DEEPER | Week 5 | Session 1

I had a number of things that I wanted to look at, and I think I sent them out in my email yesterday. And as I woke up at 4:30 this morning and was praying through, I just really felt the Lord say I was to focus primarily on one area, and that is prophetic prayer. That we are to learn to pray prophetically. We are to learn to pray prayers that move heaven, that move the heart and hand of God, that actually bring God's will on earth as it is in heaven.

And I know for some of you this will be familiar, and for some of you it won't. But I just really want to talk a little about it today, and I want to have a conversation with my wife about it, just because we can do that privately if we want, and we were doing it the other day. But as we were talking, I realized that we have both been on a journey, and we both have kind of different perspectives, and in different seasons, you will pray differently. I think that's what we realized.

And so I just want to talk to Becky about a bit about that, and I want us to be able to ask today—ask a question about anything, he says hesitantly. But if there is anything at all you would like to—and anything at all, I mean all I can say is no, I won't answer that. But I will answer 99.9% of questions. And so if you have a question about anything, put it in the chat, and Becky will answer it for you.

Um, but I really do want this just to be our final session, more informal, maybe a little bit less structured. Um, I always overload content. I'm very aware of that. Um, but hopefully you will find it helpful. And so we're going to be looking at prophetic. Why don't we pray together as we come to prophetic prayer, and we will just see where the Lord leads us in the next minutes together.

Um, Holy Spirit, we want to hear from you. We want to learn, but Lord, more than that, we want to encounter you. Uh, because we can learn from books, but when the Holy Spirit is with us, we have encounter and transformation. And so, Holy Spirit, thank you for each person under the sound of my voice right now. And I ask that you would help me to communicate clearly what you have been showing me. That you would help Becky and I to communicate what you're teaching us. And Lord, that you would help our prayers to be more effective and powerful for ourselves and for others, in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen.

1 John 1 John 5:14 says this: that this is the confidence we have in approaching God, that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. If we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. One of my mentors, Dr. Sharon Stone, did a teaching a number of years ago, and I thought the title was slightly presumptuous. She—the title was this: How to Get 100% of Your Prayers Answered. Only a prophet can come out with something like that.

And as I listened to it, I realized that the basis of her thesis or her title was this: When you are praying the will of God, he always answers that prayer. When you're praying the word of God, when you're praying the promises of God, when you have heard from God, and you're speaking God's will back to him, you're speaking his decrees and his promises back to him, you can have complete confidence, a confidence that you can't have when it's just your own desires or your own thoughts. When you are praying the word of God, the will of God, the decrees of God, and the promises of God, and the prophecies of God over your life, you can have a confidence that those things will happen.

And how do we do that? We do that by discerning the voice of God, by knowing the will of God, and by reading the word of God. One of the phrases that has started to rattle me, and I'm going to shake some theological cages here a little bit, is the phrase, "God is in control." I don't like that phrase anymore. And there was a famous song when I was younger by Twilight Paris called God is in control. And everybody loved it. I prefer the phrase God is absolutely absolutely sovereign, because the phrase God is in control indicates that he controls everything, and we are puppets on a string, and that everything he wants to happen on earth automatically happens. And I do not believe that to be the case.

I believe there are great promises and prophecies in scripture that will happen no matter what. Jesus Christ is coming back one day to judge the living and the dead, no matter what we do. Okay? So, there are things that are set in scripture. There is the decreed will of God, but there is also the desired will of God. The Bible says God desires that everyone would repent and come to a knowledge of saving faith. Does that happen? No. So, God's will is not always done. God could control things, but in his sovereignty and in his goodness, he has chosen to delegate to humans responsibility and authority here on earth. It actually says in the Psalms, the heavens, the highest heavens belong to the Lord, but the earth he has given to the sons of men; that when he made Adam and Eve, our responsibility was to exercise his authority here on earth.

And the church hasn't—the church has lost that, or I don't think the church has ever fully grasped that. And so we have lived with a laissez-faire mentality. Whatever will be will be. It doesn't really matter what I do or what I pray, because whatever happens, God's will will be done anyway. I want to tell you that is not the case. It is not God's will for people to die of cancer. It is not God's will for babies to die. It is not God's will for there to be loss of life. It is not God's will for there to be racism. It is not God's will for there to be all abuse and and all of the trafficking and all of the horrible stuff. God has given us humans responsibility here on earth. And when we do not exercise that authority and when we delegate it to others, things happen on earth that shouldn't happen.

And so there is this sense where I really believe that God is calling his church. It says in Romans that all of creation is groaning for the sons of God to be revealed. I think there's a sense where creation, the earth is waiting for us to understand our full identity and authority so that we begin to decree and declare and pray and prophesy the word and the will of God, and things begin to line up with his will. It is saying, God, this is what you have said. Now keep your word. And we see this throughout scripture; in the book of Jerem—or it actually Daniel talks about Jeremiah that God spoke to Jeremiah and said the exile will last 70 years. And so the prophet Daniel read this. He read that the exile would last 70 years. He checked his calendar. 70 years was up. And so he began to decree and declare the exiles coming to an end based on the prophecy of Jeremiah that we are going to be delivered from now.

And we see this in different places of scripture. Moses comes before the Lord. He's coming down from the ten commandments. He hears about the golden calf. God wants to destroy the people. And Moses reminds God of his covenant. Moses says, "God, this is who you are. This is what you have said. And I remind you of this. I remind you of your nature. I remind you of your character." And he actually changes God's mind. We can change the mind of God. And I think that I don't fully grasp that. But we see it. God wants to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah. If there's 100 righteous people, will you save it? If there's 10 righteous people, will you see? Abraham intercedes on behalf. And it says in God, there wasn't any. But but but um but if there would have been, God says for 100 I will save it. For 10 I will save it; for one. Abraham recognized that it wasn't set in stone, that actually he could talk to God. He could intercede. He could stand in the gap, and that he could influence the heart and the mind and the will of God.

Jonah goes and says God is going to destroy Nineveh in 40 days, and it says the people repented, and God relented. Their actions were able to change them. Now eventually later on they were destroyed, but at that time God changed his mind, and we see this in different places in scripture, and the Calvinist reform part of me—and that is part of my background—he doesn't know what to do with scriptures like that. But there are things that will happen if you pray that will not happen if you don't pray. If you decree and declare the promises and the prophecies of God over your life, you will see things shift that you will not see things shift if you don't do it, because God has given you authority. I give you authority. He told the disciples.

There was a guy called Reese Howell. Some of you will have heard of him. He was a missionary in Africa in at the start of the 20th century. And he began to understand that if we hear, if we discern the will of God, it makes our prayers more powerful and more effective. And he came back from the mission field and he was working in the Bible college of Wales during at the start of the Second World War. And he gathered the students, and they would pray for hours each day. But what they would say is, "God, show us what the Nazis are doing. Show us their strategies. Show us what the enemy is up to." And God would reveal what the—at this stage the Nazis were about to invade Britain. And if that would have happened, quite honestly, the war was over and it was lost. And and God began to reveal to Reese Howells and the students in Wales Bible College what the enemy was doing. And they began to strategically and specifically pray against the Nazi strategies. And they were defeated. And many people would say that there are things that happened that shouldn't have happened in the natural, and it was because there was a people—there were people praying specifically the will, the word, the heart of God.

Generally, our prayers, I think, are like a shotgun, and they might hit something. But when we prophetically pray, when we hear from God and then use what he has said—said to us to pray—it's like a—it's like a sniper gun. You hit the target. And so what I really want to encourage us to do today is to not only know that God speaks as we pray, but to hear his will for specific situations, to get his word, to stand on his promises, and to pray the will of God back to him and to decree and prophetically declare the will of God back to him and to see things shift. Prophetic prayer is taking revelation, information, and insights and strategies from the Holy Spirit and using that as our basis for prayer. It's saying, God, what is on your heart? What is on your mind? What do you want to do in this—in this situation? And that's what I'm going to pray back to you.

I find myself in church every week, if I'm—if I'm leading the service—during the last few worship songs, I'm worshiping, but I'm also saying, "God, what do you want to do in the room today? Who do you want to heal?" And I get words of knowledge, and I will get pictures, and I will get sometimes a pain or an ache on a part of my body, and I pray into those things. And as I do that, we have seen more healings than we have ever seen before. We're coming into agreement with God in prayer. It's not just praying. It's praying with God. It's not just praying to God. And Romans 8 says that we don't know how to pray sometimes, but the Spirit intercedes with groans that words can't express. And so what we're doing is sometimes we're just saying, "God, show me. Holy Spirit, I don't know what to pray in this situation, but you do. Holy Spirit, would you—you reveal to me what to pray."

One of the things sometimes I do, and I learned this from Oral Roberts, the faith healer in the 50s and 60s, Oral Roberts would pray in tongues, and he would ask the Lord to help him interpret back what he was praying. We know there's a gift of interpretation for public tongues, but he believes that—I would agree with him—that when we pray in our prayer language, we can ask God, "God, show me what I'm praying for. Show me what—what—what the Spirit is praying through me so that I can give my amen, so that I can begin to prophetically decree and declare that back to you." And so, it's a combination of prophecy and intercession. It's co-laboring with God to bring his will on earth.

And so the first stage and step of that, there's a number of things we can do. The first thing is this: We look for what God's word says. We claim a promise of scripture. So if you have a particular need in your life, if there is an area where you are struggling, you find a promise of scripture. You find what the word says. If you're struggling with lack and finances, you—you—you—you search the scriptures for promises that God says about your finances. So, let's take a really simple one here: Psalm 23, The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. You would go before the Lord and you would say, God, your word says that you are my shepherd, which means you are my source and you're my provider. It says to me that I shall not want. I shall lack nothing. And so God, I remind you of your word right now because you are faithful to your word. You are a covenant-keeping God. And so I declare over my finances right now that there will be no lack, that you will provide all of my needs according to your riches and glory in Christ Jesus. For he who gave his own son, how will he not also freely give us all things? And I have sown faithfully, and I have been faithful in giving. And so Lord, I call on you to open the heavens, as it says in Malachi chapter 3, and to pour out blessings because I decree that your word says that I have been young and now I am old, and I have never seen the righteous begging for bread. And so Lord God, I speak your word back to you, and I ask that by your—that you would send angels in heaven with finances, that you would bring resources to me, and I release the finances of God into my life.

Do you see what I did there? I took one area of need and I prayed God's word and God's promises back to him, and there's an authority and there is a confidence that comes when you do that. So that is looking for a promise or promises in the word of God. And the wonderful thing today is we have Google. And so you can type in, Give me 10 promises about provision in the word of God. And you begin to proclaim and declare and prophesy those back and and remind God of his word. God, this is what your word says. And you have exalted above all things your name and your word. And so God, you will keep your word, and this is what I am declaring over my life.

You also remind yourself of prophecies that God has spoken to you in the past. Remember I showed you this—I think it was—was it last week when we were talking—my old Bible. There are still some prophecies in the back of that that I haven't seen come to fulfillment. I declare those over my life. I say, God, you have told me that I will stand before national leaders and share the gospel with them. You have told me this, and I believe this, and I have seen so many of your words come to pass. And so I decree and declare that I will one day stand before the leaders of nations, and I will share the gospel of Jesus Christ because you keep your word. You will have—most of you will have prophecies that God will have given you or promises that he will have given you over the years of your walk of faith. Dust those down off the shelf. Find them in your Bibles. Look at them in your phone. And look at those that have not yet been fulfilled. And remind God of what he has spoken to you and decree and declare them over your life as a present reality. God, thank you that I am going to stand before national leaders one day and share the gospel with them. Thank you that you have ordained this already. Would you make me attentive to opportunities so that I don't miss my moment and so that I walk into them?

Next thing is, in your daily devotional time, you just wait on the Lord and you say, "God, what do you want me to pray for for today? Who is on your heart? What is on your heart?" And sometimes it will be things for your own life where God will say, "I want you to pray about this area of your life, and I want you to prophesy and decree over this area of your life." Maybe it's a broken relationship, and the Lord is saying that I want you to reconcile. Lord, your word says that I'm to live at peace with all men. And so Lord, I—I declare that there is peace in this relationship. I declare that there is reconciliation in this relationship. I declare that any animosity between us would be gone. And I prophesy a reconciliation here just as you have reconciled us to yourself. So we are agents of reconciliation. We—we go before God. We ask questions. God, what is your will in this situation? As we look at the situations in the world right now, God, what is your will? What do you want me to pray for for LA right now, with the situation going on there in the streets? What do you want me to pray for for the Middle East, with the situation between Israel and Gaza? What do you want me to pray for? I know what the media is telling me, and I know what social media is telling me, but what do you want me to pray? What is your will? Let me decree and declare your will into this situation.

It could be a world event. It could be your church. It could be somebody that you know and love. What do you want me to pray for—that work colleague? What do you want me to pray for—that relative? What do you want me to pray for—my family right now? What do you want me to pray for—my coworker? And expect—expect the Lord to give you downloads, to give you insights, and to give you strategies for prayer, and watch the effectiveness of your prayers increase as you do that, because you're praying from revelation rather than from obligation. And I think that's why so many of us struggle with prayer. I struggle with prayer. I have so many good intentions with prayer. But I struggle with it. But when you begin to pray from revelation, when you begin to declare God's word back to him, when you declare his promises and his prophecies, something shifts, something moves in the spiritual realm. And you don't feel like you're just talking to the air or that it's just reaching the ceiling. You realize that your prayers are shifting things. You are moving things. Things are being transformed because you pray. You're releasing heaven's will on earth.

If God's will was always done automatically, why did Jesus teach us to pray, "Your will be done, and your kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven"? We're binding and loosing. We're using those keys to the kingdom that God gives us. We're binding things that should not be here, and we're loosing things that should be here. According to Matthew chapter 18, we're decreeing and declaring the word of the Lord. We're joining with the angels in bringing to birth God's purposes. We're prophetically decreeing the will of God over a situation, a person, or a region. And we're praying not from earth so much as we're praying—it says in Ephesians 2, we are seated with Christ in the heavenly places. We're not so much—when we do this, we're not so much praying from down here to up there as if—as if heaven's up there. But you know what I mean? We are praying from heaven to earth. We're praying from our position as one seated with Christ in authority, from that perspective. We're praying the

Will of God down rather than trying to pray up. We're praying God's will down from our position in Christ. We align our words with his will.

Jesus said when there's a mountain before you, you don't speak to the mountain, or you don't—sorry—you don't describe the mountain. He didn't even say pray about the mountain. He said you speak to the mountain. Matthew chapter 11, and you tell that mountain to move. You speak to the mountain. You speak to the sickness. You speak to the situation. You speak to the blockage. You speak to the the the the obstacle, the opposition. You speak to it in the spiritual realm and you command it to be shifted in the name of Jesus and the power of Jesus because you have authority from him. Recognize your authority in Christ.

Remember the disciples came back and they were excited. They said, "Even the demons submit to us." And Jesus, I think, looks at them as if to say, "What did you expect? You have—I gave you authority. Why did you not think this would work?" And so much of the church is passive and powerless and anemic today because we have forgotten about our authority. There is authority that we carry in the spiritual realm as God's people. Jesus cursed a fig tree, and the next day they came back and the fig tree was dead. And the disciples were amazed. And again, Jesus is like, "What did you expect? I have authority. I have authority." We have authority to bind and loose. We have authority to bless and curse. Let's not use our words to curse. Okay? The only things we curse are sickness, cancer, disease. We curse the things that are the opposite. When I'm praying for somebody with cancer, I will curse that tumor in the name of Jesus. That's one of the only times I'll ever use a curse. I will curse the tumor. I will curse sickness in the name of Jesus. I will not curse people or individuals. I believe that's witchcraft. But I will speak to certain things and I will command them to shrivel up just like that fig tree shriveled up and die.

Jesus said, "I only do what I see my father doing." In other words, I only minister out of what I see in heaven. And we only pray—or one of the ways we pray—is what heaven is actually giving us strategies. So we receive strategies from heaven. We feel a burden sometimes. Sometimes you will be going about your daily life and you will feel a burden of the Lord to pray for a situation. We've been there, haven't we? Where out—out of the blue—you feel a burden to pray for a friend, a relative, a situation, and you're thinking, where did that come from? The Lord is—is—this—the Holy Spirit is showing you how to pray. You feel an urgency in the spirit. Maybe you receive an assignment from the Lord. I know many people will tell me God has told them to go to a specific place, a specific location, and sometimes they don't know why they're going there, but they go there and God tells them to do a prophetic act and they do something. They plant a stake in the ground. They cover it. They have communion there, whatever that is. And as they do that, something shifts in the atmosphere. Something breaks in the spiritual realm. Something moves. And it takes persistence and it takes—takes passion, but God backs us up.

I'm going to pause there. I just—I'm looking at my notes here. There's a little bit more that I want to say. Um, but I—let's pause for a second actually and are there any questions, Beex?

Um, yes. What is a more effective way of determining when a prophecy uh is now expired? I—it was for a previous season and maybe we just missed the window due to our own actions or someone else.

Yeah. And that is true. Um, when you receive a personal prophecy, sometimes it has a timeline attached to it. And um, honestly, it is going back and asking the Lord and—and even I think sometimes when you're asking that question, you probably know, if I'm being honest. Um, so I have words there that haven't come to pass, but I don't believe they're expired yet. But there are certain things that maybe you—you didn't—on prophetic transitions. We talked a little bit about when we receive personal prophecies that we partner with God in those—that they're conditional. That there's a—if my people will, then I will. Nearly every personal prophecy comes with a condition. It may not be explicit, but there is something that goes with it. If—and—and God may say to you, if you will move here, I will bless you here. That's what he told Abraham: if you go, I will bless you. Um, but if you stay, you can't expect the same blessing as the obedience would bring. And so, I think it's coming before the Lord. And it's honestly just saying, "Lord, this is what you spoke to me. It hasn't come to pass. If I have been disobedient, I repent, Lord, is this still a word for me?" And if it is, you can—why not?—you can ask the Lord to confirm it. Confirm it to your own heart, but also to confirm it through other people. There's things that I received in the 90s that I also get confirmed in other words—other words today—in more recent words that I've had. Um, I would also encourage you, and I—I say this to people, and this is one of them, to get around prophetic environments, not to go prophecy hunting, but kind of. And I—cuz that's honestly when I—when I really want to hear from the Lord—when there's things that I'm—I—I will try to get around prophetic environments. It may even mean taking a short, you know, a two-hour trip somewhere. But if I know there's a—a—a prophet that I trust, um, a prophetic voice or—or there's a prophetic environment, I will go there because I want to hear from God. I think the Lord honors that. I actually—I don't think God goes, "You're a prophecy hunter." I think God goes, "I'm so glad you want to hear my voice—that you're so hungry that you would move to do it." Um, so get around prophetic people, get around prophetic environments, but come before the Lord and just say, "Um, Lord, this is what you said to me. Is this still your word for me? Um, because you spoke it 10 years ago and it hasn't come to pass. Do you want me to put it to one side or do you want me to decree and declare it over my life as a present reality?" Anything else, Beex?

Yeah. Do we have authority to pray over principalities over a region? Or how would you pray to shift the atmosphere over patterns of sin in a region or geographic area?

Oh, this is a tricky one, isn't it, Becky? We were talking a little bit about this. Um, you have authority to the degree that God has told you to pray about that particular thing. And I'm being really careful here because Becky and I can both tell stories where we overstep the authority God gave. So I think the other danger of this is we—we know we have authority. So we think we have authority in every—in every thing, and that's not the case. I think this is where God gives you a particular assignment to pray for that particular region, that region, that principality. And when you are praying against principalities and powers and some of those higher level spiritual entities, you need to know God has told you to do it. And you need to know that there's other people backing you in prayer. Um, and I'm not trying to put fear. And some people would argue with me, and that's okay. We can have different opinions on this. But from my own personal experience, anytime I have overstepped what God has told me to do, there have—I—the—the—the kickback has been immediate. Come on to the screen, Becky, for a minute because this was one of the things we were going to talk about. Um, you were—you were talking about this in a situation where you were praying about something recently and it wasn't a major thing. It wasn't like a principality thing, but remember—

No, it—it wasn't. I was praying for somebody. It was actually a few years ago who um was going through a cancer diagnosis and I—I was praying in the spirit and God had—you believe God had given you an assignment to pray for her 100%. And I would say like you talk about—do you know when you feel a weight of a prophetic word—to feel a burden? I felt the weight and also there's an ease and an unction and a flow when I'm praying in the spirit um for an assignment that God has given me that I believe we're going to see breakthrough in. So pause there for a second before we get on to what did that look like? So God—I—I want us to understand. So, how did you know that God had given you that assignment? And what did your prayer look like at that time?

Um, I think I probably know that God has given me an assignment—given me an assignment when it—keep—that—that person or that issue keeps coming to mind. Can't get away from it. I can't get away from it, and I feel a weight on—and I feel a release when I'm praying in the spirit and I feel—again—I would say just a flow. So when I'm not praying in the spirit, I was commanding the cancer, the specific cancer to go—declaring the life of Christ. Um, those kind of prayers—and then when I got to the end of myself, I was praying in the spirit. And I can pray in the spirit now, but when there's an unction and a weight on it, I can't—I—I feel—I don't feel a permission to stop praying in the spirit. And you will—what does that—cuz you will walk around the house. You will shout, you will cry, you will, you know, but I want people to—actually—I—I don't—listen, I'm not—but I want people to know what this—this is not just "dear Jesus, please bless," you know, like—you—you go to war.

Yes, I—I—Yes, I do. Yes, I probably do. Yes. You know, probably you do, cuz I've—love it. I—I love it. Know that I didn't know that you heard that much. But anyway, um, yeah, I do. And I don't feel—and I keep going until I—I feel a release. And yes, sometimes I'm on my knees, sometimes I'm listening. Um, but in those warfare moments, I am usually on my feet. I could be—sometimes I feel like I'm doing some kind of dance. That sounds ridiculous. As ridiculous as that sounds. Um, that's not typical for me. But I feel that I cannot stop. I feel like I would be disobedient if I closed my mouth and I can't until I feel a release from the Lord. Um, I keep going. Does that answer? Do you want more?

No, that—that—Yeah, that—that answers that. So, let—let me keep going with this. So, then when did you know—when did you know to stop praying for her?

Um, I didn't stop praying for her. What happened was um I started praying also for her husband. Okay. And an issue there. And um—and as I prayed, I felt—uh—I probably felt a rebuke, but more than that, I felt a darkness that I can—I—I have faced that off in other issues, but I know I come from a place of victory and the Lord is on my side. And there was a difference with this. And I—and I immediately felt I needed to get on my knees and repent. I knew that I was entering into something that the Lord had not—um—given me permission or authority, the assignment to step into. Um, and I—I had to repent for that actually. I felt that. Does that answer?

Yeah. No, absolutely. I had a situation where our—one of our old churches—and this to me actually—I really wrestled with this uh when we were in Dublin—we—our church—about 200 meters from the church—a—a—a porn shop opened—if you remember, Beex—and it was so seedy and it was so gross. Um, and one day I walked past it and I just began to command it to shut. And I felt like an authority to do that. But from the moment I did that, I literally got the worst migraine I have ever had in my life. Like literally instantly I got the worst migraine. And I was like, "God, what is going on?" And—and I just felt the Lord say, um, "You were—you went into an assignment there unprepared. I didn't, you know, I didn't tell you. You—you were just walking past and you took it upon yourself"—and—"and he said, 'I do want that.'" And it ultimately did shut, but he said, "Craig, that was not the strategy I gave you. It wasn't just that you walk casually past and just say, 'Lord, shut that shop.'" You know, "I command it to shut." I—I didn't wait on a strategy. So, I'm not trying to instill fear here, but that day really stands out for me where I—I—I—I do believe I was praying the Lord's will. I just don't believe I had his strategy for it. And he actually said—cuz it was one of those—but there was the—the staff would stand at the door—cuz it was such a dark—and they would—and I felt it. He said, "Before you pray for it to shut, why don't you talk to the guy standing at the door and share the gospel with him?" Because—and maybe it was because if they shut, you'll never get the opportunity for him to hear the—the love of Jesus. And you know, and so—um—it was just one of those moments where—and—and as soon as I repented—and it took hours because I honestly didn't really fully realize what was going on. H—once I repented, the headache, the—the migraine went. Um, but there are—you want—and this isn't to instill fear—but when you talk about principalities and powers—you just—I think—not—not every battle is your battle—and you've got to recognize those things that the Lord has graced you for and those places where the Lord has given you authority.

There is a wonderful book that I always recommend and I don't know if I've done it in this course. Um, it's called *I Give You Authority*. Did I—Did I mention it to you guys before? Um, by a guy called Charles Kraft. Kraft. Look at you. Um, sorry, I'm just—Yeah. Um, Charles Kraft. And he's not a wacky crazy out there—um—snake handler. He w—is—was a lecturer at Fuller Theological Seminary and he went to be a missionary I think in South America and he was a conservative evangelical and realized that he did not understand the spiritual realm at all. And so he came back—well, he learned out there on the ground—um—about the different levels and principalities and powers and the authority we have and he began to really study it. Ji Packer actually writes a forward I think for it—who's a very conservative theologian—but I have found it to be so incredibly helpful. Guys, have I sh—I don't—I never know what I have—I'm trying to think—did I share this story about the family with the ch—I think I did—the child who had the seizures and they were going on vacation—did I—if I did, wave at me—if I've shared it—no—okay—we had a family in our church called the Slaughteries and they had triplets, three boys, but the third boy—something had happened around the birth. I think they had—literally—whatever way they brought him out. Um, he had—Becky, stay on with me. Help me with this story because I—cuz you know what I'm like with illnesses. I always misdiagnose people. He had autism and epilepsy. Is that right? Am I—severe? I mean it was not—he had severe. So there were two healthy brothers. They were probably 12—13 years old, I'm guessing.

Yeah. And then there was Kieran, the third of the triplets, who had autism and epilepsy. And I had been read—and so—um—I had been reading this book, *I Give You Authority*, at the time—and they had—because of his condition—they had struggled to get a family holiday because it was just too difficult. But I remember they—they told me one day—"We're going to Italy. We've booked a family holiday to Italy. Kieran hasn't been having so many seizures. It's manageable. We are so excited. We're going at 9:00 on Sunday morning. We're flying to Italy." And they were so—so excited. On the Saturday night at about 10:00 p.m., the dad uh emailed me and said, "We've had to—we're going to have to cancel our holiday. Kieran has had something like eight, nine seizures just today. Today"—the day before they were due to go. And in that moment, I knew the enemy had overplayed his hand. Um, it was too obvious. He hadn't had seizures in a while and the night before. And so, I'd been reading this book, *I Give You Authority*. And one of the things that says that in the home, the parent has a—if there's a father there, he has ultimate authority over the home. If it's a single parent, a mother, she has authority. But she—you need to understand your authority—and the spiritual realm recognizes your authority. And so I—I sent uh the dad an email, Declan an email, and I—I said, "I want you to do something. I want you to take authority over these seizures, and I want you to declare that anything that comes against your son first has to come through you—that it cannot—because you have authority over your son—and I want you to declare that it has to come through you." And the next day I got a message from him saying he hasn't had a seizure all night. We're going to Italy. And can I tell you he didn't have a seizure for almost a year after that—something—and he began—didn't he—he actually began to get like speech functions back that he had never—he hadn't had—few words. There were a few words, but I mean just—there was a radical transformation—but when they began to operate from that place of authority—something shifted. Um, so you—Becky—I—I want to come back—you've described that particular situation when you were praying for—for a friend. Um, what else does prophetic prayer look like for you and other—because as we were talking last week you were saying in this season it doesn't look like that. Actually, let me—sorry, I don't mean to jump around, but I'm trying to remember. There was a season also where you said for us as a family, you were doing warfare in Dublin, and it was—it was probably intense like that.

Mhm. Yeah. Consistently intense for a few years. Almost militaristic.

Big time. Big time. Yeah. Very much so. Because we were—our—our family was under so much attack. Um, and you—here we are now—and I believe we are at a—we are where we are now because Becky and you had a number of other intercessors that you would—in a small group. Uh, I believe we are where we are now because of the—the intercession that you did and the warfare—h—when I probably wasn't in a place to do it. Um, what does that look like now for you? What does prophetic prayer look like now to you?

Yeah. Well, I—I definitely feel like we are in a much more gentle season.

Yeah, we are. Which is totally nice. Um, and uh—I am not doing the same warfare prayers at all. It's just—um—not part of my—my—uh—weekly prayer. Um, and I feel like at the minute I'm very much in a season of—um—just sitting in his feet and receiving. And so—prophetic—what did you ask me? What does prophetic prayer look like at the moment?

Yeah. Yeah. What—like—what does your prayer life—like—look like? And—and like—how—how do you hear from God as you're praying? And what do you do with that? And how do you pray into it? What does that look like now for you?

Um, well, on a daily basis I will come and I will put worship music on and I will just sit in that place of worship—um—with a cup of coffee normally—and—um—and then that either leads into just—um—prayer—or I read the word—and—or you read those really good books by Craig Cooney—some—some dodgy guy called Craig Cooney.

Yeah. Yeah. Um, so I suppose I mean he gives me uh pictures and visions. Um, he might—he—he might highlight a book to me that I open and he speaks to me through that—and then he confirms it maybe through a word that I receive or—um—a lyric that I have written down that I've heard. So—um—he's speaking to me.

At the moment, I'm in a different way. Um, but I still will feel a sort of a weightiness and an unction when he speaks. Um, but I would say as well, well, um, I I'm struggling at the minute with distraction, to be perfectly honest. Um, I would say the last probably two to three weeks in particular, um, I found distraction has been something, um, I'm not alone. Oh, that's good. Um, and I think it's probably a corporate thing perhaps. Um, but I think I think it's it's worse at the minute. Um, you know, I think the enemy is always going to come at us with distraction because intimacy with the Father is the springboard to everything else, like everything else. Um, and so for him, um, to come against us with distraction to keep us from that intimacy and that quiet place, um, is a brilliant strategy. Brilliant strategy. Um, but yeah, um, it's pushing through that at the minute I think and really, um, trying to actively engage more at the moment, to put my phone away, um, to bring back my mind when it wanders and to just persevere in it and persist in it. Um, but yeah, there'll be a weightiness whenever I feel his prompts; it's like a little butterfly landing and then taking off again. We need to be aware, um, of those sort of small nudges, whether it's for somebody else or a word. Um, don't know if that's helpful.

No, that is that's really helpful. Stay on the screen just as we talk about this because I I want this. Are there any questions? Say that again. Sorry. Stay on the screen just while we're chatting here. Um, let people see your beautiful face. Um, are there any questions coming in just as we're we're we're doing this? I'm just again I'm looking at time. I want to leave more time for us to prophesy today. Um, sorry, I'm just looking up here. Um, so is the way, so I suppose in the back of what we we answered there, the qu the follow-up question there is, so is the way to prepare to pray over those regional things to ask the Lord for a strategy. Um, trying to discern how to pray for my area as there have been three shootings within one week in a five-mile radius. Five-mile radius.

Yes, I would say ask the Lord for a specific strategy for you. Um, and I would also say ask him, are there others in the area that I can join with? Um, so that it's not just me out on my own praying, uh, that you know that there is there a group of you who can join together and pray protection over each other as you pray for your region. But I would ask him for a specific strategy because it's you can pray against the territorial spirit, you can pray against whatever it is, but actually maybe there's something else that more subtle behind it that we think it's this, but it's this. And so if we are just assuming that we're praying against the territorial spirit, maybe there's a different spirit behind it all. Um, and it's discerning what, again, it's the difference between a shotgun and a sniper rifle. You can go or you can get the actually what the target is and hit it. And I I do think that if you come before the Lord and say, "Lord, what specifically three things do you want me to pray for in relation to my region?" Um, and you keep pushing through. There's a sense of also, and and Becky will know this, persistence and perseverance. There are things that we pray for for years that we don't see. But if the Lord has spoken, we don't give up. Jesus taught that. He said, "Ask and keep on asking. Seek and keep on seeking. Um, search and keep." And there is this sense, and he talked about the the persistent widow. And it's not that God is begrudging. We also see in Daniel sometimes that there can be spiritual entities, Daniel 10:13, that are actually coming that are trying to interfere with our prayers and but Daniel persisted in prayer and he broke through that and the archangel then comes and says, "I heard your prayer from the God heard your prayer from the first day, but there was a spiritual battle going on, but because he persisted and labored in prayer."

Um, so even when God gives you a strategy, when he gives you um a prophetic thing to pray, don't assume that that automatically means it's going to happen immediately. Uh, sometimes you need to push through. Uh, there's a story and some of you may have heard me tell it before or you've read it before, but um, where we when we were in in Dublin one day we were just talking to each other and God gave us both the same term, a large lump sum, um, and we we knew it was a financial thing and so um, but for me from my we're both neither of us are from rich backgrounds and so large lump sum for some of you would mean 100,000; for me it meant anything over like 500 was a large lump sum really. I mean, Becky grew up in a Methodist um manse, and they don't overpay Methodist pastors, and I I grew up in in a very sort of working-class family, um, where where where we didn't have a lot of money. Um, and so when God said, "I want to give you a large lump sum," I went back to him and I said, "Lord, what is that? How much is that that you're telling me?" And the figure I'm gonna actually I'm just I never I never used to tell people the figure, but it's so long ago now that I'll do it. Um, the figure he gave me had to be the Lord because but with my poverty mentality I would never have come up with this figure on my own. He gave me the figure 50,000. Okay, for me a large lump sum was anything between 500 and 1,000. He gave me the figure 50,000. And so I wrote it down in my prayer journal and every day I just began to say, "God, thank you that you're giving us." I didn't know if it was, we were living in Dublin, if it was euro or sterling. He didn't tell me. So I would just say, "Thank you, God, that you're giving us 50,000. Thank you, God, that you're giving us 50,000." And days passed and weeks passed and months passed and nothing happened. And then about maybe eight months into it, a lady in church gave us €3,000 for our summer vacation. And I I was we were so grateful and I was like, "This is a huge lump sum. Thank you, Lord." He said, "That's not what I told you. I want you to keep praying. I want you to keep decreeing. I want you to keep declaring." And so I kept going, "Lord, thank you that you're giving us 50,000. Thank you that you're giving us 50,000. Thank you that you're giving us 50,000." I think it was 14 or 15 months later, a guy visited our church who we hadn't met once before, a businessman originally from Ireland, um, who had moved to California. And uh, he said at the end, "Can I take you for lunch?" And we went to the local Hilton Hotel for lunch. And as we were sitting over there over lunch, he said, "Greg, you're burnt out." And I said, "Yeah, I am." And he said, "You need a sabbatical." And I said, "Yeah, I do. I'm hoping to take one next summer." He said, "Yeah, you need one." And he said, "The Lord spoke to me during the service and told me that I have to pay for it and I'm giving you $50,000 to pay for your sabbatical." And it was just I remember you remember the day I came home and we just like it was a mixture of of joy and tears. Literally, we jumped around the living room. Um, because and honestly, if one, I believe that God wanted me to keep praying and prophesying that. And two, I probably would have struggled to receive it. I would have said no. Um, I I struggled to receive sometimes. And so, I probably would have said no if the Lord hadn't told me already that he was going to give us that. Um, and so um, when you get a word from God, it may not the word manifest sometimes this all sorts of this isn't the secret. This is prayer. This is our heavenly Father. Um, but the enemy will always try to distort these things. But it you may have to persevere and pray and decree and prophesy for a while before it manifests. Are there things, Becky, that you have had to pray for for a long time or or decree that before you've seen them? Them?

100%. Yeah. Years. Years. And there's probably still some things. Yeah. Yeah. That more handsome husband or something like that. Like that. But uh, you know when God gives you a word, you declare what he has said till things line up with what he has said. I think of Ezekiel in the valley of dry bones. It looked like a desperate hopeless situation with all these bones scattered. But the Lord comes to him and says, "Decree the word of the Lord." And as he begins to speak to the dry bones, there's a shaking, there's a sound, there's a rattle, and then there's movement, and then the thing, the bones stand up, and there's flesh, and it there's breath. It wasn't one immediate miracle. There were stages to it, but he began to speak the word of the Lord, and things began to shift, and things began to move. And I believe that when we do that, we are forthtelling. We are actually, it's as if God's word in our and some people get nervous. God's word in our mouth is as powerful as God speaking himself. I believe I really do. I I believe when you have really heard from God, there is this ability to forthtell with authority and confidence knowing that you are actually speaking the words of God himself. You're telling the physical to align with the spiritual. You're speaking to what surrounds you. And you're calling what you see to line up with what God has said. You're not speaking about the bones. You're speaking to the bones. You're speaking God's word and God's will and saying, "This is how it should be, and I am commanding the physical world to line up with what God says. And Romans 4:17 says God calls those things into being that we're not. Things that are not, he calls into being. And he asks us to partner with him. And that can be in your life. We can speak life. We can speak wholeness and peace and provision and abundance every day. Almost every day now. Um, I start my day. It used to be easier. I used to leave Elijah to school. So that was when I did it. But anytime I have any car journey, I don't put on my music. I don't put on a podcast. The first 10 minutes of that car journey, I decree and declare the blessing and favor God of God over my life almost every single day. And it will go like this: "In the name of Jesus, I decree and declare the blessing and favor of God over my home, my household, and my family. In the name of Jesus, I decree and declare the blessing and favor of God over my wife and my son, their minds and their mental health, their bodies and their physical health, their souls and their spiritual health. And then I say the same for me. In the name of Jesus, I decree and declare the blessing and favor of God over my ministry, over my preaching gift, over my prophetic gift, over any apostolic anointing, over my leadership gift, over my character, my integrity, my purity, my godliness, my self-control, and my discipline. In the name of Jesus, I decree and declare the blessing favor of God over daily prophetic, over this course. I do this every day over deeper, over prophetic transitions, over my books, my ebooks, my Instagram, my whatever platform you have given me. I declare your blessing over it. In the name of Jesus, I declare your blessing favor over my relationships, my alignments, my connections, and my friendships. In the name of Jesus, I decree and declare your blessing and favor over my finances, over my bank balances, over my cryptocurrency, which is going okay at the moment. Praise the Lord. And over my any my gold and silver because I keep a little bit of gold and silver for a rainy day and it is if any of you know about gold and silver at the minute you can thank me for that one. Uh, but I do I I I spend it takes about 5-10 minutes every day. Can I is my life perfect? No. But can I tell you I've been doing that for probably three, four, five years now. It is so much better than it was, isn't it? I mean honestly like we're our life isn't perfect by any stretch but we we there's this sense where we are feeling like we're living in just this flow. Um, and it's not to say I just it's not to say that things won't happen cuz life happens and but there's just this ease and grace that has come into our lives. There's provision that we've never expected or experienced before. Um, we've seen our church flourish. We've seen our son flourish. And I just I'm not saying it's all because of that. But you know what the we we know that the tongue has the power of life and death. We believe that the words we speak either bring life or bring death. You are prophesying your future and your your your your world by your words. So why not choose to speak life over yourself, over your home, over your family, over your finances, over every area and aspect. This is not magic. You're speaking in the name of Jesus and you're declaring that God is sovereign, but in his sovereignty, you're taking responsibility and authority and you're declaring what he says over what's around you and asking that his that what you see would line up with his word. I'm going to leave it there. Actually, there's more here, but actually I'm going to leave it there. Any questions before we move into the prophetic part? Hopefully, that has been somewhat helpful for you. It was a little bit different than what I thought I would we would go today. But hopefully that's been helpful. Any questions coming in their backs or anybody want to write a write a question or or comment or anything else? Actually, this is your time you can ask a question actually about lad thinks that you need to do a book on prophetic prayer. Prayer.

Only if you write it with me. Okay. Um, I've been seeking people to pray with for months for my area. It has been delayed and delayed and delayed. In my area, we have no young people at any of the churches. Whereas in other areas nearby, the youth in the church is thriving. I believe God revealed there's a stronghold that needs to be taken care of. So, next week, three of us are going to be praying about one night. Um, so would it be wise to have others praying for us too at the same time?

Yes. But let me let me just some of the greatest prayer warriors aren't the young people in your area. They're the 70 and 80-year-olds. So you can go and do some of the warfare, but why not go to some of those saints, those seasoned saints, and ask them to cover you in prayer? Do you know the revival in the uh Hebrides? The two ladies were 82 and 87 who prayed that revival into the Hebrides. I think they were 82 and 87 or something like that. They were in their 80s anyway. And they got this burden on their heart and they prayed and prayed until revival hit the Hebrides. And so don't and I know you're not discounting. I know you're not. But if you're going to do if you're going to pray, why not ask some seasoned prayer warriors who are maybe a little bit older who maybe can't go with you to cover you with prayer. Um, absolutely. Anything else there, Beex?

Um, yes, someone sent me as a a private message, um, and I had answered, but you see if you have anything else to add to it to move in the area of prophecy or modes of operations may differ from one to another in releasing words over individuals. Uh, I find that all along I'm able to do so through prophetic prayer and through worship, able to see words or visions while praying or even during worship. Um, how do I fine-tune or or refine like how you and Craig are able to release words like that?

Um, yeah, I know what you mean. So, so when you're praying with somebody, you can you can pray, prophesy, you get pictures, you get revelation. Revelation. Um, but I guess you're asking when you're not actually standing maybe with somebody, when you're praying at home, when you're in your devotional time, whatever it is, honestly, it's just time. And one of the things I always say is keep a little book like this in front of you. When my prayer time looks like a Bible, a book, a spiral-bound book, and a pen. And I just am writing down anything that the Lord I I said there's three reasons for this or four. Um, one is to write down what I'm praying for specifically. There are certain things I'm constantly praying for that I want to see breakthrough in. And I write them down so that I have them in front of me all the time. And it's amazing how over time you like there's sometimes I'll find those for three, four, five years ago and I just see how God has answered those. So there's something beautiful in that of just writing down your prayers, the things you're praying for. H the second thing is I write down what I believe God is saying as I'm praying. I write it down, but I normally get a little phrase or a little sentence or somebody will pop into my mind, but I'm not. And so I'll write down Bob. Okay? And so I'll write down the name Bob and I'll say ask God questions. God, what do you want me to pray for Bob? And just wait and just write down what comes to mind. Bob, I want you to pray for his heart right now. And you might think, but Bob's heart's fine. How do you know? Uh, I want you to pray for his family and I want you to to to pray for his mind because he's struggling. And you just again, you just do that and you begin to prophesy. I decree and declare that Bob has a healthy whole heart, that his heart is clean and pure. I speak God, I I speak your blessing over Bob's family. I pray protection over his family. And I pray that he has the mind of Christ. And and you just again begin to lean into that. And that was very simple there. But do you see where you go with that? And when you're with Bob, you can say, "I've been praying for you. I've been praying for your mind. I've been praying for your heart. I've been praying for your family." He may give you more insight into that. He may not. But that's okay. But I just ask God questions, write it down, and and have him flesh it out. And the third reason I use a little spiral notebook is very simple. For those distractions that come in where when you're praying, you suddenly think, "I forgot to put out the bin or I forgot to send an email or I forgot to text somebody today." I just at the top of the page will write "send email, text John." And it's this. It means that I'm not going to pick up my phone and start the the 45-minute doom scroll that takes me away from my time with the Lord. I physically have to put my phone in a cupboard now and if I really want to spend time with the Lord because I just it's it's like it's compulsive almost where I just reach for my phone these it just takes the tiniest noise or distraction and I I and so uh I just I really I put out a word just in the last few days about this distraction thing. Um, and so when Becky shared it, I could see all of your comments there, that distraction seems to be a a a strategy of the enemy right now to take us off from discerning what the Lord is doing and really leaning into that. So, if you've been feeling that, don't feel condemned, but you you can you can take measures to remove distractions. God won't take your phone away for you. Put it in another room for one hour a day. Just put it in another room for one hour. You may have the shakes for a while. Put the patches on your arm, whatever that, but put it in another room. And I guarantee you will see your life begin to be transformed when you remove some of those distractions. Anything else there, Beex, before we move into praying for people and prophesying?

Uh, I don't think so. Am I missing anything, guys? Uh oh. Somebody had asked something about about um she has the family have uh two people I'm assuming they're lodgers who have just recently moved in. Do they have do do they have permission to

Pray into their lives? Yes, because they are under your roof. So yes, you have authority over your home. Even if your children are adults, if they are under your roof, they are under your authority. Once they move out, that authority changes a little bit. But anyone who is under your roof is under your authority in the spiritual realm. And so, yes, you do have authority to pray there. That's a good question.

Um, I have more authority to pray over our church probably than most other people because God has given me that level of authority to pray over our church. And so there are different realms. Again, I would encourage you. I give you authority by Charles Craft. It talks about authority in the home. Just all of that. I’ve just found it so incredibly helpful um over the years. It’s my go-to book uh in this whole area of understanding the spiritual realm.

Okay, folks. Let’s let’s pray for people and prophesy for people. Folks, I do hope that was helpful. It was a change of direction for me from where I thought I was going to go. I spent all last week studying something else, but I do I’d rather be obedient than clever.

Um, so who has never been prophesied over? Just pop up your hand if you’ve never been prophesied over here on prophetic transitions or this. Is there anybody who has never been prophesied over? Becky, just pick someone up there. I’ve got me on. Sorry. I think there’s about eight people who haven’t. Um, so, Um, so why don’t we do this? Okay, why don’t we bring two on at a time? Let’s just mix things up a little bit today. Okay. Oh, spicy. I know. I know. I know.

Uh, Joan, I see you. Yeah, I thought I didn’t think Joan had been prophesied over. So, Joan. Okay. And who else? Is that an actual background? Is that where you are? It’s not. No, it’s not. She’s just making us jealous. No, it’s a screen saver. Lovely to see you. So Joan and um Joan and Pauline I see as well. Pauline has never been prophesied. Wow. You always prophesy over other people. Brilliant. Okay, so we have Joan and Pauline.

I’m trying to think how you’re going to do this. Um, what is your strategy here now? I’m just asking the Lord for a who? Let’s let’s keep with what we do this time and we’ll maybe mix it up in a minute or two. Let’s have three people join us on the screen. I know it you might if you have a pen write down Joan and Pauline will you just cuz so you you know who you’re getting a word for. Okay. Would three people join us? Yeah. Any three. It doesn’t If you haven’t before, please take the opportunity today. Morin James, I see you. Yes, Moren. Lovely to have you. and Jonathan. Thank you. Thank you, Jonathan Bri. And oh, Brett. Thank you, Brett. Sorry. Brett, I wrote it down, Robin. And I was like, don’t don’t forget this time. But you could you could just write Robin. It’s all right, Robin. I will chastise her later. Okay.

But folks, we know what we do here. We’re going to pray uh that the Lord would speak to us for Joan and for Pauline. And then we’re going to uh just share in the chat. And can I say to you, I’ve had so many messages from people saying that what you’ve shared in the chat once I’ve sent it to them, it has been so helpful to them and so spot on. So thank you for that. So Holy Spirit, we thank you for Joan and we thank you for Pauline and we ask that you would speak to us for them a word of encouragement, edification, direction, and clarification, just that you will express your heart through us for John and Pauling that they would know that they are seen and loved and known by you. So, Holy Spirit, we depend on you now in Jesus name. Amen.

And so, we’re going to take a minute and we’re going to just ask the Lord to give us a word for for Joan and for Pauline. And then just any of the people on the screen, feel free to unmute yourselves just when you want to. In the chat. Just start writing, typing as you see or sense anything. I know it’s a little bit trickier when there’s two people. Um, you’re multitasking here, but this is deeper and you’re more than capable. And you may only have words for one or the other and that’s okay too. Um, if you find it too hard to focus on both, ask the Lord to give you words for one and between all of us, I’m sure we’ll have something.

Okay, I’m going to go for you Joan to start with. Um, I um I hear the words joyful warrior over you and I actually see you with a bow and arrow and it’s a big bow and arrow and you are dancing and um I believe that um well the joy of the Lord is your strength. Um, but I believe the Lord, I just want to commend you for how you have sought light. His his yoke is easy and his burden is light. And I believe you’ve sought lightness and ease even in the midst of warfare. Um, and I feel the Lord would want to commend you with that and say, “Well done, good and faithful servant.” Well done, good and faithful servant. I see you and I love you. And well done, good and faithful servant. And I see victory over you. I see victory in your circumstances and victory in your life. And I believe for you, a season of summer is coming. Um, don’t you perceive it. See, it springs up. Don’t you perceive it. Um, oh, it’s not coming to me, but you know the verse I’m talking about. See, I’m doing a new thing. Um, yeah. But well done, good and faithful servant.

Um, for you Joan? I I felt that you were like I just see this wild flower. Um, and I had my eyes closed praying and I saw this a wild flower growing up and it had been growing up very tall and then all of a sudden boom, it bursts into full bloom. And then when I open my eyes, I actually noticed you like, well, it’s not a wild flower. It’s like a palm tree in your background there. And I thought, well, that’s really funny. But I feel like you’re coming into a season of full bloom. I feel like God’s bringing you into just a newness and there’s a richness to it and there’s like a full bloom. And that’s the words I keep hearing was full bloom. That you’ve been dug deep, growing down, and you’ve been growing up, and then all of a sudden it’s like this burst comes and you come into full bloom.

Thanks, Ellen. Folks, let’s just keep going. Just speak for Joan. Uh Joan, I see that there’s something about where you love to make people laugh. It’s like a um the word that kept coming was almost like um comedy like um you know because you’re just so joyful around people and Beck already mentioned that about the joyful but there’s something about the your manner or whatever that causes people to to laugh and it’s a real gift that God’s given you. Um and I just saw that there was a doorway over to the side there of you. It’s it’s into something. You’re leaving one arena and going into another through this doorway and there’s an expansion on the other side of that doorway. There’s like um a lot more people and it’s almost like you know these people and you’re um as you walk through and you’re embracing and you’re you’re um people are greeting you. Um, I’m not sure whether it has to do with just this expansion in um how your of ministry or um or or even whether it’s another place that you’re going to or the Lord’s leading you into, but it is um I keep seeing the word expansion in that. So, I hope that makes sense for me.

Yeah. Anybody else? Um, Morinia.

Yeah, good morning. Um, I’m specifically focusing on Joan now. And, um, I just watching the rolling waves moving backwards and forwards, backwards and forwards, um, on your background. And uh God was just saying to me that um you may be feeling like life has been pulling you backwards and forwards, feeling like it’s tossing you around at times, feeling that you’re not reaching that goal or that breakthrough that you praying for. But um God says uh speak life into your into your situation. Don’t uh give up. Just as the the waves rolls backwards and forwards, uh keep speaking life over your um over that dream, over dream, over that situation that you’re praying for because because um God knows what you need.

Thank you. Thank you. Thanks, Anybody else or is that it? Is that you all made this? No, no. I I’m I have something for Pauline.

Yeah, go ahead. Um it’s just kind of forming, Pauline. But um uh I see like w like little um windscreen wipers on your glasses and like the rain has been coming and coming and coming and and these windscreen wipers have been going. Um it’s like you’ve been really trying um and really persevering. persevering. Um, and in a sense, I feel the Lord would say, he honors your faithfulness. I I think I gave a similar something to Joan there. But he honors your faithfulness, too. And he sees you seeking. And he sees you looking. And he sees you trying. And oh, how he loves you, Pauline. Oh, how he loves you. Um, and that um I Ive I’ve I’ve never heard of these lyrics before, but these lyrics came into my mind and I’ve just Googled them and there’s a whole song. He knew. Um, but I kept getting pull back the curtains, let the light in. In my head, it was po pull back the curtains, let the light. I don’t know. Anyway, I’ll not I’ll not try and sing it anymore. But I felt I felt him. I felt the words, “Not everything has to be heavy and not everything has to be hard.” And then the song came to me, “Pull back the curtains, let the light in.” Um, and and I’ll not read the whole thing cuz it’s it’s quite long, but open these windows, open these doors. Darkness can’t hide in this house anymore. Pull back the curtains, let the light in. Let the world see who is living inside. living inside. um pick up these pieces of pain and regret scattered out on the floor cuz inside these walls and you heart is beating and you’re not alone anymore. And I just felt in that um you he created you and he knit you together exactly as he wanted you to be. Don’t hold back. Don’t hold back. And I think there’s something in that just trusting that he’s got you and he’s got the right friendship group for you. uh the deep friendships maybe perhaps that you long for and the connections um and there they they there they will be people who will come alongside you who will get you and you don’t need to hide and you don’t need to worry um because he has that for you and he has that for you because he loves you deeply and he is so proud of you and he has such purpose for you Pauline um and I actually just think that he is just um you he is just at the start of doing something in you um and growing you and developing you. Um so keep going.

Hope that’s encouraging. Thanks Max. Uh Becky mentioned about uh dark heavy curtains curtains and that was one thing I was looking at at your p picture about the curtains behind. I’m thinking was there anything there? Well, nothing obvious came to me anyway until what Becky said. But what did strike me when um you first came on, Craig I think mentioned about you always prophesying for other people or something like that. There was some some mention something like that and your reaction reaction and of and also Craig said about you not having been prophesied certainly in this group before but your reaction sort of implied to me that this was a pattern of not being prophesied over or or escaping people’s attention or something like that that I just feel the Lord sees you and you have his attention. attention.

Thanks, Thanks, Jonathan. Thanks, Jonathan. Yeah. Um, yeah, Paulina, I I saw you wearing a Mexican Mexican sombrero. Um, one of those big Mexican hats and I was when I was looking up at my phone there and sombrero literally means shade. uh which I thought’s interesting with the curtains and it’s interesting with what Jonathan has just said as well that you kind of stay in the shade. Um and and I just feel like the Lord is calling you to come out of the shade. Um and to to let the light um that that you are someone who and even just with what Jonathan said there, you you will defer to others and you will let others receive. And sometimes I think maybe the struggle is to receive yourself. Um, and I just I feel like the Lord is saying come out of the shade. Um, and step into the sun. Um, open the curtains, let the light shine. And and and and I don’t think you hide. I don’t think it’s hiding. I think it’s more humility and deferring. Um, and I just I feel like the Lord has said, I want you to step into the light. And uh I I just for some reason when I saw I I kept looking at the name Pauline and I this is where I my again for this is where my mind goes. I thought of Pauline and I thought of the Pauline epistles uh those letters written by Paul in the New Testament. So when I thought that I thought okay why would I think that and I just felt it was something about writing. There was something that the Lord had given you that you were to impart that you were to teach. There were lessons you had learned that you were to pass on and that you are a woman who knows the word and you h but there’s things that you’ve been through. There’s things that you understand. There’s things you know and he wants you to eat the word and speak the word and actually as you do that it will open hearts but it will open doors for you. So I saw Pauling epistles that it’s time to actually write the things and I feel h that that’s maybe something you’ve sensed and and for Joan just uh very quickly I I along with others I I felt there was like a shift coming in some area and particularly I could and these are these all could be wrong. Okay. So when we do this we can be wrong. I just felt it was something to do with work that there was some new maybe not a new not a complete career shift but a movement or something new within your role or your job was coming. Um I don’t know what that is but I just I felt like yeah like yeah like others they so I see your joy that’s natural to see but you’re also I think a very you’re a thinker. You’re a cerebral person and I just I feel like you’ve been going through a season where the Lord has been reigniting some of your senses and your emotions and that you’re coming alive and and I just I think the Lord delights in that that there is this you know some people talk about being rightrained or leftrained or logical and rational or emotional and creative and actually I just I think you encapsulate all of that. Um, and not to pigeonhole yourself into being in one category or the other because you’re so much bigger than that box, but I just I saw something about a a movement to do with your just whether it’s a a promotion or some sort of shift to do with your job. Um, I’m not sure what that is, but that’s what I saw for you. I’m going to leave it there h for now.

Becky, what have people shared in the chat?

Um, yeah, Pauline, don’t shy away. Let yourself be shown in the light. come out of the shadows. Um Um me Pauline, I see something about the lion, the witch in the wardrobe, the chronicles of CS Lewis, and I see you like the little girl who was close to Alan, the one who had the relationship where others might be afraid to approach the lion, but you know him. He invites you close to him, by his side, and you can trust him. So, there’s special things he shares with you, and you’ve been brave to go beyond and dig a little deeper and go a little closer. um you’ve been spending a little time um a little more time and it’s so pleasing to the father that you’ve trusted him and led him that close um because you have found how you can trust him. He’s the great lion. Um and he’s pouring his kindness out to you and courage. I hear the word courage. Um there’s a lot here. Uh Joan, um I could be totally off here, but I keep getting children’s books as I see you could be leading children in ministry somehow. I think it might be a mothering spirit that is over you to minister to little ones. Um could be in the natural or spiritually young believers. Um Pauline, God will do what he said he would do. Uh yes, Joan, I just see a fresh wave of his peace coming for coming for you. And there’s more there. There’s more there, but guys, I can it’ll take a little while to decipher those in this particular case, but bear with me. If you email me, I will send you them.

Uh let’s go to Joan first. Joan, h did any of that resonate with you? You’re muted. You’re still muted. Still muted. Still Can muted. Can Sorry, I didn’t realize I was mute. That’s okay. I thought maybe it was on our side. Okay, go ahead.

Yeah. Yeah. One of the areas about somebody said about the joy and the comedy and my pastor actually announced that I was a church comedian and I do get invited to get be MC’s at different events and do jokes. They people laugh at my jokes even when I’m not even joking. They think I’m joking. So, and more and more people are asking me to be the MC at their wedding or at birthday dues or at some big events that they’re doing because they say that people find me encouraging and they always laugh at whatever I say. So, that’s definitely true. Um, I’ve literally just written a book. It’s for everybody. So, you mentioned about having different sides to me. So I’m sort of really I joke around a lot but I am also very serious when it comes to the things of God and I’ve just written the book and it’s been selling really really great and what for me it’s to get people in the word of God reading God’s word and applying it to their life as well. So that’s been really good. And my pastor was recently asked me, somebody mentioned about children’s ministry. But with um disciplehip, I love new Christians. I just love new Christians because they just come from a different angle and perspective and stuff. So I like doing disciplehip classes and sort of building young people up in the things of God. Yeah. And I have a children’s ministry in Kenya with lots of children. I haven’t got my own, but I’ve got lots of children.

Fantastic. So that’s on Joy. Um, and Pauline, what about you? Just think we’re good.

Um, yeah, I feel like Robin had something to say and she kept um unmuting herself and then um didn’t get a chance. Okay. Is there something else? Okay. If she of course. Yeah. No, if if you do, Robin, if you don’t Oh, yeah. It was something um to do what I what I heard. What I heard straight away as soon as I looked at you, Pauline, was there’s something of a yearning and there’s a yearning in your heart and I believe someone in the chat sort of mentioned something about it and it has to do with the father and there’s that which is a deep yearning within you is going to come from that um the love of the father into your life. And I just saw that this is this is the time right now to really press into that that aspect. Yeah. To um to to know that you’re known, which I know a few people have said that, but it’s got to do with belonging. It’s got to do with a whole lot of areas of your heart which which only the father can can give you in this time. Yeah. Yeah. That’s all. That’s all. Thanks.

Any other feedback, Pauline? Yeah, go ahead.

Yeah. Um I mean I have always dabbled in writing always from like I can never remember creativity, drama, performing. Um I went to drama college. I was a drama teacher. Um and then I became quite ill. Had me for 11 years. um and had cancer as well. And um but then I did an MA in creative writing, right? Um so um I have a stage play on my computer that’s never done anything. I have half a screenplay that’s never done anything. I’ve got a series of Christian children’s books that were with publishers and nothing has ever happened because the publisher had

To close. And so there's like all these doors open and then close. Open and then close. Open and then close. Um, and I started writing a novel for older teens about a year and a half ago. Um, I’ve written about 20,000 words of that. Um, I’ve never written a novel before. Novel. I was I was told in my masters, “You write dialogue because you’re a dramatist. You don’t write novels. You just write dialogue.” So to start writing a novel was like completely to have to write narrative was was um uh and I I’ve got stuck in that in a messy middle and I don’t really know how to break through that um to push through, but I definitely want to write the novel because I feel like for teenagers or teens I want to write something that’s real um anyway and um but pointing to God, God um I have uh somebody at church told me recently I have an encyclopedia of words. Um and so yeah, I’ve started researching things. I I feel like I’ve got a list of things I want to research and write books about and maybe podcast about. I don’t know. Um so I’ve started researching deliverance, but me and my friend want to research the Kelts and Celtic Christianity. There’s a lot. I just there’s like, you know, Yeah. Then I really want to move back to Northern Ireland. I know you do. My husband can’t find a job there and that’s really frustrating me because I last week I was writing through everything that you were telling us and and I just sat in tears going, “My heart is in Northern Ireland and I’m tethered to England and I don’t want to live here anymore,” and I’ve not wanted to live here for a long time and I just don’t know how to get back to Northern Ireland. Um but yeah, and the courage and stepping out and yeah, all of that. Um and I’ve spent the last year and a half praying every day just warring, warring, trying to get closer to God, trying to go deeper, feeling like I’m nowhere near there and frustrated and yeah.

Okay. Father, we just release your blessing over Joan and Pauling. We thank you for how you’ve spoken to them. And Lord, we just ask that your words would come to fruition and Lord God, that you would lead, guide, and direct them. That you would open doors that only you can open. And Lord God, that the joy of the Lord would be their strength. And that you would give them strategies and blueprints as you lead them forward. And so we bless them today. Jesus name. Amen. Amen.

Okay folks, I’m conscious of time here. Who hasn’t yet been prophesied over? Um, we may have to do this a little bit even more creatively than that. Who has not um been prophesied over? How many have you’re muted, Max? Will you unmute? Gosh, I’m not doing well with that today. Robin, I’m saying Robin hasn’t been prophesied over. Oh, really? Again, someone who prophesies. Who else hasn’t? Yeah. And uh Hannah. Hannah. Let’s bring Hannah in. Who else? Let’s bring them in. Another one who hasn’t been prophesied over. Uh Hope. Hope. Let’s bring Listen, anyone? Let’s bring people in. Everyone. You want everyone who has Yeah. Let’s listen. We are the wise. Yeah. Okay. Rita, I see. Let’s do something a little bit different. Jonathan, I see you. Uh can’t be too many more, I don’t think. Uh, Morin, you haven’t been prophesied over. No, that’s Spotlight. And And Lady Lady and Ali, can I get you on the screen, Alisa? Let’s see. No, but if I take myself off, I can get you on. So, let me do do that. Yeah. No, I No, I see. Yeah. Uh, so who was the last one there? And Alisa Cole. I think that’s everyone. Is it? Okay. If you if you put up your hand if you haven’t been um prophesied over, but I think I’ve got everything. Hopefully that’s I just think Okay, listen. We’re going to We want everyone to receive at least something from the Lord. And so we’ve got Robin, Hannah, Hope, Rita, Jonathan, Morin, L, and Alisa. Isn’t that right? And so why don’t we just do uh I know this is a little bit different. So, we’re going to just ask the Holy Spirit to speak to each person and then so it doesn’t get completely chaotic. Um, just if let’s not talk over each other, but so if you do start talking and somebody else does, just but say who you are. Um, so if it’s Becky, it’s Becky here. I want to speak to Hope and we’ll try it like that and we’ll see where we get to and we want everyone to at least receive something.

So, Father, we thank you for Robin and Hannah and Hope and Rita and Jonathan and Morin and L and Elisa. And Lord, even in these moments, we know that you know each one of them. And so, Lord, we just ask for just even a simple word of encouragement, edification, encouragement, edification, clarification for them. Lord, that you would speak to each one of them that you would um let them know that they’re seen, known, and loved in Jesus name. Amen.

So folks, let’s just take a few moments and uh actually why don’t we do this for anyone who has something Becky, can you see everybody else? Uh I can if I scroll here. There’s two more actually. You’re telling me they’ve put their hands up, but um Okay. Okay. Listen, we’ll do what we can do here now. Yeah. Um, if you want, yeah, listen, just know. Why don’t we just say do what we did a minute ago. If you want to share something that you see or sense, just say who you are and who it’s for, and we’ll take it from there. Hopefully, it’ll not get too chaotic. Now, this is Luke. And I see something. I think it’s for Marine. And it may be for someone else too. U Marine in John 11:25 says, “Jesus said to her, ‘I am the resurrection and the life, and whoever believes in me, though he die, yet he shall live. And everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die.’ Do you believe this?” And I just felt like the Lord just asking, do you believe that he is who he says he is and that he’s going to do what he says he’s going to do? And that that part of you that um that is eternal, your spirit is is never going to die. That’s a promise we have from from the father. And that’s a promise for you is that you you he loves you and uh yeah and he’s he’s got you and you will never die. Do you believe who he is? That he Do you believe that he is who he says he is and that he can do what he says he’s going to do and that he can make all things new because he is the he is the one who makes all things new. New. Thank Thank you. Everybody else just go ahead.

Um it’s Pauline for Lad. Lad. Um, I see the the picture behind you and it’s look it looks quite fractured. Um, and it looks a bit chaotic and and I hear the spirit of the Lord say there’s been chaos around you for a while. Um, but also the light is shining over the the picture behind you. And And so you have maybe felt sometimes that you’re on your own and that you’re trying to deal with the chaos by yourself and but God has always been with you and he is your king. Your name is is king. He has always been with you. Your king, your father, your lord, your savior, your healer, your deliverer. He has always been with you and he has always been holding you. And actually that light is shining right above your head like almost centrally above your head. And so the Lord is shining on you and that chaos is going to break. That chaos is going to go and the Lord trust trust trust trust trust in the Lord. Thanks. Thanks Thanks. Thanks Pauline. Go ahead, anyone? Yeah, go ahead.

Um, so for hope as soon as I saw you, I heard um you’re a spiritual athlete and then I noticed you have an under arour um sweatshirt on and I felt like the Lord was saying you wear his armor well. Um, but then I got more clarity and it’s not just you’re a spiritual athlete, but you’re actually a weightlifter. And people that lift weights, when they start getting too comfortable or too um settled in a level, they need to add more weights so that they can continue to build their strength. And I felt like you are a weight lifter. Not only that you have a greater capacity to lift heavier weights, but you are a lifter of weight for others that um when you pray, you lift weights off of people um that um are are not as strong as you are in the Lord that feel like they’re being crushed by weights. So, I feel like the Lord’s wanting to increase your increase your authority by adding weight. And it may feel a little unsettling and a little uncomfortable, but it’s not to crush you. It’s to actually give you greater strength and a greater level of authority so that you um have the strength to lift weights off of people. Thanks, else? Um, Morin. Um, I just got that. Um, I think it’s a nursery rhyme. Turn that frown upside down. Um, which is a bit random, but I just felt the Lord saying, “Refuse to partner with anything but hope. Just refuse. Refuse.” Absolutely. Absolutely. Vehemently, is that the right word? Refuse to partner with anything but hope. Hope. Um, and declare, Craig spoke about it this morning, declare his truth over your life. So, you may not feel it, you may not be seeing it in your circumstances, but I feel the challenge of the Lord. Declare my truth over your life in I feel I almost see Oh, something just smashed back here. I almost feel a smash. I feel the Lord with his fist saying enough. Enough. Refuse to partner with anything but hope. I hope that’s encouraging to you. I’ve felt him speak that to me over my life. I I I can honestly I have a tendency sometimes to I can see and sometimes I can look towards the negative. It comes too easy for me sometimes. And I and I I just was reminded of that as I saw you and refuse and and the Lord is on your side and he’s got you turn that frown and expect the goodness of the Lord to follow you all the days of your life. He has such goodness for you. Such goodness for you. So that’s for you um Moren. And then Lad, oh you are fierce in the kingdom. That’s what I felt. You are fierce and you’re not somebody who is boring or dull, but I got in a sense that maybe you in some way like the true you, the real you has somehow been dulled a little bit. And I feel that the Lord is saying, “Let it out. Let it out. It is time to let the inner to the outer if that makes sense.” Um, and I feel that there’s teaching on there’s such authority on you, L. There’s such authority. So I felt open your mouth and use it. Speak and use your voice. You carry authority. I think you carry authority in the spiritual world through your prayers and in your warfare. You hit the mark. The target is on when you pray. Um but also I feel that there’s something about discipleship or teaching preaching the word upon you in your life. You carry authority with that and a beautiful wisdom. um and the life and the color and the vibrancy that he has put within you that maybe has been dulled. It is time for that to come out. Um to let it out. Um that’s that’s all I’ve got for now. Okay. Thanks, Pex. Anybody else? Anybody else? Um Zela here. I’ve got I think it’s for Rea, but I think it might also be Hannah. And I got Psalm 18. So, I’m just going to read it to you out of the passion passion translation. Um, verse two. Yahweh, you’re the bedrock beneath my feet, my faith fortress, my wonderful deliverer, my God, my rock, my rescuer where none can reach me. You’re the shield around me, the mighty power that saves me and my high place. All I need to do is to call on you, Yahweh, the praiseworthy God. When I do, I’m safe and sound in you. You. Thank you. That’s all. That’s great. Thank you.

Um it’s Pauline. Pauline. Um for Um for Alisa. Um so I I noticed that I can just about see about see you. Um you. Um and your background is very blurred and um quite plain and so I just sense that you don’t want to be seen. You are you’re trying you’ve been trying to hide. Um you are you’re more than happy in the background. You’re more than happy than happy to yeah to to just be for people not to see see you. But God wants you to know that he wants you to be seen. He wants you to raise your head above the parapet. He wants you to do the things that he has given you to do. Your gifts are not meant to be hidden. They’re not meant to be put in a box. So, a gift is obviously, you know, it can be put in a box and it can have a lovely bow around it. And um but God wants you not to put that box away in the corner and not open it. Take off the bow. Yeah. Okay. It’s a pretty bow, but you don’t need the bow. Um open the box and what is inside it? Take it out and start to use it because God has more for you. God has so much more for you. And he he just he wants you to start using your gifts. Use your gifts. Thank you, Pauline. Amen. Pauline and Lisa, everything Pauline said is what I’ve written down um here in my diary pretty much. Step into the forefront. Stop placing yourself in the background. And I just felt the cry of the Lord to say yes. Say yes when the next opportunity comes and to step into the forefront. Forefront. Yeah. No, I I felt the same for you, Alisa. I saw a box that said fragile, handled with care, but actually what was inside it was actually quite robust and quite strong. And I actually just felt like um you have more strength than other people see. And maybe you’ve been put in a box and and uh and and and and people feel like you’re more fragile, but actually there is a robustness and an inner strength in you because of what you’ve walked through. And there is this sense where the Lord then wants you to start actually walking in that strength. Um and uh that yeah maybe that people haven’t handled your heart with care in the past but actually some of that has led to a resilience and a strength that you have now. Uh before I go on to anyone else is there anyone else here who just wants to share something just we were with Alisa there so I thought I’d jump in. Yeah I have something for Rita it is Rita is it Rita? Um, Rita, I um just felt that you actually have a real gift in evangelism. Um, I don’t know if you feel that you remind me of someone um, and she’s incredible at stepping out into evangelism. She also doesn’t realize the gift that is on her life and she doesn’t realize the blessing that she is to many, many other people. And so, I want to encourage you, Rita, and I want to tell you that you are a blessing to many, many others. And you move in his spirit, in the ways of his spirit. Um, and you hear accurately more than you realize and more than you think. Um, so just want to encourage you with that and to step out more um into evangelism if you’re not already doing it. I believe the Lord has placed a gift upon you. Um, and it’s beautiful. Um, so yeah, just while Becky’s on Rita, let me jump in. I when I looked at the name Rita, I thought of Rita Springer, who’s a worship leader. Um you maybe have never heard of her. H but she’s a quite a well-known worship leader. She’s um age is all relative. She’s been around for a while. Um and so when I thought of Rita Springer, I go, why do I think of Springer? And then I thought of a spring. This is the way I’m just showing you how I think. And I then immediately thought of that that bounce back ability. And I felt like that was that I kept thinking that that there I kept sensing that there you have this bounce back ability. You have this resilience within you that that keeps bouncing back that uh when you get knocked down. I I I kept hearing the Chumba Womba song, “I get knocked down, but I get up again. You’re never going to keep me down.” And I feel like that has been part of your experience where there has been this knock. Uh there’s been this opposition. There’s been stuff that you’ve walked through and every for some other people, one of those alone would have been enough to take them out. But you have this resilience and this bounceback ability. And I almost thought of the second Corinthians where Paul talks about the stuff he has walked through, but he talks he says he calls them light and momentary afflictions. And when you read them, you’re like seriously like those that was, you know, I was beaten with rods. I was you stoned. Stoned. And he calls them light and momentary afflictions because of the prize set before him. And I just feel like you have walked through so much that you don’t even realize at times, but it has developed within you this resilience and this bounceback ability that you have and that will sustain you. And it is just a gift. And I just feel like the Lord wants to acknowledge that within you, Rita. Uh that that that he sees your resilience. He sees what you’ve walked through. He sees that things that would have kept other people down, that would have made other people bitter, that would have caused other people to step out, you have continued to step in and to step up, and he wants to honor that within you. Uh, anyone else got anything. It’s Pauline. Okay, we need to keep them brief, Pauline. So, just keep it. Okay. For Robin. Okay. Um just the God wants you to know you’re not forgotten and you have felt forgotten. Um but he wants you to know that you’re not and he wants you to know that you are so loved by him and uh yeah just know that you are not forgotten. Forgotten. Brilliant. Anybody else? Craig, this is Hope. Hey Hope. Yeah. C can I just give really quick uh Hannah? Yeah, please do. Yeah. Yeah. Uh Hannah, uh I keep looking at you. I I I see a purity. It it’s it’s this innocence and purity and almost like uh it reminds me of Psalms 51 where God uh uh is is cleansing, making whitest hissup. I feel like God has just cleansed you. Um I I don’t know you know what you might have been carrying but I feel like God has cleansed you and purified you. You are exuding almost this purity and this innocence and it’s you’re carrying his glory and his anointing. Anointing. Um he you’re his representation. So wherever he is taking you in your steps, uh just know that you are displaying his image. Uh people are seeing it and they’re feeling it. Um and he cleansed you because he’s got a he’s got a greater work for you and people need to see more of the image of God. So just know that uh he he he’s cleansed you. Whatever that whatever might have been hanging over you, it’s gone. It’s in the sea of forgetfulness and he has he has purified you to now move forward to do whatever it is he has for you to do but continue to carry his glory and his anointing. Um and for Jonathan uh Jonathan I feel as go as God is saying he is he is um he is pleased with the fact that you are a studyer of his word. Um, you are, you remind me of of a philosopher. Um, you want to teach the word, you want to speak about the word to others. Uh, but one of the biggest things for you is you you have to study it and you have to know it and feel it and and and truly understand it in order for you to begin speaking to others about it. But he is he’s pleased with the fact that you have found his word fulfilling. Um continue to dive deep in that. Um because there’s other greater mysteries that you have not found yet. There’s other treasures. So continue to dig deep into his word because he has more to give you uh that you you can’t even imagine um that he will later use for you when it comes to uh teaching his word to others. And that’s all I have. Thanks. Thank you. Anybody else? We’re nearly done here. Um Craig, it’s Tracy. I’d like to pray for L if that’s okay. Yeah, just again let’s keep it. Can we just keep it real brief very quickly? I just was, you know, again looking at the background

Of what you're doing. I see this anointing on you to bring order to chaos. And even that gold ball in the middle of the picture behind you made me think of the banging gong or clanging symbol where things that have a lack of love has caused things to go out of order and ungodly, a chaotic situation. God is giving you revelation. It's like a counselor anointing. I don't know if you do counseling, but it's like you get wisdom from heaven to know how to speak into a situation and bring the wisdom of heaven to bring order into chaos. So, I bless you in that.

Thank you for that. Thank you. Anybody else? I just want to affirm Hope really quickly. Hope, um, you have a real gift of seeing in the spirit. I think you're a seer. I think, um, and if not, I believe that he is increasing that greater clarity and greater vision, um, for you. You see with sharpness and accuracy, um, so continue to step into that and you carry authority in that. There's authority in your voice and it is so beautiful and refreshing. Um, and very quickly, Jonathan, I just felt, um, something similar to what Hope had said actually, um, just the way you see things. She described you as a professor. I, I sort of saw that in terms of you see things differently, you look at things in a different way. And I think sometimes when we see things differently to others, we can think we're wrong. But actually, I think the Lord just wants to affirm in you that he's given you that gifting for a reason. Um, and, um, and and continue to push into that and step into that. Um, and I believe there's a level of discernment that is developing even further within you. Um, and and there's just elevation. I see elevation for you in your life and in your role.

Um, and just very quickly, and I could be completely wrong here, Hannah, but I just felt the phrase, "yes, you may." Um, that there's, um, there's a freedom to step into something. Um, you have the approval. Um, but weigh that and see.

Um, and Brett, he loves your independence. Robin. Robin. Oh, Robin. Robin, he loves your independence in you that brings such a strength. You travel light. I, I the sense you kind of travel light in many ways. Um, and and you can kind of you can pick things up and you can set them down easily and and just you've just a real independence and a strength. Um, and yeah, um, that's what I see over you and that's a gift. Um, that's all I have.

Brilliant. Let me just finish up with a few and then we were we just conscious of time here. Uh, Robin, you, uh, for you. I, I saw I, I thought of Robin Hood and when I do that I think of why he was someone who took from the rich to give to the poor and I just I, I then said, "Lord, what does that mean?" And I felt that you have a real sense of justice, you have a real sense of righteousness and, uh, and a real sense of truth and that you don't stand for falsehood that you have a heart for those who are overlooked and, uh, and anything that smacks off of, uh, pride or arrogance you've just no time for. But for those who aren't seen, for those who would be, uh, cast aside, uh, the Lord has given you a heart. And I also just felt like there was this sense where the Lord wants to say, "I, I am going to vindicate you." And I don't know what that means, but I just I really felt like the Lord wanted you to know, um, that there's vindication. I kept getting drawn to the "why" in your name because Robin obviously can be spelled with an "I". And I just felt like there was this question "why". Um, and I just felt like the Lord says, "I'm going to vindicate you. I will show you why." And I don't know what that means, but I'm going to leave that with you.

Hannah. For some reason, I kept getting drawn to the fact and I've never noticed this with the name Hannah that if you spell Hannah backwards, it spells Hannah. And, uh, and I just I kept getting drawn to that. And I just feel like maybe it's again, we're not going to be able to hear from you all. So, but you can weigh them up and let me know. I just felt there's this sense of being pulled backwards and forwards in life that it feels like sometimes you're going that way, but then you two steps forward, one step back, or one step forward, two steps back. And I felt that this has been kind of your life of just going back and forth but never really feeling like you're making any progress. But actually I felt that the Lord would say to you that that is no longer going to be the case. And also I just I kept hearing just that there's this flexibility and adaptability with you that he loves. Um, and that, uh, and you might not even realize it, but that you, um, I just I feel like if the Lord were to say to you, "move tomorrow," you would just go in obedience to his word. There's this there's there's there's a lack of rigidity with you. And maybe that again I got that from the flexibility of of Hannah being forward and backwards. But actually within that, it has brought this this sense of, "Lord, whatever you want, I want. Whatever you say, I say. I, I, I, I will I will do it." And I then looked and I, I saw "aha" from your name. Aha. And I almost felt like it was like aha. There's going to be this moment of surprise. There's going to be this moment of aha where things are going to click into place.

And Morin, just for you really quickly is the last one here. I saw your name Morin James, but I immediately what I saw on the screen was Morin Jones. And we had I know a lady here who is a Bible teacher who mentors women. And so when I saw that I just I felt that there was something, uh, about you ministering to women that you over a long term pouring strength into other women that the Lord is going to gift you increasingly to minister to other women. And I was drawn to the two E's in your name. And there's a mo again I just I'm expressing where I get this. There's a mobile network or a cell phone network here called Double E. And I just thought it was going to be part of some sort of network. There was going to be some sort of network of women where you would communicate and where you would help other women to come into a fuller experience of their identity in Christ and to walk in that. And so we will leave that there.

Um, let me know. Would you guys if you could the people on the screen let me know what landed with you and then I can h it's going to be tricky because I don't want to send it to the other group. I think we've most of the names here. We can send it to you if we can. Becky, my administrator will figure that out. Yeah, you're you're really apt technical administrator here.

Um, Craig, there are two others who just didn't get in the screen. Okay, listen. Let's spend two minutes because I want everyone I don't want two people to be left out. So, we bless everyone in the screen. We pray that this has been encouraging for you and that the Lord has spoken to you. But, let's bring in the last two. We will spend about three minutes here. Um, and just we will just h share what we see with because I don't want there to be two people that would be unjust. Um, in my head I have Karine. Is that right? Karine and Karen. Karen, are you there? There. Karina, I'm going to just mute you for a moment. And Karen, if you're on, you need your camera on just to be honest. Yeah, we need a camera. So, if you don't have a camera. No, she's she's maybe not. Oh, we've got you. Good. Good. Coot. There we go. Brilliant. Thank you, Karen. Okay. H let's do what we do. Becky, if you'd come on to the screen as well. Uh, Father, we thank you for Karine. We thank you for Karen. Would you just speak to us that you would speak through us now in Jesus' name. And, uh, guys, why don't we just do what we did a minute ago. Just if you have anything, we're going to take about two minutes. So keep it tight. Uh, but we don't want anybody to not receive something. So if you have anything for Kar and Karen just unmute yourself, say your name and say simply say what you see, sense that the Lord is saying,

Karen, just for you, I immediately, um, get a picture in my mind of it's actually like I think it's a children's, uh, kind of picture painting or something and it's of this little girl. And, um, no, it's a bear. Well, I have two pictures actually. But the first one is that there's this little girl, um, or a little lion, sorry, is the first one. A little lion cub and in front is this huge bear standing at it. And the, um, cub opens the mouth to roar and out of his mouth comes this big roar. Um, but the little cub doesn't realize that actually his dad is standing right behind him making that little roar sound very loud. Um, and I just felt the Lord want to encourage you that whatever you're standing facing at the minute, he is right behind you. He has got your back. Um, and he is roaring into that. And then the second picture that comes to mind for you is, um, it's I think it that it's the images of of maybe Jesus standing, um, and asking a a little girl in front of him to give this tiny raggedy old doll, um, and the little girl can't see. She's reluctant, I think, to give it. And the little girl can't see that behind his back he has the most beautiful larger precious doll to exchange it for but that Jesus is asking, "Can you rel can you release give that to me first and then wait till you see." So I want to encourage you, um, if there's something that maybe you're struggling to let go of the Lord's saying, "I've got something so much better for you, so so much better for you," um, so that's for you Karen. Brilliant. If there's one or two others not have time for it but if there's one or two others want to come in and just say your name and maybe you're just typing. That's okay. okay.

Um, yeah, Karine, I will I since Becky, uh, yeah, Karine, I, I just I was drawn to look up your name and it means beloved and I just feel like the Lord wants to affirm, uh, that you are his beloved and that, um, I just think he wants to say that you're seen and he has seen you and, uh, and I just, um, let me Yeah, I, I was drawn to your last name as well, Quirk. And I, I, I immediately saw the word quirk. Again, this is just the way my mind works. And I just felt like you you can be a bit quirky. Um, and that you've got some idiosyncrasies as we all do. But I just I felt like the Lord said, "Lean into your difference. Lean into your distinctness. Lean into the things that that make you not like everyone or make you not to be like everyone else because h your difference is what will make the difference." I, I, I just I really felt and, uh, I just yeah at times you felt like a square peg in a round hole and I know I say that different times but again I as I often say don't change your shape to fit into somewhere you're not meant to be and so I saw the word quirk but I also saw the word quick and I felt like there's maybe something that has been slow and slow and slow in coming but it's going to happen quickly that there is an acceleration coming and so I just I think of that verse I think it's an Amos where it says in in the message translation your head will spin that there will be a quickness there will that will will come to the the the area of your life where there's been slowness where there will be a quickness but, uh, lean into your quirkness lean into your difference lean into what makes you distinct don't mute it don't water it down but actually express it fully for there is something that the Lord, uh, h wants to use he has designed you to be the way you are.

Becky, what are people sharing in the chat. Um, second, sorry. Can I could I add to what you're saying, Miss Marielle? Hi, Mar. Uh, Karine, I was also drawn to your last name and what I heard was quack. Um, but I felt like the Lord was saying that he was making you like a duck where any offenses or any accusations or any words that people threw against you were just going to rub off your back and they were just going to slide off and it wasn't going to stick to you anymore. Um, and and and then I was led to, you know, the trying to fit in. It's like he's not made you a duck, he's made you a swan. And so when other people are trying to fit you into this mold, um, because that's what people expect, um, lean into that difference as Craig said because you're a swan you're not called to be just a duck.

Brilliant. Brilliant. Could I have quickly a word for both both the ladies? Yeah. Yeah. Just keep it tight but go ahead please. Yeah. Very quickly. Um, there's been a turbulence almost like a, um, an upsetting time that's happened with yourself or with your family, but the Lord's saying that he's bringing, um, a peace into those zones. He's going to, um, move in the midst of it and bring a peace into it. And for Karen that there's, um, there's this aspect of a changing in your thinking. He's bringing you into a new realm of thinking. Um, it's almost like the things that you have been, uh, in your thinking, your knowledge or whatever has has become an outof-date thing, but now he's going to bring a refreshing and a renewing in your mind, a change in your thinking. So there's change ahead for you as the Lord's doing.

Bless you. Thank you. Listen, we can't just if there's a few more comments, Becky, just to read, we don't have time for people to jump in. I'm just I'm so conscious of time here. Um, yeah, apparently saw the word priority. Felt the Lord wanted to encourage you that you are his priorities, heard your prayers, wants to reassure he's currently working on them. And there's more to that. Um, uh, Karine, I saw the verse about the first being last and the last being first. And I felt the Lord say that sometimes you feel last in things, but he just wanted to say that you are first in him. And it's like you have this beautiful relationship with the Lord. Um, and Karine, yeah, I felt personally stand up and make yourself visible to others. Um, no, I hang on. I think that's all. That's okay. That's all I can see. I'm sorry.

No, that's great, guys. Thank you for staying on. Um, we managed to keep the teaching actually to a decent time, but because we wanted to prophesy over everyone, hopefully that's been helpful for you. Um, it's so lovely that in this group we won't be able to do that later in the second session and we won't even attempt it. Um, but it's lovely that we've all been able to at least hear receive something and I pray it has been encouraging and I hope this five weeks has been I have no idea if this will develop into something more regular. Um, I'm not going to push it in any way shape or form but if it is something you'd like to do maybe a few times a year do let me know. um, and let me know what just if if particular words landed with you, would you let me know as well? Um, I think that would be great just so that we we can be encouraged and but let me just pray for us all.

Thank you so much Lord for every person who has been part of this journey over these five weeks that has gone so quickly and Lord I just speak blessing over every person, over every home, over everything that they represent, their life, their ministry, their job, their family. Lord, we just speak blessing and favor over them. We thank you, Lord, that you have good things for us, that you have good plans and purposes for us. And Lord, would you help us to discern those things? Would you help us to walk in obedience and faithfulness to you? And would you teach us your ways? And Lord, help us to pray prophetically as we've been thinking about today. Help us to pray effectively. Help us to pray with a precision and a an effective accuracy that we would bring the kingdom, uh, of heaven to earth. That we would see things shift. Give us divine wisdom and strategies and strategies and blueprints. And Lord, I pray that we would more clearly and distinctly hear your voice in these days. And so, I just speak the blessing of God over every person under the sound of my voice. I bless you in the name of the father. I bless you in the name of the son and I bless you in the name of the holy spirit. Amen.

Folks, thank you so much for being part of deeper and for for joining us in this journey. I hope it has been a blessing to you. Do stay in touch. Let me know what's happening in your world and we will see like I say where we go from here. But it depends on you. Uh, I we will see. But if you would like to do something else, maybe in four or five months again, we can think about that. But God bless. Have a wonderful day, night, week, wherever you are. And I look forward to hearing from you soon. Bye.