Prophetic Synchronicity

And another round of applause for Dave Shirk. That's an

amazing shirt. Pastor Eddie and your beautiful wife and family

and all the folks from Living, what is it? Word

of Life. Welcome. It's like a homegrown family here. And

I'm stirring in my heart what I'm supposed to do

because I'm thinking. You ever heard of freestyle? You know

what freestyle is? So they use it in what, like

skateboarding and all kinds of sports, right? Might go a

little freestyle tonight, so I've got something prepared. So I

want to start with defining a big word that I

had to look up. I kind of had an idea.

Prophetic synchronicity. Can you all say that? You have to

be pedagogical. It'll help you speak in tongues. Synchronicity. Yeah,

and it You know, it really is a good, Dave

was grasping something there about how we synchronize our earthly

walk with the immortal life that we have inside of us, right?

You're immortal. You're stuck in flesh like we all are.

But your true self is born again. You're one spirit

with the Lord. And we're in a constant battle, Galatians 5.

The flesh and the spirit are in opposition. But there's

those beautiful times when the spirit of the Lord comes

and helps synchronize our walk, His purposes, what we're going through,

and bring them together. So, I don't preach off my

phone that often, but I just went off without the internet. So,

we're going to start in Ecclesiastes chapter 3. I'm going

Ecclesiastes 3 · chapter mention

to read just a few verses out of that text. Ecclesiastes,

that's almost as hard to say as synchronicity, but we're

going to look at the synchronicity of Ecclesiastes. Wow. You're

probably very familiar with this text. It's a very popular text.

For everything, there's a season and a time for every

purpose under heaven. Just camp on that for a minute.

We're going to look at these words. For everything, say everything.

I like talking churches. It's going to be a talking church. Everything,

there is a season. Zeman in the Hebrew means an

appointed occasion. Something And then there is a time, a

little word eth in Hebrew, a time for every purpose

under heaven. It's all under heaven. Everything that's going on

is under the superintendency of God the Father. He sees everything.

He's in charge. Everything that's happening, every season, every time,

every purpose is under God's eyes. Then Solomon gives us

an understanding of what he means when he talks about

to everything there's a season. There's a time for all purpose.

And he lists 28 different times. The next verse is

2 through 8. Can we read them real quick to

remind you? A time to be born and a time

to die. Any questions? It's kind of like, that's what

Dave and I were saying too. There's three certain things.

Being born, dying, and taxes. Right? Is that what we say?

All right. Death and taxes. Okay. A time to plant,

a time to pluck up what is planted. Now, notice

there's extremities. There's like beginning and ending to all these seasons.

Time to kill, time to heal. Time to break down,

time to build up. Time to weep and a time

to laugh in the same sentence. It's like, how can

we go through an emotion like weeping and then, but

there's also a time to laugh. You see how Solomon's

putting borders and bookends on these things we go through.

There's a time to weep, time to laugh. There's a

time to mourn, a time to dance. Time to cast

away stones, time to gather stones. How many know we're

lively stones? But how many know sometimes, and all pastors

know this, right, Eddie? It's good to cast a few

stones away. Sometimes, how many know God is the builder

of the church? Jesus said, I will build my church.

He's in charge of stone management. He's in charge. He

can move the stones wherever he wants to. Time to embrace,

time to refrain from embracing. That's for the youth group.

No embracing tonight. It's a youth meeting. To seek a

time to lose. It's a time to lose. Who wants

a time to lose? Well, what if you're on a diet?

That's a good time to lose, right? How you doing?

I'm in a time to lose. Oh, I'm so sorry. No, no, no.

I'm on a diet. It's time to lose. Time to lose. See,

it's all context. All these things have a personal context.

And then there's, wow, time to keep and time to

cast away. That's for when we declutter our house in

the spring, spring cleaning. A time to prepare, a time

to sow, a time to keep silence, a time to speak,

a time to love, a time to hate, in the

same sentence. A time to love, a time to hate.

You know, God actually hates some things. Proverbs, these six

things the Lord hates, a lying tongue, a hands that

set innocent blood, a proud look, all these things God hates.

So there's a time to hate, time to love, And

then a time for war and a time for peace.

We're going to eventually have a time of peace, an

eternal time of peace. I like the way he wrapped

that up. All these different seasons, 28 different seasons that

every human goes through, every church goes through these seasons.

You can apply it to the church. And so look

back at these words. And I want to just take

a minute. You don't have this one. Jeremiah 8, 7.

Just for a minute. Jeremiah 8, 7. Because in these

seasons of life, there's a requirement to know what God's doing.

There's a requirement to say, God, what do I do

in the season I'm now in? And every time you're

thrust into a new season, God requires something of you.

So we get a lesson from the birds tonight. How

many think you're going to learn something from the birds?

Julia has these beautiful bird feeders. There's all kinds of

wildlife out there, even a badger I heard. So, you know.

God gave us the animal kingdom to teach us humans.

We get a lesson from the birds in Jeremiah 8, 7.

Even the stork in the heavens knows her times. Now

we're seeing how to everything there's a season and a

time and all these different times. Well, it says, hey,

even the stork knows her times. The turtle dove, the swallow,

the crane, they keep watch the time of their coming.

That's another way to translate the word in birdology is

the time of their migration. They know when to migrate.

Birds know when to migrate. God coded them internally with

the ability to say, it's time. Seasons are changing. Now

it's time, what, to migrate, to move. Why do birds migrate?

Basically for two reasons. Number one, to find new food sources.

If they stay in a cold, frigid season too long,

the food sources dry up. Also, God moves birds into

a new place to go find a new nest. So

it's for new food sources. Ah, and reproduction. For nesting.

Two main drivers inside of a bird. It's time to go. Oh,

that's great. We're going, yeah. Aren't the birds smart? Yeah.

Then he says, but my people. Uh-oh. Now Jeremiah's comparing

the birds who know their times. He's comparing us, my people. Ha-ha.

They don't know the, what's the word up there? Judgment, rules, requirements.

The Hebrew word is mishpat. It means judgment. a legal word.

They don't know what God is legislating from heaven. Remember,

all these things take place under heaven where God is

in charge. He's ruling. He's reigning. My people don't understand

that when God legislates change in the earth, we've got

to move like the birds. We've got to be smarter

than the birds. We've got to say, it's time to change. RCF,

you've been through some great changes over the last few years,

and it's been a joy to watch you guys migrate.

I walked over here from Dave's, and I'm I walked

by the little building back here. Walked by going, can't

fit there anymore, Lord. Hallelujah. I mean, you had to

migrate from Virginia Lodge to this building over here. Now

you're at the college. Get ready. God's not going to

leave you where you are. There'll be times of migration.

My people don't know what God is requiring. So let's

go back to these words. Times and seasons. Time. This

is the word. 28 different times. E-T-H. Eth is the

Hebrew word. The similar word in the New Testament would

be kairos. And there's two words in the Greek for time. Kronos,

chronological time. And kairos time. Kairos is that appointed time.

It's a now time. It's a divine moment. That's where

prophetic synchronization comes in. Where we think with God's plans

for our lives and heaven and earth meet. That's what

we call it. Prophetic. When heaven and earth are communicating,

it's the prophetic dimension. And God knows where he wants

his people to be. God's superintending it all. And so

in these things, these times, we have to say, in

all these seasons, God is watching, superintending, and then he says,

it's time. Migrate. Move. So I'm going to now put

the word prophetic in there. It's one of our favorite adjectives, right, Dave?

Prophetic technology, prophetic this, everything's prophetic. So to everything there's

a season. What's a prophetic season? Well, a prophetic season,

do you like, in the UK, do you like good news,

bad news, or do you like the bad news first

and then the good news? How do you like it?

Bad news first, right? Yeah, let's just get it over with.

What's the bad news? Here's the bad news about a

prophetic season. It's an undetermined amount of time. We just

want to know. We want to put it on our

Google calendar. We need to know. We need to know.

Undetermined amount of time, but here's, ready for the good news?

Of limited duration. There's a start and a finish. We

just don't always know. And you know what? God in

his kindness doesn't tell us. See, we think we want

to know all these facts and details. God, give me

the details. He goes, no, you'd mess it up. You'd

mess it up. You'd worry. You'd try to figure a

way in it or out of it. But here's the

thing about prophetic season. Undetermined amount of time and with

limited duration in which God is bringing a challenge prophetically.

This is where the synchronization comes in. He brings a

challenge to us which is impossible to do without him.

It's beyond our ability. That's what a prophetic season is.

So prophetic time is similar. It's an undetermined period of

limited duration. But that's when God's working out a particular

phase of his purpose for you. That's why the word

purpose is so important in that sentence. In that prophetic time,

a time to weep, a time to laugh, What's going

on in this time? He says, I'm working out my

purpose in your life. I'm purposing something. So when you

look at the word purpose in the Hebrew, it's actually

got an action connotation in it. The word purpose in

the Hebrew means to bend or shape. To bend or shape.

When you look at that, for everything there's a season

and a time, For every purpose where God is bending us,

shaping us to be more like Christ. Shaping us, not

breaking us. He's bending us because we all need shaping, right?

Christ is being formed in us every day. Every season,

God says, I'm doing more shaping, right? More shaping, more bending.

So we go through these emotional times. We go through

the ups and downs. And so Solomon wisely then gives

us some insight on the purpose. What is the purpose

of a season? What kind of bending is God doing?

How do I handle it spiritually, prophetically, when I'm thrusted

to a new season? Sometimes you can plan for a

new season. Other times they show up unannounced. It just happens.

Sometimes it's a shock. It can be almost even tragic.

Something like, I didn't even expect this to happen, right?

But God's in it. Now watch what Solomon helps us with.

So purpose number one, what's the first purpose of a season?

Number one, verse nine, Ecclesiastes 3.9. What gain has the

worker from his toil? Or what profit? I've seen the

work or I've seen, King James says, I've seen the travail.

I've seen the task, the travail that God has given

to the sons of men. with which to occupy themselves.

Let me break that down. He gives all these seasons.

He goes, so what gain has the worker from his toil?

We're the workers. We're working in every season. There's a

work going on. And it can be toil. And Solomon,

you know, he's great at kind of like, what's going on, God?

He was always questioning, like, what's the meaning of this?

And vanity, vanity. And he goes, well, what gain has

the worker in these different seasons? He says, ah, I've

seen the travail. I like that word travail better. I've

seen the travail that God has given to the children

of men to be busy with. What should we be

busy with? Always first, prayer. You can't get out of it.

You can't wiggle out of prayer. It's the number one

work of the believer. And nobody else on the planet

can do it except us. Oh, there's lots of other

prayers going on to all kinds of gods. But our

privilege is to work the works of him who sent

Jesus to us. And we get to work alongside. So

this word, travail. I've seen the travail. Travail is a

birthing word. In the Old Testament, when Zion travailed, she

brought forth. So every time there's a season shift, God's

about to birth something. Something new in you. Something new

around you. Something new. And that's what gets you excited.

Even in one of those difficult seasons, like, oh, this season,

I didn't ask for it. It's like, God says, I'm

doing something. I'm birthing. Pray. Pray. Pray through. That's your work.

I love that. Be busy about the work. If you're

going to be busy, be busy praying, right? We should

busy ourselves. Secondly, it's the process in which God is

making something beautiful. Look at the next verse, verse 11.

He has made everything beautiful, watch, in its time. In

that time frame of those 28 different seasons, in that

one time, God is making something beautiful. Beautiful. Not necessarily

handsome and pretty, like we use those words for our

outer man. The true beauty of our life is inside

of us when Christ is formed in us. That's a

beautiful thing. You're going through something in a marriage. You

know marriage is going through some tension. Things are going on.

Christ is being formed. And then pretty soon there's breakthrough

and things happen. You go, oh my gosh, you're more beautiful.

We're all aging, right? But when Christ does a work,

it's beautiful. So we have to say, God, make something

beautiful in me. And here's the thing about when God

makes something beautiful, he puts something in you that's not

just for you. What's it mean? It means he's resourcing

you with something you didn't have before. He puts something

in you to make you more beautiful, more acceptable, more

attractive spiritually, and you get to give it away because

the kingdom of God is a giveaway kingdom. We give away.

We follow what God does, which is they just give

stuff away, right? So every season is full of new

resource for you so that you can share it with

somebody else. That's your testimony. How'd you get through that? Well,

let me tell you what God did. That's a beautiful thing. Yeah,

and you can have it. Let me pray for you.

So that's part of what a season is for. Number three,

he made everything beautiful in his time. Also, he's put

eternity into man's heart. Hmm. What's the purpose of a season?

To enlarge our heart for the lost. We've got to

look at lost people from an eternal perspective. And it's

so easy to just walk by people. I've walked by

people on the way here. Walked by. But we've got

to say, God, put more eternity in my heart. In

every season, we should have an enlarged view of the eternal.

And we should have more compassion for the lost and

the hurting. So that's part of what God's doing. but

eternity in a man's heart. Now the rest of verse 11, yet,

so that he cannot find out what God has done

from the beginning to the end. This is more bad

news for us mortals. We want to know. God, I

want to know beginning and end, end in between. I

want to know everything. I'm going to Google it right now.

We want to know. Even if it's artificial, I want

to know. Give me something. And Solomon wisely says, you know,

You can't find out what God is doing from the

beginning to the end. Again, it's his kindness. He doesn't

always tell you what he's up to. Because we both, like,

I don't want to go through that. He says, you're

going to have to trust me. We want to know.

He says, you'll find out at the end. The thing

about coming out of a season, you come out of

a season, and you get to look back and go, ah,

now I know. Now I see it. That's why I

have no hair up here. I'm always like, now I

see it. Now I see it. Now I see it.

I didn't see it. Now I see it, right? Yeah,

and it gives you perspective. And then you glorify God

and say, God, thank you. You all know people have

gone through difficult times, right? All kinds of things. And

you know what? Most Christians, when you get down to it,

they go, I wouldn't trade it for anything. What I

went through and what God brought me through, how I've

been able to help others, that's the goal. It's not

just about what God did in us. What can we

help other people with? So seasons are for eternal purposes.

Look at verse, we'll skip down now. Let's do verse 14.

I perceived, yada is the Hebrew, now this is like,

here's where the prophetic is. Every season, there's a prophetic synchronization.

In that season, there's a moment when you see, this

is God. See, even Solomon's perceiving now. That's kind of

an Old Testament word for prophetic insight. I perceive that

whatever God does endures. How long? God's doing an eternal work,

and that's not just to help us get through earth life.

Whatever God does endures forever. Watch this. Here's one more

kind of tough pill to swallow. I'm going to help

you out right now. Solomon's going to help us out.

I'm going to help your prayer life out. It's just

going to make it a lot easier. Ready? Nothing can

be added to it, nor anything taken from it. What?

If God's doing something that's going to last forever, He's saying,

don't mess it up. You can't add to it, although

you think you've got some great ideas, and you can't

take away from it. Wouldn't that be nice? But let's

just add the nice seasons, It's time to, all these

nice seasons. God, just pile it on, God. Then you're

going through a tough season. God, hurry. Get it over with.

Take this away. Take this away. Take him away. Take

her away. We want God to take things out of

our life when he's got an eternal purpose he's working.

You say, okay, Lord. And then at the end, I

love the way Solomon wraps it up. God has done it.

Any questions? Has Solomon mentioned the devil yet? Not at all.

Every season, every purpose, every shaping, everything that you think

you want to add and subtract, I got to know.

God says, Solomon goes, God has done it. Why? That

men may fear before him. It's all about walking in

the fear of the Lord. Because it does give you

a new perspective on Your reverence for God when you realize,

I can't change the season I'm in. I'd like to.

I've cried out. I've prayed. I've done everything. But God

has done it. And I'm just going to walk in

the fear of the Lord. What's so good about the

fear of the Lord? It's the beginning of wisdom. See,

that's the golden ticket. In your season, God has wisdom

for you. a perception, an understanding of God, an understanding

of your life, something you never had before, and it

comes from heaven. It's like James 3, right? The wisdom

of heaven is perfect and pure. It comes down. God

gives you a wisdom you never had before. And then

there's Psalm 3119. I'll just quote that. Great promise. Psalm 3119.

Jonathan's trying to get up there. He's trying to keep

up with me. Thanks, Jonathan. I'll give you a minute.

Psalm 3119. Look at He's fast. We talked about walking

in the fear of the Lord. Not afraid of him.

Not like, I'm afraid. I'm just going to stay in

my house, and then I won't stumble into a wrong season.

God knows where you live. It's not about, I'm afraid.

I'm scared. Walking in the fear of the Lord is,

I'm afraid to go through this without him. A fear

of the Lord is like, I need God right now.

I'm afraid I'm going to mess it up, so I've

got to get close to Jesus. I've got to get

close to Jesus. So Psalm 31, 19. Thank you, Jonathan. Oh,

how abundant is your goodness, which you've stored up for everybody. Nope.

Which you've stored up for those who fear you, right,

and have worked for those who take refuge in you. See,

when you go through a season, you better know where

your refuge is because it's not always an easy season.

It could be a storm of life, whatever. You take

refuge in God and you walk in the fear of

the Lord. What does he have? Abundant goodness stored up

for you. God doesn't run out of goodness just because

you're going through a tough season. He says, oh, I

got plenty in my storehouse. I'll pour out goodness and

mercy and all that. So perhaps you're going through some things.

Take a moment yourself and say, God, help me understand

the season I'm in. Help me walk through it with you,

close to you. Give me wisdom. When you go into

a new season, suddenly like, I wasn't ready for this.

What do we need? Wisdom. God, give me wisdom, right?

In my ripe old age, I'm still praying for a

lot of wisdom. God, help give me wisdom so I

know how to get through the season and give it

away to other people. One of the joys of getting older,

I turn 70 this year, one of the joys is

continually having opportunities to share with younger men and women.

My wife and I had a prophetic development group this

past year. It's just fun to help them raise up

their prophetic gifting and share our wisdom and our experience.

I'm mentoring a couple of guys at my church and

I just love it. One guy, I just love him

because he comes with a notebook full of questions. I

just come, I just get coffee and sit there and

keep them coming. And I just share. This is what

I've learned. This is what we do. I just love that.

So wherever, whatever sees you're in, God's bending you. Shaping you,

serving you into more Christ-likeness. And you will get through it.

Because it's His goodness. It's for eternity. It's not for

just now. So, a lot of you, I'm looking around.

Let me just, a show of hands. Who's received a

prophecy from me in the last 30 years? Most of

you have. I'm just looking around going, no, man. I

prophesied over a lot. I prophesied over you. Haven't I?

We're taking roll, Lettie. Okay, Lettie. I want to just

add one little thing here, just some encouragement, because I

know a lot of you have had prophetic words. In fact,

I was just talking with Eddie just before. They're working

through a prophetic word right now, and that is part

of that, going back to, I've seen the work that

God has given the sons of man to occupy with.

Part of our work, our prophetic synchronization is working what

we say, working through a prophetic word. Because God downloads

his prophetic intention, and then we have to walk with

him to see it fulfilled. We have to synchronize our

life with the new instructions. Because a prophetic word comes,

it's like, huh, I didn't think of that. God goes, precisely.

That's why you've got a prophecy. So I'm speaking something

into your life that you don't have expected. It's another season.

But God sets you up so that when that season comes,

then you can pray through it. So in the prophetic,

we get words. They're full of potential, right? Full of

divine energy, we say. And the energy stays. The capacity

to fulfill stays as long as you walk in obedience,

as long as you walk in relationship and sync, okay?

We synchronize our mortal life with a prophetic. Then God's

going to bring divine energy to fulfill that word. In

its time. That's the other thing that's really hard about

the prophetic. Because God is outside of time and space.

God sees the whole thing. Remember, God sees beginning to end.

Isaiah 46.10. God knows the end from the beginning. And

Solomon says, you won't. But isn't God kind when he

gives you a little video clip of coming attractions? A

prophet goes, you know, I just see this happening in

your life. And you sit there going, I don't see

that at all. That's because the movie hasn't come out yet.

But God says, here's a little clue of what you're

going to be doing. And then we can start working

it in prayer. Start what? Bending, shaping, building. I always

say this, when God gives a prophetic word, he then

goes to work building the capacity inside of you to

fulfill it. Let's say you've got a young person who

has a call to be a missionary to the nations.

It sounds like a wonderful word, right? Woo-hoo! That's what

we want, these big high-octane words that are full of voltage.

God's calling him to the nations to be a missionary.

And you're like, I don't even have a passport yet.

What he's going to do is say, now, for the

next 15 years, I'm going to build missionary in you.

I'm going to build missionary capacity in you. You think

of young David who was called in from the field.

He didn't even get invited to the prophetic meeting. Comes in.

Samuel's looking up the other sons of Jesse going, I'm

looking for a king. I don't see king in anybody.

I'm looking for king. He's got these big, strapping, strong

sons of Jesse. And he goes, is there anybody else?

They're kind of like, are you kidding me? What's wrong

with these guys? Is there anybody else? There's a little

scrapper out in the field. He just tends sheep. You

certainly don't need to be. So they bring David in,

and Samuel says, king. I see king in you. How

long was it? About 20 years. Then God went to work,

and he had to build king inside of David. He

had to build a capacity to be the king. That's

that shaping. That's that bending, that curving, the purposes of God,

which included all the crazy things King discipleship program he

got thrust into, you know, spear throwing, you know, slander management,

hiding in caves. That's all part of his discipleship, right?

So God knows what he's doing. He didn't waste one

thing in David's life. So when we have to have, God,

how do I synchronize my life with your intention? That's

the work. That's where you meditate upon your prophecies. That's

what Paul told Timothy, 1 Timothy 4.14. He said, don't

neglect the gift that was in you. You want to

put that first to me for 14? You can put

it there. Paul said, Timothy had gotten some great prophecies.

Paul said, don't neglect the gift that was given to

you by prophecy with the laying out of hands. And

then he told him how not to neglect the gift.

He said, meditate upon these things. Meditation is the lost

art of meditation. We just have so much instant What's

the definition? I need a scripture to get me through

my next class. I mean, we just want instant light.

But thou shalt meditate. Thou shalt meditate. This book of

the law shall not depart out of your mouth. Thou

shalt meditate, he told Joshua, right? When? Day and night.

I'm guilty as anybody. I'd rather look at a goofy

little reel. And then go, what did I just do?

I want to meditate on how stupid I am. It's like,

what a waste of time. Thou shalt meditate day and night,

and then you shall observe something. You shall observe. It

gives you prophetic sight when you're meditating. So he told Timothy, Timothy, what?

Don't neglect the gift that's in you. It was given

by prophecy with the laying on of hands of the presbytery.

Meditate upon these things. Meditating is how sheep eat. It's

the same word for ruminate. I don't know if sheep

have four stomachs. Come on, where's the farmer girl? Come on, right?

You know all this, right? We need your dad or

your brother. Sheep have four chambers in their stomach. And

so they eat. It goes down to chamber one. Don't

get grossed out. Everybody's had dinner. Then they bring it

up again. You know, they take phase one and soften

it up. It comes back up. And maybe now some

sticks and little pebbles, they get rid of them. And

then they take it down to stomach number two and

it gets softer and softer and softer. And then they

finally break down all the nutrients. That's meditation. That's rumination.

You don't, you know, you just don't get the riches

of God's Word by first glance. You don't understand what

God's going to do in a prophecy just by reading

it once a year. I'm hoping I'm not telling you,

but I was in church recently. I said, so how's

the prophetic word working in you? They're going, yeah, yeah,

it's been a long time since we looked at that.

I'm thinking, well, I guess it's not working. I mean,

I feel bad because it's like, meditate, Paul said. Timothy, what?

Meditate upon these things, this next phrase, See, give yourself

wholly to it. Not H-O-L-Y, but W-H-O-L-L-Y. Completely give yourself

to it. In the Greek it says, I love it

in the Greek, it says, see yourself in it. Isn't

that cool? See yourself doing it. You're going to be

a missionary to the nations. You've got to start meditating that.

But God, you call me a missionary. I wonder what

country it is. I'm a missionary. I've got to be

on a mission. You start meditating and talking to God

about it. And you start seeing yourself in it. for

this purpose. He's not done. He goes, that your profiting

will appear before all. Your profiting. God prophetically speaks to us,

and then we go to work ruminating on that word,

seeing ourself in it, and the profiting, very similar to

the bending and shaping, it means to remove obstacles. The

word is prokope in the Greek. It was used, interestingly,

in secular Greek to describe lumberjacks, that would show up

at a forest and the head lumberjack, what's the head

lumberjack called? I don't know. Probably Jack. Hey. Boss Jack.

Boss Jack would say, boys, we're gonna put a road

right there. And they're going, I don't see a road.

Do you see a road? No, I don't see a road.

We don't see a road, sir. He goes, precisely. Start

chopping trees down. It was used to describe a lumberjack

removing obstacles for a forward path. that your profiting will

appear before all. God says, when you're meditating on prophecy,

when you're meditating on His Word, what you're doing, you

begin to see yourself differently, see yourself in that action,

and pretty soon you start removing the obstacles that your

mind comes up with, because all we see are the

trees sometimes. I'd love to do that, God, but all

I see are trees. I'd love to go on the

mission field, but all I see are big trees of debt,

trees of impossibility. There's no way. And so we just

start hacking those things down. We start removing the obstacles

so we can have a forward way. Your progress will

appear before all because it's just not about you. See,

the body gets built up when a prophetic word is fulfilled.

They go, do you remember that prophecy? Look, they're going

to Japan next month. Remember four years ago, that prophecy?

I mean, always we could, the community, we have to

judge prophecy and then help fulfill prophecy in the community.

You can't do solo. You can't, it's not a solo act.

We use words like my word, I got my prophecy. Well,

it's all of our prophecy. You need the church to

fulfill the prophecy. We're part of a body, right? And man,

when you hear a prophetic word comes true, and I

was just up in Hereford, and I've been prophesying into

that movement for 38 years, and I just, every now

and then, the joy of just hearing a testimony. You

prophesied this several years ago, and now this is happening,

and just go, that just builds everybody up. Yeah. Yeah.

So I wanted to encourage you to just keep fighting.

It's fight. That's the other part. Paul taught Timothy in

1 Timothy 1.18. This charge I'm giving you, Timothy, according

to your prophecy, you can wage good warfare with it.

Because it's automatic warfare. Right, Dave? If we can trick

people and say, who would like a prophecy? Raise your hand.

I said, okay, who wants warfare? Raise your other hand.

Because you always get both. You can't say, I want

prophecy and no warfare. It's always a two-for-one special. Prophecy

on one hand, warfare on the other. So you can

wage good warfare. Good warfare with what? What God says

about you. That's when we use those, not magic, but

powerful phrase, God, you said. God, you said. You told me.

And I wage warfare with it. Yeah? All right? Helpful?

Any questions? This is such a free meeting. We can

just kind of do Q & A. Seriously. Anybody have

a question about Times and seasons, how the prophetic works.

Who's really frustrated tonight? Anybody? We all have frustrations. That

means God's at work. When you lose that sense of

I'm in the battle, that's dangerous. You ever lose the

sense of there's no resistance going on here? Ooh, that's dangerous.

That means the flesh is winning because the flesh and

the spirit are going to oppose. So I just want

to say something prophetically as I was walking over here

and praying. And I think this lands for word of life.

I go to too many churches. I have 50.