I'm just going to talk about a little bit more what I just talked about, just to prepare us.
I don't know what happened in here Friday night.
I'm just asking because I kind of feel like there's like a residue of like,
what are we doing, you know? So yeah, yeah.
So that's good. That's good because the more often the well is stirred,
the fresher the water is, right?
And we don't end up with dog days.
We don't end up with the murky, slimy stuff. It's going to be fresh.
And sometimes we can go over prophecies that maybe happened in 1985 or, you know,
Oral Roberts spoke something or we've had something spoke over us
or we're waiting for the fullness of it to take place.
And many times we're waiting on it, but it's waiting on us.
Most of the time it's waiting on us. It's like, I'm like in process.
I'm words floating around here. I'm trying to land.
We need to build an airport for it to land on, right?
So when you hear prophetic word, I mean, and in this church, that can happen a lot.
Going to different services and different things like that.
This is where it's kind of like going to a buffet.
You don't appreciate the buffet as much later on because there's just so much to eat.
You already did it. You know, you go on a fast or whatever you show up just for one piece of chicken.
It's like, oh my goodness. This is so good, right?
And so there's something about us preparing our hearts in a way like...
We have to set it like it's all brand new.
What are you saying to do today to add on to the old thing?
Am I in process? Am I on the go?
Go into all the world? Go preach the gospel?
He likes the go, right?
Is those who are on the go that the blessing attaches itself to because there's movement?
That's why we have to stir the waters, right?
And we can't take for granted, like I said, there's this prophecy and this word and this thing happening or whatever.
And after a while I'll be like, yeah, I already ate there.
That's not that big. I'm looking for a different restaurant even.
We'll get like that because we already ate there. We already did that.
And it was amazing when we did, but we haven't applied what we ate, right?
So how I hold myself accountable, and I just want to take this time to let you know I'm not perfect.
I know it's shocker. Just take a breath. You'll be okay.
I'm not perfect, but I can tell you that I keep those pieces of paper. I keep those prophecies.
I keep looking in my old broken down Bible for the last thing or whatever,
and how does that connect to this thing that connects to that thing, right?
And I want to know that it's come to pass.
I want to know that I'm either in the process of it coming to pass, or it has come to pass.
Or we either missed it on the front end, or we're missing it now.
But we have to call it, right? That's the thing with prophecy. You have to be able to call it.
Well, you know, we've been making on this, and now I've since found, you know,
it probably came out of a wrong heart or whatever. I missed it on the front end.
Or if you secured it that this was God, and it hasn't come to pass, where are you missing it now?
Just let that soak for a little bit.
It could be that something was spoke over you that you're, you know, like you're going to be in certain type of ministry,
or let's say missions. Something that's not in your regular, you know,
and you're supposed to be headed toward missions or whatever.
And we're just waiting for that missionary to show up and offer the trip.
And, you know, there's just got to be something, something's got to manifest.
I'm just waiting and hoping.
But yet we never took a clash on the mission field.
We didn't study out where we felt called to go.
We don't even know where we feel called to go.
See, and this is how that thing will be like a high in the service,
or in your prayer group, or wherever it's happening.
And then after a while, and nothing comes to pass.
It's so exciting that when you watch for how God shows up,
he will show you the details that connect.
And it gets crazy. Just this little small stuff.
You think, I can't be making this stuff up.
We're looking for the big things, but many times it'll be the small things.
Like I'll have just said a phrase to somebody,
and I show up at a meeting where I'm going to preach,
or maybe there's somebody and they say, I got a word for you.
And they say that phrase to me.
And they're not prophesying, they're just in the thing.
I just said the phrase, and it's like a saying or something.
And then they'll say that to me, and it's like, interesting.
And then you begin to open your eyes, and you start watching.
You will find this dot connects to that dot,
that connects to Sally smiling, because she knows what I mean.
Right?
Now you also can get so desperate, you make stuff up.
Right? You're looking for something so hard.
You know, we've had people, they'll come up and say,
now if you've done this, and I'm stepping on your toes,
just know that I love you, but you know, we've all done stuff.
So it'd be like, you know, today the sky was cloudy.
And I just was, I was feeling, you know, God,
if you just would give me a sign, there's your first problem.
Right? Those who look for a sign, it's a problem.
You know, if you just show me something or whatever,
and then we pulled desperately off of a cloud that was in a certain shape
that happened to be over a certain area.
And then when I drove by, there's this kind of plant.
I mean, I've had people come up and they're like,
and then a white car passed me, and then I knew.
And I was like, oh, you're in a ditch.
You're way in a ditch here.
Because you're so hungry for something to happen
that you're just scraping out the spirit realm,
trying to manifest things through the physical
and say, there it is, there it is.
And I think that's it. I mean, you get jumpy, right?
But when it does come to pass, when you see things,
you just note to self, I'm going to collect that,
and just keep going. You're quiet about it.
You know, like say the person said a phrase to me,
I was like, interesting, pay attention.
Sometimes I'll be in a place where I've just been praying
or whatever, and I show up, the door's open,
and I have deja vu. Anybody know what deja vu is?
And you have that.
And that, to me, I've found over the years
is a marking place of, like, pay attention.
Because I'll come in.
Problem, I had one that was at the last Open Heavens
that was just like...
Pastor Egor is just getting used to us, right?
Open Heavens was a bit ago.
And he was talking, he was saying something to somebody,
and I'm like...
And the reason my mouth was hanging open,
and it's not because of what he said,
it's because I could have told him what he's going to say,
and then I turned to the person and I'm like,
cue that, they're going to do this.
And I knew, boom, boom, and then it just shut off.
But what it did is it verified this moment is important,
this is a marking moment, pay attention.
Okay?
And so those things happen, but even that,
I can't live my life off of deja vu, can we?
You know?
You put that in that collector area inside of you,
go, I'll just collect that, we'll pay attention.
But I'm after God, I'm after these different things.
And so, there's something about prophetic
when we lose the vein of it,
or we are not following what's already been spoken over us.
God stopped speaking many times.
We'll go long periods of time without hearing anything from him.
And it's like, I don't know what I've done,
I don't know, well, part of it is he already told you.
He already told you.
And I think sometimes we get so spiritual
that we forget to do the physical stuff.
Like I said, if you're going on a mission field,
you're supposed to be in a praise band,
I just feel I'm supposed to play guitar.
Do you know how? No.
But he said this to you.
And you know this, what are you going to do about that?
I remember when that word came over,
Braden, right, this was in Colorado,
this word came over him, regarding being in a praise band
or helping to lead praise.
And he was like, I don't even...
he sings, but whatever.
But I can tell you when he started playing guitar,
it was every day for so many hours a day for two years.
And he still wasn't up bleeding.
But what's he doing now?
So you have to create the ground,
you have to create the landing pad for this prophecy.
It's out there, like words, and it's like,
where am I going to land?
How am I going to manifest this thing?
How do I unload this?
And so we have to prepare the way,
make straight the path for the Lord to show up.
And it's not about being perfect,
it's about being in movement.
It's about having your servant hood apron on
that says, I'm going to move.
Whether it be prayer, whether it be research.
Oh my goodness, when we started Mission 61,
two years of research.
We went to every house I could think of that was GRH,
or maybe they were homes for sex offenders,
or they were homes for what?
And it just went through the whole thing.
And then they would give us their paperwork even,
which was really cool.
They're like, here's how you sign into this or whatever.
So we had all this stuff that we could look at
and no Mission 61.
But because it had to come to pass,
remember the words some of you were here
when Brad Brady said,
it must come to pass.
Well, must has that word in it that's not like,
take your time, you just, you know,
think about it for a while or whatever.
It's a slamming word. It's like, must go, go, go.
So how do you go when you're like walking around in circles?
You don't have a house, you don't have whatever.
Well, you got to do the works then that it takes.
Get knowledge, get understanding,
and then wisdom will fall.
Amen.
Get knowledge, get understanding,
and then wisdom will fall.
All of that is perpetuated though by the fear of the Lord.
And the fear of the Lord is the choice part,
like the Amplified says, of wisdom.
So if you're going to eat of wisdom,
there needs to be an awe and respect for God,
which goes back to the whole series on going low.
We don't go low if we do not have the awe and respect for God,
the fear of the Lord. We just don't.
We won't.
So that's even something we can't do on our own.
We have to ask Him to culture that in us.
And so one of the things,
apostolically, that we guard here
is not to shut down prophecy
or words of knowledge or words of wisdom.
It's not to shut it down,
but it is to measure it and to gauge it
and to look at it, pay attention to it,
and not forget it.
And then you know if something needs to be missed
on the front end or you're missing it now.
But here's the thing, if you missed it on the front end
or you're missing it now,
that needs to be admitted.
Right?
There were some things that were prophesied
that just came to pass.
Some of the things that were prophesied
20 years ago we are in right now.
But man, am I thankful for all the works things
he told us to do to lead up to this point
because if they would have just manifested
we couldn't carry that.
We didn't have the anointing to like move into that.
And so all of a sudden boom, there it is.
And then you're so thankful,
oh thank God I took that class
or thank God whatever it is
because of the works part.
So I'm saying this, you know,
not a lot of word here.
I'm just saying this to remind us
part of our job is to make sure
that we're paying attention to the prophecies
that we stamped as that was God.
That was God.
First of all, I don't let just anybody prophesy over me.
Okay?
You want to take a shot at a word of knowledge, you know?
My first indicator is if you come up
and you got a word of knowledge from me
and I haven't been praying and asking God
for anything of it, I do sit back
and just go, I never asked for this,
but I'll listen.
A lot of times it has nothing to do with nothing.
I'll listen.
See, there's an awe and respect.
There's a fear of the Lord.
You're speaking on behalf of God.
And so I'm reminding this
because we are coming up on Open Heavens.
We're coming up on a time where
we're so much more
putting an emphasis on like
speak, Lord, speak, right?
And then the purpose of it
for Open Heavens is He speaks
and then we do.
He speaks and then we do.
So some things we're lagging behind on.
They're starting to manifest,
but I think we're a few months behind.
We have to be able to talk like that
and go, all right, so what should
I have done differently or whatever.
That's taking ownership
of the gift that He gave to us.
Where you take it and you go,
thank you, I got to take another look at this.
Sorry, Lord, if I'm in the way in any way.
I mean, that's just mature Christianity.
Amen.
So
so when I look
here in the next couple weeks
because Open Heavens is coming
I'm going to look again
and you should look again at all
the sermons that were preached.
Now there were hours
of prophetic things happening.
There were hours of things
that took place. There was stuff that was
downloaded to you during praise and worship
and you never told anybody.
Did you write it down?
You know, there's times that I missed
that and I'll be like, God, please.
I just, I am so sorry.
Will you bring that back to me? Kind of like when you
have a dream that's
supernatural and God's trying to get something
over to you, but it's three in the morning and you're like,
all right, that's on in the morning. Yeah, Lord, I'll remember.
Okay, just remember this. Remember
this, right? You peed it. Repeat it. You get
up in the morning. You cannot remember that dream
and you're just like panicking
and you're like, sometimes
He's had mercy on me and
just gave me a concept and I'm like, oh, there it is.
And I come back, which kind of
teaches you a lesson. Don't do that.
Get up and write it down or keep a
pen and paper next to your bed, right?
So
I'm bringing this up because the Lord said
to just be, we're going to talk about some prophetic
things here this morning in service,
but we need to pay attention
to what he's already told us.
That is part of honoring him.
It is a dishonor
to his word over us
if we don't put honor
to it. And if honor has
that weighty thing like this,
this has merit. This is weighty.
We need to pay attention to. This is
something that has to come to pass,
right? If we
put that on there like that,
then that's a way of bringing him honor.
If it's more like, whoa, that
was so good. Wasn't that good?
And you literally walk
away from open heavens like, man, that was
so good. Yeah, what was it about?
Well, you know, there was, you know,
I might pick a main theme. Yeah,
remember what happened Thursday night?
What was said through the man that was
here? I'm more
about that than his name, that he
stayed here late one night
and just prophesied over people.
What was said during that time?
And what was said about extravagant giving?
What is extravagant giving? We've gone
over that. I mean, these are all
things that after a while, you're like laying
it out and you're like, this is a lot to remember.
That's why we have to write it down.
But if it's revelation
and it's coming at us that quick, we have
to be thankful for it because Old Testament
you might have had something revealed
and that's like, and there it was.
Everything's built on that
for the next, I don't know how many years.
That's what the Lord said. Boom.
But we are in an
age where he is pouring out of
his spirit on all flesh.
He is pouring out of the inside
of his spirit. It says out of
his spirit. On all
flesh.
And so the culmination of time
has speeded things up. The information
is almost like the internet. It comes so
quick. There's this, there's that, there's the other.
We don't have a prophecy.
We don't have a word of knowledge.
For you personally,
you might have 25 sitting on your desk
going, hmm.
And they should dovetail
or you should sort them.
And you put this one on a shelf. Think about that later.
Whatever you, whatever you do to
say, I'm honoring this.
I'm paying attention to this. Does that
make sense?
So I want to
stir that here this morning where
we just stop and pay attention.
So it's like attending
to something, right? And we pay
to do it.
How do you pay
attention?
Everything about that? You have to take
of your time and use
it as a payment.
And attend to the thing he told you to do.
Attention.
We're at attention.
We're paying attention. All of our
ports of learning, our five senses are
like, what are we doing?
And then you pay because you're not
taking that moment to yourself.
This isn't about
you in that moment. It's about
what he said.
And how are we conforming? Then we have
levels. We have what did he say
to word of life? What did he say
to me about how I serve at word
of life? What did he say
on lower levels
about our kids? What
has he said and it should all line
up, right? That's a lot to pay attention
to. Which then requires
more time.
And part of
how I pay attention
to things, just the suggestion
is when you fast it makes you pay attention.
It's just
first you're paying attention to your body
and you're just like, I don't really want to do
this. I don't like this or whatever your body
is talking smack.
So it's there and it'll do that.
But after a while you enter
the zone of like, man I am
acutely aware
of my surroundings
and what is happening
and how that word connects
to this word and now I know
what to do today.
See, fasting
once again is not
you can't use fasting to
force anybody to do something.
I keep ending up teaching, for some reason
in the north that must have been taught
where people are like, my son's
not saved and I'm just going to fast him into
the kingdom. You can starve yourself
to death and if he doesn't want the kingdom, he
don't want the kingdom.
The fasting is there for you.
The fasting is there that
you change and you carry a
level of anointing because
you've taken something and paid for it.
You took your time.
You took your comfortability.
You took whatever it takes around
when you fasted it's like, oh
I took this and I spent
it on this
and it focused us.
I just found a prophecy
from 2012 that
there's a two-pager that Pastor Verne
had spoken and that was
the main thing of it is
to like, almost like, pay attention
but it kept saying focus
and refocus.
Focus and refocus.
And so that applied then
but it also applies now.
And so as I read that I was like, yep
that's what he wants for prayer this morning.
Let's stand.
And then
the main way you do that is we take this
time
and you know like binoculars
if it's blurry start moving
it around.
Start doing that my grandkids had my
binoculars and they're looking for a deer
and they're like, I don't see nothing.
It was total blur for them. They didn't understand
the concept. You gotta
move this thing to get it
to go. That's what it's gonna
take for open heavens.
That's what it's gonna take for the now
for us to understand where God
is trying to take us and when
whenever we assume
it doesn't turn out right.
We'll wait till open heavens
to find out you're already out of sync.
It might take you two three days
to get into where the spirit's at.
Don't do that.
We're gonna focus
and we're gonna refocus and how you do
that as you go back and say what did
he already say to do
that I haven't done.
Hallelujah.
Let's begin to praise him
and thank him for revelation knowledge.
See, when you put an emphasis on something
that's what he told us
is gonna move today is revelatory.
So Lord God, we focus on the
revelatory part of you.
That character, that revelation,
that revealing of who you are,
the revealing of what you have to say,
what you've already revealed,
bring it back to our minds, Lord God.
Bring the emphasis.
Bring it, bring it, bring it Lord God
in the name of Jesus.
We thank you that you're bringing it
to us now up because
your word says if we forget
that you will bring it to us by the spirit.
We know not what to say
that the spirit will bring it.
Hallelujah.
So we clear our thoughts.
Because Lord you operate so much
through our mind
and Lord God for revelation
we have to be in a revealing state
of mind.
So we purposely move over
and stretch for it.
We stretch for it, Lord speak.
Lord show us, reveal.
And even the words from the past
that have been said Lord God
give them new meaning
because there is a new section
of whatever you said
that's going to come to life.
Bring it to life, bring it to life,
bring it to life. Hallelujah.
Hallelujah.
Praise be to our God
who leads us into triumph.
Thank you Lord God
that you're a good God.
And what you've spoken of over us
is to unify us to head a direction
that will make the most difference
for the lost.
It will make the most difference
for this region because that is our
assignment.
We remind ourselves
of our assignment. You have given us
the north. You have given us
this ground. You have given us
the generations. You have
given us these things to pay
attention to.
You said that they would come
from far and near.
So we stretch our thinking to far
and near.
We stretch our thinking for revelation
knowledge that you would speak to us
about far and near
in the name of Jesus.
Hallelujah.
Hallelujah. Let's have the praise
band come. Hallelujah.
Praise, glory and honor
be to your name Lord
God. We're purposeful in what
we're doing right now. We're on purpose
spending this time
to pay attention
to attend to the things
of the spirit.
You said Lord God
You said
Hallelujah.
You spoke into
existing housings for people in need.
You're the one who did that Lord
God through the prophetic. And we're
so thankful for what's been done.
But we thank you that there's more
going to be done regionally.
Thank you.
All the way up into Canada
Lord. You said it.
Corridors of victory.
All the way over into Wisconsin
for shirm. And Lord
North Dakota the area that
we traveled first.
We have to attend to that first
before you'll give us many other
things. And so we pay
attention to those prophecies.
Hallelujah. Hallelujah. We're
acknowledging. We're taking
the knowledge and putting it out there.
And we're acknowledging it.
We're saying there it is. I see it. I see it.
Reveal.
Lord will be speaking about this morning
Isaiah 54.
The gems in the wall
sitting before me right now
are many of the gems that
you placed in the wall.
You placed them here. You hand
picked the people here
for word of life.
They shine the brightest
in those spots.
They shine the brightest. They're
secure. They're locked
in because the Lord has spoke
to them. The Lord has revealed
to them. And so Lord, we thank you
for those shiny rocks. Those shiny
gems in the name
of Jesus. Hallelujah.
You spoke that we
would take the north
and the Indian nation would be
a part of that. I thank you
Lord God for Red Lake
and Cast Lake and the tribes
all around the Menominee. I
thank you for the Ojibwe. I
thank you for all the influence
that's taking place for the
Cherokee people that are up
there. For the Apache people
that you're bringing us into
Lord God. We're so thankful.
You did that. You started
it Lord. And you will finish it.
We just need to be your hands
and feet. So we acknowledge. We acknowledge
this is where it's at, where we're part of it.
Father, I thank you for the bridge
outreach. Lord, that you gave
that into our hands. It
started by me just saying, I teach
a class there. The next thing you know
a couple years later, I'm pasturing
there. You did that Lord God.
We acknowledge it was
you. And you said to
race the reaper when it comes to
addiction. You said, race the reaper
get there first. Get there
first. And so that's what we're doing Lord
God. We're racing the reaper on
your behalf. Better us. Give us more
revelation. Show us how,
who, when, where.
Turn the hearts of the
people coming in and draw
new workers in that aren't
even in this place yet
when it comes to the children and the
generations. We're asking Lord
we need more. We need
specialized care people
and we're calling them right
now. We're calling them
in. Come from the north. Come
from the south. Come from the east.
Come from the west. Come
come help. Come help. Find
your spot in the wall.
Find your spot in the wall.
And shine brightly.
See we're just starting to enter
revelation right now. You can feel it
entering the room.
Reveal, reveal, reveal next steps
in people's lives Lord that they would see
the next steps in their life. Don't
go too far out. Do the next right
hard thing. Do that thing. Do that
thing. Do that thing.
Let it be revealed to you what that
thing is and do it. Do it with
all your might. Do it as unto the Lord.