somebody

  408. had a big rock on her finger and she got engaged.

  409. Do you think it's gonna take much for her to

  410. talk about being engaged? Listen, the truth is offensive. If

  411. you speak the truth in love and someone gets offended,

  412. it's okay. They're not mad at you, they're mad at

  413. the truth. Don't get in the way, right, that was good,

  414. justin okay. You know, over the years, we've had power evangelism,

  415. serving evangelism, friendship evangelism, sharing Jesus without fear. How many

  416. people remember William Faye, where his whole focus was addressing

  417. issue of fear. We've had all of these styles of sharing.

  418. In nineteen ninety three, eighty nine percent of Christians who'd

  419. shared their faith agreed this is a responsibility of every

  420. Christian that was nineteen ninety three. Today, just sixty nine

  421. percent say it's their responsibility. LifeWay study, don't fact check me. Interestingly,

  422. it says, which one of the following describes how you

  423. believe most non Christians feel about evangelism. This was a

  424. LifeWay research done. They said, who feels it's pushy? Thirty

  425. seven percent said they felt like they felt evangelism was pushy.

  426. This is Christians, by the way. Fourteen percent said it

  427. was rude, seventeen percent, it's hope filled eighteen percent. It's

  428. worth hearing once seventeen percent, it's worth exploring twenty two

  429. percent they are open to it, six percent none of these,

  430. and thirteen percent were unsure. Y'all, this is the church.

  431. I pray that there's an intimacy in our community that

  432. can't be quenched. That we say, Lord, did I leave

  433. my first love? Lord? Is there any part of my

  434. life where I've left my first love? Fear is a

  435. horrible motivator, but his love is amazing. It says, it's

  436. goodness that draws us to repentance, and all of a

  437. sudden goes into a place where, by relationship, you no

  438. longer want to do this thing, not just because it's

  439. not gonna work out for you very well, but because

  440. it actually creates a stumbling block, a separation and your

  441. intimacy with the Lord. That's that's a huge difference of well,

  442. I'm gonna stop doing this. I don't I don't want

  443. them to kill me, versus I don't want to lose

  444. my intimacy with the Lord and this is not worth

  445. putting in the way of my relationship. You know. It

  446. says he's a jealous god, He's an all consuming fire,

  447. and he longs to be with us. Yeah, we have.

  448. If we're not careful in this season, we're gonna be

  449. more distracted and more offended with everything else going around

  450. us that we're not even gonna have time to cultivate

  451. a prayer life, because we're going to be so concerned

  452. about the external rather than the internal life. And the

  453. only way you grow, and the only way you grow

  454. in intimacy, the only way sanctification truly takes place is

  455. the inner life. I've said this many times. We're all

  456. going to give an account for our life, and no

  457. one's gonna be there with us, no one. I won't

  458. be able to blame Lisa for anything. It's going to

  459. be really tough. No. As I begin to land the

  460. plane here, I want to ask you a question. Do

  461. you understand the gifts that God's put inside of you?

  462. And I'm being serious, like, do you understand the gifts

  463. that God's given you? And do you understand that every

  464. one of those gifts is designed to destroy the works

  465. of the evil one. You're not gonna need any of

  466. these gifts of the spirit in heaven. There's there's not

  467. gonna be any prophecy in heaven. Hello, we know in part,

  468. we prophisey in part, but we're going to be fully

  469. known when we're there. There's not going to be a

  470. need for healing, because we'll be healed. Do you understand

  471. the way that the gifts that you have, the gifts

  472. that God's placed inside of you, do you understand the

  473. way they work? Do you understand the laways work regardless

  474. of where you are with intimacy with him? And that's

  475. a dangerous thing. It can be one of the dangers

  476. of the past with prophetic evangelism is that people got

  477. more caught up in the manifestation of the gift, and

  478. the Gospel was left behind. Are y'all with me? That

  479. they got they got more focused on the manifestation of

  480. a word of knowledge, or of word of wisdom, or

  481. healing or a prophetic word. And many times there was

  482. no seed being planted with the gospel. It's not one

  483. or the other. It's word and spirit. We have to

  484. stay balanced. It's Jesus always did show and tell, right,

  485. whether he was preaching to the masses or walking alongside

  486. of the twelve disciples. What if every one of us

  487. found one this year, just one to begin to pour

  488. our lives into as we can not a ton, I mean,

  489. just one person. There's like three hundred of us between two, sir.

  490. What if three hundred people said, you know what, I'm

  491. taking responsibility for the great commission. I'm taking responsibility and

  492. I'm just gonna go find that one. I'm gonna I'm

  493. gonna light this place up with the fire of God.

  494. I'm gonna go grocery shopping, and I'm gonna find a

  495. healing on Aisle ten. Remember that time, Becky, where's Becky?

  496. Becky and I Becky thought I was crazy when she

  497. first met me. But she was the one coming from

  498. the bar. We were we were in true story, right

  499. she she'll tell you she when she first started coming

  500. to a divine whisper, I was teaching it at Impact

  501. back in twenty twelve, and Becky was coming. She was

  502. a bartender, and Becky was coming drunk. And uh true,

  503. I'm not. I'm not. She tells you this, I'm not

  504. throwing her under the bus. And in a moment, I

  505. watched God radically change her. I mean, she got radically saved.

  506. And she's looking around at the church and wondering why

  507. everybody else didn't have the same things she did. Y'all,

  508. we can see this region turned upside down for Jesus,

  509. not for us. For him, there's a tipping point coming.

  510. There's a snowball coming, and and there's an invitation for

  511. us to be a part of that tipping point. Or

  512. we can allow the lawlessness, the spirit of lawlessness. That's

  513. that's that's expanding to cause our love to grow cold,

  514. and then we'll miss our visitation. Oh yes, it was

  515. Isle eight, by the Green Aisle eight. We're in Iol

  516. eight Word of Knowledge. We did a a treasure hunt

  517. and I heard the Lord say, go to Isle eight

  518. and Walmart. So Becky and I we show up to

  519. Isle eight. Nobody's there except for two Walmart employees, a

  520. man and a woman. And I told her, I said,

  521. I think we're supposed to approach the woman, and so

  522. I prayed. I said, Lord, not out loud. I said, Lord,

  523. if if we're supposed to minister to this woman, would

  524. you have the guy leave? And within like a minute,

  525. the dude like just stop stalking and just walks off.

  526. I was like, oh, wow, okay. And so we walk

  527. up to her and we're like, hey, do you need

  528. do you need prayer? Do you need healing for anything?

  529. Because we were praying earlier and we felt like Jesus said,

  530. come to isle eight at Walmart? And she goes, is

  531. this isle eight? I said, I sure, hope so, and

  532. literally she had just been praying that like the day

  533. before and said, God, do you even see me? Y'all?

  534. The I know we're in danger right now in the

  535. charismatic movement of the prophetic becoming a total sham because

  536. of how many prophetic leaders that have been exposed for

  537. no character, for lying with words of knowledge for data

  538. mining and all all this stuff. And the enemy would

  539. love nothing more than for us to throw the baby

  540. out with the bathwater. But if you throw out the prophetic,

  541. you throw out your relationship with Jesus, because in John

  542. Tenny said, my sheep, hear my voice, the voice of

  543. a stranger. They will not follow. Revelation nineteen ten says

  544. the testimony of Jesus says the spirit of prophecy. If

  545. we throw out prophecy and despise prophecy, this is why

  546. in Thessalonians it says, do not despise prophecy. There's got

  547. to be a reformation of the prophetic and being accountable

  548. for the words that we give. And if we blow

  549. a word, if we gave it on the church platform,

  550. you get your butt back on that church platform, and

  551. you take accountability for your word. Out of love. And

  552. I want to say this on behalf of leaders in

  553. the church. Please forgive us for not holding other leaders accountable,

  554. especially when it comes to prophets. I have. I've carried

  555. a burden for reformation and the prophetic for years. But

  556. it's relationship if you miss this, more than anything, It's

  557. about relationship with Jesus. It's a conversation with the King

  558. of Glory. It's the prophetic is interacting with him, having

  559. a conversation. When you get a prophetic word from someone

  560. and it's legit and not pulled off Facebook, then that

  561. is an invitation, through intimacy and relationship with him to

  562. become something. It's an invitation to go deeper with him.

  563. It's relationship. Hearing his voice is all about relationship. If

  564. you don't hear his voice, you've got a one way

  565. conversation going on. All right, I can't talk anymore. It's

  566. if I can get Yeah, if you play the keys, y'all,

  567. it's us absolutely returning to first love. And then out

  568. of that expression, we can't help but want to introduce

  569. other people with the parroteans that come up, who thank you?

  570. Remember when God took a portion of the spirit that

  571. was on Moses and put him on the other people,

  572. and the two guys were in the tribe and they

  573. prophesied that was the proof of the back of the

  574. Holy Spirit coming upon them, and everybody got mad wanted

  575. to shut them up, and Moses said, no, I wish

  576. that all gods people were prophets. Can you unmute the keys.

  577. Oh Lord, I thank you for messing us up today. Father.

  578. Would you continue to stir in us? Lord? Would we

  579. hear that that we would hear the winds glowing from

  580. our secret place? Lord, make us love sick. Lord, send us,

  581. you said, pray to the Lord of the harvest, because

  582. the workers are few. Lord, send us we are here.

  583. Send us. I pray right now, Father for an thank

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