LIGHT IN A DARK PLACE

What do you do when a promise feels delayed? 

Learn how to  steward your faith until God’s promises for you comes alive.

Chapters

• 0:26 Co-Perception And Faith Framed
• 0:51 Prophecy As Light In Darkness
• 1:19 Unfulfilled Prophecy And Mystery
• 3:39 Your Role In Manifesting Words
• 5:27 Abraham’s Name And The God Picture
• 7:44 Holding The Light Through Delay
• 9:33 Warring With The Word
• 12:18 What Prophecy Is And Isn’t
• 13:59 As In Heaven, So On Earth
• 16:27 Alignment, Glory, And Gentle Guidance

Transcript

SPEAKER_00: 0:13

Hello everyone, welcome back to DIY Salvation Season 3. We are talking about co-perception. This is like the most important topic when it has to do with your faith. You know, the beginning and the end of your faith is all about co-perception. And if you have not listened to the first episode on co-perception, please go listen to it before listening to this one. Tonight we're talking about light in a dark place. Again, we are talking about the prophetic word. Our anchor scripture is 2 Peter chapter 1, verse 19. For we have also a more sure word of prophecy, whereunto you do well that you take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawns and the day star arises in your heart. So the other day I had this conversation with a man who shared with me his experience from his childhood. He recounted that when he was just seven years old, a revered prophet had prophesied to his mother that he would become an international evangelist and that he'll be traveling the world to preach the gospel, and that his mother even affirmed the prophecy, claiming that God had also revealed it to her long before he was born. Yet, despite the assurances, now he is over 50 years old and the prophecy remains unfulfilled. So the question he was asking is, was the prophet mistaken? Was the prophet not powerful enough? And why hasn't the prophecy come to fruition? Come to fruition? In response, the only thing I could say to him was a simple admission, I don't know. Because truly, there are many mysteries surrounding the kingdom of God. We don't know it all. And the Holy Spirit chooses to teach precept upon precept, line upon line. That means he teaches gradually, a little here and a little there. And even if I'm a pastor, I may not have the entire body of truth. I only just see in parts, just like you will see in part as well. The main major reason is because we are three-dimensional beings. Yes, our spirit beings is capable of all knowledge, can actually get anything from the realm of the spirit. But you see, by the time you get everything from the realm of the spirit, and then you come back down to earth, right? And then you now are faced with bills and you're faced with, you know, some kind of problems that you did not even bargain for, you know, you quickly forget, like, let's say 65% of it is already gone. Then in your calm time now, you start to try to glean a 5% of it because the rest of the rest of it you don't really know, you can't really tell. It's it's kind of foreign to you. So you see, this is a dilemma of a three-dimensional being that has an eternal spirit living in him. Okay, so there are many unknowns, and you have to come to terms with the fact that these unknowns may never be understood in your lifetime. It's true, but one thing I am setting off is that when a prophetic word is spoken to you, listen, it is not meant for you to passively accept it and just say amen and that's it. Okay, it's it that's not the design of a prophetic word. If you've read the scriptures, you find that the prophetic word is often given as a means of comfort. So, why are you being comforted? What is the reason why you're being comforted? Do you understand? So that's what I want to talk about with you tonight. The prophetic word is a light in the dark place. We're still at the beginning of the year 2026, and you have had prophetic words, whether in your quiet time, whether in church, whatever it is, or maybe you even have a backlog of prophetic words that you've believed in God for, right? So, but when a prophetic word comes to you, you are not supposed to just fold your hands and wait. You have to find ways. Okay, let me put it this way: manifesting a prophetic word requires both responsibility and action on your part. Like you have to take responsibility for it. The moment you hear a prophetic word and it resonates with your spirit, just know that you have a part to play in it. If you sense a confirmation in your spirit regarding a specific prophetic word, maybe spoken by a specific man of God, you know, concerning you, then it is your responsibility to actively engage with that word until it is fulfilled. You don't just engage and leave it and hope that it's going to come to pass. You have to actively engage it until it is fulfilled in your life according to the will of God. Because the prophetic word is a picture of what God wants to do in your life, and oftentimes when God wants to do something, he has already done it already. When he shows you that he wants to do something, he has already done it already. That means everything is already in place, all that is needed now is your co-perception. Abraham was going to have a son, God promised him. Abraham knew that God would do what he had promised him, but Abraham could not conceive. Why? What was the reason why he could not father a child? It was because Abraham needed to have co-perception with God. And how did God bring that picture to Abraham's mind so that he can see God's pictures, the God picture for his life? It was when God decided to change his name from Abraham to Abraham. Exalted father, he changed his name to what? So then each time they called him Father of Many Nations, the picture was clear. This is the picture of God concerning him. And he he was already getting old and he didn't even have one. He was over over 75 years old and he didn't even have a child. And yet people were calling him father of many nations. Do you understand? So Abraham had to catch that picture of God before it could be conceived. This is very, very important. The picture that God has for your life, many times it is different from what you have concerning your life. Society, your family, friends, peer pressure, there's so many things that could paint a picture, even social media, you know, watching couples on Instagram or watching other people do some things, and you just want to do the same thing. And you have those pictures because those are the pictures you're looking at, and then you begin to think that this is the good life. But did you ever stop to think whether you would fit in the shoes of those people you're looking at? Because it might not be the good life for you, it might be the start of a disaster for you because God did not create you that way. So you need to find a way to see the God pictures for your life. And if you don't have a prophetic word or you don't have a God picture for your life, then that means this is the beginning of your prayer. Is that God show me the picture for my life? What is the God picture? Once you have it, you take a hold of it because it is a light in a dark place. Remember the scripture, 2 Peter chapter 1, verse 19. It says, We also have a more sure word of prophecy that you will do well, that to take heed of it, hold it as a light that shines in a dark place. And how long are you to hold it until the day dawns, until the its fulfillment in your life and the day star arises in your heart? So the prophetic word is first designed to give you co-perception. That is the idea. That is why comfort comes. The other day I was in a meeting, and the person sitting beside me came to me immediately after the meeting, and he said, While we're praying, God said this, God showed me this. I saw a picture and he described the picture, you know. And as he was describing it, I already knew what he was like. I was excited in my spirit because it resonated with what I have been believing God to show me. So God showed me a picture. Now I was excited not because the next day was going to come to pass. I was excited because now I can see God's picture for my life. The next thing I'm to do is to do what? Lay a hold of that picture and use it as a light in a dark place. So what is the dark place? Right now, I haven't yet entered into that reality. The reality of that picture that made me so excited. I haven't yet entered into it. So that means I'm still in a dark place. And I'm, you know, when you're thinking of tomorrow, you're like, oh, who knows tomorrow? Who knows tomorrow? When you have a prophetic word, you know tomorrow. You just need to make sure that you hold that light. Don't don't let it go off. It's like a candle, it can easily be blown away or blown out. All right. So you don't let it go off, you hold it as a light that shines in the dark place until its fulfillment. So the moment I got that, I was waiting for a word because he described a picture for me. And after describing the picture, I was waiting for a word, and then the word came. And do you know this word that this person gave to me was a word that God had given to me about two or three years ago, and I had completely forgotten that the Lord wanted me to pray through that particular scripture. I had completely forgotten about it. I was in a place, a dark place that time, and so I was praying through, and then a little bit of you know breakthrough came, you know, and immediately I forgot about it. And God was telling me, in other words, that you see that breakthrough that you saw, it's not the fulfillment of the scripture. You need to go back and do some more work on this word. So, how do I do some more work on the word? I have to take the word of God, that one, because it's a scripture, actually. The word that the person gave me is a scripture that God has given to me before. So I need to take it, and then I have to, with the accompanying pictures that he gave to me now, I have to do what? War with the prophecy. The prophetic word, as I said, is first designed to give you co-perception, which you are supposed to hold in your hand as a light in a dark place. And remember, you hold it alongside your faith. If you listen to the first episode on co-perception, you hold you hold co-perception alongside your faith. Faith in one hand, co-perception in the other hand, and you take the words that God has given you with those pictures that God has given you, and what will you do? You begin to speak it and pray over it. As you're praying in tongues, you're speaking it. As you're praying in tongues, you're speaking it. Even when you're not praying in tongues, you're just walking on the road, and something happens to you that is contrary to that word, you immediately enforce the word. You immediately insist on that word. Do you get you keep doing it until that word comes to pass in your life? Indeed, let me tell you, the prophetic word serves as a guiding light. It is a light in the dark place, it serves as a guiding light, and it will provide co-perception or a co-perception is a shared vision between you and God, and you're meant to hold on to it like a beacon in the darkness alongside with your faith, like I said, until it's fulfillment in your life. I've said this over and over again so that you would not miss it. By no means is this design to be complicated, you have to get it. So by embracing the prophetic word with faith and with you know perseverance, stay in there. Do you understand? Stay in there and create a pathway for that word to become realized in your life. Okay, so now allow me to clarify what we mean by a prophetic word or prophecy. When a word of knowledge is given and it reveals a situation that leads to immediate miraculous deliverance, right? Or immediate miraculous healing or immediate provision, that's not a prophetic word. That's a the working of miracles. Do you get that is the working of miracles? So that's not what we're talking about. A genuine prophetic word is the word that reveals to you the mind of God concerning your life or can concerning a particular situation. In fact, before you even pray any kind of prayer at all, if you have a prayer project, when I say prayer project, there's a particular thing you want to see happen at the end of your prayer. That's a prayer project, right? You should first start from the point of view of a prophetic word. That means you go into prayer and not say, Oh God, oh God, this is what I want, this is what I want. You have to ask God, what is your will? Remember, Jesus taught us this. He said, After you must have worshiped God in your prayer, the next thing is that you're saying, God, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. If you remember all our thoughts on teachings on cosmic edition, you remember that the earth is a mirror dimension of the heaven universe. The earth universe, this is our own present universe, right? As vast as it is, is all a mirror dimension of the heaven universe, right? Now, as it is a mirror dimension, the Bible says as it is in heaven, so it is on earth. Remember, if you've not listened to the families, you know, the teachings on the famine, the foundations, forgotten foundations of creation, go and listen to that because it explains the entire dynamics of have of being a mirror dimension. So that means that as you are right now, there is a you in the spirit realm. So you're your tripartite, you're a spirit being, but you're also a physical being, right? So there is the you that God sees. There is a you that angels see, the one that it's already finished, the perfect man in Christ. And there is a place you're supposed to occupy. There are things you're supposed to accomplish. And that you is an accomplished person right now, existing in all times, right now. Do you get? But then the you right now needs to see a picture of that spiritual you as it is in heaven so that you can realize it on earth. That's the reason why Jesus had to pray that prayer. Say, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. There is a there is a standard, there is a way it is already done. There is a there's a perception of God that you want to catch concerning every single matter. So, for example, your child wants to read a particular course and you want him to read a particular course, you know, and then you argue back and forth because you're seeing his strengths, and then you're also he he has his own ideas as well. You want to go back and ask God. When you go there, don't go and pray and say, Oh, God, I want him to be a mechanical engineering engineer, I want him to be a mechanical engineer because all the all our family members, there's no engineer in the family. No, you go and ask God, what is your will? Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. What is it? How is he done in heaven? That is the point I'm trying to make. How is he done in heaven? Do you understand? And remember, heaven is in your heart. Where do you get co-perception? Your spirit inside of you, the the knowing that is inside of you, when that information comes to you, that confirmation that the Holy Spirit in you gives you, you know that yes, this is heaven. And when you know what is heaven, what is that co-perception, co-perception with God? That heaven, what do you do? Your idea is that you want to pray it into this realm, you want to create a pathway, a spiritual pathway for it to travel into this realm. Then when you enter it, everybody's like, Wow, there's so much ease around you, and there's so much rest around you. It is because you had co-perception with God. But where there's a lot of struggle, you know. I mean, when that happens, you have entered Rehoboth, you had co-perception with God. When there's a lot of struggle and strife and so many things, you need to go and pray that prayer as it is in heaven, so let it be done on earth. Glory to God. So that's what a genuine prophetic word is. A genuine prophetic word, the primary purpose of a genuine prophetic word, is to align you with God's will and ultimately so that his will will be manifested through you, and the the bottom line of God's will manifested through you so that you would you would manifest his glory. Okay, you manifest his glory. That is that is the best you is the glory of God. This is very much different, of course, from the dramatic excitement of instant miracles, you know, and so on and so forth. A true prophetic word would often come as a subtle inner prompting, gently guiding you in the right direction. And that means that a prophetic word's word, what will it do? It will reveal, it will manifest, and the bottom line of it is that it's going to show forth the glory of God in your life. Thank you all for listening. This topic is called from my book, Co Perception How to Securely Navigate Your Faith to Re Prevent Shipwreck.