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Are you sure you're ready? Yes. I want you to grab your Bibles. We're just going to read one verse, and I will start to teach Genesis chapter 3, from verse 4 to 11. Hallelujah. [Music] Hallelujah. If you are there, shall Glory Glory. I want us all to read it together. If you can, 1, 2, 3.
And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be open, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat. And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons. And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden. And the Lord God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou? And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself. And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat? Okay, that's perfect. You may sit in Heavenly places. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
Now I am going to teach you about hearing the voice of God. Amen. Amen. Amen. This is going to be a small but impactful prophetic class, and I know after this you'll be shifted for sure. Amen. Now I want you to understand this by the Spirit of God, that it is God's perfect will for you to be able to hear His voice. God cannot be your Father, and you cannot hear His voice; it means something is completely fundamentally wrong. Because I have never met a father or a mother making it difficult for their children to hear their voice. Amen. Teaching my son—he is 15, he will be 15 years old on Friday. Amen. He, a handsome young Prophet, growing in grace. And I have another one coming in September. Now I have never made it difficult for my son to hear my voice. Every time he makes mistakes, the more I want him to hear my voice, so that he can be corrected, so that he can receive guidance, so that he does not remain in his error. Now you need to ask yourself, why is it that you struggle to hear God's voice? Yet if God's intention is to save you, then how can you be saved by God if you cannot hear Him? Help us. Amen, please. Are you sure you can hear me? So if it is impossible to hear God, then how can God have expectations of you keeping His word?
Now a lot of people don't understand that there is a great difference between Remma and Logos. The Pharisees and the Sadducees were professionals at keeping Logos, but they had zero Remma. I wish somebody could hear me. They knew what scriptures said, but they had no life or word from God Himself. The Lord Jesus said, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds—not words that proceeded, but proceed—from the mouth of God. Meaning the voice of God should be heard, live and direct, every second, every moment of your life. Amen. [Applause] Now the question is, how can my ears be opened to hear the voice of God? Teaches. Now if you read scripture, you notice something very funny. Adam and Eve sin, but they can hear God. Cain kills Abel, and he can hear God. Pharaoh in Egypt takes Abraham's wife. In the evening, God speaks to him, and he hears God, and he responds to God, and he corrects his error; gives Abraham back his wife. But he had never worshiped God; he did not know Jehovah God; he was a pagan. But you are full of the Holy Ghost, Shand, and you cannot hear from God. There is something wrong, and that error must be corrected. Amen. [Applause] How can King Nebuchadnezzar hear God, and you are born again, full of the Holy Ghost, and you can't hear Him? Uh-oh. Uh-oh. I feel like I'm talking to myself. Talking to us. Somebody shout, "Prophet, you're talking to me!" Prophet, you're talking to me! So there are a lot of doctrines that we are carrying inside of us; there, the reason that we are not hearing God. It is not even the sin. Now you notice, the more you proceed from the garden, you realize that the voice of God is becoming rarer and rarer and rarer and rarer and rarer, until it gets to the point whereby if you can prophesy and another one cannot, they call you a wizard. [Applause] Yet hearing the voice of God ought to be normal to everybody that calls the Lord Jesus their Lord and Savior. Amen. Hallelujah. Why is it that it is—it is shocking for us to hear God's voice? It means there is an error.
Now if you look at Adam and Eve, when Adam and Eve were created, they are what we call innocent. Are you hearing me? Yes. They were innocent; they were not perfect. There is no mention of Adam and Eve being perfect in the garden, except them being innocent. They had the bodies of full-grown men, but they were still maturing. There is no point that God called them perfect, nor did they possess discernment. If they had discernment, then they would have known Satan was in their midst. Come on, teach. Uh-oh. Good. All they had was instruction from God, without purely understanding. Now think about it: if you come and tell somebody who has no concept of life and death, they don't know what sin is; they have no way of computing sin. You come to them and tell them, "On the day you eat of this fruit, you shall surely die," they don't know what death is. You teaching. What is the consequence of death? Nobody has ever died. Teach. Good. Come on. So how will they understand what you mean? They have no record of anybody dying. They don't know what death is; they don't even know what it looks like to be separated from God. They have no way of thinking of anything else except what God has spoken. An example: it tells you, "And the man and the woman were naked, and they were not ashamed." Notice even the concept of shame did not exist. Yes. The reason why we cover our bodies is because of shame. You know that we go to the gym because of shame. I feel like I'm talking to myself. So that when I walk out there, they can see me; I look good. You're trying to cover up something. [Applause] Hello. It's a truth. But they had no shame; they had accepted the way they were. So the concept of shame did not exist. But when Adam and Eve sinned, when you read on in scripture, you hear people saying, "And my eyes were opened to see," and, "I heard the voice of God," and, "This word of the Lord came unto me." But I want to ask you a question: do you realize there is no record of spiritual eyes and spiritual ears being closed in scripture? Teaches. When Adam and Eve messed up, the Bible did not say their ears were shut; the Bible did not even say their spiritual eyes were shut. Actually, on the contrary, the Bible says, "And their eyes were open." Now the issue that I want you to understand is this: sin creates violence, and violence creates noise. The reason why you cannot see in the spirit is because you see with your physical eyes. When Adam and Eve's eyes were opened, is when their spiritual eyes became dull. Why? They found a means to see separate from what God was showing them. So what it did was that you have to remember whatever you give your attention to, it grows. Good. So they gave their attention to their own sight, to their own cognitive thinking, and what happened? Their eyes became dull and dull and dull. You don't hear God saying, "I shut their spiritual eyes." Nope. You don't even hear God saying, "I shut their ears." No. Their ears became dull because there were other voices speaking to them. There was internal noise that had manifested inside of them, that when God speaks with a still, small voice, you cannot hear, and you say, "Lord, speak to me," but in reality, God has been speaking, but there are other voices. Yeah. [Applause] Some of you, your bills are speaking louder than your breakthrough. Amen. Some of you, your sickness is speaking louder than your healing. Come on. Some of you, your struggle is speaking louder than the billions and the millions that God has prepared for those who love Him. The scriptures say, "The wealth of the wicked is stored up for the righteous." [Applause] But if you cannot hear God, then you cannot prosper. Fasting is important; fasting is necessary, but fasting will not make you hear God. The primary function of fasting is humbling your soul before God, and when we are in a humble or a place of humility, it is easier for us to be ministered to. But not saying that if I fast now, I begin to hear God; that is a lie. You're helping. I—I feel like—are you sure you can hear me? Yes. After this service, you begin to hear God very clearly. Amen. Amen. Hallelujah. You will know; you will hear a voice behind you that will tell you, "This is the way you ought to…" [Applause] go. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Psalms 46 and verse 10. Psalms 46 and verse number 10. Psalms 46, love you more, and Jesus loves us most. Psalms 46 and verse number 10. Uh-huh. "Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth." One more time, read that: "Be still, and know that I am God." Notice, what does it mean to be still? It means to be quiet. Come on. And the word "know" means to experience. The Bible says, "And Adam knew his wife," yes, "and begat Cain," and "said I got another man from God." So to know is not by information, according to the language of the scriptures, but to know means to physically have an encounter, yes, and an experience, yes. So in the Bible says, "Be still and know," notice it is not, "When you are still, then you will know," it says, "The moment you are still, you will know." Amen. It is an automatic response, yes, to silencing the voice of the enemy, yes. In order for God to be exalted in the world, how will God be exalted? God wants to take us in our broken state, in our scattered state, and do something with us that will be a marvel in the sight of men. So how does God receive the glory? How does God receive the honor? How is God exalted? When they look at you and they give up on you, and they see that God picked you up and did the impossible, the incredible. I feel like I'm talking to myself. If I'm talking to you, something is already coming upon you. [Applause] Hallelujah. God is exalted when a man can surrender himself before God. But your surrender is not only verbal; it is also in your stillness. Some of you can shut your mouth, but your mind is still speaking. It's true. So good. Uh-oh. Come on. It's true. Your pastor will be teaching, and you will be correcting his sermon in your head. "Oh, he didn't say that scripture right; he's not even preaching correctly; how could he say that?" And that is actually wrong. Notice, you are preaching on the pulpit while you're sitting [Music] down. You are not still; you are not qualified to hear from God. The scripture says it this way: "My words shall not return unto me void, but but it shall what? Accomplish what He was sent out to do." Now notice, when our Lord Jesus was in the wilderness, the devil did not come to Him until He had finished fasting. Yes. The Bible says, "After 40 days, then He hungered, and the devil came to Him." Yes. Noise begins when God is about to do something. Amen. [Music] Amen. You're helping. It is when God wants to elevate you that the Egyptians, the Assyrians, begin to show up. Now, now, now hear me by the Spirit of God. Hear me by the Spirit of God. Hear me by the Spirit of [Music] God. I want you to pay attention to this, and I pray that this remains in your heart. Satan was looking for a reaction from Jesus, so He waited for Jesus to be hungry, and then He presented rocks before Him and said, "If You are the Son of God, transform these stones into bread and eat." "I have never seen the righteous forsaken, or their descendants beg for bread." But You are the Son of God; how can You be hungry, yet You are in the service of God? Notice, Satan was looking for a reaction, yes, from the Lord Jesus, but God only looks for a response. Amen. That's good. Satan will do everything to provoke you to react, but all God wants you to do is to echo the word back to Him. God is looking for a response; Satan is looking for what? A reaction. That's good. He teaches to the nations. That's great. So even though the devil wanted Him to begin to work miracles to prove who He is, notice that is a reaction. Jesus did not respond to Satan; He started speaking to His Father. "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God." Notice what Jesus quoted wasn't really to the devil; it was to Himself. "Oh, in this moment of hunger, in this moment of trial, I will live because of what comes from God." He did not say these words to prove the devil; He said these words to quench His hunger. Stop responding to your haters; stop responding to your naysayers. They are looking for a reaction, but God only wants your what? Response. [Applause] Hallelujah. Listen to me, because whenever Satan comes, uh-huh, it is because there is an opportunity to infiltrate what God is doing. Uh-huh. Satan knows if He comes to you as Satan, you will reject Him. So what is His way in? He has to look for in when God is also dealing with you. Teaching. Are you teaching, sir? The reason why the bills are getting harder is because God has already said millions are coming to you, but what is your response? Oh, Hallelujah. That doctor's report came because you're healed, but what is your what? Response. They are resisting your investment because Heaven has already approved it, but what is what? Your [Applause] response. I sit for two seconds; I'm about to finish. I [Applause] promise. They say, "Take your time." You have to understand this: if you read Genesis chapter 2, verse 1, it says, "And God rested from all His work which He created and made." You have to understand, God rested when He created man. God entered into His rest. The Bible says that He has given us all things pertaining to life and godliness; that means the financial difficulty you are facing now is calling upon the finances that were already ordained from the beginning. Come on. Come on. God is not creating solutions right now; He's seated on the throne because it is already settled; it's already done. I wish somebody could hear me. [Applause] Hallelujah. Listen. Listen to what the Bible says in Revelation chapter 5: "And to the Lamb that was slain from the foundations." In the physical, the event of the crucifixion happened a little bit over two years, 2,000 years ago, yes, but in the spirit, it is actually the foundations, the pillars of what the world was created upon. Yes. So healing is not an option. Come on, please. Prosperity is not an option. God is not thinking about blessing you; God already created you established, amen, blessed and prosperous. Hallelujah. But the question is this: what is your response? Because your response determines that. I have heard the voice. When Prophet Elisha was preaching—actually, wasn't preaching, he was in the city—the word of the Lord came upon Him strong, and He got up and He said, "By this time tomorrow, the price of oil will be this much; the price of the flour will be this much." And one of the captains doubted, and he said, "This, you will not leave to see it." But notice something funny: everyone in the city was panicking because of what was about to happen; they were under siege. So no one was listening to God; everybody was listening to their stomach, and they were afraid for their lives. Come on. You're helping. But there were some lepers outside of the city. [Music] They were not experiencing what was in the city, because when you are a leper, you are rejected; you could not be among the people. So them being outside, noticed something funny: they began to say, in themselves, all of a sudden—they've been living outside the city all their life, as long as they've been sick—all of a sudden they began to say, "Listen, guys, if we stay here, we die; yeah, if we go there, we may die; yeah, what difference does it make? If we die, we die; let's go." Notice the word that the prophet prophesied in their absence; they heard it by the spirit, and the word took them to where the blessing was. Come on. And the people who audibly heard the prophet, the word never activated them to go to where their blessing was. Think about that for a second. Men that are outside of the city hear the voice by the Spirit of God, and they respond to the voice of God by having a conversation. "Listen, if we stay here, we die; if we, you know what, if we die, we die; let's go." And as they marched, the enemy heard the sound of chariots, because there was a multitude of angels that were with them. Whenever you respond to God's word, you do not move alone; you don't walk alone; there is an army that is for you. Your mother may reject you; your father may reject you; people may not believe in you, but Heaven, Hallelujah, will see that that word is fulfilled. Hallelujah. Somebody shout, "Fire!" Fire! Somebody shout, "Fire!" Touch your neighbor; say, "Neighbor, I can hear God!" Neighbor, I can hear God! Shake your neighbor; say, "Neighbor, I can hear God!" Neighbor, I can hear God! [Applause] Hear me by the Spirit of God. Hear me by the Spirit of God. I pray that you hear me by the Spirit of God. Hearing God is easy. The moment you begin to pick up clues of what Satan is doing, you already have an answer, but you're not responding to him; you're responding to God, because Satan is coming as a response of God speaking to interfere with you, so that you react and not respond. Teach. I want you to look at this scripture, and then we'll finish. Exodus 24. Exodus 24, from verse 12 to 18. Amen. Uh-huh. "And the Lord said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give thee tables of stone, and a law, and commandments which I have written; that thou mayest teach them. And Moses rose up, and his minister Joshua: and Moses went up into the mount of God. And he said unto the elders, Tarry ye here for us, until we come again unto you: and, behold, Aaron and Hur are with you: if any man have any matters to do, let him come unto them. And Moses went up into the mount, and a cloud covered the mount. And the glory of the Lord abode upon mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days: and the seventh day he called unto Moses out of the midst of the cloud. And the sight of the glory of the Lord was like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel. And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and went up into the mount: and Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights." Now notice this process is very strange. God tells Moses, "Come up to the mountain, and I will talk to you." Moses goes up into the cloud; it was the glory cloud, yes. But when he got into the glory cloud, he had to be there for six days, and God was not speaking. On the seventh day is when God speaks and tells him, "Now come close to where I am," and the glory transformed from just being a cloud, and it turned into fire, and Moses went into it, and he…
Was gone for 40 days and 40 nights. Why was Moses in the glory for 6 days? God wanted him to be quiet. Come on, so good. Come on. Many of you have treated the glory of God as an answer. No. When you experience the glory, it is God ministering to you, to show you that what you're worried about—remember last week I took care of it, the month before I took care of it, one year ago I took care of it—stop worrying and give me your full attention. Amen. Amen. And the moment you quiet, then He will tell you now. Come, what higher? Yes, come on. Some of you are here; the bills you are crying for today, you cried for them last month, and He paid them. The mortgage you're saying, where is the money going to come from this month? For 10 years you've been crying the same prayer, and every month is being paid, but every time the month is about to end you get nervous, and God is wondering, how long should I continue to show you My glory? I want you to experience My voice. Yes. So I am sustaining you, but I want to bring you to a place of Plenty. Amen. You only begin to receive Plenty when you hear His voice. Amen. It is time to move from the cloud into the Fire. Amen. Amen. It is time to move where others cannot go, but you have been permitted to go. Amen.
[Applause] Shake your neighbor. Say, "Neighbor, I can hear from God." Neighbor, I can hear from God. I want you to shake them and tell them, "Neighbor, I can hear from God. Neighbor, I can hear from God." Hallelujah.
[Applause] Mute the devil. Amen. Amen. This is why the Bible tells you this: make every thought captive; bind every thought that exalts itself above the word of God. Because anything that comes to where God is, it becomes noise, and if there is noise, you cannot hear the voice of God. You see, the voice of God is described as a still, small voice. Do you know why? It doesn't mean that God's voice is still and small. Still, really? It is true. God's voice is very calm. God is not theatrical. We human beings, when the anointing falls on us, we shout, we holler. God is consistent, but here's the problem now: God is still, the small part. Now you have to ask yourself, He says His voice is like the voice of many waters; His voice, when He spoke, the ground was shaking. That means that voice is not small, but our perception makes it what? Still and small. Why? Because whatever you give your attention to grows. When people speak about the audible voice of God, they don't understand. It is in your ability to direct your full attention to God, then the voice of God begins to sound loud. Amen.
Let me give you an example: I am very OCD, meaning if something is out of place, even if it moves an inch, I know it moved an inch. Now, sometimes when I was growing up, I'll go visit some friends, and in their house they'll have a fire, a fire alarm thing, that the battery is off.
[Music] Beep. After a few minutes, beep. But the people who live in the house, they are so used to the beep that they don't hear it anymore. Come on, teaching.
[Applause] But if you're not used to that environment, you're trying to sleep every moment.
[Applause] Beep. But to them, they have so used to it, they have in their mind, they have muted the sound. Ah, that's it; it doesn't even bother them anymore. That's good. Some of you have allowed the devil too much in your life that it has become normal to have noise in your ears. I'm here to tell you, mute and silence the devil. Amen. Amen. Amen. It is not normal to consistently and continually hear noise. Jesus says, "Cast your burdens unto Me; I care for you." You are still trying to carry your burdens because the noise is telling you, "We got to do something about it." You're not saying God has done everything about it.
[Applause] Restlessness is a sign of a devil. Whenever there is no rest in your life, it means there is a demonic influence, or a demon has entered your life. Ah, the teaching. That is why the Lord Jesus says, "Come unto Me, all those who are heavy laden, and I will give you what? Rest." Because the sign of a devil or the influence of a devil in life is that there is no rest. Psalm 23: "The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He leads me." Notice He is not guiding you; He leads you. He will say, "Hey, go this way." You are relaxed. Why? There is somebody caring for you. Yes. Satan wants you to be your own shepherd, so he can destroy you.
[Music] You have been worrying about the things you're worrying about. What changed? You just got more gray hairs and high blood pressure. Hello. Hello. It is time to hear the voice of God. Amen. Amen. I want you to rise up, and I want you to lift both your hands to the Lord, and as you lift your hands to the Lord Jesus, I want you to ask Him for the grace that you need to come out of the noise. Some of you, the echoes of rejection are still ringing in your ears. The echoes of abandonment are still ringing in your ears. The echo of struggle is still ringing in your ears. But God has made a way out for you. "Those who know their God shall be strong and shall do great exploits." It is in knowing Him, but you cannot know Him as long as you allowed... I want you to pray and ask the Lord, "Father, today thank You for this word. Give me the grace to come out of noise." Lift your voice and pray, "Father, we thank You for this word. Father, Your timely word, Father, give us the grace, oh Lord, to come out of the noise. Give us the grace, oh Lord, to mute what the enemy speaks into our lives. Give us the grace, oh Lord, to silence all things, oh Lord, that is not You. Oh, Father, voice of... give us the grace, oh Lord, silence the voice of... to mute, oh Lord, silence the voice of sickness, all that the enemy, Lord, contrives or speaks. Hear Your voice. Every sound, every murmur of the enemy, oh Lord, I... give us the grace, oh Lord, we silence... give us the grace, oh Lord, every voice of the enemy today, to mute the unnecessary things in our lives, every voice of distraction, to allow... lift your voice. Lift your voice and pray. Focus on... to allow what we need to focus to grow.
[Music] Now is your time to pray. I silence the voice. Now is your time to pray. Of... of cancer. Ear to Your voice today.
[Music] We silence. Lift your voice. Lift your voice. Lift your voice unto the Lord. Hear Your voice clearly, oh Lord. Ask Him for grace to come out of where you are. Give me the Lord... we ask for grace to come out, oh Lord, of where I am. Oh, Father, Lord, we ask for... asking for the grace to rise out of where you are. We ask for the grace, Lord, circum... help us rise out of where we are. Lord, help out of this... create that atmosphere. Lift your voice and pray. Give me the grace to come out of laziness. Give me the grace to come out of comfort. Give me the grace to come out of comfort that we may rise out of... that we may rise out of our situation. Oh, Lord, we need Your grace. Oh, Lord, we need Your
[Music] [Music] grace. Lift your voice. Lift your voice to rise out of where I am. Out of I am. Lift your voice. Lift your voice. Your grace. We need Your grace. In Jesus' name. In Jes... Jesus' name. Lift your hands. Keep your hands lifted. I'm going to lead you into some few prayer points because I already see the presence of the Holy Ones here with us. Amen. It means that God is about to do something phenomenal for us. Amen. You will fly on the wings of angels after today. Amen. There will be a supernatural acceleration that God is going to give to you. Amen. That after this conference, the voice of God will be like a rocket ship that will propel you into your future. Amen. Amen. Hallelujah. Lift your hands. Lift your hands to the Lord. Say, "Father, in the name of Jesus. Father, in the name of Jesus, I give You everything right now. I give You everything right now. I cast all My burdens upon You. I cast all My burdens upon You. Every struggle that I have. Every struggle that I have. Every trouble that I have. Every trouble that I have. You are the only One who can give me Freedom. You are the only One that can give me freedom. Lord Jesus, I look to You. Lord Jesus, I look to You. You are My Hope and my salvation. You are My Hope and my salvation. Lord Jesus. Lord Jesus. I give You my anxieties. I give You my anxiety. I give You my sickness. I give You my sick. I give You my marriage. I give You my marriage. I give You my children. My children. I give You my business. I give You my bus... Father, this is Your will for My life. Father, this is Your will for My life, that I should be without any yoke. That I be without any yoke except what is on You. Except what is on You. And what is on You is freedom. And what is on You is freedom. What is on You is life. What is on You is life. What is on You has made us call HS with You before the Father. What is on You has made us before the Father. Father today. Father today. I cast My burdens on You. I cast My burdens on You." I want you to mention everything that is troubling you and tell the Lord, "I give it to You," no matter what the name of that thing is. Tell the Lord you give it to Him, whether it is cancer, whether it is financial difficulty, mention that thing and give it to the Lord now and see what the Lord will do. Lift your voice and pray. Lift your voice like thunder. You... Father, I... I can't hear you praying. I can't hear you praying. I give... canc... I give you blood pressure. I can't... Beed on my... my Father. I... I give you hardship. I give you delay. I give you diabetes. I give you my children. I give you my... I give you my... I give you my Min... I give you my mind. I give my body. I give you... Lift your voice. Lift your voice in Jesus' name. In Jesus' name. Okay, everyone, just lift your hands.