6/25/25 - Our Heart To Your Home

- IF YOU WANT MORE VISIONS, DREAMS, YOU WANT GOD'S VOICE TO

SPEAK TO YOU, YOU WANT TO HEAR GOD, YOU WANT TO SPEAK FOR GOD,

YOU HAVE TO HAVE A CERTAIN DETERMINATION AND LIFESTYLE THAT

YOU ANSWER THE CALL, THAT YOU ARE A HEAVENLY MINDED, YOU ARE

DRIVEN FOR THE THINGS OF GOD AND YOU'RE NOT ALWAYS JUST PUTTING

YOUR HEAD INTO WHATEVER THE MEDIA IS SAYING AND ALL THE

NEGATIVE THINGS THAT ARE GOING ON.

(MUSIC)

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- WELL, GOOD EVENING, LORD OF HOSTS CHURCH. HOW'S EVERYBODY

DOING TONIGHT? IS EVERYBODY AWAKE? I HEARD WE HAD CHICKEN

AND WE HAD POTATO SALAD, SO IT WAS KIND OF LIKE A CARB

OVERLOAD. SO NOBODY'S SLEEPING ON THIS TONIGHT, OKAY? THANK YOU

TO THOSE WHO ARE JOINING ONLINE. I DON'T WANT TO BELABOR. THIS IS

GOING TO BE A POWERFUL WORD TONIGHT. PASTOR HANK IS ON THE

ONLINE, OR IS THE PROPHETIC SCHOOL TONIGHT. HE'S GOING TO BE

SHARING A WORD ON A REPLAY ABOUT HOW TO BE TRAINED TO BE A VESSEL

THAT CARRIES THE WORD OF THE LORD THROUGH THE SPIRIT OF

PROPHECY, AMEN. HOW MANY WANT TO BE ABLE TO BE USED BY GOD TO BE

ABLE TO SPEAK HIS WORD AND BRING IT FORTH IN A MANIFESTATION? I

KNOW THAT'S A BIG ONE IN THIS CHURCH RIGHT NOW, AND ALSO JUST

OUT IN THE WORLD WITH ALL OF THE CRAZY RHETORIC AND ALL THE

FLIP-FLOPPING LIKE PANCAKES THAT WE'RE SEEING. BUT WE KNOW THAT

GOD'S WORD IS TRUE, AMEN. SO THIS IS GONNA BE A POWERFUL WORD

TONIGHT. GET YOUR HEARTS READY, BUT BEFORE WE TUNE IN, WE'RE

GONNA HAVE A POWERFUL OFFERING MESSAGE BY

PASTOR MARK, SO PLEASE WELCOME PASTOR MARK.

(CONGREGATION APPLAUDING)

- WELL, GLORY TO GOD, THANK YOU, PASTOR ANTHONY. HELLO, EVERYONE,

HOPE YOU'RE HAVING A GREAT WEDNESDAY EVENING SO FAR. LAST

TIME I WAS UP HERE, I SPOKE A LITTLE BIT ABOUT SOME OF THE

REASONS WHY PEOPLE DON'T GIVE GENEROUSLY IN CHURCH, AND WE SAW

THAT A LOT OF THOSE REASONS ARE ROOTED IN FEAR OR A LACK OF

FAITH, AND PEOPLE ARE AFRAID OF JUST, THEY'RE JUST AFRAID OF NOT

HAVING ENOUGH. THEY'RE IN FEAR OF LACK. IN THE SAME WAY THAT I

HAD SOUGHT EXPLANATIONS ABOUT WHY PEOPLE DON'T GIVE GENEROUSLY

IN CHURCH, I ALSO LOOKED AT WHY THEY DO. AND NOT SURPRISINGLY,

GENEROUS GIVING IS OFTEN CONNECTED TO FAITH IN THE

BLESSING. AND OF COURSE THE BIBLE SPEAKS OF ABUNDANCE AND

BLESSING COMING AS A RESULT OF GENEROUS GIVING. SO IF THEY'D BE

KIND ENOUGH TO PUT THE SCRIPTURE UP ON THE SCREENS FOR US HERE. I

WANT TO LOOK AT 2 CORINTHIANS 9:6-8. VERY FAMILIAR VERSES

2 Corinthians 9:6–8

PROBABLY TO ALL OF US. THEY'RE OFTEN QUOTED. AND I WANTED TO

READ THEM FIRST FROM THE NLT. AND AGAIN, I LIKE THIS

TRANSLATION BECAUSE IT REALLY ILLUSTRATES GOD'S GRACE AND HIS

LOVE FOR HIS CREATION. IN THIS SCRIPTURE, THIS IS THE APOSTLE

PAUL SPEAKING HERE IN HIS SECOND LETTER TO THE CHURCH OF CORINTH,

AND HE SAYS, "REMEMBER THIS, A FARMER WHO PLANTS ONLY A FEW

SEEDS WILL GET A SMALL CROP, BUT THE ONE WHO PLANTS

GENEROUSLY WILL GET A GENEROUS CROP. YOU MUST EACH DECIDE IN

YOUR HEART HOW MUCH TO GIVE, AND DON'T GIVE RELUCTANTLY OR IN

RESPONSE TO PRESSURE. FOR GOD LOVES A PERSON WHO GIVES

CHEERFULLY. AND GOD WILL GENEROUSLY PROVIDE ALL YOU NEED,

THEN YOU WILL ALWAYS HAVE EVERYTHING YOU NEED AND PLENTY

LEFT OVER TO SHARE WITH OTHERS." AND JUST IN CASE THAT DOESN'T

GET YOU EXCITED ENOUGH, I WANT TO ALSO LOOK AT THIS IN THE

AMPLIFIED CLASSIC. AND HE SAYS HERE, "REMEMBER THIS. HE WHO

SOWS SPARINGLY AND GRUDGINGLY WILL ALSO REAP SPARINGLY AND

GRUDGINGLY. AND HE WHO SOWS GENEROUSLY THAT BLESSINGS MAY

COME TO SOMEONE WILL ALSO REAP GENEROUSLY AND WITH BLESSINGS.

LET EACH ONE GIVE AS HE HAS MADE UP HIS OWN MIND AND PURPOSED IN

HIS HEART NOT RELUCTANTLY OR SORROWFULLY OR UNDER COMPULSION.

FOR GOD LOVES, THAT IS HE TAKES PLEASURE IN, PRIZES ABOVE OTHER

THINGS AND IS UNWILLING TO ABANDON OR DO WITHOUT A

CHEERFUL, JOYOUS, PROMPT-TO-DO-IT GIVER WHOSE

HEART IS IN HIS GIVING. AND GOD IS ABLE TO MAKE ALL GRACE, EVERY

FAVOR AND EARTHLY BLESSING COME TO YOU IN ABUNDANCE SO THAT YOU

MAY ALWAYS AND UNDER ALL CIRCUMSTANCES AND WHATEVER THE

NEED BE, SELF-SUFFICIENT, POSSESSING ENOUGH TO REQUIRE NO

AID OR SUPPORT AND FURNISHED IN ABUNDANCE FOR EVERY GOOD WORK

AND CHARITABLE DONATION." THIS IS AMAZING. THIS IS

GOD'S PROMISE OF GENEROSITY, ABUNDANCE,

BLESSING, IN RETURN FOR US HAVING THE

HEART TO GIVE LIBERALLY WITHOUT ANY RELUCTANCE

AND WITHOUT BEING COMPELLED IN ANY WAY TO DO SO. THIS KIND OF

DECISION TO GIVE JOYFULLY AND NOT SORROWFULLY SHOWS OUR TRUST

IN GOD AND OUR KNOWLEDGE OF HIS CHARACTER. AND LET ME JUST STOP

HERE FOR A MOMENT AND SAY THAT GENEROUS IS A RELATIVE TERM. IT

DOESN'T REFER TO A SPECIFIC AMOUNT OF MONEY, IF WE'RE

TALKING ABOUT MONEY. TOTAL RESOURCES CAN VARY WIDELY AMONG

MANY INDIVIDUALS. SO FOR EXAMPLE, AN AMOUNT THAT MIGHT BE

THOUGHT OF AS GENEROUS MIGHT BE FAR SMALLER FOR A PERSON WORKING

THE COUNTER AT A FAST FOOD RESTAURANT THAN IT WOULD BE, OF

COURSE, FOR THE CEO OF A FORTUNE 500 COMPANY. JUST RECALL FOR A

MOMENT THE STORY IN THE GOSPELS OF THE WIDOW'S MITE. HER

GENEROSITY WAS SO GREAT THAT SHE GAVE ALL THAT SHE HAD. AND JESUS

TOOK NOTE OF IT. A PERSON'S CONCEPT OF GENEROSITY ALSO CAN

CHANGE OVER TIME, ACCORDING TO VARYING CIRCUMSTANCES. FOR

EXAMPLE, GENEROSITY FOR ME IS MUCH DIFFERENT TODAY THAN IT WAS

IN TIMES PAST. WHAT'S NOT DIFFERENT THOUGH IS THE RESULT.

GOD'S ABUNDANT BLESSING, FAVOR, AND PROVISION. ABOUT 20 YEARS

AGO, WE WERE FACED WITH A SUDDEN NEED TO MAKE A LONG DISTANCE

MOVE BECAUSE OF A PRESSING FAMILY MATTER. AND BACK THEN WE

WERE CONSISTENT, GENEROUS GIVERS, BUT WE DIDN'T HAVE THE

RESOURCES IN RESERVE TO MAKE THIS MOVE. AND I CAN RECALL MY

WIFE AND I LOOKING AT EACH OTHER AND SAYING, "I DON'T KNOW HOW

WE'RE GONNA DO THIS." BUT THEN BLESSING, FAVOR, AND PROVISION

SIMPLY RAINED DOWN UPON US TO MAKE THE MOVE A REALITY. FIRST,

AS I WAS LOOKING TO SECURE A MOVING TRUCK, I RECEIVED AN

UNEXPECTED CHECK THAT I THOUGHT, WELL, MAYBE I CAN USE THAT

TOWARD THE RENTAL, PROBABLY WON'T PAY FOR EVERYTHING. HOURS

AND HOURS OF RESEARCH, AND LATER I FOUND A SPECIAL DEAL I COULD

COME CLOSE TO AFFORDING, IF I ORDERED BY MIDNIGHT. AROUND

11:58, I WAS ABOUT TO SUBMIT THE RESERVATION, AND THE WEBSITE

INEXPLICABLY WENT DOWN. I WAITED, I WATCHED FOR TWO

AGONIZING HOURS UNTIL IT CAME BACK UP. AND SURPRISINGLY, THE

PRICE HAD DROPPED AT THAT POINT BY ABOUT 25%, AND NOW I WAS ABLE

TO AFFORD THE ENTIRE COST OF THAT CHECK THAT HAD BEEN SENT TO

ME. THE NEXT DAY, WE HAD TO PACK EVERYTHING WE OWNED. AND AGAIN,

WE LOOKED AT EACH OTHER AND WE SAID, "WE CAN'T EVEN DO THIS."

BUT WOMEN FROM THE NEIGHBORHOOD, SOME OF WHOM WE DIDN'T EVEN

KNOW, STARTED SHOWING UP AT THE DOOR, GREETING MY WIFE. SOME

BOUGHT BREAKFAST, EVEN LUNCH. ALL OF THEM BEGAN HELPING MY

WIFE PACK THE HOUSE UP. SO I WENT AND PICKED UP THE TRUCK,

AND THEN I PARKED IT OUT FRONT. AND IT WAS A GUY IN THE

NEIGHBORHOOD THAT I HAD ONLY SPOKEN TO IN PASSING A COUPLE OF

TIMES. I MEAN, I BARELY KNEW THIS GUY. I WAS STANDING OUT

THERE, AND HE CAME BY, AND HE SAYS, "OH, ARE YOU MOVING

TODAY?" AND I SAID, "WELL, YES." AND HE SAID, "WELL, I HAVE TO

RUN TO THE STORE REAL QUICK AND GET SOME ROPE. I'LL BE RIGHT

BACK." OKAY. TURNS OUT HE WAS A LOGISTICS EXPERT AT THE LOCAL

ARMY BASE, AND HE RETURNED TO SUPERVISE THE ENTIRE LOADING AND

PACKING OF THE TRUCK. AND SEVERAL BOYS FROM THE

NEIGHBORHOOD ALSO JUST BEGAN SHOWING UP LIKE, YOU KNOW, THE

PIED PIPER WITH OTHER PEOPLE, THE LITTLE GUYS FOLLOWING THEM,

AND THEY PROCEEDED TO LOAD THE ENTIRE TRUCK, AND OUR NEW FRIEND

THERE CALLED OUT ALL THE ORDERS AND TIED EVERYTHING IN PLACE. IT

WAS JUST ABSOLUTELY AMAZING. I DIDN'T HAVE TO LIFT A FINGER. SO

THEN I HAD THIS PIECE OF MAIL LAYING ON THE COUNTER AND WHEN

WE WERE STARTING TO WIND THINGS DOWN AND IT HAD BEEN MISTAKENLY

DELIVERED TO ME AND IT BELONGED TO ANOTHER GUY THAT LIVED DOWN

THE STREET AND I HADN'T MET HIM PREVIOUSLY AND HE WAS FAIRLY NEW

TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD. I THOUGHT, WELL, I NEED TO GO GIVE THIS TO

HIM BEFORE I LEAVE TOWN BECAUSE OTHERWISE I'M GONNA GET

SOMEWHERE ELSE AND HAVE TO MAIL IT BACK TO HIM. SO I WENT DOWN

AND WHEN HE ANSWERED THE DOOR, WE SPOKE BRIEFLY AND I EXPLAINED

WE WERE MOVING AND HE QUESTIONED ME A LITTLE BIT ABOUT HOW I WAS

GOING TO TRANSPORT THE CAR ON THE TRAILER BEHIND THE TRUCK.

AND I SCRATCHED MY HEAD A LITTLE BIT AND HE CAME ALONG, FOLLOWED

ME HOME, AND HELPED ATTACH THE TRAILER AND MAKE SURE THAT THE

VEHICLE WAS SECURED FOR THE TRIP. WELL, AFTER A LITTLE WHILE

WE CAME TO THE POINT FINALLY THAT EVENING, ALL THAT WAS LEFT

WERE A COUPLE OF AIR MATTRESSES. SO WE FIGURED IN OUR INFINITE

WISDOM THAT WE'D SLEEP ON THEM THAT NIGHT AND QUICKLY DEPART ON

OUR JOURNEY THE NEXT MORNING. NOPE. GOD WASN'T HAVING THAT. HE

WAS CLEARLY GOING TO ENSURE THAT EVERYTHING WAS GENEROUSLY

PROVIDED FOR US. LO AND BEHOLD, OUR LOGISTICS FRIEND SHOWED BACK

UP AT THE DOOR. AND THIS TIME IT WAS TO OFFER US HIS PLACE FOR

THE NIGHT. HE WAS GOING TO BE STAYING AT A FRIEND'S FOR THAT

EVENING. AND HE SAID, "HEY, YOU TAKE THIS." SO INSTEAD OF AIR

MATTRESSES ALL ALONE ON THE FLOOR OF A TOTALLY VACATED

SPACE, WE SLEPT COMFORTABLY IN WELL-MADE BEDS. THERE WAS A FIRE

LIT IN THE FIREPLACE, FOOD AND SNACKS AT OUR DISPOSAL, EVEN A

GIANT HANDCRAFTED CHESS BOARD THAT WE WERE ABLE TO ENJOY THAT

EVENING. IN THE MORNING BEFORE WE DEPARTED, HE RETURNED ONE

MORE TIME WITH COFFEE AND DONUTS. ABSOLUTELY AMAZING. AND

THEN AS WE WERE ABOUT TO DRIVE AWAY, WE WERE SAYING OUR

GOODBYES TO OUR NEXT DOOR NEIGHBOR, AND HE REACHED IN HIS

POCKET AND PULLED OUT A WAD OF CASH. AND HE SAID, "WHEN I WENT

TO THE ATM THIS MORNING, I HAD NO IDEA WHY GOD HAD ME TO PULL

THIS MONEY OUT." HE SAID, "NOW I CAN SEE I'M SUPPOSED TO GIVE IT

TO YOU SO THAT YOU'LL HAVE ALL THAT YOU NEED FOR FOOD AND SUCH

ON YOUR TRAVELS." LAID THE MONEY IN MY HAND, AND IT WAS MORE THAN

ENOUGH TO COVER ALL OUR EXPENSES ON THE ROAD. NOW, I'D KEEP ON

GOING AND TALK TO YOU ABOUT ALL THE BLESSINGS ON THE OTHER END

OF THE TRIP, BUT I WON'T. KEY HERE IS WE HAD NO IDEA WHAT AN

AMAZING, BOUNTIFUL RESPONSE OUR GIVING WOULD BRING TO US IN OUR

TIME OF NEED. AND GOD IS DETERMINED TO HONOR AND BLESS

CHEERFUL AND GENEROUS GIVERS. THAT'S THE MESSAGE I GOT OUT OF

THAT. SO BY FAITH TONIGHT, FAITH IN GOD'S PROMISE, FAITH IN HIS

WORD, LET US PLANT GENEROUSLY. LET US SOW BIG, BELIEVING THAT

WE WILL REAP AN ABUNDANT HARVEST AND ENJOY FAVOR AND BLESSING IN

EVERY SITUATION AND CIRCUMSTANCE. THEY CAN PUT THE

GIVING INFORMATION UP ON THE SCREEN. WE ALL KNOW THE DRILL

PRETTY WELL HERE, I THINK. THERE'S A LOT OF DIFFERENT WAYS

TO GIVE. WE STILL LOVE THE MAIL. THERE'S ALSO A MOBILE APP, AND

YOU CAN ALWAYS GO TO THE WEBSITE, LOHCHURCH.ORG/GIVE.

USHERS, YOU CAN BE IN THE AISLES AS WE PREPARE FOR TONIGHT'S

OFFERING. GOD'S ALREADY WIRED SOME OF US TO BE VERY GENEROUS

IN OUR GIVING. AS FOR THE REST OF US, THOUGH, WE MIGHT HAVE TO

WORK ON IT A LITTLE BIT. SO LET ME JUST OFFER YOU SOME HELP.

WHEN YOU ASK THE LORD WHAT YOU SHOULD GIVE AND HE TELLS YOU TWO

MILLION, AND THAT VOICE COMES BACK, THAT SECOND THOUGHT COMES

IMMEDIATELY TO SAY, NO, YOU CAN GET BY WITH JUST ONE MILLION,

YOU MAKE YOUR CHECK OUT FOR TWO MILLION, OKAY? SO LISTEN, WHEN

EVERYBODY'S READY, LET'S STAND REAL QUICK TO OUR FEET. LET'S

HOLD UP OUR ENVELOPES, OUR CELL PHONES, WHATEVER. WE'RE JUST

GONNA BLESS THIS. FATHER, WE KNOW THAT YOU ARE NO RESPECTER

OF PERSONS. WHAT YOU'VE DONE FOR ME AND OTHERS, YOU WILL DO FOR

EVERY ONE OF YOUR CHILDREN. AND YOU ARE THE SAME YESTERDAY,

TODAY, AND FOREVER. SO YOU WILL HONOR GENEROUS GIVING, PROVIDE

FOR US IN ABUNDANCE, AND SHOWER US WITH FAVOR AND BLESSING NO

MATTER WHAT THE SEASON IN OUR LIVES IS. WE PRESENT OURSELVES

AS CHEERFUL, JOYOUS, PROMPT TO DO GIVERS AND DECLARE THAT THE

SEEDS WE SOW TONIGHT WILL PRODUCE A GENEROUS CROP AND A

BLESSED HARVEST IN THE MIGHTY NAME OF JESUS. WE THANK YOU,

FATHER. NOW LET'S CUE THE VIDEO AND LISTEN TO PASTOR HANK.

- REVELATION 4:1, I WANT YOU TO LOOK AT WHAT THE CALL WAS. AND I

Revelation 4:1

BELIEVE THAT THIS IS A CALL THAT IS WHY WE'RE DOING THIS

PROPHETIC SCHOOL, BECAUSE THE SPIRIT OF GOD IS ACTUALLY DOING

SOMETHING. AND IF THEY'LL PUT THE SCRIPTURES UP ON THE SIDE AS

WELL FOR PEOPLE TO SEE, AND MAKE SURE THAT THEY CAN SEE THEM AT

HOME, THAT WOULD BE GREAT. AFTER THIS, I LOOKED, AND THIS IS THE

APOSTLE JOHN TALKING, AND BEHOLD, A DOOR WAS OPENED IN

HEAVEN. AND NOTICE THE FIRST VOICE WHICH I HEARD WAS AS IT

WERE OF A TRUMPET TALKING WITH ME. AND NOTICE WHAT HEAVEN WAS

ASKING OR DECLARING, "COME UP HIGHER." DO YOU KNOW THAT THAT'S

WHAT I BELIEVE THE SPIRIT OF GOD IS SAYING RIGHT NOW? THERE'S A

CALL TO COME UP HIGHER, NOT TO BE A SECULAR CHRISTIAN, NOT TO

BE A CHRISTIAN THAT YOU KNOW YOU CAN'T TELL THE DIFFERENCE IF

YOU'RE YOU KNOW WORLDLY OR GODLY. THERE'S A THERE'S A CALL

TO COME UP HIGHER AND BE ABOUT THE THINGS OF GOD, BUT

THERE'S ALSO A CALL TO COME UP HIGHER. WATCH THIS SO THAT GOD

CAN SHOW US THINGS WHICH MUST COME HEREAFTER. THAT'S WHY IF

YOU WANT TO BE A PROPHETIC PERSON AND YOU WANT TO HAVE A

PROPHETIC SPIRIT, YOU CANNOT BE SO INUNDATED, LOOKING, AND

LITERALLY CONSUMED WITH EVERYTHING THAT IS ON THE NEWS,

IN THE NEWSPAPERS, THE HEADLINES, BECAUSE IF YOU DO,

WHAT WILL HAPPEN IS IT WILL PULL YOU TO AN EARTHLY REALM, AN

EARTHLY REVELATION, RATHER THAN GOING

UP HIGHER AND GETTING GOD'S PERSPECTIVE ON THINGS. SO

I'VE LEARNED SOMETHING. IF YOU WANT TO GO HIGHER IN YOUR

PROPHETIC GIFTING, IF YOU WANT MORE VISIONS, DREAMS, YOU WANT

GOD'S VOICE TO SPEAK TO YOU, YOU WANT TO HEAR GOD, YOU WANT TO

SPEAK FOR GOD, YOU HAVE TO HAVE A CERTAIN DETERMINATION AND

LIFESTYLE THAT YOU ANSWER THE CALL, THAT YOU ARE A HEAVENLY

MINDED, YOU ARE DRIVEN FOR THE THINGS OF GOD AND YOU'RE NOT

ALWAYS JUST PUTTING YOUR HEAD INTO WHATEVER THE MEDIA IS

SAYING AND ALL THE NEGATIVE THINGS THAT ARE GOING ON. YOU

WILL NEVER HAVE THE RIGHT PROPHETIC SPIRIT IF YOU DO THAT.

IF YOU WANT TO GO HIGHER, THEN COME UP WHERE HE IS. YOU WILL

SEE. NOTICE THE THING THAT HAPPENED. IF YOU CHOOSE TO COME

UP HIGHER, IF YOU CHOOSE TO BE A SPIRITUAL PERSON, YOU CHOOSE TO

READ YOUR BIBLE, YOU CHOOSE TO PRAY IN THE SPIRIT, YOU CHOOSE

TO SEEK THE FACE OF GOD. NOTICE THE PROMISE. I WILL SHOW YOU

THINGS WHICH MUST COME HEREAFTER. I HAVE PEOPLE OFTEN

SAY TO ME, "PASTOR HANK, I DON'T FEEL LIKE I HEAR GOD ANYMORE." I

USED TO FLOW IN THE GIFTS OF THE SPIRIT. AND I ALWAYS SAY IT TO

THEM THIS WAY, "HAVE YOU EVER MADE KOOL-AID BEFORE?" HOW MANY

OF YOU, YOU HAVE YOUNG PEOPLE IN HERE, YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT

KOOL-AID IS. BUT YOU KNOW, OR LET'S JUST SAY YOU'D MAKE SOME

KIND OF, YOU KNOW, REFRESHING DRINK FOR KIDS, RIGHT? YOU WOULD

TAKE THE KOOL-AID PACKET AND YOU WOULD PUT IT IN LIKE, I DON'T

KNOW, WHAT WAS IT, LIKE A GALLON OF WATER, A PITCHER OF WATER,

AND THEN YOU WOULD PUT LIKE TEN SCOOPS OF SUGAR AND YOU WOULD

PUT IT INTO THIS CONTAINER. AND YOU WOULD STIR IT AND THE

KOOL-AID PACKET WITH THE TEN SCOOPS OF SUGAR AND THE WATER IN

THE PITCHER WOULD MAKE THIS THING CALLED KOOL-AID AND MAN

WAS THAT AMAZING. AND THEN IF YOU REALLY WANTED TO, YOU PUT IT

IN ICE TRAYS WITH TOOTHPICKS IN IT AND YOU'D FREEZE IT FOR

LATER. YOU REMEMBER THAT? HOW MANY OF YOU REMEMBER THAT? HOW

MANY OF YOU OVER, YOU'RE OVER 50, YOU'RE OKAY. HOW MANY OF YOU

ARE 30 BELOW, 30 BELOW, 30 AND BELOW? HOW MANY OF YOU ARE 35

AND UNDER? YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT,

DO YOU? ALRIGHT, NOW HERE, AND THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE WATCHING,

YOU HAVE NO CLUE, YOU HAVE NO CLUE. BUT HERE'S THE POINT. IF

YOU WOULD LEAVE THAT KOOL-AID IN THAT PITCHER AND WALK AWAY AND

COME BACK, ALL OF THE INGREDIENTS WOULD BEGIN TO

SETTLE TO THE BOTTOM. THAT'S WHY IT SAYS PAUL DECLARED TO TIMOTHY

HIS SON, STIR UP THE GIFTS OF GOD THAT HAVE BEEN GIVEN TO YOU.

AND ONE OF THE WAYS TO STIR UP THE GIFT, IT'S NOT THAT YOU,

WELL YOU USED TO FLOW IN THE GIFTS OR YOU USED TO HEAR GOD

GREATER, BECAUSE I GUARANTEE YOU, IF YOU GO BACK, YOU

PROBABLY HAD MORE OF A FIRST LOVE FOR GOD, YOU WERE PROBABLY

MORE DEDICATED TO READING THE WORD, YOU PROBABLY WERE MORE

CONSISTENT IN YOUR DEVOTIONS, YOU PROBABLY SPENT MORE TIME

WITH THE LORD. AND USUALLY WHEN THERE'S A DISCONNECT, WHEN

YOU'RE NOT GETTING CONSTANT REVELATION, YOU'RE NOT HEARING

GOD, YOU'RE NOT SENSING HIM, YOU'RE NOT SEEING THINGS, ALWAYS

GO BACK AND PLUG IN GREATER. CHECK YOUR CORDS, RIGHT? CHECK

YOUR CONNECTION. AND I PROMISE YOU, HIS REWARD WAS COME UP

HIGHER AND I'M GOING TO SHOW YOU THINGS, ALRIGHT? SO YOU WANT TO

GO DEEPER? COME UP HIGHER, CHANGE YOUR LIFESTYLE, CHANGE

THINGS THAT YOU'RE DOING, PLUG GREATER INTO HEAVEN AND I

PROMISE YOU, YOU WILL SEE A GREATER DOWNLOAD THAT COMES.

ALRIGHT I WANT YOU TO LOOK AT ACTS 2 AND I WANT YOU TO LOOK AT

VERSE 16-19. I JUST WANT TO LAY A LITTLE BIT OF A FOUNDATION.

OFTEN TIMES WHEN PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT THE LAST DAYS,

THEY DON'T OFTEN LIKE TO TALK THIS STUFF. THEY ALWAYS TALK

ABOUT THE BEAST, THE ANTICHRIST, THE MARK OF THE BEAST, AND

TRIBULATION. BUT LOOK AT THE PROMISE OF THE LAST DAYS. BUT

THIS IS THAT WHICH WAS SPOKEN BY THE PROPHET JOEL. "THEN IN THE

LAST DAYS, SAITH THE LORD, I WILL POUR OUT MY SPIRIT." SO

RATHER THAN LOOKING FOR A GLOBAL TRIBULATION, WHY DON'T WE LOOK

FOR A GLOBAL OUTPOURING? AND THAT'S WHERE MY EYES ARE ON. I'M

LIKE, "GOD, I'M NOT ON THIS EARTH, YOU KNOW, TO JUST SIT

THERE AND BE IN FEAR. I'M IN THIS EARTH TO BE PART OF THE

LAST GREAT OUTPOURING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT." AND NOTICE, NOTICE

THE INCREASE OF PROPHETIC REVELATION. WATCH THIS, "I'LL

POUR OUT MY SPIRIT UPON ALL FLESH, AND YOUR SONS AND YOUR

DAUGHTERS SHALL," WHAT? "AND YOUR YOUNG MEN SHALL SEE

VISIONS, AND YOUR OLD MEN SHALL DREAM DREAMS." I MEAN, THIS IS

AMAZING. HE'S SAYING, "LOOK AT ALL THE PROPHETIC REVELATION

THAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN IN THE LAST DAYS." LOOK AT VERSE 18. IT

SAYS, "AND ALL MY SERVANTS AND ALL MY HANDMAIDENS I WILL POUR

OUT IN THOSE DAYS OF MY SPIRIT, AND THEY SHALL PROPHESY." SO

WHAT IS, WHAT ARE THE MARKINGS OF THE LAST DAYS? THE OUTPOURING

OF THE HOLY SPIRIT SIGNS, WONDERS, MIRACLES, BUT WATCH

THIS, AN INCREASE OF THE PROPHETIC. SO IF GOD'S CALLING

US TO COME UP HIGHER, MAN, WE ARE READY AND WILLING AND ABLE

TO HAVE THOSE PROPHETIC UTTERANCES, PROPHETIC WORDS,

VISIONS, AND DREAMS. LET'S GO ON. NOW, WHY DON'T YOU LOOK AT 1

1 Corinthians 12:28

CORINTHIANS 12:28. LOOK AT WHAT GOD HAS SET IN THE CHURCH. AND

THIS IS WHY I WOULDN'T BE GOING, THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE WATCHING

ONLINE TO SOME DEAD CHURCH SOMEWHERE, YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE

COMMANDS TO JOSHUA AND TO THE PEOPLE IS WHEN YOU SEE THE ARK,

LEAVE THE PLACE WHERE YOU'RE AT AND GO AFTER IT. SOMETIMES WE

WASTE OUR TIME AT CHURCHES THAT HAVE NO ABSOLUTE DESIRE TO LET

GOD MOVE. HERE'S HOW YOU KNOW. WHEN THEY MAKE EVERYTHING ABOUT

YOU, WHEN EVERYTHING IS ABOUT YOU, COME AS YOU ARE. YOU ARE

WELCOME. YOU ARE THIS. YOU ARE THAT. JUST DOING LIFE WITH YOU.

JUST BE YOU. WELL, YOU KNOW WHY? YOU GO TO THOSE CHURCHES AND YOU

NEVER, YOU NEVER FEEL HIM, BECAUSE IT'S ALL ABOUT YOU. AND

WHEN YOU MAKE YOUR CHURCH AND YOUR LIFE ABOUT GOD, HE WILL

COME. IT'S NOT ABOUT US. I'M NOT HERE BECAUSE OF ME. I'M HERE, I

WANT GOD. AND AS A RESULT, GOD, I WANT YOU TO BLESS THE PEOPLE.

SO YOU HAVE TO UNDERSTAND, WHEN YOU'RE LOOKING FOR A CHURCH,

HERE'S A GOOD LIST. GOD HAS SET SOME IN THE CHURCH, FIRST

APOSTLES. THOSE ARE GOVERNMENTAL, MEN OF AUTHORITY,

WOMEN OF AUTHORITY. AND WE'LL GET INTO SUBJECTS ABOUT WOMEN IN

MINISTRY, BELIEVE ME. BECAUSE THERE'S SUCH A RELIGIOUS DEVIL

THAT WOULD LOVE TO MAKE YOU THINK THAT WOMEN CAN'T SAY

ANYTHING. I MEAN SOME OF YOU WOMEN, YOU JUST VIOLATED SOME OF

THE RELIGIOUS SPIRITS. THEY TELL YOU TO BE QUIET IN THE CHURCH.

THERE YOU GO. SECOND, PROPHETS. RIGHT? SO THERE'S PROPHETS IN

THE CHURCH. THIRDLY, TEACHERS. THE PROBLEM IS MOST CHURCHES YOU

GO TO, ALL YOU SEE IS TEACHERS. YOU DON'T SEE ANY PROPHETIC

MOVE. YOU DON'T SEE ANY PROPHET. YOU DON'T EVER HEAR ANY

PROPHETIC UTTERANCES. YOU DON'T FIND APOSTOLIC AUTHORITY AND

ORDER. THEN AFTER THAT, MIRACLES AND GIFTS OF HEALING, HELPS,

GOVERNMENTS, DIVERSITIES OF TONGUES. YEAH, SPEAKING IN

TONGUES. SO NOTICE HOW WHEN GOD SET THESE THINGS IN THE CHURCH,

IT WAS FOR THE PURPOSE OF THE SUPERNATURAL. GOD WANTS THE

SUPERNATURAL, AND HE WANTS YOU TO BE PART OF THAT SUPERNATURAL.

NOW I WANT YOU TO LOOK HERE, LET'S TALK ABOUT PROPHETS,

BECAUSE ONE OF THE THINGS THAT THE BIBLE SAYS THAT GOD PUTS IN

THE CHURCH IS PROPHETS. HOW MANY OF YOU SAW THAT? NOW, WHAT DO

PROPHETS DO? I WANT YOU TO LOOK AT AMOS 3:7. AGAIN, I'M JUST

Amos 3:7

MAKING A LITTLE REPETITIVE STUFF HERE. IN AMOS 3:7, "SURELY THE

Amos 3:7

LORD GOD WILL DO WHAT? NOTHING, BUT THAT HE REVEALS HIS

SECRETS." OR HIS SECRETS. NOW, I'VE OFTEN ASKED MYSELF, WHY IS

IT SINGULAR, SECRET, AND NOT PLURAL? NOW, MAYBE OTHER

TRANSLATIONS THAT MIGHT HAVE IT BE, YOU KNOW, PLURAL. BECAUSE

HERE IS A PRINCIPLE THAT YOU HAVE TO UNDERSTAND ABOUT

PROPHETS IN THE BIBLE. THEY WERE CALLED THE FRIENDS OF GOD. AND

THE REASON THEY WERE CALLED THE FRIENDS OF GOD IS BECAUSE THEY

HAD A UNIQUE RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD THAT WASN'T BASED ON THEIR

GIFTING, THEIR WORDS. IT WAS BASED ON THEY WANTED GOD. AND

THAT'S WHAT WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT TONIGHT. SO SURELY THE

LORD GOD WILL DO NOTHING, BUT HE REVEALS HIS SECRET. CAN I TELL

YOU WHAT HIS SECRET IS? IT'S HIS HEART. YOU GET GOD'S HEART AND

HE WILL TALK. YOU GET GOD'S HEART AND HE WILL SHOW YOU

THINGS TO COME. YOU GET HIS HEART AND I TELL YOU WHAT, HE

WILL SHARE THINGS WITH YOU AND AT TIMES HE'LL TELL YOU TO BE

QUIET AND DON'T SHARE IT WITH ANYBODY. SOMETIMES HE SHOWS ME

THINGS IN THE EARTH THAT I KNOW AHEAD OF TIME IS COMING AND I

WANT SO BAD TO SAY IT BUT I CAN'T BECAUSE I HAVE HIS SECRET.

I HAVE HIS SECRET. I HAVE HIS HEART AND I'M NOT GOING TO

VIOLATE HIS HEART BECAUSE IF I VIOLATE HIS HEART, I VIOLATE

TRUST AND I'M GOING TO SHOW YOU HOW IMPORTANT BUILDING TRUST IS

WITH GOD. IF GOD CAN TRUST YOU, HE WILL SHARE HIS SECRET, HIS

HEART, AND OUT OF THAT WILL COME SECRETS. NOTICE THE JOB OF THE

PROPHETS. THEIR JOB IS TO BE SERVANTS. TOO MANY PEOPLE WANT

TO BE SERVED, RIGHT? THEY WANT TO BE NOTICED WITH THEIR GIFT.

WELL, YOU SERVE GOD AND YOU BE A SERVANT. OKAY, THE REASON I WANT

TO HEAR GOD IS NOT SO THAT PEOPLE CAN GLORIFY THE GIFTING,

THE UTTERANCE. I WANT TO SERVE GOD. I WANT TO HELP PEOPLE. YOU

KNOW, IN A CRAZY TIME THAT WE'RE LIVING IN, CONFUSION, YOU KNOW,

WHAT IS TRUTH? I ALWAYS SAY IT TO GOD, GOD, YOUR HEART, YOUR

SECRET DEMANDS A VOICE. I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE, BUT GOD, I'M

HONORED TO BE ONE OF THEM. BUT LORD, HERE'S THE DEAL, THE

PEOPLE, IT DEMANDS THAT THEY HEAR YOUR HEART, YOUR SECRET. IT

DEMANDS THAT THEY RECEIVE TRUTH. RIGHT? AND SO I WANT YOU TO

UNDERSTAND THAT. NOW LET'S TALK ABOUT THIS BECAUSE, YOU KNOW,

FOR EXAMPLE, WHEN THE ISRAELI WAR HAPPENED, PEOPLE WERE

WRITING IN ON SOCIAL MEDIA, "WELL, HOW COME NO PROPHET HEARD

THIS?" WELL, WHOA, WHOA, WAIT A MINUTE. GOD DOES NOTHING IN THE

EARTH UNLESS HE REVEALS THE SECRETS TO HIS SERVANTS, THE

PROPHETS. AND OUR MINISTRY, WE HAD GOD SPEAK. YOU CAN LOOK AT

THOSE PROPHECIES OR TALK ABOUT THEM ON NOVEMBER 15TH COMING UP.

THERE WERE PROPHECIES FROM APRIL 16TH AND APRIL 30TH. GOD SAID IN

THE DAYS AHEAD THERE'S GOING TO BE A STRIKE AGAINST ISRAEL. HE

SAID SEPTEMBER 14TH OR 15TH AT OUR CONFERENCE. IRAN WOULD BE

INVOLVED IN A STRIKE REGARDING ISRAEL. SO JUST BECAUSE YOU

DIDN'T HEAR IT DIDN'T MEAN THAT GOD DIDN'T SPEAK IT. DON'T JUST

ASSUME, "WELL SEE THE PROPHETS THEY MISSED IT. I DON'T BELIEVE

IN ALL THIS PROPHETIC STUFF. NOBODY HEARD THIS." WELL WAIT A

MINUTE, MAYBE YOU DIDN'T HEAR IT. BUT I GUARANTEE YOU

SOMEWHERE THERE WAS A PROPHETIC UTTERANCE, A PROPHETIC WARNING,

A PROPHETIC MESSAGE SOMEWHERE THAT GOD WAS SAYING IT. AMEN. DO

YOU KNOW THERE WAS IN OUR CHURCH, AND I DON'T KNOW IF ANY

OF YOU WOULD BE HERE, BUT SIX MONTHS BEFORE COLUMBINE

HAPPENED, I WAS CAUGHT UP IN A VISION AND I WAS TAKING OVER THE

SCHOOLS IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND I SAW THE SPIRIT OF

TERROR. AND GUESS WHERE IT CAME FROM? IT CAME FROM Y2K FEAR.

THAT'S WHAT THE LORD SAID, BECAUSE I GOT A LOT OF HEAT BACK

IN 1999, WHEN I HAD A VISITATION FROM THE LORD. IT WAS ON MY

SON'S BIRTHDAY, AUGUST 23RD OF 1999. AND THE LORD, I HAD A

VISITATION, AND HE SAID, "YOU TELL THE PEOPLE Y2K WILL NOT BE

AS THEY ARE PROGNOSTICATING, AS THEY ARE DECLARING." AND I SAID,

"WELL, LORD, DO WE NEED TO STIR UP?" HE SAID, "DON'T WASTE YOUR

TIME." AND BOY, WE WERE ON THE RADIO BACK THEN. WE HAD PEOPLE

WRITING HATE MAIL AND ALL KINDS OF STUFF. WE EVEN HAD ONE

PASTORAL GUY WRITE AND SAID, "WELL, WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO

WHEN YOU HAVE DECEIVED YOUR PEOPLE AND YOU HAVE NO FOOD AND

NO WATER AND THEY HAVE NOWHERE TO GO?" WELL, I WOULD HAVE LOVED

TO HAVE GONE TO HIS CHURCH AND FLICKERED HIS LIGHTS, YOU KNOW.

BUT HERE'S WHAT GOD SAID. IN THE VISITATION, HE SAID THAT THE

SPIRIT OF FEAR WAS TRYING TO CROSS THE NEW MILLENNIAL LINE

AHEAD OF THE MOMENTUM OF THE CHURCH. AND AS A RESULT, GOD

SAID THE FEAR WOULD BE TERROR. AND YOU LOOK AT WHAT HAPPENED

SHORTLY AFTER, THE Y2K, WHERE PEOPLE JUST ABSOLUTELY HOOK,

LINE AND SINKER, ABSOLUTELY DOVE INTO FEAR MONGERING. WE'VE

NEVER, WE'VE NEVER BEEN ABLE TO RECAPTURE A CERTAIN LEVEL OF

FEAR. IN FACT, I THINK IT'S GOTTEN GREATER. SO MY POINT IS,

LOOK, GOD DID SPEAK IT. SOMETIMES EITHER YOU DIDN'T HEAR

IT, YOU DON'T BELIEVE IT, RIGHT? OR HERE'S ANOTHER ONE. WHEN

COLUMBINE HAPPENED, MAN, I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO DO. I'M

HEARING THIS AND I REMEMBER IT THAT NIGHT. I'M LIKE, I SAID,

"GUYS, I SEE COLORADO AND I SEE THIS WORD COLUMBINE. I DON'T

EVEN KNOW WHAT TO DO." SO WE PRAYED. THAT'S THE BEST THING

YOU CAN DO. BUT SOMETIMES I'VE HEARD THINGS AND I REFUSE TO

SPEAK IT. THERE ARE TIMES WHERE I HAVE BEEN IN A MEETING AND

I'VE HEARD GOD SPEAK TO ME AND HE SAID SOMETHING AND I WAS SO

AFRAID OF THE FACES OF THE PEOPLE. I DIDN'T WANT TO BE

WRITTEN UP AGAIN AND MISUNDERSTOOD AND I HELD ON TO

IT AND I WOULD HAVE TO GO BACK AND I'VE HAD TO GO BACK AND I'VE

HAD TO DEAL WITH GOD. HE SAID, "EITHER YOU'RE GONNA SPEAK FOR

ME OR YOU'RE NOT. ARE YOU GONNA SPEAK IT?" I'M TRYING, LORD, I'M

TRYING. BUT YOU KNOW WHAT? AND HE'S VERY PATIENT. HE'S VERY

GOOD. BUT HERE'S THE POINT. SOMETIMES IT'S NOT THAT GOD

DIDN'T REVEAL THE SECRETS. AGAIN, EITHER YOU DIDN'T KNOW OF

IT, GOD SPOKE IT, BUT YOU DIDN'T RECEIVE IT BECAUSE YOU DIDN'T

UNDERSTAND IT. OR MAYBE THE VESSEL DIDN'T COMMUNICATE IT.

SO, ALRIGHT, BUT IT'S NEVER ON GOD'S PART. NEVER ON GOD'S PART.

ALRIGHT, I WANT TO GET INTO SOME OTHER THINGS HERE. I WANT YOU TO

LOOK AT JEREMIAH 1, AND I WANT YOU TO LOOK ABOUT THE PROPHET

REAL QUICK. THAT'S SOMETHING THAT IS A VERY, YOU KNOW WHAT,

LET ME, BEFORE WE DO THAT, LET'S GO BACK TO EZEKIEL SEVEN. I WANT

TO HIT THIS ONE, ACTUALLY. I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE I HAVE

ENOUGH TIME TO SHARE WHAT I REALLY WANT TO KIND OF GET INTO.

IN EZEKIEL 7, NOTICE WHAT THE JOB OF THE PROPHET IS. THIS IS

WHY WHEN PEOPLE COME AGAINST THE PROPHETIC MOVEMENT OR THEY COME

AGAINST CERTAIN PROPHETS THAT ARE TRUE PROPHETS, THE

LEGITIMACY OF THE PROPHETIC MINISTRY TODAY, THEY DON'T

REALIZE THAT GOD HAS SET IT INTO THE EARTH FOR A BENEFIT. NOW, I

LIKE, I THINK IT IS, AND I DON'T OFTEN LIKE TO QUOTE FROM THE NIV

BECAUSE I THINK THE NIV IS VERY INACCURATE ON MANY OF ITS

TRANSLATIONS. BUT I DO WANT TO PUT UP THE NIV BECAUSE I DO

BELIEVE, AS I'VE LOOKED OVER DIFFERENT TRANSLATIONS, IT SAYS

WHAT I REALLY THINK IT NEEDS TO SAY, AND THAT IS THIS, IT SAYS

DISASTER UPON DISASTER. SO THIS ONE SAYS MISCHIEF UPON MISCHIEF,

THEY CAN KEEP IT UP THERE, BUT OTHER TRANSLATIONS SAY DISASTERS

UPON DISASTERS. HOW MANY ARE SEEING DISASTERS IN THE EARTH?

OKAY, HOW MANY ARE SEEING MISCHIEF? SO YOU CAN KEEP THAT

VERSE OF KING JAMES UP THERE. BUT THEN THERE'S ALSO RUMOR

SHALL BE UPON RUMORS. HOW MANY RUMORS ARE OUT THERE?

CONSPIRACIES, ALL KINDS OF CRAZY THINGS. PEOPLE DON'T KNOW WHAT

TO HEAR. ALRIGHT, THAT'S WHAT OUR SOCIETY IS RIGHT NOW. PEOPLE

ARE LIKE, "I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO BELIEVE." THERE'S A LOT OF

DISASTERS, A LOT OF MISCHIEF, A LOT OF RUMORS. THEN THEY SHALL

SEEK A VISION OF THE PROPHET. BUT NOTICE THE LAW SHALL PERISH

FROM THE PRIEST. IN OTHER WORDS, THE WORD OF GOD IS NOT EVEN

GOING TO BE MENTIONED, SPOKEN, EVEN FROM THE PRIESTHOOD. AND

EVEN THE COUNSEL FROM THE ANCIENTS. IN OTHER WORDS, YOU'RE

NOT GOING TO BE ABLE TO FIND GODLY COUNSEL. YOU'RE NOT EVEN

GOING TO BE ABLE TO HEAR BIBLICAL TRUTH. AND THERE'S

GOING TO COME A TIME WHERE GOD'S GOING TO SAY, "LOOK, I'M SHARING

MY HEART. I'M REVEALING WHAT I WANT TO DO IN THE EARTH, AND I'M

DOING IT THROUGH MY PROPHETS." OKAY? THAT'S HOW GOD CHOOSES IN

TIMES OF MISCHIEF, TIMES OF DISASTER, WHEN THERE'S A LOT OF

RUMORS, PEOPLE DON'T KNOW WHAT TO HEAR, HE WILL ALWAYS INJECT

HIS SECRETS, HIS SECRET INTO THE EARTH, SO THAT YOU KNOW WHAT IS

TRUE AND WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN. RIGHT? JEREMIAH 29:11 IS

Jeremiah 29:11

WRITTEN FOR A NATION. I HAVE PLANS FOR YOU TO GIVE YOU HOPE,

TO GIVE YOU A FUTURE. ONE OF THE WAYS GOD DOES THIS THROUGH

PROPHECY, HE GIVES YOU HOPE, HE GIVES YOU A FUTURE, AND WATCH

THIS, TO GIVE YOU AN EXPECTED END. WE'RE NOT ALWAYS HAVING TO

GUESS HOW THINGS ARE GOING TO TURN OUT. GOD WANTS TO TELL US

AHEAD OF TIME, THIS IS HOW THIS IS GOING TO TURN OUT, THIS IS

WHAT I WANT YOU TO DO, BUT YOU NEED TO PRAY. I REMEMBER WHEN

GOD KEPT PROPHESYING ABOUT NETANYAHU. HE'S GOING TO BE

RAISED UP AGAIN, AND PEOPLE WERE WRITING, "OH, DON'T YOU KNOW

THAT THIS INDICTMENT, AND THIS AND THAT, AND HE'S DONE THIS AND

THAT." AND YET GOD NEVER CHANGED HIS MIND, GOD NEVER CHANGED HIS

WORD COMING OUT OF THIS MOUTH, AND HE KEPT SAYING, "I'M GOING

TO RAISE HIM UP, HE'S GOING TO BE A BULWARK, HE'S GOING TO

STAND EVEN WHEN THEY TRY TO COME THROUGH TUNNELS, EVEN WHEN THEY

TRY TO COME AND STRIKE ISRAEL. I WILL RAISE UP THIS MAN WHO WILL

BE LIKE IT WAS WITH DAVID AT ZIKLAG. HE'S GOING TO PURSUE,

HE'S GOING TO OVERTAKE, AND WITHOUT FAILURE HE'S GOING TO

RECOVER ALL." HOW MANY UNDERSTAND THAT? SO GOD WILL

RAISE UP PROPHETIC VOICES SO THAT WE DO KNOW THE OUTCOME OF

WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN IN THE EARTH. NOW I WANT YOU TO GO OVER

TO JEREMIAH 1 AND I WANT YOU TO SEE WHAT PROPHETS ABSOLUTELY ARE

SET TO DO. NOW NOT EVERY PROPHET IS SET TO BE A PROPHET OF

EVENTS. OKAY, I'VE SEEN SOME PROPHETIC VOICES AND THIS IS

JUST MY OPINION. I'M NOT CALLING ANYBODY OUT, BUT I'VE WATCHED

WHERE SOME PROPHETIC VOICES IN THE PAST AND SOMETIMES EVEN

TODAY, THEY'RE MORE OF AN ECHO. THEY'RE NOT GRACED TO SPEAK

NATIONALLY. THEY'RE NOT CALLED TO REALLY BE A PROPHET OVER

AMERICA OR OVER THE NATIONS OR THE NATIONS, BUT THEY FEEL LIKE

THEY HAVE TO JUMP ON THE BANDWAGON AND DO SO. THAT'S WHY

A LOT OF THEM STARTED APOLOGIZING WHEN THE HEAT GOT ON

BECAUSE DID YOU REALLY HEAR IT? BECAUSE IF YOU REALLY HAVE THE

HEART OF GOD, THE MOST SACRED THING THAT CAN BE GIVEN TO YOU,

THE HEART OF GOD, AND HE SHARES THE SECRET WITH YOU, AND HE

TELLS YOU SOMETHING, YOU HAVE TO HOLD ON TO THAT WORD UNTIL HE

TELLS YOU OTHERWISE. NOT BECAUSE IT LOOKS LIKE IT'S WRONG, YOU

FEEL THE PRESSURE FROM THE PEOPLE, CHANCES ARE YOU PROBABLY

REALLY BECAUSE I KNOW WHEN I HEAR SOMETHING, AND I KNOW THAT

I KNOW, I DON'T GIVE A ROYAL RAT'S RUMP WHAT ANYBODY WRITES,

WHAT ANYBODY SAYS, I ONLY CARE THAT I'M HONORING HIM, AND THAT

I'M STICKING TO WHAT HE SAID, AND I'M NOT BACKING OFF. BECAUSE

I'VE SEEN TOO MANY PROPHECIES COME TO PASS. BUT WHAT I'M

SAYING IS PEOPLE STEP INTO A PLACE THAT IS NOT, THEY'RE NOT

GRACE TO BE. AND THE LATEST THING IS THIS, YOU KNOW, LET'S

GIVE NATIONAL WORDS, LET'S, YOU KNOW, BE CAREFUL. YOU DON'T WANT

TO STEP INTO AN AUTHORITY THAT HAS NOT BEEN GIVEN TO YOU BY

JESUS, THE LORD OF THE CHURCH. IT'S VERY DANGEROUS. JESUS IS

THE ONE THAT SETS PROPHETS IN THE CHURCH. AND WHEN HE SETS

THEM IN THE CHURCH, IT'S HIM WHO GIVES WHAT'S CALLED POSITIONAL

AUTHORITY AND GRACE. YOU DON'T POSITION YOURSELF. JESUS TALKED

ABOUT THAT IN LUKE 14. HE SAID IF YOU GO MARCHING UP TO THE

FRONT ROW OF THE SEAT OF PROPHET OVER THE NATION, PROPHET TO

AMERICA, AND GOD HASN'T POSITIONED YOU THERE, HE HASN'T

SEATED YOU THERE, YOU'RE GOING TO GET MOVED. YOU'RE GOING TO

GET EMBARRASSED BECAUSE YOU DON'T HAVE THE INVITED GRACE OR

INVITATION BY THE HOLY ONE TO SIT THERE. AND SO YOU'RE GOING

TO GET MOVED. AND THAT'S WHAT HE TALKS ABOUT. HOW MANY OF YOU

EVER, YOU SAW AN OPEN SEAT IN FRONT OF AN EVENT OR TABLE AND

THEN YOU GET MOVED? HAVE YOU EVER HAD THAT HAPPEN TO YOU? I

HAD THAT HAPPEN TO ME AT A BENNY HINN MEETING. I WAS LIKE 22,

MAN. AND THERE WAS AN OPEN SEAT AND I WAS SO EXCITED. I RAN TO

THE FRONT, SAT DOWN IN THE SEAT AND I'M LIKE, "OH YEAH. COME ON

GOD." AND ALL OF A SUDDEN HE USHERED RIGHT IN FRONT OF

EVERYBODY ON THE MICROPHONE, "HEY, YOU NEED TO MOVE. THAT'S

FOR BENNY HINN'S TEAM." WHO'S HE TALKING TO? AND THEN YOU ACT

LIKE YOU DROPPED A QUARTER. "OH, I JUST SAW YOU." AND YOU WITH

THE RED FACE GO WALKING AWAY. I WAS LIKE 22. I WAS STUPID. BUT

ANYWAY, LOOK AT JEREMIAH 1. DON'T DO THAT STUFF, MAN. AND

DON'T DO IT IN THE BEFORE I FORMED YOU IN THE BELLY, I KNEW

YOU. AND I KNEW YOU. AND BEFORE YOU CAME FORTH OUT OF THE WOMB,

I SANCTIFIED THEE AND I ORDAINED YOU AS A PROPHET UNTO THE

NATIONS. SO, OKAY, SO RIGHT THERE, WHO WAS THE ONE THAT GAVE

HIM THE CALL? DID HE COME OUT BECAUSE HE COULD NOW HAVE A

PODCAST AND DECIDE THAT HE'S GOT FOLLOWERS AND SO NOW I'M GOING

TO START PROPHESYING ABOUT NATIONAL EVENTS. BECAUSE I'M

LISTENING TO WHAT OTHER PEOPLE ARE SAYING. AND LISTEN, THERE'S

A COUPLE PEOPLE THAT I HAVE TO WATCH SOMETIMES BECAUSE WHATEVER

I PROPHESY, THEY COME OUT WITH IT ABOUT TWO TO THREE DAYS LATER

AND I'M LIKE, YOU KNOW, CAN YOU EVER JUST GET IT YOURSELF? AND

SO I JUST QUIT LISTENING TO THEM. SO ANYWAY, AND MAYBE

THEY'RE GETTING DEPOSITED, I DON'T KNOW. BUT BEFORE I FORMED

THE IN THE BELLY, I KNEW YOU. SO I CALLED YOU TO BE A PROPHET

UNTO THE NATIONS. SO WHAT IS THEIR CALLING? A PROPHET TO THE

NATIONS. NOW I WANT YOU TO, FOR THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE TAKING

NOTES, TO REALIZE THAT THERE ARE DIFFERENT KINDS OF PROPHETIC

POSITIONING BY JESUS. THERE'S PROPHETS TO NATIONS, JEREMIAH

Jeremiah 1:10

1:10. THERE'S PROPHETS TO THE BODY OF CHRIST, WHERE THEY WILL

NEVER PROPHESY NECESSARILY. I'M NOT SAYING THAT GOD WILL NEVER

GIVE THEM A WORD, BUT THEY ARE A PROPHET TO THE BODY OF CHRIST,

WHERE THEY ALWAYS HAVE A WORD FOR WHAT GOD IS SAYING TO HIS

CHURCH. IT'S NOT SO MUCH THE NATION, OKAY? I'VE WATCHED YOU,

JOHN, MANY YEARS GET WORDS FOR THE BODY OF CHRIST AND FOR THE

CHURCH. I'VE EVEN SEEN YOU TAP INTO THINGS, EVEN INTO EVENTS.

BUT THERE ARE SOME FOLK WHERE THEY WILL JUST LITERALLY,

ABSOLUTELY, MAN, THEY ARE HEARING GOD FOR HIS CHURCH. I

MET A PROPHET OVER THE BODY OF CHRIST THE OTHER DAY AND HE

SAID, "MAN, GOD SHOWED ME THE CHURCH IS WAKING UP. THE REMNANT

IS THE ONE THAT IS CAUSING THE CHURCH TO BE AWAKENED." AND HE

WAS SHARING SOME OTHER THINGS AND I WAS LIKE, "MAN, YOU ARE

RIGHT IN LINE WITH WHAT I SENSE." THERE'S PROPHETS TO THE

LOCAL CHURCH, OKAY? AND BY THE WAY, BODY OF CHRIST IS ACTS

Acts 15:32

15:32. ACTS 13:1, YOU REMEMBER SAUL BEFORE HE WAS NAMED PAUL?

Acts 13:1

HE WAS SAUL AND HE WAS LEARNING IN THE CHURCH OF ANTIOCH. AND HE

WAS A TEACHER AND HE WAS A PROPHET AND HE WAS FUNCTIONING

IN THE LOCAL CHURCH. AND THE REASON WHY A LOCAL CHURCH

CONNECTION, IF YOU WANT TO GROW PROPHETICALLY, IS BECAUSE IT

GIVES YOU AN OPPORTUNITY TO BE GROOMED. IT GETS YOU AN

OPPORTUNITY TO DO WHAT I CALL JESUS'S FIRST MIRACLE. THE

GOVERNOR OF THE FEAST, WHERE YOU'RE BEING FED, HAS AN

OPPORTUNITY TO DO A TASTE TEST ON YOUR CHARACTER, TASTE TEST ON

HOW ABOUT YOUR MARRIAGE, HOW YOU HANDLE YOUR MONEY, HOW YOU

HANDLE YOUR MORALITY, A TASTE TEST, HOW ABOUT THIS, ON HOW

YOUR CHARACTER IS, BUT HOW ABOUT YOUR GIFTING? AND NOT JUST IN

YOUR GIFTING, BUT HOW DO YOU DISPLAY YOUR GIFTING? I TOLD YOU

YEARS AGO, I HAD TO HAVE SOMEBODY CORRECT ME, BECAUSE I

WOULD PROPHESY ACCURATE WORDS IN THE CHURCH, BUT THEY HAD TO COME

AND SAY, "PASTOR HANK, YOU WALK LIKE A CHICKEN WHEN YOU

PROPHESY." PLEASE DON'T TELL ME I STILL DO THAT. BUT I DIDN'T

REALIZE I WAS, "THUS SAITH THE LORD, ER, ER, ER, ER, ER, ER."

OKAY, YOU DON'T WANT TO DO THAT. HE SAID, "IT'S HINDERING YOUR

GIFT." OKAY, SO THERE WAS PROPHETS OVER LOCAL CHURCHES,

PROPHETS OVER EVENTS. THERE ARE PROPHETS THAT GOD WILL SPEAK TO

THEM ABOUT SPECIFIC EVENTS. AGABUS HAD A PROPHECY ABOUT A

FAMINE. THERE'S PROPHETS OR PROPHECY TO INDIVIDUALS. NOW

JUST BECAUSE YOU PROPHESY TO AN INDIVIDUAL DOESN'T MEAN YOU'RE A

PROPHET. BUT I HAVE SEEN THAT THERE ARE CERTAIN PROPHETS THAT

THEY'LL NEVER PROPHESY A WORD TO THE BODY OF CHRIST. THEY'LL

NEVER PROPHESY, BUT THEY ARE PROPHETS, MAN. THEY HAVE A GIFT

AND A GRACE TO SPEAK TO INDIVIDUALS. YOU KNOW, I USED TO

PROPHESY OVER INDIVIDUALS A LOT MORE THAN I DO NOW. AND I ASKED

THE LORD ABOUT IT. AND I SAID, "GOD," AND HE WAS THE ONE THAT

TOLD ME, HE SAID, "UNLESS I MOVE YOU THAT DIRECTION, HANK, I NEED

YOUR ATTENTION AND YOUR EAR AND YOUR VOICE, YOUR WORDS, YOUR

MOUTH, YOUR TONGUE. I NEED IT OVER THE NATION. I NEED IT OVER

THE NATIONS OF THE EARTH." I USED TO TRAVEL 40 TO 50 TIMES

OUT OF THE COUNTRY TO FOREIGN NATIONS A YEAR. AND GOD SAID TO

ME, HE SAID, "FOR RIGHT NOW, YOU ARE TO BE IN AMERICA, AND YOU

ARE TO NOT BE SO MUCH THIS WAY, BUT YOU ARE TO BE THIS WAY AND

THEN THIS WAY, WHATEVER I TELL YOU." AND SO IF I'M CONSTANTLY

TRYING TO DO THIS ALL THE TIME AND PROPHESY TO INDIVIDUALS, I

WILL STEP OUT OF A CERTAIN GRACE THAT GOD HAS CALLED ME TO. I

HAVE TO HEAR, I HAVE TO WATCH, AND I HAVE TO SPEAK WHAT GOD IS

SAYING AT A LEVEL THAT IS WHAT HE'S ASKING ME TO DO. DOES THAT

MAKE SENSE? NOW IT DOESN'T MEAN I DON'T PROPHESY OVER PEOPLE. I

USED TO DO IT A LOT MORE. WHAT HAPPENED? YOU HAVE TO UNDERSTAND

ASSIGNMENTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES CHANGE. DON'T JUST KEEP DOING

SOMETHING BECAUSE YOU'VE ALWAYS DONE IT THAT WAY. THAT'S HOW YOU

GET INTO, THAT'S WHY CAMPS GET INTO BECOMING DEAD. BECAUSE

YOU'VE ALWAYS BEEN GOING AROUND THE MOUNTAIN THE WHOLE TIME AND

GOD SAYS, "I'VE BEEN WANTING YOU TO GO TO YOUR PROMISED LAND AND

YOU KEEP GOING AROUND THE SAME OLD MOUNTAIN DOING THE SAME OLD

THING." SO I ALWAYS TRY TO LISTEN TO GOD ON WHAT AM I

SUPPOSED TO DO. IT'S NOT MY GIFT, IT'S YOURS. IT'S NOT MY

OFFICE, IT'S YOURS. ALWAYS REMEMBER. ALRIGHT, NOW LET'S GO

ON TO THE NEXT ONE. LOOK HERE, THIS IS WHAT I WANT TO GET INTO

TONIGHT. LOOK AT JEREMIAH 1:7-9, "AND WHATEVER I COMMAND YOU, YOU

Jeremiah 1:7–9

SHALL SPEAK." OKAY, NOTICE IT'S A COMMAND. "YOU ARE UNDER ORDERS

FROM HEAVEN." THAT DOESN'T MEAN YOU GO UP RUDELY AND YOU SAY,

"THUS SAITH THE LORD, I'M UNDER ORDERS FROM HEAVEN TO SPEAK."

NOW, I'VE HAD VERY RARE OPPORTUNITY OR TIMES AS A

PROPHET WHERE I'VE HAD TO BECAUSE SOMEBODY WASN'T

LISTENING. THEY WERE IN REBELLION. THEY WERE IN DANGER.

AND IF I DIDN'T TELL THEM, THEY WERE GOING TO HURT THEMSELVES OR

SOMETHING WOULD REALLY HAPPEN. AND I'VE HAD PEOPLE WHEN I WOULD

TELL THEM, I'VE GOT TO TELL YOU I'M UNDER ORDERS FROM HEAVEN. I

HAVE TO TELL YOU THIS. THIS BOTHERS ME TO TELL YOU THIS, BUT

I HAVE TO TELL YOU THIS AND YOU'RE NOT GOING TO LIKE IT. AND

I'VE HAD THEM SPIT IN MY FACE. ONE GUY DID. HE SPIT IN MY FACE

AND THEN CALLED ME FALSE AND HE WAS DEAD WITHIN A WEEK. BUT

HERE'S THE POINT. YOU HAVE TO BE VERY, VERY UNDER AUTHORITY, BUT

YOU ALSO DON'T USE THAT. DON'T TAKE THAT AS A LIBERTY WHERE I'M

UNDER COMMAND OF GOD. I HAVE TO SPEAK THIS. I KNOW PEOPLE THAT

GO UP TO PASTORS AND TRY TO REBUKE THEM. WELL, THEY'RE

TOTALLY OUT OF ORDER. YOU KNOW, DON'T DO THAT KIND OF STUFF. BUT

THERE IS A CERTAIN SACREDNESS TO WHERE WHEN YOU BEGIN TO WALK

WITH GOD THAT YOU WILL FEEL COMPELLED. YOU KNOW HOW I KNOW

THAT GOD SPEAKS TO ME AND I'M UNDER ORDERS FROM HEAVEN? IS

HE'S VERY PATIENT WITH ME. YOU KNOW WHAT HE DOES WITH ME? I

LITERALLY FEEL THIS SENSATION INSIDE OF ME LIKE, IT'S LIKE,

YOU EVER HAD IT WHERE LIKE YOU'RE GETTING READY TO SPEAK OR

SOMETHING, YOU KNOW, OR YOU'RE GETTING READY TO RUN A RACE. YOU

FEEL THIS IN CONTINUAL INTENSITY AND IT'S ALMOST LIKE GOD IS

PUTTING HIS THUMB ON ME. YOU HAVE TO SAY IT. THERE'S SO MANY

TIMES I'M STANDING OVER THERE AND I FEEL, I DON'T WANT TO SAY

MY HEART RACES BECAUSE IT DOESN'T, BUT I CAN FEEL THIS

CONSTANT PRESS OF GOD ON ME. HANK, YOU HAVE TO SAY THIS. THIS

HAS TO COME OUT. AND SOMETIMES I ONLY KNOW A PIECE OF IT. I DON'T

KNOW THE WHOLE THING. SO YOU HAVE TO JUST KIND OF PRIME THE

PUMP AND THEN LET IT COME. HOW MANY EVER HAD THAT HAPPEN TO

YOU? OKAY, NOW WATCH THIS. THE PART I WANT YOU TO HEAR IS, LOOK

AT THIS, BE NOT AFRAID OF THEIR FACES. IF YOU WANT TO FLOW IN

THE PROPHETIC AND YOU WANT TO BE ACCURATE, YOU GOT TO BE CAREFUL

BECAUSE YOU'RE ALWAYS GOING TO HAVE A CRITIC. NOW, IF THE

PASTOR TELLS YOU DON'T PROPHESY IN HIS CHURCH TO PEOPLE, DON'T

PROPHESY IN THE PARKING LOT, ALL RIGHT, THAT'S HIS CHURCH, IT'S

HIS PEOPLE. BUT WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT IS THERE COMES A POINT

WHERE YOU CANNOT LET FEAR KEEP YOU FROM BEING USED OF GOD. IT'S

THE THING THAT I POINTED OUT IN ROMANS 8, WHERE IT SAYS THAT

THOSE THAT ARE THE CHILDREN OF GOD, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE LED BY THE

SPIRIT, YOU'RE CHILDREN OF GOD. AND YOU'VE NOT BEEN GIVEN THE

SPIRIT OF BONDAGE AGAIN UNDER FEAR. WELL, WHY DID IT MENTION

FEAR IN THE SAME CONTEXT OF BEING LED BY THE SPIRIT? BECAUSE

TOO MANY PEOPLE ARE AFRAID TO TRUST THAT GOD WILL SPEAK TO

YOU, THAT GOD WILL SHOW YOU THINGS, GOD WILL REVEAL THINGS

TO YOU. SO YOU DON'T BE MOVED BY THEIR FACES, BUT WATCH THIS,

"FOR I AM WITH YOU TO DELIVER YOU," SAYETH THE LORD, "AND THEN

THE LORD PUT FORTH HIS HAND," AND WATCH THIS, "TOUCHED MY

MOUTH. AND THE LORD SAID TO ME, 'BEHOLD, I'VE PUT MY WORDS IN

YOUR MOUTH.'" SO YOU COULD SAY IT THIS WAY. GO OVER TO 2 KINGS

4. YOU COULD SAY ONE OF THE THINGS THAT GOD DOES IS HE, IT'S

CALLED FACE TO FACE, HEART TO HEART, MOUTH TO MOUTH. PEOPLE

OFTEN SAY TO ME, PASTOR HANK, HOW DO I INCREASE THE VOICE OF

GOD? HOW DO I GET MORE VISIONS AND DREAMS? I ALREADY TOLD YOU,

COME UP HIGHER, ALRIGHT? NOW WHEN YOU COME UP HIGHER, WHEN

YOU ARE DETERMINED THAT YOU'RE GOING TO COME UP HIGHER IN YOUR

SPIRITUAL WALK, IN YOUR SPIRITUAL DETERMINATION, YOUR

SPIRITUAL DRIVE, WHEN YOU DETERMINE THAT YOU ARE GOING TO

LITERALLY GO TO ANOTHER LEVEL IN THE THINGS OF GOD, ONE OF THE

THINGS THAT YOU HAVE TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU DO IS WHAT THE

APOSTLE JOHN REALIZED. I'M GOING TO SHOW YOU THAT AND IT'S THIS.

IT'S NOT SO MUCH ABOUT YOUR PROPHETIC WORDS, IT'S MORE ABOUT

HIM WHO'S SEATED ON THE WHEN YOU MAKE IT ABOUT GOD, YOU WILL GO

UP TO A WHOLE ANOTHER LEVEL. NOW I'M GOING TO SHOW YOU A KEY.

LOOK AT 2 KINGS 4:31-36. HOW DO YOU GET GOD TO PUT HIS WORDS IN

2 Kings 4:31–36

YOUR MOUTH? HOW DO YOU GET GOD TO SHARE HIS HEART WITH YOU SO

THAT YOU CAN BE A VESSEL? YOU CAN BE USED OF GOD. OKAY? NOW

WATCH THIS. GEHAZI HURRIED ON AHEAD AND LAID THE STAFF ON THE

CHILD'S FACE. NOW THIS PART ALWAYS, IT'S AMAZING TO ME. I'VE

STUDIED AND STUDIED AND STUDIED LOOKING FOR A REASON. BUT

NOTHING HAPPENED. COME ON, HAVE YOU EVER HAD SOMETHING THAT YOU

FELT TO DO PROPHETICALLY AND IT NEVER HAPPENED? IT NEVER CAME TO

PASS? HAVE YOU EVER PROPHESIED SOMETHING AND FOR WHATEVER

REASON IT DIDN'T WORK? HAVE YOU EVER FELT LIKE YOU WERE SUPPOSED

TO DO SOMETHING, YOU KNOW, THAT YOU FELT LIKE YOU HEARD GOD SAY,

BUT ULTIMATELY NOTHING HAPPENED, NO RESULTS. OKAY, IN THIS CASE,

FOR WHATEVER REASON, HE WAS TOLD BY THE PROPHET, GRAB THE STAFF

AND GO. AND THE STAFF, IT DIDN'T WORK. THERE WAS NO POWER, THERE

WAS NO MANIFESTATION, THERE WAS NO RESULTS. AND I'VE HAD THAT

HAPPEN BEFORE IN MY LIFE, WHERE, YOU KNOW, I THOUGHT, "MAN, I'M

REALLY HEARING GOD." AND IT TURNED OUT, FOR WHATEVER REASON,

IT DIDN'T WORK. AND SO I DON'T QUIT, I JUST GO BACK AND SAY,

"LORD, YOU KNOW WHAT? I NEED YOU TO TEACH ME." AND SOMETIMES GOD

WILL TELL ME WHY IT WORKED AND WHY IT DIDN'T WORK. AND

SOMETIMES I JUST HAVE TO, I GUESS I'M GOING TO FIND OUT ONE

DAY. I'VE HAD THAT HAPPEN WHERE I'VE PRAYED FOR PEOPLE IN THE

HOSPITAL, AND I FELT LIKE I HEARD A WORD AND THEY WENT ON TO

HEAVEN. I REMEMBER ONE TIME, MAN, THERE WAS ONE LADY WHERE

SHE CALLED ME ON THE PHONE AND SHE WAS HYSTERICAL. AND A FRIEND

OF HERS OR A RELATIVE HAD DIED. AND, NO, NOT DIED. THEY WERE IN

A COMA. AND THE DOCTOR SAID THAT SHE WAS GOING TO DIE. AND THIS

FRIEND OF MINE CALLED ME AND SAID, "LISTEN, THIS PERSON'S IN

A COMA. AND HANK, THE DOCTORS ARE SAYING THAT ANY MINUTE SHE'S

GOING TO DIE. AND SHE'S IN THIS COMA. SHE DOESN'T KNOW THE

LORD." AND I SAID, "HOLD IT." I SAID, "THERE'S A PROBLEM." THEY

SAID, "WHAT'S THE PROBLEM?" I SAID, "TOO MANY PEOPLE IN THE

ROOM. GET EVERYBODY OUT OF THE ROOM AND DO IT NOW. ALRIGHT? AND

COMMAND HER TO WAKE UP. AND THEN PREACH THE GOSPEL AND SHE'LL GET

SAVED." IN FACT, THE LORD SAID SHE'LL DIE AT 11:30. THIS WAS

LIKE 9:00 IN THE MORNING. SHE CALLS ME BACK AND SAYS, "PASTOR

HANK, IT'S NOT WORKING. IT'S NOT WORKING. I'VE DONE IT. SHE'S

STILL IN A COMA." AND I THOUGHT, "WHAT?" AND SHE GOES, "WE'RE

ONLY ABOUT AN HOUR AND A HALF AWAY FROM WHEN YOU SAID THAT

SHE'S GOING TO DIE," OR WHATEVER IT WAS. AND IT BOTHERED ME. I'M

LIKE, "MAN, I CAN'T. THIS IS NO TIME TO MISS GOD." AND ALL OF A

SUDDEN I HEARD THE HOLY SPIRIT SAY, "SHE DIDN'T DO WHAT YOU

SAID." AND I SAID, "ARE PEOPLE STILL IN THE ROOM?" "YEAH, I

DON'T HAVE THE HEART TO TELL THEM TO LEAVE." I SAID, "WELL,

YOU CALLED ME AND YOU DON'T HAVE THE HEART TO TELL THEM TO LEAVE?

YOU BETTER HAVE A HEART LIKE YOU SAID OR THAT PERSON IS GOING TO

DIE AT 11:30 WITHOUT GOD. GET THEM OUT OF THE ROOM." "OKAY."

SHE GOT HIM OUT. THE PERSON WOKE UP, LED HER TO JESUS, AND SHE

DIED EXACTLY WHEN GOD SAID SHE WOULD. CLOSED HER EYES AND IN

HEAVEN. SEE, YOU TALK ABOUT GETTING TO HEAVEN BY THE HAIR OF

YOUR CHINNY CHIN CHIN. BUT AGAIN, IT MESSED WITH ME BECAUSE

I'M LIKE, YOU KNOW, SO THERE ARE TIMES WHERE YOU PUT A STAFF ON,

YOU PRAY A PRAYER AND IT DOESN'T WORK, BUT THERE'S ALSO TIMES

WHERE THERE'S A REASON. ARE WE FOLLOWING INSTRUCTIONS? ARE WE

REALLY, YOU KNOW, PUTTING OUR INTERPRETATION ON THINGS AND SO

FORTH? I REMEMBER THERE WAS A GIRL THAT USED TO GO TO THIS

CHURCH YEARS AGO, HER FAMILY, AND THEY MOVED, BUT THEY GAVE

HER A LESSON, I THINK 8% OR 5%. DO YOU ALL REMEMBER THAT? MAYBE

IT WAS LESS THAN 3%. I DON'T KNOW, THREE, IT WAS LESS THAN

10-SOMETHING, ONE OF THE NUMBERS. AND THERE WAS NO

VISIBLE SIGN AND CHANGE IN THIS LITTLE PREMATURE BABY. AND ONE

DAY I WAS GETTING READY TO COME TO CHURCH AND I HEARD THE HOLY

SPIRIT SAY, "HANK, I NEED YOU TO DO SOMETHING FOR ME BEFORE

CHURCH. I NEED YOU, OR AFTER CHURCH, GO AND ROCK THIS BABY."

SO I SAID, "OKAY." AND I WENT UP TO THE HOSPITAL AND YOU KNOW

WHAT WAS SO CRAZY IS THE DOCTOR SAID, "NO, WE REALLY CAN'T TAKE

HER OUT OF HER INCUBATOR. YOU'RE GOING TO MAKE HER LIFE BE TOO

MUCH AT RISK." I SAID, "WELL, YOU ALREADY SAID SHE HAD LESS

THAN 10 PERCENT. OKAY, YOU ALREADY LEFT HER UP TO DIE. SO

WHAT DO YOU GOT TO LOSE?" HE SAID, "WELL, WE JUST NEED

PARENTAL CONSENT." THE MOM SAID, "SURE." I'LL NEVER FORGET THAT

DAY. THEY HANDED ME THAT LITTLE BABY. IT WAS THE SMALLEST LITTLE

BABY I EVER HELD. I SAID, "LORD, WHAT DO YOU WANT ME TO DO?" HE

SAID, "ROCK, AND EVERY TIME YOU ROCK, AND EVERY TIME YOU MOVE, I

WILL BREATHE LIFE." AND THIS CHILD'S LIKE 20-SOMETHING TODAY.

BUT YOU SEE, SOMETIMES YOU JUST HAVE TO FOLLOW WITH WHAT GOD

SAYS. FAITH WITHOUT WORDS. YOU KNOW, AND I'VE LEARNED THIS BY

WHEN YOU'RE SUBMITTED. SEE, I'VE SUBMITTED MYSELF. I DON'T JUST

BE A RENEGADE. THAT'S THE WORST MISTAKE YOU CAN MAKE. GOD WON'T

TRUST YOU AND PEOPLE WON'T TRUST YOU. IF YOU PUSH YOURSELF AND

YOU PUSH YOUR GIFT. I MADE THAT MISTAKE EARLY ON IN MY LIFE. I

WAS TRYING TO PUSH MY GIFT A LITTLE TOO MUCH. AND I'M TELLING

YOU, IT NEVER GOES RIGHT. YOU'RE BETTER OFF TO LET GOD PROMOTE

YOU. AND SO WHEN YOU DO HEAR SPECIFIC THINGS, PEOPLE DON'T

JUST THINK YOU'RE BEING A SQUIRREL. THEY'LL TRUST YOU. ALL

RIGHT, HOW MANY ARE YOU GETTING THAT? NOW LOOK HERE. ALRIGHT, SO

IT DIDN'T WORK. THERE WAS NO SIGN OF LIFE. I RETURNED TO MEET

ELISHA AND HE TOLD HIM, "THE CHILD IS STILL DEAD." LET'S KEEP

READING. "WHEN ELISHA ARRIVED, THE CHILD WAS INDEED DEAD, LYING

THERE ON THE PROPHET'S BED. HE WENT IN ALONE, AND HE SHUT THE

DOOR BEHIND HIM AND PRAYED TO THE LORD." STOP RIGHT THERE.

ALRIGHT. NOW, MOST PEOPLE WANT TO HEAR FROM GOD. MOST PEOPLE

WANT TO COME UP HIGHER. BUT YOU KNOW WHAT? THEY'LL NEVER SHUT

THE DOOR BEHIND THEM. THEY KEEP A DOOR OPEN TO WORLDLINESS,

COMPROMISE, FLESH, SIN, THEIR FRIENDS, THEIR CHEEKY, YOU KNOW,

CLUB. AND THEY DON'T CLOSE THE DOOR. IT'S LIKE THEY KEEP THIS

CONNECTION. YOU KNOW, THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED TO LOT'S WIFE.

OBVIOUSLY, THERE WAS SOMETHING IN HER THAT SHE JUST HAD TO LOOK

OVER HER SHOULDER TO MAKE SURE. WELL, IT COST HER HER LIFE.

BECAUSE THERE WAS SOMETHING IN HER. YOU KNOW, MAKE SURE THAT IF

YOU WANT TO GO HIGHER AND YOU REALLY WANT TO SEE GOD

SUPERNATURALLY USE YOU, THAT YOU DON'T LEAVE OPEN DOORS TO WHERE

THE ENEMY CAN COME IN. DON'T LEAVE OPEN DOORS. BECAUSE WHAT

IT WILL DO IS IT WILL KEEP YOU FROM REALLY TAPPING INTO A

HIGHER PLACE WITH GOD. SHUT THE DOOR AND PRAYED TO THE LORD. NOW

WATCH WHAT HAPPENS. THIS IS A PRINCIPLE I WANT TO TEACH YOU.

THEN HE LAID DOWN ON THE CHILD'S BODY. OK, NOW, SO IMAGINE ELIJAH

LAYING DOWN ON TOP OF THIS LITTLE BOY'S BODY. I HAD THAT

HAPPEN TO ME BY A GUY THAT'S IN HEAVEN NOW. HIS NAME WAS PROPHET

ED DUFRESNE. HE WAS A VERY POWERFUL PROPHET. AND HE WOULD

PULL ME OUT OF AUDIENCES HE DIDN'T EVEN KNOW ME IN. HE WOULD

THROW ME UP AGAINST WALLS AND COMMAND THE POWER OF GOD TO COME

ON ME, THE ANOINTING. BUT I REMEMBER ONE SERVICE, HE PICKED

ME UP AND THREW ME ACROSS THE ROOM. AND THEN I WAS LAID ON THE

GROUND AND HE LAID ON THE SIDE AND PUT HIS CHEST FROM THE SIDE

RIGHT HERE AND BREATHED AND GROANED IN THE SPIRIT FOR A

LONG, LONG TIME. I HAVE NO CLUE TO THIS DAY WHAT WAS IMPORTANT

IN MY LIFE, BUT I JUST KNOW WHEN I GOT OFF THE GROUND I FELT

DIFFERENT. BUT HERE'S WHAT WAS HAPPENING. THE CHILD'S BODY,

OKAY, WAS UNDERNEATH ELIJAH. YOU KNOW WHAT THAT WAS? THAT WAS

HEART TO HEART. THAT WAS WHAT THE MOST IMPORTANT WAY IF YOU

WANT GOD TO SPEAK TO YOU, IT'S ALWAYS HEART TO HEART FIRST. THE

FIRST THING YOU NEED TO DO IS LAY DOWN ON THE CHILD'S BODY.

THE FIRST THING YOU NEED TO DO IS LAY YOUR LIFE DOWN. BECAUSE

YOU'VE SHUT THE DOOR, YOU'RE PRAYING TO GOD, YOU'RE LAYING

DOWN BEFORE THE LORD, AND YOU ARE TRYING TO HAVE HEART TO

HEART. I GO AFTER THE HEART OF GOD. I DON'T SEEK FOR PROPHETIC

WORDS, I SEEK HIS HEART. NOW I'M GOING TO SHOW YOU HOW TO SEEK

HIS HEART. BECAUSE IT'S IMPORTANT. NOW, THE NEXT THING

IS, HE PLACED HIS MOUTH ON THE CHILD'S MOUTH. SO NOW, OK, ONCE

YOU GET GOD'S HEART, GET READY, BECAUSE THE NEXT THING, GOD'S

GOING TO START SPEAKING TO YOU. RIGHT, WHEN YOU COME UP HIGHER,

REVELATION 4:1, THEN I'LL SHOW YOU THINGS WHICH MUST COME

Revelation 4:1

HEREAFTER. AND I'M GOING TO SHOW YOU ANOTHER PRINCIPLE WITH JOHN.

THEN HE PUT HIS EYES UPON HIS EYES. OK, THAT'S PROPHETIC

SIGHT. GOD'S GOING TO SHOW YOU THINGS. YOU'RE GOING TO GET

VISIONS AND DREAMS. BUT THE FIRST THING YOU NEED TO DO IS

YOU NEED TO PLACE YOURSELF BEFORE THE LORD HEART TO HEART.

THAT'S WHAT THAT REPRESENTS. BODY TO BODY, HEART TO HEART.

THEN GOD'S GOING TO START SPEAKING TO YOU. YOU'RE GOING TO

START SEEING THINGS. YOU'RE GOING TO GET VISIONS AND DREAMS.

AND THEN HIS HANDS WERE ON THE CHILD'S HANDS. NOW YOU'RE GOING

TO BE ABLE TO SERVE EFFECTIVELY, PURELY IN YOUR GIFT. THAT'S WHY

IT SAYS IN THE BOOK OF ACTS, I BELIEVE IT'S ACTS 20 OR 21,

WHERE IT TALKS ABOUT THAT PHILIP HAD FOUR VIRGIN DAUGHTERS THAT

PROPHESIED. WHY WOULD IT MIX VIRGINITY WITH THEIR PROPHETIC

GIFT? BECAUSE THAT IS THE HIGHEST LEVEL THAT YOU CAN

FUNCTION IN, IS WHEN YOU ARE PURE IN THE HEART, YOU'LL SEE

GOD. WHEN YOU'RE PURE IN THE HEART, YOU'LL SPEAK FOR GOD.

WHEN YOU'RE PURE IN THE HEART, YOU'RE GOING TO BE ABLE TO TAP

INTO A WHOLE OTHER LEVEL OF HEAVENLY INFORMATION AND

REVELATION THAT'S ENTRUSTED TO YOU BY GOD. AMEN? AND AS A

RESULT, THE CHILD CAME TO LIFE. BUT I WANT YOU TO SEE THIS. NOW

LET'S LOOK HERE. SO THE FIRST THING YOU SEE IS HEART TO HEART,

FACE TO FACE. THIS IS THE DESIRE OR WHAT I CALL THE PURSUIT OF

INTIMACY. SO THE FIRST THING ELIJAH DOES WHEN HE COMES IN THE

ROOM, I JUST SHOWED YOU, AND THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE WATCHING,

BODY TO BODY, HEART TO HEART, FACE TO FACE, OKAY? THIS IS THE

MOST IMPORTANT THING. IT HAS TO BE YOUR DRIVE. GOD, I WANT YOUR

FACE. NOW, WHEN YOU GET GOD'S FACE, HE REVEALS HIS HEART. COME

ON, HOW MANY OF YOU EVER BEEN ON A DATE? HOW MANY OF YOU EVER

BEEN MARRIED? RIGHT? FIRST THING YOU DO IS YOU SEE THE FACE OF

THE PERSON THAT YOU'RE GOING OUT WITH. AND THEN AS YOU CONTINUE

TO PURSUE THEM, AS THEY CONTINUE TO WATCH YOU, LISTEN TO YOU,

THEY OPEN THEIR HEART. SAME WAY WITH GOD. YOU SEE HIS FACE. WHEN

IT COMES TO SEEKING HIS FACE, ONE THING I ALWAYS SAY TO GOD

IS, "OKAY," AND I ALWAYS SAY, "GOD, I'M HERE TO SEEK YOUR

FACE." ALRIGHT? AND I LOOK AND I THINK, "OKAY, MAN, HIS HAIR IS

SO BEAUTIFUL." WELL, GOD, YOUR HAIR IS SO FULL OF GLORY AND

WISDOM, AND GOD, I WANT THAT GLORY AND I WANT THAT WISDOM

THAT IS REFLECTED UPON YOUR HEAD. AND THEN I LOOK IN HIS

EYES AND I'M LIKE, "GOD, I WANT, I WANT TO SEE THINGS THE WAY

THAT YOU SEE THINGS. THAT MEANS I'M GONNA HATE WHAT HATE AND I'M

GONNA LOVE WHAT YOU LOVE. BECAUSE I'M AFTER YOUR EYES. I'M

NOT LOOKING AT IT FROM MY PERSPECTIVE, BUT GOD I'M LOOKING

AT IT FROM YOURS. AND I ALREADY TOLD YOU THIS ON ONE OF THE

PROPHETIC SCHOOLS. ONE OF THE CRAZIEST THINGS I HAD HAPPEN TO

ME ONE TIME AS I WAS PRAYING AND THESE EYES APPEARED BEFORE ME.

IT WAS SO INTENSE AND I KNEW THEY WERE THE EYES OF THE LORD.

AND HE SPOKE AND HE SAID, "THERE ARE SOME WHO CALL THEMSELVES

THAT ARE PROPHETS AND THEY ARE NOT." AND HE SAID, "THERE ARE

SOME THAT ARE SAYING THEY'RE OPERATING IN WORD OF KNOWLEDGE,

BUT IT IS PRIOR KNOWLEDGE. I WILL EXPOSE THEM." AND THEN HE

SAID THIS, HE SAID, "NOW COME, I WANT TO SHOW YOU." AND ALL OF A

SUDDEN I WAS PULLED INSIDE OF WHATEVER THIS HAPPENED TO ME.

AND I WAS NO LONGER LOOKING AT THE EYES LIKE, YOU KNOW, IN

FRONT OF ME, BUT I WAS NOW INSIDE. YOU KNOW, HOW MANY OF

YOU KNOW THE BIBLE SAYS WE ARE IN CHRIST? I DON'T KNOW, BUT I

WAS SOMEWHERE WHERE I WAS NOW LOOKING THROUGH HIS EYES AND HE

BEGAN TO SHOW ME THE EARTH AND HE BEGAN TO SHOW ME THINGS IN

THE EARTH. THAT'S ANOTHER REASON WHY I'M NOT MOVED BY THE FUTURE.

I SAW IT. I SAW IT. ARE YOU SAYING JESUS ISN'T COMING? I

DIDN'T SAY THAT. I'M TELLING YOU, I SAW THE FUTURE. AND IT'S

UP TO HIM WHEN HE DECIDES THE KING TO COME. BUT I'M TELLING

YOU, I SAW THE DARKNESS, I PROPHESIED ABOUT THE PLAGUE, BUT

I ALSO SAW REST. I SAW LIGHT, I SAW A RESET, I SAW REVERSALS, I

SAW CRAZY THINGS. IT'S LIKE YOU DIDN'T EVEN RECOGNIZE THE EARTH.

IT WAS SO DIFFERENT BECAUSE OF GOD INVADING IT. BUT I WAS

LITERALLY CAUGHT UP AND I WAS ABLE TO SEE THROUGH HIS EYES.

AND IT CHANGED MY WHOLE PERSPECTIVE. IT CHANGED MY WHOLE

LIFE. THE OTHER THING IS WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE FACE OF GOD, YOU

SEE HIS NOSE. I WANT TO KNOW THE SWEET AROMA. I WANT TO HAVE A

LIFE THAT IS A SWEET AROMA. I WANT TO BE ABLE TO SMELL WHEN

SOMETHING IS OFF AND EVIL. BUT I ALSO, GOD, WANT TO CELEBRATE

RIGHTEOUSNESS. BECAUSE WHEN THE EARTH WAS CLEAN IN GENESIS 8,

THE BIBLE SAYS GOD SMELLED IT. RIGHT? IF YOU WANT TO HEAR FROM

GOD, WHAT'S THE FRAGRANCE YOU'RE GIVING OFF? YOU KNOW, THEN OF

COURSE, YOU KNOW, I LOOK FOR THE LORD'S MOUTH. I WANT HIS MOUTH.

I WANT HIS LIPS. I WANT HIS BREATH. YOU KNOW, I WANT HIS

TOUCH. AND SO WHEN YOU WANT THE WORDS OF GOD, HIS MOUTH, IF YOU

WILL MAKE IT ABOUT HIS FACE AND HIS HEART, JUST LIKE WITH

ELISHA, HE PUT HIS HEART FACE TO FACE, BOOM, THE NEXT THING, IT

WAS THE EYES, IT WAS THE HANDS, COME ON, AND YOU CAN UNDERSTAND

THAT, AND IT WAS THE MOUTH, AND YOU CAN SEE HOW IT PROGRESSES.

ALRIGHT, I WANT TO SHOW YOU THIS. THIS IS AN INCREDIBLE

PRINCIPLE. ARE YOU READY? SO YOU GOT TO HAVE HEART TO HEART. THIS

IS THE KEY. GO AFTER GOD'S FACE. WRITE THAT DOWN. GO AFTER HIS

FACE. GOD, I WANT YOUR FACE AND HE'LL GIVE YOU HIS HEART. WELL,

WHAT'S HIS HEART? HIS MIND, HIS WILL, OKAY, HIS INTENTIONS,

OKAY, HIS DELIGHTS, HIS SECRETS. AND YOU KNOW WHAT? I PUT AN

EQUAL SIGN IN MY NOTES. YOU KNOW WHAT I PUT? IT EQUALS PROPHETIC

WORDS, PROPHETIC REVELATION. WHENEVER I MAKE MY TIME, YOU

KNOW, LIKE NEW YEAR'S EVE SERVICE, YOU KNOW, THERE'S A LOT

OF PRESSURE. WHAT'S GOD GOING TO SAY? YOU KNOW WHAT? IF THIS 2024

GOD DOESN'T SAY ANYTHING THROUGH THIS VESSEL, I'M GOOD. BUT I

FEEL IT BECAUSE I FEEL THE RESPONSIBILITY, BUT WHAT AM I

DOING BEFORE I EVER GET OUT HERE? I'M SAYING GOD, I WOULD

LOVE FOR YOU TO SPEAK TO THE PEOPLE, BUT I LONG FOR HIM. I

WORSHIP HIM. I TELL HIM HOW MUCH I LOVE HIM AND HOW MUCH I WANT

HIM TO SPEAK TO THE PEOPLE AND HOW MUCH WE NEED TO KNOW WHAT

THE FUTURE LOOKS LIKE AND WHAT DOES HE HAVE PLANNED. AND IF YOU

MAKE IT ABOUT HIS FACE, HE WILL GIVE YOU HIS

HEART. AND THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN, BOOM,

MOUTH TO MOUTH. GOD STARTS PUTTING WORDS IN YOUR MOUTH. THE

PROBLEM THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE DO IS THEY GO AFTER THE MOUTH, THEY

GO AFTER THE WORDS. COME ON, IT'S LIKE TRYING TO KISS THE

GIRL ON THE FIRST DATE. WAIT A MINUTE. DON'T TOUCH THOSE LIPS.

RIGHT? WE DO THE SAME THING WITH GOD. WE WANT ALL THESE WORDS AND

YET, WHAT ABOUT HIS EYES? WHAT ABOUT HIS PRECIOUS HEART? AND

WHEN YOU MAKE IT ABOUT HIS FACE AND HIS HEART, HE WILL FILL YOUR

MOUTH WITH HIS WORDS. DON'T MAKE IT ABOUT PROPHECIES, PROPHETIC

WORDS, FILLING A PODCAST, TRYING TO, YOU KNOW, COME UP WITH, YOU

KNOW, THE LIST OF ALL THE, YOU KNOW, 10 THINGS THAT WILL HAPPEN

IN 2024. I QUIT DOING THAT. I SAID, I AM NOT INTO PREDICTION.

EVEN THOUGH PROPHETS HAVE A PREDICTIVE... PREDICTIVE, HOW

WOULD I SAY IT? THERE'S PREDICTION IN THE FORTH TELLING

OF THE WAY THE GIFT MANIFESTS. BUT YOU DON'T SEEK FOR

PREDICTIONS. NO, I SEEK HIS FACE. AND IF HE REVEALS

SOMETHING TO ME, I'LL SHARE IT. OTHERWISE, ZIP THE LIP AND GO

AFTER THE HEART. ALRIGHT? NOW, LOOK AT NUMBERS 12. THIS IS

VERY, VERY IMPORTANT. AND I'M GOING TO READ THIS OUT OF THE

NEW LIVING TRANSLATION. I WANT TO TEACH YOU SOME PRINCIPLES OUT

OF THIS. I GOT TO GO KIND OF QUICK HERE. "WHILE THEY WERE AT

HAZEROTH, MIRIAM AND AARON CRITICIZED MOSES BECAUSE HE

MARRIED A CUSHITE WOMAN." SO NOTICE THEY WERE CRITICIZING.

AND THEY SAID, "HAS THE LORD SPOKEN ONLY THROUGH MOSES? THIS

IS A DANGEROUS THING. HASN'T HE ALSO SPOKEN THROUGH US TOO, OR

DOESN'T HE SPEAK TO US? NEVER COMPARE YOURSELF WITH ANOTHER

PROPHETIC VESSEL OR ANOTHER GIFT. IF YOU DO, IT WILL RUIN

YOU. THAT'S WHY I BRING GREAT PROPHETIC VOICES IN. AND I'M NOT

IN COMPETITION WITH THEM. OKAY, THEY HAVE DIFFERENT

ADMINISTRATIONS, THEY HAVE DIFFERENT GIFTINGS. AND A LOT OF

THEM ARE GREATER THAN WHAT GOD HAS GIVEN TO THIS VESSEL. I

DON'T CARE, I'M NOT IN COMPETITION. I'M NOT THE ONLY

ONE THAT GOD SPEAKS THROUGH. BUT IF YOU ALWAYS COMPARE YOURSELF,

YOU'RE GOING TO GET INTO VERSE 1. YOU'RE GOING TO GET INTO

CRITICISM. AND LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT THE DANGER OF CRITICISM.

IF YOU CRITICIZE EVERYTHING, OKAY, A PROPHETIC WORD COMES OUT

AND YOU DON'T LIKE IT, YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND IT, YOU DON'T AGREE

WITH IT, IT'S AMAZING HOW MANY PEOPLE CRITICIZE A PROPHETIC

WORD BEFORE IT EVER, EVER MANIFESTS. WHEN I WAS

PROPHESYING ABOUT NETANYAHU WOULD RETURN TO POWER, THEY

STARTED CRITICIZING. I'M LIKE, "MAN, IT HASN'T EVEN MANIFEST

YET AND YOU ARE ACTING LIKE YOU ARE THE JUDGE OF THE EARTH. YOU

ARE ACTING LIKE YOU ARE GOD AND YOU ARE THE ONE THAT IS

DETERMINING WHETHER HE'S GOING TO COME BACK OR NOT." AND THEY

GET INTO CRITICISM. AND WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU GET INTO

CRITICISM AND COMPARING, YOU WILL GET OFF IN YOUR GIFT. AND

YOU WILL BEGIN TO BE CRITICAL. AND YOUR PROPHECIES WILL BECOME

CRITICAL. YOU WILL HAVE A JUDGMENTAL SOUND IN THE WAY YOU

PROPHESY AND WHAT YOU PROPHESY. MAN, I'VE HAD SOME PEOPLE THAT I

HEAR THEM PROPHESY, I'M LIKE, YOU KNOW WHAT? YOUR WORDS ARE

RIGHT, BUT THE SPIRIT BEHIND WHAT YOU'RE SAYING IS OFF

BECAUSE YOU ARE CRITICAL. AND YOU'VE GOTTEN OVER IN A

RELIGIOUS SPIRIT THAT NOBODY CAN DO ANYTHING GOOD. SO EVERYBODY'S

GOING TO GO TO HELL AND GOD'S JUDGMENTS ARE HERE AND THEY

NEVER CAN SEE ANYTHING GOOD. SO BE CAREFUL OF CRITICIZING. NOW

WATCH THIS. GOD SAYS SOMETHING THAT IS SO AMAZING. LOOK AT

VERSE 3 NOW, WATCH THIS. AND THEY, NOW MOSES WAS VERY HUMBLE,

MORE THAN ANY OTHER PERSON ON EARTH. WHY DID GOD PUT THAT IN

THERE? BECAUSE SOMETIMES WHEN WE ARE CRITICAL, WE ARE IN PRIDE. I

WATCH PEOPLE GO AFTER TRUE PROPHETS OF GOD AND CRITICIZE

THEM RECENTLY OVER THE LAST YEAR. AND IT WAS JUST UGLY WHAT

IT DID TO THE BODY OF CHRIST. BUT YET MOSES, AND YET I'M

THINKING THE VESSELS THAT THEY ATTACKED, I'M LIKE, "THESE

PEOPLE ARE MEEK, THEY'RE HUMBLE, THEY'RE NOT OUT TO DECEIVE AND

TO BE FALSE AND BLAH, BLAH, BLAH." BUT THERE WAS A CERTAIN

ELEMENT AND A PRIDE THAT CAME WITH THE CRITICISM. NOTICE GOD

CALLED OUT HUMILITY. I HAVE A FRIEND OF MINE, CLINT, HE'S LIKE

PROBABLY 85 YEARS OLD AND I'VE KNOWN HIM FOR 25 YEARS AND THE

THING HE WOULD SAY TO ME EVERY SINGLE TIME I'D GET WITH HIM,

"BE HUMBLE. STAY HUMBLE. HUMILITY, THERE IS POWER IN

HUMILITY." NOW, HAVE YOU EVER PRAYED ABOUT SOMETHING AND YOU

WONDER WHY? I WAS REBUKING THE DEVIL ONE DAY AND HE WASN'T

BUKING. AND I WENT TO GOD AND I SAID, "THE DEVIL'S NOT BUKING.

I'M REBUKING HIM BUT HE'S NOT BUKING." AND GOD SAID, "HANK, I

GIVE GRACE TO THE HUMBLE BUT I RESIST THE PROUD." HE SAID,

"IT'S NOT EVEN THE DEVIL. IT'S ME RESISTING YOU. YOU ARE IN

PRIDE. HUMBLE YOURSELF." NOW, PRIDE ALSO GIVES ACCESS TO THE

DEVIL. SO STAY OUT OF PRIDE. DON'T THINK THAT YOU HAVE THE

GREATEST GIFT. DON'T THINK THAT YOU'RE THE CHURCH PROPHET.

YOU'RE THE PARKING LOT PROPHET. YOU'RE THE DREAMER IN THE CHURCH

AND YOU GOT TO SUBMIT ALL YOUR DREAMS TO EVERYBODY. RIGHT? YOU

KNOW EVERYTHING. LISTEN, IF PEOPLE PROPHESY TO ME, I ALWAYS

SAY, "WHAT CHURCH YOU BELONG TO? WHO YOU CONNECTED TO?" JESUS

SAID, "YOU KNOW PROPHETS BY THEIR WHAT? FRUIT." SO, YOU LOOK

AT A FRUIT AND YOU HAVE TO LOOK AT THE ROOT. WHAT ARE YOU ROOTED

INTO? RIGHT? ARE YOU A SQUIRREL? WHO DO YOU LISTEN TO ON THE

INTERNET? SOMETIMES PEOPLE TELL ME WHO THEY FOLLOW. I'M LIKE,

"HELL NO, DON'T YOU DARE SHARE A WORD WITH ME." AND I'M NOT

CUSSING, I'M JUST SAYING I DON'T WANT IT COMING FROM THE

UNDERGROUND. LOOK AT VERSE 4. ARE YOU BORED TONIGHT? OH, OKAY.

SO IMMEDIATELY THE LORD CALLED TO MOSES AND AARON AND MIRIAM

AND SAID, "SO NOW YOU GOT THREE. GO OUT TO THE TABERNACLE, ALL

THREE OF YOU. SO THE THREE WENT TO THE TABERNACLE." KEEP

READING. WATCH WHAT HAPPENS. "THEN THE

LORD DESCENDED IN THE PILLAR OF CLOUD,

AND HE STOOD AT THE ENTRANCE OF THE TABERNACLE. AND

HE SAID, 'AARON AND MIRIAM.' AND HE CALLED THEM, AND THEY STEPPED

FORWARD." NOW WATCH WHAT GOD SAYS. "AND THE LORD SAID, 'NOW

LISTEN TO WHAT I SAY. IF YOU WERE PROPHETS, IF THERE WERE

PROPHETS AMONG YOU, I, THE LORD, WOULD REVEAL MYSELF IN VISIONS,

AND I WOULD SPEAK TO THEM IN DREAMS.'" WHOA, WAIT, WAIT,

STOP. "IF THERE WERE PROPHETS AMONG THEM," LOOK AT EXODUS 7:1,

Exodus 7:1

"AARON AND MIRIAM," WHAT DOES IT SAY? "THE LORD SAID TO MOSES,

'PAY ATTENTION. I WILL MAKE YOU SEEM LIKE GOD THE PHARAOH, AND

YOUR BROTHER AARON WILL BE A PROPHET.'" SO HE WAS A PROPHET,

BUT NOTICE GOD DIDN'T EVEN RESPECT HIS OFFICE. WHEN YOU GET

INTO CRITICISM, GOD WILL LOOK AT YOUR MINISTRY, AND HE MAY NOT

BLESS IT. HE MAY NOT ACKNOWLEDGE YOUR GIFTING. HE WILL REMOVE HIS

HAND OF BLESSING. BE CAREFUL, DON'T GET INTO CRITICISM ON

SOCIAL MEDIA OR IN THE CHURCH. BE CAREFUL. HERE HE WAS A

PROPHET, POSITIONED BY GOD. AND GOD SAID, "IF THERE BE A

PROPHET." IN OTHER WORDS, I'M NOT EVEN RESPECTING YOUR OFFICE.

I'M NOT EVEN ABSOLUTELY ACKNOWLEDGING THE PROPHETIC

OFFICE I GAVE. BECAUSE YOU GOT OVER INTO PRIDE AND YOU GOT OVER

INTO CRITICISM AND YOU THINK YOU'RE SOMETHING. BE CAREFUL.

THAT'S WHY IF YOU CAN EVER RECEIVE CORRECTION FROM THE

PASTOR OR LEADERSHIP OVER PROPHETIC WORDS, YOU ARE IN A

DANGEROUS PLACE. ALRIGHT. AND MIRIAM, EXODUS, I THINK IT'S

EXODUS 15:20. IS THAT THE ONE? LOOK AT EXODUS 15:20. OH, SHE

Exodus 15:20 Exodus 15:20

WAS A PROPHETESS. SO WHY WOULD GOD SAY THAT? BECAUSE THEY GOT

OVER INTO THE WRONG SPIRIT. AND IF YOU GET OVER INTO THE WRONG

SPIRIT, YOU'LL PROPHESY OUT OF THE WRONG SPIRIT. AND GOD SAID,

"I'M NOT EVEN GOING TO SPEAK THROUGH YOU. I'M NOT EVEN GOING

TO SPEAK TO YOU." BUT NOW GO BACK TO WHAT GOD THEN SAID ABOUT

WHAT SEPARATED MOSES FROM THEM. HUMILITY. SO IT'S CHARACTER OVER

GIFTING. TOO MANY PEOPLE MAKE IT ABOUT GIFTING. I GOT THIS GREAT

GIFT. SO AND SO HAS THIS GREAT GIFT. YEAH, BUT YOU KNOW WHAT? I

WILL NEVER... I HAVE PEOPLE ALL THE TIME SAY... AND LISTEN,

BEING... BRENDA, YOU'RE WATCHING. LISTEN, I'VE BEEN

AROUND THE WHO'S WHO OF THE WHO'S WHO. YES, I KNOW MOST OF

THEM. AND PEOPLE SAY, "WELL, WHY DON'T YOU INVITE SO AND SO TO

THE CHURCH? THEY'RE SO ANOINTED." YEAH, THEY ARE. BUT

THEY'RE DIRTY, OR THEY'RE SO STINKING PRIDEFUL THEY SUCK THE

WIND OUT OF EVERY ROOM THEY WALK INTO. AND HECK NO, I'M NOT

INVITING THEIR PRIDEFUL SELF TO THIS CHURCH. THEY DON'T HAVE

CHARACTER. OKAY, ONLY FIVE PEOPLE CLAPPED. BUT NOTICE WHAT

GOD SAID IN VERSE 7. HE SAID, "NOT WITH MY SERVANT MOSES, OF

ALL MY HOUSE, HE'S THE ONE THAT I TRUST. HE'S THE ONE THAT I

WHAT? WHOA. HE WAS SAYING, "I DON'T TRUST MIRIAM,

AND I DON'T TRUST AARON." AND IF YOU'RE CONSTANTLY RUNNING YOUR

MOUTH OF CRITICISM AND ACTING LIKE YOU KNOW MORE THAN THE

OTHER PERSON, I'VE HAD PEOPLE COME IN HERE AND THEY'LL SAY,

"WELL, PASTOR HANK, YOU KNOW, IN MY CHURCH, I WAS THE ONE THAT

ALWAYS GAVE TONGUES AND INTERPRETATION OF TONGUES ON

SUNDAY, AND YOU GIVE NO ROOM FOR THAT HERE." I SAID, "OKAY, LET

ME GET IT STRAIGHT. SO YOU'RE THE ONE THAT GOD SPOKE THE

TONGUE THROUGH?" "YES." "OH, AND YOU'RE THE ONE THAT INTERPRETED

IT?" "EVERY SUNDAY." "WOW, YAY YOU." AND I SAID TO HIM, I SAID,

"THE REASON WHY?" I SAID, "I HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY. I'M NOT

PASTOR, YOU KNOW, JOHN WALTON OF WALTON MOUNTAIN FAMILY CHURCH. I

HAVE TENS OF THOUSANDS, HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS THAT LISTEN EVERY

SINGLE WEEK. AND GOD IS SPEAKING SOMETHING GREATER THAN YOU

WANTING JUST TO GET UP AND GIVE YOUR TONGUE AND YOUR

INTERPRETATION. AND IF GOD WANTS ME TO YIELD TO YOU, I WOULD. BUT

YOUR SPIRIT'S OFF. AND I HAVEN'T SEEN THE SINS, BUT ANYWAY, IT'S

OKAY. BUT YOU KNOW WHAT? GOD TRUSTS ME. THAT'S ONE THING I

CAN TELL YOU, AND I AM NOT PRIDEFUL IN SAYING SO. DOES HE

TRUST YOU? IF YOU DON'T HAVE THE RIGHT CHARACTER, HE WON'T TRUST

YOU. BUT BACK UP, LOOK AT VERSE 6. WHY DID GOD TRUST MOSES? LOOK

AT WHAT MOSES WAS AFTER. "IF THERE WERE PROPHETS AMONG YOU, I

THE LORD WOULD REVEAL MYSELF IN VISIONS, AND I WOULD SPEAK TO

THEM IN DREAMS." AND THEN GOD SAID, KEEP GOING, WHAT DOES HE

SAY IN VERSE 7? BUT NOT WITH MY SERVANT MOSES, ALL OF MY HOUSE,

HE'S THE ONE I TRUST. OKAY, LOOK AT VERSE 8. WHY? WHY DOES HE

TRUST HIM? I SPEAK TO HIM FACE TO FACE. CLEARLY, BECAUSE MOSES

WAS AFTER THE GREATEST THING THAT YOU CAN GO AFTER. IT'S THE

HEART OF GOD AND HIS FACE. IT'S NOT THAT GOD SPEAKS TO ME AND

I'M THIS GREAT PROPHETIC VOICE AND LEADER. GOD'S NOT IMPRESSED.

HE DOESN'T TRUST YOU. HE TRUSTS YOU. YOU KNOW WHY? HE TRUSTS YOU

WITH HIS WORDS BECAUSE YOU STEWARD OVER HIS HEART. THAT'S

WHY I DON'T SHARE EVERYTHING I KNOW OR FEEL. I DON'T TRY TO

PUSH FOR A GIFT. I'M NOT TRYING TO BE ANYTHING. NEITHER SHOULD

YOU. GO AFTER HIS HEART. GO AFTER HIS FACE. THAT'S WHAT

CAUSED MOSES TO SUCCEED. AMEN. ALRIGHT, NOW I WANT YOU TO LOOK

HERE. LOOK AT ACTS 13:22. I'M GOING TO WIND THIS DOWN. I'M

Acts 13:22

GOING TO CLOSE THIS UP. ACTS 13:22. IT SAYS, "AND WHEN HE

Acts 13:22

REMOVED HIM, HE RAISED HIM UP FOR THEM DAVID, A KING, TO WHOM

ALSO HE GAVE TESTIMONY AND SAID, 'I FOUND WHO? DAVID, THE SON OF

JESSE, A MAN AFTER MY WHAT? MY OWN HEART.'" NOW, WHAT HAPPENED

WITH DAVID? WHO WROTE MOST OF THE PSALMS? DAVID. AND THOSE

PSALMS ARE WHAT? PROPHETIC. WHY DID GOD SPEAK THOSE PRECIOUS

WORDS TO DAVID, A PSALMIST? BECAUSE HE WAS AFTER HIS WHAT?

HIS HEART. YOU GO AFTER GOD'S HEART, YOU GET HIS SECRETS. YOU

GET MOUTH TO MOUTH REVELATION, INFORMATION. ARE YOU LISTENING?

HE TRUSTS YOU. NOW, HERE'S THE THING. WHEN YOU GET GOD'S HEART,

REMEMBER, HE SHARES HIS SECRET. WHAT'S HIS SECRET? I BELIEVE

IT'S HIS HEART. BECAUSE THAT'S WHERE THE SECRET COMES FROM. AND

WHEN YOU STEWARD OVER HIS HEART, AND YOU DON'T JUST GO AROUND AND

BE, YOU KNOW, PROPHETIC BLABBERMOUTH OF ALL YOUR DREAMS

AND REVELATIONS. MAN, I REMEMBER BEFORE I WAS PASTOR OF A CHURCH,

I'D GO, I WAS YOUNGER THEN, AND PEOPLE WOULD COME UP AND THEY

ALWAYS HAD A DREAM, ALWAYS HAD A VISION. I'M LIKE, "NO, YOU DID

NOT." BECAUSE MOST OF THE TIME I'M ASKING GOD, "COME ON GOD, I

WANT YOU TO SPEAK TO ME, MAN." NOW, THERE'S TIMES WHERE IT

COMES IN SEASONS WHERE I HAVE DREAMS ALL THE TIME. AND THERE'S

OTHER TIMES I'M LIKE, "UH, WHAT UP?" OKAY, YOU EVER HAD THAT?

OKAY, BUT MAKE IT YOUR HEART AND GOD WILL REVEAL HIS SECRET. BUT

HERE'S THE THING, THE REASON HE TRUSTS YOU OR DON'T TRUST YOU IS

CAN YOU KEEP A SECRET. THAT'S WHY PROPHETS IN THE OLD

TESTAMENT HAD TO HOLD ON TO THE WORD OF THE LORD. YOU GOT TO

HOLD ON TO WHAT GOD TELLS YOU AND KNOW WHEN TO SHARE IT. AND

GOD'S SO GRACIOUS, HE'LL WORK WITH YOU. BUT HERE'S THE THING,

OKAY, NOW LOOK AT REVELATION 1. WE'RE GOING TO CLOSE WITH THESE

TWO SCRIPTURES. REVELATION 1:16-17. SO NOW JOHN IS CAUGHT

Revelation 1:16–17

UP AND HE'S DESCRIBING, HE'S DESCRIBING JESUS. HE HAD IN HIS

RIGHT HAND SEVEN STARS, OUT OF HIS MOUTH WAS A SHARP TWO-EDGED

SWORD AND HIS COUNTENANCE WAS LIKE, OR HIS FACE, I LIKE THE

ONE WORD, PUT IT IN THE KING JAMES IF THEY COULD. HIS FACE,

HIS FACE, I WANT THEM TO SEE THE WORD FACE. HIS FACE WAS LIKE THE

SUN, SHINING IN ITS STRENGTH. WHAT WAS HE LOOKING AT? HE WAS

LOOKING AT HIS FACE. NOW, GO TO VERSE 17. WHAT HAPPENED? VERSE

17. "AND WHEN I SAW HIM, I FELL AT HIS FEET AS IF I WAS DEAD."

WHAT DID HE SEE? HIS FACE. NOW, NOTICE HE FELL AT HIS FEET. WHY

DID HE FALL AT HIS FEET? BECAUSE THAT IS THE HIGHEST FORM OF

WORSHIP. WHEN WE, OFTEN TIMES, AND I GET CONVICTED OF THIS TOO,

I WORSHIP YOU. YEAH, THAT'S A GOOD WORSHIP HANK. BUT THE

HIGHEST FORM IS IF YOU BOW DOWN AND YOU WORSHIP AS IF TO KISS

THE GROUND. WHEN JESUS TALKED TO THE WOMAN AT THE WELL IN JOHN 4,

HE SAID, "WOMAN, NOW IS THE TIME. AND NOW IS THAT THE TRUE

WORSHIPPERS SHALL WORSHIP THE FATHER IN SPIRIT AND IN TRUTH."

YOU KNOW WHAT HE WAS TALKING ABOUT, TRUE WORSHIPPERS? TRUE

WORSHIPPERS WERE THE ONES THAT BOWED DOWN AS LOW AS THEY CAN IN

HUMILITY AND HONOR TO GOD, AS IF TO KISS THE GROUND. WHAT DID

SATAN SAY TO JESUS? "IF YOU BE THE SON OF GOD, STAND THERE AND

WORSHIP ME." COME ON, HE KNEW WHAT TRUE WORSHIP WAS BECAUSE HE

USED TO BE OVER IT. HE WOULD SAY, "BOW DOWN, KISS MY FEET,"

IS WHAT HE WAS SAYING, "AND WORSHIP ME." SO, WHAT'S THE KEY

WHEN YOU SEE GOD'S FACE OR HOW DO YOU GET GOD TO SHOW HIS FACE?

THEN THAT MEANS HE OPENS HIS SECRET, HE OPENS HIS HEART. NOW

ALL OF A SUDDEN YOU BECOME INUNDATED WITH THE REVELATION OF

DREAMS AND VISIONS, THE WORD OF THE LORD. IT HAS TO COME FROM A

PLACE OF WORSHIP. UP YOUR WORSHIP. UP YOUR INTIMACY. GET

YOUR FOCUS OFF OF YOUR DREAMS, YOUR VISIONS, YOU, YOUR GIFT,

WHY THE PASTOR DOESN'T RECOGNIZE YOU OR SHOULD RECOGNIZE YOU. I

HAVE THIS WORD, I HAVE THIS CALL, AND PUT IT BACK ON THE

FACE OF GOD. YOU KNOW WHY I'M STANDING HERE TODAY? AND BRENDA

I KNOW YOU'RE WATCHING BECAUSE I GOT A TEXT FROM YOU. SHE WAS

SAYING GREAT WORD, THANK YOU. BUT HERE'S THE POINT. THE POINT

IS THIS. BRENDA YOU AND I KNOW WE WERE NOT SEEKING OUR CALLING.

WHEN WE TRIED IN THE EARLY YEARS IT DIDN'T GO ANYWHERE. TRYING TO

MAKE THE CALLING HAPPEN. WE ADJUSTED AND MADE IT ABOUT GOD.

I WANT YOUR FACE. AND WHEN THERE WERE NO MEETINGS AND NOBODY WAS

ASKING US TO COME AND THEY WERE STAYING AWAY BY THE MILLIONS. WE

WOULD GET A LITTLE KEYBOARD OUT AND BRENDA COULD PLAY THE

KEYBOARD AND WE WOULD WORSHIP AND MATTHEW YOU WOULD GET YOUR

LITTLE SWORD OUT AND A PLASTIC SWORD AND WE WOULD WORSHIP GOD

AND DANCE. CHRISTY WOULD DO THAT AND SHE WOULD MAKE UP SONGS.

OKAY, NOW NOTICE WHAT HAPPENS. OKAY, VERSE 16, SAW HIS FACE.

WHAT DID HE IMMEDIATELY DO? FALL DOWN AND BEGIN TO WORSHIP. NOW,

WHAT'S THE THING THAT FOLLOWED? HEART TO HEART, FACE TO FACE,

AND THEN MOUTH TO MOUTH. WATCH THE NEXT THING. LOOK AT VERSE

19. WHAT HAPPENED? NOTICE THE INSTRUCTION, VERSE 19. WRITE THE

THINGS NOW THAT YOU HAVE SEEN, AND THE THINGS WHICH ARE, AND

THE THINGS WHICH WILL TAKE PLACE AFTER THIS. IN OTHER WORDS, THE

REVELATORY REALM INCREASED. RIGHT? BUT IT DIDN'T HAPPEN.

THIS WAS NOT THE INSTRUCTION UNTIL HE SAW HIS FACE AND

WORSHIPPED HIM. PEOPLE WONDER WHY. "I DON'T SEEM TO HAVE GOD

SPEAK TO ME. I DON'T SEEM TO BE HEARING GOD ANYMORE." UP. UP

YOUR CONNECTION OR RECONNECT YOUR POWER SOURCE. GO AHEAD AND

STAND ON YOUR FEET. REVELATION 4. LET'S GO BACK THERE. WE

STARTED WITH THIS VERSE. WATCH THIS. REVELATION 4:1. I'M JUST

Revelation 4:1

GOING TO CLOSE IT HERE AND I'M GOING TO LET YOU GO. "AFTER

THESE THINGS I LOOKED, AND BEHOLD, A DOOR STANDING OPEN IN

HEAVEN. AND THE FIRST VOICE WHICH I HEARD WAS LIKE A

TRUMPET, SPOKE WITH ME, SAYING, 'COME UP HERE, AND I'LL SHOW YOU

THINGS WHICH MUST COME HEREAFTER.'" LOOK AT VERSE 2.

"IMMEDIATELY I WAS IN THE SPIRIT, AND BEHOLD, A THRONE WAS

SET IN HEAVEN." AND WATCH THIS. "ONE SAT ON THE THRONE, AND HE

WAS LIKE A JASPER, AND A SARDIUS STONE IN HIS APPEARANCE,

AND THERE WAS A RAINBOW AROUND THE

THRONE, IN APPEARANCE LIKE AN EMERALD. AND

THE THRONE WAS 24 THRONES, AND I SAW 24 ELDERS SITTING IN THEIR

CLOTHES AND WHITE ROBES, AND THEY HAD CROWNS OF GOLD ON THEIR

HEADS." SO HE'S DESCRIBING NOW HIS HEAVENLY EXPERIENCE WHEN HE

GOT CAUGHT UP. BUT ULTIMATELY WHAT YOU COULD SAY, WE USE THE

WORD, WRECKED JOHN. IT WASN'T HIS WORDS, IT WASN'T ALL THE

THINGS THAT HE SAW THAT WE'RE STILL ARGUING OVER PRE-TRIB,

MID-TRIB, RIGHT? PRE-RAPTURE, POST-RAPTURE, IS THERE GOING TO

BE A RAPTURE, RIGHT? WE LOOK AT ALL OF THIS STUFF IN THE BOOK OF

REVELATION, WE ARGUE IT OVER AND ALL THAT, ALL THE THINGS THAT

JOHN SAW. IF YOU READ THE BOOK OF REVELATION, IT'S THE

TESTIMONY OF JESUS CHRIST. IT ISN'T THE ANTICHRIST, IT'S NOT

THE BEAST, IT'S NOT ALL OF THOSE THINGS, EVEN THOUGH THEY'RE

MENTIONED, IT'S ABOUT JESUS. AND THAT HAS TO BE YOUR FOCUS OR

YOU'RE NEVER GOING TO GO HIGHER, AND YOU'RE NEVER GOING TO COME

INTO A REVELATORY REALM WHERE YOU'RE GOING TO SEE THINGS, HEAR

THINGS, KNOW THINGS, SENSE THINGS, PROPHESY THINGS.

ALRIGHT? SO I WANT YOU TO DO THIS, EVERYBODY THAT'S WATCHING

AND CLOSING, JUST IMAGINE THIS BEING A POWER CORD. AND I WANT

YOU JUST TO PLUG IT UP TO HEAVEN, KIND OF REACH IT UP AND

SAY, "LORD, I'M GOING TO PLUG IN DEEPER. I'M GOING TO SEEK YOUR

HEART. I'M GOING TO SEEK YOUR FACE. I WANT YOU. I WANT YOU.

REVEAL YOURSELF TO ME. I WILL SEEK YOU. AND YOU PROMISED I

WOULD FIND YOU. AMEN. ALL RIGHT, WELL, GIVE EACH OTHER A HIGH

FIVE. I'LL SEE YOU, WHEN WILL I SEE YOU? I'LL SEE YOU ON SUNDAY.

ALL RIGHT, GOD BLESS YOU. I HOPE YOU GOT SOMETHING

OUT OF THIS. GIVE A HIGH FIVE TO SOMEBODY

AROUND YOU. CALL YOU BLESSED. THANKS.

(CONGREGATION APPLAUDING)

- WELL, AMEN, AMEN. HOW MANY RECEIVED FROM THAT POWERFUL

WORD BY PASTOR HANK TONIGHT? AMEN. WAS THAT A GOOD WORD? I AM

JUST EXCITED BECAUSE I KNOW YOU CAN JUST FEEL IT OF THE SEASON

THAT WE'RE STEPPING INTO. WE'RE ENDING A CYCLE, A CYCLE OF

CONFLICT, A CYCLE OF DELAY, A CYCLE OF PERHAPS MAYBE THERE'S

THINGS THAT YOU'RE BELIEVING FOR. WE'RE COMING INTO A NEW

CYCLE, FOLKS. AND IT'S JUST LIKE PASTOR HANK WAS SAYING, THIS IS

NOT A CYCLE OF TRIBULATION, BUT THIS IS A CYCLE OF THE NEW. WHAT

WAS IT? THE THREE THINGS THAT ARE GONNA BE INCREASING IN THIS

SEASON, THE OUTPOURING OF HIS GLORY, WE'RE GONNA SEE SIGNS,

WONDERS, AND MIRACLES, AND WE'RE GONNA SEE INCREASE IN THE SPIRIT

OF PROPHECY. AND FOLKS, THAT INCLUDES YOU. BUT IT'S TIME FOR

US TO COME UP HIGHER. AND I KNOW I'M PREACHING TO THE CHOIR

LITERALLY AND FIGURATIVELY BECAUSE YOU GUYS ARE HERE ON A

WEDNESDAY NIGHT WHEN MOST PEOPLE AREN'T. BUT EVEN IN THIS ROOM, I

WAS CONVICTED MYSELF. THERE'S A DEEPNESS THAT WE CAN GO. WE CAN

GO TO A DEEPER LEVEL IN GOD. WE CAN PURSUE HIM LIKE NEVER BEFORE

IN ALL THAT WE'RE DOING. AND PERHAPS THERE'S SOME THINGS THAT

MAYBE YOU'VE BEEN LOOKING BACK TOWARDS, SAYING, "MAN, I WONDER

IF..." I CHALLENGE YOU, NO MORE. NO MORE, I WONDER. NO MORE, WHAT

IF? NO MORE, WHAT COULD HAVE BEEN? IT'S TIME NOW TO PUT ALL

OF OUR INVESTMENT IN THE KINGDOM OF WHAT GOD HAS SAID IS GOING TO

BE THE NEW, AMEN? AMEN. WELL, I DON'T WANNA BELABOR. THIS IS A

POWERFUL WORD, AND I KNOW I'M UNDER STRICT ORDERS TO GET YOU

GUYS OUT EARLY, AND PROBABLY SOME OF YOU ARE READY TO GO TO

SLEEP RIGHT AFTER THAT CHICKEN. BUT JUST TWO QUICK, I GUESS,

HOUSEKEEPING ITEMS I WANNA MAKE NOTE OF IS THIS SUNDAY, PASTOR

BRENDA IS GOING TO BE GOING WITH PART THREE OF HER SERIES, THE

TRUTH ABOUT CHRISTIAN SUFFERING. HOW MANY HAVE BEEN PAYING

ATTENTION TO WHAT SHE'S BEEN SAYING AND BEEN HERE THE LAST

COUPLE SUNDAYS? VERY POWERFUL, YOU WANNA MAKE SURE TO BE HERE.

THAT'S GONNA BE AT 9 A.M. CENTRAL TIME, THAT'S GOD'S TIME.

BE HERE IN THE HOUSE. THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT BEING IN THE

ROOM WHERE YOU CAN RECEIVE DIRECTLY FROM THE SPIRIT OF GOD.

BUT IF YOU CAN'T BE HERE, MAKE SURE TO TUNE IN ONLINE. THAT'S 9

A.M. CENTRAL TIME. ALSO, NEXT WEDNESDAY, WE'RE HAVING A PRAYER

FOR THE NATION, SPECIAL WEDNESDAY NIGHT PRAYER SERVICE,

7 P.M. CENTRAL TIME. PLEASE, WE NEED YOU. YOU KNOW WHY? I'LL

TELL YOU WHY. BECAUSE YOU ARE REPRESENTATIVES, AMBASSADORS,

FOR THE NATION OF AMERICA. AND IT IS YOUR VOICE IN THE SPIRIT

THAT CAUSES THINGS TO HAPPEN, THAT CAUSES MANIFESTATIONS OF

GOD'S GOODNESS. IT BREAKS YOKES. YES, VOTING HELPS. YES, HAVING

PEOPLE IN LEADERSHIP POSITIONS HELP, BUT GUESS WHAT? IT'S WHAT

WE DO IN THE SPIRIT FIRST. SO I NEED YOU GUYS TO BE HERE, PRAYER

FOR THE NATION, 7 P.M. CENTRAL TIME, WEDNESDAY, JULY 2ND, AND

THEN YOU CAN ENJOY YOUR INDEPENDENCE DAY BARBECUES,

WHEREVER IT IS YOU'RE DOING, AMEN. WELL, I PRAY THAT YOU GUYS

HAVE A FANTASTIC EVENING, AND WE

WILL SEE YOU ON SUNDAY. GOD BLESS.

(CONGREGATION APPLAUDING)

(MUSIC)