 Welcome to Presbytery Weekend. This is going to be an incredible day. The next couple of days is gonna be really, really powerful as we believe that Presbytery Weekend, some of you may not even be familiar with what that is but I'm gonna tell you here in a moment but when we have these weekends that we set aside to hear what the Lord is saying to us in a very specific way, they're always really, really powerful and they become mile markers in the life both of us individually and us as a church. And so we're very excited about that. We wanna say good morning to those of you online and as well as those over-imported. So glad you're with us today. And I wanna take just a few minutes before we kind of jump into that into prophetic Presbytery and that's how you pronounce it by the way. It's Presbytery. Everybody practice that with me. Say Presbytery, Presbytery. Some people say Presbytery, some people just don't say it but the way you probably should pronounce it is Presbytery. And the word Presbytery means Council of Elders or of Leaders. So it doesn't mean that radiance becoming a Presbyterian church. It just means that we are honoring the biblical concept and the biblical principle of bringing in trusted prophetic eldership and prophetic elderly voices into our church to speak from the outside in both over the church in general and over specific individuals. And so what I wanna do is invite you, open your Bibles to Acts chapter 10 this morning. They've given me 15 minutes to kind of help everybody understand what's going on. And when I say they, I mean me. I'm just blaming myself. I gave myself 15 minutes but it's because I believe in miracles. Do you guys believe in miracles? All right, then we're in the right place this morning. Acts chapter 10 and as everybody knows we're in the middle of a series through the book of Acts called Wind and Fire. Acts chapter 10 verse number one. It says at Caesarea there was a man named Cornelius, a centurion of what was known as the Italian cohort. A devout man who feared God with his household gave alms generously to the people and he prayed continually to God. And about the ninth hour of the day he saw clearly in a vision an angel of God come in and say to him Cornelius and he stared at him in terror and said, what is it Lord? And he said to him, your prayers and your alms have ascended as a memorial before God and now send men to Joppa and bring one Simon who is called Peter. He is lodging with one Simon, a tanner whose house is by the sea. And when the angel who spoke to him had departed he called two of his servants and a devout soldier from among those who attended him having related everything to them he sent them to Joppa. Now the rest of the chapter will lay out what takes place from here. And it's more than just an event in the book of Acts. It actually is a turning point in the mission of the church and the advancement of the gospel. Because what happens is this individual named Cornelius who's a Gentile, he's Roman but he's called a God fear which means he has come to a point of believing in the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and loves the Jewish people. This would have been a conversion that takes place in his heart because Romans are not Jewish but he's found himself stationed in Israel and Palestine and he's come to believe in this God and he's become generous and because of that God answers him. What we know is that he's probably crying out to God out of spiritual hunger saying, God speak to me. So what God does next is at almost the exact same time the next day while this man sends emissaries to go find Simon Peter, God is speaking to Simon Peter at the exact same time. The Bible says Simon goes up on the roof to pray and the Lord gives him a vision and in that vision he sees unclean animals and the Lord says to him rise, kill and eat. This is how we know that God is not a vegan because he's calling him to slay the animals and to eat it but it's more than actually just a dietary comment. That's a joke so don't send me emails. What God is saying to Simon Peter is that these things that you've previously as a kosher Jew saw as unclean. I want you to know that they're not unclean anymore because of what Jesus has done. And it's not just animals, it's actually people. Those that you have previously considered unclean who were Gentiles that you would have previously described as people you should have nothing to do with. I want you to know that my heart is now open and reaching out towards those people and you're about to receive a visitor and so while this is happening and God is speaking to Simon, there's a knock at the door and it's the people from Cornelius saying our master sent us to find you for you to come and to tell him about the way of salvation. And Simon would have never gone under any other circumstances except God had just spoken to him. Simon says, okay, I'll go with you. They go to Cornelius's house. Cornelius has a home group of people who are spiritual, spiritually hungry and seekers of the one true God. They sit down and Peter begins to preach to them and tell them about who Jesus is, how he's the Messiah and how they need to be saved. And Simon doesn't even get to the altar call before God pours his Holy Spirit out on them in that room. They all get filled with the Holy Spirit, begin to speak in tongues, prophesy and Simon's standing back looking at those that he had previously seen as unclean and seeing God move in their life. Now you say, how is that a turning point? Because from this point on, the gospel begins to make inroads into areas of the world that the gospel had never gone to and would never have gone unless God had spoken. So here's the point, all throughout the book of Acts and in this particular story, there's one reality that we need to grab ahold of and it's this, that God still speaks. God still speaks. God is not a God who is on mute. God is a God who still speaks and when he speaks, those become turning points in our lives and in his church and what he is doing in the earth. And one of the ways that he speaks is through the gift of prophecy. Lots of ways that God speaks. God speaks number one through creation. Romans chapter one, verse 20 says that God is evident in his creation and he speaks to us through that. He speaks to us through his word. And so we know that God speaks to us through his word. This is the word of God. It is the standard for us. It is the inspired infallible authoritative word of God. It is the foundation and it is the plumb line. God speaks to us through his word but he doesn't just speak to us through his word. He also speaks to us through a still small voice which we know in the story of Elijah in 1 Kings 19. He wasn't in the whirlwind. He wasn't in the earthquake. He was in the still small voice and you might say, what's the still small voice that God speaks to me? It's through that nudge. It's through that conviction, that conscience, that little nudge that he gives to you to do something that you just know, that you know, that you know. He speaks to us through that. He speaks to us like this story in dreams and in visions and in angelic visitations. Dreams and visions and I mean you read through the whole book of Acts and you see God does this over and over and over. Sometimes you dream dreams and it's because you had too much pizza the night before and that's not a God dream. But there are times where God will speak to you in a dream and in a vision. Joel too says that in the last days God's gonna pour out his spirit out all flesh and he's going to give visions and dreams to old men and young men, men and women, free and slave. He's gonna pour his spirit out on everybody. In other words, God's going to speak to us and the other way that God speaks to us is through the gift of prophecy. Through the first Corinthians 12 gift of prophecy. Now you might say, well, what is prophecy? First Corinthians chapter 14 verse three says that when someone prophesies, when somebody is prophesying that they are doing it for one of three reasons. They're doing it either number one for upbuilding to encourage somebody. Number two, they're doing it for encouragement or number three, they're doing it for consolation, for comfort. If somebody prophesies that's what they're doing. Sometimes if you've maybe grown up in the church and you've seen quote prophetic ministry take place, you have more of a John the Baptist idea of what prophecy is. You think, oh no, big long bearded guy's gonna get up on stage and look at us with that wicked eye and he's gonna see all of the sins I committed this last week and he's gonna call me out and lightning's gonna strike and I don't wanna have anything to do with prophecy. That is not New Testament prophecy. Everybody go, thank the Lord. New Testament prophecy is God speaking through individuals, two other members of the body of Christ for three reasons. To build them up, to encourage them and to comfort them. To build them up in your present, to encourage you in your future and to comfort you in the things of your past. This is the voice of our Father. When we talk about the prophetic voice, the gift of prophecy, this is the Father speaking. This is the Son speaking to his bride and it's the Holy Spirit encouraging his people and it's a beautiful thing. And so today, that's what we are gonna do in just few moments. We're going to continue on with what God started long ago by speaking to his people. You know, the first verse in the Bible talks about God speaking and you know, the last verse in your Bible is also God speaking. The bride and the spirit say, come. He speaks from beginning and God is a God who is not on mute. God has never been on mute. Sometimes we think it's God, the Father, the Son and the Holy Bible. I'm grateful for the Holy Bible but I'm also cognizant of the fact that God's also given us this Holy Spirit to speak and to encourage us. It reminds me of a couple of years ago I was with this guy, I was at a church, I won't name the church but I was at a church and the pastor had finally gotten a iPhone and he had also gotten an Instagram account. So he had like moved up in the world. And you know, prior to that, I think he was one of the last holdouts of flip phones. And so now he got a smartphone and he got an Instagram account. And so he was showing me his Instagram account and he said, the only problem is I'm scrolling through and I see all these videos but I can't hear what they're saying. Says I wish they, you know, Instagram would like add like a voice thing to it so that you can actually hear the songs they're singing and what they're saying. I'm like, well, you know, you have your phone on mute, right? And he said, what? And I said, I took it and I said, you have to tap the screen in order to hear what they're saying. And as soon as we did that, he had like volume up to 10. All of a sudden it's like, it's, you know, coming through the screen, he's like, oh, are you kidding me this whole time? I'm like, yeah, the whole time you had the ability to hear it, you just had to tap it. And what he didn't know was that he had the sound on mute. You know, there are a lot of us because of what we don't know. We've thought that God is on mute. We've thought that the only way that we can find out what God is saying is by seeing it, but you can see it and you can also hear it, but you have to tap into it. And today that's what prophetic presbytery is about. We're gonna tap into what God is saying. We're going to invite in a few moments, we're gonna invite candidates that are some of our leaders and people that as we've prayed over the last several months, it's like, God, who do you want to put up on the stage as candidates to speak over? And we've prayed and we've selected some of our leaders and new staff people and individuals who we're gonna call up. We also have invited to both of our campuses, individuals who we know that we have relationship with who have proven track records and are very gifted in the prophetic. And we've invited them to come and weeks ago, we gave them a list of just candidate number one, candidate number two, we didn't give them their names, we didn't tell them what they do. We just asked them to pray and to hear what the Lord would say over them. And so they've been praying and they've been writing down and they've been seeking God and so today when they see them up on stage, it'll be the first time that they see them and it will be today's the first day that they've known their name. So they have no background whatsoever, but they're gonna speak words of encouragement, words of building up and words of comfort over their lives and it's gonna be powerful. And I promise you, here's the thing is it's not gonna be weird because God's not weird. God's beautiful, God's powerful and God still speaks. What we're gonna be doing by doing that is tapping the screen and letting the volume rise to affirm what God's already said over their lives. And then we're gonna pray over them and then at the end, we have one couple in each of our services at both of our campuses. Then we're gonna release them into the room to walk around and to give what are called words in due season. So those are spontaneous words. God, you may have noticed some people walking around during worship, it's two of our presbyters and they were scouting you out and they were asking, Lord, who do you wanna highlight? Who do you want to speak? And so they're gonna walk around the room and we're gonna give them several minutes to go around and have you stand up and they're gonna give you a word from the Lord, a prophetic word. And again, they're not gonna call you out, they're not gonna embarrass you. They're going to encourage you and strengthen you from the heart of God as the Lord speaks. And it's gonna be powerful. For some of you, it's like buckle your seatbelt because you've never been around something like this before. It's like, you've been driving around in a Subaru and you just got into a Porsche. So just buckle up, baby. But it's gonna be powerful and for a lot of us, it's gonna be life changing. And at the same time, you may not have been around healthy prophetic ministry before. I want you to know, we know these individuals and they have a proven track record. And I wanna say this also, that some of the most significant turning points in my life and Jane's life and in our ministry, some of these presbyters have spoken into our lives and it has been a turning point. Even last night, we were with Pastor Les, or no, Les wasn't here, but we were with Lisa Corley and John Praminsky and Wayne Drain. We were at dinner with them and as many of you know, Jane and I have been going through, along with our family, Ashley and Zach, a very difficult time. The loss of a granddaughter who was born premature and still a battle where we're praying for our other granddaughter who was born premature, Celia. And as we sat at the dinner table, Wayne had a word that he had prayed into and received from the Lord that he wrote out and he gave to us at dinner privately. And I want you to know that it's so strengthened us and is still encouraging us in the middle of some of the most difficult seasons of our life, whether it was this one or other times or even at significant turning points where we've been asking God, Lord, what do you want us to do? Where do you want radiant to go? What do you want us to do? When do you want us to do it? Those words have come and they have built us up and they have strengthened us and they've become breakthrough moments for us to go from where we are to where we're going. And so it's not just us bringing voices in for you all. We want you to know, I told them last night, I said, actually, we fooled you. We actually canceled presbytery. We just brought you in to give Jane and I a word today. And of course we were, we were kidding, but in some ways really not. We were, we were very encouraged and strengthened and it's amazing what can happen when the Holy Spirit speaks. And so that's what we're gonna do today. So wherever you're at, let's just take a moment and can we just pray and invite the Holy Spirit before we invite our presbyters up. Holy Spirit, we welcome you. Come Holy Spirit, come with revelation, come with wisdom, come with counsel, come with encouragement and comfort and speak to us. And we pray that today you would give us ears to hear what you're saying, not only to these candidates, but to us as well in Jesus' name. Amen, amen. Okay, so amazing, this is our opportunity here imported to really open up our hearts to receive what the Lord has for us. I wanna invite Pastor Rick to join me up here and really excited and thankful to have his leadership, elder, executive pastor, and thankful for his leadership. And I wanna also introduce to you and invite two of our presbyters up here. And before I invite her up, Lisa gave Candice and I a word three summers ago to root down and to make this place a home. And so thankful for that word. And so I'll blame her also that if I'm here too long. So, but really, really thankful for Lisa, her ministry. Last summer I got to travel with Pastor Lee to Gateway Church where her and her family live and do much of their ministry and to see her operate in the prophetic there, here and elsewhere. Pastor Lee highly trusts her and I'm thankful for her as well. Would you welcome to the stage Miss Lisa Corley. I love this man, Pastor John, because he has a head just like mine. And he's been doing ministry much longer than me and I always have to be stout and built up before I give him a bro hug because he is stout, not just physically, but in the Lord. And thankful for his leadership as he oversees Radiant Church Ionia, has been doing ministry there for many years, long time friend of Pastor Lee. He's been a part of doing spontaneous, many times spontaneous prophecy that Lisa's you're on deck, get ready. And even this summer at a Rai Shain conference he was prepared to pour out. And so would you welcome to the stage Pastor John Prominsky. I wanted to have all of us pray for our presbyters and just to extend an opportunity to honor them, pray for them, that they would be encouraged and strengthened as they deliver these words. Can you just stretch out your hands and let's pray for them real quick. God, we thank you for them. We thank you for the ministry that you have called them to, the anointing that's been recognized over their lives. We thank you that they are here today, traveled to be here. And we receive the word of the Lord through them. God, thank you for them. Thank you for their ministry. And God, would they operate in boldness and strength? And would we be ready to receive everything that they have for us? In Jesus' name, amen. I wanna read this real quick. It was a reminder as we were just praying in my office before it comes out of AMO 7. It says this. This is what he showed me. Behold, the Lord was standing beside a wall built with a plumb line. With a plumb line in his hand and the Lord said to me, Amos, what do you see? And I said, a plumb line. Then the Lord said, behold, I am setting a plumb line in the midst of my people. I believe that's for you and for me today to recognize what's true in heaven is true here on earth and that the Lord is setting a plumb line. His word, his power and his spirit in our midst. It's my high honor to introduce our first candidate couple, longtime friends of mine, our student pastors here at the Portage Campus. Would you welcome Pastor Preston and Lizzie Coles to the stage? I'm just assuming I'm on. Hey guys, what's up? Had no idea. And as some of you may or may not know, I haven't talked to Lisa about any of the candidates. She has not talked to me and so any similarities, it's just the Lord and just want to encourage you, even with the candidates, if there is something spoken that resonates with you then grab it as your own. I've heard ricochet words, I've heard boomerang words, you can call it whatever you want to, but if the Lord, if something just echoes with you, just want to encourage you to lay hold of it. I saw you both working, but at different things. So different were your responsibilities that was, it was almost as if your backs were turned to each other. You were happy, but both lost in your separate responsibilities. I see change coming where you'll be working more face to face. I sense that his role, again, Lizzie and Preston. Preston, Lizzie. I sense that his role was seen sooner than yours, but yours is now coming more into view. You're excited about what God has for you. I heard the Lord say, you don't have to play catch up, this is your season. You've had to give some things up to see what God has for you. I see joy marking your ministry. You enjoy working with happy people. How fortunate for you if you get to work with happy people all the time. Preston, you're a builder. And a forager of relationships. Not working is very, very important to you. You love people working together towards a common goal and seeing it to completion. You like to finish your work. The incomplete and unfinished causes you to miss out on time and energy. You focused on weakness in the past. God is asking you to go from strength to strength. And I got Psalm 84 for you guys. It's a very key Psalm to me, especially when COVID hit everybody and the churches were scrambling, so to speak. And before we opened our church doors and we were kind of early in doing that, I felt like God gave me Psalm 84 and what he spoke to me, I'm speaking to you. And in Psalm 84, it says to go from strength to strength. Go from strength to strength. Now, depending on the leadership pools that you've been in, some would say, you know, focus on your weaknesses. I really believe as you focus on your strengths, you're gonna get more done. God bless you guys. Good morning. You're the first ones starting it off for us. I know it can be intimidating, but just think of this as all your friends that have come to support you this morning. I'm excited to see what God's wanting to share with the both of you. So Lizzie, I'm gonna start with you. When I was praying for you, I heard this is a woman full of surprises. You aren't someone who shows all your sides right out of the gate, and most people find you to be different than maybe how they initially thought you would be. You are one that when people leave a social gathering with you, they say, I didn't know that was in her. There's so much goodness in you, Lizzie. You are kind, sweet, but you also resemble a mama bear when someone goes after the ones you love. You make people feel welcomed. You make people feel at ease. There is something about your eyes and your smile that people feel the sincerity that's in you. I heard you are so much stronger than you think, and you need to give yourself some more grace. You can get frustrated with yourself when certain things bother you and they don't bother anyone else. You wish that you weren't so sensitive at times, but I believe the Lord is stirring a righteous indignation in you. Not that you're gonna go turning over tables, but you will become a standard that others will look to about how to not make compromises. I also see a women's ministry mantle on you, Lizzie. I also saw you helping facilitate groups. There is so much wisdom in you, revelation of the spirit in a very deep well. Your deepness comes from conversations that you've had with God. Do you two have kids? No, you're expecting. Well, Lizzie, I just sense there was a lot of pressure that you've put on yourself about becoming a mom, about wanting to have kids, and that it's been unrealistic at times, and you've just put a lot of stress on yourself. And I heard you just need to give it to the Lord and realize that he has equipped you and he has called you and his timing is perfect. And so sometimes we think we want something to happen sooner than it did or why now or why the struggle, but I just believe the Lord's giving you what you're gonna need for this next season and it's gonna be so much sweeter but just to relieve the stress from yourself. And I did see this image of you taking the weight that you've been carrying, lifting it from your shoulders and sitting it at the feet of Jesus. I also heard it's important for you to start forgiving yourself and don't feel guilty when you finally fill a peace where there was once unrest because that is the spirit of God bringing it upon you and being able to let you breathe. And Lizzie, I just kept seeing a banner when I was praying over you and it had your name written all over it. And what I believe is because today we are here to celebrate you, Lizzie, and honor you for the woman of God that you are and the great job that you have done in helping build his kingdom. So bless you. Preston, Preston, when I was praying for you, I heard good storyteller. I heard animated, funny. You can captivate an audience, but Preston, you are humble. You work hard and you look for ways that you can challenge yourself. You have a gratefulness that flows out of you. You have not let the challenges in your life keep you from moving forward. There have been some hard times, some tough seasons. You've wondered at times how much longer this will last and how will I get out of this? God has placed some great people that have helped you walk through those seasons. Preston, I see administrative on you. I see a pastor calling. You have a big heart for people. You also know a lot of people. Your heart's desires to help people overcome addictions free from them from the bondage of their past. Some may have thought at times that you have a tough exterior but really deep inside of you is such a tender heart that is broken for God's people and the struggles that they face. I don't know if this church has, but I saw a prison ministry in you. I saw you either leading or ministering to people that have once been in prison or they are currently in prison. And I just really saw you being now able to help people that have really come from a broken past. I also saw you as someone who's visionary, your big picture kind of guy. I saw you being used to help and plan and organize big events. Preston, your testimony shows that with God, anything is possible. Now this might be something new but I really believe there's something musically about you. And this may be in the natural or it may be spiritual application but either way I believe this is, the vision I saw was you standing playing the bass. And you were more in the background but this sound that came from you carried the song. It was not obvious to everyone and it could go unnoticed by some but without it the song wouldn't sound the same. Have the anointing it does and keep it flowing in the perfect rhythm. Preston where God has placed you may not be as out there as other ministries but you carry a high level anointing. The power in you that when it's released changes the atmosphere of the room. People's lives are enriched by your investment and there will be generations that follow that will be impacted because of the difference that you have made in their life and in their family. Bless you both. We're gonna take a moment just to lay hands on you and just sensing the Lord's presence and his spirit that was well enough on the inside. Thankful for the two of you, your investment and your leadership into many of the parents in here into their students and thank you and we receive those words over your life. Would you would you would just pray with me and Pastor Rick we're gonna lay hands and God we thank you for these words spoken over them. God we pray that these words will not be lost that these are the words from the father's heart the father's mouth and God would it only align their hearts, their marriage, their future children, God the ministry that you've anointed to them and called them to and God we bless them and we thank God for their ministry we thank God for their anointing. God you're calling them, you're strengthening them in this season from strength to strength, from glory to glory. God thank you for their personalities thank you for their ways. Thank you for their ways to see things to love people, to set people free and God we bless them in the name of Jesus. Jesus we thank you for Preston, Lizzie we thank you for the gifts you've put in them the calling on their lives Lord and we just echo Jeremiah 29, 11 Lord that you have plans and purposes for them and we believe that this day today is a milestone that those the words that were spoken over them are true and are directional Lord so I pray for wisdom I pray for revelation for them to interpret what was spoken over them today and for years to come Lord Jesus as they walk out your plans and purposes to bring you glory in your name, amen. Can we honor Pastor Preston, Lizzie, thank you guys. This is our opportunity now for our presbyters to begin to just move through the room and as Pastor Lee said he was scouting you these two have been prayerful all leading up to and this morning and even in our worship service I'm gonna turn it over to them to call out people and to share those prophetic words. Big bald guy right here. You guys married, can you stand? What are your names? Charlie. Charlie and Kelsey. And the reason why we ask is because this is being recorded and so when they go back and listen they'll hear Charlie and Kelsey. I hear the Lord beckoning you in the deeper waters. The impression that I got was that you're a little bit more reserved in some aspects. He's calling you out into the more that he has for you. I just sense that there was kind of a difficult season that you came through and you found encouragement here and I just want you to know that there's more and to never be afraid of the more that God has any more than to be afraid to get and called out in public like this. God's not embarrassing you, he's encouraging you and so just want you to know that God's got more and as you lean into it I'm always reminded of Exodus chapter three, the burning bush experience. God didn't begin to speak to Moses from the burning bush until in Exodus three it says that he turned aside to see why this bush was burning and not being consumed. As soon as you turn aside and as soon as you want more God's gonna speak. God bless you guys. Can you stand up? Can I just tell you when you walked in the sanctuary I said that girl is a party in a bottle. And I just feel like the party really doesn't start until you show up. I'm sorry, what's your name? Jenny, Jenny, I just wanted to affirm God's calling on your life and just the joy that you bring wherever you go and whatever you do and really how you choose to see the positive. I just really saw a spirit of optimism and positivity and there've been times when that's been at war within you but you have chosen to find the goodness in everything. And I really saw the Lord using you to be a voice with people who are struggling with depression. People who are really struggling and not able to pull themselves out and have even gone to some kind of dependency to help get them out of whatever they're struggling. I really saw the Lord being able to use you and it's gonna be important that you realize laying hands on them. Like I believe you're gonna be able to just pull out whatever has been plaguing, paralyzing them, holding them back. And I also just want to say don't let anyone silence you because of your youth. You possess so much wisdom that there's even adults that are twice your age that don't have a revelation of the Lord that you have. You are a very strong, capable, anointed and you are gifted and if the Lord highlights someone that is twice your age, you don't back down from going and sharing what the Lord's put in your heart because he's gonna use you that's gonna be a voice across multiple generations. And there's gonna be healing that you will bring. I believe you're gonna be used in old people's lives where they've been broken in a relationship with their granddaughter and God's gonna use you as an instrument of a voice to heal that, to love them. So don't ever, ever hold back. Whoever the Lord points you to, you know that it's the nudging of the Holy Spirit and you go for it because you're such a bright light. All right, blessing you. You guys, what are your names? Rodney and Sarah. Rodney and Sarah, could you just stand? I saw a leadership mantle on you. I don't know how long you've been attending. I don't know who you are here, whether you're involved or whether you're visiting for the first time. I saw that there was previous involvement and I feel, and I wanna believe that that was in another church or in another, in another. And I feel like a door's been opened for you and I see more involvement in the future for you. Definite leadership mantle. There is a frugalness about you. There is a order about you and about your lives and I believe God wants to use that. I believe there is a particular wisdom when it comes to finances and that God would use you in that and I believe you're just gonna get singled out. You can try to sit, you can try to sit in the back but I think it's only a matter of time before you get singled out and God's gonna use you. God bless you. Hi, what's your name? Pam, Pam, I'm gonna let you stand or sit whichever you want to sit. That's totally great. Pam, I just wanna tell you that what I saw over you was an incredible amount of faith and I just saw that there have been times that people have tried to speak to that, that have caused you to question your level of faith and maybe the very thing that you've been believing for they've told you might as well give up because it's clearly not working and I just really want to affirm that you have the right amount of faith that is needed, you have the right level of endurance and you are doing more in the spirit realm than you think, that you are a fighter, that you are a warrior and that I really saw the Lord using you in different places of maybe through healthcare or through even your health journey or just different experiences of you being a beacon of light, of you being a beacon of hope, you're not someone that lives in self-tenile but you have held onto the one that gives you eternal hope and I really saw that people being so uplifted and so encouraged by the fact that you would just take a moment to stop by and want to hear their story, want to talk through their journey because you never make it about yourself and even in the struggles you have chosen to be others focused and to love them and that is what makes you a strong and faithful woman and so don't let the enemy talk you out of that your moments past that you've endured long enough time to move on because I'm just speaking over you an extra measure of endurance, an extra level of faith and that God will realign what your purpose is and how he's gonna use what you've learned in those quiet places in the times with him of how you're gonna breathe hope and encouragement to some unexpected places, okay? So bless you. You guys, black hat, we married, we... All right, cool, I gotta ask that because words kind of strong. I saw question marks. You've been asking God what's next, what do you want? And I saw a burden for the nations on you and a willingness to go. I saw you praying over a world map and saying, God, I'll go if you send us. It's real important that you hear from God. It's real important that you know that God is sending but I saw like two very open, willing, God will do whatever you want, seeing an adventurer aspect in both of you. You're unafraid, you're willing to do it. I don't know if you're like hikers or climbers, whatever, but that kind of adventure, some aspect of your personalities and God's put that into your DNA and who you are. And so as you pray, I really believe you're gonna be surrounded by non-Americans. I really, really believe God's got great plans for you. God bless you. And again, your names? Anna. Huh? Tim and Anna. Tim and Anna, Tim and Anna, God bless you guys. Hi. What's your name? Ricky. Yeah, sometimes people feel like because then in the back, they won't get seen. Ricky, this is what I saw over you. I saw you are like a talent scout. I saw you were like a recruit and I see God using you to help identify the potential and the calling in young men who need just one person that will believe in them. And I believe there were times when you struggle with wanting someone just to come and give you a break, give you a chance, help give something a little bit easier but what you didn't do is you didn't back away and you did keep persevering but I believe God's gonna use you to be the one to help open the doors for other people and to remember what you felt like in those times God's gonna use you to be able to help come alongside other young men. I really saw you being used in pivotal points in young men's life and the crossroads of when they're coming out of high school, going into college and then out of college and you just being able to really know which ones that you need to go after and I really see you being an influence and like a father figure in a lot of men's life that have been abused in certain ways emotionally and they've also been abused with the way that they've been talked to and I really just saw that you have such a way of being tender, really being tender to those ways and being able to help people and so I just wanna encourage you that young men need you and really don't hesitate for what you're able to do and how you seek after them because God's anointed you and even though you may feel like what all do I have to offer you're gonna be such a gift to those young men that have you come and just give them a chance and wanna know them by name, all right? So bless you. In the back here, you guys, what are your names? Eric and Adelaide. I saw that you're smart, that you're analytical and I saw you skirting the perimeter of a swimming pool wondering whether or not to jump in and I heard the Lord say, jump in. I heard the Lord say that the water's fine and that it's safe, safety is something that's very, very important to you. You feel best and you feel comfortable in the safe atmosphere and I just hear the Lord say that I brought you to a safe place. Don't overanalyze, jump in. The better part of the things that God does in your life from the future or from here on into the future is gonna be simply because you went for it and I feel as the Lord continues to lead there'll be less caution and you're gonna find that many, many times when it comes to how God moves and leads you guys it's better caught than taught. See a teacher, especially on you. I see a strong teaching gift, the word and how it's taught is very, very important to you and I just think God's got great things for you guys and I encourage you to go for it. Don't sit, just I don't know if you're involved, I don't know how long you've been here but go for it, go for it. God's got good stuff for you, God bless. Can you guys, I mean you guys have young kids I don't want you to feel like you have to stand up but sit, stand, it's up to you. Okay, so I know Sarah and Richard, okay? And the only thing I do know about this couple is that they're from New Zealand and so I'd like to put the disclaimer that I do know something about them but what I wanted to share with you was that I see over the two of you that you are raising in this young man the next Moses and I really saw God using him to go in and to rescue his people and to lead them into their promised land and what I love about the two of you is that you both have been, well at least this is what I saw in this spirit that you both have been models of what it looks like to hold lightly to everything so that you will be ready to go when it's God's calling. God has set your family apart and he is equipping the two of you to raise leaders that are gonna be world changers and I just wanna encourage you to help, I know you're from New Zealand and here you are in Kalamazoo but I believe that there's gonna be culture conversations in your home about other parts of the world, different ways that people live and how to connect with those kind of people because I really see him going into those nations and those places and being able to really have a heart for those people but it's gonna be the way that you fostered that in your home, the way the two of you have been making that a part of your everyday conversation about how there's more to this world than just the people we have in our everyday life and so I just wanna help you keep that in the focus and realize the uniqueness of what God is already setting apart from this day about what he's anointed both of you to do and who you're raising up in your home so bless you both, you're welcome. What's your name? Shannon, could you just stand? I couldn't help but watch you worship and it kinda drew me to you and I heard the Lord just say that when you're worshiping the Lord, that's your happy place. That's the goods for you and the Lord wants you to know that the way that you got here is the way that you'll continue on your face and on your knees that you don't have to look for some kind of formula when it comes to walking out this relationship with God and trusting him for the future, the way that you got here is the way that you'll continue and that same childlike faith that brought you to the Lord is gonna be the same way, childlike faith that you continue with the Lord. God bless you, Shannon. What's your name? Jeff. Jeff. So I'm guessing this isn't your first time you've been called out in a prophetic service. You don't know, you just said you're a lightning rod. Oh, okay. Well, you know what? I would just say to this that the Lord is highlighting for what he's wanting to say now and I really believe that it's gonna be part of a pivotal moment of what will help you in the season that you're in but this is what I saw for you. I saw the Lord increasing your prayer language and I don't know how familiar or what that looks like but I really saw the Lord increasing that in you in the days ahead because I sense that you've been in a season that no matter what you have tried you just can't catch a break. You just can't make it happen. And I see that as you go to battle through your prayer language that there will be things in the natural that God begins to show you of what you can do differently and that he's gonna change the hearts of some people that have once maybe felt turned off or closed or not receptive but it won't be because of anything that you're having to do on your own it's gonna be what you're going to steward in the spirit that you're gonna trust that God's gonna be able to do it better than how you've been trying in your own efforts and so I just encourage you if you aren't as familiar with what the prayer language looks like or how to go to battle in that way look for some books or even maybe you have some go back and really read them because I believe the Lord's gonna have some things jump out on the page and help you see things in a different way for what you're gonna need in this next season. All right, bless you. Thank you so much for the ministry, John and Lisa and just to honor their word over Pastor Preston and Lizzie just so spot on in so many different ways personality wise, one of the reasons I love Lizzie even working in the Portage Staff is she, what bugs her, bugs nobody else and that's why she's the greatest gift here is that she sees things and press in his personality the way that he loves people and the word of a prison ministry what's happening in our student ministry is there's captives being set free bondage being broken those that are addicted that are coming and confessing and Pastor Preston has done just an incredible job sitting in that anointing honoring the Lord, hearing the Lord's voice and he is been one that has set the captives free and just honor that word that was spoken over the two of them and over different people in the room Eric and Natalie and some different words that were right on teachers right over there so we honor the word of the Lord in the house of the Lord today would you stand with me as we close I wanna invite our prayer ministry forward and just sense a tenderness to the Lord to be open to receive what he has and if you're looking and asking God I just desire of hunger I'm thirsting for more of you I want to grow in my relationship I see how other people are hearing that the way that they can listen and hear I wanna grow in my ability to hear from the Lord I wanna grow in knowing his voice and so right now I just pray for that I pray for all of you would you just close your eyes and receive this word God that you would grow us as a people to receive your word and I pray that you would help us and our unbelief God help us to know that is when you are speaking that we would receive your word and your voice it's you that are alive it's what separates you from all the other gods you are perfect in all your ways your ways are higher than our ways and you love speaking to your children as a father speaks to his children so we honor the word of the Lord we receive the empowered words spoken through the Holy Spirit and God grow us in our ability to hear, know and receive and operate in the voice of the Lord in the name of Jesus, amen