The Rock Family Sermon of the Week
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The Rock Family Sermon of the Week
Prophecy & Tongues - Pastor Chris Mitchell
The spiritual gifts of prophecy and speaking in tongues remain powerfully relevant for believers today, functioning to build up the church body rather than to elevate individuals.
• Spiritual gifts must be understood within the context of 1 Corinthians 11-15, which frames them within the gospel message
• Different church backgrounds and denominational teachings can create filters that limit our understanding and receptivity to spiritual gifts
• The Holy Spirit's gifts are given "for the profit of all" and to help each other, not for individual superiority
• Speaking in tongues manifests in three primary ways: as unknown languages understood by hearers, as messages requiring interpretation, and as personal prayer languages
• The gift of prophecy strengthens, encourages, comforts, and can provide guidance, correction, and awareness of spiritual realities
• Love must be the foundation and motivation for all spiritual gift operation
• Spiritual gifts should function "decently and in order" as God is not a God of confusion
• Personal testimonies of experiencing these gifts can happen organically even without prior teaching
"Holy Spirit overrule in my life that I will never quench the fire that you have caused to burn. Let me never pour water on wood that you want to ignite. I pray that you will come unquenched into my heart and stay there without any hindrance from me."
Welcome to the Rock Family Sermon of the Week. For more information about our church, please visit therockfamilytv Now. Join us for a message from Pastor Chris Mitchell.
Speaker 2:Good morning.
Speaker 2:Good morning, this is so wonderful to get to be before you today and thank you, pastor Scott and Britt, for the opportunity. It's always an honor. I did look at my watch before I came up here. I think it's just what you do. I think it's what you do and I'm going to ask, I'm going to request something that you never, ever put me behind Dr Ballard again. It's just, it's just really not fair at all. But anyway, such an amazing, amazing presentation and if I say something over these next few moments that you're like yeah, I don't even know if that's right or not Just go. It's Miracle Sunday and it feels like Christmas. I didn't run this through, jamie, but will you come to our house for Christmas and just tell us the Christmas story, just so I can see the tree and the lights and all the grandkids are sitting around, we've got our dog and Dr Bowler comes in and tells us the story of Christmas.
Speaker 2:I kind of feel like that guy that made the 911 call had a friend that was hurt and the dispatcher answered and said you know, what do you need? And he said I need an ambulance. I said my friend is, my friend is hurt. I need you to come pick him up and she said, okay, what street are you on? And he said we're on Eucalyptus. And she said, well, can you spell that? And he said I tell you what I'm going to move him over to Pine Streets and y'all come and pick him up over there.
Speaker 2:Oh, my goodness, all right, you know I was thinking about this that when we, when we stand before you, and over the summer, you're going to get to hear from just different voices here in the house and on our staff and from different, you know different pastors and how that we all, you know we're a vessel, each of us are a vessel that is yielded and is surrendered and submitted to the Lord and take very, very seriously these moments to open up the word of God and to, as Pastor Scott said, to teach and to equip you, teach and to equip you. And so with that comes that filter. You know that Chris has, or whoever it might be. You're hearing my background, you're hearing my upbringing, you're hearing, obviously, humor every now and then, but you're also hearing the story and the experience and, basically, if you want to say my take, you my take on the word and the angle that I'm looking at it from and at the same time, all over this room, I realize and this is probably the obvious being spoken, but I think it needs to be said that all over this room today there are so many different backgrounds, different associations with the church.
Speaker 2:Some of you don't know much about the church. You're just coming to Christ or you're actually here today because you are seeking and you realize that. You know you need some help and we're here to declare that Jesus is, he's that help for you. But depending on the denomination or the upbringing or the association that you have with church can a lot of times determine whether how you're gonna hear what we're giving you and what we're sharing with you over these next few weeks when we talk about the gifts and the manifestations of the Holy Spirit that are mentioned in 1 Corinthians, 12, 13, and 14. A lot of times we've heard an angle of it, we've been taught a certain way and maybe you didn't take the time to really delve into it and look into it and receive the full measure of the truth and of the power that the Holy Spirit is trying to emphasize and encourage all of us to operate in. Would y'all agree with that? If I've had a limited exposure to the gifts of the Spirit, the operation, the function of the Spirit, then I may have a tendency to throw up a defense or a filter or a wall that would keep me from really receiving, being changed, being transformed. You know, if all you or I ever got was vanilla ice cream, how many of you know that our palate would be limited of all the other flavors of? Come on somebody, yeah, talking about ice cream there for just a moment.
Speaker 2:All right, I think of those and I'm sure there's no one in the room like this or listening that are dogmatic, just dogmatic about your belief, dogmatic about your doctrine or your theology. Specifically, I guess I think of those that might believe that you're not baptized unless you've been baptized in the name of Jesus. That was such a strong thing years ago that when we baptize people, just to try to please everyone in the room, we would say we baptize you in the name of Jesus and the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, just to try to accommodate everyone's feelings. Man, sometimes you just need to keep your feelings to yourself. But anyway, I think about those that might be in the room that are dogmatic that you are not baptized in the Holy Spirit until you speak in tongues. If you ain't speaking in tongues, you're not baptized in the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 2:Can I tell you something? I hope that all of us are as dogmatic about the scriptures that list gossipers and liars and adulterers and fornicators and cowards as non-kingdom inheritors. Can I get an amen? It's amazing to me how we love to point out certain lists or certain things that maybe we're not sinning in. But can I tell you, the word's very, very specific. And if we're going to be dogmatic, let's be dogmatic about obeying the Scripture Right, loving the Word and letting the Word work inside of us. So after that statement, I would say to all of us church, let's hold our tongue, let's purify our eyes and our hearts and let's tell the truth and let's live for Jesus. Amen.
Speaker 2:Can I tell you a couple of disclaimers? You don't have to speak in tongues to go to heaven. You don't have to speak in tongues to go to heaven and you don't have to receive a gift that the Lord gives you. You don't have to, but why would you not? Right? But you really don't have to. Any gift you ever receive, you don't have to take it and to receive it. I strongly encourage us to receive. I encourage all of us to take whatever he is saying is important and that we need. So the first set of scriptures is going to come up for us we need. So the first set of scriptures is going to come up for us.
Speaker 2:You know, our hope in this, in this whole series, is is to help educate and make you aware of the gifts, and then we're going to trust the Holy Spirit to show up in power and in demonstration. Right, I really feel like Paul this morning. I didn't come to you with persuasive words of men's wisdom, but I'm believing for a demonstration of the power of the Spirit as we receive the Word today. As you are here for the end of the service, I would encourage you to stay. It's going to be quite different. It's going to be adventurous and it's going to be filled with a lot of fear and trepidation on those who are participating. That's all I'll say about it. I don't want to give it away, all right? So we have to look at Paul's instruction to the Corinthian church about gifts and how they operate, beginning with chapter 11. If we're holding this in context, this whole teaching, this series, you really have to look at chapter 11 and go through chapter 15. All right, so those bookends of chapter 11 and chapter 15 are really what set up all of the teaching and the instruction and the equipping that happens in 12, 13, and 14. How many of you are with me in 12, 13, and 14. How many of you are with me In chapter 11 is where he really talks about the Lord's Supper and talks about how we're supposed to approach that table and approach that meal and how.
Speaker 2:You know it's man. It's a time to examine our hearts. It's a time to look inside and make sure that we are remembering who Christ is, what Christ did, what he provided, what that new covenant has set in motion. And then you know, in chapter 15, it really talks it's the gospel, it's the gospel. It's really the gospel in chapter 11 too, when you talk about the Lord's Supper and all that happened through the redemption and all that was executed and all that was set forth in motion when the Lord went to the cross. He actually set it in motion before, but in chapter 15, he comes out strong. He's talking about the death and the burial and the resurrection and the ascension of our Lord and Savior, jesus Christ. So if you need context this morning, which we all do.
Speaker 2:The gifts are there to help you and I promote the gospel of Jesus Christ. That's what it's there for is for you and I to be able to have that power and have those manifestations, those different ministries. Let's look at it in 1 Corinthians, chapter 12, verse 1. Concerning spiritual gifts. Brethren, I don't want you to be ignorant. You know that you were Gentiles carried away to these dumb idols. However you were led. Therefore, I make known to you that no one speaking by the Spirit of God calls Jesus accursed and no one can say that Jesus is Lord except by the Holy Spirit. How about everyone in the room? Can we say Jesus is Lord?
Speaker 2:There are diversities of gifts the same Spirit. Differences of ministries, the same Lord. Diversities of activities, same God who works. All in all. Manifestation of the spirit is given to each one for the profit of all, for to one is given the word of wisdom through the spirit, to another the word of knowledge through the same spirit to another. Faith by the same spirit to another. Gifts of healings by the same spirit to another. The working of miracles to another. Prophecy to another. Discerning of spirits to another. Gifts of healings by the same Spirit to another, the working of miracles to another, prophecy to another, discerning of spirits to another, different kinds of tongues to another, the interpretation of tongues, but one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one as he wills. So differences, diversities, manifestations, and then he goes through this list of these nine gifts that we are going to be sharing with you over these next few weeks, mostly coupled together. So today we'll talk about the gift of prophecy and speaking in tongues.
Speaker 2:All right, I want you to look at verse 7 of that, and it gives us some understanding of why it's important for you and I to desire the gifts, for you and I to receive the gifts, and it says for the profit of all. In the ESV it says for the common good, and then in the NLT, the New Living Translation, it says so that we can help each other, so that we can help each other. So the gifts are not there for you or I to operate in and try to exert some kind of a spiritual superiority over one another. Amen. The gifts are not there for you to look like. You have more with God, you've got more power. They're there to build up the body, they're there to encourage one another. So if you keep it in that simple form, it'll keep you from falling into very much what I call deception or being led astray. The gifts are not to be used to puff you up astray. The gifts are not to be used to puff you up to make you look good. Come on, their function is to build up, is to encourage, is to edify, is to comfort. And so those really are the two gifts that we are talking about today.
Speaker 2:There's really no way to talk about the gifts the nine, especially without realizing how much they intertwine, how much they work together, and although we may kind of separate these two out today and try to stand them alone for a moment, just to teach you about them, when they operate and when they function, it may be a word of wisdom or a word of knowledge that is operating in that gift of prophecy. Does that make sense? It may be a word of wisdom or a word of knowledge that is operating in that gift of prophecy. Does that make sense? It may be a word of wisdom or a word of knowledge that is functioning in that gift of healing or that working of miracles or that gift of faith. That makes sense to me, the spirit is always congruent and is always working together, like today I have had and I'm trying to figure out if it's just me getting old or if this is actually something that I need to mention. So I'm going to mention it just in case.
Speaker 2:But I've had a lot of pain in my right foot and in my left hip. Today I've had so much pain in my left hip. I feel like Jacob. I feel like I've been wrestling with God over this message this morning, but when it doesn't subside or when it doesn't leave, I'm like this could be for someone in the room. I may be feeling this pain, experiencing this, because he wants a gift of healing or a working of miracles to operate and function right now.
Speaker 2:In the name of Jesus, in the name of the Lord, just receive. You got right foot pain. Be healed. In the name of Jesus, lord, thank you that you love me enough to have Chris talk about it this morning. I receive my healing. Put your hand on your left hip and say be made whole, be strong, function the way you were created to Right Right, be healed. Sometimes that's just what you need. You need the Lord. We sat in here from Sunday to Sunday still feel invisible, still feel like we don't matter, we don't measure up, we're not valuable. I don't know if he heard my prayers. I don't know if he really cares about me. When you look up here, he loves you, he cares about you. You're on his mind. He's got plans to prosper you, to give you a hope and a future. It's who he is, it's what he does. I receive it in Jesus' name.
Speaker 2:If you look at 1 Corinthians, chapter 13, verse one and two, it gives us more insight. It says though I speak with the tongue of men, of angels, and have not love, I've become a sounding brass and a clanging cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, though I have all faith so that I could remove mountains, but I have not love. I am nothing. And then, if you come on in to chapter 14, in verse one, what does it say? It says pursue love, right, but desire the gifts. It's not a but Pursue love and desire the gifts. So really, in anything y'all that we find ourselves participating in, where we are Christians and where we are believers and where we are followers and we are obedient sons and daughters of our heavenly father. Love has to be the motivation, love has to be foremost, love has to be at the front, it's got to be the motivation, it's got to be first. And that's what Paul is saying. He's saying hey, in all of this functioning and all this operating, all of this ministry and diversity of gifts and manifestation, make sure that it's motivated by love. Make sure that you lead with love. And so that's our desire.
Speaker 2:And then he said desire these gifts, be passionate about them, be hungry for them, develop a craving for them, yearn about them. Be hungry for them, develop a craving for them, yearn for them. See if you're in the room and you've never really heard or read or been taught about spiritual gifts and their function and operation. For today, a lot of us have probably heard yeah, that was just for then, that was just to get this thing kicked off, that was just for the early church, to get them started. But we stand here today knowing that the same Holy Spirit is still being poured out upon the earth. Folks are still being drawn into the kingdom and into the family of God. Can I get an amen on that? And so the function and operation of the gifts are what empower you and I to be able to show that full life in the Spirit and live it in front of a watching world and really in front of each other. All right, so there's a hunger there. That's a prayer for all of us to pray, pray, lord, stir up that hunger. Lord, to desire these gifts, to desire these ministries that you want to pour into me, wow, all right. So it says in that verse two.
Speaker 2:In chapter 14, verse one, it says to desire prophecy above the others. Right, I mean, it makes a distinction about prophecy. Let me say this before we get in to the teaching of tongues and prophecy John John Jack Hayford. Jack Hayford was a pastor of a church on the way in Van Nuys, california, for a long time. It was a four square church. He passed away just a couple of years ago. This is what he had to say.
Speaker 2:Jesus gives the gift of the Holy Spirit, yet when the Spirit comes, he's loaded with packages. He desires to release much more in us and through us than we could ever imagine. The gifts are given for delivery, not for accumulation. We receive them to pass them on to others, amen. So let's talk about this gift of tongues, right, quick. In chapter 12, verse 10, I think we already read it, but it talks about this gift of different or various kinds of tongues that term tongues there could be languages, all right, different, various kinds of languages.
Speaker 2:If you go to Acts, chapter two and verses one through seven, we see this gift in operation really for the very first time in scripture. All right, and it's in the upper room and it's after the resurrection and ascension of Jesus and those believers had gathered because he told them to. He said go and wait and tarry and pray until that which is promised is come, all right, and so the Holy Spirit blows into that room in Acts, chapter two and a cloven tongue of fire comes and set over every one of their heads and it says that every one of them began to speak with other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance and they spilled out of that room and they continued to speak in those languages. And all of the multitudes and the crowds that had gathered, because it was the harvest of Pentecost that they were celebrating, it was a big celebration going on and it says that these were Galileans and that they were all speaking in a language that they didn't know but that the hearer did know, y'all with me. So this is how this thing kicked off, this whole gift of tongues. And so there was no need for interpretation at that point because, though unknown to them, it was known to the hearer, and you know what they were saying. They were declaring the glory of God, they were declaring the wonders of God.
Speaker 2:And so guess what, from the very first use of this gift in the New Testament, it was a declaration of the gospel of Jesus Christ that was going forth, that piqued their interest, so that Peter could stand up behind them and say it's not on the board. This is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel that in the last days I'll pour out my spirit on all flesh. Sons and daughters will prophesy, old men will see visions, young men will dream dreams. Or is it the other way? Old men will dream dreams and young men will see visions. They're going to be visions and dreams, folks, on the young and on the old. And he said I'm going to pour out my spirit on my handmaidens and on my men servants. And can I tell you that you're sitting in a church and a part of a church, that we believe that that Holy Spirit is still being poured out and he is still active, and if you didn't get to listen to Pastor Lisa's message last week, would you please go back and listen to it, as she so beautifully introduced the Holy Spirit to us in all of his glory and all of his function and in all of the different ways that he is here to minister to us. Are y'all all right this morning? So these tongues then? Yeah, it can be a known language to the hearer and not known to the speaker.
Speaker 2:How many of you remember Dr Mark Rutland? Raise your hand if you remember Dr Mark. Years ago, dr Mark Rutland was in South American country and it came time for him to preach, and he was supposed to preach through an interpreter. The interpreter got deathly ill, was not able to make the service. Dr Rutland stood up. He knew about this much Spanish Hola mi amigos y amigas, hermanos y hermanas. Gloria a Dios, jesus Cristo, en el nombre de Cristo. Right, I mean, he knew just enough to make some very, very como esta muy bueno, es taco, es encherito, es chelada, es a pollo, es loco en la cabeza. You know, so funny, isn't it? It's so funny to be saying it in an Italian accent too. That's what's hilarious, wow. But when Dr Mark? When Dr Mark opened his mouth and began to greet the people, flew it Spanish, flew it Spanish that he did not know, and he began to proclaim the God and he understood everything he was saying and, to this day, can still speak Spanish.
Speaker 2:Because the Holy Spirit, yeah, wow, wow, wow, wow. This is how this wow, wow, wow gift works. This is how this thing can operate. And we're like, yeah, you know, I don't know it's spooky, it's weird man, you know, I've done some studying on it, I just don't know if it's for today, friend, it's for today. I don't know how to convince you of that, other than to tell you that that gift is for today.
Speaker 2:All right, and when you look at the function of it, in 1 Corinthians 14, as Paul begins to lay it out, he begins to make this differentiation between listen closely between that gift of tongues, where it is spoken in a public setting, or a church setting, or a small group setting, or wherever you might be, where there are folks gathered right, it will need an interpretation. Say amen, hallelujah, that's good, it's very simple. He lays it out for us and then there is a gift that is attached to comes with this is that fully loaded Holy Spirit that lives inside of you and I. That is a prayer language, a prayer tongue, all right. Prayer language, a prayer tongue, all right. And the best way that we on earth know how to describe it is through guys like Wayne Grudem, who said that it's unintelligible syllables that are basically put together, all right, that prayer language is. And Paul, he goes through this whole thing. He says, hey, listen, that prayer language, those tongues, that's for you. Jude said it this way that one little chapter in Jude, in verse 20, said building yourself up on your most holy faith, doing what? Praying in the Holy Ghost, praying in the Holy Ghost, all right. So sometimes this gift is gonna operate and it's gonna be a language that you don't know but the hearer is gonna know. And then sometimes it's gonna be a language, right, that's gonna need interpretation, right, when it's in a group, when it's in a church. And then there's that prayer language, there's that prayer gift of the Holy Spirit that is there for you and I.
Speaker 2:I got to give you a personal testimony. I was 15. I was 1976. I was in a little holiness church on a Wednesday night. Y'all have heard some of this. No one had told me about this, see, and let me go back. I was in a denomination that did not talk about the Holy Spirit, didn't talk about the gifts, did not teach us, did not open that up to us. So I had no frame of reference. I haven't heard anyone speak in tongues, I haven't heard it preached about. You know that, you, this is a gift that you might want to, might want to ask for or receive from the Lord.
Speaker 2:No, I'm just a young fellow who's freshly saved, gloriously saved, actually delivered from alcohol, delivered from lust, delivered from lying, gloriously delivered, and set free Two weeks prior. Two weeks later, I'm at an altar, unprompted, not even it wasn't even an altar call. I was just so hungry for God and so new in my faith. I just I'm like I'm just going to go up there. I've told y'all before I answered every altar call, those first year of my life. Man, people, you know like I'm not going to go into it, but it was wild, but I answered a lot of altar calls. This was no call. I just wanted to get to the altar.
Speaker 2:As I began to cry out to him, I was really just thanking him. Listen, are y'all listening? I'm giving you a testimony that could possibly work for you. I'm not saying this is the way it has to be for you. I'm just letting you know that this is my experience. This is what happened to me.
Speaker 2:I was gloriously filled that night and that language began to flow from me. There actually was an interpretation, but I was so lost I didn't hear none of that. I didn't know what was being said, and our pastor's daughter the next day had to pull me to the side and say do you know what was going on last night? And I said I do not. But I'm telling you, I'm 15. I'm 15. I'm telling you it felt really good so I could get out. It's pretty amazing, right. And she begins to teach me and tell me this is this gift, this is how this function, this is your prayer language, this is how that functions. And y'all I got to tell you. Then those first few months I was so excited to be saved, so excited to have that gift, that I know there were probably times when I busted out in a service and I just started giving my language. And of course now it's got to be interpreted right, or they're going to have to say Chris is just young and immature, he don't really know what he's doing, so we think that might've been his prayer language, but nobody ever did that. There was always an interpretation that followed it and I, you know, in the middle of it I'm going, I don't know. I don't know if I'm doing right or if I'm doing wrong, and I had such sweet pastors who pastored me and who taught me and who led me through that.
Speaker 2:I was in a service in Christ for the Nations when Jamie and I were at Bible college back in the late 70s and early 80s and in a chapel service like this there'd be about 1500 people. They would, you know the worship and then they would just always. Anytime things got quiet, if there was a lull, somebody wasn't singing, making a declaration. That was the student body's opportunity to pipe in. And we had some overzealous, more zealous students than we did, others Y'all staying with me. And there was this one brother, more zealous students than we did others, y'all staying with me, and there was this one brother. He was zealous man. He always had something, he had a gift. He started out his first gift. He's like yay, he. And then he gave this prophecy, stood up again a little bit later, yay, ho. And he started the second word Third time in the same chapel. This brother stands up and goes Yeha and one of our leaders grabbed the microphone and said Yehush, brother, and sit down.
Speaker 2:So in chapter 14, it makes two statements. It says let these gifts operate, listen, let them operate decently and in order, right. And it says that God is not a God of confusion, he is a God of order. All right, so I'm gonna invite y'all to come on up because we're gonna jump into this, because I'm running out of time.
Speaker 2:Let me talk real quick to you about the gift of prophecy. Let's define it. It's an empowered ability to receive and communicate a message from God that strengthens, encourages, comforts others, spoken in human words and always subject to discernment and testing. Did y'all get that? It's a good one. In the Old Testament, god used prophets to be his mouthpiece. In the New Testament, he has given the Holy Spirit filled with gifts to empower his church to represent him in the earth.
Speaker 2:Wayne Grudem again says that prophecy is telling something that God has spontaneously brought to mind. Using the speaker's own words, did you know? In our day and time now, preaching really is a form of prophecy. It can fall into the operation of this gift. Prophecy is best. Think about it. Prophecy is best because it builds up, it edifies, it encourages and it comforts. It can also admonish, course correct, bring an admonition or an exhortation right To you personally or to us as a body.
Speaker 2:I want that next slide to go up. So, these two gifts, how do they function? Tongues functions to edify your prayer language, to edify the individual. When you speak in tongues in a public setting or in a church service, that's when it's going to need to have an interpretation. Right, the scripture actually says that if you're going to give a message in tongues in public, that you need to either know that there is an interpreter there, someone who functions in the gift of interpretation of tongues, or you're going to need to pray for the interpretation. Amen.
Speaker 2:You can see why and how this would get out of order and get confusing pretty quickly. What should not be confusing to you as a spirit-filled believer is to hear one of your brothers or sisters praying in their given heavenly language. Does that make sense? Not trying to give it to the whole church, but you may stand beside somebody who's worshiping in the spirit. Paul said it. He said I sing in the spirit and I sing with the understanding. He said I speak the language I know and I speak in the Spirit. He said I pray with understanding and I pray in the Spirit, come on. So if we're not all let's just say it this way praying in the Spirit to me, we're leaving a part of the gifts on the table that are available to us.
Speaker 2:I don't have time this morning to tell you how many times I've been praying in tongues. For 49 years, since March the 4th, 1976, I've been praying. That language has been mine Different times, different places, different churches, different services, different states. Yeah, there's been opportunities where I've operated in the gift of tongues or where I've given an interpretation of a message that was given. Sadly, I've got too many stories that you're like that was probably not God, not for myself, but just I don't understand how we can get so far off base.
Speaker 2:I had one guy, a pastor, and every time he started a message in tongues it began with E coli, e coli. I'm like, oh, here we go and y'all. It became so kind of redundant that these were the only two guys that were gonna operate in these gifts in our body, or they kind of dominated, didn't really. You know, it was that whole if it gets quiet thing, if it gets quiet long enough, e coli. And after E coli, bosley would speak in. Now his name was Chuck, but we called him Bosley because he had the voice of Bosley and Charlie's Angels and Bosley, every time. Every time Bosley would say and the Lord would say and then he would tell us what the Lord was saying. But you could, almost like clockwork, say, oh, we're fixing to get an E coli and the Lord would say, look at me, that's not the way these gifts function. An E coli. And the Lord would say, look at me, that's not the way these gifts function, that's not the way they're supposed to operate. Amen.
Speaker 2:So this gift of prophecy that we're going to operate here in just a moment and just make some prophetic declarations, some word of wisdom, word of knowledge that we've prayed about this week, that we're going to just speak over you, and I feel like the Lord's given us a way to do that. 1205, glory to God. Stand up, stand up with me. I don't feel, pastor Scott and Brad, I don't feel like I've gone into enough depth into the teaching and just for time's sake I'm gonna go ahead and go to this. What we're, this exercise we're about to do, I do wanna leave you with this.
Speaker 2:On the teaching side of it, that prophecy brings edification and encouragement, guidance and direction Please listen Exposure of sin and correction. It can strengthen your faith when that gift is operating by the Holy Spirit. It can make you aware of spiritual warfare when that gift is operating and it can stir you to evangelism and to be a soul winner when that gift is operating and functioning and you and I stay awake to the whole idea that you and I are here to be salt and light. Rt Kendall said this and I want you to close your eyes just to receive this, and then we're going to move into this exercise. Holy Spirit overrule in my life that I will never quench the fire that you have caused to burn. Let me never pour water on wood that you want to ignite. I pray that you will come unquenched into my heart and stay there without any hindrance from me.
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