So, how many of y'all were here last night?
You came back. Thanks. Amen. You came back.
I didn't offend you then, at least not completely. So, that's great.
So, tonight's word, I hear the Lord, He's talking some very specific things.
And let me just tell you, I want to reiterate that the Lord is not done with the state of Minnesota.
Amen. The Lord is not done with the state of Minnesota.
And if you have cursed your state, you need to repent.
And you need to watch your words.
You need to make sure that your words are in line with the presence in the Spirit of God.
Do you understand? Because if you're speaking anything other than the Spirit,
what the Holy Spirit is saying over Minnesota, you're cursing your city, you're cursing your state.
Who wants to live in a cursed state? How much sense does that make?
Right? Hello. Yeah. Okay.
So, tonight's word is entitled, if you're taking notes.
It's entitled, Mantles, Belts, and Vovs. Mantles, Belts, and Vovs.
And thank you so much on the keys. Was the worship amazing tonight? We broke through. I'm so grateful.
Wow, that's weak. There we go.
Amen. Mantles, Belts, and Vovs.
And if you have your phone and the ringer is on, please turn it down. Thank you.
So, I received a word, a prophetic word from a friend of mine back in November of last year.
Can you believe we're in 2026? Doesn't seem like we should have flying cars at this point.
And so, I received this word from a friend of mine. I hadn't talked to her in probably since February.
And in November, she sends me this word and this voice memo.
And I had just landed in Dallas and I was getting ready to grab my bags because I was going to go preach.
And I decided to listen to her voice memo because it was about 24 hours old.
And so, I sit in the baggage claim area. I'm waiting on that little trolley.
And sometimes I think Satan made that thing because it tears up my bag.
So, I was waiting on my trolley and waiting on my bag on the trolley.
And all of a sudden, I began to listen to the word that she was giving me.
And for a solid two minutes, it was kind of like she was talking in circles.
And I've got this word for you, Amanda. And I hope that you receive it.
And I'm like, Sister, get to the point. You know, I'm the type. Just say it for the love. Just say it.
And so, about two minutes goes by and finally she gets to the word.
And I can't give you exactly what the word was, but it went something like this.
Amanda, the Lord is posing a question to you.
And the question is, what are you doing now to prepare for where he is sending you?
And she actually said where the Lord was sending me.
And as I listened to it, I actually slid out of my seat.
And the anointing, the fear of the Lord began to hit me. And the anointing hit me.
And I was basically on the floor. And I was very aware at that moment that this was the word of the Lord.
And I had a holy fear hit me. And I know that as a prophetic voice, many times what I experience
is what's about to happen in the body of Christ.
Do you understand that prophets usually they're pioneers? Apostles are pioneers.
They go ahead because they're helping to navigate the way for where you're about to go.
So an apostle or a prophet has most of the time has already been in the spirit where you're going.
That's why it's really important for you to pay attention when they speak.
Because they're giving you strategy so that you don't get lost on the path.
Are you awake tonight?
So I knew that if he was saying it to me in November, then he's already saying it to you
or he's getting ready to say it to you.
How are you preparing now for where he is sending you?
First off, do you know where you're being sent?
Some of you have no clue.
You are looking at me like a donkey staring at a new gate.
Well, Amanda, I'm just out to pasture now.
I've retired. There is no retiring in the kingdom.
I respect your white hair.
I would probably have a little bit if my daughter wasn't a cosmetologist covering this gray.
You know what I'm saying?
But here's the thing. The gray that you have is great wisdom.
The younger generation needs the gray. They need the experience.
They need the wisdom.
And younger generation, you need their wisdom.
You need to learn how to sit down to listen to their stories from the gray hairs
and shut up.
You need to stay off of your phone, your mobile device.
I'm just going to say it.
It is disrespectful when all you do is share at your phone
whenever you have an elder in front of you.
It is disrespectful.
Stay off of your bloody phones for the love,
especially whenever there's a preacher up here sweating her guts out
and you would rather scroll on social media than hear the word of the Lord.
There's a problem.
In this house there is no famine for the word of the Lord.
So why do you not pay attention when the prophet or the apostle is preaching?
Y'all making me show my southern tonight.
So this word, Amanda, what are you doing now to prepare for where he is sending you?
This word has actually caused me to evaluate where I've been and where I am.
It's caused me to evaluate what mantle have I worn in the past season?
What mantle am I wearing now?
How am I preparing?
Years ago, whenever my father-in-law transitioned to heaven,
I don't ever say that someone died.
I said they graduated or they transitioned because here's the thing.
When you go to heaven, you're more alive than you've ever been, right?
And so my father-in-law is there.
My mother-in-law is there.
My husband is there.
They're more alive than they've ever been.
And so when my father-in-law transitioned to heaven about 13 years ago
and the Lord asked my husband and I to move in with her
and to help take care of her, I didn't want to do it.
I didn't want to do it.
Do you know why?
She was mean to me for about 20 years of my husband's marriage.
She was hateful.
Her and my sister-in-law were hateful.
They teamed up on me.
And it was, listen, it was a season where the Lord made me be quiet.
Apostle, do you know how hard that is?
He made me be quiet.
And for those 12, 13-ish years that I was in that house taking care of her
the nastiness continued.
And this is what the Lord told me before I moved in, before we moved in.
One day I had to call AT&T and I had to cancel.
You remember when we had home phones, right?
The thing on the wall.
Oh, I'm showing my age. I'm about to be 50, but I look really good.
And so I, that's what he's supposed to say.
Amen, Amanda.
No southern charm here.
So I had to call AT&T and I had to cancel my home phone.
And I was distraught. This is not an exaggeration.
So the little girl picks up the phone.
Hi, Ms. Hill, how can we help you?
And I said, I need to cancel my phone line.
Just like that, legit.
And she's like, are you in duress?
And I'm like, yes, I'm moving in with my mother-in-law.
And I, legit, I'm sobbing on the phone with this poor little girl.
And I hang up the phone and I cancel my home phone.
I hang up the phone and I said to the Lord, I said,
I really don't want to do this.
And he said, I know you don't.
And I said, please don't make me.
And this is what he said.
He said, if you will honor her and if you will take care of her,
then I will honor you in return.
And I will open doors for you that nobody can close.
And I will close the doors to the enemy that nobody can open.
See, and this, this is something I'm getting to the mantle part of this in just a second.
When you honor, let me say this, many of you want to be exalted,
but you don't know how to honor.
When you learn how to honor, listen, honor brings favor.
Favor brings access.
So there was a season where I was trying my best to honor her,
even though I was treated poorly.
She has now graduated.
And let me tell you something.
The Lord has supernaturally opened up doors that I could never open up on my own.
And it's because honor opens the way to favor.
Favor leads to promotion and access.
Listen, it was a time of refinement for me.
I needed to go through that.
Some of you would have already reached your destiny,
but you denied yourself the opportunity of process and refinement.
And you're wondering why you've not reached where your prophetic promise was.
Well, that must have been a false prophetic word or they were a false prophet.
No, no, no, no, no.
You aborted the promise with your impatience.
This is nowhere in my notes.
Some of you need to hear this.
I can...
Oh, it's real tense.
It's all right, I leave tomorrow.
You can hear it from someone else.
Okay.
So it was a time of refinement.
So we talked last night about pay vav.
Stick with me, pay vav.
So in this year of pay vav, pay is 80.
Remember the mouth.
Six, that vav.
That's the number six.
So it's a time to what stake your claim.
It's a time to go to war and how do you war?
What is your warfare this season?
Communion.
Whoa, nobody over here answered.
What is your warfare this season?
There we go.
Anybody take communion today?
Yes.
Yes, you got it.
The rest of y'all need to get saved.
Just playing.
So pay vav.
We talked last night that vav, the vav, the six,
it shows up in the Torah.
Listen.
As the 22nd letter in Torah.
Stick with me, Torah is something you don't...
It's a Hebrew...
It's basically the Hebrew Bible,
the first five books of the Hebrew Bible.
And it's where God makes the heavens and the earth.
That and there is the 22nd letter
in the Torah.
So you don't have to be a prophet to go,
22 is a really important number, right?
Do you understand that 22 is a really important number to God?
It was a really important number to me when the Lord said,
if you honor her, I will open up doors.
Okay, let's go to Isaiah 22.
For those of you that have your Bible.
Isaiah 22.
Let's go to verse 19.
Now, in this scripture right here,
this is where a guy named Shabna was in charge.
There was a king named Hezekiah.
Everybody ever heard of a king Hezekiah?
King Hezekiah had a second man in charge,
kind of like a vice president.
But he was basically the treasurer.
He controlled everything.
He was number two in charge.
And his name was Shabna.
But Shabna was corrupt.
He was taking money out the treasury.
Is that so familiar? Minneapolis.
Okay, so...
Shatakate.
I will depose you, verse 19,
from your office, Shabna.
And you will be pulled down
from your position of importance.
Then it will come to pass in that day
that I will summon my servant,
Eliakim.
And I will clothe him with your mantle
and tie his belt securely around him.
I will entrust him with your authority.
He will become a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem
and to the house of Judah, verse 22.
And I will set on his shoulder
the key of the house of David.
When he opens, no one will shed.
And when he sheds, no one will open.
I will drive him, here it is,
like a tent peg.
Remember the peg with J.L., the number six.
Drive him like a tent peg in a firm place.
And he will become a throne of honor
and glory to his father's house.
In June of this last year,
I was in Las Vegas
with Apostle Chuck Pierce.
He's my spiritual father.
And so we were doing a worship gathering
in Las Vegas.
And the Lord began to speak to me
before I got to this service.
And he said to me,
because I said, Lord, what are you doing right now?
And he said, I am, listen,
I am de-throning Vashti.
And I'm putting Esther in her place.
I don't have time to go into that.
Go read the book of Esther
if you don't know what I'm talking about.
And then he said,
I am removing, listen,
I am removing Shebna from his place
and putting Eliakim in place.
What does that mean?
It means it's a governmental shakeup.
It's a governmental overturning.
It's the time of the shakeup.
Shebna, it says that
Shebna carried this key on his shoulder.
It was a sign of his high office
and his authority as the master of the palace.
He was wicked.
Shebna was wicked.
He was stealing money from the treasury.
So Eliakim had to take his place.
So here's how it worked in the Middle East
and the ancient Middle East.
The keys were usually about this big.
And it would hang up because it says here,
and I will set on his shoulder
the key of the House of David.
I never understood what that meant.
I will set on his shoulder.
It's because the keys were like this.
They didn't hang from about.
They hang from their shoulder on a hook.
Remember last night,
sometimes the valve looks like a hook?
Okay.
So it hung on a hook.
They were considerably large.
They were weighty.
Listen, this symbolism,
it carries such a large key
that on his shoulder,
it was a display of his dignity.
It was a display of his authority.
But here's what the Lord said to Shemna,
I am removing the key from your shoulder.
I'm removing your mantle
and I'm removing your belt.
This is what the Lord is doing
in the government structures
of the earth realm right now.
There is a divine shakeup
and the glory of the Lord
is allowing things to get stirred up.
For once again,
I will shake the heavens and the earth.
In heaven there is a bowl
with the prayers of the saints
and there is a tipping
that's happening right now.
Well, Amanda,
I don't like what's happening.
Sugar, welcome to the end times.
Welcome to the end times.
So Shemna gets his key,
his mantle,
and his belt taken from him.
When I begin to hear the Lord say
that I'm removing Shemna
and I'm putting Eliakim in his place
and I'm removing Vashti
and I'm putting Esther in her place
and he was talking about mantles
and mantles and belts
and I began to say,
okay, Lord, who else do I need to study out?
And of course he takes me to Elijah.
Elijah, stick with me.
Elijah, first Kings 18.
So we've got a showdown
that happens with the prophets of Baal
on Mount Carmel.
I love this story.
I don't think I would want to be Elijah
but I love the story, amen.
So here comes the showdown
with the prophets of Baal
and he basically, here's what happens.
The prophets of Baal don't call Elijah.
Elijah calls them.
What?
That's a wartime prophet.
That's a prophet who knows his God.
Listen, we're in a season in our government right now
where we need, and I'm going to say this with humility,
we don't need a bunch of passive pastors
to be counseling our president.
We need wartime prophets
who have the word of the Lord in their mouth
and who don't sit at Jezebel's table.
So the showdown with the prophets of Baal,
Elijah says, y'all better call out louder.
Maybe Baal's on the toilet.
I mean, Elijah's got a little ghetto about him, right?
Talking about maybe your God's on the throne, right?
So the fire of the Lord, Elijah,
they're cutting themselves and all the foolishness happens
and he was like, are you done yet?
Are we there yet?
And then he says, how long are you going to limp,
limp between two opinions?
If the Lord is God, serve him.
If Baal is God, serve him.
But this back and forth, come on.
We've been back and forth in the body of Christ.
There's so much compromise.
Come on.
The reason why your worship is so lukewarm
is because you've been serving two masters.
The worship should not...
We are supposed to...
We are supposed to have to prod you 24 seven
for you to worship.
Your worship has been lazy until tonight.
Not everybody.
Your worship exposes your lukewarm heart.
You want to talk about the church of Leo
to see a lukewarmness.
There was compromise there.
That's why they've been singing about the fire of God
so that it will burn out the impurities
that you've been allowing in your eye gate
and in your ear gate.
So, the showdown happens.
It's the largest turn.
I would have loved to have seen that.
Here comes the fire.
Here comes the fire of God.
And then they go, oh, well Jehovah Yahweh,
he must really be God, dummies.
I mean, how much more do you need?
You know, sometimes you just want to go,
y'all are big buffoons.
That's really the nicest.
Anyways, so there's the prophets
and they all see the fire come
and then here, right?
They get killed at the brook Keshon.
And here is verse 41.
Then Elijah said to Ahab,
go get something to eat and drink
for I hear a mighty rainstorm coming.
There wasn't, there wasn't,
there wasn't rain for three and a half years
because Elijah prophesied it.
Go get something to eat and drink
for I hear a mighty rainstorm coming.
So Ahab went to eat and drink.
Oh, he's finally paying attention
and doing what the prophet says.
But Elijah climbed to the top of Mount Carmel
and bowed low to the ground
and prayed with his face between his knees.
Then he said to his servant,
go and look out toward the sea.
The servant went and then looked
and returned to Elijah and said,
I don't see nothing.
Seven times Elijah told him to go and look.
Finally, verse 44, the seventh time
his servant told him,
I saw a little cloud
about the size of a man's hand
rising from the sea.
Then Elijah shouted,
hurry to tell Ahab.
Tell him, climb into your chariot
and go back home.
If you don't hurry, the rain will stop.
You, verse 45, and soon
the sky was black with clouds.
A heavy wind brought a terrific rainstorm
and Ahab left for Jezreel.
Verse 46, then the Lord
gave special strength to Elijah.
He tugged his mantle
into his belt
and ran ahead of Ahab's chariot
all the way to the entrance
to the gate of Jezreel.
Before he ran,
he had to prepare.
What did he do?
He tugged his mantle
into his, what?
Into his belt.
Ephesians 6, 14.
So stay in firm and hold your ground,
having tightened the wide
band or belt of truth.
Personal integrity, moral courage,
put it around your waist.
Preparation is the belt of truth.
I have said this before.
I've heard Oprah
and the Kardashians
and all these people talk about,
well, in the view.
Oh, the view. God help me.
So, I have heard
over and over and over again.
Well, my truth is,
let me tell you my truth.
Let me tell you my truth.
My daddy used to say,
Amanda, there are three parts
of every story.
There's this side's truth,
this side's truth,
and then there's the dead center truth.
Right?
But here's what I want you to know.
You can't tuck your mantle
into your belt of truth.
It has to be his belt of truth.
Because whenever you try to tuck
your mantle into your truth,
it can turn humanistic.
You can begin to logically think.
The reason why some of you aren't baptized
in the Holy Ghost right now,
and you don't speak in tongues
is because you can't get past
your logical denoggin right here.
Sometimes you have to just
receive it by faith.
So, this belt of truth, look here.
Nobody cares about your truth
because your truth ain't never
set nobody free, not even you.
Nobody cares about your truth.
It's his truth that sets people free.
It's his truth that delivers the demoniac.
It's his truth that says
rise and be healed.
It's his truth that says
let the waters part.
It's his truth that says
let Minneapolis be changed.
It's his truth that saves the protocol.
It's his truth that can raise the dead.
It has never been your truth.
So, whenever you've got your mantle
and you're preparing yourself,
you better make sure that you don't
have some humanistic reasoning
type of belt on you
because that will make you fall.
Talk about being deceived.
There's a spirit of delusion
that is rampant, even in the body of Christ.
Delusion is rampant.
Well, Amanda, I will never be deceived.
Then you already is, sugar.
So, he tucks his mantle into his belt.
See, Mount Carmel is 17 miles away
from Jezreel, 17 miles.
The number 17 in Hebrew, here we go.
Ready?
The number 17 in Hebrew,
possible Mary, it means victory.
17 means victory.
17 miles.
So, this is what happens.
Elijah has strength come on him.
He tucks his mantle into his belt
and then supernaturally
he outruns King Ahab's chariot.
He outruns the chariot.
It was a divine hand of God
that was on Elijah
that was giving him natural strength and fortitude.
It was a moment of divine intervention.
It was not due to Elijah's natural speed or endurance,
but it was a result of his preparation
and doing what was asked of him
by the Spirit of God.
It was the power of God that came on him.
It was the strength of the Almighty that came on him.
If you need strength in this hour,
then I would apport you tonight
and say you need to prepare yourself.
Prepare yourself.
This act served to demonstrate
because look here, Ahab knew it.
Ahab knew, look at, look at, look at, look at
that he just got beat.
This act served to demonstrate God's supreme power.
The act of tucking showed his preparation,
the preparation of Elijah.
It was also, here's the crazy thing,
it was a practical measure.
Many times we get so super spiritual,
kooky, flaky
that we don't use common sense.
Common sense.
Hello, some of y'all need a good heavy dose
of common sense.
And then, oh, shut up.
I love it.
Okay, but take out the garbage.
Your house stinks because the garbage.
My office manager, Stephanie,
is watching me right now going,
please, Amanda, it's so hard to book you.
Please don't be stupid.
So, I love you, Steph.
So it was a practical, tucking was a practical measure
for running and it symbolized his readiness
for swift action.
Many of you want swift action from the Lord,
but you've never prepared yourself.
Oh, y'all quiet tonight, okay.
So, the Holy Spirit has been asking me
and now he's asking you to evaluate where you are.
What are you doing now to prepare you
for where you are being sent?
So, we talked last night about three mindsets.
See, many of you would be where you're supposed to be,
but your mind, you so rely on your mindset
and your mindset is so contrary to the things of Christ.
You don't operate with the mind of Christ.
You operate with whatever makes you feel good.
Your mind, your will and your emotions.
And when you do that, you open yourself up
to these three mindsets that the Lord
is wanting to deal with.
A religious mindset, a poverty mindset,
and an orphan mindset.
Apostle Jen talked about it tonight.
This is a deadly triple act
that will come against your mind
and it will try to rob you of your destiny.
Do you understand?
Are you confused?
Am I speaking Hebrew?
How are you preparing?
How are you activating your spirit realm
to override your natural ability to reason and think?
How are you preparing your spirit
to make sure that you don't operate in an orphan mentality?
This orphan mentality is rampant in the body of Christ.
This orphan mentality, it just creates such a worthlessness
that you're always on this roller coaster,
that you can't ever have anything,
you feel like you have to compete.
Listen, orphans compete.
Sons and daughters champion one another.
Come on, somebody.
You're dealing with the spirit of jealousy
and it's because in competition
and it's because you're dealing with an orphan mindset.
You need to have your mind renewed.
You need to get some deliverance and inner healing.
Alright, I'll get off that, y'all can...
So he tucks his mantle in his belt and strength comes upon him.
Remember Vashti to Esther, Shevna to Eliakim.
This is what the Lord has been speaking to me about in this year.
Is everybody okay? Are you still awake?
The Lord has been talking to me about him
and I've been having to redo my bedroom redecorate
after my husband's passing, my mother-in-law's passing.
I needed to redo some things, right?
And the Lord said to me,
I want you to find a picture of a horse running for over your bed.
Of a horse running.
And I was like, okay.
And I didn't understand until he started talking to me
about Hebrews 12 and then Jeremiah 12.
Jeremiah 12, 5 says this.
If you have a race with men on foot
and they men have worn you out,
how can you compete with horses?
The Lord is asking us to run with horses in this hour.
What does that mean?
God was telling Jeremiah in the scripture
that his current complaints about the success of every,
all the wicked people.
And Lord, this wicked man is being successful
and this wicked person is getting more done than I am.
Jeremiah was complaining about the success of the wicked.
But in his complaint, this is what the Lord is saying.
Your complaints show that you're not ready
for the next level of severe opposition that's coming to you.
So if you only run with men,
you're not ready to run with the horses
because when you run with the horses,
there's another level of opposition.
There's another level of persecution.
There's another level that you're not ready for.
Many of you are wanting to run,
but you can't even endure
what little warfare you've been experiencing
because all you do is complain.
You're murmuring and complaining and fault-finding
and gossip is the language of hell.
Praise and worship is the gratitude
and thankfulness is the language of heaven.
Well, Amanda, the enemy's been fighting me.
Well, of course he is
because every time you open your mouth,
you have a whole arsenal for him
that's spewing out of your mouth.
Shut up!
We are called to run with endurance.
Hebrews 12.
Therefore, since we are surrounded
by so great a cloud of witnesses,
stripping off every unnecessary weight
in the sin that so easily and cleverly entangles us,
let us run with endurance and active persistence
the race that is set before us,
looking away from all that will distract us,
focusing our eyes on Jesus,
who is the author and the perfecter of our faith
for the joy set before him endured the cross,
disregarding the shame
and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God,
revealing his authority.
Come on.
Certainly you can learn how to shut up
and just run.
I was with him.
I was at Glory of Zion this past.
I don't even know what day it is.
Last week sometime, I thank for a conference
and the Lord gave me this word
based off of the picture,
the painting that he had me get over my bed.
And Apostle Jen helped me to pick it out.
And this picture was of this white horse running.
There was two pictures that I was looking at.
One was very...
one was very...
looked very clean.
Very like, you think that this horse is like...
It kind of runs like this.
Sorry, that's the best way I can...
And then there was this other picture of this horse
and this thing was like...
Guess which one is me?
How's my hair?
So...
Apostle Jen and even Steph and my daughter was like...
Yeah, not the first one.
Because they know me pretty well.
And what I noticed about the second one
wasn't just the way
she was running this intensity about her.
But there was this ring of fire
that was around her.
Once upon a time, whenever my...
my husband and my father-in-law were still alive,
we had about 25 horses.
It's a lot of poop, just saying.
So...
And it's like 10 o'clock in my time, really.
So, let's downhill from here, people.
So I...
We had 25 horses and one of the horses was named
Wildfire.
And I began to ask the Lord from this weekend
whenever I got up to prophesy.
And this is what the Lord began to say to me.
And he reminded me of the painting.
He reminded me of the horse.
He reminded me of tucking your mantle into your belt
and running with endurance.
He reminded me of all of these things.
And see, this horse named Wildfire,
whenever he was standing at the gate,
he would...
Okay, ready? I'm gonna do it.
Right? And he would do... That's pretty good, right?
And so, and he would...
He would stomp.
And he would bow up his chest
because he was ready to go.
Some of you are...
So stuck in the mundane.
You've been stuck in the mundane
that you don't even recognize
when it's time to run.
The Lord is actually asking you
to be mantled with Wildfire
in the year 2026.
And that doesn't mean Wildfire as in Rebellion.
That means Wildfire as in
Stop being tamed to the spirit of religion.
Stop being tamed to the spirit of religion
because I hear the Lord asking you,
when did you get so tame?
When did the enemy rob you of your worship?
When did you stop dancing before the Lord?
When did you stop singing in the spirit?
When did you stop laying hands on the sick?
When did you lose your fire?
When did you lose your Wildfire?
So the prophetic.
Here's what the prophetic is supposed to do.
The prophetic runs ahead.
The prophetic pioneers.
Elijah tucks his mantle into his belt
and he runs and runs and runs
for 17 miles.
And many of you would say,
well, Amanda, I'm too old to run.
We've already said it tonight.
There is no retiring in the kingdom.
I'm too old to retire.
But according to Psalms 103,
he can satisfy your mouth with good things
so that your youth is renewed
as the eagle.
You've already cursed your body.
Well, if this arthritis, I can't hardly.
Well, that might be true, but you know what you do.
I speak to the spirit of pain
and I speak to that disease of arthritis
and inflammation in the name of Jesus.
And I say that you're going to bow
to the spirit of God within me.
I don't bow to you.
Come on, get some wildfire.
Well, Amanda, I don't know what to do.
I'm in my late 60s.
I'm in my mid-70s.
I don't know what to do.
Go pray outside an abortion clinic.
Go ride around the ring of Minneapolis,
praying in tongues.
Come on!
Don't lose your fire.
The prophetic Elijah,
he runs, listen,
here's the crux of this,
he runs ahead
of these systems
and the structures
that would try to destroy him.
Do you see it?
He runs ahead of the chariot.
He runs ahead of the governmental official.
Elijah runs ahead
because he prepares himself
and he runs ahead.
You are an apostolic and prophetic people.
You are supposed to be able to run ahead
of structures, of systems,
of government, of education.
You are the ones to prepare the way of the Lord.
Are you not?
Of course you are.
Because whoever gets to the gate first,
Elijah got to the gate first
because he prepared.
Street came on him and he ran.
He got to the gate of just real first.
What does that mean?
Whoever gets to the gate first controls the gate.
What does the gate mean?
In ancient cities,
gates were vital for defense,
commerce, and justice.
Come on, somebody.
It's where the elders of the city met
and the decisions were made.
So controlling the gates of the city
meant controlling the city.
Come on, it's time for us
to not run behind the chariot,
but in front of the chariot
to prepare the way of the Lord.
Control the gates.
So with everything that I
had been through
the last almost three years,
the warfare
tried to take my voice.
Literally the lawsuit.
The lawsuit said
Amanda Hill,
a proclaimed prophet.
True, Jen?
Amanda Hill,
a proclaimed prophet
is building a worldwide ministry.
I said, my God, I had no idea.
It's 2023, I'm like,
I am?
Amanda Hill is building,
a proclaimed prophet
is building a worldwide ministry
and we don't know how financially viable this is.
Went on to say a bunch of other stuff.
And through that warfare,
the enemy began to
try and shut my voice down.
Essentially,
robbed me of his belt of truth for me,
because his belt of truth says that he's faithful.
His belt of truth says that he's kind
and he's close to the broken hearted.
And there was a couple times that I didn't even know
where the belt of truth was, I'll be honest.
And whenever you don't have a belt of truth,
your mantle can't fit right.
Your mantle can't fit right.
And whenever you don't have a mantle,
you don't have your authority.
Your key.
Are you with me?
So, this warfare was literally
trying to rob me of everything.
And I was in a
meeting with Chuck Pierce.
He's my spiritual father and I talk about him a lot
because two days after my husband
graduated, he was there
when other people left.
Jen has been there.
But a lot of other people left,
so those people that stuck with me,
you know.
So, on one Sunday morning,
I was at Apostle Chuck's
and I get up on the platform to go
because I have a word and I was going to go prophesy.
And...
I didn't realize I was doing this.
But I had...
there was this really big pole
and I was trying to shrink my body,
not with these hips,
to shrink my body to stand behind this pole.
Like, you know, sucking everything.
You know.
So that he...
I knew I had a word and...
but I was...
I wasn't scared, but I knew that I was
in this cave.
And Chuck walks up to me
and he looks at me and says,
Amanda!
Oh!
You know, he looks like, you know,
Kenny Rogers in Santa Claus at the same time.
So...
and he doesn't usually raise his voice,
but when he does, Amanda.
And I...
he said, don't you ever hide again.
Hey, man!
And when he said that,
it jolted something on the inside of me.
To where I was recognizing
and realizing that the warfare
was trying to take me out.
It was trying to take my mantle.
It was trying to take my key.
It was trying to take my belt.
And ever since that moment,
I've thought to myself, you know what?
The enemy thinks, well, Amanda Hill,
a proclaimed prophet, is building a worldwide ministry.
Yes!
I am!
Yes, I am.
A proclaimed prophet,
just because he said it.
I've not proclaimed anything.
He proclaimed it over my life.
So you know what? Sometimes whenever you feel
the enemy saying all types of things to you,
you need to get a clap back anointing.
Who do you think you talking to, devil?
I am the head and I'm not the tail.
I'm above and I'm not beneath.
A thousand might fall at my side.
And ten thousand at my right hand.
But I'm going to keep going.
Though he slay me, yet I will trust him.
Yes!
You think you got me? Boy, you don't know
what you just unleashed on your dark kingdom.
Because I'm coming.
I am coming!
When comes with me?
Come on, it's time to get some clap back anointing.
If the whomever will come to play, please...
I think I'm about preached out.
I was, uh, had some friends
into Chawston over the Christmas break.
And, you know, when they come to Chawston,
we're a foodie city, lots and lots and lots of history.
And everybody wants me to become tour guide Barbie
and take them downtown, you know.
And this, and this, then, you know, all the stuff.
So, we went on a carriage ride.
And there is this story that they told.
There was, uh, you know, the Civil War
actually started in Chawston.
We were the first to secede from the Union.
Not the best history all the time.
But there was this one part of the carriage ride
that the tour guide began to say,
these were known,
and we're passing by some of the most spectacular churches
from the 1700s.
This was known as, this church has been known,
and these churches have been known as the Silent Churches.
The Silent Churches.
What I found out is that
during the Civil War,
the bells of the churches were taken
and they were melted to be ammunition and cannons.
And it, listen, the warfare took their sound.
Are you hearing me?
The warfare took, the war took their sound
and they were known as Silent Churches.
The Lord is no longer allowing Silent Churches.
The Lord is no longer allowing you
to stay quiet and to stay silent.
And you still get to come, um,
say that you're a believer,
that you're a Christian, that you're a Christ follower.
No, no, no, no, no.
The days of your silence are over.
Because you are wearing the mantle,
you're tucking it into your belt
and you're going to get to the gate first
to vov the gate to take the territory
because the church may not be silent
for such a time as this.