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Wednesday night live is a weekly sharing of the word from the Father's Church in Dallas, Tx.
Hello everybody and welcome again to Wednesday Night Live. My name is Ron Crawford. I'm coming to you from the Father's Church in Dallas, Texas and it is a great great blessing to be engaged in the work of the Lord here in this seventh month, the month of July, fast of feasting, and a month where we are engaging in a a tremendous point of ministry into the nation of Brazil just in a couple of weeks. I'm joined today by someone that we all know, love, and appreciate, Monica Terrell, and we are going to be speaking, throughout this broadcast about what transpired over this holiday, this last weekend, holiday weekend here in The United States. And we had a first Saturday prayer time.
Speaker 1:And here at the Father's Church, did something that I don't remember we've ever done before. We had a time of prayer and a time of reflection, answering some interrogatives that we put forward after the prayer time, and the spirit really said some phenomenal things. We're blessed also to have been joined by several saints around the world and very specifically our dear family in Port St. John, Florida at Christian Church there, Vicki and Larry Sparrow and the wonderful people who are part of our family. So we're going to be presenting the results that were accumulated from the prayer time this past Sunday.
Speaker 1:And that attachment should be available for you there on the website. So you can pop that up and you can look at it as we are reading it and discussing it. So this is a very strategic time for us as saints. The precursor to this is God very emphatically told me that this is what we were to do this past weekend. And the significance of the time for our country here in The United States, for the world, but most specifically for us as Saints, what our mission is.
Speaker 1:And this is such a transitional moment. God's been warning us about this for years and strategically teaching and preparing us for us for this. And we are launching into this now and in the next, in the remainder of this year we're going to see God move among us in ways that are like a dream. We're going to gain innovative instruction from the spirit and God's anointing is going to guide us into establishing many new things. It's going to be a triumphant time in this year of grace.
Speaker 1:Next two months from now, we'll be gathering here in Dallas for really harvest celebration of 50 seminars here in Dallas. And it's gonna be structured like unlike any of the gatherings we've had. And it's gonna be a fun time, but it's also going to be a time of laying ourselves before the Lord. So before God does anything, he speaks to his servants, the prophets. Before God does anything, he looks for an intercessor.
Speaker 1:Before God does anything, he wants to commune with his sons in that that time of Sabbath, and then we launch into the new. And I think that we're definitively in that that inspirational time frame before we see things begin to really pop. And so those reasons and many more are why the Lord inspired all of us to be in this fast of feasting month dedicating ourself to the Lord in prayer in an unusual way this past weekend. Now some would say, what about our country? What about The United States?
Speaker 1:What about? Well, let's let's reflect on that. I love America. Let's just state that right off the bat. But I'm a citizen of heaven.
Speaker 1:My allegiance is to what our calling is before the heavenly father along with our Lord Jesus Christ and the empowerment of his spirit. We have been given a mandate as saints to make disciples around the world. That's where my allegiance is. And what about America? That's our answer.
Speaker 1:That's our answer. Sin abounds. Grace much more abounds. Darkness and gross darkness is covering the land and the people, but my light will shine on you. That's the answer for America.
Speaker 1:Well, yes, it's an answer, but we're never gonna be able to remove America from what God has prophesied in the Bible for the end times. We're just not gonna be able to do that. Troublesome times are gonna come upon the face of the earth. The enemy is gonna rise with great ferociousness. That's what the word says.
Speaker 1:And we're not gonna be able to pray that away. Daniel says the saints are gonna inherit the kingdom and then the the wicked one is going to attack. And then the saints are gonna rise, and then the wicked one is gonna attack. We cannot circumvent what God has prophesied. So the answer for America is, consecutive with what our calling is.
Speaker 1:And we need to recognize that this is not World War two. This is not the Eisenhower administration. This is the day we're living in, and God has equipped us to do an unusual work that's not been done before. So that's our allegiance. And the things that we're gonna talk about today as a result of our prayer time is God's directive for us.
Speaker 1:So I'm before we launch into this, I'm gonna ask my my dear co laborer here to tell us kind of so any of you who are listening and don't know how in the world we do this, you have labored to establish this process, not only here in this church, but through the network and throughout the nations. Why did we do this in the way we did it?
Speaker 2:Well, first thing I want to say is what a great weekend it was.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:And to think the celebration of the fourth of July that it fell on the weekend, and it's kind of a big deal here in The US, the 200, but the reality that as Pneumatocos people, what we did over the weekend in offering the fast, really it was like going into a fast on Friday night and then coming into prayer on Saturday for first Saturday and just segueing right into Sunday, was prayer. I don't want to say it's a sacrifice to have prayer, but we sacrificed our worship time, our teaching time, because we knew this is what God wanted us to do, to really lift up intercession. What a great thing that was. I will say this, just from personal reflection, somebody that's an intercessory, I struggled. Struggled in a way See, when we go through struggles in prayer or whatever, when we sense opposition, when we sense just the the static in the atmosphere, we cannot we can't just we we have to to rise above that.
Speaker 2:One of the things that I recognized this weekend during this extended prayer weekend was that I was sensing so much activity and so much happening that I really struggled to focus. I had to discipline my mind in submission to my spirit. It was a continual disciplining because my spirit, it was like pinging everywhere. I don't know if you were experiencing that, and that has continued on just through this early week, just trying to prepare for things for Manaus and whatnot, and I know that's a strategy of the enemy, but I also know that as we get closer and closer to what we would call the end times, and just the tribulation and the things that we go through being of this world but not in this world, We have to learn how to rise above the noise, rise above the tension, rise above just all the activity that you write. And for me, I just wanna bury in and just commune in the heart of the Lord, but I am sensing so much activity that it's something I know it's a training tool of the Lord for us.
Speaker 2:Because even when we go into the nations, you acclimate and you have to really get your feet established in the assignment, in the terrier where he sent us. We've experienced this over the last twenty five years as we've traveled, you have to acclimate, but it felt like I had to acclimate. I'm still sensing that. Anyway, I don't know if anybody else is experiencing anything similar, but I know that the Lord uses these things to train us and to develop us and to strengthen us in our stance.
Speaker 1:It was
Speaker 2:a great weekend.
Speaker 1:Yeah. And I and I I think that for all of us, you know, the Bible emphatically states the importance of meekness, and meekness is laying our strengths down. The meek will inherit the earth. Moses was the meekest man on earth. Jesus was meek and lowly of heart.
Speaker 1:And we had to, this weekend, lay ourselves down. And fasting is the diet of meekness. It is. That's a good phrase, isn't it? We should say that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's good.
Speaker 1:I think we laid things down, and we continue to do that. And I want to just touch on this, which you just said is so important. Yeah, there's opposition. There's a lot of things going on in the spirit realm. It's hectic.
Speaker 1:But I think God is trying to refine our perception. It's kind of like Elijah in the cave. Know, there's mountains crumbling, there's strong winds, and there's lightning. And the still small voice is what has to be calibrated.
Speaker 2:And I feel like there's been a battle for that, at least for me. Feel like it's been, when I say focus, it's just honing in on that one word, or that still small voice, when you can hear the noise, and you can sense it in your spirit. It reminds me, too, of I was reading in Joshua, and I was reading what a great story that is, but when he took the guys into Gilgal, God, two things, circumcise them, and then the second thing was take your shoes off for where you stand as holy. The realization that He's bringing us to a place where we have to both be circumcised so that we're sensitive to Him, but that also can make you sensitive to the spirit realm, but two, where we acknowledge our calling as Saints, and it is just so who we are that He would say, Remove your shoes and acknowledge the fact that where you stand is holiness. I was sensing all those things over the That's true.
Speaker 1:Oh wow.
Speaker 2:Before they go and take Jericho, which was also such a Talk about a representation of Hagios, is to do the circle seven times to march. Back to your question. First of all, this all came through an apostolic directive that we know came from the throne, which is truly our directive. And it was we offer ourselves in fasting, we offer ourselves in intercession, not just for the forty minutes that we prayed on Sunday morning, but it was a continuation of being in that posture of intercession and before the Lord really through the whole weekend. And you presented to us a set of of questions, or as you said on Sunday, really points to stimulate discussion, spiritual sharing the monocost things with the monocost things, or comparing.
Speaker 2:We had that set of thought provoking questions that was really our guide, and it keeps us galvanized, I guess. So we came in, we took the directive, we had intercession for, it was about forty minutes, and praying in diversities of tongues, and really just proskineoing before the throne. Then everybody took the opportunity to really process what they were hearing, what they were seeing, what the Lord was speaking to them. And you were very adamant about it's about this time of prayer. We want to glean what God is saying in this moment because this is the appointed time that He's brought us.
Speaker 2:After our prayer time, we convened and then just facilitated discussion and went point by point. I just want to say that I just am so, proud of the Saints and the way that they really dig in and hear the voice of the Lord and glean what's happening in the spirit. I continue to marvel at the gifts of these people and the saints. God has really given us some incredible gifts, and what a blessing that is. Yeah, and then from that, you took the insights, you ascribed them, and put them together in this document that most of you are probably looking at, and we'll talk about this later?
Speaker 1:Yeah, we'll talk.
Speaker 2:Okay. Did that answer your question?
Speaker 1:Yes. Yes. And that's clear. That's very clear just for anybody that's tuned in and you don't know what the process was that led to this. So there were a number of visions that people had during the prayer time, and then there were a number of words that were just gleaned from our prayer, you know, which the bible says, you pray in the spirit, you interpret.
Speaker 1:And so we've done our very best over the years, and we continue to strive to do better to hear what God is saying and to to really be sensitive to the interpretation. The interpretation is not translation. Interpretation is what is God saying. It's the base of hermeneutics. It's the base of hermeneo.
Speaker 1:And so we know God is saying. And I and I will say this, not to discourage anybody, but when we first started doing this many years ago, I don't know what a percentage would be, but maybe probably 50% of the people that we would be asking for insights, they would say, I didn't get anything. And we didn't hear that once this time.
Speaker 2:No. Not once. And it's not like if they say they don't get it, we we don't want you to make something up.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:And you brought that up on Sunday. It's like we don't we
Speaker 1:Don't fudge.
Speaker 2:But go in with faith believing that God wants to speak to you. If he called you, you know, he wants to speak to you.
Speaker 1:Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And so I'm just saying that, and we both would agree, that I truly appreciate the way the saints are pushing forward to really apply this. This isn't our idea.
Speaker 1:This is the hidden process in the scripture. This is what the way god thinks. This is why he gave us the mystery languages. This is how our spirit communicates, and we must interpret, and then we must know what to do with that interpretation. And so we're still learning, but I'm very, very grateful.
Speaker 1:So just to go through it, as I see our time is moving quite along, you you have this document. We're not going to read it word by word. It's there for you. But the visions that were submitted very, I won't say conveniently, fell into the apostolic, the evangelical, the evangelist, and the prophet categories. The revelatory interpretation insights from prayer, not from visions, it's said there, fell into the teacher and the pastor category.
Speaker 1:And we just recognized this this morning before we came onto the air. And this is just perfect because you run with a vision. You know, that's what Habakkuk says. Write the vision, make it plain that they may run with it. It's a directive.
Speaker 1:It's an apostolic directive. Pastor and teacher, you know, when we align the fivefold according to Paul's schematic, the pastor is responsible to keep the divers tongues functioning. He's responsible or she's responsible for interpretation. They're responsible to be sensitive what the spirit is saying for direction and is responsible to have people in the body develop their personal giftings and utilize them. So you'll see that very clearly in the teacher and the pastor category here.
Speaker 1:And I'm very grateful for that because this really is a document that's given us a lot of incredible suggestions, not suggestions, directives from the Spirit for a course of development. And it really does describe where we are. This is what the fivefold is. And God's used the fivefold in so many ways over the years. I am not in any way denigrating those times.
Speaker 1:They've been very helpful.
Speaker 2:Well, it's all developmental. I mean, we just we grow in grace. Yeah. You know? And two, I mean, it's like you said earlier before we came on on came live is you you have to for us to truly partner with the Lord, a, we have to be in commune, in prayer, at his throne, and we have to hear his directive.
Speaker 2:We have to hear what he's thinking Mhmm. So that we can act accordingly, and and that's exactly what this is. It's it's it's knowing what's on his mind. And from you know, you said, what about what's on his heart? Well, it's agape.
Speaker 2:I mean, it's it's breathing hard after what is on God's heart and the processing that is happening in the complexities of his mind
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And how he's so gracious to to to share that with us.
Speaker 1:Yeah. This what is the steering where is God steering this ship? That's his heart. Yeah. And I'm I'm very grateful.
Speaker 1:So let's let's look at the visions that were put forward as to what our apostolic mission is. This first one, I think there were three that referenced diving into deeper things. And the individual is clad in white robes diving into the deep. Remember, the first big fivefold we did at Casa Zion with all of the I forget how many churches were involved. We hosted them for a meal.
Speaker 1:We did this fivefold. There were prolific visions of people diving down into depth and coming back up. And that has been that has been repeated over the years in prayer times down there. And
Speaker 2:Well, that's our identity and our calling.
Speaker 1:And and really, that's what the Lord shown us about the identity of the saints, the bathos, the bisinos, those that would go into the deep.
Speaker 2:And it really it really does describe our submission to step into really almost I mean, to step out of our comfort zone
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:To forsake what is is the norm and to step into just the extraordinary abyss Yeah. Of God's spirit. And and yeah.
Speaker 1:And I I remember from that first prayer time with them in a big fivefold way. One of the intercessors that we have really grown close to, I won't mention her, she would say that she would that they were bringing up these precious stones. Mhmm. And for those that weren't able to dive at that point, they were gaining the benefit of those stones so that eventually they would dive. That was such a prolific word, and I think that's what's happening.
Speaker 1:So then the next vision, people clothed in yellow, the yellow of wisdom and revelation, a map was on the front of the clothing. Why thought we were clothed in white? Well, we are directed by wisdom into the darkness. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. We fear the Lord.
Speaker 1:We want to accomplish his will. What he shares with us in the deep things, we have a responsibility for. We want to honor his jealousy, and that is our directive. We go only to the places, hopefully, where he's directing us to go. We don't just go willy nilly.
Speaker 1:And so that's kind of the that's the result of diving deep. We should reflect the wisdom of the Lord. And that's what Solomon asked for. And God was so pleased by that because you've asked for wisdom in this place of Manuka, where the glory is. I'm gonna give you wisdom, and you go forth from that, make tabernacles.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Plus it you know, all the study that I've done about just the garments of the Lord and the way he cloaks us and clothes us from the shawl to the priest robe, whatever it might be. It it it is so much a part of your identity that, you know, even from Adam and putting the fig leaf, I mean, it it's it's such a point of identity and function that we, as saints going forward, we must be clothed in God's wisdom and and the revelation of of who he is and where he's taking us so that we that strategy and that, you know, his timing and all of those things just flow from us in the understanding of what we how we go forward. Mhmm. You know?
Speaker 2:It's
Speaker 1:That's wonderful.
Speaker 2:He's all about identity, and he he very prophetically closed us. Yeah. And I've never honestly, I mean, I'd never thought about being cloaked in wisdom and revelation. I mean, that that's a fresh word
Speaker 1:to me. Yeah, me too.
Speaker 2:And for this hour I think it's very strategic and very relevant.
Speaker 1:Exactly. Especially as we go forward in the nations, we're especially with South America, we're going to be sent I don't know how many nations there are in South America, but every one of them has a dynamic spiritual base. And we're gonna be hitting one after another after another after another. By next year, roughly at this time, we will have gone into three more South American nations, at least. And so we have to have the directive where to go, what to say, what to do.
Speaker 1:And it's kind of like the wisdom of so many battle tactician tacticians. God is directing his army. So another facet of water, and every one of these was water. The pure spring of water, the Baka as it were, bubbling up and building into an increasingly powerful stream to make the dry valley fruitful, to make the land where there was no water fruitful. That's our apostolic directive.
Speaker 1:The evangelist that makes the way for the apostolic, that should be doing grace remedies and activating the dunamis in anticipation of the apostle, Look at these words. Parched this this builds off water. Parched, hard packed ground where wheat is growing. Hard rain can destroy a harvest. We need a saturation rain, likely the result of the Sha'al asking because the Sha'al is the only one that the Bible says ask for the latter rain.
Speaker 1:And remember what we studied about the latter rain. It's when God brings the water from remote sources. The former rain is generated through intercession. This is botanical one zero one through the trees of righteousness, through the local rivers and the local streams. But the latter rain where the harvest is going to be impacted comes from God.
Speaker 1:So we need to believe from him that this mild misting gentle rain permeates and promotes ultimate growth.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Let me add to that just
Speaker 1:if I
Speaker 2:I when we prayed on on Monday night with the intercessors in Brazil, and one of the things and I wasn't thinking about this, but one of the things I know the Lord was really hitting with me in my intercession was to pray for that saturation that that when we go in in a couple of weeks, that there is such a mighty measure of the spirit and that the soil is is fertile to receive the seed that it is a lasting it has such a lasting impact that it's a life changing impact. Because we know I mean, the emotion is so powerful, and we have these meetings, and they're very I mean, they're so lit. It's very emotional, but we're looking and we're asking for the deep, for the lasting, I don't want say encounter, but something that is life changing for them, that they embrace the calling to know God and to intercede, that it's life or death for them.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Because we know it is for us, and that's something I'm really, really praying for, and that to me is that saturation rain. We went and planted the seeds, but we need that rain to really create a lasting impact that will create a lifestyle of giving their lives to a lifestyle of prayer and That's wonderful.
Speaker 1:The excuse me. The next point in the evangelistic evangelist category is navigation. And we're not gonna spend a long time on this because we got a long way to go, and we we have 25% of our time left. This is we've gotta persevere. Yeah.
Speaker 1:And it again, it has to do with water. So you can read that for yourself. I think it's pretty self explanatory. The prophet, again, envisions, warns us about opposition to the fulfillment of divine promise. These are perhaps spiritual wickedness in high places.
Speaker 1:These are Simon, the sorcerer, the Elamis, the Magoi, perhaps even Balaam, people who are functioning in the dark realm, and also maybe even false prophets in the church. But we have to recognize that this is I know that it's happening. We know from the times we've gone it's been happening. We don't fear it, but we don't ignore it either, and we don't go wild on focusing on this. But we need to be observant for things that don't make sense.
Speaker 1:We need to be observant for haphazard events. We need to be observant for flash points of sickness or, unexplainable challenges physically, and now we don't have to go wheels off and blame everything on the enemy. Sometimes common sense prevails, and it's just a matter of doing what's what should be done. But we need to be aware of that. There was also a a word that came from somebody in your household that we would be able to access the structures of the enemy and to be able to be like and I it says Elijah here.
Speaker 1:That was a typo. No. No. Wasn't. Elisha, where there's a prophet in Israel who knows what's being said.
Speaker 1:I think that's Elijah. You know, the autocorrect on my computer does me no favors.
Speaker 2:Elijah, Elijah.
Speaker 1:Sometimes it will take a word that is a pneumonicus word and change it into something ridiculous. You shared a screen. We won't say what it was. Of a message you sent to your daughter, and the transcribing of it was obscene.
Speaker 2:Something I would never say.
Speaker 1:It was obscene. So I apologize for that. I don't want any of you purists write me, you don't know the word, there it is, but the scripture there tells who it is. There's a prophet in Israel who knows what you say in in your planning session, and we we need to believe for that. And a fiery altar was seen.
Speaker 1:Oh, I this is one from you. I shouldn't have said that. Forgive me. Okay. We need to keep the fire burning and submit ourselves to it in intercession and as obedient living sacrifices.
Speaker 1:There's a whole lot more you could say about every one of these, but this is a primer for you. This is for you to be looking at and praying over.
Speaker 2:Then examining yourself
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:As we all have to do.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And right now I feel that fire burning so much.
Speaker 1:Yeah. Then there was a remembrance of Jonathan eating the honey for inspiration, and that's important. So the next ones are based on interpretation and revelatory sensitivity to the spirit. So this is not from visions. This is from the knowing of interpretation.
Speaker 1:The teacher, this was a great word by leadership here in the church. If we look at our history, our pattern for reaching the nations is established by how God has led and developed the Saints Network to this point. We function and welcome those who God has united with us. These then join with us in a megas going into the fields of harvest. This involves praying, learning, and applying the meat of the word.
Speaker 1:I think that's what's happening. God asks us to look for the thirsty, and those two passages of scriptures are important. Again, there's a lot more we could say about this, but we're not writing a book. We're just showing you during your prayer and devotion before the Lord what God said. In this, we need a greater spiritual discernment to determine whether someone is sincere in their pursuit of the saints calling.
Speaker 1:In summary, we need to intensify our efforts to train indigenous leaders in the nations to which we've been sent. Smaller teams need to go into the nations to train. We need to welcome certain committed leaders to Dallas to offer intensive training. I want to stop right there. This is already being done.
Speaker 1:We were welcoming at least one person to spend a significant amount of time with us in a couple of months to be trained and to learn. Last night, there was a gathering of pastors in Brazil. I wasn't involved. You weren't involved. We this was going on.
Speaker 1:I could see the the chain of Portuguese, and they were listing out how they were gonna come together and offer prayer for this Manaus thing from Brazil. Now we're also doing things. We're also putting forward a fasting list like we did most recently in France. We're also having a big prayer time next a week from today here at the Father's Church, and we'll say more about that. But we'd like to invite all of you, especially those of you who are traveling, to join with us on that night.
Speaker 1:But it was wonderful to see how these leaders, slowly but surely, are beginning to embrace responsibility. And so this is already being done, but it's gonna be accentuated.
Speaker 2:That's so necessary and so good because I think about nobody can last on someone else's offering.
Speaker 1:Mhmm.
Speaker 2:We all have to make our own offering, and as a nation, they need to be offering their own offering before the Lord
Speaker 1:Mhmm.
Speaker 2:As opposed to and and that would I mean, that works for for any group, any nation, any individual. I can't function off of the offering that you bring. I have to bring my own offering, and God, I'm just really been praying that the Lord would just, his fire would just consume what they offered last night and it would be something that is lasting, not only in a point of unity, but in a point of function and fulfillment for their nation.
Speaker 1:Yes. That's wonderful. So we are seeing that happen, and we're working diligently. And these were words that were submitted by the people. Books need to be translated through the AI and editorial review.
Speaker 1:We're going to really work at that because I remember when we first went to France, and we were trying to get materials translated into that beautiful language. And it was so difficult. And when we looked to professional people, they were charging anywhere from 25¢ to 40¢ a word to translate our books. Do you do you know that one time I won't go through details. We don't have time.
Speaker 1:But to to have a resource where you can have a book translated for $40 $50 and then have somebody go back through to make sure our mnemonicos words, Greek and Hebrew, terms that we use are adequately depicted in them. That's a time process, but it can be done wonderfully. So we're going to we've already started that, and we're going to continue it. There was a suggestion of audiobooks. One of our brothers, Nathan, he he said he knows an app that will do that, and you can make lots of different well known voices to your book.
Speaker 2:That's amazing.
Speaker 1:So I kinda think I'd like James Earl Jones to do mine.
Speaker 2:I don't know. I'm kind of leaning towards Matthew McConaughey. What doesn't he say? Hey, hey.
Speaker 1:Oh, well, we better stop. Let's go. We got a long way to go and a short time to get there, and as according to the hymn written by Jerry what was that? Jerry Reed. We got a long way to go.
Speaker 1:Everyone stand and worship. And we're continuing to move forward, and we're gonna be doing that exponentially from this point through the end of the year, the Hagios platform. And then there'll be a new app that many of you are aware of that brother Mark Burke is developing through the anointing of the spirit and a lot of hard work, the Deep Waters app. These things are all coming. And then the pastor is really suggestions for things that we all ought to be doing.
Speaker 1:And we're going to be looking here as to how to develop this in a creative measure to do new things, to divest in the months to come. So we don't need to go through these.
Speaker 2:But I will say that as a church and with the pastoral office, we do have the responsibility to help to facilitate the development of these foundational things. But for every one of us, we individually have to make a fresh commitment to the Lord for what he's requiring of us. Yeah. I mean, it's it's it's not business as usual. It is there is there's we're in this year of grace.
Speaker 2:We have got to embrace the fullness of what that means allow him to take us deeper and higher and farther in our own personal relationship with him and our walk with him and our intercession and our interpretation and all these things that we're talking about. That is on his heart. And it only comes with us committing ourselves to make a fresh offering.
Speaker 1:Yeah. And and, you know, we can't preach these things to people.
Speaker 2:Or can you impart them?
Speaker 1:No. And we can't badger someone. We don't need some wild hair standing up. You people are praying. Because it's not mandated.
Speaker 1:It's partnership. Yeah. And until you accept it for yourself and make a commitment to do it, I we can't get up and lecture you. It's gotta be heartfelt. And it's kind of like so many illustrations in life.
Speaker 1:When I had a personal need in my body, I had motivation to do the things that the doctor may have told me to do. If he tells me to do it, yeah, he said this, but I'm, you know, I'm gonna live my life. But when I have a motive from within, I do it. And we need to capture that moment, motive, which is our created identity and our devotion to the Lord, and to do it for him and to do it because we need to do it. Mhmm.
Speaker 1:When you realize that, then you do it. Okay. In the few minutes we have, and we literally have that. Our brother, I mentioned the Deepwater's app, and we included in this document two of three things that he provided for me. The first one was a comparison between what I arrived at with these fivefold and what the app arrived at.
Speaker 1:And they were perfectly aligned, which was great. Yeah. And I I'm grateful for that, but I would not have dismissed the process of seeking the Lord and praying through how I grouped it. So we're grateful for for that. But the problem was the formatting and the way it was set up, which was beautiful on the screen, was not something that in my limited grasp of tech I could copy.
Speaker 1:I tried to do it, but it didn't come for printout. That's neither here to there. That just oh, I wish I could see that. Well, it's saying the same things you already have, so I'm just telling you that. But part of the water Deepwater's app said a synopsis, a one page summary of the fivefold report.
Speaker 1:That's really a nice thing to have. And then the final one there on your document is a declaration for tonight, for today, from this prayer agenda. And it's good to declare this. And I think that's a really cool option for us. So you'll be hearing more about that in the future, but I will say as valuable as that tool is, and it is valuable, it is not a shortcut to spending time before the Lord and developing these tools within yourself.
Speaker 1:You know, it's kinda like in the modern world today. You know? People have a phone, and they can have the phone do all kinds of stuff for them. And when you do that, oh, it's it's efficient, but you may not learn how to do things for yourself. And so since our doing things for ourself is personal between the Lord, concurrent with our individual calling and our Saints Network, our saintly mission.
Speaker 1:We have to we have to develop that. These tools, any one of these tools. It's like I can't I can't ask a commentary to tell me what I'm gonna preach on.
Speaker 2:Oh, please don't.
Speaker 1:You know, really, none of us can. Mm-mm. I can't read somebody else's book and just get up and regurgitate that unless now our books are for the purpose of educating. It's not full of passion. It's saying, this is what the word says.
Speaker 1:Know these things. It's like learning the math tables. It's like learning the principles of geometry. Learn these. This is from the word.
Speaker 1:But then you've got to utilize it. So we're not asking anybody to if you've got to preach, just take the cheating route. It's like in school. Like, if you like, I was listening to Victor Davis Hanson the other day, and he was talking about a course he taught at Stanford when the advent of cell phones and AI and Google search. And these students were asked to do certain things.
Speaker 1:And he noticed that some of the students were acing the test, but they were all saying verbatim
Speaker 2:the
Speaker 1:same thing.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1:They were just copying it right out.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:And so then he said, Nobody gets to use this. And a couple of students went to the Human Resources Department and said, I am intellectually challenged, or you know, I am racially deprived. I haven't been taught these things, so you'll let me have the phone in there. And these kids were acing, doing the same thing. So he came up as only he could with some strategy to totally eliminate that.
Speaker 1:So it's good for us to study, but the Holy Ghost is the greatest teacher, and you have to know him. And so we present this to you. These are marching orders. I appreciate Monica coming into this hot booth
Speaker 2:This is the altar.
Speaker 1:To join me today. We pronounce blessing over this. We pray that it will be an encouragement to you and really an inspiration.
Speaker 2:Mhmm.
Speaker 1:This is what God said. Amen. And it's very helpful. It's encouraging. It's inspiring.
Speaker 1:It's informative. It's directive, but the work still has to be done by us.
Speaker 2:Amen.
Speaker 1:It's the work of the ministry. Amen. So we speak blessing over all of you. And for those of you who also participated and you sent words in, your words coincide with these. I had a number of people in my family say, you know, I was gonna say something, but I'd already I wrote wrote down exactly what two or three other people said.
Speaker 1:So we cherish what you your prayer time and what you submitted. But then on the other hand, I I whipped this thing out on Monday morning early. It's not like the old First Saturday words where it's like mail in elections in California. You know? The election's now, but we're not gonna count the votes until twelve days from now.
Speaker 1:No. No. No. No. No.
Speaker 1:If we're waiting for the last word, the battle's lost. So maybe God's working on that a little bit too, and I think you should applaud that. Amen. So Friday, the Friday devotional. Sunday, I don't know what we're gonna do on Sunday, but stay tuned for the livestream.
Speaker 1:Next Wednesday night, a prayer time here. And then not this week. Notice I say next. And then after next Wednesday, I leave on Friday night. You and Stacy McGill leave on Saturday night.
Speaker 1:Uwali will already be there. We're ministering at Prometheus anniversary and probably two other churches. We then have our team from the Father's Church leaving on Sunday night. I think most of the other folks traveling from other places are leaving on that night. So we're gonna invite all of you to participate in a fasting regimen.
Speaker 1:That's the Google sign up. That'll be set up next week. Lots of things. Lots of balls in the air. This is great.
Speaker 1:You gotta it's like the angel told me several years ago. You gotta think four and sometimes five ways at the same time. This is what God created our brain to do, and we have to do it. Amen. So God bless all of you.
Speaker 1:Thank you for joining. Thank you, Monica. Thank you for all the insights that you all contributed. This is your report. Thanks to brother Burke for working diligently to submit such helpful insights that are in this attachment.
Speaker 1:Thanks to the Lord. Amen. So God bless you. Again, we look forward to seeing you again on Friday. And until then, adios.
Speaker 1:Goodbye. What do they say in Portuguese? Chow. Chow?
Speaker 2:Chow chow.
Speaker 1:Chow chow. Purina.