How to Steward a Prophetic Word

You hate this, you hate that, you hate the sickness.

All these things, but then God uses those things as a setup to get you where He wants you to be.

So we have to learn how to praise God not for everything, but in spite of everything.

Set up your memorial stone, be a person of gratitude and thanksgiving.

David, who was about to face Goliath, a giant.

Think about what he used as his weaponry.

It wasn't just a sling and a stone.

It was the testimony of God's resume.

Welcome to the City Light Church podcast.

Thanks for joining us today, as we look into God's word and discover the hope and truth that he has for us.

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Pastor Boyan Jansik and his team believe that the power of the Holy Spirit is already working in our hearts and minds.

As you listen to today's teaching, remember that you are deeply loved by God,

that you are surrounded by His grace, and that He has a real hope and a future for you.

Today we are talking about the day after pill.

Amen.

See that awkward silence right now?

Like some of you are like, Pastor Mocha Mocha, man, I brought a guest today, bro.

Well, they are in for a good time, praise God.

Here is the thing.

As heavy as that subject matter is, just know that we are not afraid to talk about it,

amen?

Man, you guys look so nervous.

Before we get there, how many people were here, not last Sunday, but the weekend before last,

when we had Prophet David Wagner here?

Oh, you can clap, praise God, it was mighty moving out of you man.

It was like, nervous, like, no, no, it was a blessing, it was a blessing.

It was a blessing because if you weren't here, so we had a guest minister by the name of David

Wagner, he actually sits in the office of a prophet.

Now that's significant because the Bible is very clear that all Christians are prophetic,

but not every Christian sits in the office of a prophet.

The Bible speaks about that saying that to those that sit in that office,

they are given a more sure word of prophecy, meaning the connection lines a little bit more accurate,

a little bit more strong, amen?

And what prophecy does is it strengthens you, it edifies you, it builds you up,

it gives you a sense of comfort and exhortation, it pushes you in the right direction.

And this happens at a great level when you have someone who's sitting in the office of a prophet.

I've probably never met a minister who has more of the father's heart for the local church

and in David Wagner.

And he came and he ministered mightily throughout the house, gave prophetic words,

not just to Pastor Bo, but to many of you in the room, amen?

And the thing is, I wanted to preach this message last week, but last week was Pentecost Sunday.

So it only made sense for us to minister the message of Pentecost Sunday on Pentecost.

Like, you know, ministering a message on Pentecost Sunday the week after Pentecost,

it doesn't quite fit, amen?

So Pastor Bo ministered an amazing message.

If you have never been baptized in the Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking in tongues,

I suggest you go back and you watch that on YouTube or one of our podcasts,

because you're going to need that, you're going to step into the next level in your faith, amen?

But there's a thing about when you receive a prophetic word that you need to know what to do with

that. And specifically, that's why I wanted to minister this message about the day after pill.

Because sometimes, with the day after pill, what really happens is something takes place

and you've got to make a decision about what's going to come next.

Oh, they nervous again. Oh, I thought he stopped talking about it. He's back on it again. Yeah.

See, again, some things happen. Some adults get together and they do these things. We're not even

to get into the logistics and the legality of whether you have a license or not to engage in such

behaviors. But whether you have the license or not, there are some people that engage in

what's the polite term, coitus. And then some things happen where a seed is planted and a woman

is impregnated. And now there's a decision that needs to be made because that thing is going to

keep growing and it's going to turn into a person, amen? See, there are some Christians today that I

don't know. They feel a little uncomfortable because they've engaged in things that maybe they

shouldn't have engaged in. Let me give you some freedom right now. Let me remove the ambiguity,

if you will. It is a sin if you are taking the day after pill to kill that which is growing.

Maybe your last pastor didn't tell you upfront. I'm telling you, you are engaging in murder.

Oh, the past, there is no but pastor mo. If you leave that which is growing, it will turn into a human.

Did you know that the day after pill is designed? It finds its origin, its technological and

scientific origin in the Nazis. They created it in order to kill more Jews.

And the later this technology was used by a planned parenthood as eugenics to eliminate those that

look more like me. And then it was more broadly used by everybody in the world who just don't know

Jesus. Amen? Yep, real quiet. But I just, you know, we got to get the ambiguity out of the way,

like it is a sin and I don't want you to think that it's not. Here's the thing, sometimes we justify

things in our minds. We do the mental back flips that say, if I think about it, if I look at it just

from this way, then maybe it's okay. No, it's not. It is murder. Because again, if you leave what

is growing, it'll live and turn into something. But past the moment, you was just talking about

prophecy. How you switching between prophecy and abortion? Well, here's the thing. When you get a

prophetic word and you get a promise from God, there is something that starts to grow. And we got

to think about what to do with that thing. Now, it's a very actually unfortunate thing, but

the natural inclination of humans when you get a prophetic word, the thing that is more prone to

grow naturally without any help is doubt and unbelief. How do I know that? I know that from the

scriptures because even when something like an angel from heaven appears in bodily form and he

gives you a direct message from God, because this is what Gabriel said, I am God who stand in the,

I am an angel who stands in the very presence of God. And I'm telling you that this thing is about

to happen and your only response is, but how's that going to go down, gee? That tells me that the

natural response when you get these type of promises and messages from God is doubt and unbelief.

So I'm going to let the cat out the bag. The one and only exception where you as a Christian are

allowed to use the day after pill is to kill the doubt and unbelief that will be born in you

when you get a prophetic word. Because again, that thing is naturally occurring and if you leave it

alone, it will grow into something. Now, the scientific one will grow into a baby. The spiritual one

will turn into doubt and unbelief. And what you need to do is you need to strangle the doubt and

unbelief and you need to let the humans live. Come on, somebody say amen. Okay, okay, we're on the

same page. Look at you all nervous. So what do we do with prophecy after it's given?

First Timothy 118 says this.

See, that's normally the part where we take out the cell phone that's blaring and we turn it off.

Amen. First Timothy 118 says this charge I commit to you,

Sun Timothy, according to the prophecies previously made concerning you that by them you may wage the

good warfare. Wage the good warfare. What is going on right now? Raise your hands by a show of

hands. How many of you know who John the Baptist is? Almost everybody. Do you know what the Bible says

about John the Baptist? This is by the account of Jesus. Jesus testifies that John the Baptist was

the greatest prophet among men. The greatest Old Testament prophet ever was John the Baptist.

Now, just to put things in context, it says everybody who's a New Testament believer who puts their

trust in God is greater than John the Baptist. Just throw that out there. But when it comes to

prophets, the Bible says that there is no greater man than this man. Amen. This is a man who literally

from his infancy being in the womb, he experienced and was filled with the Holy Ghost so much so that

his mother began to experience the presence of God because she had him inside of her while he was

filled. Imagine you get the Holy Ghost just because your feet is dancing in the Lord.

All right. So this is a mighty man of God, right? And he receives a message directly from God

about things that are going to take place. How many know that prophecy is not just encouragement.

It's not just exhortation. Sometimes it's forth telling. It's sometimes telling you things that

are going to happen and giving you a promise of what is going to take place. Amen.

But the thing is we have to know how to properly receive these things so that we don't let them drop.

I found that most prophecies actually are like dreams. As a famous minister that said one time he

asked the question, he said, where are the greatest treasures in the world? You know, different

peoples that began to throw up their hands answering about different stock markets and different

places like that. He said, no, the place that has the greatest riches is the grave.

Because that's where the unrealized dreams and visions go to die.

And in those graves with the dreams and the visions are the prophetic words about the future.

Because if they're not stewarded well, they actually won't come to pass and they won't happen.

So we got to know what do we do with these words. And I love it because we're actually in good

company because we find in the scripture many people who were just like us where they get a word

and they don't exactly know what to do with it. So we can learn a lot from looking at John the Baptist.

Because again, this is a man where God spoke to him directly about what was going to take place.

And in part and parcel, he saw some of it. He experienced some of it, but not all of it.

Let's look at the scriptures.

John 1, 32, and John Boer witness saying, I saw the spirit descending from heaven like a dove

and he remained upon him. I did not know him, but he who sent me to baptize with water said to me,

upon whom you see the spirit descending and remaining on him, this is he whom baptizes

with the Holy Spirit. And I have seen and testified that this is the Son of God. Now keep this up

here. I have seen and testified. This is the Son of God. God speaks to him and tells him what's

going to take place. He had the unique experience of seeing the invisible on earth. He saw the Holy

Spirit come down from heaven and rest on Jesus at his baptism. God gives him a word. You are going to

open up the doors for the Messiah. What? I'm going to open the neck. Oh, Jesus. He starts his

ministry on this prophetic word. He's baptizing, calling people to repentance, only all of this,

just so that that one man could be revealed to the nation of Israel. And then lo and behold,

it happens to be his cousin, no less. Yo, cousin. Oh, that's in the Pastor Mo paraphrase Bible,

by the way. Yeah, I don't want you to get confused. Because he's like, I want you to baptize

me. And Jesus playing it real cool. It's like, come on, man. Just let it be. Let's do it. Let's do it.

It do because he's like, you want me to baptize you. What? I want you to baptize me with fire.

Let's go. Jesus is like, just do the thing. Okay. I'll do the thing.

Guess this amazing word. He sees the Spirit of God. He sees what no other Old Testament

prophet has ever seen. They experienced the presence of God back then. This is a man, the first

person on earth filled with the Holy Ghost. Because back then, the Holy Spirit would come over a

prophet or over a king or over the priest. But this is the first person on earth filled.

Because remember, he was born before Jesus. That's just a little Bible nerd stuff, just throw that

out there for you. He sees and he testifies this is the Son of God. You would think from there

that he understands exactly what is going to take place next, amen?

But we find that that is not the case. What we find is that in the Scriptures,

this is a man just like us who doesn't always know how to appropriately steward the promises

of God. And if you don't appropriately steward them, you can let them fall and you yourself can fall

into doubt and unbelief and depression based on your circumstances. Am I talking to anybody yet?

How many times has God spoken something powerful and good to you only for you to look at your

life and go, this is not what God said. Matthew 111 says this,

now it came to pass when Jesus finished commanding his 12 disciples that he departed from there to

teach and preach in their cities. And when John had heard in prison, what?

This is the man who saw the Holy Ghost. The first one on earth declared that Jesus Christ is Lord,

the Son of God. But he's in prison. What type of ministry is that?

And when John had heard in prison about the works of Christ, he sent two of his disciples

and said to him, are you the coming one or do we look for another?

Wait, wait, wait. Do you see the dichotomy here? Do you see the switch?

He sees and testifies you are the son of God. And now it's, I need to write this man. Let me

hit up this man's DM. I'm in some trouble. So I'm just wondering, are you the guy?

I mean, I know I proclaimed you to be the guy because I saw the Spirit of God on you and everything

and in that moment it felt really good to get the word because how many know when you get the word,

it feels good. But every day that goes beyond that, you have to deal with what's growing on the inside.

And it's the opposite of what God said, but you have to move past the mundane of normalcy

and remember what God said so that you can get what John is trying to give.

Because what he said and what he testified is not what he experienced after the fact.

So he goes, are you the one or should I keep looking for another?

Look at how far the slope is. And it's not because he wasn't a good Christian.

It's not because he wasn't a man of faith. The Bible says this is the greatest of the prophets.

I need you to understand the logist. He saw the Holy Spirit.

Well, it was the last time you saw the Holy Ghost because some of you judging him like,

what didn't have been made? No, sir.

You see what the Holy Ghost does and you're still like, he saw the Holy Spirit.

And he still ended up in a place of doubt. This is why we have to be careful and make sure that we take

our day after. Oh, y'all ain't saying that yet.

But look what Jesus says.

Verse four, Jesus answered and said to them, go and tell John the things which you hear and see.

The blind see and the lame walk. The lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear.

The dead are raised up and the poor have the gospel preached to them.

And blessed is he who is not offended because of me.

He was reminding him. I don't care what it looks like.

Know that what God said is.

What has God said about you? What is? See, the thing about the is part, this is where faith

is required. Now, faith is the substance of that which is hope for, right? Faith is.

It's a current thing. It's not a, often we think of faith as a looking, looking forward.

But none of the Bible says that faith is currently today, right here, now.

Faith is. What has God said is about you?

Did he call you a victor?

Did he say that you were healed from all of your diseases?

Did he say that you were powerful?

Did he say that you were rich? Did he say that you were blessed?

Did he say that you weren't single?

Oh, let me get, let me get, you got to get personal for the people.

Did he say that that barren womb was eventually going to give forth a child?

Did he say that you were not going to be stuck in that basement forever?

Come on, what did God say about you? What did God say is? What is the truth?

And what lie are you believing because of your current circumstances?

Because what God said is sometimes doesn't look like what is surrounding you.

But which one are you going to believe that things that you see or the things that God said?

Is still quiet.

We have to properly steward the prophetic word of God that is given to us.

You got to properly steward it. When God speaks something to you, you got to know how to handle it.

You got to know how to receive it.

It takes wisdom, hope, and perseverance.

Wisdom because we have to correctly discern how to walk it out with the Lord and

accurately step into bringing it to pass under His direction.

AKA, you can fumble the bag if you do it by yourself.

You ever heard of an Ishmael? That was a fumbling of the bag.

We got some issues happening in Iran right now. That is an Ishmael problem.

That's when God promises you something and you feel like, you know what?

I'm going to go ahead and just, you said, this is what it is. I'm going to do it. Let's go.

Let's go. No, no, no. You have to do things according to the wisdom of heaven, amen?

Just because God says you're going to be married doesn't mean that you go pick up the first

pretty face that you see. Come on.

Listen, I've done some marriage counseling before and I've seen some people wreck themselves

because they went for the first pretty face. Just hold on. Let God bring you the one with

character and integrity, amen? That proverbs 31, woman, Jesus.

That came from a mother whose son she taught how to wait on the right one.

You need wisdom. You also need hope because at the end of the day,

regardless of how good it felt to hear and receive that word, it's still something invisible

that has been released to you that now forces you to utilize your faith.

The substance of things hope for the evidence of things yet unseen,

according to Hebrews 111 and Perseverance because the honest to God truth is that we are subject

to the timing of the Lord. I wish that every time a prophetic word went out, it would just happen

like that. This is not controversial at all but you just need to know this. When you get a

prophetic word, it's not new information. It's confirmation, amen? Listen, if I come and I tell

you a word that you supposed to be a missionary in China and you have never thought about that in

your life, put that in your back pocket and see what God does with it. Amen? Stop shipwrecking your

life because you want some magical fantasy about what God wants to do with you. No, God is going to

do with you what he's already been speaking to you about. I don't know why I felt the need to say

that with such work, but there are some people looking to shipwreck themselves. Transient

and fuzzist, enthusiast. Constantly Holger, you got a word? You got a word? Got a word? Got a

word? Oh, tell me a word? Oh yeah, I'm going to go to the nation. You're going to go to the nations

and do what? You can't even serve here in your own church. Because you know what it is yet?

I feel like I'm skipping around like, oh, let me tiptoe off of that. No, we want to stay right here.

If you want to come up, we could deal with that too. I got Chris and Jose stand up. Let him show

me guns, baby. Show me guns. All right. This word that God gives you is not going to be this supernatural

thing out of heaven that makes no sense to nobody. God told me I was going to be a pastor and I worked a

regular nine to five job that I hated for many years. And I knew that I was called to be a pastor.

I saw it on the inside of me every day. And then words would come that would coincide and agree

with that word. And if you looked at it from the outside, you would think that I was so disrespectful

to the man and the woman, the guy coming with the word is like, and brother, she cutting on the

I feel like the Lord is going to use you. You're going to be a prophet. You're going to minister the

word of God. You're going to be a pastor. Don't you run from it? And I'd be like, yeah, amen.

Because it wasn't new. I've been spending time with the Lord already. He had already showed me.

This is what I got for you. And I was stuck in life. Unable to man it. Because remember, you take

this thing, but you can't make this thing. You got to receive this thing. And I'm talking about

his promise and his word. Amen. Okay. Number one, we have to let life happen. I know this is the

most boring, prophetic instruction you've ever received. You want to see the promises of God

fulfilled in your life. Let life happen. Time and balance. It happens to everybody.

Genesis 12 1. Come on. Now the Lord said to Abram, get out of your country from your family and

from your father's house to a land that I will show you. I will make you a great nation. I will

bless you and make your name great. And you shall be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you

and I will curse him who curses you. And in you, all the families of the earth shall be blessed.

So Abram departed as the Lord God had spoken to him and lot went with him. And Abram was 75

years old when he departed from Iran. Did you know that this is not the first time that God spoke to

Abram? It's actually the second time that God makes a promise to Abram via prophecy.

In the book of Acts, we learn from a Holy Spirit-filled Stephen that God gloriously appeared to him back in

Chaldea or Mesopotamia. That's modern day Iraq. When God speaks to us, it's piecemeal.

How can I put it? It's piecemeal for a very specific reason. Because if he gave you the

full detailed step of everything that he wants you to do, you would get up and move to China.

Anybody ever heard of? Everybody ever heard of Jonah? What, you want me to go,

do what? No, I'm out. Let's look at Acts 7. Acts 7 verse 2. And he said, brethren and fathers,

Acts 7:2

listen, the God of glory appeared to our father, Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia before he

dwelt in Iran and said to him, get out of your country and from your relatives and come to a land

that I will show you. Then he came out of the land of the Caldeans and dwelt in Iran. And from

there, when his father was dead, he moved him to this land in which you now dwell. And God gave

him no inheritance in it, not even enough to set his foot on. But even when Abraham had no child,

he promised to give it to him. He what? To give it to him for a possession and his descendants

after him. Completed prophecy comes about with a combination of word and deed. Now, now let's

stop for a minute. So think about what Abraham is going through. You live in a land of idolatry

with a pantheon of multiple gods. Idol worshipers, everybody got this other thing,

different thing that they're listening to. And then the God of gods, the God of heaven appears to

you, reveals himself and speaks to you and says, I want you to leave your father's home,

I want you to leave your nation. And I want you to go to Canaan because I'm going to give you the

entire land. Okay. And he doesn't know what to do with that word. He is under the direction of

his father at this point to leave his father's household in that position having no child and no

inheritance. That was a big move. But he gets this word and he doesn't know what to do with it.

But this is why I said you have to let life and time happen. Because look at what the scripture

says in the book of Acts says that the God of glory revealed himself to him. But then we learned

from the scriptures that he got home and his dad was like, we're going to Canaan. Okay. God says,

hey, I need you to leave everything and go to Canaan. Now he's struggling trying to figure out,

well, how do I do that? And then the moment he gets home, his dad is like, you know, we're going

to get up and go to Canaan. And it's so funny because his dad never even made it to Canaan.

They got to a place called Haran and they got stuck there. They were there for about five years

and it's only after his father died that Abel was like, we got to make it to Canaan. Come on.

You see what the scriptures is teaching us here. Life and time, part of receiving a prophetic word

and letting it come to pass is actually letting life unfold. I know we want it to be more spectacular

than that, but sometimes part of your receiving has to be you getting up and going back to your life.

Yes, David was anointed to be king over Israel and guess what he did the next day? He went back to

the sheep. Oh, you got some sheep to deal with tomorrow, y'all. Listen, sheep happens.

Completed prophecy comes along with a combination of word indeed. Life circumstances let him

part of the way as it will with you. So there's timing. Remember, this all didn't happen in one day.

This isn't when you know the word isn't your heart. I'm rereading my notes that I just finished

that to your praise the Lord. It's timing and balance. You know why I say balance? Because Jesus

being our example, right? He is the perfect epitome of balance. You know, it's not just because

he's God and man. But there's something beautiful that we can learn from Jesus and his approach of

how he handled things. I like to think of Jesus as my own personal velvet brick. You might say,

a velvet brick, why would you compare Jesus to a velvet brick? Well, here's the thing. Velvet,

there's something like joyous and smooth and soft about it. You want it on your skin, it feels so nice.

But I say a velvet brick because Jesus is firm. Jesus is going to tell you the truth and not

compromise at every instance. Have you ever been corrected by Jesus? Only the faithful will say,

he's like, I know how to break his rules, praise God.

What? Obedience is key, guys. But Jesus is a velvet brick because there's something about

that unbending, unyielding strength, but it's also coupled with the soft luxuriousness of velvet.

Imagine getting hit by a velvet brick. It would knock you off your feet, but it would be so soft,

you'd be like, do it again. And I see Jesus in that way. Eve, you've ever been corrected by God?

He corrects you in such a way where you're like, you know what? Thanks. I needed that.

Listen, if you get in correction and it doesn't feel like that, it's probably not God.

I know that because I have children and I correct them all the time and I'm proud to say,

sometimes it's not Jesus. It's a lot of Muhammad in there, but I'm learning. I'm learning.

Right, Isabella? Come here, baby. I gotta show you to the people.

So this is my baby girl. She's nine years old. She is the reason I'm a dad.

She helped usher that prophetic word into being by coming forth.

All right, all right, get out of here. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

So we let life happen one, right? Time and balance, too. We praise God for what's coming,

what is and what was. This is key. Genesis 12, 6 says, Abram passed through the land to the

place of Shechem, and as far as the terabend tree of Morey, and the Canaanites were there in the land,

and then the Lord appeared to Abram and said, so your descendants, I will give this land,

and there he built an altar to the Lord who had appeared to him, and he moved from there to the

mountain east of Bethel, and he pitched his tent with Bethel on the west and AI on the east.

There he built an altar to the Lord and called on the name of the Lord. So Abram

journeyed going on still toward the south. Your altar today? Because I don't expect you going

around building up these stone altars everywhere you go, these monuments of memorization.

Your altar today is praise. Your altar today is that point when you remember,

because back in the days you set up an altar so that every time you walked by it,

you had a memory stone of, that's when God did that. I wish we would set up altar stones

in our hearts. You know, the last time I was up here preaching, I spoke about gratitude.

23,000 breaths, how many of them did you thank God for? How often do you thank God for the things

that have happened in your life instead of complaining about them? Because we all know this from

experience that there are certain things that we never would have picked for ourselves,

but those things have set us up for the beautiful futures and the presence that we have right now.

But going through it, we would never say that, I hate this job.

You hate that job. That's where you met your wife.

You hate this job. You met your business partner there. You hate this. You hate that.

You hate the sickness. All these things, but then God uses those things as a setup to get you where

He wants you to be. So we have to learn how to praise God in spite, not for everything, but in spite

of everything. Set up your memorial stone. Be a person of gratitude and thanksgiving. That's

part of how you hasten the promises of God. Didn't David talk about this?

David, who was about to face Goliath, a giant, think about what he used as his weaponry. It wasn't

just a sling and a stone. It was the testimony of God's resume. He said, I've conquered a lion

and a bear. And this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them.

You're supposed to look at the circumstances in your life and go, I remember when

God did A, B and C. And this thing in front of me can't stand because the God whom I serve

don't fail. Oh, come on. Yeah, I ain't saying nothing today.

You gotta get like David and sing a song, 18, where it talks about all the things that he brought

you through. Man, I wish we had some Marvin sat me here today. Now you ain't getting no more

than that. Look at that. Look at that person. My wife is like, stop.

Listen, I'll be the first one to tell you guys. And this has nothing to do with my message.

I just want to shout out my wife. So I told the first service, I married up.

Listen, let's take a moment with Pastor Moe, man, if you will.

So when it comes to prophecy, you have to be able to navigate and receive things that don't

make sense. It did not make sense for me to be able to marry up, but I did have the word of the

Lord that he was going to give me a spectacular woman. Listen, your current circumstances will not

look like they're not going to look like any of what God said. But God did something beautiful

in that he shaped the environment around me to make me prepared for what was coming.

He even fooled my wife.

Listen, I'm not going to lie to you. The anointing makes you attractive.

Listen, I am well aware. I'm an attractive man. I understand.

I don't, there's no false humility. I look in the mirror every day. I see what you see.

I am attractive. I get it. But, let's be clear. I'm all puffy.

Listen, when I got married, I was nearly 400 pounds. Oh, yeah, you didn't know. Oh, my Jesus.

That's a little more than puffy. But the anointing came on me in such a way that she was able to see

the good. And then the Lord started slimming me down.

But imagine, the Lord gave her a prophetic word too about the type of man that was coming.

And it didn't look like what was promised.

But she said, God, the character, the mind and the heart that's in this man.

Oh, Yalene, saying nothing, church.

See, that was your chance to shout.

We find a way to praise God not for everything, but

Lastly, we speak what he spoke as we expectantly wait. Genesis 1210.

Now, there was a famine in the land and Abram went down to Egypt to dwell there for the famine

was severe in the land. So, immediately, there are two things. Notice, God just finished telling him

in Acts 7, I'm going to give you this land. The first word will show you the land and then the

second word was give. Prophecy builds peace by peace. Really does God come and drop down a fully

defined minute by minute word that details every step of what is going to happen in your life.

Again, he's not trying to shock in all you because if he does that, you will not know how to handle it.

At worst case, you will mess it up if you're not too scared to try to fulfill it yourself.

But the second thing is God says, I'm going to give you the land and then boom,

the land is in famine and he's forced to leave the land.

There will be these circumstances that are contrary to what God said and I'm not talking

about slight variations, I'm talking about the absolute opposite thing of what God said.

So, it's in those moments where you got to pull out the day after pill.

Because what do you do when this thing comes and it's going to start growing if you don't do

something about it? Because when you get the prophetic word, I'm telling you it's just,

I don't want you to think of yourself as a bad person just because it's hard to navigate

through doubt and unbelief. That's a natural part of human life.

You ever notice that sometimes somebody tells you something good about you and part of the thing is

who me? Yes you. I'm going to preach, yes you. We have to start taking that as our new mindset,

yes me. I'm not going to be single anymore. I'm not going to be sick anymore. I'm not going to

be broke anymore. I'm going to walk in victory. I'm going to walk in the favor and the might of the

Lord. Goodness and mercy is going to hunt me down and overtake me all the days of my life.

Where did church at? Aren't we called believers?

Yeah let me say it now this morning. Something happened and we only have a short amount of time to

determine what's going to happen next. You get the prophetic word. The word is given to you and the

natural byproduct of the human existence is doubt and unbelief sometimes. The natural one.

This is the only instance as a Christian where you get to use the day after pill.

You have to kill that doubt that's growing. You have to remind yourself that the promises of God

are yes and amen. Amen. Now how about this because I know that's super controversial and so many of

you are just nervous like the day after pill. What does he mean? I'll give you a little less

strenuous wave. Think about it like this. Prophecy is a tour guide. What do you mean prophecy is a

tour guide? Well here's the thing. What does a tour guide do? In the most general sense a tour guide

provides assistance and information about where you're going and it gives context to what you're currently

seeing. So for many years my family and I we've gone to Philadelphia and we've taken many a tour

before. We've adopted Philadelphia as like a second home if you will. We try to vacation there at

least once a year and I remember the first time we went we were like walking around the city for

like hours and then finally gone to tour and it's funny because if you don't pay attention your

tour guide will say some things and you will miss it. But again your tour guide is to put in

yes I know metaphor upon metaphor follow me. Prophecy is a tour guide. Amen. You're still with me.

All right. You can only activate your tour guide with faith. That's how you pay for it. Amen.

So now as you're going your tour guide it is helping you. It is explaining things to you. It is

giving you the historical context behind what you see. Sometimes you start dealing with family

and you're like why is this person this way? Well hello I'm your tour guide, your prophetic ace.

Let me tell you the person right now you're seeing they're dealing with traumatic stress from their

childhood. This is the way that they are but don't worry God is going to make them the man and the

woman of God that will stand beside you in faith. Praise him because you see and you experience

things in the natural and go there's no way. How am I going to keep working here with these people?

I can't stand these people. You're only here for another eight months. God is going to connect you

with your business partner and from here you're going to create a business that's going to take you

out of this God forsaken place. Praise him. Thank you prophetic tour guide.

Because when the prophecy comes over your life your life doesn't look like what the prophecy is saying.

I'm no lonely.

Jesus I'm tired of going to sleep without pies and pies Lord help.

Help me. You didn't give me the gift to say go to this Jesus. I read about it in the

description if you gave it to me I don't want it. The Lord will bless you with a help me.

Praise him. And then it prepares your heart so that in the longing and the loneliness you have

an expectation of what is to come and you get to step outside of yourself and this is where you

exercise the faith. God I can't see what you've promised but thank you because I believe

that it's coming. I trust that what you're saying is going to happen because it doesn't look like

it right now. All I see is a loneliness. And then God comes through eventually.

Only the baby could say amen.

Worship team you can come on up. You have to actively be alert to what the guide is directing

you to or you will miss it by distracting yourself with worry and unbelief and doubt.

Actually I want to read this. It's the same verse that we read earlier but there's something

about the King James version that I always find that really soos me and prepares me.

First Timothy 118 is this charge I commit unto the Son Timothy and forgive me because I cannot

read the King James unless I read it this way that's just how I was raised praise God.

So this charge I commit unto the Son Timothy according to the prophecies which went before on the

vow by them might woo a good warfare. Paul told Timothy to use the prophecy placed on his life

to fight and win. You're supposed to take the things that God promised you and that arms you

that equips you to knock if you buck.

See I have to cry out it's like knock if you buck I don't understand the colloquialism there.

Well that means because sometimes God is playing. So that means that you put your knuckles like

this in a fighting position and if any crazy situation may happen or enter your circumstances

or circumference you find yourself ready to do battle praise God. Knock if you buck.

No I'm going to use the things that God said about me to fight against the feeling that I have

fight against the circumstances that look opposite and contrary because I got enough

doubt growing on the inside that says can I inherit the promise of God I don't need you coming

and telling me something different. So no I need to fight in the spirit. I need to fight to

appropriate the things that belong to me. Let go of my stuff devil. I believe the Lord. He is good

and faithful. He is the Redeemer. He is the same yesterday today and forever back above me.

How many of you honestly trust what God is saying about you? See I get it because it's a dual

attack. It's an attack from outside and it's an attack from the inside because you have the

enemy who knows that if you fulfill your God-given destiny you're going to be the key that unlocks

so many prison doors for so many people in the will of God. Your destiny is going to bless people

so the enemy sees that and he tries to discover doing any way that he can and unfortunately your flesh

gets in on it too and says we ain't never going to be nothing. And you got to fight that.

You got to fight that you have to believe every last thing that God has said about you.

Listen you might think that you are a screw up. I'm not disagreeing with you

but what I'm asking you to do is agree with what God said about you.

He called you more, I didn't call you more than a conqueror. He called you more than a conqueror.

He said that no weapon formed against you would prosper. He said that.

So now you do like, like past the moment, you take the screwed upness,

the insufficiency and you go, hey God this is currently who I am but you said I'm up here so

I'm going to go with your testimony because the Bible says let the redeemed of the Lord say

so who's going to say so with me? I'm going to say so. I am the redeemed. I have been bought

with a price I am called and chosen. I am a particular people. Come on. See all of this is really

to stir you up to get you to a place where you would start appropriating the promises of God for

your life. You know I had somebody they told me after the David Wagner meetings they were discouraged

because they really set their faith for God speaking to them. They wanted to be called out

among the sea of people. I said oh no you're missing it because there were so many words that were

spoken over this house and I said you better go ahead and grab one of those and take it for yourself.

Listen there were words that were spoken that were not even too specific words spoken to specific

people and I was like thank you and it's not that they weren't excited enough about that word but

I was smart enough to know oh no that's mine. Passed a bow sat right here in this seat

and God gave him a word that he could host a move of God in New York City. I was sitting over here.

I said thank you. Put that right there because if he don't want it listen I'm going to take that

but here's the beautiful part. I know he wants that and and guess what I live in New York City.

Guess what he's the senior pastor of the church that I pastor. That means there's a move of God

that we're going to host. Hey do you want a move of God where we see people getting saved by the

hundreds and thousands where we see the presence of God moving like a wave.

But that's the promise that has been given to the shepherd that's over the house that you're

a part of. What is God spoken that you're not taking heed to. There are things that have been

spoken that you just need to say God I trust you. I believe that you will do this.

I will see the promises of the Lord fulfilled in the land of the living.

When Abram was this is Genesis 171. When Abram was 99 years old the Lord appeared to Abram and

said to him I am almighty God. Walk before me and be blameless and I will make my covenant between

me and you and will multiply you exceedingly. Then Abram fell on his face and God talked with him

saying as for me behold my covenant is with you and you shall be a father of many nations no

longer shall your name be called Abram but your name shall be Abraham for I have made you a father

of many nations. As Abram got closer to the appointed time of the promises the promised

manifestation God changed his name to make sure that he kept speaking according to the prophecy.

We see this concerning John the Baptist dad.

John the Baptist dad was a seasoned priest who had an understanding of the spiritual realm

and he got a prophecy and the angel that ministered that prophecy to him understood this guy's

going to mess it up. He's going to screw the whole thing up because he's already not talking

you understand the gangsterness with which the angel was speaking to him this is not just the

past and more paraphrased by like this is in the Bible. Gabriel said to him

I'm Gabriel angel I stand in God's face bro I told you what he said Matt you know what matter

that don't talk anymore you won't be able to talk until God fulfills his promise it wasn't a

punishment it was a precaution because you have this is how you align yourself because some people

are like well how do I appropriate the promises of God align yourself say what he said about you

how about instead of I'm ugly my back is so big

now you got to say I'm comely and ready like David before me I am beautiful blessed and highly

favored of the Lord I mean I dare you to start talking like you are a victor and not a victim

I dare you to align yourself with the ways of God with the words of God

you know what we have a perfect opportunity before us I want you to hand out the communion elements

what we'll close with this see it's a funny thing you know why we take communion the way that

we do at least once a month the Bible says that when you proclaim the Lord's death you do show

forth his coming and glory what does it mean to proclaim the Lord's death

so when you're proclaiming the Lord's death you're basically saying I agree

with what you say about your death well what does the Lord's death say

when you agree with the Lord's death you say I agree that it is by your stripes that I'm healed

you agree and you say that all my sins have been forgiven and I am now as the Bible says in the

book of Hebrews made perfect you agree that you've been given joy that cannot be taken from you

you've been given an emotional health and a stability you agree that he became poor that through

his poverty you would gain riches so that there's a financial health in your life you agree to all

of the things that he suffered on the cross he did in exchange for you he took your imperfection

he took your sin and your wickedness my sin my wickedness and there was this beautiful divine exchange

but how many of us are willing to say I receive that by faith it now belongs to me because you did

this on the cross I'm proclaiming the Lord's death you need to proclaim every promise of God

over your life listen God only has to tell me something one time it's not that I'm going to be

perfect in my obedience but I'm going to keep that thing in my back pocket and keep reciting it

in memory until I can step out in faith you know I told the first service at the beginning of the

year we had this whole series called manifested abundance we were believing for God to do something

in particularly spectacular in the financial realm this year how many people remember that

it was a series of meetings that we had right how many are you already forgot

you not believing for that that was a message that was preached they came and it went not me

I'm holding on God promised that there was manifested abundance coming I said thank you very much

boop right in the back pocket I am actively believing for God to do that listen before the end of

this year I will live in a home that I did not buy and I'm not talking hyperbole like there's

a spiritual setting no no no I'm going to live in a house that I did not buy it's already in the works

how did that happen I agreed with God I don't know how this thing works

because somebody come up to you and goes hey I'm going to give you my house and I want you to live in it

okay because what do you really say to that like you you don't you don't call them on the

Tuesday and go so you're ready to give me your house now no that's like patting somebody's pockets

but what you do is go God I agree with you you say that manifested abundance is coming to this house

I'm a member of this house I believe and I trust that when you say something it shall come to pass

I believe when you say that the wealth of the wicked is laid up for the righteous

and I'm not saying the person who gave it to me is wicked not by any means praise God you can't be

wicked giving out blesses like that Jesus but there is this transference of wealth where God is

trying to get his people things and stuff so that we can more better be equipped to do the work of

the gospel so I'm appropriating and I'm taking by faith but I need you to do the same thing in

every single area of your life listen that weekend two weeks ago other people were getting

prophetic words and I was in the front row bawling because here it is this man doesn't know you like

I know you I pray for you I counsel you I walk with you so when I hear these words going out that

specifically talk about the stuff going on and they're like I'm like yes God do it

and then I just I look around this sanctuary at the different things that I see popping off

already and I'm like God you're so faithful look at you Jesus and it gives me the faith to take

that encouragement for myself for the things that he said about me I want you to do the same for

yourself take the communion elements in your hand Father God we look to you we look who we proclaim

your death we appropriate every promise that is in your word and we say yes and amen

we receive the forgiveness of sins the healing of our body the restoration of our soul and our

relationships Lord and everything that you've promised have your way in us Father in Jesus name

please eat and drink

we let life happen as we intentionally step into what God is doing we praise God for what's coming

what is and what was and we speak what he spoke and agree as we expectantly wait rise to your

feet city light we're going to sing the God and we're going to sing the God in faith and worship

we're going to sing partnering with God that the things that he has promised he is well able to

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