 Well, um, man for those of you that were in Caleb's last session poison and praise that was that was so good Isn't he awesome? I? Think he's awesome. He's my husband. I'm Rachel Culver and just super super honored and blessed to be here and to get to share with you guys and I You know they make you come up with a title for your workshop Way in advance and I was struggling to think through it and actually my friend Anna Asbury her and I had you know originally maybe planned to do something together And so we're trying to come up with the best title for this and and you know you kind of want people to Come to your session and so you want the title to you know be awesome and get people to come So we thought you know maybe reckless housewives tell all They wouldn't let us do that one. I don't know So Since that's not what I'm gonna share. We went with prophetic worship and I And just so It is such a near and dear topic to me and You know we were here because we're worshipers each one of us and I I'm just kind of floored honestly that I get to do this and spend this time with you guys and Share what's on my heart and I usually when I have a microphone. I don't get to talk I Sing and I'm so much more comfortable singing in front of people than talking And I think I shared with my husband earlier too. I'm like, I don't think I've ever talked for an hour straight ever so Y'all are in for a treat. Maybe I don't know. We'll just have to see Okay, so prophetic worship. We're talking about prophetic worship and I just want to set some groundwork for for this session and so a couple things that we have to kind of Agree on right so the first one is God is Speaking God speaks Right, we have to we have to believe that and I know that I'm I'm in a I'm in a room and I'm being broadcasts to Like-minded people, but it is so important though that we that we agree together that that God is Speaking not that he spoke but that he is Speaking that's huge to God is speaking to us his church It sounds almost the same but that subtlety is is is a really big point God is speaking to us his church Number three three God is speaking To you Making it personal Because a lot of us in the room. Yes, God speaks. He speaks. I believe it and Yeah, God speaks to his church. He loves the church. He's speaking to the church for then three God is Speaking to you sometimes that one's a little bit harder because we're like well I haven't heard him speak in a while is is he speaking to me? But these those three things I just want to set up as the groundwork before we dive Into prophetic worship and when we think about prophetic worship Sometimes we kind of think about I don't know I guess some of the like stereotypes of prophetic worship is once prophetic worship starts it just gets weird or you know It's just a little no the flowy the flowiness and it's weird But I want to just like demystify prophetic worship make it really really simple for us. So when we say yes to the invitation to partnership with the Holy Spirit in The context of worship that's when we're entering into prophetic worship. I said I was gonna keep it simple That was a really long sentence. I'm gonna say it again when we say yes to the invitation to partnership With the Holy Spirit in worship. That's when we enter into prophetic worship So this is worship from a place of response to what he is doing Saying and prompting right so we have to believe that God is speaking and he's speaking to us to do this So where I would say I'm gonna I'm more of a teacher. I think than a preacher So I'm gonna repeat things. That's gonna be really fun. You're gonna learn it. It's gonna be great. So worship from a place of Response To what he is doing saying and prompting And then to allowing space for him to speak and lead our times of worship and then One more one more thing on demystifying this idea So in the context of worship, we are revering and adoring God right worship and Then we're making room or space for the testimony of Jesus to go forth Right because that spirit of prophecy is the testimony of Jesus and then the Holy Spirit comes and inspires utterance Okay, this is point. I don't know be CD. I don't know whatever it is on you on your piece of paper that you're writing take notes take notes and Engaging in prophetic worship is for everybody It's not just for the chosen or the few or for the singers or for the musicians. This is for everybody so I want to I want to share with you a not true story But it's a good one So let's just say it is February 13th and Everyone knows what happens on February 13th For me I am in Meyer and I am looking in the hallmark section And I'm like, where's the card that says everything that I want to say to my husband and tell him that I love him and We'll be honest. I never find the card Have you ever found the card? No, it doesn't exist. But for my story to work. Let's say I find the card, okay? Let's say I find the card and oh my goodness It's kind of like the glowing lights around the card I'm like, oh, I found it and I pick it up and I read through it and I'm like, this is this is everything That's in my heart to say and I get it and I buy it. I run home. I'm rushing home I'm always rushing and I sit down sign my name put it in the envelope sealed done like I won February 13th I won February 14th comes around and I walk up to my husband and I hand in this card and I'm like, oh, this is gonna be good And I hand it to him. Oh wait, no wait, I don't hand it to him I just a heap on the romance a little bit Let's say I open it for him and I read it to him. It's like roses are red Violets are blue and I just I just read words That somebody wrote for me to express what's on my heart and it's beautiful, right? And he's like, oh, thanks, babe I love it. Love you. Okay fast-forward two weeks and He he comes to me and he's like, I just I don't know tell me tell me how you feel about me. I'm like, oh, yeah I got it and I rush to the nightstand and I'm fumbling through and I find the card And I run back over and I pull it out Roses are red Violets are blue right and I read in the card and he stops me halfway. He's like, yeah, yeah, I love that I look like beautiful. I want to hear today The response of your heart to me. I want to hear today how you feel about me. I want to hear the new language I want to hear what's moving your heart in our relationship. Yeah You guys know where I'm going with this Yeah, okay, so Paul in Ephesians 5 He he calls this idea Spiritual songs right psalms hymns spiritual songs psalms being the Bible The psalms and when he wrote that it would have been the first five books of the Bible right the Pentateuch So the Bible singing Singing the psalms to would be hymns not talking about Although that one's good not necessarily hymns, but songs crafted by man, right Songs hymns three spiritual songs. Okay, so this analogy of that hallmark card moves into the idea of spiritual songs What is flowing out of our hearts to the Lord? So I want to Throw this idea out for us today the idea of going off script So We have some really really gifted songwriters right now in 2021, right? We are the church globally is pumping out worship music We're pumping out songs like never before and they're incredible. I am not here to To bash them. It's it's such a gift From God to have these professional songwriters craft us language To express what's on our heart to the Lord because that can be really really hard right and they do it so wonderfully They're professionals But they're hallmark cards and They are a gift and they are a tool and apps like hear my heart absolutely. I love the hallmark card But there is something else that we can give the Lord And that is the response of our heart Today how we feel today what he's done today and then our response back to him So this idea right of going off script think about another way to you know, look at it is think of You know, we're all act like actors they have scripts and We read the script and we you know do our part and but sometimes they improvise, right? sometimes they go off script and I There are times in our worship and where we kind of move into this idea of responding to the Lord right Right away right immediately with just our heart Yeah, guys with me Okay, let's turn to Exodus 14. I Want to share with you and so many so many of you guys missed my joke at the beginning. It was so funny That's okay. Just ask somebody ask somebody and they'll they'll tell you I'm funny, but I was only planned to be funny at the beginning so Okay Exodus 14 everybody there Good, okay, we're actually gonna look at Exodus 15 but 14 super good I'll tell you what happens in Exodus 14 and then we'll get to Exodus 15 So we have the people of Israel and they have been enslaved right for 400 plus years at the hand of the Egyptians and So the people of God have been in a season of their life and their worship has looked like this Help right or you know, like whatever their worship songs are they're crafted for that season and so they're They're having worship services in the midst of their trials and And then and then God breaks in Exodus 14 right we've got the plagues of Egypt and miracle after miracle sign and wonder and they find themselves now at the Red Sea and Then in Exodus 14 13 Moses said to the people Do not be afraid Stand still and see the salvation of the Lord which he will accomplish for you today For the Egyptians whom you see today, you shall see again No more forever. The Lord will fight for you And then what do they see the Red Sea? Split they walk on dry ground and then the horse and the rider you guys know that song the horse and the rider are thrown into the sea So that brings us to Exodus 15 So let's just let's just I'll paint the picture so we We are the Israelites and we've just been set free our people have been set free for 400 years of slavery and captivity and all of a sudden what's in our heart like it's like God did this What do we want to do we want to worship right we want to praise We have to say something are like like we must worship in this moment like we have just this is huge Right you guys feel this with me. This is huge. And so what do they do? They're like, okay? What are our worship songs that we have they're like help Lord? Whatever one that I sang before it's like this is this is a new thing and here's a point. I don't know 24 When God does a new thing the people of God sing a new song and This was the time in their history to sing a new song and The songs that they had before are they're still gonna be in the repertoire, right? They're gonna they're gonna go back to that song because those songs are like Ebenezer right here Here I've come this far And so they're gonna sing those those worship songs and they're They're gonna move the Lord's heart, but in this moment. It is time for a new song, right? and so what happens Moses in In Exodus 15 he gets up and he's saying this song to the Lord and he led the children of Israel in it I Will say this 18 verses. I'm gonna just paraphrase a little bit of it I will sing to the Lord for he is triumphed gloriously the horse and its rider He has thrown into the sea the Lord is my strength and my song He has become my salvation He is my God and I will praise him my father's God and I will exalt him In your greatness of your excellence you have overthrown those who rose against you who is like you oh Lord among the gods Who was like like you glorious in holiness? There's new language here. This is a different song. This is a new song Okay, and so they he sings this song And then we see his sister the prophetess Miriam and I just see her she's like because it's like the You know like the men are singing and then the way like I guess that's what they were doing then We did that too back in the 90s. You guys remember those songs. We did that too. We can't hate on them So so Moses and the men are singing their song and I just Mary Oh, you guys can't see me Miriam is sitting and she's just like eyeing her timbrel her tambourine Tambourines right she's eyeing it and she's like, oh I got something to sing and so what does she do she sings the first? ever Recorded prophetic chorus right she hears the song of Moses and then she jumps in Answered him this idea of responsive singing responding in the moment And she says sing to the Lord for he is triumphed gloriously the horse and its rider He has thrown into the sea, right? So this is um When God does a new thing the people of God Sing a new song and then we see another point that I want to just bring up about prophetic Worship is prophetic worship. I'm gonna this I'm jumping ahead, but it fits right here is not synonymous with spontaneous And a lot of times we think it is right But Mary I'm getting up and singing that prophetic chorus. It wasn't spontaneous because she had heard it. However, I Don't know she heard it earlier when Moses is singing it and she hears it And she's like that's the chorus and she sings it and my guess is they sung that new song well into the night Right, they've got the bonfire going there on the other side of the red sea It's not time to travel. It's time to worship and they just sing that same song over and over and over again So when God does a new thing the people of God sing a new song So I want to um I So I I said before I'm a teacher I like to be super practical and I'm gonna probably be too practical in this session, but Singers and musicians and worship leaders y'all will maybe thank me So I want to talk about for ours request receive release and rest So I'm kind of jumping into Entering into prophetic worship Okay entering into this idea of creating space For God to speak because we believe he wants to speak we believe he's speaking We believe he's speaking to the church and we believe he's speaking to us And so we believe that he wants to even speak in the middle of our worship, right? So we're worshiping and we're singing to him, but he's like I want to speak to you too I want to say something in this time. Your heart is open right because music opens our heart And he's like in this moment when your heart is the most open to me I want to speak I want to deposit something or or I want to highlight actually what I want you to sing back to me Isn't that so interesting the partnership of worship? It's not just us coming up with our own thing. He's like, right? Tell me that I'm the prince of peace and then I'm gonna bring peace But tell me at first worship me because I'm full of peace or Tell me I'm worthy Yeah, sing it again sing that chorus. Holy. Holy like that's partnership and worship, right? That's that's moving into that idea of prophetic worship. So so number one request I have the word ask, but then I thought of the for our thing and I feel like preachers do the alliteration thing So I'm trying guys. I'm trying for you Okay, so request but ask I like the word ask you do not have because you do not ask God James says that when we slow down enough to ask This is when we are slowed down enough to listen It can be so hard to slow down enough to listen, right? Because if we're big talkers we talk and if we're not big talkers Our brains talking right the thoughts and la-da-da So when we slow down enough to ask That's when we're slowed down enough to listen and when we're requesting. I want us we need to be requesting often not just once Matthew 7 7 right ask and it will be given. This is a spiritual principle Seek and you will find knock in the door will be open for you And here's here's an interesting one ask Not just on the stage How many of you have gotten to your worship set and you you know you arrive You're like, okay What are we doing God? What are you? I don't know I've been doing my thing and now okay. Let's I'm ready. I'm ready to ask but no, let's let's ask often and let's ask before right ask Because we want to be God's friend Right Exodus 33 11 this verse is is an intense to me But God spoke to Moses face to face as a man speaks to his friend And if that's the relationship that God had with Moses, I believe he wants to have it with me I Believe that because it is 33 11 it messes me up. I want to be a friend of God just like Moses That's my heart. I want I want to speak to him as a man speaks to his friend. I want um I Want to love to listen God loves to speak. Do we love to listen? Do we know how to slow down enough to listen? So I'm gonna do something I'm gonna have us listen I Said I was practical. I want us to take a second and I'm gonna walk you through some of what happens to me. I First have to stop talking right? Step one to listen But step two is is get is get my thoughts To settle down right Because you know what and I'm a mom the back of my head I'm like I got one kid in school right now. My dog is somewhere and I've got groceries I mean, there's just a running thing happening in my head. So Dial down the talking dial down the thought life and listen so I actually want us To take a second and I want you to just ask the Holy Spirit To speak I Just want us to listen for a second and write about this point We get uncomfortable because you're wondering if I'm gonna share again, but let's just just go a little longer He loves to speak and he's always speaking good. Okay. Now. I want you to pull out your pen your journal If you spoke something if it was a verse maybe a word Go ahead and write it down. I don't want you to forget it I'm gonna keep going, but I want you to maybe like star like do this activity again Okay So ask before the stage Right, we want to catch the wind of the Holy Spirit on our sail so we can follow his lead We don't need to go against the wind and forge our own path Because he's leading us somewhere even in worship and when our sail catches the wind Or like a real sailboat catches the wind. It's up for less. I don't see striving. I just oh The sail caught some wind, right? We want it to be second nature just to hear the voice of God Okay Prophetic is not synonymous with spontaneous. I said it earlier. It fit better earlier. I think So we'll leave it there. It was a good point though Okay, now ask during this might be my favorite time to ask So we're on ours. We're on I'm real proud. We're going real practical We're we're leading worship for a youth group or whatever And we can ask the Lord right then and there right? What do you want to do? What are you saying right now in the midst of this worship? What do you what do you know? And what's what would be my response to that? I Want to tell you a story This one's true though. You might not believe me. I used to play basketball That's true. I Was decent true I used to coach basketball actually I was a JV JV girls coach for a quick second and So let's just let's bring us back to when I was in 7th and 8th grade I was playing junior high basketball And I was good. I was good. I was you know, like doing all the things and layups and stuff and I was a forward because they thought I was gonna get tall. I didn't I'm 5'7 So I'm I'm playing basketball junior high. It's going great place 7th 8th grade and then 9th grade comes up And they pulled me up to varsity. It's now you're like, oh, she is good But then I have to tell you that my graduating class was only 32 so figure out was I could or not I don't know but 9th grade I get pulled up to varsity and I Remember I remember the our first game and I I get in and I I get the ball and I'm like I get the ball and I have to tell you the game Was so fast Right, I had been playing junior high and it was like oh my gosh I'm like juggling circles around people and then I get into like varsity and everyone is seniors in high school And I'm like it's too fast. I get the ball and I'm I'm in panic mode like literally It is like I'm in slow motion and everything is happening around me And I finally like here like our fans like do something like I'm just holding the ball And I see our like best player on you know a ways away and she I mean I can see it in her eyes She's like pass me the ball like just do something and I see her and I'm like oh my gosh This is this is the move. I'm going to pass and then the ball got stolen from me right so That's embarrassing. I want to fast. Let's just fast forward Forget it fast forward. I'm a senior in high school now. I'm in 12th grade So I've had four years. Yes four years to play on this team And let me tell you something the game slowed down Right. I they realized I was only five seven and they moved me to point guard. No longer the forward probably helped and But the game slowed down all of a sudden I had bandwidth To recognize what's going on. Oh, I know the plays and Oh, I actually can tell what plays the other team is doing right and they're oh, yeah, okay They're doing this and okay, so my strategy should be this and I'm able I just have more bandwidth, right? And so in the I just I want to share that I'm gonna bring us back to worship. I Want to share that and just I don't know some of us are leading or we're in ministry and it just is like things are happening around us, but It it I have found so I've been leading worship. I don't know 20 years and I When I when I get up and I lead worship, I Realized I was gonna share another funny story um It is it has slowed down and I'm able to hear the voice of the Lord in the midst of doing all the signs and they're like Go to the top and play the bridge and all of those things and worrying about dynamics and the lyrics like that's the hardest one but then I'm able to ask and I can hear the voice of the Lord just speaking even in the midst of Worship right because it kind of slows. I'm not having to think I know how to sing now I play the piano to and so sometimes I'm you know back when I was trying to play the piano and sing and do all The things like I'm thinking about the chords I can't I don't have time to ask right but it's as we as we work on our like skill and musicality and all those things and we Practice hearing the voice of God in secret right? Then we hear his voice and we're able to able to move on it because we have the bandwidth right? We've got we put in the time we put in the practice So I was gonna share Check my time. Yeah, we got time for another funny story. I wanted to share with you my first ever time on a worship team It's great. I don't get embarrassed easily so I was I Don't know sixth grade something like that six or seventh grade and I just like joined the youth group at my church I'm so pumped and it's awesome and man these like 12th graders are just like rocking the worship and it's awesome And then I get I get pulled aside by my youth pastor and okay, so we lost our bass player. Oh, yeah, that's bad, okay? So you're thinking what if you like we know I was taking piano lessons from his wife So why don't you like play the bass on the piano? What I was so willing to serve like, okay, that's great. So I like show up And it's just the left hand and you know the piano players I was like, you know 14 or something and it's like not I'm not very good So it's like just the bass parts and I don't know how I don't know how they let me do it for quite a few months before They're like, let's just just stop. We don't need a base. We don't need a bass player So yay. Yay for that. But let me okay, but during that time it was going so fast I didn't you know, I didn't have the bandwidth to like be I was literally like g g c c g G like and messing and messing that up, right? But as time went on you guys you guys are getting this This is just more for fun as time went on like here. We are and it's I've got I've got somehow it slowed down The songs haven't slowed down, right, but it's the Breathing in his presence. It's I've been practicing different skills You know our teams have been practicing and it's like, oh, there's some space there, right? Sweet basketball listen, okay. All right, let's go to the second R Receive Listening right we kind of I kind of like blended these a little bit together But create space to listen in your prep times and in your worship sets Some of my most precious times with our teams here at radiant have actually been rehearsals In our rehearsals. We're creating space To hear the Lord Hear what he wants to say, you know in the in the next service or even just to our own hearts in that moment What do you want to do God? You're speaking. You're always speaking. You're speaking to your church. You're speaking to me What do you want to say? so creating that space and Practicing What to do in that in that space, right? And no striving in that in that receiving and listening And something that we say to our worship leaders and our teams all the time is you know, if it's if it's not there Don't you don't need to force anything, right? It's not about striving It's not about forcing something or making something up just to like fill space like no Don't do it Um What we mean, okay, that's good point We don't just sing something random hoping it goes somewhere, right? That's not prophetic worship I've been there and done that though and don't never works So there's no need to fill space just to fill space But when he speaks we lean into the whisper Right, we allow our sail to catch that wind release Really really practical Once you step off the cliff commit to your cliff jump This is huge Okay, so once right so the Holy Spirit speaking to you and you feel like oh man I want to he's he wants to release peace in the room or he's you know He's just I just feel the theme of peace, right? And then you decide I'm gonna sing something or I've got a chorus about peace and we're gonna go there Right, or maybe we're just gonna like Right, and then I'm just gonna tell the instruments. Let's just kind of I don't know I do some hand motion that looks peaceful. Okay. Oh, yeah peace and we just chill, right? But if I Kind of like do it and I'm one foot in one foot out and then all of a sudden my leadership is confusing because I'm like Peace I'm singing about peace and I'm right. I get nervous or whatever. I try to like go for something and then I hesitate So once you jump off a cliff keep falling Okay Don't go back to them. Don't go back to the edge. If you go for it really go for it Okay, and now team ministry in the midst of Perfetic worshiping because I've seen I know I'm talking to musicians. I'm talking to pastors in here So team ministry in the midst of prophetic worship is trusting each other I'm trusting that you're listening to the same Holy Spirit. I'm listening to I'm leaning into each we're leaning into each other There's this idea of humility in prophetic worship there aren't Superstars right we're we're doing this together. No rogue Superman worship leaders Man something I've just enjoyed so much about our musicians is They love Jesus They love Jesus and they're listening to his voice and they're showing up at rehearsal saying I just I Feel like God is speaking this to me. It's like, oh my goodness. Yes. That's what that's what God's doing. This is beautiful And I'm trusting right that they're hearing the Lord and we're trusting each other And then and then we're in the middle of worship and I hear the electric player Like we're in a moment of space and I hear something and there's life on that It's just beautiful melody all of a sudden and I'm I'm trusting and I'm leaning Oh, the Lord's breathing that beautiful melody right and this idea of team ministry, right? It's not about people with microphones, you know do it is team Ministry and so drummers like play us into breakthrough Yeah, and and electric guitar players those melodies that you've been practicing at home that just there's life on it Bring it into the church, right? Like lead us into that beautiful melody that sparks a chorus and so many times How many of you guys have been in these services where the musicians just something happens, right? It's the Holy Spirit is moving and he's breathing and they play and it's like well No one needs to say anything the Lord is moving on hearts all across the room And it is this idea of those prophetic musicians Taking their place of authority as Levites in the house and ministering to the Lord first and then the Lord comes and he does his thing in the room So making space as a team to listen to each other and notice, you know What's going on and then and then the power of the chorus so I talked about Miriam, right? I love Miriam in Exodus 15 and she does this chorus, but there's this is okay I'm going really practical, but in our prophetic worship Helping because it's prophetic worship, but we're also doing corporate worship and we want to help Keep that worship corporate and the chorus the idea of a chorus is just the most simple Way to get the room engaged Does that make sense because if I'm singing about something and it's like it's taking off or it's not taking off Sometimes it doesn't take off and it's like oh, okay. Well, let me sing a chorus and then I then unity comes Yeah, so power of the chorus and then for your listening Pleasure, I am going to We good, okay, great my guy is not back there awesome I want to do something a little bit different. I actually have pulled a few Prophetic worship moments Just just from the past. I think most of them are just from the past like a couple of weeks Maybe one's a little bit older, but I want to talk about just for these are four Maybe ways that the Lord Uses these prophetic worship times the first one I talked about was in instrumental right this just the music Usher's in the presence of the Lord and we don't need to say anything and the Holy Spirit is saying something God is speaking directly to the hearts Yeah, I don't have a clip for that one But if I did it would be good to is our voice To God so our you know our you are holy you are this you are that a lot of times We think of it's prophetic, so it's got to be God's voice to the people, right? But I want to start with just our voice and adoration to the Lord is that response. It's that hallmark card again, right? It's just me Telling the Lord who he is and it's it's that response of my heart It's that spiritual song in the moment not you know going off a script. Okay, let's play that first one so Y'all Just so powerful and I I met that that clip right there. It starts out I messed up the clip, but it starts out just with a simple like Piano part just kind of playing a little melody and then The worship leader Greta She's hearing that And the Lord is just like moving on a melody. It's that song right you come in on you write in on a melody Is that there's some life on that melody? And they had just come out of them you were the other all right that song And she's she's just feeling oh my goodness the worthiness of Jesus like let's look at him And so she sings You know that melody line that the the musician played is this partnership right in prophetic worship And then she sings this chorus and the whole room just is ushered into this next level this deep level of worship as we were Responding right then to what the Lord is doing in the room. So that's our voice right to God singing straight to him So we have instrumental Explorations of truth our voice to God and then this last one should probably be God's voice to us Like we need to ask that question at that moment Because there's a lot of evaluations that people are willing to give you But it's his evaluation in that moment that matters And so this idea of rest coming back to the heart of the Lord And it's kind of a fun thing again practical part of rest that that we like to do is something called a debrief after worship times We surround ourselves with truth and encouragement We want to combat the natural tendency at the end of our times of worship to self-deprecate Right we do that Excuse me, so every team member should be contributing affirming words from time to time to build this unity in this culture of Positivity and holding each other up right team team team dynamics We can't build a culture of prophetic worship if our debriefings or when we're done look like times to cut each other up for mistakes and highlight them right if We do this no one will risk jumping off the cliff Yeah, it's already hard enough to jump off a cliff Okay, I See I gotta check my time. We're so good. Okay Hang with me. I kind of Man, I really went out of order guys Let's do this So I wanted to talk about discerning the moment and we were good. We're good Dissern the moment got it good good Great. We got it. Okay. We're gonna turn to mark 14. We'll end in this passage This is my favorite story Let's see mark 14 and we're gonna start in verse 3 I'm gonna read it and Being in Bethany at the house of Simon the leper as he sat at the table a woman came having an alabaster flask a very costly oil of Spike Nard then she broke the flask and poured it on his head and There were some who were indignant among themselves and said why was this fragrant fragrant oil wasted? For it might have been sold for more than 300 denarii and given to the poor and they criticized her sharply But Jesus said let her alone. Why do you trouble her? She has done a good work for me for you have the poor with you always and whenever you wish you may do them Good, but me you do not have always verse 8 She has done what she could she has come beforehand to anoint my body for burial Surely I say to you wherever this gospel is preached in the whole world But this woman has done will always be told as a memorial to her So Mary of Bethany she comes into this house And she begins a prophetic worship service She comes in and she breaks open this vile of costly perfume and She's leading worship in this moment and in verse 8 She has come beforehand to anoint my body for burial. It's so it's so cool. The Lord tells us that Jesus. He says this is This is why she's doing this this prophetic worship that we're seeing right now Like I'm when I am on the cross. I'm gonna smell like that fragrance. I'm going like so good and The disciples Don't enter in to this prophetic worship service Right, they stand off to the side. These are the good guys the ones that start the church later on They say where is it they say stuff she shouldn't have done it. They criticized her sharply, right? They stood by and at worst were worship critics At best they were merely observers Would we be ones who engage in Worship would we be ones who engage in this idea of prophetic worship of Responding to the voice of God in our worship It's as simple as that Releasing the testimony of Jesus as we worship giving him space To do what he wants to do and say what he wants to say would we have eyes to see and Ears to hear what the Spirit is doing and would we respond to it in our worship? I'm just gonna I guess I was praying a little bit. I'm gonna pray just to close God. I just I'm just so in awe of the partnership that you longed to have with us and God we thank you that you're speaking That you're speaking to the church and that you're speaking to us and Father would you give us ears to hear and eyes to see God would we Enter into what you're doing and saying on the earth father God I lift up these these prophetic musicians and singers and worship leaders pastors youth leaders father. I ask That you would give us eyes to see ears to hear hearts to believe and would you give us courage to release What you're wanting to do what you're wanting to say father we we say yes to Responding to you we say yes to Singing and lifting our voice. We say yes to playing our Instruments in a way that is pleasing to you we we make room we carve out space We ask that you would speak in Jesus name. Amen