Hearing God: Growing in the Prophetic and Partnering with His Voice | Shane Mannon

In this episode of the Sozo Kyle Podcast, Shane Mannon continues our Valuing His Presence series with a practical and encouraging message on hearing God's voice and growing in the prophetic.

Many believers wonder if God still speaks today and whether they can learn to recognize His voice. Shane explores the biblical invitation for every believer to eagerly desire spiritual gifts, especially prophecy, and challenges us to grow in confidence as we partner with the Holy Spirit to encourage and minister to others.

This message includes both biblical teaching and a live demonstration of prophetic ministry as Shane shares prophetic words and encourages members of the church family.

Whether you're new to the prophetic or have been pursuing it for years, this episode will help you develop a greater awareness of God's voice and a deeper confidence in stepping out in faith.

For more information about Sozo Kyle, visit www.sozoktx.com.

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You are listening to the Sozo Kyle Church podcast. To learn more about Sozo Kyle Church, including our gathering times in the Kyle area, visit us online at SozoKyle KDX.com. Today's talk comes from Shane Mann.

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Gosh. Good introduction. I appreciate that. Goodness. Thanks, man. Wow. You guys got something special going on here. Did y'all know that? Real special. When I walked in the door, I was very excited. I'm like, this is gonna be this is gonna be a place that people are gonna feel safe to come, but also the encounter of God is so in this place. Let me tell you that God is doing something very significant here. And I and I feel like too with families. Um I had a scripture, and then as I was here, I I heard the testimony being shared about the girls, her niece that got brought back to life. And I was reading Ezekiel 37 right when she shared that. And I just feel like there's there's an anointing here that there's gonna be people come, like families come, and it's not just one person getting saved, but entire families get saved in this place. It's not just one, but it's like entire families come. And it's and then uh I got Isaiah 61. Let me see. Yeah, Isaiah 61, that this would be a place like Isaiah 61, if I can find it. And I even got all the pretty little things in there and everything. I even got the cheaters in there because my niece gave this to me when I first got saved, and I know where everything's in it, typically. Um, and I just can't get rid of it. Y'all, even if you guys have that Bible, you're like, I I want to upgrade, I just I just can't I just can't do it. Let's see. By the way, here we go, here we go. I'm not a teacher, I'm trying. Maybe maybe they got I I literally just had it here just a second ago. Anyone got Isaiah 61 for me? Anyone? Please. The spirit yes, the spirit of the Lord is on you. Yeah. Double glad news. Yes, yes. Oh, there it is. Oh, it's in the green. That's right. The green. Alright. Isaiah 61, the spirit of the Lord God is upon me because the Lord has anointed me to preach the good tidings to the poor. He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound, to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn, to console those who mourn, to give them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness, that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he may be glorified, and they shall rebuild the old ruins, they shall raise up former desolations. And that's what I was really highlighted to me is I feel like that the people that are gonna come here that are gonna be like feeling like they're broken and that they're lost and there's there's no hope for them, are gonna be the actually ones that you're building with. It's gonna be those that come, and those are gonna get set free in such a way that they're gonna be trees of righteousness, and their whole families are gonna get saved, and they're just gonna be radical here. And I feel like they're gonna be the ones building, they're gonna be helping you guys build. So, Lord, yeah, let it be. And and just like I was just thinking too, like, this is such a um gonna be such a prophetic house, dude. There's already a lot of prophetic people in here, but I feel like that God just wanted to breathe on prophecy in this place. And this is such a life-giving place. When people come in here, it's like you already feel so welcome. And I just feel like that that God is wanting to really move um, yeah, it just encouragement. And what's funny is he was talking about that thing with me of encouragement. Is before I even knew what prophecy was, someone had told me those who refresh others will also be refreshed. And they said, You're gonna be known to refresh, refresh others all the days of your life. How many know prophecy has an ability to create? How many of you know that you're made in the image and likeness of God? The very first prophetic word ever created, let there be light, right? Had to imagine it and declare it. Yes, and it says that um that now that names were so important that actually people would fight God to get their name changed. Because names actually meant something. It prophesied their identity, it prophesied their destiny, so much so that Jacob would wrestle with an angel all night just to get his name changed. Could y'all imagine that nowadays? It's like, I just wrestled with God all night long, and we're gonna change your name to this, and like, well, that's not really what I wanted. I don't want my name changed. I can't my name's okay. But they they knew there was such an understanding of authority now that Jesus says it's okay that you have that name, if you have your name Jacob now, because it Jesus tells us now that we have life in his name. How many of you know John 20, 31 says we actually have life in his name? That you actually represent him here. That you don't your name, it's like you carry the authority of him now. If there was a uh a father who was to um pass on the family business, even in um in the in back in the days when Jesus was walking the earth, they would bring the son in and they would say, This is my beloved son, whom I'm well pleased, and is basically like an announcement of like he's my authority now, he's my representative, he's my ambassador. So now, as we're taking his authority, as we're walking in his name, when we speak things, how many of you know it has an ability to create things? It has an ability to create that life and death is in the power of our tongue. We receive the full value and authority of his of that name. He said, In that day, ask in my name, and you will receive it. Names are not merely labels, our Father in heaven, holy be your name. Holy be your name. Names and beings back then were interchangeable. Because there's so much power and authority in a name, and now we walk in the authority of his name. So um that's not exactly sorry, Sarah. This is not exactly what I was what I was planning on, but I'm gonna go this direction and and I'm gonna intermingle them somehow. Um, somehow I'm gonna intermingle them. But when I was there's a few people that were in the class, what was that, the class leadership foundations? Um, how many of you have ever is new to uh prophetic ministry? Is anyone that's pretty niche? My gosh. Not not okay. But I feel like we've just kind of gone through this like prophetic transformation over the past few years. We've had some people, you know, they're they're getting stuff off the internet and and all that, and I feel like that we're just supposed to get back to the foundation of doing what it was meant to do. You know, phone numbers and all that, it's cool. But really, it's supposed to edify, to exhort, to build up. He's not calling out the sin in you, he's calling out the sun in you, right? If I get your phone number right, cool, but that's not really the point of it, right? Um and I feel like because the Bible says in 1 Corinthians 43, it's for edification, exhortation, and comfort. And I remember I used to think that prophecy was just somebody was really close to God. Like I would I was working in a restaurant, I was a I was a drug dealer, slash a bunch of other stuff, lots of other stuff actually. Um, and I had a pocket full of uh of pills, and I'm working in a Mexican restaurant, and these people came into the restaurant that I was working at, and they started telling me stuff about my life that nobody could know. Like, only God could know this. And I'm like, in that moment, when they're when they're giving me these prophetic words, they're actually they actually told me I'd be doing this right here, right now. Like I was I'm living in the the fulfillment of that of a of a drug addict who didn't have any way. Uh I didn't even know what they're I was like, my legs started shaking, and I'd ran away from God before, so I know that he's real. Um, but basically started telling me all these things about my life, and I'm like, you know what? Like, I want that too. Like, I I want to be able to hear God like that. And I used to think, I just gotta be so intimate with him. I'm like, oh, I've got to get so close that way I could hear every little word. Anyone that puts so much pressure on themselves to hear his voice the way, I gotta be perfect, no sin today. You know, all this. But really, if you go back and look through scripture, is he's speaking to your identity. He's speaking to you the way that he sees you, not the way you see yourself. So if you're not hearing him, it's because you're not believing who he says you are. Because he's always talking. He's the word of God, he lives in you. He's always talking. You can get a prophetic word anytime you want. He says, My sheep know my voice. And some people, it's we're just learning, how does he even talk to me? Because he talks to everybody uniquely, different, because he knows you so well. He's intertwined in your very self-of-like, he's gonna speak to you in a way that you understand. He's not, he's not gonna be a mystery, right? Because the Bible says you may all prophesy. It's not for just the not for just prophets. Even Moses said, I just pray one day because they're getting on these people over here, prophesying. And Moses' like, well, one day I hope the Lord puts a spirit on everyone, and everyone prophesies. It's like, good word, Moses, because that definitely happened, right? Um thank you, Moses, for prophesying that that words create worlds. So whenever they give me that word, the only way that I could describe it back then, because I didn't know any Bible, I didn't know anything biblical. Um, I just knew that I turned into a different person. Like I feel different. Like you created a whole new world for me, and it's not like it just kind of messed me up a little bit and then I got my life in order. Let me tell you, I was such uh an addictive uh personality, or what do you call in the DNA? Um, I did this test when I was on probation, and it was so bad. I was in a class full, a lot much bigger than this, of people who were uh in trouble and that they were had addictive personality. And the teacher pulled me off to the side out of everyone in there, is like, hey, you can come over here. And I walk over there, he goes, just so you know that test we took, I'm like, yeah. He goes, it's honestly like there's no hope for you. Like you've got to just stay away from anybody that's doing anything because your your addictive trait is like up here. All right, gee, thanks. Appreciate that. So no hope for me. Great. I just gotta stay away. No hope. Got it. Um, but in that moment, and it and it was true, that was my experience. I wouldn't get up in the middle of the night without having like a little drag, you know? Anyone? Anyone ever done that before? Just me. All right, but I did. I I was literally like wouldn't go to work. If I didn't have my fix, I'm not even going to work. Like, I would have I would have spent my last buck on um on that, then paying my rent. One of those kind of people sleeping in my car, you know, one of those kind of people. So, but in that moment, they gave me this word, and and and when they did, it created a new world for me. Literally, I had tunnel visioned everything that could say. I didn't even want it anymore. It was like uh there was a prophetic authority. They were speaking from a place of authority and they spoke it, and when they did, it fell off of me. I don't, they didn't even pray it off me. They just gave me a word with love. I felt so much love. I'm like, you could have rebuked me for all the stuff I have in my pocket. For the for the six girlfriends that I have that I'm texting. Like, there's so many things I was doing. I was stealing from my grandmother. I don't care what y'all think about it. I'm set free now. That was a long time ago. You know? And she still loves me too. She's in heaven. I apologized. She's in my cloud of witnessing this now. I know it, we're good. Goodness. But when they spoke that, it opened a new world for me. And I went in my room and I stopped doing everything that I was doing, and I didn't want it anymore. I just wanted the withdrawal part to go away. I mean, I wake up in the middle of the night and demons and stuff would be like attacking me, and I'm screaming, Jesus! And waking up, my grandmother's coming there, send you a place, will you know my name? I'm like, nope, just getting attacked by demons, grandma. A real Jesus' name. You can go back to bed now. Um, but I feel like we're getting back to the place of we actually walk in his name. We are his delegated authority. We all talked about abiding last week, I think, right? Like abiding. We're actually abiding in him. And it's not like this whole prophetic declaration thing where it's like, you know, we just declare money and more money and all that. It's not like that. You're you're hearing his heart on the matter. A lot of people think prophecy is only uh predicting the future. There's also foretelling, foretelling, which is communicating God's heart, foretelling, speaking God's heart, declaring what God is saying now, revealing God's perspective, edifying, exhorting, and comforting. There's some people we we think it's just uh you know a prediction, but but there's this thing that we have now, getting back to in the New Testament, where prophecy is not just um predicting the future, it's actually we're building each other up. And it says, out of all the spiritual gifts, because we also think sometimes, you know, I've heard people say to put a wet blanket on somebody's fire, well, don't don't don't go after the gift, brother. Go after the giver. It's like it's good intentions, such good intentions. And I partly agree with it, except the Bible tells us to earnestly pursue the spirit. Is he the spirit too, right? To earnestly desire the spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy. It lists all those gifts, but in the church setting it says, especially that you may prophesy and build each other up.

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How many of you need to be built up? We need we need to be built up that you will edify and that you will bring comfort. I remember I was working out in the gym, and there's this like the gym's a great place to just love on people. How many of y'all go to the gym? Anyone? It's just a great place. Like, I I used to think evangelism uh was just this, like I have to like just get super uncomfortable and just get out of my comfort zone. And and there's times of being bold like that. Um, but I just try to just see the sun in people. I'm like, I'm just walking. If I'm walking and seeing his perspective of people, then I should be able to see those things inside people, right? If I'm seeing his perspective of them, I'm calling out what he says about them, and then return it, create something new for them. So there's this guy in there, very hardened guy. He has tattoos all over his face, he's big, he's like, I don't know if he was Samoan or Tonkin or what. He's a big guy, you know, those really big ones. And I I'm looking at him like, oh gosh, I'm worshiping. I'm like, oh, I got a word for him. I was like, ah, maybe next time. You know, I don't interrupt him. He looks like he's training pretty hard. And I was just like, oh gosh, I feel a nudge. I gotta do it. So I went over there to him, and I said, hey man, I introduced my to him, you know, the fist bump. I don't, we didn't like, I didn't hug him or anything. Just, hey, just want you to know, and this may, this may sound strange, but I feel like that you have a really great grace with the next generation. And I feel like that you're going to raise them up in like martial arts. There's gonna be kids from, you know, the troubled kids in the neighborhood are gonna come to you and you're just gonna like raise them up and train them and be a big brother and a father. And this dude looked at me, this hardened guy, and he's just getting tears in his eyes. He's like, I've been giving a lot of like encouragement for those people that church down there. But he goes, You're the first person to ever say something other than leader. He was like, That's exactly what I want to do with my life. I tell you, we prophesy according to our faith. So it takes faith. If if it's very um, if the world's already saying it, then it's not prophecy, right? Because we prophesy according to our faith. So if it doesn't take faith to say it, then it's not prophecy. Anybody can look out the world and be like, man, it was pretty bad out there. This is what I think is probably gonna happen. You know that well, what that's what the enemy is saying, but what's God saying? Because they're not saying the same thing, right? Saul said, whenever Saul got anointed king, it said Samuel prophet uh prayed over him, prophesied, and then Saul ran into a group of prophets. They prophesied to him, and then he prophesied, and they said it he turned him into a different person. It turned him into a different person. And when I read that, I'm like, I know what that feels like. I would even have friends from my hometown. I was in Hawaii to school of ministry, and they were reaching out to me, you look like a different person. I was like, I am, I'm a new creation. And they're like, No, I meant like you look like a new a different person. I'm like, I am a different person. I'm a new creation now. Like, no, like you look different. I'm like, I know. I'm a new person now. I'm I'm receiving what he says about me. I I'm walking in the authority now. It's like we think so hard on ourselves, it's like, well, I can't go through that word because I did that last night. And it's like I still feel shameful about that, right? But we look at the life that everyone came, that everyone came into contact with Jesus as he let them their life be messy. It's like, well, I'm just not there yet. Yes, you are. Not because of what you do, because of what he did. Not because of what you are, because of what who he is. We have life in his name, not life in your name. Yeah, we we don't have a right to say, well, I can't do that anymore. Because we're saying, well, Jesus, you didn't do enough for us. You think he didn't see us and know what we would go through? He he the disciples felt so free and loved around him that they were trying to call down fire and kill people. You guys don't know what spirit you're of. Like, you know, they're just they're just being just doing all kinds of. I read, I'm like, I can't believe these guys. I'm like, yes, I can. I look at my life, I can't believe him. But I'm like, but but he was God, though, walking with them. But now we have God walking in us. So it's like, right? It's kind of hard to judge, right? You never know what someone's going through. You never know. I've learned, I've been humble to get older. I'm like, I used to be, I'm like, gosh, okay, I don't know what it's like to be in someone else's shoes. So who am I to say that? Gideon, mighty man of valor. He's like, I'm the least of the least of the least. No, no, no, no, no, no. I prophesy, you are a mighty man of valor. So lining yourself up with who he sees you and the authority that you have actually positions you to hear his voice because he's saying things to you that you wouldn't believe. He's calling you things and saying things about you that would be so hard to believe unless you see yourself the way he sees you. Right? You have as much authority as you believe you have. You have as much authority as you believe you have. Even in the beginning, he let Adam name the animals. And how do we know we know now that the name set the identity? Alright, I'm gonna create the animals. You guys prophesy their identity. There's a partnership from the beginning that was lost and now it was restored. Right? All of those things were restored. Samuel to David. So Samuel gets this prophetic word. I mean, David gets his prophetic word. Apparently, he was young and no one thought much of him. You're king, dude. You're king. Can you imagine? Like, you weren't even considered to be with the brothers, which means his probably, you know, born with a different woman or than the actual mother, is what they say in the time period. But did you notice after he got that word, he started believing that word when he got it. He still did everything that a king would do before he was ever anointed king. He was walking, he was still serving faithfully, still working the flock. He was building up men, he created his own army, he defeated Goliath. He's like, well, this is who I am, even before the promise is fulfilled. So there's things he's saying about you, it's like, but that hasn't happened yet. But but believing you are before you are is what is is that's the thing. You believe you are before you are. Some people say you fake it till you make it. No, you don't fake it till you make it. You just believe you are who he says you are. Right? I I know people they were like, man, I was writing a book and I just couldn't, because I'm like, gosh, I just I'm just I don't feel qualified for that. Well, you gotta believe you're an author before you become one then. You just need to believe something different. And I just feel like that he's wanting to restore the power of prophecy because it's feel like, to be honest with you, I'm not talking about here or or just it, and so it feels like that we're starting to take prophecy for granted. Do you know what I'm saying? It's like if you really believe God spoke to you, it's like I got a prophetic word. Cool, thanks. You walk away and I'm like, so you didn't believe that was God? Because if God, if Jesus was here right now and he said that to you, you'd probably act a little different, right? Because Paul talks about the stewardship of prophetic words. That we meditate on those so that we go to war with them. Right? It's almost like we think, well, there's a prophetic word of if it's meant to happen, you know, that then it'll happen. It's like, nah, prophetic words are potential. This could potentially happen. Words of knowledge are facts about your life, right? I mean, you could get five different uh prophetic people in here to tell a person that's looking for direction in their life and get five different answers depending on what you decide to do. Because there's partnership with him in the words, yeah? And and I feel like, and this isn't a and I don't know anyone here like that. And I'm not saying that we're like that here, where it's like, oh, we're just taking prophecy for granted, but I feel like it's gotten to a place, just like even for myself, where I'm like, where are all my prophetic words at in my house? We moved, I'm like, these things are what give you lies. What God says about you, if you're not, if we're not meditating on them, then we're not gonna be believing them. For you know, a year or two goes by and it's like, yeah, God, remember God said that about me. It's like, but I haven't been that in a while, right? Because I'm not really believing that anymore. Um, are y'all alright? This is not a rebuke at all. I'm talking to myself as well. Um Abram to Abraham. Let the weak say, even the it says, let the weak say I'm strong. So there's the saying of I am strong before you actually feel strong, right? Let the weak say I'm strong. Romans 4, 17. Perfect. I'm gonna do that again. As it is written, I have made you a father of many nations. He is our father in the sight of God in whom he believed, the God who gives life to the dead and calls into being things that were not. So he calls those things that are not as though they were. He's talking in the in the context of Abram, who his name changed to Abraham. He's like, We're gonna have to change your name because you got a destiny fulfilled. How many know he waited a long time for that to be fulfilled? But walking in the promise of believing what God has said. And I feel like that God, and even for me, that there's been things spoken and things that you believe. It's kind of, it's like we're looking through the Bible here. Did y'all know like Apostle Paul and some of these people weren't walking? David waited for like 14 years. Apostle Paul, we think sometimes he had that experience, oh, he got knocked off the donkey, and then it's just like, oh, he's Apostle Paul now, right? I used to watch the Cartoon Jesus series and think, oh, I just converted right away. Awesome. But there was a process before he was even becoming apostle, and I feel like we get weary and tired in the journey. It's sometimes it's like, oh man, like I got that word a long time ago, and I'm just like, yeah, I mean, I still believe it, but some of these people are waiting much longer than we were, right? But how do we keep walking in the promise like David did, believing you are before it actually happens? I'm the king. So what I need to do, I need to act like a king. Until finally that place, until I get to that place where it's like, oh, you so it's realized, and everyone's like, you're the king, like you even act like it. You know? That makes sense to you guys. Mmm. And the thing is, it's like I I used to try to like we used to have all these really um amazing people come to our school uh and ministry, and it's like I would see how they would do ministry and how they would do prophetic ministry, and I'm like, but I'm not them. Right? It's like, but I don't do it the way that they do it. We start getting in this place of, well, there's this whole comparison thing. Anyone? No one struggles, ever struggled with that before, right? Like no one's but the thing is, if you knew who God made you to be, you would not want to be anyone else. He's gonna speak to you in a way that hits another person different than I could ever hit them or anyone else. It's it's it's free. It says you may all prophesy. It he wouldn't say, Well, some of you can, but some of you just not, like it's just not there, so just you don't go away. No, he's gonna give you encouraging words. Let me tell you, in this day we're living in now, we need prophecy more than ever. We need to be built up more than ever. We need to be encouraged, strengthened, comforted. We need those things more than ever. I had a dream, I didn't even go through a lot of the scriptures. Sarah, I'm sorry. I like made her do all that work. Um Acts 2.17. I'll just I'll just go there for really quick. In the last, in the last days, God says, I will pour on my spirit on all people. How many of you guys can say all? All people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams. He'll pour out my spirit on all people. And some of them used to say flesh, and people in our school would be like, Well, this is flesh, so cats get the spirit too. I'm like, nah, cats don't get that spirit. That's another spirit. I'm just fine. I got a cat now, so I can't say that. My favorite animal, actually. I my two dogs, I'm just like, can we get rid of them? Let's just keep the cat. And I used to hate cats, I was allergic to them and everything. But pour out my spirit on all flesh. And you know what it didn't say, and all of you will heal the sick? I love healing the sick. Love it. And prophecy, it's speaking in the context of the church. When you're in church, it's saying even unbelievers are gonna get here the secrets of their heart. So he's mixing prophecy and words of knowledge together, and he's not even differentiating the difference between words of knowledge and prophecy. It's like, don't be speaking in tongues when people walk in. People are just gonna get confused. But if you're prophesying when people walk in, they're gonna get words that that resonate within their heart and they're gonna wake up. Right? People are gonna come in here and wake up. I'm not saying you go out on the street and someone's uh, you know, they have like their legs like that or something that obviously healing would be better in that situation, right? And give them a prophetic word, they probably appreciate God straightening their leg out. And I believe for that, right? But even but even back when Joel said, they're all gonna prophesy. He's like, in those days, it's like prophecy, it's like a big deal to him. How many know that prophecy is a big deal? They talk about it so much. Become the most encouraging person you know, and prophecy will just flow out of you. Because it's like, I just like I love in building people up. I don't know why. I just, ever since I was a kid, even when I wasn't a believer, it's just because the Bible says in Romans we're made in God's image, and one of those gifts is encourager. If you're made in God's image and everybody can encourage, you don't need to be a Christian to be a teacher or have a servant heart, right? For made in his image. But I found that once you start becoming like a container to encourage, it's almost like you start just talking, and the Holy Spirit's like, I got something to add to that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You'll start talking, you're like, This is what I love about this person, and then all of a sudden you'll get a download, and this about you too. And before you know it, it's been five minutes. And you're like, what just happened? I don't even know what I said, but it just came out. The Holy Spirit is so looking for just willing vessels to encourage people. You go in places, I'm telling you, I had a dream that I prayed for this guy's foot. He was hit a broken ankle or something, and uh, and I woke up and I'm like, oh man, I love those kind of dreams. Just so happened I need a haircut that day. I just I've been uh not had a haircut in a while. Had a new, I had a I was looking for a different haircut person. My haircut person had moved or something, and I went to get my haircut. The guy in my dream, it was the guy cutting my hair, and I was freaking out, and I sat in that chair, I was like, oh my god. I'm just like you and I'm just like, oh my god. And then he was cutting my hair, and I'm just you know, I'm like, just play it cool, play it cool, yeah. Like, this is awesome. I just had a dream. I just wanted to tell him about it so bad, you know. I just wanted to let him have it. And after you get to cut my hair, I was like, hey man, how's your ankle? Like your right one. Um, actually, it's um like I have problems with it. Well, why do you ask? Hey man, I mean, I just I feel like that God wants to heal your ankle. Is it okay? If I pray for your ankle, he's like, sure. And I'm like bending down, he goes, Oh, right now? I'm like, well, well, yeah. He's like looking around and also people cutting air. He's like, well, can we go around the corner or something? He's like, I want to do it right here. That's embarrassing. But go around and pray for this corner. And I said, Walk on. He's like, Yeah, yeah. He's like, Oh man, what'd you do, bro? I'm like, I didn't do nothing. I had a dream about you last night, and God loves you so much that he gave me a dream about you, and now I'm here to pray for you, and you gave me an awesome haircut. And now you can cut my hair, and now you know God is real. It's like, it puts people in a place of like, there's there's no way that they could know this unless God is real. It puts them in a position, either I got to go this way because I'm scared, and this is freaking me out, or I'm running to him. It puts people in a position. I have a friend who you who writes down on parking spots the car that's gonna park there next. He's like, white toy to tacoma. And he'll sit there, he'll wait for a car to park. White toy to tacoma. Hey sir, you know, it's just like it just makes it so much more fun. The gospel is not meant to be boring. It's just not. He's he's more fun than we think he is. And and it'll just be like, hey, you know that God loves you very much and he knew you're gonna be here right now, three to thought. Yeah, cool. Like, get away from me. Come here. You see what's written under there? Here, let's back up a little bit. Nope, back up. We can't see it. Back up, back up. White toy to come. It looks like you drive a white toy to coma. How do you know that? I'm glad you asked. I'm glad you asked. Right? Let me tell you, the only difference between this stuff and not doing anything like that, the Bible says, is that we just desire it. It's it's it's it's not earned, it's not, it says we earnestly desire it. Oh gosh, I want that so bad. And then you believe you have it because it says, it says right here, let's see, Luke 11, 9, ask it, it will be given to you. Seek you will find, knock and it will be open to you. Luke 11, 13. He gives the spirit to those who ask. Gosh, it just you just ask. That's just gosh, it's just too easy, right? It's like he wants to give us these these gifts, but we're like, nah, man, I just nah, that requires for you. I don't want to do that. I just want to go to work, go to the gym, and go home. But that's no fun. Right? And before you know it, you're depressed, and you're like, why am I bored and depressed and life? It's like because we're not being who we are. We're not doing, we're not doing the fun stuff. Why? Because something happened and now we're broken. This happened, we got all this stuff going on in life, and it's like the the disciples had a different revelation than we do because they know they're gonna die, and they're singing joyfully in the prison cells, and then the heavens opening up and the prisons are breaking. There's a different revelation had. I was watching the Roman thing the other night where it's like uh they're talking about the Romans and Iranius. It was like a after the disciples, so it's like one of the disciples' spiritual children or something. They were in the Roman uh gladiator games, and they put out their there's he's there, he's like Christianity is blowing up the Roman Empire, and they put one of the one of the disciples in the pit that's just causing everything, and they have evidence that he was like, Oh, this is great because I'm gonna share in the sufferings of Christ, and he was joyful about it. And it and it took a long time for the lions to even mess with them. Like they're like looking at each other, the Caesar, and they're like, oh man, not now, not the whole Daniel thing. He, you know, it's like, but then it's like there's there's just something, there's a different world. The spirit world is just, I feel like wanting to open up to us in a different way, where it's like there's little things that keep us so like, I don't want to do that because it's just I don't know, and I'm talking to myself, not talking to only you, I'm talking to me. It's like I've been in that season where it's like four or five years of just joyful bliss, and then a little something happens. Actually, big things happen, not a little something, big things. You know, lose a child, lose a brother, like, you know, there's things that happen, and it's like I look back there and I see these people have a different revelation than we do, and I want to know what it is because they're not preaching a gospel of going to heaven when they die, they're preaching a gospel of bringing to heaven to earth the whole time. I look up look in the book of Acts. It's like 18 times they preach the gospel, and not one time did they say anything about the afterlife, and we're living for the afterlife. It's like they have some revelation. I want so bad. Why'd I gotta be so American? You know what I mean? So American. Born in East Texas, you know, you work hard, you earn it, boy, you know, but it says that we inherit the kingdom. It says he gives it to us. Right? How many of you know the story of the prodigal son, the big brother in the story? How many of you know it's he's actually talking to the Pharisees about the series like, why do you eat the sinners and all the sin, all those people? Well, he's like telling them the story because I love them. And at the end of the story, he's actually telling the Pharisees he loves them too. You guys don't have to work and earn this. He goes, Older son, he's the big brother in the story. The Pharisees would have known he was talking to them in that context, would have known it absolutely. Everything that I have is already yours, big brother. Like, you don't have to earn this. Y'all are trying to earn it through works. Let me tell you, the father loves you too. He's telling them he loves the Pharisees, and they got such a bad rap, right? Called them Brada Vipers and all kinds of stuff. Where's my time? Oh, it's 832, cool. Alright. We got time to have some fun in a second. Because I'm just rambling now, but um Yeah, I didn't plan on saying any of that stuff. I don't know where that came from. Oh yes, earnestly desire. Yes, everyone that I've seen operating this way, and and there's some people that have really messed it up the past few years, but it's just like a and and it's hard because you don't want to put people in works or performance, because it's absolutely not works or performance. It's like for me, it was like I encountered the love of God, and I'm like, I just can't help it, but just do it. Like it's it's a la it's a love is the door, right? Jesus' I'm love. How do you go through that door? He is the door. It's just gosh, and and and and I've heard so many people say we we just talk about the love of God too much. I'm like, but if we did, then we'd be walking in it more, right? It's like love looks like something, and it's you know, love, if Jesus is perfect love, then gosh, we're not-I mean, there's a revelation of love I don't have yet. And and we can't be afraid to be um weird. Because if you're receiving the love of God, let me tell you, you're gonna be blowing soft bubbles out sometimes, especially in like worship and stuff. There's there'd be times I would be even with my friends in my sulfur spring town, which is like cowboys, like hardened people. I grew up in the East Texas, and and you know, my dad was a bull rider, like it was one of those kind of things, and I had just gotten radically saved. And if an atheist goes from being an atheist, all of a sudden God is seeing him face to face, you're a different meaning it's like, gosh, I was an eight, like he's real. So I'm just laughing and I'm having a good time with them, and they're just all kind of looking at me like, what the heck's gotten into him? Because I'm just I was just happy. And some people might think you're weird, but that's okay. It's just, man, let me tell you, if you really encounter how he feels about you, it's you're not gonna be the same. Some of us just need a fresh encounter, right? We need like a fresh encounter. Um, it's just what we need. It's like, gosh, we have this, this. No, we just need to encounter him. And that's waking up in the morning, good morning, Holy Spirit. It's like being available to be connected to him, no matter how many loads of laundry I do for my kids, and all the dishes and all the different stuff. It's just like we're too busy in America. We're just so busy. How do we turn the busyness off and live connected to him? Right. That would be something. You know, I heard of a church that they decided to do this uh whatchall, a test or project to see we're gonna get everybody hammered in the Holy Spirit at work. And the only requirement is Holy Spirit, and let's see what happens. And they documented it, and their work, their work production went up like 50%. Just being in the spirit. And you would think it would slow down, right? Because it says be of sober mind, but what if being a sober mind looks different to him than it does us? Right? What if sober mind to him looks much different than that does to us? Because when they're in the book of Acts, when they're walking out, they're like, they're speaking different languages, and or they must be drunk at 9 a.m. in the morning. Let me tell you, I've drank a lot of alcohol and never I spoke Japanese because I had too much to drink. That means it looked like something when they were walking out of there. It looked like they were having a good time. Right? It's like, and they knew, man, their lives are not gonna end up, they're like, yeah, we're spreading the gospel and we're all gonna be d we're all gonna be massacred and just tortured, but they're walking out hammered. Right? Gosh. I want that. I want that. I have a word for here's a guy with a red shirt. I have four minutes and thirty seconds. Um has the glasses on, red shirt. What's your name? Dylan? Dylan, you mind standing up for a second? You ever heard of a guy? I'm pretty old. Michael Jordan. Basketball player, kind of a big deal. Best ever, better than LeBron by far. But um, but I just, as we're in worship, I just saw you or like Michael Jordan, like in in high school. And and you know that Michael Jordan wasn't seen as much in high school. Like he was he was like, didn't even make the varsity team, like, until he was like senior or something like that. And I feel like that you're in a season right now that you've been adopted, like God has adopted you, and he's like, you're you're gonna be he's gonna be fathering you through people, but also he wants you to know that the way your experience now is not reality. Like there's an experience that you're gonna have when you get older that you're gonna be celebrated like no other. And I'm not saying you're not celebrated now, but I'm saying the way that you're gonna be seen, the way that you're gonna be respected, the way that you're gonna be honored is gonna look completely different. Like people are gonna know your name. And you're gonna remember, I remember going back to my class reunion, my 20-year class reunion. It's funny, man, how things changed. It's like there was people that like I saw them, I don't even remember them until I were told who they were. But it's like there's certain people that's like, gosh, man, I'm just so glad they're doing good. Like they overcame so much, and I feel like that you're just in a season of overcoming, and it's just like you're gonna be, and I just saw you playing basketball. I don't know if you're playing basketball with your dad or what, but like there's there's someone championing you in your life now. It's like I don't know if that's that guy that yeah, he's championing you right now because I saw y'all playing basketball together. I was like, I don't know if I want to, but I saw y'all playing basketball together, and it's like the connection that you guys have is gonna set him up like you've not seen. Let me tell you, he's going to be like what's happening there is special. I'm getting chicken skin right now. Let me tell you. Like the the mentoring and and and and the way that that everything is playing out. Let me tell you, that guy, you're gonna be looking one day and you're going, that's oh my god, you already say that now. Oh my gosh, look at that. You're gonna be blown away. You're gonna encounter God through what God does in his life. He's gonna make himself so real because he's gonna be like Michael Jordan in this generation. Whatever he decides to do, do you get on Nike, you get on Nike shoes? Those Jordans, gosh. Um, but yeah, I just the process, don't worry about now. Like, keep doing what you're doing. Like, y'all's connection. Let me tell you, bro, you're gonna be so celebrated and so impactful, and your heart is so good. Did you know that? You have a solid heart, you have a really good heart, and you it's almost like God is giving you this sensitivity, um, not of a not of I'm not. Gonna say like a sensitivity, like to really feel his heart deeply, like you feel things very deeply, and that's on purpose. Like he's gonna give you his heart and you're gonna feel things very deeply, and that's okay. Like I feel things like that, and my dad would probably growing up like, you know, men don't, that's not a manly thing, you know, but that is a manly thing because David also had that thing. It's a warrior, but he also had that sensitive heart. Yeah. So I just want to can y'all send y'all hands to him. Yeah, father, we just thank you that he is the Michael Jordan of his generation. And God, we just thank you that, yeah, you've been rescued, that he's rescued you, and he's gonna bring you to the spotlight, and you're going to um, yeah, just shine him his glory everywhere you go, and you're gonna be able to give wisdom and comfort to others. So, yeah, whatever he decides to do, God, we know that he is the you've given him the mightest touch. Whatever he touches is gonna turn to gold. In Jesus' name. Amen. What about this guy right here? I'm going after the young ones tonight. Yeah, yeah, you. What's your name? Ethan? You stand up, Ethan? Do you play sports? Not right now? What grade are you in? You're a freshman? Man, when we were back there in worship, I just heard God say that's a he's after my own heart. That's a boy after my own heart. Yeah, and and and I was just thinking about David. And I just I just feel like you're gonna be one who keeps peace. Like, blessed are those who are the peacemakers. And I feel like you're just one who brings a lot of peace, and that that you actually have, you have even at your age, it's kind of amazing. You have genuine care for other people. I remember in ninth grade, I didn't care about anyone but myself. But you actually have genuine care for people, and and that, yeah, I just feel like you're gonna be such a great leader. Like right now, you're already a you're already a leader. I can't believe you're a freshman. But there's just um just so much grace on your life. Even like even at school, I feel like people are going to like look at you and be like, you know, there's you just when I look at you, I'm you just kind of radiate. Like, I don't know if anyone's ever told you, but you actually have a glow to you. Do you all know what I'm talking about? He just kind of he just kind of glows. I feel like, yeah, that you're going to, man, it's like a different kind of evangelism for you. It's like you have like a pastoral shepherd heart, but it's also um you can just be yourself in evangelism. I feel like there's so much pressure sometimes put on evangelism, but people are gonna look at your life and be like, man, like, yeah, you just got a lot. And I don't want to say too much now because you have so many decisions to make. I don't want to say anything that will cause any decision they can make, but let me tell you, you are a real man of God. And I and I feel like I'm gonna say some things. Um, yeah, I feel like that you're gonna be uh like he's raised you up to be like a bridge builder, but also like one foot in the kingdom life and then one foot in the church world. So I feel like you're gonna be doing church ministry, but also bringing impact out there as well. Like God's gonna give you a heart for people. Like, I feel like, yeah, there's just a prophetic grace on your life too. Can I can you hold your hands out? Is this thing expanded or I can far it'll go? All right. We have four minutes. How many is anybody in here? Um, let me tell you, the very first prophetic word I ever got, um, I was standing somewhere like this, and I turned around backwards, and they come and put someone behind me, and they said, All right, prophesy. And I'm like, what? Can't even see him. But let me tell you, like, God still did something. I was like, well, or what do you see? I was like, I see the color red. What does that mean? Oh, redemption, like blood, like yeah, and it's just like you'll be surprised. How many of you have never given a word before? Because you know it says they're actually talking in the Bible where it says, um, let everyone prophesy one by one. That was at a church service. Y'all imagine? Let all of you prophesy one by one. Said all of y'all can prophesy. Um, does anybody want to prophesy one time before we go? Anyone never given a prophetic word that wants to that wants to stretch themselves? You don't have to. It's okay. I just wanted to have fun. You'd be surprised about what happened? Alright. Yeah, we all want to stand up and uh we'll do a little bit of impartation really quick. So, Father, we just thank you. Alright. God, we thank you that um you're so present. Yeah, that you have given us life in your name. That we are so connected to you that you love to speak to us. And God, if someone believes here that they don't even hear your voice or it's hard to hear your voice, I just pray an activation now that you would activate them to see themselves the way that you see them. My beloved son, whom I'm well pleased, my beloved daughter, before Jesus did anything for the Father, God said, My beloved son, whom I'm pleased, you function from love already.

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Yeah, that you would release that revelation and that they would hear your voice in the way that you speak to them, that that would be activated. We just ask for dreams and visions. Dreams and visions in Jesus' name. Amen.

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