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Finish the Year, Finish the Word (Wonder Wednesday) - 10.30/2024 (Elder John Swain Jr.)

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  1. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Love Quest International

  2. Church podcast where we seek to love all nations, equip the

  3. church, mobilize the equipped, and serve all.

  4. We're super glad you're joining us from whenever and wherever

  5. you're at in the world. Welcome to the family to get

  6. your Bibles ready, get some water, get some coffee, maybe

  7. some tea, and get ready to receive.

  8. It's go time. Let's get into it.

  9. I'm going to give you one key to clapping.

  10. OK, one key to clapping. I noticed I've been talking

  11. about clapping a lot lately. I don't know what that is.

  12. One key to clapping. If you go clap, clap or don't,

  13. don't kind of clap looking and wait to see if someone else go

  14. clapping. If they do it, you do.

  15. If they don't, they don't. But you don't want to clap

  16. louder than them. Keep it.

  17. Keep it then. If you don't clap, just clap,

  18. right? If you the only one clap and let

  19. you be the only one, clap. Amen, Amen, Amen.

  20. Again, we thank our pastors for an opportunity to, to to preach

  21. the Word and to carry the mission forward.

  22. There's always a privilege and an honor to be trusted in God's

  23. building us. He's building my capacity.

  24. He's building our capacity for the work that lays ahead.

  25. One of the great things that your pastors are modeling for

  26. you, when you see people on this platform, He's modeling your

  27. ability to see you. I'm not saying that everyone's

  28. going to be on the platform, but everyone will be activated.

  29. Everyone will be asked, everyone will be sent in some way, shape,

  30. form, or fashion, Whatever God's calling us to do, that's the

  31. only way we can reach the people we need to reach.

  32. It's the only way it can be done.

  33. So catch a vision for yourself when you see other people up

  34. here that God too is calling you to be activated in your realm

  35. and your sphere and your space. Amen.

  36. Amen. Brett always gives me a good

  37. Amen. So we're going to start top,

  38. finish the year, finish the word, finish the year, finish

  39. the word. OK, OK, just actually just act

  40. like I'm one of those superstar like singers that you paid money

  41. to go see for and like they make you do all the work, right?

  42. Finished up, finished up. Now they're really going to make

  43. you work. Sing the whole chorus.

  44. So don't tell me you don't get superstars in here, OK, Finish

  45. the year, finish the word. Y'all got it, Y'all got it.

  46. OK, I want to pick up on that a little bit.

  47. But the last few times I've been up, not only here, but in other

  48. spaces, I've been talking about a ledge to talk about or

  49. encourage my pastor to talk about the prophetic words we

  50. have and how we pray those prophetic words through.

  51. So tonight I'm going to continue some activation in that space,

  52. OK, and, and, and some of it, you may have heard some of it,

  53. you may have not. If you heard it already, enjoy

  54. it again, right? If you haven't heard it already,

  55. enjoy it like it's the first time.

  56. OK, you got it. You try to always get something

  57. else out of it. Bless God.

  58. So we're going to start, why pray through the prophetic

  59. words? It does make a difference.

  60. Why pray through the prophetic words?

  61. Because it does make a difference.

  62. No, that's not a question. That's not a question.

  63. It does make a difference. Does it make a difference?

  64. Does it? OK, good.

  65. And this is really important part, the first part, right?

  66. Because if you don't know that it makes a difference, then

  67. you're less motivated to do it. And the ready and the level to

  68. which you believe it makes a difference is directly

  69. correlated to the level to which you will engage.

  70. If you think it makes a little difference, you will engage

  71. little. If you think it makes much

  72. difference, you will engage much.

  73. If you think it makes a continuous difference, you will

  74. engage what? Continuously.

  75. So you got to know it makes a difference.

  76. Now there's something else beyond it making a difference.

  77. You got to know that you make a difference in it, right, right,

  78. right. You got to know that only it

  79. makes a difference, but you make a difference in it.

  80. Your contribution to praying through the prophetic words

  81. makes a difference. Now don't just think, well, if

  82. they do them, it's going to be fine.

  83. No, you got to do your part. You got to lift your weight.

  84. You got to add your voice. Understand when God, One of the

  85. things that distinguishes a prophetic word from other things

  86. is that God gives a prophetic word, usually for group.

  87. OK, I'm not saying God cannot give a prophetic word to a

  88. person, but one of the things that distinguishes prophetic

  89. words from words of wisdom, words with knowledge, and some

  90. of those kind of things that it applies to somebody more than

  91. just you. So it ain't just about you, OK,

  92. But in giving it to people, don't you know that God knows

  93. everybody's voice that needs to be on that word?

  94. If God gives a prophetic word to this group, do you think he

  95. gives it and says, I just want Elder Roseanne's voice, praying

  96. it through, that's all. That's all I need.

  97. Or does he give it in a way when he writes a part for you in it?

  98. He writes a part for your voice When you're writing a Symphony,

  99. when you're writing some orchestral kind of creation,

  100. right? Think about Symphony.

  101. Am I talking too fast? I'm talking too fast.

  102. Y'all with me? OK, good.

  103. So if I'm writing a Symphony, right, that has things in it,

  104. like a oboe, right? Things that I thought that's the

  105. most out of one. I got oboe.

  106. They got they got a fresh horn in it.

  107. There are certain lines for the French horn.

  108. There are certain lines for the oboe now.

  109. Now the oboe part, you may be able to play it with the piano.

  110. Piano W would come from piano. You may be able to play it with

  111. the flute. You can technically play the

  112. oboe part with the flute. But what happens is it sounds

  113. like a flute playing a oboe part.

  114. It is the sound like an oboe part.

  115. You got it. When God gives the prophetic

  116. word, He gives you a part in it like He gives the oboe a part in

  117. a Symphony. Someone else can play your part

  118. or pray through your part, but it will sound like somebody else

  119. praying through the part that you can pray.

  120. Will it still be enjoyable? Yes.

  121. Will most of the people listening know the difference?

  122. Probably not. But you know who will know the

  123. difference? The one who wrote the Symphony,

  124. because he's going to know how he wrote it to be sounded.

  125. He's going to be looking for all the sounds he put in there.

  126. So it does make a difference. Hey man, so go to Daniel.

    Daniel 9 chapter mention

  127. Chapter 9, in the first year of Darius, son of the Hazaris, of

  128. the offspring of the Medes, who's made king over the realm

  129. of the Chaldeans, in the first year of his reign.

  130. I Daniel, understood from the books the number of years, the

  131. books. That means it was written.

  132. You got to write the prophetic words down, OK, For the number

  133. of years which was written according to the word of the

  134. Lord to Jeremiah, the word of the Lord indicates it's

  135. prophetic. It's a prophetic word.

  136. So it's a prophetic word written down in the books.

  137. OK, Jeremiah, the prophet must pass by before the desolation is

  138. pronounced on Jerusalem should end.

  139. And it was 70 years. So what he said was this.

  140. I looked at the word and the prophetic word written down and

  141. I could see by the prophetic word there's some stuff that

  142. hadn't happened that should have happened by now.

  143. The prophetic word informed me where we ought to be.

  144. Now notice it's a word for a nation, not just a word for a

  145. person. So you can see the consistency,

  146. right? So I looked down and I saw from

  147. the prophetic word because I look at the word.

  148. I studied the prophetic word and this is the key part.

  149. And I set my face to the Lord, to the Lord God to seek Him by

  150. prayers and supplications with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.

  151. Basically. I set my face to try to pray

  152. through this word. That's the difference praying

  153. through a prophetic word makes. And when the Angel came in

  154. response to Daniels praying, he said, Daniel, I'm so glad that

  155. you prayed. I was dispatched at the moment

  156. you began to pray, but I'm so glad you kept praying through

  157. the prophetic word because in your keep, in your, you're

  158. keeping the momentum up and praying through the prophetic

  159. word. I was able to ride on your

  160. prayers through the battles and bombardments of the enemies that

  161. are trying to keep me from being here.

  162. It's important to understand that you have to pray through

  163. prophetic words. Not all of them, but many of

  164. them you have to pray through. Amen.

  165. So part of what you need to understand, the one that it does

  166. make a difference #2 that if you don't do it, your voice will be

  167. missed #3 you have to also understand.

  168. You also have to also understand that you have to give yourself

  169. to it. You have to fully give yourself

  170. to it. You got it.

  171. So yes, it makes a difference, but it also makes a difference

  172. that you do it. I know I'm emphasizing what I

  173. said before. Why do you think that is?

  174. What? Yeah, no, but yeah, it's not

  175. just important. Why do you think that is?

  176. Because most time folks don't get that.

  177. They hear this and they walk out like it doesn't make a

  178. difference. They get this and they walk out

  179. like it don't make a difference whether I do it or not.

  180. They get this and they walk out like, OK, that was nice.

  181. OK, what if I told this man right here, I said you got to

  182. take 10 steps. You got to get from here to the

  183. to the door of the tent and you only got 20 steps to do it.

  184. That's it. But if you do it at 20 steps,

  185. all the people in these buildings right here will have

  186. an experience, that encounter with God that will get them

  187. instantly delivered. What if I said that or what if

  188. God said that to kind of use the acknowledge?

  189. Do you think he's going to take those 20 steps in a ways that

  190. makes a difference or you think he's going to get up and is he

  191. going to get up and after the after the experience go like yo,

  192. what's up man? How you doing?

  193. Good to see you. Good to see you.

  194. What's up man? And listen when we go out next

  195. time using steps now that you should be taken towards the

  196. door. If you believe it makes a

  197. difference and act like it makes a difference.

  198. If you believe it makes a difference, invest your life

  199. like it makes a difference. That is the most essential part

  200. above all else. The Bible says it's the willing

  201. and obedient to eat the fruit of the land.

  202. Most of the time it show willingness that makes the

  203. difference. God gives the Holy Spirit to

  204. help empower us to do what we need to do and our willingness

  205. is the platform that He does it in.

  206. The Lord has need of you. Why do we keep keep keep praying

  207. it through? Why do we keep keep praying it

  208. through? See, I did that.

  209. What am I trying to tell you how to do exactly?

  210. Why don't we keep, keep, keep, keep praying it through?

  211. Second Chronicles 20 says this. And then rose early in the

  212. morning and went out into the wilderness of Toccoa.

  213. And as they went out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, Hear

  214. me, O Judah, are you inhabitants of Jerusalem?

  215. Come out to me. You don't say that.

  216. That was for a friend of mine. Believe in the Lord your God,

  217. and you shall be established. Believe and remain steadfast to

  218. his prophets, and you shall prosper.

  219. Believe in the Lord your God, and you shall be established.

  220. Believe and remain steadfast to his prophets, and you shall

  221. prosper. Believing in God establishes

  222. you, but based on this Scripture, that's not enough.

  223. God will establish you in His Word and then He will send you a

  224. word for you. He will send you a word for your

  225. context. And that is what's going to help

  226. you prosper most effectively and most exceedingly if you believe

  227. and honor the word that God gives to you to prosper you, the

  228. prophetic word specific for you all's context.

  229. That's where your prosperity and provision comes in.

  230. But it says this believe and remain, believe and remain

  231. steadfast to his prophets. The idea of remain means keep,

  232. keep, keep praying it through, keep, keep, keep playing it

  233. through, believe and remain, believe and remain, believe and

  234. remain, believe and remain, believe and remain.

  235. How do you believe a prophet? This is not just about prophets

  236. giving prophetic words, it's about prophetic words.

  237. How do you believe a prophet? How do you what, say that again,

  238. exercise the word, do what he say, do what she say.

  239. How do you believe a prophet? How do you demonstrate belief of

  240. a prophet? Listening to what it said and

  241. then acting on it, keeping it, responding to it.

  242. And then it also says this and remains steadfast.

  243. So when you believe it, you believe it with a made-up mind

  244. because then it says remain steadfast.

  245. You don't say believe it and then get steadfast.

  246. It says believe it and remain steadfast.

  247. So you when you believe it, you believe it with a made-up mind

  248. to begin with. You don't like, well, go ahead.

  249. I heard, OK, I don't know. I got to see what's going to be

  250. first depending on depending on what it is that's going to

  251. impact how I'm going to receive it.

  252. Like I, I got it. I got that word of my hand right

  253. here. I got to decide what I want to

  254. do with it. No, you go.

  255. You go with a made-up mind. Prophetic word is released.

  256. I'm at the moment I'm hearing it.

  257. I got a made-up mind. God, I'm going to honor you in

  258. it. Whatever it is, I'm going to

  259. honor you. If it's a word to me to change,

  260. I'm honor to change. If it's a warning, I'm a heed

  261. the warning. If it's a celebration, I'm a

  262. shout with you. I'm gonna honor the word.

  263. Hey, man, remain steadfast. They won't say remain steadfast.

  264. Men, You got to remain in it until nothing remains from it.

  265. You got to remain in it until nothing remains from it.

  266. What does that mean? You remain in it till there's

  267. nothing left to be brought to pass.

  268. You remain in till there's nothing left to be brought to

  269. pass. Now, this is important.

  270. Why? Because there are prophetic

  271. words given in the Old Testament that are meant to be brought to

  272. pass in different levels. Y'all know what a reboot is?

  273. You know what a reboot. I don't even want anyone watch

  274. media. They'll say well they did this

  275. TV series in the 70s and now they're doing a reboot right?

  276. Or they did this one series, now they're doing a spin off.

  277. OK, what did he tell you? When they do a reboot, they're

  278. telling you that the series was written for one point in time,

  279. but there's something still in it that's relevant for this

  280. time. So now we're going to adapt it

  281. and redo it again so the people of this time can understand what

  282. it means for their time. You got it.

  283. So all the Scripture in the Bible, every prophetic word

  284. given to Israel, yes it was meant for their time.

  285. Every prophetic word given to the people of God, yes it was

  286. meant for their time. But there still is something in

  287. it that's relevant for our time. And the most significant part

  288. that's relevant in it. It's not what it said it would

  289. do. Y'all like that gesture.

  290. It's not what it said it would do.

  291. Stuck the landing one arm degree of difficulty 8.5.

  292. It's not what it said it would do best part about it because it

  293. reveals who God is and then you're able to see how

  294. consistently he is the same for one generation to the next

  295. generation to the next generation.

  296. And instead you're knowing who He is.

  297. That makes a difference in your life, not knowing what He's

  298. done. You know why?

  299. Because just because he's done it before, does that mean He's

  300. going to do it again for you? Now I know the word talks about

  301. what he did He would do right? You don't What if he changed

  302. What what if his temperament changed during the time he did

  303. it before? And now what if he just got fed

  304. up with people's unbelief and said I'm not doing that no more.

  305. What if he had good reason to change his mind not because he

  306. did, but because y'all just sent it to everything forget it.

  307. I'm not doing it no more. If he if he changed his mind

  308. nothing he's going to do it again.

  309. But when you know his character, you're not depending on what he

  310. did or didn't do. You depending on him and who he

  311. is and how he is. The prophetic word is more

  312. designed to help you understand his character.

  313. So remain in it until nothing remains from it.

  314. What does that mean? You don't need the Old Testament

  315. till Jesus come back. You don't need the New Testament

  316. till Jesus come back. You don't need it all until

  317. Jesus comes back. So be watchful of people telling

  318. you you can tear off the first half of the book because they

  319. don't apply to you as a believer.

  320. I'm just saying recognition is the first step to activation.

  321. You got to have an ear for the prophetic anointing.

  322. First Samuel 10 says this. After that you will come to the

  323. heal of God where the Garrison of the Philistines is.

  324. And when you come to the city, you will meet a company of

  325. prophets coming down from the high place with harp and

  326. tambourine and flute and leer before them.

  327. Notice how the music is going before them prophesying.

  328. It's almost like the music they're riding on the music to

  329. prophesied. It's like the music is the wave

  330. and the prophecy is the surfboard.

  331. Then the spirit of the Lord will come upon you mightily and you

  332. assure yourself to be a prophet with them and will be turned

  333. into another man. This is the worst that went to

  334. solve when some prophets in them out, some people send them out.

  335. The idea is this. The first thing you have to do

  336. is be able to recognize when you're in a prophetic anointing,

  337. he says. You'll find the prophets

  338. prophesying. Well, what if they just had

  339. lunch and they was talking about lunch?

  340. Is that prophesying? OK, Raise your right hand.

  341. Raise your left hand. I'm just trying to see if y'all

  342. still working out there, that's all.

  343. That was a hard question. I see.

  344. If he's talking about lunch, is that prophesying?

  345. I prophesize the lettuce upon the tomato and I prophesize the

  346. man. They no they talk about lunch,

  347. right? The idea is that you got to be

  348. able to recognize when they're prophesying.

  349. You have to be recognized what that is, because then you can

  350. come upon them and they can be talking about a bunch of

  351. different things. Now, this instruction gives them

  352. a clue. There'll be music that helps you

  353. understand and recognize the prophetic anointing is present.

  354. So you'll be ready then to understand when it's there.

  355. So the first thing you have to do is recognize the prophetic

  356. anointing. I said recognition is the first

  357. key, right? When I said rock, you don't have

  358. to sing, I said rock. Play a rock.

  359. When I say rock, you say, oh, I know how that sounds.

  360. I recognize a rock sound. Why?

  361. I've been around enough rock sounds.

  362. I've been immersing enough rock sounds.

  363. I've heard enough rock sounds. I've listened to enough rock

  364. sounds. Are you ready?

  365. I've listened to enough R&B sounds as well, because I can

  366. tell that ain't AR and B sound because that that's what a rock

  367. sound is, not an R&B sound. When I said hey, do an R&B,

  368. well, you know how to change the chords something different and

  369. you noticed this, it was really funny.

  370. Hold on, it was really funny about this.

  371. When I said rock and they did it, most almost everyone of

  372. y'all went like, that's rock, that's rock, that's rock.

  373. See how y'all recognized it too? When I said R&B and he came down

  374. and beat and he said what? Y'all was like, Oh yes, R&B,

  375. that's R&B. You see how y'all recognize the

  376. atmosphere? Y'all recognized the anointing

  377. that was on that You recognized it from having been around it

  378. and immersed in it, having walked through and haven't

  379. talked about it. That's how you recognized it,

  380. right? That's what I told.

  381. I said let's do country. There's certain ready when I say

  382. do country. Let me ask you this.

  383. I'm Kevin. Give you the mic real quick.

  384. So when I said do country, FMI asked you the sorry dimension or

  385. punished a bit when I said country, what did you think?

  386. Immediately, to make us make the song country, I had to change

  387. the rhythm. So to what kind of rhythm could

  388. you describe? Almost like a poker.

  389. They're really like a Oompa Loompa, right?

  390. Kind of get it worldwide. No, I think.

  391. I think I paid a rhythm right. What about you to change the

  392. lyrics? No, no, we said a country song.

  393. Everyone said Effie, and Effie said I got this right.

  394. So what did you do to make it sound like a country?

  395. So what was your mindset? Honestly, I just was like, whoa.

  396. And Miley Cyrus too. But what was the hallmarks to

  397. that? What you say, though, you added

  398. twang to your voice and you sing in your nose.

  399. OK, twanging nose. What I'm saying is this.

  400. There are certain hallmarks to certain sounds.

  401. There are certain triggers to certain sounds.

  402. There are certain things that they played.

  403. They will initiate in your recognition of the atmosphere

  404. you're in. If I say country, they will

  405. begin to play. That's what I'm saying.

  406. Hip hop, hip hop, hip hop, stop right there from the moment he

  407. begins to hit that beat right. There's certain hallmarks of a

  408. sound. Likewise, there's certain

  409. hallmarks of a prophetic atmosphere.

  410. You got to immerse yourself in a prophetic atmosphere enough to

  411. know the hallmarks of a prophetic atmosphere.

  412. The hallmarks when the prophetic word is given because you want

  413. to be on the front side of the word, get receiving and not on

  414. the backside of the word trying to figure out where it went.

  415. OK, So one of the first areas to grow in this understanding by

  416. the prophetic words is recognizing when the prophetic

  417. word is given. And the way you do that is by

  418. recognizing some of the function of it.

  419. First Samuel 10 says this. I'm going a prophetic, prophetic

  420. function, function. What's that junction prophetic

  421. function function. So what I wish you one of the

  422. hallmarks when you recognize the prophetic word is it look at the

  423. function of the word first Samuel 10 but he that prophesied

  424. King James as King James at NPC King James in the house Rep the

  425. KGB. But he that prophesied, sorry

  426. Sam, man prophesied, speaketh unto men to edification,

  427. exhortation, and comfort. If the word you're hearing is

  428. edification, exhortation, or comfort, it ought to trigger

  429. you. This is a prophetic atmosphere.

  430. This may be a prophetic word. Matter of fact, when you feel

  431. the atmosphere beginning to demonstrate one of these three

  432. things, you need to be ready for a prophetic word to be released.

  433. OK, what's 1 of the other key hallmarkers marks of this?

  434. I'll go back to the word that that that when Samuel was there,

  435. they said you'll see people singing and praising and making

  436. music. OK, so if we're after the time

  437. of praise and worship, specifically when after the

  438. praise and worship time. And that could bust out in the

  439. middle of a song in the middle of a word preached right in this

  440. house. But I have to have time of music

  441. or praising or worshipping. If you if you sit there, some

  442. edification happening, some exhortation happening, some

  443. comfort happening, you be on the lookout for the prophetic word

  444. to flow and let your ears be tuned to that.

  445. The same way when I said country, they say, OK, here's

  446. the hallmarks of it. I don't to listen for what to

  447. look for. Let's talk about this very

  448. quickly. What is edification?

  449. Edification needs to build up exhortation, urge you to action,

  450. comfort, to make you strong. So whenever you see, for

  451. example, pastor beginning to say something or to indicate

  452. something, that's a build up atmosphere, things like this

  453. love quest. God is doing something in our

  454. house. I'm telling you, if you if you

  455. stand for everybody that's rooted in this house, God's

  456. going to prosper you. He's taking us to a place.

  457. We're not just here for no purpose.

  458. You hear all that building you up encouraging.

  459. That's not necessarily a prophetic word, But when you

  460. feel that in the atmosphere, you got to be ready to hear a word

  461. of God to come forward. When you see an urge to action

  462. love quest, it's time for for us to really do what God's called

  463. us to do. It's time to be activated.

  464. It's time to go into the marketplace.

  465. It's time to play that a little louder.

  466. Give me a little more volume on that.

  467. It's time to go to app marketplace.

  468. Not now. You see what she's not That's

  469. not country. She playing right there, is it?

  470. That's not R&B she playing right there, is it?

  471. Now you hear that right there. OK.

  472. What she's saying is that there's some hallmarks of a

  473. prophetic sound, at least as it relates to me because they

  474. they've been with me long enough, right?

  475. And what she's doing right there is she is trying to tap into the

  476. hallmarks of that sound of the prophetic, and she hears me

  477. talking about the prophetic. So it works two ways, the words

  478. working with the music, and the music is working with the word

  479. in terms of the atmosphere. So when you hear the atmosphere

  480. of the music change, right, OK, what is that?

  481. All right, that's different. Even if you don't know what it

  482. is, when you hear change and if and you feel moved, urge you to

  483. actions, it's exhorted and you feel built up a little bit, the

  484. change in the music will indicate to you also that maybe

  485. something prophetic is about to happen and maybe prophetic words

  486. getting ready to be released. OK.

  487. The other thing it does is to strengthen you, to help make you

  488. strong as well. Edification is a little

  489. different than comfort in this fashion.

  490. I believe edification speaks more to your spirit.

  491. It's doing something in your spirit.

  492. Man. Exhortation is doing something

  493. more for your soul that's to urge you to action.

  494. It's from your soul that you have to act because you live in

  495. this earth, OK. And then comfort is for your

  496. body. It's, it's, it's that which

  497. helps you in the flesh. Continue to do what God's called

  498. you to do when your flesh is even fighting you.

  499. So whenever you hear a word that's going for that does those

  500. things, know that it may be in prophetic atmosphere.

  501. Therefore you be ready for prophetic word to go forward.

  502. You got to know that the prophetic requires Tia, say Tia,

  503. it's not this is Africa. Thank you blood diamond

  504. reference, appreciate it. It's not Tia.

  505. It means time and atmosphere, time and atmosphere.

  506. Knowing the prophetic requires you to spend time in prophetic

  507. atmospheres. The first prophetic atmosphere

  508. you need to spend time in is the written word of God.

  509. I've already described to you that there's words still to be

  510. accomplished even though the word was given because it means

  511. something different for another generation.

  512. Got it. So the more time you spend in

  513. the word, the more the time you spend it in a prophetic

  514. atmosphere. The Bible says, Jesus says my

  515. word's a spirit in their life. Now I'm going to tell you this.

  516. You're not going to be able to spend time in a just a prophetic

  517. atmosphere that doesn't involve the word and expect to be

  518. anchored and not get flaky because the prophetic in the

  519. word, written word anchors us. It anchors us.

  520. And that's why whenever we get a prophetic word, we say, OK, how

  521. does it line up with the written word?

  522. God take me to the written word where I can anchor myself and

  523. not be moved off of what it is that I'm that I'm hearing to the

  524. 1st place. You need to put atmosphere in a

  525. time in the atmosphere of is the word, reading the word, hearing

  526. it, play it in your ears, hearing other people declare it,

  527. hearing people pray it. Every way you can connect to be

  528. in the atmosphere of the word of God will increases your

  529. recognition of when the prophetic is happening going on

  530. another area is it be in the atmosphere of prophetic

  531. orchestrators, say prophetic orchestrators.

  532. We saw first Samuel 10. It says when Saul went among the

  533. prophets, he began to he went among those who know how to

  534. orchestrate a prophetic atmosphere.

  535. You all come to a church where your pastor knows how to

  536. orchestrate a prophetic atmosphere.

  537. Just being in the, in the presence of those kinds of

  538. people, both when they are orchestrating atmospheres and

  539. even when they're just living their lives, will help you

  540. better appreciate when a prophetic atmosphere is

  541. happening. And therefore when a prophetic

  542. word is likely to be brought forward.

  543. You have to spend time in prophetic atmospheres.

  544. There was a prophetic atmospheres.

  545. So service ends or service, you know a word is preached and it's

  546. ministry time right? So we pass it to our mark and

  547. God still moving. Some folk get up and leave then

  548. Why? Because the word finish and I

  549. stay the extra 5 minutes. You are missing an opportunity

  550. to remain in a prophetic atmosphere.

  551. And by remaining in the prophetic atmosphere for as long

  552. as the atmosphere stirs, you become more acclimatized to the

  553. prophetic. So when the prophetic happens,

  554. you're able to tap in, get it, receive it, feel it, help it,

  555. urge it, participate in an integrated fashion.

  556. That's one of the reasons we encourage people, if they're

  557. able to, just to still be present because being in the

  558. presence makes that present more present to you in everything

  559. that you're doing. So we're going to practice this

  560. step one. Everyone say step one.

  561. Here's step one of praying through prophetic words.

  562. OK, if you recognize the prophetic word is gone out, been

  563. released, you write it down. Step one, the P word, the whole

  564. P word is nothing but the P word.

  565. If you know, you know, right? That's the prophetic word.

  566. P word is prophetic word. OK, the first thing you do is

  567. write the prophetic word down and you just go over the whole

  568. prophetic word as it's given. Don't pull out the parts that

  569. make you really excited because once you start focusing on those

  570. parts, you begin to shift your perspective about the parts that

  571. are left. Does that make sense?

  572. OK, so the first thing you do, you just go over the word.

  573. Just read through it as it is and don't get all all, all

  574. Shakespearean on it. You know, if the word is you

  575. shall your, your, your church shall go to the stores and you

  576. shall deliver people and people will be made whole in the middle

  577. of Safeway. If that's the word, say it that

  578. way. Don't say it.

  579. You shall go to the stores. Don't, don't, don't read through

  580. it that way because all of those inflections are adding color and

  581. character to it that may or may not be there based on what God's

  582. trying to get across to you. Does that make sense?

  583. Read through, take it straight. No chaser.

  584. Read the whole word, take the whole word straight, meditate on

  585. it. Just look at read it through

  586. with no inflection, with no emotion.

  587. Just read it through like you're reading the phone book.

  588. In some ways, when you're doing that, you're allowing the Holy

  589. Spirit to take that word and paint the picture of it on the

  590. inside of you according to the color of his paintbrush,

  591. according to the color and tones of his song, not your own.

  592. Amen. And that is important.

  593. Anyone remember a song four years ago called Call Me Maybe?

  594. No. OK, this is great pop song

  595. worldwide. Canadian Carly Rae Jepsen

  596. singing, right? OK, she's playing a little bit

  597. of right now, right? That song was first brought to

  598. the producer as a country song, a country song.

  599. And he said no, don't work as a country song, but we can flip

  600. it. It can make it a pop song and it

  601. can go worldwide. What am I saying?

  602. When you take a song and you bring your own perspective to

  603. it, too soon you can begin to prejudice what it really is.

  604. It can be right, right. But when you Anyway, I'm gonna

  605. leave that Step 2. Thank God for the prophetic

  606. word. Thank God for it.

  607. That's it. Stay right there.

  608. God, I thank you for the word you've just given me.

  609. Just spend time thanking God for the prophetic word.

  610. When you're doing that, you're saying God.

  611. I know it came from you. I know it carries your power.

  612. I know it carries your anointing.

  613. God, you speak to me. You want to guide me, You want

  614. to lead me. You want to lead us.

  615. You want to lead this community. God, thank you for prophetic

  616. word. You're saying God.

  617. We appreciate the prophetic here.

  618. Speak to us anytime you want to. All when you're thanking God for

  619. the prophetic word, that's exactly what you're doing and

  620. it's that gratitude open up the door of grace for you to be able

  621. to better understand what God is saying through the word.

  622. Step three, you thank God using the prophetic word in context.

  623. Now this is where you begin to do some application of it.

  624. OK, so if the prophetic word is you shall do this, then this

  625. step says you say God, I thank you that we are doing that.

  626. OK, it's a quick example. You shall do this.

  627. First thing is let's read through it.

  628. You shall do this. You shall do this.

  629. You shall do this. You shall do this.

  630. Got it. God, I thank you for the

  631. prophetic word that says you shall do this.

  632. God, I thank you for the prophetic word that says you

  633. shall do this. God, I thank you for the

  634. prophetic word that says you shall do this.

  635. God, I thank you for the prophetic word that says you

  636. shall do this. Step three.

  637. God, I thank you that we are doing that.

  638. I thank you, we are doing that. You said we shall and we are

  639. doing that. We shall do that.

  640. God, we shall do that. We shall do that.

  641. You see the difference? Step 4.

  642. Thank God. Applying the prophetic world

  643. worldwide, it's a pit bull influence for your work.

  644. Go worldwide with it. OK, God, ready.

  645. So, God, you shall do this. You shall do this.

  646. You should do this. Step one.

  647. Step 2. God, I thank you for the

  648. prophetic word that you shall do this.

  649. Step three God I thank you that we shall do this.

  650. Step 4 God I thank you. We shall do this in Wally, we

  651. shall do this downtown, we shall do this in our families, we

  652. shall do this in our churches, We shall do this in our cities.

  653. We shall do this in our country. We shall do this in our homes.

  654. OK now, right about now. Now y'all looking at me like bro

  655. that's too much work. That's too much work bro.

  656. I get I'm getting tired of watching you do it.

  657. It's too much work. That's why I started with you.

  658. Got to believe it makes a difference.

  659. You got to believe your voice makes a difference.

  660. You can believe God and be established.

  661. Plus, only when you believe His words and remain steadfast in

  662. them do you prosper. That's why you got to press

  663. through for that purpose. Hey man, how many y'all got it?

  664. Y'all got it? How many y'all got it?

  665. Pull your papers out. We're going to take a test.

  666. Right? Going to take a test.

  667. Y'all ready? OK, first prophetic word here is

  668. you all ready because He's with you and he is ready.

  669. This is the first part of a New Year's Eve prophetic word.

  670. I didn't know it does that kind of resets.

  671. That's good to know you are ready because he's with you and

  672. he is ready. You got that one up.

  673. You are ready because he's with you and He is ready.

  674. OK, let me ask you this right now.

  675. Is your is your posture prophetic that music amplify

  676. that music she playing right now?

  677. Does that look like I'm praying through a prophetic word music?

  678. How does it make she just changed it.

  679. She just changed. She changed a few notes in

  680. there. OK, you got it.

  681. That that was fine. I'm just you.

  682. I'm just telling you, get your get your spirit ready to pray

  683. through a prophetic word of God. You don't sit back on your

  684. behind, sit thinking. You gonna pray through the

  685. prophetic word of God like you're going through a drive

  686. through a McDonald's. That's with extra ketchup in my

  687. bag and I'm gonna drive off with my coupon and the world going to

  688. be good to me. You entered into the realm of

  689. the Word that God gave His people.

  690. You entered into the very throne room, the very heart of God,

  691. expressing the fullness of His thoughts.

  692. They hailed from the foundations of time to share with you.

  693. Lean into what we're doing. Lean into this moment so we

  694. going to begin. You are ready because he's

  695. ready. He's with you and He is ready.

  696. So step one, everyone do step one.

  697. Just read it out loud. You are ready because he's with

  698. you. He is ready.

  699. You are ready because he is with you and he is ready.

  700. You are ready because he's with you and he is ready.

  701. You are ready because he's with you and he is ready.

  702. Step 2. Thank God for the prophetic

  703. word. God, I thank you for the

  704. prophetic word that you are ready.

  705. Stay on the stay on the word section.

  706. God, I thank you that for the prophetic word that you are

  707. ready because He's with you and He is ready.

  708. God, I thank you for the prophetic word.

  709. I thank you for sharing. I thank you for the prophetic.

  710. Now praying through the prophetic word, you got to open

  711. up your mouth. This is part part of the

  712. process. OK?

  713. I didn't say toe it through. I said pray it through.

  714. I didn't say elbow it through, I said pray it through, right?

  715. God, I thank you for the prophetic word that says you are

  716. ready because He's with you and He is ready.

  717. That's Step 2. Now Step 3.

  718. Apply it to your context personally.

  719. Father, I thank you that we are ready because you're with us and

  720. you are ready. God, I thank you.

  721. Then we are ready because you're with us and you are ready.

  722. God, I thank you that we're ready because you're with us and

  723. you are ready because you're with us and you are ready.

  724. We're ready as a church because you're with us and you are

  725. ready. We are ready because you are

  726. ready. I am ready because you are ready

  727. and you're with us. Hey, man, step three-step 4 and

  728. I just take it worldwide. God, I thank you that we are

  729. ready to win souls in Surrey because you are with us and you

  730. are ready. God, I thank you that you can

  731. clap, but you can also talk and pray it through too, right?

  732. God? Need to hear your instrument on

  733. this Symphony. God, I thank you that we are

  734. ready to take the gospel to our families because you are with us

  735. and you are ready. God, I thank you.

  736. We're ready to walk in science wonders and miracles because you

  737. are with us. Hey, you are ready.

  738. We are ready to do the impossible because you are with

  739. us and you are ready. Y'all got it, y'all got it.

  740. Y'all got it, y'all got it. We're going to close with one

  741. more as we close, and this will be the closing response, the tip

  742. of this portion, nations will come to your life.

  743. Not prayers or other things what you like.

  744. I don't I don't want to do that one change, look up.

  745. We're going to do this one. Look up.

  746. Get your face out of other things that keep distracting

  747. you. So this we're in the response

  748. portion of our word right now. All that was instruction.

  749. Now we're responding. Look up, get your face out of

  750. other things that keep distracting you.

  751. Step one, we read through a Step 2.

  752. Father, I thank you for the prophetic word that tells me to

  753. look up. Thank you for the prophetic word

  754. that tells me to keep my get my face out of other things that

  755. keep distracting you. God, I thank you for the

  756. prophetic word that says look up.

  757. God, I thank you for your prophetic word that says get

  758. your face out of other things that keep distracting you.

  759. Step three, God, I thank you that I look up.

  760. God, I thank you that I look up, hit the chest or you're a

  761. clavicle, whatever you want to hear.

  762. So God, thank you that I look up.

  763. But now pause like this is really important.

  764. If we can get unity on this thing right now, it's going to

  765. tear the roof off of things. God, there's been a ceiling.

  766. OK, So everyone, we really need your voice to participate, OK,

  767. So God, thank you that I look up.

  768. God thank you that I look up. Thank you that I look up.

  769. God, I thank you that I've got get my face out of other things

  770. that keep distracting me. God, I look up and I get my face

  771. out of other things that keep distracting me.

  772. I thank you for that. Lord, I thank you that I look up

  773. and I keep my face out of other things that keep keep

  774. distracting me. Amen.

  775. And now Step 4. We're going to play it

  776. worldwide. Think about it, how you going to

  777. do it? You ready this We're going to

  778. finish. Click the look up 1 back.

  779. You ready? Step 4.

  780. God, thank you. Look up, see what you're doing

  781. in my family. So I get my face out of the

  782. things that keep distracting me from being an instrument of love

  783. to them. Don't get it.

  784. God, I think that I look up and I see what you're doing in my

  785. family. I look up and I see what you're

  786. doing in my church. God, I look up and I see what

  787. you're doing in my life. God, I look up.

  788. This is now I'm encouraging everyone.

  789. Let's pull together a little more unity now.

  790. God, I look up and I see what you're doing in my family.

  791. God, I look up and I see what you're doing in my nation.

  792. God, I look up and I see what you're doing in my church.

  793. I look up and I see what you're doing.

  794. In my heart, in my soul, in my relationship, I see what you're

  795. doing. You're my identity.

  796. God. God, I look up and I see what

  797. you're doing all around me. I see what you're doing in the

  798. sound for my church. I look up and I keep my face out

  799. of other things that keep distracted up.

  800. In Jesus name. In Jesus name.

  801. In Jesus name, Amen, Amen. Amen.

  802. Amen. Thank you so much for tuning

  803. into this week's sermon. We pray you were challenged,

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  809. But until next time, you know the drill.

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  811. y'all real soon.