 So this weekend, we've called prophetic presbytery. How many of you have ever been a part of a prophetic presbytery weekend here at Radiant Church before? Raise your hand, okay. So a lot of you, I can't say portage, but I know a bunch of you over there. It's been, I think it's been three years since we've hosted it. So along the way, several of you, probably a lot of you have come into church and are like, what in the world is prophetic presbytery? Well, number one, it doesn't mean that we're becoming presbyterians. It does not mean that. Although we have some great friends in the Presbyterian Church, but the word presbytery, and that's how you say it, let's all practice it, say presbytery. I'm gonna say it one more time, one, two, three. Okay, some people say presbytery, but they're wrong. And so it's presbytery, and presbytery is a word that means a council of elders or spiritual leaders. So when you have a presbytery, you have a gathering of elders, leaders, prophets, apostles, it's a, that's what it is. And Paul uses this word in 1 Timothy chapter one when he tells Timothy to take the prophetic words that have been spoken over him. And in 1 Timothy chapter four, verse 14, he says the prophetic words that have been spoken over you by the presbytery or by the council of elders. And between those two verses, he says, I want you to wage the good warfare, go back and remember the prophetic words that have been spoken over you and wage warfare and fulfill your ministry. So prophetic presbytery is a weekend that we've set aside to invite several, in fact, we have four presbyters or prophetic ministers that we have a relationship with to come into the church and to pray and to prophesy over candidates that we have been praying and we have selected, most of them are either emerging or key leaders or some of our new staff. And we wanna be able to allow the Holy Spirit to prophesy and to speak over their lives. And then even beyond those candidates to open up environments and services where they can give spontaneous prophetic words to people. And so that is what prophetic presbytery is about. And that's this weekend. So if you're new to this, go ahead and buckle up a little bit because you've been driving a Ford Festiva, you just stepped into a Porsche. And I say that in a great way because it's gonna be a great weekend because when the prophetic spirit is present in a church and when we are in services like this where we're just really keying in on what God is saying, it's really, really powerful and it's transformational on an individual level and also in a corporate environment. How many know that God still speaks? God still speaks. That's what the whole book of Acts tells us. From Acts 1 to Acts 28, we see God speaking in powerful, powerful ways. Genesis chapter one, it says, God created the heavens and the earth and he said, let there be light. Revelation 22, it says in the spirit and the bride, say, come. So the first verse and the last verse and all 66 books of the Bible are all about a God who speaks, not a God who is on mute. And so the gift of prophecy is one of the most powerful gifts that the Holy Spirit gives to the church. So I want you to look with me in your Bibles real quickly at Acts chapter 10. This is where we land in our series and I'm gonna do like a 10 minute little mini teaching here about the power of the fact that God still speaks. And because we believe in miracles, they've trusted me to preach for 10 minutes. That would be a miracle, but I believe he's part of the Red Sea. He can part the clock as well, right? Amen. Acts chapter 10, verse number one. It says that Caesarea, there was a man named Cornelius, a centurion who was known or who led what was known as the Italian cohort, a devout man who feared God with all of his household. He gave alms generously to the people, that's the Jewish people and he prayed continually to God. 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 he said, what is it, Lord? And he said to him, your prayers and your alms have ascended as a memorial before God. 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 and having related everything to them, he sent them to Joppa. So the rest of the chapter, if we had time to break it all down, is you will find that this encounter is more than just one example of how God spoke through an angelic emissary to one of the apostles. This is actually a dramatic turning point in both Simon Peter's life and in the church and in the mission of Jesus. Because what you'll find out is that shortly after this moment, imagine Cornelius is a Roman, he's not a Christian, he's not Jewish, but he's found himself living in Israel, probably raised as a pagan, but he comes to a belief in the God of the Jews, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. And so because of that, he's very generous, he's very kind to the Jewish people, he's given donations to the temple. And now, because there's a spiritual hunger in his heart where he's praying and he's crying out to God, God, I wanna know you, God sends an angelic ambassador to him to tell him to send for a man named Simon Peter who's over in Joppa. And shortly after this, this takes place on one day, the next day, Simon, who's one of the 12 apostles, we all know, Simon Peter, he's up on the roof praying. And as he's praying, he has a vision, a trance in which he's in the spirit and he sees a, kind of like a whiteboard dropped down out of the sky and all kinds of unclean, uncoacher animals on the screen and the Lord speaks to him, rise, kill and eat. This is how we know that God is not a vegan because he's calling us to eat the meat, amen? Can I get an amen? Amen, all right, don't send me dietary books in the mail or emails, God did this, not me. But actually he tells him, rise, kill and eat Peter. But what he was saying to Peter was much more than about the dietary issues because Peter said, no, Lord, I won't do that, nothing unclean has ever entered my mouth. What he's saying is, back to God is, God, I've always obeyed you and I've avoided things that are unclean and that I should not touch. My heart is consecrated. But God is saying to Peter that everything has now changed in Jesus. And one of the things that has changed obviously is the dietary restrictions. But bigger than that is not just food that you've previously considered off limits or out of bounds but it's people. And he was showing Peter this so that when these emissaries from Cornelius showed up at his house and knocked on the door in a few moments, he would not turn them away and say, I'm not supposed to have anything to do with Gentiles or Romans. I can't do that, I'm Jewish. But his heart was opened up and when they said, we're from a man named Cornelius who's a military leader, he's a Roman. He called for us for you to come and tell him about how to be saved. Simon went and he went and when he shows up there in Caesarea at Cornelius' house, Cornelius has a small group of his friends and family and probably leaders and friends gathered in the house ready and hungry to hear how to be saved and to hear more about Jesus. And so Peter begins to preach to him. This is astounding, a Jewish young man in the home of a Roman military leader telling him about the Messiah named Jesus. And as Peter is preaching, he doesn't even get to get done with his sermon and the Holy Spirit is poured out on them in that room and they're all filled with the Holy Spirit just like the original 12 or the original 11 and the 120 in the upper room did on day one. They begin to speak in tongues and prophesy and Simon doesn't even get to give the altar call. He doesn't even get to the end of his message. God just moves sovereignly on them. And here's what this did. Not only did it impact Cornelius and Simon but it became a turning point for the church because now the doors of preaching and proclaiming the gospel to non-Jewish people was open for the very first time. This is several years after the resurrection. And up until this time, the gospel had only been preached to Jewish people. But now God has said, not everyone is welcomed into the family of God. Go and proclaim and preach. And it was through God speaking. What we see is that here God speaks through an angel and God speaks through a trance and he puts people together and it becomes a turning point that brings great advancement to the kingdom of God. Can I tell you it's important that we understand this that God's voice is transformational and God's voice is so important and significant that it's not something that we can just relegate to. Oh, that happened in the book of Acts. No, this is for the church in every generation that God still speaks. And God speaks in a lot of different ways. God speaks through nature. Romans one says that his attributes are evident in all of creation. So I don't know about you, but it's hard to stand out in the mountains and stare up at the stars and walk away going, this all happened by chance. Creation declares that there's a God. God speaks through creation. God speaks through his word, Psalm 119. It says that your word, O Lord, is a lamp into my feet and a light unto my path. It says that your law, O Lord, is perfect to the converting of the souls. Oh, how I love your word. And so God speaks to us through his word. Every day when I wake up and I read the Bible, God is speaking to me because the Bible is the only book that when you're reading it, it's reading you. It's spirit and in truth. Jesus said that it's spirit and truth. Hebrews 412 says that the word of God is living and active and sharper than a two-edged sword dividing between soul and spirit, bone and marrow. So God speaks through his word, but God also speaks in other ways. He speaks through a still small voice. I don't know if you've ever had that before. That little nudge, that little prod, you shouldn't or you should. You're just like, why is that person's face popping up in my heart? And then you call them and find out they needed a word of encouragement. You might just think, oh, that's coincidence. I believe in God incidences, not coincidences. But God speaks that way. And one of the other ways that God speaks that we just read is through dreams and visions and angels. Joel too, he said, I will pour out my spirit in the last days. Old men shall have visions and young men will dream dreams and upon your maid servant and your men servant I will pour out my spirit. And that day, I mean it's, we're living in that day, the day after Pentecost where God has poured out his spirit. And he says, I'm gonna speak. I'm gonna use dreams and visions and angels. How many of you have ever had a dream that you just suspect that God was speaking to you and trying to get your attention on something? Anybody ever had that? Well, if you've had that, you probably have all had that. You just don't even know it. You thought it was because you had too much pepperoni on your pizza, but it may have been the Lord speaking to you. We just have to learn the language of the Lord. And sometimes he send angels. I've not seen an angel that I'm aware of, but I keep praying. I got about 50 years left on this planet, hopefully. And in that 50 years, I would love to see an angel. But in this moment, he sends an angelic minister. But one of the other ways that God speaks is he speaks through others. And it's one of the most profound and one of the most powerful gifts that God has given to his bride is that he would choose to use us to speak to each other. His word, words of encouragement. He speaks to us through wise counsel, he speaks to us through spiritual authority, but he speaks to us through gifts. And one of the gifts that he uses is prophecy. And prophecy is God speaking a now word in a now moment to a person who needs now direction. That's what prophecy is. It never violates the word of God. God isn't schizophrenic. He doesn't say one thing in the Bible and another thing through the gift of prophecy. The gift of prophecy is always in alignment with scripture, but it's a now word spoken through a person in a now situation. That's what the gift of prophecy. This is what the Lord is saying to you. And when he does it, he does it for three reasons. The Bible says in 1 Corinthians chapter 14, in verse number three, that those who prophesy to people are doing it for three things. Number one, for up building, they're strengthening them. Think the new King James says edification, you're edifying, you're building something. So the gift of prophecy is to build up, not tear down. Sometimes people think that prophecy is gonna be a guy with a long beard coming in and pulling people out and calling out their sin and embarrassing them and pronouncing judgment on things. And that's really more of an Old Testament picture of the gift of prophecy. It's not even the office of the prophet. But prophecy is primarily the Holy Spirit speaking through people to build them up number one and number two, to bring encouragement to our hearts. It's supposed to be encouraging. I can't tell you how many times where I've been in a place or in a season of my life that just was wondering, it's like Lord, are you ever gonna move? Are you ever gonna shift things? Are you ever gonna speak? And in the midst of those droughts to receive a word from somebody, the book of Proverbs says that word of encouragement from a friend is like, it's like cold water. It's like snow during the time of harvest. It's refreshing to us. And that's what prophecy is, is it brings encouragement. And the third thing it brings is comfort. So once you think about this, up building, encouragement and comfort. God comes to up build us in our present situation and encourage us about his future plans for us while at the same time bringing comfort to us of the pain of our past. Because sometimes there is pain that we're carrying and questions from our past that we've never resolved. And sometimes the fact that God speaks to us in a now moment lets us know we're not alone. He's with us. He sees us. And even though we may not get the answers, we know his presence is with us. And I'll tell you this, I would rather have his presence than the answers any day of the week. I would rather have his nearness than any other thing in my life. Over the last couple of weeks, Jane and I have been standing with our son-in-law, Zach and our daughter, Ashley. And as many of you know, our daughter gave birth to two premature babies. One of them, Reese, passed away last Sunday. And the other one, Celia, is doing very well and she's very preemie. And so your prayers and those of you who've encouraged us, we just can't thank you enough for that. But in the midst of that, we've just been so comforted by the Holy Spirit. It's hard. We won't stand up here and say that it's been easy. It has not been easy, but our faith is not shaken. We know that God is good. We don't know all the whys, but we know the who. And last night, sitting at dinner with our presbyters, Wayne Drain, who's been here many times, pulled out a piece of paper and he said, I've been praying for you and God gave me a word for you and for your family for this season. And as he read it to us in the restaurant, it just brought hope to our hearts and it brought healing to our hearts. That's what the gift of prophecy does. God speaks through other people. You see, because when God speaks, his voice eclipses all other voices. And so today, we're going to see that gift in operation. Tonight at 6 p.m. here, we're gonna have another service. We have selected, hand selected, some candidates that are going to come up on stage in a moment. I'm gonna introduce our presbyters. They have been praying over the last few weeks about candidate couple number one, candidate couple number two. They don't know names, but they've just been leaning in, praying, asking God to speak. And so we've asked them to come. They're trusted friends and ministers. When they see them up on the platform today, they got their names. It was the first time they ever had names, but how many know Jesus knows their names and they're gonna speak and prophesy over their life and we're all gonna get to enjoy and sit back and encourage and see that take place. And then at the end of that, we're gonna release them to move throughout the room and share prophetic words to people spontaneously here. So when they, if they point you out, just stand up, tell them your name and receive the word. And listen, if you don't get a word today or tonight or tomorrow night, that's fine. If you hear something that sounds like it's God speaking to you, we allow ricochet words, which means it bounces off you and sticks to me. And go ahead and you just go ahead and claim that and say, I'm co-signing that word. And it's gonna be powerful, okay? So what I wanna do is I wanna invite everyone, if you would, to just portage in here. Would you just pray with me? Father, we're so grateful that you're a good God and you speak to us. And we ask you today, Lord, would you strengthen us and allow the spirit of wisdom and revelation and the spirit of prophecy to come and manifest itself and Lord, speak over these individuals and speak over your people and speak over us as a church because Lord, we long for your voice. We long for your voice. Jesus, you said, I am the good shepherd of my sheep, know my voice. Lord, we know your voice. Give us ears to hear your voice today. And we pray this in Jesus' name. Amen, amen. Okay, well, I wanna introduce to you our presbyters here first. The first one I will introduce to you is a new friend of radiant. He's been a longtime friend of mine. He pastors an incredible church in Omaha, Nebraska. I have done prophetic presbytery at Lifegate Church, I think six or seven times. It's Cassie's home church. And Lifegate is a phenomenal church. Les Beecham is a pastor, a leader, one of the kindest, most pastoral people I know and he's very gifted prophetically and I'm glad to introduce him to you. So would you welcome to the platform, Pastor Les Beecham. Welcome, Les. And by the way, Lifegate is part of radiant network church. So we got great friends in Omaha. Then our other guest needs no introduction. He is the Jedi Knight. Oh, he's coming up because he thinks he's not getting an introduction. No, you're getting an introduction. He is the Jedi Knight, the Yoda, the Obi-Wan Kenobi of the prophetic, Wayne Drain. Everybody welcome, Wayne. And this morning, our candidates that we're inviting up is Tim and Georgie Matthews. Tim's got his Batman t-shirt on. It's serious, folks, when he pulls out Batman. So Lord, we just pray over this couple. We thank you for Tim and Georgie. We pray that in this moment, you would give them the ability to capture, to listen, to hear what you're saying, to have ears to you, Holy Spirit. And to hear the voice of their father. Father, we want to hear from you. Step right into the room and through these presbyters. Speak to your son, speak to your daughter. Strength and encouragement in Jesus' name, amen. So you were the ones I was praying for. Don't be deceived, everybody. They're so sweet, but this is power right here. The two of you, power, I believe with all my heart. And you carry and declare you belong, you're welcome here, you're home. Your very life declares that. You know these guys who put, maybe you're one of them, so forgive me if you are, who put big flags in the back of their pickup trucks and stuff and they're flapping all night. Now actually, when you drive, you have a flag also, but your flag is flapping, you're loved, you're loved. And not some other statement. It just pours out of you, it's a reality. You have a spiritual yard sign that says, judgment-free zone, you're welcome here, which is incredible. And it's the fulfillment of what Paul says in 2 Corinthians, you show that you're a letter from Christ written not with ink, but with the spirit of the living God. You're a perfect match. I saw you, Tim, as a reservoir, huge reservoir. And then I saw you expansive as an explosive fireworks. Okay, a reservoir and fireworks. And so let's start with you. You love this church. You are convinced that you're supposed to be here. God wants to affirm it, you're in the right place. You love the leaders of this house? You're committed to the vision? And you're not a pushover, you study. You take time to be sure that something is of God before you commit to it. But once you are convinced, you are all in. And the Lord said, you're rock solid. You've expressed your commitment financially. He said, say that first, financially, because talk is cheap, but you're not a talker, you're a doer. So financially, your time, your words, your family, God says, I'm establishing you as part of the vertebrae, the backbone of this church now and for the future. Your opinion matters, you don't push it forward, but it's sought after. Your support is a confirming gift to leaders. If Tim thinks it's good, it's probably good. You're respected not only in the church, but I don't know what your background is, Tim, but in the rough and tumble of the marketplace, you find that you're able there and God has used you and he's going to use you. And then he said this, you stand out, you stand up and you stand for righteousness. All of these things. And things are just starting for you. Your voice is gonna get bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger in the days ahead where you stand up, you stand up and you stand for righteousness. You're one of the best first impressions of Jesus a person could ever have. You really are. Did you know that love from a successful, confident man who's humble is utterly rare? And this is who you are. So few have experienced a healthy father in their life, but do when they experience you. Now you're like, I mean, I'm not that old. Do you have children? How old are they? See, they're just little kids. It's like, I'm a dad, but the Lord said this. Do you remember Phillip said, Jesus just show us the father and it'll be enough for us. And Phillip said, if you've seen me, you've seen the father. And I want you to know, Tim, if people have seen you, they've seen the father. And especially those who haven't had a father. And I believe this is gonna increase not because of your age, but because you reflect the father increased inspiration to men and for them to commit and be humble to their God. You're gonna have real countenance with them, marriages, family, the church. It's just like the whole church. Yours is a full reservoir of wisdom, experience, love, gifting. God's spirit is described as the sevenfold spirit of God. Look it up and study it because you're a sevenfold gifted man expressing the seven aspects of the spirit of God. Your greatest influence, your greatest investments are right ahead of you. Step into them says the Lord. Amen. Any of that makes sense about him? Okay. Bright, effervescent, your name, Georgie. I mean, that's just, it makes you smile. It's just when you see you and attractive drawing attention like fireworks, a show that you don't want to end. Have you ever seen those when the finale happens? It's like, oh darn, you are the light of the world set high for all to see. Now you know that's biblical. Jesus said that, let your light so shine before men that they will see your good deeds and praise your father in heaven. And yet, unlike so many who are attractive and bright people, you don't seek attention and you prefer that not be the case. Would you rather people not be drawn to you but you can't avoid it, Georgie. That's just the way it's gonna be. And the Lord wants you to know this. You don't need to or want to be put in the limelight but you carry the limelight. And so people are drawn welcome into this house, into your home, remember your yard sign, judgment-free zone, your eyes, your deeds, your words, pour out selfless love. I can see it right now. Did you know you are the goal of Radiant Church? You're what Radiant is supposed to look like, devoted, steadfast, love-filled, honoring, compelling Radiant, a follower of Jesus. You, Georgie, are a poster child for Radiant Church. He's calm, you can be crazy. He's methodical, you can be serendipitous. He can be private to be recharged, you can be public at different times when you need to be. This match was designed by the Spirit to draw, inspire, establish and rescue many, many people. You are bearing good fruit, much fruit, you're gonna bear more and more fruit. Be open to the opportunities to shine your light in other nations, and the Lord said this, and you won't have to go, they're gonna come, and you're gonna have a special countenance with those of other nations, and God's gonna use the combination of your beautiful, expansive, explosive love in this house and beyond that many might be changed. God bless you both, love you. Note to self, don't follow less ever again. Tim and Georgie, I saw a hand on a knob turning it up, and heard the Lord say that heaven's resonance in your voices is turning up to 11 in this season. You also have a loud house of joyful noise, it's just loud around you. I hear music, laughter, shouts of joy and celebration. Competitive, you'd compete with a stump. Bold and strategic conversations happen around your table. All about the kingdom, poems, prayers, and promises are a regular part of the life of your family. And I see that you had a suddenly God visitation in your family at some point in the last 18 months. It served to remove some dark clouds of an anxious event and allow the light of heaven to stream in. And I saw that you two are salt shakers and light bearers, true worshipers of God, real, authentic, acquainted with the goodness of God in reality and not just in theory. Tim, I saw the book title out of the salt shaker as if you could have written it. You might want to find an old copy and read it. You care words of life in your mouth, your mind, and in your spirit. Proverbs 30, 32 has direction for you. Do not confess negative thoughts in your mind, rather speak life to every situation around you. You are a positive person, it's not hype, it's kingdom. You're gonna drive away a lot of negative clouds from people. I had a picture of you sitting at an old desk and you were writing and I saw words of life were flowing from your pen onto papers, fast as you could write. It's time to make the vision plain and put it on paper. So the others can run with it. Lots of sons just about to come. They need the manual to run with it and you're gonna write one of them. Your words serve to add flavor and to help preserve faith and those who hear or read what you have to say and you have to teach. And you will preach and proclaim the good news of the kingdom from person to person, place to place, calling people out of darkness into his marvelous light. Praise, prophecy, preach and proclaim. It's all the literative words I could think of but they're all about you. You're gonna proclaim the goodness of God on Church Street, on Main Street and on Main Street. Powerful, powerful leader. And your voice is gonna be prominent in this coming move of the spirit. Georgie, Georgie girl, everybody says that, don't they? Yeah, I had to say it. You have been a child of the light and a lot bearer since you were a young girl. I saw you rescuing people in trouble like a spiritual EMT. You have a first responder's heart to run to the battle to stop the bleeding and bind up the wounds of broken people. You have no greater satisfaction than to go help people who are in trouble. A gift of healing is in your hands and it flows through your words of comfort and your many acts of kindness that nobody sees but heaven sees. Gift of mercy is strong and it always triumphs over judgment, it's not weakness, it's strength under control, that's what that is. You walk without prejudice, without guile, and without fear. You're a fearless woman of God. You're a good, good, good mom. You need to stop worrying about that. You're doing a good job. You will have many daughters and sons in the faith as you open your home and your life to them. Spiritual heritage in you is in your DNA. It's flowing through you to generations coming onto their fields of grace. You and your husband are concluding some years of preparation for this moment in time. Draw your kids alongside and minister as a family going forward. Not just to bring the kids up to see how cute they are, but they're gonna be full of the spirit, full of the word like you are. They're gonna have something to say. They're gonna lay their hands on the sick just like you do. They're gonna mimic you. And I don't care what people say about despotism, just say baloney. My kids are going with me. Have that attitude. That's how we're gonna raise up this generation. That's pretty good, huh? Tim's a mess. You know what they say? I've heard it said that as a leader, you can tell how much the Lord loves you and favors you by the leaders that he sends you. And if that's true, then I know that God loves me greatly when he sent Tim and Georgie Matthews to this house and we love you. First time I met Tim, we were speaking at a conference together and I walked into the back room where we were getting ready and the Lord spoke really clearly to me. He said, I want you to be a father to him. And I just wanna say publicly, this is my son in whom I am well pleased. I love this couple. Love this couple. Love him, Georgie. So Lord, we seal this over them and we bless them. And we thank you for the gifts. We thank you for the leaders. We thank you for the family. But we thank you mostly for the heart that they represent. And they truly are the poster children of radiant. And we bless them in our household and generations to come. Thank you for your faithfulness. Great is your faithfulness, Lord God to them. In Jesus' name, amen. Amen. Okay, y'all ready? Everybody, let's stand up real quick. Everybody stand up. We're gonna do charismatic calisthenics. Are you ready? Reach up towards heaven. Come on, wave your hands. Now, by faith, touch your toes. This is where faith comes in. No, you got, no, really touch your toes. All right, shake it out. Give somebody a high five next to you. And go ahead and take a seat. We're gonna right now move into a time of words and season where we're just gonna release less and wane to move about the room and spontaneously give words and minister words to many of you. So, Holy Spirit, come and speak. Thank you for your voice. That comforts, builds up, strengthens and establishes us in Jesus' name. Amen. Tall guy in a white shirt, five rows back near the middle. That'd be you. What's your name? David. David? Yes. Cool name. David, the first thing I noticed about you was your big shoulders. God has given you big shoulders for a reason. Shoulders in Scripture refer to government. There's a leadership call with anointing to govern in your life. God has been clarifying issues, healing you from wounded words. I see a reset moment as you enter a season of refreshing and then a restoration of areas that you thought were lost forever. It's time to stand tall again and put your shoulder into it. Remember the government, the weight of it is on Jesus' shoulders. Isaiah 9, the government will be on his shoulders. So your part will seem light to carry if you realize it's really his. Be encouraged and stand up and get after it. Mr. Nike, would you stand again? Tell me your name again. David. So as you were worshiping, the Lord reminded me of Joseph of Arimathea. I don't know if that name's familiar, but he was a person of note and when Jesus was crucified, he pled for Jesus' body and he took him off the cross and he made sure Jesus' body was cared for. God said, I am giving this man a Joseph of Arimathea anointing to care for the body of Christ. That means that you'll have a heart that cares for is concerned about. And then he said this, I'm gonna release a great success in your life and I will allow millions of dollars to pass through your hands for the fulfillment of the vision of the body of Christ that God is giving you care over. And he says this, these millions, they'll be powerful if you don't let them stick to you, but you let them flow. God chooses certain people. I love what Billy Graham says, to allow millions to flow through your fingers if you let none of it stick to your hands. And I'm believing that for you fully that you will care for the body of Christ. And from this day forward, as Wayne was saying, as you're released and you're healed, you're gonna have a new burden that's not overwhelming, but you'll care about this body and the vision and where it's going. Can you receive that? Okay, take it. I'm gonna jump in here, like this show man, would you stand up? What's your name? Andy. The Lord showed me a picture of you with binoculars in your hand. You were looking at him, but you had him turned around. And so you had the big lenses. I don't know how it all works, but you're looking at him in reverse and you're frustrated because you can't see through them. And I just saw the hand of the Lord come and turn him around and say, I'm making an adjustment so that you can see through them properly. And as soon as he did that, it was like all of a sudden clarity came and I asked the Lord, what does that mean? And he said, tell him that he's been trying to figure out the steps that are necessary to go where he wants to go and to do what he wants to do. And the Lord just wants to give you the scripture, Proverbs 3 says, put your trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding, but in all of your ways acknowledge him and he will direct your paths. And the Lord is calling you to trust him to turn your perspective around. Don't focus so much on the past as much as put your future in his hands and God's gonna give you leadership and direction for every step that you need from this point on. God bless you, Andy. Okay. Okay. This young lady with dark hair right there in the middle, what's your name? Of course you are. My granddaughter, Kenzie, is just turning 12. Kenzie, the Lord calls you sweetheart. You're one that brings pleasure to the Lord in the way you love him from a pure heart. As you delight yourself in the Lord, he delights himself in you. And he's gonna bring desires of your heart into fruition. You need to dream big. You need to dream big. He also calls you songbird, a call to make his praise glorious in your generation. So be who you are as he sees you. Jesus calls you sweetheart cause he loves you. He calls you songbird because you're gonna sing to your generation and they're gonna hear your voice. Be at peace in your identity that he speaks over you today. Hello, would you stand up? What's your name? Brian, as I was watching you worship, the Lord impressed me that you have been tempted to feel passed over, even disqualified. And the temptation is, I guess, is this it? Is this what life is gonna be about? Are you gonna put me in the game? And God says this to you, I'm opening a door for you. It's already starting to be revealed to you. And he said, walk through it. Don't be afraid. I want you to walk right through it. And I'm putting you in the game. He says, God bless you. You're welcome. It's a tall guy with a dark top, six rows back. I'll middle right. Okay, I take your word for it. Okay. I heard this for you. I hope you like this word. I didn't really do, I think you could hurt me if you wanted to. I heard this. It's harvest time in your family and among your friends. You will be, as you always have been, a catalyst to make Jesus attractive and intelligible to those you love, the ones that he loves so much he died for them. It's time to receive the power of the Holy Spirit to be a witness without hesitation and with great boldness. I see regrets being released and reconciliation being found. You will walk in a tangible ministry of reconciliation. Don't hold on to old disappointments that discourage. Embrace divine appointments that encourage, that restore courage in you. You're gonna be a courage inputter and a courage releaser. And I come today to just speak encouragement into you, to speak courage in you, and to remove discouragement. It's time for you to get out and shout out Jesus' name wherever you can. You're a Jesus, man, you know that? Do not get comfortable. Tell me your name again. Okay, what is your full name? Ikejikoza, the morning. Ikejikoza, do my mail up, tell her. That's pretty good. Okay, thank you. What's your nation of origin? Nigeria. Nigeria. Wow. You're the result of many prayers. Sometimes I believe the Lord has showed me that you can be tempted to be ashamed for standing out so much. For being a giant in the midst of us. And God says, I've designed you this way for a purpose. And to no longer be ashamed of that. But even as Wayne said, this is gonna be part of your shout out. And here's what you are. You are an expression of Psalm 18. It's a very long Psalm. Read it though, because here's how it describes God. It says, you stoop down to make me great. And part of your prophetic expression is that you will be one who easily stooped down to lift other people up. And I saw children in particular and their families. And he says, I'm gonna use you to turn the hearts of parents to their children in a generation where they don't speak the same language. And to turn the hearts of the children to their parents lest everything fall apart in our world. God has established you as a giant because he's a giant so that you might stoop down in humility to raise other people up. Can you receive that? Yes, sir. You're together, right? Correct, would you stand up? What are your names? Sean. Sean and? Brittany. The Lord showed me that there's an entrepreneurial, evangelistic, anointing upon your lives. So those two things go together, but we don't always think. We think of marketplace and then we think of missions, but the Lord has brought them together into your hearts. And the Lord said that he's put a mantle on you that some people struggle with ideas. You have too many ideas. And in fact, you're up at like three in the morning writing them down and you tell Brittany the ideas and she's like, can we just start with one? And here's what the Lord wants you to know. He said he's opened the faucet of prophetic and witty ideas, but he's also now gonna bring them into discipline and give you creative, strategic ways to utilize them, not just for money, money will be a part of it, but to reach people that nobody else is reaching. God's gonna open doors and I see you in boardrooms, pitching ideas that actually, instead of selling the product, you're actually gonna be winning people to Jesus. So Lord, we just pray for that anointing on their lives. Lord, that you would increase it, give them clarity, give them favor in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen, God bless you. Are you sitting over there earlier? Oh, okay. Is it Ben? Can you stand up, Ben? Does she belong to you or you belong to her? This is more good. Here's my advice. Just say yes, dear, whatever she says. Okay. Okay, this is for you. I see you sitting out on paths you have not taken before. It's a season that you're breaking out of the predictable to pursue the impossible. Those efforts that need more than a human strength but depend on supernatural strength that comes from the Holy Spirit, that'll become your new normal. You are a modern day Jesus man, a Jesus freak, sold out for God without apology and without fear. She has to calm you down because she'll never tame your heart and it shouldn't be tamed. Don't be a settler. You are a pioneer. Go show and tell what you see and what you hear. Be bold, be strong. The Lord your God is with you and for you, your family's gonna be okay. Hello, you two, would you stand? Do you know each other? Okay, really well. Good. Tell me your name. Lydia Ann. And Benny. Okay, as you were worshiping, it was compelling. I wish you kind of really could have seen them. They're just swaying back and forth. And the Lord said this to you in particular but you as well, leverage your social media connections for Jesus. Leverage them in a culture of cancellation, offense and even now on TikTok, demonic opportunities for young people. The Lord says this, have a presence on TikTok and Reels and let the Lord show you, he's gonna help you leverage that tool with your creativity as well and he's gonna push back darkness using that means. Be careful. My temptation is to judge them all and avoid them all but God says I'm gonna throw you right in the fray and you're gonna be examples of righteousness and holiness and passion that's more compelling than everything else that people watch and look at. Would you pray about that and receive that? God, you're welcome. God bless you. Amen. I have a word for the whole church but before I give that word, I have a word for some individuals. People are always asking me, how do you hear from God? My wife does it well but I don't or my pastor can hear God but I can't and that's been a question that caused me to write books called He Still Speaks and I've found, and some of you have heard me say this before, I've found that there's only one legitimate reason why you cannot hear from the Lord. John 10, 27 says my sheep hear my voice and they know me. So if you're a sheep, there's an expectation that you will hear his voice from Jesus himself. So the only legitimate reason that you can't hear is because you're not a sheep. So I'd like to take care of that real quickly right now if you don't mind. I'd like to give you an opportunity to bypass the middleman and be able to hear Jesus for yourself and you can do that if you are a sheep. So I wanna give you an opportunity to become a sheep or maybe you're a wandering sheep and you need to come home. But I'd like to pray a real simple prayer for you that comes out of Romans where Paul clearly states, if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. That's why we confess publicly. It's not to call you out, it's to call you up. It's to call you up into your destiny in Jesus. So if you're here this morning and if you'd like for me to pray a simple prayer with you, would you just stand up wherever you are? And when you do, then I'm just gonna spread prayer with you and it's gonna change everything. It's gonna change your life forever. Go ahead and do that right now. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. This is your chance to make the best decision you'll ever make in your life. I see one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11. Are there any more? 12, 13, 14. 15, 16. Thank you, Jesus. 17. See you in the back. 18. Let's shoot for 22 more. 19, 20. 21, 22, 23. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. 24. If you'd put your hand on 25, if you'd put your hand on your heart, if you stood up for prayer, and I want you to pray not for anybody else to hear, but for Jesus to hear, and it's between you and him. Pray this prayer. Lord Jesus, I confess that you are Lord. I know you died for me, and I know that you're coming back one day for me. Today, I ask you to forgive me of my sin, come into my heart, be my savior and my Lord, and by your grace, I'll follow you all the days of my life. Amen. Let's rejoice with all the angels in heaven that you've just done. Amen. So, so, so proud of you, everyone. Thank you. Let me give this word real quick for the Lord. I know we're running out of time. That's the word I got early this morning. I heard Isaiah 54, two through four for you as a church, as a network. Enlarge the place of your tent, stretch your tent curtains wide, do not hold back. Lengthen your cords, strengthen your stakes, for you will spread out to the right and to the left. Your descendants will dispossess nations and settle in their desolate cities. Do not be afraid, you will not suffer shame, do not fear disgrace, you will not be humiliated. And I felt to underline key verbs and verb phrases in that passage that the Lord is asking of you in this moment that you're in right now. You are mobilizing for a movement, a movement of His Spirit. And here's the ones I underlined, enlarge. Enlarge your capacity to feel space as He is leading you into from neighborhoods to nations. This city is your lab. Many more is gonna come after this. The second verb, stretch, stretch tent curtains wide, stretch your faith. It sounds good to talk about stretching until you're being stretched. Let me tell you, I've been stretched like a pretzel. I'm still walking. Get out on the forward edge of your faith and take another step and another and another. Third thing I heard from that passage, do not hold back. Let the Holy Spirit determine your boundaries. Don't let political correctness determine your boundaries. Don't let the culture determine your boundaries. Let Jesus determine your boundaries. And the last one is do not be afraid. Do not fear. Think generously. Heaven has more than enough. Don't think sparingly. Don't be oppressed by what you don't have. Be impressed with what you do have. It's a time to mobilize for a moment. The stretching you're experiencing will result in an enlargement of your influence in churches, cities, culture, and nations. It's not a time to hold back. It's a time to let fear or to let fear arrest you. With the rested eyes and refreshed spirits and renewed minds, it'll be time for forward movement as the Holy Spirit empowers you to be witnesses at home in cities and in nations. After a summer of recovery and refreshing, a harvest in the autumn, prepare the way of the Lord. Amen. Amen, amen, amen. Thank our presbyters and thank you guys for being here and experiencing this. I hope it was, we hope it was eye-opening for you and encouraging and edifying. Remind you that we have another service tonight at 6 p.m. It's a welcome to everyone. We have childcare that will be available as well. I also wanna say, if you have children that are checked in, ask them about today. We did a similar experience where we spoke prophetic words of encouragement over the children. So I'd love to, for you as parents, to be able to experience with them as well. So I'm gonna ask our prayer team, if they would, to come forward and ask you to just stand up and here's how we're gonna dismiss. If you need ministry, if you need prayer, if you need the Lord to speak a word over you, this is what prayer is. We ask the Father on behalf of his children to speak to us, heal us, save us, deliver us, whatever that looks like. So I'm gonna pray in a moment, we're gonna dismiss. And if you do want ministry, want prayer, I'll just invite you, wait a few moments, come forward, we'd love an opportunity to do that. But Father, we thank you for every word that was spoken. I'll be thank you that you do still speak and your spirit is alive, God. And it is moving in our midst. And God, we need to be encouraged, built up and comforted in our hearts, God. So thank you for the gift of prophecy. Thank you for the Holy Spirit. Thank you that we serve a living God. And as we leave here, remind us that we're not leaving church, we're leaving as the church, the body of Christ in Jesus' name, amen.